skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Banks are not state-maintained. You can argue that 'too big to fail' means government support for them, but support is not control.

2. Banks charge roughly the same fees for the same reason grocery stores charge roughly the same prices - competition.

3. Coercion is a straw man when considering government activity. Anything you don't like becomes coercive. I don't like that my roommate wakes up before me and disturbs my sleep - coercion! I like having subsidized education but not paying taxes - coercion! I like feeling safe with protected borders and the greatest fighting force ever assembled but not paying taxes or protecting people who don't look like me - coercion!

4. There is never a single solution, no silver bullet to resolve complex societal problems. I sympathize a bit with you here - what is the point of progressive reform when the system will adapt? Nothing structural will change, but will only shift. But at the same time, shouting down calls for representative change serve nobody either.

I also resent your use of 'rape' in that context.
So this dyslexic guy walks into a bra...

No, really, it wasn't really a joke, but more of a funny story that almost everyone laughs at... except this particular CTO. Sigh. I'd explain it here, but there's some backstory that is required for the story to be funny, and the backstory is a project that I worked on for a few years. They always want to know more about that project, so by the time I'm wrapping up the short explanation, they have enough information to understand why this one thing is funny.

In retrospect, maybe that suggests that she wasn't really paying attention. Maybe I just didn't notice. Hmm.
http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/07/08/a-global-middle-class-is... seems to mention otherwise.

Having seen the changes over last 20 years in India, the middle class is now a lot vulnerable and in the fix with absolutely zero safety net. The earning power of the middle class might have doubled but the expenses and the standard of living has increased manifolds, thus pushing them further to the bottom.
Given the variety of things under the psychiatry umbrella, there is surely some of that, they don't seem much different from the larger pool of scientists, doctors, public health workers, etc. on the whole. But, there's nothing wrong with a healthy dose of skepticism!
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I'm not so sure; dealing with mobile safari is giving me some awful flashbacks.
Well, that's something we've all invented before. Why does it warrant a patent?
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Looking for somebody who is really crazy, who can write code in js (es6, react, angular, express) and rails.

Just leave your email in comment and I will contact you.
Market Saturation: If there is too much product in the market, the product is worthless. News right now is worthless. Way too many providers not pushing enough quality.
> Even Yahoo has gotten in on the action, blocking users from their email when they have AdBlock running.

Wait, really? Users can't read their email if an adblocker is installed? I can't imagine what mother would do if she ran into a error message like that while trying to check her email (but she doesn't use yahoo).
I do not use Linux on a day to day basis as I said multiple times in these threads, nor do I consider the popular Linux distributions as a good example of small(er) software. They keep getting larger.

Some have said the larger Linux distributions aim to be a "replacement" for Windows. I would tend to agree. I have little interest in Windows nor the "desktop" metaphor.

But, at least with an open source kernel such as Linux (aside from the binary blobs), unlike closed source Microsoft Windows kernel, a user can reduce the size.

One can also use an initrd with her own small(er) programs or a mutli-call binary instead of a GNU userland put together by a third party organization.

I have never compiled my own reduced size Windows kernel or any other part of Windows given that it is a _closed source kernel_. The idea that I am even having to state seems ridiculous. Most everyone reading this forum knows this. This whole "discussion" is surreal.

Funny that you use the word "wasteful". That is exactly how I view large(r) software. It wastes valuable resources that, on my systems, are in limited and often short supply.

The reason I mentioned what I prefer was to disclose bias. Certainly everyone has one.

The reason I mentioned what I use was only to provide example, to illustrate that such small(er) software exists. Again, the idea I even have to state this, to someone on this forum, seems surreal.

There are alternatives to Windows and to Linux distributions, at least in my case. I know for fact I am not the only one using small(er) software, but I am not comfortable speaking for others. What software they choose to use is their business, not mine.
Newton's laws weren't disproved, they were just shown to be less general than originally assumed. Quantum theories usually assume Newton's laws to be true axiomatically, otherwise the quantum theory would be under-specified and practically useless.
If I wanted an Apple, I'd buy an Apple. We don't need more tivoized crippled laptops that so thin! and so… useless.
From a Bayesian perspective, this story illustrates how ridiculous it is to target Muslims for additional surveillance, or to stop accepting refugees from Syria.

Let's say there are 500,000 people with the ability and intent to commit a terrorist act. This includes 40,000 Daesh, 10,000 Boko Haram, the military wings of Hezbollah and Hamas, Maoist rebels and Hindu nationalists in India, Basque separatists, FARC in Colombia, neo-Nazis and other violent white supremacists, etc.

So the Bayesian prior is something like 5e5 / 7e9 = 0.00007. Even if 70% of terrorists are Islamic, with 1.6e9 Muslims, knowing someone is Muslim only changes the posterior to about 0.0002. Since there are many non-Islamic terrorists, this is probably overstated.

If the article is right that engineers are overrepresented among terrorists by a factor of nine, then law enforcement would be more justified in targeting engineers for investigation than they would be in targeting Muslims generally.

That's obviously ridiculous. The posterior is so low for both engineers and Muslims that it would be a huge waste of time with an astronomical false-positive rate.

Just looking at the math shows that these broad generalizations are useless.
They also crave attention.
I think Microsoft's Surface Book is a realization of that.
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It doesn't look like they're having conversations. It looks like they're seeing some sort of stimulus, and are making relevant noises. It's a pretty impressive reflex, but it's not a conversation - it's an announcement. It's no more of a conversation than a hungry baby crying.

> Mice and other animals do say that

Okay, find me a link that says mice complain about humans not learning their language.
There's actually the full text available here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17611729

(At least, I think. Maybe this isn't the updated one?)
Few things (strictly my opinion):

1. Old advertising offered really a little in term of tracking, conversion and analysis. Advertisers had to spend without having much knowledge of what's going on.

2. New advertising probably optimized spending. New mediums (Google, Facebook, etc...) are now taking your attention (time) and thus not only the TV/Newspaper is.

3. People are used to the free lunch in the digital screen. They are very likely to buy the paper then to subscribe.

4. Newspapers moved online. But they messed it up. Instead of figuring out how to properly monetize, they become aggressive. They spam you with infinite amounts of ads.
The article's dated "November 24, 2015" tho.
I've always been really happy with ASUS, their recent zenbooks are outstanding.
At last report Bret Victor's research is supported by these folks: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-29/sap-looks-...

It's a hard question, what you ask -- should the techno-aristocracy pursue worthy causes, while the rest of us toil to enrich them? Is the world so fundamentally unfair that we're stuck without autonomy, doing tiresome tasks for corporations which don't even offer us basic economic security in return? Much less the opportunity to improve that world?

There does seem to be an option, at least early on: Labor for those who respect neither their employees nor customers. Or find/create energetic work which can make us and our surroundings better. Either decision feeds on itself. The first path limits options, the second gives some chance for things being better.

But I don't want this to be a blame-the-victim argument: that your father made a poor early career choice, and that Bret Victor chose wisely. But one element of Victor's argument is that our career choices (if we have them) have consequences for the world as well as ourselves. If we can find work which is not cynical and destructive, it may make the world better, and even set a good example. If we struggle for work which is emotionally, financially, and creatively unrewarding, then we're suggesting to others that that is the world, and they may find it easy to make similar choices.

The recent essay (by a presumably enfranchised techno-aristocrat) https://medium.com/@ystrickler/resist-and-thrive-1d36819853c... covers a similar territory regarding career choices, also pre-supposing that we have some autonomy. An argument there is that the initial choice is harder, but the consequences are easier.
What would you like to do? 1-2 concrete examples please.
No. Try playing some video content on C4, if you're running any kind of adblock, it refuses to play. There was a bit of an 'arms race' back when it was first introduced between C4 and developers on the internet. C4 won, adblockers simply won't work on their site, video ads are unskippable and every 5 mins or so.
Wait, isn't P(H) probability of the tested hypothesis being true, and therefore P(D|H) probability of seeing the data given tested hypothesis is true? The p-value would be P(D|¬H), right?
The sources are named and quoted in the article, so I don't know why you think it's pure conjecture.
Wouldn't the XC-120 count as prior art here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_XC-120_Packplane Seems like a very similar idea
Here, have a ton of articles saying we're in a bubble and it's about to burst.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bubble%20silicon%20valley&sort...
> The canonical way people know whether they're authorized to do something to a computer system is that it allows them to do it. If you aren't authorized then it comes back with "access is denied" and you can't do it.

I think you're going astray by looking at this from a computer perspective instead of from a human perspective. The canonical way to know if you're authorized to access x is if the owner of x has given you permission to access it. The fact that the "Employees Only" door isn't locked doesn't imply that everyone is authorized to go back there, and the "Authorized Vehicles Only" driveway doesn't need a roadblock to be meaningful.

There are certainly ambiguities and room for this statute to be overused, but there are also situations that are clearly on one side or the other.
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Agree with all you say. I can pick up languages with ease, but my real value in a team is the baggage of burns I had fighting against the Java ecosystem.

Some day ago one dev here had trouble getting an image parsed, and I remembered being burn by it many years prior, and indeed was an issue with the in-container initialization order of ImageIO extensions. I see this happening more and more as I grew on. As Spolsky said (but I'm sure there were others) experience is having made all the mistakes in a domain.
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As TeMPOraL points out, you seem to be defining probability in general. The p-value is a very specific concept in statistics, not an abbreviation for "probability value" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value).
Yeah, that's what I've been having to do on a lot of things lately. I told them what would happen when they first started pushing it. Looked at the person next to me to say, with all the things Win98 on a PII did, the modern era chokes a Core Duo 2 trying to look at a document in a browser. Unreal...
And you shouldn't care! Their business success is none of your business, you're the customer and you are there for the content, not to help them out. If you're running a business and not making money then your business sucks and you need to do better.

Monetizing via ads is proving to NOT WORK yet so many businesses are still banking on it. I don't fucking get it.
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I was describing the theory behind the p-value. In practice, people slice and dice the dataset in multiple ways and try several specifications which increases the false positive rate (see the multiple comparisons problem)
Downvote me/report me if this is against etiquette, but I'm working on a project around this very problem: supporting the government-independent press and reclaiming consumer power (by not using an ad-subsidised business model).

I cannot pass up this perfect opportunity to ask people who care about/consume news:

Information is a commodity (especially in english-speaking countries), yet independent news & information is critical to society. Would you be willing to donate (not pay) for news? Or what future for independent news/information sources do you hope/expect?
The infrastructure of human society was built for the condition ranges of a certain climate. The current global warming trend is seen as bad right now because a) it's taking us outside that range, and b) it's preventable.

Purposefully cooling us outside that range would also be bad, albeit in different ways.
We could create a new system. Why is that never thought to be an option . . . people do do that.
Quotes Friedrich von Hayek: "[people with engineering training] react violently against the deficiencies of their education and develop a passion for imposing on society the order which they are unable to detect by the means with which they are familiar."
When will there be more info about YC Research??
If I recall correctly, the slow part about boarding a plane isn't actually the boarding part. That only takes like 15 minutes. The unloading/loading of luggage, refueling, and restocking is what takes the most time. If you took the Mythbusters solution and boarded everyone as quickly and efficiently as possible, you would still be waiting around on the tarmac for another 15+ minutes for the plane to be ready for take-off. In fact, I believe that's why they don't use the most optimal board algorithm, because while you're attempting to board the plain, you think that other passengers are the problem and not the airline. (citation needed)

So I'm not super clear on what, exactly, this solves in that regard. If there were modular fuel tanks and some sort of cannon that shot your luggage from check-in directly into the luggage compartment, maybe... :)
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That's actually not true. git-pull (which is where the pull request comes from) is in the git manpages. Specifically it is: Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local branch. Which is basically a git fetch and merge from the submitters repository to the repository they are submitting to.

EDIT: Admittedly if you are talking specifically of the request part, then you are correct. However the name comes directly from git's pull command which is a feature of git.
Yeah I may have worded it confusingly, you can think of H as the null hypothesis in the equation (or replace it all with not H if you want)
Dissociative identity disorder makes me wonder about the nature of our identity. Which personality is the real person? Clearly at least some of these personalities are not central to the identify of the person -- clearly not the teenage boy. It stands to reason that one or even none of the personalities truly represent the person, and that they are simply projections of the mind. Then I start thinking about the normal case of one personality. Is the normal case somehow different? Is our mind-created identity really us, any more than B.T.'s several mind-created identities are really her? Or is it just a projection of our mind?

Put another way, is our personality a part of our identity, or is it merely an extension of us, in the same way an arm or leg is a part of us? If we cut off an arm, we are no less ourselves. If B.T. lost a few personalities, we would agree that B.T. is no less herself. If we lost our own personality, our "ego", would we be no less ourselves? Eastern philosophy says yes. I see the logic, but I'm having trouble accepting it.
It would be helpful to tell how the commenter is wrong, and what is the correct description.
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And QNX before that. But, that's a well-engineered, UNIX-like microkernel rather than Linux. Oh well...
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[Copying my comment from the other submission]

I find it interesting that the network seems to have trouble getting the global structure right. This is particularly clear when the source features a regular pattern that carries through the whole image. If you zoom in on a small enough region of one of the synthesized brick textures, it looks fine, but looking at the whole thing, it's clear that the network doesn't get that it needs to produce identical looking bricks and that the lines need to match up and run parallel to each other, etc.

I wonder if this global structure gets lost in the pooling layers? I'm not sure how global constraints could be enforced across pooling. Part of the pooling layers' job is to provide translation invariance, after all.
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This is scarily true. When my lab (bioinformatics) would work/collaborate with research biologists and their labs, the research biologists lack of statistics would become very clear.
Especially when we did data mining on their qpcr experiments, we constantly have to explain things like bonferroni corrections.

Edit: This is just my experience at one university with 6-7 biological research labs. I regret using the generalization, apologies.
I think the coin example makes sense but is not a good example in this case. You will never be able to determine the validity of a coin just by flipping it. Any sequence of flips is technically valid but possibly just very rare for a fair coin.

The p-value won't tell you if the coin is fair or not, but it can tell you the probability that the coin is fair.
Given how good your average airline is at directing baggage, I look forward to being accidentally put on a plane to Murmansk due to a misread barcode or something on the modular cabin.
Your link defines p-value as a probability.

>More specifically, the p-value is defined as the probability of...

Edit: A good exercise would be to start with the axioms[0] of probability theory and then derive the p-value for a simple experiment, using only those axioms (and your measured values).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_axioms
Give netlify a try https://www.netlify.com

It's like GitHub pages on steroids (SSL, redirects/rewrite rules, proxying, domain aliases, etc, etc...). It'll run any build tool for you (not just Jekyll) and we have built-in support for Hugo:

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Template improvements.. The go template system is..opinionated to say the least. It's my biggest pain point in the language, and I include having to write min_int64_int type functions.

Anyway, hugo's documentation, code quality and template improvements are stellar, congrats on the release.
Having been both a scientist and, now, a product manager for a medical device, I think science would benefit from the work around verification vs. validation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verification_and_validation

A p-value is a verification tool and nothing more, and yet scientists all too often take the "hunt for the p-value" as the only goal. Rather than fish through data for a p-value that ends up defining the scientific narrative in a paper, p-values need to be integrated into a much larger validation process driven by pre-defined scientific goals. It's no wonder that so many results are found to be specious given today's scientific culture.
Out of curiosity, what are the top 10 best longform pieces you've ever read?
Ok, thanks for the clarification!
I think the point is that an adult mostly risks losing money from their bank account (assuming they do their banking online), credit card (if they buy anything online) or the like.
The Intolerance of the those crusading against Intolerance is funny until it is not.
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Agreed. It is baffling to me that nobody seems to seriously consider that this war on men/boys is what creates this weird and uncomfortable social dynamic. Masculinity is not something to be feared or ashamed of, teaching that is what creates dysfunctional men.
"Thinking of" != "invented"
Wow really? I hadn't heard that (and never used yahoo), that's just straight crazy.
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The point of Microsoft Signature Edition was to sell PC's without bloatware and other manufacturer crap.

It hasn't really taken off, so it appears that people don't highly value such safety.
> Compare the Atlas of BSM-SG model with what QM provides and you will see, that the angles of the BSM-SG model are much more precise what complex chemical structures look like.

So I looked at all those pictures in the viXra paper, and there is not a single chemical bond or molecule anywhere. Care to explain?
Explain how a human could live outside nature.
This was invented in the 80s. I read about it in Popular Science. The purpose of the detachable cabin at that time was to allow the cabin (with its passengers) to parachute to safety in case of an eminent crash. Why planes do not have whole plane parachutes to this day is disturbing enough, but now they come along to re-patient what is essentially the same idea, but instead to save small bit of money by loading the cattle faster is pretty disgusting.
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