skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You figure out what the problem in the measurements might be and correct for that based on your hypothesis of what the problem might be -- then compare the new results to the model predictions (and other data). The tacit assumption is that model should predict the data, if it doesn't either the data or the model is borked. If other data supports the model, then you're going to look at the data first -- especially if it's new data collected in a new way.

The satellite example is perfect, they didn't take the model output and add a factor based on that. No, they hypothesized that the satellite height was different and that was affecting the data, checked that, found ample evidence for it. Adjusted the data based on the height (not the model) and lo and behold, the data more closely matched the existing model. The likelihood that this kind of independent factor makes all the difference for a bad model is quite small.

Where the bias might come in is that one would have a tendency to only look for errors in data not fitting the model(s) or other data. But no one is suggesting that you readjust the data to match the model output -- what they may be saying is that if your data doesn't match the model -- you better be able to justify it.. and that starts with the data and proceeds to a new iteration of the model as you gain more confidence in the data.
On your last comment - copy that jister.

Yes, nobody has the right call anyone anything actually.

My apologies if I hurt anyone's feeling. There is no need to take anything personally :)
Exactly. Right now OpenOffice is good, but it needs to be so much better; based on past experience, I don't trust that a document created in OO won't look like crap when opened in Word. The reverse happens often enough to be a concern.

Oh, and please don't bring out the "fix it yourself" argument; enough time has passed, OO should be better already.
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The HTML spec does define a standard for concatenating the name-value pairs from form elements onto target attributes for use in GET requests, but that doesn't reify it into the definition of HTTP, much less the definition of REST.
You know what's even more annoying? The pool of talented developers working on two office suites for Linux! So, rather than everybody working on an MS Office killer, we have crappy OpenOffice and an even craffier KOffice both competing against each other for the title of who's crappiest. Grr!
1) It says nothing about default. Let me quote again:

all files created in Microsoft Office and Apple iWork

2) How about others being ethical and not telling me what format to use?
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Yeah, the world would be a much better place if everyone did exactly what I told them to.

For me, anyway...
its enough to look at yourself. are you making the progress that you know you are capable of? I think many of us have some sense of that.
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> .odf may not win over .docx, but in the long run, both will lose to the cloud.

That would be a catastrophe of unprecedented magnitude. And I mean every single word.

The number one reason why proprietary formats are bad is because they don't give you full control of your data. Documents in the cloud give you even less control, and no guarantee. No amount of legislation will prevent bad things from happening (like, semantic analysis of your documents).

The cloud as we know it should die. Trust me, I am not the extremist, here. Or better, don't trust me. Just listen to the arguments (one sided and very well said): http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/ISOC-NY-Moglen-20... (video, audio and transcript).
I think what people don't realize is that stuff like OO.org is just for show. The free software people don't use WYSIWYG slideshow generators or word processors; they already have tools that are much easier to use.

It's the rest of the world that refuses to use any model better than Powerpoint or Word, and they get exactly what they deserve -- a tedious way to make poor-looking presentations and documents.
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Reminds me when I was doing a project for a $major_pharmaceutical_company and provided them with the deployment docs for my software as a plain text file. They said, "we can't read this" and insisted that I give them a .doc file. (cut, paste, "save as .doc", and everyone is happy. wtf?)

This sort of behavior is harmful (and dumb), so I am glad the FSF is calling it out.
Repetitive coding tasks will burn the curiosity out of anyone. The only solution is to not have "IT organizations".
I am in NoHo (lankershim and vineland). I would love to have a local meetup. My email is nkhdev at gmail if anyone would like to contact me.
I'm working on an app for this - Speckle (http://speckleapp.com). The main feature is that Speckle has multiple checkboxes per task, so if you're working in a team, or even just if some tasks take longer than others, you can check them off bit by bit.
No problem and nothing personal. I just don't like the tone of the first line but hey, that is just me. :)
If it is the way it is now, smart people will automatically start discrediting the site. So, I don't see a need to worry excessively.
Apparently, most of you only value short term convenience (If you did, you would use open format as much as you could, even if it means worse current software). No wonder the world is build on exponential growth and depletion of limited resources.

EDIT: Please someone tells me where I am wrong. I don't care about downmods, but I do care about being corrected, or else I stay wrong.
Suggesting that Women have different tastes in general to men is bigoted now is it? He could have put it more delicately, but I believe he has a point.

How many men read Mills&Boon? How many women read Terry Pratchet?
Good luck, been following you since Business of Software and the launch of uISV on a Shoestring. I have always been curious about what you could do if you put your dedication and talent to work in a larger market.

By the way, I've made the same jump a couple of times, although only for a couple of months each time to get something off the ground. My biggest problem has always been lack of social and professional stimulation from the workplace once you go solo. If you got any pointers on how to deal with that I am all ears.
The other reply from jswinghammer is spot-on about central policy. $1 of marginal new borrowing is creating less than $1 of marginal economic activity. The borrowers have gone on strike. Trying to fix this with more lending (low rates, quantitative easing) is like putting a band-aid on an elephant that has been chainsawed in half. The proper solution would have been to forcibly default the bad debt, and simply give away money to busted depositors and certain investors until inflation kicked in. Unfortunately we adopted a policy of pretending there are no defaults, so the deflation will probably continue for decades (or until a great war intervenes).

Singing chiropractors: the singing part is an exaggeration, but not a big one. They are defining a mandatory minimum of "good" health care benefits. The specialists and pressure groups will rapidly purchase legislation requiring their favorite services be covered: the fanciest available birth control, massage, 30 therapist visits a year, and so forth. Give everything to everybody! Most people cannot afford this and will be fined harshly; many uninsured and self-insured will be much worse off.

Housing construction, manufacturing, furniture, etc. would have caused a sharp turn in the business cycle in 2008. However it was Chinese demand for energy and metals that spiked prices. Only a tiny fraction of families were in housing and affiliated industries, but every family paid thousands more a year for gasoline, heating oil, airfare, etc. That's what sent the broad economy into free fall. If we get cap-and-trade (an actual austerity measure), we will get a repeat of 2008.
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I'm not sure I follow you here. Do you mean Power point and Word are not fit for their purposes? And, what "better model" are you speaking of?
Second comment: "I imagine the wine market did very well in the last 13 years as compared to the Russell 3000, but so did practically ever single other asset class, such as Hannah Montana concert tickets, iPhone fart application futures, and wood already on fire."
This is a good talk by Charlie Munger - http://www.ycombinator.com/munger.html.
You can find out the reason why OpenOffice does not work really well from Sun CEO - http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artis...
This will most likely be illegal in France (ianal, just a feeling).
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It could — I'm doing something kind of similar with a DNS service I'm building. It has an HTTP interface which amongst other things exposes DNS-SD services (which include host, protocol, port and service-specific key-value pairs).
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> For example you entirely discount people like me, who grew up in a family that doesn't play sports and who has a mild coordination problem on top of that, would have no chance at such an "interview". However my actual on the job performance has been extremely good

I obviously interpreted the article very differently than you did. I don't see the fact that you've never played sports before as a disadvantage in such a hypothetical screening process at all. You say that you have a mild coordination problem, but again I don't see that as a disadvantage. The definition of "sport" is very loosely applied these days. Even poker is considered by many people a "sport" these days (at least in North America). So replace ultimate frisbee with poker and your coordination argument is no longer meaningful. I've played sports with many people who have physical disabilities ranging from muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, to blindness or deafness and in every case I've seen it's very easy to separate those who are willing to put in effort, willing to try something new, willing to take risks, and show sportsmanship from those who aren't.

I believe what the author is advocating is the use of a sport (I'll call it a competitive game to be more accurate) to screen for the ability to persevere in the face of adversity, show drive, and most importantly show willingness to learn in an unfamiliar, unexpected situation. I could easily make an argument for why each of those traits are desirable to have in an employee.

> But you would never consider hiring me so you'll never see that

I think the author would choose not to hire you, not based on your lack of coordination or inexperience in sports, but would do so based on your stubbornness and unwilliginess to participate in something new. I equate this to the same attitude that I occasionally see in programmers who dismiss new technologies without even giving them a fair chance.

That said I can see how it would be possible to misinterpret the author's use of the word "sport" for a physically competitive game - and if that's the case then what I said above doesn't apply. Nonetheless, in my opinion even if the author had strictly meant a "sport" in terms of a physically competitive game there are some valid points that can be taken from the article.
Heh, sometimes I think that the only thing OSS really needs for mainstream success is a dictator ;)
A psychologist once explained to me how powerful and destructive can the fear of success be. In fact most of the time it's latent. Many of those complaining about unluckiness may in reality be afraid of "heights": too much money or fame or both. Usually a result of "money and fame doesn't make you happy" but there may be other, more personal reasons, too. As a latent, subconscious force it may sometimes outweigh the other 9 factors mentioned in the article.

One of the signs you have the fear of success is when you respond emotionally to negative stories about the reach and famous. "See, they are bastards", you say, or other times "they are pathetic". Well, it may be true most of the time, but it's not their problem, it's yours.
But only the data that doesn't fit the model is fixed, and attempts to fix it stop when it does fit the data.

A lesson in machine learning I'll never forget is this: no matter how careful you are about not testing on training data, running different parameters until you get the results you want is doing just that.
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Maybe because they made what we call "Linux" possible in the first place? (In case you don't remember, GNU pre-dates Linux. The kernel was just the last missing part.)
It's really just a special case of Bayesian inference: p(A calls B "tall" | B is a 6'1 man) is a combination of what you know about who is called tall in general and what you know specifically about who A thinks is tall.

As far as I know, thats not true. Fuzzy logic is meant to encapsulate the idea that someone is "sort of" tall.
You can read his blog, or see all the comments he makes on HN. That's what I've been doing, and it's quite insightful
They could also be not so big losses, but many of them. Companies need to become strongly intertwined, having to pay a lot of other companies for everything they make. They need to be ensnared by a lot of legal laces, unable to move.

Then they will try to cut these laces. And these laces are patent laws.
Steve Blank had a good post about this, if you want some perspective from someone who has actually dealt with these issues:

http://steveblank.com/2009/06/18/epitaph-for-an-entrepreneur...
I can't comment on the US, but here in the UK it is pretty clear to me that there are some schools that do work - and work very well. The problem is that these aren't the majority - not by any means.
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> Is slides really worse than lugging a ten-pound book around all day and reciting emotionless, boring, seemingly irrelevant information?

Yes, a thousand times worse.

Because it's not fixing the problem that the subjects are boring :)

I do a lot of work with kids and education; you simply cannot, from my observation, teach from a screen - unless the participant is highly capable of research it doesn't work.

We need to fix the physical teaching - not replace it with a worse unfixed method!
You may be onto something here: IT is under constant pressure to squeeze ever more performance out of its workers. Optimizing for performance means taking a common task, standardizing it to make sure that it can be easily repeated without much effort.

What do you mean by "not having IT organizations"? What is the alternative?
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Pro tip.

Messages like "Gem not found. It will be mine. Oh yes. It will be mine. sinister laugh" are only funny when they are conditional upon something like rand 100 < 1. Even then... hire a writer.
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So the user is going to be able to organise their files through smart apis, but doesn't need to manage it? How's that going work work?
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Assume that there are always errors in the data, and that the errors in the data are unbiased - i.e. that half of the errors are biased towards the model and half are biased away from the model.

In cases where the errors are biased away from the model (the errors do not support the hypothesis that the model is based on), the scientist will have a tendency to double-check the data, comb through it and correct the errors. That's certainly what I'd do.

In cases where the errors are biased toward the model however, there is no incentive for the scientists to comb the data and correct the errors. Why would she, as the data re-enforces the model and the hypothesis. Publish the paper, get tenure and take a sabbatical.

It sounds to me like there will always be a bias toward the model - only because the data will only get the extra scrutiny that it needs to eliminate measurement errors in cases where it disagrees with the model, thereby taking unbiased errors and turning them into biased errors, with the bias always toward the model.

That's my hypothesis, and to make sure it's valid, I'll accept without question any data that supports it, and I'll double-extra analyze and carefully correct any data that doesn't.
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Maybe the way to look at this is without regard to smartness.

There are plenty of people with average or even below average IQs that are successful.

They may be successful at things that challenge them intellectually, but have none of the inhibitions or problems described in this post, so they are able to take action in their chosen sphere, continually learn the required lessons and succeed.
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1) You are understanding the letter, not the spirit. Open format for which there exists a free software implementation are OK no matter what (short of patents). That includes PDF, RTF, and plain text.

2) So you want total freedom, for yourself. Carried to it's ultimate conclusion, your total freedom can have me enslaved, should you decide so. More reasonably, your freedom to smoke oppose my freedom to breathe. And here, your freedom to use proprietary formats and software oppose my freedom to not use them.

There is no way around that. Most of the time, the larger my freedom, the smaller the rest of the world's. Some compromises are just better than others at maximizing (or sharing) total freedom.
I once bought an MP3 player, and the bill inside the package featured an ID number in extra-big letters -- for video documentation, as the small writing said. (They didn't offer me the videos except in case of dispute, though).

Since the player in question was a Frontier Nex IA, this must have been quite some time ago.
I am not sure whether this is exactly fear of success. I think it may be fear of failure, or more specifically fear of discovering that one does not have talent.

For example, take somebody that is smart, is a great conservationist in parties, makes great jokes and has read the entire literary cannons of several countries. All his friends say he should be a writer. He has always dreamed of being a writer. Yet he never starts writing. Is that fear of success? Or fear of trying and discovering that despite everything he did not have talent?

Anyway, while we are on the subject linked below is a hilarious episode of Black Books that is about this. BTW I think the main character of that show is someone like the person in my example.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/114471/black-books-elephants-and-h...
well said. pinboard is another startup in the same vein.
Success and family need not be mutually exclusive but yes, family comes first :)
Pieter, I recall you mentioning that there are three forms an industry can have as standard;

1) The best is a healthy number of implementations based on an open source specification;

2) The undesirable way is having a implemantations based on an API, namely JMS;

3) The lowest most undesirable way is having an implementation as industry standard, as this allows for vendor lockins, soaring prices, and tardy performance;

Having said that, ØMQ is an implementation (albeit fast and open) without an open specification , nevertheless, you are essentially basing your business on number 3. an implementation as industry standard (given that what you do, industry will follow). Secondly with your influential clout in this field, are you not pushing an implementation into the market as the next industry standard -> whereas it should ideally be an open spec?

Aside, what high performance (which excludes restms) substitute spec are you cooking up? Is there a slight possibility that you will reverse engineer the spec from ØMQ?
Any chance you can provide some references. Would like to dig deeper on this one.
a different open-source DB with a friendlier license

That would be postgresql?
I, and as have a lot of others, went from TextMate to Vim. I was really looking into something fresh, and learning Vim has been a breath of fresh air.

I found it comparable to when I switched over from SVN to Git, it really made me revitalized my programming, I was looking forward to work with my new tools! I had that same feeling when picking up Vim, so I can wholeheartedly recommend!
Let me guess: you used UNIX line endings, right? Or were your text files not named "*.txt"? Anyway people should learn to use their computers, at least a little. If they don't, even free software won't really gain them any freedom.
There is probably a counter business here: "destroy your unvarnished profile".

Either an expensive hand crafted one or, depending on their "spam" filters, Mechanical Turk farmed.

(I can't quite describe the whole reasons but I find this particular site wholly distasteful)
I disagree, anybody who is doing face recognition for a serious purpouse is probably using lots of surveillance cameras. In the setting where you can make someone take off makeup it's probably easier to just ask them for their credentials.
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2. Fundamentals/value investing. Read the intelligent investor and security analysis. Very sound IMO.

3. Arbitrage - read "Beat the Market" by Ed Thorp. Also very sound IMO.
I am yet to meet anyone who is afraid of success, I think it more a case of the fear of Failure.
ahem, why the editorializing of the title? The guidelines suggest avoiding "gratuitous spin" in titles.
And what's wrong with going "nowhere in life", then? What the hell is this "mediocre life" and how could anyone define it for anyone but for himself only?

If there were external standards who could define what's best for me and what should I become? Who could do that especially if I'm smart, smarter than most?

On the other hand, if the author didn't only talk about smart people who he thinks live a mediocre life but also about smart people who themselves think they live a mediocre life, the article could just have been renamed as "Smart People Not Happy With Their Lives Either".
"What if you become a really lousy President of the United States" doesn't strike me as a particularly compelling argument for not trying to go somewhere.
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