skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it sounds too-good-to-be-true, it usually is.

"I have this magical substance, but I have to keep it secret".

If the drug works, you don't need to have tests to show why it works, you just need to show it works. (We still don't exactly know why general anaesthetics work, but that doesn't stop us from using them every day.)
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Of course it was flagged killed, if you present a dissenting opinion on this site instead of engaging in meaningful discussion the cultural kafka fascists just hide you away. It is very interesting because I believe that the genders are equal which means I dont believe this sexist assertion that women somehow bring different strengths to engineering.
What "argumentation"? I see a question and an explanation of the question with no commentary whatsoever.
Incidentally, if you're interested in an actual alternate account of LoTR, The Last Ringbearer is quite good. It's not an alternative translation, but rather a retelling from the perspective of the other side of the war.
I mean, they probably just detect if your user agent is not Chrome. It'd be silly to complicate it further by checking if it's not some relatively obscure thing that's super techy just for the benefit of excluding people that will for sure not use Chrome.
I binge listened to Serial the same way I binge-watched The Wire and Breaking Bad. But I don't watch TV shows on a consistent basis. I rarely watch shows even by download. This might not be an important factor, but identifying non-traditional consumers being attracted to the content, consuming it and moving on might be a useful cohort or metric.

Second, I'd be cautious to say the format is the reason why it's popular. Such as saying that the TV-show like structure, and made it easy to consume, are the reason for binging. It is certainly why it is popular - for a podcast - but I doubt it's why it's popular in general. Content is king.

Not being a typical TV-show fan I only consume TV/podcasts that I hear (and turn out to be) exceptionally good from friends and reviews. Although I do listen to podcasts while I work (on a day to day basis).

Regarding the question of binging, well I think it could easily be 90% about quality of content. Quality such as Serial and The Wire are rare. So given the opportunity and access to all the media at once (thx to the internet) nothing stops us from consuming it all at once.

Anyone who wants to repeat this model, more quality content please. Which means content creators should focus most on good storytelling.. and less about the format and delivery. Hollywood should take note of this since they also seem to be obsessed with format over good storytelling. They seem to think CGI is an adequate replacement for good characters and drama.
Claiming 'meta' is orthogonal to behaving hypocritically.
There's a meme that Bay Area engineers are overpaid, but I'm not so sure. I've worked in a few different cities and can say without reservation, engineering staff here (SF) is quite a lot more productive than in other places.

I don't know why. Probably some combination of education, better management, longer and harder working conditions/hours, more selective interviewing, and more general hustle and motivation being around the best.
The cheaper it is to launch, the easier it is to clean up orbital debris. The risk from debris in orbit isn't from too many satellites, space is pretty damned empty, the risk comes from thousands upon thousands of fragments, some of them created intentionally. Moreover, as it gets cheaper to launch satellites it also becomes more and more possible to add extra weight to them, to put in backup systems which deorbit the satellites if they become inoperable.
Unfortunately it's an ambiguous yet critical use of the word "more". More than before? Or more as in plurality?
Well, !g will just redirect you to Google Search.

And I've noticed lately that DuckDuckGo has gotten much better at short queries lately, at the expense of longer queries. Any query over about 4 words goes straight to Google.
Yes, it would. It's not based completely on performance gains you may see in new updates. Profiles bloat up over time with data (history, cookies, cache, etc) and the bigger it is, the more the browser has to process. So, over time, your browser will slow down. A fresh install of a new browser would result in all this data not existing. If it doesn't have to parse hundreds of megs of files, it'll generally be faster.
Determining Robustness and Integrity of SSL Certificate Authority Alternatives
What a ridiculously reductive perspective. Let me guess, you're 16 and are working your way through "Atlas Shrugged" right now?
What would be the reason to learn Rust over Haskell? They seem to be about in the same speed ballpark:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

Is that not representative, or is the idea that Rust speeds the learning curve with its similarity to Ruby?
What's the advantage to being outside the EU?
Mind you, I did this when I was a teenager, I'd be shy to do it now. Appearances didn't really matter where I was from. Mostly Rugby guys, surfing ppl and tradesmen from my small town. Nobody judged you by appearance. I've never seen so much designer ware until I lived in Korea. But, fan death does have a cultural stigma here, and appearances matter. It's really hard to change someone's belief on fan death. So, it's better just to feel amused by the difference in culture.
A suggestion: I think everyone's mental model for flight prices is that they go up as you get closer to the departure date.

I would therefore suggest in your marketing emphasizing cases where this wasn't the case i.e. where you add value.
I remember the first time I took an upper-divison math class at my university. I never saw so many left-handed glasses-wearing males in a single spot.

So, lies, damn lies, and statistics. If average cognitive ability is lower, then I'm guessing there's a hell of a standard deviation.
Yes, exactly. But getting a loan or a line of credit in the multi-million dollar range implies a certain level of trust in the viability of your company which typically is lacking in most early stage startups. The risk associated with venture capital transforms that relationship into not merely a financial transaction but more of a partnership, which is why equity is typically given.
Every tech job I've ever had was pretty much that. 20-30 minute phone screen, 3-5 hour onsite interview.

But then I've never worked in the Bay Area.
I believe group calls will be in Firefox 35. Not sure about screen sharing, but it's being worked on and coming soon.
Equal in value does not imply equal in thought, experience, or skill. I think that is the major flaw in your argument and why you are misconstruing breaking down barriers for women as "sexist".
I don't think it's about securing our cultural artifacts, it's about securing our knowledge so future generations don't have to go through the same painful, bloody lessons we have.
I'd guess they're talking about something more similar to American cargo shorts or swim trunks.
The usual use sense in which the genders are claimed to be equal is more about being worthy of equal treatment than about being strictly equivalent (the latter of which is self-evidently false).
I'm a little confused about what exactly this is. Take the time series section, for example. The entire section seems to only have examples. The only reading listed is the "R Cookbook," and it's also mainly examples.

From the syllabus:

> The aim of the course is to show how to perform elementary
data analysis in the social sciences.

I feel like the time series section doesn't teach basic time series analysis at all. For example, they show plots of the ACF and PACF without going into detail about what those are and how they're different. I don't think that's helpful.

This looks like a nice set of examples, but far from an actual course!
> Despite the browser wars, the newest annoyance is having to use Yahoo's search engine.

Have to? Changing the default search engine in Firefox is as simple as clicking on the search-box dropdown and selecting a different search engine. Two clicks.
> The fact that it now disables/disallows the Play store doesnt like...

I assume here you're referring to Chrome, not Firefox?
(1) Even in that benchmark, Haskell is over twice as slow as Rust on average.

(2) The Haskell code is nowhere near idiomatic.

It is still useful to know that Haskell can be quite fast if necessary, but it likely does not reflect what your actual experience using Haskell would be.
It's a little different, but still a good starting point. It contains some strong arguments both for and against affirmative action, and is significant beyond simple legal status.

I cited that case not because I believe SCOTUS is correct in all contexts, but because the format of Supreme Court cases is a good way to have an argument in my opinion. Facts are presented from previous hearings, without deliberations over authenticity, and legal arguments are made based on those facts.

I note that I don't think the debate is worth having here because it is against the HN guidelines:

> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

not because I don't think the discussion is still worth having in the present day.

Finally, I would like to point out that Dredd Scott v. Sandford is often considered an accurate legal ruling. The direct result of the ruling was disgusting, but side remarks by justices in the majority opinion revealed fundamental inconstancies in US state/federal slavery laws and precipitated the Civil War.
Seems to be similar to a list at http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/irregular-verbs/
Cleopatra = 69-30 BC

Egyptian pyramids = 2700-1700 BC
"Courriel" was actually invented by the Office québécois de la langue française. But your point stands.

As far as I know the corresponding, and pretty great, word for spam, "pourriel", came from the streets.
I think many people will jump to Golang from interpreted languages for performance and memory consumption reasons, which in conjunction with lowest learning curve among modern languages and easiest way to deploy will give Golang an advantage.
Could also be that people who have a job are forced to wake up at a certain time in the morning whether they want to or not, whereas the unemployed have no such impetus to get out of bed early.
Data Elixir, Issue 13: machine learning, data wrangling, D3, data geek gift list
Show HN: My small iOS game done during stay in hospital
Can I do more than one child at a time? I'm not trying to be cheap, but it would be odd to have one leave the room for 5 minutes, then switch them.

The information you ask for obviously assumes one child.
high five bro!
Are they really ready for a 1.0? I'm looking at the standard library, and things (or core functionality of things) like file-system I/O, vectors, strings, _iterators_ … are marked as "experimental"; I was particularly curious as to how they were going to deal with iterators, since I think this is a particularly hard problem. (In many languages these are either pointers (C++) or close to it.¹)

I wouldn't really consider a language without a standard library "complete", and a good standard library is important to me in a language. (As it's going to help you get stuff done.)

¹Python, for example, doesn't specify iterator invalidation rules AFAICT; you just have to look at what CPython does. And in CPython, there are ways to make an iterator return a sequence of items that does not make any sense. (e.g., the same item twice, or skipping items…) In C++, invalidation is well-specified, but the compiler doesn't really help catch errors.
I wonder how they got that deal.
I am all for breaking down barriers I just dont think it will result in better outcomes, because different men have different thoughts, experiences and skills, it is just the nature of being human. To suggest though that somehow it will result in the things mentioned in the article is sexist because it attributes those qualities to a gender.
Whoops, will get that fixed!

You probably found the right one, but better link: https://support.appneta.com/cloud/traceview/instrumentation/...
Was the degree listed as a requirement on the job posting?

HN very much likes to poo-poo the value of a CS degree. There is value in it. It proves you can master a variety of topics in 16 weeks, 8 times. (Or part-time while working/spouse/parent/whatever) It proves you can follow through with something over the course of years. It proves you can either work your way through college, are financially mature enough to take out and manage loans, or privileged enough to not need to worry about money.

All these things say a lot about a person.

I worked through college. Took me 7 years. I was a whiz-bang programmer before I started. I did it for the opportunities it would afford me down the road. I did it to prove to myself I could. College isn't always about the piece of paper. I didn't walk for graduation. My diploma is still in the envelope they mailed it in over a decade ago. I'm not proud of graduating, I'm proud I could persevere.

There is value in having a degree. There is a lot of value in having a technical degree. It isn't always about 'having' the degree, its about what it represents.
The gap in HR is much bigger, but in the other direction of course. http://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/chala... (compiled from US Census data)

Computer scientists 72.2% male, HR 16.2% male.
Of course there are many more employed in software than in HR.
Agreed, backend isn't going to disappear. I was thinking of learning go, but going for Elixir seems like it might be a better option - happy to have read this.

I don't think ruby/rails is going anywhere for a while though, it's too easy to get things up and running. And I think node is going to be around for a while too, and increased familiarity with javascript is pretty much guaranteed to be helpful, so going that direction isn't a bad idea either.
another entity is doing the search.

What? It redirects your browser to Google, it's you doing the search, not any other entity. They don't proxy or anything.
Lending Club IPO: Nice Guys Don’t Finish Last, and Other Lessons
Anyone can miss quote someone this was a comment about education, and how boys cannot be taught in the same way as girls, evident in the declining academic outcomes for small boys.
We definitely have discounts if you've got a whole ton of hosts. You'll pay less for the 50th host than for the 1st.

That said, a host collects a certain amount of data, so it's not really tenable for us to sell "site licenses" at a fair price. If you're super-bursty, we're happy to charge for the average, AWS-style, but that model tends to upset the finance folks, so we default to the "you'll clearly pay this" model first.
I've read The Last Ringbearer twice. It's totally awesome and gives, perhaps, even more plausible story than the original LOTR series.

The Last Ringbearer in English http://ymarkov.livejournal.com/280578.html

The Last Ringbearer in Russian http://www.lib.ru/PROZA/ESKOV_K/last.txt

Reviews at GoodReads
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10329770-the-last-ringbea...
> They’re more organized.

Here we go again.

Based on what? Where does this idea come from? Can you imagine if we all just accepted this as fact about men?

I know plenty of female programmers who absolutely hate this idea that women are "more organized." The result is almost always that they get pigeonholed into the "secretary" role on a team.

This idea needs to die. It does no one any good, and it's probably just false.
I think the best time to do this would be soon after the Let's Encrpyt free CA [1] starts handing out certificates. There's no more good reason not to have HTTPS, so that's a good time to start applying a little pressure and adding the incentive for website authors.

Does google already reward secure sites with higher search rankings? I can't decide if I think that's a good idea or not, but if they want to push for a more secure and free web, that's definitely another avenue.

[1] https://www.eff.org/press/releases/new-free-certificate-auth...
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Lot of people in here offering cheap opinions, while mgirdley's team has done the actual work. They're not saying that the kinda of algebra test they're proposing is foolpoof, perfect, subjectivity-free, or even the best way of testing for programming aptitude.

What they _are_ saying is that the test is an efficient, effective way to do it, with better ROI than IQ tests.

It doesn't actually matter _why_ that's the case, though Animats' suggestion seems plausible: "From the test questions, this isn't an "algebra test". It's a word problem decoding test. That's appropriate to programming, where you have to go from an informal specification of the problem to a formal one."
Idiomatic, typical Rust code does not involve a garbage collector, which makes it suitable for embedding in environments with a garbage collector as well as any application with real-time (no pauses) requirements.
Nothing public right now, but we had a beta started. It would probably look something similar to our current PHP instrumentation ... except it would work on HHVM.

If you want to chat, shoot me an email: TR @ appneta. I'm curious to hear if there's anything different we'd want to look at when working on HHVM.
Yeah, I think the main benefit of Chrome these days is mainly about UI performance more than anything else. They achieve that extremely well with the process isolation. Firefox is moving in that direction to with their electrolysis project, so it'll be interesting to see where that goes.
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Attack me and not what I am saying, how mature of you.
If you make a change like this too quickly, you run the real risk of users seeing the "warning" so often that they just get trained to ignore it (even more than they already do).
Ontario.ca hacked
At the time of wrting the landing page for ontario.ca has been defaced.

It reads

HACKED BY DEVIN BHARATH

with an MC Hammer video below as well as a twitter handle.
Congratulations! The two of you easily became two of my biggest role models after I was introduced to web development; its been a pleasure to follow your general trajectories. Thanks for showing us what is possible when you're willing to actually do something!
We aren't "pretending" to care about honesty and openness, we actually do.

Selling users isn't the only way to make money.
If that printer doesn't require cartridges with an individual chip attached, and the printer still works; I
wouldn't toss the printer. I have taught older individuals
how to drill cartridges and refill their own ink. If they
are slightly mechanically inclined, and on a budget--they
print like it was the ninties. I don't like to run out of
pricey chipped ink cartridges. The bigger point I'm trying to make is I don't like limitations/restrictions on hardware
or software. I don't like the "locked down" trend that I
guess was inevitable?
No different than when Google was telling me to upgrade to chrome whenever I visited their sites
I find myself having to bring up my vagrant machine just so I can ssh into production/accessing the console. Can vagrant play a role here?
Surely the confidence bands in the plot aren't 95% confidence intervals...

http://uhlbcmcbx4a4vt1d.zippykid.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/u...
I usually go for my 'musak' playlist because it's not distracting at all: http://open.spotify.com/user/121472720/playlist/5CToJcwo4OEK...

Or 'Chill', which is a little more distracting: http://open.spotify.com/user/121472720/playlist/4kDc0bRoAf3U...

I used to have one named 'Programming', but I renamed it and forgot which one it was. -.-'
Boehner Added 3.8 Trillion in New Debt in Less Than 4 Years #sackjohnboehner
I disagree with 9.4 as I think you should try to use event emitting more. This is the best way to modularize your application and really separate your concerns.

For example, given a service in charge of dealing with the a part of user's data. All mutations should be done through the helpers given by the service and then it should emit an event telling everyone subscribed to deal with it and update themselves.

Doing it this way, you maintain much more sanity when you have to create a really reactive application.
Hence seeking to hire females/women "cause diversity" is pretty demeaning. And sex/gender is a pretty poor way to introduce diversity in the first place. You want to seek out people that have vastly different experiences and/or personalities.
How Accurate Are ESPN's Fantasy Football Projections?
Ok, that sounds like a reasonable alternative, and Brendan Greeg is certainly a powerful force in this area. I'll run dtrace and see what happens, but I'm going to let a current long-running fuzzing run finish first.
For me it has always been about the spam filter(gmail is way better at it) ,and the fact that I didn't have to pay to read my mails in outlook with gmail.Maybe it has changed but the "forwarding" was a paid feature in yahoo mail.
I did my first real coding in around 2005, and quickly got interested in both jQuery and Rails. Really good timing in retrospect!
> Does google already reward secure sites with higher search rankings?

They do: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.de/2014/08/https-as-r...
Reading this article is my first exposure to this 13-month calendar [I don't count the Simpson's episode]. I'm glad for the read and found it very interesting.
> Does google already reward secure sites with higher search rankings?

Yes, although only recently and only slightly.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2014/08/https-as-...
This story made me think of something. Are there any HR firms out there that professionally evaluate hiring practices?
A friend of mine once heard a talk by one of the CxOs of McDonald's (was a while ago, and I can't remember which). He asked the question, "What business am I in?"

Obviously, he rejected the naive answer of "selling food". Smarter answers were "licensing franchises" or "marketing/branding", but he rejected those answers as well.

What business was he in? Land
Could you define "low-level bitbangers"? It sounds kind of derogatory, but maybe I am reading it wrong.
That is good advice. Hopefully I will get time to do that in the near future!
My kids drink out of plastic water bottles all day long, both at school and then at soccer practice in the evening. What is the safest material for water bottles? Is BPA-free good enough?
I'll take the downvotes if that's necessary.

Netflix had months-long problems with the audio on some of their programs, including programs that others here mentioned watching.

It was only after I made some comments regarding these audio problems, here and on Reddit, that they were fixed.

(I'd reported them via Netflix's problem reporting mechanisms, months earlier when I discovered them, to no effect.)