skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work as a digital marketing analyst (think Google Analytics). While reading this piece, I find myself nodding and agreeing with 90% of it. As it turns out, the way that decision-makers incorporate data and expert opinion doesn't change when whether they're in charge of $10k ad budgets, or ten-year occupations of a foreign country.

Some observations of my own, that I can see echoes of in this paper:

Decision-makers have a mental model where analysts' job is to synthesize facts and provide them, and it is the job of the decision-makers themselves to put the facts together into a big picture and/or plan of action. This is generally a poor set-up. Firstly, "facts" with any certainty are thin on the ground, there's only inferences from small spots of data in between clouds of blind spots. Secondly, the analysts have more experience with the trends that they study, and often more training in how to incorporate them into a big picture. Most managers will say "I want all the data," but if you give them what they ask for, they will most often draw incorrect conclusions. You have to spoon-feed them, even though neither party particular wants that.

People don't understand the limits of data, and they sure as heck don't understand uncertainty. If you make 100 predictions, and are 99% sure about all of them, then on average one will be untrue. And all you'll ever hear about was that you were 99% sure and were wrong. In my job, there's actually a consideration about not providing data that we don't totally trust (as opposed to providing with caveats), because a single data point that's wrong erodes trust in data in general. It sounds like that's not an option to the CIA: if they're tasked with a question, they must provide an answer (which is a problem itself).

We've found that if we our client to use our analysis, we actually need to write it with his audience in mind. We literally write it with the design goal that the client be able to copy-paste our words or graphs into his own deliverable. Because that is literally what will happen. The more effort it is for the client to consume our work, the more likely they are to save themselves the time and ignore it. And as bad as that is, it's also probably the best way. If the client re-words things, he may misunderstand things. Encouraging plagiarism cuts down on the game of telephone.
I stopped reading the article when I got to this point:

"In the QWERTY code, there are numerous references to cricket, a sport that enjoys extreme popularity in the Commonwealth."

In the immortal words of John McEnroe, "YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!?"
You can't be innovative on the full stack. But you need to be innovative somewhere, otherwise your company will fail just like your predecessors (there are predecessors who failed in your space, right?)

Know what your USP is, and use technology to achieve that. Sometimes new technology lets you do things that simply wouldn't be possible otherwise (I spend a lot of my professional life cursing Spark, but the whole business is built on dealing with a volume of data that simply couldn't be processed without it). For other companies, the technology can be your "edge"; if it's a mature market with established competitors, being more willing to push the technological envelope could be the thing that lets you offer lower prices and higher quality; a couple of my previous employers have succeeded by doing exactly that, in relatively "boring" industries.

But if you've got an innovative, experimental business model, you probably don't need innovative, experimental technology as well (and vice versa). Know which parts of your business are the innovation, and which parts are commodity.
I don't understand why people say that's the easiest way to do it. You can just run `cc` in a terminal and a dialog will pop up prompting you to install it.
You're implying Greece did take Euro money without any intention to repay other countries. The reality is much more nuanced.

Greek did take part of a fund destined to boost their economy, like Western european countries with the US's Marshall Plan. Whether the investments made with this money were profitable or not it's up to debate, but the end game (as for Spain, Portugal and Italy) always were to improve the greek economy and middle class in order to strenghten the overall euro economy.

Now that the "southern" euro countries are in deep financial troubles, Euro bons were lended to them, not donated. Thoses bonds has to be repayed fully, but without sucking dry the Greek economy or burdening it for too long (western countries have a rap sheet of taking advantage of African countries in debt).

Please do not mistake Greeks for their representatives.
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> "... as long as a majority of people agree to them ..."

That requires that people are informed and able to comprehend the ramifications of their choices. Consider this: Is it still democratic if those who happen to be in charge are busy lying to and hoodwinking a poorly informed 'electorate'?

As for the rest of your comment, it is not democracy simply because a majority agree it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
Everyone in this thread needs to take a step back from the technical merits of the card itself. This is an issue of deceptive advertising and every buyer of the card should report it as such.

Take this for example. You go to the store and buy 1 pound of lean ground beef. You cook it, eat it, and it tastes great. A day later you find out that your beef was actually 90% beef and 10% horse. Were you harmed?, No. Is this a deceptive practice?, Yes.

Customers in the U.S. should contact the FTC and in the U.K. the ASA so the manufacture can be investigated and appropriately fined.
My thoughts are that Twitter is already a niche, and this feels like even more of one.
"What's the long-sighted alternative?"

StackOverflow's primary income source is Stack Overflow Careers.
It doesn't matter nearly as much as having a finished (if technically non-optimal) product/service you can sell to customers.

The latest hipster crap is more likely to waste your time than something old and established, but even then, choice-of-stack matters much less than 'Can we finish this, and does anyone want to buy it if we do?'

The basic open source problem is that developing code for a 'Show HN' slot or improving imaginary GitHub karma is not the same as building a viable business idea around a web and/or mobile service.

There is no GitHub for business models. The ultimate karma comes from customers.
More data, less accuracy
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That's not "furthermore". chain/value also exists in underscore.

Also your code was broken in Lodash 2 (it'd return a lodash object, not a list) and is more broken in Lodash 3 (chains are now lazy), so your code does just about nothing until you force the iterator's evaluation)
Amazingly enough, that may actually be good for you. Why? Most likely, she didn't really care about the health aspects of it, had those in social events (the vodka martinis) and enjoyed more stress-free eating that folks nowadays.

I don't promote unhealthy eating, but between unhealthy eaten care free lifestyle or health obsessed, stressed everything gives you cancer lifestyle, I believe the former will be better.
What you've posted is idealist but unrealistic and poorly considered imo, especially if you have been following Turkish politics lately. facebook in the West is a lot of people posting funny cat pictures but in a place like Turkey it can be one of the few methods for the Western-leaning Turks to organize and communicate.

I would suggest you read up on the Iranian revolution against the Shah. Your suggestion is exactly what the Shah did on behest of the UK and USA: he came down real hard on the pro-democracy cosmopolitan youth breaking up their meetings and demonstrations. Meanwhile the hardline religious zealots could still go to mosque and organize themselves there. End result: the sort of people we might like to support in Iran were marginalized and the Ayatollah seized power. You're suggesting a similar course of action and I would predict a similar outcome.
Oh, it's pretty bad. Using masculine gendered pronouns in that way steals individual identity from an entire sex! Unambiguously misandrist. Until it recently became fairly common to use feminine pronouns in the same way, "she" was always a particular person, while "he" may not be. I'm so glad the uncertainty and loss of self is now shared at least in part by both sexes, but we still have a long way to go to equality. </sarcasm>

(Seriously, please use third person plural for this—I still trip over feminine indeterminate pronouns thinking I've missed who in particular we're talking about. Third person plural has a long history of serving this purpose, embrace it.)
Fully agree.

This is why on many projects I am responsible for, the team has to provide a business value for the customer for new technology.

What it means in terms of $$$ for the customer to have the project adopt technology X.

If it improves the revenue then sure, if it is only for playing with new tech, then do it at home.
"soak the pasta in cold water for a couple hours"

What's new about that? Even my grandmother used this technique as long as I can remember. That also works with rice, buckwheat, green peas, beans or pretty much any grain and seeds that are highly dehydrated.
Opera and the newly released Vivaldi also works, but they are based on chromium/blink engines so.
People who've made bad technological choices and then claiming "technology doesn't matter" just because they fucked up are about as annoying as people who always want to use the latest new shiny toys.

You just made the wrong choices at the wrong time for the wrong reasons. Period.

That doesn't say fuck all about the next guy who may have perfectly good reasons to either choose the next new bleeding edge shiny or go with tried and proven old tech.

The final sentence is the worst advice possible. Never, ever stop experimenting. Just properly separate experimenting from building.

And please stop lecturing other people because you can't keep that shit apart.
It is the sport. The references they are referring to in the article include things like LEGSPIN.
There is a third-party service called GroupTweet that has been doing something similar for years... http://www.grouptweet.com

Curious how this will affect their service.
I would not discard choosing a "new" technology (term "new" gets a little ambiguous here), especially if it's been around for a few years and preliminary research into it shows promise in regards to my project. I've seen too many companies failing projects because of "When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" situation.
He started a blog about his experiences at Valve [1], but stopped shortly after starting it. I was a bit disappointed, because the posts were very well written and insightful. I'd guess now he really has no time for it.

[1]: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/
So are they trying to be Whatsapp, only with a character limit?
You can embed the daemon into your application.

That sentence is missing an important word. No centralized brokers, meaning the typical/recommended deployment topology is an nsqd node on all hosts producing messages.
What do you mean they disabled ctrl+tab in chrome? I use it all the time!
That was Cyber Caliphate, not Lizard Squad.
I won't be using Angular for my next project and neither should you
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I understand the challenges, they are similar to those faced by the adult ADHD community. Less than 1/5 of adults with ADHD are being treated.

Our society puts so many negative connotations on the use of drugs to address mental deficiencies that even after learning how much they could help, we hesitate for fear of the peer pressure and social stigma of "popping pills" in favor of "shut up and man up".

> We're hoping that Pacifica can help bridge that gap, ideally helping people find the care that they really need.

Great! Might I recommend using your app to provide advice on how to approach discussing this issue with their GP, or even giving links to professionals in their area? Or even provide a "doctor's view" which can be passed to your GP to assist in their diagnosis?

I make these suggestions because the emphasis on the word "privately" across your website concerns me. It seems to re-enforce the negative mindset of "this is your problem, don't bother anybody else" that I saw so profoundly affect my wife.
Whether they originated it, though, is the crux of the issue. Nobody doubts that government agencies undertake cyberwarfare. But the idea that they might have created something that is now being used by nongovernmental parties is the scary thing - it's like saying that the Army lost a cache of weapons now being used by ISIS. (Which itself is true [1], but that's another story.)

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-captured-a-key-syrian-ai...
> Is it really that impossible to believe that someone would just prefer gendered pronouns for stylistic reasons?

This kind of preference is completely believable, but I'm afraid it's also a little bit sexist.

I sort of see where you are coming from ("it's just an opinion!"), but it's the awareness of the impact this has on others that is the key thing in judging whether it's a big deal.

It's a little like saying "why can't I just have pictures of white people in all of our marketing materials for stylistic reasons?". If you do this, then you're implying that the other not-included group do not belong there in some way. This creates a very unpleasant feeling of 'otherness' for those who are not part of that group. This is very easy to overlook if (like me) you are a white male and have never been put in that position. It's a little like the awkwardness of being at a cocktail party where you don't know anyone, which is not a good social environment to be creating for others at work.

Should be a fireable offence? Sadly, there are lots of opinions that can cause distress to others when publicly expressed. Not being able to identify them and subsequently causing damage to your relationships with coworkers and to the company culture is a sign of incompetence. I think this should be a fireable offences for that reason.
They do have to be a little careful that the publishers aren't selling the same book on the same site (thus competing with their clients directly).

In which case they'd have to figure out how to look for "related" content to sell. However affiliate programs like Amazon's for one example definitely seems like a good suggestion.
Ignoring all the other things that affect cancer rates, a difference between Argentinian and American beef does come time mind: I believe that grass fed beef is still the norm in Argentina, whereas most US beef is grain fed.
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You can use averages in your area as a baseline, weighing more heavily towards any startups of a similar nature.

You can also do a sensitivity analysis and determine what the room for error is in those quantities.

Startups are a form of speculation, you shouldn't expect the same sort of certainty that you'd get from wage labor.
> What about security fixes? Or secure coding practices? How do those fit in?

I suspect that, sad as it is, a profit-making business probably shouldn't spend much effort on those - the financial cost/benefit is pretty poor. Customers are overwhelmingly indifferent to being hacked.
Most of that is just culture blindness. Saying all Goth’s look alike is basically saying that all opera’s sound alike.

Objectively clowns costumes have a lot more verity than suits. However, for someone that knows suits they can be rather expressive. That same person might group a clown as 'other' and not bother to parse it past, wig, face paint, and bright clothing.
I think the title to this should've been something more descriptive like "Google willing to accept Chrome Sidebar API patches" as that seems to be the main reason it was reopened.
Storing mental health data in the cloud with a random "startup" type company sounds like it would cause more anxiety than the app could possibly solve. If it doesn't, it should.

What an awful idea. I can't help but wonder what their goal is with the data they're collecting via this app.
Oh, no, the skin is quite edible. Fry it until it's suitably hard and crispy, and you have a delicious snack.
I've seen enough information that I believe it's worth noting glycine and lysine and tryptophan intake for this reason. The problem with muscle meat, ignoring the claims of the article under discussion, is far too much tryptophan and not enough glycine. This is well demonstrated to be inflammatory. Any historically normal consumption of muscle meat would have been accompanied by large amounts of collagen and organs, which appropriately balances the amino acid ratios.

So I make a point of eating more gelatin and shellfish in preference to isolated servings of muscle meat.
As much as I love the Stack Exchange sites, I also have occasional complaints about moderation. Our stuff (Webmin and Virtualmin; which whether one likes GUIs for sysadmin tasks or not, is downloaded 3 million and several hundred thousand times a year, respectively, and so is a very real part of sysadmin infrastructure in a lot of places) gets asked about occasionally, and no matter where it is asked, including on Server Fault (about system administration) there will often be a mod saying it is off-topic. Not sure what their bone to pick there is, but I don't really hold a grudge. I'd just as soon folks come to our sites or mailing lists to ask questions, anyway. It's just an odd thing some mods do.
The new deal resolved differences over the liability of suppliers to India in the event of a nuclear accident and U.S. demands on tracking the whereabouts of material supplied to the country.

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." --Winston Churchill
Man do you have instructions on that Windows setup for node? I looked around for them the other day when something I was trying to installed failed miserably and found nothing.

I might just be missing something obvious...
I won't address each individual issue, but this comes across as a bit unsubstantiated. Here are the first two, the rest slowly turn a little crazier down the list.

The Iraq war has not killed over a million people by almost any estimate. Actual body counts are around 100,000 and most estimates place it around 500,000 for all lives lost. This is not explicit in deaths caused by American troops.

Snowden, Manning and all are not always looked at in the same light as some see it. Not all state secrets are inherently bad.
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As someone that probably comes close to fitting the bill, here are the reasons I wouldn't apply.

1. You're in NYC, where everyone is currently getting obliterated by snow. For positions like this you should hire in spring or summer if you want to attract a candidate from warmer climates.

2. You want someone who can put in the hours of a 20-something but has the experience of a 40-something. To me, that says the management team wants to hire 2-3 people for the price of one. These expectations simply aren't realistic and anyone brought in will fail in one capacity or the other.

3. The company raised or earned enough to hire you to hire for this postion. So clearly they had someone fulfilling this role but it hasn't worked out. That implies a lot of interpersonal conflict on the management team (all too common in startups).

I think if you start with hiring a VP level and focus on hiring a manager first, you will be better off. Who ever comes in should expect to promote from within and/or hire externally quickly.
The management team needs to heavily involved in selling a prospective candidate on the role to alleviate any concerns about the interpersonal conflict.
This is a great question. Technically, we don't store Protected Health Information ("Personal health information (PHI), also referred to as protected health information, generally refers to demographic information, medical history, test and laboratory results, insurance information and other data that is collected by a health care professional to identify an individual and determine appropriate care."). Everything is self-reported in Pacifica.

That said, we treat our data as if it were PHI. We have a Business Associates Agreement signed with AWS, and take all of the precautions they require for an app that would claim it is HIPAA compliant. Technically, we could claim that we are HIPAA compliant, as we don't store PHI. But we didn't want to say that just for the sake of saying that.

The bigger question, in my mind, is about whether or not a situation would arise as you mention. The FDA recently provided a little more clarity on some of this (http://mobihealthnews.com/39775/fda-clarifies-the-line-betwe...). Specifically, Pacifica seems to fall outside regulation as it "Claims to promote relaxation or manage stress when there is no reference to anxiety disorders or other reference to a disease or condition." We try to be pretty careful about the language that we use. We don't mention things like Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, OCD, etc.

The truth is that it still seems like a grey area. That same article mentions that we should not claim that we treat anxiety if we want to stay unregulated. I think that we're on the fence here. In the future, we will go after FDA clearance in any case. We just need the means to do so.
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I'm looking at chrome with a title bar full of tabs. If I want to move the whole browser I have several places to grab the title bar. Additionally, from a sample size of one I find that selecting tabs happens with a far greater frequency than moving the window. Generally the widow is maximized on one display and I simply Alt-Tab to other windows.
Varoufakis wrote a blog post two years ago on the history of political economic thought on the firm. It also delves into Valve's unique management culture [1].

"There is one last bastion of economic activity that proved remarkably resistant to the triumph of the market: firms, companies and, later, corporations. Think about it: market-societies, or capitalism, are synonymous with firms, companies, corporations. And yet, quite paradoxically, firms can be thought of as market-free zones. Within their realm, firms (like societies) allocate scarce resources (between different productive activities and processes). Nevertheless they do so by means of some non-price, more often than not hierarchical, mechanism!

...

Many enlightened corporations do a song and dance about their readiness to let employees allocate 10% or even 20% of their working time on projects of their choosing. Valve differs in that it insists that its employees allocate 100% of their time on projects of their choosing. 100% is a radical number! It means that Valve operates without a system of command. In other words, it seeks to achieve order not via fiat, command or hierarchy but, instead, spontaneously."

[1] http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-d...
While I agree with the content, this is another one of those misleading titles. As the author comes to reveal over the course of his post, the technology absolutely matters. Using a technology because it is cool and not because it is the best fit for the problem will lead to failure as surely as using the wrong material in a construction project will cause a build-out to fail.

The other point he makes is use what you know, or get people who have the necessary knowledge. Knowledge matters more than technology, but technology matters.
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