skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're talking as if better estimation were an end in itself. It's not. The goal is a successful business. There's no point in spending any more effort on estimation than is needed to support the planning required to make the business a success; any more effort than that is simply wasted.

If the expected ROI on a project is small, then having really good estimates matters a lot, because it can make the difference between profit and loss. But if the expected ROI is large, precise estimates matter less. Tom DeMarco has famously made this point [0].

[0] http://www.systemsguild.com/pdfs/DeMarcoNov2011.pdf
Is "conflict coffee" going to be a thing?
The article's logic doesn't make sense.

In every vulnerability, the users are the victims. Web stores aren't a special case in the debate of "responsible disclosure" vs "immediate disclosure".

GitLab changed their stance from "responsible disclosure" vs "immediate disclosure". That's their choice, but they shouldn't mince words about it.
Almost irrelevant, because MapD software charges dwarf the price of the hardware.

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01M0ZY2OV?qid=1475606...
This is especially a problem because any solutions that are politically likely at this point, like raising the minimum wage, aren't taking money from the wealthiest, they're taking money from the middle class to fund wealth redistribution.
>it really hurts conversions

That has to be a local issue, because that is flat out wrong. The majority of all e-commerce sites does exactly that. I have yet to meet a PSP that believe send the entire credit card number, expiry and CVV was the right solution. I've talked to exactly one PSP that supported accepting credit cards in an iframe, and that was only available to existing customers, because they where discontinuing that service.

In most of northern Europe at least, customer have been use to credit card payments redirecting them to third party sites since at least 1999. It has zero effect on conversion.
It doesn't make any real difference.

Just for radiation protection, lunar colonists will spend most of their time under at least six feet of rock.
This post doesn't explain the protocol all that well.

This is a great explainer:

https://vimeo.com/117532499

I can't seem to find the PDF of the slides of this talk anymore.

These are also very useful for understanding:

https://whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/

https://whispersystems.org/blog/private-groups/

https://github.com/trevp/double_ratchet/wiki
You seem to be overlooking the word "more" in "35% more likely". It's not "35% chance".

You brain is very good at filling in absent words to change the logical content of a statement.
It's beta currently, but we're trying to fill this gap in matrix.org with the Olm & Megolm ratchets as showcased in the web version of http://riot.im. Once it's implemented on mobile too (around the end of October) it will hopefully be a compelling option!
And how would a pardon protect him against assassination?
> is it understanding the underpinnings of the biology behind a particular pathway you're studying

Yes, this is it. You are right that the really general basic concepts (what is DNA? how does transcription work?) are not all that hard to learn. And it is certainly part of the core job skills to know, e.g., how to process sequencing data and how to use statistics. But in the real world, bioinformaticians work in collaboration with wet-lab biologists.

So, a typical project for me might look like this: collaborator comes in and tells me that his lab studies a particular protein X that operates at the presynaptic terminal in neurons. And they are collecting data about how some perturbation to X affects other cellular systems. The data will often be some combination of sequencing/array data and more specific wet-lab experiments (western blots, electrophysiology, etc).

So, in that case, to really do my job well, I have to go back and read in depth about the presynaptic interface, the major proteins and the mechanisms that work there. I may already know the generalities, but to really be able to interpret the data correctly, I need to know the details.

Now, imagine doing this process 10-20X a year for different collaborations and totally different biological systems. It's very hard to keep up. Now, it is certainly possible to be the kind of bioinformatician who is "give me your sequencing data and I'll give you the DE genes back", treating everything as a purely technical problem. But these kinds of bioinformaticians are not as much sought after because the wet-lab biologist doesn't want Excel spreadsheets full of lists, they really want to know "what do my results mean?". And to answer that really requires both the bioinformatician and the wet-lab biologist to understand what the other is doing at a more than superficial level.

In short, the hard part isn't learning the things that are used in every project, the hard part is learning the domain-specific information that is relevant to each individual project.
This also happens to cars. There are two Hungarian men, siblings, who have invented entire cars out of thin air cobbled together from whatever pairs. They have been 'establishment' for many decades so it's incredibly hard to undo the damage they wrought based on documents from corresponding age found in archives.
I can recommend https://www.apifier.com/ for scraping even Javascript websites easily (no more PhantomJS spaghetti code).
How inspireational! :-D

Can't wait for brain-computer interface to get them fed right into my thoughts...
http://brutalistwebsites.com/
isn't the "double ratchet" describing the presence of both a DH ratchet as well as a hash ratchet, rather than "send" and "receive"?
I'm not, sorry. Just discovered the app and thought it's a lovely idea
I assure you it makes a lot of sense and is practiced by several labs from around the world.

Hardware is not software - you don't simply compile it in your computer. You don't pay other company to just do just give support to you: you license to them so they can tweak it, manufacture, and sell the hardware to you and other research labs.
We're going to window like it's 1985. That's just precious. That's close to how the Mac did it in Quickdraw, except that they handled the cursor differently so it didn't lag, and they supported rounded corner clipping regions. (The guy who wrote that was in an auto accident, and Jobs went to see him in the hospital, asking frantically "do you still remember how regions work?")
>I just hope there is one Open Source solution that is similar to Alitum Designer.

There almost assuredly isn't. I've looked far and wide for such a piece of software and have been unable to find it, and and EDA being such a huge software endeavor, I doubt there is some guy in some corner of the internet working hard on a full featured EDA that just hasn't been "noticed" yet.
Now (post 2009) you can make a complaint to CFCB who I hear is really helpful and pro consumer but I don't have first-hand experience with them.

They are who fined Wells Fargo.
DOJ challenges landmark Microsoft warrant case
In Seattle some higher-end restaurants have done away with tips and added an automatic surcharge of 20%. They're very diligent about making sure customers know this before they order, and they make it clear that the money is split between the front and the back of the house.
It seems like a really interesting approach but it needs to be validated on a larger set of Atari games. Considering even a Linear learner outperforms DQN on several games such as Double Dunk. It's possible that the DQN underperforms because the game is more amenable to the symbolic representation used. [0]

[0] Figure 3 http://home.uchicago.edu/~arij/journalclub/papers/2015_Mnih_...
There are some good, short, MOOC courses on statistics and probability on Coursera these days. I've been working my way through the Duke sequence with Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and have found them very helpful. The courses correspond with the material in this OpenIntro text:

https://www.openintro.org/stat/textbook.php
Ask HN: Why are newspapers not talking about Wikileaks?
I always thought the media being "liberal" and skewed was overblown, but I'm amazed no one is talking about Wikileaks right now. Neither HN.

CNN has on the front page news a woman who is "accusing" Trump on sexual abuse. Am I going crazy and starting to believe conspiracy theories?
Though it was about Katharine Hepburn!
"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should"
Well, he has a point about the open office concepts. Although he's dead wrong about reading. You can go anywhere from leisurely 30 pages, to 400 pages a day. Malazan book of the fallen was the last one i was doing that. Super amazing story.
Why does it have to stop?
Morton's Fork
> At GitLab we strongly believe in responsible disclosure, ... So publishing a list of servers ... is not OK.

In my opinion, this comes very close to "censoring" content.

That's great that GitLab believes in responsible disclosure, but that doesn't mean that everyone does or that you get to force your beliefs on your users or customers.

If you do in fact plan to censor content then you need to be very clear about that up front and identify what types of content you will not permit.

I'm glad that GitLab has done a 180 and reinstated the content. In the future, I hope they will fully think through any decisions to pull down content that they don't "agree with". I do give them credit for recognizing they made a bad call and admitting to it.
> asking frantically "do you still remember how regions work?"

Any source on this? Sounds like a wild story.
Submitted many, many times, most of which flagged. Here are some previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12682944 (103 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12686634 (4 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12687128

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12687602

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12687704

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12688080

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12688259

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12688282

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12688386

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12690343

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12690531 (6 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12690752

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691230 (10 comments)
No. If the section beginning "Protocol" is what you refer to as the "actual protocol description" then no, the server role does not seem clearly described in any level of detail.

To cut a long story short: Alice gives the cache, aka Mallory, a set of secret data which are implied but not proven to be able to be used by Bob to create cryptographic text which Alice can decrypt but this magic cache, aka Mallory, cannot. This document provides few hints and no detail on how we can be assured that the magic cache, A.K.A. MALLORY, is unable to make use of the secret data provided by Alice (and "promised not to be shared") to make inferrences on the crypyographic text provided by Bob.
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If you read Fiskes article that the link is a reply to, it also has absolutely nothing to do with p-hacking or the replication crisis.
Obviously the app maintainer could push an update that simply leaks your keys and stored messages. Doesn't matter if it's open or closed source.

However, open source does give users some real recourse in the event that the project moves in an undesirable direction. I don't like what's happening, I can fork it without your permission and still have access to the same development environment and build tools the original project had. I think that's important and valuable.
Conspiracy to fix wages? Trafficking in insider information? And, the anonymous source doesn't give further details?

I don't know what Illuminati have to do with this post, but I'm sure compliance personnel, at least, would like to know what is said at remote, private discussions between high-level representatives of competing firms.
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(I work at Stripe.) Where are you based?
People who use disassemblers for a living enjoy reading machine code?

Holy! Fuck! Just call me Watson, Sherlock!
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TIL about "Sanic Hegehog": http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sanic-hegehog
> If you do in fact plan to censor content then you need to be very clear about that up front and identify what types of content you will not permit

It seems to me their TOS covers this sort of thing. It's not some platform with free-speech rights, it's content hosting with limited liability and legal caution.
I normally laugh at conspiracy theories, but in this election it's hard to not see one.
From the Macintosh folklore archive: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=I_Still_Remember_...
Not sure how this fits in, but my two stints at Costco each had high layoff and rehire rates. Getting the "full time Costco " job was desired but hard. I never knew how or why so many came back after post Christmas layoff and could survive.

I do not believe from my Wally experience I ever hear of "temporary" hires that really get termed. If you are doing the job well you stay if you want
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<Arizona State University has been studying the moon, and they recently let everyone know that those projectiles are smacking into our friendly moon 100 times faster than originally thought.>

This is a gross misrepresentation of the ASU article. The surface turnover rate is 100x faster than thought. It's not the velocity of bodies that is 100x faster.
This challenge is not about causal inference. I do agree it is more of a toy dataset, to get started with the basics, and that there are a lot of other variables that go into survivability. But to say these variables, except for age, are irrelevant is mathematically unsound: You can show with cross-validation and test set performance that your model using these variables generalizes (around 0.80 ROC AUC). You can do statistical/information theoretical tests that show the majority of these variables is a significant signal for predicting the target.

In real life it is also very rare to have free pickings of the variables you want. Some variables have to substituted with available ones.

The Titanic story is to make things interesting for beginners. One could leave out all the semantics of this challenge, anonymize the variables and the target, and still use this dataset to learn about going from a table with variables to a target. In fact, doing so teaches you to leave your human bias at the door. Domain experts get beaten on Kaggle, because they think they need other variables, or that some variables (and their interactions) can't possibly work.

Let the data and evaluation metric do the talking.
it wasn't hard to find once i read your explanation

https://books.google.com/books?id=03fSBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20&dq=bu...
Objective media is dead my friends.

I do not believe it is overblown. I am appalled at Twitter, facebook, youtube, and definitely the more traditional media outlets. Their selective enforcement of policy violations shows that they truly wish to censor.

There is definitely a bias against a lot of sites with a right/alt-right lean. Sadly, I believe that bias exists here on HN.

It would appear that all links to breitbart.com are hellbanned/auto-flagged or the community here simply wont tolerate it. [1]

I'm glad there are people like Andrew Torba and his gab.ai [2] project. (A twitter alternative, not artificial intelligence).

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=breitbart.com

2 - http://gab.ai
AI biases come in new and unique varieties.

"As another example, a 2015 study9 showed that a machine-learning technique used to predict which hospital patients would develop pneumonia complications worked well in most situations. But it made one serious error: it instructed doctors to send patients with asthma home even though such people are in a high-risk category. Because the hospital automatically sent patients with asthma to intensive care, these people were rarely on the ‘required further care’ records on which the system was trained."
yeah, in last couple of years I cannot remember anything really bad in DO. Biggest issue in DO was slower performance of storage, but after complaining to support about it, it was fixed and everything was fine there.
NH is a techie site, so most people don't care (or aren't from US)

As about the US news outlets, just google who owns whom and go up that ownership chain. No conspiracy theories of any kind, just money as usual.
Conservatively, it's about $7.00 per terabyte to store and retrieve data on Amazon Glacier per month. Working with petabyte size streams and storage is a pain, but it can be done.

https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/
In your previous reply you used the word "intelligence" in a manner which had assumptions in it (this is, after all, how humans communicate). "AI" uses the same word with an overlapping but different set of assumptions.
If you run PyBitmessage over tor you should be fine.
Has anyone here used t-SNE for visualization of their high dimensional data for machine learning? Were you able to ensure that your feature space was good via t-SNE?
I don't think this could be accurately described as merely a _vulnerability_ disclosure. These web stores are already compromised, therefore anyone that makes a purchase is exposing their payment information. Furthermore there is no "responsible" way to contact thousands of web stores across the globe. The best case for disclosure is Google's Safe Browsing beginning to warn users immediately.
Wikileaks has become a weapon of information warfare. What part of the cache was doctored? What was left out? The big publications know that and won't be provoked. This is an admirable move by Russians: they steer the campaign as well as rob Wikileaks of any merit it has for the society.
Sam's Club and Makro do this in Brazil. All items ate checked, not just the expansive ones. Costumers don't really like it, at least the firsts times, then get used, 'cause you know, we do know some Brazilians.
You need to think of medical privacy the way you think of browser fingerprinting; it's not necessarily any single piece of information that lets you be tracked, but rather the combination of a bunch of them -- even when "anonymized" -- adds up to enough bits to pin a consistent identity on the people involved.

And given what the adtech space has been able to figure out pretty easily in terms of tracking even people who take serious steps to avoid it, you should not think that there is any reasonable amount of "anonymization" that can make otherwise-useful medical details safe to release.
Your last paragraph is kind of to my point: in many other developed countries, your bread-winner _wouldn't have had to_ make such a huge sacrifice, just to make sure their dependants don't get stuck in poverty.

There's countries in the world where the bottom rung isn't such a terrible place, and people don't have to constantly sacrifice just to make sure they don't end up there. And those countries are doing just fine - there's no horde unemployed destroying their economies. There is, however, less stress, less fear, and a better standard of living for the median person. And sure, there's no country that's perfect, but what I'm saying is there's at least one alternative, which is currently working well in real economies, to the "red in tooth and claw" fight that Americans feel is necessary.

I'm not making a guilt-trip argument here. If you're a working class person in America, by a wide range of objective measures (access to health care and education, life expectancy, time with family, class mobility, exposure to crime, etc.) you're worse off than if you were in the working class in many other countries, ones with higher taxes and more generous welfare systems. Sure, if you look at just your taxes going out, it looks worse, but the situation overall for everyone in the 99% is improved. You just have to get over your distaste for your taxes helping poor (and sometimes lazy) people, because despite that it still ends up helping you.
that's healthy behavior HN! we wouldn't want any bad news to be discussed or considered...
What is happening in Italy? I thought you could speak freely there.
Back when they were state-of-the-art, I used all the tools and techniques described in that paper.

I'm still a software engineer. Take my word for it: it's good
Go is asynchronous. [1] It's a huge point of the language, and why it's working its way to the top of the new TechEmpower benchmarks [2].

> "callback hell"

It can be ugly to look at, but it's fast.

And I thought we weren't using references to 10 years ago to judge a language? Promises minimize callback hell with a far better (more functional) interface, and async/await (usable today with transpilation) banish it entirely.

[1] https://gobyexample.com/goroutines

[2] Preliminary results: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/previews/round13/ -- Go has been seriously optimized over the past six months, so the last round of results is less impressive, but still strong: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Information theft attacks abusing browser's XSS filter
There is excellent coverage at The Intercept, by Zaid Jilani and Lee Fang.
Not that your reply answers my actual question, but I would be interested in knowing what you believe my assumptions were and how these differ from those used in AI.

Thanks.
I love the C2 wiki and learned a lot from it. This seems a bit incoherent though. What's actually going on? None of it makes any sense.
Worse still, there are some "road sherrifs" (in big trucks) that not only merge early, but also try to block the other lane when they see people trying drive that lane and merge at the end. At least in my country it is quite common and police does not seem to handle this properly.
Report on universal basic income experiment in Finland
Go to events that interest you
Target (and Lowe's) were hacked for credit cards (but not Walmart) because they did not update POS software to newer OS as recommended by the manufacturer, Microsoft.

So, glad to see Target spends money training employees, for it didn't spend the money for upgrading their POS terminal software (and apparently Walmart has).
I flagged this mostly because I'm part of the vast international Zionist conspiracy, but partly because I believe it leads to no productive discussion at all.

Not to mention that what Wikileaks is doing is unethical, and paying attention to it enables them.

Read @zeynep's Twitter feed for a forceful argument against these document dumps, and the harm they do to democracy.
The whole reason your Apache was (kind of) expensive to fork was PHP. You've only moved that forking to the PHP-FPM process.

But that said, forking processes is not really a problem unless you do really long lived connections (such as longpoll handlers). Many other languages do that. Not many other languages have kept the CGI-like request model that PHP has, though.

It encourages things like parsing code or even opening database connections on every request, unless you cache them. (Which you probably do if you are a PHP developer. But it's not always as automatic as one would hope. Have you checked your application still fits in the cache you set up?)
I agree, its like saying "I have proof I just cant show you".
Huh, no replies.. I guess it's not true then?

Kidding aside, I don't believe Tor is being specifically targeted by HN in any way. If there is any auto-banning mechanism in the codebase at all (is there?) I would think it might be IP ratelimit-based, and in that case it's possible for unlucky HN Tor users who share an IP with a HN Tor spammer to suffer collateral damage.
I sure will. Maybe tomorrow...
Isn't that level of coordination against competition laws?
I used to work on anti-cheat software for online video games for a time, and it was always interesting to see some cheats include full-fledged windowing systems (and even scripting) just like this example code.

Ah, nostalgia...
Because it's their business?