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Believing Cambridge Analytica are a bunch of geniuses doesn't only benefit CA, but also to the people that CA defeated. If Trump had a crazy amazing data science team, it means that Clinton and the "Mook Mafia" didn't mess up, they were just outplayed.

I think this whole pro-data story is incorrect. Trump's huge unpopularity right now shows that what happened this election was Clinton messing up her own campaign by religiously following data and not doing basic things like visit Wisconsin. And from the journalism end, the NYT telling readers that Clinton had an 80+% chance of winning, sending a loud and clear message: Stay home if you wish to protest vote.

Even after massive, massive predictive failures, fortune-tellers always manage to give excuses and stick around.
Not if you buy index funds you can't. And index funds are the best way to invest.
Jars are just awesome for cross-platform work or for when you need easy deployment. I oscillate between Java and Go now for similar tasks. They are both great for cross-platform and easy deploys/frequent updates. Go is better at systems stuff (that's expected as it is the new C IMO). Java is better if you want a boat-load of rich data structures at your finger tips (more than slices, structs and maps... Go feels bear bones here, but I like it that way just as I like C that way). They both perform about as well as C and C++ for most things and are safe and fun to use. I like C and C++ too, but I'm getting too old to use them.
There are two kinds of process in government. On the policy level there is making sure you have taken all the correct steps to ensure that the new policy is fair and follows the law. There is also the individual level where each person affected by the policy is given a chance to have a fair hearing and to appeal any unfair decisions. The Trump administration failed to do either, and this is part of the reason why the Acting Attorney General chose to resign to begin with.
Other industries are politically involved. Why should tech steer clear? What makes this more of a Pandora's box?
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Sam Altman's anti-Trump blog posts are the main reasons I am not applying to YC this time, and won't do so in future. As a pro-Trump founder I don't want to have to face a political litmus test just to get into a fucking accelerator.
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It's more then just decode. Segmentation, x87 emulation, and the interaction with other features are all pain points.
Sure. But the question assumed that the physical length can be variable depending on the environment. Even if that was the case, measurement of telomeres by the sequence themselves will be independent of environmental factor.

Maybe this is not the perfect analogy, but the character 'a' and the character 'A' might have different heights, but they still represent the same letter of the alphabet.
He's also CEO of a company with over 360,000 employees that produce a lot of goods and services. He adds value by ensuring they are run well.
Reminds me heavily of mo.js[1], but for native apps. I was pretty impressed with how smooth the mo.js demos were.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13419665
I'm not familiar with either API, but why wouldn't it be possible to get Cocoa working in iOS? I imagine UIKit would be optimized for small, low power, devices, which will always exist in some, ever shrinking, form.

It's all just a BSD variant, when you get down to it.
quantile regression is computationally intensive and inverse transformations usually less so. Although you could certainly make the case that, given enough data, quantile regression better captures what we actually want to find, most of the time (i.e. how's this effect diverge towards the extremes).

Normit typically (not sure if universally) has the lovely property of giving you something like a marginal t-test without the assumptions of mixture-of-gaussians errors. You don't jerk around with U-statistics and thus the sample size doesn't make the test statistics so damned granular.
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Except that molecular biology is a perfect example of how causal inference in complex systems fails.

Hidden context, uncontrolled experimental variables, pleotropic effects, experimental noise all conspire to produce conclusions that cannot be reproduced or if reproduced, cannot be generalised. The contrast with physics is stark - theoretical physicists predict experimental results (eg Higgs boson) many years before the experiment is performed. I don't think that in biology, we merely need to prove a succession of hypotheses to achieve the kind of explanatory causal models we want. A theoretical framework is needed, and at the moment, there is not even an outline of such a framework.
Because Java distributes applications as bundles including the libraries (fat JARs, WAR files and so on), libraries need to be available to the builder, not the installer. That means it's perfectly sound that they're in Maven Central (and competitors), and not in the OS's package manager. It's the same with packages in JavaScript, Ruby, Go, Erlang, etc.

The only things you might need to install through OS packages are the JVM, and perhaps an application server if you're doing things that way, which fewer and fewer people are.

When i first started working with Java on unix, i felt the same way as you - i wanted the libraries to come through the OS package manager, the same way native libraries do, and spent ages trying to get my deployed applications to use them. Eventually i realised i was just doing it completely wrong.
Sure, protect the disadvantaged is my only goal - it's definitely worth trying your idea to do it.
Exactly. Every language can scale the web servers easily. Every language cannot scale the SQL server easily.

Highest level language that's maintainable wins. That's why Python is incredibly popular. The real snag to Python is the flippant disregard to backwards compatibility even though it's already massively popular. Fragmenting the ecosystem.
Apple did not have the IP rights to continue PowerPC development

Didn't they get those rights when they bought PA Semi? I think it didn't make sense for Apple to develop their own processor in 2005 because they were just in a much weaker position than they are now.

And it was said that in the old days Exponential got their PowerPC license from Apple.
Well, he had to stop playing with rockets as he was running out of FU money...
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It describes in detail the ZeniMax allegations.

> Though the Court uses definite language, the information is based on allegations only

I highly recommend it. It provides much more perspective and appears to be a strong case. The decisions - both in their favor and against - appear reasonable based on publicly available information.
I'd love for someone to explain about this "inferring causality from observational data". I've read a little before, and it sounded really exciting, but I wondered if it was just the same as instrumental variables with multiple instruments. Anyone know more?
Misleading mainstream media, IMO. I'm conservative and the headlines about "election hacking" actually duped me until I had the time to read a thorough article about it.
Ah, thanks! :D What about "code-generation"? Would that work better?
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I've been reading the ebooks "Architecture of Open Source Applications", started from the second one because of technologies I already am familiar with as a backend (python) web developer
- like Firefox, Nginx, pypy and others. I have the other books in this series to read, but would like other references I may be missing. Do you have any books, videos, talks, etc to recommend that discuss the topic of scalable / fault tolerant systems or tools that can be used on that regard?

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Ok fine, but the broader App Thinning featureset of the App Store still means they wouldn't do a universal binary. They'd deliver just what the target device needs.
Hey man, me too! Almost same story, pirate CD. Though it was VB3 for me. Used to make AOL chat bots and mass mailers.

What did you build back then?
> Large fines like these, even if the facts are clear, do not support competition and seem anti-consumer and anti-innovation.

Supporting competition or being pro-consumer / pro-innovation should not come at the cost of individual property rights, which is one of the cornerstones of wealth creation. I can agree with curtailing property rights in some extreme cases (eg. antitrust litigations or eminent domain), but I don't see any reason to do so in the case of Zenimax.
> The reason I'm opposed is that the CEO is putting his opinion into the mouth of his shareholders, who may or may not share his opinion.

How is intervention in politics differenr from anything else a corporations management does, all of which is notionally in the interest of the shareholders, which (through the board) delegate authority to the CEO, hire the CEO, provide feedback and direction to the CEO, and fire the CEO of he strays unacceptably from their preferences?
To be honest I don't know the answer to that. That said, Apple has always had corporate value of being maximally responsible for their own destiny. It's hallmark card wisdom to know the things you can change and accept the things you can't change, but in Apple's case their history has been filled with finding things we can't change and replacing them with something we can. So where one company might say "Well we have to work with what ever the microprocessor company will agree too" Apple wants to say "The microprocessor company will do what ever we require of them." And if they can't find such a company they look at becoming a microprocessor company.

A lot of that thinking was laid out fairly extensively in the lawsuit over manufacturing sapphire they got into. The manufacturer (GT Advanced) complained (reasonably I think) that Apple's contracts were so onerous as to make them employees of the company in everything but name. And that appears to be how Apple likes it, complete control of their destiny when ever possible.
I have family in Europe and driving 25,000 km a year and eating takeout 2x a day alone would probably bankrupt them.
I wonder if this isn't some kind of mass denial happening in some subset of the world. I've been seeing a lot of theories abot why Trump won, including mass manipulation and Russian influence. But what about the simplest explanation - that he won because people voted for him (usual vote counting shenanigans that happen every election aside)? Is this fact so scary people need to rationalize it away?
I do not recommend advertising his side-project when working at Google. Unless he's allowed by his contract this may be a bit problematic for your' business future.
It's a code scaffolding tool like Yeoman or Plop but without the overhead of writing a large template script to accompany it.
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Sorry, I should have used the phrase "inverse cdf". If you can map a pile of data onto 0 to 1 (i.e. by ranking it) then you can invert it onto the values that occupy those quantiles for a Gaussian. This is nice because you can use quasi-parametric assumptions (very nice when multi-dimensional relationships are to be explored) without the data itself needing to be distributed appropriately. Other alternatives are to use nonparametric smoothers and the like but I kind of hate going to all that trouble when it's usually pointless. (important exception: when you have interesting correlated structure in high-dimensional data)

It's a hack, to be sure, but especially if you want to pool data (e.g. in mixed hierarchical models) for better predictions, it often pays off. The name is a play on "logit", "expit", "probit", "tobit", etc. since the actual transformation is relatively trivial for data that is already sorted. (For large unsorted data or streams, not so much)
To be fair...

That's an opportunity for an ideology based index fund.

Of course, having said that...

I'm not sanguine about the relative performance of such an instrument.
It's not that odd to me that inexperienced developers just don't "get it" yet about stuff like this. Maybe because I used to be (more) inexperienced and have opinions like this.
This really has to be put in perspective.

You never saw Ford or GM campaign against the Iraq War. You never saw Wall Street criticize the Patriot Act.

Some people call this activism, others would call it hysteria. Case in point: many people, mostly in the Silicon Valley subculture, are calling Trump an actual fascist, and saying that any CEO collaborating with him is just as evil as him. Textbook definition of hysteria. The grassroots left has been revitalized, but most Americans don't care much about Trump either way.

Now that's the big picture. Of course, immigration matters to people, and, in a minor way, to Silicon Valley. But discourse has become so tinged with emotion that corporations staying mum is now seen as evil, rather than business as usual. This mob-mentality may be productive now, but isn't an entirely positive development.
I see you cherry-picked the least problematic quotes:

"If all you're doing is watching Fox News and listening to Rush Limbaugh and reading some of the blogs that are churning out a lot of misinformation on a regular basis, then it's very hard for you to think that you're going to vote for somebody who you've been told is taking the country in the wrong direction."

"It's a point of view that I think is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth of a country that has a vibrant middle class and is competitive in the world. But as an economic enterprise, it's been wildly successful. And I suspect that if you ask Mr. Murdoch what his number-one concern is, it's that Fox is very successful."

You might think there is a difference between "attacks their character, not just their actions", but a person's actions are their character. President Obama was more elegant but his behavior is no different.
They try less harder to clean up 1000+ issues, and their hosted service is simply slow as hell.

GitHub has wonderful speed of customer support.

Docker isn't always the best solution to CI, what you need is just a prebuilt image for the language you're using. Travis starts really fast, since there's no image pulling time.
Tech firms are already heavily involved in politics. It's just that now that the government is no longer doing what they want, they are going to get more involved. News at 10. Has nothing to do with ethics or evil or any of that, has to do with the fact that their profit is built on the backs of immigrants. They don't want to lose that gravy train.
But the alternative I proposed is coming up with quantitative laws, not vague astrology like "Race A does this more often than Race B, therefore we need to do less of C".

That is an interesting connection to make though. If people view wild speculation as the alternative focus of research, incorporating the concept of causality would at least slow them down. This would reduce the amount of misinformation generated and number of destructive policies implemented. Still, I think causality offers more than that.
So fb will pay 300 mil and luckey and crew 200 mil.

I think its good for fb and bad for the others.

If fb had to pay all then that would've been bad for them.

How many units is occulus selling now?
I have a feeling that e-learning is going to be the killer app for VR/Augmented reality.
Can somebody recommend a good book (or any other resource) on statistics? I mean kind of stuff this post talks about: descriptives, tests, all the basic stuff. Despite being somewhat familiar with that, I sometimes feel I really lack the solid understanding of the subject and am longing for something explanatory, with real life examples and exercises.
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So then question...

If min wage is say $7.25 an hour, which is what you aim to pay turks... but then you end up throwing away 2/3 of your work (say have 3 turks do each piece to validate they did it right).... why not hire 1 local person for $15 an hour? Decent wage, less total money (15 vs $22 an hour), and likely better results.
Even the least maintained, least rare (they're all VERY rare) Ferrari 250's all go for well over $500,000, with many going for over $1,000,000. So probably not.

See: https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/ferrari/2...
TFA stands for The Featured Article and always has, though I can understand your misapprehension because of RTFM which does use F as you suggest.
It's both fun and incredibly frustrating at times.
Can I contact you? A bit hesitant about putting my email here.
Well, even if their transparency in failure is admirable, I'm not completely surprised.

Just running an apt-get install gitlab gives me around ~350 dependencies. In those dependencies, I see python, ruby, nodejs, redis, postgres.

With a little Java, and a little Go, plus some admin scripts written in Perl, the picture would be mostly complete...

I may be a little harsh, but when I see a piece of software with so much complexity in it that it requires 3 stacks, I'm not completely convinced it's a well conceived piece of software.

Having 5 backup systems, with none of them working properly kind of falls in the same category.
> Instead I'd introduce some sort of random failure elsewhere in the game, so it superficially looks like it's working, but isn't any fun to play...

Doesn't that defeat the purpose? If people don't realize that they're being punished for pirating, you're just collecting bad review scores and not pushing anyone to buy a legitimate copy.
Best is to develop in the open from the very first commit. If you've already got code in progress, then open it up now and keep working as you would have anyway. In other words: "release as open source" != "declare version 1.0". Open sourcing your code is unrelated to publishing a release; you can do the latter any time you want, from your open source repository. The way to ask for eyeballs is to make an announcement about a release -- to say "this code is ready for you to try it out", which, again, is independent of whenever you might have open sourced the code prior to that announcement.
Closest I could think of was a typo on Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, but your comment is on the first page of google results.
I was misled too; though that would be "The StackExchange for US immigration"
As I grow older, I seem to be coming to the same conclusion again and again - there is nothing right or wrong, moral or amoral. Power is what matters. Heck, entire notion of "Government" can be boiled down to "entity with monopoly on force" for a given area.
I'd love to find a path to agreeing with you, but you are indulging in hyperbole.
Yeah, sorry about that. By the time I realized the way the tone had come off, I had managed to "noprocrast" myself off the site. I need to write better hot takes
"Making it better" is usually not a simple task, specially for established products.
Want to cofound a bar? You get a tablet at each table, and have to earn enough credits to get the next drink. No need to pay cash, drinks will be paid right out of your turk balance.
If you apply the same standard you have displayed here to fake news on the other side of the political spectrum, then almost none of it would be fake news either.
Breitbart is less insidious imo. If you go there, chances are pretty good you know it's mostly horseshit. When it comes to e.g. CNN, way too many people take it at face value.

I'm just pointing out that the "legitimate" news sources aren't that much better than Breitbart these days, except a lot of people treat them as though they are.
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It is as if they are different people!
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