skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make part of the time off, electronics free. It is crazy to see how much time we devote to them, so learning to not check your phone every 2 minutes and avoiding the internet as much as possible is a freeing experience. At least for me it was, so much that I do it every year now where I spend a certain amount of time totally electronics free (1-2 weeks usually).

Travel seems like the other obvious to me personally.

The last is to talk to everyone and observe people doing their job around you. I love hearing about what issues people are facing, what things in their life are challenging them etc. I don't mean personal issues, I am more about finding problems to solve. To me that is fun, and it is cool to interact with people that I wouldn't necessarily meet in my everyday grind. You could easily come back with ideas of problems to solve that would be of interest to you. Of course, I personally find this fun, you may not.
The Feds pretty much mastered the "how do I make 50 states do stuff" problem -- they give the states money and threaten to take it away.

We've had Medicare and Medicaid for almost 50 years now, and it works reasonably well, despite significant differences in administrative practices between states. So it absolutely can be done.

We've figured out how to build a national road system, healthcare for old people, healthcare for destitute people, a national tax collection system, and 1,000 other examples. It's a solvable problem.
the idea of internal tagging to start having a better idea of impressions is good.

I'll have our developer work on it.

The problem here is that the company we work with has access to the big names in the industry. Having their ad campaigns on our sites actually adds credibility to the sites themselves.

But I might start looking into cutting my middleman and going to the advertisers directly.
Hey, I'm not sure that the SSL certificate will change something in the trust of the website, because the file will be hold by the website anyway. So according to me, I think you have to encrypt your file before sending it to the server, that you'll be sure to be the only one who can read your file (and other people who you give your passphrase).

I've updated the website with gpg encryption w/ passphrase FYI.
You're confusing ideology (dogma) with market design and (lack of) incentives.

Markets are good for determining price. Not finding efficient solutions. You've heard of "rent seeking"?

Single payer systems enable the capitation model of care services. Because wellness is incentivized, vs the treatment of disease.
I just realised something. The company name "Mathmos", according to the article, dates from 1992 or so.

Lava lamp blobs were a pretty big backdrop item in Barbarella [0], released 1968. The place where the seething blobs were prominent? "Matmos."

There has to be joke hidden in plain sight with the company name choice.

[0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062711/
I wish someone would have forked it with a different theme (something like default bootstrap text only instead of the 90's RPG look).
I am glad I went to a university that reacted appropriately. I found a bad issue (students passwords for system that held their ssns, grades, financial info etc was world readable) and got a pat on the back for them. I went through a prominent CS professor instead of directly reporting it though.
That this works automatically and assures all events will be seen appropriately.

That is, now he just has to declare it in the interested party -- whereas in your case, the programmer will have to fully manually manage who gets what.
Perhaps we "privileged" folk wouldn't get so incensed about the term if it weren't constantly employed as an argument-ending sledgehammer. "Check your privilege" means "shut up, you have no right to speak because of your skin/income/gender/etc".

Ironically, the concept of "privilege" is pushed the hardest by those who want to classify and subdivide the population into little bureaucratically-approved boxes, thus perpetuating the idea that we are all different from each other.

I don't see what's so difficult about the idea that we should all just personally try hard to treat everyone on their merits, without having some pestering know-it-all breathing down our necks to make sure that we're doing it in the officially-approved manner.

Edit: @freakonom (I can't reply because the thread was killed) you really, catastrophically don't get it. Your goals are laudable, but the one-sided "conversation" (really a lecture) that you want to have is counterproductive, and results in all sides becoming defensive and polarized. That's what happens when you take your eyes off the actual goal (equality of opportunity) and focus on feel-good self-aggrandizement.
Yes. Bad actors are present everywhere, and fraud happens everywhere. There's always a kink in the system.

There was a dentist a few years ago who was treating 2,000 patients a day, and stole several million dollars from several insurance companies.

I worked at a midsize company in a highly competitive market... one of the call center manager embezzled something like $75k over a period of 3 years by fraudulently purchasing telephone headsets. He paid for $$$$ plantronics, and delivered $ no-name brand.
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the problem is that prefab houses are not very hurricane / tornado proof. A good cement printed house could be made to withstand a lot better conditions. I think this is something very important for the future.

I do really like this idea. I believe something like this, with some prefab parts that are automatically mounted could really get us one step closer to something like what Jacque Fresco envisioned http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacque_Fresco. I especially like his automated building tech which could combine prefab with foundations etc being built by a machine like this.
http://thevenusproject.com/technology/construction
Also great is being able to read JVM bytecode. Even minor changes can be pretty interesting.

Back in the day I wrote [1] about simple Java string concatenation. I still get people quoting it now, even though I'm sure it is completely outdated by newer compilers.

It gets even more interesting when you see what x64 (or whatever!) assembly is generated by the JVM.

[1] http://nicklothian.com/blog/2005/06/09/on-java-string-concat...
I really don't see the big deal with slack. I don't see what it does that any other chat software doesn't?
Huh? I looked around but didn't find that. Thanks!
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> with the goal being to extract money from that guilt. There can be no other purpose for pushing the "white privilege" premise than ultimately getting money from it.

So... if I use the term then I am by definition trying to extract money from you?

> Japan, all they see are Japanese people. Ditto China, and so on and so forth.

Many of those countries are incredibly xenophobic. They don't have a concept of (e.g.) 'Japanese Privilege' as such, because they still have a national identity centered around "Japanese people are best people" or "Japanese culture is best culture" (even if those aren't explicitly stated). Look at the way that Japan has increased border security directed at foreigners while not acknowledging that the only terrorist attacks on Japanese soil were by Japanese citizens. If you feel that there is no 'Japanese Privilege' for many things when you are in Japan, then you are just kidding yourself.

...

I'm curious what you would use to refer to the fact that as a white person you can (e.g.) go fishing without needing to worry about random people hurling racial slurs at you (to the point that people driving by will stop their car just to yell at you)[1]? Are you arguing that things like this have zero affect on a person?

[1]: http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/fishing-without-fear-report-inquiry...
>Stack traces are a thing. Chrome even has asynchronous stack-traces.

Now this argument line has dissolved into plain sillyness.

He showed how he made the congnitive load less and the dependencies more explicit and locally evident IN THE CODE, and you tell him to use "stack traces" for that?
Code review, if possible. Students of computer science write a lot of code for assignments and projects; I want to see some of it. Obviously, it makes sense to judge the students more leniently than I would judge finished professionals. Grades in relevant courses are also a useful signal.

If a student insists that he has no code suitable for review, fall back to coding problems, since coding under unrealistic conditions is better than no coding at all. But in such cases I have to wonder what the heck the student has been submitting for assignments and projects, so that's definitely a minus.
There is a good chance a judge would find that the reporters are guilty of libel. Then the professor would be in a pretty good position to defend libel counter-charges.

I thought you'd get more meat from his reference to their crimes. Libel is civil.
I thought so. At least it's claimed by the same author.
New Yorkers aren't going to "pay for Idaho". NY may be paying more in tax for the entire state, but their budget would also be much larger. For obvious reasons NY can be more efficient, but that doesn't mean that they'll be paying a significant amount of the budget in Idaho.
Consider it a ethics thing. Willing to take the risk to protect those innocent people's data or sell a grandma's SSN to the highest bidder. I think identity theft takes a certain amount of self centeredness and lack of empathy that I could never deal with. The option to do nothing is a strong one as well. I would say its best to report it but do it anonymously.
Yes -- but only if you half-understood Flux, didn't read the article, and just wanted to make a snark comment.
The interview's pressure makes finding these relatively easy tricks difficult. While in the flow of programming, or discussing the problem with colleagues, you'd probably knock this one out in a few seconds, the power difference in the interview does bad things to the visual reasoning part of your brain.

A good outcome I'd look for is the candidate recognizes that loop and mark will not always produce an exact number of mines.

So the ideal interview question I think gives the candidate is a simple task with lots of pitfalls that arise in the naive implementation. The goal is for the candidate to enumerate the pitfalls, and also develop an abstract representation of the problem. Leave the solution / most efficient algorithm out of it.
That sentences is only half true.

Yes they river water for cooling, but water is not polluted as it's not in direct contact.

French use mostly electricity for heating, but we are importing only for some occasion when temperature are very cold which append maybe 10-20 times a year.
The rest of the year we are heavily exporting to england & italy.

You can see all this in realtime here http://www.rte-france.com/fr/developpement-durable/eco2mix/p...
And number are self explanatory, 1/4 is exported at the time I write this.
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> constantly employed as an argument-ending sledgehammer

Or, it could be being employed as a reminder that in our systemically biased reality many people aren't judged on their merits. If people saw this we wouldn't have to have this discussion.

I'm not going to try to untangle the nest of motives on all sides, but I find it warmly ironic that this comment tries to shut up a discussion about "privilege" by accusing it of being used to shut people up.
It's not my position, I just pointed out an argument that it may not be a net negative for the industry. In principle I'd rather see far fewer crimes for which imprisonment is our answer, but, OTOH I have been curious about the potential effects of imprisonment on white collar crime.

>Lets say you catch Micron stealing Kingston DRAM technology. SEND THEM TO JAIL! Guess what? Nobody can just kick up DRAM production instantly. Fabs have to be build or converted.

Right, but the fabs aren't necessarily destroyed by a lawsuit; nor will it be the case that every single engineer involved with DRAM is a part of the conspiracy.

>Do you expect Micro workers in Manasas, Virginia to move to Taiwain to work for Winbond?

I don't expect it to be necessary, but if it were, a quarter without DRAM production would drive demand to the point that engineers capable of running Winbond's fab would be happy to relocate, at least temporarily.

>Monetary penalties, if properly calculated, absolutely would incentivize legit business activity. Even if the amount is enough to force bankruptcy, that is way better than just shutting down.

I'm not convinced that the regulatory schemes we currently use are particularly effective. The whole point of my comment was to explore this admittedly extreme alternative. I'm also not convinced this idea is better, but if you just dismiss it without a serious thought then you may as well not bother discussing it all.
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HN contributors have a great habit of creating something (some sort of MVP) and charging for it. HN commenters have a habit of immediately pointing out the free way of doing something that takes more time, skills, or effort. It's not offensive, but it gets old and it's not very supportive of the contributors.
Hmm, this answer seems to have missed 7-8 years of the web's development, and shows a preference for convoluted, messy codebases with huge conginitive overload...
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Since you didn't read the article:

He didn't hack them (unless performing a Google search and clicking on the link is "hacking" now) and he didn't tell anyone but LSU about their security problem - until he was attacked for trying to help them out.
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Back in the real world? What are you talking about? Clear facts and clear history isn't real?

Roderick T. Long is a very well respected author, he's a household name in the Austrian economics world and is looked up to by a great many scholars.

If the subject source makes you uncomfortable and you're therefore unwilling to consider what it says, say that or say nothing.

In the real world, these foundations for publishing never last but a few years and most are soaked up into others. Welcome to it.
No, no, no, no, and no.

If you can easily believe that a professor a) attacked your server, then b) wrote you a smarmy read-between-the-lines email claiming-but-not-claiming responsibility for it, you are a fool. If you can accept/forgive anyone in a system/data-administrative role for the same, you are a fool.

This is not how professionals work. This how good people lead their lives. This is how idiots and bureaucrats win.
By seeing how good coffee they make?
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A reminder not to refer to programmers as "he" by default. A bit more here: http://alexgaynor.net/2013/nov/30/gender-neutral-language-fa...
Outside of U.S. jurisdiction for a libel (civil) case
Rooftop solar is pretty fucking bad as well [1]. It is only just shy of fossil fuels, and only if you count several kinds of deaths as fossil fuel deaths that are debatable whether they're part of fossil fuel energy generation. Car-related deaths being the obvious one.

Most deaths for most energy generation methods come from disasters (all except solar, where most deaths happen during installations), for example, the tidal wave that caused fukushima raised the death tolls for nuclear, solar, wind and fossil. For nuclear, because 2 employees were having a smoke outside of the power plant, got picked up by the wave and smacked against the wall of the power plant. Nuclear death, right ? Solar, why ? Two reasons, first a number of installations were rudely interrupted by the wave, and for a few larger buildings solar panels came crashing down, a few of them right into people (that second part happens more often during earthquakes). Solar deaths ? Well, yes. Wind, well, if you were doing maintenance on a wind turbine while the wave washed it away ... And for fossil fuel the same : a number of employees of refineries and transporters (one oil train, for example), were killed. One particularly bad example : in one of the refineries a number of engineers were doing a quality inspection with management of the inside of several new gas tanks, and the wave filled it with water after knocking it over. My point here is that in many cases it's a bit of a stretch saying that the energy generation method is what killed people.

Although it must be said that coal mine safety in China, yes, deaths come from disasters, but ... it takes a special kind of dishonesty to call these disasters accidental.

I don't get people that defend rooftop's solar track record. Installing slippery, heavy pieces of glass on inclined surfaces a dozen meter up from the ground, that may have become slippery due to rain and frequently suffer structural failure (meaning a small piece cracks when you walk on it) ... Believe it or not this is NOT a particularly safe thing to do. (and of course, the US has many seismically active zones, and well, you may want to avoid being a roof worker in those zones)

Wind power, incidentally, is also famous for killing or maiming maintenance technicians.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-de...

(note that if you take China out of the statistics, coal becomes as safe as oil was, and oil becomes half as safe as solar)
HabitRPG allows for breaks in several ways:

* you can mark dailies for specific days of the week, so you won't have to do them every day (although you still can, if you want).

* you can take a "global pause" by resting in the Tavern -- typically used when you go on holiday.

* if you are a high-level Wizard you can cast Chilling Frost, which will preserve your streaks for a day. It's a very expensive spell and will limit damage you do in quests etc, so in practice you can't really use it more often than once a month or so.

* if everything else fails and you know it's not your fault (emergencies etc), at any time you can just restore your streak to what it was.
What is "sudo code" actually?
I dunno... it appears that he was expelled for some other reason, not the original reporting of the bug?

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/20/youth-expelled-from-...
"psuedo"
Yes, you can accuse someone of anonymous libel. This is how ISPs end up with subpoenas for real identities and attorneys appearing to represent anonymous parties.
Technically they said "no patient information was lost", which is one of those weasel phrases they can "clarify" if anyone calls them on it.

"Oh we meant it wasn't lost, as in it wasn't deleted off our servers!"
There are shoddy prefab homes and good prefab homes and shoddy custom builds and good custom builds.

This manufacturer says No Manufactured Home built to the new Florida Building Codes implemented in 1999 went down in any of the hurricanes of 2004-2005.

http://www.leecorpinc.com/leecorp-faqs.htm#9

That's just the first interesting link I found searching on "hurricane double wide", and of course it is promotional, but what is important is whether the building is built to stand up to the storm.
Demand is too low, supply is too high... potato potahto.

We won't run out of work across all sectors. EEs still have work. Chemists and Biologists still have work. Aerospace engineers still have work. And lots of it! But the supply/demand balance has shifted enough in their respective sectors to have a very concrete impact on their compensation.
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I've also noticed that the title has been changed twice. First it was "You suck at technical interviews", then it was changed to "People suck at technical interviews", then to "This is why you never end up hiring good developers".
I work as a contingent faculty member at a private liberal arts college. When searching for someone's email address recently, I discovered published on the web a list names, email addresses, and ID numbers for all staff and faculty. I notified the responsible department through a trusted tenured faculty member. The response was "oh, that's just test data," which turned out to be false, and then "oh, it's not a big deal anyway." This was also false, for any number of reasons. Among them is the institution's use of swipe cards to control access to buildings and labs, and a ridiculously simple swipe payload (essentially just the unencrypted ID number).

They removed that information from the site and probably no one with ill intent accessed it. However, the security situation at that institution would be in better shape today if there had been an open discussion about this leak and its implications. Because I didn't feel comfortable approaching decision makers about this without risking retaliation against me, that discussion never happened.
> chat with hackers

Is that what sex is called nowadays?
Well, we need an independence assumption. And then we have some rock solid theorems and not just something "naive".

Maybe we have to pull the rabbit out of the hat someplace, and with the axioms our place is an independence assumption.

Indeed, the heartburn when trying to swallow frequentist is that we don't have the crucial assumptions to make an average have valuable properties; the sufficient and standard assumption is independence, and then the laws of large numbers, which we can prove just as theorems from the axioms and an independence assumption, tell us that an average does give us what we want to make the whole subject go, in statistics, etc.

So, net, where we pull the rabbit out of the hat is the independence assumption. If we are willing to assume independence, then we don't have to address the philosophical points, or we move the consideration of the philosophical points to considering the independence assumption. But, we are forced: We know that we want averages to be good estimators and know that in practice they often are; since the frequentist approach does not have enough to let us be clear on the properties of an average, we need more; a way to get what we need is the axioms and an independence assumption.

To me the key to probability, and why it is really not the same as just Lebesgue's measure theory, is the role of independence. We can also add in conditional independence. Net, I don't think that we can get very far in probability or its foundations without something as powerful as independence (or at least uncorrelated, which independence implies). The axioms and independence make a nice package to give us a rock solid version of what we want. So, that's why I go for it.
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>We should hire mid-tier developers based on code review, typically based on open-source code.

What about developers who push non-polished projects to GitHub? Can the candidate specify which project you're reviewing?
I can't answer a single question in an interview without getting sweatily nervous. I suffer from telephobia so I screw dearly all phone interviews. I dress awkwardly and they know it, having to shave for the interview is a total emotional pain. I can't code without having google always open in a tab. So why should I go to an interview that doesn't allow me to google the answers?
With stenography, you do transfer much of the "push" to your forearms (and keeping the wrist reasonably still). You just place your fingers in the right position for the keys you want. It's unlike typing where you use the force of your fingers to actuate the keys.

The primary goal of steno though isn't to provide chords - it's to learn a short-hand language enough to reduce whole words or sentences down to a single stroke of the arm - so you can get down much more information with less movement.
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This is why I never ever "report" security vulnerabilities without first having a contract with the afflicted party. It sucks, but I am not willing to be burned as a witch just because I understand security.