skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
inaccurate treatment of different demographic groups.

This is exactly what the standard mathematical definition of bias (restricted to a given group) addresses. The authors of this article ran exactly that analysis - see lines [36] and [46].

I know that you are trying to retreat from statistics, since the stats don't support your mood affiliation, but don't retreat to "accuracy". Retreat to something vague and undefined instead. It'll work better.

As for "unequal", I don't know what you mean. Do you consider disparate impact to be "unequal"? If so, then I'm sorry to tell you that reality is imposing an unfortunate choice on you: equal or accurate, you can't have both. (According to ProPublica this algorithm chooses accurate.)

Criticizing an algorithm for revealing this unfortunate fact is like blaming telescopes for Saturn having rings.
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SJW 'weasel word' detected ('problematic'). Excessive whininess and pearl-clutching ahoy.
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Which came about in 1963, i reckon.

Makes one wonder why they don't call it EBCDIC art (just kidding) or BAUDOT art.

This stunt was done for a long time before the invention of ASCII on RTTY equipment as well.
How do you reach "off-chain" with ethereum? For example, if I invest in gold with Digix, how do I know that I can actually get my gold if Digix decides not to give it to me?
I hate puzzles too, especially the gotcha ones with esoteric knowledge required.

But for FizzBuzz I explain the problem, explain that there is no trick and the simplest answer that produces the correct output will be fine. To solve it you need to know about building a loop, what the mod operator does, and maybe keeping state depending on how you build it. I tell them to write it in the language they know best. None of those things should be "gotchas" in your favorite language.
I feel articles such a this are important, even though we already knew the problem it's describing. Shoddy science and shoddy journalism should be called out in the strongest words possible, and I'm glad this article does:

Despite the link to the article in the “press release,” nobody at UTA [..] apparently could be bothered to read the article. I shouldn’t, therefore, be surprised that most other people [..] have likewise ignored the article. While not surprised, I am disheartened to see that even purportedly reputable, pro-science sites that typically demand “evidence” and “data” expend no effort to read the original article

In the best case, Cuntz et al. [..] would simply confirm what Herschberg and Mebius concluded two decades ago [..] There is nothing new here—their newer methods do not justify more than a paragraph.

We have a poorly constructed article [..] authors all lack expertise in the field [..] conclusions border on indefensible [..] writing and style is Wikipedian [..] risks violating scholarly norms and practices with respect to citations and intellectual integrity
Remember that the original huge library was comprised of CDs they bought. Streaming was always smaller. Streaming also got more expensive because studios cut much more aggressive content deals. They were forced to create content to stay alive. (This is true across tech - what's flowing through the pipes generally extracts more value than the pipes themselves. The telecom providers went bankrupt while the world thrived on the broadband they provided)
I'm leaning towards a Constitutional Amendment against automated law. The wording escapes me (and I'm unqualified anyhow) but the gist would be that only humans can judge humans, no machinery can be allowed to do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
"job offer" is in quotes because it's usually an offer to interview, but it's phrased in extremely glowing letters. (Usually referring to your X years of expertise in a language you've never used that's only been out for X-2 years.)
Decoupling – All the best bits of your favourite PHP frameworks
I really doubt this would be the case.
Does this tool support end to end encryption?
Post their linkedin profiles, I would be happy to drop in a word :)
Exactly. It's more like, "Don't show up to the hackathons that you don't like."
All this does is systematize those biases so that they can't be challenged like a judge with a record of bias can. The statistics that they choose to record create bias in and of themselves - by using race in the algorithm, you are building in the possibility that race influences criminality. If you built in favorite foods, some foods would end up resulting in higher sentences than others, just as if you built in phases of the moon when the crime was committed or the astrological sign of the victim.

Where there was absolutely no effect, one out of every twenty combinations of all other variables would show significance in combination with the current value of that particular variable in the likelihood of future crime.

Furthermore, the algorithm would simply extend existing biases in arrest and sentencing, because it simply can't account for crimes that are uncaught and unpunished. Groups that are stopped, searched, arrested, and convicted at greater rates would without fail be sentenced to more time. Just another benefit of being white in America.

You end up using the fact that some groups are punished more often to justify punishing them more harshly.

Even worse, I bet that the fact that it thinks that women are at a higher risk for recidivism means that somewhere within the algorithm it's using the fact that women in general are less criminal than men to decide that women who do commit crime are more exceptional (within women), and therefore more deviant. It's disgusting. If you can't legally discriminate against a person on particular grounds, you certainly can't feed those grounds into an algorithm to let it discriminate for you while you shrug and feign innocence.

The algorithm is the innocent one - it's just attempting to reflect the system as it is. It's like an algorithm you would write to predict the winners of horse races, or the sports book. And just like one of those algorithms, if you stuff it with garbage (the kind of garbage that makes it wrong 77% of the time), it will result in garbage. If you use the results for something not external to the system, bad variables will feed back into themselves and make the results progressively worse - what's the effect of a longer sentence on recidivism? How does profitable is the arbitrage on your sports book algorithm if people use the results to bet, and the distribution of bets shift the odds?
I think what would really work is a neck electromyography device.
Both of these are available on google play and other streaming services now.
The poll choice was either "do you find the name offensive, or doesn't it bother you?".

There are many reasons people may want something to change. I want more dedicated cycling paths. That doesn't mean that streets offend me.

I can imagine that people will not agree to being described as "offended" because it carries with it a sense of hypersensitivity or egoism. Here's a 1982 Bloom County cartoon poking fun at people who are offended - http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1982/11/14/ .

Why couldn't the question be "do you want the Washington Redskins to change their name?", rather than require an emotional reason for the change?

Also, you should not place weight in the statement: "What makes those attitudes more striking: The general public appears to object more strongly to the name than Indians do."

The ESPN poll asked the question "should the Redskins change their team name, or not?" Which is the question the WaPo would have to ask in order to compare the results of the two polls.
Got a Synology NAS showing up today. Based on the results here and the fuzzing link posted several days ago (and elsewhere ITT), it looks like I'll be going with ext4 for now.

Amazingly, I've had a ReadyNAS device last me over 10 years and here's to hoping this one lasts a similar period of time.
GitLab Inc. is doomed
I tried to get Chrome work with the GitLab CI. Back and forth with the support for 5 weeks.

First they don't know the answers. Then they think I'm a noob in development etc. So back and forth in 5 weeks now, and no solution yet.

Their engineer - Jose Torres - should know this things, but he doesn't. He sent the question to the lead of the CI, but he is silent. No answers there.

Issue tickets on GitLab never replied.

GitLab IRC is a huge joke. Nothing serious there.

GitLab forum. Well. The moderator claimed he fixed it, but then the GL Engineers confirmed he couldn't have fixed it. So the moderator lied.

And there is not so much activity on the forum either.

And the story go on.

Funny thing is. It will take 2 minutes to accomplish the same task with Travis, Circle or other CI solutions.

Maybe GL doesn't want users?

I have emails, and other documentation to back up what I wrote here.

It's just so irritation. 5 weeks, and no solution yet!

I'm back on GitHub!
Ice.com is hiring a Full-Stack Engineer
The way I read it he's building a support group for other CEO's of failed startups, other people with new adventures, flush bank accounts and the kind of folks who write these mostly self serving "what I learned" things. Granted this one isn't nearly as self serving as most, but what about the engineers scrambling to get a job so they can feed their kids? How about the marketing people searching for work to cover their mortgage? How about everyone else scrambling to not lose a car?

We never hear about those people because they're too busy scrambling for a life raft to write long sappy "what I learned" medium posts.
Wow. That really tanked my opinion of github.

I had been talking to various officials in leadership for a few months
hammering out the details and had been under the impression that we had
reached an agreement, but I was surprised to find out that wasn’t the case.
I was informed 28 hours before my 90 day window closed that the agreement I
had thought I had didn’t exist; it was then that I realized I had 28 hours
to either come up with hundreds of thousands of dollars that I didn’t have
to save half of my stock, or I could sign the agreement as-is and avoid
losing half of my already-diminished stake. I opted to sign.
[...]
But I still haven’t found the next thing I’m really interested in, which
just feeds into the whole cycle some more. For better or worse, that’ll be
changing pretty quickly, since I’m pretty broke after working part-time and
living in San Francisco for so long. Even though I helped move a company’s
valuation almost two billion dollars, I haven’t made a dime from the company
outside of making a pretty below-to-average salary. That’s after six years.

Think on that, kids, when you’re busting your ass day and night to strike it
rich with your startup dreams.

I've read on here about Etsy similarly fucking employees who left.

Those options are worth a lot less than you think they are. One of the wonders of cash is it's very hard for companies to retroactively steal it back.

If you're going to a company that gives options, demand either an 83b or iso to nso flip / 10 year exercise window.
Regarding Kanye's album, he went back on what he said about keeping it exclusively on Tidal. It's also available on Spotify, Apple Music, and Google Play Music.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/1/11343526/kanye-west-life-of...
Haha yep! At least in subjective realms; maybe slightly less so for practical realms.
There are various distribution methods and even new ones being explored. It's a layered issue with a lot of caveats. I'll try to explain the problematics of it.

What you have described essentially exists now with video-on-demand (tied with IPTVs usually) that have, essentially, displaced brick and mortar video rentals. It's more of a case of you getting percentage out of them then they out of you. That's due in part because of large user bases and monopolies. If you want viewers to rent or buy your stuff you have to go to the larger players, and they are aware of that.

There's another issue at play here, in contrast with games. Films and television programmes have a life cycle that is usually tied to initial theatrical or television run and that is decoupled from its life in rental and buying later on. Both business lives of a movies don't even have to be tackled by the same business entity/owner. In order for a film or series to live through direct sales it needs marketing or very strong brand recognition (and even then marketing). Most films do not have that. Most rights holders hold more than one film too. For a successful rental/vod/buying there needs to be marketing effort and in order to mitigate that industry has devised film channels and specialised channels that run stuff you might be a part of. That way, all of marketing is concentrated on channel's programming and stuff is pushed onto that. Trouble is, those channels do not like if stuff is also available on vod that isn't theirs. Another trouble is that rights holders do not like to sell one movie at a time, it's not viable. Usually, what happens, is that rights holders know they have a strong movie and package several weak ones with it in order to push sales for those as well. It's also common for a channel to seek for a particular title and they get pushed other content in a package to them, or they want a package, etc. Various permutations of that exists.

What happens with vod is that sales are, for the most content, dead. Dumping your catalogue onto a vod renders your sales with channels dead as well. So, it's a bit of a conundrum from which side to tackle the issue at all.

Those are just my initial thoughts on what I see each day in that space. It has a lot of intricate details layered below and above that, but it all boils down to the fact that channels render money for your entire catalogue and vod only for a select few titles. If you want to sell your entire catalogue, you go through channels since they buy those great titles of yours as well as packaged crap ones. VOD is a harsh mistress that loves only the pretty ones and you still have to tackle marketing for that by yourself and accept whatever the gods of the vod platform will give you.

tl;dr; conundrum
The Case for Calling Brutalism 'Heroic' Instead (2015)
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I just punched in the str above. I did it because of the article (not random), but are is the string random? I could argue to the nth degree how and why those seemingly random keys were influenced by outside influences (length of fingers, my typing habits, proximity to some keys vs others).

Philosophically, is there such a thing as "random" if the very essence of matter is always under the influence of some other force?
Sure didn't take Facebook long to exert it's walled-garden protectionism on Occulus.

VR is a format not a platform. This move by Occulus is really shortsighted.
More like pulp scifi.
I agree with you but I don't think the article blames the poors for anything.

In fact it's quite evident that under stagnant wages and a constant level of consumption, the savings rate will fall. Of course someone could say it's possible to reduce consumption, but the poor already spend most of their incomes on bare necessities, so their consumption levels are likely to stay constant, unless you want them to starve.

It's also the reason wealth in capitalism inevitably flows upward - since the poor spend a larger share of their income on necessities (housing, food, health care - the big 3, as I like to call them), their savings rate is necessarily limited.
Optimizing time to profitability accelerates user growth
Me, too. But Disney is pretty unique, especially for kids.
Definitely! Shoot me an email :)
A Pattern Language
I haven't tried either Oculus nor Vive, but Vive seems soooo much better from what ive seen so far
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Jesus Christ man, step away from the keyboard.
Why We Should Let the Cities Die
Reminds me a bit of "Flicker", by Porter Robinson (music video)
Kubernetes is still the elephant in the room, but Docker Swarm definitely seems to be gaining a lot of traction as well despite being a much younger project.

I certainly wouldn't count them out just yet.
One of the issue tickets opened by the engineer that should know the answers, but didn't!

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/issues/...
ASCII is a character encoding. But ASCII is also a graphics style. This is the latter.
Lemin Wu has some interesting papers about Malthusian traps: http://behl.berkeley.edu/files/2015/02/WP2015-01_Wu.pdf

Who is that `we' that needs more or fewer humans? Ie economists usually take the supply of humans as an exogenous variable, and try to figure out what they do to maximize their welfare. (And very often also: what they could be doing better.)

Taking humans as an endogenous variables is possible. (I've seen one analysis where they started talking about slaves as capital vs free workers. The reveal was that the author actually wanted to talk about the economics of robots (and other automation) as capital vs free workers---but without triggering people's preconceived notion of what automation can and cannot do to macroeconomics.)
VB6 was magic during those days. VB6 played a great role in making computers useful to small businesses and widespread adoption of computers. It also reduced the cost of software development.
Yeah the site is taking a ridiculous amount of time to load.
Right above he/she uses supply and demand to explain higher wages. Then uses colloquial demand right under it to further explain it.

Given that, either they aren't sure of the distinction between the two and were making a mistake, or do understand the difference but still managed to make a false equivalence.

I'm betting on the first, which is why I took the time to explain it.
nintendo historically had that party / family vibe
Oh, by the way Say's Law only makes sense in a classical setting. (And the market monetarists tell us that NGDP level targeting will make economics approximately classical.)

https://marketmonetarist.com/category/says-law/

Though, I think your time will be better spend reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theorem and especially http://www.masongaffney.org/publications/G2009-Hidden_Taxabl...
More entropy/information in the frame means the encoder has less bits if can throw out.
Of course it's debatable. Hell, the US Supreme Court disagrees with you (see Dowling v. United States). How can you say the matter is settled?
Reminds me a little of Porter Robinson's flicker (music video).

Recently I read a Scientific American article that suggested there may be a link between navigational ability and memory. If that's true, then push to "Always On" GPS/Navigational Support could have deleterious effects on our capacity for memory (this was one idea in the article)
Thanks, our hiring practices are detailed on https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/ what kinds of results should we include?

I'm also thinking about writing about an open organization, where the handbooks and issue trackers are public. Would that be interesting?
You know, I have to admit that at an early stage startup like that, if I were taking cold applications I'd read the cover letters too. Like you say, attitude and passion is so important at that stage and relationship is so important that it's more like an intro at a dating site.
The original article was about student debt.

Four comments upthread from this one, eastbayjake said, "(2) Everyone can benefit from learning new things -- even (or perhaps especially) a liberal arts education -- but many students are attending college to get a credential and land a good job." Your reply to that comment triggered my comment.

Maybe I've had enough humanities to know to look at surrounding context ;-)
Please tell me he liberated the rug.
You were downvoted for this but I believe that your cause is just.
Love the quote, Black Sails?
The author calls it "typewriter art" but in the linked article it seems like in its own time it was referred to as "artyping":

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/the-lo...
In addition to the great links from siblings, it might be interesting to read this Stonebraker paper on the cyclical nature of databases and how, ultimately, they all reduce to a few core paradigms. [0]

[0] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~anhai/courses/764-sp07-anhai/datam...
Tie your sites together with property sets in Search Console
Amazon no longer offers price match refunds on anything but TVs
Potentially even at coding, yes, though the discussion has been more about general employment, not specifically coding.
For sure we're interested in people that have experience with Ceph.
Rustler looks quite nice for embedding native code in Elixir btw: https://github.com/hansihe/Rustler - I had some issues getting it running at first, but the author was very responsive.
> Mind proving?

Which part? That interpreter must be implemented in a Turing-complete language? Well, it is pretty much a definition of a Turing completeness, it is provable by implementing an interpreter for a Turing machine, lambda calculus or any other equivalent system.

Or you do not understand why compiler does not need a Turing complete language? Look at Compcert for example. A total language is more than enough. And even this is an overkill for a majority of compilers, which are nothing but a chain of trivial single-pass rewrites.
And one of the more famous quotes of a certain starship captain - "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life."
And that's the problem. With Schema you can compound key specs and values. This mashes the code self documenting. With Specs you have to point to another spec. Ask the way down the complex tree.
If you accept the way Revelation (and the rest of the entire Bible) was presented, Christians are encouraged to pray for Jesus' return. This means a Christian is supposed to yearn for all these tribulations to happen and reject the evils of the world system even if that means dying for your beliefs in the process. When the corrupt world system (Babylon) is in its death throes, Christians will actively oppose and help speed its destruction.

So, any Christians' anxiety about being alive when the end times occur likely comes from crises of faith or ignorance (which I admit to having more than a bit of each myself.) The odds of being alive in human history at the times of the tribulations are slim, but you are told to make yourself ready spiritually for anything to happen at any time. Different Christian sects have sticking points on the order of when prophesy in the bible have already happened/will happen, and that can cause some spirited disagreements. I suppose those varied viewpoints on timelines may affect peoples' anxiety on these subjects as well.

What I find fascinating about the Revelation story is that the spiritual and physical worlds merge at the end of time. All people who ever lived are brought back to life physically on earth only to be immediately judged by God. People who accept Jesus are saved forever, people who reject Him are punished forever.

So it's not like you "go to heaven" in the end, but rather more like "earth is remade/perfected" and God comes to live there physically with his people. Any "heaven" that exists in the meantime is like a paradisaical holding tank where you wait until the end of days. I suppose that this all reflects a more Jewish mystical view than a Greek or European one, and this view seems more grounded/attainable to me than some nebulous cherubs with harps on clouds in heaven or Valhalla of the gods.

I like the Revelation story because it completes the bible in a very mystical and also very human way. It gives answers to a lot of life's questions and questions about God (like why God lets sin and sinners run amok.)

The message I take from Revelation is that no person is really worthy and technically everyone should be judged guilty because we're all sinners, making us incompatible with God. Only out of one's faith in Jesus who is the savior/perfect sin offering, and by God's grace, can you live as a perfected being with God in His holy city forever.