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> evangelizing the data consumer's point of view

Note that this is a fundamental principle in software development, not just for data science:

Prefer data structures that are simple to interpret over those simple to generate.

This principle follows from two basic observations:

1. Data is usually produced by one application, but consumed by many different applications.

2. Writing a serializer is almost always easier than writing a parser. [1]

However, it is not always clear how to apply this principle. For example, as a library or web service author, you define the API on your own, rather than having your users define it. It is extra effort to get feedback from your library users, and to design your API accordingly. That's why most APIs are geared towards the data producers rather than consumers.

There is even an enterprise design pattern for this:

https://martinfowler.com/articles/consumerDrivenContracts.ht...

[1] The former usually involves a template system and a few helper functions. The latter usually involves regexes embedded in ugly code, parser generators with all their shortcomings (and the fact that most programmers don't bother to learn using them), complex DOM or JSON traversals that fail to handle all special cases, or masses of autogenerated classes automatically derived from some XML schema (or JSON schema).
I know you can expect the source code, but this trend of pasting things into the terminal with sudo is crazy:

> curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kamranahmedse/git-standup/... | sudo sh
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> Some banks have already started making their APIs available. Examples hereof are the Danish Saxo Bank, that opened up for their APIs in September 201510 and Capital One, a UK based bank, that already now enables affiliates to benefit through their APIs.

The article author is sadly uninformed on this one. In Germany, HBCI is employed since 2002 by 2000+ banks, approximately half of German banks (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebanking_Computer_Interface).
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Exactly. Trying to discern wether we live in a simulation or not with our current knowledge of physics and the universe (we are idiots that only recently discarded geocentrism), is like monkeys trying to guess if the zoo they live in is human-made or part of the nature... it is beyond the comprehension of the species...

It all boils down to wether you think a superintelligent civilisation with superior understanding of the universe exists, and if they could do it... So Bostrom might be right in the end.
> An absolutely insane default IMO

Why do you consider it to be so? To quote Tor Project's Mike Perry:

The reason we feel that leaving Javascript enabled trumps these concerns
is:

1. We want enough people to actually use Tor Browser such that it
becomes less interesting that you're a Tor user. We have plenty of
academic research and mathematical proofs that tell us quite clearly
that the more people use Tor, the better the privacy, anonymity, and
traffic analysis resistance properties will become.

In fact, my personal goal is to grab the entire "Do Not Track" userbase
from Mozilla. That userbase is probably well in excess of 12.5 million
people:
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/400248/

I do not believe we can capture that userbase if we ship a
JS-disabled-by-default browser.

2. Exploitable vulnerabilities can be anywhere in the browser, not just
in the JS interpreter. We disable and/or click-to-play the known major
vectors, but the best solutions here are providing bug bounties (Mozilla
does this; we should too, if we had any money) and sandboxing systems
(Seatbelt, AppArmor, SELinux).

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-May/024...
Mr. Rogers was kind in a way that's almost painful -- but exactly not because it's in any way accusatory.
The "black hair care market" is one of the curious things I've pondered about since spending some time in Africa. I think they are onto something and I think it's one of the markets where you can build a nice lead without really being noticed. I (as a Caucasian man with not exactly a lot of hair) had some very interesting discussions about hair pieces for example. I wish them the best of luck, the capitalist in me is always very happy if these "curious sounding" markets finally get attention :)

There's something very satisfying about seeing such a company in a batch with enterprise sales focused companies and an e-plane company.
Why not? If poor people costed landlords money they unfortunately have two solutions.

Good one: make those people no longer poor by any means at their disposal.

Evil one: get rid of poor people.

If this were too be enforced globally (including closing loopholes such as homelessness) the evil solution would have to involve breaking the law by someone.
(I'm thinking of a quota requiring building and maintenance of x amount of housing for the poor of specified standard, rent controlled. Including rentals.)
I think the byte addresability is a software layer from ScaleMP.

I have no idea, but some concern how that might affect latency.
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In my opinion, qualia is just a word that stands in for agent-centric perception. For a reinforcement learning agent (such as human, animal, robot or AlphaGo) qualia is the combined effect of perception and value function.

I think Chalmers tries to introduce a kind of dualism here - he's saying that human experience is something special, unlike other mechanical processes (which can only be mere p-zombies). I don't think it is a good idea to turn to dualism because it has been proven flawed and leads to philosophical conundrums.

I think current day philosophy doesn't properly appreciate the insights coming from AI. We have seen AI give amazing results in perception : images, sounds, video - it's no mystery any more. You just put 100 layers deep convolutional nets to solve the problem from data. Philosophers still talk like we don't know how perception works, or that it results in ontologically special qualia.

Another very important AI insight that is being ignored by contemporary philosophers is Reinforcement Learning. We have made great advances in intelligent behavior, and RL concepts (agent, environment, reward, and learning) are better suited for explaining human consciousness than traditional concepts such as free will, qualia and Chinese Rooms.

Wittgenstein's concept of language games is apparent in reinforcement learning. There has been a recent paper about agents evolving a new language by trying to solve a problem together. Also, language philosophy should take a look at word embeddings.

Maybe philosophy needs more grounding in AI.
So I can't just put my code in ~/Projects like with every other programming language I've ever used?
But this is not physics, or science, unless you can have falsifiable claims. Otherwise it's just philosophy or metaphysics, which does not warrant a scientific discussion.
Which form is that? Elaborate?
Is it true methane is so much worse a geeenhouse gas than co2 ("20x")? Wouldn't that mean him turning methane into co2 is not just carbon neutral, but great for the environment?
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...and all that (excluding the professor part) since 2011! Boy, talk about working fast!

In case you can't tell, there's a great big sarcasm tag there. There is absolutely no way that the guy has contributed substantially to all of those things in less than six years.

Sometimes, people get a reputation for something, and then leverage that into a slingshot of career advancement. Good for him, but the people who are doing the actual work of developing this stuff can easily spend six years on a single problem, so it's helpful to maintain perspective.
The thing I always found perplexing about the idea of an ancestral simulation is - how do you initialize that? E.g. suppose we are in the year 3,000 and we have super advanced computers and I'd like to simulate the year 2017. How do I lay out all the humans/their brains/animals/trees/rocks/etc, without access to the snapshot of the state? And some attempts at patching this, e.g. by simulating physics backwards from a current state because the laws of physics are reversible is not likely due to 1) entropy/chaos when going backward, 2) the difficulty of taking a simultaneous high-fidelity particle-level-accurate snapshot in the year 3,000, and 3) missing boundary conditions.
Windows had this length limit all the up to and including Win8, my work login which included a 3 letter domain and backslash was too long for Windows, so they cut the last 3 letters of my name off so that I could be logged in. It's made logging in to to some work services difficult, I'm not always sure they are asking for full ID like email address, or the truncated version.
I doubt most people type their passwords multiple times on a daily basis, so dismissing mnemonics with "just use muscle memory" doesn't look practical to me. And they're not incompatible, actually: you can eventually commit to muscle memory a diceware-like password, but in the meantime (or if it slips out of muscle memory) you got mnemonics ie. clues.

As far as I'm concerned, I've tested some diceware passwords for some months, and I would say they served me all right. I "name" my passwords by their initials (first letter of each word), so there's no risk of missing a word or swapping some.
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Did they actually do anything besides donate money to the ACLU? I didn't see anything on the ACLU's website about it, which is strange given the arrangement YC usually has with companies they "fund." Did anyone from the ACLU go to YC and participate? Is there a "demo day" presenation from the ACLU? I'm very confused.
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I've seen that too, "Welcome Christ..."
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Oh the confusion doesn't lie there; ask anyone about an airport near Amsterdam and they will think of AMS. it's just that for most Dutch, Schiphol (AMS) is a national airport rather than just Amsterdam's airport. So 'Amsterdam Airport Schiphol' sounds pretentious but correct, whereas 'Amsterdam Airport' just doesn't click — like adverbs without a noun.
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For all we know, a hypothetical simulation must take part somewhere far below the atomic/quantum level, maybe around the Planck scale. Upwards from that we that we understand a lot of what happens through observation and derived theories. We have no evidence so far that anything or anyone has interfered with the rules above that level in the last 10+ billions years.

Therefore, it does not matter if this universe is a simulation, it behaves just the same and has the same uncertainties about the future attached to it.
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Can you please explain how does it work? How does the new microcode gets into the CPU?
Why is that a relevant comparison for anyone interested in their own security? It seems to me that the comparison that matters is with my own status quo and with other options that I might consider, not with some average status quo.
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I just would like to know how this game is scored and how many lifes I have left...
I do. I order from Amazon Fresh every week. The reason is simple: after fifteen weeks of having Safeway deliver my food, not a single time did they deliver all of the items I actually ordered.
That argument is terrible. If you are smart enough to program weapons systems for a defense contractor then you are smart enough to make money doing something else.
That sounds like evercookie[1] , which has been around for a while.

1: http://samy.pl/evercookie/
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None of the above needs to happen overnight. Who knows what humanity will be capable of in 1000 years?

Furthermore, in a strict sense my question would be 'Is it possible to extract additional information with any degree of certainty about the past state of some region of the universe, using simulation algorithms and partial information about past states of this region?'

This assumption doesn't need to go to the atomic level on the first try. If you can replicate distribution of mass on the scale of galaxy clusters as compared to the present day using the above approach, it would certainly prompt further research in this area.
Hey, trome, you know a lot about this space judging from your comments. I'm really interested to know who some of the other WebRTC providers you have in mind are. I can't find anything on Google, I'm afraid.
> Mahindra

I had no idea Mahindraactually had a presence in the US. Can you tell me how they are generally regarded?
> There's nothing at all wrong with this.

Sure, no server has ever been compromised and his binaries replaced... The good old pgp signatures, circle of trusts, etc are not for show.
Eck, it's not even served from github.com but from a random proxy
Maybe it is if there's a bug in the simulation. Large scale software projects have bugs all the time.
It doesn't have to be historically accurate. Just believable by the simulated.
In Poland there were many people killed, potentially due to a coma (,). A court process of the pacification of Wujek [1] was mainly whether a response to question "Should we shoot?" was "No, wait for orders" or "Don't wait for orders" (in Polish less difference "Nie, czekajcie na razkaz" vs. "Nie czekajcie na rozkaz"). This was really a ruining life of many just by one coma.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacification_of_Wujek
> I thought x01 were college designations, we don't use them here.

As I said, this is properly a terminology question. I can't speak from experience for the american naming scheme, and where I live, much of it has been "rehashed" in different institutions.

Does that mean that you have noone at the beginning of a CS degree that can't program yet? We certainly hat a good bunch of them.

As for UNIX tools: Absolutely. I've never gotten around to learn awk properly (and never had any need to), but having experience in bash (and other shells) in combination with the GNU tools has had countless benefits for me so far.

Do you have any preference for introduction material for awk?

Edit:

When it comes to data processing, I also really like what projects like pandas are doing:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pandas
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Could be fixed by central regulation but allegedly free market solves all problems by itself.
That kind of thing's not so rare though. Hospitals have lots of systems and paper works quite well.
Similarly, my job lets me claim a part of the monthly internet bill as a work-from-home expense, but my ISP cost me 6 months expenses because they couldn't transfer the account to my name from my SO's. Same last name, same address. To start a new account they wanted a sign up fee equal to about 3 months of said expenses. Employer would not accept a copy of the bill in my SO's name (same surname, same address) citing tax fraud, which surely would have been our own breach of law if we both had been making the same claim on the same bill.

Bureaucracy won again. Until we got a different operator at the ISP who worked out that they could add my name as if the account was landlord & renter scenario, so there could be an owner and another who was responsible for payment.
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Ehh they aren't super interesting but there are good businesses in there. Out of the ones I saw from both days AON3D, InnaMed Vinsight, Cowlar, MarketFox, Trade, BulkMRO, Hogaru and SuprDaily all seem to have good market niches and achievable goals.
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So I can understand this. You're sort of offering an international 1800 number? Except instead of using a phone number prefix, you're using links and WebRTC? It does sound pretty cool.
I took a look at that project too. In modern chrome at least, clearing your browsing history and cookies and cache clears all those cookies.
Can someone explain the first bit of the last sentence?

> if our world is a simulation, then whoever is simulating it seems to have a clear preference for the 2-norm over the 1-norm

Is it basically saying that space looks Euclidean at a range of scales and Pythagoras crops up everywhere or is it saying something else / more sophisticated? What would the Universe look like if its creator favored a 1-norm?
I run a few Amazon stores with about 10,000 SKUs -- don't re-SKU, what you want to do is brand gating... IF you are the brand owner and/or manufacturer. I can give you a few tips if you just need some advice. I'm guessing you don't have a vendorcentral account manager, but if you do, they can VERY effectively start banhammering the 3P knockoff companies.

Also, check out sellercentral forums for a community of folks there too. It's not HN but it's pretty active.
Oh, I don't NEED them - that probably was a poor choice of words. But, at times, they make life easier, most notably when a flight into a transit airport you are not familiar with is delayed.

My comment was more in exasperation that when airport apps first are a thing - why, oh why does every airport need its own proprietary one?

And why are they more often than not made with hardly a thought being spared as to UX - and all seemingly designed by some new media company who just hankered a bloke in from the street which had the good marketing sense and poor judgment to put 'app development' on his resume after successfully completing the 'Hello, World!' tutorial in Android Studio...
Until they hit a crisis they cannot deal with given their meagre means.

This could be a health problem, workplace closing, unplanned parenthood, important item breaking... and way more.
Breaker's app looks good, but I agree in that I hope they won't succeed. Their monetization strategy is to "own" podcasts and have people pay for access, if I understand correctly. Which podcasts do they have lined up for this? Will those podcasts still have ads in them? When will they start charging? Too many unanswered questions for me at this point which stops me from switching from my current podcast setup, and to advocate my friends to switch to this new "social" platform which might shut down when money runs out.

I pay for Spotify, Netflix etc. to avoid ads. Some podcasts manage to incorporate ads tastefully with respect for the listener. Others are not done that well, and produces the same horror as when you're used to Netflix and suddenly see how a show looks with frequent commercial breaks on a hotel TV.

Here's an idea: Crowdsourced ad-filtered podcast RSS streams you have to pay to access, where the profits go back to the podcasts themselves. Users mark the start and end of the ads in the podcast audio, and a podcast player skips those parts. That's something I would pay for, and hopefully would generate more money to the producers of podcasts than ads.
Honestly, when people ask me in job interviews what the hardest (programming) thing I've done, I default to "I taught myself pointers in C in the early 90s". Kids today have it so easy!
I'm not convinced about phone calls, because if your phone is stolen you can always go to a pay phone!

Sarcasm aside. The real answer is: Convenience. There are apps that make my life a lot more convenient. Dutch citizens live on public transport; I have never touched a car in my life. A bus stops at my station every 50 seconds. It is great to be able to quickly plan, get information about delays, allow yourself to take a nap and get woken up by a buzzer etc... It's just convenience. Yes you'll get along fine if you do your daily commute with same train, same bus, same boat. But as soon as you need to do something more exotic, it's nice for an app to have your back
1) you start from Big Bang and go forward.

2) you can at any state check the difference between the simulated state and historical record

3) if your simulation converges, that is the closer to present day, the less the uncertainty, then you are on a right track.

4) if you simulation diverges you go to step 1 and tweak the initial conditions

5) you don't run a single simulation - you run many in parallel and select the best match at each step.
The problem with quasi-monopolies like Amazon is that they lose any pressure to behave properly. Issues like this should encourage people to look at Amazon alternatives. I'd be happy to pay a bit more and wait a bit longer for goods if I'm able to make sure that I'm buying legitimate products and not counterfeits.

Are there any promising Amazon alternatives people would recommend?
I'm learning polish and every sentence is basically one letter away from disaster.
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There are many questions in life that are interesting to consider, independent of whether they're falsifiable. It tends to get boring to consider only questions that can be experimentally proven, though different people have different interests.

Questions about society and human nature are worth considering, for example, but it's difficult to do controlled experiments.

There's some truth to "watch out for wishful thinking," but usually conversations about the actual topic are more interesting.
Hah. Haven't even connected any with Mail.app nowadays since it was always such a resource hog with even only two accounts (especially in the earlier iOS days).

But, no offense, don't measures like these feel rather ridiculous? They are tantamount to "just don't use your Ipad (much) and it works great!"
They do do this -- people who buy X also buy Y.
As a UX guy "Maybe the nurses didn't know how to do it, but it can definitely be done." is absolutely no excuse.

It still screams 'poor design' and 'couldn't be bothered to test'.
How does it stop everyone from just squeezing more?
Do we really need another walled garden snapchat clone? I seriously don't get where the excitement comes from. Because it's apple? And apple means Awesome?
One really contrived usecase may be "flame graphs" for high level diagnostics of learned models in a production pipeline, as you collect more data or modify features. But I don't imagine it'd be very good.

- the images and false colors need to show some semblance of stability for a given network between epochs; and it needs to be robust against changing data or input structure.

- requiring visual inspection doesn't give you something you can automate with, unlike an evaluation score.

- if there is indeed a significant deviation in "MRI"-like scans between batches, its diagnostic utility ends there - it tells you nothing about what caused a change.