skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember a presentation by Amazon at AnDevCon describing a similar setup they use internally as part of their validation. The built in Android battery profile wasn't sufficiently accurate to what was actually causing drain (most OEMs don't modify the default AOP power profile to represent what their system components actually consume in power). They actually went to the point to connecting into the battery electronics on the battery side to monitor drain. Unfortunately I don't see the presentation available online and this was at least 4 years ago.
>They voted against it because they believe it "exceed(s) the commission’s legal authority."

isn't that the default response for them? they used similar reasoning to go against obamacare.
I actually just went through General Assembly's Web Development Immersive course and finished in July. I'm in a similar situation to that. I learned HTML/CSS/JS, then ruby on rails and MEAN stack.

After I finished I was at the point to know enough to know I don't really know much of anything, and got hired into an apprenticeship program a local company was running, even though the majority of the stack I learned at GA isn't even used. He hired me with the knowledge that I am teachable and willing to learn.

Everyone but one person from our cohort now also has a development job. General Assembly at least does a ton to make sure you are prepared to fight your way into the job market. The only thing I am worried about is what the market will look like for people coming from bootcamps 5 to 10 years down the line. Is this going to start to bring out the people opening ma and pops bootcamp to get a quick buck?
<intentionally hyperbolic response>Sorry that you think white cops shooting black people with impunity should have any response or emotion from the dead people's community repressed.

How do you propose the black community _should_ respond, and do you think all those possible ways haven't already been tried and failed miserably?
I still get the occasional app update adding support for Touch ID. So I think with hardware features like these, the full potential won't be completely realized until these devices are a few years old and it's near impossible to come across someone that doesn't have that feature on their model of iPhone.
Against my better judgment, I went through the archives to check for changes to the politics entry. As far as I can tell, this is the complete list of entries:

First entry, 1991-01-03: http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-2.3.1.dos.txt

> Vaguely left of center, except for the strong libertarian contingent
which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely. The only
safe generalization is that almost all hackers are anti-authoritarian,
thus both conventional conservatism and "hard" leftism are rare.
Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to either a) be
aggressively apolitical, or b) entertain peculiar or idiosyncratic
political ideas and actually try to live by them day-to-day.

1991-08-16: http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-2.9.6.dos.txt

> Vaguely left of center, except for the strong libertarian contingent
which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely. The only safe
generalization is that hackers tend to be rather anti-authoritarian;
thus, both conventional conservatism and `hard' leftism are rare.
Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to either (a) be
aggressively apolitical or (b) entertain peculiar or idiosyncratic
political ideas and actually try to live by them day-to-day.

(almost all -> tend to be)

1996-01-20: http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-3.3.0.dos.txt

> Vaguely liberal-moderate, except for the strong libertarian contingent
which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely. The only
safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather
anti-authoritarian; thus, both conventional conservatism and `hard'
leftism are rare. Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers
to either (a) be aggressively apolitical or (b) entertain peculiar or
idiosyncratic political ideas and actually try to live by them
day-to-day.

(left of center -> liberal-moderate)

2003-05-10: http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-4.4.0.dos.txt

> Formerly vaguely liberal-moderate, more recently
moderate-to-neoconservative (hackers too were affected by the
collapse of socialism). There is a strong libertarian contingent
which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely. The only
safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather
anti-authoritarian; thus, both paleoconservatism and `hard' leftism
are rare. Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to either
(a) be aggressively apolitical or (b) entertain peculiar or
idiosyncratic political ideas and actually try to live by them
day-to-day.

(liberal-moderate -> moderate-to-neoconservative)

In twelve years, he changed "vaguely left of center" to "liberal-moderate" to "recently moderate-to-neoconservative", none of which are positions that ESR identifies with. If this is the most egregious example of the problem you're describing, color me unconvinced.
Rocket Internet will, with justification, claim they are a "incubator". I don't know how much stock they take (or more likely give) but the idea of copying consumer sites and reproducing in different locales seems ... Brilliant and off putting at the same time.

Yet "competitors are Gods way of telling you there is money in the market" so perhaps we should all follow this idea more. For example I am looking at setting up a blockchain development company. I doubt that is unique. I don't feel like a copycat however.

I wonder why not?
Is this always true?

Or can we just not come up with compelling counter-examples, because the brands that won in their category are more compelling than the brands that split a category?
Irrelevant to your comment, but I would like to get in touch with you to talk about settlement/closing software that you mentioned a few months ago. How can I reach you?
At least the scoping and verbose lambda problem have been solved in ES6, with the introduction of let-vars and fat arrow functions, respectively.
> If you already know whether your hypothesis is true or false, you're not doing research

That's exactly what this is. People believe the claim 100% so we do a simple coin flip, and, yes, there it is. It's confirmed! No extraordinary evidence required for this extraordinary claim. Let the research money flow and the BBC reporting commence. If it were my money I would have another lab repeat the experiment.
Magic unveiled.
One way Instagram could crush Twitter in 2 years
I do have real comments to make, but, ooohh very nice CSS/look and feel. Me want.
I'm not sure if you're confused about my comment or the deleted one above, but you've more or less made my point. It doesn't make a lot of sense to say Charles Town, WV "resembles Virginia or Maryland more than Appalachia" when it's directly in between those two states and all three of them have Appalachian regions.

It's all beside the point anyway.
Piper – DIY Computer that plays Minecraft. Great for aspiring hackers
Nock just seems deliberately obtuse. The website boasts that "Nock is also the easiest thing in the world to learn" and that the spec "gzips to 340 bytes", but I can't seem to make heads or tails of it. Sure, you can defend Nock by saying it's not meant to be used directly, but can you give any advantages Nock offers over anything else? Because lambda calculus is even easier to implement and is more intuitive.
Security researchers face wrath of spy agencies
saw on http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/10/22/195207/security-resear...
Ah yes, I used to go to that one before I moved out of the city. I seem to recall they had to have someone out in the parking lot directing traffic because the backup was so severe.
That's great feedback bojo, what type of information would you like? I've been using it mostly with friends, so figured I would keep it barebones
Why your favorite retailer didn't come back from bankruptcy
> Forcing someone to withdraw from using social media when the rest of their peers are using it is on its own a form of bullying, especially when the person who withdraws is then categorically left out of normal social engagements because of that non-participation.

Why would a single bully, whom I can block, force my withdrawal from social media?

And, if an entire group is doing the bullying, why in the world would you want to communicate with them? The Internet makes it damn easy to find people who don't suck.

Yeah, maybe you won't get laid at Podunkville High School homecoming--that sucks. However, if you spend that time making sure you get out of Podunkville instead, you'll be WAY better off. After you leave, most of the people you thought were sooooo hot look a whole lot more pedestrian. Yeah, one or two really are hot, but they likely weren't in your league anyway (or you wouldn't be being bullied). The rest were just big fish in a small pond.
Thank you! Yeah, that's exactly what I was aiming for, it's really a nightmare to work with bare FTP.
Japanese business suits are made of very thin material and actually wear pretty well in the summer. You're probably right that they don't wear as well as traditional dress, but it's not nearly as bad as you're probably thinking, if you're thinking they're wearing the same outfit you'd wear in, say, NY in the winter or something.
Recent talk by John Carmack mentioned the same, in their case they hooked up a measured DC power supply in place of the battery to measure power usage for GearVR
Airbnb Ads Flop in San Francisco
Arturia's Minibrute is a nice analog for not all that much money.
The error in backprop is a vector quantity, not a single scalar for each time step. In RL the goal is to optimize the overall sum of the reward over all time steps. Backprop attempts to minimize the magnitude of the error for a given loss function, by moving in the negative direction of the gradient of the function. Backprop just moves a lot more variables to a desired outcome, that is what LeCun is saying. The representational power of a single scalar 'score' doesn't have much ability to optimize such a large n-dimensional function in any efficient way.
The Number of Data Scientists Has Doubled Over the Last 4 Years
The point is that supervised training on large networks requires millions or billions of examples. In RL, that means potentially billions of execution trajectories, which can be really expensive if you're executing on an actual, physical robot. And even then, supervised classification objectives are more informative than just a scalar reward: when a supervised system makes a wrong prediction you don't just tell it "sorry, that's wrong", you also tell it what the right prediction would have been. That extra information is really valuable for learning.

In the black-box RL setting, you only see whether what you did was right or wrong, not what the right thing would have been to do. And unlikely a classification system where the output space is relatively small (ImageNet has 1000 classes), an RL agent is searching over an exponentially large space of possible trajectories. Which means that without some additional source of supervision you can spend a long time wandering in the wilderness with no idea of whether what you're doing is reasonable or how to get any reward at all. And when you do get some reward, you have no idea which of the possibly hundreds or thousands of actions you took deserves the credit.

A lot of recent RL research is about finding additional sources of supervision, such as training an agent to mimic the policy of an "expert" (e.g., a search algorithm that runs in a simulator to find an optimal solution, but which requires too much computation to actually apply directly at test time, as in http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00702), or coming up with proxy objectives like "empowerment" or "curiosity" (which you can define in terms of information theoretic quantities, such as mutual information between the agents' action sequence and future state, e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08731) to supplement the actual reward signal. This latter path, the notion of "intrinsic reward" that paulsutter alluded to, is in some sense the merger of RL with unsupervised learning, and a lot of the power is that you're getting new reward signals constantly, not just when you finally manage to achieve some arbitrarily difficult task.
I hope they find something, but if not, there's a space mission planned for 2034 I'm looking forward to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_Laser_Interferometer_S...
Okay, waaaaay off topic (but still from the article!):

> Low-income families are often led by single mothers, which has been found to affect boys differently than girls.

"Differently than"? This is the New York Times. I expect better. (For those who don't get it, the snooty among us prefer "differently from".)

A quick search shows any number of occurrences of this jarring bit of word choice in the NY Times of late: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anytimes.com+%22different+th...

So, does this mean that "different than" is officially legal in the NYT? Or does it mean that the bean counters & cost cutters at a once great paper have fired everyone who cares about grammar & usage?

----------------------------------------------------

EDIT. It appears that, officially, they frown just a bit on "different than", but it isn't really a stern frown.

From The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, 1999, page 107:

> different. To satisfy the most exacting readers, use different with from, in front of a noun: Newspaper writing is different from poetry. When different unavoidably figures in a comparison with a full clause (including its own verb), different than is accepted by many authorities: Newspaper writing is different than it was 25 years ago. But if a graceful change can convert the phrasing to allow different from, it should be made: Newspaper writing is different from what it was 25 years ago.

Google Books link: https://books.google.com/books?id=CnwIVkAQgFwC&q=different+t...
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10434318
Jack Dorsey gives 1% Twitter stock to employee equity pool
"this ain't Windows land where we have VB, and other high level beginner lanagues."

You say that like it's a good thing. What's wrong with high level languages that are easy to use? Progress is defined by making complicated tasks easier. I'm guessing the ASM guys used to say the same thing about C/C++ users.
It's not even so much about "keeping technology out of the hands of police", it's about having appropriate safeguards against misuse and accountability for people granted the power to use (and abuse) it.

If we can't even indict police who shoot people in the back to go to trial(1), how can anyone believe cops won't use this to stalk ex girlfriends or anyone else they feel randomly curious about?

(1) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30339943
What amuses me about Hacker News: someone being sceptical about 'vampires' is met with responses like you see in this thread. Don't be so dismissive! Don't call them crazy! They may have a condition that doesn't show up on tests!

But just question the long term safety of nuclear reactors built on fault lines, or suggest anyone may have got cancer from radiation exposure, ever, and its just a wall of incredulity. Rubbish! Where's your proof! All the pro-nuclear science is beyond reproach!

Call me old fashioned, but these people are probably crazy, and radiation is probably dangerous. There's no bias quite like Hacker News bias...
This is 100% illegal unless a judge signed a warrant for each individual the plane observed. Is there any way of identifying the airplane and lodging a criminal complaint against the ones who were flying it?
> Why would we not want to be able to discern life-threatening information sooner?

Because there's a good chance you'll receive a treatment that will cause you to die sooner than had you not known about the disease for another decade. C.f. why they pushed back the recommended age for mammograms this week.
This is the essence of why we develop habits - it saves our brain power for when we need it during the work day.

It's strange but my wife seems to have an endless supply of this choice-making brain power - she never tires of poring over options, whether it be deciding what to eat or shopping online for shoes. I just want to be done with it as quickly as possible; it's almost physically painful for me to go shopping and be confronted by endless choices.
Isn't this one of those Mencius Moldbug things.
Yes, and as the wise narrator of this parody series points out, "What is most remarkable about this story is not that the dolphin knew the woman was sick, but that it knew she didn't know already."
This reasoning is great and makes perfect sense. The thing that makes it look like performance art is where Urbit appears to replace that complexity with something incredibly obscure that does not look like it will do anything helpful.
Boy, it's almost as if the rate of profit has a tendency to fall or something.
AngularConnect Keynote 2015
How could anyone not be familiar with Ted Nelson's work? In the broad sense, anyway.

I think the crucial layer that we need to implement... a lot of things... is a global immutable (aka referentially transparent) namespace. Urbit is one project building such a thing; another one is IPFS. (Urbit names are addressed by identity; IPFS names are content-addressed; so they're complementary and not competitive.)

One of the reasons the Web seems like such a poor imitation of Xanadu is that it rests on this rickety foundation of a mutable binding from name to resource. Once global immutable namespaces -- Urbit, IPFS, anything -- are more widely deployed, I think Xanadu would be wise to use such a thing as a layer.

But to paraphrase a famous saying: grant me the serenity to accept the code I cannot rewrite, the courage to rewrite the code I can, and the wisdom to know the difference :-)
Devd: a small, self-contained web daemon for developers
I started 3 months ago on my synthesis journey. Currently I only have the following: Korg MS2000B (polysynth), Ableton Push (controller), SH 101 (monosynth), 88 key piano, and an Elektron Machinedrum (for drums). Got everything I need.

I started off by:

1) Reading the manuals

2) Reading the Sound on Sound series "Synth Secrets". There's an amalgamated PDF of all the series on Reddit if you search for it.

I have all the tools I need to create music on the fly and it's fantastic. I can't even imagine what it would be like working with old computers, patch bays, analog sequencers ETC. I listen to things like Aphex Twin and it boggles my mind how complex his beats are, especially the stuff from the early 90's when he was only like 20.

Super pumped to be learning this in 2015. Sure a Jupiter 8 cost $1k in 1989 and is $10k now, but you don't even need one at all.
You're welcome.

;-)
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, JavaScript

I guess I'm nitpicking here but she meant the DOM or Web API and not JavaScript because it's not the fault of the underlying language that they made a mess of their API this way.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Giving Third of His Stock to Staff Equity Pool
"those scans still get dwarfed by the natural background radiation you are exposed to every day."

As others have said, the effects of radiation are additive, therefore those scans are not "dwarfed" by the natural background radiation etc, they increase it.

Take heat as an analogy. If the background level is at your body temperature and seventy different processes raise it by 1 degree C, you'll boil in your own skin. The background level is safe, each raise is safe, but added up they kill you.

The question is: is this possible with those vans? Is it conceivable that, in some cases, for some people, they may cause a lethal increase in their daily dose of radiation? Is it possible to know this for sure? Uncertain death is even scarier than certain death and for very good reason.
Just because someone made an rfc, doesn't mean that the rfc is the de facto standard.
I think the key here is the Goldilocks principle: too little or no choice is bad, but so is too much choice. The key (from a marketing perspective) is finding just the right amount of choice that does not overwhelm, but gives a range of varying options. Other commenters have mentioned finding a sweet spot - Apple's x/y axis that leads to four product categories; trimming the number of potato chip options on the rack from 12 to 5 and seeing sales jump.
Implementing EventEmitter in ES6
> Meanwhile they were taking home a paycheck instead of paying tuition dollars. Maybe they've got family to support and taking four years out of the workforce wasn't a possibility. Or maybe sitting in a classroom is just not how they learn.

How is that in any way the problem of the company said guy is joining?

> What exactly is the problem with some people learning on the job if they want to and employers want them to?

Because it is inherently a risky proposition. Why should the rest of the team be held back or be responsible for plugging the gaps in the education of the guy/girl who doesn't know their stuff? It's not an Internship, is it? If you're getting paid a full time salary you better be able to fucking to the job.

Anyway all this talk is pointless. Any company worth its salt will weed out the weaklings in the Interview process.
Yeah, I figured it was something like that, any reading suggestions?
Yes, and some people commit suicide over bullying, who might have been saved had they been encouraged to fight back a bit and punch some asshole in the face. Physically fighting back does not make bullying okay, but it might be the best among a long list of bad alternatives.
> One of the great things about science is that we can determine whether a phenomenon is likely real without having to have the slightest clue what the mechanism might be.

You just have to ignore the people who shout "correlation is not causation" at every opportunity, appropriate or not.
https://twitter.com/jack/status/657351519461707776
Blood biomarker predicts death from serious infection
"The Chinese have dealt with that issue by protecting their market."

Can anyone explain why this ends up not being a bigger international trade issue? It seems to me like it would be a giant flashpoint, but it seems not to be.
I'm not exactly the strongest advocate of political correctness, but the "documentation" slide is somewhat racist and offensive.
Worlds top musicians have said they can't tell analog from digital. I laugh at purists.
Every type of vehicle has an archetype. It's different for different people, based on generation and social class and so on, but for a number of people, their archetype of the station wagon is the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, from National Lampoon's Vacation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon's_Vacation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FamilyTruckster.jpg

It has the distinct handicaps of being Real American Steel, trimmed to the gills and loaded within an inch of its life, not to mention the wonderful color scheme.

My point is, it would take an act of some minor deity to unseat that mental image.
So I get that Nock is hard to wrap your head around. But that's like complaining that your cpu's machine code is deliberately obtuse. You aren't going to be writing nock unless it's for fun.

Hoon may be a little deliberately different which can be construed as obtuse but it actually takes less time than you might think to get up to speed in it.
I Think We’re All Using the Term “Valuation” Wrong…
Jets are pretty ignorable. Pattern-matching an incredibly obtuse language against a distributed database of machine language is not in any way comparable to LuaJIT, nor do I see any good way for it to do any meaningful optimization beyond e.g. replacing peano numbers with machine integers.
The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
Busy, but not productive
Reading some random slides from a specialist talk is not exactly the easiest way to learn this stuff.
So, you want to disrupt governance by replacing democracy with plutocracy? The more taxes you pay, the more explicit political power you should have?