skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I wanted to try it, but then i could not.
In my state (Missouri) Small Claims Court seems to work fairly well for these types of things. It does take a lot of time, so it probably isn't "worth" it in a purely monetary sense, but it is worth it to me in an ethical sense. It is fraud, pure and simple.
You want the most important thing first. For new graduates education will (almost always) be first. For those with experience it typically comes last, where it's also distinctive but less prominent.

So I'm guessing you've mostly seen resumes for students and recent graduates.
>It's a very funny book as well if anyone is after a good read.

I think that can be said for all of Bill Bryson's books.
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>Because as soon as someone takes the time to think carefully about the implications of what the product owner wants, it usually results in a feedback loop eliciting further details.

I am not a TDD person, and that sounds pretty much what I do. Why do I need a load of tests to find out more details of what I am trying to implement?
This might just be me, but the very heavy demography targeting in the video kind of puts me off. I'm not a Mac user. I'm not an interior designer. Yes, I do like to save quotes and links, but I'm not all those other things. Really meeting your target audience in advertising is great when you KNOW your target audience, but in this case it feels like you're locking yourself into a very specific target audience that a lot of potential users aren't going to be a part of, and why?

I'm not sure if this is constructive or if it's just personal opinion, but I hope it's of any help. If not, just disregard it, it looks good overall.
Besides Julia, I think another alternate language to Python for scientific computation would be Scala. Breeze (from ScalaNLP project) is an effort to bring Numpy and Matlab syntax to Scala: https://github.com/scalanlp/breeze/wiki/Breeze-Linear-Algebr...

The learning curve for Scala may be steep though.
I don't get it. In my opinion LaTeX is very good to use iff:

- your document is large (paper sized) or

- your document requires the use of LaTeX's math typesetting

Why else would you go through the pain of using LaTeX when:

- with only very few exceptions all templates 'suck', i.e. they show some lack of sophistication even to the untrained eye (including this one)

- customizability is hard to get, which makes it hard to stand out (want to use a special font? good luck!)

- controlling you document layout is a pain (want to have your picture appear in a fixed place? good luck!)

I'm genuinely curious why people choose to use LaTeX as a tool for this. If your word processor doesn't suit you, HTML+CSS, Scribus or InDesign appear to me as far superior. For the same reason, I'm curious why people continue to use LaTeX for presentations that don't require special LaTeX features like math or tikz. Can someone explain this to me?
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As someone who formerly worked for a company who built Facebook apps...this is precisely how we felt.
> IMHO TDD, like a lot of the agile stuff, is a good idea with solid foundations that people get wrong all the time and end up making things worse with.

So one could reasonably suspect that people who "get agile" are just talented and would be good developers anyway. Occam's razor invites us to assume that agile has no effect. Are there any scientific studies on the effectiveness of agile (or TDD), or is this just a homeopathy situation?
ahh, I remember the day my boss told me the exact amount of happiness and motivation I was to come into work with every day (gestures and happy faces were made to show me the exact amount). (and this was after they missed payroll)
Facebook does this with a project called Huxley[1]. It seems cool, but these sorts of tools have always suffered from the problem of brittle tests, so it is not a silver bullet. It does seem that it would work well, however, in systems that require stringent oversight around UI changes (like facebook). Places where "if a piece of UI changes by a pixel, we want to know about it and OK the change" is the standard (most apps do not fall into this category though).

[1] https://github.com/facebook/huxley
NumPy contains no Fortran code, and can be compiled without a Fortran compiler. What NumPy does provide is f2py, which is used to compile SciPy, which does have Fortran code.
Regarding the correct form of don't panic, I am with you. I have absolutely no clue when it comes to Latin {on the other hand I can talk my way out of any situation in more than a few south Indian languages}. I was fooling around with Google translate and wanted a short form and settled on "ne pavor".

I used the Greek transliteration because I absolutely love how Greek letters look in latex.

Regarding the "h" : When I was choosing the nick name I thought there was an "h" in zaphod and realized the mistake way too late to change it in so many different places.
The way I heard it originally the dude broke in while trying to stalk his ex-gf, which is consistent with the report.
Also a fellow juggler, but I have always felt the opposite, actually. (And have frequently felt like I'm in a minority.)

I could watch technicians practicing 8 balls, 10 rings, crazy site swaps, endless 5 club back crosses, etc. in a gym for hours. I have certainly enjoyed and appreciated the Jay Gilligan and Michael Moschen's of the world, but the overwhelming majority of "artsy" juggling just doesn't work, at least for me. For every Gilligan/Moschen/etc routine that I've seen that I've thought was well done, I feel like I've seen 4-5 that just fall totally flat for me.

At the other end of the spectrum, the "entertainer" jugglers that are aiming for a non-juggling audience I find almost impossible to watch. They are technically uninteresting, and I just can't get into the endless stream of lame jokes and winking at the crowd. Just awful. I would actually much prefer to watch Gatto practice than do one of his Vegas performances. The performances are impressive technically, but I find absolutely nothing about the presentation entertaining.

I think the reason that I feel this way is that I've always enjoyed the process of juggling (figuring how to do something, figuring out techniques for how to break down a trick into pieces, mastering each piece, etc) more than the end result (a polished, performable trick).

Back when I was juggling a lot, once I felt like I mastered a trick, it didn't really hold much interest for me anymore. When actually juggling, I would much rather spend my time trying to eke out a few more catches of 7 than toss 5 around more or less indefinitely.

But like I said, I've often felt like my preferences here are not all that common.
Agreed. The authors make this point in order to move on to the main analysis of the paper: The Goldfinger attack.

"As described above, a 51% cartel attack is unlikely to generate enough reward within the Bitcoin economy to be worthwhile to the attacker. However, this does not rule out the possibility of a 51% attack that aims to destroy the Bitcoin economy in order to achieve utility outside the Bitcoin economy. We call this the Gold nger attack after the character in lm who tries to undermine U.S. currency by ruining its gold backing [15].
There are at least three possible motivations for a Gold finger attack. First, a government or institution might want to block Bitcoin transactions, to enforce the law, deter money laundering, or achieve some other institutional goal. Second, a non-state attacker might seek to gain some political or social goal, perhaps as a form of social protest (such a model was previously postulated by
Becker et al. under the name \Occupy Bitcoin" [6]). Third, an attacker might seek an investment gain, for example by taking large short positions in Bitcoins so as to profi t if the value of Bitcoins is diminished. In all of these cases, the attacker must achieve enough utility to justify the
substantial cost of an attack. We agree with Becker et al. that it is unlikely that a protest movement could muster the resources to launch a successful attack. And at present it does not appear possible to acquire a short position on Bitcoins that is large enough to justify an attack."

One of the best papers published on the game theory of Bitcoin to date in my opinion.

http://weis2013.econinfosec.org/papers/KrollDaveyFeltenWEIS2...
I got banned because someone posted some insults/porn words in a title. There was no pictures/videos... it was just words.

They sent me the link where the words were and gave me something like 4 days (or was it more? It was a pretty scary amount of time anyway).

I went to that url and didn't find anything, so I sent them a mail asking for more info. Never had a reply. Got banned.

I discovered later that it was in the english version of my website and I didn't think about changing the language to check the content there.

Can't remember how much money I lost, wasn't a huge amount.

ps: I just got a domain banned, my other domain were still bringing me money without any problem.
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I really didn't see it coming, but now that it happened I'm kind of glad.

RH is one of the few corps who still has credibility and good karma. CEPH will be in good hands.
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I had AdSense on my blog for a couple months, and then was banned just before I earned $100 and qualified for my first payout.

Now, when I see Google ads, I click on a couple just to mess up their statistics. I really should write a browser extension that does it automatically.
The background video certainly grabbed my attention. And wouldn't let it go!

It would be great to have a video showing the principles behind the product but the video as it stands is too distracting. It zooms, scrolls or switches view every one to two seconds. I didn't think I'm slow, but the current video the switch from user-focus to screen-focus is too quick to get a feel for what's going on.

Maybe slow it down a bit or stick to one or two key video angles?

Just focussing on one point. Apart from that lots of other good comments here.
Who is Murphy of Murphy’s Law?
There are actually two common fallacies here; I'll try to handle them separately.

CPU Cycles vs Developers

This is a common false dichotomy: that expending more CPU cycles on the language runtime makes a language more efficient in terms of developer productivity than a language that expends fewer CPU cycles on its runtime.

The inherent truth of this statement isn't deductively obvious, however.

If you assume, for example, that dynamic languages are more productive for developers (I don't, but it's a common argument, so we'll go with it), then this is easily disproven simply by comparing the performance of a highly optimized JIT -- such as V8's -- against Python's interpreter.

Irrespective of the language, there exists differing levels of quality of runtime. V8 is faster than Python; this is simply because V8 is a better runtime JIT than Python is an interpreter.

If we discard the unproven "dynamic languages are more developer efficient" hypothesis, things become even more stark. The JVM, for example, with real threads, highly optimized JIT, and the advantages of operating on a much more well-typed system, is in fact faster than V8 -- all with a "managed" language, and not C++.

Taking that a step further, we've recently begun rediscovering ahead-of-time compilation of so called "managed" or "high-level" languages. The favoritism given towards JIT arose out of efforts to achieve high performance in dynamic languages were very little can be statically guaranteed. What has recently become clear is this: in more static languages, we can achieve the same level of "managed" runtime without introducing the overhead or complexity of JIT at all!

All combined, I see very little argument for a dichotomous choice between "inefficient, high level language" or "efficient, low level language" -- the choices seem to simply be "inefficient" vs "efficient".

Relative Value of High-Paid Developers

Lastly, I wish to address the "extra C++ developer for 150K". I'll keep this one brief -- simply put, I would hypothesize that a $150K expert-level engineer is worth anywhere from 2-10 $80K non-expert engineers.

This is simply due to an expert-level engineer's experience and deep knowledge of the technology stack allowing them to architect systems to achieve maximum maintenance, developer and system efficiency over time.

Computing is a value multiplier: the potential gains and losses of lower multipliers can be objectively enormous.

Having managed teams where I've inherited cheaper, more junior engineers, versus teams where I've hand-picked a small group of extremely experienced engineers, I've saved time, money, and headaches with the more expensive engineers every time.
That's awesome! 2 way sync with Pocket would be amazing, this is a much better reading experience on desktop and I can use Pocket for now if necessary on mobile. You'd also get the awesome IFTTT ecosystem Pocket is in if you're not going to be able to match that for a while, saving from Feedly to Pocket is awesome and it'd be great to get saved RSS in Dragdis too!

I was just about to edit in that I really like your focus on pictures, that's where what I currently use falls down badly. I can definitely imagine I'd save more images using this.

In terms of your desktop experience, would you consider one click (not drag) page saving? In your video it looks really tedious dragging from the URL bar to a sidebar on the right when you could just have a button to save in one click and categorise later.
Well I'm Swedish and have also worked in Ireland and the UK, and have had more or less the same experience everywhere.
I bet they don't want to scare away those using a browser that requires a plugin for Dragdis to work.
And do you write all those touch screen, antenna, microphone and speaker tests before you start writing any of the code?
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TDD for CSS is indeed an odd concept, but it's possible to do automated CSS regression testing:

http://tldr.huddle.com/blog/css-testing/
How about something like

"Drag & drop anything anywhere with Dragdis", makes it more obvious it's a product not just something on that page
> You absolutely cannot remove copyright notices from GPL software and claim credit for it.

There is nothing in the GPL that requires preserving upstream copyright notices in downstream modified versions of software, or any other form of attribution of the origin of modified versions; it does require "appropriate copyright notice", but since copyright on a derived work rests with the creator of the derivative, the modifiers copyright would appear to suffice for that for modified works. The GPL explicitly prohibits attributing modified works to the creators of the upstream work (as it requires you to include notification of your modification and a relevant date).
Your comparison makes no sense. React isn't really competing with something like Ember -- the more direct comparison would be React vs HTMLBars (the low level view layer library being used in next generation Ember).

Even if I choose react for my view layer, I'm still going to need infrastructure for managing application state. View layer concerns are probably less than 30% of what I get out of Ember. The rest is bidirectional routing between URLs and models, meaningful controller hierarchies, etc.

React is simple because it ignores all that. But any significant app will still need to deal with those things.
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"Most readers of this blog will know I spent years at Percona. I know what they've changed in Percona Server and why, and we don't need those changes."

Can you go further into why you choose not to use Percona? I was under the impression it was mainly just MySql tweaked to perform slightly better?

Are you using Percona's XtraBackup? If not, why?
Matt's reply (or denial) is useless to this conversation. I have a great deal of respect for Matt and his contributions to the SEO community but he's quite possibly the last person I would expect to confirm, or even give credence to a claim like this given his connection to Google.

Asking the ad department if they've been stealing money from thousands of publishers over the last several years? Of course they're going to deny, no matter the truth as confirming would essentially be an admission a very serious crime.
Hmm. I am from India, and most resumes I have seen here, even for people with lot of experience, education section is at the top. I just stuck with that format.
He's being diplomatic. Why should you put someone down who has one of the most installed text editors out there?
At first glance, it's pretty but distracting. I had a hard time deciding whether to focus on the video behind the words or the words themselves.
One of the reasons I stick to old C, less confusion.
Scrap UK top 40 singles chart from BBC (A Ruby Script)
this is small but useful script, it could be used as a plugin for sublimeText, CMS, news website to get the top 40 UK singles from BBC website.
script gets teh printable format of the chart and extract data then form them as array of Hash maps easy to iterate on and filter
the original full chart is here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/singles and they got a printable format page here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/singles/print so it was easier for us to scrap the printable version.
have fun using it.

Full script with docs : https://github.com/blazeeboy/RubyScripts/tree/master/2014-4-30
I got my Adsense banned, but I was lucky to get it appealed after a second try...I ranted on my blog post about how YouTube then started sending copyright content notifications on my videos which retroactively removed my finalized earnings (keyword: finalized), this was like 4 months AFTER my Adsense was reinstated. That happened within 4 days of the payout cycle.

[1] https://medium.com/p/6caf19d2c542
Nice, good news!

I have a NLP library on github for Pharo or Squeak. Hopefully thus will motivate me to update it.
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The low end part should be an issue but I have it limited to north america since my product lookup system is focused there and I don't know how well it will preform in other areas.

Competitors are: http://wegreen.de, http://www.barcoo.com/. Similiar are: http://www.goodguide.com/, http://www.buycott.com .

We are different in that we focus on the company ownership hierarchy rather then the individual product. This helps you use your buying power to support companies that share your values rather then just the green washed subsidiary.

Also our closest competitors are non-north american.
Python is slow, but handy for automation.
Just a few guesses:

- It doesn't have Google / Thompson / Rsc / etc behind it
- It looks more like Ruby than C (say what you will about C-like syntax, but I
think the success of Java and C++ has proved that point)

But you're right, I ought to look into it.
Not a big or important point, but note that many critical bits of numpy are in Fortran, not C.
Depends on scale. For startups with small datasets and low traffic, hardware is cheaper.

When traffic and data ramp up, 150k for a guy to cut your capex by 10% sounds like a steal.
Cows ought to be on that list as well. They kill 10-20 people per year in the US alone.
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/dangerous-cow...
A buddy of mine and I had the same idea a while back but we never attempted to implement it because it seemed like it would be difficult to do on mobile. I'm hoping these guys can execute on mobile because it would be exactly what we wanted.
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did you bring those clients? why arnt you getting a commission then? you should be participating more than 20k. Why is 1% of profits only 20k anyway?
and again to clarify, as another poster said - if profits are low because of growth - and you are there for growth - your deal should be in actual equity not just a profit percentage. you are there supporting the growth, you need the upside. that is the case. otherwise go elsewhere. cognitive dissonance is a bitch. you arnt being valued to what you think your value is.
I'm 'ardkore and rigidly enforce `var functionName = function functionName() {}`, under threat of flaying.
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Another jewish media outlet.  Why mostly controlled by jews?
Never found out why. Was told if I could explain myself they'd reconsider, but I didn't know what to explain.

That was more than ten years ago.
> Doctors rejected hand washing for a long time because there was no theory behind why it would improve patient care

The germ theory of disease and experiments supporting the theory predate medical sanitation. (Pasteur's work did come after, but he wasn't the first.) The medical community's initial rejection of handwashing was not due to a scientifically motivated demand for a sound theory. Rather, it was due in large part to doctors' unwillingness to believe that they were the ones spreading disease from patient to patient. Additionally, the medical community at the time did not embrace the scientific method to the extent that it does today. Had it, handwashing would have been evaluated in a controlled study and proven effective.
A step up from Farmville
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Especially amusing given that the "malfeasance" in this case is directed at institutional Wall Street and giant hedge fund managers, and perpetrated by outsiders.
Yeah, we're targeting Creative Professionals as our early adopters. Sorry if it puts you off.

Thanks for the comment!
This solution is what the content creators want too: the problem is how to pay for it. Micropayments are the obvious choice, but they're currently impractical for a number of reasons (Bitcoin is promising but has yet to clear adoption hurdles necessary to hit the mainstream). I don't know that this will ever come to pass though. Micropayment tech is just too far off, and workable online distribution models are already in development.

Obviously, the cable/satellite/telco video companies of the world don't want to get disintermediated here; so most of them have been building IP video platforms for the last few years. It will still likely require a cable video subscription (though maybe with a slight discount as you won't need to rent a cable box.)
I have found on this page: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/install.html following quote: "Various NumPy modules use FORTRAN 77 libraries, so you’ll also need a FORTRAN 77 compiler installed." And, on the same page: "NumPy does not require any external linear algebra libraries to be installed. However, if these are available, NumPy’s setup script can detect them and use them for building. A number of different LAPACK library setups can be used, including optimized LAPACK libraries such as ATLAS, MKL or the Accelerate/vecLib framework on OS X." The linear algebra libraries mentioned are obviously Fortran libraries. So, it seems like I was wrong saying that Numpy modules are written in Fortran, but it's still not clear to me if only SciPy modules are the ones which call Fortran libs. I will delete my comment above, anyway.
I'm really glad that Ghost is progressing nicely — I've used it for a small project, and it was a really nice experience.
We have a strategy on mobile. It some terms it's even better on mobile :)
Everyone's talking about "big data," but nobody's buying BI/analytics software