skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There recently was a new study that showed that the warming stagnation was not that much of a stagnation after all. Just measurement errors (and mixing up of data from different measurement methods). Interpretation differs, though - some say it is still a slower warming, just not as slow as was previously thought.
It's racist to only quote statistics that support one's racist point of view.

And it is racist to be credulous of statistics that support one's racist point of view. Statistics come from actual data, so shortcomings in the data collection can produce shortcomings in the statistics.

For example the testing that goes into IQ is not without controversy. And crime statistics are directly dependent on the policing and prosecution of crime--they don't reflect the objective reality of crime, they reflect the outcomes of an imperfect system that detects and punishes crime.

There is ample and growing evidence that many such systems are significantly biased by racism. See: the recent Justice Department investigations of municipal police deparments like Ferguson, Cleveland, etc. So judging the criminality of a particular "race" by aggregate police statistics is not likely to be objective.

Finally, the concept of race itself is socially constructed, and therefore not objective. If a person has a white mother and a black father, are they black or white? What if one grandparent is Asian? Ultimately the attribution of race is a human social decision--a person self-identifies with a particular race, and/or others define their race based on how they look. Neither is scientifically objective the way that height or eye color is.
Exactly my thought. Oh, you tried it and you didn't like it? Big deal.
I grew up on the Internet. I've only ever worked on anything remotely — my job, miscellaneous FOSS, my own things that happened to attract a few collaborators. I met all my closest friends on IRC. I still manage to care about problems. Just not these ones.
I don't quite understand your point – the number of conditions that are correlated isn't related to the effect size, is it?

I know it's not new knowledge – that's kind of why I'm unsure about the skepticism. We know that these effects already exists, and this is a wider-scale analysis of potential instances of those effects.
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Ah, interesting! Useless in the same way pain is useless, then — not very helpful in the moment, but it sure teaches you what to avoid in the long run.
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Yes, its so interesting to see those types of pictures. I'd be fascinated to hear what North Koreans think of the freeway system in their country since few people use it.
While on the topic of astrology, people might find it interesting to read about IMO the definitive study that shows it's bunk [1]. In it you can see that they took a lot of "time twins" (people born within a small time window on the order of hours or minutes) and measure if astrology had any predictive power over their lives. Spoiler: no, not really. Just a couple of quotes:

"The spacing of human births in a large population is described by a Poisson distribution, which shows that every year in a city of one million people about 4,000 pairs of time twins are born 5 minutes apart or less."

"Unlike the Roberts and Greengrass approach (count each time twin against every other time twin within one day, which would have produced nearly 600,000 pairs), serial correlation counts each time twin once only, thus minimizing the risk of artifacts. So the test conditions could hardly have been more conducive to success. But the results are uniformly negative, see Table 2. The effect size due to astrology is 0.00 ± 0.03."

[1] http://www.imprint.co.uk/pdf/Dean.pdf
Hacker's Delight is a must have book that should be in the library of every serious programmer. Other works in the same genre include some portion of Don Knuth's Art of Computer Programming (especially Volume 4) and the classic Hackmem report from MIT.
An interesting comment I saw in this thread is the suggestion to take medication [presumably to make working a job easier / more manageable].

To this I say -- are you fucking kidding?

Working like we do is already fairly unnatural. Taking medication to allow yourself to continue doing something unnatural, which you don't even like, has to be the one of the most dehumanizing things I can think of. That's modern day, self-induced slavery if you ask me.

And yes, I have experience with this. In college, I met with a psychiatrist about depression-related symptoms. I described my life circumstances (school, work, relationship, etc), and after just one 45-minute session he prescribed me SSRIs. They did nothing, except creates horrific withdrawals as I started coming off them. Then I made the real changes: I ended my toxic relationship, quit my cubicle job, and used my savings to have an enjoyable life for about a year. Then I finished school.

The OP seems to have had a pretty sweet set-up (remote, high-paying job, etc) but misery is still misery. Another comment mentioned burn-out. In my experience burn-out rarely has to do with the volume of work, but rather the mental anguish experienced. I've been burned out working 9 to 5; and energized beyond belief working 12 hour days on my own business.

Here's some advice worth considering for those in similar situations. Quit your job, or figure out how to go part time. Your company won't mind, you're quite replaceable most likely. Really cut down on your expenses; get roommates if you have to (this can be more than a financial improvement -- socializing and having good friends improves your quality of life).

And my god, quit consumer culture. That thing you think you need to buy with your next paycheck? You probably don't. What you need is: a roof over your head, food, laptop/phone, and a gym membership. What's the grand total of all this, maybe $1K/mo? (Depends where you live I suppose.) I'm assuming you're a single mid-late 20s male if you're reading this. What else would do you really need to be happy and spend your time working on your own tech projects?

Best of luck to the OP and anyone else doing something similar.
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Not sure if this link is referenced here but I found it interesting and relevant: http://blog.zenefits.com/adp-2/
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The number of times I fantasized about the Toys R Us 5 minute shopping spree...

I remember on numerous occasions trying to map out my route anytime I was lucky enough to be in a store. I always remember making the video game aisle a high priority.
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I've heard that Iran calls US "great Satan", and Russia "small Satan"
Phew. I was worried for a moment that making the world a better place would be really hard, but it sounds like the GP has set a really low bar for me.
While that might be the case (that the author is non-technical) you could also argue that the wording "shouting commands [at the dog] ... in Unix" has a nicer flow to it -- than "shouting Unix commands [at the dog]"

The first starts off as a perfectly normal sentence: "he shouted commands" and then ends with a funny surprise: "in Unix!" The second doesn't quite have the same punch. So if you want to favor the writing instead of the tech, even if you're a technical person, you might word it like the author did.
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What's the simpler solution?
I'm honestly wondering if half the point of this lawsuit is just to keep Zenefits' professionalism and Parker Conrad's mouth in the news as much as possible.

ADP might lose this lawsuit (I have no idea), but Zenefits is already looking much less impressive.
There is a lot of things in life that aren't explicitly disallowed but make you a selfish asshole if you do them. If a kid was brought up properly by there parent and can assess right or wrong and then sees other kids being unethical and then winning, it only promotes negative behavior.
We typically divide programs into data structures and code. The problem with combining them into objects is that there is often code that does not correspond to a single data structure.

"Kingdom of nouns" talks at length on the subject. But basically, "object" as "code plus one data structure" is not a design panacea.
> I'd have camped out overnight for something like this

That's technology! Exactly the type of revolution I was implying.
They didn't cheat.

1 - Based on what was said, multiple entries are allowed.
2 - They didn't remove ALL entry slips, left several

These contests are all about having people come back and apply gain, and again, and again.

How many little things the the parents pickup at KMart simply because they were there and it was convenient? Probably a fair bit.
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That is the question I guess. If you are trying to make money from what you do, are you not "running a business"? It might not be a traditional business, but seeking individuals to support you financially for the work you do would qualify as a business to me anyway.

Even if you created multiple revenue streams - write a book, produce a game, Patreon, etc. - which appears to be your intent, you essentially are the business at that point, no? At least that's how I'd view it.
From study[1]: "Our dataset includes 1 749 400 individuals with records at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center born between 1900 and 2000 inclusive."

They also compare some of their data to data from Denmark. So it's all Northern hemisphere, mid-latitudes.

[1] http://jamia.oxfordjournals.org/content/jaminfo/early/2015/0...
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We have a few Cisco TelePresence MX Series so this price range for that functionality is not absurd and with even better functionality (on paper).
You can whiteboard for people in the office and simultaneously screen-cast for those not in office. I can see how this can be used, especially since many of us have distributed teams.
I've never used Glass, but what it has going against it besides social awkwardness, is physical design limitations and massive cost...substantially improve 1 or 2 of those categories, then it seems like an easy sell. And if it's the case that augmented-vision glasses don't ever make it to the public mainstream (imagine legislators passing sweeping regulations/restrictions)...I think it'd still be useful to wear for a wide variety of technical tasks...for example...instead of doing a DIY project and having to hold an iPad in one hand, with Glass and a specially designed app, have your field of vision augmented by the instructions.

It's possible to imagine an ideal Glass device (basically indistinguishable from normal glasses) and how that could be integrated into daily life. But it's hard to imagine how the ideal Watch, when it's finally implemented, would be drastically different than what it offers now; given its inherently small screen and its physical attachment to your wrist, what could a 5mm thin, 8-week-on-a-single-charge, heavily developer-supported Watch change how we use a watch-like device...and how would those changes compare in magnitude versus the changes brought by similar advancements in phone and eyewear technology?
And while that may be the case, it is ultimately a free Rosetta Stone. So if it fails to work you're only out just time, with Rosetta Stone you're out time and also hundreds of dollars.

I'd love to see a independent study into its reliability/retention. But even if it is completely useless, it is still no more wasteful than any other mobile game people play daily.
The standard PR seems to be that network operators claim they aren't doing this and continue to develop their 2G and 3G capacity in parallel, with any degradations in performance being due to supporting increased loads and therefore contention on those 2G and 3G networks.

Meanwhile, just about everybody who actually uses mobile networks seems to tell roughly the same story that I did before, and there seem to have been occasional more rigorous/scientific surveys that showed a definite, measurable drop in service quality on 2G and 3G over the relevant time period.
My understanding was that the 10% margin is to defend a fine or prosecution bearing in mind the error bars of the camera and the vehicle speedometer.

Again, no credible source.

Dad, if you read this I didn't mean it, you are very credible.
The quality varies greatly from one book to the next, more so than with other tech publishers in my opinion.
Most of the contests I've seen like this in recent years try to avoid this issue by using receipts as entry forms. You can only enter the contest after purchasing something from the store.
I disagree. I'm not promising someone a job for life and they're not promising to work for me forever. Part of the value I offer them as an employee is what I can do for their career going forward. Sometimes that's a prestigious name, other times it's by giving them better opportunities to grow. It's one thing to say "I want people who want to work here," it's another to discount people who might want one day want to work someplace else.
My experience as a reviewer for a Packt book: I gave them feedback about specific technical issues, large pieces which I felt were missing and some general feedback about how the text was full of spelling mistakes and general lack of quality.

I didn't hear much back from the coordinator and/or author and a few months later I received a free copy of the book. It was hardly any different from the draft I reviewed.
Strange, it doesn't seem to explain the reasoning behind this other than that airlines like it (obviously). It goes against the general principles of tax accounting policy as well: they (indirectly) deduct the cost of handling the bags as expenses, so why not the income therefrom? Both should count towards net income, or neither should.

How about when you bill out as a consultant, you can charge $1/hour, plus baggage handling fees of $199/hour?
A paper just came out in the journal Science that says there was no pause. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/201...
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MD5 is also supposed to require a tremendous amount of computation, it's just that there are weaknesses in the algorithm that were eventually discovered, such that an attacker can short circuit much of that work. The reason that SHA-1 is being sunset is that some preliminary results by researchers suggest that it also has weaknesses that can enable it to be short circuited, and that researchers appear to be on a path to discovering those weaknesses.
But you'll be able to use it as a 100% Java plugin regardless.
Ehm when we talk about Vmware Fusion and discrete Graphics you are obviously wrong. You could change the graphic mode in Vmware Fusion, so that you save lots of power..
Just out of curiosity, where is that on Spain?
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It's funny that the author is selling the concept of microframeworks as a "new trend." It seems that devs are moving away from monolithic frameworks in general (no matter the language) for practical reasons, not because it's a "trend."
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I miss livemocha , I met a ton of people in real life thanks to that app. Rosetta Stone just killed everything that was good about it.
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Some of the correlations are based on environmental factors that change with the seasons, i.e. light, temperature, etc.
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> Barring some outliers, the difference between lawsuits that are dragged out and ones that aren't is not a factor of 10, it's probably a factor of 1.2.

That's crazy talk. You can double the length of a lawsuit in one simple stroke just by having your attorney say "Sorry that week is bad for me can we do [date]" every time there's a continuance or adjournment. You can set return dates for any motions you initiate to the last date permitted, you can meet every filing deadline in the last hour, etc.

The legal system has many built-in safeguards and protections for all parties but guaranteeing timeliness just isn't one of them.
Did breaking MD5 require a computer the size of the universe 20 years ago?
Huge sums in relation to the average American worker. I'm being paid below average for a programmer of my caliber, but it still feels like a ton of money because I grew up in humble circumstances.
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You're doing a bunch of different things there, but none of this stuff is really a secret. You need to be familiar with java class loading[1] and Maven's dependency scopes[2], which is really it's killer feature.

Beyond that, a container, such as jboss, is free define how its things work. One of my favorite things to come out of the Java ecosystem is OSGi, which does dependency management in a very sane way.

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/finding...

[2] https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to...
But did you in fact read the piece?
I wish there was more part-time employment gigs out there for programmers. I know I would jump on something like that, but I've never seen anyone advertise a position as part-time.

That leaves the contracting route. The issue there is you now end up a salesman. The people I know who are good contractors are businessmen first, software engineers second. They know how to close deals, attract clients,and have excellent "soft skills." They are mediocre developers. Not because they couldn't be excellent developers or were excellent developers before becoming contractors, but simply because their work day is no longer centred around engineering. This is fine if what you want is to run a business and be a businessman. Not so much if you're trying to escape the trappings of business to find more time to devote to focusing on just developing.

This is all anecdotal of course, I'm sure there are contractors who see a wide range of experiences that differ from mine.
Fine, then don't hire him.

The mistake wasn't the hiring decision, clearly it was getting into an argument with a prospective employee in a public internet posting.

That shows a serious lack of judgement and poor leadership.

And moreover this isn't a photo sharing business he's running, when you're asking people to trust you with their income and their medical coverage you are going to be held to a higher standard.
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Unfortunately, because of the way monetary policy is structured, it is not possible for all, or even most, to live without debt. Debt is fundamental to our economy. You can only be without it if someone else takes on some amount of debt.
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Ok, so... I agree with the author on a lot of points, but from what I've seen devs are the most pampered of all professions. Cut the most slack. Given the most pay. Extended the most deadlines. And rightfully so. But if you can't take it now... when things are "good" -- wow, I'd hate to be you in a down economy.

Lots of truth to this, but look we all have mortgages and what comes across as "asshole" is the complaining. We all have a mortgage, why are you a special special snowflake?
I'm sure you will! This is something that has always inspired me: in the US small businesses are heroes, going out on a limb and doing your own thing is the definition of the american spirit. Becoming a job creator in the process is an incredibly rewarding feeling.
Language shift occurs in nearly every immigrant community in the United States, and nearly all indigenous communities. It's not natural so much as it's that language ideology and policy in the U.S. is very hostile to anything but English monolingualism.
No, design is not as important as content.

If the Stripe app was well designed, but did not provide the user enough information to accomplish his or her goal, it would be useless.

The opposite is not true. You can have a poor design that can still be useful if the content is valuable.

I'm not trying to diminish the import of design, but your claim that they are of equal value is false.
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Depends on what you deem to be lengthy.

Most defamation suits take around a year or so to get to trial. As a litmus test, the recent Jesse Ventura defamation suit took two years to conclude.

This doesn't include appeals either, which can drag the process out even further.

Depending on where the trial is set, and how expensive Zenefits legal counsel is, this could be a huge financial burden for them to undertake and quickly drain their resources.
The conditions are correlated with the changing seasons so it's only logical to consider things on the other side of the equator. I suspect that all the effects will be gone around the equator where the differences between the months are quite small. I'm not sure about the city connections but I think there have been studies showing people in big cities suffer from more asthma and so on.
I agree that the author of this post is a nice position to quit because he has enough money to do so.

I think the reason these posts get upvoted is more because the things that the author talked about are things many of us deal with. I've definitely had times when I stayed awake later than I should have just because I knew that if I went to sleep, the only thing waiting for me was work. I guess sometimes I feel like there just isn't enough time in the day and I don't even get to relax before it's over.

I like to believe that posts like these where the author isn't actually quitting would be upvoted as well. Of course, the issue is that those posts don't exist likely out of fear that the employers would find out.. So then we are left only with the people who have the luxury of leaving writing about these topics.
From the article:

As you can see, binaries submitted for analysis are
identified by their MD5 sums and no sandboxed execution is
recorded if there is a duplicate (thus the shorter time
delay). This means that if I can create two files with the
same MD5 sum – one that behaves in a malicious way while the
other doesn’t – I can “poison” the database of the product
so that it won’t even try to analyze the malicious sample!

So it's a technique to get the scanner to ignore a malicious binary by constructing a non-malicious one with the same MD5 sum. This would be much harder if the scanner used a SHA-1 hash or similar.
Why they use such tools? In Turkey police can listen any phone from the police station. Because all telecommunication companies are required to give access to their network and even if you are the owner of the telecommunication company you cannot know when is your custemers being listened.
The attack vector would be malware binary crafted to have the same MD5 sig as a popular already trusted app. But of course once the badware is caught virus scanners could check other properties aside from MD5 sig to flag a bad binary. I assume virus scanners use MD5 just a fast prescreen scan, then do a few deeper checks on pototentially bad binaries to make sure.
Yea and in other posts she's always defending Ted Cruz. Really makes you trust her sciencyness.