skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that is true, the GP (and even specialists) use a different optimization criterion than yourself (proverbial you): You prefer to minimize false negatives with some exceptions about false positives, whereas they prefer to minimize overall error rate with some exceptions -- and that goes very deep into their training, to the point of being blind to this preference.

E.g., while at med school, they are warned against Zebras[0] so much that while practicing they will often ignore anything with a 1-in-a-million-chance unless the false-positive rate is zero. It does minimize the overall error rate, but for the person who has the 1-in-a-million condition, this is no comfort -- and that person is often in a position to evaluate that condition better than the GP (if they are scientifically literate).

I have been told by a senior doctor at one of the leading US hospitals to "cut the internet cord so that I don't confuse myself as I am not trained to understand the articles I find". Turned out said doctor did not understand the statistical inference criterion, and I did -- unsurprisingly, since I have the mathematical background, and they do not.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_%28medicine%29
Hmm.. a vote system which is literally requires votes to be bought and paid for?

&Why bitcoin specifically when there's dozens of other cryptocoin ledger systems? Surely not marketing for BTC 'investors'.

also,

Borda Vote Count Method:

Potential for tactical manipulation

Tactical voting

Like many other voting systems, the Borda count is vulnerable
to tactical voting. In particular, it is highly vulnerable
to the tactics of compromising and burying. Compromising:
voters can benefit by insincerely raising the position of
their second choice candidate over their first choice
candidate, in order to help the second choice candidate to
beat a candidate they like even less. Burying: voters can
help a more-preferred candidate by insincerely lowering the
position of a less-preferred candidate on their ballot.

An effective tactic is to combine these two strategies.
For example, if there are two candidates whom a voter
considers to be the most likely to win, the voter can
maximise his impact on the contest between these front
runners by ranking the candidate whom he likes more in
first place, and ranking the candidate whom he likes
less in last place. If neither front runner is his
sincere first or last choice, the voter is employing
both the compromising and burying tactics at once; if
many voters employ such strategies, then the result will
no longer reflect the sincere preferences of the
electorate.

As for open source voting software/projects, I'd recommend Liquid Feedback:

http://www.liquidfeedback.org/
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Productivity is not directly linked to wages. The cash register didn't raise wages for cashiers, it increased productivity, but it also lowered skill requirements which increased the supply of potential cashiers and put a downward pressure on their wages.
Each time I read an article about health care in the US I can't refrain to facepalm myself.

The graph showing the price of a same operation across several hospitals is just too much for my sanity.
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You are projecting here. Lovecraft's "racism" has nothing to do with silly superstitions. He was a cultured, educated man and knew better than what you're assuming. You'd know that had you read even a small percentage of his letters.

Which was also parent's point.
Not really surprising, Boomers keep retiring, and retirees not interested in work are part of the denominator for labor force participation rate, but not in any reasonable sense of the word "unemployed".

Ever-expanding lifespans and a demographic bulge hitting retirement age naturally combine to make labor force participation historically low.
This audience might be interested in another spelling reformer, George Bernard Shaw, who funded a phonetic writing system with a non-latin character set called Shavian. A more practical revision of Shavian was Quikscript. A print book was published in Shavian (I have a copy :-) and there are fonts available for both systems.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quikscript
Exactly this is what the original post is about... ;)
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Still true. But AFAICT such voting-ring impact as it has is canceled by HN's anti-voting-ring software, which treats everyone the same.

By the way, when pg added that feature years ago, he actually added two features: the colored usernames, plus a page for stories submitted by YC founders. The latter really did have a voting ring effect, and when we figured that out we got rid of it.
If I was a betting man, I'd bet their daily visitors have shrunk a fair bit the past few months. Who is the type of people who would even visit daily to discover random products that share no theme? Most of them probably are just checking for competitors or journalists looking for a story. Not real actual users. This their downfall.
Git has a bunch of tests [0]. I expect that not all of them are git-the-official-CLI-specific.

> And they're going to do so in a way that isn't immediately detectable, but screws the rest of the company because now they have to support something using the screwed up implementation.

eeeeeeeeeh. Sensible companies will figure out how to massage the broken data into the correct form, then go on using the correct software.

[0] https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/t
Ah, that's good to know. I didn't do that since I know how to get to Montreal itself easily. From my front door: left, left, right, straight * 3 hours.

A one time mistake, for sure, though!
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Believe it or not "I got lost when I realized my GPS was useless" does not imply "I starved to death in the cold Canadian woods after wandering aimlessly for 4 days."

I found the hotel just fine! It was just a bit of a "should've seen that coming" type of moment, is all.
Maybe I'm reading wrong, but Rx.js seems to be 70k minified. Seems like a giant dependency for a mobile-focused framework...
> An alkalizing, anti-inflammatory diet is key

Can anyone cite a peer reviewed study / documentation of "alkalizing" diets? I've attempted to trace this idea back to anything scientific, and always eventually came up with "well, someone I trust once told me ...".
I've been doing client side development for a while, and I do not think MVC applies cleanly to the browser as it does to a web server.

In the terms of the 1970s breakdown presented in this article, a DOM node is both a view (presenting information to the user) and a controller (collecting and forwarding UI events).

MVC is a fine pattern, but underwhelming when taken as an architecture. It doesn't tell you how state will be managed and reasoned about, which along with asyncronous sequencing is the main challenge of browser development. Server side MVC doesn't really have this problem because at the end of they day the lifecycle of a HTTP request is relatively limited. Most JavaScript MVC libraries have their own answers for how state should change, but just being answers does not necessarily make them complete, good, or right for your application.

My general strategy these days is to avoid parts of my code having to know that other units are "a Backbone collection" or "a React view", and instead to have those as implementation details that I wrap in a smaller, more limited API. Instead of a framework I just use an event bus with a catalog of events that are very specific to my application. In a way this creates a "data" or "service" layer that has to fulfill event contracts, which are basically abstractions over HTTP, websockets, local storage, etc, and a "statically allocated" view layer that only knows how to respond and trigger a few events on the bus. You might call that MV and say that the C is somewhere, but to me that's more confusing than helpful.
Is there any story for using GWT to go from Java to LLVM bitcode/IR? RoboVM just closed source, and VMKit is dead along with DragonEgg (maybe GCJ had a hope of working at some time?). I guess I'm looking for a sort of GWT + reverse Emscripten? Too bad the LLVM bits of ART were discarded.
Totally misguided assumption and also entirely wrong.

Read through his letters published by Arkham house instead of making up stories out of thin air. I suggest you start with
Volume IV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selected_Letters_of_H._P._Love...)
Personally, I think the DMV should issue a private key to everyone in the US.

Aside from making the implementation of a remote/online voting system trivial, it would rid us of the horribly broken way we've been using social security numbers.
Like, duh. Telecom has always been entwined with state security - they're essentially two halves of the same informational entity.

This is why the 90s were a watershed, when powerful encryption became accessible far and wide. Having state of the art defensive spycraft at the hands of anyone who casually cared is unprecedented throughout history.

But the tech community dropped the ball. In the rush to build our dream of what the Internet could enable, we failed to consider robustness in the face of hostile service providers, including ourselves.

Let us hope there isn't too much path dependence on this broken overcentralized architecture.
Here's an archived version which won't send any data to Google: https://archive.is/jzhJN
You could do the slow part ( voter registration/verification) in advance, and then the voting would be fast and transparent.
I think he's using BLS figures, but emphasizing the U-6 figure, for instance, instead of U-3 figure. I don't have a subscription to compare numbers, but is that correct?
I was unnecessarily snarky. However, this is a market-correcting thing. Yes, there is a trend toward shorter pieces, which has pluses and minuses. If I write long pieces that people don't read, I may shorten what I write. Or I may not, if I feel the greater length is justified. And if some choose not to read the longer piece, I'll probably be fine with that.
For the person who is now able to be a cashier and previously unable to be a cashier, the cash register likely put upward pressure on that individual's wage earning ability.
Higher education is being underfunded throughout the country because more and more state funds are going towards paying for Medicaid. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased significantly the amount of money that states have to pay for Medicaid and thus the ACA has contributed to a decrease in state funding for public universities.

Most countries that offer universal care eg, UK, France, Canada, Germany, ... have high cigarette taxes to pay for health care costs. The Federal US tax is about $1.
Except that is the opposite of what is happening, Boomers and others who should be retiring are not and those who should be working are not. The only reason the LFP is not lower than it is is because more people can't afford to retire
If it were designed in base 2, the lifetime would be 65536 years.
Thanks! What I was actually looking for was TAME, but the name and description of MILES were quite similar to it (MILES: "to examine the effect of metformin treatment on the biology of aging in humans") that I got confused.

Here's a summary of TAME (Targeting Aging With Metformin):

https://gerontologyresearchgroup.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/ta...
Very nice. A direct competitor to the entry level DigitalOcean 512MB servers which cost $5 a month. The great thing is that as your grow, you won't outgrow AWS, which is not necessary true with DO.
This post makes sense to me in a way that I half understood earlier. What I mean is, I would see the front page apps/services and they would be mediocre a lot of times and then I would compare these front page listings to what I used to see earlier and I would find that the trend is changing. Also, not always the top listing was mediocre, sometimes it was, sometimes it wasn't. There are other such venues and many a times I would find same products listed there too and the their relative rankings would be very different. I never paid too much attention though.

Then they have this - very few people can vote or comment, others can just visit their sites even though they are willing to login via Twitter and in fact do login via Twitter. It is like a walled garden, or a house where you can take a peek but can't choose the window, or the perspective. It felt like they feed information to the visitors (their audience I mean - me, us) and the visitors are supposed to take everything at a face value.

It will be worse (kind of it already is) when PH becomes a very mainstream player of product launches.
They aren't really competitors to each other, so it depends much more on the type of applications you'd prefer to write. Swift is not a good choice for backend applications for obvious reasons, and nor would it be a good choice for writing desktop applications. Rust is not suitable for iOS, very appealing for desktop applications, less so for higher level server side code where the JVM seems to shine.

Scala would be the best bet on that front. There's no shortage of mobile developer jobs, so sure stick with Swift.
based on HN hiring posts, more companies ask for React than Angular experience. React growth in 2015 is absolutely stunning.

http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2015/...
Suddenly the author realizes his web app needs to handle a click event which in turn interacts with data on a database...boom it hits him: this would be simpler with a framework, maybe an MVC framework?
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> Unreliable optimizations and performance-critical software

This is why we will not have, and should not want, a "sufficiently smart compiler," but instead a "sufficiently predictable compiler." If the compiler is an enormously complex inference system, then tiny language-level changes can result in huge performance changes (see "space leaks" in Haskell, or "auto-vectorization" in basically anything). The solution isn't adding more knobs to the compiler; it's adding easier inter-language communication. Scripting languages like Matlab, Perl, Python, and R have been doing this right for decades: make a good effort at a specific domain (math, text, statistics), and make it easy to call into lower-level code for the key pieces.
Do you know if there exists some response to the Creationwiki responses? I'm having a hard time finding it, if it exists.

Or is there anyone who has gone through some of the arguments there? It's hard for me to imagine nobody on the searchable web has made a response to the claims there.
Yeah, you're right not to trust statements about projects "capturing mind share" and what is "really hot right now" (not intending to quote OP). People get into their little communities and don't realize that they are not at all representative of the larger world. To make something up, I can totally believe that React is really popular in the San Diego startup scene, but it's a mistake to extrapolate that too far in any dimension. Add to that confirmation bias on the part of people seeing these trends, and everything could be taking over at the same time.
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Yep, that's available and supported by a large company here: http://wix.github.io/react-templates/
Looking for someone with knowledge on what happened regarding BCCI's involvement with Saudi Arabian money.

Throwaway account, email throwaway70399@hmamail.com.
Is it? You can peg the DO cpu. You can only use 5% of the cpu here.

I think this is cool don't get me wrong. Lots of uses for a cheap low use server. But this is pretty niche.
Related, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York recently open sourced one of its models (coded in Julia)

https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl/blob/master/doc/Data.m...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10670138
Wikipedia: Aard2 dictionary (Android) http://aarddict.org
> This is strictly true

the best kind of true.
I am so happy to read this article and I commend Ben Wheeler on bringing it to light. I had written a similar article in July but did not publish it as I was promoting a new version of my site. I was afraid to speak out because I believed it would hurt my chances of getting funded. I should have gone with my convictions. I have now published it. [1]

Ryan Hoover has not only outsourced VC product discovery, he has outsourced its class system too. It's incredibly disheartening to be outside the loop, trying to get your product noticed, and submitting it to what you think is a free system only to have other products by well-connected insiders block it out.

When I saw Hoover and Jason Calacanis congratulating each other on Twitter I knew immediately what was going on. Despite multiple emails, Hoover wouldn't even give me access so I could comment on competing products. I'm glad this is coming back to bite him and his investors too -- they went along with it.

I don't expect anything to change because sites are a reflection of the personality of the people who run them and Hoover has already shown he is completely corrupt. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

[1]http://newslines.org/blog/the-new-gatekeeper/
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Have you talked to them about this?
Ask HN: How does Google search's subscribe to topic work?
I'm curious to understand the architecture behind the following feature:

1. Search for a topic
2. (I guess), if this topic is a node on the knowledge graph, allow user to subscribe to topic
3. user gets notification in google now about new webpages talking about the same topic

What's the architecture for this feature?
1. For every newly indexed webpage, extract keywords, send push notifications to all subscribers?
2. Do 1. periodically instead of real-time?
3. Constantly walk knowledge graph (which probably stores last-checked time), identify new (current-time>last-checked-time) pages, send notification to all subscribers?

Follow-up questions:
1. Is there a limit on the type of topics per user? Like nodes on knowledge graph only?
2. Is there a limit on the number of topics per user (or) on the global scale?
You could make the exact same claim about any bespoke piece of technology. What does it cost to make one new car? one aircraft? one piece of electronics? one moon rocket? one satellite?

It's all economies of scale that come into play as soon as you can ramp up the volume. And that's where software wins hands down, in spite of all the up-front costs.
Not OP, but using google search tools, I got this:

https://www.google.ca/#tbs=qdr:d&q=intitle:%22software%22+si...

It displays ~15 results
Interesting take on things, but what if education is actually being over-funded by the states as a percentage of their operating budget and the "free" money causes college to be much more expensive than it should?

"In fact, public investment in higher education in America is vastly larger today, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than it was during the supposed golden age of public funding in the 1960s. Such spending has increased at a much faster rate than government spending in general. For example, the military’s budget is about 1.8 times higher today than it was in 1960, while legislative appropriations to higher education are more than 10 times higher.

In other words, far from being caused by funding cuts, the astonishing rise in college tuition correlates closely with a huge increase in public subsidies for higher education. If over the past three decades car prices had gone up as fast as tuition, the average new car would cost more than $80,000"
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/the-real-re...

As far as Education Costs and Medical Care Funding, are you under the impression they are not related? Since the passing of the ACA and the Federal Government take over of student loans, the billions in interest paid on student loans now funds Obamacare, with the aptly named American Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Care_and_Education_Reco...
Exactly. Not sure what the faux mystery is all about.
The most fascinating part of this for me was how deeply technical Craig is. He's more than just pretty hair.
I still have 20/20 vision, and I loathe websites that won't let me zoom.
Yeah, I think part of it is that it's hard to implement properly & programmers don't typically enjoy working with time.

The main focus of this project is on:
1) day / week / month / quarter / year selection
2) proper timezone, Monday / Sunday start of the week support
3) stable maintainable codebase

That GA implementation is indeed much more specific and tailored. I think it's another problem with these calendar components — even though it seems like a very trivial UI thing, it is still hard to generalize.
This would be excellent if you could accrue more than the 72 minutes worth' of CPU credits. At least my use case is 'low traffic, with the occasional link from a high-traffic site'. These happen every few months, not every three days. But they also last 36 hours or so, not 72 minutes. Total CPU usage is similar, but it's distributed differently.
Agreed -- just trying to explain the logic :)
How is less than half the storage and 1/500th the bandwidth competitive?

The problem with dropping a care-free VPS (what DO is for, and what you're comparing against) on AWS has always been transfer. Even my least used personal VPS eats 25-30GB/month in outbound. How much does that cost at AWS? Another $5? and then you're constantly worried about your usage month on month. I'd rather give $10-20/month to DO/Vultr/Linode to begin with and get more memory as a bonus.
Here's a description of what they say they are doing:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002696672

It seems reasonable. Of course, there's a cynical interpretation: they are integrating a small but positively biased noise source (e.g. due to groups that seem like they ought to add up but don't) to obtain and monetize a politically convenient quadratic. Hard to tell.

EDIT: removed rant about the business model of this and similar publications

EDIT2: replaced my own analysis with a link to one which is deeper and more concise
The pragmatic justification for Palantir's involvement seems straightforward to me:

1. The problems that Polaris are working on are exactly what Palantir software is made for.

2. Most other instances of this problem do not generate unequivocally good publicity.

To be absolutely clear, when I say "instances," I'm not referring to instances where Palantir is used. I'm referring to instances of the problem-type that Palantir solves.

Other examples of this problem and why they wouldn't generate unequivocally good publicity: counter-insurgency ("we shouldn't be involved in the middle east"), counterterrorism ("at the expense of civil liberties"), counterfraud ("rich people get away with fines after stealing millions anyways"), etc.

Palantir works with Polaris and NCMEC because they actually care (IMO), Polaris/NCMEC needs align precisely with Palantir capabilities, and they're a rare opportunity to be somewhat public about the company, if not the software.
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