skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You misunderstand how capitalism works. If you don't want these companies to succeed, don't give them money and don't give them data they can make money from.

I don't use Facebook products because I don't want to give Zuckerberg my money. I don't use Apple because I don't want to give money to a company whose original figurehead thought that wearing Mom-jeans to press conferences was in any way professional.

The point is that these companies, however monopolistic they might seem to you (and me), are driving innovation several orders of magnitude faster and more efficiently than organizations like Mozilla or GNU. A company exists to make money. That's an ethos that I personally find more consistent and more comfortable to think about than "we should make software that EVERYONE can use" and it's a safer bet as well, since these companies will go out of business if they don't make money whereas GNU/Mozilla/et al will vomit out software that sorta works for a million years.

Also, machine learning is not about predicting the future anyways, it's almost exactly the opposite. Understanding what people have done is much more actionable than trying to figure out what people are GOING to do, because we are very fickle, complex, imaginative creatures. Could you have predicted that I'd write this comment? No. Could a program that has read every previous comment that I've ever made predict this comment? No. Could it predict that I might write a comment of a similar nature? Sure. If we were playing poker and I thought that you were going to fold, that's much different from some algorithm that was CERTAIN you were going to fold.
Car ads have been using CG cars for almost 10 years now in a lot of cases, especially photos.

A lot of product ads are as well - Ikea catalogue "photos" are almost always CG renders.
Skype, Office365 Down in Taiwan, Japan
Microsoft services have been unavailable in Taiwan since at least 9:45 am TPE time UTC+8, that's at least 1 hour.
There has been no news from http://heartbeat.skype.com or Microsoft, but this can be confirmed using DownDetector:
http://downdetector.com/status/skype/map/

Colleagues in Kaohsiung confirm that this is also disrupting Office365 email services.
Is there a Python constant for Unicode whitespace?
OK, just in case my point is not obvious: these are _examples_. These examples are illustrating a thesis that certain jobs can have good reasons for restricting employees access to the bathroom. Of course, I don't have any idea of what goes into soccer players contracts, because that's not the point.
First of all, base rates matter. Here's a simplified proof:

Suppose you want to know if X is true. You have evidence E which is correlated with X - suppose A = P(E|X) > 0.5 and B = P(!E|!X) > 0.5. Bayes rule shows:

P(X|E) = P(E|X) P(X) / P(E) = P(E|X)P(X) / (P(X)A + (1-B)P(!X))
= P(X)A / (P(X)(A+1-B) + 1-B)

Differentiating this w.r.t. P(X) shows that it monotonically increases with P(X). QED.

Now I'm not disputing - at all - that human biases exist. Far from it! What I'm asking is whether the behaviors discovered in this article are biases (errors that result in worse decisions) or merely accurate use of priors (using correct base rate knowledge to make better decisions).

In the case of orchestras the answer is pretty clearly yes. Similarly in the case of baseball. In college admissions and lending the answer is likely to be no [1]. This article completely ignores the question!

[1] https://randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/on-c... http://ftp.iza.org/dp8733.pdf https://randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/on-t...
As someone about to start PD-1 inhibitors after failing Ipilimumab (now in lungs (1))... well it'd be just plain stupid to die now with all these treatments on the horizon.

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(1) This just happened this month. The Doctor called me with the results literally the week after I handed in my notice at a secure job to join an early-stage startup.

Life really is short! (http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html)

No I don't regret my decision :)

(Also thank Jeebus I live in Canada where my current lack of benefits does not preclude me from getting the best treatment.)
I think betting markets are prone to wishful thinking; there's no guarantee that errors of reasoning toward one side or the other will cancel out, since it's perfectly reasonable to imagine that errors in one direction are more common.
I'm not saying that arguing against immigration is stupid... Just that the way Brexit was arguing was devoid of any real factual data or rational arguments. They were playing purely on people's emotions.

I agree, partially. Mass immigration is almost never a good idea. However, the populations you pointed out aren't from the EU so have basically nothing to do with Brexit.
Actually those are the rates for the best effort class of service. The business class service where you have guarantees is even more expensive.
Must?

http://www.usnews.com/cmsmedia/a5/17ab3ad562e0a695610defe001...
Kind of similar to the traffic in Saigon, Vietnam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKLWZjBu2iQ
Seems like your incremental grants would be significantly less than the initial ones joining early on, no? Or is it common that leaders get big refreshers along the way?

I would say I'm pretty unfamiliar with early employee refreshes but from what I've heard refreshers are usually small compared to the initial grant.
Notice the framing. Much of this is framed well from the author's point of view- you agree, or you are wrong.

"Tost’s research shows, may help individuals recognize the privileges they enjoy as part of a dominant group, as long as they also believe they’ve experienced disadvantages as members of other, subordinate groups (and thus can identify with people who feel disadvantaged in comparison with them). White women overall, for instance, are more likely than white men to view themselves as beneficiaries of racial privilege; they get it because they, too, have had to deal with discrimination."

White men can't be part of a group that experiences discrimination? What if they're old or young? Have a disability? Are part of the certain ethnic or religious groups, e.g. Jews? Are gay, bisexual or have some other sexual orientation? Who's discriminated against isn't a competition. But all people are judged and get treated how they do in part because of superficial factors (and the prejudices associated with them). At least sometimes.

As referenced by another comment, this article was enlightening: research which suggests that many stereotypes e.g. around race or gender are actually useful priors and improve human decision making when you don't have other, better information:

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jussim/unbearable%20accuracy%20o...
The NDA is inexcusable. The food though...seems like everybody does it.
Why does it matter that few people care about news like this? Even if few do, it still affects them.
Yep, karts will teach you how to drive. Especially breaking.
Opportunity for the Unknown
Not kidding at all. There was a lot of noise during the transition on various mailing lists, as I recall. Even as an end-user the issue presented quite a few problems. While AVFoundation is generally a better API it remains less capable than the QuickTime umbrella was. Again refer to the functionality provided by vDig and Sequencer APIs. A simple case: try to slap together a video mixing app sometime that takes input from the camera or other source, processes some effects on it, and dumps the output back as pseudo device that can be used by other apps. Unless things have changed drastically the last time I looked into the matter, such a thing isn't possible within the constraints of AVFoundation itself. You have to resort to the essentially undocumented CoreMedia IO API. Apple does provide similar functionality for other types of devices at a higher level i.e. scanners, digital cameras via some other API I can't recall off the top of my head at the moment. =]
>Stricter and more expensive ticketing might help.

I wouldn't hold my breath. After all, you are attempting to change what appears to be fundamental human behaviour, curiosity.
Google's voice recognition usually runs on the device. It works fine on my phone even in "airplane mode".
This would require a quantum chemistry simulation many orders of magnitude larger and longer than what we currently capable of simulating. Though I suppose you could in principle use heuristics to greatly reduce the conputational complexity.
It's amusing to read this thread right next to the "The Artist Leaving the Googleplex" one.
The second graph suggests inequality has been decreasing during my lifetime. (I was born after 1980.)
I guess that's true if you're treating containers and the environment they run in as "another layer" of stuff that you use configuration management to deploy on top of your existing automation you maybe already had prior to adopting them. I do suppose that is probably true of many users still today. There is also the use case of updating your base image or AMI and then replacing slaves/followers/your servers that run the containers, more or less eliminating the need for a job that is constantly running, or running on a schedule to keep the host system up to date. It's true that in the case of container hosting systems, that is mostly being abstracted away from you, and this post was written with that mindset as we do just that. Good comment and point of view though, I think it's still something a lot of folks struggle to wrap their heads around!
Recreational marijuana is legal in your state? That means getting a medicinal marijuana card would not be all that hard. Do you have chronic migranes and trouble sleeping? That's probably enough.

Drink 5-6L water a day (which you already should be doing, American!) and hope for the best. If not, explain you medicate for sleep. I think you're fine.
I think that works for any kind of voluntary grouping. When people abuse a cultural conventions and other implicit taboos for personal gain it's really detrimental to the larger group. Now, sure, he might see the larger group as his foe, and so be it, and so it's their privilege to let this kind of person go (and to keep them would undermine group cohesion).

It's like someone coming from a culture where people patiently stand in line and then you have someone from a culture where people are used to jostling for position, it creates friction in a population of people who wait their proper turn. (and vice versa would also be true the former always complaining about people not being orderly)
1. Argue that yummyfajitas is known to often be wrong, and in fact terribly wrong, thus justifying bias against acceptance of any views advanced by yummyfajitas.

2. Spread this now rationally-supported (on base rate grounds) bias among many people.

3. Find some time later that yummyfajitas' views are overwhelmingly rejected by persons reached in step 2.

4. Declare bias established in step 1 to be retroactively objectively correct after observing how yummyfajitas' posts fare with observers, and note that even yummyfajitas will not be able to argue with it, as the correctness will be demonstrated by yummyfajitas' own argument in comment above.
This is super commonplace.

Look at apple's ads. Their almost all renderings. Most people don't care as it looks exactly like the real product.
This is such a tragedy. How many voters and observers understand than that European project was never primarily about economics? It was a political project that has produced 71 years "since an army crossed the Rhine with fire and sword" [0].

And now, we can watch as the project that has brought peace and prosperity to more than almost any in history unravels. And yes, Europe has been failed by horrendous, narrow-minded economic policies of the EU, but a previous generation of leaders who still remembered the horrors of war would not have sacrificed Europe for their own narrow benefits.

[0] http://delong.typepad.com/delong_long_form/2015/01/the-futur...
I don't think any company would ignore pilfering on a large scale (everybody doing it). Now, large companies might have an office or two which deviate from the norm and may tolerate it a bit, but company-wide, I don't think so.
You claimed your illustrative example as actual fact.

45 minutes would be no different than having to attend meetings during which you would not be allowed to leave to use a restroom.
Well now we know just how threatening Let's Encrypt is to the incumbent CA industry.
x:y or x/y means y / (x + y), so 4:1 is 1 / (4 + 1) or 20 %.
Yeah, personal morals are silly. Throw Snowden down the well.
I don't assign any value to age honestly. I've been surprised by old and young alike. We all age differently and aptitude isn't age-restricted.
This seems to be because the DataScienceCentral site stole the content from the original source [1], Toptal. It looks like their copy-paste job messed things up.

[1]: https://www.toptal.com/javascript/write-code-to-rewrite-your...
No, they're mostly actual photographs by this guy: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/8/4311868/the-illusion-of-sim...
Ok, so it is not a completely crazy idea. It if funny that granting ownership is more complicated than granting an option to ownership.
Getting a medicinal marijuana card requires a prescription; whether or not that's "hard" depends a lot on the doctor. Of course, if it's legal, it's not required.
> When people can see all around them that gender, nationality, race, and religion convey useful information about the people they meet

> absolute denial of the obvious

You say that as if it's assumed, but I don't agree and neither do very many others. I agree it's obviously a human instinct to think that, but that's true of many other bad ideas - we're not beasts, our intellectual abilities take us far beyond our instincts. That tribal instinct has led to terrible destruction - arguably it's caused more harm than any other idea.

Of course I'm not speaking in absolutes (and I hope you don't you mean to). There's a little bit of information there, but generally I find people are the same everywhere; there are good and bad, smart and dumb, happy and sad, capable and incompetent, kind and cruel, etc. just as much in every group. It's really the individual that matters.

It's also essential to liberty and basic fairness: An individual need to be judged on their own merits, by their own action, and not by the color of their skin, their nationalities, their religion, gender, sexual preference, etc. If we say, "people in religion X are thieves", then it will be an injustice to almost all the individuals in that religion. It leads to widespread injustice even in peace, when a skilled woman or minority, for example, is judged instead on their race or gender and denied the job.
the fact remains that those who vote for a third party have always been a tiny minority

Ross Perot got 19% of the popular vote in 1992. I'd say that shows what a third party candidate can do.
I'm currently using Nexmo for a side project, but am looking to move. I recently had to buy some more numbers and realized Nexmo had almost none available. Anyone have this issue with other providers?
I am not much of a gambler, but with a spread like this it looks very tempting. The currency market boys seem to think out has won.

Anyway using my imaginary betting account I will bet a million pounds - I will enjoy the cup of imaginary coffee I will be able to buy with my winnings :)
This is very true, and something I didn't even realize until I entered a period of life in which I'm simply too busy to participate in social media.

If something went viral, I used to take that as a signal or indicator of how the majority of people think. Now when something goes viral, I think, "that's roughly how a lot of men and almost as many women, age 13 to 30, who are comfortable aligning with that particular opinion publicly, think."

Then I started considering what that might mean for television, movies, print, etc.

I always knew that media was skewed in favor of attracting the youngest audiences, because they're more valuable to advertisers. Now I'm also considering that maybe those forms of media are also skewed in favor of the type of person who tends to watch a lot of television, go to a lot of movies, buy a lot of magazines, etc. I used to think everyone did that, now I know a lot of people do it far less than others.

Daytime television, for example, is full of advertisements for private colleges that exist mostly just to take your SSN so they can pocket federal loan money and list you as the debtor. That's because people who watch daytime television tend to be uneducated and unemployed.

Daytime television is nothing close to a cross-section of humanity. It's content engineered to appeal mostly to people who don't go to school and don't work.

Now, what kind of people tend to watch primetime television? Or listen to terrestrial radio? Or buy a magazine at an airport?

As a result of media producers learning more about their audiences, pretty much every form of media eventually becomes an echo chamber.
You probably need `compose(foo, partial(map, fn), bar)`.
The video looks super fake at around 1:05. The rear wheel is in the wrong spot.
The foreign exchange market has more volume and eyes watching it. Just watch the value of the GBP.
I think you're wrong to despair.

The Europe of < 1910 was very different. Socially, politically, and economically. If the EU dissolved today, I don't believe France and Germany would be at war within 200 years. So long as strong democratic values persist in Europe, peace, I think, is a certainty.
> And then you call something that, unbeknownst to you, updated some shared state like a singleton.

that would mean one has violated rule 1 and 2. the challenge is that it seems to be rare to find programmers who can nail rule 2 downward. (though they do exist.) thus... rule 1. agreed. :-)

flashbacks to fixing dozens of race conditions and thread leaks back at a major travel ecommerce website...
Comodo attempts to destroy Let's Encrypt through now-registered trademarks
The betting markets had somewhere around a 35% of Brexit. So it wasn't that unlikely according to the betting markets.
The problem I see is that pretty much everybody is unwilling to see religions other than their own (or religions in general) as anything less than uniform monoliths, when in fact they are a bunch of vastly different denominations under one very vague umbrella.

Just from my own perspective, I'm an Episcopalian; we were the first major Christian denomination to appoint an openly gay bishop, and our official policy is pro-LGBT and pro-same sex marriage. There are approximately two million of us, 1.8 million in the USA; we're not huge, but we're hardly a splinter group. Yet I've known both left-wing atheists and right-wing Baptists who first refuse to believe that I'm pro-LGBT, and then tell me that I'm not a "real" Christian, I'm a lone outlier with delusions of belonging. This despite the fact that more than 50% of all American Christians, of any denomination, describe themselves as pro-LGBT!

I feel like the same thing applies to Muslims. There are groups, sects, denominations whose official policy is horrible, violent bigotry, and that should be resisted. But just knowing that a person is a Muslim doesn't tell you anything important about them.
I was talking about nationalism and populism more generally. For example, I've read many times that the revisionist far right has growing influence, re-writing history books to hide Japan's actions in WWII, launching campaigns against those who criticize that period, etc.
There's no guarantee, but the bookie is watching his, uh, book and adjusting the odds to make sure the payouts come from losing bets rather than his pocket.
Thank you for raising this issue. We're currently working on fixing this. Here's the issue on the [tracker](https://github.com/riolet/longs/issues/6).
Clinton’s private e-mail was blocked by spam filters–so State IT turned them off
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Why does everyone assume that nobody here _likes_ Trump? Granted, it's dangerous to be pro-Trump her in Silicon Valley; getting beaten up for these beliefs really happens. But maybe we should all have open minds.
> You say that as if it's assumed, but I don't agree and neither do very many others.

It turns out that stereotypes, however distasteful, usually do have a certain degree of accuracy: http://heterodoxacademy.org/2016/03/30/are-stereotypes-accur.... You may not want to live in the world where they do, but that reality is what it is.

When you ask people to deny the evidence of their own eyes, you're setting up a kind of resentment that can lead only to bad outcomes.

Of course, it'd be awful to be individually assumed to be a thief because you come from a group full of people unusually likely to be thieves. My point is that if it's a matter of fact that people of that group are more likely to be thieves, whatever the reason, and you tell people that, no, that group isn't full of thieves, and people are terrible for thinking so, then as soon as some demagogue acknowledges the truth, people will run to him no matter how bad his other opinions and no matter how ruinous his policies.

People hate liars, and even more, they hate being compelled by social forces of shame and ridicule to deny their true beliefs. It's better to have an honest conversation about these things than to repress them and create the kind of pressure cooker that explodes and makes a Trump president.

In an EU context, maybe it'd have been better to accept some restrictions on freedom of movement. Maybe it'd have been better to scale back centrally-imposed regulations on consumer goods (e.g., the EU banning traditional UK tea kettles).

Now we're going to see the EU damaged because well-meaning people tried to bring about the world they'd like to see by demanding everyone pretend it be so, and only children play pretend.
Actually, the likely scenario is that Microsoft employees make up a sizable portion of the HN user base (relative to smaller companies) and when an MS employee sees something antagonistic towards MS, they downvote.

Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook to varying degrees all have the same phenomenon on HN. It's not the PR team, it's the eng team in their spare time.
Are you really saying this could lead to war between Europe and the UK? That seems entirely unlikely unless some other major disaster happens, and in that case they would just quit the EU anyway if it suited them.
Or maybe people are using the betting markets to hedge. Is that a dumb thing to do?
This. Overwatch is fun, but Weapons Factory Arena was much more so, esp with half of the classes (including the sniper, engineer, and some of the attack classes) given off-hand grapple, which could be used to "grapple jump" and massively increase the movement speed and agility of a skilled player. Here's a video showing some fairly high-level play: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3UW7eCYqGpQ

More: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-IDF_wWPUME

IMO it's a massively more fun game than Overwatch, but it no longer has an active player community. The best shot I have at playing with others is QuakeCon, but there used to be a few servers with 32 player limits, and I can tell you that anything beyond about 8x8 was just stupid fun. I've played hundreds or thousands of hours of this and it was amazing. I've never found another game which did it for me quite like WFA did. As the cherry on top, it runs great on a Pentium 3 500 with a Voodoo 3 MP on 56K at 1024x768 on a CRT. It also runs fine with 60fps constant on the original Motorola Droid.

Better graphics and loot boxes don't make a game fun IMO. Great mechanics and an awesome tight-knit community do.
death penalty for non-straight or non-cis people

Consider Iran, it's not so black and white. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29832690

Instead of immediately penalizing gay people, they offer them sex reassignment surgery. It's just as bad, but in a different direction. It works out better for trans people, but not at all for gay people.