skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
where do you get your numbers from? saying 20% of senior executives leaving a company in a year seems to be a high figure.

let's set that aside for a moment, because you're saying this is completely normal for a large company. but to me this seems like a pretty abnormal event worth reporting. we're talking about a pretty large number of senior executives leaving within a very small timeframe. this seems to be why it's making the tech news sites, since it's not just the normal churn of employees leaving.
That vimeo short looks like it was exactly as grueling as he wanted it to be. I mean, he spent several seconds looking at a motionless room at, what, 5 fps?

Don't get me wrong, I've spent hundreds of dollars building a third-rate home security system from scratch, and it's almost to a useable state. But it's hard because I want to do it the hard way. I could have something much, much better for less money if I was actually focused on building quality efficiently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEdymJEs96g&t=29s
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I don't want my privacy invaded as much as the next person, but arguing about broadness of medical history in this context is pretty stupid.

The data needs to be broad if you are interested in finding out things you don't already know... that's why it's being fed into a machine learning algorithm in the first place - If you get selective then it's not going to be very useful - how do you limit history to what's relevant when you don't know whats relevant?

There is however an interesting difference here between most data mining on the web which is trying to sell advertising. In this instance it should be fully anonymisable, only the doctor should be allowed to see that patient ID e76f57a is John Smith.
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I'm no finance person but I have an idea what stocks & shares are.
That reminds me, Blowing in the wind's an incredibly easy to learn song too, four chords, easy progressions, only one quick change to an easy Em (I believe).

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/bob_dylan/blowin_in_the_w...

You can also do it without the Em, but it doesn't sound as good.

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/bob_dylan/blowin_in_the_w...
Sounds like you are saying there is one, but you can opt out.

That's crap.
No, most programs require a balance of throughput and latency.

This stuff was all heavily studied in the 90s and earlier, you know. The conclusions that researchers and engineers came to are equally valid today.
I'm not saying move out of the US. I'm saying I'd like more warning when anyone sneaks up on me. Who's giving up?
Yep, consumers are never paying premiums for transaction costs in Europe. Debit cards are the norm here. We don't pay extra when using our regular bank app to transact nor ecommerce transactions. Consumers are not going to pay for transactions :-)
$4.2 billion in sales, subject to 15% GST, suggests $630 million in tax revenue to the NZ government. Not a bad tax take from an operation that runs out of another country.
Paul Krugman handles this by using certain keywords in the title. In particular:

personal

trivial

wonkish

music

All other blog posts fall into the middle zone that he generally aims for. But the very technical stuff he marks "wonkish" and the personal stuff is "trivial". He does one music post every Friday, which he marks "music".
Thanks for your past posts. Looking forward to Distill!
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I totally agree that this is very important. While it isn't currently our primary focus, having a publishing platform that can accommodate a variety of content types (including code and data) feels like a step in the right direction.
This sort of thing is important in a context where more and more NHS services are getting sold off to private entities.

Arrangements that have been in the place for decades in the US are not necessarily relevant to the UK.
"...they rarely watch movies made 100 years ago"

Hmmm.

It's about the experience. The medium is the message and all that. Art out of context barely makes sense.

We rarely get to see those films as they were meant to be seen. Buster Keaton on the silver screen with a live organist is a completely different experience than watching it on your TV.

It's the same, for me, with old video games. I recently got on a tactics kick, wanting to relive the glory days. Tried to play thru an emulator; hated it. Ended up buying an old GBA.
Is there a commonly accepted standard for qualifications of a data scientist, are they expected to be software engineers with PhDs in something statistical/data-oriented? I've heard mixed things and am interested in getting clarity on this - sometimes they have CS backgrounds, sometimes they have non-CS backgrounds, some are competent programmers, others can't write a line of code, etc.
>>> As far as I've been following the analytics, news and coverage on this, the outcomes for UK are only negative.

As far as I'm following the media. All the companies I worked with stopped recruiting and some even shut down their London offices entirely.

Meanwhile, work as usual at the same places. If only we had a law department to sue them and get these fake news removed.
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The difference there is that the thing you are authoring is itself visual. You can't be a skilled Maya user if you're not a good visual thinker/designer because that's the core competency of 3D design itself.

Code is not inherently visual. If you made the editor visual, then it means people who are good at abstract reasoning and solving problems but don't have good aesthetic and spatial sense wouldn't be able to "write good code".
Yes, picking is a small percent, but failing to use the lock on a door or window is the number one way entry is gained [1]; point being if people locked doors, the numbers would likely be much higher given most burglars use one of the external doors at some point during a burglary.

[1] https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/vdhb.pdf
> My point is it's their choice to run their country the way they want.

Right, which is why globalization tends to undermine welfare states. TPP, the EU, trade agreements, etc. All those reduce the ability of voters to "run their country the way they want."
I'm writing as fast as I can. :)
There are a number of solutions. One of the simplest ones (popularized by the JVM) is card marking [1], where each memory page (usually shorter than an actual OS page) has a byte associated with it that is set to a non-zero value when a pointer in that segment is written. Because that change is an idempotent operation, it can be done without coordination between threads.

[1] http://blog.ragozin.info/2011/06/understanding-gc-pauses-in-...
Why does torvalds/linux have ∞ contributors?
Autocomplete is most commonly used on structures in order to find out which fields and methods that structure contains.

If you used an s-expression based grammar that still had fields and methods, then you'd get the exact same experience.

foo.bar. <- autocomplete here

vs

(foo.bar.)
^ autocomplete here
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FreeBSD appreciates, but doesn't need donations like the OpenBSD foundation does. many FreeBSD committers are FTE for a number of commercial outfits and work on FreeBSD full time. OpenBSD has hackathons, that are funded by donations.

if you use both, consider donating to OpenBSD first.

if you use OpenSSH, consider donating more to OpenBSD :-)
Not blocked for me and I'm in London right now.
It doesn't have to but globalization is defined as a 7 stage process which ends with-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_economic_integration

And you can see how that grows from NAFTA, GATT etc-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_integration#Stages
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in my (incredibly limited) experience, Impact Factor is also a consideration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor
Best news ever! Now I can finally justify my exuberant daily morning bath ritual to my friends and family with more than just "I like it so stfu".

On a serious note though, I've always known how good I feel after a nice 30-60 minute soak so I'm not entirely surprised. But I'll be sure to keep the water temp up from here on out though. I've grown accustomed to a "nice and warm but not excessively hot" setting. Come to think of it, 40 C (104 F) might be where I'm at already--that doesn't sound like a crazy high number. Perhaps it's time to take things to the next level and install a bath thermometer along with measuring my body temp pre and post bath.
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If you're even the slightest bit interested in this topic, I highly recommend the Nova special "Search for the Super Battery" that aired in February, hosted by David Pogue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCDuM_apIg8
> Some people don't get any pleasure by exercising

Couldn't this be a result of not exercising? It doesn't seem to be a coincidence that people who've made exercise a habit generally seem to enjoy it more.
>there's a maximum thickness the locker design will allow for the lock

Depending on how the locker works, you might have luck with something that protects the shackle a bit better, even if the shackle is still relatively thin in diameter. Like one of the disc style padlocks.
Yes, actually this is a strategy for sure.

Historically, the company I work for has been a market leader in the niche they serve, and as such, their products were initially incredibly complex as they were first to market and invented a lot of the technology. Over time, those products have been simplified and cut down, with only the most important features kept (and a few "whiz-bang" features).

Interesting issue with this, though - while I completely agree with your suggestion, some of the pushback for taking that direction involves the perception that the inherent complexity of the products is a strategy in and of itself. If the product is simplified and streamlined then it is easier to copy and harder to protect, according to some who think that way.

Personally, the competition is going to be there if it really is that much simpler to make the same product with less components/features and easier to maintain. Patents, etc. protect a business' position to an extent but, ultimately, competition still often points the way to more efficiency that benefits everyone.

I think much like companies use "planned obsolescence" to try to control their market position, they also use "intentional complexity" to try to do so as well. Both strategies have their pros and cons.

I think really strong companies maintain market dominance with simply constructed, simply understood offerings, done well, at a fair market price, with the related mind-share branding that goes with it. But that definitely sounds a lot easier than it is in reality.
By at least two ISPs (out of two I checked), but there are sites that track this.

And this block has no opt-out, while the "porn filter" one requires you to be over 18, so how would you call it?

Also because the political rethoric around it is quite precisely "protect the children"...
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That lifetime perspective is really on point. I recently bought some used barber supplies from a guy who's mom is in the styling business. There's been a shift for them to go cordless/battery powered for convenience and I wound up buying some trimmers and clippers from him for a fraction of the cost. The lifetime these tools were designed at far exceeds the lifetime of my usage with my family and stuff; they'll go the distance for sure. I've since come to learn that this little market does appear to have pretty serviceable parts as you can see with a lot of exploded diagrams they put out https://www.proproductsandmore.com/images/andis_sl2_trimmer....
I'm trying to remember what the lifetime quote to me was, something like these clippers were meant to cut 20 heads a day, day after day for some number of years. I realized at the rate I was going they'd be heirlooms to pass on to my son and stuff.
Where are all these "up the value chain" jobs? As someone who graduated college and graduate school relatively recently, the only thing I see is the opposite problem. Outside of a few niches, the population is overeducated. Tons of people who graduated college my year (mid aughts) couldn't get a job that required a college degree.
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

-Adam Smith
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Sure some markets like autos are like as you say. Many others, much less so.
> Everything is published under Creative Commons Attribution.

this is tres bien.

same for data sets?
What other services would require no data if it were integrated into your car but would require data if it were integrated into your phone?
I believe my wife (as did many others) responded to Ebert's blog entry years ago with that exact example.

He mentions Shadow of the Colossus it in a response:

http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/okay-kids-play-on-m...

It's funny, Ebert said that games aren't art because they give you choices... and in a way, Shadow of the Colossus gives you none.
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"What sort of thing?"

The report essentially says Google owns Deep Mind and Google has advertising business, ipso facto, some magical standrard dreamt up by the authors were not met.

The reason for mentioning US agreements is that several nations, researchers and comapnies have developed procedures around sharing this data. And such sharing is not entirely unprecedented.
> You may or may not be aware, but FreeBSD runs your movies on Netflix, your games on PlayStation 4 and Nitendo Switch

Do Netflix, Nintendo and Sony contribute financially to the FreeBSD project? They are the ones making money off the project after all.
Considering plenty of mummies had horrible teeth, I doubt it.
If the summary is truly eyebrow-raising then yes, I'd move the little pointer to the top of the screen and click the link. Whatever point you are trying to make here seems way overblown.
Per this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13914768 is it not possible to win at adwords in your area?
>These are definitely luxurious perks and not "basic niceties".

I don't think you realize how little these items cost when divided out amongst the number of employees. In particular when you consider the alternative of them leaving the Google campus for a half hour for a coffee break.

If you think catered lunches and the like are purely perks, then you drank the Kool-Aid. There is a reason they don't want you bringing free food/snacks home - it's because when you consume it in the office they are getting a benefit out of it as well.

> and they are the first company I have worked for with either baristas

It's not because Google is that much nicer. It's just because they realized early on the return on investment these things provide. This stuff is pretty much par for the course for newer tech companies in the bay.
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In the US, I suppose a state without a sales tax like New Hampshire also effectively loses out on tax revenue to Apple.
This is true, but it has also strengthened inequality significantly within countries: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2007/02/pdf/c4.pdf
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You are right, it is a different type of addiction.
On a similar note, I've always wondered why when MP3 players started to become popular in the late 90s and early 2000s but cars were still stuck in the tape/CD stage, no car offered a stripped down entertainment system with just speakers, amplifier, and a 3.5mm jack.
I think there is a substantial hole in your train of thought as well. Don't miss the forest for the trees.

I think this guide will help you understand the bigger picture:
https://zenhabits.net/plants/
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Unfortunately that means being subjected to YouTube comments
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1) UK is not the US, and the EU has much stricter privacy laws

2) There is not such thing as "anonymized data" that is gathered by companies. There are several studies out there that show that with only 4 data points you can pinpoint someone in an "anonymized database" with 90% accuracy. Even Apple's differential privacy can probably be reverse engineered to find people. Just because you don't care to do that, doesn't mean others wouldn't do that either.
For the curious, I think this is the image from [1]: https://i.imgur.com/OOlZexh.png
I've faithfully gone to the gym 5 times a week every week for a year and a half. I still despise exercise - but I like the results enough to keep going.

My inspiration is simple [0]. Ultimately, I'm in control of how I look and feel. Exercise sucks - but it's the best way to keep myself looking how I want to look. That's the only motivation I need to suffer through it.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/B63LzdF.jpg
The Egyptians didn't each much better than us - lots of breads.

I would assume OP means by "feedback" the constant ripping and tearing of meat and incessant chewing of highly fibrous plants and vegetables.
Speaking from my own experience, I don't have the opportunity to use them, rather I have to use the language with less features in the work place. The articles are meant to persuade people into using languages with more features. I feel at home with FP, HKT, and ADTs, actually I'm out of my comfort zone without them.
That only works for a tiny proportion of Silicon Valley-like startups.
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Then you stack levels of indirections, which is another source of problems.
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> For his invention to work as described, they say, it would probably have to abandon the laws of thermodynamics, which say perpetual motion is not possible. The law has been a fundamental of batteries for more than a century and a half.

"A fundamental of batteries", yes, but also just, well, fundamental of everything.
They give ISO which are worthless and might fire back for a lot of employees.

They won't be able to retain talent when the talent will figure out they can't get the stock that was wrongly promised.
Since you are [sic]-ing - it's 'complimented', in this case.

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/04/compliment-or-com...
> driven by nothing but pure political agenda

Do you mean personal or political? Because you insinuate personal motive with no evidence ("...and fear of AI sells very well in these types of academic circles...").

However, I don't see anything particularly wrong with researchers being motivated by politics.

Personal privacy is political.

Climate change is political.

Human rights are political.

Researchers should not feel an obligation to shy away from politically charged topics. At least, not if we want science to be anything except a tool for moneyed interests to batter the rest of us into submission.

Shaming researchers for publishing politically relevant findings is its own form of witch-hunt.

> E.g. as part of my PhD research I have access to de-indentifed data on 40 Million patients spanning 5 years from several states.

De-identified is a rather extraordinary caveat! It's the difference between "aub3bhat has cancer/AIDs/depression" and "entry 143048 has cancer/AIDs/depression". Or, for that matter, "aub3bhat says..." and "<insert your name> says..."

In short, the situations are nothing alike.

> The report does not lists any specific cases where violations occured but rather makes broad hand waving claims about cabining or advertising.

If companies are willing to open-source their analysis tools and provide a mechanism for me to audit how my data is used, then I'm happy to not assume malice.+

Otherwise, I'll assume that they do everything that's legally permissible.

Absence of sufficient contractual protections is enough justification for deep concern, IMO.

IANAL, but I imagine you'd be hard-pressed to find a competent lawyer giving a corporate client literally any other piece of advice. For example.

> The only reason Deep Mind is being persecuted is since they are a juicy target

You say this as if it's unreasonable. Google's very explicit raison d'etre is to collect and organize the world's information for profit. Explain to me again why I should trust them with my health records.

--

+ To DeepMind's credit, the article indicates that they're planning on doing something like this, and an improved contract has already been signed. And I don't fault Google or DeepMind in any of this. The fault is entirely with NHS.
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A more just society means a harder life for profit driven structures. That's just the way it is : the more you want to benefit all, the less you can concentrate resources.
My feeling is that diabetes is, at least in part, caused by poor circulation. The peripheral neuropathy commonly associated with diabetes may actually be caused by poor circulation as well, not by diabetes.

If blood flow to your limbs is impaired, your limbs can't process insulin very well.

Given this view, anything that promotes circulation is going to help diabetes.
> If there are a few examples of video games as sublime art, then I think that establishes the medium as art. The movie Doom is abysmal, and yet the late Roger Ebert would put that on a higher plane than these great examples? That seems irrational.

I think he would describe the movie Doom as bad art: It's orthogonal to a good game -- not able to be compared as art.

He's working with a very specific limited definition of art.

(I don't agree with Ebert's premise. Although his auteur point is compelling, it is too one-dimensional. And doesn't take catharsis into account.)
From a scientific calculator I would definitely expect complex numbers.
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I don't know why I still let my connections exit in the U.K., or live here really.

One of the reasons I left years ago. One of the best moves in my life.
I may be alone on this one, but I'm enchanted by David Rockefeller's long-ago crusade to create an "electronic Rolodex" of the 150,000 people he met in the course of his business career.

The dude nearly invented LinkedIn! Of course, he forgot to allow access to anyone else, which limited the value of his efforts. And boasting about 150,000 isn't quite what it used to be. (More like an Ozymandias claim, in fact.) Anyway, some more thoughts about it are here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2017/03/20/he-knew...