skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> DPR screwed up by running the largest drug trafficking system in the world.

Agreed and I understand that it was the government that linked his identities I think that while they may currently be the only one's able to do that today I don't trust that they anyone won't be able to do that in a few years time. Look at how old/bad/cracked encryption can be decrypted in hours on even your parent's desktop computer and how things thought secure just years ago can be cracked with supercomputers or cloud computing today.
Deferred functions can pass along errors by using a closure.
http://play.golang.org/p/_ZqSk470-b
I assume pdabbadabba meant "sold as a good".
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Looks good! For me, since this appears to be a desktop/ laptop dashboard (versus mobile let's say), I wouldn't I have much need in knowing how much data I was using. Unlike my capped mobile plan, at least in the US, there are no data caps and as such, the tracking of this kind of information serves no purpose beyond personal reasons (e.g. "Wow, I spend a lot of time on YouTube.")
I agree! My success rate at trying to split changes into two compilable commits is probably like 50%.

Unfortunately, I don't think stashing helps much either. It's still too cumbersome to stash only some changes. If you're successful on the first shot, awesome. But much like the partial commit case, if the changes you left unstashed don't actually compile or pass tests, adjusting the partition between the changes to commit and not to commit is still a huge pain.
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She reminds me of those idiots on Tumblr who constantly utter the phrase trigger warnings.
I think there needs to be a more substantial karma gate to downvoting (10 000+), I'd be fine with falling out of that category myself. I've only been interacting on HN for the past year or so, but lurked for several years prior: the community has been becoming a lot more "redditish."

I nearly always agree or can be convinced by the higher karma users, but the fresh users seem to be defaulting to reddit-level arguments (uneducated, immutable beliefs, hyperbole, taking things personally, no objectivity). I.e.

> just that everyone who doesn't run a mail server hasn't had to deal with this shit

"Everyone" in that sentence should not have the right to be downvoting in the first place.
Do a bing/google search for " eu-court-rules-e-books-are-services-not-goods-1425552050 " and link from there
I remember King's Quest 3 had a bunch of spells and/or potions you needed to use to win the game that required precisely worded commands, and they were only included in the physical manual.
He does create a work email account for his employees. He doesn't want to force them to use a separate email client so he allows his employees to set up forwarding from his server to their personal gmail account. They can use his smtp server from gmail for sending stuff out so they get to use both their personal and work email from the same interface.
I'd definitely make Lisp Mad-Eye Moody, terse, and complex, but quite powerful.
Built a get-off-appengine project last year - amazing how bad and expensive that PaaS is...
Ex. large standard deviation wide bell curve would mean there is a major disparity among the understanding of a concept for developers that use the site. A small standard deviation and tight bell curve would represent a more consistent understanding level among the sample population. I am assuming time being the main metric. You could also use the code quality as a metric also.
Once upon a time writers actually took the time to investigate their "tools", like flying to Hawaii and sitting down with a psychologist in a small cafe and going over the numbers if you must.

Not everyone is in a New York state of mind. Once you Once Upon a time it speaks to narrowness.
That makes sense from a pedagogical perspective. It's a lot like exercise though, if you're Arnold Schwarzenegger, you are not going to make sweet gains from writing a for loop.

You'll need to find people at your skill level to go against and this presents a barrier for a lot of us at step one.
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i think the true best thing is to just build your own engine from the ground up in openGL. it's labor intensive. and it's not what you should do if you want to make a game. but, every graphics programmer has an engine. and it is never finished. it's a lifetime project that you can continously keep building, refactoring, and adding onto to learn new things.

the only real way to learn programming is by doing. no amount of reading can really burn knowledge into your brain. by implementing things like model->world->camera space transforms, quaternion rotation, shadow mapping, lightmaps, deferred rendering, etc yourself, you will end up intuitively understanding them.
What made Go click for me is a simple realization: it's a language made by systems people, not by PL researchers.

Everything makes sense after that. The language in isolation is boring and perhaps even anachronistic: a modern ALGOL dialect with first-class green threads.

But as many people have said, the tooling and the libraries are simply top-notch. This is unsurprising: the people behind Go all have experience with things such as Research Unix, Plan 9 and just infrastructure in general. They've been instrumental in shaping up the lower level workings of our present systems, so they're intimately aware of those aspects. 9P, Acme, rio, the Acid debugger, the Plan 9 compiler collection... among other tools, reflect that their brilliance is in engineering rather than science.

But more importantly: these people are experts in managing complexity and integrating things. Thus, in isolation, Go's components look bland and uninteresting. Cumulatively, they form a unique experience. Hence why Go has such a strong culture of "pragmatism" that a lot of PL geeks scoff at.

So I've pretty much stopped thinking of Go the language, but rather Go the toolchain.
Great post highlighting what you learned from the AlterConf, as well as sharing some of those stories of the presenters. This resonates me in a couple ways, at least, immediately in my mind:

1. Dr. Cox's story... My business school recently appointed a new dean who is a black woman. She's the first dean of a Top 20 program, and one that created all sorts of ripples for her, the business school (and greater university), alumni, etc. Can't say that Dr. Cox and the new Dean share similar stories, but there was much ado about her being a black woman. Perhaps that's a good thing, though, when it comes to opening the door for openness later.

2. Being an Asian male, there are some annoying stereotypes. I was thinking about this the other day how I don't feel there are powerful Asian male or female role models. Also, there's this cultural norm for being a little "quieter". When you bake all these ideas (and others) together, there seems to be a lack of "power" and respect given to Asian groups. So much so, that I feel it also creates associations and clubs that aren't as vocal or "extroverted" as other organizations like the NAACP or insert any number of Women's groups. Smart? Sure. Strong? Not so much. I think the new show "Fresh Off the Boat" is trying to put an Asian family in the spotlight, but even then, it feels... weak. As in, the dad seems so shy and quiet... good father, hard working, but there isn't this feeling of strong like other characters in other shows. Maybe I'm reaching for too much for a single show, but it'd be great to have stronger Asian role models. At the end of the day, it feels as if many Asians don't actually relate or band together into a stronger "coalition".
> I'm just starting to believe that the damage of so many false positives to avoid the occasional false negative may be harming the industry more than we realize.

I think you have "false positive" and "false negative" backwards, but I agree with your point. I have long thought that the industry systematically understates the damage of false negatives and overstates the damage of false positives.

If you are hiring, it fits one of two broad categories: catch as catch can, or specific need. In a catch as catch can situation, the "always hiring" mode, the company can afford to place more emphasis on minimizing the false positive rate at the expense of the false negative rate because the desire is to skim the cream off the top of the applicant pool as it comes to you. The company doesn't need new people per se; it finds slots for these highly-capable people somewhere in the company after the hire is made.

In the specific need situation, the company is hiring to fill a hole. Either work is not getting done, or other people are overburdened with the responsibilities this new hire will take on. In this case, every day that passes costs the company in some way. The cost of a false negative is related to the quality and size of the applicant pipeline. A false negative could add anywhere from a few days, if the company has a strong pipeline, to a few months, if the company has a weak pipeline, to the timeline for filling this position. The "false negatives are cheap" position comes from the former, but I would say that very few companies actually have an applicant pipeline that strong. Furthermore, if you can go months without filling a position and not suffer any ill effects, you need to ask yourself why you are looking for someone in the first place.
You're assuming the inhabitants consider the cats to be a problem.
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> Judging from her "I wouldn't make jokes if I had kids" comment

That comment really hit me too when I first read it. Because I have kids and I would make jokes like that. I thought it was insensitive.

But then I tried to see things from her point of view and maybe I wouldn't feel so bad about Hank. He got a new job quickly, he didn't get death threats.

And maybe she doesn't have kids, so she's just spouting off some opinion about how you should behave as a parent without really knowing. But so what? Why should we be so angry about this and vilify her?

I think much of the anger directed at Adria in this thread is irrational — our feelings are telling us to make this a big deal when it isn't, the problem is elsewhere.
I always hate reading things like this because I find myself saying things like, "Oh, just like me," ---even if I read a similar article with opposite findings the day before. Then I point out to myself my biases, and feel bad for, basically, being human.

Back to work.
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Then surely it should fall into the same category as a other gifts?
I have been running my own SMTP server for about 25 years. I finally decided, in the last month or so, that it just wasn't worth the effort involved in handling spam and anti-spam stuff -- not only from Google, but from other providers who are so worried about spam that they falsely tag all sorts of stuff as spam. I found that accurate configuration and maintenance, including of SPF and DKIM, wasn't worth my time and effort.

And so, I have now moved my e-mail to Rackspace. I had to use their chat-based support several times while migrating my e-mail to the new server, and it was truly fantastic. On that point alone, I feel fortunate.

The $20/month I'm paying Rackspace is a pittance compared to the time and effort I was spending trying to keep my old SMTP/IMAP servers secure, as well as the false-spam tagging that happened all-too-often.

It sounds like jwz wants to have his cake and eat it too, and I sympathize. But I'm not sure that it's possible any more to spend a non-trivial amount of time configuring e-mail servers, tinkering with them such that they'll work with big companies (and especially Google). The Internet is no longer the simple, fun playground that we old-timers remember, and that effectively means giving control over some services to people who are paid full-time salaries to take care of these inter-connectivity issues.
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From the context of the statement, I think the thesis is that Fog Creek's process increases the probability that mediocre developers will apply.
Exactly. You do not know but facebook if you know who he is.
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He and Rob Pike have written a few books together, that's likely the main connection.

I follow the Go community fairly closely and hadn't heard of Kernighan in connection with Go, but he may also not be advertising his use of it.
You'd think .gov, of all TLDs, would have a lower spam score.
He doesn't use them. His employees chose to forward their email because they want to use the same interface for both their work and personal email. He does host @dnalounge.com inboxes.
UC-Berkeley has enough Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners that they're the only ones that get free parking[1][2].

Some of the smartest people in the world are also at Stanford, NASA Ames, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and similar organizations.

[1]: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1138832...
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_affilia...
I had the same experience.

Who makes a saison near washington, dc?

Watson: Wikipedia on low alcohol beer

Google: 1) Washington Capitols schedule
2) Atlas Brew Works (they make a saison in DC)
do you think non-DRM'd ebooks will be seen as goods? Being digital, I can lend it or resell it but I would still own a copy, so how can that be a good?
Hi. Some other readers offer HTTPS, but still make requests to third-party sites for images over insecure connections.
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In this case, the problem is more subtle & interesting than the usual correlation!=causation issues, and I owe it to the psychologist Paul Meehl: matching methods have the problem that when you match groups on some observed variables but different outcomes, you're guaranteeing they will be very weird in unknown ways.

His example was kids, schooling, and IQ; to 'control for' IQ you might try to compare kids with bad grades & high IQ with some other kids with good grades & high IQ, in order to find the effect of schooling on some outcome like crime. Except... kids with high IQ should have good grades; so why does that first group have bad grades? Why are they weird like that? What's going on? Do they have some sort of severe home problem? Emerging mental health issues? Systematic personality differences? You may well find that having 'controlled for' IQ, the kids with bad grades are more likely to be jailed and conclude that schooling helps prevent crime... but what have you really found?

In this case, what the researchers have found is that twins are powerfully locked together in terms of health outcomes, body types, diets, and exercise tolerance/preference, so locked together that they have to scour millions of people to turn up a handful of twin pairs. These twin pairs are 'matched' on genetics/upbringing (IQ), but not matched on exercise (grades), and so one gets health outcomes (jailing) 'controlling for' genetics/upbringing... so one concludes exercise helps prevent worse health... but what have you really found?

(At least, I think this is what Paul Meehl was talking about in http://www.mcps.umn.edu/assets/pdf/4.13_Meehl.pdf "Nuisance Variables and the Ex Post Facto Design", 1969, in _Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science: Vol. IV. Analyses of theories and methods of physics and psychology_ - that paper is unusually opaque for Meehl, and I'm not sure I understand it.)
What would the cops or an ambulance do in this situation?
Near Stuttgart, prices are around 1000€/day (+/-500€, depending on the experience), billed by quarter-day increments.
I've always been strangely intrigued by these old-school copy protection systems. It was interesting so see all the novel ideas the companies would come up with. I especially remember playing around with those code-wheels when I was a kid.

Here's an entertaining little video with a bit more information on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjEbpMgiL7U
I'm not hurt in the slightest.

To paraphrase: Your opinion is meaningless to me.
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> There are no "farms" in NYC.

Yes there is a farm in NYC, it's called Added Value Community Farm located in Red Hook Brooklyn and it grows "12 tons of fresh produce" annually.[0]

> They ship it [t]o a garden in Red Hook.

No, they deliver it via cargo bike to the FARM (see above) in Red Hook.[1]

> And let us hope this apparent "farm" doesn't use the polluted soil of that region.

No, they don't use polluted soil they use compost. "At peak performance, the program processes over 225 tons/year of organic material."[2]

> I've seen enthusiastic people growing vegetables in open fields in Williamsburg. That is a superfund site!

Williamsburg is not Red Hook, we are discussing how Etsy delivers their compost to the farm in Red Hook. I encourage you to come take a look first hand at the farm in Red Hook and see how they actually grow produce.

> Farming is hard, thankless work that entails high risk. What they do in Brooklyn is not farming. It is gardening.

Again, let's talk specifics. Yes there are rooftop gardens in Brooklyn, yes they are gardens, but let's not lose the forest in the trees.

Is there a farm in Brooklyn? YES. Does Etsy deliver compost to it? YES. Do I encourage you to visit the farm and maybe volunteer to see how hard, thankless work it is that empowers youth in the area? YES!

Before you get negative on HN and spew a bunch of unsubstantiated "facts" do a little search to find out that yes it is possible to have an urban FARM that has the data to back up the fact that it is a FARM not a garden.

[0] http://added-value.org/accomplishments

[1] https://blog.etsy.com/news/2012/office-ecology-composting-at...

[2] http://www.added-value.org/composting-initiative
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> The fact that Fog Creek has 0% gender diversity is evidence of this

No it's not. Do the math - at the rate of women in the application pool, and the total number of devs Fog Creek has ever hired, it would actually be fairly surprising if they'd ever hired a woman. The internship program, on the other hand (larger sample size) runs at more or less the expected rate, if memory serves.

This seems to make it pretty clear that the applicant pool is the problem, no?
The factor is that they invest in people. They went as far as to accept applications of people with no idea at all a few years ago (they went back on that).

But I agree with you that a alfa stage built product tell more about a person capacity for execution than a good performance on a 10 minute interview. But maybe, both should be rejected.
I wouldn't recommend doing this.

What does your target salary have to do with the value of your work?
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If so, it seems like an uncharacteristically clunky way of doing it -- sure, clickthrough rate has a some effect on PageRank, for example, but there's a ton of content-based filtering going on too. I don't really want my spam folder full of false-positives because folks don't want to unsubscribe from things.
He wants to enforce a @dnalounge.com for all internal emails rule, but have the underlying tech be more flexible.

Actually, makes sense, because he can then save those emails on the server, back them up, and they'll be in his control if an employee ever leaves. It's good corporate policy. I believe the White House is having a similar conversation lately.
Based on my experience working with a number of companies (n > 15) on onboarding flows, Email + Facebook signup (on the same form) is the most effective. This is trailed only slightly by offering only email signup. Most companies that offer Email + Facebook (on the same form) see a 70/30 split favoring email.

I don't understand why any developer would use FB anonymous login when you can just use email which is equally as effective.
Why does the author say "memory" when he means "disk space"? Or does he actually mean "memory", as in "RAM"? In that case, why would the size of the executable matter?
We (www.gapjumpers.me) are trying to solve the gender diversity issue in tech by using blind auditions as a first filter. Our data shows that blind auditions result in greater diversity numbers.

By using a technical challenge as the first step and fast forwarding people to an advanced interview stage, we're eliminating candidate reluctance and increasing transparency (the candidate interacts directly with the hiring manager through our platform).

In our experience, telling the candidate "Show us your skills, impress us, and you'll get an interview" is better than "Tune up your resume to pass every possible filter". Showing your skills early on also removes a lot of stress from the candidate and gives you something solid to talk about during the interview.

Edit:Our homepage shows some numbers and case studies are available on request: http://www.gapjumpers.me/#genderResults
definitely--it would be great if we could spend more time on interviews.

the tradeoff we make for very quick evaluations is that we are able to look at every company that wants to be part of YC with no introduction or connection to us whatsoever.
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And how do you know you're not pinning the MTIM cert?
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I would not recommend this. Amazon emails can be unsubscribed. And they are not really spam, they are not coming unsolicited, aren't they?
My intention is the application to provide developers with the possibility to go on a higher level. For example:

- Level 1: Beginners (really basic concepts, just explanation of the syntax)
- Level 2: Intermediate (more complex tasks, that would require developers to combine several basic concepts)
- Level 3: Master (where developers will have to be really skillful and the tasts would be much more complicated)

My idea is when someone is just starting to make him fail fast so gets over the fear of failure and just starts writing code and learning from others.
This is somewhat relevant, yes, but I don't think anyone here is/was laughing. We can see the oncoming juggernaut, but there's little we can do about it.
Netflix just didn't want to pay more money to ISPs. It didn't want the extra regulations that would come with giving the FCC more power over the internet.
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Not to hijack the thread, but: what are typical rates for Machine Learning freelancing gigs?
I'd be okay if it just said "usability testing". In my company that's just a part of the testing phase. But no way I'm just going to grab someone walking down the hall. I assume people are busy enough.
The argument is:

> The Court points out, first of all, that a reduced rate of VAT can apply only to supplies of goods and services covered by Annex III to the VAT Directive. That annex refers in particular to the ‘supply of books ... on all physical means of support’. The Court concludes that the reduced rate of VAT is applicable to a transaction consisting of the supply of a book found on a physical medium. While admittedly, in order to be able to read an electronic book, physical support (such as a computer) is
required, such support is not included in the supply of electronic books, meaning that Annex III does not include the supply of such books within its scope.
Moreover, the Court finds that the VAT Directive excludes any possibility of a reduced VAT rate being applied to ‘electronically supplied services’. The Court holds that the supply of electronic books is such a service. The Court rejects the argument that the supply of electronic books constitutes a supply of goods (and not a supply of services). Only the physical support enabling an
electronic book to be read could qualify as ‘tangible property’ but such support is not part of the supply of electronic books.