skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is reckless. The author throws out a mathematical model regarding a very sensitive subject with no evidence that the model reflects reality.

In effect, it just gives a mathematical veneer to the author's guesses. Similar to how wearing a lab coat while stating your opinion makes it seem scientific.

(The most obvious issue is non-independence, but there are plenty of other problems.)
You are not accounting for a few typical problems with these cases.

1) Eyewitness testimony ("personal accounts done a certain time after the event in question") is disappointingly terrible.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-i...

2) The accuracy of human memory is disappointingly terrible.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/11/how-many-o...

... Especially under stress/duress/emotionally-charged events.

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

Lastly, regarding the anonymous reporting tool cited in the NYTimes article- that is no different from an anonymous witchcraft reporting tool. Any single individual who accrues too much community ire (whether deserved or not) can get anonymously accused of something (and at minimum, publicly humiliated or reputation-damaged) by a collusive group of individuals (who can act with complete impunity due to anonymity). It is for this reason that I believe, difficult as it is to do, that all accusers should be known... unless we also allow anonymity to the accused while they fight off the accusations!

A little bit more controversially (and I freely admit this may be ENTIRELY up for debate, YMMV), there may exist a false-accusation bandwagon effect due to the economic forces at play

https://omegavirginrevolt.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/the-false...

Essentially, each new woman who steps forward and does not file a criminal suit but a civil one makes it more likely that (for example) Cosby's liability insurer will force him to pay out to alleged victims regardless of actual guilt. In addition, the accuser, who is likely someone that the "fame" spotlight has left in the past, can enjoy some more time under it. You fail to account for the additional financial/fame ("perverse") incentive of joining a bandwagon in this regard, especially when the accused is a wealthy individual.

I sincerely hope that the above does not come off as anti-victim, misogynist, or otherwise. I just think we need to remember the lessons from the Witchcraft Era as well as from psychology research of the past few years.
Is there any consideration taken for the fact that public figures, like celebrities, present a larger target, based on their wealth and fame?

I'd imagine that would make a difference when compared with a regular person who is not in the public spotlight or doesn't have a large estate.

Does this "intuitive thought" actually represent real world events?
No, I meant, it seems unlikely that the sum total, grand total, whole kit and kaboodle of all NK Internet activity is solely confined to the tiny handful of easily attacked, easily monitored IP addresses officially assigned to NK. Completely ignoring the intranet, I would expect there to be a great deal of NK Internet activity which is occurring in Chinese IP ranges.
In that case, why is there a societal obligation to protect the work?

Copyright is a trade between the author and society. The author releases the work to society at large, and in exchange, society provides a means to be rewarded for releasing it.

You can own a story entirely, so long as you do not release it. Then, nobody can take it from you, and you will never see those characters do anything beyond what you say they do. But if you want to share it with others, you must accept that they will eventually write things based on it.
Some links for those who wanted to read up on said history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_account
see, especially, the references section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_account#References
No. I mean, if that's the case then obviously just walk away but when I say I want passionate people I mean I want people who view programming as a super-power and are still excited by that idea.
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In my personal experience I have found that the people that put stock in this sort of question believe in the "coder" mystique and that someone eating and breathing coding is somehow more competent than someone that treats computer programming as a professional career.

It is not uncommon for people to feel this about a number of professions such as chefs, bakers, graphic artists, etc.

However, in my experience I prefer to judge an applicant on professional credentials rather than their free time because while it may tell me quite a bit about them it tells me little about their capabilities that I couldn't find out in better ways.
This kind of thing may not happen often but when it does it can cause errors which are very intermittent and impossible to diagnose. I have seen memory chips that will fail consistently, but only when running a specific program out of dozens of others tried. So it kind of looked like the program had a problem, except that it worked on other hardware.
Read the title as "The most interesting pineapple in the world"

Probably because pintresting never sounded like a real word to me.
Where's your PhD? Flagging for abuse...
All the fucking time. Everything I signed up for when I used gmail uses my gmail address; everything after a different address. Guessing one then the other then the first again is like plugging in a USB adapter in the dark.
Although I knew that "organic" is regulated, I did not know that it implied free range, which is theoretically better than the cage free that I usually buy.

An additional note from the organic egg scorecard, linked from the article, is that store-brand eggs tend to come from farms with poor conditions:

http://www.cornucopia.org/organic-egg-scorecard/
I think what you're describing is nowadays called "agility", not Agile. The Agile movement I've seen is concrete and cultish, even if it didn't start out that way. (Maybe you see a different facet.)

And if I had to pose as Scrum Master, every incentive would push me to intentionally propagate cultishness. (Better than those unaware they're doing it, because at least I can turn it off on a dime as the situation requires.)
What are your sources of that? I am French myself, and used to be fond of the history of Napoleon, but I never heard of that.
If you are looking for a GUI for scraping, check out kimono labs. It's a GUI tool for scraping, and requires no code to set up and can find all similar elements from the one you click on. It supports pagination and other types of scrapes too.
30 Days to Startup – Start a Business in 2015
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NVidia supports particular server-targeted GPUs very well. Buy a Tesla or Quadro, use a supported kernel, and you'll be fine.
First mistake is to let user to select arbitrary username os password. Just provide them with secure ones, that's what I do. I always have wondered also the fact, what's the point of having separate username and passworld fields in the first place.
Username: bjdndgEC2S4rHRZy7c8rdQ
Password: 6TWe8EvxfRxxCvcyZTaBM6
Isn't it enough to concatenate username and password, it's just as secure to use one field instead of two. Btw. Do many of these services pay enough attention to potential weaknesses presented by the potentially weak(er) session cookies?
99 Notifications on the app icon badge; made me uninstall.

Also, would be nice to be able to go back to a post I accidentally swiped.
My issue is more with smear campaigns. Leave the concern of guilt or innocence to the justice system. For every 100 people that are "probably" guilty on the basis of hearsay, how many innocent ones have had their reputation irreversibly ruined by widespread internet witch-hunts? If these people would focus their time and energy on actually coming up with solutions to the problems they're complaining about in their generality rather than targeting specific individuals (for instance, solving the problem of performance enhancing drugs in cycling vs creating a media sensation about Lance Armstrong), I think society would be much better off.
Well, "a lot of software engineering roles" have requirements and knowledge expectations that are far out of line with what the job actually requires. There are some "fundamental algorithms, including things like DFS and Dijkstra's" that simply aren't applicable to a lot of software engineering roles, big and small.

Most of the questions and interview ceremony around these things, especially for the aforementioned positions for which they're largely irrelevant, are exercises in hazing, ego building/busting (depending on which side of the interview you're on), and petty power plays.
That explains it - thanks.
Agile works as a bottom-up methodology only. Once the PMs get a hold of it, they figure out a way to wire their TPS-report-"did you get the memo on that? It needs a cover sheet."-thinking into it so that it's effectively destroyed. Scrum is the goto agile methodology for these people to wreck, and wreck it they have.

Consider: My local chapter of the Project Management Institute has ~7000 members. Are the even 7000 competent people in the area that can act as leaf node workers for these folks? I doubt it.
How something is researched is a different topic than what is being researched.

Lack of ethics or disregard for the safety of research subjects (Nazi experiments come to mind...) is not what I'm in favor of (and I doubt hardly anybody else is either). A researcher shouldn't be able to dump a tanker of oil in the ocean to "find out what happens".....

But saying "this topic is off limits and can not be inquired into by any means" is #1)realistically not going to happen at this point. #2)not provably desirable for humanity. #3)full of potential for political and economic abuse.

Yes, things are going to change a lot and soon (re. synthetic biology... I majored in a biological science. Genetics, bio-chem, advanced biology etc. 20 years ago. I entered a different field. I don't claim to know much, but to your point, I think I do know what's coming).

Yes, there will be tragedies (but also amazing benefits). Yes, people need to be as careful as they can, and they need monitoring. Yes, application of technology needs regulation. But attempting to force ignorance simply isn't a good idea, nor is it going to work. The likely outcome of that approach is application of more uninformed versions of technologies entailing more risk to everyone. The genie is not going back in the bottle. So we need to do our best to understand mechanism and outcomes, and thus tip the risk/reward ratio in a positive direction.

My grandfather was an engineer in Los Alamos working on nuclear destruction devices. He died in his late 40's from cancer. I never met him. So I understand your point. But where I think we differ... I don't think they should have stopped nuclear research. I think they should have done more in fact and I still do. What I don't think they should have done was use that technology, half understood, with no long term plan for waste disposal, largely to build destructive devices.

It's not research and understanding that kills us, but the reverse.
Chipotle has a nutrition calculator on its site: http://www.chipotle.com/en-US/menu/nutrition_calculator/nutr...

I think this is pretty common these days, to see such info either in store or on the chain's websites.
"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses."

-- Bjarne Stroustrup
You're right – Bitcore is a library that exposes a simple API; we've changed the text on bitcore.io to reflect this. Thanks for the feedback!
For now. The EU is pushing for more:

“De-listing decisions must be implemented in such a way that they guarantee the effective and complete protection of data subjects’ rights and that EU law cannot be circumvented"...

Context is extending RTBF to Google.com, but that seems like a slippery slope.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/27/eu-to-goog...
Also see:

[1] - https://github.com/rxcomm/pyaxo

[2] - https://github.com/trevp/axolotl/wiki
My family thanks you and your colleagues.

Back in mid-1979, just before I went to college, I looked at the current alternatives and picked Alpha Micro as the company to go with for a system to computerize a bunch of doctor's offices. It worked very well, and then another one a few years later when they used one to help systematize a company providing satellite TV gear.
I use some aspects of Scrum; but when a development team starts using a daily stand up meeting, you've effectively taken IT and turned into into a charade of nonsense.
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50% of society are women. ~30% of tech employees on avg, are women—with women in technical roles or leadership being far less. Black Americans comprise 13% of our population, and Latino Americans comprise 17% of the population. In Tech, they represent ~2% and ~%3% of our workforce, respectively.

Anybody who does not think this is a significant problem, has no business participating in the creation of products for any human to usw in their lives. None.
The rocket ahead folks are often really good at creating technical debt for everyone else. The minority who are really rockets usually burn out early in their career. Used correctly, Agile prevents too much of either type from getting out of control, evening out the peaks and valleys. That's what you want, right? A sustainable pace.
"The real incentive here is for corporate owners that bought copyrights to lobby Congress for another 20 years of revenue—not for creators who will be long dead once this term extension takes hold."

"I thought it was a moral outrage. There wasn't anyone speaking out for the public interest."

- Sen. Hank Brown, the only Senator to be against extending copyright in the 90s. Shame there were not more like that.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/25...
I wonder if it would work when logging in using a machine which doesn't have the BitShares client installed on it. In my case, I keep BitShares running on a beefier machine than my desktop, being that it has such a high memory footprint. My main BitShares account is only on that machine, & I wouldn't be able to clone it to run in tandem on another machine, AFAIK. I'll have to read up on this later to see how that would work.
This makes perfect sense to me given the constraints of working in a mandated scrum environment, thanks. Not sure why you're being downvoted?
The popularity of Yik-Yak has kind of already proven that you are objectively wrong.
> We could take it to another extreme and eliminate private real property rights as well. I like your house, it has been in my street for years, it's a part of my street's culture, therefore I have the right to move in whenever I want. How is the written word any different than a creation made of bricks?

This is a terrible analogy. If I take your house, I have deprived you of its use.
If I make a copy of something you wrote, of what are you being deprived? Do you not still have access to your writing?

You expect to profit by selling copies of your work and you task the State with preventing me from doing so, thereby limiting my freedom to do whatever I want with my own physical property (my pen and my paper).

That's the nature of the copyright bargain, and everyone more or less agrees that it's a net gain for society. But do not lose track of what's going on here.
> "Imagine that. You could use libraries that implement things you want. What a concept."

I think I didn't explain myself, but something that basic in these days should be on the standard library in my opinion.

>"Yes. C is very small and simple. You can learn all of C in a very short time."

I don't think C is simple at all. Its syntax can be really cumbersome at times (see my first example). Also it is very annoying to debug, and C code is very prone to contain memory corruption bugs and leaks.

C has great advantages but being simple is not one of them.
Wow, nice bug.

I like a lot of things about Go, but I wish they didn't invent their own mini operating system in the runtime on top of Linux/POSIX. This bug seems like a good example of why that's a leaky abstraction.

I think it would be interesting to explore a coroutines + threads + channels design space for a concurrent language. Basically like Go, except without the green thread implementation.

For CPU bound work, you can use threads. For I/O bound work, use coroutines. And then they all compose together with channels. The implementation would be a lot simpler because it works with the OS rather than trying to paper over it.
The comparison with witch trials is simple. People can be totally independent, and not know each other, and independently conclude that you're a witch. Why would they do this? Obviously due to some factor about you. The mistake you make is using Occam's razor to conclude that that factor is "being a witch". The other poster used the example of witches because we all know there is no such thing.

There is 0% chance of someone being a witch, whom nobody has ever so much as suspected of being a witch. But there is also 0% of someone being a witch, about whom dozens of totally independent people, in different locations, throughout the person's life and career, have independently come to the firm and undeniable conclusion that they are a witch.

This is why this was the example that was used.
http://m.liveleak.com/view?i=db6_1370665965&comments=1
Agile methodology reminds me Asimov's "Reason" (short story), in this case, poor management methods masking the whip behind a ridiculous religion/faith plus some "gamification".
You could end up with all sorts of confirmation bias by taking that approach - for example, works of abstract philosophy are going to be swamped by the number of publications on current events, fashionable ephemera and so forth. Likewise, the visibility of artistic work is typically a function of the amount of money spent on marketing, so the longer it takes to build an audience the less time there is to reap any commercial rewards of authorship. Artistic works are not fungible; if I want to listen to some relatively obscure artist like Arovane then I'm not going to be satisfied by listening to Justin Bieber instead. Why should the commercial lifetime of the less popular work be judged by the sales behavior of the more popular? The extremely popular work, which is usually designed to pull in as much income as possible as fast as possible, already earns a great deal more than the less popular work. Predicating the allowable timeframe for earning revenue on the best performers would be a double whammy.

You wouldn't reduce Olympic running competitions only to the 100 meter dash and dismiss marathon runners on the grounds of their inability to compete in the short track event.
if you mention @playmmodm in your tweet like so'@playmmodm [o---o---oxx-x-x-z-z-z] #MMODM' you wont spam your friends because they're not following @playmmodm! Hope that helps a bit while we take all the good feedback we got here and fine-tune those details. Thanks.
"the rate of false accusations is low"

I didn't read the study, but how could anyone know this? I suppose you could assume that a conviction means that the accusation is true, and that exoneration means that accusation is false, but there are a lot of cases where it's not known one way or another. I would be surprised if 90%+ of accusations result in a conviction, so the study must be assuming that any accusation is true if the accused is not exonerated.

There are also other, like if one party believes an assault took place and the other does not, or if the accusation is true but the perpetrator is misidentified.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my guess is that the statement above (alone, out of context) is not well supported by evidence.
The problem with phrasing the question that way is that it's way too open-ended (and likely to make the candidate regurgitate the same BS from their cover letter, which is not the point). An interviewer's job is to make it as easy as possible for the candidate to prove themselves. If they don't have side projects, that's fine--there are other questions that will hopefully provide similar information (ie. "What project have you worked on that was the most satisfying for you personally?"). But the side project question has a high signal/noise ratio.
Well said. I've never really looked at it from that perspective, tbh. But you're right, the sprint will keep effort at a sustained pace that the team accepts.
Way to kick a guy when he's down. Next thing you know he'll be relegated to selling half-finished keyboards out of Thailand.
Intuition for the Law of Cosines
This.

At the end of the day, what job/pay/perks do you want?

If jobs require you to jump through some hoops, then they will be jumped through - within reason.
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Time Machine – Live Coding on a Raspberry Pi with Sonic Pi
Its pretty bogus how the FDA gets lobbied for things like this, and it ends up convoluting the message to the american public. For instance, read this article on how 'organic' / 'antibiotic-free' eggs were still able to be treated by antibiotics as long as it was early in the eggs life:

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/01/organic-chic...

Even this Q & A is not the most straightforward on what the antibiotic process is, instead hiding behind 'meets FDA regulations'.
http://www.uspoultry.org/faq/faq.cfm
It would be cool to have a browser plugin that decorated youtube links with captions.
I find it impossible to take seriously any argument that claims to be true in general, but where the only example given is logging.

Logging is weird and special, running at unusual times in unusual states, and therefore has unusual requirements.

So, yeah, having a pile of arbitrary functions that your logger can call is not really going to work. But if this were a "notify when a comment is posted" example, the author would really struggle to find problems with that same approach, because that's a much safer operation that happens in a more predictable way than logging is.

The only real takeaway from this article is "be careful with your logging implementation," but hopefully you already knew that.
>I mean choosing function names based on length because you didn't bother to write an actual hash function? AMAZING.

Context:
"This was circa late 1994 when PHP was a tool just for my own
personal use and I wasn't too worried about not being able to remember
the few function names."
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Keep in mind that all of the examples are actively shooting to hit 2000 calories. It says nothing about what is a "typical" meal at the chain. In fact, for the Chipotle example, it lists a burrito in order to hit that mark: Chipotle Carnitas burrito (945), chips and guacamole (770), Coke (276). then, in the paragraph below that, it indicates: Chipotle says burrito bowls, which leave out 300-calorie flour tortilla, even outsell burritos. Furthermore, the authors chose the guacamole for the article because it is, hands down, the highest calorie dip available. It is nearly twice as many calories as the sour cream and it is ten times the calories of some of the salsas. But most folks aren't ordering chips and guac. Chips and salsa is a far more common thing to order as a side. My firsthand observation suggests that, because the burritos are so big, people who order a burrito often do not order any sides with it.

Source of the calorie counts for the sides: http://www.chipotle.com/en-US/menu/nutrition_calculator/nutr...
Microsoft and Yahoo have reported they are complying as well.
If you can't find something [through Google], then it may as well not exist.

If, for example, a director wants their movie removed from Google search results, it will still show up in searches on imdb, wikipedia, rottentomatoes &c., and is thus accessible to quite a large number of internet users.