skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh hell yes, that is often infuriating and sometimes dangerous.

I figure a few factors must be:

Often being surrounded by people with simpler jobs than yours so you understand theirs but they can't understand yours. Even if the job requires more skill and is harder to do than the tech job, it seems easier in the same way that outsiders presume that the hard part of programming is learning those funny looking programming languages and cryptic terminal commands. You get used to explaining things to people who don't get it.

IQ is likely more useful in tech as well so the tech people tend to be smarter in that way than their other peers. They also value IQ more highly than other forms of intelligence because that's the one they probably have.

There are a lot of jobs in tech where social interaction isn't as important, so the field self selects for this. People who value and/or are skilled in these traits will leave or be tempted away at a higher rate than the replacement rate. These skills correlate with effective introspection and self evaluation.

Systems thinking is a learned skill, and it does actually make you better at understanding things in general. It's not evenly distributed and those without this skill can seem less intelligent than they are. This aspect is less hubris than actually having been trained in a useful general thinking tool by your job.

Western culture recently funnelled a lot of low status kids into tech. The narrative was that they were "the smart ones", they have carried over this "we're the smart ones, not like those stupid jocks and douchebags" framework into adulthood and are still trapped by it. Anti-intellectualism provided the seed for this narrative but it is way overblown.

The valley pushes this "you're the special best, you deserve to rule, save the world, fix everything the stupids ruined" narrative pretty hard because it works well.

This combines into: Privileged, sheltered humans with a chip on their shoulder, local evidence of superiority in an area they both value and a lowered ability to understand or even recognize other areas. That strikes me as a recipe for this, physicists do it too as do economists and trust fund kids with an MBA. Doctors are famous for similar personality defects.
Google released a C++ implementation of Mapreduce sometime back. It had been developed at Skybox IIRC
Capital One is hiring software, data, and security engineers
We should all start claiming that our shapes can only be described in higher dimensions.
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Before lowering someone's frequency or unfollowing I hide all content from certain sources. My feed is entirely clear of HuffPo and Buzzfeed (neither is worth seeing the rare good content for all the clickbait), among many many other sources. Someone only gets unfollowed if they still manage to keep finding new annoying websites to post clickbait from.
Sales were down from the previous quarter, which in turn was down from the quarter before that. If you look at the big picture, that fact is misleading because it doesn't account for cars in transit, but "sales were down" is true on its own.
Probably one of the few good times to accept the counter offer. You know you're out in the end anyway; might as well cash in on the deep pockets of the acquirer.
Let me be more clear: The entire application is written in SPs. They have a 3 tiered arch, but the FE and MT see 5% usage and the DB sees 95% usage.

And they constantly have timeouts, table locking issues, errors, CPU usage problems, etc. I receive, literally, 10,000+ emails a month from automated error reporting from the DB servers.

Luckily it's not my project so I just have a rule to delete all of them.
Sadly I didn't get to play with EcoNet even though our school had a computer room full of BBC B micros (and one 380Z).

Having been deprived, I am wondering how Econet actually was supposed to be wired up. Was it like early thin net ethernet with DIN instead of BNC cabling? Or was it 'hub and spoke'? I can't imagine there were ethernet style routers/hubs for EcoNet but the teachers were supposed to have some type of god-like power over pupils' machines so I would like to know how that was supposed to work too.
Seems like a similar thing to what goes behind pricing something as 1.99 instead of 2.00
The reducer: a new agile role
> And here I am imagining what it would be like to first astronauts landing on one of your worlds. What would an explorer feel upon seeing vast cities and machinery, but seeing no trace of the people who built it.

This reminds me of Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama
Have they truly stopped allowing bots? That's why I stopped playing last year.

http://www.espn.com/fantasy/baseball/story/_/id/13261582/are...

I see updated newflashes from both DraftKings and Fanduel in the google results, but they're flagged in our corp firewall blacklist. Does it explicitly say the companies themselves can't use bots anymore? Ironically, figuring out how to get the bots to bet in the most effective way in a few minutes was probably even more skill - what's that R-value?
Sure, but with any device that's doing security correctly right now, the only thing you get to control is whether you let it connect to the service it wants to use or not. It's not like you can re-target it connection and choose which types of calls make it through and which don't. And at that point you might as well just choose to not plug it in to the network (or give it your wifi credentials or whatever).
3D scanned assets provider will start private beta program
If you find it, let me know. I think we're looking for the same thing.
Oooh, I see! I was thinking of running the simulation forward by N frames optimistically, and then fixing it up when something else comes in, but the idea here is just to precompute every possible result. Nifty!
Yup, not only does it 'look good', but it gets a low level criminal off the street, sends a message to other people in similar circumstances, and (contrary to some beliefs) most cops actually like arresting criminals and returning stolen property.
> If you can create one platform service that developers love and runs on cheaper specialized hardware, you'll be able to destroy your competitors and signal an alternative hardware arms race.

I think this was what Google is trying with their TPU for running TensorFlow for machine learning applications.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/05/Google-supercha...
Inside of an interview, what usually happens is we get into a discussion of the architecture of the product I'd be working on. Then I pepper questions about the codebase itself, and after a few questions I'll say "Wow, that sounds interesting. Mind if I take a look?"

Post interview I'll talk to the hiring manager and express how much I enjoyed meeting with the team and love the product, then ask if it would be alright to stop by to take a closer look at the codebase, watch how the team works in action, just be a fly on the wall.
I'm curious why FB chose to manually label the data vs collecting feedback from users. Eg via a dialog on a large sample of users and articles asking whether the article was clickbait, or asking users to rate it, or some such.

The benefits of this approach, besides a lesser degree of tedious manual data review and entry up-front, include: ease of retraining the system as clickbaiters inevitably adapt in this new arms race (can regularly gather fresh user feedback and feed the updated corpus and labels into the system), and perhaps also closer affinity with what users actually think qualifies as clickbait (as opposed to FB's internal definition). This soft of approach may also lead to more differentiated filtering on a personalized basis or an affinity-group basis... ie they'd have the opportunity to model user-behavior features and create differentiated filters based on user behavior/preferences.

I'm sure there were very good reasons for going this way, so I'm not second-guessing. Just curious what the tradeoffs were in the decision, if any knows or can make educated speculation.
Sounds like we're very much in the same boat. He definitely took a turn for the worse when his little sis was born.

He's a very creative and strong willed boy. Loves people and loves to talk. If he's left to his own he does alright, but unfortunately he has zero concern for anyone else's safety so he's not able to do that very often. The words "no" and "stop" have been far too frequent in our house lately but it's really hard when you have a newborn and he's jumping off his bunk bed and nearly crushing her.

We like weird too. We have friends raising robots and I'm honestly not sure which is more painful to watch -- my son losing it or their kids acting like grownups.
> Looking at ten thousand published BuzzFeed listicles over a period of three months I found a statistically significant difference in the performance of odd-length listicles compared to even ones.

They published at least 10,000 listicles in 3 months! now, that is what I call a soul-crushing job (writing those articles)
In this decimal digit context it would be appropriate to define

NOT d = 9 - d

Similar to

NOT b = 1 - b

for binary digits. And in fuzzy logic.

Taking the logic identity

a XOR b = ( a AND NOT b ) OR ( NOT a AND b )

it would be

MAX( MIN( a, NOT( b ) ), MIN( NOT( a ), b ) )
Obligatory: https://larseidnes.com/2015/10/13/auto-generating-clickbait-...
One could cynically view this as an extractive measure, dressed as a user-friendly effort. In other words:

Sorry, Mr. Publisher. Your most effective titles are going to be exposed less frequently for free in your audience's feeds. However, you can of course always promote your stories with whatever title you feel is most effective when exposed to users! wink
About Trumps Hands
Great work. 3D with WebGL is necessary for this, and I don't think you'll run into any issue.
They are looking at the user agent and determining that I am using an "Unsupported" browser. Some sites show a banner, others (OWA) fall back to a different UI.
I've always tried to be a tesseract, though I can understand the mobius strip approach.
Have you used Craigslist lately?

Aside from the scammers & farmers, I have been suspecting(correlations suggest) their new-ish email system doubles as a number scraper, as well.
I think open-sourcing the code in the first place was a great start to contributing to OSS. Facebook isn't a newcomer to the community.
Lol my issue isn't with lack of ideas its hat I have too many things I want to learn. But yeah project based learning is a given.

I'm not actually talking about programming, I like to think of myself as somewhat experienced, but I'd like to get for example into 3D modeling and I'm not sure where to start.
My understanding is that life expectancy hasn't really changed much in history, if you don't factor in infant death. The expected lifespan of someone who has already survived long enough to join the workforce hasn't actually changed much. So, for the purposes of SS, I would think that's not really an issue.

As I understand it, the entire thing would only have stayed solvent if each successive generation contributed significantly more than the previous one, presumably due to population growth and economic growth.

I may be wrong, just the understanding I've developed from previous discussions.
Whatsapp does charge money.
Impressive. This reminds me of the series Silicon Valley, though.
Please fight for this. the more providers supporting turnkey (or on-by-default) tor routing, the better IoT will end up being.

If I can be a tad more hyperbolic, this is probably the most important thing a provider can do to ensure security of the devices within.
System Profiling for Lazy Developers
Yeah yeah, Eth is pretty much the same thing, but with a turing-complete script. Anyways looking forward to see what happens to you guys going forward.
> What I see is that the person's salary is not the biggest part of their total cost to you as an employer

This is exactly why salaries are pretty negotiable.

> If they are qualified for a job at another company that pays $150k

We address this once a week on HN. People don't pay for qualifications, they pay for most recent salary. They'd still stick around for 6 months and then look for their next 10% bump. A "6 months here and there" person isn't magically going to change their perspective on life just because they finally had the opportunity to work for me! People that are willing to stick around typically aren't just using me for their "my last salary was...", and they are much more likely to get salary bumps within (which does actually happen, contrary to popular belief).
You're absolutely right that this is a similar dynamic. At this point this is FB's MO and you have to be a fool not to anticipate it as inevitable in each ecosystem/market they develop.
The beautiful thing about machine learning is that nobody needs to sit there and write these patterns. A system can learn from a training set much faster than you can write regular expressions and it can look at features of the text that never occur to you.
You'd miss out on the handful of really good real journalism articles per month that Buzzfeed publishes in that case, which would be kind of a shame. Maybe that's how they justify the expense of doing real journalism -- it makes it harder for other sites to ban their domain.
My problem with this argument is there's an underlying assumption that the end of the day our basic core motive is selfish/egotistic, it might be so but many who use this assumption as a base of their arguments do not bother to prove it because believe that it is so.
Wow, more incredible image processing stuff from MIT. What's really cool is how it shows how much hidden information is out there there in world to be captured within a normal camera. We just need to be aware of it and analyze it properly. For me, it just re-injects a bit of wonder into the everyday world we live in.
Foursquare detects decrease in foot traffic to Trump properties
U.S. judge dismisses part of Alibaba counterfeit goods lawsuit
And why would people buy that? That pretty much comes standard nowadays on a somewhat more high-end Mercedes, giving you a fully integrated system with the added bonus that your insurance won't refuse to cover you because you installed an unproven startups Python deep learning steering wheel.

I'm being facetious but this is how this will work out in the end for the first early-adopter to get into a crash.
No, I don't use Craigslist. Good warning, though!
From the title i was expecting un-pc commentary on diversity programs
> What makes you think this is default?

Some of those features are default in Nim, some (strongspaces) are not. I say that all such weird features should be optional in general so that newcomers don't get scared off.

Also case and underscore should work like in C per default since Nim interoperates with C seamlessly anyway. Case insensitivity and ignoring underscore are ok if optional.
Many localities can't even be bothered to maintain their paint. It's been speculated that this is one reason why Tesla's Autopilot is so much better than Mercedes' supposedly equivalent system: Mercedes is testing their system on German roads with perfect markings everywhere, Tesla is testing theirs on California roads that haven't been painted since the Reagan administration.
It's not as ridiculous as you think. To continue to abuse the hockey analogy, there are ~979000 registered hockey players in the US and Canada[1]. There are 30 NHL teams, each with a contract limit of 50, for a total of 1500 players. That's 0.153% of all hockey players in North America.

EDIT: Need to read better, that's an order of magnitude off so it is a bit ridiculous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey#Number_of_registere...
"I used to have the illusion that software was supposed to get better over time."

Well there you go. That's the author's problem. He's caught up in an all-too-common delusion. Of course software gets worse with time. The only counterexample I have is Apache and some CLI tools. I literally cannot think of any other software that has not declined significantly given enough time and features. Whether the product manager wants to add some stupid little widget users will hate, the designer wants to redesign a perfectly good UI into a monstrosity, or the programmer wants to rewrite perfectly good code into a pile of bugs, it is almost a law of nature that software quality will degrade. You can even trace the causes of the author's gripes to one of the above reasons.
On the UA string, thats a good suggestion. We can look how much device info we need to send and add some settings for that. On the privacy question, it sounds like the zone you used was connected to a local connection instead over the VPN connection. In the next build we're going to make this more obvious. Tap on the flag or blue pin icon in the top right corner to open Zone settings and you can see a drop down of locations to choose from.

Btw, it's not added yet, but we will make the default selection "Fastest Connection".

As far as trusting us to run the VPN edge for you, we will work on variety of ways to earn that trust as I've mentioned throughout my comments. But this is also why we're working on a way to let people run their own edges.

Thanks for the feedback, we'll make sure to clarify this all on the site!
You don't have to increase density to increase the number of transistors.
Do you blog about it? It'd be nice to follow your progress.
I took bdcravens' comment to mean it'd be a great project for someone who wanted a way to start contributing to OSS, not a suggestion that Facebook wasn't contributing.
While they're at it, can they do something about the "slideshows" that consist of 8 sentences spread across 25 slides?
It would be gamed. The people who have the most incentive to take part in a "crowdsourced" labelling exercise to reduce clickbait are, of course, the people generating the clickbait.
I always felt it was from David's perspective of what is unimaginable to any human, and the scene is just his feeble mind attempting to make sense of something that his body can't. Much in the same way he experiences himself grow old and be reborn; he's being shown something he can't comprehend in a way that makes it easier for him to experience and understand. It's not meant to really be literal. At least that's my take, I could be wrong!
The classification format is a bit confusing to me. Given a
file that looks like this:

Help - how to I format blocks of code/bash output in this editor ?

`fastText josephmisiti$ cat train.tsv | head -n 2
1	1	A series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander , some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story .	1
2	1	A series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose	2

Are they saying to reformat it like this

cat train.tsv | head -n 10 | awk -F '\t' '{print "__label__"$4 "\t" $3 }'`

giving me

`fastText josephmisiti$ cat train.tsv | head -n 10 | awk -F '\t' '{print "__label__"$4 "\t" $3 }'
__label__1	A series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander , some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story .
__label__2	A series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose
__label__2	A series
__label__2	A
__label__2	series
__label__2	of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose
__label__2	of
__label__2	escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose
__label__2	escapades
__label__2	demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose`
I assume you're probably referring to me with this comment. I didn't say it wasn't a miss, merely that the common interpretation of "demand is down, Tesla is dying" is completely silly once you look at all of the numbers.
I think you're missing what I'm saying.

The criticism is, 'I don't like the article's metric because it doesn't zoom in on the tail of the distribution'.

But if you do that with any game, the answer you will get is uniformly 0.5, even when comparing chess to tic tac toe.
Sometimes, it all plays out online. This business owner apparently got therapy between these exchanges:

1.0 star rating 4/24/2015
My husband and I have been here 4 times, and most of the times the service was good and in most cases some of the food was quite good, sometimes quite average.

This time I was amazed at how bad the service was. The start was good, but the main courses came before we were finished with the appetizers, which was really rushed. We had no dessert, and had to ask for the check 4 times. The last time we asked, my husband remarked at how he had asked three times already. The waiter retorted that we at least had our coffee! Really rude.

The gnocchi is always good, as was the asparagus and beets. The pork special was really disappointing - just an average sausage.

I now have mixed feelings as to whether or not to return.

Response from business owner before therapy:

4/28/2015 Hi Ma (or is it Sa?),

Let me make your decision easy for you. Judging from your lack of patience and appalling attitude towards children, you're probably not a very happy person. Although we appreciate your past business, for the wellbeing of our other guests, we must ask you to no longer dine at Zo.

Thank you,

Gu

After therapy:

1.0 star rating 5/14/2016
Horrible service and food is not worth it.. Way over price for average food.

Went here bc of the reviews, and it looks like the owner replies to all 1 star reviews with some insulting and outrageous comments... So can't wait to hear from him!

Response from business owner:

5/21/2016 Hi Sy,

Thank you so much for dining at Zo. I apologize that you experienced horrible service while dining and would like to thank you for being so passionate about great food and service.

As you may have noticed in my more recent response, I am no longer committed to responding to reviews with resentment. I've found it much easier and satisfying to love the reviews regardless of their rating and forgive those that decide to be negative.

Thanks again,

Gu
gp might claim that you did it so you could talk about it later :)
Thanks for the encouragement.

Your point about remembering he's just a kid is spot on. He seems SO old compared to his sisters, but every once in a while he'll say something that strikes that chord and makes you remember just how young he still is and how much help he still needs.

We've been hiring baby sitters this summer so my wife can do 1-on-1 dates with him twice a week. He has a blast with her but then immediately relapses as soon as they get back to the house. Almost makes things worse because you feel like you're doing something right for once and then it ultimately ends up backfiring.

He usually gets about 10 hours of sleep (goes down around 7:30 and usually up around 6 or 6:30).
That's easy to answer. Taking care of your children is not aultruism, it's a genetic inevitability. Your genes have a 'selfish' desire to propogate themselves into the future. Your children are the means of doing this. To protect this investment your genes have gifted you with hormones that make you a happy and willing slave to these little bundles of genetic immortality. :-)
I am aware. Thanks for the detailed response though.
Not if they have no control over who is asked to label. You can evaluate how trustable labels are by manually reviewing few random ratings and extrapolating it on the entire population.
Cool! I am going to work on porting to OSX today
Most people don't consciously think "News Feed is full of clickbait"; instead they value the overall experience less, e.g. "I find News Feed less entertaining/worthwhile than BuzzFeed". They aren't aware of the curation going on under the hood, and soliciting feedback is considered more disruptive than anything.
That was Tim Cook.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/03/tim-cook...
Remove PG_ZERO and zeroidle (page-zeroing) entirely
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