skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really have a favoured solution, as of now, other than not using predictive typing.

I can see that Minuum works well using Bayes to predict a certain english word given the user input.

If you guys generate/use a language model for other languages that would give us around the same accuracy/prior probability as the english model, then I think it shouldn't be a problem.

Having quick settings and options that you can setup and choose which languages to include in the prior probability.

Being able to quickly turn off/turn a language, add/remove languages to the priori, etc.
i'm referring to cases where you are say, porting or adapting a well understood algorithm. once the algorithm is at parity in terms of inputs and outputs the implementation details are relatively irrelevant from that point forward.
Dying of cancer is more expensive than developing a cure, if you're ethical and think life is more important than money.
The original article isn't very long. If you want to discuss it, you could, I dunno, try reading it? Yes, it is from google trends. Just like the data on yahoo and google itself that they compared it to. So no, there is no rational basis to assume that the data indicates people are getting more familiar with the internet.
I used R day to day, but it's NOT as easy as MATLAB. There just isn't the same level of documentation and clarity.
B/c politics in SF are nothing like politics in London.
What did you mean then, by "this is a good example why" - in what way is it a good example, what does it show about diversity?
Clarification: are you suggesting that I have "a history of exaggerating, writing falsehood and outright lying"?

If yes, please explain.
So the money that would have gone to the programmers goes to the upper executive layers instead. This merely moves things around slightly, and if anything further squeezes wealth into the top 1% as opposed to top 10%.

This whole story looks fairly damning, especially to Jobs and Schmidt, though that is probably the intent. Faced with a hiring war with 2005 era Jobs you'd have to have serious guts to refuse - like apparently the Palm CEO did.
Hey, Facebook, wanna prove Princeton wrong? How about publishing actual metrics proving that user engagement is at an all-time high?

(Oh, you don't have metrics to prove that? Is that because users are jumping ship?)
Typically a cold call script is just a qualifying call, ask a few questions, see what problems they face and if they would benefit from the product. If they agree to a followup then it's great to schedule a followup email and call them again in after some period.

What we've found is that it's impractical to think that you'd close a sales call in one hit. A combination of phone calls and emails is important and providing customers with something of value before you push the sale is really effective. E.g. whitepapers, videos, blog posts, webinars etc.

I work for a company called GoodCall (http://www.goodcall.io) at the moment, which facilitates thousands of calls each week to businesses. We're building a tool to help businesses devise an effective call script and sales funnel and A/B test different scripts and sales processes. It also shows you your cost-per-acquisition, something that is really easy to measure with Google Adwords, but hard to do with inbound sales.
seeing how nokia tanked after disappointing earnings this quarter, we can safely assume that windows phones were not the driving factor for Microsoft.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=nokia&ei=baPhUrjeEuGgiALHqQ...
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agreed, but they have to put that in there to cover their asses in case some moron doesn't get it and gets offended.
UK Considers Throwing Persistent Internet Pirates in Jail
I have been reading good things about Chicken Scheme, which compiles to C. I am debating between Go and Chicken for a SaaS startup. Go seems to be the future favorite language for server development, but I read pg's essay "Beating the Averages" and am attracted to Lisp. (And I love Emacs!)
Does anyone with experience in these languages have any thoughts?
Keep in mind that marketing drugs is a purely American thing; in most other countries with sane healthcare policies you can market awareness of a condition but not a drug to treat the condition. Doctors should be the one helping a patient decide which medication is best for their situation, not some ad exec.
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Or perhaps it's because they have solutions, features, industry leading backwards-compatibility, competent support channels, and a slew of other things - that their nearest competitor does not have.
> Fortunately, there are probably other options besides the either-or choice of "no secrets" or "our current worsening dystopia."

I agree. We need to work to find a better choice. However, I believe the better options fall closer to absolute transparency then they do the current system.

> There are two basic problems with your thread of argument:

> 1. No modern government of importance will give up dealing in secrets, and

> 2. No government of importance has ever tried.

That's part of the problem. Simply because everyone thinks it's OK for governments to deal in secrets makes it OK. Noöne seems willing to conceive of a system where secrets are the exceptional, special case and not the norm.

And yeah, I'm not sure why I was trying to say secrets weren't important even after I said myself secrets and deception (helped/caused) conflict about where to place troops for the Germans.
I always backup important things to the phone (big memory + big MicroSD card) and together with my wallet they sit near my head while asleep. While I am awake they sit in tight jeans pockets.
Irony overload. What was wrong with that paper again? Correlation != causation?
This is odd as a much better post on Julia v R v MATLAB v Python etc has got little attention:
http://slendermeans.org/language-wars.html
Give up ... that person basically lives on HN/other sites to preach his opinion of Go being the best thing ever as the absolute truth.

Nothing you can say will change his stance even a single inch.

(Yeah. Go's dependency management is so great that people keep writing dozens of wrappers/extensions/replacements. sarcasm)
Why are engineers who make 100-150k expected to give back to society because we percieve them to be so lucky but millionaire and billionaire bank executives see no pressure for this at all? What is the obsession with the idea that people making low six figures are somehow the richest people with the most free time. Hell I don't make a whole lot over 100k and work 60 hours a week. Why am I the audience that is picked on while the bank executive heads out at 4 and never gives anything back? Its a bit insane to me really.
Idea for a startup: Similar to how I can call a creditcard company to just cancel the current card on file and issue a new one, I'd love to have a place where I could just call up and say "Lock down my digital life and send me a letter in the mail with new pins, passwords, API keys, etc".

I would pay for expensive Next-Day-Delivery on this too.

Exactly how this would work I'm not sure. I guess said start-up would need to be trusted with all your passwords & API keys and private-keys? I dunno.
I find such stuff annoying, at least using it everywhere just because you can. Imagine you're reading hackernews, and halfway through reading a comment, it gets deleted. Or, say, you want to compare a page with the changed page one hour later -- easy, just open it in a new tab (and maybe do a hard refresh), right? Well, if everything is "real-time", that's not even possible.

Yes, there are use cases for it. But doing it just because you can, because it's supposedly "cool", is also hurting other use cases.
Not directly, no. But I work for a company that has a sales department that does cold calls.

Interestingly, organic traffic performs better than cold calling. By a decent margin. But, on the road sales blows both out of the water. Obviously.

So if your looking at marketing strategy, someone on the road might be a good investment (depending on the product and customer base).
It seems like that is the landlords fault then, not the techies then.

If landlords didn't want gouge by asking for fair market value for their properties, all of the old guard would still be living in SF.
Seems like Facebook is responding to the media interpretation of the Princeton paper rather than the paper itself. I saw no problems with the paper: it applied an epidemiologically-inspired statistical technique to Facebook using a defunct precursor as exemplar. The limitations of this technique are obvious, but it's an interesting idea.

People do "research" like this all the time - you throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. Most of the stuff that ends up on the floor never receives any attention at all, so you don't hear about it on first-tier news sites. But when it's about Facebook, it goes viral, and suddenly is the subject of intense scrutiny. They didn't bring this to the UN for a call to action. They didn't start a company around it. They just applied an idea to some data and wrote it up. And now the entire Internet is making fun of some exaggerated version of their idea, summarized by Huffington Post hit-mongers.

Personally, I applaud these guys for putting in the work to test out a theory. If it's not correct, it will go in the bin with the other ten million papers with flawed theories, premises, methods, or other aspects that have been published in the last day or two.
>Am I the only one that kind of thinks most websites should just be static pages?

No, the majority of people agree. And contrary to what javascript happy dumbasses keep repeating, the majority of new development is absolutely not doing everything client side. It is sad that the web is so fad driven, but this stupid fad will pass just like flash intros and spinning under construction animated gifs.
That was an impressive use of the Lord of the Rings lines in your comment I must say
i've been learning a little about both react, meteor and using them together: https://github.com/cslarson/react-meteor-server-example
I will tell you right now that it is NOT the inability to crunch that is causing that problem. In fact, lots of crunch tends to cause exactly those problems.
I was talking about sharing the wealth inside your own country, not keeping the poor in America extremely poor and spending money on foreign aid.
Mining bitcoins may be non profitable, but I recovered my investment in less than 3 months of alt coin mining.
> "Employees of the company spend X number of days responding to the incident, and you take their fully loaded cost and divide it out by the number of days they spent having to deal with the incident, and that's a big number."

That should be discounted by the amount of time they spent getting their site up to basic good practices, if any. Otherwise it makes hacking the incompetent a greater crime than cracking in to a high-value hard target.
Hmm, this is an accurate description on how a lot of research work is run.But then there are the cases where that data analysis that was put together within a week is suddenly used by the whole research group, amended, extended and used with more and more data. Sometimes someone even sticks a GUI on top, plots and consecutive analysis steps are added, etc.

And this is when you really want to have a language that can be used to build up real abstraction.
It is effectively infinitely easier. Hackers don't need multi-year studies, trials and FDA approvals before pushing code to Github. The fact that there are no "open source drugs" should give you a hint that the analogy you're trying to draw is fundamentally flawed.
A bit of anecdata: My niece got a cheap laptop last year for homework with Windows 8 on it. This christmas she asked 'santa' for a windows phone, because she's used to the interface. And this is in a household where everyone's had iPod Touchs and access to an iPad for years.

So there at least, the 'make everything metro' strategy seems to have worked out.
Seems like the anger you're directing at tech people would be better directed at VCs, who are actually doing the exploiting and getting huge returns while doing little to know work. The idea that people working 50-60 hours a week owe their community because they're well paid is completely ridiculous. Why not expect the same of other professions? Bankers are well paid and literally went out of their way to ruin the American economy yet our anger is with techies?
The article is describing one of the many explanations that has been brought forward to explain why controllers do what they do. If you are looking for a common denominator across controllers broadly, the selective epitope targeting explanation seems to make the most sense to us and does not appear to be constrained by anything but the individual's HLA type which essentially determines what epitopes a particular individual's immune system can "see."
Yes, Professor Gandalf.
You mean the actual metrics linked to in the 2nd sentence of the post? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101235005815241&se...

(Oh, you missed that? Is that because you didn't actually read the post?)
Over the long term... yes, they do try to recoup the costs of developing a drug and a reasonable profit. I was deliberating simplifying things.

Over the short term, the costs of developing a drug are a sunk cost that has already been financed using the profits from the previous round of drugs. They try to get as much out of the market as they can with their current lineup of drugs so that they can pay for the pipeline that is developing the next round. Over the long term over many drugs on the market, they are hoping that they are able to make a reasonable profit. They have to recoup the costs of developing each drug (including the ones that failed before getting to market). And to satisfy shareholders, they try to make as much profit as they can.

The amount that Pharma charges is based on a variety of factors, but you're right that it is largely what the market will bear in the presence competing drugs. For a cancer drug, the amount is whatever the insurance companies will pay. And that amount is always negotiated. The market will determine what is reasonable.

However, they still have a giant research and development machine that must be financed. If they aren't making enough on their current drug lineup, a company either needs to charge higher prices or slim down their drug development pipeline.
Except that most kindergarden nurses and primary school teachers are women, so they already normalize learning from women all the time. Oh, and of course mothers are women, too, and most kids spend more time with their mothers than with their fathers.

(I have nothing against a programming book written by woman - I learned Java from the Java Tutorial and earned lots of money with it - but I ask people to challenge their prejudices).

I even sent the author of the Java Tutorial a fan email once (the original author was a woman, don't know what it's current state is).
Every time I read an article about this I fell like I'm at The Onion. Drive ++down++ engineer wages? Really? Does anyone on planet earth feel like engineer wages are/were artificially low?
I wonder if this article would exist if the first one had been by Harvard instead of Princeton (given that Harvard was the origin of Facebook).
Neiman Marcus Breach Affected 1.1 Million Cards
You can sue for any reason whatsoever - does not mean you will win.

I am sure that Verizon was smart enough to put a limitation on the time that one had to activate the service. They have very many lawyers that would never allow a deal with no end date.

But again, you buy something over 1 year ago and only activate now? Did you really need this service?

Anyhow - you should not expect people to have a special offer that never expires, you must activate it to get the benefits.

But honestly, sounds like you are crying over nothing if it is really 1 year ago that you purchased this. You are being unreasonable.
Being robbed sucks but when it comes to digital possessions there's no reason it needs to suck this much.

> I didn’t really trust file encryption because I thought I might lose files because of it and therefore I never enabled Mac OSX’s built-in FileVault hard drive encryption. I should have though. It’d save me from worrying about who’s going through all my files now.

This is a no brainer. I have yet to notice any real performance hit for enabling full disk encryption. Just enable it, make sure to have a long/strong password, and make sure your computer actually locks when you close the lid.

You should never be worried about losing files on a single computer. If they're important then they should be backed up to multiple computers/drives/services. If you're worried about accidentally wiping your laptop when you setup FDE then just make a backup before hand.

> My backup drive was literally NEXT to my MacBook. By sheer luck, I had just backed up my internal drive the day before and they didn’t take it.

Offsite backups are a must. It can be your own "offsite" (ie. a server at friends/parents/office) but it needs to be somewhere other than the primary site.

> I didn’t have a cloud backup because I don’t trust a third party with my data.

There's nothing wrong with not trusting third parties but that's exactly what encryption is for. Encrypt your data locally and then you can store it remotely without worrying about it being accessible to a third party. DIY scripting with GPG/S3 works well for a lot of situations. Or you can just use Tarsnap[1].

Honestly it makes a lot of sense to do the same with USB drives as well. My Linux machine is my primary computer (OS X laptop when roaming...) so the majority of my backup USB drive usage is done there. I have them setup with LUKS/dm-crypt[2] for full disk encryption. It's really easy to setup, plug-n-play on modern systems, and it almost falls into the "no reason not too" category. I just wish OS X supported it too.

[1]: http://www.tarsnap.com/

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup
What programmers do matters
Jobs' comments:

>OK, I’ll tell our recruiters they are free to approach any Adobe employee who is not a Sr. Director or VP. Am I understanding your position correctly?

>if you [Brin] hire a single one of these people that means war.

Chizen's comment:

>if I tell Steve [Jobs] it’s open season (other than senior managers), he will deliberately poach Adobe just to prove a point. Knowing Steve, he will go after some of our top Mac talent…

Jobs sounds like a Grade-A Asshole, along with every other player involved in this mess. Makes me even less likely to relocate to SV than I already was. Though now I'm curious to know whether these wage-theft pacts extend beyond SV, perhaps to Austin... Many of the same players have a significant presence here. Seriously. If you've got info, hit me up.
"What's beef?"
This is one hell of a hit piece. I'd love to see the actual quote from the CEO since this has gotten ZERO press in the mainstream media. I'm assuming he meant the drug was priced for westerns who could afford it, not that the company would prefer if Indians with cancer would just die.

The thing that makes me laugh about the IP struggle going on in India is that Indian companies who have developed their own generic versions have often priced their drugs not much lower than what western companies have[1]. This isn't about providing access to medicines (since many western companies, including Bayer, have patient assistance programs that offer free drug to Indians), this is about protecting and supporting the Indian pharmaceutical manufacturers.

[1] Biocon just launched their biosimilar version of Genentech's Herceptin. Genentech's price in India is $1,366 per month while Biocon's is $933 per month, still well out of the reach of most Indians.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-20/roche-herceptin-cop...
Pentagon report faults F-35 on software, reliability
I think so. Here's their description of the segments, http://www.microsoft.com/investor/CompanyInfo/SegmentInfo/Ov...
Content-Security-Policy is a tricky one. For starters, enabling CSP if you're using Angular causes a 30% slowdown[1]. Secondly, a lot of performance optimizations can be gained by inlining JavaScript. The latter one can be circumvented using SPDY server push, but that isn't widely used yet.

[1] http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.directive:ngCsp
interesting. I have so far only read some fortran code, never really dived into it in more detail.
This is probably true. Competition is sometimes destructive. But these business practices are still completely illegal.
When you say extort you mean seek payment for licence rights for their IP? I'm not a fan of the system but its part of the business process.

All the big companies take part in this little dance.
YES.

based on anecdotal evidence, top engineer salaries start capping out at 150k, when in reality this should go into the 300, 400, 500k range like lawyers and finance people make.

it's already starting to turn, so i'm hopeful.
Then what's the big deal about paying them overtime?
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> The U.S. Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs

No it's not.

Drug use is a personal choice where all actors are voluntary. (The 'war' bit then causes the damage we currently see to everyone)

Hacking has victims that don't want to be involved.

It might be a heavy handed approach currently but relating it to the war on drugs is insulting, millions die and are incarcerated because of that war.
> every Like for this post counts as a peer review. Start reviewing!

Wait did Facebook just start likewhoring themselves too?
agreed, but they wouldn't have done that when they were still a startup.
Consumer devices would include the Xbox, right?
>If you lose your apartment in this part of the city you will pay thousands more to get another one just like it, or you won't make that kind of money and literally no longer be able to afford to live anywhere in the city you probably work in

Except that the rest of the city hasn't had this massive bump in prices. Where I live in the excelsior, prices have barely risen at all in the last decade. No one would need to leave the city - they would just need to leave the hipster hoods.
Money is typically the criteria used for "if you can afford it".

American still has the greatest GDP, and the the greatest household income (average and median, as I recall).
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"Hi, I'm really not sure who I need to speak to but if I could take 30 seconds to explain who I am and what I'm looking for do you think we could work out if it's worth me speaking to anyone? Would that be ok?"

"Great thanks. My names is X, and my company does Y. Does it sound like there might be someone who it would be good for me to talk to? If it's a no then that is absolutely fine." Then go quiet.

This is the best opener I have used and it gets me a name and my call forwarded 80% of the time - which is the main aim of a cold call, if you're going in with getting a sale in mind it will always feel like a massive mountain.

Also, if in the 30 second explanation you can get something about them in first it works even better. Also, don't go over your 30 seconds.
Because those things are actually hugely important, he spends the rest of the article showing how important they are. He is simply too ignorant to recognize his own ignorance, and revels in this fact. He starts out with "I dun need no fancy book learnin!" and you don't see how it is anti-intellectual?
No, you don't. If you really, really want to work all night, then do it on a personal project of your own. One that you control, and might make you money some day, as opposed to some middle manager.
1.85% of GDP is US private charitable giving, 38% higher than any other nation. Your assertion that America needs to catch up with the rest of the world is, at best, xenophobic.