skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're assuming every military network admin was directly responsible for keeping the system up and running.

The reality is much different. Usually, it's a small minority of exceptional individuals that keep things running while the rest skate or gain merit through other means (ex high PT scores).

Even then, training for a speciality often covers the bare minimum to operate the equipment for a few reasons. First, training must be standardized across each MOS leaving little room for differentiation. Second, training standards are often set by senior ranking NCOs/COs who may have risen through the ranks for reasons other than technical ability.

Any role requires a higher degree of skill (ex engineering) or higher degree of differentiation (ie systems design) are passed off to contractors because the time/money costs of training an entire MOS to a higher degree of technical ability are too high.

It's gotten to the point where security has shifted to civilian-only support because the service members can't be trusted to follow best security practices when their superiors take a 'make it happen or your career will suffer' stance.

It's really common for the most talented/capable service members to leave the service and immediately return as contractors. They get paid more and don't have to deal with all the rank-and-file BS. The system doesn't reward talent in spite of good intentions.

I'm not trying to bag on veterans. I worked as a contractor and personally know many individuals I wouldn't hesitate to follow to the end of the earth.

Some individuals are truly exceptional in terms of leadership and/or technical ability but stating that all veterans can be lumped into that group is naive.
Slavoj Zizek?

http://keshek.tumblr.com/image/36898581401
I think the basic idea is that companies that are unprofitable or barely profitable or otherwise underperforming are chewed up and uhh... spat out, leaving the assets (people, inventory, etc) to be picked up by healthier companies.

Contrast this with 'zombie companies' in Japan, 'zombie banks' like Deutsche Bank, and so forth that are kept animated by gov/taxpayer money instead of fed to the sharks.
Or if you want to hide the fact that you are on reddit at work, here is the link displayed as "code".

http://codereddit.com/?topic=3zfadv
Unusual official workaround to get data from Oracle into Excel '97
Oh this is beautiful, nice work. Many (wow 12 already) years ago I did something related with iterated function systems and custom code. It was extremely tedious however, and used POV-Ray as renderer:

https://vimeo.com/105317159

Again, lovely work.
The language in that description refers to "protected groups". As long as the author is not calculating selection rates for groups of candidates based on some special criteria, such as race, gender, age, etc. he should be ok, right?
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I applaud Diane for her generous donation, but what about the investors and employees who basically got a huge payday from their rich uncle Google? It's hard to feel like this is not a rigged system.
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All three of which have systematically exterminated their native populations, to make room for settlers.

The ones that survived have gotten, and are still getting a pretty poor deal, too.
These are questions that themselves would need to be answered with scientific research. In the absence of real empirical data, I'd be uncomfortable with saying it is "more likely in general that false positives would be highly correlated." Without data, we don't know how likely it is.
Hint: look at workaround method 2.
Here the author. If you dislike Go then that makes two of us :)

But more seriously, I wrote a bit about the why in https://github.com/rach/pome#why-building-pome

To keep with the simplicity that I was aiming, I wanted a binary. I considered Rust, Haskell or Go (Swift was not opensource yet at the time) but went with Go because the libs that I will need (cron like scheduler, embedding assets, etc).

I had never written something in Go before but if I've known go then maybe I would have pick an other language as I started this project with a learning motivation.
> For instance, if you know that 8x12 = 96, you know that 1/12 is approximately 0.08.

You get this same intuition in a much better way by knowing that "since 1/8 is approximately 0.12, 1/12 is approximately 0.08".
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I have to warn you that you just triggered a liars paradox.
^thanks. submitted an application today (https://learn.co/georgetoothman/resume)
From what I've known, top engineers from VMware had moved to Bebop and recruiting was purely based on their previous performance and contacts with founding team at VMware.
$24? Maybe if it's fulfilled by Amazon Prime or whatever and including same-hour shipping. If you're willing to wait for shipping, the exact same shit is like 1/3 the price from China (eg [0])

[0]: http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=RTL2832U
Or if you're expanding on a previous study.

"(AUTHOR et al.) performed a small scale lab study. (ANONYMOUS SUBMISSION) performed that exact same study, on hundreds of people, and expand on the work of authors..."
I believe convincing people to do "bad jobs" by means of desperation is named Wage Slavery. Besides being immoral and degrading, its pretty inefficient. On the other hand, some jobs that need to be done plain out unpleasant. How do you convince someone to do it?

In the Looking Backwards scenario the incentive to do one of the "bad jobs" isn't being paid more per hour, everyone is paid the same, its working less hours which I think is subtly different.
I am only just learning about this stuff, but there are several things in this article that seem incorrectly explained. Conceptual clarity is paramount to me, so it drove me a little crazy!

> Bayes’ theorem is a method for calculating the validity of beliefs (hypotheses, claims, propositions) based on the best available evidence (observations, data, information).

Bayes theorem is a statement about probability, not "validity." This description makes it sound like Bayes theorem is a function BT(belief, evidence) = validity of belief. But it's not like that at all.

Probability is a way of measuring uncertainty. Things are uncertain for two main reasons: either we can't observe them directly ("do I have this disease or not?") or they haven't happened yet ("what side will this coin flip land on?"). (If you believe in a deterministic universe, the second is just a special case of the first.)

The "beliefs" (aka priors/posteriors) in Bayes theorem are statements of probability. To use the article's example, if it is claimed that 1% of the population has a certain disease, your "belief" or "prior" is that P(I have the disease) = 0.01. The article seems to get confused and think that the "belief" here is "I have the disease." Bayes theorem doesn't tell you about "the probability that a belief is true" like the article says, the belief is a probability. It also doesn't tell you if your belief is "valid."

Bayes theorem takes your existing belief about the probability of something and gives you a new probability that incorporates some evidence you observed.
Facebook intentionally crashed its Android app to test users’ loyalty
ZenoArrow just asked me to tell him or her a fact.
Blocked by the firewall as a Games website :) But hopefully it helps someone else!
Actually, kids have never left the maker mindset. If they did, Lego would have gone broke long ago.
Bayesian analysis comes directly from the probability axioms, which are 'frequentist'.
Exactly.

If you are serious about this then you should be interviewing candidates, deciding on whether you think they should get a job. Then giving them a job anyway and evaluating their performance after some time interval and see how accurate your interview process was in terms of weeding out those who would fail.
Also, a new UI that doesn't suck.

https://blog.lastpass.com/2016/01/introducing-lastpass-4-0.h...
The other day I had to buy some locknuts. I was in a hurry so I went to Masters. Ain't nothing premium about locknuts.
Yes, it supports RDS and I want to support it as it's the one that I used most often. It's really basic right now but I will add some new metrics this month.
Definitely, they'd much rather collect late or partially than have you try to evade collection or declare bankruptcy.

However, your room for negotiation is much smaller when you're paying a huge insurance deductible than if you're completely uninsured. Hospitals charge outrageous prices for the uninsured, partly so they have room to make a profit when insurance companies negotiate down, partly to make up for the fact that a lot of uninsured people will never pay, and partly because some people will pay it so they might as well try.

If you're insured with a high deductible, the insurance company has already negotiated prices down by an order of magnitude. Any further negotiation with your deductible starts to really hurt their bottom line, and might run into problems with their arrangement with the insurance company too.

I have to imagine that a payment plan could be arranged without too much difficulty, but actually reducing the total amount could be challenging.
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The emphasis on "face time" is just laziness. Laziness is, however, inevitable. I say that; I've done more good with a five minute hallway discussion ( in terms of heading off an "oh heck no" idea ) than any other technique.

but the entire "we need to socialize in order to be successful" thing is sorta mind-numbing. The word that comes after "social" is "engineering."
Philly has the Parkway which is a near replica of the Champs Elysees.. What part of SF is "European Style"?
You could also just follow his lead and take Fridays off... :)

Seriously though, no man should be irreplaceable because of his knowledge, this is some serious risk you are taking.
Unlimited with a minimum would be better since you'd have a lower bound and everyone would get at least a sane amount off.

In the UK though we get good mandatory holiday days for FT employed.
It is back right now and they list the research.
Also, besides "getting used to it" or "working their way out of it" there are a few other quite grim possibilities that can happen in Wage Slavery.

Namely suffering and early death. Sometimes the workers band together (aka unionize) or straight up rebel causing civil war. These are all things that have happened in the past, could happen again in the future.
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I don't know enough about C language and compiler technology to give a specific recommendation on that. However, your other comment on Java hints that its a hold-over from bad language design. Also, I recall that Fortran compilers could optimize the heck out of code that C compilers held back on specifically because Fortran was more deterministic. The compiler knew what the code was doing and could guess where usage was going. C's properties made the same code a giant unknown due to effects of pointers.

My overall point is that you can do an optimization from a set of statements with specific meaning at least as easy as you can from one with unknown meaning. So, a similarly low-level language with well-defined behavior could be optimized at least as much as C. However, since compiler faces uncertainty, the argument doesn't work the other way around. That's why C and its undefined behavior are bad by design.

And hence all the discussions on workarounds like the OP.
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Or even better, an animated gif showing it in action.
I'm "hmmm" and 55, apparently. "Hmmm" I'll agree with, but I'm 32!
I like Twitter because it forces people to be concise. There are already plenty of places on the web where people can post long thoughtful articles or op-ed pieces.
I put early access games I'm interested in on my "wish list" aka watch list and then wait for them to be released and received. I no longer buy games in early access.

I really wish that Steam had much better filters for what it shows, i.e. I have 0 interest in F2P games, like 99.99% of anime/manga games, etc. I greatly prefer the old interface which didn't try to force-feed you other people's "curated" opinions.

The recent sales have been lackluster discount wise as well and 3rd party shady key sites and whatnot often have better pricing.

Having said that, though, I did get Witcher 3 from Steam during the Winter sale which is the best RPG I've ever played and I've put 100+ hours in to it in less than 2 weeks. I was disappointed to see the same price as was in the sale. I waited expecting a better discount. It's so good I went back to buy the season pass at full price though - <3 for CDProjekt. They're outstanding and I hope they don't go the way of the other (mostly) scumbag publishers.
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It depends. Some tests are applied without prior suspicion, so you deal with exactly the background frequency. With others, the disease in question is so rare that false positives will dominate even if the doctor has serious suspicions. The second case is the reason for the "think horses not zebras" aphorism.

Doing a few explicit Bayesian calculations can help one internalize just how much important is that often forgotten P(A) factor is.

The same applies, by the way, to the antiterrorism security theater - many support it just because they have no intuition (or idea) about base rates.
The problem with trying to rely on heuristics to avoid biases is people often ignore the biases in the heuristics of choice. To continue the example of LW, there are many people there who seem to think highly of IQ test, and who ignore the many issues with them (the Flynn effect an the effect of incentives being a couple examples of the flaws in IQ tests).

Trying to remove biases is great. But there is a problem when someone works to remove some biases, then believes that they are inherently more rational than the public at large, and then uncritically accepts there other biases ("Someone like me who's worked hard to remove there biases must be correct when compared to the biased masses.").
It seems PG is thinking backwards on this. Instead of fixing the bad _causes_ of inequality we should try to fix the bad _consequences_ of inequality.
Both Izmirlian and the Bahamian govt were naiive with Chinese business culture. Contracts have zero value.
Is this a test for my attractiveness or for the AI?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCDEgvz_Rqw
That's one possible truth. Another possible truth is that someone else asked you that question using ZenoArrow's account.
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†Note to “that guy” on Hacker News: yes, there were cryptocurrencies before
Bitcoin. I’m aware. You don’t need to educate me on them. But they don’t count,
sorry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMOzvxQHywM
Actually, Tesla and SpaceX are outliers. They are not so much natural offspring of our time as are the outcome of an ambitious person with resources. They started in a desert. There weren't really neither a serious market for them¹ nor a sturdy supply structure that could have gained maturity with the market support. Besides the difficulty of getting into the high-barrier entry and heavy-regulated automotive industry, the existing electric cars related businesses were under constant attack by petroleum cartel. It was only natural to have difficulties in finding healthy suppliers for his Tesla. SpaceX? Well, the existing suppliers for space-ware were not the result of a free market, because there didn't really existed (or still exists) one (for that matter). What existed was either imported from overseas or come from only a narrow circle of small design labs that use to custom-build pieces required by someone for which the cost didn't seem to be an issue - NASA. This obviously doesn't count for something SpaceX could rather rely on.

¹ Here I expect at least some people to bring up something like Henry Ford and his horse & carriage replacement offering as a counter-example in favor to Elon Musk's enterprise. The car vs. existing livestock-based transport and the electric car vs. existing fossil fuel car are not really comparable.
This can be effective in jobs where there is a labor shortage but not a labor surplus.

Meaning, if you are applying for a job that 100 other people are also applying for, you don't get to make these kinds of demands. Whoever is hiring you will simply pass you over.

However if you happen to be working a position requiring skill with a labor shortage (they are having a hard time finding someone qualified to fill the position) then you definitely could be in a position to negotiate for these things.

I think this is why people would be inclined to making it law, there are a lot of jobs where the workers wouldn't have the leverage to affect this kind of change.
I have used EtherPad and found it a decent tool that looks a little nicer. http://etherpad.org/
Note that it only allows access to people designated by the user. The user can configure a waiting period between the emergency contact's request and access.

I can think of two ways this is implemented:

1) LastPass has a backdoor to users' data, and they use it in certain conditions.

2) Ahead of time, emergency users are given credentials different than the primary users' credentials. The emergency credentials are disabled except in the emergency conditions.

#2 is much more secure but knowing typical end-users ability to retain credentials, especially ones they aren't using, it seems like it would have a high failure rate. Maybe they could use biometrics? But how would LastPass physically collect biometric data? Not all phones have fingerprint readers, for example.
Exactly. Either that or some high-level assembler along the lines of SSA code. They can't tell me they're getting better performance with a superior method if they also can't tell me if the code will consistently work. The whole concept is ludicrous of building our program's correctness and performance on top of compiler attributes that are little to non-documented and not guaranteed to remain.

Plus, most of the software runs on x86 (now ARM) anyway. So, that's two ISA's to account for outside of operating systems, embedded, and ISV's for unusual platforms. Even then, one might use a subset of C with no undefined behavior and then make platform-specific optimizers. So, two possibilities that make a lot of sense vs depending on known unknowns plus transforms without safety arguments.
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Very interesting. I'm curious if some of the particular cases of this are an accidental "ReCAPTCHA effect" as those get filled out with no surrounding context plus whatever context the user brings to it (programmers/mathematician-trained brains mentally prioritizing pattern matching nth over 11th). Certainly anecdotally I feel I've made the lith and nth 'mistakes' in ReCAPTCHA attempts.
The thing that I can't find a simple answer to and it bugs me: master-master replication is pretty common in MySQL, is the MySQL implementation inherently flawed somehow but people are still using it (which would be against the spirit of PG, and rightly so), or is it something about Postgres that makes it specifically difficult to implement?
Which is why the author of the article needs to mention that the second test is independent of the first.
Yeah, we have "high" cubicle walls, but the last 12" is glass which defeats the purpose. I face a walkway and people's heads are in my view as they pass, which can be incredibly distracting.

We get a lot of natural light this way which can be great, except when the sun rises right into your eyes with no way to block it.
I agree that open offices are, in practice, horrific endeavors.

But I think the concept behind them is valid: to foster collaboration and eschew meetings.

Given the choice between being stuck in meetings all day and an open office plan, I'd take the open office any day.
From a data privacy point of view I would very much appreciate if you added a prominent "delete upload" button to the result page.
A while back I saw a discussion about them running the current head space past Bowdoin down under Charles/MGH but the problem there was that the required head space would take it under the Charles and that'd end up being pretty costly due to the conditions there.
Not to mention the favors that he certainly had to trade in order to get that deal done. But then again that is what politics is all about. You support my pet project I will support yours.
Remember what a parameter estimator is.

If you sample 100 values out of a very large pool and add them up then divide by 100 what you get is not the mean of the distribution, but an estimator of the mean of the distribution as you would get a slightly different answer if you picked a different 100.

Often estimators are simple formulas like that (they are for power laws) but there are subtle details, for instance to get the standard deviation in that case you might think you divide by N (100) but you really should divide by N-1 (99).

Back in the 1990s myself and the people around knew some popular statistic formulas but not the concept of estimating a parameter.

And of course its not physics. Social scientists and life science people tend to take a course on statistics but it is fair to say that the median paper in those fields has some mistake in how they do statistics.
Oracle has no control with this; merging OpenJDK doesn't mean depending on OpenJDK indefinitely going forward; in E same way that building Chrome on WebKit didn't give Apple control of Chrome -- Google first became a major driver of WebKit and then forked it to make blink. Nothing in OpenJDKs licensing makes that unlikely for OpenJDK. It's a high one-tone transition cost to forever end the API copyright issue around Android, but once the transition happens Google is in full control of the roadmap.

Heck, Given the significance of Android and Google's ability to offer its choice of Java implementation in its cloud services, Google's probably in a position where, if it code to, it could credibly fork OpenJDK not just got an Android-specific implementation, but to challenge Oracle's Java more generally, the way others have done with both MySQL and Open Office.
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Because the number of people it aids is much larger than the population of people in the confines of Boston proper.
In all fairness to the parent, Boston-area tolls are rather patchwork and a periodic political football. There are tolls in the tunnels, on the Tobin Bridge, and the Mass Pike (which connects to 93, the main highway in the Big Dig from the West). There is, however, no toll on 93 in Massachusetts--there is in NH. So drivers coming in from the West or the North Shore get hit by tolls. Those coming in from 93N or 93S don't.
These are really beautiful. Has anyone here ever delved into creating fractals with the various tools that are out there?

I don't have a strong math background, but I've always thought these things are wonderful. I'd be interested in creating my own, but I don't really know where to start (I don't want to learn the math, or write a renderer; I don't have the time).
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Of course it's not fair. Someone works hard and earns a million dollars. At that point they've paid just about every tax imaginable on the money other than sales tax.

What is the "fair" argument to taxing it again just because they die? If you honestly believe that governments should tax every dollar every time any event happens to it, that's a valid opinion, but let's not pretend it has anything to do with "fairness."
Plus: The algorithm thought I was 24 years old. I'm actually 32.

Minus: I got the lowest rating possible. Haha, terribly depressing feedback before a date.
> That's the kind of smug naivete that makes young programmers so insufferable.

You said it.