skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This logic is not necessarily true. The tests are inherently probabilistic. Medical professionals must use the impact of a False positive or negative and the baysean probability of a disease given their test results to determine the best thresholds for patients. False positives can still be very harmful to patients (surgery, medication, lifestyle changes, etc) so they must be taken into account as well.

One classic example is a pregnancy test. You're going to find out eventually, and the impact of a false positive is huge, so the test errs toward false negatives instead of false positives.

This video does a good job explaining it (and is where I learned most of what I know): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF1T7KzRnrs
It's pretty much brilliant top to bottom. I starred the hell out of this repo.
Now I want to ask my parents if their power bill dropped when I moved out of the house.
Borrowing is inflationary in the short term, and deflationary in the long term. In the short term the money supply goes up. In the long term the interest paid on borrowings reduce money supply and the principal must be repaid, these two events are deflationary.

(The interest disappears into the central bank.)

Paying down debt is deflationary in the short term, and inflationary in the long term. In the long term the interest paid on debt is reduced to zero, and gives the borrower room to borrow more again, or to accrue savings to earn interest. These events are inflationary.

This is related to the Fisher equation. [1]

nominal interest rate = real interest rate + inflation

In the long term, the more nominal interest rate goes up, the more inflation there is. (Take this to the extreme at 1000% interest rates - everyone who can't pay their interest defaults in the short term, causing a sharp deflationary spike. The remaining people or banks with money put their money in the central bank, earn their 1000% interest, and from then on money supply increases exponentially at 1000% per year).

The reason why they're talking about negative interest rates is, because in the past the governments and central banks have encouraged so much debt and lowered the interest to zero bound, causing a sharp inflationary spike (2009-2011), and are now experiencing the consequences of deflation due to excessive debt, which is postulated to happen "in the long term" by the Fisher equation. That nominal positive interest businesses and consumers pay is causing the deflation. That's why central banks are discussing whether negative interest rates could undo the consequences of their previous low interest rate policy, which causes inflation in the short term, and deflation in the long term.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_equation
Thinking further, perhaps you could categorize this movement as an elaborate parody. "Old Master" style expressed a contentment with life as it currently existed, a sense of the beauty of things, and a sense of timelessness which aren't really present today; a painting of a bottle of Coke in the style of a bowl of fruit, or a stockbroker in a BMW in the style of a hunter on his horse, is both an impressive technical accomplishment and a very elaborate joke...
From the guide: "we ask candidates not to compile or run their code during this exercise, and not to refer to online resources"

Seriously? You don't allow referring to online resources? Do you also unplug the internet connection for all of your existing programmers so they don't refer to online resources?

The whole point of the interview is to see how you would perform at your job at the first place, creating an artificial job for an interview where you swap words in the array or solving some other stupid quiz + disconnecting you from online resources is just plain stupid in my opinion.
nothing is stopping you from launching your own website and campaign

Nothing except the fact that we don't have a multi-billion-dollar interest group paying us to do so ;). I agree with you that things can sometimes be done at the grassroots level, but there is simply no comparison to the tenacity and endurance of influence available to the big players. Any grassroots effort must find a way to surmount that obstacle, not ignore it.
I see a lot of throwaway accounts here post interesting stuff - clearly like anon.

Slashdot incurs a large cost (noise) in allowing anon comments - depending on who you ask, the moderation system either barely keeps that in check, or is completely insufficient.
Doesn't have to be awful. The collective wisdom is to stop immediately if you start to feel ill. Trying to push through will not go well. Eventually, most people build up a resistance to motion sickness ("VR legs"). Bonus is that this motion tolerance carries over outside of VR. Several VR users have reported being able to read in the car for the first time!
> Point 3 reminds me of Haskell trying to prove certain grammars correct at compile-time or C++ calculating factorials using template meta-programming.

They don't seem analogous in the slightest. Grammars can be correct without being proven correct. Calculating factorials at runtime instead of at compile time doesn't change the result of the calculation. But treating all paths as though they were UTF-8 breaks programs when certain paths are fed to them.

> I have never ever had bugs in my code from somehow having invalid Unicode code-points in my paths. 99% of the time, replacing '/' with '\' and handling drive letters gets you there. I realize certain classes of bugs could happen, but I'd rather take that risk, have a bug, and fix it, than burden the type system and libraries.

So this philosophy is what brought us the fun of feeding paths that contain spaces to shell scripts. Except this would be worse, because you can write space-correct Bash scripts—but if paths in the language are UTF-8, and you have to work with a path that contains non-UTF-8 characters, there is literally nothing you can do, and your program will be broken no matter what†. I'm glad that Rust took the time to do things right and figured out how to make the right thing ergonomic instead of giving up, deciding that correct paths are impossible, and forcing everyone to write broken programs.

By the way, this is not a theoretical problem: VCS's have been bitten by this in the real world. https://www.redmine.org/issues/2664

† Note that Golang has a different solution to this problem: strings in Golang don't have to be UTF-8, and they're only UTF-8 by convention. This is a totally valid solution, but Rust didn't go with it because removing the invariant that strings are UTF-8 has downstream consequences that affect every API that takes strings.
Read "The Selfish Gene", or some other book that go over this research. That book is a good choice, it is probably one of the best popular science books you will read in your life.

(The research is well corroborated, except by some Marxist biologists. :-) )

You can start by checking this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Hamilton
Data manipulation with D3.js and underscore.js
> I'm happy every time we can find a pill for solving a problem - because the pill actually works

If a woman is depressed because she is stuck in an unhappy marriage with a man she doesn't love...and she then pops a pill and becomes "happy"...I am not sure that meets my definition of "works".
You still have the right to speak up about it in any manner that is not violent. You can say Obama sucks or should resign. That's a right many people in the world do not have. Your voice and vote are more powerful than you think, even when things seem to be going against what you believe in. You can still find a glimmer of hope, like how Lindsey Graham changed his mind in the Apple case.
As one of the people intimately involved in this release, I completely agree with the "stuff that should be there from the beginning" part of what you said :)
Odds may be slim of there being anything newsworthy on the phone but do you think that it wouldn't be of value to the investigative team, who probably has to chase down hundreds of leads, contacts, and so forth? Unless the phone was wiped, I would be 99% confident that the team doing the actual investigation will get immense value from this phone, even if it's just tying up many loose ends.
Can someone elaborate more on the "Working for Free" section? I'm not well versed in IFTTT, but shouldn't I as the owner of a website that wants to offer a recipe be responsible for the details that recipe? This is all very unclear without specific examples.
derivative of sigmoid is wrong. should be sigmoid(x)*(1 - sigmoid(x))
Wine producers already sell half-bottles. I imagine they prioritise what they sell more of.

FWIW, my wife buys sparkling white in 200mL bottles.
The only thing this title tells me is that the iPhone 5C is not secure anymore. Thoughts?
If it only worked this once, why not declassify it?

http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/news/companies/fbi-apple-iph...
The very next sentence there is "Our goal is not to simulate day-to-day software development", so no, they probably do not unplug the internet connection for the existing programmers.
I fully believe that such a screw cap is objectively superior. But I really like the ritual of finding a cork-screw and POP pulling out the cork. For me it's all just different concentrations of ethanol without the ceremony.
Don't throw away the rest. Keep it aside and check the quality the next evening or cook with it.
You're right, I perhaps was a little callous with my disregard of the specifics of the case rather than focus on the larger potential precedent.
I hadn't seen Botize before. In structure and capabilities, it looks a lot more promising to me than either IFTTT or Zapier (for instance, it supports maintaining lists and adding/selecting data from them), except that half the site seems to be localized to Spanish and doesn't seem to have an option anywhere to change the site language.
Blogger sparks debate with demand that Genius Web Annotator allow opt-outs
Sure. But collective votes trump money every time. And your voice is part of getting that collective going. It isn't easy. You need to be an active speaker to participate. You need to be good at presenting facts and convincing people. But with the right to free speech, this is something anyone can practice and learn, even computer scientists. As hidden as we liked to stay behind our monitors growing up, it is time we start coming out from under our shells.
Why don't they ask them to play soccer on the interview or see how fast a person can run, if they don't care if the candidate will perform well in their day-to-day software development?
Gee, I'd love to pay 200 bucks for the privilege of entering someone's walled garden stocked with DRM'ed wine cartridges.
It would appear random thoughts are not entertained here lol.
This isn't about offering recipes, this is about IFTTT requiring sites to write support for a new API (notice, it's not write to a new API, they have to build this new PI in to their site) so others can write IFTTT recipes.
For more information on trials being conducted using the drugs described above, see MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies): http://www.maps.org/.
Yeah, this same college started teaching RPG around the same time all this happened. I took two semesters of RPG programming, but I've never used it for anything in the real world.

RPG, at least back then, didn't suit me. It was very much column oriented, with this oddball tool (SEU - Source Entry Utility) that you had to program in. I understand the ILE version(s) of RPG have gone to more of a free-form format, but back then it was a royal pain.
The interesting thing IMO is that CBT is actually about totally ignoring the "underlying reasons" of your problem, and instead it's about literally hacking your mind to deal with the symptoms. Drugs are a hardware solution, CBT is a software solution, and all that searching for problems in your life is mostly attempts at patching up datasets provided by third parties.
I love your blog, keep up the good work.
I think that your comment, while true in spirit, misrepresents some of the mechanics in play here.

> We could revoke the 13th and 14th Amendments and have slavery again--there is no legal impediment to that.

Of course there is - the constitutional amendment process is designed precisely to be an impediment. Unlike a legal proceeding, where courts can create case law essentially at a whim by legal means alone, the constitutional amendment process is a complex and different political process, requiring quite a few procedural stars to align.

One of the problems is that the courts (and, for that matter, Congress and the POTUS) tend not to abide by the text of the constitution, preferring to usurp the political process with their own legal, legislative, or bureaucratic one, respectively.

> We could abolish the EPA, or the IRS, or the NSA. We don't because these have enough supporters who value what they do, today.

I don't think this is true, but I concede that it's not really measurable. What I mean is: the reason that these methods of control persist is not that they have made a convincing case to the public that their mission is laudable and faithfully executed (environmental protection, accurate and fair taxation, and security for US persons vis a vis international dealings). In fact, it's quite plain to see that all three of these agencies have, from time to time, failed spectacularly at these missions, with some incidents attributable to incompetence and others to misconduct.

Instead, I want to suggest that the reason they persist is that they provide convenient mechanisms for exacting power and that they are controlled by people who desire that capacity.

> The 2nd Amendment remains strong today because millions of Americans work every day to keep it that way.

While I agree with this statement, I think that it is somewhat contrary to your previous one. Here you are talking about the preservation of protections offered by the text of a document, which I agree can only be protected by political vigilance. This is fundamentally different from (and perhaps the opposite of) the assertion by entrenched agencies that they operate by political will.

> So, the long-term solution for strong encryption must be a cultural one. We have to be prepared to fight the crypto wars forever, like unions are still fighting the labor wars a century later. Like civil rights activists are fighting racism even today--and will be for the foreseeable future.

Here's where I start to agree with you. This is beautifully put.
Fasd: Command-line productivity booster, inspired by autojump, z and v
Not for something like this.
1.2 includes multi-zone support, so your nodes can be in multiple AZs. This means that a failure of a single zone shouldn't interrupt your apps: http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/multiple-zones/

What is not yet in 1.2, but is planned for 1.3, is HA Master - so that failure of the zone which contains your master won't interrupt the control plane. (i.e. you will be able to update your apps even as zones are failing).
Imagine being able to execute arbitrary code just by dragging particular windows and files around to special areas in a desktop operating system - no typing.
"There are numerous way a system like this could be set up to incentivize jurors."

i find this statement worrisome on its face. for matters of the legal and/or moral variety, i don't want jurors to have an incentive. i want them to be compelled by law to execute the duties appointed to them by the democracy they participate in. jury duty should not be a financial opportunity.

'They're then rewarded based on how close they are to the "average" or consensus.'

similarly, i do not want a juror who's aiming to give the same answer most people would give, which sounds like a perverse sort of guessing game. i want a juror who will consider the evidence and pronounce a judgement based on their understanding of the evidence and the law. i want a juror to have the opportunity to exercise their right to jury nullification. etc.

i'm not saying that the current western implementations of democracy and jurisprudence are perfect. but they have at least grappled with a bunch of philosophical questions about what say an individual might have. and while i'm a big believer in the potential of things like the etherium and bitcoin blockchains to make our lives better and to facilitate relationships we couldn't have had before, i'm vary wary of the feeling that these systems by their very existence imply clear well-defined solutions to old political and social problems. that is not the case. the existence of a robust tool does not get you out of having to think philosophically.
I believe, and I could be wrong here, that previously IFTTT simply consumed public APIs to cobble things together. They are now asking services that want to be IFTTT-able to expose an API that IFTTT defines. IFTTT will still be hitting endpoints on the developer's product's site, but the endpoints are defined by IFTTT and not public.
Yes, but the "could be interpreted as" operator, colloquially "sleep equals" is pretty obscure and not recommended for production: "thirteen" ~_~ 13
I'm imagining someone repeatedly unstarring the repo just to re-star it again.
That's actually a good point, setting precedent by one side not being represented properly.

Thinking further, one company could easily setup another and sue it for one thing or another. The set-up company presents a believable but purposefully flawed case and voilà: legal precedent.
https://github.com/jezen/is-thirteen/commit/b112acdf2d64f13d...

This whole thing is hilarious.
I think it's just some fellow in Spain who's about to have a really busy week.
Hardware as well?
Hats off to John McAfee!
Yes and nearly 8 in 10 Americans believe in angels [0]

You're cherry-picking topics you (presumably) agree on.

[0] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-nearly-8-in-10-americans-be...
The article seems to essentially be advocating psychodynamic psychotherapy, which isn't new but seems to be out of favor compared to thoughts-cause-emotions models common in CBT.
Indeed. And if you take an SSRI for pain-in-arm and realize it doesn't do shit, then perhaps pain-in-arm isn't related to serotonin levels?
> Are the Sherpas better off with the climbers? Perhaps. It's hard to say, because while climbing brings a lot of money, the Sherpas might have moved to cities, to India, or even to America if that opportunity hadn't materialized.

What's wrong with allowing the Sherpas to make that choice, instead of us moralizers trying to make it for them? Unless I'm missing something, they still can move to cities or to India, at least to the extent they could before the advent of the Everest industry. In fact, the revenue from guiding may even help them with the costs associated with moving to America.

It's not like we intentionally keep Sherpas in the dark about the dangers they face. I also don't think it's the case that the rise of the Sherpa business destroyed other less dangerous jobs in the area, although I'm willing to be proven wrong.

> Like boxers and football players from ghettos in America, the Sherpas sacrifice their bodies for American entertainment, not because they want to, but because they have to.

I would wager there are many boxers out there who disagree.
Absolutely it is. Google the difference. A democratic republic ultimately derives power from the people. There are more checks and balances in place in America than one person one vote. More info [1]

[1] http://www.thisnation.com/question/011.html
Reddit is hardly a haven for social justice. Them purging hateful subbreddits had more to do with revenue than appeasing "feminazis", more evidence of this is in the changed post ranking algorithm and the hiding of the up/downvote counter.
They were desperate for greater monetization when all of this happened; Reddit is a business, not a charity, and its user base has been booming exponentially over the last few years.

Compared to the past (pre-2010) Reddit has become increasingly politically incorrect. Go read top comments on posts about Muslim immigrants, or black crime, or women in tech and you'll get it confused with 4chan. There's no discussion, just vitriol, and any opposition is downvoted into oblivion. I started frequenting the site sometime in 2007, because the layout was more appealing than Slashdot's (still is), and the vibe was similar, but I just can't stomach the discussions within Reddit defaults anymore.

Not sure if it's simply Eternal September, but Reddit is no longer a progressive, free-thinking, forum for nerds; it's not even close.
It counts. You might get away with it, but if the IRS knows they will send people with guns to arrest you.

Re: automatically having the thing you need to pay taxes - this is exactly why you can go to the grocery store and buy stuff with US dollars.
Ha, yes, but in the morning!
The site doesn't provide recipes, it provides endpoints (API calls) that users can write recipes to use.

How it worked until now:

1) IFTTT wrote glue code to interface with a site's published API, and IFTTT could then write recipes to use the site. IFTTT thus stitched together other sites published APIs as a service.

How IFTTT has decided it will work from now on:

1) IFTTT comes to you and orders you to write private endpoint(s) that do X, Y, and Z. They reserve the right to ask for additional endpoints, different call results, or anything else they dream up down the road. You sign a legal agreement promising to ask "how high?" any time they say "jump". You will not be compensated for this privilege.
It might be fair, though, to exclude governments whose founding documents and the position papers written to advance them expressly eschew and prohibit democratic rule, in favor of a limited and enumerated republic.

There are some governments who claim authority to take any action authorized by the democratic process. The US government is not among them. Ergo, it is not properly classified as a "democracy."
No, honestly this is more readable for sited people too (speaking as one). I am 100% for a "bland" web.
That seems like a massive failing of our legal system when one party "refusing to spend money on making good arguments and finding evidence" can lead to bad legal precedents. Money should be irrelevant to it, especially because most parties can't afford to spend that money. But back in reality, you're absolutely right :(
I wouldn't put that much weight something showing up on HN a often. Haskel shows up fairly often and it's not close to taking on Node or JS. Will be interesting to watch though.
You can have an "About Us" page that is about the company, without mentioning that it's only you. I don't see the problem.
A product is marked "vintage" after 5 years have past since the date its production was discontinued, and "obsolete" after 7 years.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624