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Unrelated to the OP, but what are you using to resolve place names to geography?

Seems to be mostly on target, but you get weird stuff like Camden Town (UK) -> Camden, New Jersey, US and it's common enough to notice.


http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/classifier.shtml I'm not too happy about it.

But, I planning to replace it with simple knuth morris pratt text search against the list of all significant locations. This 100x slower but results are rarely bad.


Cool, thanks for taking the time to answer.


Not all progress is technological.


That's a fascinating assumption.


I'll take that action.


This chain of logic is particularly pernicious.

Given the absence of more data, it's equally likely that the events reported were true, and went unreported for the reasons stated. There was some guy, recently, who wasn't even a Boss, or particularly powerful or influential in his own right, who beat and assaulted a woman, and experienced relatively minimal consequences for doing so?

Oh, yeah, this guy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner

Certainly, the woman in question in that case is not now retired off the millions she earned for reporting what happened her to the police.

So, why would you expect a different outcome, or why should someone who has experienced such abuse expect a different outcome, when the perpetrator does have direct influence over their livelihood (and thus, ability to continue doing things like live indoors or eat food regularly)? And, expecting no real justice, why go through the public spectacle and (as frequently happens) accusations of being a liar (etc), possible public shaming and ostracization, etc, for no reason?

So, why jump to your conclusion? I anyone harmed by giving poeple who claim to have been hurt the benefit of the doubt?


Your definition of "logic" is quite interesting.

In your example, the accused was found guilty and sentenced. The victim was not fired from her job, nor her identity revealed. Also, the accused was not found guilty of rape nor battery, as you allude to. Read your own link:

"Turner was a student athlete at Stanford University on January 18, 2015, when he sexually penetrated an intoxicated and unconscious 22-year-old[1][2][3] woman (later called "Emily Doe"[4]) with his fingers. [...]

He was arraigned on February 2, 2015, pleading not guilty on all five charges.[13] On October 7, 2015, after reviewing the results of DNA tests, the two rape charges were dropped by prosecutors.[7][12][14][15] The trial began on March 14, 2016,[16] and concluded on March 30, 2016, with Turner's conviction on the three remaining charges of felony sexual assault.[17][18] The convictions carried a potential sentence of 14 years in prison. Prosecutors recommended six years in prison while probation officials recommended a "moderate" county jail sentence.[19] On June 2, 2016, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Turner to six months confinement in the Santa Clara County jail to be followed by three years of probation. He must also register as a sex offender for the rest of his life[20] and participate in a sex offender rehabilitation program.[18]"

It seems there are some members of HN who really want to return to the days of witch burnings and mob rule, where an accusation of guilt is immediately acted upon and the accused is executed for the alleged crimes.

Interesting times indeed...


That is a hell of a nit to pick.


Don't we?


1) You cannot be "caught up".

2) What are you looking to get out of the news?

Accept 1, answer 2 - you'll be most of the way there.


Remove abusive, awful users from the service?


Heh. Of course, never that.

Curious to hear why instituting a heavier-handed DBAD policy would not improve... well, every business/venue/experience?


There's a few levels to this. I'd say it's important even if you are personally handing the CV to the decision maker.

"Architected a solution and led a team of developers to implement a custom solution for a large merger & acquisition company" doesn't tell the HM whether you know her stack. Depending on other strengths or weaknesses of your application, this may cost you the call. Yes, a great engineer/dev can learn your stack, yadda yadda, but maybe you're hiring because you're the only one who knows it, you're already training the rest of the team, and need someone to hit the ground running, you know?

Good to have all the checkboxes from the job spec covered. Avoid uncertainty on their part.


You are right.

But that reinforces the practical part of my advice: don't worry if the skills list doesn't make sense to you, as long as it conforms to whatever the job decription is asking for.


Agreed, and I meant to include that in my comment. Your practical advice is absolutely fine.

Just wanted to clarify that it applies to all cases, not just passing recruiter/software review filters.


Unless you want to be a permanent part of the faceless bigcorp IT job shopping underclass. For those jobs, you need to take exactly the opposite advice.


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