skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is yet another whinge about the owners of a walled garden behaving in an inscrutable fashion. No-one going into iOS or Android development should be surprised by these shenanigans.
Just apply. I'm a friend of the CTO, so that's how I knew that they are looking.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/24829783
Spreading openness and democracy around the world is part of the "Jewish agenda"?
> Not to derail the conversation too much, but fuck you. That's not even close to what depression is or how it works. Depression isn't when your life sucks so you feel bad, it's when you feel bad for no reason, even when your life is objectively pretty good. It's a well documented medical phenomenon that can fortunately be managed rather well with, among other things, medication. Comments like this, though, serve only to stigmatize treatment and actively discourage people from seeking help.

You don't know me; and you almost certainly haven't seen the personal affects of depression up close like I have.

My post was in no way "belittling" depression. The fact is a mix of lazy doctors, lazy teachers, and yes lazy parents makes it very easy for children to be put on drugs for ADHD. So much so that the FDA has launched investigations into this practice, but ultimately no change has come out of. Also FACT, Ritalin and Adderall are both known to cause drug induced depression to such an extent that is has been highly tied to teen and young adult suicides. Catching this early results in treatment with anti-depressants to continue mood altering. This is a case where the patients do not suffer underlying depressive disorders, but rather it is directly caused by long term use of other mood altering drugs that in many cases were not necessary.

This is a situation where you have unwittingly stuck your foot in your mouth. You have no idea the level of irony that you just reached by trying to call me out on this.
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No, but they are surely cheaper than a lot of comercial software I have to deal with in the enterprise space.

Plus let's not forget Unity was just another 3D engine before they got Mono integrated. Whereas Mono was already being used in multiple areas.

Anyway, this is playing conspiracy theory until someone issues an official statement.
Pretty cool. But can you make the source code readable via the browser. (e.g. Content-Type: text/plain)
The advice is the same to everyone. Work hard on personal projects, get them online and live and running and impressive. Join a well known open source project and do 200 commits. Tweet, blog regularly. Prove you know your stuff.

Same advice for everyone. Almost no one does this stuff and those that do greatly increase their chance of getting work.

People sit around hoping not to have to do the hard yards, hoping they'll somehow be given a job. In 2014 you have to make it happen through active, public work.

If you build enough of an online reputation then you'll get work without even meeting people and they wouldn't know if you were an 80 year old giraffe.
> "because search can't operate on it well (i.e. photos), "

People are working on that.
Its essentially branded monodevelop with bundled addins(or is mono develop now unbranded xamarin?). In any case, it has improved dramatically over the past couple years. I write services/daemons in it and find the C# functionality to be fantastic now. F# is coming along too.
This, for me was a bit surreal and strange, because it took a long while for me to arrive at the same conclusion but from the complete opposite end.

I came to computers from electronics and for me, Data Structures and Algorithms was (to an extent, still is) black magic with Don Knuth the presiding head wizard. For me, compilers, filesystems and OS internals were all sort of deep dark places that I wasn't equipped to handle. On the other hand, banging out a shell script, spewing perl, or reciting python was just a matter of figuring out the right set of incantations ...not really hard. I learned html, css, js, a lot of python and was (/am) happy to just 'get-things-done' with these skills. I looked at people who could talk about BigO, concurrency, monads and the rest as the 'privileged' -- I could never be /that/ good. And yes, I thought all of this was relevant to software engineering (as opposed to science) and that I would never get there. Fortunately, I no longer think this. Thanks to all the resources available online these days, the limits, I know now, are not inherent nor are imposed by ability to understand, they are imposed simply by time for learning and practice. So, I am still learning and yes, in that sense, the art of googling well can make you a better programmer -- irrespective of what you know today.
> (Aside: I am intentionally sticking with U. S. customary units of pounds, miles, etc., to be consistent with much of the related literature.)

From the article, it sounds like dietary science in the US is done with imperial units. It was written by an American for a primarily American audience. Americans track their weight in pounds. Those seem like pretty good reasons to not use metric to me.
This (above) comment has no citations and the one you are responding to (GP) is substantially correct.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15588056

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113787/

Ebola and Marburg viruses are the sole members of the genus Filovirus in the family Filoviridae. There has been considerable media attention and fear generated by outbreaks of filoviruses because they can cause a severe viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) syndrome that has a rapid onset and high mortality. Although they are not naturally transmitted by aerosol, they are highly infectious as respirable particles under laboratory conditions. For these and other reasons, filoviruses are classified as category A biological weapons. However, there is very little data from animal studies with aerosolized filoviruses. Animal models of filovirus exposure are not well characterized, and there are discrepancies between these models and what has been observed in human outbreaks. Building on published results from aerosol studies, as well as a review of the history, epidemiology, and disease course of naturally occurring outbreaks, we offer an aerobiologist's perspective on the threat posed by aerosolized filoviruses."

or

Our study has shown that Lake Victoria marburgvirus (MARV) and Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV) can survive for long periods in different liquid media and can also be recovered from plastic and glass surfaces at low temperatures for over 3 weeks. The decay rates of ZEBOV and Reston ebolavirus (REBOV) plus MARV within a dynamic aerosol were calculated. ZEBOV and MARV had similar decay rates, whilst REBOV showed significantly better survival within an aerosol."

Reston is not Ebola, but a close relative.
And people call Assange the conspiracy theorist...

I guess that's why you made a good soldier.
Until there are effective ways to curb appetite, this problem will persist. Any overweight or obese person can tell you that your brain goes into autopilot mode till you get your food fix. There is instant regret, but that is after eating.
Moving away from Gmail. Which service to choose?
I know i could go all nerdy and set up my own mail server but honestly I don't want to deal with it. My main concern with Gmail/Google in general is ad targeting and I've been slowly moving away from their services that I've been using since 2005.

I am looking for following:
- IMAP based email.
- Reasonable inbox size ( 5 GB or so)
- contact syncing ( Card DAV, LDAP )
- calendar sync
- nice little extra would be custom domain

I've heard good things about Fastmail but I'm not sure if $40 a year is too much. Maybe not I just don't know other options. I've also heard about Rackspace but that seems more complex to setup plus I couldn't find the pricing on their site.

Thanks for suggestions.
> The sort self-importance expressed by the attacker is just awful

While I agree that instead of behaving maliciously, the other competitor should have lauded their simple yet effective solution, I can imagine the WTF he must have experienced upon discovering their site. I mean think about it, if your team has been spending god knows how long wracking your brains to come up with CV algorithms to solve this stuff, and then you realize the team in the lead isn't even using an algorithm! They are just using a huge amount of people to solve it! Now of course the right reaction to this should be to laugh wholeheartedly and ponder about how a motivated crowd can trump advanced technology.

We had a similar WTF moment during Google Code jam 2011. In the qualification rounds, there was a problem Goro Sort[1] and the way the question was written, it appeared to be a very tough problem. Later we discovered that one of our friends solved it with a VERY simple algorithm: just count the number of elements out of place! and it WORKS!! The good part was, instead of being jealous, we did laugh about it and still do
Yes! Dang autocorrect.
I think the question here is "will gamers harass men or women more". In this case you want your community to be representative of the community at large, so this gender imbalance makes sense.

Your point makes sense, but seems irrelevant to the discussion here.
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>In any large, anonymous group, there will be a certain number of assholes. Of course it didn't work. Ask anyone involved in running an IRC channel, or an MMORPG, or a factory.

My favourite example: Twitch plays Pokemon
These credible professionals certainly seem to think ebola can infect via aerosol, and perhaps remain in the air for up to an hour:

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/09/commentar...

I have to believe the US Government already knows that ebola is capable of this, they've been studying it for decades. If it can spread by aerosol, they're lying to prevent substantially more panic.

Downvoters should start by refuting the linked article - it's a pretty important article. The authors are guaranteed to know a lot more about ebola than anyone here.
YES! Thank you

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code runs whether it has any right to or not. Some code has an error? Fuck it.

FuckIt.py uses a combination of dynamic compilation, Abstract Syntax Tree
rewriting, live call stack modification, and love to get rid of all those
pesky errors that make programming so hard.

Still getting errors? Chain fuckit calls. This module is like violence:
if it doesn't work, you just need more of it.
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Are those sites good for those looking for part time remote work?
That's because it's largely a tempest in a teacup happening in a smaller corner of online culture, but various people who overlap between the two are trying to play up its importance for various political reasons.
"Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to Ebola, but the average is 8 to 10 days."

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/symptoms/index.html

"A 21 day period for quarantine may result in the release of individuals with a 0.2 – 12% risk of release prior to full opportunity for the incubation to proceed."

http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/on-the-quarantine...
>I hear the names of women, but never the male journalists.

How about these guys?

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/09/17/Exposed...

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/09/21/GameJou...

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/09/18/The-ema...

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/10/10/GameJou...

Or these people, that blacklisted a writer from the industry?

http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/10/gamergate-destructo...

Or these lovely characters?

http://gamergate.giz.moe/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Gawker-B...

http://gamergate.giz.moe/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Bring-ba...
Hrmm looks like someone needs to make some sort of filter that parses tweets and messages for insults and removes them.
Sounds like you've never tried an Axe-Fx. Their simulations are absolutely mindblowing.
All I have to say is, watch this - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3wrzo_fabrication-d-une-la...
That's good statistics, and probably explains generic nastygram data quite well. However, my non-data-backed bet is that males are much more likely to send sexually harassing messages than females, so even in an environment with 50% males and 50% females, females will get much more sexual nastygrams than males.
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Maximum observed incubation period for Ebola is 21 days.

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/declaration-ebola-end/e...
WHO claims 2 to 21 days from infection to symptoms

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/faq-ebola/en/
It's more of a semantics issue from bad intel and some FUDdy massaging of the definitions along the way, but I see how you got there. Iraq had chemical weapons, and, if you've seen the news, we found them in 2006, although it wasn't publicly confirmed until recently. The use of the label "WMD" is the matter in contention.

Some chemical weapons can be WMDs, but these weren't. They also weren't active, and they weren't the type or scale that could be used in modern warfare. The situation was closer to cleaning out an old chemical factory than a race against time to find and disarm fleets of intercontinental missiles primed for launch from secret subterranean silos across the country.
Intel pulled advertising from Gamasutra under pressure from these people, some women independent game developers have "ragequit"(read: harassed beyond belief so did the only logical thing) from twitter and the like. It's violent if you follow the independent games scene

These are also the same group of people who forced Phil Fish off the internet, basically.
> I’d propose that percent bodyfat is a better “north star” metric for health than weight itself. I’d like to have more muscle and less fat, and I think that’s true of most men

That depends on the goals you have for your metric. % fat by weight is probably a better fit than total weight for describing body image, but there are two issues that help the viability of total weight:

1. There's not so much variation in % body fat by weight, which means confounding "amount of weight that is fat" with "amount of weight that is anything" doesn't lose you much in practice.

2. Total weight is extremely easy to measure, always desirable in a metric.

And, as you note, while replacing fat mass with muscle mass generally makes men more attractive, the same is not true for women, who are in my experience the vast majority of the "worried about their weight" audience.
I once had extremely odd errors being reported by my clients (phonehomes via window.onerror in the browser), things like syntax errors in my otherwise perfectly fine javascript and randomly corrupted data transfered with ajax. So i started investigating and came to the conclusion that someones ISP was trying to inject iframes with ads into any random text transfered over http, including javascript! Pure craziness, if i myself was affected i would change ISP on the spot.

This case was extreme but imagine as you say, a proprietary client and server that think they have implemented HTTP properly but they haven't. Maybe they assume all headers come in a specific order, the request size may not exceed X bytes, a hash of the request has been transfered over another channel, etc etc. Normally this is fine because they always only communicate with each other and they both always do exactly the same "mistake", but now the data essentially becomes corrupted. Can you really blame these applications for "not following spec", they were only designed to communicate with each other.
We also have the Laws of Eshnunna, preceding the Code of Hamurabbi by a couple of hundred years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Eshnunna

I enjoy these texts from our deep past, and I wish we had more of them. They show that our ancestors wrestled with many of the issues we contend with today. Thanks to several thousand years of prior work, we may have a bigger toolbox of solutions than they did.
How much does your dad want?
A) The question is a positive one, not a normative one. Your reply is irrelevant.

B) Now that fat people harm the rest of us (via Obamacare and rules forcing employer health insurance to charge everyone the same), its hardly clear that social opprobrium is unwarranted.
I feel this test needs more controls.

Kongregate most caters to the flash gaming, 12 year old male audience. To draw anything about online "culture" is hardly representative.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2jk2rq/ama_...
I can't speak highly enough of Fastmail.

Great UI (nowadays, I've heard it has been rough in the past), they've just added calendars with CalDAV sync and are working on contact sync with CardDAV. My custom domain (bayne.id.au) was handled quickly and easily. Also, they have excellent support - I've emailed them a few times and always wound up speaking to a clueful developer (when it hasn't been PEBKAC on my part).

I do wonder what the software world is coming to, though, when $40 / year is considered expensive. I saw a similar complaint about an Android app I use (Tasker) which costs around $5 if I remember rightly. $5! That's less than the price of a (good) hamburger, for an app that makes my life easier in a number of significant ways.

Are we on some sort of doomed race to the bottom like budget airlines?
Here is a presentation:
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I think that link might be dead but I think I've read this and it's awesome. If it's the same one I'm thinking of then it's about 7000 words and very well written, while also being aimed at engineers.
Except nothing happens when you take the screenshot or save it to your camera roll. It's an awful UX.
I think it's exactly to the point: the question is if we have a fundamentally more sexist male population online than female population, or if we're seeing confounding variables introducing an apparently difference. I mean, there's clearly a problem with the experience women have with many online communities - just ask them, they're not shy about admitting it. The hard questions are why is their experience like that and what are the main contributing causes.

In fact, the last time we had a discussion about sexism here, someone posted a study to me claiming that it's often confounding community values that create a hotbed of apparent sexism.[1]

So if we're talking about the situation where what we see is a normal (and consistent at large with society) rate of men harassing women, we should be asking what we can do to fix the other parts of the community that enable these people to be unduly felt, such as not properly spam filtering messages between users. Why is it, for instance, I can tell my email client to never display a message with the word 'cunt' in it, except for whitelisted users, but I can't do this when trying to interact with people in public, such as reddit or Kongregate?

I believe what we see time and again when we analyze the numbers is not that we're seeing an inherently higher rate of sexism, to which we need to do something to fix the attitudes of men in general, but rather that we're seeing the undue influence of the usual rate of problematic actors - that is, it's way easier to bother a lot of people as a troll and dominate the conversation online than in person, and its this difference that is the cause of the problems, not the background rate of problematic actors.

[1] http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/33...
You also need to account for technical ability. There's way more technical male users who know how not only to harass, but to get away with it.

On sites like Facebook where it's tied to a real life identity, I'd expect to see harassment drop significantly.
That's a great resource. Most of those are pretty simple to live by and he even warns about potential situations that may occur.
Bing should get towards 25-30% of Goog's CPC at best
I don't think Darpa was looking for an algorithm to unshred documents, as the article states, they were assessing vulnerability of shredded documents. In that regard, this team's efforts were most important as they highlighted how an adversary doesn't even need a complex CV algorithm, all they need is a huge crowd and an incentive
I didn't consider my comment negative, nor am I hating on the writer. I was just expressing shock because I literally cannot understand the mindset of the backers in this case.

On a sidenote: Even if I did want to be negative about the whole thing, that is my prerogative, there is no rule on HN "only be positive". The up / down arrows are on the left of my post if you think it has no value.
This is a good policy. I know it's an unwritten rule that you don't tell someone your current salary when you're interviewing for a job but I like the way you put it. My professor last year said if there is a required field on a form you need to fill out then just put $1 for your salary. I've always appreciated that and followed it.
Where they just returned from makes the news highly generic, unsurprising, and it drops off the main page rapidly instead of being an attention grabber. Even the article that is linked to says "Doctor..." which at least leads me to believe that the just returned from treating someone. This is not incredibly surprising news, but if someone who just happened to be in New York with no obvious connection to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa caught Ebola, that would be pretty obviously significant since there might be someone who was unidentified and contagious in New York recently, suggesting that an outbreak could flare up in New York. News that misleads wastes time and makes money, but not my money.
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This is very true, but it's a bit more complicated than that.

"I'd come to understand that the answer was out there, somewhere." The answer is out there, but so is the wrong answer. Recognizing the right answer is the hard part.

I also must point out that the answer is out there if you know English. Knowing English is a strong privilege. Success rate plummets if you Google programming questions in a language other than English.
I would recommend Outlook.com from MS.

I switched from all of my google services recently[1] for the same reason as you, targeting. And for the email services, I picked outlook for its minimal nature and the nice UI that gives a pleasant experience compared to the cluttered Gmail interface(IMO).

I created a new email with Outlook and forwarded all my Gmail content to the Outlook including contacts using their 'Gmail to Outlook' migration tool[2]. And along with it created some aliases for different purposes. The only thing I miss from Gmail is their multiple email accounts using "+', but as said Outlook provides a more or less alternative "aliases" feature.

One thing I really like about Outlook apart from its UI and manageability is its ability on managing everything from my Twitter account to Gmail chat right from the mailbox itself.

[1] - http://blog.therth.com/blog/2014/09/23/my-new-outlook/
[2] - http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/outlook-com/gmail/
So, if you believe "calories in, calories out", obviously. But, if you think that's all there is to dieting I have another question: do you believe in free will?
As a side note about "Anyone can start a Tor exit relay, and setting up a MITM proxy on it is trivial".

Tor project has a project that sends out probes to identify rouge nodes, so the trivial and obvious form of MITM that changes data en-route are equally trivial caught and blacklisted. People should still be aware that sending secret data in plaintext on any network is a bad idea tm, but any security analyst need to incorporate the whole picture.