skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even worse there are people (utter frauds of course) who confuse MAD and MAD! In all seriousness, there is much confusion between Median Absolute Deviation and Mean Absolute Deviation out there. Ironically the MAD in this article is still not a robust measure of variation in data as it will break for the many distributions that have undefined/infinite mean (Cauchy and Levy as examples).

Even then many summary statistics rely on a well-defined PDF which is also not true for many real life cases. I think most data scientists out there are very familiar with quantiles, which are often more useful as all random variables have a CDF (and the quantile is just the inverse CDF).

I quite enjoy Taleb's writing (I tend to find his ego a bit amusing) but I think even he is guilty of Jaynes' "Mind Projection Fallacy"[0] in regards searching for more meaning than exists in Fat-tailed distributions. When we model our data with infinite/undefined mean and variance distributions we're just saying "I don't know". No amount of cleverness with summary statistics, or understanding of pathological distributions will create information where there is none.

The overall point being: there are many, many ways of viewing statistics and it's pretty trivial to find a perspective that allows you to call someone a "fraud". Sure there are actual frauds in data science, but one of the biggest strengths in this trend is bringing quantitative people from a wide range of backgrounds to gain refreshing insights. It is much more useful to encourage cross-discipline exploration than to simply say "you don't belong here".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_projection_fallacy
From what I understood, CDN is needed to lift the heavy load from the source servers. Without them you'd be hammered by heavy traffic, and not only that, the route to the end user will be most likely longer.

DASH is adaptive streaming, and as such, when you select some stream from the client, CDN should support that in their infrastructure (including codecs and etc.). I don't know the details exactly, but it's far from trivial. May be someone can explain what the difficulty is in detail.

Currently CDNs support HLS and Adobe's adaptive streaming, both of which aren't open standards and aren't part of HTML5 video.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_bitrate_streaming#Ado...

Without DASH support in CDN, you can't scale your service, and to get rid of Flash and Adobe's adaptive streaming you need DASH + MSE. That's how I understood it at least.
Selective Pull Request Testing
> I guess I don't understand the limiting principle there. Like, why give the bad guy $20,000 at all? Why not zero him, or fire him on the spot? Also, I feel like $3 million is a nice round number for a bonus? Whereas $3.005 million is ... some sort of weird signaling? If you worked at Bear Stearns back in the day, and you got a bonus of $3,005,000, was that especially satisfying? Was that, like, "I made $3 million, and I crushed the spirit of a guy who really needed an extra $5,000 but who just didn't perform?" What if you got $3,030,000? Was that, like, "sweet, six scalps"? Bear was an amazing place.

Wow, sounds like a sociopath's paradise to me.
It does if you click on one of the graphs at that point.
This is interesting because I would never consider this comment serious whatsoever until I looked at the comments. I agree with cobralibre that you need to rely on your wit, experience, and judgement. Language is very nuanced and can't be taken literal.

This is also under the assumption that the person in question isn't a sociopath.
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Yes, CSS might be a big problem, but people's obsession with overriding everything with Javascript is a much bigger problem. I think web developers/designers need to move more towards lighter webpages that use HTML for functionality whenever possible, which is something that might seem obvious, but is so rarely done.
I want to use it with SockJS. Do you have any plans or interest in that?
He's choosing to stay in a jail full of transient prisoners to avoid being a former police officer in prison for crimes against children.
The Unbiased Algorithm Is a Myth
So you enabled pedantic warning level, and you got a bunch of pedantic nonsense warnings.

There is a reason for these not to be enabled by default.

* Unused parameter -> rly? Who gives a damn?
* Use of old style cast -> Well I'm old style, get over it.
* No previous prototype declaration -> Again, I do this if I want to.
* Shadows field -> who cares? No me.
* Cast increases required alignment -> Well, obviously the perf cost is not an issue here.
* Etc, etc, etc

These are pedantic warnings. However, this is an open source prject and you are free to send me PR's whenever you want.
We are only wrapping the Docker CLI, not forking the full code (that would be insane). The wrapper is provided for convenience since it should be enough for most users. If you know what you're doing, you don't need to rely on the wrapper, we explain how you can do that on our wiki:
https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker/wiki/Internals

Yes, we have been discussing with a few people at Docker, I hope attending DockerCon and discussing with the team will help us move forward.
Meet the all-woman team of Cambodian surgeons changing the face of healthcare
Google Play Music uses MSE (Media Source Extensions) to stream MP3. Firefox doesn't support MP3 in MSE streams. Google Play Music could use AAC or Opus in MSE, like YouTube does, but they prefer MP3 because some Android devices have MP3 hardware decoders that (may!) use less battery power than software decoders.

YouTube encodes all their content with in multiple formats: AAC and Opus, H.264 and VP9. I don't know why Google Play Music can't encode their music streams in both MP3 and Opus. They would save on bandwidth by using Opus.

Here is the Firefox bug to add support for MP3 in MSE: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1169485
Only 15 percent of Americans have used Uber or Lyft
Yep true story.
Nice. This is quite cool. Just saw the linked xkcd comic by just hovering on the links in some of hackernews comments :)
Why is an hour long commute considered acceptable?

If you value your time at $50/hr, a daily 1-hr commute equates to an additional $2,000/month
I'm really curious what you specifically are doing that's such a huge lifestyle boost for you.

I really use apps on my phone for:

1. Calendar

2. Email

3. Messaging (mostly with one other person, but occasionally a few others)

4. looking stuff up on the web

5. Reading a bit in my downtime

6. Listening to music, podcasts or audiobooks

7. Checking the weather

I suspect most people are in the same boat, give or take a few things.

I know that Tasker can do cool stuff like activate certain apps in certain places (turning on your music in the car, for example), but I can do that to. Every time I've sat down to figure out tasker program I realize that the 30 minutes I'm going to spend messing with it will save me about 5 seconds.

So I'd like to know what I'm missing.
HAYAT GEZİNCE GÜZEL: EMİNÖNÜ'NDE ETSİZ ÇİĞ KÖFTE VE ALİ USTA
In what sense this a mistranslation? If you conflate alien with extra-terrestrial?
Even more strangely, I also installed pytesseract yesterday. I was having trouble getting the visible text from a project's web pages. I thought it'd be easy to screenshot the pages and OCR them. It didn't work, at least my first experiment produced just gibberish. Then I just used BeautifulSoup and I got it done. I don't know why I didn't think of the easier solution first.
In terms of general use-case they do, they are both database-driven RAD tools at the end of the day (Salesforce is just a database at the end of the day with a lot of tooling and basic schema-design done for you). But I can't say I've ever seen someone compare them, they aren't usually used by the same customer segments.
> However, this solution was brittle: the version of the host driver had to exactly match driver version installed in the container.

I'm curious why volume mounting is not an option here. Seems like you'd just ship driverless containers, forcing the user to mount the host drivers before allowing the container to run.
> Those were not good developers; ie, there are some skills they were clearly lacking.

Ok, fine... I'll be that guy: No True Scotsman. If you define "good developers" as developers that can successfully create software without management, then yes a group of "good developers" can successfully create software without management.
That's interesting. Here if I'm waiting in line it's usually in a situation where the human checkout counters have lines as well. I like the Walmart model... here they have six self-checkouts but one line. So if you're first in line you go to the first one that frees up. Very much superior to having one line per self-checkout.

And in those situations if one backs up you still have at least one alternative that is faster.
Chrome isn't googles product. The people using their services are. Didn't you get the memo?
Thank goodness some people are seeing this.
There are places which call themselves agile and do shoddy short-term thinking all the time. You might want to embrace some waterfall here - processes over people so that priorities aren't changing by the minute. Story points and rigid velocity based forecasts so that we can cut scope and ship on time.

Then there are metrics-driven places with scrum masters and burn down charts and hour-long standups. Managers here want to actively manage, so they make themselves busy doing negative work. Here we can do less with processes and put more trust in people.

Agile is being used to mean both, depending on which side of the spectrum the person's frustration is. It all depends, right?
OK, but, why do people avoid leaving the confines of Manhattan and Brooklyn?

I had a car for many years in NYC, and I mostly used it to get as far away as possible. That liminal zone outside the city is beyond depressing to me. I've never been a huge fan of suburbs (even the quiet, tree-lined ones), but huge swathes of the areas around NYC are best described as semi-abandoned, litter-strewn, century-old, razor-wired-wrapped, pigeon-shit coated blight. And the means by which one passes through these areas are broken. The highways are perpetually "under construction", yet covered in potholes. The trains are crowded, dirty, late, filled with crazy people, on fire, etc. Half the cars are being driven by people who probably don't have valid licenses, and have the common courtesy of PCP addicts. Trashcans overflowing with rats scurrying around. Piles and piles of trash bags leaking toxic fluids into the gutters and sewers. And every ten blocks or so is an "am I going to die today if I walk near here?" housing project. (Probably you won't die, but don't use your iPhone!)

I'm sorry, but it's a disgusting mess and we can and should do sooo much better. I'm not someone who wants the world to be a Connecticut country club——in fact, I would almost hate that more. I'm talking about a civilization where people carry around a reasonable amount of shame and humility and build atop the nice things that others have left behind instead of accruing sedimentary layers of ill will and misery on their own doorstep.

(For the record, even Manhattan, and definitely Brooklyn don't meet my standards either. Tokyo. That's a far bigger city in a country with a failing economy, but is clean, pleasant, and orderly in every direction.)
Closing a window can sometimes be undone by pressing Ctrl-Shift-N, even after a browser restart.
I think a lot of not that fancy restaurants will have lamb chops.

Not Applebee's, but the next tier up will start to.
The Complex Psychology of Why We Like Things
this is why you use actual FDE drives if you want FDE and not a software middleman. also what happened to the recovery key?
WW3 NWO WORRIED SICK ,INCASE UK LEAVES EUROPE,LOL
Yes, my friend. This guy is trying to roast the library based on bullshit warnings that normal projects (Node.js as one example) explicitly disable. So if you want to make a case out of this, you will have to report this "issue" to Node.js developers also, because they also have a lot of warnings ignored by turning them of, simply because they are pedantic.
Yes, running containerized machine learning workflows is our primary use case of nvidia-docker internally.
That's why we provide pre-built images for cuDNN and DIGITS on the DockerHub. Our base cuDNN image is now used by TensorFlow, Caffe, CNTK, Theano, to cite a few.
> Things like casually mentioning something you did with your spouse last weekend might not be "political" to you

How is it political for you?

If it is political for you, shouldn't you support the idea of being able to express political views without fear of repriosal?
Yes, and see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11728893
Freddie and Fannie were the epitome of privatize the profits and socialize the losses.

Since inception they've benefitted from lower capital and mortgage insurance costs due to their implicit government backing. In return, they've accepted substantial oversight from the government in regards to their loan acceptance standards.

The 2008 rescue and then QE where the Fed bought Agency debt by the billions made the implicit government guarantee very, very real.

When Fannie and Feddie went insolvent, Congress and the Obama administration as the rescuers had the opportunity to completely wipe out the public shareholders and take over the companies. This is what should have been done.

Instead, we now have zombie public companies whose profits are siphoned off through political agreements instead of explicit contracts open to public scrutiny.
Under the DMCA, I get to file an actual DMCA counter-notification to put my content back up, not some arbitration by a 3rd party. Its in the law and can be used by normal people to protect their works. An actual false DMCA claim has a financial penalty.
Every tyrant claims to be doing things "for the greater good".
What's an example?
Hmm it works on chromium without flash. I wonder what chromium is doing that firefox isn't doing.

EDIT: Tested this out on opera and it works fine. Does it have anything to do with blink?
The great beef to chicken switch of 2004/2005.
every DJ in every bar in every city installs the app? all the audience and singers install it? That's an install base of 100,000 people? Maybe 1,000,000? Those people use the app all the time? There must be a way. Also charge bars for the service, they will get more biz cuz it's so much better than the bar down the street with paper.
It isn't a literal mistranslation, it's a context error. In english the proper word in this context would be stranger, not alien. But that's still a mistranslation. Had this been something to do with immigration or visas, then alien might have been appropriate.
It's the same language. This is not the break between Perl 5 and 6 which was different languages only keeping the brand.

I find it very easy to write code which is simultaneously Python 2 and 3. A few ``from __future__ import`` statements and you'll be fine. The only reason some people are complaining is that they were ignoring bugs in their code regarding text data. It's not a Python problem, it's a problem with computers -- bytes are not text, but many systems ignore the difference.

Many large enterprises are starting new projects in Python 3 exclusively. It's fine if you want to use some Python 3-only syntax.
Yes, it certainly is. Another word for propaganda is advertising.
No, that's the fake claim that nobody believes these days. Which is why no nations are rushing out to become Communistic: as an ideology it didn't just lose, it got completely demolished. The ideology espoused was never actually sincere in any regard, it was merely a fraudulent cover for a power grab by the party elite, which is why the claims of Communism have always contradicted the reality perfectly.

There has never been a single implementation of Socialism - including Communism and Fascism - that has delegated any power to the workers. It has always and will always be held by the party dictatorship. No property, including the means of production, is ever held by the workers, it is always controlled by the elite of the party dictatorship for the purpose of plundering profit and enslaving the workers. Which simultaneously explains the extreme poverty Socialism has produced every time it has been attempted.
Nuclear power can be done safe, but we also have many examples of it not being done safe. Saying, "well it will be different this time. We will build systems to make corruption, laziness, and dangerous actions impossible!" is believing in a pipe dream.
I think the key phrase in his post is "intuitively bad". If you enjoy programming, gardening, running, watching a bit of tv or whatever then good for you. But I think all of us have reached point with one thing or another (from too much computer Solitaire to overeating) where we realize it's not really making us much happier.
Larry Page Explains What Happened to His Voice
Browser makers don't need to get a certification to use HTTPS.
You could do it when you need it, ala YAGNI.
The Rape Allegation Against Bill Clinton, Explained
What would have been easier to read are snapshots at significant intervals rather than the animation
I haven't seen anything yet. Do I have to register the book after it ships?
That's exactly what we do, the image is indeed driverless and we mount the host driver files as a volume (provided by our volume plugin) when the container is launched.
This way, you can launch a CUDA 7.5 container on any machine with driver version 352+

We provide more details here:
https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker/wiki/NVIDIA-driver
Hope that helps!
That's not the issue, really. The issue is whether the program has access to itself as input. This one does, so it's not a quine. But it's cool.
I see the value of this as a resource to compare different languages. But for me "Hello world" is about all of the admin/setup work that has be done in order to get the most basic program to run. It's more like install python, deal with dependencies and conflicts, make sure my PATH is set and the right port is open on the server. Etc and so forth.

And all of that is why "Hello" and "world" are two of my favorite words. It can take so much effort just to see them.
I personally think Kanban is the next step. It's certainly the next step where I work. All the things management loves, but without the silly sprint cycles. Much more fluid.

Whether it will be a better experience is yet to be seen.
My favorite pseudo-quine is just an empty file. Works in Bash, PHP, Node, Perl, Python, Ruby, and many others I'm sure.
Is that evidence that NK journalists don't get the same treatment as foreign journalists? How so?
Why is shutting down the government risky?
I don't think that answer helps. How are you assigning "too much" weight on outliers, and the process behind deciding the right amount of weight? Can you think of any concrete examples?
I'm so glad to see this. I started with Python 1.4, and after several years too long on 2.6+ I've just recently been able to convince an employer to start a new codebase on Python 3.5. Having used it in production now, I would not willingly go back. Python 2.7 is excellent, but Py3 feels like "Py2 done right". It's at least as nice in every way and much nicer in quite a few.

I'm in a shop with solid microservice underpinnings, so our new project could just as easily have been in Go or something else for all its clients would know or care. Given that all the libraries we wanted to use were already available for Py3, this was a no-brainer. There were plenty of reasons to upgrade and no compelling reasons to stay on Py2. Should you find yourself in such a situation, I highly recommend investigating whether you can make the same move.
Consumption has increased across categories.

http://www.usda.gov/factbook/chapter2.pdf

Oils, grains and sugars are the big ones.
The "g" key is pressed

That's nice, but you forgot to explain how electrical circuits work. Which ideally would have begun with with a rigorous statement of Kirchhoff's laws (and in particular how these are generalizations of Ohm's law, and corollaries of Maxwell's equations in the low-frequency limit).

We were also hoping to see you demonstrate at least a basic understanding of how modern semiconductors work, to a point where we could feel confident that you were at least reasonably conversant in the underlying language of solid state physics. If you really wanted to get our attention, you would have asked for extra time at the whiteboard to derive at least, say, the 1-soliton solution to the wave equation, and used the first few terms of the expansion series to obtain both elementary conserved quantities and additional non-trivial quantities using the invariance and multiplier approach based on the well-known result that the Euler-Lagrange operator annihilates to total divergence.

That is, you could have. But you didn't.

We thank you for taking the time to discuss this opportunity with us; but mind you, when we said we were looking for candidates with "strong CS fundamentals", we meant it. So unfortunately we'll be moving forward with other candidates, and we wish you the best of luck with your job search.
Yes, there is a breaking change. No, they are still essentially the same language.
I understand we disagree, so I'll try to clarify my point of view a bit which hopefully makes things better not worse.

One often (despite promises not to) is forced to optimize what one measures or shares. It may or may not be relevant to a particular project, but I doubt it is completely invalid (despite the claimed clean room separation of descriptive and inferential procedures).

The idea is: if one believes absolute deviation is the one true measure then it would not make sense to optimize over a different measure (variance).

I in fact like quantile regression, but it has its own caveats.
No, I'm not implying that.

I'm implying that I don't understand how his arguments flow - they seem self defeating. For the reasons outlined above. I don't mean it personally, and I don't really care if he is respected or not. I just wanna get to the bottom of why, how and what he is getting at. And from his writing style it seem I am led to doubt he doesn't really believe what he is implying. Of course, I might and probqly an wrong so would appreciate clarification.

The argument of: its not just propaganda, its also a reflection of development - doesn't wash with me.
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I'm rather surprised how exceptionally naive articles are upvoted on HN when the subject matter is specialized. If you're going to talk about retiring standard deviation you should have some pretty detailed mathematical arguments, this is a waste of time.
Max Levchin on Trading Privacy for Value and the Quantified Self
We treat branches for tickets (prefixed with the ticket ID) as owned by the owner of the ticket: feel free to check out, but if the owner changes it underneath you, tough.
OT: Did you intentionally write "intensive porpoises" instead of "intents and purposes"? I can't work out if it was a sublte joke or genuine mistake. The mental image of intensive porpoises is hilarious
"Don't Use Allo"

Wasn't planning on it. The people I communicate with use either Hangouts or iMessage. I don't have room for YAMS (Yet Another Messaging Service).

Google now has what? half doesn't ways to send messages? This time next year, how many will they have shutdown? I'm not moving until Hangouts is one of the victims.
That's been true but there are some artist examples that are showing new artists can embrace the new dynamic and reach fans. CHVRCHES got their start on SoundCloud. Chance the Rapper still is in the "mixtape" game. Pretty much any "viral" hit that isn't actively on a Major Label at the time of the release can be considered, I think, to be a case study in how the dynamics are changing. Edit: Forgot Run The Jewels as well.