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art187··on Predicting hit songs with 97% accuracy
Because you have to have their device to get the data.
art187··on Predicting hit songs with 97% accuracy
You would need to hook up the Immersion Neuroscience devices up to measure emotional resonance and other neurological measures, but yes that is the dubious claim.
art187··on Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities
This is not true. I realize that Backpage was the platform that had the largest audience after red book was shut down. If you look at sites in Germany and Australia the sex worker doesn’t have to hide since laws protect them. Legalizing sex work is a different path than condoning slavery.
art187··on Backpage.com seized by U.S. justice authorities
I worked with the defense department on tracking human trafficking for several years. Backpage was literally the front door to so much trafficking. There are many steps the site could have taken to stop trafficking but it didn’t. The consensual sex worker should not rely on a marketplace that allows the abuse of children and enslaved persons.
art187··on The problem with the Code of Conduct
Hi, I’m not ignoring the article, I’m just commenting on it. No we don’t force a community to use a CoC but we don’t want to fund ones that don’t.
art187··on The problem with the Code of Conduct
Disclaimer, I help run an organization that requires CoC's on all events.

I like this article but it doesn't go into the positives of a CoC. There are many problems but if you don't weigh them against the positive characteristics, you don't see the full picture.

My organization NumFOCUS, asks all conferences and projects working with us to adopt some CoC. Why do we do this? First it has been shown in our community to help encourage minority groups to participate. Second it outlines a real procedure if something does go wrong. Finally, it sets the expectation of professionalism early.

Our numbers on diversity have skyrocketed as we enforces CoCs. It's not just a bandaid, it's an invitation to people of all types that we, the organizers, will protect your right to be at our event. I don't think event organizers are in any position to think they can solve all the problems in tech but at least they can create an inviting space.

Without a CoC, the procedure on how to handle a harasser is very grey. What legal grounds does a person have to tell someone to leave an event? If it is any grounds then why for some and not others? Who makes these decisions? I've seen conferences not deal with up front and have to resort to the local law enforcement to intervene.

Which brings me to my last point, set expectations up front. It's like the big silver punch bowl at the new years party. We expect you to be an adult and treat everyone else like an adult. A CoC clearly lays out that your event is intended to be professional.

I don't think it is the end of all discussions, in fact only the beginning. Our staff put together more things to consider, https://github.com/numfocus/DISCOVER-Cookbook, but a CoC is the simplist.

art187··on NumPy receives first ever funding, thanks to Moore Foundation
I can't speak to the reasons why pandas wasn't funded, but the team is looking for funding.

At the end of the day a lot of code uses NumPy and not Pandas.

art187··on NumPy receives first ever funding, thanks to Moore Foundation
Nope
art187··on Ask HN: What software are you forced to use that you hate?
What reports do they want? Could one get such reports from github's API?
art187··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
Fashion Metric | Austin | Full-time | Full Stack Developer

Fashion Metric is changing the way people buy clothes both in-store and online. We're a math and data company tackling big problems with cutting-edge technology and we're looking to grow our team with smart, creative people.

Stack: Python + Docker + Cloud + undefined front end Compensation: $90K - $120K + equity

art187··on I Quit: What really goes on at Apple
My understanding here is that Apple has pretty draconian policies about writing about it. A friend once told me they had to retract an offer from a candidate because the person tweeted they just got a job at Apple.
art187··on HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it
And what system on commodity clusters is fast enough in this case?
art187··on Rescue Forensics (YC W15) Helps Law Enforcement Find Victims of Sex Trafficking
Why does the government not have the right to crawl the internet and track content on it?
art187··on 15-line hash table in C
This doesn't seem to use the hash in the first access. So the first hset, seems to always go to the first row of the table.

Perhaps this is what is desired (fixing roll over issue as well):

    static int (**hget(int (**t)[2], int k))[2] {
      int (**t_old)[2] =   t;                                                                                                                                                                                   
      int h = k & (SIZE - 1);
      for (t = t + h; **t && ***t != k;                                                                                                                                                                         
           h = ((h + 1) & (SIZE - 1)), t += h, t = t_old + ((t - t_old) & (SIZE - 1)));
      return t;
    }
art187··on 15-line hash table in C
parens are used since the [2] is on the end. Otherwise, it would think its a pointer to a pointer of an int [2] -> (hnew()[2]).
art187··on Accelerating Python Libraries with Numba
Cython isn't 1) able to compile Python or 2) fast?

Hate to have to tell all my Cython code it needs to break itself because the hackernews thinks so. =P

art187··on NumbaPro CUDA Python speeds up a Monte Carlo pricer 14x
If you look at the hardware specs that's what you expect. People claiming more are not usually measuring the whole problem

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2011-12-13/ten_ways_to_fool_t...