skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the end a couple of times to see if I missed something, but I agree with your assessment. The author sounds a bit paranoid.
Oh, I am not against the excercise. I would even go so far as to applaud the work. What I do not care for, is essentially sloppy science in how we declare successes.

I mean, this is essentially back-seat driving Knuth, of all people.

And... TeX has been widely ported as is. I am in the crowd that is somewhat unconvinced it needs a rewrite.
That certainly didn't help. But Islam still has to see its Erasmus and until then this madness will likely persist.

Religion is a personal thing.
This is worthless unless they correct for age. Which they most likely don't, since age is not even mentioned in the post.
Here's an interesting article about how names could have long lasting effects: http://www.livescience.com/6569-good-bad-baby-names-long-las...

Also, many cultures obsess over giving the child a good name with a good meaning as they think it determines their future.
I gather you're being sarcastic, but high name inequality is just another illustration of a lack of social mobility.

People of a certain social class are more likely to name their child certain names, and those children are more likely to grow up into particular professions.

Name inequality represents clear evidence against the existence of a meritocracy.
I don't care about disk speed nearly as much as I do reliability. EBS combines inconsistency with unreliability. It is the worst of both worlds for building a reliable, redundant infrastructure. I'm pretty bummed.
Wouldn't be hilarious if this were a "silicon backwoods" startup running in some super-cheap locale, but in SF you'd be homeless for that.

Of course 5% equity isn't peanuts if you really believe in the company... and if your equity comes in a form that's protected against them diluting you to hell.
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A lot of the time the perfect user for Chrome OS is too scared by how different it is. I tried it with my father and sister, and they both wouldn't use it. They were too confused by it and how cloud-based it was (even though they stream all their music and keep all their photos only on Facebook), and stopped using it. I tried Ubuntu, and just telling them it was Linux was enough for them to be scared, and blame that for any problems. I eventually settled on Elementary OS for my sister, and told her it was Mac OSX, while my father still uses Windows XP. (Sigh.)
Because being outspoken in a thread that touches on religion will get you downvoted. Don't sweat it.
You're right that I've never written C. I know enough bash to hate using it. I'm familiar with Maybe/pattern matching in Haskell, and I've used OCaml too. I've seen more than one approach.

I also think you're correct about everything you said, especially about the inconsistent treatment of errors in Golang's stdlib, and the difficulty of differentiating between them. I've noticed the same and it has annoyed me. When writing my own application code I do maintain a consistent pattern for returning my own errors, but I have been frustrated when consuming the stdlib for this very reason.

Maybe as my code base grows I'll come to agree with you, but for now at least it seems to be at a nice middle ground where the error handling isn't overwhelming and it isn't swept under the rug. And to my knowledge, none of the bugs I've created when writing Go code have come from my understanding of the program flow being interrupted by error handling code. And I've probably avoided many bugs because of this pessimistic approach I take when coding, as jalfresi put it in his comment[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8878852
Its interesting to see the difference in type of names between Football Coach (Dan, Bill, Mike, Jim, Rich, Steve) and Electrical Engineer (Bernard, Eugene, Edwin, Charles, Alfred, Harvey). Short (one vowel each), common, English versus longer (two vowels each) French/"Posh" English names. Correlation between the names and background/educative level seems likely?

Songwriter is interesting too: 4 out of 5 end with a variation of "y".
That's addressed in the essay:

> It's usually a mistake to talk to corp dev unless (a) you want to sell your company right now and (b) you're sufficiently likely to get an offer at an acceptable price. In practice that means startups should only talk to corp dev when they're either doing really well or really badly

If you're sure you want to sell, and are convinced you'll get the price you want, talk to them. Actually, that second qualifier seems REALLY useful here. I imagine that its easy for founders to get stars in their eyes about a potential acquisition. Forcing yourself to think rationally about what price you might realistically be offered might help you evaluate wether a meeting would be worth the time or just a distraction you can't afford.
I was recently at the airport and the airport was nice enough to provide power plugs. I happen to be sitting next to them for about 1.5 hours and counted six phones, one Samsung Galaxy S3, and a 3DS.

I used to own a battery pack too, back when I had an iPhone, it was a required accessory unfortunately. Since then I've owned a Samsung Note (1), LG G2, and Sony Z3, and all three of them last 2-3 days, and I have no need for a battery pack.

Even if size was a concern I could purchase a Sony Z3 Compact which is "iPhone 6 sized" but has twice the battery life or more.

Back in the iPhone 4 (ish) day the iPhone had "impressive" battery life. However Apple has stood still while everyone else has continuously improved. Now most non-Apple phones (Galaxy S5, LG G3, Sony Z3, Note 4, Windows Phone, etc) last substantially longer than Apple unless you're buying an unbranded piece of junk.
You're missing the fact that we can see gender inequalities in this data. All of the disproportionate names for fitness instructors are female. Either there's much wider variance of male names for fitness instructors or there's terrible gender disparity in that profession.
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This will change over the next decade. James is correct, the costs are simply dropping too fast. The existing constituencies like IT departments with existing data centers will increasingly have a hard time justifying their budgets. This will become more true as new applications that are designed for a cloud environment are written. The only applications I have seen that are really cheaper are 100% CPU bound workloads and there aren't very many of those in real life.
I know that the FDA regulates prescription medication in that manner, but I don't think it has the same reach over things like food packaging, water bottles, dietary supplements, etc.
Plus seamless integration with everything else AWS.
And you are unable to see that you are simply starting to touch the line of madly imposing your opinion upon others. and Also doing both side of a conversation.

It is very easy to sit at home and be a arm-chair philosopher, and hope that the people in your circle are the all-there-is of the world.

In your opinion it is not possible for Muslims to have sensitivity about certain topics, that they would not like to be toyed around with. Cause that is against the concept of liberty perhaps?
So, like, the richer you are, the higher the probability that your first name is actually a last name.
Unfortunately Kimsufi / SoYouStart have a tendency of not always having servers available - either the kind you want or in DC you want.
Religious people tend to identify strongly with their religion, that is why this can happen.

But they fail to recognize that their religion, its rules and customs apply to them, the subscribers to that religion and not to the rest of the world.
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> Say Y only if you really know what you do.

Ah, yes, the "Take off every Zig" option.
$2M isn't really $2M. Spread it out over 4 years as $300k the first year, $400k the second, $500k the third, $800k the fourth. This is what's called 'golden handcuffs.'

If he truly believed RoomScan could be a massive success and the market was showing adoption, his expected value is much higher for sticking with RoomScan, especially as he had sold his last company and didn't /need/ a few extra hundred thousand dollars that year or the next year in order to be happy.
sh, ed, vi, grep, sed and such are all good examples. But, much smaller than TeX. Also, probably much less understood at the source level.

Linux is actually a good example. Of course, one of Torvalds' main drivers is "never break user space." Which is essentially the stability I am talking about here.

It is also a great example, in that it is also not written in a way that academia approves of. Is famous for this, actually. (Among many other points, of course.)

I'll have to look up Bernstein's bet.

And, you'd be surprised how many statically linked binaries from 20 years ago won't run on modern setups.
> Zeroed memory should not be particularly expensive on modern machines, because we have a lot of parallelism available to zero it off working threads.

It must be nice living a world where energy is free, you have unlimited cores and unbounded caches, and context switches, thread synchronisation and cache coherence have no cost or latency.

I'm not saying that reducing the number of cases with undefined behaviour isn't worth it in most cases, but claiming that you can just zero application memory at virtually no cost on a multicore is misguided.
EBS disks are far more durable (and convenient with S3 snapshots).
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There was a science thing several months ago about how one of the functions of sleep was to flush toxins from your brain. So you're not wrong?
I do agree people with French/"Posh" English names are probably more educated and contribute more to society based upon this poor correlation
I wrote a similar project a while back, you might be interested in checking out.

A friend and I implemented cookies, user login and database. However, I would recommend not using the SHA2 encryption method we used (we did it for fun not for security).

https://github.com/lettergram/neptune
There's just something wrong with a system when a "a third-year medical student and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute scholar" is considered "lowly status."

Years of innovative thinking from highly intelligent individuals wasted by tenured illusions of grandeur and beaten into institutional submission to serve the status quo...
SSD instance storage will always be significantly faster than EBS storage, even if SSD-backed. I'm disappointed that Amazon dropped it from their C4 offering.

For Elasticsearch, we use R3 (memory-optimized) instances which still have SSD instance storage. And boy is it ever fast.
It's not a "can do that" issue, it's that they always do it. I have multiple family members who Google (or Bing...) "Facebook.com login" every time they want to use Facebook...
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Dr. Stanley at UCF has taken this stuff to the next level especially with his HyperNEAT implementation http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/hyperNEATpage/
Pretty cool. Whats a use case for this tool?
The few times I've interviewed with Google (plain old job interviews, not as an acquisition or acqui-hire), they've always been pretty arrogant. Enough so that I wouldn't interview with them again if they contacted me. The attitude is clearly, "You're going to jump through our hoops and do what we say, because we're Google and we're totally awesome and we can take you or leave you."

I don't know if the guy in this story is really as bad ass and worth as much as he thinks he is, but the interaction with Google sounds spot on.
"Continuing down that road would lead to unimaginable stress, burn-out, probable heart disease, and a slow and steady descent into functional alcoholism. That’s not where we want to go."

I'm sold. Downloading now.
One way to use an ARM board inside a mechanical keyboard without a screen would be to use text-to--speech output through an earpiece, e.g. with the Speakup screen reader for Linux. But probably the only people who would want to use that are blind hackers. For that setup, a Raspberry Pi would probably be better than a BeagleBone Black, since the Pi has built-in analog audio output (though it's kind of crappy). I guess some of the Allwinner-based boards would work too.
Also the source of the data, e.g. is it influenced by geography?
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don't need it for the right thing

That's presuming you have all the relevant information, which is typically not the case in a larger organization.
This seems fairly easy to explain: Many given names are passed down through family lines, and many families pass on knowledge, habits, and even professions from generation to generation.

There are lots of common surnames that demonstrate this - Taylor, Cooper, Cobbler, Smith, and so on. Why not given names?
For a period I was heavily recruited by google. Their recruiters tried a great many variations of attempts to trick me into interviewing for a job. It seems weird that they would do this, because pretty soon, it would become obvious that it was a job interview and nothing more. Maybe there are a lot of talented engineers out there who are doing startups but aren't really committed to them and google manages via the fame of its name and wearing them down to convince them to give up and become employees.

I agree with this article's characterization of it as a scam, as they are pretending to be something they are not. This is manipulative and dishonest. What I experienced was less heinous but had the same elements- misrepresentation, name dropping, attempts at emotional manipulation with tone and timing (the first call being so dead, then enthusiastic in the second- very "HR recruiter", not corp dev.)

Worse, once I'd eventually figure out what was going on, and put one of them off of me, a few weeks later another would show up, with another variation.
> Why is not having stdout automatically an error condition?

In UNIX the file handle an opened file gets is the next available, lowest number. Closing stdout means that the program opens a file and it gets file handle 1 instead of a higher number. Then it writes something to stdout, which is an alias for file handle 1, but instead it writes to the opened file.

I believe this caused some security bugs in passwd or maybe su where you could run it without stderr and "Password:" would be written to the passwd file instead of stderr. ...but these specifics are beside the point, which is that it is next to impossible to anticipate the problems an unhandled error can create.

Java's checked exceptions can be annoying when you have to add some extra "throws X" or handle every case, but my experience is that I never had the slightest doubt over how a method could fail or what needed to be done to handle errors. For unchecked exceptions maybe you have a point, although their failure mode for unhandled errors is still to abort the program rather than to continue on with undefined behavior as in Go.
You should be aware though that integrating with AWS services that aren't also provided by AWS' competition, you're increasing the cost of switching away from AWS in the future.

I'm not saying don't do it, I'm just saying be aware that you may be making it harder for your company to change providers down the road.
You can also make your own EEG and train a classifier of your choice (heavily biasing the "do nothing" command) with sklearn or something. I've used off the shelf EEG's (emotiv epoc with the emokit library, there may be better options) to bind thought actions to moving a mouse, clicking, opening a web browser, but it was a bit noisy. I had to bind the act of clicking to the thought of a flavor, because it turned out I was thinking about "clicking" far before the mouse ever got to my intended destination. I didn't use it long enough to start thinking about the flavor before my mouse got there, but I'm curious if it would have turned into an arms race against my own mind eventually.
Good point. Some embedded environments will have different behavior. I don't recall what happened under MS DOS or if MS compiler provided an debug option.
There's no question that what you sacrifice in performance with EBS, you get back in easy durability. But if you design your persistence layer with replicated instances, you can have the performance of instance storage. You'll need to make backups yourself, so it is a bit of extra work over making EBS snapshots, but IMO the performance gains are well worth it.
There was no $2M. They never made a $2M offer. This wasn't even the people in Google that do acquisitions. This was a hiring manager and a HR recruiter tag teaming the guy and pretending like it was about acquisition in order to get him to take their call at a time when he was overloaded with interest from other parties.
Looks cool. Essentially an online key-value store.
" I would also consider the effects that knowledge of an explored-but-abandoned acquisition would have on your employees' motivation if they found out"

excellent point.
Nice improvements. But they seem only marginal. Yes, speed may have gone up by a certain factor (which has remained surprisingly stable in the last decade, or so it seems).

On the other hand, programming complexity has gone way up, while predictability of performance has been lost.
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One thing I fail to understand is the general reaction - or, rather, the absence of such - of 'Islamic authorities' on this and other acts of violence in the name of their religion. There are many complaints about those who point fingers at all Muslims when these things happen, something which would be easily defused by a fatwa (a legal opinion) from some high-placed muftis declaring such acts as 'haram' - sinful. I do not know enough about Islam to know whether there is something resembling 'excommunication' in the Roman Catholic church, but if there is it would make sense to apply it to those who commit such acts of violence. If the perpetrators can no longer claim to be defending their religion they might start to realise that their acts of violence are criminal acts, pure and simple, without any religious excuse.

Such a fatwa - or series of fatwas, as there are many currents in Islam - would take away the cause for the general blame which is aimed at Muslims when atrocities are performed in name of their religion.
Agree.
The moment you infected - you never know which closet the garbage hides the copy of itself in.

Burn everything and build afresh.

Hopefully lesson learned.
> In your opinion it is not possible for Muslims to have sensitivity about certain topics, that they would not like to be toyed around with.

You can have all the sensitivity you want but that stops at the point where you export your sensitivities to others in the form of either bodily harm or threats to do so.

> Cause that is against the concept of liberty perhaps?

Exactly so.

The liberty to express ones opinion even if that is uncomfortable for the recipient is a very strong right and religion is not exempt from this in France.

In some countries there are laws on the books that will get you punished severely if you should insult some religious entity but France is not one of those and those that chose to live in France should abide by its laws first, and not whatever code their religion imposes on them.
"I was in Syria before the war(~2006) and there was no patriarch-dominance"

I was in Syria in 2010, also before the war. I travelled around for a fortnight.

I completely disagree. It was an almost entirely patriarchal society. I can't even begin to comprehend how you came to any other conclusion. The dominance of men in positions of authority and in the social life of all the cities I visited, including Damascus and Aleppo, was overwhelming and blindingly obvious.

For example, how many women did you see in cafes without male escorts? How many officials did you interact with who were female? How many times did you see women shopping alone in Souks? I think my answer to that is "pretty much zero".

Damascus was definitely much more liberal than other places. I don't recall the same being true of Aleppo.

I agree, however, that the poverty wasn't too bad, compared to other countries.

Popular support for Al-Assad was complicated. It's hard to assess people's true feelings about a situation when they live partly in fear of the consequences of their criticism.
What was wrong with RapGenius? I actually like them. Simple idea executed well. I still use Genius regularly.
>It's getting a bit out of hand where every single statement online is now getting a [Citation Needed] afterwards

I wasn't asking if there was evidence just to be annoying, I was asking because the statement was exactly opposite of my expectation and I wanted to know if there was evidence to back it up.

My personal experience with charter schools is that it's where many parents "dump" kids that were either kicked or failed out of public school. This comes from many conversations I've had with a high-school teacher I've become good friends at that switched from teaching public school to charter school ~5 years ago. I admit my perspective is very narrow but was hoping there was actual data to support the chart-school-parents-more-involved statement.
North American here. Power banks are commonly available (ie, present in almost every electronics store), but I am one of the few people I know who regularly has one.

>10k mAh

Interesting choice of units.
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This reminds me of Ze Frank's An Invocation for Beginnings [1] which is all about starting something and the fear and anxiety that comes along with that. Definitely worth a watch.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYlCVwxoL_g
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Well, you're not right. Almost 2% of Arnolds is more than 0.5% of Shanes, no matter how much there're Arnolds and Shanes. If you take 100 Arnolds and 100 Shanes there will be (statistically) 2 Arnolds and "half of Shane".
Exactly, url-value storage :)
I know you're joking, but there are prison start ups, and JPay is a very successful one: http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/09/30/15761/prison-banke...
With my first two children, they took it at room temperature. Third was born in the winter and tap water was considerably colder and he wouldn't take it.

I would heat an exact amount of water for a specific time in the microwave to get a specific temperature. I started reducing the time in the microwave by one second a day and he never noticed.
EDIT2: OK folks we're smart, let's use MATH.

Take above quote, which compares "1.9% of Arnolds are accountants" to the "0.55% of Shanes [are accountants]". They're implying that the probability of being an accountant (J), given that ones name (N) is Arnold, is above the expected probability of being an accountant in general. So they're looking for a high P[J|N]/P[J].

Now compare with what we were expecting to see. We assumed the chart showed, for a given job, names which had a higher incidence than normal. i.e., we're looking for a high P[N|J]/P[N].

Guess what. P[J|N]/P[J]=P[N|J]/P[N] by Bayes' Theorem [1]. These are EXACTLY the same metric! So their technique, and the chart, is correct. (And my original post, below, was wrong.)

(Not saying anything about causation here, and I don't think they were either.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem

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Yes, that is completely backward. 99% of Arnolds could go into farming, yet still the 1% who go into accounting dominate that field, and hence show up on this chart.

EDIT: but you missed the first half of that quote: "In our sample of two and a half million people, a whopping 1.9% of Arnolds are accountants. Contrast that with just 0.55% of Shanes." So I think the quote is correct. Makes me wonder if their chart is backward. (i.e., they put "Arnold" under "Accountant" because Arnolds are likely to be accountants, not because accountants are likely to be Arnolds, as the grouping implies).