skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Playing devils advocate, maybe the students were being rational, but based their reaction on the information at their disposal. I taught college once, and observed that students make rational and sophisticated decisions based on what grades they expect to receive from their courses. They are also justifiably insecure about their math skills.

They have to decide under time pressure whether this is a good teacher or a bad one, easy grader or hard, fair or unfair, etc. The students have to combine what they know about the mechanics of the grading scale, with their own internal information about whether they trust this guy -- especially if it's before the deadline for dropping the class. Introducing an unorthodox or weird grading scale could influence this judgment. The students may have a rational interest in nudging teachers towards a more favorable grading system.

I have a couple of major misgivings about psycho-economics. First, any empirical failure of theory could be blamed on irrational behavior, when the theory itself is wrong for other reasons. We might just not be considering all of the information that people have at their disposal. Likewise, psychology could be blamed for any failure of economic policy, or of entire economies.

Second, deciding who is capable of rational decision making, based on sex, race, or social class, has a long and sorry history. I'd rather let economics be the study of that which can be understood based on the behavior of rational actors, and put bigger error bars around the predictive ability of economic models.
Start by reducing your opinion of Quebec where this case took place. It has a legal system inspired more by French law than by the English law used in other provinces.

French law permits such things as prosecution of libel of dead people which English law does not. There is really no concept like free expression in the English law sense (and most certainly not in the US constitutional sense).

I doubt this case would have played out the same way in any other province. No other province operates enforcement units to trap businesses using English in order to fine them for not using French or having French words smaller than English ones. (for a recap of that nonsense, start with http://world.time.com/2013/04/08/quebecs-war-on-english-lang...)
New Hampshire has the coolest state motto though
I'd say it's the interviewer who comes off as a disrespectful idiot in the article and Hersh even calls him out on it. When you're questioning the validity of using anonymous sources ... as a reporter too ...
I meant in a figurative manner? I don't understand the difference between figurative and the alternative probably, lol.

Is the better a word to accent to use for the accent present in the written word?

Aye there chappy this is ye' ole english eh?
It does, except that this technique can, in theory create a holodeck like experience for a group not wearing headsets. That would be better for training and simulation.

For a while I was looking at building a basement with a "picture window" which was really just a view from the floor above ground. "Normal" displays don't simulate a good window experience, a curved display can give a decent simulation if you don't move (and that is what they do in flight sims as you are constrained to your seat), but a light field simulation would really give you the feeling you were looking out of the window directly, even when moving around your point of view.
That's so insanely obvious in retrospecr. I guess there's a tiny performance hit - but surely not enough to not implement this idea. Kudos. Like it.

Edit - I generally tab complete my paths so it wouldn't help me out that often. But there are definitely times where that litte extra messaging would help. Hell, why not a fuzzy "did you mean" message
Really? I switched to FF from Chrome and it's my #1 gripe. I can't load a YouTube video without the entire browser freezing, it's ridiculous.
Politicians don't make poor decisions because they don't know any better. They make poor decisions because of the incentives that are presented to them. I don't think you'll be able to have a rational debate and come out ahead with a politician. At best you could bring up some inflammatory story that he can use to his benefit.

I would argue that debate on online forums is much more meaningful. I wouldn't go as far as to say someone's one comment really changed my mind on a big issue but reading discussions on forums like hn has certainly opened up my mind.

The most promising aspect of new technology is that it is being done outside of the traditional power structure, rendering politics less and less meaningful to our every day lives.

As the Chinese proverb goes, "Heaven is high and the emperor is far away"
The really cool thing about a lot of machine learning algorithms is their synchronicity. There are usually multiple, independent rationales for choosing or developing a particular algorithm that end up saying very deep things about information theory.

For instance, actuaries, statisticians, and "neural network guys" (a combination of computer scientists, applied mathematicians & biologists before it really concretized into a discipline) all independently invented logistic regressions (and within the discipline, they usually got invented in a couple of different contexts before they were unified within the same framework). They are all "trying" to do different things in terms of how they were thinking about the problem, but they end up with the same model structure.
Don't they understand the [Streisand effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect)?
You are a sophisticated investor, who has been very successful wth complex derivatives, predicted and profited from the housing bubble for 6 years...and you don't have $1MM in assets?
I ate margarine instead of butter for many years because the government said it was healthier. Turns out, it's much worse than butter.

Be very careful of the idea that "nudges" from the government means they are correct.
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You can be paranoid and right at the same time.
There is a cool Stanford project that at least used to go by the same name:

https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/fcam/

http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/camera-2.0/

I use it on my Nokia N900.
There has always been the option to hire people, treat them well and retain them. That's what Google and the like are already doing.

The question is what about the 80% of the people who are not ninja/wizard/superhero-like? They just do their work and go home?

They don't care much about work, they want to get paid as much as possible, work the fewest hours and fuck off.

The people having trouble recruiting are the small-ish companies who want those top 20% that google is taking, except they can't compete on price, perks, or anything frankly.

They're the ones screaming 'omg impossible to find good developers!'

What they should be yelling is 'given my slim shitty margins, I can hardly get by and can be out of business in a year or two, so it's do-or-die mode every quarter.'

But that'd be being honest. Instead, let's complain about lack of talent :)
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Yes, and I believe that before the layout didn't happen concurrently with other stuff in the browser. It was called on a change and the rest of processing waited. Is that not right?
Whet doesn't hate the Milwaukee flag as much as Roman Mars, but he agrees with that the Chicago flag is superior. (The TED talk doesn't cover this, but Whet's actual article does.)
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Sorry! I read that comment on my phone screen and (ill-advisedly) replied there as well, and missed that part.
Better lock up OP while you're at it.
Circumambulate – have you heard? (Moby Dick)
This person has in fact been prohibited from criticizing the police.
I doubt this case would have played out the same way in any other province.

That's because you don't know much about Canadian law. Pawluck was found guilty of Criminal Harassment, which is the same offence ad mare usque ad mare, ou d'une mare à l'autre, as we say over here. Criminal Code, section 264.
Is it possible to have the same thing but over websockets?
As Lambda can also listen to DynamoDB, it would be quite interestig to have an ability to forward this kind of events to browser clients.
"Even if you're cofounder hadn't left the odds are that your startup would fail."

I think that's a shitty outlook. Of course your startup has odds of failing, but if you quit on your idea because of this hiccup, your chance of failure is 100%. These things happen. Be 100% up front with your investor, tell him you need some time to find a new co-founder, and then go find one. If the investor can't stomach this challenge and wants his money back, all good - his money wasn't worth the hassle of having an investor with a low risk tolerance. But perhaps he's someone who either believes in you or your idea, and would want you to persevere and get this thing off the ground, not jump ship at the first sign of difficulty.

Your other options are to hire some freelancers/developers to help you take your early stage prototype to a public-facing finish line. Or learn to code yourself, that's always an option ;)
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Aww, I hoped this was for Code :(
Why would you have a web server that doesn't process requests async?
This article, May 16th, seems like an incredible coincidence. I went to NYT to see if they had any updates, and instead found this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/world/middleeast/abu-sayya...

"... two dozen Delta Force commandos entered Syria aboard Black Hawk helicopters and V-22 Ospreys and killed the leader, a man known as Abu Sayyaf"

"Islamic State fighters who defended their building and Abu Sayyaf tried to use women and children as shields, but that the Delta Force commandos "used very precise fire" and "separated the women and children."

"The U.S. government did not coordinate with the Syrian regime, nor did we advise them in advance of this operation," said Bernadette Meehan, the National Security Council spokeswoman."

"The objective was the building, a multistory building," the official said. He spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

"They said the American forces were able to seize laptop computers, cellphones and other materials from the site, which may prove useful in intelligence assessments."
> Of course your startup has odds of failing, but if you quit on your idea because of this hiccup, your chance of failure is 100%.

I don't think brudgers was being negative, but rather saying something like, "this event doesn't suddenly change the most likely outcome of your startup, which was, and still is, failure."

This is an opportunity to fail or pivot with integrity (or, of course, to stay the course and find new talent).
Does nudging actually cause you to give up any autonomy?
From personal experience, I've used both I have to say:

Python Tools for Visual Studio is one of Microsoft's "best kept secrets" is how I describe it. I would say they're both exactly well-built solutions. If you have Visual Studio I highly recommend you give it a shot, it's really well defined in my opinion. It also has a plethora of features[1]. However, when I'm on Linux I usually use PyCharm.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/PTVS/wiki/Features-Matrix
As usual - it depends. A few guiding questions:

- does anyone wait for and pays for the result, or are you just practising / learning?

- can you list at least one thing which is not correct/optimal in the existing project?

- can you explain how the existing project work?

- can you say before starting how/why will you do better than the existing project?

If you just practice - do what you want. If you do real work, better prepare answers for the other questions. Both for your justification and for when you're asked why it takes extra time and why are you not using X.
I don't know what you expected.

If you go downloading random themes built by anonymous people of questionable skill, you're unlikely to get a performant web site.
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I was going to mention this, but didn't find the page. This is really neat. Not sure what other IDE's let you do that with Python.
Another article with some additional follow-up: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/feds-say-banned-researcher-comm...
I've used https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose in the past maybe I could try this one.
Anybody on a team that always wants its employees to just go a little bit faster?

Meaning, taking comfortable estimates (on the order of 1-2 weeks) and just, by default, sliding them earlier by one or two days?

It's a subtle way for management to cope with the anxiety that is trickling downhill, without engaging in or admitting a period of Crunch Time.
> Not that you have any sources for that

As a matter of fact!

Eron Gjoni accused Quinn of sleeping with 5 guys, whom he named. (http://gamergate.wikia.com/wiki/5_guys) Four of these guys were game designers, not journalists. Nathan Grayson was the only journalist among them, and he mentioned Quinn and her game exactly twice, in passing in larger articles--one for Rock Paper Shotgun in January, one for Kotaku in March. (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/08/admission-quest-v..., http://kotaku.com/in-recent-days-ive-been-asked-several-time...) Gjoni himself says that Grayson and Quinn didn't sleep together until April at least. (http://geekparty.com/eron-gjoni-clarifies-the-zoe-quinn-nath...)

So, yes, the idea that Quinn traded sex for reviews is provably, definitively a lie, and all of this information has been publicly available for around nine months.

> but either way, does it matter?

Yes, the truth matters, especially when lies are being used to harass someone.

This is exactly what I was talking about in my original snarkpost. You're absolutely right that the gaming press is full of corruption, and has been for as long as there's been a gaming press, but gamers in general have never given two shits. Remember when Jeff Gerstmann got fired from GameSpot for giving Kane & Lynch a 6/10, and the bloggers tutted over it for a week, and then everybody forgot? It wasn't half as controversial as, say, that time the CODBLOPS tutorial level was too hand-holdy. Who cared if some guy lost his job? The games kept coming, and that was all that mattered.

But when a woman is accused (falsely) of using sex to boost sales of her (free) indie game, oh ho ho, now it's time for a fucking movement. THIS INJUSTICE SHALL NOT STAND.

And when you show these guys incontrovertible evidence that the accusation against Quinn was a lie, then they immediately backpedal and say it was never really about Quinn, and go right back to raging about Anita Sarkeesian and Brianna Wu and ignoring guys like Gerstmann.

There are people who've aligned themselves with Gamergate who actually care about ethics in game journalism, and it's a damn shame, because Gamergate is rooted in lies. If you really want to do something about corruption, don't do it while riding the coattails of a "movement" that was only ever a wildly-successful troll.
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> The insurance company has the right to fire the director and anybody else and take over the production if it goes significantly over budget.

Sounds like market-based regulation. It would be interesting to see an example contract with the insurance clauses and list of conditions which trigger a change of direction/control. Are there parallel conditions in VC term sheets? Are there periodic reviews to determine whether the project is on track, or does the insurance company only get called in when the project approaches its budget? Any creative industry would want to avoid micro-management by insurance risk managers.
"French law permits such things as prosecution of libel of dead people which English law does not. There is really no concept like free expression in the English law sense (and most certainly not in the US constitutional sense)."

Canada has country wide libel laws that this might fall under and as alricb explained this could have happen any where in the country.

"No other province operates enforcement units to trap businesses using English in order to fine them for not using French or having French words smaller than English ones. (for a recap of that nonsense, start with http://world.time.com/2013/04/08/quebecs-war-on-english-lang...

Quebec language laws have nothing to do with this case. I fail to see what you point is by bringing them up. Also the language law while draconian and often ridiculous have to be understood in context of when they were created. I'm not a fan of them but I wouldn't use that as an example of Quebec being anti free speech.
> ...Powershell. They have command names...

Except that PowerShell commands, 'cmdlets', are really just .NET classes that run within PowerShell, like Ruby and Python classes, none of which are the same as working with GNU or BSD utilities and other executables in POSIX shells. That PowerShell's interface obfuscates its true nature is a huge violation of honest design, a massive violation of what's described in "Design of Everyday Things," leads to false comparisons, and misleads people into thinking it is providing the same functionality as working with executables in POSIX shells when it's actually providing chaining functionality like that in other scripting languages.
This is cute, but I'm entirely sick of people who think "I want to do a cool thing for myself, can you fund it through kickstarter" is OK.
In fact, public awareness of massive NSA surveillance probably dates back to at least 1975 with the Church Committee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
Google translate converts, "ad mare usque ad mare, ou d'une mare à l'autre," to "usque ad ad mare mare or a mare to another"

I'm wondering if someone could help us out a bit.
ummm... you might want to try re-reading your reply and reflect on the OP's observation... your overly sensitive read of their post and vicious reply of your own suggests to me that you are not happy... and thus, presuming you don't have kids, supports OP's point.
There is no science here. Misleading title.
As a cautionary note, this article isn't really about anything people are using today. "Unix" doesn't today mean anything very similar to what it meant in 1981. The Commodore PET, Apple II and MS-DOS 1.10 of that time did not have great user interfaces either. And a lot has happened since then.
Sure you can: overtime pay. Once management is punished rather than rewarded for making scheduling "mistakes," the mistakes will stop very quickly.
Eh, it was not like that was a conspiracy. They genuinely thought it to be better.

Right now we have the whole gluten thing, and while it might not affect you personally, a non-governmental nudging is changing millions of people's diet to something more expensive for no good reason what so ever. So it's not like the government has a monopoly and poor health advice.
Different countries have different attitudes to how free people can be in whatever they want to say. Canada is basically in the middle of the pack: http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/data/spi#data_table/...
No they can't but if she does her sentence won't be suspended anymore.
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I saw the majority of his complaints as basically "it's too hard/unfamiliar", a sentiment which I don't really agree with as I've noticed the steepness of learning curve of various software tends to be correlated with how powerful it is - those who give up early might not see that.

Inconsistent command names shouldn't be a difficulty - shell commands are like any other language, whose vocabulary is quickly learned with repeated use.

The manual doesn't bother warning against this either, although it does warn of another, related infelicity: "Beware of 'cat a b > a' and 'cat b a > a', which destroy the input files before reading them."

I'd consider it generous to see a mention of shell redirection in cat's manual, since that's done before it ever gets executed; in general, interactions between commands can't be exhaustively documented because they are numerous, and Unix assumes you can put two and two together.

..or maybe I'm just old and accustomed to it, after having used various OSs over the years, but that's sort of the point: Thanks to this "lowest-common-denominator" type of interface design, ease-of-use seems to have massively replaced learning, dissuading and distancing users from having control of their machines at a time when such control is becoming increasingly important.
Right, but my point was that passing Social Security didn't turn the U.S. Into a socialist country -- which was a concern of many. I'm saying we might not want to throw out individual ideas because we're afraid of a slippery slope.
The first phrase is Latin. "From sea to sea." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mari_Usque_Ad_Mare The second is a (funny?) half-Latin half-French way of saying "From one sea to the other".
High level language like php ?
Security and secure code is a mindset.
You code without thinking that bad things will happen, you will get bitten.

Sure high level language can help with memory management... but plenty of CVE are because of sloppy coding, not because of low level language.
Yeah, I got that on Firefox too. There was something going on in the background that interfered and after 5-10 seconds it stopped doing so for me and then acted normally. Some ill behaved script on the page I think.
Step 1. Mobile operators block Google ads unless Google pays.

Step 2. Google blocks access to gmail, YouTube, Google search, and every other Google site from all IP address ranges to those mobile operators.

It then becomes an interesting race. The EU competition regulators will say Google can't do that and threaten legal action. Meanwhile, the mobile operators' customers will be gathering torches and pitchforks...or switching in massive numbers to any operators who have not pulled this idiotic stunt.

What happens next depends on who is faster, the EU bureaucrats or the angry villagers.
Not for me, I have barely had any crashes or freezes with Chrom(ium).
Well that attitude hasn't worked yet... But any time now!
Suppose everything goes swimmingly and the prototype gets finished for $10k of freelance work. The company is still in a bad position because the money is gone and so is the development talent. So to continue it probably has to raise more money. But now it does so with a track record of not being honest with investors...remember, the original investor put their money in with the expectation that after the $10k was gone there would still be a way to get development done...but there isn't.

Even if every person really does have their price, $10k is pretty low to sell one's integrity. At least among anyone I'd care to associate with.
Does anyone have a link to the image she posted?

Edit: found it I think. https://postmediamontrealgazette2.files.wordpress.com/2015/0...
"Anything that fits into a bag."

Asbestos, bodies, nuclear waste .. the possibilities are endless.
I didn't read through the whole thing... its huge.

Can someone please provide a tldr?
Who gains by the conspiracy (if its one)? And what do they gain?
Interesting. You can, of course, work with actual executables in that environment too. Can you highlight some of the areas where it causes different behaviors or other design issues?
>>> The insurance company has the right to fire the director and anybody else and take over the production if it goes significantly over budget.

Okay, but how would this work in the software field? If a product is significantly over budget, that usually means the software has a ton of unfinished features and bugs. You can't just bring an outside project manager or whatever and expect them to set things right in a few weeks. There's a lot that goes into making movies to be sure, but making software is arguably much harder.
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