skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The word "university" has in it a form of "whole". As such, IMHO, this "place for learning" should strive toward teaching AND fostering coping mechanisms. Coping is, after all, and again IMHO, a key component to success. Tell us, without the basic will to live, what is success or "higher education"?
This is probably the most annoying problem in my daily life (yeah I know, first-world problems). I have daily conversations with biologists where I've analysed some data and associated (say) a posterior probability with each condition in the model. They insist I give them p-values or something they can present as though they were p-values. At the beginning of my PhD I complied. Then they throw out all the nuance in the data, put one asterisk for p < 0.05, two asterisks for p < 0.01, etc., and (this is the horrifying part) _believe_ that an asterisk indicates that something is true. They put stupid asterisks all over my beautiful plots and then think their arbitrary cutoffs mean something biologically meaningful. I die a little inside every time I see an asterisk on a plot.

Now I refuse to use p-values and deliberately construct analyses that are incompatible with Fisherian statistics. And rather than giving people raw numbers, I produce a massive document of interpretation. Takes a huge amount of time, but I'm hoping it will mean my publishing track will contain significantly (ha!) fewer false results than most biologists'.
They build cars in many segments. Tesla build one model, while VW has 27 models (from their german website) + commercial vehicles. Also, they own several brands like Audi, Bentley and some others. Most of them has a wide model range.
The op was explicitly about IBM in India and the redundancy there FFS. Where exactly does the WARN act apply to India? abotu as much as fucking TUPE does

Its fracking karma whoring civilians chiming in with anecdotes they heard from their mate down the golf club about labour law in a different country entirely that piss me off
Has someone tried getting all vulnerable NTP servers with zmap and shutting them down?
Ouch. I had no idea CandySwipe even existed. This doesn't look good for King.com at all, especially after they were accused of copying Scamperghost[0].

[0]: http://junkyardsam.com/kingcopied/
Wow. Author asks for bug reports ... you explain it's all buggy and don't provide a single example.

For your sins, I'm going to see if I can convince the author to get it into a repository and then I'm going to give you a commit bit ... :D
> I'm quite sure such "anti-depressants" (what a misnomer) had a lot more to do with the suicide than anything Penn or any other institution or individual could possibly have.

Are you basing this claim on the following study?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bupropion#cite_note-FDA-43

I'm not taking a stand on whether that study's conclusions are correct or incorrect. I'm just seeking to clarify how you reached your conclusion.

Regarding that study, Wikipedia states that "Considered in isolation, [Wellbutrin] was not statistically different from placebo." Again, I won't judge the accuracy of Wikipedia's statement. I just wanted to point it out.
Lawyers, doctors, and engineers are all required to pass tests before they can practice. They prove their competence before they can even begin working in the field. Furthermore, they are required to take continuing education classes for the duration of their professional careers. Finally, and probably most importantly, professional are subject to fiduciary obligations to their clients that require a minimum standard of professional conduct--if they mess up, they can (and do) get sued for malpractice.

OTOH, apparently programmers can call themselves programmers after a 6 week course in [any random language] even if they only have the barest understanding of what they're doing. Programmers aren't responsible for their mistakes--if they mess up, the client's option is to pay for someone to fix it with no option for recompense.
I am creating an app as a side project and this makes it a lot more manageable. It is my first time messing with web dev and would rather focus my time developing it instead of having to learn a lot of back-end as well. I understand where you are coming from though. I would like to learn back-end but I already have a lot to learn.
It didn't originate with Joel Spolsky. "Eating your own dogfood" was already a meme at Microsoft when Spolsky arrived there (1991), and that's where he probably picked it up from. Wikipedia attributes it to Paul Maritz:

"In 1988, Microsoft manager Paul Maritz sent Brian Valentine, test manager for Microsoft LAN Manager, an email titled 'Eating our own Dogfood', challenging him to increase internal usage of the company's product. From there, the usage of the term spread through the company."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food#Origi...
Thanks for sharing this! Nicole Sullivan's talk about her work with Trulia was a huge inspiration for Yelp's styleguide.
The performance improvements you reported are very impressive. Well done!
Ask HN: Infringement notice from Wolfram Alpha
Hello All,

I have received a Infringement notice from WolframAlpha for linking to their website from an android app.

Description of App :
App shows the district in which a vehicle was registered using some characters in the number/license plate. When the user click the District name, the app redirects the user to WolframAlpha website (Eg: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Hyderabad ).
I have unpublished the App for now. but the main doubt I had is isn't it just like linking to a website ?

TOS of WolframAlpha:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/termsofuse/general/
Toyota recalls 1.9 million Prius hybrids to fix software problem
Black hole bombs: Are they dark matter in disguise?
I'm happy to hear other people agree that it's a grave accusation.
I've found that when discussing Go, the terms `struct` and `type` are usually used interchangeably. Yes it's factually incorrect, but the message is at least intelligible.
Would you consider the US at any time in its history to be authoritarian?
Switching to OS-X from Windows
Sure, that's a fair point. Data consistency reliability in ES and Lucene will only get better over time.

But I personally suspect Lucene won't ever get away from the dreaded "just reindex." And to the larger point, I think recent resurgent interest in data stores and distributed systems have shown pretty clearly that there is no holy grail. No single data store can provide all the semantics necessary for all use cases. Maybe not even for most use cases. There are just too many tradeoffs to consider.

Believe me, I earn a living hosting Elasticsearch, so I'd love to see it become a robust primary data store. There are some use cases where it actually does make sense—just look at the amazing traction ES is experiencing for storing and indexing time-series data.

But as a general-purpose primary store, I'm not really holding my breath. Maybe I'm just becoming battle-worn and bitter. I would love to be proven otherwise over the next few years!
Unless you're the best of the best, or you really care, an ivy-league school isn't going to be great for your quality of life. I know tons of kids that have cracked under the pressures of penn/cornell/etc. Send your kids to smaller, less prestigious school.
Did using something other than AWS ever cross your mind?

Detailed post. Curious to see other API companies detail their construction the same way.
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I think it may well be worthwhile to do so... In the past, I used pandoc to go from html segments to markdown in order to scrub/cleanup imported input... the eventual goal was to support markdown as a base input in the editor, with a side-by-side view.

I like markdown a lot, but I think the point is to "learn" markdown, and maybe an editor with a side-by-side preview is better if that's your target? The point of markdown is to be a slightly enhanced text input.
Hacking Team Software Used Against U.S. Journalists, Among Others
Agreed. I've been on AD's for over ten years and everyone has to find what works for them. It's not magic. You have to do your homework (if you are in a position to. Some folks aren't). What works for me is Lexapro. I switched to Zoloft 6 months ago because I believe you have to try other options and it was a very ugly, dark time. Just switched back to the Lexapro and I feel great. What works for one doesn't work for the other.
How does this compare with Kohana?

http://kohanaframework.org/index

Note: I tend to use frameworks largely to enforce safe db queries. IIRC, Kohana does all the needed escaping transparently. Might seem like an overkill but it is better than relying on the discipline of individual developers.
Keystone.js looks pretty sweet, I'm gonna try it out this weekend!

Before using Node.js had y'all done a lot of work with async code-bases?
That seems to be a different point or a muddled metaphor - people learning to walk are accidentally dancing (badly)?

I have not seen it established that passive constructions - where they are appropriate - are harder to use correctly or well. I have seen it asserted countless times, usually by people who don't know their passive from a hole in the ground and always without accompanying data.
Disney, channeling Silicon Valley, launches startup accelerator
Having goals is helpping me, not self imposed goals, but self diagnosed ones. I try to look into myself and discover something that I'd really like to achieve, then try to achieve it. It makes it easier to bear the kind of activities that burned you out, and it makes it easier to think "well, I don't really like what I'm doing now, but in a few minutes I'll be working towards X".

My goals are on the lines of knowing more about a subject, or teaching math to my daughter. I still didn't add any project to there (except for a research one), but I feel I'll be able to do another one soon.
As a PHP developer, I've definitely seen a massive decrease in the number of people who are just passing queried values directly into the construction of their SQL string as people have started emphasizing using prepared statements.

But this has done nothing towards stopping people from passing column/table selections directly into those strings. It seems as though everyone is using prepared statements now because they were told to not because of any kind of understanding of why.
Was naively hopeful that someone had finally reversed the iMessage protocol. Much to my chagrin, it's 'just' an Applescript wrapper. Nice work, nonetheless!
The funny thing is, I found the yellow and red sentences in their description to be sufficiently bold and clear.
If they didn't use dark patterns (http://darkpatterns.org/) such as always defaulting to your bank account instead of your credit card (which inconveniences me but makes them more money) maybe more of their people would use paypal.

This regards the web payment flow experience and not necessarily the app.
China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover dies on moon
Great article moot, and well said. What is particularly intriguing to me on this (hackernews) and 4chan has been how so many people conflate anonymity with "non-identity", which is absolutely not the same.

Karma systems attach value to a 'handle' which is its own form of identity. So I can create an account on a forum as xyz123 and say what ever I want, but if the speech is of low value to the community I'll get "down karma" (what ever the mechanism is) and that identity will become less valuable, if instead the speech is found to be of value I will get "up karma" and that identity will become more valuable. I might find at some point that my identify as xyz123 is more valuable to me than my "real" identity. So am I anonymous? Sure, but does that mean I don't have an identity? Absolutely not.

Of course this allows for sock puppetry, for whom Scott Adams will forever be the patron saint. And in that sense there is value in being able to isolate uniqueness. Which is to say these two names are the same human, versus these two handles are two different humans. And this is the point that rubs on the 'anti-anonymity' folks. As much of the conversation's interpretation can change when you know the relationship between the participants, it can completely flip one's perception of it. And not knowing the underlying relationships can make us susceptible to manipulation (which is used often enough to have its own name "astro-turfing")

I keep wondering if we'll ever get to a system which has both anonymity and structure, but I don't know if that is possible as identity is often discernible by the relationships.
That's great to hear; your story is very similar to many companies out in NY.
1. All corporations in all nations game the tax system as much as possible.

2. The US corporations still pay more tax than do corporations in other nations.

3. US corporations with no foreign income tend to pay ~35% after deductions (per "independent" study cited above).
I have always thought people rely on the normal distribution too much.

Does it work? Sometimes.

The problem is that people tend to believe something they use a lot.

Even the 0.05 threshold is sort of made up.

Correlation does not mean causation.
It's interesting that very safe chemicals like tianeptine and phenibut are not approved and used clinically in America, as they are in other countries. Instead much more profitable chemicals with known dangers are used.
The real Hemingway or the website? I was hoping someone would explore the idea this tool could remove elitism, since I haven't made up my mind on that (I think Paul's version is much more pleasant to read). I guess this is a start.

Thinking along those lines, has anyone put Jeff Atwood's writing into this thing? He's an extremely effective communicator to large tech audiences, and my guess is that he should have a more readable score on this thing than Paul would.
Many languages have static subsets. For example, many languages won't let you change the meaning of `1+1` while others might allow you to dispatch the addition dynamically.
USGS interactive map shows the 47,000 wind turbines in the US
I agree this is a good approach, but many companies use something like Heroku, which doesn't allow this kind of fine-grained control.

Kind of scary how few people know how to set up nginx anymore.
Would you want Google Glass in class?
And F-Script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Script_(programming_language...
Yeah, I got a nice experience with VisualWorks while at University, around 1996.

However Smalltalk lost the enterprise place it got, but its spirit lives partially[1] on modern dynamic languages.

[1] Without live coding experience, it isn't a full Smalltalk descendent.
This is actually really, really fun. I wish I could land the bird and hang out with all the cool birds who have made it past a few pipes.

In fact, add chat to it would be really cool :-D
TBH, even if you are anonymous on HN, it doesn't mean anything. The mods here are very aggressive in banning/downvoting to hell/hellbanning members if they are not behaving in accordance with the tone of the site. So the quality of discussion has little relevance with anonymity here.
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This is the reason why I don't include P values on http://www.correlated.org.

They would muddle my otherwise irreproachable statistics.
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None of the 2FA services that I use require me to use an actual phone. The phone number that I associate with 2FA services is set up to forward SMS messages to an email account that is dedicated to receiving only SMS messages from 2FA services.
Sorry, I'm confused.

Are you plainly asserting that "this isn't an anecdote," and pairing that with a sarcastic statement that "this is an object lesson", meaning that it's not an object lesson, to reinforce your assertion that it isn't an anecdote?

Or are you plainly asserting that "this is an object lesson," and pairing that with a sarcastic statement that "this isn't an anecdote," meaning that is is an anecdote, to reinforce your assertion that this is an object lesson?

Or something else?
Hacking is always based off of exploiting other people's laziness. Well at least 95%.
"...only the research arm and a relatively small consulting staff and management remains US employees."

There are hardware and software engineers throughout the USA. I also wouldn't call 66,000 people relatively small.
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Pharo : http://www.pharo-project.org/home
We've got a free Heroku addon that's pretty easy to spin up and play with. Elasticsearch also has an analyze[1] API that can be helpful to play around with.

It's also possible to download and install ES locally and run any number of front-end interfaces, some of which include query builders. ElasticHQ seems like a decent option for that. The venerable Elasticsearch-head is another.

I think now that ES 1.0 has shipped, more experimental tools will start to emerge that help people learn and interact with ES itself. (If anyone out there is a front-end whiz and wants to help me build something like that, please email nz@bonsai.io!)

1. http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/referenc...
I find this sentiment alarming. I'd ask you to reread the article, particularly the first quarter of it, and stipulate that the account is accurate. What do you think of this particular response to an actual suicide attempt?

I'm sorry about your brother. I've lost close friends to suicide. For what it's worth: I don't blame them, anymore than I would blame someone who died of leukemia for their illness. But a suicide has many victims, and I can't blame you for being angry either.
Holy crap this site is fantastic. Thanks.
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You could use mutex locking on the file system to avoid the race conditions.
> A job can be just a means to an end, and there is nothing wrong with that. Trying to get your employees emotionally invested is just a way to increase productivity while keeping labor costs down.

I worked in advertising for over a decade, so I can definitely agree with some jobs being a means to an end, but I disagree about the purpose of getting employees emotionally invested. In my experience people that are emotionally invested do better work than people that don't give a shit about anything more than a paycheck. They suggest improvements and argue with coworkers about how features should work because they understand the product and care that it succeeds.

> When did being in your products' target market become a precondition to being good at your job?

That may be a valid argument for many jobs, but I can't imagine who isn't part of PayPal's target demographic.
Sometimes, I actually find it easier to have more systems that do their job really well and sync things between them, rather than trying to get a single system to do everything.

For example, Postgres lets you reason about integrity, atomicity and transactional boundaries, and whether things are really safely stored with synchronous replication. If Postgres returns after a commit, I trust it. However, that requires me to have two servers working, which is harder to keep highly available.

ZooKeeper, on the other hand, I can rely on being available. But that's not really something you want to be putting lots of load on, nor try to do anything but trivial "queries". And the more servers you add, the slower writes get.

I don't trust Elasticsearch enough for those tasks, yet I wouldn't want to do searches in Postgres (Yep, I'm familiar with tsearch) even though it can. Elasticsearch is simple to scale out and awesome for searching.

Logs and metrics we shove straight into Elasticsearch, however. Other things go from ZooKeeper to Postgres and then to Elasticsearch, or from just Postgres to Elasticsearch.

Separate tools for separate jobs. I'm one of the co-founders of www.found.no, one of the hosted Elasticsearch providers . We absolutely love Elasticsearch and find new use cases for it all the time, but it's not going to be the one store to rule them all, at least not very soon.
People chasing profits often don't care about ecosystems.
Since the site doesn't load, here's an article about it (with a screenshot.)

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/02/12/flapmmo-brings-non-c...
I'm very sorry you lost people to suicide. Compiling the list may just have been a coping mechanism for your brother, and I don't think it's fair to think it had anything to do with the son's suicide.
I think this makes some great points, without casting any blame. The article offers a very diplomatic perspective on some of the challenges facing female founders. I hope the comments here don't immediately become trolly, as they seem to do any time an article deals with women in tech at all.
I was recently trying to explain Bayesian logic to a friend, and came up with the following analogy. I would be interested to hear feedback on it.

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Imagine everyone in the USA gets sudden amnesia. We want to find out who the President is, but no one can remember.

A scientist comes up with a test to determine if someone is the President.

If they are the President, there is a 100% chance the test will say they are the President and a 0% chance the test will say they are not the President.

If they are not the President, there is a 99.999% chance the test will say that are not the President, and a 0.001% chance the test will falsely say they are the President.

Giving the test to the person sitting in the big chair in the Oval Office is useful, because it's already quite likely this person is the President. If the test is positive for Presidency, it's extremely likely that person is the president.

Giving the test to the 10 people nearest the oval office is useful, because it's fairly likely the President is one of these people. A positive result will indicate strongly that that person is the President, and if no-one in that group is actually the President, there's a 99.99% chance the test will say so.

Giving the test to the 1000 people in the White House is pretty useful, because it's pretty likely the President is in the White House, and if none of these people are the president, there's still a 99% chance the test will be correct. A positive result for any one person will indicate quite strongly that that person is the President.

But giving the test to everyone in America is not very useful at all, because it's very unlikely that any particular person is the President, and we can expect the test will give a positive result for around 3200 people. For any particular person in this group, it's much more likely they're not the President than they are.

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Is this a broadly correct, if non-rigorous, analogy? I realize most HNers will be much more familiar with this stuff than I am, I'm interested chiefly in whether or not I misled my friend.
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That was her description of her subjective experience, but she made it clear that it was most likely due to the stress & anxiety.
My colleague told me the comments here.

I didn't mention clearly since it wasn't a big part of the picture. Dynamic Type part was a bigger problem! Right now I prefer a separate thread for GC but I have also couple of bad cases for this kind of garbage collection. I don't think there is a 'one perfect GC for every kind of usage'. But my focus is performance consistency. Sorry for passing it on my post. I added a side note saying (GC thread).
Given your previous responses I fear you are serious. Ouch.