skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's not about the theorems being wrong, it's about people using them in impractical ways.

The Central Limit Theorem is true. Full stop. It can't be wrong. However, in the real world, a lot fewer things are truly Gaussian than may initially meet the eye. It doesn't make the CLT "false", it just means that people who apply it too carelessly are making a mistake. Standard deviation is a thing, but that doesn't make it the right thing for a given task.

A lot of people apply statistics inappropriately. It's hardly their fault, it's basically what they are taught. I remember seeing my wife take her biology statistics courses, which at times seemed to be a course in which you would repeatedly calculate p-values. Just that, over and over; calculate this p-value. Calculate that p-value. Calculate this other p-value. Say "Yes" if it's less than 0.05 and "No" if it's greater. Now do it again. And again. And again. Certainly numbers went in one end of the calculator and came out the other, but did they mean anything? If not, it's not because the p-value isn't "true", just not even remotely as useful as the course was implicitly teaching.

(Yes, words were said about how it wasn't the only useful thing, but the actions spoke loud and clear. Compute p-value. Say yes if below 0.05. Say no if above. Repeat. The current problems all the fields are having with statistics aren't that surprising if you look back to the beginning.)
I agree based on my post but...I've also read many 'stats' about this issue of US personal debt and have seen various figures range to what the OP wrote to adding a ZERO to each figure. 2.24 >> 22.4 cards. 7,000 debt >> 70,000 debt. Etc. The stats on this topic are just all over the place. Not only do I think 'you nor I' would know the averages, I don't think anyone really has a clue except maybe the FBI/Fed/CIA, if they ever looked into the matter.

One thing I think we can all agree on is that American's are deep into debt and it's not looking good. :/
It's a shame the US really came into its own around the time of the automobile. Once cities were designed around cars, it became impossible to dislodge. Old European cities were constrained by the distance one could reasonably travel by foot, so they were densely packed together. When I lived in Rome for a short while, every service I needed - groceries, dining, haircut, gelato - was within a 3-block radius. Pretty much the entire city was like that.

As much as we want to densify in the US, the fact is that two-lane streets with sidewalks HUGELY increase the distance between buildings and are horrible for walkability. Most of the twisty streets in Rome could fit 1 Fiat at a time.

I wish we could do that here, but we would A: have to knock down almost everything and start from scratch, and B: figure out a way for emergency services to get there and back quickly.
The Luddites were right; they were just early.

As for the 1930s and onwards, I once described the Japanese war in China as indefensible even from a narrowly economic perspective, because developing Manchuria was enough to absorb Japanese industrial productivity for the next thirty or forty years. That phrase is historians' standard way of describing what the Japanese wanted to do, but it was an absolute revelation to a non-historian friend of mine, who realized from that phrase that industrial productivity has been a waste product for the past eighty years or so...
It's not as simple as "Google doesn't like Flash."

Flash is a known attack vector. I'd be more comfortable with the argument "Kids should be free to play games" if I didn't have to keep purging virii off my aunt's computer because she won't stop visiting Flash game sites.

Besides, there are alternative browsers. If kids need to drop into Edge to play Flash games, that seems like an acceptable solution? If it isn't possible (because they're on a school network that whitelists browsers, for example), that's indicative of the cost / benefit tradeoff of that use case.
See discussion below.
Remember HP did actually have the only license for iPods (the whole iPod + HP thing – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod%2BHP) and it went nowhere. Their brand didn't do anything for it and the deal ended quickly, never to be repeated by Apple.
substantially yes...but that was not the only thing that changed. The models of transportation envisioned by the EV1, the Tesla, and the Volt are decidedly different.
>However, those same Americans will often become really hostile towards the EU if there is any claim of monopoly abuse from a European company.

If Americans really thought Google is guilty of some kind of "monopoly abuse", Google would be having antitrust problems at home.

To most Americans this looks like a shakedown that wouldn't be happening if Google were a European firm.
This is unreadable.
You don’t need to code it: how I address common Android problems
In the future, "because it doesn't integrate with my email and search tools to make it easy to get metadata on what I was just talking about with my friends." Maybe. Seems to be what Google is betting on.
I think this is largely about Palantir, there's been a lot of backlash as they've been slowly taking over the city. Their presence is at least an order of magnitude bigger than any other company downtown.
Actually, my anecdotal experience is that there are firmly too camps.

Some people pay off their full balance every month without fail and would never consider carrying a balance.

Others have never paid their full balance. They see the "minimum payment" and think it's a great deal.
I think most of you will agree with my position.

You might be surprised. I personally don't see any problem with majoring in business depending on what your goals are. I mean, if you want to analyze it simply in terms of "expected lifetime economic return", then majoring in business probably actually comes out ahead of majoring in computer science when you consider that most CEOs of large companies come from a "business" function within their enterprise, and not engineering. And CEOs tend to get paid a LOT more than engineers.

Of course, there possible exception is the "founder / CEO" who has a tech background and founds a startup and remains CEO. So there are clearly multiple paths to success, depending on how you define success.

All of that said, I think there's a lot to be said for having both engineering knowledge/skills AND business knowledge / skills. In my ideal world, I'd have liked to have gotten a B.S. with a triple major in like C.S., business (or marketing) and applied mathematics (or maybe statistics), or something like that.

Of course, one could always get an undergrad degree in a technical field (cs, ee, math, etc.) then go back and do a separate degree in business - perhaps an "executive MBA" for the time crunched.

Anyway, I'd put Business ahead of "women's studies", "medieval history" and any number of other majors in terms of economic value. BUT... again, for any given individual, economic value may not be the sole criteria they're evaluating things on. So it's really down to the individual.
Coming from an audio background, this explanation clicked immediately. You can't determine anything about frequency from a single audio sample. And conversely, you can't determine anything about signal phase from a frequency spectrum.

Is this just an apt analogy or is it basically the same concept at work in QM?
The section "Inheriting from structs" is misleading. It's embedding, not inheriting. A big different is that it does not lead to type compatibility. Given this:

type Foo struct {
...
}

type Bar struct {
Foo
}

...You can't pass Bar (or pointer to Bar) to anything that requires Foo (or pointer to Foo), even it looks like they'd have identical memory layouts and therefore be compatible, though that is exactly what inheritance aims to achieve in other OO languages.
Why is it a major setback of the effort?
Guess it's luck that I started using Python when they released 3, and went straight for that!
> Listen to that radiolab broadcast.

I'll definitely do so. I don't recall off-hand if I've heard that one, but I've heard a lot of them (I've been an on-and-off listener for a decade).

> Still, I disagree. The tools that we use shape our souls as much as our brains. It's that repetitive daily use that mostly does this. We come to see the world and then believe things in the way we experience it, and our tools heavily shape this view.

I don't disagree with your assertion, I just do't think the way "see the world and then believe things in the way we experience it" is actually humanity.

> To reduce someone's humanity is an incredibly deep question and i don't have the space here, nor the access to beer, to do it justice.

It is, but my use here is fairly simplistic. Basically, I think most people use "humanity" as a stand in for the values of the day. Obviously, if something is so affected by the current culture and attitude, it's can't be the defining trait of our race, can it? Thus, most of my comments here have been along the lines of both calling out what I see as a bogus definition, and proposing my own one, base don what I see as defining traits of our race. Innovation, advancement, etc.
If you're interested in this you may want to take a look at SDM content-addressable memory, which uses neural networks as address encoders/decoders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_distributed_memory

it was developed by Pentti Kanerva at NASA in the 80s

For related memory-augmented models see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning#Networks_with_se...

There was also "Reasoning, Attention, Memory (RAM)" NIPS Workshop 2015 organized by Jason Weston on this topic: http://www.thespermwhale.com/jaseweston/ram/

There is disproportionate amount of work on training learning models while ignoring memory mechanics. For some reason this research is pursued by very few machine learning/AI labs, mostly at Google DeepMind/Brain, FB, and Numenta, and may be Tom Mitchell's 'never-ending learning' project at CMU.
Nothing "the government" can't solve!!!
Personally? No. I don't find Flash apps to be useful these days; they're more often a problem than a solution when I encounter them.
The wealthy in Florence today are the same families as 600 years ago
Do you feel good about yourself now?

FWIW: This story is not a present tale but one that happened to me. I'm shrewd enough to see my way out of foolishness -- a quality you spare me in your claim that I'll be in bankruptancy court.
I am all for cryptocurrencies as a means to privacy. But when their proponents claim that cryptocurrencies will replace fiat currency with something fairer and more tied to value, all I can think of is the speculation, cheating, hype, and chicanery that has gone on with Bitcoin and now appears to be going on with Ethereum. The new currencies seem to be less fair and more ethereal than dollars and euros.
I was about to post that myself: the dangers of lead acetate. IIRC, that sweetener is what deafened Beethoven as well, and I'd call it a good argument for minimally-processed/natural food...
New stealth destroyer turned over to U.S. Navy, Capt. James Kirk
It could go either way, but so far the biology and neuroscience point to quantum indeterminism effects having little to no role in the brain.

Still I do not see how indeterminism would actually enable free will. Would an automa without free will acquire it if a higher counter was added to its brain?
This is what I have found quite usable approach. When the sales person has been explaining for some time how difficult it is to estimete the price, I simply ask how many zeroes he thinks the budget is going to have. This more often than not results to answer like "oh, I would think it is between 60k and 80k. It seems that most salespeople are not able to sense the difference between asking for indicative quote and trying to figure out orders of magnitudes in costs.
From the article:

At the end of project discovery, you’ll find that 3 exciting things will happen:

1. Now you’re allowed to ask how much the project will cost! You thought I had forgotten about that, didn’t you? It’s OK – I know you’ve been dying to know when you can ask, and the answer is, “now”. And the best part is, I’ll be able to give you a real answer, not a ballpark estimate.

2. You’ll have a more in-depth understanding of your project. From pros & cons to potential profitability, you’ll have a newfound sense of x-ray vision for how your business is currently operating vs. how the new project will enable it to operate. You’ll have a rock-solid grasp of why you want to do this project and what you’ll get from it.

3. I will hand you a complete project plan. This project plan covers all the particulars we uncovered during discovery; this plan is yours, bought and paid for. If you want, you can use this plan to execute the project yourself, or even shop the plan to other consultants for an estimate.
It's worth noting that Vogt is not a new founder. He was a cofounder of JustinTV, SocialCam, and Twitch before Cruise. It might have been an error due to lack of relevant experience, but the previously problematic situation isn't attributable to a rookie mistake.

Though I am not a lawyer, my understanding is that the claims and counter claims did not really revolve around IP. Take it out of the equation and the documents [as described on the internet] might still form the basis of a claim.
This means Facebook's trending topics list is, essentially, the news.
Let me get this right. The place that got insanely rich because of software is trying to forbid the creation of software?
I really despise smarmy sales talk like this. Why am I not surprised this is the consultant's website, apparently still written in ASP: http://www.cogeian.com/index.asp
In the first half of the article. The real reason for the post is in the second half, and the actual scary part that could affect developers.
Agnostic Meteor
I sold at 900 and bought back at 300! Bubbles are fun (for now)
I keep looking at them as they do look attractive. My kids and their teacher would probably do well with them in the classroom. But I just cannot sanction forcing them to use Google like that. My girls are 8 and 10, and it's already very hard to pushback against apps and privacy. I fear that, even if Google is OK today, giving them something like that would show them that it is OK to give up privacy, which sets a bad precedent.

But I know I'm fighting a losing battle and most people wouldn't even notice or care.
> The city does have space though, they just choose not to build on it.

Oh, where? I don't drive around much down there but I haven't seen empty lots just lying around like I have in e.g. Sunnyvale (the corn palace plot).
There are old, but still good and sometimes best, learning materials for all mainstream languages. That creates a challenge for learners, because learners should be focusing on the future of the language, not its past. If you're learning C++ now, you really should be learning the C++1x style of writing it; if you're learning JavaScript, it should be ES6-style; and if you're learning Python, it should be Python 3.

The older styles of these languages are still relevant to those who will need them for professional use on older code bases, but for a new user, they can be treated as more advanced material to be learned primarily for recognition but not for writing.

Learn Python 3 now; add some Python 2 details later, if needed. And if you really love your Python 2 MOOC, go ahead and use it as an introduction. Almost everything they are showing you is both Python 2 AND Python 3, so you're learning Python 3. Then move on to intermediate-level material that is Python 3 and goes into a lot more detail, and you'll easily switch over.
Absolute dumb comparisons, just because you made Tesla Model 3 Rez does not take any credit away from Volt. Show me a Prius with 200mpg, and I will show you at least 10000 Volts with 200 mpg or better.
> similar clients have paid $x-(x+20%)

That's key. A small business like his is probably not all over the place, they must be hired for a limited categories of problems. After 12+ years doing it, the author should be able to ballpark something within a set of assumptions that will be confirmed during the discovery phase.

I have seen companies with vastly different price point. There is a huge difference hiring a company that charge $2000/manday vs one that charge $200. ( not to say that you don't get your money worth with the $2000 guys but you don't need the Apple vs Samsung lawyers to represent you against the plumber that fucked up your office kitchen tiles when fixing the sink )
Those aren't invisible, merely transparent: they take up space, and alter the location of the cursor when inserted. Invisible characters don't.
Security and crime: Doublespeak.

Wages and medicine: actually more inequality than ever.

Life expectancy: scraping the barrel.

These aren't concrete things. If they were we could, like you say, measure them properly. But even in the best conditions your anlysis would be linking your values to your methods.

My point: measuring stuff like this in a 60 year old regime based on self perpetuation and social control is not improvement its indoctrination.

For example: are wages higher by mean, mode or median.

Or more simply does less crime measure the improvement of a country. I can think of several pertinent examples of regimes and dictators who were quite sucsesfull with crime.

Higher life expectancy.. Well that's quite an easy one to improve when you stop starving everyone.

I'm not saying all my points are 100% kosher. I'm saying improvement is a very subjective term reaking of contradiction when not simplified or taken out of context.
Probably the best way to test things like that is with a visual regression testing tool [1][2]. In practice these are difficult to get right and tend to produce a lot of false positives and negatives. See for instance Huxley [3]

[1]: https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith

[2]: https://percy.io/

[3]: https://github.com/facebookarchive/huxley
Uber knows exactly when you'll pay more for surge pricing
Except that's a very transparent solution to a problem which doesn't belong to Palantir or their employees, aka the food being served down town either isn't good enough or isn't served fast enough for Palantir employees to voluntarily choose it.

Everyone except the businesses would justifiably riot.
Show HN: Weekly Round-Up of WebVR Projects
If you're giving every text message to a third party, it's not e2e encrypted anymore....
Морской бой was the shit!
I do hear horror stories where IE6 has to be supported.

The solution to those in the aggregate is not "Maintain IE6 backwards-compatibility forever." The challenge associated with that is why they're horror stories. But that's the opposite of what you're describing here; IE6 being supported ad-nauseum was necessary because MS had a bunch of non-compatible proprietary features in IE6 that didn't match to web standards. Google is trying to move out of supporting a non-web-standards architecture.

I'm confused about what aspect of minimizing the attack vector on a standard user's computer fails to meet "Don't be evil" as a motto. Is it the part where minimizing the attack vector for people who don't have a need for Flash collides badly with the needs of people who do have a need for Flash? People who still have a need for Flash have alternate user agents available to them; they don't need Chrome.

I'm sorry this change means you're going to have to account for your enterprise's reliance on Flash. I have friends who had to maintain code backwards-compatibility to pre-generics versions of Java. Enterprises gonna enterprise; we should neither hang the cutting edge nor the common person use-case on the relative lethargy of large companies.
Million-Dollar Homes Are Taking Over These U.S. Cities at an Alarming Pace
See, I don't think we are. Some decisions are being automated, but that's not reducing our own choices, just freeing us to focus on other ones. It becomes less of "should I go and then what flower should I buy" and more just "should I go" and we've freed our time and attention for some other decision. Then again, there will always be those that go above and beyond for someone they care for. Maybe you remember that your mother particularly liked the flowers at the house you lived in when you were younger, so you track down the current owners and ask for a favor, whether you can have a few flowers from the front yard. Letting your mother know of the source might yield a distinctly different impression from the present. There's still room to provide attention where it matters, apps and reminders aren't taking that away.
Here's a better article http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/20/11721890/uber-surge-pricin...
Thanks for refuting my first impressions. I may have to take a closer look even though it's closed-source.

"is a very old statement". I found this from the home page: Developers > Resources For ... > Web Programmers > CSS Property Map [0]. :)

Some questions. How does the render performance compare to modern browsers? TIScript: why?

[0]: http://sciter.com/docs/content/css/cssmap.html
Unless data can demonstrate that reducing the number of classes or IDs on a page has a positive impact on things like returning DAUs, sign up conversions, etc, I'd argue these might be the wrong things to optimise. If adding another font to your site gets another 1% of users to buy something, you should add the font. Equally thought, if removing one gets 1% more sales, you should remove one. That's what counts, and it won't be the same for every site.

Use data, not rules.
People moving out of a jurisdiction lowers the tax base and hurts the economy; building more housing does not.

We're just taking turns flipping over the same coin. The people can't move unless you build new houses. Lack of demand for inner-city housing drives an oversupply of total housing units in the region.
I don't find the Spanish version of Gregg shorthand too different from what I saw for English.

http://zonaforo.meristation.com/topic/2185985/
Judging from the absence of a @sama blog post about the settlement it looks like things didn't work out too well for him and YC....
If your internet connection sucks, or you need hardware access, or you're doing anything that requires a low latency, or you want to run the software locally for any reason, cloud VMs won't work. I can only imagine it working for a small subset of app developers. It's hardly a full stack solution.
Strictly speaking, if you have a degree you can learn all of that on your own.
Announcement in Google IO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8u0n4dT-WI&feature=youtu.be...
Ask HN: Has anyone here successfully applied to Stripe Atlas?
I've just applied - but I was wondering if anyone here at HN has any experience with Stripe Atlas so far?

How long did it take for you to be accepted? Was the process as simple as it sounds? Are you based in the US, or international?

Any experience(s) you can share would be great.
>other than legacy embeds on non-YouTube sites that enable the embedding page to script the Flash embed via a JS API

That's probably it. Then again, it's not just Google that has to deal with legacy applications. So yeah, if you're going to shove this policy in the name of open standards, dog-food it and deal with the same pain countless of companies will have to.
My wife has been on the list since she was born 27 years ago. I don't particularly have a problem with the system. It's Stockholm. Either this way and reasonable rent, or rent would be totally fuckin' crazy.
> Outright as in "completely" or "immediately" financially foolish is like going to the club with your friends and announcing drinks are on you.

Why is that ipso facto financially foolish?

Personally, I have a great time going out with friends and having drinks with them. I like being able to pay for their drinks. I also pay off my bill every month and have a very healthy savings account.
Especially when pork chops have been running $1.50 - $2.00 a pound for the past couple years
The "some portion" part is certainly arbitrary. In any case, it's named in a way that people feel safe but they absolutely aren't.