skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right: laws are needed because of an inherent lack of goodness, not because of an inherent lack of common sense. There's a big difference between the two...

A caricatured example would be the serial killer who looks both ways before he crosses the street. We can agree that some of his 'core goodness' is certainly off...but his common sense is spot on.
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I wonder about this. Why can't a person have some criteria to narrow the pool, and from that subset select for love? It would be different if they took the first person who came along with financial stability, if that was the only thing that mattered.

If a person aims to have a family, financial stability is important. Note, I don't believe that kids actually need financial stability all that much, but the stress and conflict between parents commonly caused by financial instability definitely do affect them.
Obligatory Seinfeld reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrLtHatB6IU
Profit. . .until you consider the money paid out in lawsuits (discrimination, illegal firings, etc.) that could have been avoided by HR. . .or the money wasted paying for expensive benefits vendors that could have been saved by HR. . .or the turnover that could've been saved by HR though intervention with some particularly bad managers/management teams (who HR had no hand in hiring). Granted, this is only true of decent - or better - HR departments, but I've seen them.
... IQ is supposed to be a normal distribution, ">= 130" === "3 sigma above the mean," i.e. top 0.1%.

(bearing in mind that the test is inescapably biased towards people with our background - US/UK/etc, certainly English speaking, probably university educated.)
My CV is based off of this project:

http://mwhite.github.io/resume/

I write it in Markdown, and then build it into both a PDF and HTML. Then I use Github Pages to publish both with a simple push.
And don't forget the word 'pod':

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2006/08/16/apple-defends-ipod-...
Moving to a standing desk is not "futile". For myself, a standing desk prevents me from reinjuring my lower back and potentially missing out on a couple days of work due to back spasms. Others use it to help them with repetitive stress injury.

And how did I injure my back? Exercising with too much weights at the gym!
Absolutely. Combined with the geekery of quantitative tracking with something like Strava or Runkeeper and I was very motivated.
If you're into FRP in .NET, please checkout the OLINQ project on github. It lets you define LINQ queries against reactive sources and have them update themselves as the sources change, letting you do things like realtime aggregation in a couple of lines of code.

I think it's wickles.

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The article you linked to talks about psychiatry (the DSM is tightly bound to psychiatry, not psychology).

I don't know if you meant by including that link that psychologists criticising psychiatrists undermines their credibility, but if that's the case I disagree strongly.
There's nothing scientific in this case - quite the opposite: pure cargo cult. Hence my choice of the word: monkey puts candidate in, a number comes out, monkey checks if number exceeds another number. No science - not even thought - nothing, just blind obedience to whatever process the monkey was trained to follow.
Semi-serious :-) I've worked in a number of cold, sometimes freezing locations in the depths of winter, although not quite as bad as your situation by the sounds of it. Push-ups and exercise does keep you warm and sharp though, should you need it. Sadly there's no quick fix for the opposite situation, when your mind turns to glue in the summer heat.
And then they created iTunes :)
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I do consulting in quantitative software and analytics for finance. I have my own small company and can give myself any title. "CEO" sounds too pretentious to many, so I went with managing director, the title for upper-middle to upper management in many financial companies.

Choose something similar for your industry. Couple of guesses: vice-president of business development, director of professional services, executive producer...
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Actually the successor to the 4000 is what you are asking for. http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/sculpt-ergonomic-d...
I'm amazed that Melbourne IT seem to be held in high regard these days. Going back to the 1990s, they had a monopoly on Australian domain registration, they charged the earth, and had really crap customer service.
Certainly not. You can be assured of that! We have a try without sign-up just for the people who dont want to spend time in sign-ups / dont trust us enough. Its just that when we want to contact you for a genuine reason say send a mailer about a new template thats available we want that to reach you, specially since we spend on the emails being sent!
> Do you really think it would have been smart for the Germans to hire people who wouldn't have followed their orders?

It's not so much an antiauthoritarian outlook, i.e. what a person won't do, as what such a person will do, as in creating ingenious solutions to problems.

In the modern military, creative types are highly regarded (and this is a recent change in military culture) -- self-directed and autonomous types like Navy Seals and other special forces are highly prized compared to obedient infantrymen.

Consider Wernher Von Braun, the designer of the V-1 and V-2, and later, the designer of the Saturn 5 Apollo booster. He was constantly in trouble with the authorities in Nazi Germany for his impolitic statements, but they tolerated him because of what he could build. After the war, we tolerated him even though he was a former enemy, because of what he could build.
They have fought food stores for use of an apple. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111022/01124516464/apple...
So, no bad programmers, drivers, receptionists, sales people, accountants........ just HR people.

Dunno what HR does in the US, but here in the UK I know a lot of cases where a decent HR person would have saved companies millions in payouts to now ex-employees who sued them. In several cases, the business was made bankrupt, jobs lost.

Keep HR people

Keep business

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Just tell people "I write software for x" where x can be anything. Teachers, government, hospitals, dogs, whatever it is. In my case it's "lawyers". You don't have to go into any more detail than that. Anyone who really cares will ask followup questions or say something like "oh you should talk to my brother, he's a lawyer".
According to the article, they do use a modified interpreter.
You'd have to have the ability to change DNS records for their domains. If you can point "whatever.com" to a NS that you control, it's game over until they take it back.
Have a read about the "Famine Response". You need to stop trying to lose weight to let your body adjust its setpoint, then go again.
This is known as 'inserting yourself in the news story' and it works well as a marketing trick but in this case cloudflare is actually part of the story because the NYT (one of the affected sites) and cloudflare did communicate on the subject. The more peripheral the link the trickier it is, in this case (a first order contact with the affected party which was initiated by cloudflare) I think it is fine to issue some statement, but not necessarily this statement.
That's more than unfair. Arnie sparked a massive fitness craze that benefited many people. If you get disappointed, that is ultimately your fault. Arnie (as well as every other bodybuilder since the mid 60's) were on varying degrees of steroids. This is well known. They have to deny it, but ask anyone in the sport. Arnie's body is an ideal, a loooong term goal that is probably never going to be achieved naturally. But that great physique is what made a ton of people get off their butts and at least try.

If you want an achievable natty physique look up "Zyzz" on youtube. Dude teched as a shortcut, but his physique is easily attainable in 3-5 years, if you do it right. Like Arnie, he has inspired many people. And then to say that the people that are too weak-willed to follow through on workouts deserve to blame these men? That's just silly.
We are sorry about that. That was certainly not the intention though! We will do something about this and get back to you.
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Trivial? I've seen business go bust as a result of this sort of negligence.

BTW, suing for wrong doing is NOT parasitic. Its often the only recourse avaliable with bad employers
How different is this from the existing options like Resumonk? [0]

[0] http://www.resumonk.com/resume_templates
I've worked in companies with both good and bad HR departments. Currently, our HR department, has intervened in our department hiring processes because they saw incredibly high - and quick - turnover in some groups. In those groups, they have improved the interview process significantly. Not by taking over, but by forcing the managers to be more honest when posting and discussing the positions, by forcing the managers to actually learn "better" interview skills and techniques, by forcing the managers to be more realistic about job requirements (do you really need someone with a Master's degree to staff your standard Tier 1 or 2 helpdesk????? OMG, NO!!!)
Financial situations that are attributable to state of employment are subject to violent and sudden change. They're not a good basis for any future predictions, especially not for viability of a relationship.
There are some psychologists that actually try to be scientific (my GF is doing a postgraduate degree in neuropsychology).

Unfortunately, they're overwhelmed by the majority, which are full of pseudoscience.

Maybe the more rigorous ones should change their titles, not to be associated with standard "psychologists" anymore?
Thread mill? He's sewing garments while programming? Kudos!
First of all, it's probabaly safe to say that it will be a good investment, regardless of how you are going to use it. (School, work, design etc.) I'm all up for the 8 RAM upgrade if you think you need it, but for the i7, I'd say don't go there if you are not involved with complex rendering or serious multitasking. i5 will do just fine. (I have an i5 model with 4GB and had no problem for close to 7 months now.)

Just a heads-up, make sure to check the air's wi-fi connectivity when you buy it, as the prime problem seems to be it.

Enjoy.
We are thinking about this. We want to open-source most of the stuff but not the security related code. Infact we have started an open-source project to teach our learning from the project http://cvsintellect.tumblr.com/post/57157924548/open-source-.... We will think a bit more on this and get back to you. Thanks for your interest.
Very very cool. Anybody know of similar projects?

I think I'll give it a whirl on some old 60's fenceline maps I have around.
What a cool project. Kudos to the NYPL for releasing this.

I've been working on something similar recently using OpenCV (though haven't done much on it yet). My use case is to find paths through electrical schematics. I figured my problem was close to map vectorization so I searched around for an existing library in that space but didn't have any luck.

Will be interesting to see how they've approached it and what sort of results I could get using their library.
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Not really; they only send USD via ACH currently (don't support wire transfer) so as a UK merchant there is no way to actually get paid $USD even if you have a $USD bank account.
Yes, those are incorrect. Perhaps it's just because I'm not located in the UK, but it really stands out for me. Those, the lack of periods and phrases such as:

>and thinked the way most of the team already worked and thought
You're often better served by looking at what problem feature X is solving, and how that problem is solved other places
I have to concur with the exercise-as-commute routine. I also cycle to/from work. My ride home, where I keep a brisk pace with some sprints mixed in, is actually my real workout. It is quite satisfying to arrive home having already worked out, effectively. Not to mention, it is faster than taking the bus in my case.

A few catches: it does help strengthen your core, to an extent, but you aren't working your arms and upper body much. Also, I'm in Canada, and riding during most of the winter isn't possible here on a road bike.
> The article you linked to talks about psychiatry (the DSM is tightly bound to psychiatry, not psychology).

Not so. The DSM is the central authority and diagnostic manual for both psychiatry and clinical psychology. Reference:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/more-diagnosis/201003/ho...

> I don't know if you meant by including that link that psychologists criticising psychiatrists undermines their credibility ...

I included the link only to show that the DSM is being abandoned by mental health professionals, not to suggest a schism between psychiatry and psychology. The latter has been true for decades and goes without saying.
and what's wrong with signing up with something like mailinator? i mean, the point is to not give away your "real" email address for a service you cannot yet trust. Whenever a site stops you from signing up via a "throw-away" email, i feel suspicious.
It's not clear how much you need a Mac in itself.

If not, there are a few high-end ultrabooks having a better performance+build quality to price ratio.
We haven't come across anyone who uses LaTeX for creating your resume and is free. And why is LaTeX so special? Here are a few reasons: http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
It's probably true that in my example, I was good but not exceptional enough to justify overriding procedure. Thanks for giving me that perspective!
Personally, I feel that most Apple products are over-hyped and over-priced items, nothing more. I know I'm going to be downvoted but I think it's the truth.
In this post, i give more information:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6284735
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At first I thought this meant video comments had been retired. For a split second there I thought the world had been suddenly healed of a great evil and had great joy. Alas, it passed.
If the team manager is doing background checks - initiating, conducting, following up, etc.- how much time does that allow for him/her to manage the team, do whatever technical work is required at level, interact with the rest of the company as required, take a breath and think strategically, etc.? And how many team mangers WANT conducting background checks as part of their jobs? Even farming that out to a contractor - finding a good one, following up, ensuring quality, making sure deadlines are met, etc. - takes time.
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Thanks for the advice.

> for the i7, I'd say don't go there if you are not involved with complex rendering or serious multitasking

I'll be doing some software development locally on my machine. It'll mostly be small personal projects. I just thought maybe I'd benefit from the small boost that comes from the i7. According to Anandtech, the i7 makes things about 25% faster (according to various benchmarks).
This has nothing to do with HR, but everything to do with the power HR was given by the directors, or what ever. Good, well positioned HR staff are invaluable.

I wonder how many times technical staff have had hiring lumped on them, and got it horribly wrong?
Macs generally hold their value very well, plus you get 12+ hour battery life.

You should be able to run Linux on it too if you really don't get on with OS X, although you will likely sacrifice some of that battery life.
Youtube Video Response spam was pretty nasty. It did attract some attention for unique spam detection algorithms for video responses as well [0,1].

[0] Fabricio Benevenuto, Tiago Rodrigues, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara Almeida, Chao Zhang, and Keith Ross. 2008. Identifying video spammers in online social networks. In Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Adversarial information retrieval on the web (AIRWeb '08), Carlos Castillo, Kumar Chellapilla, and Dennis Fetterly (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 45-52. DOI=10.1145/1451983.1451996 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1451983.1451996

[1] http://www.iiitd.edu.in/~ashish/PST-2013.pdf
Keep in mind you see strong selection bias. First, you only hear about extremely good or extremely bad cases. Second, on a site like Hacker News, you're more likely to hear about the bad HR departments.

Most HR people are at least somewhat competent and help the company, and good HR people are worth their weight in silver. When Human Resources actually understands the needs of the employees and is able to enact policies that make them happier, that's extraordinarily useful.
>Do I, should I have to evaluate every potential connection for the economic risk it may bring me?

Yes you are right there is an incentive problem created by this. Once you start measuring something, people start trying to game the measurements. That said, no one is forcing you to make such decisions, or even go to a business that uses such evaluations.

>Bankers can't "red line" in making mortgage loans. Schools (including private ones) can't deny admission upon the basis of race -- nor, in some states, upon sexual preference.

>We constantly place limitations upon the scope and focus of commercial evaluations. Social media is a landscape that will have to be dealt with, in this regard.

Yes but the intention of those laws are to stop irrational bigotry. Like someone who hates some group and refusing to do business with them because they want to punish them or whatever. We are talking about an unbiased computer algorithm that just weighs the data and uses it to make more accurate predictions. That's the goal, to make accurate predictions. The data used doesn't matter.
Lawrence-Livermore NIF set a record recently https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2013/Aug/NR-13-08-04....
Lets say you intend to keep it for 3 years, would you be prepared to pay just over $40 a month for it? I don't know if that helps but I like to think of things as a cost over time, not a lump sum consumption like a meal or day to the theme park.
The question isn't "Is the Air worth it", it's "Is the 13" Retina worth it".
It's an incredible machine, i got the 8gb, i7 upgrade and apple care. I used my previous macbook for 7 years so if I get the use out of it, it will have been low cost.
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I've always wanted the equivalent of * Maps with a time dimension. The data is constantly changing, but imagine if you could push the slider back hundreds of years and see how a city evolved. There is a whole "dark" dimension of data out there that is only captured in print. (e.g. NYC business directories from the 19th/20th century -- being able to see what a particular address used to be) Adding historical map data is the base layer for capturing this data from print.
Yes. Clicking on the save is not very evident. While once you know that you need to click on save that info is redundant and hence we have kept it hidden when you are not on the form. We are thinking of ways of making it more evident the first time. For the non-ascii bit. We are in beta (just a month being public). We are working on making it perfect! :)
I'm talking about developing countries... which I think should be praised for figuring out how to maximize efficiency and value to serve very poor populations at low cost.

I was around in the 1990s (in the US) and at the time I thought the healthcare system did a pretty good job. A decade or two later and for most diseases, little has changed about the treatments/practices.

So for 95% of healthcare issues, 1990s medicine is just as good as 2013 medicine. The fallacy upon which much of the cost bloat is built is the idea that all costs should be increasing b/c quality is increasing in some key areas (like cancer treatment).

Ironically, the areas in the US that offer the biggest area for improvement are things like basic systems and process improvements... things like being sure someone helps the 70 year old patient walk the hall twice a day to retain mobility during a hospital stay (even if the reason for the hospital stay is something like a bad cold, a fall, or dehydration from vomiting). Most of the things that can offer significant outcome improvements are very low tech.
> there are a few high-end ultrabooks having a better performance+build quality to price ratio

Would you be able to recommend a few good ones? I've looked around a bit (only a bit), and everything seems priced in the MacBook range (ie. $1000+).
Most technical types are disconnected from the realities of sales, marketing, finance, law, etc, etc
I don't think you'll find another machine with the same specs and formfactor for much less.
So the question is really do you need these specs and form?
I haven't been to noisebridge, but I think some kind of requirement of a proactive attitude towards helping out with the space in some way, whether it be creating a banner, moving equipment, solicitation for new paid members, and cleaning would go a great way towards improving the community as well.
Personally, I feel you need to provide some substance to back up your claims for them to be worthwhile. Baseless opinion is just noise.
To be fair, I wasn't university educated at 9, when I took my first tests, although I was born in the US and spoke English.
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What I don't think Mr. Asimov could have imagined is the rise of the Oligarchs, dominated primarily by the heads of the banking industry, though also by the petrochemical and a few other top-tier industries. These individuals have increasingly distorted the free-market system and corrupted the political systems to satisfy their own narrow ends. They are financial protectionists. And because of them a great deal of innovation that could have been has been stymied. I would argue that if it were not for their depressing effects on society, Mr. Asimov's predictions would now look rather underwhelming by comparison, as we would have achieved far more than he predicted. Alas, given our current state of affairs, I do not think it possible for society to advanced very far beyond were it currently stands. And in a matter of decades we are likely to start moving backwards rather then forwards. On that mark, with his concerns on population growth, I believe Mr. Asimov hit it squarely on the head.
I used to feel the same way. But have you tried finding a laptop of high build quality and similar specs? The only one I can find that comes close in terms of battery life is the new Samsung Series 9 (ATIV Book Plus) which is actually more expensive than the Air.

The only thing holding me back from getting an Air right now is the low screen resolution.
> Maybe the more rigorous ones should change their titles, not to be associated with standard "psychologists" anymore?

I have been recommending that serious students, those who want to avoid the stigma of psychology, enter the field of neuroscience instead. Neuroscience will eventually replace psychiatry and psychology as the preferred approach to treating what we now call "mental illnesses", most of which are actually biological illnesses with mental symptoms. Reference:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/the-s...
> realise you want to stay on the same program

You can hit escape regardless of where you are in the switcher