skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an open source list of these kinds of questions up on github called InterviewThis. Would you object to me adding some of these to it? These are all really good and cover some things I didn't think of previously.

http://github.com/ChiperSoft/InterviewThis
His point is that being able to measure 'some' crime does not let you make statements about 'how much crime is committed by each race', just like being able to see the first row of trees in a forest does not let you make statements about how much of the forest is a particular kind of tree.
Yes, I think I red it in "Ahead of the Curve" ( http://www.amazon.com/Ahead-Curve-Harvard-Business-School/dp... ) and the author backed it up with data from the most recent tech and financial bubbles. The exact quote escapes me.
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1. a cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage.

cunning
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1. having or showing skill in achieving one's ends by deceit or evasion.

Does Walmart have to be considered evil in literally every action? I'd fully expect they're hoping they will make some additional sales from overnight campers, I can't imagine this wouldn't be fairly obvious to any non-cynical observer of the situation. And why shouldn't they - they make a profit from regular non-camping customers, so I can't understand how making the same profit from people who just received a free place to camp out for the night could somehow be considered worse. Seems like a classic win-win situation to me.
Ah. When I first read your response I was wondering, "What possible searches could be resold other than the browser search results."

You obviously can't resell something like a file/application search on the local computer (akin to Spotlight search on OS X).

Apparently I was wrong: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/09/ubuntu-bakes-amazon-...

That is bad on so many levels - privacy, security, network performance, etc... Presumably every time I do one of those searches, traffic is sent over my internet connection...

I wonder what's going through Canonical's mind - And why they think this is a good idea...
Which "law" of supply and demand are you thinking of? To my knowledge, there is no single such law, just a general rule of thumb. Simple mathmatical models in economy, in which "laws" can be proven often don't predict the real markets all that well.
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Yeah, you are right, I apologise for offending you. If you unpack that it means that I think I should have written my original comment differently.

I do not divide people. If creationists are persecuted for their beliefs I will stand right by their side. No questions asked. And that’s not so much the point. The problem I have with creationists is their belief in something demonstrably false and their attempts to push that false belief on other people, especially in schools. That doesn’t make me assume that they are also racist or stupid or any of those things. Yes, I will speak out loudly and harshly against creationists when their belief is harmful to other people. And I will roll my eyes when it’s something they believe merely in private. And that’s that.

In that context the comparison to trans* people makes no sense at all. There really isn’t much of an argument there. Respecting trans* people for who they are doesn’t harm anyone else. They are not trying to convince anyone of anything demonstrably false. And so, yeah, denying them that is extreme bigotry. It’s denying them their basic human dignity for just no reason at all.

The belief that the earth is 6000 years old and the belief that trans* people exist and that gender dysphoria is best treated by allowing trans* people to, well, transition are not exactly comparable.
Marijuana.
Well, children don't copy their parents.
> It is really just sad to see them selling out to Amazon like this, and I wish it didn't have to be this way.

I think many people confuse the smart scopes as "selling out to Amazon." The lenses integrate a bunch of online sources, some are commercial, some are not. You can try it by hitting the super key and doing something like `wiki:metallica` or `code:discourse` (which searches github for projects, etc.). There's something like 100 sources for information in the dash. Amazon is just one of them.

It's closer to something like Watson for the Mac or the integrated search in Android. Unfortunately people just assume that Ubuntu has "amazon spyware". If you don't like the integrated online search it's one switch to turn it off and Unity will revert to offline-only searches in the Dash.
This was written by Robert Weissberg.

The same one who was dumped by National Review when they determined he was too racist. The one who has written about that favorite topic of racists, the difference between IQ of whites and other races. What a great source for solid information.
It is easy to fall from that perch, just ask Atari or Sega. It is just as easy for some other party, such as Sony or Microsoft to claim the crown.

Valve has every chance to change things as much as Ouya. Unfortunately, but like everyone else, they don't control their destiny -- the consumers do. Consumers don't always pick the best or the most innovative technology as the winner. Only time will tell.
Thanks for the link.

Are you aware of any research on this topic you can point me to?
Software development jobs tend not to care what you majored in if you can demonstrate competency and experience. Your average CS senior is a VERY junior programmer.

Also "math / engineering" is usually good enough to bypass the HR "must have degree" wall at companies where that pertains - at least to the point that you have the same chance anyone does to pitch them on interviewing you.

Things you can do that beat "switch majors" in terms of improving employment prospects:

* Summer internships
* Part-time gig
* Write code, publish it on Github
* Write a tutorial article
* Create and market a software product

You also have to ask yourself, what are your goals for this? Are you looking for a comfortable W-2, or to spend some time working at startups, or to start a business of your own within a few years of graduating?
Well I very much doubt that. Mostly the same shit happens over and over dressed slightly differently each time so the average pleb who may have only read about it in a history book (if that) doesn't recognise it as being much the same thing.
There are more jobs in tech than only software development. Have you considered other positions? Product management is one option, especially of you have both- the business background and a knowledge of development.
> The Unity lens is fundamentally fucked up.

Even if you are ok with it being opt-out, I think you would have to acknowledge that it isn't a very good business model. Linux users tend to be very conscious of their privacy rights.

Further even if you think it is ok to be opt-out, and think it is a legitimate way to monetize Linux users, you would acknowledge that Canonical have not handled any part of this story arch very well.

This has done more than enough damage, I think they should abandon it and find another way to fund their development.

They could win back a lot of support and sympathy with a mea culpa moment acknowledging at least one or more of: it wasn't a good idea, it wasn't implemented well, and we didn't handle the criticism properly.
A relevant post:
http://shahart.al/2013/07/13/on-the-perils-of-owning-a-vanit...
(Also - check out the reddit thread [link in text])
A fine example of the Hacker News circlejerk.
A number of years ago I had to fix a fairly sophisticated 5 VDC 200 W switch mode power supply. Due to the design the only way to work on it was to have the supply fully loaded. We had to make a rig with a bunch of large wound power resistors in parallel submerged in a bucket of ice water. It was really surprising to see how quickly the ice melted and the water warmed up.
I agree with your underlying sentiment, but this blood volume hypothesis is not supported by evidence.

Instead, current research indicates that high blood pressure after excess sodium intake may be caused by activation of the sympathetic nervous system, secondary to increased sodium loading on ion channels.

I remember it was in a relatively recent paper. This mechanism might help explain why sodium hasn't consistently been shown to have an adverse effect in humans while at the same time still being strongly associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Come to think of it, it's also a good explanation for why cultures in temperate climates tend to start their day with a hearty (salty) meal ;)

I would also like to point out, since above a comment was made about glutamate containing "a shitload" of sodium, that the actual sodium content of MSG is only around 13% by weight, compared to table salt where it's nearly 40%.
I read "month" as "day" and thought holy crap this guy is destroying it!

I only saw two sites he made in his resume(two including the blog itself) and I'm surprised that's all it takes for $70k job. A lot of it is probably due to strong self-promotion and initiative rather than raw programming prowess.
Varnish and Node.js
The only law in economics is Say's law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say%27s_law
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No, the fact that the supposed fact cannot actually be supported except by assuming the non-demonstrable non-existence (or irrelevance) of several other kinds of bias...

Is this a parody of logic? Your point is not clear, regardless.
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How many of those sources have a "Buy for $x" button under them? And I don't necessarily want to send the context of searches for content on my own computer over the wire to Canonical's servers (especially these days).

I'm not saying the lens search is an awful thing for everyone. What I'm saying is that they should have the button set to "off" by default, let people know what is available to them, tell them about how it works, and then ask if they want it or not. That's it. That's all it would take.

But even if they do that... isn't it still like the Java installer asking you to install an Ask.com plugin or something? I mean... that's kinda the lowest of the low for free (as in beer) software. Searching Wikipedia and for .git repos online is one thing. Ads are different.
I beg to differ. They have an awesome rice cooker, and their Panasonic Platinum line of big portable radios was cool in the 80s.
Thanks for teaching me the italics trick! I promise, I love to learn!

I agree with most of what you said. In fact, it's due to a few of my classes (especially that physics class) that I'd like to become a professor some day. I want to teach kids much better than those few terrible professors I had to learn from (I had no other choice in teacher).

> If you consider the class nothing but useless busy-work, get out of the class.

Trust me, if I could have I would have. Unfortunately these classes were prereq's for the classes (and major) that I cared about. I knew the material well enough to get decent grades and didn't care beyond that. I would have gladly traded a seat for a student who cared (especially a student who couldn't afford to go to college!)
Thanks for the advice. It seems as our paths are very similar.

To be honest, my biggest interests are in statistics, programming, and finance (in that order). The most natural intersection seemed to be working at a proprietary trading firm. Unfortunately, I applied to over 25 prop shops with no success. I haven't heard of a single alumni from my school in trading; they typically only hire out of MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UPenn, etc.

After no luck with trading, I figured banking would be the next best option with numbers and finance.

Just out of curiosity, do you program in your free time? Do you think you'll eventually make the transition from banking to software development?
I've read your first link and I can't make much sense for it. They state Latino students are falling behind and they are out to help them - which is a noble goal and would benefit everybody, as basic education is associated with improving virtually every aspect of life of oneself and surroundings. However I can not see how this could be improving by teaching students something like "ethnic studies", whatever this is. Maybe in Arizona they have some different ones, but so far all examples of ethnic studies I've seen could help people be a professor of ethnic studies and not much more, and demand for those is not high enough to support teaching this in schools. I highly doubt teaching something like "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", which is written by a Marxist and starts with the presumption the audience is "oppressed", is going to contribute much to the success of the students in American society. This btw has nothing to do with author being white or not white (I have no idea if he is) or "white" people being offended (most of any people never heard about this book anyway).

I'm not a big fan of the government prescribing what to teach to the children, but if you have government-run schools, that's what you get. As government intervention goes, I don't think something like: "The legislature finds and declares that public school pupils should be taught to treat and value each other as individuals and not be taught to resent or hate other races or classes of people." (this is mentioned as one of the laws that for some reason prevents "ethnic studies" from being taught) is the worst example of it. I have hard time figuring out why one would object to such premise and insist that pupils in government schools should be taught racial hate or resentment.
> but as long as you are in a real city core (not the suburbs), its actually mostly quite nice compared to Dubai.

In what way? (just want to know your perspective) I do prefer US cities myself (esp. NYC) way more than Dubai - mostly for the culture, people and the opportunities there. But the awesome H-1B cap and lottery doesn't help. After all, what other country conducts a freaking lottery for high-skilled worker visas?
Andreessen Horowitz Sells a Third of its Facebook Shares
Social policy has a long history of people who jumped to easy conclusions ("blacks are criminals") based on simple, stupid analyses like the one you describe. Perhaps the self-censorship is actually a wise response to this history of stupid racial stereotyping.

As an example of intelligent people who let themselves believe comfortable things, think about Francis Galton, eminent statistician and despicable eugenicist.
"I'm currently stuck with having to deliver HA in a product"

Have you looked at streaming replication in postgres?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/high-availability....
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/warm-standby.html#...

I'm not sure what level of expertise your customers are at, so this might not work for you. But it seems like a better fit than slony at least.
Former Fins star WR Duper tests positive for CTE
> What do you expect to happen?

At one extreme, nothing. At the other, a potentially horrible electrocution. Run a google image search for something like "serious car accident" and insert an equally mangled battery pack in there. I very much doubt Tesla or any other electric car manufacturer would even remotely consider issuing a blanket guarantee stating that their design is electrocution-proof under all conditions.

Not trying to be a troll. Simply saying that high voltage systems are extremely dangerous. That's it. No need to agree with me. Just remember I said it.
I'd point out that Python was the preferred high-level language at pre-MS Nokia. There was Python for S60 for a long time, even before either iOS or Android existed. More recently Nokia made new Python bindings for Qt, PySide, to be used on Maemo.
ac1294: Could you put your email address or some way to contact you in your profile? I want to send you a message.
did you already know that list or did you have to stop to think about it? any notable examples on that list you care to share?
I explicitly did not call it a law, and even explained why it cannot be called such, so I have no clue why you are calling me out on that.

Regardless, I take exception to the claim that they "often don't predict the real markets all that well". They can predict real markets very well in most scenarios. Most theoretical-basis predictions of price ceilings and floors (such as rent control or minimum wages) are perfectly sound, but there is plenty of ambiguity in the results that critics seem to misinterpret as proof of the failure of Supply and Demand to predict outcomes.

Price ceilings tend to result in shortages, but occasionally result in no effect at all. But that isn't enough evidence to say that Supply and Demand doesn't apply to this scenario. In order to disprove the applicability of Supply and Demand, you would have to show that a price ceiling increased the quantity supplied. Such scenarios are as rare as black swans.
Made a lot of sound and fury about Larry Summers while pointedly ignoring the real problem[1]?

[1] http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
The United States of ALEC
If you think that programming languages are strictly worse or better than others on a linear scale, then there is something important you have missed.
This statement does not appear exactly as such, but if you read the article, that is the conclusion you would make. It is a useful habit - thinking about texts you read and not just picking direct quotes. I highly recommend trying it.

>> What attempts are you referring to?

Attempts to reform societies from ground up according to abstract "fairness" principles, such as Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Cultural Revolution in China, etc. They did not end well.

>>> Noel Ignatiev is still stationed as a professor at a university

Which means the only harm he could do is inflicted on his students, who should have known better than enrolling in his courses. Which is fine with me.
When will we start getting actual data on the effects of legalization? As someone who lives in a rather conservative country when it comes to drug laws, I'd be very interested.
Standardized exams are incredibly problematic, but their sole virtue is being easy to game through tutoring and effort.
One of my relatives stays in Dubai with his family (wife and child), at a really nice 2-bedroom apartment in a high-rise, that's got parking within the building (the first 4 floors have been converted into parking spaces). He pays AED 38,000 a year for it. Air conditioning is included in the rent, so his electric bill is significantly lower than that of most UAE residents.

AED 38k translates to $10,345/year, or $862/month. He had to hunt a lot for this apartment though. It's not easy to find, and if you're unfamiliar with Dubai it's especially easy to end up paying Manhattan-esque rents.

With regard to the freelance visa -- I haven't gotten myself one (yet), so I'm no expert. But I don't think working from home will be a problem. You're right that you can't do business with non-free zone companies. But if you're a freelance programmer or web designer, you can basically work out of your home, and bill your client for you work as you normally would anywhere else. And you'd get the full amount, since the UAE has no income taxes.

As far as I know, you do approach a free zone company like DMTFZA. I've actually spoken to a rep at another free zone (RAKFTZ). The reason it costs $5k is because you can't just register a company with a free zone -- you also have to pay at least some office rent. With RAKFTZ, I basically explained my situation -- that I'd be freelancing, and that I was looking for the cheapest option (in terms of visas), to stay in the country. They said the cheapest options was a "Flex" plan, where I am allowed to use one of the meeting rooms in the RAK Free Zone building for up to X hours a week (X < 20). This plan (which includes company registration and what not), would set me back ~$5000/year (converting from AED here). A visa, valid for 3 years, would cost another $2k.

So you're looking at $7k the first year, $5k the next two years, $7k again, and so on -- which is not bad, considering you're not paying taxes (assuming you're making at least $5k/mo). The Dubai free zone authority probably charges, but I most likely not too much more (in order to stay competitive). As a side note; Gulf News, a local English daily in the UAE, had a piece where they described how freelancer visas costs around AED 25,000/year (~$6.8k/yr), and how this was exorbitant and what not. Note: most foreigners in the UAE earn a lot less than first-world country wages. I would wager a guess that the median income of a resident of the UAE was between USD 15k to 20k (i.e. quite close to the US poverty line). The wealth distribution in the UAE is sadly, quite uneven.
A similar point was made recently by Ron Unz[1], in an article that got him fired from the American Conservative magazine. The correlation between race and crime is shockingly strong. Are people generally aware of the data?

There are even more uncomfortable facts that are too extreme for Unz that are blogged about by only the most hardened thought criminals. For example, have you ever wondered if racial crime stats showed the same relative patterns in other nations, including those with no history of African slavery? By what mechanisms would racial crime rates show the same pattern in Switzerland and the United States? The answers are fascinating, but they won't get you tenure.

[1] http://www.ronunz.org/2013/07/20/race-and-crime-in-america/
Certain socioeconomic groups have lower test scores for nutritional reasons (namely: they grow up malnourished and thus don't develop adequately). Try to disentangle this effect before claiming heritable genetic reasons for test scores.
it's a reasonable and probably common situation. it may be better to just be truthful and refer to your actual prior projects, wherever they are. if the potential employers can't understand this, do you really want to work for them?
looks awesome but i've never been able to install it on my windows machine ,it complains about my graphic card. But it looks neat.
Hey Biturd seems like you're using a lot of screenshots in your workflow but what are they for? Product development? I only stumbled upon this as a side project and would like to see how it fits in with people. thx
the point is adding type system, not compiling it.
It does happen for San Fran.
Thus losing all your customers in a large, well-established 1st world market.

Again: if you can't buy BitCoin in your native currency legally, no one would bother trying to do it except if they had a compelling reason.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience#Psychology is psychology a real science?
What about performance? Seems one of the biggest concerns on mobile devices is to achieve high performance with low overhead.

What kind of penalty comes with a separate python runtime?
No. Social sciences aren't sciences. They're "Social" sciences. That doesn't keep it from straying into the real sciences, just like computer science sometimes strays into real science.
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Ah, the road not taken.
> or only when it's talented programmers working on a database?

I'll pretend I don't know who Hickey is and just say that I expect a lot of stupid decisions can be made when coming up with "a completely new way of looking or storing data". Some databases (cough...cough...starts with M) shipped their database product with unacknowledged writes as the default, oops. Everyone can make a database.

Now let's dig deeper. The reason I asked what I asked it because given the architecture of Datomic and the claims made, that corner case (excision) would not be trivial or and would have to be implemented as a hack on the side. That is why I asked. In some databases it is easier to do, in that architecture it is hard.

> or only when it's talented programmers working on a database?

Who are these talented programmers? Are you a talented programmer?