skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The AU government has previously stayed neutral/supportive of our high court ruling that ISPs are included under 'safe harbour' clauses and that they carry common-carrier status, in that they provide a service but do not have to police what that service is used for. In specific, they are not the police when it comes to online piracy and do not have to block websites, disconnect users, etc. iiNet won a hard-fought legal battle to get that ruling and it was used as precedence to basically stop the US IP lobby groups exerting pressure on AU businesses to conform to something our laws didn't even support.

Now it's become apparent from this that the government wants to throw all of that under the bus and is supporting transcontinental IP laws that are almost entirely in US interests and serve to screw over our citizens and go against high court rulings. All to be a lap dog to the US and appease their taskmasters.

I have nothing but hatred for our government for conducting themselves in such a miserable, self-serving sense.
One glaring miss in the statistical-only approach is that the psychology of a defense on 4th down and how that can impact outcomes. If you just use average net yards-play to extrapolate expected results for 4th down, or 3rd downs as per the berkely paper, thats not going to work out. Defenses will most certainly strategy to take more risks (and decrease the median expected yards gained in return for a small risk in a huge play), crowd noise can increase, etc.

The berkeley paper completely writes this off without evidence or reason, even with his assumption that offenses will not become more conservative with play calling, and its obvious a defense and crowd would act differently on 3rd and 3 than 4th and 3:

"Since it seems unlikely that the defense has substantially more scope than the offense to affect the distribution of outcomes"

Primarily, the goal on defense is to get off the field, so other than special situations like goal-line or the edge of field goal range, its ok to give up 3 yards and even 4 is fine. You really just need one great play out of 3 - a blocked or missed pass, tackle for loss, etc. and they're 3-and-out.

The paper admits the entire basis and math would be wrong if his assumption was misplaced:

"Thus using third downs to gauge what would happen on fourth downs would lead to overestimates of the value of going for it."

On 4th down and 1-3 yards, everything changes. You try to play every play as hard as possible, but you bring something special when its 'us or them, right here, right now'. Thats partially why (the other reason is there is less room to pass) that you see teams march down the field and can't get the last yard 4 tries in a row. I know the offense also steps up, but in a short running play against relatively even teams, defensive players are usually shorter (leverage) and have an extra player (unless the offense does wildcat with a mobile quarterback).

The other missing piece is they didn't seem to look at time left in the half and timeouts left. Punting in the first quarter is not the same as punting with 37 seconds and the other team is out of timeouts.
I have a dream! A dream that ....

One time I knocked my head and blurted out all my ideas without any demos too.
I agree and I think Soylent's indirect claims that all you might need to eat is Soylent are in the same league, but their direct claims aren't really anything more than you can eat Soylent safely. Their marketing is strong and deserves skepticism, like one might be skeptical of male enhancement products, but it doesn't need more regulation or oversight. The product will ship, people will use (some foolishly no doubt), and consumers will have more information to decide if they want to eat Soylent instead of McRibs or whatever.
And the same thing with audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abapFJN6glo
You point out that moderates and independents not participating in primaries gives the extremes more say over the candidates everyone else gets to choose from.

For general elections you use the same style argument - the more normal people excuse themselves from the equation the larger the impact of the extremes.
The article is discussing what is wrong with using "GitHub profile" as an indicator of "likes programming enough" - among other reasons, that underrepresented people tend to have less free time available, and that underrepresented people tend to have a less fun experience of working on public projects (getting dismissed, harassed, etc.).
This code is fairly readable. It takes one or two shortcuts, but it's much closer to real code than to golf.
I've only had things mess up once on Uber and I wrote them and they refunded the charge no problem.
Except for the fact that there are more false statements than true ones...
This looks interesting, definitely going to look into it. $35 // month doesn't sound too bad, just not sure why I wouldn't just fire up a VM on my local machine which has 16 Gigs RAM. $15 would be more palatable for a 3.5 Gig VM.
What were some of their suboptimal experiments?
I just got my hands on starter kits and sucked them dry over the weekend.
The mistake is to think that your set of equations do not merely encapsulate your half-unconscious, poorly-specified assumptions and biases.
I am in/from post soviet country and have zero exposure to recent american culture. So my question is serious: is this article joke?

>I want to see all people fairly compensated for their labor without feeling forced into it; I do not want to see free and open source software stopped.

Author could send a donation to some open-source project. Instead he makes me (as OS developer) feel like a shit, because I stole some theoretical chance to someone else. This goes beyond occasional troll, and if this becomes a norm, I will seriously consider to make my projects private.
Never punting and always doing onside kicks is nothing new. I've been doing that in NFL blitz for years.

Always going for the 2-point conversion is the real secret.
4th down data is not non-standard for 4th down data. Sure, you can't say for sure what would have happened if they had gone for it, but there's nothing particularly different about these downs that would lead to a higher conversion rate.
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Unless approximately the same number of people read the official company blog. Which shouldn't be far from truth.
> How sad that this is launching after the NSA scandal has pretty much ensured it will fail, and perhaps can't be achieved for decades.

I honestly doubt 99% of consumers care, since the NSA isn't concerned with their business.

That's not to say that attitude is right or wrong, but it's probably the last thing on most peoples' minds.
A fence doesn't stop someone with a ladder, but that doesn't mean fences are a bad idea.
> Going forward, I am probably just going to initiate a chargeback. They aren’t giving me many choices.

I've had great email support from Uber in New York. That said, a few years ago a lost iPhone turned into several phantom SUV rides in and out of New Jersey. An email to Uber revealed a policy against reversing such transactions.

"Okay," I thought, "chargeback it is." But it is not that simple - the chargeback prompted an account suspension. The issue was resolved a few months later, but still leaves a stink in the mouth whenever I start to recommend the service.
A week... Why?

24 hrs is plenty... they should have a phone # at minimum. Chargebacks, etc are how to get action.
Uber has been great in my experience. In NYC I had a couple terrible drivers, and I gave a couple terrible reviews.

Without me having to reach out, figured out the details, then they apologized and provided a refund.
> I actually think that the fact that NSA's spying isn't just used for anti-terrorism purposes but also for industrial espionage is news to some people

Is there any evidence that this is the case?
This ridiculous false choice suggests a certain lack of understanding of what it is like to build software.
Just yesterday I was about to temporarily quit Haskell after slamming my face into Learn You A Haskell's Functor chapter. But after seeing the concept applied (jokes for nerds!) like this, I think I'm going to give it another shot. Thanks!
The author is a woman, by the way. Though I assume you're trolling.
I had a couple Uber issues a while back. With a simple tweet to Uber SF, I had everything handled quickly and easily the next day (just hours later, really).
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In this situation, is there a notion of a "rightholder?" Someone (e.g. his family) who can sell the right to make the film?
Ive seen quick responses in the few times I have had issues
This should probably be retitled "Man has problem with Uber on Sunday, declares crisis mode on Tuesday".
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NYE 2012 I got caught in the crash that brought down their system and lost all their reservations. The driver who was heading to pick me up at a 1x congestion rate probably got a brand new 5x faire after the system came back up and made an easy decision. A decision that left me in sub freezing temperatures waiting for a car that would never come.

It was my first uber experience and while it hasn't quite been my last, they certainly aren't my favorite choice.

I don't have the email archive available but I seem to recall them taking almost a week to get back to me. I imagine that the crash caused them quite a customer service backlog though. At the end of the day, for leaving me in sub freezing temeratures they gave me a $50 credit.
There's not really a "good answer" for it. It's pretty straightforward: voting is only rational if you derive utility directly from the act (and not just from the idea that you're influencing the election, since you're probably not).

And that doesn't even get into the analysis of whether time spent researching politicians, referenda, etc. to be an educated voter is worth it, given that your vote has such a tiny influence, and the positive influence on your life if your desired policies get implemented is probably very tiny. People often point to market failures like the failure to produce public goods as a key reason for the necessity of government, but governments themselves (at least, republics/democracies) are public goods, and I see no reason why adding another layer of public goods would actually help.
Dig a 15 meter pit 5 meters across and suspend a 5 meter cube of ferro-concrete on a cable feeding onto a drum above it connected to a gearbox and motor/generator. Attach this to your PV and then relax.
Hmm, finally that cow logo makes sense.. ;)
Very nice indeed!
Could you have GBP as well? I think it's a currency worth having there :-)
"but still leaves a stink in the mouth whenever I start to recommend the service"

So... Don't recommend the service? Much more powerful than a recommendation with caveats.
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Ask HN: What's the best way to describe your development skill set on a resume?
ex: "Skills: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ember.js, mongoDB, Rails, ..."

Instead of having a plain list like the above, how do you list your skill set / differentiate your understanding & experience with them?

I've been using the above setup for awhile, but I have a couple of problems with it:

1) The list can get long, and potentially lose its value. Does ordering matter?

2) What do I include? What shouldn't I include? At what level of understanding, does a specific skill warrant inclusion?

3) I'd like to differentiate my exposure to each (ex, I'd consider my Rails a 7/10, but my JavaScript a 6/10), potentially ranking by understanding or months/years.

4) What about languages / frameworks that I have used in side projects and/or am just picking up? I'd like to include them because it shows that I'm interested in picking up new stuff, but their inclusion with what I would consider my core skill set might backfire if it is assumed those skills are all equally developed.

feedback from devs or hr people would be amazing.
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Good point, they may actually be tied. Chickens make cows smell good in comparison...
Your individual vote doesn't change the noticeable relative vote totals any more than they change the overall result of the election.
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Let me qualify my statement. People will buy Apple because the perceive it's simpler. Apple spends a lot (time|money) on making subtle interactions discoverable. This is simply not the case on the Android side, though it's getting better.

Having just bought a Nexus 5, I can see how usable it is, but how frustrating it would be for, say, my parents to use unless I got them on BigLauncher, or did all the setup for them and support as well.
Tell them:

Your vote doesn't matter in exactly the same sense that nothing you do matters. You could die right now and the world would go on. Yet your actions do matter. If people in our society just went around punching strangers, that would suck. The fact that you don't go around punching strangers is a small and important part of that.
IME credit card companies can't do anything until the charge clears (which may take a few days). So you'll see the charge is wrong, but you can't do anything about it because it's still pending. Given that it may also take a few business days to resolve the underlying problem (it may have been an issue with the driver misquoting the price initially, so there may be a back and forth there) a week is a reasonable amount of time to wait. But absolutely you should notify the credit card company immediately, in order to start the clock
Maybe those posture classes helped?
We let people with Hadoop Clusters pull a small sample of data into Excel, analyze it with Excel formulas, and then run the analysis on the full data set. The last part happens outside of Excel.
> Are you saying that women or black people have a too busy agenda doing their <enter stereotype> stuff that they possibly cannot use github?

That's exactly what the article is saying:

> 52% of women caregivers with incomes at or below of the national median of $35k spend 20+ hours each week providing care. The largest racial demographics in this group are black and hispanic.

20+ hours a week caring for children, elders, or family members with some form of disability. Fair or not, it's expected that they'll do it.

> Due to additional pay inequity contributing to less access to paid childcare, women of color perform far more child care than white women.

They can't just pay someone else to do it. If they could afford a babysitter while they hack on some code in order to get a better-paying job, that would be awesome. But that's not realistic for a lot of people.

> On childcare alone, mothers spend more than twice as much time per day as fathers do.

Fathers are a lot more involved in raising children than they used to be, but mothers still get stuck with the bulk of the work.

Hell, I've lost 4-5 hours out of my week since I took up jogging. It's a big boost to my health and a way to keep life-long weight issues at bay, so I'm not complaining. But just taking on an additional "hobby" like that takes up the equivalent of half a work day.
I wonder what it is like to live near a Surströmming factory...
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This is all fine and dandy until someone decides to exploit your use of eval:

=document.location='http://facebook.com/'
Page 46 reads : "It was not until the last World War that poisonous gases were demonstrated to be an important factor in modern military science."

It feels strange to be reading something like that in 2013.
The customer is always wrong.
In this context, there's no real way to break out of what you call "self-centered." Even if you're voting on a referendum to provide aid to some group of impoverished people, the time spent and risk incurred by going to the polling center is almost certainly not worth the impact your vote will make.
Well it probably won't, right? I too find this hard to reason about, whether regarding voting or cigarettes. Perhaps I'm just thick. Is there a concept in, say, game theory that deals with this?
You don't need permission to make documentaries about people.
I still remember being a kid visiting a pig farm in elementary school. Why they subjected us to this, I do not know.

Well, at one point, we were "allowed" to stand next to the manure pit, which was a cylindrical tank with no top. I poked my head over...

Did you know that some stenches can be so intense that they actually have wet vapor and can sting your eyes? I didn't know until that day. But after that day, I never forgot.
Notice that you said "if". There haven't been any actual studies conducted to prove or disprove that the Sriracha factory is polluting the air surrounding the factory -- only anecdotal evidence about asthma symptoms flaring up and burning eyes. There are official channels in place for factories to be shut down for pollution. They can't be used in this case because the AQMB has yet to find any air quality violations at the factory.

If Sriracha is really causing these symptoms, wouldn't they be most prevalent in people who work at the actual factory in question? Why is there no anecdotal evidence of their loss of quality of life?
Bug report: In Chrome Version 30.0.1599.101, an error is generated that prevents the app from running: "Uncaught SecurityError: An attempt was made to break through the security policy of the user agent. "

Works in Safari 7.
I think the magic is in the peppers and overall ingredient quality more so than the exact mixture. Given some trial and error in an afternoon with good ingredients, and I'm pretty sure you could figure this out. Hell, you can probably make even better :)
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To have $180 taken from your account is certainly nothing to sneeze at. At certain points in my life that could have seriously affected my ability to pay rent!

It seems rather drastic to totally drop the service and do a chargeback after 3 days, though. Obviously something has slipped through the cracks.

Uber is a super slick system, but I'd bet money there's still people behind the scenes scrambling to keep the gears spinning.
In Boston, I had an experience with a driver who took us to the right street in the wrong city, then drove the wrong way down a one way and was pulled over by the police.

I gave a 1 star review and explained what happened. Without further action on my part, the local Uber rep refunded the difference between the actual care and what it should have been had there not been the whole detour. Very thoughtfully proactive.
How would the "none of the above" option solve anything? An eligible voter not voting is essentially a "none of the above" vote anyway. You can bet that the perceived legitimacy of a government would start to dwindle if the number of voters dropped below some threshold.
I can't speak for others in this thread, but I for one certainly didn't interpret anything you'd said as devaluing evidence. Obviously, data can be expressed as code...
I wondered that myself, to my ear it sounds a bit like Blackalicious, one of my favorite underground hip-hop acts. Turns out it's Wax Tailor's Positively Inclined.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv44r3q6zgo

Dope!
The Guardian, Reuters, et al have written about this.
No one cell in your body is keeping you alive. Why do you need any cells?
> There's nothing that stops anybody from contributing repos to github.

The citations of scientific literature in the article contradict you.
I think the point is that if you are using game data then the only times the offense is currently going for it on fourth down is because they have some reason to believe they can make it with a high percentage. Football is not played with random number generators, the coaches and players understand the matchups and the chances they have of making X yards with the players and plays they have available. The teams that didn't go for it might have a reason to believe that with the players on the field the probability of them getting X yards was small.
> They use gmail and google apps, policies be damned

I wonder how their company's lawyer will react when presented in a courtroom with claim that they did not hand over all of the relevant employee e-mail in discovery. Further, perhaps they would like to read some of the correspondence for the first time as presented by the other sides law team.
It's just smell. And media hype. But mostly just smell.
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Hilarious.

"they want to further reduce the incremental energy price by implementing a fixed monthly charge on each customer, aimed at covering some of the costs of retail distribution, metering and billing."

That's straight out of the 1975 hippie classic "Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston" - and is one of the Casus belli California cited when seceding from the union in that book.
We're not talking about games here, we're talking about regular apps, with a regular UI, which needs to be native.

Otherwise it sucks.
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If they were that good, Snowden would have never exfiltrated all that data in the first place.

Judging from this report, they seem to have a misplaced faith in the ability of the almighty polygraph to root out insiders.

I quote: If you've been cleared and especially if you've been polygraphed, you're an insider and you are presumed to be trustworthy

<http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE9A703020131108?irpc...

In any case, if you're financially well-disciplined (that's a very big if), it's easy to hide money somewhere and pretend you're blowing it on useless junk.
I look at it as technically informed product ownership - merging business and technical domain knowledge to make the right tradeoffs. How else can you execute effectively?
I've used Uber 250+ times since 2010 and haven't had any issues that warranted any action beyond occasional 3 or 4 star ratings of drivers.
They are definitely the future - for now :)

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Tell them:

Personal commitment to democracy.
Symbolism is important.
Not voting is the same as voting.
Inspiring other people.
Adding to the percentages.
Understanding the system better.
Good habits etc...
The author of the text that is original is Ken Shirriff, who few days before wrote about another impressive detail: The Z-80 has a 4-bit ALU!

http://www.righto.com/2013/09/the-z-80-has-4-bit-alu-heres-h...
I've experienced something similar in San Fran, where a driver took me on a really weird route, and I gave a 3 star review, and just said they could have picked a much better route and they agreed, and refunded the difference between the route taken, and the best route.
I used http://www.resellerclub.com. $9.99 for .com, $3-$5 for .biz, .org, .net. Their API is pretty straightforward t to use, and supports availability checking, registration, and DNS settings. I used it for an experiment in automating domain registrations, article writing, and site creation based on Google keyword prices.
"Okay," I thought, "chargeback it is." But it is not that simple

It never is that simple. As best I can tell, a chargeback should be considered to be the ultimate burning of bridges with that company.
The note about Windows User-Mode Scheduling is really neat - it makes mmap much more usable when you can switch out on a page fault. Is there such a thing available for Linux?
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