skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The DEA is not one to second-guess itself, no matter what the facts are."

That's such a sad reflection on American culture. People here value firm, decisive leaders that stick to their principles, even if they're wrong, over people more apt to listen to all sides of the story and re-evaluate their positions over time (because the latter people somehow look "weak" -- even the wording of "second-guess" corroborates this).

It's such a detriment to social progress.
Where did I say that? The poster claims French, US and Russian soldiers were killed. I don't think this ever happened. You produced some links to supposedly substantiate that claim but they don't. Now you want to outrage-pivot to something else. Did the incidents in the post take place? That's the only question I raised.
The Assange thesis isn't a binary option, secrets or no secrets. It's raising the cost of pervasive and wide ranging secrecy.

A wikileaks world doesn't mean you can't keep your nuclear launch codes safe, something for which you are presumably ready to spend major resources with tight control in a small circle.

It just means that you now have to spend more effort keeping all your petty graft secret at the low end, and it reduces toward zero the probability that a large manpower intensive conspiracy can work, in the more important democidal case.

So, the thesis holds, the powers inclined toward malfeasance will have a little nudge at every choice point, toward the option they won't mind being discovered. Like a surveillance camera pointed at the minimum wage cashier's hands, except at the people who control nation-states.
I enjoyed "The best interface is no interface" -- though its more of a fun read: http://www.nointerface.com/book/
My mother's a secretary
I'm not this confident on our knowledge of the high pressure environments inside stars.

We can rule-out unexpected simple chemistry on other planets and in the outer space, but the inside of stars is too different an environment.

Also, we surely can not rule-out anything from complex chemistry on any kind of environment. Macromolecules and non-repeating crystals are very badly understood.
I wonder how important they were for union support, seeing as how they often read left-leaning stuff. Why did this job disappear? Does it have something to do with the decline in the organisation of labour and unions?
I don't know about a system for all file types, but I've always really liked how wallbase did image search. That went down but this is supposed to be the upcoming replacement: https://alpha.wallhaven.cc/
This is a great project. I am going to be watching this!

One question: Why default to ujson? I understand that if you're always dealing with small, simple json objects it's quite fast and safe. But with larger json payloads, its performance and compatibility start to break down. I haven't touched it in the last 8 months, but I had to switch to Python's built-in json module (which is quite fast in 3.5) for compatibility when serializing and deserializing large json objects.
Right, I forgot that sarcasm is the worst form of sarcasm.

The GP is implicitly comparing the impact a math curriculum had on their reasoning with the impact that a biology curriculum might have had. But n=1 for the math curriculum (perhaps the beneficial traits are endogenous) and n=0 for the biology curriculum.
I'm not sure why this is down voted. Just because X historically achieved A doesn't imply that achievement(X+Y) <= A, so you can't deduce the absence of a handicap from that.
Will I be able to buy this machine?
With new ownership (i.e., different investors) I wonder if they will be as combative when it comes to patent trolls.
I'm all for dedicated servers but please don't compare against non-ecc ram.
It's good that these issues finally get a bit more attention, however I fear that we're still only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
There are so many fields of science that don't care about replication at all, work with far too low numbers of subjects and don't bother about issues like publication bias. I don't think it's a stretch to say that the majority of stuff that's done at university is cargo cult science.

And don't get illuded about your own field: Pretty much all of this is also true for computer science when it comes to quantitative research. How often have I seen studies like "we have tested this with 10 users which we divided in two groups".
I tend to add live searches in the most important tabular views of my apps, using something like this:

http://intercoolerjs.org/examples/activesearch.html

Search speed, good fuzzy matching and good row/chip design are as important/more important than the basic search UI, IMO.
If workers move from 40 hours a week to 60 hours a week, that's going to result in up to a 50% reduction in available jobs. Realistically the number will be lower, as not everyone is going to want to work that much. But that's still going to have a huge negative effect on unemployment.

With the slow but steady rise of automation, the solution is not more work per employee, but less. There's going to be an incredibly rough period as unrestrained capitalism struggles against ideas like basic income. But there will come a day when there isn't enough work to go around, and your idea will only make this situation worse.

We have the wealth to pay workers more, at least in the US. It's just that the top ~400 people have more of it than the bottom 160,000,000 people combined. This doesn't require absolute socialism where everyone is given exactly the same amount regardless of work ethic; any amount of reduction in income inequality would be beneficial. A return to where we were in the 1950s (ignoring other inequality issues of the time) would be a very positive step.

Further, exponential growth of revenue is impossible to sustain indefinitely. At some point, people are going to have to stop judging a company that breaks even or has stable profits as a failure. As long as a company isn't losing money, it's providing value to all the people it employs, and to the economy as a whole by allowing those workers to purchase goods and services from others.
This system doesn't do much to stop the Two Party control over elections though.
Here's another one: Computer.

Back before programmable general-purposes computing machinery existed, computer was a human job description -- a human being who was employed to perform basic calculation tasks rapidly and accurately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer
Yes, but the fact that they were found guilty of suppressing wages does mean without question that they weren't attempting to consciously pay above market wages to gain some Ford-like benefit as with efficiency wages.
> 2011: Daryl Bem publishes his article, “Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect,” in a top journal in psychology. Not too many people thought Bem had discovered ESP but there was a general impression that his work was basically solid, and thus this was presented as a concern for pscyhology research.

> In retrospect, Bem’s paper had huge, obvious multiple comparisons problems—the editor and his four reviewers just didn’t know what to look for—but back in 2011 we weren’t so good at noticing this sort of thing.

I was a postdoc in a Psychology department when this was going on, and "obvious multiple comparisons problems" isn't a good characterization. Any competent psychology researcher in 2011 (a) understood multiple comparisons and looked for them as a matter of course (b) knew there was something wrong with Bem's paper (see the editorial disclaimer).

Here is the main takedown of it:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1018886/Bem6.pdf

That is some pretty advanced statistics, not just "correct for multiple comparisons".

What was ongoing then, and continues now, is that psychology and social science in general is coming around to the realization that the tools of the past 50 years are flawed, and to correct them, they need to become better statisticians. But it isn't a matter of "take stats 101 noobs", these are people who have been doing statistical analysis routinely for years. I think there is anxiety that to really do things right you need to _primarily be_ a statistician.

So there is some defensiveness in social sciences about this, certainly not helped by the fact that every jackass on the internet whose taken an undergrad math class thinks they know better.

In the end I quit my psych research job to be a software engineer since all the stats hurt my head and I needed something less quantitative to do.
> Limiting persistent state and spinning up machines (vm or bare metal) for each job, while having no permanently active job runners, sounds like another defense to consider.

I can imagine how I'd do this with Concourse, but it'd be confusingly meta in approach -- a pipeline which builds a new pipeline with a new worker for each PR.

I still think the exfiltration threat is the worst. Any secret injected into the environment of any tested codebase is vulnerable -- especially if your logs are public.
How Vector Space Mathematics Helps Machines Spot Sarcasm
Honestly, I came to this page expecting some really intriguing story, from which I could learn a lot. Its been voted to 2000+ points, so must be it hit a nerve of a lot of people. But to me it seemed like a nice but very simple story.
Overview on Federated Cloud File System Framework (FedFS)
People who work at Walmart work only for pay. That study is on a different type of worker.
'Fact Check' articles are often just as biased by what studies they cite, whose projections they choose to use, and what information they supress, as any other article.

I would venture to say that the majority of 'Fact Check' articles are more biased than average articles, as they were specifically written to push or to punish a point of view.

I wonder which sources Google will bless with this new trust symbol? Just kidding! We all know.
You will find absolutely everything you need here : https://www.feedcrunch.io/@dataradar/. Just type what you want to know in the search engine.

i.e : Tutorial, Getting Started, ...
> sunlight all of their data and code

This is not always possible. For example, if you are working with proprietary subscription-only datasets where the researcher has no redistribution rights.
According to the diversity reports from linkedin, Facebook, and Google, Asian-Americans are greatly overrepresented in the tech industry. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it's something like 30-40% vs under 10% in the general population.

I don't really know, it may be because Asian American parents are more likely to encourage their children to go into technical careers. Still, a purely numerical statistic is nothing to allege discrimination over, no matter which groups are involved.
Are you assigning blame to Walmart for this?
"So Trump has always been a racist "

How has he 'always been a racist'? I've never heard him say anything 'racist' before the accusations in the last year. The press also lied about what he said. There is mistaken belief that he said he wants to kick out all Muslims and that Mexicans are all rapists.

I heard many of his speeches. He said we need to have a better filtration system before accepting people from countries like Syria (which every President has done in almost every war, including Obama).

In terms of Mexico, he said that we need to make it harder for illegal immigrants to come into the country and that many (not all) illegal immigrants are criminals, which is true. Almost every Mexico/US border town in the US agrees with Trump.

Since the press and the 'fact checkers' can't get the above correct, I can't really believe anything they say.

Too many people get their political news from political entertainment shows like 'The Daily Show'.

The real question is why aren't they angry about Hillary?

She's a criminal (she should have been prosecuted for emails), defends her sexual-abusing husband, and is an all around despicable human being.

I had a thought today that I'm going to keep a secret camera on me at all times. I do business all the time with many people and have very interesting and personal conversations. If they ever decide to get into politics, I can use it to destroy their career by releasing it to the press 'anonymously'. Hell, there are people on my Facebook friends list that I know will eventually get into politics in 20 years. Now is the time to bust out the web scrapers and save anything they post.

This campaign has taught me that privacy doesn't matter anymore. As illegal as it is, as long as I release it anonymously to the press, I won't get into any legal trouble.
Have you heard the anecdote about the fox with fleas? It lowered itself into a river, very slowly, giving the fleas enough time to move ahead of the water. In some versions, it was holding a leaf in its mouth. In others, the fleas just gathered on the tip of its nose. Either way, when eventually all but a tiny fraction of the fox is under water, it ducks under completely and the fleas all float off downstream.

When the fox's shoulders went under water, I bet some of the fleas said "ten minutes ago 70% of us lived below the fox's shoulders and yet they're all still on the fox, so there's nothing to worry about."
Come on, choose one. Either PHP is easy but insane or it is not that easy, at least compared Python? Sorry, I can't get your exact idea.
It doesn't matter that the Internet wasn't valued at $1B. What matters is that it was just as crazy in the minds of some to trust your money on the Internet in the early days.
If a full time job at minimum wage with benefits isn't enough to get out of poverty, then changing the definition of 'full time' seems like an odd solution. Raising minimum wage or benefits seems much more reasonable alternatives.
How does Walmart cost that money? If the company was to disappear, how would the tax-funded assistance drop? Is there evidence that Walmart prevents those employees from getting higher wages?
BASIC gaming-dev app for iOS
What is a good "hello world" project for machine learning? That is, what problem can I solve or question can I answer with minimal ceremony, and ideally with multiple techniques / technologies so that I can compare them? Is it this house price estimation like in your last link, or is there something better than that?
Aircraft that can be dismantled and stored in a garage
Not a book, but if you want to improve your UI just watch as a novice user tries to use your software. You will learn in 10 minutes things it would take a book 10 hours to explain.
Where the transit-build costs are unbelievable
I'm amused to see that this focuses on the arbitrage opportunities afforded to the individual contractors, rather than the (far more significant) advantage that the gig economy offers to employers who can use it to acquire a rapidly scalable workforce while avoiding those pesky laws about workplace conditions and employee rights.
> One of the purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act's establishment of the federal minimum wage is that companies that employ people at the lowest wages cost the rest of us money,

If you want to defend wage floors, going back to the "original purpose" of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act is probably a bad strategy.

"People employed at the lowest wages" was, at the time, a very strong dog-whistle for "immigrants and black people". The FLSA was passed with broad support from unions like the AFL, but that's because they wanted to ensure that their (largely white) members were employed and didn't have their jobs "stolen" by poorer immigrants and black people who were willing to work for less.

In other words, unions were betting that wage floors would mean "employees getting paid more, but fewer people employed", and they (correctly) assumed that discrimination against black people and immigrants would ensure that the white union members would still be among the group of people who remained employed.

> “The Caucasians . . . are not going to let their standard of living be destroyed by negroes, Chinamen, Japs or any others - Samuel Gompers, who founded the American Federation of Labor
I can't wait until Apple Pay and company are more widely deployed. It's significantly more secure and way faster than manual entry. Tokenization can't come fast enough.
> Newton's method and other numerical methods are the hello world of machine learning.

Newton's method and other similar numerical methods are the hello world of a branch of mathematics known as 'numerical analysis' and scientific computing. This is not Machine Learning.
How would you do that without removing food stamps or raising the minimum wage?
A Tour of Random Forests
That's some nice cherrypicking, but the morality department also prevented domestic violence and supported youth education.

Not only that, but after receiving some criticism on the issue, Ford realized his mistake and closed down the department saying that it wasn't his job to intervene in the lives of workers.
That's just your speculations that you are trying to pull here, to support your point of view that contradicts with the real world evidence (PHP is popular).

Honestly, you are claiming that all these people are dumb and lazy. I respect some snobbery but apparently not up to that point.
A long time ago, I used the GNU PCB tool to design a flex circuit. I ended up having to hand edit the gerber files to get the project done because it didn't support changing soldermask opening. I think they've changed it since then, but it was rough for awhile.
> you need to start re-evaluating your personal choices

Note that at that point, you have essentially no option. You can't retrain because the Government is entirely unwilling to look after your family while you do, and you can't save money on retail wages to be able to quit your job to retrain. You're stuck until your children are able to support themselves.
>Tesla, Solar City are projects that require huge capital, massive risk and a long time to be successful

Telsa and SpaceX for sure.

But what is SolarCity doing that a ton of other companies aren't, while at the same time losing reams of money?
Another former record store employee here. I disagree about music discovery being easier now. I find I got much better recommendations from other music nerds than I tend to get from algorithms. The depth and nuance of micro-nano-pico genres is something that hasn't really been well replaced by machine learning IMO.

I have a Google Play music subscription and its recommendations are pretty consistently bad. I don't get it. I have given it all my music and it monitors how often I listen to every song. Why can't it figure out what types of hooks I like? The human-curated playlists are almost always better; even if I don't like every choice, there's still some ineffable spark of a single human personality that gives unity to the selections.
"Please visit my personal website for unbiased fact checking."
Three Benefits of Speaking at a Conference
Facebook and Wikipedia?
There is a right of free speech in many countries (I assume you are in one of them), but that right does not force anyone else to distribute or publish your speech.

Their servers, and their decision on what data is on them.

Want to make it available for every to read? Run your own server and host it there.

tl;dr - you have the right to say what you want, but you cant force anyone to listen.
You are. This news item is about Walmart.
Using GPUs to Speed Through the 1.2B Record Taxi Dataset
I took the summer off to learn enough ML to transition from a career in software engineering & product / leadership type roles to ML. I suggest for a first round learning practical tools and techniques so you can start applying supervised learning techniques right away while also starting to build a more solid foundation in probability & statistics for future deeper understanding of the field. I've written about my curriculum here with lot's of specific resources here:

http://karlrosaen.com/ml/
If that were true, science would move at a much slower rate.
Physicists pass spin information through a superconductor
How Providing New & Fresher Content To Mobile & Small Device Users Will Play A Beneficial Role?
Not sure I agree with the example at all. Maybe I didn't understand?

> you'd have logic that sends JSON and checks that, and on the server side you'd need logic that checks the POST request and checks that

Sending != receiving. That's not duplicate code, it's just different functionality.

> (and there'd be subtle differences in the variable format between the JSON & regular HTML POST data)

I don't see why.

> and then maybe the way the UI element would be displayed in JS vs in the server-side HTML is also different.

Why would you do that? Inconsistent UI is bad. I'd expect the same UI whether I got the page via URL or via AJAX.

What JS code sharing gives you is the same server-side and client-side rendering. E.g. you can send fully rendered HTML or just JSON depending on the Accept header, saving on data and full-page refreshes but still having SEO (and not having to wait for client-side to render).

You can also share the same model in both environments (like having the same Book class, which you'd have to code twice in JS and whatever server-side language you use).
And that adds the overhead of managing multiple balances, fees, and credentials. You don't seem to be a typical bank user, so I'm still going to conclude that getting a credit/debit card stolen is a huge inconvenience.
Genuinely curious; did you read the headline? Google is labeling articles based on the type; not saying whether something is a fact or not.
Why on Earth is the milkman on that list?

I stuck up skittles at a local government members' club just a decade ago too; I would assume that's still happening. It's not common, but some pubs still have skittle alleys - and someone's got to stick up!
> These are bog standard SWE-SRE questions (particularly, SRE) at some companies, so my guess is he was really being evaluated for a normal SWE-SRE position.

This makes the most sense to me, why would a director of engineering be responsible for getting Google back online if it went down when there are SREs.
I doubt it. Just as I doubt a Republican pres. would go after Russia for DNC hacking. When the president is the head of the political party, expect conflicts of interest. But warring with nuclear-armed foes - when things are already quite tense with them in Syria - seems dangerous and dumb.
I have to ask, is this a parody or did NBC really publish that?
I recently did a short electronics course (I made a PIC-based board from surface mount electronics! Without sneezing!), and we did the PCB design stage in EAGLE, and it was basically buggy as hell. We were recommend to keep saving in case it crashed (it did), and if bits of our design appeared to mysteriously vanish, we should change the zoom level to see if they came back, due to render bugs...

They also suggested EasyEDA:

https://easyeda.com/editor

...which is a free online PCB layout program. I played with it for about five minutes but not much more than that. It's got an autorouter but I haven't found an autoplacer tool (although EAGLE didn't have one either).

Anyone know this? Is it any good?
We still have them in NYC. Right outside of Grand Central too (aka not the poor part of town).
The literature for Protonmail looks really good, thanks for the tip. Can you recommend them service-wise?
Such a troll
It's a trust symbol. You must know that. If Google puts those words in front of an article, it promotes that article as authoritative.

They're not saying "Other Opinions", they're saying "Fact Check".
Ah, another entry for the "I didn't read the books people say I should have---here's my nationalisation" genre.
This is the counter-argument to evidence-based policy: http://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459.long

The point being that not everything we know as true shows up in a study.
There is a reason: human nature.