skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Up to £45k is an offer for an entry level job. If you have experience, you should be looking for £60k or more.

London is an amazing city if you can get a good job, otherwise, it can be quite hard to live there.
It’s time to get rid of the Facebook “news feed,” because it’s not news
Feedly's Today page kind of feels like a news feed, though of RSS feeds which I've subscribed to by hand. That said, I believe it's just selecting the most viewed stories over a very recent period from your most popular feeds (some ambiguity here).
CURLY OR STRAIGHT?
You don't need to reverse engineer the protocol. TDS is an open spec on their website.
Make it more complicated once (bite the proverbial bullet) and then stop, versus keep on creeping in complexity.
Encryption laws should be the least of your worries when it comes to that guy. Intercept has a piece on him.

theintercept.com/2016/11/18/career-racist-jeff-sessions-is-donald-trumps-pick-for-attorney-general/

Update: Spelling correction
> Either they couldn't afford to pay their statisticans or they deliberately fudged them and lied.

So it's only those two options? It's not possible that the polling was just flawed or wrong but it's they can't pay them (implying they have shit statisticians) or they lied?

Not a fan of most of the media but come on there are more options here. It was a tough election to predict. Bringing in two, fairly unpopular candidates is going to create some interesting results.
United Will Not Allow Lowest-Fare Passengers to Use Overhead Bins
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12981650
Good point.

A thought provoking example I had pointed out to me recently is the GPS system, which was built and is maintained by the US government but is a free public service. The amount of public value from it is astronomical.
> I was merely pointing out that "fake" is more of a propaganda, not a completely black and white issue.

Don't pretend that your comment history doesn't display a clear Trump bias.

There might be some difficult cases at the margin, but lots of fake news is very easy to spot. No, ISIS was not founded by Clinton. No, Obama is not instituting Sharia law. No, George Soros is not hacking voting machines.

> Or do you think it's a coincidence the "fake news" story only broke after the "non-fake" media lost the election, not before while they were still very confident they'd win?

No, I don't think it's a coincidence. It seems very natural that new events would shine an event on existing trends. Or perhaps do you think that Islamic terrorism only began on 9/11, or that mortgage fraud began in 2008?
The IRS already knows how much you paid for your house.
Switching from a mouse to an apple magic track pad helped my pain a lot. I recommend giving it a try.
Frank Gilbreth set up a dictation machine for Lillian Gilbreth so she could dictate management books while she was breastfeeding... I think in the 1930's :-).
> It isn't as popular as Rust

According to TIOBE [1] D is more popular than Rust (21 vs 43 in the rankings). Of corse ranking language popularity is a tricky task, so ymmv.

[1] http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
Tired of election news!

Tired of news that's going to affect your life for at least the next two decades?
The point of deep learning is using a deep graph, like a neural network with a lot of layers, not the amount of data.

However, picking millions of parameters with small amounts of data is unlikely to work well.
No mainstream prediction I saw predicted a massive Clinton landslide; most predicted a slightly larger popular vote victory than actually occurred.

Some, though not the best regarded, gave a Clinton victory a very high probability, largely because they modelled state-level variability as independent rather than highly correlated, an error that 538 called out explicitly.
Nah, same bullshit (neither more nor less fake), just in the other direction. Best to read both left-ist and right-ist media to avoid bias. Although personally I sometimes find Breitbart more agreeable, as they seem opposed to political correctness and unafraid of voicing inconvenient truths (opinions?).
The Cuckoo's Egg.

I always say this if I can, but I reread it again, and it's still great.

For those of you who don't know, it's a story about chasing down a hacker at the dawn of the computing era (mid 80s, AFAIK). It's riveting, and absolutely true.
I would pay for a version of WorkRave that worked properly on my Windows 7 work laptop. It would be nice if it prevented me from issuing commands on my Windows 10 touchscreen too, so I can't just scroll through articles cheating on my break.
Tell that to the sun, which is 99.9% of the mass of the solar system.
> so then why does it matter?

I recommend reading this[1] essay which explains exactly the difference between the two methods. (I'm linking to part 3 because it specifically answers your questions, but the entire series is worth reading)

Why does it matter? Frequentist and Bayesian methods offer different interpretations of what your result means.

... speaking broadly, frequentists consider model parameters
to be fixed and data to be random, while Bayesians consider
model parameters to be random and data to be fixed.

This distinction is important, because...

> the frequentist and Bayesian methods are the same

...this isn't always true. See [1] for the details.

[1] http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/06/12/frequentism-and-bay...
Fully agree. By way of comparison, endnotes in printed material are pretty much required citations, etc. But footnotes could often be "Hey, if you want a bit of additional context without interrupting the flow" with a quick glance. But there tends to be a commitment in electronic form to following a hyperlink even if everything works as it's supposed to. I don't have a good solution.

It's one of the reasons that fiction works better than non-fiction in non-paginated electronic formats.
How the Heart Hardens, Biologically
Classes (with destructors) is the single most powerful and important addition to plain C. In C, even exceptions can be emulated, more or less naturally, but destructors cannot (without a compiler-specific extension). So, I'd argue that the best parts were the ones that came in early. The latest version of C++, of course, is nothing to sneeze at, either.
How to feel f***ing great and not lift a finger – automated health performance
I like to think that my comment history displays mostly a contrarian (vis-a-vis mainstream) bias, although admittedly that would seem pro-Trump to most HN users (I think yummyfajitas is often the target of similar accusations).
What do you mean? Maybe I need another cup of coffee.
Indeed, "computers can't solve it". Software cannot replace fact checking.

> In what substantive way is "fake news trying to get you to vote for a particular politician" different from "fake email trying to get you to buy fake pills"?

You don't normally get ham email asking you to buy pills, do you? But you read and share news that has an ideological perspective all the time.

Again, the only reliable distinction between true and false news is whether it actually happened. By definition this is not to be found by looking at the text alone.

Let me give you a concrete example of a hypothetical pair of fake and real news items. You can tell me how your classifier would fare distinguishing them.

Real news item:

Pope calls Trump "not Christian"

Fake news item:

Pope calls Trump "not Christian"

The difference, of course, is that the real news item is published the day after this actually happened and the fake news item can be published at any time, and is easier to write.

Let me give you another example. There have been reports of hate crimes following the election. There have been claims that some of these reports are fabricated.

So I give you two articles:

Article A:
Chanting Trump Slogans, Mob Assaults Local Man

Article B:
Assault Story "Made Up", Local Man Admits

Now, tell me again about your algorithm.
That would be incredible.

The Information is an unpopular, I think even blacklisted, news source here due to their paywall. But they do a really great job writing a very terse and high signal two-sentence takeaway for each article. I'm not a subscriber anymore (too pricy IMO), but here are some recent examples:

Surge-Price Builder Leaves Uber By Amir Efrati · Monday Oct 17, 2016

> THE TAKEAWAY: One of Uber’s secret weapons in recent years was an economics professor, Keith Chen. He overhauled Uber’s surge-price algorithm and made other key contributions that helped riders, and Uber, save money.

How Dropbox Doubled Down on Business Market By Steve Nellis · Thursday Sep 15, 2016

> THE TAKEAWAY: Dropbox founder Drew Houston has come to terms with the fact that his company probably isn’t the next consumer tech giant like Facebook or Google. That was reflected in a decision halfway through last year to sharpen the company’s focus on the business market, including shutting off consumer-focused apps like Carousel.

I would love to have that for all tech news.
as a former employee of the military industrial complex, i've always wondered how much of the funding went into these categories

- simple graft
- strategic investment in technology so that it might be available later if needed
- strategic investment in people and industries so that they will be on tap later if needed
- pointless waste
- things of actual tactical value

seems like it might be a combination?
Q and A: The future of artificial intelligence
The order book was not empty, as stated above there was over $350,000 in trade volume at prices greater than 100x what they were less than a week later.
What would that look like in your opinion?
This is similar: https://github.com/fta2012/serverless-webrtc-qrcode. Here, the author replaces communication via stun server with communication via animated QR codes.
The email said they were looking for a "Senior/Lead" person, but I'm sure you're right in general.
> You're focusing on the content.

That's the only thing you can focus on. Why should someone be punished and labeled as fake if they're on a wordpress.com subdomain? Domain is just out, even spammy or weird looking domains may end up being popular / culturally fit. You would be preventing good journalistic folks from having any type of reach if you want to test against domains names, something that arguable may go away as far as the user is concerned in the next decade.

I'm unconvinced there is anything but content that you can really go off of. Keywords are not even used in search results, why would they determine news legitimacy? Even references are not always useful.
The book by Whittlesey mentioned in the article is an interesting read.
Great question and I share your intuition but I think its all properly regularizing your model. I guess for neural networks, Dropout works really darn well as a regularization strategy. I could have tried to see whether performance dropped significantly without dropout.
What if the effect of this approach is not eradication of mosquitoes but evolution, though? Mosquitos evolving to avoid livestock would need to compensate by feeding more somewhere else. That somewhere might be humans.
All cryptocurrencies are experimental, but if no one uses them they will not mature. Is gmail still beta?
> abandon... std library

You are bound, then, "to reimplement it, poorly."
Ack! There are university grads older than C++ now! Aaaack!
Building her brand I suspect. "Look at meeeeee"
Reddit has arrived: a plausibly researched answer that's so far off base it pains me.

Physician here, and my wife is an occupational therapist. RSI is like saying you have a cold. Yes, there is a problem, no it's not specific, but it gets us to the right chapter of the book. Some of the things you list have very specific causes and treatments that have nothing to do with RSI.

The article would be more like a case report: an interesting, uncommon source of RSI. Anecdata? Yes, but the interesting data is often the edge cases.
cmcluck: can you say more about the "advantages to running larger expert operated clusters"?
You know what's ridiculous? Google's EMEA HQ is in Ireland, yet they're not selling them here. Instead, we have to pretend we're in the UK or order though a reseller.
PHP + mySQL / mongoDB
I started having really bad wrist pain and numbness in my hands and fingers. It ended up being the desk height that caused it. Got a lower desk, pain vanished.
Because there's no national structure for it - it would all need to be achieved on the state level given both politics and the different needs of different states. We have community colleges here but I don't believe there are almost any public certification institutions. Also because in almost the entire country there are no protections/contracts for workers being fired at any point for any reason, and also workers can leave at any point for any reason, companies have very little incentive to spend any money to train people. It'd be perfect for society to step in and provide these sorts of institutions but in our current political climate ANY outgrowth of government except to military is seen with extreme skepticism.
...why does the order you do your math in have to be a part of your identity?
So looks like this article applies mostly to people like her.
I've heard good things about The Information as well. One of the reasons they're able to do that, I suspect, is because it's behind a paywall: they can pay their journalists for quality content.

There are ML systems out there for summarization. I wonder how long until the systems are good enough to provide this as well. The examples I've seen (e.g., Summly, which uses SRI tech, IIRC), are likely good enough if you just want the facts. I still want it to be well-written.

Ouch. I just checked out the subscription rates for The Information. AFAICT, you can't even see the rates without supplying your name and email address. :/

Edit to add: From other sources on the internet, it looks like subscription rates are $399/year.
You can "like to think that" but there's a difference between being "contrarian" and partisan.

Though I might disagree with yummyfajitas on things, he at least brings data and arguments to back up his claims instead of just asserting that the MSM is obviously fake and biased.
You can turn off the cast notification[1]. I'm pretty sure they started doing that because you could start casting things from the Home, so they wanted a way for the user to control that from the phone after it started.

[1] https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/7206638?hl=en
Exactly. Its kind of similar to Hollywood where people boast about their connections to so and so producers, directors etc.
Gah, I hate how applying heuristics is now considered "AI". Neat project though.
ServiceWorker's Link leads to botnet-like persistent JavaScript worker
Can you import AMEX transactions? AMEX automatically provides receipts for all transactions.
When I read articles like this, I realize just how differently I'm wired than, well, the sort of person who writes articles like this. And I kind of dislike articles like this, because there always seems to be an implicit prescriptiveness underneath them - you can start a company even when you've got no free time, and therefore you should start a company even when you've got no free time.

HN, if you happen to be wired like this person, go right ahead and do what she does - but if you're wired more like me, and the only thing you want to do after your baby's born is look after it and be with your spouse and take in the whole experience, you should go ahead and do that without a second thought.
> In the end, using one simple algorithm to battle this is kinda of naive, not because it won't work for simple cases, but it fails to cover corner cases. In such scenario, human judgement is still crucial.

I agree that it doesn't cover corner cases, but why should it? If an algorithm knocks out 90% of the crap (like 70news.wordpress.com), there's much less work for the humans.

Also, wow, I didn't know Breitbart was quite that nutty. It reminds me of that LBJ quip along the lines of "it doesn't matter if he porks pigs or not, but now I made him deny it." This seems like a case where a human could do a bit of actual investigation, decide that the article's "Hillary is a lesbian" gist was BS, and permanently penalize Breitbart for publishing it.
They are not going to find a Lead developer for this price. And if they find someone, that person will move to another company after realising how salaries are in London.

http://www.monster.co.uk/jobs/search/?q=lead+developer&where...
One thing that has improved wrist pain for me is reducing inflammation. Avoiding sources of inflammation like excess sugar and other high GI index foods, low quality processed oils, biotoxins, allergens have helped me reduce my RSI.

Foods and supplements like omega 3, coconut oil, ghee, turmeric, lots of greens, bone broth and more have helped to keep the inflammation down.

Exercise is also super helpful but may not addressing the root cause of the problem.
It's more Google really isn't good at this "people" thing. They see people as an issue and try to genericize everything into an algorithm then wonder why it doesn't get popular or run well.
I think this is mostly being talked about in the context of starting a company or a side project. I can understand that you would feel that way about a day job and of course it's completely optional, but if you don't feel eager to work on a project that you've taken up your own initiative to start, then that is probably worth re-examining. You won't always feel that way, bit most of the time, at least. I'm currently working on a new product idea and I literally could not stop myself from thinking about it during my free brain cycles if I tried.
> Frankly, this is an incredibly stupid argument and I'm sick of hearing it.

Sorry. Didn't know you heard this before. Yeah the argument is misguided perhaps, but "incredibly stupid"? I don't know, I think you're being a bit harsh.

> Where do you think they "lied?"

They lied who they polled and how they fudged the results

> Incorrectly forecasting the future is a far cry from incorrectly reporting facts.

It is not far cry. This is one organization which has lost its credibility because it routinely lied and misconstrued facts, cheated during debates. I don't see as suspicious that they fudged the models to make her look good as "incredibly stupid", but again you have your opinion, so that's cool.

> More importantly, it's totally incoherent.

Sometimes maliciousness and coherency doesn't go together. Again, I would say it might be "mildly incoherent" but not "totally". You can just as well say they wanted her to look good to discourage anyone voting for the other candidate, which indeed jives with the rest of the rhetoric.

> Also, for the record, Clinton won the popular vote. So the polls got the popular vote percentage right.

What does that have to do with anything? Are you saying, she is a top experienced politician, lawyer, with a stellar team of experts, media behind her back, President, DNC, may large corporate donors and she didn't know that she had to win electoral college votes and just got a little confused?

> State polls were a lot more noisy and infrequent—it's not that surprising that there was a polling miss.

Somehow the "idiot" Trump managed to poll in the right states at the right time make Hillary deliver the worst Democratic election results in more than 20 years. If a dummy can do it, surely it was possible to poll properly.
duplicate - i ve seen this article twice before in the last two days
NSA Said to Use Manhattan Tower as Listening Post
Just say something like "company ran out of funding" at the beginning of the section about the company. That tells it all. If it's not exactly correct, find the right wording that is correct and clear.
If you are trying to answer the same question in the same way there isn't much if a difference.

Frequentist and bayesian statistics are different paradigms, not different number crunchers.

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I talk about this with graphs and such in my blog post (https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/2016/10/20/the-fatal-flaw-of...) but here's the short version:

Common question in our line of work: when should I end my A/B test? End too early and I have wrong conclusions, end too long and it's expensive. Classic exploration vs. exploitation.

Frequentist statistics will tell us to suck it up and just choose a sample size, or write down every time we look at the numbers to adjust for peeking effect, or assume the worst case that we always peek and wait a very long time.

Bayesian statistics tells us not to use a single termination condition, but adjust the samplings according to our continuously updating priors. (This is what Google Analytics does. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2844870)
In fact, this turns out to be the mathematically proveable optimal solution for maximizing payoff.
This latter approach is beyond the reach of frequentist methods because it's just a completely different paradigm.

The question of frequentist and bayesian not "which is more correct", but rather "which paradigm best matches the question I have?" If your testing paradigm is fixed sample sizes, choose frequentist. If it is iterative (like a lot of ML), choose bayesian.
3 Ways to Keep Your Trading on Target
Hilarious, but wouldn't it be useless when the population you use it on is mostly not criminal?

If I had a population that was 90% non-criminal, and the accuracy of the face predictor something like 75% (for non-criminal and criminal), wouldn't my predictor that always outputs non-criminal almost always be more accurate?
This. The election was decisive enough that recounts aren't going to change the result, but it wasn't decisive enough to indicate one of those tectonic political shifts that occur occasionally.
Headline inaccurate:

It didn't go rogue; it was teleoperated, and the person controlling it pressed the wrong button on the remote ("forward" instead of "reverse").
Based on the Emacs site, that would be the kind of person who's interested in `'electric-quote-mode' for using curved quotes as you type.'
> The best thing it could possibly be for me is a coax to ethernet paperweight.

This is great! Maybe we can repackage old Wi-Fi routers and sell them as connected IoT paperweights! Makes about as much sense as every other IoT device on the market.
For the capitalist, maybe it is? We slide back to feudalism, slavery and over the back side to unknown territory beyond where the majority of people's existence are at the whims of those few who control the machinery.
How we setup our work
He also knows this kind of money is a pittance for him now. Just by his new relationship with Putin alone he should have no problem racking up another few billion after his term. He's headed for a different tier of wealth now.
Senators Want FCC to Crack Down on ‘Harmful Zero-Rating Offerings’
Most were also biased in her favor. That was the big learning experience for me in this election. She had an unprecedented support from media, unlike few other candidates. I think even Fox (the traditional Republican faux-news channel) didn't like him very much.

Yeah I don't know the answer, what the mistake was. I'd want to know. I suspect some never responded or wanted to participate. Those who participated, said they'd vote for someone else but changed their mind. They used registered phone numbers and some people more consistently paid to have their number de-listed...
Here is the official site that won't nag you with the LSJ paywall.
https://msu.edu/datasecurity/
I feel the same way. Maybe there's room for a small service ($5/month) where we can submit articles that might be interesting and the most popular ones get summarized in a well-written way.

I do remember the rates being hard to find as well: $39/month or $399/annual [1]. They do offer you half-price initially etc for a few months.

[1]: https://www.theinformation.com/payment-policy