skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, rayiner and I seem to be similarly calibrated w.r.t. concern over this stuff. It is striking that I end up on the 'calm down' side of in-person conversations, given rayiner's opposite experience with democrats.
First of all, errors and residuals are different things.

Second, "cost" is not new jargon. What is relatively new is thinking about probabilistic modeling in terms of abstracted cost functions, but only relatively.

There are dozens of tutorials, courses, etc that are clear and don't introduce unnecessary jargon. Nobody is trying to keep you out of data science.

As for the term "machine learning," it's because what we today call ML gree out of actual AI research. It so happened that a lot of progress was made very quickly by the ML researchers, so the ML-oriented terms became popular as some older statistics terms were subsumed.
Disparaging people because of their skin color? So tolerant!
I don't even assume that libertarians are libertarians. I'd call libertarianism a flag of convenience.
I've done this, or very nearly this.

In mid-2001 I had to fly from San Jose to Washington Dulles with a Sun Netra 1120 server. It's 4U and FULL length. Weighed about 60 pounds.

I was late for my flight and the datacenter I retrieved it from had no packaging for it so I just carried it onto the plane - bare.

It fit in the overhead.
Oh lordy. Did we not want to know the truth about a public figure? It was a service to all voters to have a full understanding of the person and the party and shenanigans and unlawful misdeeds. That kind of sunshine is always welcome and I would go as far as saying that people in government have no expectation of privacy and that secrecy at those levels is highly dangerous to liberty because 99% of the time it is used to cover up misdeeds or incompetence. Whether that extends to Mr. Podesta, I'm less sure, but after what they did to Bernie Sanders, I'm not shedding any tears for those people. They're scum. And it is the utmost good that Clinton lost the election--we can't survive that kind of corruption or we end up as a dictatorship.
Fantastic tool. How is average price calculated? For instance, there could be a substantial price difference between east coast and west coast locations so I wonder how reliable it would be.

Also, video on about page seems rather slow.
Did you actuall read the whole article.

Unfortunately, while the board is available in Europe and the UK, there doesn't appear to be a local distributor. On top of this, you'll need to jump through some hoops if you want to get it shipped here.
Do you really honestly think that's where things are heading? I mean, in your heart of hearts, do you truly think that?

When I cross a street, a simple second can separate me from getting plastered by a car or a cyclist. But it's not the same as actually being plastered by a car or a cyclist.
That's not really a fair response to the parent's comment, but I suppose the parent's comment was entirely charitable to the proposed hypothetical either.

A more rigorous question with which to start (though maybe a bit leading...) would be:

Would you rather pay qualified labor force participants to do labor/construction/civil engineering, or would you rather pay the same number of qualified participants to start high growth technology companies?

The nice thing about this question is that it lends itself to empiricism - we can figure out the most rational answer by looking at the ratio of successes to failures in each category of achievement. To put it very precisely: at what percentage of successes out of total attempts are we willing to choose to fund extremely rare but huge successes that employ a lot of people over very consistent but modest successes that employ only the workers and a smaller ongoing number in the long term?

I haven't actually done the math, but my intuition (which could be wrong!) is that it makes more sense to pay for people to e.g. fix America's insanely expensive and inefficient transportation system than to pay for them to sit in a garage and try to "innovate." Then again, you could argue that America's transportation projects are inefficient and expensive because they support an elaborate jobs program already :)
Sad that HN allows obviously hostile comments like these to remain...

Anyways, Trump listened to America. He listened quite a bit.

He not only visited and spoke to hundreds of thousands of people all over the country, but he held multiple (7 was his max) rallies everyday near the end of his campaign.

He also frequently sent long, detailed surveys (with both multiple choice and text box questions) to gauge public opinion.

On the contrary, Hillary was the candidate who failed to interact: from the lack of press conferences to lack of media interviews to lack of rallies to lack of presence in many states, Hillary's loss is arguably a direct reflection of her failed engagement with American people.

Edit: Here come the down votes.
Relevant tweet regarding projection: https://twitter.com/jwilcox79/status/822150802928259073
I hear you, and my thoughts echo yours. But I did want to keep the conversation on point and civil.

If the currently elected president is indeed serious about his election platform of 'for the people', then he should be probably using the letters 'from the people' as his reference base to keep an eye on the pulse 'of the people'...
"Encrypt them with spacefiller data and start crossing borders, and then refuse to provide passwords and abandon them for sheer amusement."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb
I want you to tell me what company you work for that sells this public data, and I'll be happy.

Don't care to tell me? Then don't respond with a comment saying "What else do you want me to tell you?" :)
I have the opposite problem: I constantly feel inadequately prepared for my job as a data scientist because I never got a PhD. I know mid-career doctorates are considered risky but I still have my mind made up to get one.
Exactly - this is a significant weakness of the study.
And tanking for 1+ mins on turn and river decisions (it would time out in real online poker). And $10M in computer resources. But impressive nonetheless.
No Trigonometry?
You have many incorrect points.

Firt of all, it's much less than a thousand jobs if you discount the white collar managerial jobs that were never planned to be relocated. The number of overall jobs saved is around 800.

Of those 800, a significant number of them will be eventually automated or are already in the works. So your ten year figure is, in my opinion, a bit overly optimistic.

It was a symbolic show. Even if Trump did a Carrier-type deal every month for his entire presidency, it would be far less than one percent of jobs lost due to automation and offshoring in the past 20 years.
The solution here to have more crews & gates. Will create some jobs along the way, and surely will cost less than the delays you described.
There's a difference between enjoying your job and not having any desires to do anything else. The former is normal and healthy, the latter is (imo) not a good strategy for working efficiently. I love my job but I don't think I'd be better at it if I poured 100+ hours/week into it. I'd probably just feel burnt out and unproductive.
I've tried AngelList, as a recent grad. It's been a disappointment. I've managed to snag several interviews. They were classified into one of the following:

1) Unprofessional -- schedule an interview, then never show up.

2) Unpaid/low salary -- startup interviews you for a founding member role for $35k/year in Boston.

3) Requires deep knowledge -- startup expects you to know everything and have incredible experience about their listed tech.

I'd also prefer sending in my resume over just using their profile template. AngelList seems to rely on having live projects up for showcasing purposes.
Aren't the Trump haters also projecting? And the Obama lovers as well. Obama is a smooth talker versus the crude talk of Trump. Obama's actions were dispicable. It remains to be seen if Trump's can reach that level.
No, he said (and this is a direct quote):

>Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on,

He later walked this claim back, but the statement was originally a ban on immigration by anyone of a given religion, not anyone from certain territories. Those claims were later walked back by other republicans, but the original claim made by Trump was for a ban on all Muslim immigration (which is on its face unconstitutional).
> It should come as no surprise then when you smell urine, residents haven't taken care of the most basic of needs.

Something that surprised me when I visited SF (I am not from the USA) is that the "type" of homeless seem to be people with some mental handicap or drunk. I would imagine that some of these for some reason don't make use of the help provided.
By 'hard' problem I mean that it has depth, not that it's unpleasant. A stream of easy problems could work but it's less reliable because when there's a dry spell then outcome (1) will be scratching at the door.

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" -- JFK
I don't know much about how branding works at that scale. But I don't think it's very effective for small/medium companies, and can be quite a money sink.

In nearly every SMB branding exercise/project I've participated in, the need for a brand, and the benefits it provides, are entirely limited to the egos of the employees.
Imagine discovering this code — having never seen it before —
and trying to work out what happens for non-logged in users that haven’t searched yet.

I'd run.

Overall, this seems to advocate for moving all your branching logic into one big file. I mean - I guess there could be a situation where I would want this - but it seems decoupled from real world examples and usage.

This is functionally, not much different from a function or method with a lot of branching logic embedded in itself. this just changes the format. So I don't see how this is new or better.

So I'll share one of my favorites related to reducing if statements that I use with some regularity:

before:

if user.signed_in?

if user.admin?

do_magic

end

end

After:

return unless user.signed_in? && user.admin?
do_magic
Enzo Ferrari once said, "I don't care if the door gaps are straight. When the driver steps on the gas I want him to shit his pants." So I don't accept the parent commenter's idea that manufacturing tolerances are relevant to styling.

It's economics and marketing, in my opinion. Car manufacturers find it hard enough to make money that I don't see them mass manufacturing risky designs that only a small number of people want to drive.
Isn't Sundance going on now? That might overflow into SLC?
What else can people do absent somethin glike a constitutional privacy amendment? Americans have just never cared much for privacy in the aggregate; the news is (and has long been) dominated by stories that appeal to the most prurient of interests, and furthermore Americans generally don't care what other people think of them that much (or so it seems to this European).

True, many of them may not appreciate the degree to which their lack of privacy is exploited for commercial purposes , but make too much of a fuss about that and people think you're a proto-communist or something. I'm very privacy-oriented by temperament but I've gotten used to being out of step with almost everyone I know over this.
Apparently this bill has been introduced every time a new Congress has come in for the last 20 years.

See http://www.snopes.com/us-pulling-out-of-un/
A lot of people in this country really hates Obama. And it seems, when you take out all the other ugliness, they base that hate on the idea that he is not genuine.

> President Obama was the first to come up with a deliberate and explicit practice of 10 letters every day.

But reading things like this, and a myriad of other things about Obama, I think that if you could scientifically quantify genuineness, Obama would rank at the very top. So I find it really offensive when people attack the man on his integrity.

You can attack his policy, but if you attack the man, I can not, and will not, agree with you.
I do. Easier to comment things out when necessary.

Hangover from SQL as well.
So Mike Pompeo won't be CIA Director?
Libratus biggest edge is probably grinding away at their blunders & tendencies (eg. Don never check raise bluffs in this spot, so I can safely value bet). It would be really interesting if they published the bots results vs. a mythical generic player. The difference would be a nice estimate as to how big an edge it derives from backtesting it's personalization strategies.
Sure. So, it's part of their ideology. That's what I was saying.
The problem with a brand is that you don't know if it's the most effective use of the resources that go into it.

Coca Cola has nearly infinite resources, compared to the jobs I've worked (<$75mm annual revenue).

Even then, can they prove the value of their brand is an effective use of their marketing dollars? What I've read has a lot of correlations that could be explained by other causes.

For a good read on this, check out the Intel Inside section on this article: https://conversionxl.com/cro-vs-branding/
On the one hand, it's an Alabama Representative introducing a bill to a committee, which is the earliest stage for any legislation to be in. Many, many bills die at this stage, and are never, ever implemented.

On the other hand, these are insane times and many initiatives are now being spearheaded by the kind of people who think the United Nations is an Illuminati cult dedicated to eliminating the nation-state as an institution.

The consequences would likely be geopolitical turmoil, since America has a veto-vote on the UN Security Council.
I find it terrifying this gets down voted. We should always keep in mind what the parent said no matter who is running this or any other country. Things like that have happened several times before in history in different scales and we need to remain vigilant to prevent something like it from happening again.
So true! (Edit: speaking for myself :) )Absolutely. Thank you for putting it so cogently!!
For subscribing to an ideology so strongly against faux outrage, y'all sure do peddle a lot of it.
It's chances are slim. It would likely mean that the UN would become completely powerless
Globalist Soros Exposed Funding Over 50 Organizations in Women's March on DC
Nephrologists Still Unclear What the Guy in the ASN Logo Is Doing
The Linux Edge (1999)
many local fire departments have had to escalate high-priority bug reports due to the uncommanded actions of lit candles.
There was a Women's March. Where's the tech march? This isn't a tech story unless you count being alive as a tech issue.
Some things that have worked for me:

1. A wise mentor once told me never to get all my satisfaction from one source. If I give everything to my job when it's going well, my job can take everything away when it turns bad. Keeping several balls in the air means that at any given time at least one of them is likely to be spinning well. For me at the moment it's developing software, making music and keeping fit.
2. Habits have saved me more than once in times of crisis. There are a lot of decisions I never need to make because they're already habitual. I don't find this makes life boring; rather, it frees me to focus on the important.
3. When things are tough, I buy some deferred gratification. This could be seats at a concert in three months time, a ticket in next week's lottery or arranging to meet friends for a coffee on the weekend.
4. When things get grim, I cut alcohol completely from my diet. A drink or two may seem a temporary escape from the pressures of the situation but, for me at least, alcohol is a poor ally in adversity.
5. Under extreme pressure I've observed that I usually start by looking for a way out of the situation, become depressed when I can't find one, and eventually discover the inner determination to master the problem. I remind myself of this pattern when I see trouble coming.
For any constitutional law experts: have there been any efforts to amend the 4th amendment to explicitly take into consideration private information held by third parties (ie abrogate FISA)?
Until the number of cosponsors reaches at least double digits, it can be ignored.

It's an Israel thing. Some members of Congress are angry with the UN about sanctioning Israel over their eviction of Arabs for more Jewish settlements.[1]

[1] http://www.newsweek.com/israel-palestine-united-nations-sett...
Fmr House Speaker Says Child He Raped Should Pay Back Hush Money
That's awesome, I can totally see myself using it.

One request though, temperatures in °C, Fahrenheit is pretty much meaningless to me.
For those who need babel source maps there's Fable, it uses F# and Babel to generate javascript, OCaml and F# are remarkably similar.
Thank you for taking the time to write this. Honestly, it makes a lot of sense.

I don't have any experience with billion dollar companies. Have you worked in the industry and seen how they measure their campaign efficacies in huge companies? I bet it's really different than what I've seen.

Based on what I've seen, it's a lot of story telling that "branding" works. The question is, does it work better than if the company had put those resources into other avenues? Improve the product. Decrease the cost to consumer. Better customer service.

Here's a good cro vs. branding article, check out the Intel Inside section. [0].

There's a lot of money being made by people working in branding. If their field actually wasn't very effective, I wonder if it would be possible for them to accept it. I generally wouldn't want to find out that my career has essentially been a waste, and I created no value. (insert sinclair quote here)

[0] https://conversionxl.com/cro-vs-branding/
Do you really believe he had the time to read 10 letters every day? Even at 5 minutes per letter that'd take 50 minutes. I just don't see how that's possible.
With Mexico, you mean?

But in all seriousness, you're correct, though I temper my enthusiasm with the thought that having the walls tends to make people complacent and underestimate risks.

For example, spying on other countries is as old as governments. So maybe that's pretty reasonable, as long as we put up a wall so that those things can't be used domestically. Now that we've settled that issue, let's build some really good tools so we know what our adversaries are doing and we can always find them. Unfortunately, then the hubris of it all catches up with us when some outgoing attorney general approves massive data sharing from tools that were always understood to be permissible only because they were aimed away from us.

Until we can find some way to make our politicians respect constitutional rights, walls are frighteningly temporary.
Norms and tradition are at the bottom of the incoming administration's priorities, as far as I can see.
They should do a Libratus vs Deepstack tournament https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01724
> Obama's actions were dispicable

Dictionary definition of 'despicable': "deserving hatred and contempt."

Really? I can think of many other leaders and people whose actions I would find despicable, but I don't see how that can apply to the 44th President as an all encompassing label? If you have actually read the article, and still think that, then I really don't know how we can even begin to discuss this in any sort of meaningful manner.
Thank you! Ahh we have a bug over there!

If you type your airport or place where you want to fly from and select an option out the suggestion dropdown you should be able to select the dates!

Thanks for the feedback, we will solve this!
He wrote a "Contract with the American Voter", you know.

www.track-trump.com
Hear hear. Go proselytize for self-castigating crypto-religions on Reddit.
No worries, hope my report was good enough! Excellent support as always :)
I'm not saying everyone who doesn't or thinks they can't are less than. I'm saying that short of some type of debilitation (physical or mental), there's actually nothing that is actually keeping someone from switching paths other than that person. You can go from coal miner to welder. You can go from construction worker to truck driver. You can go from factory worker to working for the city/county/state maintenance teams.

All of these will require you to seek out the opportunity, probably pick up some different skills along the way, deal with some BS trying to get a foot in the door, and likely a length of time where you've got to do something else to keep the lights on.

Back to my n=1 anecdotes, I worked more than full time at a local dairy farm and as a motorcycle tech to pay for university. My degree was in Computer Engineering, seemingly completely unrelated. I worked my ass off and admitted when I didn't know how to do something and sought help from those around me, but I also just tried. I just kept trying, that was it.

I had the luxury of not having to keep anyone but myself fed and the stamina that being 18 gives you. But all I did was drive to the farm down the road and ask if they needed help. Then I popped in to the motorcycle shop when I saw a help wanted sign.

My entire point is that people can try to change their path. They may not succeed, and it will very likely be incredibly hard and stressful- there will be obstacles and set backs, but you don't have to be special or smart or anything other than someone who's willing to try. To suggest that the vast majority of people can't do this is condescending and belittling to all of them.

I would agree that a lot won't even try, probably too afraid- which is totally different than being lazy or dumb. I would also posit that a number would come up 'short' in that they don't really get ahead of where they were, but maybe they're into a new area of work that will be more stable or safe. Then there's a lucky few who make it through the shitshow stronger, better off financially/socially, and with the self assurance that through their honest effort, all things are possible- if not always probable.
I'm going to give you all a small dose of reality regarding Data Science. Are you ready? It's being hyped to the max to sell courses, books, seminars, and what have you. So far, the number of data science jobs available in most cities is at least for now not in line with the MASSIVE hype taking place.

I would love to have a job doing Data Science: I have a PhD in a relevant field so I recently pushed down hard on this area. I took the Coursera course, I'm learning all the various Python libraries, I learned R, and do anything I can every day to pick up a skill here or there. I even have a "Kaggle" account. What I don't have are job leads because there aren't actually that many jobs and the ones that do exist say "data science" but really mean other things.