skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the interesting part is not that the relative frequency might converge to something other than 50 % under non-ideal conditions, but that it might not converge at all, admittedly only very, very rarely. And this seems to force you into an infinite regress.

50 % probability for heads means that if you toss the coin infinitely often the relative frequency will converge to 50 %. But not quite, in very rare cases it won't. So you have to toss a coin infinitely often an infinite number of times and then you will see that all but a tiny fraction of the experiments indeed show the relative frequency converge to 50 %.

But now you have to quantify that this tiny fraction is something of probability zero. And even worse, it is still possible that none of your repeated experiments showed convergence, you seem right back where you started.

I would love to know to what you are referring with the inconsistent beliefs.

I would not say that Bayesian view is non-intuitive, I would say it fails to account for important things. A priori probabilities have to be rooted somewhere. Where does you beliefe in a 50 % probability for heads come from? Because you have previously observed the relative frequencies of coin tosses? Because you made some theoretical observations about symmetries?

There must be, at least so it seems to me, something about the probabilities associated with coin tosses that is independent of any individual, otherwise it would become rather difficult to explain how different individuals would arrive at similar probabilities independent of each other. So banning probabilities into the realm of beliefs does not cut it in my opinion.
It still seems fairly untapped in enterprise and entrepreneurial circles, too. I've been wanting to create a side project that is sort of like an expert system, except where users can create the rules as well as the facts, and that is also horizontally scalable (which doesn't seem to be a good fit for the Rete algorithm). So I'm not sure if I'm looking for some sort of jvm-runtime logic programming system that can be combined with a graph database or what.
Since tracking would be done in cooperation with the website you are connecting to, they could transmit something OOB to associate your current IP with their advertising identifier, even if you use HTTPS.
Without federal funding & stakeholders, what really distinguishes CPB / PBS from any other non-profit?

> conservatives benefit more from having PBS around as an issue than they would by slashing its funding

There's an implication here that if federal funding ceased, the conservative assault on PBS would somehow fizzle - but couldn't the opposite just as easily be true?

Cutting off federal funds is a form of de-legitimization, and we'd hear it cited for years to come as 'proof' that PBS and all its programming is liberal propaganda that can safely be ignored by one and all.
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The article doesn't mention this, but some relevant backstory for the quasi-medical claims is that Horlicks originated in the US in the late 19th century, at the height of the "patent medicine" craze. The same one that gave us Coca Cola, along with various other less remembered quack cures. The company was started in Chicago in the 1870s by two brothers who had immigrated from England. One of them moved back to the UK about 20 years later, where he began importing the product, and later opened a UK subsidiary (the 1906 date the company quotes in UK marketing is the opening date of the UK subsidiary's first factory). It subsequently lost market share in the US, disappearing entirely by the 1930s, so is now hardly remembered by any Americans still alive. But it found more enduring success in the UK, which also spread it to its colonies.
Google doesn't have a natural monopoly in most of the country, and the ISPs do. Couple that with no ISP equivalent of ctrl+shift+n, and there you are (VPNs are just replacing one ISP with another).
Well if the expert said that the research shows it, it must be so.
> has not been demonstrated yet.

No kidding. However, the present issues with a request for a preliminary injunction I require the court weighing, based on the information provided by the parties, a number of factors, including likelihood of success on the merits. As the "preliminary" part of the name hints, that's not a final assessment of the evidence, however deliberately wotholding exculpatory evidence now has adverse consequences.
Huh? Did you read what I wrote? I said exactly that. Why does not paying money absolve Google of anything? So, if you sign up for my free SaaS service, I can do whatever with your data?
From an ideological perspective, the idea of any state-run media is pretty dissonant with my views. Being opposed to the very idea of PBS or anything like it is a totally understandable position.

The case for PBS is a pragmatic one: it serves millions of kids everyday and supplies unrivaled public educational programming, for what most would consider a very reasonable public expenditure. I completely agree that other agencies should look to PBS as a financial model to be emulated.[1] But it's unfair to discount the validity of your opponent's argument just because the pragmatic counter-argument is strong.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/penta...
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Interesting thought! On the other hand, what is the point of building stuff if you don't need protection from rain and snow, vast swaths of ocean are just the right temperature for you, you can sleep with half your brain at a time while swimming, and you are not interested in stockpiling food for later?

I have a feeling that what dolphins lack in material culture, they make up for in social life, poetry, philosophy, and music.
They're probably looking at us with pity: "Their pod dynamics wouldn't be such a mess if only they didn't waste so much time and effort building stuff..."

(Okay, okay, I know a lot of you people love building stuff...)

If anyone's interested, I really enjoyed Voices in the Ocean by Susan Casey as a look into how advanced dolphins may actually be. She explores scientific facts and even interviews "kooky" new-age people who swim with dolphins daily to get their POV. I was convinced that at least there are dimensions to dolphins' lives that traditional marine biologists are totally unprepared to touch.
Well, I'm looking for some experienced Perl devs, so if that's in your tool box, we should talk.
The problem is that Google and Facebook aren't ISPs. One doesn't have to use Goog/FB to use the Internet. There are other search engines and social networks. One can log out of their Goog/FB account. For most Americans, only one or two ISPs are available where they live.
I guess what I was trying to say is that I wish the JS world had had its own gofmt/refmt from the get-go. But since it didn't, the community's still pretty undecided more than 20 years after the language came into being, and I don't see that changing significantly any time soon. I don't know, maybe it's "too late"?

Not that I think golang got it exactly right either, but because the style guide was essentially built into the language from the start, the change process is necessarily slower and more intentional, and I think that's a good thing.
This is the same as cinemas showing 20-30 min advertising for a movie you paid for, or airports forcing you to go through dozens of shops to get to the plane.

I stopped going to the cinema and download the movies for this reason but of course I didn't stop taking planes. Apparently in the US you cannot really choose your ISP so it's gonna be bad...
What you said is pretty much what I thought too. So i tried to validate if that is possible.
From a customers side: yes.
From a publishers side: No.

I went and talked to quite a lot CEOs in the news business. What i found is: the publishers don't care about their users. All they care about is not to cooperating with other publishers. That means, if you have a service that automatically gives each publisher a bit of money when you read their article. No publisher will join.
You seem to have missed the point that this is not a criminal case, so the Fifth Amendment doesn't apply here. By pleading the fifth, he's not just declining to testify — he's claiming that the result of cooperating here would open him to a whole different criminal case.

In other words, nobody is saying that he has incriminated himself by pleading the fifth. But in Uber's civil case, he has created some very bad implications and greatly worsened their position, and it wouldn't be unreasonable for them to see him as a liability at this point. This is not a mere accusation by Waymo — his actions indicate that there's something going on here.
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What would the user do with that information?
I was very pleasantly surprised by VSCode - My only gripe with it is that it can be quite hard to find information about it online because it shares a name and purpose with Visual Studio.
The problem is: they have enough. Like a logging system with documented external audits and the sworn testimony of the engineers that run it, and it shows him downloading those documents.

And the fifth amendment protects you from "adverse inference" in criminal proceedings. It doesn't protect you in a civil suit, nor does it bind me or others in this thread or the general public to conclude that yes, Levandowsky's trucking company is probably heading for a wall.
That URL says "Transient" for a reason. ;)
I guess another way of stating the problem is this: say you toss a coin and get heads the first 1000 times. Now you are likely to believe that the coin is biased. But that cannot be proved. It may be that you have simply not tossed the coin enough times to perceive its fairness. Maybe after the 1000th toss you start to get enough tails such that after the millionth toss, it is not at all clear that there is any bias.

So practically we can make a judgement as to whether the coin is biased on not based on how many tosses we think is sufficient, but theoretically it is impossible to distinguish a biased coin from a fair one if we toss to infinity
Funny. Quoting companies from my home town.

It can be done but at what costs? Better get a tool that gets the job done out of the box and does it well.

For starters, if you're operating in the cloud, you cannot get servers with FusionIO drives and top notch SSD. That limits your ability to scale vertically.
Hi Tyriar. Your team doing great job and I understand it's on roadmap -- I just can't wait for it soon enough. Oh, and I didn't complain :) Thanks!
Box2d's continuous physics does not allow for a tickless simulation as I understand the term, because continuous interactions (stacking, sliding, rolling, etc.) are not reduced to discrete time-of-impact calculations. Joints are also in that category. If you run the testbed and crank the timestep way up, you'll definitely see problems with things like ragdolls.

Continuous collision detection definitely makes it easier to handle high velocities and bigger timesteps, but it's not a panacea.
To be completely honest, it seems like this is going to be so tightly tied to hardware that it won't matter _that_ much.
> it's only really relevant when you have things that are associated with each other somehow

The proof of lower overall MSE assumes the variables are independent.
Not really, isn't packaging and securely distributing PHP/Node.js libraries a solved problem?
> What if Levandowski has the files on his home
> computer or something but they never touched Uber's
> system?

One of the things that surprised me about Google's employee agreement was that by signing it, the employee gives permission to Google to search any and all digital devices associated with the employee whether or not they are owned by Google. When I asked an employment lawyer about it he suggested it was fairly boilerplate (if a bit extreme) and designed to combat situations exactly like this, party A sues the employer based on behavior of employee B who may have been doing nefarious things 'off book'.

So in this case Uber presumably has a similar clause in their employment agreement and are searching relevant employees devices for evidence of the files.
I have a similar one:

lg2 = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen%cn%Creset %Cblue(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative

Shows dates at the end, in a relative format (2 days ago, 29 hours ago, etc) and the tags/branches before the commit message.
Is there a reason to delimit a URL in plaintext? I can't recall ever seeing this syntax before and I don't really see a need for it.
Can I present a perspective to distinguish between potato and animals, so we can decide what to eat or not? Personally I have found it be quite useful. I hope some SW engineers can relate to it.

"Sadhguru: Now, if you eat a mango, this mango becomes a woman in you. If I eat a mango, the same mango becomes a man in me. If a cow eats a mango, the same mango becomes a cow in the cow. Why is this happening? There is a certain information or software in you – whatever you eat it transforms it into a woman. If I eat, it transforms into a man. If a cow eats, that becomes a cow. So every life is happening the way it is happening because of a certain dimension of information or in modern terminology, let’s call it software. There is a certain software, which is an arrangement of information.

Now, the idea is to eat as simple a software as possible. If you eat that kind of life, which is a very simple software, your ability to override that software and make it entirely a part of you is very good. As that software gets complex, more and more complex, your ability to integrate it goes down. So, especially if it’s a creature which has some sense of thought and emotion, if it has emotion, then you should not eat it. This is the understanding. An animal, which has any emotion, displays certain emotions… especially if it displays emotion which is near to human emotion, you should not eat it because it will not integrate itself. That animal nature will start manifesting itself."

- From http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/video/basis-for-beef-ban/
> Maybe someone can help me understand the distinction between these two.

Verizon is the pipe we move data over - it's the road. "Google" is the service at the other end of the pipe - it's our destination. Verizon is unhappy with being the pipe, despite that literally being the business they signed up to be in. They have decided that the destinations make more money than they can ever squeeze out of being the road service. So, they hatched a plan...

Verizon is now trying to use the fact that we're going to "Google" to instead funnel customers into their destinations - "You don't need "Google", use "Verizoogle" instead!" Verizon also wants to install toll lanes on their roads such that even using "Google" proper costs you extra. And it costs "Google" extra too, because why only charge in one direction?

Still going to stare blankly and refuse to see the problem?
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I applied for this position when it was posted about a month ago (iirc) and am still very interested - should I re-apply?

Thanks!

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Anonymous mode is really just a placebo. All it does it keep your browser history clean. Don't be fooled that Google does not know it's you. Google can easily track you using the IP address. This is really as simple as I saw this dude login with this IP. Now I see the same IP but don't see a session cookie. I can say pretty much for sure that it's that dude in anonymous mode. Note that bing already does this kind of IP based profile building. I am 100% sure Google does this already.
Was that snark really necessary? Parent had a valid question; your org could be using the OSS Ubuntu which would be free, or the enterprise version which costs money. You never really specified which, and it changes the argument drastically from a cost perspective (and therefore potentially some of the motivations behind the choice.)
Here is another seemingly basic question that leads down the rabbit hole: What does it mean to say two things are the same?
Horrific!
I'm not sure I'd want to employ someone who's got a history of whipping out their nob and shaking it at people in shopping malls.
Google actually does prompt me regularly, telling me that they process my data to show me ads based on it: http://www.darrenmothersele.com/img/blog/google-popup.png
After consulting with my 4th grade teacher, we have come to a consensus that it is the state of Massachusetts.
> Still going to stare blankly and refuse to see the problem?

The problem isn't Verizon; the problem is voters who allow their representatives to remain in office without passing legislation to fix this.

Don't blame corporations for working within the system they're presented. Blame an apathetic voter base.
> it is really deceitful to use the name "Standard" when it's far from it.

reminds me of the debacle around "Standard Markdown", now called "CommonMark"
When I was growing up and devouring things on the Romans and Middle Ages I was led to believe that these were isolated societies, with no knowledge of the outside world. People lived in their village, never left it, and believed there were monsters beyond the horizon.

Many years and many words later I wonder if our understanding of the world has changed or if mine was just unsophisticated. Do kids still learn what I learned? The ancient world was incredibly mobile, considering the limitations. Not just traders moving overland between east and west, but within societies and craftsmen and scholars moving for work and opportunities. I find that quite comforting, in some ways.
> I'm majoring in Pure Maths and this is annoying to see yet another poor scientific article on Math.

I dislike personal qualifications-based arguments, so I'm loathe to contribute to them. However, for people who are persuaded by mentions of qualifications: I have a PhD in mathematics and I think Quanta magazine is more-or-less the best popular-level writing available on the subject.

Still, I will attempt to contribute on issues of substance. I thought that everything in this article was fine. It's an old idea, as mentioned in this comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93P%C3%B3lya_con...

As such, perhaps the article would benefit from some history. As mentioned on the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93P%C3%B3lya_con... observations regarding the distribution of zeros on the critical line led directly to early results in random matrix theory. This 2009 interview with Freeman Dyson discusses this connection, as well as this approach to the Riemann Hypothesis (Dyson refers to it as "a fourth joke of nature"): http://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200212p.pdf

I recommend reading that interview in its entirety, or at least the section on "jokes of nature", for Dyson's thoughts on a lot of subjects.
I don't get it. Isn't that the same thing but worse?

Edit: Also, Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming:

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
But Google isn't the destination. Google's top services (search and YouTube) are just means for finding and getting to what we really want, which is the content (website, video, etc.).
> They have decided that the destinations make more money than they can ever squeeze out of being the road service.

You say that as though it's not true.
But Google and Facebook are Free, so giving are data is a way of paying for that. Comcast and Verizon we already pay for, so they are double dipping. Also Google/Facebook can prioritize their content over competitors, where is as an ISP with the changing laws Comcast/Verizon could. If Verizon wants to offer its services for free, then yes I believe if we allow it with Google/Facebook we should allow with it Verizon. Now of course Google/Facebook shouldn't either, but to say that Comcast/Verizon should be able to because Google/Facebook does not appear to hold because of the difference in pricing.
No worries, just bringing people up to date :)

Unfortunately there's quite a bit to get done because everything was built around the assumption there would only ever be a single folder. In the meantime I recommend Git Project Manager, which is what I use personally to deal with multiple projects https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=felipeca...
You can run PostGres natively as well and do the same thing no?
You probably wouldn't expect them to. But the same kind of Stein phenomenon holds under a much broader set of conditions, including arbitrary covariance matrices and arbitrary quadratic loss, (see e.g. [1]). It's a very general phenomenon!

[1] https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1176345691
The state of Massachusetts in USA. MA is the official abbreviation, but locally people use Mass. pretty frequently.
The article is very interesting and serve one purpose very well - trigger my curisoity of what is that. Both heard of. Not understand much. But somehow it is linked. And strangely talked in a way not totally out of reach.

If someone like me with only some basic maths/stats/QM background and interest to know more, any pointer to understand this.
There's an important distinction between https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_broadcasting and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_media though. I'm pretty into the former but share your distaste for the latter.
Verizon doesn't have a monopoly almost anywhere. It competes with cable, and satellite throughout almost its whole service area. Now, if you want to argue "we'll, satellite isn't as good," you could say the same for Bing and DDG.
It doesn't seem to be that simple in most US jurisdictions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment#Public_poli...
Political problem? Yes. How much will the problem cost to fix? Uncertainty has a cost.
The USFG is "an execution company," not an "innovation company." If we had diverted 50% of CPB's budget a decade ago to funding "new technologies for public interest educational programming," it's very unlikely it would have turned into Wikipedia or Khan Academy. PBS is an extremely successful program whose benefits don't show any signs of slowing down. Eventually, it will evolve or be replaced by something better, but there's no reason to get hasty with that. I watch Nova pretty regularly on my appleTV. They don't seem to be anywhere near technological obsolescence just yet.
Could it be forked? Is there a community that would continue to develop Unity?
Ok, so how about caching the Stripe script and serving it yourself, then polling for new versions and then updating the cache and the SRI?

You might break payment for $polling_interval if the script is incompatible with Stripe's server, so perhaps you could have retry logic there, to bridge $polling_interval more smoothly.

You could also manually review the new Stripe code this way, by polling only by hand or by not automatically updating the cache and SRI.
So companies cannot be responsible for anything, it's the laws! Oh and of course the law makers aren't responsible for anything, it's the voters!

Very convenient, especially given how the dysfunctional US electoral system means voting for change isn't possible.
Would you say the same thing about Netflix? It is just a means for finding and getting content, much of which is made by external entities.
Red Bull and other Thai energy drinks are popular because they're cheaper than coffee in Thailand. That said, Thai Red Bull is a pretty different beast from what you'll find abroad -- it's thick, sweet, and flat, like cough syrup. When you drink it in the quantity that I do, it's easy to forget coffee tastes terrible, and that we acquire a taste for it over time because caffeine is addictive. To enter new markets, it needs to be the only caffeine source or needs to have fashionable connotations. Red Bull tastes like candy, and has universal appeal.