skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is indeed the case that if Wikipedia was subjected to less entropy, so that its editors could work on building up the encyclopedia in a sort of secluded peace, the project would be far less itchy about notability.

But remember that minimizing error is only half the argument for notability. The other half is, again, definitional: an article about a non-notable topic is almost by definition original research, and "no original research" is one of Wikipedia's oldest rules. The project's charter is to be a tertiary source.
You would be a fool not to talk to an investment banker, and many fools go broke after winning the lottery for behaving just as you describe.
This is great. I've been thinking about better ways to search logs for root causes. Splunk is good if you know what you are looking for, but this is exactly what I want to see to show me unexpected things in logs.
This mirrors my own thoughts on the matter. Especially as regards the "branding" issue.
And of course an honourable mention for the Wilhelm Scream, which will delight/haunt you for the rest of your film watching life after learning about it. I wonder if it is being used less these days?
Episode 18 – The Security of Santa
Azure is actually a pretty good product.

Recently I was working on a side project and decided to use Azure for a change and I loved it's offerings.

That said, a few criticisms:

it's pretty buggy and it shows.

Furthermore, it's documentation at times is contradictory. (and it's sdks are all over the place - especially for nodeJS)

And all in all, it does not look like a mature product (many a times, I was working on fixing / catching issues with Azure rather than my project itself - something I'd not expect to have to do)

All that said, it's still a great product and in time, I hope they fix their stuff and work towards stability.
>Stop changing the subject. The issue that you brought up is whether or not Joe Rogan giving air time to something is endorsing it.

I was referring to an endorsement of the person, not the topic. ie "Seems irresponsible to give a platform to moon landing truthers."
I'm currently using an Asus Ultrabook that is 15". I also have a Macbook pro that my wife now uses that is a 13" screen. I just love the 15" so much that I think it would be hard to go down in screen size. It is 1080p, so the resolution isn't a problem but with the screen size I'm easily able to see more in Visual Studio at one time.
Oh I definitely agree with you. We've worked on projects with Angular 1/2, React/Redux, and Polymer and Polymer is, for me personally at least, the nicest to work with. I have grown to really like TypeScript since working in React land on recent projects but I'm excited because Polymer 2.0 will be [easily] TS compatible. Best of both worlds, I think.
How would that work? If Numerai already has insider information, why not just use it directly? Why go to the bother (and risk) of anonymizing and distributing it?
like the people at 9to5mac.com?
Glad this is finally out.
I still think Red Hat should just make their builds completely free without a subscription, and charge only for support. CentOS then wouldn't need to exist (and neither would Oracle Linux). That would help it compete with Ubuntu in the startup world.
OpenBSD 6.0 VPN Endpoint for iOS and OS X
I work in manufacturing. We have an acoustic microscope that scans parts with the goal of identifying internal defects (typically particulate trapped in epoxy bonds). It's pretty hard to define what size/shape/position/number of particles is worthy of failing the device. Our final product test can tell us what product is "good" and "bad" based on electrical measurements, but that test can't be applied at the stage of assembly where we care to identify the defect.

I recently demonstrated a really simple bagged-decision tree model that "predicts" if the scanned part will go on to fail at downstream testing with ~95% certainty. I honestly don't have a whole lot of background in the realm of ML so it's entirely possible that I'm one of those dreaded types that are applying principles without full understanding of them (and yes I do actually feel quite guilty about it).

The results speak for themselves though - $1M/year scrap cost avoided (if the model is approved for production use) in just being able to tell earlier in the line when something has gone wrong. That's on one product, in one factory, in one company that has over 100 factories world-wide.

The experience has prompted me to go back to school to learn this stuff more formally. There is immense value to be found (or rather, waste to be avoided) using ML in complex manufacturing/supply-chain environments.
Fidel Castro Had a Bizarre Obsession with Milk
> What many common people mean by bias is approximately the statistical meaning.

And many people don't. The difference is that I'm not asserting I have the one true definition, but rather recognizing that "bias" is a term with inherent political and moral content. And that pretending that this isn't (or shouldn't be) the case just because statisticians use the term in a technical setting is extraordinarily intellectually lazy.

Most people are not statisticians. No serious mathematician has ever asserted that the axioms of Real numbers settle all epistemological debates. Like-wise, I see no reason why a statistical term of art should be used to clear up the various denotations and connotations surrounding "bias" and "discrimination".

> that isn't bias in the statistical sense.

That depends on what the goal of the algorithm is.

If the goal is to accurately predict whether people will appear, then it's working.

But if the goal is to accurately predict when people will choose not to show up, then there's certainly a chance that it's not working. For example, in the case where there's some significant correlation between race and access to transportation infrastructure. (Which isn't so much the case today, but certainly was 60 or so years ago.)

The distinction between choice and circumstance isn't immaterial -- the latter is not a flight risk even if they gum up the legal system via delays. So if the judge is interpreting "90% won't show" as "90% flight risk" in the above hypothetical world, then there's a huge problem. You could argue that this is the judge's problem, and I won't necessarily disagree. But UI bugs are still bugs, and this particular form of UI bug is pretty specific to ML systems.

> And the people who try to conflate those things are doing this

Or, perhaps they're far better at mathematical modeling of complex systems than you give them credit for; e.g., by seeing ways in which locally statistically unbiased decisions can magnify the impact of bias that exists in other parts of a system.

We will never have a complete mathematical model of the world and the history of human civilization, so I don't see any reason why we should insist that all bias needs to be what a statistician calls bias in his workplace.

> The second thing is not only not bias, it's not morally objectionable

This is a separate discussion I don't want to have in this thread, because we're already barely on-topic.

But suffice it to say that conflating technical and non-technical definitions is not a reasonable defense of this position.
It's a nonsense.
Yes, thanks for highlighting the deficiency in my original post. I can see it is easily interpretated as you did. I added a clarification (or what I hope is one).
Don't Just Code, Solve Problems
Yes, these comments are exactly right. The other companies resigned to it being Good Enough for them, and don't care about making the trackpad excellent.
Evolution in the sense that Darwin meant it - natural selection - does depend on some specific details of life. Namely, there must be variation in the species, the variation must be heritable, and there must be something that causes some of the species to produce more offspring.

Without one of those, natural selection stops. In theory, life might exist without one of them - if we live forever and stop having children, or if we all have the same amount of children, or if we design our children's genes artificially, etc.
Seriously. Am I doing something wrong(or right)?
I have never experienced any slowdown on any of my newer model Android phones.
Are park and rides completely underutilized? I've always lived in the cities I've lived in, but whenever I happen to pass one, they seem quite full to me.
Randal Munroe drained it all to Mars.

[0] https://what-if.xkcd.com/54/
You can bet your behind that Oracle Linux would still exist.
I think it's unlikely that insider information comes in some nicely formatted dataset with 21 features week in and week out. I think of insider information as usually being a one-off tip that a company is going to take a particular action before they make that information public. This feels more like prosaic financial data. (But I'm not in finance so maybe my perceptions are way off!)
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> the "Smoke on the Water" of developer side-projects

What do you mean by this?
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Can't say for what/where, but, yes. Use it to super-scale work of human analysts who evaluate the quality of some stuff.
If you'd been in the shoes of these immigrants, what would you have done?
The "significant coverage" clause prevents sprawling articles about non-notable subjects based on the technicality that the subject's name once occurred in a regional newspaper article; for instance, by being quoted by a local sports reporter at a softball game.

If you think this is a contrived example, I'd exhort you to spend some quality time on Wikipedia's AfD page watching the debates.
If I'm not mistaken the movie ends with a group who has children and least one dog, implying they haven't resorted to cannibalism or eating their pets(yet).
The article says: "Numerai’s fund has been trading stocks for a year. Though he declines to say just how successful it has been, due to government regulations around the release of such information, he does say it’s making money. And an increasingly large number of big-name investors have pumped money into the company"

So perhaps they are sitting on piles of cash?
The single most ambitious and effective single resource in perhaps the history of recorded human knowledge?

It's not cool enough for you because there isn't a totally separate independent article about whatever the fuck a Bulbasaurus is?
ML courses often start with linear regression, and if you build up complicated polynomials to find a nonintuitive model of your problem, I would definitely consider that machine learning.
Yeah, but you have to say her now or you get bitched at for being biased.
Plausible deniability.
I was gonna say: what the hell have I been running on my laptop for the last 6 months?
I'm not positive but I would guess that the hardware is pretty similar. The same manufacturer, synaptics, made the touchpad in my MBP and Thinkpad. Yet the Apple touchpad is far superior. Aside from the fact that my lenovo has a textured tract pad, I think the Apple software is just that much better.
The Microsoft Store itself has online ordering, so why not order online from there. The return policy specifically allows returning an online purchase at a retail store ( see near bottom of https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/DisplayHelp... ).
Rain,
Snow,
Fog,
Traffic cops,
Construction zones,
Yielding to emergency vehicles,
Malfunctioning traffic lights,
Newly repaved roads without lane markers,
Pot holes,
Railroad crossings,
Standing water
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From Tim Murray, performance engineer on Pixel:

>that fsync blog post floating around is pretty much bogus. also nobody should use nobarrier, it's not safe at all

https://twitter.com/t_murray/status/808373275860418560
I wouldn't say my post is gratuitous criticism. I believe my post describes the motives behind a sizable number of such projects. If that is not the case with Hyper, and the Hyper developers are aware and conscious that they made a bizarre language choice and are just trying to have fun with it (although they do seem to be recommending that random people use this as production, non-toy software), then that's great, more power to them. There's no reason for them to be offended or unsure of themselves based on my comments.
That fork by Vox Day? I'm not sure I want to associate with that.
Quite an ironic decision by NBC. At the same time the consumption of news from mainstream outlets is falling, they decide to shutter a service which was gaining in popularity instead of working out ways to monetize it.
"I literally have not tried a single other thing"

And without clicking through to all four links, there's no indication that they were from you trying things.
Why We Resist: Seven Stories About Protest
Unless they require some sort of financial contribution from the 7500, it seems like the biggest risk (apart from wasting your time) is that if you do come up with something useful you have no way to know the value of it; you basically just have to trust them.
Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. That was an upgraded size, and it is at my feet when my feet are on the table.

Also, my couch is a floor. It isn't as glorious to stretch out on as one might think.
> A Senior Developer should only require assistance when the building is on fire.

Senior developers require assistance all the time. Once problems are complex enough there isn't much that can be done as a solo ninja.
Their policy is quite generous. Not only does it also apply to men, but they'll also chip in for parents wanting to adopt:

> And employees who wish to have a child will receive up to $35,000 for adoption or surrogacy for up to two children.

Congrats to AMEX employees!
Another: the "bwooo", aka "winding down".

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/37hnx8/same_overuse...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP3uXtFozv0
Dan Golding's response seems pretty on-the-nose to me. Although I think he's right to cite Zimmer as someone who pioneered a certain method and style that has become prevalent in a big chunk of movie genres, I think the real culprit here (if you want to lay the blame somewhere) is just the economics of the Hollywood filmmaking system, which prizes cost-control, speed, and consistency of product above all else.

It's sad to see the composer Patrick Doyle get cited in both of those video essays for his music for Thor (which I agree, is generic and boring) because it illustrates the extent to which really talented film composers can get absorbed into this system. His scores for Henry V [1], Dead Again, and Carlito's Way all stand out as really shining example of 90s-era film scoring.

[1] Great example of his work here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yZNMWFqvM
"The Road" has already been mentioned as a piece of fiction that focuses almost exclusively on food and starvation. Not sure it's explicitly about nuclear war, however. It's also way too hopeless for me. I can't say I enjoyed reading it.

A better -- and recent favorite of mine -- sci-fi book about scarce resources and food is "The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi. It's not about nuclear war either, but not only is the actual story very engaging, it focuses on how energy is generated and stored, what people eat, and how food is delivered in a post-oil world. Bacigalupi calls this crisis "the Contraction". Warning: more than a few digs at Monsanto as well, not so much from the "transgenics are bad" angle but from the "copyrights and patents on food oppress people". Strongly recommended!
Unprepared: Difficulty of Getting a Prescription for a Drug That Prevents HIV
How is that a personal attack? (Even if you consider it an attack, it's fairly impersonal.)
My friends and I have taken to imitating it to "add drama" when we are being jerks to each other. We basically use it as a sort of combination punchline/justification in a situation when someone would ask "why"? Want to unplug someone's controller right as they are about to win in Smash Bros? BWAAAAAAAAAAA Want to interfere with a gimme putt to win a round of disc golf? BWAAAAAAAAA

At this point, the sound basically is used as a justification for drama that otherwise mundane and has no real point.
uses quite a bit of cpu on my little dual core i5, terminal looks great tho

EDIT:

Also who came up with using the hotkeys (Alt + Ctrl + tab) & (Alt + Ctrl + Shift + tab), How are you even supposed to use those O.o
I don't mean to disagree with the entirety of your point, only that distribution is itself a problem to be solved. And even the organizations that you list are only designed to take it from willing donations to the desired causes. Each one of the customers not buying bottled water would need to separately perform the task of contacting one of these orgs and donating that money instead, every single time they would otherwise buy bottled water. That's also not counting any time or effort spent auditing potential donation targets for their ability to perform the stated goal.
Where would we be if Einstein had spent all his time
trying to improve Newton's gravity rather than
reinventing it?

Einstein did just set out to improve Newtonian Mechanics. Special Relativity is just Newtonian Mechanics over the Lorentz Transform.

General Relativity is the implication of Special Relativity being true, generalized for all observers.

Einstein's approach was very much step 1, just repeated 2-3 times.

Special Relativity didn't necessarily destroy Newton's gravity. To be generalized in GR gravity had to stop being force. It was just a natural implication of a prior step.

The idea you can chase a total alien solution nobody supports and pull complete magic out of thin air is rarely true. Normally it is just a myth created by people who don't actually understand the solution or process that attained it.
In Canada every family gets 52 weeks of 55% pay.

This 'progress' is behind the rest of the world, sure its a good innovation or whatever, but why is the USA miles behind the rest of the world in this regard?

Parents being around for their kids is important.
One thing we try to do is get non-customer service folks to sit on customer calls. It's amazing what can happen. Like one time, we had a CTO of an online dating service sit in on calls from customers for awhile. After one particularly grueling one, he goes "you guys need to give this woman's money back." We go "we can't, there's a policy against refunds." To which he responds "but she will never get a date (for a bunch of reasons not worth going into)." And we go "exactly...so maybe we should change the policy!" New policy the following week. Boom.
"the body can synthesize glucose" is a horribly misleading statement. The body can create glucose only by destroying protein and the amount it can create is limited by the buildup of toxic waste the process leaves behind. It's absolutely not the same thing as the body synthesizing vitamin A from carotene. You will be much better off eating carbohydrates, and 45% may be still too little.
"Significant" is the problem. There are more than a few editors who presume that this basically means "anything I haven't personally heard of".
Probably allows updating/extending old Rails apps using Elixir, without having to rewrite the old app.
The thing is though, Redhat really doesn't need to compete with Ubuntu in the startup world. For the millions of Ubuntu AMIs that run, how much money is Canonical making from them? Compare that to RedHat, a two billion dollar open source company.

Ubuntu was focused too long on markets that simply aren't viable from a fiscal standpoint (See: Ubuntu Phone or much of the excellent desktop work they've done). Redhat meanwhile has been continuing to focus on the enterprise and their revenue continues to grow.
Some people are senior when they are 22. Some people are senior when they are 44. Some people are never senior.

Age is not a good predictor.
> Do messages ever get removed from dnpipes without a reset.

No. Again, something I need to clarify as it seems.

So what happens after the system has been running for a while? Why doesn't the dnpipe system fill up with old messages that will never be read again? If new subscribers don't see them, and old subscribers have read them, why are they not removed? It would seem that once every subscriber who subscribed before a message was sent has received that message, the message is dead and can be removed. Why keep the history? Did you really mean that?

Also, what happens if one of many subscribers stops making PULL requests? Maybe it's blocked on something, or hung. Do the queues start to build up? Does PUSH eventually block?

> Reset, rather than sending an EOF which passes through the queue, implies that shutdown is either drastic or requires external coordination to empty the queue and stop the sending end before the reset.

I don't follow. Reset empties the underlying queue.

On most queuing systems, when a publisher wants to shut down, they close the channel's sending end or send and EOF message. When all subscribers have read up to the EOF, they close their receiving end. The last messages get processed, and then the subscribers stop. If the only shutdown mechanism is a reset, that can lose messages not yet received. That's OK if the intent is just "kill everything and terminate", but not if you need a clean shutdown.

(ROS, the Robot Operating System, has a publish/subscribe system something like this. It's a soft real time system, so old data is discarded and you never want to block a publisher. They chose to lose messages if a subscriber isn't reading often enough. That's appropriate to a robotics use case. It probably wouldn't be for a containerized web backend. See [1].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_patt...
Well, check out basically any news source besides Fox, which I don't care for either, and tell me how I'm wrong. I'm not a Trump supporter, but MSM has become identical to Facebook news feed. It's popular opinions dressed up as news. I don't feel like it's informing me of much.

They're not going to get much traction with the Fake News narrative if they don't enact some real change on their part. If I'm wrong and there's a news source out there that isn't comprised of this, I'd appreciate you guys pointing me to it.
> an article about a non-notable topic is almost by definition original research, and "no original research" is one of Wikipedia's oldest rules

While I understand it as a means to keep random cranks out of the science pages, all it has ever incentivized is to have people 'launder' their research via some 'reliable source'.

But which sources are 'reliable' is quite often purely a matter of editorial bias and there are other wiki projects with a very different take on the matter, for example:

https://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Reliability