skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(31-12)3500/ (530) = 440 calories per day,
or 18 oz of baby formula per day.

That's approximately 100% efficiency converting dietary calories into body mass, or massive water retention.

You could cure starvation across the world if you good identify the source of that.
Lives of members of social groups can be different for historical reasons. Because of this, the best selection of features (as in, how we select and encode relevant aspects of a dataset for a particular problem) that one would need to use, as well as the correlations between them, may be different between different groups. The question is not whether there is fundamentally a difference between, in this case, racial groups vis-a-vis paying back loans (i.e. that the only feature required in your model would be "is member of this group"), but what are the traits of possibilities of life that have for whatever reason ended up leaving a quantifiable trace in our databases and their distribution within that group.

One hypothetical example: suppose that there existed a group G that was not able to go to the top n% of universities due to discrimination. Your company uses some rank of university attended as one of the features input to its favorite machine learning algorithm. However, the dataset you trained on excluded group G. Within this group, the best university individuals have been able to attend is X which is by definition not in the top n%. Had the algorithm been trained on this group it would have observed that school X is highly correlated with success in this group, even if not in the original training set used. As is, your ML system assigns a low probability to members of group G.

Issues like this will be hard to prevent. While that doesn't mean we shouldn't work hard to make real innovations in ML, I think the legal approach of a "right to explanation" as analyzed in http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.08813v3.pdf and recently added to European law is regardless a helpful tool to ensure accountability.
When People Ate People, a Strange Disease Emerged
Paste values isn't almost always what I want. When copying formulas around I usually want the actual formulas which have been judiciously constructed with fixed row and column references where needed. The default paste is ideal for people doing actual calculation in Excel.
"If you are rich, hire two accountants. One to keep track of your books, and another to keep track of the first guy"

Brilliant, I hadnt heard of/thought of that.

"There's a cost/benefit risk to everything. If you want to take the route of working with contractors, you have to weight the risks for that as well."

True, I would just like to point out that hiring your own staff might no work out either...
I wish utilities would use more characters, Because it makes searching so much easier. You can always alias it to something else, but for example, it is way easier to search for ifconfig than it is to search for ip (for iproute)
It doesn't negate the argument (even if it was hyperbole). I took an iPhone 5S out on a car trip yesterday across L.A., and forgot the car charger but hey it was fully charged. Used it for navigation for about 20 minutes total, and maybe 10 minutes total of phone calls. Checked email maybe 5 times. By about 8PM, the battery was at 2%, and I still needed to drive home. So the phone was unusable to me if I wanted to have ability to make an emergency call. And if the battery had gone down another 2%, the phone would have been entirely unusable.

My iPhone 2G had better battery life than this given similar usage patterns. Sure you can cite LTE vs. 2G and processor ability etc, but battery life made the modern(-ish) phone less useful to me under what I consider are not that strenuous of conditions. This is a real problem, and battery life will definitely be a major consideration to the next phone I buy.
> Do you have any evidence for the minority claim beyond the personal anecdote?

As a second anecdote, I've never met anyone who's said getting their PhD was fun. (My building is ~95% PhDs from a range of different disciplines)
That's a tautology -- what does "healthy" mean?
Repayment rates are not just individual - they also depend on the financial strength of friends and family who can help you out if you get in trouble. So, I think we have to assume that there are performance-relevant differences that an algorithm will detect.

Also, unless the dataset has information about families, this isn't based on your actual family. It's based on the average benefit people like you get from their family.
Sounds great, even utopian.

In almost all environments I've ever worked in, telling executives that you can't deploy a new feature because you've exhausted your error budget for the month is not acceptable which renders this system of "failure budgets" moot.

I've also spoken with Googlers about their devops/SRE responsibilities and I've gotten the distinct impression that what is advertised as being the organization's "best practice" is not in fact the common practice.

Measuring and tracking error budgets comes at a large cost, and enforcing failures budgets is rarely a politically effective initiative as an engineering manager.
I agree that the headphone jack doesn't necessarily need to go right away, especially on larger phones, but I'm not one of the people who think it's the worst thing in the world to remove either. It does take up a lot of internal space because of the depth required. With how small the PCBs are on modern phones that actually matters.

That said, none of the points this article raises would matter if Apple would just stop insisting on being needlessly different and adopt USB-C like they should. Lightning was arguably slightly better than MicroUSB but USB-C does everything it does and more while also being standard instead of a pointless special snowflake.

I say keep the jack on devices where the space is available and use USB-C with alternate modes for everything else.
I want to benchmark this, because intuitively I disagree.

The HPACK spec is a pretty easy read [1]. There is a static, hardcoded table that contains most of the HTTP header names, and even some common predefined KV pairs. You save some bytes on the wire if your header's name or value is one of these entries; the header name will essentially always will be in the static table.

But for names and values that aren't in the static table, you have to put them into the dynamic table and encode them using either the integer packing or the huffman code. The client has to decompress these, of course.

On future requests, you have some leftover state in your dynamic table so future 'duplicate' headers are packed, and take up very little space. But for the first (ever) HTTP request-response pair, you have to trade ALL the headers in "full". So the true benefits of the dynamic table don't kick in.

[1] https://http2.github.io/http2-spec/compression.html#header.e...
> The majority of people still use corded headphones, some of which are high-quality, pricey investments that you don't just want to stop using.

The vast majority of people I see in public use the standard Apple earbuds. I suspect that the percentage of people with expensive cans is very low, and that most people that buy the iPhone 7 will continue to use the stock lightning earbuds.
I want a combination wallet+airpod dock+phone battery case. Wallet, airpod dock, retractable lightning connector (to charge iPhone), retractable usb cable (to charge battery). Battery doesn't need to be huge, just enough to get you another 20% or so phone charge -- and I imagine that would be enough battery for a whole lot of airpod recharges.
Not to mention that nobody claimed that EMC was the only supplier for 98% of the market. As a similar claim, RedHat[1] state that 100% of Fortune 500 banks, airlines, telcos and healthcare companies rely on RedHat. Is it a correct statement? Probably. But does it mean that RedHat exclusively sells to 100% of those markets? Of course not.

[1]: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/trusted
This. I found that I was on a different level than my peers in college in terms of programming ability. I knew I was on a different level because we had group work, and it was very annoying having to explain simple things like how to do a linear search for an element in an array. At that point, I believed that some people with CS degrees actually _can\'t_ do fizzbuzz

In the end, I had practiced more and have pretty much programmed everyday for 7 years, while they only did the minimum requirement to pass classes in CS>
I don't have any personal experience, but as I understand it, that depends on whether you enabled billing.
So keeping it in a case for two years is worth the extra $20 when it's time to sell it?
"A lifestyle merely describes and/or quantifies the way one lives."

This is correct.

I don't draw the conclusion from the post, I make this statement to directly contradict the post, which I believe is unwise.

A further video that underlines my point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4
That's great, and in 4 years time the cheap android devices will get the current release.
This? http://www.computerworld.com/article/2868475/verizon-unveils...

It's the only thing I can think of. I sure as hell wouldn't be a part of it though.
It is always like that for anything Water Resistance. That is because people can still break it by not following the rules (> 1 meter, >30 mins).
idk im pretty good at exporting to CSV.
I can't tell if this is satire or not. It almost writes itself.
"I think in this case the credit card companies should be liable."

Maybe? I didnt see anything about home depot suing the contractors? Really, they should be held financially and criminally liable.(if they werent)

The public ledger part of bitcoin is great also. You can see where the stolen money went. Maybe if they added a way to flag money, so spending stolen bitcoin would trigger an alert at the merchant, the same way canceled credit cards do now.
While that's unfortunate for you, I'd be willing to bet most iphone consumers just use the included earbuds for their phone, and don't really have any other use for headphones. Keep in mind that you, and even most HN readers, are not necessarily examples of the average iphone consumers.
More like $11 billion :)
People put up with all kinds of crap when it's the best option available. They're OK with it until something better comes along. In this case, a smartphone with a day of battery life trumps a flip phone with a week of battery life just because it can do so much more. You know what trumps a smartphone with X battery life? One with X+1 battery life, as long as it still fits comfortably in a trouser pocket. With the behemoth-screened phablets that are common these days, I think it's reasonable to make them a little thicker and a little more useful.

My phone's about 3 years old now. Even when it was new, I couldn't use it indiscriminately and expect a full day of charge. If I want to have it available for critical purposes like emergency calls, it's literally not usable in the way that I'd like to use it. I don't think that it's even remotely unreasonable to advocate for better battery life, and I think it's only a slight exaggeration to call current phone battery life "unusable".
Given birth weight was already so high, I am skeptical flora has much to do with your son's case. How tall is he?
I'll be adding that in the next update - I have it nearly working in my testing version!
These reasons for getting a PhD seem extremely one-sided and, frankly, inaccurate.

> Exclusivity. There are very few people who make it to the top PhD programs.

Top companies are even more exclusive than PhD programs in terms of acceptance rate.

> you’re strictly more hirable as a PhD graduate or even as a PhD dropout and many companies might be willing to put you in a more interesting position or with a higher starting salary

This is 100% false. Many many people have found a PhD to be a handicap when it comes to getting a job, particularly in software engineering. A large number of employers have anti-PhD biases which will work against you.

> Ownership. The research you produce will be yours as an individual. Your accomplishments will have your name attached to them.

My experience with academic research is just the opposite. I think it's patently ridiculous that professors get "authorship" credit on papers even when they had a minimal, at best, role in it. Meanwhile in companies you can have a tangible impact and see real results/credit from it (bonuses, promotions). Not to mention that many universities have draconian IP policies.
I think the title should have been more like "These are the great things that happened to me during my PhD"
That's half the skill!
Ah, the Apple way. That problem we just created for you? Here's a dongle to solve it. That'll be an extra $10 (if you're lucky). You're welcome.
I agree that Xbox one doesn't have many 1080p games however how does it follow that ps4 does not? Except for few games like AC, which decided to keep parity, pretty much all ps4 games are 1080p.
Are there things where people consistently underrate their skills?
lol, are you Canadian?
Parent Maven POM, 0.46 released
Noise cancelling works very good when you don't listen to music, like when I need to concentrate at work but still want to hear relatively loud noises around me (like toddler calling door bell).
Seemingly the whole point is to be accesible and simple by being arduino compatible. It has also already sold and shipped $400k+ worth.
Why Your Fan-Game Isn't Fair Use and How to Fix That
In From Dawn to Decadence, Jacques Barzun mentions in passing the book The Harried Leisure Class, published in 1970. One can probably find it in many college libraries. I remember it as an interesting and cogent book.

I am probably the age of Ms. Buck's parents, and I don't immediately see a great difference between how we and our neighbors of the same age spend our leisure and how our children do. OK, we aren't running marathons or riding bicycles across Iowa. But most of the persons I know of that age are not working insane hours; and in my generation I knew the occasional 20-something putting in very long weeks at the law firm.
Hm... are there any options other than hoping against all odds to successfully navigate the tenure-track rat-race, working for The Man as an anonymous cog at BigCorp, or starting a business and pouring myself into businessy businessperson busywork? I'm afraid... I'm afraid I may be a defective individual in that none of these sound terribly appealing as a way to spend the bulk of my life.
That's exactly what I do using https://pureflo.com
That just makes Google sound risk averse. Given some of their business models and decisions over the last 5 years, I don't think that's the case. Given the quality of those products over the last 5 years, I might be inclined to question the nature and/or quality of the engineers being hired. Or maybe it's further up the ladder?
I think the parent is referring to Android apps being available on Chromebooks now. However, that's still in a pilot/beta phase, and has not deployed broadly yet.
You can go even cheaper.

Time4VPS offers you 2 cores (compared to one on DO), 80 GB SSD (compared to 20 on DO), 2 TB bandwidth (compared to one on DO), and 2 GB of RAM (compared to 512 MB on DO) for 3 euros (3.36 dollars). 1 additional euro for daily and weekly backups.

Started renting one just two days ago, so I can't really guarantee that it's reliable, but it was recommended to me by a friend who's renting it for over 100 days now without any downtime.

[1] https://www.time4vps.eu/pricing/ (or, if it sounds good and you want to use my referral link: https://billing.time4vps.eu/?affid=992)
I keep making essentially the same point about race/gender discrimination in tech. If group X is as effective as group Y but you can get away with paying them 20% less, why would you NOT hire group X? There's no corporation that's so racist or sexist that it'll turn down saving 20% on payroll.

The issue here isn't that machine learning gives wrong answers, it's that our definition of 'fair' is irrational.
Add Predicting Completion of Tasks and Driving.
But in the field, anything can mess that up, e.g. pressure applied to a small point.

If I drop my phone on the ground screen first, I have an idea that it might not break, but it might break. If it doesn't, I'm happy it survived, and if it does I don't go out and sue Apple.

Same if my phone gets hit in a rain storm by a bunch of drops of water.
This is not really true any more. Computers will still play at a superhuman level if you disable the opening book.
Fair point, I can see how that can feel like you're left at a random location.

One other thing I noticed is that stories don't seem to load on my iPhone, but works fine on browser. Not sure why though.
It's unfortunate that the Redux docs have led many (including myself) to think that Redux reducers means "switch statement". See http://redux.js.org/docs/basics/Reducers.html under "Note on switch and Boilerplate".

Your reducer can be whatever you want it to be as long as it does not produce side-effects. I use something like https://65535th.com/move-away/

Additionally, as roughcoder points out elsewhere in thread, using the object spread syntax (available in babel-preset-stage-2 or babel-plugin-transform-object-rest-spread) minimizes some additional boilerplate.
To clarify for the person you've responded to: the problem with humans isn't exactly that we individually have _too little_ intelligence, it's that the heuristics we have evolved to use for compensating for missing information include a great deal of bias. This results in the very-well-documented lack of rational actors in the real world.
Oscilloscopes, as I recall.
when it commes from britain it sounds like something that communist wheel chair physics retard might say.
centuries ago people belived that rock is a God. centuries later africans belive that too and britain competes with this inovative twist
I've heard RO water is not that good for your health, it removes a lot of good salts and other stuff from it.
What "graduating class"? In undergrad studies, your peers are your classmates, but in PhD studies, your peers are the global community of your sub-subfield. For feeling like you're the best, your competition will be someone across the ocean who happens to work on a topic very close to your thesis, and most of students in your department will be largely irrelevant since they'll work in a different field and interact with different topics, papers, ideas and people.

If anything, being in one of the few labs that work on "top" things in a specific domain pretty much guarantees that you'll be in that 1% of your subfield; and if your lab is weak in that (though possibly world class in other fields), then you won't.
Sure! I merely presented a few of the more common case paths! For instance, a good friend of mine (who shall remain nameless for anonymities sake) is currently exploring the world, working as a cook in cafes, restaurants, etc, never staying anywhere for long, living out of a backpack. Very romantic, I could never do it myself, but his life is his own.

I dont think man has ever been as truly free as we are today, you can really do anything you set your mind to, not confined to the short, somewhat stuffy list you and I have walked over together.
I'm a long time VMware employee who left several years ago, and I have to respectfully disagree.

VMware thrived under EMC.

Diane was able to keep VMware at a relatively safe distance away from the mother ship, all the while effectively using EMC's direct sales and channel partners to increase sales by something like two orders of magnitude. Plus she was able to convince Joe Tucci to do the spin-off IPO which unlocked a huge amount of value. Not all M&A's are the same.
I think you're right. English people are the only ones I regularly hear using the term today though.
> I guess what I'm saying is: the companies that are in this situation should hire top-notch developers to solve the problem.

Yes, every single Fortune 500 company should just "hire top notch developers". Think about that for second and then think about it again.

> But the whole problem is that these companies can't hire top-notch developers because of who they are.

Top notch developers are neither identifiable nor quantifiable. So that's a fairly unfounded statement.
Considering that only Apple phones run iOS, and there's only one Apple phone per physical device size bracket a generation, people don't really have a choice.

At least in the iPhone ecosystem it's not so much best option available, it's the only option available.

There's no immediate danger of people not buying iPhones because they want better battery life, so Apple doesn't even have to try harder than an average show of effort.
The developers of Anroid likewise think users know what it means to "unmount" a volume safely when they abruptly remove an microSD card. (I suppose they can just Google for the man page, so no big deal, right?)

There isn't much wrong telling users to separate search terms with the | character as such; what is laughable is the (pipe) remark after it. Users will be scratching their heads at why the word pipe appears in parentheses after |, which doesn't look anything like a pipe.

Users can learn to use funny characters. By now, "everyone" knows that # is called hash, thanks to Twitter. It just has to be set up properly.

"Dear user. The | character is called 'pipe' in geek culture, due to a certain historic use[learn more link]. We think it looks nice when you use it for separating pieces of text. In this search box, you can enter multiple terms separated by this pipe character. The software will search for matches for all those terms simultaneously as if they were independent searches, and give you the combined results."
How many of these people have to consciously adapt their usage to make sure their phones still have juice at the end of the day? Yes, I can work with a phone where I look at the battery level and think "ok, better not do X now", but it would be better if I could always use it when I want to.
Probably because programmers new to OO tend to use them when inheritance/interfaces would be cleaner (case cat, case dog, etc.)
re: the contractors being liable, currently the way things work is, when my credit card is used fraudulently the credit card company owns that and pays me back, which is the least they could do. I don't even know if they attempt to work with law enforcement to catch the actual fraudsters, but I sure hope they do. Maybe I should be more proactive about that? I don't know.

EDIT: I should point out I don't know any details about the Home Depot "hack" and I might not be addressing all the pertinent points of that particular incident. Bottom line is still the same, it shouldn't be the customers who suffer when this happens. The people that made it so easy for my personal information to leak, the ones who necessitated that my personal information even be required as part of the transaction, should be the ones feeling the pain.
As someone that has been using noise cancelling wireless headphones for 3 years, sorry I can't relate.

I'm considerate of the price premium this represents, and how Apple's new buds unfortunately only offer 5 hours of charge. But I just want you to know there is another perspective.
This is why we can't have nice things. Note the distinct lack of an "until", "perhaps" or "maybe" statement in your comment, and a very hard inclusion of "never".

It may not be safe now, and it may not be legal now. But sometime in the future, all the concerns that would have been reason-enough to have it illegal/unsafe would be resolved to most people's satisfaction.
Dunno why you're getting hammered, this is part of a good Excel workflow. Do what you can using the nice GUI, if you have bulk changes to make that are easier to script than find-and-replace then dump it to CSV, do the grunt work with some command line tools or a script, and re-import it.
I would guess in this case the water resistance is a disadvantage given their propensity to explode: http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/2/12767670/samsung-galaxy-not...