skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that any different from a bunch of developers plugging in magic numbers into a formula that they made up, which (to a first approximation) is roughly what happens now?

Realistically, the outcome will be the same as it is now: those firms whose models don't reflect reality will blow up, those whose do will get bigger, a few will get too big to fail off some very confidently-expressed models and make a lot of people mad at them, and eventually the market will straighten out who's lying and who's not. Won't be painless, but then, capitalism never is.
No because their businesses won't work if they don't understand that stuff. It took us a while to learn it in the anti spam world but not that long in the big scheme of things.
It's been a long day, so I'm probably missing something; can somebody explain to me how "These shortfalls do not count, for example, those retiring baby boomers who would have left the labor force whether or not the Great Recession happened."

I don't see it, since I don't see anywhere in their methodology that they took into account the changing age dynamic.
Well, as soon as I saw parent, I thought like he's telling my story!

I had the exact same experience, and I've done maybe 50-60 interviews so far, and I interviewed at least that many people, your interview was the worst.

Our interview took about 60 mins, and after asking a string DP question, basically you returned your daily job, no feedback, no questions, and took at least couple of phone calls during the interview.

I understand you now acknowledge that was a bad thing, and I appreciate that, but again, it was beyond rude IMHO.
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I think the scenario shadeless was describing is that the author of the PR shouldn't be able to merge but anyone else with write access could. It would be my ideal scenario as well. (You could of course bypass this by doing it in Git if you really needed to.)
There's a nice discussion of this over at Derek Lowe's Pipeline blog:

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/10/07/a-n...
When I switched to verizon last year (shortly before articles about this last time).. I received a privacy notice in the mail. 1 page, front and back that covered this (and only this). It also had opt out instructions.

I remember it, because I had it sitting on my desk for a week before I got around to following the instructions.
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In fact they are probably better off in checking because a lot of banks offer ridiculous benefits like high interest on checking in exchange for swiping your debit card 5-12 times a month.
We have a Linux distributing organizing programs in a different way: Android.

It seems to be working pretty good, actually, with compartmentalization and tight security.
I hear this is encoutering resistance as it reduces the likelihood of people giving non-trivial fees to miners?
Why does "Americans" not work? Isn't the USA the only country with "America" in its name? (And I thought Mexico's full name is the "United States of Mexico" so "US" is ambiguous, as well).
East side also has a big Google presence in Kirkland. The Google office in Fremont is small in comparison.

There are also north (Bothell-Everett) and south (Renton-Tacoma) sides to consider, which are also changing rapidly. Everytime I go back (I grew up there), I'm shocked by some change. The Amazon one was huge (hey, Apple is at South Lake also now!).
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How is Cygwin terrible exactly? It’s fast and lightweight (compared to other recommendations like MobaXterm) and has a huge selection of packages¹. Frankly, I don’t get why Cygwin gets so much flack; I’m glad it exists.

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¹ — http://cygwinports.org/
I wonder how many of these spills go unreported! In high school one of my classmates told me how he used to crack open thermometers and play with the liquid. I don't know if it was mercury or not, but it seemed to be, and he was completely unaware of how toxic it was.
I've seen Python (and R) used all the time for exploratory ML. Do all of your feature extraction, feature selection, parameter tweaking, and backtesting in Python, and then once you have a model that works reasonably well, port the feature extraction for only the features that actually work well over to a compiled language like Java or C++, train your models on lots of data, and do your actual classification in the compiled language.

Most ML is an iterative process, and the final model that's used in production is just the tip of the iceberg of the development work that went on. Python works as well for exploratory programming there as it does for any other domain.
That was definitely interesting to listen to. Recommend it to others reading this thread. I have personally never met anyone being that passionately dismissive of people working at technology companies. Absurd.
Even if he'd done that he would be better off than using a savings account.

http://dqydj.net/sp-500-return-calculator/

Picking arbitrary dates to buy a lot of equities and then not selling them isn't market timing; trying to trade repeatedly on the right dates is. That's how you lose all your money.
What's the button for "This is stupid" or "I dislike this"? I'm not angry about it, I'm not sad, I just think it's a bad idea or lacking thought?

As other commenters say, it's really about having positive-only things.
"...the costs of compliance will make internal combustion powertrains uneconomic"
They have additional filters. It's not like the emission targets are impossible to meet. They're just impossible to meet without the filters.
... and if you want to learn more than has been already said, start with the famous design of qmail as a collection of mutually untrusting daemons that run under individual unprivileged user accounts, precisely to insulate each from the others using the normal operating system mechanisms that insulate one user's processes, files, directories, and so forth from another's.

A good question to ask yourself: "Presume that my daemon is compromised by an attacker ...

* ... what processes can it trace, debug, read/write the memory spaces and environments of, or send signals to?"

* ... what files, devices, and directories can it read and write?"

* ... what files, devices, and directories does it own, and can thus grant access to?"

Then ask: "How does the answer change if instead of all of my daemons running as the same (even if unprivileged) user they each run as different users, some (where appropriate) having no write access to anything and owning no files nor directories at all?"
Agreed. For more info, looks at the video here: http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/08/26/22761976/at...

an engineer confronts him in a Q&A session about his bias towards engineers. John just blows up. He accuses techies of being quiet &boring, while at the same time accusing them of being the people who are bashing trans people. He's very inconsistent and is just good at being loud.

Oh, and he's also a transplant from NYC, so if we're supposed to buy into his transplant-hate, we should hate him too.
As fryguy says, that's $7 per transaction, $12,000 per block.

Amusingly as bitcoin gets more successful and the price rises, the system gets less efficient to compensate.
Angry and Sad are not negative. It's so that when someone posts a picture of "Man beats his dog", you can like it by being Angry with people. Or when "Tidal wave kills 5000 in Elbonia", you can "like" it by being Sad.

For instance, on this particular post, a lot of people want to say "I dislike this" or "This is stupid". They can say "Oh, well you're angry or sad", knowing full well how bad that looks and that people don't do it.
I wouldn't recommend it, the Desktop Environments lack decent HDPI support, and Touch feels cumbersome.
Debian has specifically said that they will be continuing to use the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard).
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I am posting my essays on both my personal website, medium and linkedin and I am even trying out Facebooks new "Medium competitor"[1]

And I am accessing different people on each of the platforms. I am not so sure it's that bad for a writer because people who read them aren't really searching for essays.

Instead it's about having access to the right distribution channels IMO.

I have never had as many readers of my things after i started cross-posting. So for mit its perfect.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/thomas-petersen/the-problem-w...
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You reduce opportunity which gets rid of opportunistic criminals. Ones who might rob your house because it is unlocked and they are less likely to get caught (compared to the shattering of glass or breaking down a door).

I'm going to go out on a limb and claim murders are not an opportunistic crime. People are not killing because they can and can get away with it. The comparison you are trying to make dies there because the type of crime is not comparable.
I've seen Python used heavily in ML where much of the work is done on the GPU anyways. There are plenty of libraries for that, and Python's slow nature isn't as relevant (though it still becomes relevant when CPU processing is the bottleneck!).
I don't know enough about the SafeNet HSMs to elaborate on that, but they claim:

> This manufacturer-validated devicee identification mechanism enables a strong trust model whereby customers can be assured that they are communicating with specific SafeNet hardware units in a way that cannot be spoofed.
> Do they mean "disarm the entire population", "disarm all criminals", "disarm the mentally unstable", "institute severe penalties for doing X, Y or Z with guns", or something else?

"Gun control", in a policy sense that you want, where people define their terms, does not mean that. I gave you two sources with similar definitions. It means simply the laws related to the the production, sale, ownership, use, etc. of a gun and its ancillary components.

If your example regulations were in place, they would be considered part of gun control. Even if they are not in place, there can still be gun control.

The question I think you want to ask is "what gun controls do you want"? Not "what is gun control."

For purposes of this discussion, define "gun control" as having policies which are essentially identical to those of (your preference) Australia, or Sweden, or Japan.

I think that's as simple and unambiguous as you are going to get, and will satisfy most people interested in stricter laws.

> In the next sentence they are talking about cops not having to worry about people shooting them

That comment is a continuation of the thread, which started with statistics of the number of civilians killed by police officers.

> That, to me, implies that, to this person, "gun control" might mean something approaching total disarmament of the population, criminals included.

Again, "gun control" here is a synecdoche to mean "stricter gun control." Countries with strict gun controls, like Australia and Sweden, have a lot of private gun ownership, for hunting and target shooting. So no, it doesn't necessarily mean 'total disarmament of the population'.

Here's a hypothetical that might help understand the difference. Suppose hunting rifles are allowed, but hand guns are not. It's pretty hard to conceal a rifle as you go around town, especially since the law requires that it be locked up in a case when in transit, or stored in the house.

This means it's less likely that a petty thief will be carrying a gun to commit a crime. This means it's less likely that a drug dealer will be carrying a gun as protection against potential thieves.

In general, many police reports which involve the forceful police attack on what turns out to be the wrong person are justified because of the likelihood that the actual criminal is likely to have a gun, and may respond with a gunfight. For example, SWAT teams are often called out for low-level drug dealers. The assumption is that a dealer is likely to be armed. The team is figuratively armed for bear; expecting the worst possible case. Sometimes they end up killing or seriously injuring innocent people, including by forceful entry of the wrong house.

If years of SWAT team calls were go out, where no one ever has a gun, then it will be increasingly hard to justify the expense of a SWAT team and the deaths that sometimes occur when in a hair-trigger mode.

That was the statistics that the OP was referring to. That was the gun control style that the earlier poster was referring to. Very few seriously propose a 'total disarmament of the population', and if you had researched the topic you would have quickly learned that.
My mother told me that when I was very young (too young to remember), I was sick and she stuck a thermometer in my mouth to take my temperature. And I promptly bit the end off it, and had to be rushed to the hospital to have my stomach cleaned out of mercury.
Wow, it looks great! I especially like this section:

“unicode as expected

Unicode in midipix is not an afterthought, but rather an essential concept. When your application enters its main() function, for instance, its argv and envp point to utf-8 strings, just like they would on modern unix systems. Similarly, the size of the framework's native wide character (wchar_t) is four bytes, meaning that your unicode application can share its entire code-path between platforms. Last but not least, midipix adds an important 'M' (as in multibyte) variant to the 'A' (ansi) and 'U' (utf-16) GUI flavors, meaning that you can seamlessly call functions such as GetWindowText or SetWindowText using utf-8 input and output.”
> It's interesting to see how much positive personal acclaim Nadella is getting for the hardware strategy that was initiated in the Ballmer/Sinofsky era.

Wasn't this the intention of switching CEOs?
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Yikes. I'm glad my house was built in the 80's. No asbestos, no lead in the paint, no mercury hiding out in my ceiling.

How dangerous was this contamination, though? I know mercury evaporates, and that it is an air quality concern, but given its location and assuming normal levels of indoor air movement, is it worth $50k to abate it?

I tend to be skeptical of mold issues, for example, but I also imagine that mercury is way more harmful than mold spores, mostly because you can't smell mercury.
I'm not arguing that it was a few people working in secret, just that it would be possible for the changes to be done at a high level (in the engine system), without pulling in all the people that were involved in developing the vehicle (or even the powertrain).
>design decisions like this cannot be secreted into the final product.

I'm not entirely convinced. You compare it to the Linux kernel. I'd say a better comparison is router firmware upgrades.

If a manufacturing plant gets sent a new image with a note attached saying "HQ says use this one" then they're definitely going to load it onto the cars.

Clearly someone cooked the image somewhere & there is likely to be version control in place but I doubt the whole thing is as transparent code-wise as you suggest.
Ha, small world. It's strange, because I don't even look like a typical "techbro" as people have been describing in this thread. Work/life balance is incredibly important to me. I have a large beard, my long hair is in a bun, I have tattoos on my arms. I moved to Fremont because the one friend I had here lived there.

Shoot me a private message, lets grab a bite or beer sometime.
1. No you can't, but I have always wondered why.

2. They might, but they say it's a tablet, and it looks like a tablet, and it has touch screen. Tablets (often) have cellular.
I am still to find a sys admin that likes systemd.

On the other hand, developers seem to enjoy it quite a bit.

That's what happens when you have developers developing for themselves, not for sys admins (the end users of their work).
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There is still a big gap of live atmosphere observations that are being fed into these models. Even if you throw money at them, you will not end up with increasingly better results since the initial state of the model will be the same. Throwing money at the model runs and the supercomputers will cease to provide positive returns at some point (and I think the Euro is probably near that point).

We need a dramatic increase in the number of observing stations as well as funding increase for the supercomputer time. I'm personally very interested in what we can do with smartphones right now; there are billions of internet-connected barometers that the Euro and the GFS do not use. Project like PressureNet[1] and Sunshine[2] are making huge strides there, and I think the future is very promising.

[1]: Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...

[2]: iPhone: https://thesunshine.co
I'm not sure how I feel about anonymous throwaway accounts posting unflattering anecdotes about someone. None of us spectators have any way of judging what happened for ourselves, and without a name or at least a posting history attached it's hard to take these grievances too seriously.
SMS was a thing 20 years ago. Wiki says first SMS message was sent in 1992, and development went far back (beyond IRC).
It's for the same reason that java has to be invoked as

/usr/bin/env $JAVA_HOME/bin/java

thus raising questions such as http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/229523/ .

systemd does not permit variable expansions or unit parameters in the first word of ExecStart.
I totally agree. There are way faster ways. I really think that the American higher-higher education system values people doing amazing things.
It's not that an attacker can't win that way, the point is to play in the bitcoin world, miners must spend a lot of time doing intentionally inefficient things. They spend a lot of energy calculating the hashes, by default. playing by the rules means doing lots of calculations that get thrown away.
This does seem like a good case for small claims court against Honeywell. It's probably limited in what they could recover but they could at least get some of that back.
This was an engineering problem. There may be an assumption that while there are about a dozen people in the US who work for VW in an engineering capacity, the US part of the group is in essence purely a marketing operation.
Sadly, no. I actually might have mis-remembered that detail and made a liar of myself. :(

I tried to go back through the 4.1-rc1 kdbus merge request saga, but Gmane is so slow as to be unusable today and the only other lkml archive I can find that shows me the whole discussion [0] doesn't appear to do threads. [1]

A search for "CRIU" reveals Lutomirski mentioning that a particular bit of info passed around by kdbus ("starttime") would break CRIU. Greg K-H says "'starttime' has been removed for a while now. You sure that you're looking at latest?" Lutomirski says something to the effect of: "No, I haven't taken a close look at latest, just checked to see if that thing that I thought was really bad was still in it, and it was."

Later, I see Lutomirski wondering if kdbus would interact with '/proc/<pid>/map_files' in such a way as to break CRIU, but Michal Hocko says something to the effect of "Eh, it looks like it shouldn't, but I can't know for sure.".

Because I don't have the thread structure, I can't be sure that there weren't replies to any of those messages from folks who felt that there was a problem for CRIU. However, as it stands now, it's pretty safe to say that I fabricated a bucket of mud and threw it around.

Sorry. Mea culpa. :(

[0] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?do=post_view_pr... (Print dialog warning)

[1] I've just gotta ask: am I an idiot, or is Google Groups's mailing list search feature absolutely terrible? I ask it to give me all instances of "CRIU" in a particular LKML thread. It gives me a pointer to the start of that thread, leaving me to go through messages ~20 at a time to find the messages I care about.
Angry's for when someone posts something bad, like "Boss fired me for not sleeping with him".

If you use Angry for dislike, you're inviting mockery. "Oh, this got you angry? haha loser".
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-06/quiggin-bitcoins-are-a...
I immediately thought of this Jared: http://bit.ly/1VIfJ63
The actual damages that resulted from his actions were pretty small and purely financial.

Even if you prosecute on the basis of what could have happened (maybe we start charging everyone who runs a red light with manslaughter?), we're still not reaching the level of physical harm to anyone or (barring complete negligence on the part of the Tribune) a catastrophic material loss.

You really think society's need to avenge that wrong is worth spending $30k a year to hold him in federal prison, exposing him to possible violent harm, and depriving him of his future? Sorry, but that's insane. He should pay the actual damages, a punitive fine, and perform community service, tops.
Judging from google images, that could be what I saw 10 years ago, though I thought it was a real flower.
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I moved to Seattle from Atlanta 8 months ago and I haven't managed to make any friends. This place is rough.
From the source:

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Maybe the lesson is to save.

There's a huge number of very unlikely risks. Too many risks to carefully avoid them all. Something unexpected will happen. Insurance can help, but as the articls shows, not always.
this is the same guy that did the 'bellevue wives matter' huh? I didn't realize he was a recent transplant.

I love going dancing in Capitol Hill (Swing, Salsa, Ballroom) but I don't find the neighborhood as welcoming and I was told it would be. University District seems like the place to go if you're young.
This is a tool I wrote because gitolite didn't fit the purpose. Per-domain admins, per-user ssh key administration, interactive shell.

Test the shell by ssh'ing testgitadmin@jstimpfle.de (pass = testgitadmin)

It should be pretty self-explaining if you look quickly at the code and run interactively (of course, please don't just trust me. Start with a dummy user).

Comments and critique appreciated. Improvements need to be made for command-line completion and modularity. Also, plain text database would be nicer. How to keep the code small, simple and safe?
Ok, yes, you're absolutely right, thanks for responding. I have customized it a bit (e.g. changing "yesterday" to return a TIMEX3 Date instead of a date/time, roughly speaking, I'm probably forgetting the details). I was really hoping you knew of something better ;)
Slightly better, and works well in practice[0],
replace step 6 with "Repeat from step 3 until one candidate has more than 2/3 the votes, and possibly chage step 5 to cut candidate list down more quickly (imagine how long it would take to eliminate 1 at a time with 100 candidates). If after 2 candidates remain neither gets more than 2/3 the vote, flip a coin.

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> There is virtually nothing in this field that I feel I couldn't learn given books and free time

Nah, you just don't know what you don't know. There are subjects that are hard to pick up outside of a real course with an instructor, peers, projects, etc. Some areas of CS depend on graduate level math and would be very tough to pick up on your own.