skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quantile Digest (Q-digest) or something similar is what I believe is desired here.

From what I understand it's a fixed size data structure, represents quantiles as a tree of histogram bands, pruning nodes with densities that vary the least from their parents to achieve error / size trade-off. They also have the property that you can merge them together and re-compress in order to turn second data into minute data, or compress more accurate (large) archival digests into smaller ones to say, support stable streaming of a varying number of metrics across a stream of varying bandwidth by sacrificing quality.

They're pretty simple because they're designed for sensor networks, but I think you could design similar structures with a dynamic instead of fixed value range, and variable size (prune nodes based on error threshold instead of or in addition to desired size).

If anyone knows of a time-series system using something like this, I'd love to learn about it.
That was devolution, not revolution. The only reason US companies got to that market was political decision in Moscow to halt development of their own original systems and start to copy. That was very wrong decision, led to 99% dependency of later Russia from Wintel. Now Russia struggles to get out of this dependency, but I am afraid its too late.
Even the president is in favor of punishing people who have been suspected of crimes; it seems to be a popular position that people are not really innocent until proven guilty.[1][2] I find this trend deeply troubling, but it does seem at least somewhat popular.

#2 is at least partly due to the fact the if the companies allowed him an opportunity to refute the claim, they would be incurring various legal liabilities. The rules meant to protect job candidates often result in them being passed over at the first stage where it is realized they are 'complex' cases.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
It doesn't "know the formulas". However, it has accumulated a life time worth of statistics, which it uses to predict what's about to happen, all the time. So I can be immediately surprised when something unexpected happens. In that sense, there's a running physics simulator.

As for throwing the basketball, most people know (#) what the arc should be, and can immediately after the throw tell if a throw will hit or miss with reasonable accuracy, assuming a viewpoint that allows them to extract the movement accurately. The difficulty there is learning to execute that throw.

(#) edit, know as in "have learned", not as an innate ability.
I got on email from stripe today that they're lowering the fees for their EU customers. Maybe the ball is starting to roll with this?
Not only are there people who seriously suggest it, but most neuroscientists think Chomsky is completely wrong, and have quite a bit of data to back it up. The notion of innate grammers has been pretty much replaced with evidence that you get much better and more human like performance (and the ability to actually learn the bloody things) out of RNNs and the like.

The interesting question is why RNNs are able to produce things that resemble formal languages at first pass.
Pokémon Shuffle does not compare to a fully featured story game. Growing up I played Pokémon games on my Gameboy Color while out with the parents (of course, this long predates WiFi) . Shuffle requires being online to function, vastly reducing the places it can function.

I agree with other commenters. The poster should purchase a 3DS.
Actually if you look at research done on freestyle rappers, you'll find similar mechanisms as those found in great basketball players. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/11/the-neuroa...

Being in a flow state seems very similar to being in the zone.
If you hear long enough of something that is noise first time you hear it, eventually you will distinguish patterns if it is for example Chinese. Brain is pattern recognition machine.
> If it were just pattern matching that grammatical error wouldn't bother you at all even if you notice it, you would just go with the most likely fuzzy interpretation.

I actually had to read the sentence about 3 times, and force myself to read it slowly word by word, before I spotted it.

We often don't read one word at a time.

I agree with you that "massively parallel" is probably drastically overstating it, though.
> #2 is at least partly due to the fact the if the companies allowed him an opportunity to refute the claim, they would be incurring various legal liabilities.

Interesting! I'd thought it was simply done in the name of efficiency.
Not sure what's the problem with drug dealing? If he was selling weed, then he was in fact doing a public service against fat cats in pharma industry. Also nobody is forced to buy drugs.
I wish there was a way to put the text in the middle of my screen.
Gave the post an upvote because it is interesting from a theoretical perspective, but I have a hard time imagining a real life scenario where averaging a 99 percentile will lead you to the wrong conclusion.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but whenever I'm looking at the tail of a distribution, it's usually just to understand the order of magnitude, not to reach a precise number.
No, just the Facebook keywords.
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In America they would absolutely not disclose the reason for not hiring someone. Commonly accepted HR wisdom in the US is that it would open the company up to lawsuits.
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> Satoshi's grammar is always perfect. His sentences are tight.

That makes me think it's more than one person, e.g. Wright, Kleiman, Szabo and possibly more. The more people that edit a work, the less errors there will be.
I wonder if the franchise would still be that popular if they were sold under that model
Well, for one thing the charge was for selling crack cocaine...
> Nazis wore skulls and didn't notice they were the baddies

You mean like the Queen's Royal Lancers [1] (17th/21st Lancers in WW2) maybe?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Royal_Lancers
Thanks for the second point. It's frustrated when they write titles like that for the public.

I always think that "human is born with some miracle thing" is quite suspicious. How can orderliness be born out of no where (no work spent, no energy consumed)? The probability of orderliness to be spontaneously assembled itself must be infinitesimally small.

Grammar might evolve along the way (due to statistical learning) but it seems too good to be true if it's born out of no where.
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Sydney home of suspected founder Craig Steven Wright raided over ATO warrant
Ooops, I cannot submit my PDF resume on this page: https://careers.secure.force.com/jobs/ts2__resume. After clicking the Continue button and a long wait, a red error message showed either "IO Exception: Read timed out" or "IO Exception: Unexpected end of file from server". I hope this is not some kind of test ;)
How is that supposed to work? He can't even afford to leave Seattle.
I see you're using IdeaVim. For very long time I was hesitant to move from WebStorm to Emacs. Until I discovered Spacemacs. Try it and I promise you - you'll be very happy.
The guy introducing himself - seems quite plausible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdvQTwjVmrE&feature=youtu.be...
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Let's make it complicated, then: if you're great at walking a tightrope on a windy day, is your brain storing a model of your muscular+skeletal structure and live-computing a kinematics physics model + wind simulation to simulate how you should be walking across that tightrope?

My point was that Newton's formulas are simplified models of how the world works. As a result, just because you know how to throw a ball doesn't mean you "know" Newton's formulas. Similarly, just because you know how to speak doesn't mean you "know" grammar.

The question to ask to help us answer this question would be: is grammar a simplified model of language?[1]

[1] This depends on whether you're a linguistic prescriptivist or descriptivist.
The "friction" of changing a habit is enough to keep most people with their existing habits. Also knows as, 'people don't like change'.

Over the past few years as my parents approached fixed income (with little savings, they didn't save/invest anything until several years ago), I've been steering them towards habits that offer savings, without sacrifice (i.e. going to a different supermarket, changing telco providers, etc.). Keeping the same things, just lowering the bill. However, my mother is the one who is "in charge" of these things. A campaign to simply change a service provider takes about a year. Even if everything is provided for them. The amount of resistance encountered for her to spend 20 minutes to do something is huge.

After the change, she'll agree it was a great change and even advocate to others that they should do it too. She'll never admit she should've done it when first suggested and empirically shown it would offer no degradation but save money. Yet that friction is very real.

Age isn't a factor either. I know people in their late 20s and mid-30s who do exactly the same thing. People don't like change, and the friction of having to do anything is enough to result in people doing nothing.
"That leaves one place to use Li-Fi in its current iteration: one cold dark room filled with LED lights."

Well that's a bummer. How long is it going to take before Li-Fi becomes a viable replacement then?
Just FYI: this is also available for most Chinese Android phones.
Companies pay relocation to a suitable candidate.
Ah, I see. Thanks :)
Chomsky was right, we do have a “grammar” in our brain
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Many companies offer relocation packages including travel costs and temporary accommodation.
Well, Ingress is getting long in the tooth.
Especially those in suitable roles which are really hard to hire for, like security.
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Visas require background checks and I am not sure how that would work out.
I don't understand - why would they raid his house? Is he suspected of dodging taxes? But as far as I understand, most tax evaders don't get their houses raided at first. It makes sense to first contact the person and/or send a letter.
Even if you are found not guilty or not convicted of a crime, if you have been arrested or gone to court these things can show up in public records. These records could be expunged with some effort, depending on the laws in the jurisdiction. Such expungement orders should clear someone from public databases. If it hasn't been expunged though, the info will still show up.

Even if dismissed or wrongfully convicted, any mention of anything criminal would cause concern. It's that idea of "where there's smoke there's fire" type of thinking that seems to go on around this kind of stuff. When other candidates exist without the 'concerning circumstances,' why take a risk?

For better or worse, it makes sense. Seeing that someone was arrested for crack for any reason would raise suspicion. There would be little motivation to look into further details once seeing "arrested for crack" pop up in a search about a candidate.
Here is an Amazon comment left by Wright. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVvsxDOVAAANOD-.png:large

"Silicone" Valley? "Assumed to the centre of everything"?

Color me skeptical that this guy is Satoshi.

(source: https://twitter.com/kashhill/status/674393417019883520 )
I think we also have visual grammars. We are surprised if heavy and large objects are on top of light and small objects. We have priors on lighting and shadows, depth and occlusion, inside and outside.

We solve these statistically with complex priors and likelihoods. How much you can shove into the prior is the question of universal grammar. That you are born with linguistic priors is I think not so surprising. If they are of the old-fashioned symbolic variety that Chomsky proposes, would be surprising. It's way too "clean" for my liking, personal opinion!
It wasn't pokemon proper, though. Like mystery dungeon isn't pokemon. They have never tried a main series 3D pokemon, or even anything close to it.

There's also PokePark on Wii, looks great graphically and is proper 3D on a console, but mechanically, it's not a pokemon game--you play as a pokemon, it's not you playing pokemon as a trainer in the tradition of the main series games. Like Doom RPG isn't Doom.
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So... this was a tax raid?
Quite a harsh response, considering the rules were drafted 12months ago...
What are the money laundering measures that caused Aussie banks to disown Bitcoin? Maybe that could shed light on the motivations behind the raid?
Language doesn't seem to require conscious thought either. Philosophers like Heidegger and Wittgenstein talked about that a lot. The postulating of an internal thought process "behind" everything is basically what Heidegger spent his life refuting, from what I've read of Dreyfus's book... And Wittgenstein explains language as a tool that people use to get things done, more or less. You can talk without "really thinking", people do it all the time. Grammar is natural in that sense. Pinker's "The Language Instinct" mentions studies that show higher educated people in some situations tend to make more grammatical blunders and to be slightly less "fluent," maybe because of second guessing their language instincts.

(Any errors in this comment due to the fact that I wrote it without thinking.)
I just took a class of dynamic systems and this post struck me.

Actually it is possible to model the planets using simple mathematical tools and find a space of solution to the problem (have planets that keep staying together) in an analytic or simil-analytic form.

All this can be done on paper, which is actually faster than code integrator but way less cool to watch...
> The housing measures that help reduce the housing supply by allowing apartments and condos to serve as short-term AirBNB rentals for non-residents? ...I don't see how it's pro-housing for anyone else.

The situation on the ground is... substantially more interesting than you make it out to be. You should really read this partial analysis of the existing short-term rental regulation and the changed proposed by Prop F: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/10/yes-on-f/#comment-164412 Edit: NOTE. You'll need to copy and paste the link, rather than clicking on it. HN triggers JWZ's anti-hotlinking code.

If anything in the prose is unclear, feel free to ask questions.
Well at least it is refreshing to learn there are Moz, or ex Moz who think better. I think the conclusion is simply,

planning fallacy / overoptimism on the part of engineering leaders than anything else

So yes, Mozilla is simply a poorly ran organization.
Earlier, extensive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699846.

Since this story contains significant new information, it doesn't count as a duplicate.
It's high time Mozilla gets its shit together.
I just bought my new phone and subscription through those companies. Very happy there are people like Sijmen out there fighting the good fight.
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Got the same (based in Ireland). There's nothing reflected on their website about it yet, it says that pricing is 2.9% + 30c + VAT. Pretty sure it was previously 2.4% + 24c + VAT in Ireland. This means that pricing for non European cards is actually increasing, and the fixed portion of the fee is also going up by 1c for all charges.

Also from the mail:

"As always, volume discounts apply to our larger users—please get in touch with us once you're processing more than 30,000EUR per month and we will provide a custom quote."

Interestingly, the figure on the website is €20,000 so looks like that threshold is going up too.

The new rate is a great reduction and kudos to Stripe for dropping their prices - and by so much. The fixed portion is still a stinger though - especially if you handle transactions with small amounts. Would be great to see Stripe roll out a microtransaction rate with a higher percentage but very low fixed portion, much like PayPal offers.
Giving birth to a human child is not trivial. Lots of assembly required. DNA is pretty complex, and the process of motherhood is not just waiting for nine months and delivering a miracle.
Your assumption is that all information necessary and sufficient to decode grammar into its constituents is detectable from the spoken words that a child hears. According to Chomsky there is a distinction between the I-Language versus E-Language [1] (internal/ex) namely because grammar in most human languages is not the most computationally efficient way of structuring sentences hence the need for an uniquely human/innate ability [2].

This is also why monkeys can never be trained to learn human language [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformational_grammar#.22I-...

[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-c...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_Chimpsky
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These are great points; thanks for your feedback! :)

I'm trying to validate whether there's any interest in something this, so I definitely cut a lot of corners (e.g. the app doesn't maintain a copy of the repository — it just uses the GitHub API). Also using GitHub in the name might not have been the best idea.. though! ;)

I agree with you regarding the usefulness of watching arbitrary repositories. There's already git-notifier [0] that does pretty much this, but you have to set it up for yourself and it has to be configured using a text file.

[0]: http://www.icir.org/robin/git-notifier/
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Okay, I'm gonna have to enter rant mode here, because this is aggravating me. Why in the bloody fuck do we need another package format? Okay, cool, you have a project, it has needs, you wanna track it. How hard is it to use one of the pre-existing formats? We have rpm, deb, pkg, pkgng, etc as system packaging formats. Is your language such a precious and delicate flower that it needs its own packaging format? You can even use your own binaries to manage the bloody database, but can we get people to agree on some sort of standard here?

This makes administration non-fun. It means needing to run a separate binary for every single package to audit for any sort of language change. It means that a project that uses multiple languages now needs multiple packaging databases to do its job. Which means that auditing is now much, much more difficult, because you have to go into each project's database, figure out what language it is, then call its database packager to get a list of packages and versions, and parse it with code you can't reuse for the other ten languages you've gotten on your system.

So, before you start creating the next big package manager, please, for the sake of your ops people everywhere, see if someone else has already made a sensible packaging format. Chances are that they have, and by reusing their work, you'll make your job a ton easier, and you'll make ops' job a ton easier.
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It's most definitely about attracting users. When we started OnePlus we specifically set out to ignore stores and carriers and instead focus on making a product that people would love and put it in a price range that made it accessible to everyone. If we had made the same product but instead approached stores and carriers to sell it they would have ignored us. If we were lucky they might have done a deal with us that would have been shitty for us and good for them.

Since we took the opposite approach, focused on product first and demonstrated user traction and sales the stores and carriers came to us to talk and it changed the whole power dynamic.

Every year brings several new mobile brands to the market. Most you will never hear of because they're not exciting or special. They don't focus on making users excited about their unique product, rather they focus on business deals that even if they go through end up in no sales.
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The market niche is/was nicely being served by Jolla. (At least outside US. But as mentioned they are bankrupt atm. And the phone is old - still nice imho)
Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness is in 3D and is available on Gamecube. It's pretty cool.

Here's a video of a battle in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG5AfTYYz8w
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Clearly you don't follow the UK news, the UK govt. have been toying with banning Tor (encryption in general) for a couple of years.

Here is a recent article about it http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/11/tor-should...
I don't think that question has that much to do with prescriptivism and descriptivism. Prescriptivists want to use the study of grammar to uphold certain linguistic norms; descriptivists find that language works fine without expert supervision; neither is a stance on the scientific origin of linguistic structure. You could be a prescriptivist and believe that grammar is a simplified model: you would just want that model to carry normative weight (e.g. for conservative reasons, or to promote standardized national language, or whatever reason).
Funnily enough, I am writing an article about this now.

FYI I don't think its right to say "forget means, medians, percentiles, etc." They are hugely useful.

You just have to note that they aren't everything. As you've noted, only the raw data is everything.
I note that Trump called "for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on". The latter qualification ('until ...') does not seem to have been reported in the British media.
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> By back filling history...

Yep. That seems plausible. Given means, motive, and opportunity (including a few months of time), could some of the folks here on HN have backfilled history this way? Register an email address one character off of Satoshi's? Edit some old blog posts to insert Bitcoin references? Generate backdated GPG keys? Perhaps enough to satisfy not-very-technical journalists who won't think to compare coding styles and are too worried about losing a scoop to ask folks for second and third opinions?

I'd expect the real Satoshi to have more of a math background, not "ecommerce law" and "digital forensics." I'd also expect him to be more similar in writing style and be more ideologically in sync with Bitcoin in his public actions. Plus I'm not a C# coder but this looks pretty basic: https://digital-forensics.sans.org/blog/2009/04/24/code-skil...

The evidence the journalists published is more convincing if you want it to be convincing. My guess is that they did.
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They do, but hire big accounting firms to do so. This was my mother's job at KPMG, and where I work is going through the process at the moment.
They might not tell you the precise reason, but if you had a written offer contingent on passing a background check that was rescinded, they would tell you that you did not pass the background check.
And then consider that freestyle rapping is a formally demanding way of speaking, and that speaking is something people do all the time without much mental effort. Impressive rappers can produce rhyming and alliterating verses in "flow" but a normal dinner conversation is in flow by default (depending on how neurotic your dinner guests are).
> .. for a home console

Seems like he wanted it for an actual connected-to-tv console.
Yep, we had Deloitte AU helping with ours.
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