skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Behavioral Economics is exciting and unsettling.

The research also can be used by employees in order to be overcompensated by their bosses! Likewise it can be used to get faster promotions or increase an employee's chances they are chosen to keep their job vs being among those given pink slips should layoffs ever happen at their employer.

In my experience I have seen more employees discover and utilize insights from behavioral economics to their advantage than I have seen instances of managers using it to exploit their employees. Employees who spend a bunch of time researching best strategies to ask for a raise are often way more prepared for such a meeting than their manager.

After a raise, is the new higher salary "fair compensation"? Or is it now "overcompensation"?...Who knows, there is no right answer to this. That is part of Ariely's point. Things like "fairly compensated" or "under compensated" are really subjective - one should be careful not to apply their own such value statements too broadly. everyone needs to chill and rethink their assumptions.

Also don't worry too much. This stuff mainly only matters at the margins (hence these things are "hidden").
A settlement basically means he pleads guilty. So, the US will have a scammer as president.
One person's fake news is another person's entertainment. The problem is not a technical issue. It is a cultural issue. ML cannot solve a cultural issue.
You're 100% correct. Look at all the backlash they got because their human editors wouldn't put fake news into the trending topics and that fake news happened to be conservative.

Even look in this comment thread. You have people insisting that Breitbart is a highly reputable site (that just happens to promulgate far-right conspiracy theories) while mainstream news is supposedly "fake" because they incorrectly forecast an election.
In more recent Windows Insider builds, Tmux & Screen now work correctly, as does network connection enumeration (e.g. via ifconfig), sshd works as expected, along with MySQL, Apache, nginx, etc.
Oops... it IS a MDA metaphor!
Yeah, I know. But my concern is if it's 'too easy' to just handle my Gmail messages in Fastmail that I'll procrastinate changing over the accounts properly.

Once I get down to a minimal amount I'll forward and tag.
Do you know it was due to grammar? I've seen mention that some people will down vote for disagreement, for example.
A question - does anyone utilize the fact observed in cognitive neuroscience in robotics, that the best learning happens in organically growing systems, not in universal systems where you run a huge batch on a clean, pre-configured state? So far I see everyone designing the structure of an ML system in advance and hoping for the best (e.g. define the whole structure in TensorFlow in the beginning), instead of allowing the system to self-organize as the learning happens.
I have yet to see a political party with a coherent response to the looming specter of automation. Don't get me wrong, I'm very much in favor of robotic technology, but it's not compatible with existing capitalistic structures.
I went there, this year, in 2016! Same story, driving from Uluru to Adelaide we stopped here, but we found it to be much different than you.

We tried fossicking for opals, and had no luck, but to be fair we were just in a yard in the town, so I think it's been picked bone dry by now in 2016. We did go to a proper site once, but that was farther north in the outback and it was a fossilized sea bed. There we found shark teeth and a squid-like creature, as well as fish scales.

The town is a mix of tourists (mostly grey nomads and backpackers), opals, and crime. We met a lot of great people there from all over the world as well: France, Sweden, Ireland, Germany, if I remember correctly.

There's also a dark side to the town. Residents warn you of the danger and crime at night. At night the audible shouting from a distance of drunk Aboriginals, and a regular police presence of squad cars and sirens fills the atmosphere.

The town was certainly something to see: the underground architecture, including underground churches and hospital are inspiring. Outside, the sun burns hot and the flies stick to you like you're coated in shit and sugar. Seriously, the flies are horrendous in the Australian outback.

The man at the I-site was Aussie through and through. 6'5,'' arms as long as a fishing rod and shoulder's as broad and built as B52, he wrote us directions with a friendly demeanor. On them he spelled 'right' as 'rite.' No worries - in Australia no one has got a strict attitude to worry about things like that.

It was all good mate. We did get bothered by some gnarly Aboriginals. They approached us with no restraint, walking bag-of-good-in-hand, and grabbed at the food I had. I gladly gave it to them as an appeasement: a few ounces of beef jerky was a small price to pay to make the case that that was the last food I had and be on my way.
The fake part comes into play if you think they lied and pushed the wrong results, but presented them as "scientific".

Note it was not just a small mistake. They presented Hillary having a massive landslide, and instead she delivered the worst Democratic performance in 20 years.

Something doesn't add up...
Sure, and that's what a disclaimer, like the one you even acknowledged, does. Make it obvious that this is something that he did for fun and that you shouldn't do the same unless you know the risks.

So, going back to izacus's comment, is the preaching really necessary? He gets it, and people who read this and are in a position to act upon the information (ie. have a plane, with this GPS, and want updates) also are likely to understand the ramifications, so, really, what does the preaching add, other than negativity, as was mentioned?
Challenge accepted.

Define "news" as probabilistic statement of an event.

Define "real news" as news with probability > e, where e is some chosen threshold value.
It's just as bad. It's not about warming itself, but drastic climate changes. Both changes are really really bad for the environment and ecosystem.
> Push-ups, pull-ups, dips, and sit-ups. Every day. You'll be a coding machine. At the VERY least, push-ups.

ehhhh... years of daily pushups contributed to the slow shredding of cartilage in my wrist and two operations before i could type again.

but

> walk around a bit, get some water, [...] SLEEP.

this. can't stress enough.
Wait, isn't "deep learning with small data" just machine learning, after all the buzzwords cancel themselves out?

I thought the whole point of "deep learning" is its approach to using data.
Fair enough. That's a useful comparison to know about.

But I'm wondering how you get around that with the neural net. In the post, you said there are only a few hundred labeled examples, right? How can a neural net with hundreds of parameters set those parameters to anything reasonable, and not overfit, when there are about as many parameters as examples?
How to Get Your Site into Google News
I've been going through this list:

https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/50-articles-and-books-that-wi...

Includes books and articles. Been very helpful so far.
Any app, tool or script on your PC has the potential to corrupt your filesystem.
I hadn't considered it. The HN crowd is a lot better at understanding that downvotes are for comments that do not contribute to the conversation, rather than what they disagree with.

Maybe that's a more popular trend now? Having been active on HN for a long time and watched it evolve I guess I could see that...

Anyway, the branch of the conversation has gotten quite deep down the 'meta' rabbithole.
tomp maybe Breitbart got brought up for content like this:
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/12/08/birth-control-makes...

It's mostly unsubstantiated claims, without scientific rigor to back them up (ex: they cite papers but misrepresent the findings), and heavily mixed with personal opinion. Breitbart may have been right about the election, but that doesn't really seem to be because the website is dedicated to clear objective journalism... Wouldn't you agree?
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This argument would seem to assume that a frequentist is required to use maximum likelihood estimation for all problems.

If you remove that assumption, the distinction between Bayesian and frequentist methods becomes murkier. If you ultimately want a point estimate, you don't particularly care whether a method constructs a posterior distribution as an intermediate step.
Poor polling data doesn't mean you are publishing fake news.
By the way, we already do this! We let millions starve to death in squalor already. Why? For the sake of civilization. Or do you think it'd be smart to ship them all over here? Amazing how timid we are about weighing life against life in a controlled fashion when this is already happening every day. We can't even have a little hypothetical chat on the Internet about it.
Here's but a few of the many "sources" my friend:

Lisa Lerer (AP) writing an article about Clinton's "Wall Street problem" and "she is asking if we wish to characterize her remarks in any way."
/podesta-emails/emailid/36373

DNC & Clinton campaign staff being given the opportunity to provide CNN with questions to ask Trump in an upcoming interview.
/dnc-emails/emailid/27526

Mark Leibovich (NYT) allowing clinton campaign to edit his article - they're literally picking what to include and what not to include in the article.
/podesta-emails/emailid/4213

DNC staff saying Kenneth Vogel (Politico) gave her his story in advance (per an agreement?), and that if there's anything the Clinton campaign doesn't like, she can "push back".
/dnc-emails/emailid/10808

Campaign staff discussing how to push back against successful Sanders attack of showing Clinton as being the "establishment" candidate. The strategy involves getting bloggers and columnists to "write about this from a racial justice and reproductive rights perspective, including a few people who joined us on a call to talk about the "Bernie Backlash" that was unfolding even before his remarks last night—current list is Elianne Ramos [HuffPo], Jessica Valenti [Guardian] (who is writing a column on this as we speak), Jamil Smith [MTV/Viacom], Sady Doyle [Guardian, The Atlantic], Aminatou Sow, Gabe Ortiz [WaPo, Univision], and others".
/podesta-emails/emailid/56243

And of course we can't forget Donna Brazile getting caught red handed giving debate questions in advance...

Of course it would be foolish to expect corrupt media cronies, who socialize and schmooze regularly with a certain candidate's campaign staff, to expose their own corruption.
This is probably a good way to decide, since it's relatively easy to determine whether a new site is fake. Another example, the "Denver Guardian":

http://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/05/there-is-no-such-thing-...
Agreed. Thanks for the feedback!
I don't see any downside in this scenario, especially if Brietbarters leave FB en masse. I'm not sure there is another network they can presently go to due to massive network effects.
Fortunately, Facebook only has to solve the much simpler problem of identifying clearly fake news. This is like determining that a site is a link farm, not that it is a content farm. (I think Google has even made decent progress on the latter, harder problem, though I still see ask.com results sometimes.)
I had that same experience when I lived in the UK many years ago and I was still not completely fluent in English.

On the other hand, when I lived in France, everybody loved the fact that I was making the effort to try to speak French.

YMMV
What a misleading title. The real title says "must suck at" (which probably is insinuating that they probably don't suck), and somehow it's been fabricated into this clickbait title.
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Great founder story

When Breathe Becomes Air
Story about the meaning of life. Not sure how anyone can go through this and not cry. (First book I've ever cried reading)
You talking about the specification language? If so, I can give you the compiler you asked for written using it.
On my FF on Android nothing happens at all.
"They should really document this issue better, like in the docs for installing WSL"

What, like this bit in the install instructions page: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui...

After installation your Linux file system components will be located at: C:\Users\<Windows user name>\AppData\Local\lxss\ This directory is marked as a system file which are hidden by default. Accessing this location directly is not advised due to caching between the Linux and Windows file systems. Check out our blog post for more information.
Here’s how we should deal with fake news online
A similar strategy is already in use.

http://www.oxitec.com/our-solution/technology/the-science/

http://www.straitstimes.com/world/americas/brazil-to-use-fac...

It doesn't use CRISPR or have the amazing generational sterility though.
The US government is finally telling people that homeopathy is a sham
I was over-simplifying the "like" thing. Of course, you are right. It takes a lot more than clicking a "like" button for someone to truly engage with your business.

And this is exactly one of the problems with FB. So many people pay good money for what effectively translates to nothing. I have personally watched a campaign delivered 400 visitors per minute (peak) to a site and produced exactly zero sales in three days. Not blaming FB 100% for this, of course. But, if you measure it, they do tend to produce a lot of useless clicks.

Here's the difference between FB advertising and AdWords. It's simple.

People to to FB to chit-chat with friends and family. Not to buy.

People go to Google because their are looking for something and, yes, they are far more likely to be in a buying mindset. Particularly when compared to FB.

When was the last time anyone said: "I need to buy a rug. Let's go check them out on Facebook". Never. It's Google or Amazon.
Facebook let itself be bullied by the right.
I was merely pointing out that "fake" is more of a propaganda, not a completely black and white issue.

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?
Frankly, this is an incredibly stupid argument and I'm sick of hearing it. Incorrectly forecasting the future is a far cry from incorrectly reporting facts. Nobody said it was a fact that Clinton would win.

Where do you think they "lied?" Even simple poll averages showed Hillary was ahead.

I'm willing to admit that they overestimated the chances of a Clinton victory. Nate Silver's 60% was a lot more realistic than the 90% the NYT was pushing. But having a poor prediction model is a lot different than falsely reporting the past.

More importantly, it's totally incoherent. If the MSM was tilting their model to try to get Hillary elected, the worst thing they could do would be to present it as a sure thing (depressing turnout).

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

State polls were a lot more noisy and infrequent—it's not that surprising that there was a polling miss.
Note that national polling was fine. It was the state polls that turned out to be hugely inaccurate. That doesn't mean they were "unscientific," but that they made some mistakes with their polling methods.
Are you referring to reinforcement learning [1] as opposed to "standard" supervised learning?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning
Perhaps the electoral system is the missing variable you're looking for.
You don't know what you're saying.
First they came for our 3.5mm headphone jacks, and I did not speak up...
Leaving aside the Fake News controversy, given the number of fake accounts polluting their social graph, I would say yes, FB does suck at ML.
For a little laugh
Due to limited datagram size, maybe RFC1149 and RFC2549 could serve as inspiration for further development ;-)
> It's mostly unsubstantiated claims, without scientific rigor to back them up (ex: they cite papers but misrepresent the findings), and heavily mixed with personal opinion.

Sounds like pretty much any non-scientific media citing scientific articles.
There are many speculations like this:

> Assange did not had Internet in last months, he couldn't release keys on a possible day of abduction. And I am sure gov did everything to jam wifi and 3g and everything else that he could use to do it.

> He has a DMS.... But internet cutoff might make him reconfigure auto triggering conditions, which might made DMS vulnerable.

> the 20TB attack (Nov 6) they were getting on their servers is what probably suppressed it. we need to find it.

> We know they have external servers -- that's why the podesta emails kept coming out on time. Whoever is in control now is a 3rd party.

> 18 Oct: file.wikileaks.org/file is made publicly visible. The message 'The Insurance files may have just been released' is shown for about an hour: https://i.imgur.com/6IMYfUK.png

> 20 Oct, 21 Oct: Wikileaks posts 4 tweets with series of typos that spell HELP HIM http://imgur.com/a/m7trX

But after some reading:

15 october: Cut off Assange's internet access 5:00 pm GMT

26 October: Assange “speaks” at CISL (Argentina) – phone call.

5 Nov: Assange Pilger RT interview is posted, but there is no date when it was filmed (speculations regarding fact that Pilger mentions Oct 15th Internet, but Assange doesnt)

13 Nov Pamela Anderson visited him. Her previous visit was on Oct 15th

14 Nov, 15 Nov Multiple people were present at Swedish Prosecutor two day questioning

17 Nov Picture of Assange with Carlos Poveda Moreno posted on twitter (I am not sure if lawyer or EC counsel) https://twitter.com/Mangazos/status/799367352060100608

Here is comparison of his appearance in Pilger interview and photo with Poveda http://prntscr.com/d8sw3l
My respect for Elad Gil just dropped a notch.
It'd be cool if I could adjust a parameter on how gossip-y or factual I want my news sources to be.

Google News seems to have something in place with the "Interested in? / Not interested" underneath some story abstracts.
This post is written for that .1% then, and probably not for you.

Founders are very different people, with very different energy levels and risk profiles than the general population, or even the population of startup employees.

Some of us CAN have it all, and there are not always trade offs for us compared to the "norm".

For example, some can excel in multiple college varsity sports while holding a 4.0 in EE, when most college students play club ball and feel overwhelmed getting their homework done.

I would like you to entertain the thought that others may have 10x more capacity than yourself.

My goodness, let Hacker News be at least one place where unique women feel free to be honest about their drive, ambition, and productivity.
Whitelist or blacklist or assigning PageRank to websites are tempting but also controversial because it will fall under the accusation of censorship. Take the below link as an example:

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/16/m...

This is not 'fake' news, in a literal sense, because it just says someone is about to release something about Clinton. But for some people, this news could simply be seen as an indictment. Can we claim it is fake in that sense? As I have said above, it is equally controversial to penalize such websites for editorialization, because find story out of non-story is how most news agencies makes money and they have incentive to do this. Blame modern media and journalism for this.

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.
Amazon WorkSpaces now has virtual cloud desktop access using Chrome and Firefox
How do people (readers or news agencies) handle this problem in non-English speaking communities? I'm curious what approaches have already been tried.
Trump’s attorney general pick could restart the encryption fight
> disadvantage for not being on github ... mindshare seems to be

Just have a mirror on github and they'll be none the wiser. Judging by how many people think linux is developed on github.
Another knob I'd like would be terseness. Sometimes I want a nice, wandering, more literary piece. Sometimes I just want the facts.
When person A says something publicly that is fake and newspaper writes article quoting the person - is the article fake or not?

It's very blurred indeed.

What would probably help is extracting list of (main) statements/assumptions made and give them fact-probability score (ideally with references) - and show it to people.

But this is not trivial exercise, is it?

I mean, once we have technology that's good in doing it, well... it means we can probably rely on this AI to make 80% of decisions to run the country.
> instead she delivered the worst Democratic performance in 20 years.

Elections don't happen that often... so it's just a comparison against fellow losers Gore and Kerry.

And Kerry lost by both the popular vote and the electoral vote.
The Washington Post has a more in-depth article [1]. The map projection is more appropriate as well. (Mercator for a representation of the polar region...)

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
Brietbarters leaving Facebook en masse is bad for business. Shareholder value is Facebook's primary interest.
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A little tired of election news on HN, but I know that encryption and privacy is important to HN community. This article should serve as a heads up to be weary of encryption laws in the next few years.
I think, you cannot beat beats shift-reduce LALR(1) with recursive descent on raw performance on a reasonable syntax. However, parsing C++ with LALR(1) will require unmaintainable hacks in the grammar. Recursive descent accomodates ad-hoc fudging much better than parser generation. In any given rule, you can look ahead as much as you want and invoke any Turing computation to decide the parse. Also, recursive descent approaches support backtracking fairly naturally: try it this way, as far ahead as necessary, or else start again, falling back on this. Let's see ...

28374 /* Commit to the currently active tentative parse. */
28375
28376 static void
28377 cp_parser_commit_to_tentative_parse (cp_parser* parser)
28378 {
28379 cp_parser_context *context;
28380 cp_lexer *lexer;
28381
28382 /* Mark all of the levels as committed. */
28383 lexer = parser->lexer;
28384 for (context = parser->context; context->next; context = context->next)
28385 {
28386 if (context->status == CP_PARSER_STATUS_KIND_COMMITTED)
28387 break;
28388 context->status = CP_PARSER_STATUS_KIND_COMMITTED;
28389 while (!cp_lexer_saving_tokens (lexer))
28390 lexer = lexer->next;
28391 cp_lexer_commit_tokens (lexer);
28392 }
28393 }

Bison supports GLR ("generalized LR") via some technique of forking the parser and trying alternatives in parallel, which seems related to this.
Presenting the election result as 98% certainty is either fake or insanity (for context, that would mean (on average) only 1 wrong prediction in 200 years of US presidential elections).

Edit: admittedly, that was Huffington Post, hardly a standard for good journalism. E.g. NYT had 80%, 1 wrong in 20 years, which is still quite optimistic IMO.
We reverted the title from the submitted “Facebook Sucks at Machine Learning”.
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Not really sure why, but have issues seeing the screencast.gif on Safari 10.0.1 (11602.2.14.0.7), El Capitan.
Okay, so other news sources also can be biased/wrong/misrepresent science ... how does that make this Breitbart article more accurate? or Breitbart a more objective news source?
Daemon really needs some more recognition. It's one of the most interesting and most real sci-fi books I've read in a long time.