skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm regretting posting this, though I suppose it may well serve as an advisory and notice to others.

My source for the article is a UK psychologist, James Thompson, who'd been posting a few interesting and provocative bits of speculation on the Ebola situation. It seems he's got quite an interest in the works of one Richard Lynn, whose name appears in 65 postings to

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site:drjamesthompson.b...

So, who is Richard Lynn, you ask?

This is what the Southern Poverty Law Center, an American nonprofit civil rights organization noted for its legal victories against white supremacist groups, its legal representation for victims of hate groups, its classification of militias and extremist organizations, and its educational programs that promote tolerance, has to say about him, whom they describe as a White Nationalist:

For 50 years, Richard Lynn has been at the forefront of scientific racism. An unapologetic eugenicist, Lynn uses his authority as professor (emeritus) of psychology at the University of Ulster to argue for the genetic inferiority of non-white people. Lynn believes that IQ tests can be used to determine the worth of groups of people, especially racial groups and nations. The wealth and power of nations, according to Lynn, is due to their racial intelligence and “homogeneity” (or “purity”). He argues that the nations with the highest IQs must subjugate or eliminate the lower-IQ groups within their borders in order to preserve their dominance.

Mr. Lynn himself is quoted:

I am deeply pessimistic about the future of the European peoples because mass immigration of third world peoples will lead to these becoming majorities in the United States and westernmost Europe during the present century. I think this will mean the destruction of European civilization in these countries.

—Interview with neo-Nazi Alex Kurtagic, 2011

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/pro...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center

Michael A. Woodley of Menie's Google Citations pulls out any number of interesting titles:

"Inbreeding and national IQ revisited: Postscript to Woodley (2009)"

"Were the Victorians cleverer than us? The decline in general intelligence estimated from a meta-analysis of the slowing of simple reaction time"

"Political orientations, intelligence and education"

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mmoY0-kAAAAJ&hl=en

Woodley's own background is of some interest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmedie

I'm prepared to say at this point that the paper should probably be read with extreme skepticism. There may be merits to research in this area, but the affiliations of this researcher call into serious question any possible impartiality.

My apologies.
You can charge them any number mutually acceptable to you. This is an important lesson to get one's head around.

Some things which may help you calculate how to price and pitch this:

On-site training by an expert in an in-demand technology can very, very easily hit $5k to $10k per trainer per day.

Sending an employee to a single conference on AngularJS would cost on the order of $1.5k to $2.5k -- on the low end, $500 plane ticket, $300 hotel room (2 nights), $350 conference ticket, $150 in per diem, etc etc. Seen in this light, $1k per seat at the training is cheap at the price, and they can still get work done on days where they do training.

If it were me, I'd be shooting for anywhere from $25k to $50k for this gig, depending mostly on a) how much I thought I could get and b) how tightly scheduled the engagement was (an engagement which would get done faster would counsel not being quite as aggressive on the quote, whereas one where the email support dragged out over weeks would block other engagements and counsel charging appropriately for that diminished productivity). It doesn't particularly matter how you break that down on your invoice.

Remember, if you help a 5-person dev team bring in an application even 1 week early versus having them self-study, the amount the company saves versus not having you in is considerable. That dev team costs $50k+ every (two week) payroll period.

P.S. A good question to solicit useful information from the client is "I want to make sure that I have an appropriate curriculum given the group size, so, how many folks do you anticipate attending?" If they quote a small number, you can quote a per-project rate, if they quote a rather larger number, you can quote a (smaller) per-seat rate which works out to a larger number.
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I watched a little video on react. I know slightly more than the nothing I did 10 minutes ago. It sounds like it integrates the js more into the html. Which could be more powerful especially for animation. I don't find Meteor's Blaze lacking though and suggest you give it a try. The react video said that it re-renders the whole ui after every change which sounds bad. Meteor updates only what you change.
Wrong. If you marry and have sex with one female you've still got a good chance that she's at least got HPV.

Unless maybe she's a virgin. In which case there's even a chance she contracted one during childbirth or through some other means.
A friend of mine is a chemical engineer at Chevron and he gets every other Friday off. This is in the US. Technically he's supposed to be working 9 to 6 instead of 9 to 5 to make up for it (which amounts to an extra 8-9 hours over the 9 working days from the two week period), but I think in practice it's still pretty lenient.

That said, this sort of arrangement seems to be extremely rare in the US, and I think even among oil companies it's fairly rare for desk jobs.
These sorts of discussions always remind me of the essay that "nobody knows how to make a pencil"

http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
Is the name a reference to the (reportedly) terrible Adam Sandler movie, or something else? And if the former, why?
Vox Media Valued at $380m After $46m Investment
In Ada, I remember reading that you can limit the inheritance depth.
Can notmuch do regular expression searches?
the ethos of software engineering has tended to devalue coders (if not explicitly, then implicitly through controlling practices)

All aboard the software engineering boat: see you downriver for delivery, right past the waterfall!
Perhaps I don't pay attention to these things enough (or haven't seriously worked in Java in a while) but to me it was interesting simply to find out that Eclipse has its own Java compiler instead of using javac.
Revenue Canada says [0]:

Individual time sheets that allocate time to SR&ED and non-SR&ED work are a good source of supporting information. Time sheets can be used to show the reasonableness of an SR&ED labour claim. Time sheet codes may be based on business projects that do not align to SR&ED projects. In such cases, other evidence may be required to support the SR&ED labour allocation.

So there are alternative means of proving SR&ED labour allocation.

[0] http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/txcrdt/sred-rsde/clmng/slrywgs-eng....
The same it applies anywhere. You want results from people in the restaurant business, hospitality industry, or retail environments, right?

A Results-Only Work Environment isn't a Remote-Only Work Environment. You work where and when you want, as long as your work gets done. If you need to be in the restaurant during certain hours to achieve your results, then that's where you are.

The focus is first and foremost on the results, and everything follows from that.
There are numerous strains of HPV which are completely asymptomatic and it is not economical or usual for doctors to even test for these strains. If you've had sex, there's a good chance you carry it.

Same with cold sores. If you've ever eaten at a restaurant, shared silverware, or been kissed by someone, there's a damn good chance you have the virus. Oh but "You've never had a cold sore." Yeah, most of the time they're asymptomatic, too.
>Your definition is quite different than the usual definition of promiscuous

According to Wikipedia, the word promiscuous may have different definitions, mine is one of them.

>Again, your use of moralistic terms like "promiscuous", "experimenting", and "settle down" suggest to me that you have a sex-negative viewpoint.

What moralistic is that? is just an opinion.

>People like sex. Most people have sex with multiple partners over their lives. Advice like "don't ever have sex except in a committed marriage to a monogamous spouse" isn't effective, and has never been effective. It does it make people hide their sexuality ... but they'll still have sex. It instead means they won't get the information they need for safe sex.

So, it doesn't mean it is safe or free of consequences, promiscuous people have more risc in contracting a
SDT how is that a moral judgment? is not.

>We see this in the US where abstinence only sex education has been shown to be ineffective at changing behavior

I'm not talking about abstinence,I'm talkiing of having less sex partners to have less riscs, simple as that.

>If you're going to suggest unreasonable solutions

Who is sugesting anything? I was making a simple observation, but some how, you feel judged, I wonder why.
See my reply to prostoalex at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8679172
It's relevant because I find I've posted a paper from a researcher associated with a strongly eugenicist, White Nationalist organization with ties to neo-Nazi and Fascist groups. I did not realize this when I posted the item.
With dependency injection you dont need factories.IoC containers will make write you way less code.And they scale better.
The tool chain still supports Java bytecode via intermediate compilation to Jayce (using the Jill tool).
Just to answer this thread:

Google did a fantastic job of educating employees before the IPO. They brought in a ton of smart people to bring us up to speed, emphasize the need to diversify and minimize risk, etc. Honestly, I couldn't ask for a company to do a better job of educating us.

In addition, they arranged to give us default accounts with a broker so that we could sell our shares. My decision to park some money in commercial paper was strictly my own, and I should have done more research on it first.
ElasticSearch, Sphinx, Lucene, Solr, Xapian. Which Fits for Which Usage?
The terrible movie and the toolchain both reference a common folktale:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_Jill_%28nursery_rhyme%...
> I'm not mad, but your constant insistence that you're not wrong 'in context' is nonsensical.

I have a different opinion, I'm not wrong.

>I mean that literally, it doesn't make any sense

What doesn't make sense?
>Fortunatly less and less people are falling for that scam.

Seems the opposite for me. Nigel Farage did pretty well last election.
Man, I don't think he's mad. He spent a great deal of time to correct you and you're arguing on semantics. Just lose already.
Firefox with pentadactyl and a tiling window manager (I use xmonad, i3 is also good with less configuration).

Super+[1..9] = switch to workspace.
Super+hjkl = move between windows.
why don't you post updates here ?
"As a fan of his, I’ve followed most articles, interviews, and slides about his latest book"

The author of this piece of shit is a fan of Eric Schmidt??? WTF? Someone needs a life.

This article is the biggest load of bullshit I've ever read.
Good call.

I really didn't know these associations before posting this piece. I'm quite embarrassed.
DragonFly BSD does this. They call it process checkpointing.

Processes under DragonFly may be "checkpointed" or suspended to disk at any time. They may later be resumed on the originating system, or another system by "thawing" them.

http://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/#index8h2
I don't follow. What does this have to do with reducing the possibility of Java 8 compatibility?

One advantage the Jayce development seems to provide is the possibility of optimizing Dalvik bytecode output based on data that is hard to recover from Java bytecode but present in the Java source. Secondarily, there may be build time improvements, but build times aren't C++ bad.

But my best guess at why they did this is to support Java 8 on older devices. Without Proguard in the build system, they would have to include the entire Java 8 class library subset they plan to support in every build, resulting in massive distributables. By building Proguard into the base build system, they can include just the part of Java 8 that is necessary for the app. Jayce likely has some features that make the Proguard tasks easier.

I'm speculating far beyond the OP here.
Because civil rights groups don't like him, it doesn't invalidate his work.
True - it benefits Uber immensely from a tax perspective (and benefits?) for them to be independent consultants. It's also harder for independent consultants to unionize.
Again, how is this relevant? Science is to be pursued on the merits of the research, not the researchers.
After reading the following implementation in python, I must agree:

https://github.com/peterhil/leftrb/blob/master/leftrb/llrb.p...
Five Orders of Ignorance working link: http://www-plan.cs.colorado.edu/diwan/3308-07/p17-armour.pdf .. I didn't find it to be particularly of value.
Note that this sense of Web 2.0 does not replace the original meaning; it's a different nuance. The word "Web" in that nuance refers to "The World Wide Web" as such, and the "2.0" is just a common trope referring to a new improved something. Meet the new me. Me 2.0, if you will.

"Web 2.0", where "web" refers to "web technology", has not disappeared. Though it's something that the average user might not care about, it's not outdated in the same way in which, say, "sensibility" meaning "sensitivity" is outdated. The people who originally used "web 2.0" are still alive and still use it, for one thing.

Do you also think that this site is using "hacker" incorrectly, because the popular new meaning is "electronic criminal", and has been since at least 1980?
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Updating my earlier response -- these aren't just "ties", the Institute was founded, and is headed, by a noted White Nationalist.

The source I'd picked up the item from is, it seems, quite the racist himself. I should have seen it earlier given the topics he covered and how he was doing so in his blog.

The area of research interests me, but I'm exceptionally dubious about this paper.

Oh, and Woodley appears to be the son of Michael Woodley, aerial effects coordinator for several James Bond films. The elder acquired the estate in 1995. So this doesn't appear to be old money, per se.
> Google's monopoly is based on their early superior technology. That's it, pure and simple.

I'm sure you know that monopolies are illegal in the USA?

Also, Google's search engine is not the sole reason for this monopoly. There's a political side to it which most Google fan boys prefer not to discuss.
to argue for the genetic inferiority of non-white people

I wonder if he considers Asians to be white.
He had me at "Correlation doesn't equal causality" but it rapidly went downhill. I get that the concept of "Cut loose smart creatives" is not universally successful, but the article seems to go rapidly downhill from there.
For those not familiar with "Burger" Rebecca Heineman, she has a game programming resume stretching way back to the 80s at Interplay and elsewhere. Truly old-school.

http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,34...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Heineman
>If the language you're using is already expressed in a form that does not need serialization, then you don't have to serialize it.

Yeah. If only that language and "not needing serialization" code format didn't have 200 other problems, like NONE of the major services accepting it, lack of tooling, a sorry state of an ecosystem, difficulty of finding programmers and/or jobs, etc...
It does not require encrypted connections, although it does have extensions to indicate that future connections should occur over TLS (through the optional `tls` extension in IRCv3.1) and there is discussion for standardizing IRC over SCTP in IRCv3.3
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/b...

The whole premise of this paper about Buridan's ass principle is wrong. That is to say, its assumption of continuity. A simple strategy of "always go to the right after you haven't made a firm decision after X time" leads to a discontinuous function, violating their assumption. It is trivially possible for strategies to lead to discontinuous decision functions, undermining the whole idea.

The author tries to report that "you aren't sure if you've decided or not after X time", but doesn't go very deeply into it, and clings to the assumption of continuity. In fact, one can always be sure whether they've made a FIRM decision or not by a certain time, in the same way the author has X_t(1) = 1 for all t.
> Google actively sucks at every business except floating down the Mississippi of cash.

> It would be dramatic, but in terms of the bottom line it would be pretty close to irrelevant.

I'm assuming you're talking about all of the people in the driverless cars group, android, etc.

Two things at work here:

1. As a business their size you either try to take every single dollar that floats down the mississippi or you make the river bigger. I would argue that pretty much every strategy decision that Google makes is to do those two things (example - driverless cars means more people using the internet - more people using the internet means more search - more search means more adwords. aka the mississippi gets bigger)

2. Ubiquity. Starbucks sucks, but it's on every corner. Google's strategy is no different.
tacos, I tried to point people to Scott Adams' financial advice for people in regular situations. People who have done well in a startup are often in California, so I wanted to make sure that I mentioned the tax advantages of municipal bonds.

You've mentioned my limited experience but other than Schwab vs. Vanguard for donor-advised funds, what would you do differently? Of course people have to do their own research, but limited experience is no reason not to share information and ideas.
Meh, since so many downvotes, that was a smart-ass way of saying "put the integer in quotes so it transfers".
I'm on mobile so this'll be pretty in-a-nutshell:

Aerospikes are rocket nozzles that are very efficient across a wide range of altitudes because at different altitudes you have different pressures and temperatures. Normal rocket engines usually compensate for this with variable geometry nozzles.
Thankfully a horrible implementation of a concept does not completely discredit it forever.
SICP isn't a research publication—it's a pedagogical work. It's been very valuable as a textbook for CS students, but I don't think it contributed any significant ideas to the field of PL.
While I can give a lot of reasons why I think I still use vim and why that's not a bad choice, I'm sure the primary explanation for why I use vim is that it's what my father used and introduced me to when I was young.
Unfortunately since this time results have gotten worse ( anecdotal I know, but I know many who agree)

Showing results for I know many who disagree. To search for what you typed in and wanted to search for, jump through {this hoop}.
Your comment is actually one of the best formulations of software engineering I've ever read. However, I'd disagree, at least to some extent, with your conclusion:

"This precludes precise estimates or estimates at all..."

While we software developers do occasionally solve novel problems that can't be estimated since the methods for implementing them are not currently known (i.e., research problems), most of the problems we work on are variants of problems we've already solved, and our experience - especially if we record it and make an effort to learn from it - can be used to estimate the scope and complexity of a project (including the "discovery process").

Sure, sometimes our estimates will be way off, but an estimate that's within a factor of two or five of the actual cost of a project is more useful than no estimate at all.

The people who are paying us (management, customers, investors, etc.) will eventually want to know what they're going to get for their money and when they're going to get it - and sometimes the answers to those questions need to be answered before they provide any funding at all, since a solution might be completely useless to a customer if it's not available by a certain date.
Pretty limited history, but some nostalgia value there.

I haven't used IRC in many years, but started using bitnet relay back when I was about 15 or 16 and then moved on to irc (mostly +Amiga!/#Amiga!, +hack/#hack, used it back when all the channel numbers were just integers as well on various channels) soon after Jarkko had it up.

I remember when having 50 people logged into the whole of irc (long before all the splits into EFNet and then all the others) was a really busy night.

Ended up meeting a lot of cool people through irc and pissing off a bunch more as I was a bit of a troll back then (well, more of a troll than I am now), pretty stereotypical geek kid with more intelligence than wisdom.
I don't think you need to apologize - it's an interesting case study of how the apparatus of a scholarly journal, an academic affiliation and scientific credentials can lead us in sometimes scary directions. Historians and philosophers of science are right: who funds social sciences research, and the backgrounds of those who conduct it, sometimes really does matter. Not in the sense of 90s debates about relativism, but in a more practical sense that research questions in the social sciences don't emerge out of a vacuum and often have political overtones. I think you're correct in suspecting that this is one of those cases.

To those who are saying that this particular paper isn't invalidated by unsavory ties: you're right. But like I pointed out below, there are uncited claims about low intelligence correlating to lower economic status in the early modern period in here that strike me as suspect given the wider context.
I nominate something like, "Swatting a fly with a nuclear bomb."
It can do simple wildcarding with the * character, but I'm not aware of any general regexp capability, same as with any indexed database. Since you still have the underlying maildirs you can always just use egrep I guess.
It's not like we can't design very elegant, robust, reliable software, you know.

We just can't find anybody to pay for us to retool the whole stack (and I do mean the whole stack, since we're only as strong as our weakest link) while the current ad hoc solution operates within acceptable parameters.

The guy who wrote this paper, in my opinion, is missing two really bedrock principles of "pure" engineering-- manufacturing tolerances and cost. If it works as well as it needs to and comes in under budget, it's miller time. There's a reason every stereo ever made goes -clunk- when you push the 'on' button. There's a reason none of the walls in your house are exactly plumb.
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Thanks for taking the time to respond Patrick! I have two more questions:

When I quote them, how should I be breaking down the quote? (I'm thinking the different price breakdowns would look something like "curriculum creation, live training, email Q&A," etc?)

They're planning on having 23 devs in this online training session, do you think that's enough where I would want to quote per seat?

(I'm a total noob at this, thanks again for your help!)
7Figures2Commas, of course I know the difference between a single bond vs. a bond index fund. I clipped coupons off a bond my grandfather gave me as a kid.

The interest rate environment at this moment is interesting with QE coming to an end, but I'm trying to give advice that will work well long-term.
> I wanted to get rid of data.

What exactly does he mean by that? How does one get rid of data?

> The B5000 almost did this via its almost unbelievable HW architecture.

I've heard about the B5000 numerous times here on HN. What was so fantastic about it?