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by mherdeg 8y ago
Interesting to contrast this reaction with what felt like a shrug at MIT in response to allegations in 2006 that a prominent neuroscientist "bullied" a prospective hire -- see http://tech.mit.edu/V126/N52&#x2F
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by mherdeg 8y ago
OK, I know this doesn't contribute to the discussion and I apologize in advance. But based on this title I thought this would be a short blog post about recruiters using phone-screen questions to probe whether a candidate uses zero-ind
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Reminds me of Don Norman's kinda crazy light switches in his house, described in "The Design of Everyday Things": > FIGURE 4.5. A Natural Mapping of Light Switches to Lights. This is how I mapped five switches to the light
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Yeah it was weird -- I remember very clearly reading about GDPR in early 2016 and then I also remember it appearing in people's development plans in late 2017/early 2018 and seeming like it was a big surprise.
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by mherdeg 8y ago
What immediately comes to mind is the 1994 paper "A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves", which drew a lot of attention immediately after it was published, with
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Yeah it's weird. I know that I shouldn't distrust everything a source says just because one thing they publish uses misleading data to arrive at a funny conclusion. And yet. This author's analysis of the EWG "Dirty D
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Yeah I read a similar piece of advice recently to the effect "toddlers hear a lot of No. Limit the No and when possible offer them a qualified yes instead." Something like: * Can I eat another banana? * After we go for a walk, you
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by mherdeg 8y ago
> There's a pattern parents are supposed to follow now. When a child does something undesirable, you criticise the individual action. When they do something desirable, you praise the overall quality. I have been seeing this advice a
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by mherdeg 8y ago
The author's point should be well taken about the unique value of forums like the Straight Dope Message Board. A lot of Internet culture comes from, or grows on, newsgroups, web forums, and subreddits. It's hard to quantify what g
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Any guesses on what's next? What do you suppose, in retrospect 30 years from now, will seem crazy that we all did?
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Can someone explain the FAQ item around "My team uses Telegram and I'm scared shitless."? I musta missed the joke
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Did you get any sense of whether or not Equifax intends to appeal the decision? There was some discussion about 6 months ago -- https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/7h9tn2/i_sued_... -- suggesti
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by mherdeg 8y ago
The pre-election date on that letter was interesting. The Slate article is kind of silent on what happened during the Obama presidency on this. Did they continue Operation Stonegarden as-is throughout those two terms?
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Oh wow, I had been watching what happened to NASDAQ: HMNY in summer 2017, but I had not kept paying attention since then. Yikes.
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by mherdeg 8y ago
> Do they have customer support? Two effective strategies I have seen are: (1) Contact a friend who works at Google and show them the comical chain of correspondence showing how your simple, silly problem got even sillier over time. Conv
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by mherdeg 8y ago
for benefit of other readers, I think that's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17062782
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by mherdeg 9y ago
I just went ahead and logged in to a machine where I had slrn installed, then signed up for an account with http://www.eternal-september.org/ and configured my .slrnrc with set force_authentication 1 nnrpaccess news
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by mherdeg 9y ago
You shouldn't even need a web browser to view this announcement -- it was posted on 27 April 2018 to rec.games.roguelike.nethack. Assuming you already have a newsreader set up, you can just go ahead and read that message.
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Those are some interesting exclusions, yeah: "" Disallow: /2013/03/21/174840895/ Disallow: /sections/ombudsman/2008/01/frequently_asked_questions_1.html Disallow: /sections&#x
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by mherdeg 9y ago
In fact they used to document this behavior at https://web.archive.org/web/20150411133228/https://archive.o... but they removed the documentation in mid-2015: ""To remove your site from the Way
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Love the shout-out to Bingo Card Creator in the article.
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by mherdeg 9y ago
It is an issue for all Windows applications. There was a month when 50%+ of the traffic on full-disclosure@ was just one person repeatedly announcing newly discovered problems with various Windows software that all involved search-path prob
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by mherdeg 9y ago
The ebb and flow is kind of neat to watch. (1) Load AOL and visit keyword "UBER" to get started requesting a car now! (2) Type UBER into your web browser location bar then hit control-enter to visit http://UBER.com&#x2F
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Epstein's powerful prose captures well the New York intellectual views of a certain culture and a certain generation. It's a fascinating perspective on what people were thinking then. I was equally fascinated by the deep view of t
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Yeah you know, it's funny, the last time I worked on question-answering code, we were trying really hard to find algorithms that could improve a particular metric (F-score, a synthetic agglomeration of precision and recall) ... I don&#
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by mherdeg 9y ago
I have some questions about information retrieval and SLOs: * Is there a metric of search quality which is appropriate here -- specifically, "when I search for [site:tbray.org rock roll], and receive a set of results, that set includes
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by mherdeg 9y ago
> a messaging app I've never heard of. Despite it having 200 million users. Apparently. Yeah it's tough for me to keep track of which apps are/aren't significant because I'm not in the loop with every community o
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Heavens no -- I don't think society should allow anyone die in car accidents, young and healthy or otherwise. It's abundantly clear that driving is too dangerous by far. But that doesn't stop me from wanting to know what the
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by mherdeg 9y ago
If there's a 90% reduction in accidents, who will be providing the donor organs? What will happen to the average lifespan of people with certain chronic illnesses?
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Very cool, thanks!

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