skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it likely that Monster has some sort of "freshness" indicator that might rank new profiles higher than old ones that haven't been updated in a while?

A better experiment would have been to create two similar profiles at the same time with the only difference being the name and diversity questionnaire.
Agreed, but it does sound like she was pretty careful in which factors in the experiment were allowed to vary, and unless she's exaggerating the numbers (which is hard to do when you enumerate specifics), that's a pretty significant change. I would be more sceptical if someone pointed out factors that might have varied anyway.

edit: The comment about 'profile freshness' is intriguing, and possible an example of this.
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A good friend of mine has a child that was born with ONH. As a result he is blind. The family traveled to China a couple of years ago for stem cell treatment and the result were measurable, but didn't really change his quality of life.

They're now considering going to Southern California to work with A Dr David Steenblock

I've exercised all of the google-fu I have in order to try and research the guy. I've found a quackalert page excoriating the guy and a lot of self-referential sites raising him up. I'd really like to help my friend out and either give him a thumbs up or thumbs down as to the guys quackery.

people in my buddy's situation are in a really tough spot. The USDA and AMA move so slowly, and are so politically driven that good medicine is often the third or fourth priority. So what I'm asking for is if any of you guys or girls know of a resource I could use to get vetted, or reputable information regarding his patients, their outcomes and any complaints against him.

It is pretty rare to find a situation where most all of the critiques and all of the praise are self-referential. Any help would be appreciated.
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I wonder if you get a referral fee or some ad money from mentioning name in conjunction with lithium. Or does he appear when you say it three times.

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makewhatyoumeasure.com (+measurewhatyoumake.com and mwym.org)

wallmeter.com (+wallometer.com)

robotscientist.com

hackertopia.com
Reducing discrimination seems like a good idea, but reducing everyone to semi-anonymous UIDs seems extremely dehumanizing.
No, actually, dynamic languages can, theoretically, handle this. At least, I can introspect in a running Lisp instance quite well. By all reports Smalltalk does it quite well too.

The fact that most dynamic languages were hacked together doesn't imply that the better systems also fail.
>>The notion that the way to change things is by individual sacrifice, and if we don't we obviously don't care enough, is an fundamentalist libertarian fantasy.

Thank goodness not everyone feels the same way you do. You can't change the world if you don't at least try.

I'm glad that at least 1% does work that way. I think it's too bad there aren't more of these types of people in the world.
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Counter argument: You can't legitimately buy from the App Store with a jailbroken phone. Either you or the developer is violating the agreement you have with Apple and in fact if you are in any way touching copyrighted code then you can be charged with a crime. Fun times.
Personal interaction is critical to any job unless your boss is a robot.
I was born in the early 70's and mine was assigned at birth. In fact, when I was a teenager I ran into someone else born at the same hospital on the same day (at the time we met we were thousands of miles away living in a different city on the other side of the state, so not a high probability event). The first 6 digits of our SSNs were the same.
Google also tracks you on non-Google sites that use Google-hosted Ajax libraries, which is a huge chunk of the web.
> This is true, and I'm sure Guido is fully aware of it

Well, yeah. I'd be kind of stunned if he wasn't. I was making a note qualifying the examples that were given in isolation, not questioning the basic premise.

> Regardless of inheritance, interfaces, and duck typing, the explicit classes of the objects still do matter.

Whether or not that's true depends on the use case; the really relevant sense of homogenous or heterogenous that distinguishes the idiomatic use of tuples vs. lists is contextual, and is more about the interfaces that the consuming code expects the members to provide than the explicit classes per se.

There's nothing unidiomatic in Python about using a list for a series of items of different explicit classes that are going to have the same operations (supported by a common interface they all share) performed on them.
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Thanks - I guess it's because the URL is different?
Sorry, my Common Lisp system does this quite well. Other dynlangs should be able to do it too....
At some point her real resume was fresh, and it doesn't sound like she experienced the same level of response then that she received on her fake fresh resume. Of course maybe the insurance industry wasn't hiring as eagerly when her real resume was fresh. Oh well, let's just assume it's experiment error and her conclusions are baseless. There, I feel better.
Are you suggesting that the SEC successfully enforces insider trading laws?

The SEC catches maybe 0.01% of insider trading. The inherent difficulty in enforcing insider trading has led many policy makers to push for legalizing the practice.

The more cogent question is, in light of recent revelations, why did they investigate this particular case instead of all the other potential cases?
From that video, if it was the batteries, someone moved them, and then set them on fire.

The batteries are nowhere near there. They're low on the plane, one set near the wings and one forward. That's maybe the APU, though more forward than I'd expect. Looks more like the cabin, maybe even the "flight attendant rest area" which is above the cabin.

My guess: random electrical. Or someone smoking carelessly.
Interestingly, it's not just a case of gender: Rather the uncertainty and its associated cognitive dissonance, leaves a negative feeling in the mind of a reader.

There are many other kinds of uncertainty present in a resume; and its always a risky factor because folks like to understand context.

Have an ethnic name? Assume people might think you're an immigrant. If you don't want them to assume that: emphasize where you're from, etc. This is good personal branding. Is it unfortunate that you might feel a liability here? yes

For example, in my office when someone doesn't show their picture in our email system: I feel negative about them. When they don't show a picture and have a name that makes it difficult to know how to refer to them, I'm doubly-frustrated.

Much of this frustration is subconscious but people need to be congnicent of how they come across to others in many contexts.

here I choose to be 100% identity neutral, because I can be. But in work this is a big mistake, because formal expectations are applied in correspondence and you need to feel you're meeting those expectations with a job applicant.

If you're in this position, you've done yourself a disservice: "Dear Sir or Madam, We are sorry to inform you that we cannot offer you a position"

Is this a problem with our society? yes.
Talk to a dev and let them determine how 'simple' your idea is to implement. 'It's simple, I just want a bridge for cars and trains and pedestrians, between these two points separated by a half mile of ocean. I'll pay you when the first car reaches the other side.'
>At heart, arbitrary distinctions like that end up just being "apps that run well" vs "apps that run badly". And no matter how good the system, there will always be some apps in both camps.

What's "arbitrary" about the distinction? Any app that depends on CPU intensive work, with high memory overhead, that doesn't want to be interrupted by GC pauses, will be slow as web based mobile app.

It's a technical distinction. The only reason it's somewhat generic, is that nobody can tell in advance which app belongs in which camp, until we know what the app needs to do.

For a specific app, with known requirements, whether it'll be slow as a web app or not, is anything but arbitrary. E.g "Can I write an image editor as a mobile web app, editing 5MP images with filters etc?", "No, you can't, it will be dog slow".

Sure, you can write a slow native mobile app too. But that's beside the point. We're talking about apps written properly in both cases here. That is, what are the limits of an app in each case.
The Grep Test is interesting, but it is too extreme for me. I have this thing I call the 'No Lie Principle.'

The idea is that when you look at code, the computations you see are the ones actually executed. Meta-programming may be used but only to add behavior to existing code, not to nullify it.

A good example is an 'execute around' method. The method you see in the code is executed, but some things may happen before it and some things may happen after it. What you can't do is replace the body with something else.

An interesting thing about the 'No Lie Principle' is that aligns with good practice around inheritance also. It's better to override abstract methods than it is to override concrete ones for a number of reasons.
Not only that but Apple will probably also have a list ofpeople asking for refunds after that was probably saved on their game center accomplishments wink wink.

This is as dumb as blocking users on windows that know the administrator password.

On the up side, jailbeakers will take that as a challenge, so i expect community mods for this game in two weeks tops.
Any thoughts? NAS with a better software support?
Causation implies correlation though. That is, correlation is a necessary condition for causation.
>So, ex-KGB automatically means you were born to be an evil sadist?

no, it means you were successfully trained to be one.
The ruling is here (PDF):
http://dg5vd3ocj3r4t.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/docu...

It's not copy-pastable, but Chevron's argument starts on page 8.
I hate to come off as a "life coach" type here, but you really need to stop coming off as being so negative and ashamed of yourself and your efforts.

I'd prioritize that over any amount of A/B testing at this point, since self confidence in yourself and your product will show through stronger than anything else at this point.
"The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting. Gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site, it will push aside the deeply interesting stuff, which tends to be quieter." - http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

I'm pretty sure that personal experiences of discrimination qualify as "intensely but shallowly interesting" content. It's "intense" because racial/sexual/etc. discrimination is a very charged topic that people get passionate about. (Not that this is bad, it's just the current state of things.)

It's "shallowly interesting" because it doesn't teach us anything except "some companies are racist sometimes", which everyone already knows. If companies in field X are especially racist, that might be interesting. If specific company Y was really racist, that might be interesting. If people were more or less racist under circumstance Z, that might be interesting, etc. But since this kind of content doesn't name specifics, all we can take away is "some employers are racist sometimes under some circumstances" (according to one person, whose account might or might not be completely accurate). That hasn't been new information since, well, ever. Even if you went back to 1900, everyone would already know this, it's just that most people would agree with it, instead of objecting like modern-day people would.
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>Systemic sexism is widely documented.

Oh?

>This ranges from pay gaps

Which are a deliberately misleading "problem" feminists like to complain about, but which don't actually exist.

>harsher views on overweight women vs men

Where? You mean personal preferences? Like how short men are viewed harsher than short women? That is not systemic.

>to sexual assault

Where the actual systemic problem is that the government deliberately misrepresents male rape victims by not counting "forced envelopment" as rape?

>Read the next sentence. Male rape is predominantly a the parent isn't saying that male rape victims "don't count".

You didn't make their point any clearer.
What's the difference between a computer scientist filling the role of programmer and somebody who is both a computer scientist and a programmer? If you can fill the role of X competently, why can you not rightly be said to be an X?
>if you start giving men maternity leave in the same way as women

I agree.

>Normal banter between men about women kept on the "acceptable in a sitcom" when not directed at any specific women, in my view is not sexual harassment, but clearly some people disagree with that.

I definitely disagree with that at work. If you want to discuss your sexuality, comment on people's body parts, or articulate your unified theory on the differences in the natures of men and women, get some friends. People have to work in order to eat - allow women (and men) to get through it without having to constantly bite their tongues or else be seen as the problem. We've made a decision as a society that racial, sexual and religious discrimination are problems at work. Find another subject.
Wow, people really needed a study to finally realize it.
There aren't any memory leak issues in Firefox. I have been using Firefox since Firefox 10 and it has made huge strides in memory performance so much so that it beats every browser out there on memory benchmarks.

In fact, on the mac, with the same number (34) of tabs, the same content, no add-ons or extensions, Firefox takes 600MB - 800MB, Safari takes around 900MB-1GB and Chrome takes around 900-1.2GB. I use these browsers every day and I have the same results every day.

I have the same tabs open now in Firefox, all 34 of them and it's only taking 740MB. You just can't beat that. It's really awesome.
That's a rationale for sure, but the risks you cite are likely to be present nonetheless if the firewall, networking, and SAN gear you are running has backdoors.
Er, this whole topic can be a little misleading. I haven't found a single reputable study that claims diet soda itself causes weight gain. Rather, just as the reasoning in this article suggests, the only scientific fact they present is that the consumption of diet soda itself does not encourage weight loss.

Side note: Do any brands really advertise drinking their diet soda as a method of (actual) weight loss? I can't think of any that actually present it this way.

It goes on to say that substituting sugary soda for diet soda isn't enough for most people to stop gaining weight. This is probably because you're likely to substitue the calories and sugars for something else, since your body notices its getting less of something and will crave it.

Yet you have things like this:

"One large study found that people who drank artificially sweetened soda were more likely to experience weight gain than those who drank non-diet soda"

This again is a correlation with the typical behavior of a diet soda drinker. They're not drinking diet soda because they want to lose weight. Rather, they're drinking it because they don't want to gain weight. They could have a terrible diet overall and this alone does nothing but move the problem over into, say, consuming two scoops of ice scream after dinner everyday. All because the soda they had during lunch didn't satisfy their bodily craving of refined sugars.

So this is a case of correlation not being causation. These types of articles do nothing but encourage this error to propagate. Perhaps the term "diet soda" is misleading in itself, but perhaps telling people that drinking a calorie-free drink will make them gain weight is just as silly as telling people it will make them lose weight.
Agreed. Let's just ignore this. Next article please.
Meanwhile the supreme court continues to attempt to rollback protections for equal treatment like society is all grown up now.

ps. this article seems like dejavu, I swear I've read it before here
As I heard it explained once: correlation does not imply causation, but it does jump up and down and point and gesticulate wildly in its general direction.
Not entirely benign, but understandable: above all else, Amazon wants to know exactly what search results Google shows you for particular queries, so they can better understand Google's ranking policies.

They can't otherwise scrape search results as you, and getting the info as an anonymous user isn't nearly as valuable. So they need you, via an extension or toolbar, to (perhaps inadvertently) opt-in to letting them collect the data 'over your shoulder'.
And yet it's how we imply causation all the time.

In real life, were we can also draw from other experiences and make our "experiments" more targeted (as opposed to some scientific study involving obscure correlations), correlation is the best measure of causation.

So, while it might be the correct pedantic thing to say, in this correlation does very much imply causation. It's not like there are a lot of others, mysterious, factors at play here.

Besides blanket epistemological statements, how about we also do a little thinking on individual cases and how it applies to them?
Also, isn't 216,000 a pretty small number (ignoring the, uh, horror of it)? I usually hear numbers like "1 in 6 women" or "1 in 4 Native American women".
Just to add to this - I have been involved in 2x car fires. 1 had the fire brigade involved (car completely burnt out), the other 1 we dealt with and all was well (welding some rust at a friends and the boot/trunk caught fire). I image there aren't many plane fires where authorities aren't notified, but this is a guess. Does anyone have any knowledge of aircraft incident reporting rates?
> If you retread my comment, I specifically said I have no respect for the people at the NSA (and USG in general) who have worked to create a global surveillance state

Well all I ask is that you keep that in mind next time you decry someone for working at NSA, or FBI, or any of a number of other agencies, unless you actually know what they've done.

People are all too willing to offload rational thought to the simple act of labeling. The Bush-style logic of "You're either with us or against us" was wrong when talking about terrorism, and it's still wrong when you're talking about the NSA, or even government in general.

Let people be evaluated for what they actually do, not merely for where they showed up for work. In case you're wondering, this does mean that I don't support excluding Feds from a conference just because they're Feds, arrest powers or otherwise... though you could ask the agency not to send their employees on official duty since we oppose the agency's actions itself.
That assumption relies on two uncertainties:

1. The probability of discovering something in all that binary code, especially with the intricate and non-orthogonal nature of x86/x64 assembly and odd compiler optimisations. This isn't some 80's game.

A comparison:

28500000 = Chrome binary size [1]
750000000 = Human Genome size (converted to bytes - 1BP = 2bits so 4BP per byte) [2]

So we're only 26x more complicated than Chrome and we have absolutely no fucking idea what is going on with us most of the time.

2. The probability of a vulnerability being published to Google versus selling it on the private market.

[1] http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/bloat/

[2] http://www.biostars.org/p/5514/
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How can you possibly know this: "His biggest failure was he couldn't market his product effectively"

The number one failure of startups is building stuff nobody wants. Go read some Steve Blank pronto.
Why not use a system of (unified) comments interspersed in the code to demarcate various elements? A sort of index.

The idea is that programming languages allow too much flexibility in form and syntax for any indexing system to accomodate the full range of possibilities. And "coding style" rules are apparently too restrictive on creativity: they are too difficult to enforce. And hence a solution would be better to focus not on the code, but on the comments. Force programmers to adhere to a uniform commenting system.

The OP mentions ctags. It's not a perfect system, but it's still in the BSD base systems so everyone who has BSD has a copy of the needed programs. That's a start.

What about cxref? Another old system that's probably not perfect, but seems like it was aiming in the right direction.

I've never understood why programmers obsess about things like verbose function names (that make lines go way over 80 chars and bend across the page... with identation it becomes almost unreadable to my eyes) instead of just providing an index of all functions and including the verbose information in the index, not the code. vi (and no doubt emacs too) allows you to jump around easily so you could look things up in an index quite quickly.

Why do Wikipedia pages have an index of footnotes and references at the bottom? Why not stuff all this information into the words in the body of the article? Why do books have indexes? Why do academic papers use footnotes? I don't know. But I'm accustomed to these conventions.

I also don't know why code uses verbose function names and generally lacks an index or footnotes. But I guess programmers have just become accustomed to these conventions.
I don't, either. And Graphite doesn't allow you to tag metrics for easy aggregation, which is a huge win if you're monitoring more than a few instances of a metric. (Nor does Zabbix, BTW.)

I'm a reasonably happy Datadog customer.
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I guess that would put an end to linking your github account from your resume.

Considering that doing that is an invaluable tool to people lacking "real" work experience, either recently or in general, I think that could end up hurting a lot of people.
I like Rich talks and his main point for his invention seems to be: to get concurrency right.

Clojure Concurrency http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGVqrGmwOAw
I actually added this link to run an experiment. I have been playing around a lot with the nltk package and after I saw the one link similar to this on the front page, I remembered that this story got flagged for not being techie enough. So now that we are getting a discussion going I can run sentiment analyses on the comments to text for variances on different levels.
This has been confirmed in other studies -- that people with white sounding names do better than those with "black" sounding names on resumes, all things being equal. Our country is incredibly structurally racist is the moral of the story.