skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I was pretty clear that my goal was to "make everyone happier". Obviously if you want to maximize paperclips you'll come to different conclusions.

I can't figure out what point you are trying to make. Best I can tell is that we should stop talking about bias against people due to gender and talk about your preferred topics instead?

Achieving similar power distribution between men and women is a value of mine...

It's an irrelevant one, however, since you can't actually predict whether any action will change this distribution.

As for your "years of study" that result in no testable predictions, I'm sorry for you. Perhaps it might have been a better use of time to spend a semester studying complex systems instead. I think I know what you are trying to claim (positive liapunov exponent + error m in measurement of x(0) -> error m e^Lt in prediction of x(t)), but the nonexistence of good predictions does not follow this - it merely changes the character of the predictions. Typically the predictions concern probability distributions on x, regions exhibiting certain behavior, phase transitions, etc.

While I could simply argue by authority, based on getting a Ph.D. in nonlinear multivariate differential equations, I'm making claims that can actually be intellectually defended. So feel free to exhibit some actual math and I'll carefully illustrate why you are wrong.
I see now. When I read it initially, I read it as "statement level ______ instead of triggers" rather than "statement level INSTEAD OF triggers". I thought a word was missing. Thanks!
I really can't remember. I didn't order it myself.
The article suggests that failures in an n-step process are distributed as a Binomial distribution, which doesn't have the kind of long tail you describe. I hazard that you're right and they're imprecise. It would be great if they measured the shape of the distribution of completion times, scaling for project length, and then suggested a theory behind it.
HN regular posters? Are you kidding? They will bitch and moan all day long about loss of privacy and things they want and vote for anyone with a D next to their name "for reasons". If they actually stood for what they claim to believe the chance of voting a for D is near nil and the R is next to nil (though go figure why the Republican establishment is in such a tizzy - Cruz doesn't put them first and Trump isn't one of them)

Its like Reddit but with an orange banner here.
I would hardly call being forced to make EVs a punishment.

Call it "white-collar punishment." It's not like they'll get an open-ended holding sentence in Rikers for stealing a backpack, the way kids in my neighborhood would. Or anything close to it.

No, for the VW execs it will be, at most: "OMG this is so brutal! My portfolio is going to take a big haircut over this! People aren't going to come to our dinner parties on Ibiza", etc.
Pretty what? All sentences are ambiguous if you try hard enough. If you could tell what the meaning was, why are you insulting a strawman while actively admitting it is a strawman?
>Religion can and does preserve memes and linguistics, but only trade can scale it out.

If it was just for trade, language learning would be relegated to merchants in those countries and few others.

Government, bureaucracy and occupation matters more than trade in this regard. That's how latin become the norm in a large area during the roman empire -- and not because everybody in those regions traded directly with Romans or couldn't agree on pricing otherwise.

Same e.g. for French -- it's not because of trade they got big as a language in the 18-early 20th centuries, but because the french run a big colonial empire.

And English, beyond trade, were the language of the big British colonial empire, and afterwards of the dominant culturally power that was America (Hollywood, rock, pop culture etc.).
When I clicked this link, apparently SlideShare did some automatic voodoo with my LinkedIn cookie and now there's a public slideshare profile page with my name on it that I cannot delete or unpublish :(
It's nice because otherwise I wouldn't be born, with each side of my family from different parts of China. :-)
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The most secure way to transport goods in checked bags is to fly with a checked firearm. You are required to lock a firearm in a hard-sided case with locks that only you have the keys to -- TSA approved locks are not allowed. You are allowed to lock whatever else you want in these cases too. They are screened more closely and if they can't determine contents with an x-ray they will ask you to open the locks in their presence. It's a tradeoff for convenience, for sure, but it's the only way to travel with securely locked baggage.
I was turned on to small batch chocolate by Dandelion in SF. Their bars are $8 and the Madagascar and Tanzania really taste incredible. Will somebody neutral but in the know confirm Dandelion is the real deal?

Side note: Have we at a meta level concluded that self-identified "small batch" and "artisanal" products sold at farmers markets in hipsterish packaging are very highly correlated with "young people that don't really know what they are doing (are relatively inexperienced), but are good at marketing and charging a high price"?
I agree completely. But your power meter doesn't know what device in your house is using electricity, it just knows you're using X amount of electricity.

Yes it would be difficult to make a data meter that's intentionally blind to where the packets are going to and from, but it's not as though the data isn't available for intercept a dozen other places on a telco's network. If they want to spy on you and your data is on their network there's little you can do.

The point of this independently certified metering device is that it'd be expensive. Hopefully nobody would sell them, only rent them. So if a carrier wants to charge overages they're more than welcome to, but the people supplying the meters are going to get a huge cut of their business. And once a telco is on the receiving end of a racket instead of on the giving end, perhaps they'd change their tune about data caps and spend that money and energy upgrading their network instead of using it to clamp down on their "customers" who have little to no alternatives.
Pretty fucked up. I wasn't insulting a strawman, I was pointing out the mindset that thought the camera was saving babies lives.

(which obviously they aren't, they are documenting instances where vetting the sitter fails, not keeping marginal sitters in line)
Building construction is actually a good analogy.

For stuff that's been built a thousand times, you can state with a fair amount of confidence how long a project should take and how much it should cost. You can obtain financing and insurance because the dataset is large enough.

For stuff that's unusual or bespoke -- the kind of thing that will appear in an architecture magazine or in a newspaper investigatory report -- then estimates are very likely to be wildly optimistic.

So it's the same, insofar as the further you stray into research, the less certainty there is. The bigger the bet, the fewer such things have been built, the bigger the risk will be that things go awry.

I have a book in my collection -- Industrial Megaprojects -- which makes fascinating reading for enumerating all the ways that chemical process plants, giant mines, gas pipelines, gigantic factories etc can blast through the budgets and schedules.

My personal favourite: a chemical plant built relying on an adjacent river for cooling. To save costs, only one water temperature sample was taken during planning ... in winter. Three billion dollars later, the owners found that the plant was inoperable for about half the year because the river water was too warm.
Seems like you're a lucky guy. My current iPhone 4s is falling apart. One of the speakers doesn't work, battery lasts only half a day, and the power off button is broken. And I guess there won't be any software updates after the current iOS release.
If so many people don't see it as mockery, you should consider that you might be the one who is interpreting it all wrong
Nobody is compelled to be a pilot.

Public records that aren't public aren't public records. Holding a pilot's license means having responsibility to the public, with responsibility comes accountability. Celebrities are not entitled to special privilege in the US. We don't have royalty or an aristocracy.
> off-the-shelve

That should be off-the-shelf. There's only the 'e' and voiced 'v' in the plural. "Shelve" does exist, but it's a verb, not the singular of "shelves".
I lived on about that amount the first year there, and it was comfortable. Let's be honest, SF is expensive, but on $100k it's not bad. If you pay $24k rent ($2k/mo) that's still a whole lot after taxes. And this is an entry level salary these days.

To your other point, that's preference of course. If you're not interested in walking into other devs, then maybe SF is not for you. But for many people who've never been in such an environment, it can be very cool.
You're setting up a losing battle by buying into the broken framework. "Sharing" "copyrighted" files is currently illegal throughout the empire, period.

But simultaneously, marijuana incorporation only became a thing because of a dedicated community flouting the law long enough for the disinterested majority to see the ridiculousness of it.
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Let's you switch back and forth seamlessly as you learn. Among other features.
It looks like you've written your own language rather than make it an embedded DSL so you can really enforce what the tasks can read and write. That's admirable - I've done research with dataflow and I always did embedded DSLs (in Scala, Ruby, Haskell and Java) and it was always a bit of handwaving and arguing that people should avoid breaking the rules. Being able to enforce it must be great.

But did you find it was hard to implement enough of a language to run useful benchmarks?
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For those reading at home, the meaning is that the "most likely" is multiplied by 4, giving a triangular distribution that (very very) roughly approximates a normal distribution.

I went hunting for the origins of that formula a few years ago. I couldn't find the original source, and certainly none of the sources I found had a justification for it.

Someone who works at RAND could probably pull the original internal work and tell us. But I suspect it was chosen for ease of calculation.

While it's been criticised for being normal-esque instead of pessimistically skewed, it still outperforms single-point estimations. I think it's because of the "unpacking effect" that a full PERT estimate causes you to undergo.

There's a literature of people tinkering with the formula, but I don't think it's anywhere near as important as the unpacking effect is.
This article might give you more information: arstechnica.com/cars/2015/10/vw-responds-to-diesel-scandal-says-the-future-is-electric/

They’re focusing on EVs now a lot.
> so being a "lady" is somehow an "inferior role" that can be trumped by the superior, earned role of "being an engineer"?

Not at all. As an accurate reading of my earlier comment would make obvious, I'm well aware they are not incompatible in the slightest. But for someone who doesn't understand that, and has therefore to choose one or the other as a basis for dealing with another person, "engineer" would seem to be preferable, and I've yet to run across the engineer, in a room full of engineers, to whom an apology for swearing is necessary.

The remainder of your exceptionalism I'll let pass without comment, save to note that of course nothing says "civilized" like days of unsuppressed looting and rioting in the capital city. Yes, you're clearly doing something right there.
Indeed, here it's only referred to as a "real-time data graphing exploration vendor" - and I don't even know what that means

Previous HN discussion re: R vs APL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9780542
For what it's worth, I prefer the approach you describe. I have advocated for it for a long time. I've been writing C extensions to accelerate parsing in dynamic languages for 10 years, and I'm very familiar with this sort of dynamism.

It's interesting though that you describe this approach as more Pythonic, because one of the most outspoken critics of this approach is a hard-core Python guy that I work with who has lots of experience with the Python ecosystem. He feels very strongly that it is more Pythonic to have very flat/concrete generated code that is transparent to the reader, and really does not like the idea of hooking import and generating everything at runtime.

This is exactly what I am describing about how it is hard to please everybody. Different people appear to have fiercely different opinions about what is idiomatic.

When we wrote the Ruby protobuf implementation this year, we took an approach much more along the lines of what I personally prefer. The extension is mostly implemented in C, and it's very easy to build types at runtime. It doesn't directly import .proto files (which I would have preferred) because there was still some desire from others to have some kind of code generation. So the approach we took was to use a Ruby-like DSL for describing the protobuf schema. But really this is nothing but a translation of the .proto file into the Ruby DSL. ie. take the .proto file:

syntax = "proto3";

message Test {
int32 foo = 1;
double bar = 2;
Test test = 3;
}

The "generated code" for this is simply:

require 'google/protobuf'

Google::Protobuf::DescriptorPool.generated_pool.build do
add_message "Test" do
optional :foo, :int32, 1
optional :bar, :double, 2
optional :test, :message, 3, "Test"
end
end

Test = Google::Protobuf::DescriptorPool.generated_pool.lookup("Test").msgclass
> Do you expect privacy in the workplace?

Yes. And I am in the position to demand it, or take another position. So we get a privacy divide within society: cleaners, waiters etc don't have an expectation of privacy, those higher up do.

> Do you expect privacy when you're in a shopping mall?

No, everybody can walk in and out at any time.

> You're in a building controlled by someone else, no renting going on. What is your rule for when privacy is expected?

Well, you have touched upon that yourself in your previous question: if a place is open to public you can not expect privacy obviously. When you are in a private place, the default should be to expect privacy unless explicity noticed otherwise.

I feel like you are actually advocating some 1984 here on freakin' HN!
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The article seems to me an admission that the locks were never intended to secure anything and just there to make people feel better. At least the TSA understands that not only are the locks unsecure now, they never were.
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I'm just not sure what the advantage is. I don't take alcohol, other than the occasional beer/wine, as I don't particularly like the effects. Same for smoking/caffeine/pot. I have much better experiences with real-life, such as flying planes, climbing mountains, etc. I understand LSD and ketamine are going to give a kind of the experience you can't get in real-life, but screwing around with your brain to achieve it doesn't really seem to be worth the risk IMO. I've managed to completely screw up my brain once in my life (severe suidical depression / CFS) without any help from any mind-altering substances, so to be honest I'm not really sure it's a good idea to be screwing around with your neurotransmitters like that. It's like trying to make your zx81 do something cool by randomly poking memory locations or wobbling the 16k RAM pack.
I'd really appreciate comments on this - anything you feel like saying about it.
Great example!
The fact that planning estimates represent a probability distribution is well known and there is an established process (PERT)[1] for estimating the expected time of a set of estimates - essentially instead of asking for a single 'most likely' estimate you should as well explicitly walk through some of the risks around this and the ask for an 'optimistic' estimate (which is frequently very similar to the initial estimate) and a 'pessimistic' estimate (which is frequently much larger) - given:

m = 'most likely' time
o = 'optimistic' time
p = 'pessimistic' time

You can then estimate the expected time 'e' by modelling a triangular distribution based on these and sum the estimates on the critical path.

e = ∑(oi + 4mi + pi)/6

This is actually a very useful technique but sadly is done very infrequently (probably because it usually comes up with an number that people don't want to hear - but is usually much more realistic).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_evaluation_and_review_...

The program (or project) evaluation and review technique, commonly abbreviated PERT, is a statistical tool, used in project management, which was designed to analyze and represent the tasks involved in completing a given project. First developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s, it is commonly used in conjunction with the critical path method (CPM).
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Canada is nice.

Teachers in the US make on average $58k or so, varying from state to state quite a lot. It's about $30k less than the average software developer in the US, and if you're not very senior as a teacher you might get fired every year and rehired in fall. It's not a very secure job in many places, actually, even if you can teach math or science.

Nurses in the US make a lot more money, on par with developers, but much more physically and emotionally demanding.
This is rather funny comment made on a place like Hacker News, full of web developers who refer to themselves as "Engineers".
Redefining "crime" to include "precrime" is generally considered a Bad Thing also. A law being on the books does not mean it is just or wise.
Please, buy chocolate. Froyo is demeaning.
The problem actually is that we have inflation in art.
I can't claim any depth in chocolate appreciation, but can vouch for the integrity of the founders of Dandelion. More than one of them had been saving to start the business for well over a decade, and started it out of the love of craftsmanship rather than any particular desire to sell at scale. And I agree, their bars are spectacular.
Have you considered the pi-top (http://www.pi-top.com)? It sounds like it has many of the features you are looking for.
A camera can find mistreatment before it turns critical, and then the sitter is replaced.

That is protecting the baby's health, which sometimes reaches the level of saving lives.

Your logic only works if camera footage goes unwatched until the day the babysitter exits the business.

Edit: And that 'thin line' remark is 100% a strawman. I don't know how you can admit it isn't the "intended meaning" and yet claim it's not a strawman.
Even simpler:

DROP SCHEMA public CASCADE;
CREATE SCHEMA public;
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You can also defeat pretty much any zippered luggage by just jabbing a ballpoint pen into the zipper. A dinky padlock on the pulls, regardless of who has the keys, is not keeping anyone out of your stuff.
You have a point, that was poor wording on my part about the fluids. Let me be more specific.

Of course, blood has a very central role in Catholic services and doctrine. Milk is also heavily used symbolically in the bible (Hence I have said to you, "You are to possess their land, and I Myself will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples.) -- but is probably not specifically Catholic. Semen and that type of "seed" are indeed used a lot in Christian symbolism. I don't know about urine.

So...the significance of these fluids is considerable. People may and do recoil at the notion, but there it is.

Have you seen the full series of Serrano's work from that time period? That's what I'd invite you to do, rather than judging His intentions from small photos on the Internet. To see if there's anything in it for you.

Yes, I remember Madonna's work from that era that engaged those kinds of symbols. It was just designed to shock, as you say, just pushing buttons. (She has done better work, "Vogue" still stands up.).

But Serrano is really, as I said, more aesthetic and philosophical than just a shock artist. That's why I counterposed Gilbert and George. That's what trying to shock looks like. (Those photos are life size, e.g. http://www.candidmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ins..., so they make quite an impression.)
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I would go to bet that most "hipster" brands whether it's beer, coffee, or w/e are pretty much 99% marketing this is how business works.

You can see this in wine tasting allot of the big name wines expensive wines do not score well in blind wine tastings however in non blind tastings when people are sold on the story they score remarkably well.

When you spend 200$ on a bottle of wine, 15$ on a bar of chocolate and 20$ on 8 oz. of coffee beans you'll be damn sure to like them even if they are nothing but average at best.

There is a reason why every "artisan" product comes with a nifty far fetched story tied to it as that's what you are buying at the end.
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The second meaning is an error, really, and gets flagged with usage notes.

"4. The use of flaunt to mean “to ignore or treat with disdain” ( He flaunts community standards with his behavior) is strongly objected to by many usage guides, which insist that only flout can properly express this meaning. From its earliest appearance in English in the 16th century, flaunt has had the meanings “to display oneself conspicuously, defiantly, or boldly” in public and “to parade or display ostentatiously.” These senses approach those of flout, which dates from about the same period: “to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock.” A sentence like Once secure in his new social position, he was able to flaunt his lower-class origins can thus be ambiguous in current English. Considering the similarity in pronunciation of the two words, it is not surprising that flaunt has assumed the meanings of flout and that this use has appeared in the speech and edited writing of even well-educated, literate persons. Nevertheless, many regard the senses of flaunt and flout as entirely unrelated and concerned speakers and writers still continue to keep them separate."