skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, he's just being sloppy.

That can be a real pain for
students trying to learn.
But, be warned: A lot of
people work with probability,
but only a tiny fraction ever
had a course in graduate
probability. So, eventually
have to learn to put up with,
and sometimes rewrite, some of
what is written that is not
very precise.

Here are the accepted definitions:

Take a non-empty set, usually
denoted by Omega, and call it the
sample space or the set of trials.

Take a collection of subsets of
Omega, usually denoted by script F,
and call it the set of events.
Have at least enough subsets of
Omega in the set of events script F
so that script F will be a sigma algebra.
So, script F has to have as an element
the empty set,
be closed under relative complements,
and be closed under countable unions.

We want all that for probability
theory. We want countably
infinite so that we can discuss,
say, the event that a coin never
or always
comes up heads. We don't want
uncountably infinite because
it would create a big mess
in the theory.

Then the ordered pair (Omega, script F)
is called a measurable space -- it
doesn't have a measure yet but
soon will.

On that measurable space, define
a positive measure P so that
P( Omega ) = 1.
Then P is a
probability measure on the
measurable space.

A probability space is
the triple ( Omega, script F, P ).

Intuitively,
a measure assigns to each
event A in script F a
non-negative real number P(A).
A signed measure permits
negative values. And
of course at times want
a measure that yields complex
numbers.

Measure theory is in, say,
P. Halmos, Measure Theory.
The back of Halmos has a
really nice introduction to
probability theory, the
Kolmogorov three series
theorem in stochastic processes,
etc. For more in stochastic
processes there is, of course,
the classic J. Doob, Stochastic
Processes. Halmos was a Doob
student and then served as
an assistant to von Neumann
at the Institute for Advanced
Study. From that he wrote
Halmos, Finite Dimensional
Vector Spaces, a finite
dimensional introduction to
Hilbert space. Later at
University of Chicago
Halmos worked in mathematical
statistics and made the
fundamental contribution to
sufficient statistics.
IIRC, it was at Chicago that
Halmos wrote Measure Theory.

Great details on measure theory
and much more
are in, say, H. Royden, Real
Analysis and W. Rudin, Real
and Complex Analysis.

To
narrow measure theory
to probability theory,
use the famous texts by the
authors I listed, Loeve, ....
Royden and Rudin are
terrific prerequisites to
Loeve, etc.

Commonly the sigma algebra of
events script F is the smallest
sigma algebra that contains
as a subset a topology, that is,
a collection of open sets,
on the
sample space Omega.

That's all standard, beginning
stuff in graduate probability --
ah, the only kind should bother
with anyway!
Well -- search for "data domain". They make back their purchase price within 2 years of acquisition (and now making it back again almost every year).

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2012/02/24/emc-and-data-domain-...

My post was meant to encourage the OP to actually research acquisitions, as typing into ddg.gg "billion dollar acquisitions" returns results littered with successes.
If you're an inexperienced startup then perhaps you shouldn't be taking risks with my data.

If I bought glowsticks at the mall and they injured me when I used them I would expect consumer protection laws to issue fines to make selling them too risky a venture, why shouldn't I be protected by a similar mechanism for injury caused by leaky data?
Gangs form around an economy. In the case of OMGs, the economy is drug and human trafficking, extortion, contract slaying and various other illicit businesses. Many OMGs are made up of a large percentage of ex military, with the USMC highly represented. Ditto for police forces, maybe not as much USMC. Considering how many soldiers we have, it's no surprise that OMGs are on the rise. You can thank the GWoT for that. They fight over economic power, often expressed as turf wars. So those are the dots. It's not hard to connect them.

The bottom line is three gangs met that day. Two of them without an official mandate.
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The client would download the first 1KB for an icon, 4K for a thumbnail and the whole image for the full size. The best part is that all of those are actually the same file, not separate embedded thumbnails inside the file.

The client could decide BY ITSELF to download only 2K for a thumbnail because it's currently on 3g.
Many thousands of people learned it before you so it can't be that hard, and you have it way easier than most of them since you have all the world's information at your Googletips. Like everything, you poke around trying different things until something works and then you do it again. The key is to not be afraid of the damn thing or blame yourself for being too stupid. Everything is stupid we just all muddle through the best we can.
Well you can just read the reviews to see that the Durrett text isn't well regarded while others like Chung's are. And the criticism about a probability space not being a sample space is correct, but I think it's clear what Tao meant there, namely that the sample space would be a part of a probability space.
Anatomy of a 5M Dollar Week
nothing a couple generations of "re-education" couldn't fix. take China for example, took less than 2 generations to go from country of ancestry worshipping to "i don't know where my great grandfather is buried/from"
Technological singularity
> If you don't want to hear from recruiters at all, mentioning that on a LinkedIn/GitHub profile might prevent some of these unwanted contacts.

Seems like the worst of both worlds - the recruiters who actually read your profile and have something of value to offer will pay attention and not contact you. The annoying ones who spam everything won't pay any more attention to that than they did to the rest of the profile.
Larry Lessig is a smart guy, and I appreciate his activism about copyright, etc., but he is not a serious presidential candidate. You can’t just decide to run for president on a whim with no connections or support and hope to have one of the major political parties welcome you with open arms.

It’s cute that he wants to promote his message by using Democratic primary debates as a media platform, but also entirely understandable that they aren’t going to let him. Everyone at the DNC is busy in the middle of campaign season, and from their perspective he’s basically wasting their time.

“But unlike Clinton and Sanders and O’Malley, I’m willing to tell America the truth about these urgent and important needs. [...] That truth doesn’t play well in D.C. The consultants think it’s a downer. They fear downers don’t win votes.”

Give me a break.
Which means it was a turf war ultimately.
Look at what the js ia actually doing, lowsrc has been obsoleted in html5: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/obsolete.html
Impulse control could be part of it, but it's not clear that that requires consciousness, either :)

We know that perceptual awareness has some connection to biology (sleep, seizures, drugs, etc), so to the extent that consciousness requires energy, it has to justify its caloric expenditure.
Just because your place of work doesn't follow best practice doesn't mean it is not possible.
Maybe, but on the other hand it appeals to the darker curiosity of being able to see the bad things people say about you, not just the good.
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The Kumbaya Thought Police are deployed specifically in "Show HN" threads; they have their own rules.
Product Design at Scale (from Director of Product Design at FB)
They can ... stay in society?

Apparent trick questions make me nervous.
Philadelphia’s Independent Economy: Implications for Office Space [pdf]
You probably don't know what you are wishing for.

Just scroll through this list : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic...

4 out of the 10 most deadliest human conflicts in human history happened in China. I have a suspicion that the Chinese leadership is acutely aware of this, and their world-view has been moulded by this (favouring stability over everything else including justice, freedom or human rights).
When things go wrong there, they tend to go wrong in a big way.

edit: To get some idea of the scale, The An Lushan Rebellion that occurred in the 7th century wiped out 15% of the world population at the time.
Thank you...I will definitely to that
Interesting sub turing complete language:

https://github.com/ainfosec/crema
To be closer to their mainland or neighbour's timezone.
The fact that most of Europe is in the same timezone is disturbing.
I remember visiting Budapest (East of the timezone), coming from Bordeaux (West of the timezone), and noticing how much earlier (1h30) dusk was.

I wonder if it has an impact on the mood of the inhabitants.
Deep Dive into the Local Search  Local U
and that too!
"we take security seriously" reminds me "we come in peace" from Iron Sky :)
You can't judge which is better after a single breach either.
A Simpler Explanation of Differential Privacy
This just sounds like a bad idea overall. Even if they resolve issue with negative reviews and bullying, why would we want to rate people? This is not rating their skill at something, or even their appearance, it is rating them as a person. That goes against everything that most people stand for.

Most of the time, we strive to live in a world where every person has value. Everyone is their own unique person, and we respect who they are. Although society often fails to live up to that ideal, I cannot fathom why someone would write an app to explicitly avoid it.
Why can't we see median? That's also a really good metric to have... in fact it arguably makes even more sense because salaries have a long tail on the higher end which inflates the average by a large amount while moving the median in an easy to understand way.
Cripes, this is starting to sound like the old phone books. Coming soon: AAAAAAA+ AdBlock?
What always bothers me in maps like these is how ridiculously detailed the shorelines are. Who cares that you can see individual islands off the southern coast of Chile?
Did you read the article? It could just as well have been police-aggravated, or a combination of the two.
Waffle does this I'm pretty sure, but we don't have it yet. It's on our roadmap though!

We've had the request for multiple repos on one Zube board when talking with PMs and consulting firms and we're aware that it's important for them. However, we're laser focused on making developers happy and they've told us that they care more about managing issues for a single repository, so we implemented that first.
TIL Firefox for Android has addons. I have apparently been living under a rock (called Chrome).
This seems to imply that there is a limit to how the net rate at which we can change computer languages (or at least the languages that actually get used).
See gwern's rebuttal of this argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10320076
Windows 10 Adoption Leveling Off. Uh-Oh
Well, that's what the hand weavers wanted when the automated loom came out, and I don't think anyone thinks it would have been a good idea to destroy the automated loom to help them keep having jobs
All iPhone 6s reviews miss this crucial point about hidden tricks in 3D iMessage
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Enigma's secure URL isn't working. The working address is http://enigma.io
To Freelance or Work Full-Time?
On the bright side if they dump the source code we may finally get a public API
Apple buys UK-based speech technology startup VocalIQ
It's not like there isn't space outside the cities. Take SF for example, they banned cemeteries in the city so there's a "city of the dead" just down the 280 freeway, Colma which is like 80% cemeteries.

Of course a cultural change so they took no space would be fine with me but still, most cities are surrounding by vast quantities of mostly unused or under used land.
I reported this malware app on both my devices and suggest everyone do the same. It's up to no good.
Very neat stuff. Would be nice to support 16/32bit floating point for true HDR as well if can be easily accommodated.
>No alarm here for ABP users. (Like me).

Why? ABP also has an "acceptable ads" program, where you can pay to have ads whitelisted if you follow certain rules:

https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads

They are notably not transparent about who pays what & the like.

As far as I can tell, all Adblock is doing is following in Adblock Plus's footsteps.
" ... a sample space
(which will be a probability space)"

is, in a word, wrong. The sample
space will be part of a probability
space but will not "be a probability
space".
I have been really curious about getting first-class interactive spreadsheet functionality in Jupyter (possibly by building a widget). I think it would be the ideal analysis platform.
You'd need to set the thresholds in the file manually, based on the artists judgement of quality.

It would take a few extra seconds when creating it, but could save both bandwidth and create a better user experience on mobile.
Of particular note is the admission that wages are actually losing ground in real dollars. Also notable is the admission that labor force participation is at 1977 levels-- pretty damn bad.
BENEFITS OF CHOCOLATE ON OUR HEALTH
Well, he's a known name in political circles, he raised a non-trivial amount of money for the purpose of running a campaign, and he's a more serious candidate for president than several others whose names are much more out there.

Given how corrupt and paid-off Debbie Schultz is, and how the DNC punishes Democratic candidates for participating in unsanctioned debates (!) I think he has a right to be angry.

Not to mention, his point is spot on. the country won't chaneg without campaign finance and electoral reform.

EDIT: Just to cite:

“We’re not changing the process. We’re having six debates,” said Wasserman Schultz, who has been under fire from several Democratic presidential candidates over the debates. “The candidates will be uninvited from subsequent debates if they accept an invitation to anything outside of the six sanctioned debates.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/25319...
All 177 people who were at that restaurant were charged with the same thing, even though there is no evidence that they were involved. Like literally the people hiding in the bathroom were charged the same as the people shooting out front.

I'm wondering what those folks did to deserve removal from society without question.
Link to the original paper.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03340
I donated initially when this came out because it was the only working Adblock for OS X Safari and Chrome at the beginning.
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Hulu Is Becoming Netflix, Netflix Is Becoming HBO, and HBO Is Just Being HBO
The article tentatively points the finger at the fact that prosecutors are elected, and that being a prosecutor is a step towards higher elected office.

The fact that the US elects prosecutors, and judges, is incredibly strange. Surely it could only possibly be a terrible, catastrophic idea? You want prosecutors and judges to be professional, impartial, and independent, which is exactly what elected politicians aren't.

Are there any other countries which elect their judges or prosecutors? How did the US get like this? Are Americans aware of how odd this is?

The Economist has some funny stories about it:

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21613276-theyre-...
There are many thousands neuro surgeons or physics.doctorates so there's that but learning bit by bit with google won't ever beat picking up the adequate book.
1 - You had me at "TekSystems".

2 - I'm guessing you wouldn't just get that from recruiters though, do you? I'd think recruiters aren't any more apt to say something like that than other technologists. That seems like social skills issues, and I don't think recruiters are generally considered poor in that area.

3 - The relationship is often sour on both sides, to some degree, for a variety of reasons. Recruiters would have to be blind not to see the contempt from many technologists. I think part of this is the knowledge that the candidate holds the final say in a transaction that might net the recruiter tens of thousands of dollars. That gives the technologist a feeling of power - "If I turn down this offer, the recruiter 'loses' 25K". Some recruiters make more money than the technologists they represent, which might also cause some issues.

4 - Agreed. Concise makes sense for both sides of the equation. Time is money for recruiters on commission. And if you are a Py dev that knows GIS, we should talk. (sorry, couldn't help myself)

5 - Again, as I've said to others here, we can't even try to read your minds. One candidate doesn't want to hear about benefits, one doesn't want to hear about the office, and you don't want to hear about company growth or stability. The problem here isn't that they are growing, the problem here is that they aren't paying you what you want. They could say whatever they wanted and you probably wouldn't care if they offered you 100/hr.

6 - This is a genuine problem, and I have no problem sharing that with candidates. I actually make a point of sharing it on most occasions, as I want to make sure candidates weigh my advice based on my incentives. If I stand to make 50K off a transaction, you might think I could be less truthful than if I only stood to make 5K. Incentive to lie decreases as the value of your reputation increases.

You mention hourly rate, so I assume you've done contract work. One interesting aspect of recruiting is that a recruiter increases his/her personal income when negotiating higher salaries for permanent hire candidates (where FEE = $SALARY x $FEEPERCENTAGE, but in contracting the recruiter maximizes income by negotiating hourly rate down (where the recruiter earns $BILLRATE - $PAYRATE).

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, interesting perspective.
Florida seems very high but only has 21 responses- are outliers filtered out?

edit
The 8 - 12 yrs exp range in FL has an average of 237,900 - this can't be right.
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>Journey where the only possible interactions between players are positive or helpful.

There was a GDC presentation a few years back where the lead designer Jenova Chen talked about how difficult it was to make only positive/helpful interactions possible. In playtesting even the ability to collide with another player was used against them, e.g. to push them off a cliff.

The presentation should still be online for free at http://gdcvault.com very interesting from a game-designing point of view.
>> Yup, but so too do credit scores in general. If Harry was unlucky, lost his job and missed a few credit-card payments, then his credit card will suffer regardless of whether he is now actually likely to default

While it is true but that's completely under Harry's control. Consumer unsecured credit is a volume game so it is not going to be possible to underwrite based on personal history. So you need to look at the historical behavior of similar people and the data will show he has a higher risk of default.

That said, Harry can definitely improve this situation by getting a secured credit card from a credit union and build his credit back up. However, if he gets dinged for his friend, he has no way out of it without unfriending everyone from his prior life on Facebook.

Lending can be more personal but the economics of unsecured lending makes this challenging. Credit unions get closest to this but the smaller ones who can provide such a service are struggling.
> I really don't think that we should have a problem with the removal of such people from our society.

The devil is in the details. I think that most people would happen to agree, but I don't approve of e.g. capital punishment or arresting based on being associated with a gang involved in criminal activity. These kinds of reactions don't just affect the current generation, they affect that generation's kids. Only rehabilitation of the parents is likely to seriously improve their lives, IMHO.
Lessons learned with 3D Touch
Tangentially, you can read about the bank crisis that spawned the worlds first central bank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholms_Banco
Oscar Wilde was completely out of touch with the realities of the impoverished. He was a Kardashian with literary talent.
Flakey always seems tolerable when you have 400 tests and you get one or two false reports a week. What people don't get is the the chance of failure is multiplicative, not additive, not fixed. So when you use that function 10 times as often it fails 12 or more times as often.

Tests are there to fight our natural tendency toward wishful thinking. Tests that fail for no reason enable people to keep thinking there was nothing wrong with their code. Meanwhile other people are twiddling waiting for them to fix something they don't think they broke.
PR is cheap if you're willing to grossly violate social norms.
Woof. That is one python program I would not call "executable pseudocode."
Just like I don't think any number of books will ever compensate for a poor ability to teach yourself.
inspired by https://github.com/netroy/image-size

which has sync and async methods, supports more image types, but doesnt let you measure pdfs (which requires an external lib here).