skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title says it all - machine learning and rule-based systems are complementary tools, not mutually exclusive.

I have prior experience applying both to fraud detection, and for fraud detection, there are lots of regulations that are actionable as hard and fast rules running in an expert system.

There are also patterns of fraud that are not obvious, and data mining techniques along with machine learning are incredibly useful for detecting them.

More importantly, if you use a rule-based system first you can often use the output (for example, a rule-based score for a given input case) as an input into machine learning. So, for example, the rule-based system is used to help classify concrete cases, whereas the machine learning might help classify more "gray area" cases based on the hard and fast rules (depending on how you configure your algorithms).
She's certainly not perfect. She obviously has her own biases, but they seem more personal and certainly aren't blatant conflicts of interest like most of the other tech journalists that have taken money from VCs do. Many of the others do not bite the hands that feed them. They make sure to cover investments of their investors positively and competitors of the investments of their investors negatively. It's all so horribly incestuous.
I love my Timbuk2 Spire.

http://www.timbuk2.com/laptop-backpacks
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The idea that auditory language or speech is differentiated from mental ideas / thoughts is very thoughtprovoking and I believe under investigated.

Related is the phenonemon that some people always "hear" something while they're reading, others do sometimes, and others literally don't understand what you mean by "hear".

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4wttu4/do_you_hear_a...

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/6gqbga/what_exactly_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1uksrt/when_you_read...

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/48uiqz/to_what_degre...

Also related: aphantasia - the inability to "visualize" something in your mind's eye:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6TfNXbJ4M

We tend to assume that most other people experience a similar world to us, but in reality there seem to be incredible differences in the ways people think, in the way people see, in the way people read, in the way people conceptualize, in the way people imagine, etc. and those differences start to come out when you ask them about their experiences - we just don't think to talk about them.

I'm very skeptical of technology that claims to interface with the brain when the way people think, sense, and experience seems to be so diverse.
I fully expect torrenting to be made impossible or obscenely impractical and cumbersome inside the next couple decades. The rightsholders are too politically connected, and the general populace too apathetic and ignorant.
This is why pretty much everything the government does costs more than it should.
Bahubali:The Indian Clash of Clans
Perhaps someone could offer a related suggestion. At the moment, I use rsync to backup files to external hard drives. One of the difficulties that I run into is that some folders I want to mirror exactly between my computer and the backup. Other folders I want to only add files, but not delete, to the backup. Still others, like git repositories, I'd like to bundle rather than backup the directory itself. Finally, I make redundant backups to multiple external hard drives, so it would be nice to replay the same backup procedure to multiple devices. Does anyone have a workflow that accomplishes this or something similar?
You are comparing a case where it only took them 'a few hours' for your particular transaction with all the time they had to spend either showing that house and getting nothing or showing other houses and getting nothing.

Do you honesty believe the majority of transactions they do are so quick and easy?

What do you think they are doing a transaction like that per week? There is an overhead cost to dealing with people and with sales. I would take a wild guess that in a year of work the agent that you dealt with (or a typical agent that sells $280k houses) is making less than $100k per year. That's not a crazy amount of money, even in a lower cost community.
> How many layers deep can we get? :)

Layers, visualized:

https://godoc.org/github.com/mmcloughlin/globe?import-graph&...
A $150 iPhone 5S is likely a better choice for someone in the bottom 1/10th of wealth.
# apt install backupninja
# ninjahelper
Very interesting! I had never heard of Apache PDFBox before, I must give it a try. I have a similar program that parses horse racing PDFs from sites such as www.racehorserunner.com - which are of a much simpler format, but cause endless problems for me when the PDFs have layout problems. For example, issues like one column being too long and overlapping with another, e.g the last race on http://www.racehorserunner.com/Archives/ELP/ELP170702.pdf

All PDF parsers that I have tried cope very badly with these kind of situations, and often try to be 'too clever' in that they value the final layout of the text over and above the individual strings.

Have you experienced similar problems with PDFBox, or does it handle formatting and layout fairly reliably?
#2 is the worst solution if you care about principles over end user experience. Most organizations and corporations do not prioritize things that way.
Agreed. The more simple answer is to never commit unfinished or broken code. Inline todo's are a definitive no-go. This implies a lack of control of workload management.
Mostly a slang in brazil meaning people that use agile methods in ways to avoid real work. Not related to the agile manifest.
Designing Oregon Trail, the most popular educational video game ever
Main home "server" is an Ubuntu system with a couple 2TB HDDs. It runs various services for IoT type stuff, has a few samba shares, houses my private git repositories, backups from Raspberry Pi security cameras, etc. It is backed up to the cloud using a headless Crashplan install. I use git to store dotfiles, /etc/ config files, scripts, and such, in addition to normal programming projects.

We back up photos from our iOS devices to this server using an app called PhotoSync. I also have an instance of the Google Photos Desktop Uploader running in a docker container using x11vnc / wine to mirror the photos to Google Photos (c'mon Google, why isn't there an official Linux client???). I'm really paranoid about losing family photos. I even update an offsite backup every few weeks using a portable HDD I keep at the office.
You have a huge market for this. Doctors, accountants, barbers, hairstylers, every occupation that needs an appointment could use this. This replaces the person whom answers the phone so the business can keep rolling.
Something similar to [0] but using restic. For machines that have enough uplink, restic does its thing to S3 as well.

Sidenote: I was using Time Machine on MacOS but since I upgraded to 10.13, APFS disks are mandatorily excluded by the OS (apparently as a workaround to to some bug), so restic it is too.

[0]: (warning: jwz) https://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html
I absolutely love this way of thinking. We assume that an "individual" is a single human being, because it's convenient and I guess because that's how our sentience works. But realistically, the body itself is an extraordinarily complicated mass of "human" cells often at odds (see a cake, one part of the brain say "eat it," another says "dude no you'll get fat"), and thats without considering the masses of "non-human" entities, such as gut bacteria, skin bacteria, etc.

And then we can go macro - a tribe can subdivide into gatherers, warriors, and crafters. A city can specialize further. A country even further. Imagine how different the life experience would be if humans existed as single entities alone in endless fields.

Then it gets even more fun to consider interactions with other lifeforms - dogs, plants, cows.

Man, what a cool field of research. I'm glad to hear people are studying this.
Yes, reduce the top-line offer by 3%, or slightly less than 3% -- so everyone is actually coming out ahead.

You're absolutely right, I can't dictate the agreement between the seller and their agent. But when I put in writing, "hereby relinquish any and all claim to the 3% buyer's agent fee ($XX,XXX)" it gets the point across. Then it's between the seller and their agent, usually the agent will get a small bump (from 3% to 4%) and the seller keeps the rest.

It's important to try to convince the seller at the same time, that the sale will be easier without the buyer's agent, not harder. Also important to refuse to sign any kind of "dual agency" agreement with the seller's agent.
You didn't mention the most obvious solution which is condoms. I bought them easily as a teenager 18 years ago. You can get them for free in many places these days.

You're also giving teenagers a pass for having unprotected sex as if they don't know there's a risk of 1) getting pregnant and 2) getting an STD.

Certainly some birth control measures are less accessible to teenagers, but what I'm arguing is the parent's claim that "The vast majority of teenage mothers in the United States do not choose to get pregnant"

That's not accurate unless what is meant is that "the vast majority of teenage mothers don't want to get pregnant (but choose to forego readily available birth control / condoms)". I'd believe that.
> Configuration management was a new field and major competitors at the time were (and still are) Puppet and Chef.

No, it was a field dozen years old already. And major competitor was (is) also
CFEngine, though they suck heavily at marketing, so they're usually omitted by
operationally undertrained people.

> Ruby is a beautiful language. [...] The Puppet language on the other hand is gross.

If we talk about persoanl opinions, I call it the reverse. Puppet is OK and
Ruby is atrocious.

> It almost seems as if [Puppet language] was deliberately designed to be removed from its Ruby roots.

So first you believe declarative tool fits better than imperative (stated
earlier in the rant), but now you complain that Puppet moved in different
direction than Ruby? Make your mind already.

> [...] calling Puppet functional is a major insult to most other functional languages out there.

Calling Puppet's language functional is a major insult to caller's knowledge
about programming languages. It's declarative, and it's not even
a programming language, it was not meant to be Turing-complete.

> Building a functional language without builtin support for closures and adequate syntactic- or library-provided functional primitives like map, reduce, filter, etc is just plain bad.

What made you think it's a programming language? It's not.

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The rest of the rant is a list of actually valid problems. From what I know,
most of these don't occur in CFEngine, which also uses simpler architecture in
typical deployment (agents are more autonomous, not tied as much to their
master as in non-masterless Puppet).
I have zero sympathy for these people. My spouse for example often gets added to mailing lists when purchasing a product (just like we all do). Instead of clicking the unsubscribe link, they'll just "open" the email without reading it to mark it as read in their inbox, and immediately go on to the next one. These are essentially spam that my spouse is too lazy to mark as such. I have to wonder how many of the "opens" the author's lists get are just like this. "Oh, that stupid list I got subscribed to somehow. Mark as read." I have a very deep suspicion that they're mailings are essentially spam to a lot of people who receive them and this is correct classification by Google.
I also met my wife at work at a small company. I knew she was a good person and while I wasn't in complete control of whether we broke up, I could control whether the breakup was "bad".

The only thing that I could imagine that would make the breakup bad, would be if I didn't show her respect, wasn't honest with her, etc.

If I did all of that and we decided to go our separate ways, I feel that we would have been okay professionally. We both needed our jobs and couldn't afford to get fired - especially not in 2009.
While these problems don't come up frequently, I've found that in a typical project anything involving a graph has a good chance of being implemented wrong.
TV advertising was targeted too. They used Nielsen data to identify potential audience (white males, 40-50 y.o., middle class income) and show ads targeting this demo.
Google generally isn't known for pseudoscience.
Looks promising! Will check it out
The weird power of the placebo effect, explained – Vox
I personally use IRC for text chat, and other tools for, say video chat (Skype), file uploads (a wiki, website, ftp, S3, etc), and so on.

You can also use OTR on IRC for end-to-end encryption, you can use IRC bouncers for persistent connections, bots to record history, etc.

I could see how someone might want all that integrated in one software package or service, though.
There's a need in the non-profit space for something that does this well and is relatively cheap per-message. Big players like MobileCommons and RevolutionMessaging charge 1k+ per month for SMS blast capabilities based on list size. If you have an API or the ability to import/export CSVs you could probably compete at the low end of the market.

Or make it open source?
I could see that being pretty successful if you finish it. good luck!
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Before DRM plugins could access anything. Now they live in a sandbox which was not possible when they were NPAPI plugins. So the security story is actually much better as far as I know.

It still sucks to infect the web with this nonsense, but at least it can't do as much evil crap.
> Without knowing other numbers, and for being at a specific place, one out of ten couples is huge

The three that are over 20% are “through mutual friends”, “online”, and “at a bar/restaurant”. Work is #4, at less than half of any of those.

Back around 1990, work was #2 at around 20% (still well behind mutual friends).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/08/how-m...
Kubernetes shell: An integrated shell for working with the Kubernetes CLI
No test to ensure proper copy?
HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13744631
- Dirvish[0] for local backups (nightly)

- Crashplan[1] for cloud backups (also nightly; crashplan can backup continuously but I don't do that)

Pretty happy with it, though dirvish takes a little bit of manual setup. Never had to resort to the cloud backups yet.

[0] http://www.dirvish.org/

[1] https://www.crashplan.com/
Same, bought a place in Seattle through Redfin towards the end of 2014. Went from attending a free Redfin homebuying class to getting the keys to our new place in 30 days. Loved the website and the experience and didn't feel pressured.
You may enjoy the game Everything. While the gameplay is straightforward, it's a very beautiful game, and is narrated by recordings of the philosopher Alan Watts.
I wanted redfin to work when we solf our house in the SF Bay area a few months ago.

Redfin's issue is the selling agent was located 45 minutes away and just ran random comps and said our house was 120k lower then market. She said it would never sell for what I thought it was worth. So we ended up going with a local agent who put it on market for more then we thought and it sold for 1% over asking.
The math certainly points at places to look for physics, so yes I agree to a point, but the math itself didn't just happen, it came from a mathematician using his intuition and understanding of physics to explore possible ideas that might be true with most of the possible maths not leading to possible physics. Math is just a language to communicate ideas accurately, those ideas however came from someones intuition about what should be. The math it led to is a result of a process, not the creator of it, the model the math lays out could be right or could be wrong and as such simply points out possible places for experimental physicists to go searching. The math didn't come first, the intuition came first, the mathematical model second, and the physical proof last.
Hey Godot!

Census data is relatively easy to get used to once you know how the geo formats work and you are willing to work with their geographies. They have a nice API to work with (api.census.gov) and I think that it is going from its current array of arrays format to full JSON later this year.

That said, the app does two cool things that I have not seen anywhere else:

(1) Arbitrary geographies, like drawing a circle or a polygon of your own choice, requires significant additional work. The app mostly does this with procedural SQL and PostGIS on the back-end.

(2) Longitudinal reporting. The Census bureau changes the geographies every 10 years to some degree, so geography with id "foo" might not be the same area in 2010 as it will be in 2020. This is solved by "virtualizing" the geography and is relevant to the same concepts for handling arbitrary geographies.

Happy to chat more if you have questions!
...or you're using about any unix other than Linux. This makes the post on par
with the old joke that Ubuntu was supposed to be an ancient African word
meaning "I can't configure Debian".
I was looking at this. Do you know the differences between the Spire and the Rogue?

Edit: Amazon to the rescue. They had a comparison chart. The Spire is 32L, Rogue is 27L
Price tranches are good because they make expenses easily predictable while still providing some operational flexibility. That's especially good for enterprise customers with finance teams.

They can also make good money if you set the boundaries right. If a lot of your customers have ~30 domains, a boundary at 25 might make you more money than per-domain pricing.

I would also look to see if you can add failover as a feature. With the recent DDOS attacks against DNS providers, a lot of companies are considering failover planning for DNS who previously ignored that. To really hit big bucks with this, you will need to integrate with bigger DNS providers like Dyn, UltraDNS, etc.

I agree that you're not charging enough. Keep the free level but then I would charge at least a dollar per domain.
Uber would totally be worth 70 Billion as an Alphabet subsidiary, but there's no way Alphabet would acquire it for that price. Put Susan Wocjicki in charge of Uber, and have her pull a Stephen Elop routine to drive down Uber's valuation to something Alphabet can afford. Then just rebrand the whole thing as Waymo.
Talk!

Just talk your mouth off, seriously. It's the best tip I can give you to make it interactive.

You gonna open a file and do something, say it, don't just do it. When you are thinking of a problem, ask for suggestions from the crowd/viewers...

Also, ProTip. Vim is a problem if you navigate really quickly along splits (like you should), people lose focus and will just stop following.

I switched to Atom for my last stream (I hate every minute of it) but it slows me down enough so people can follow better.

Hope this helps
There's been a lot of civilian casualties in Syria where large cities like Aleppo have been bombed to hell and back, but millions of people made it out of there alive.

It's not a great situation to be in, but many were able to flee to better places. If the entire grid is down there are no better places.
We bought our house with no agents at all, buyer or seller. We used a notary public to do all the legal paperwork. Savings: $20,000 (Canada).

If you can possibly avoid using a real estate agent, then do so. They may bring some value but it is not nearly commensurate with their commissions.
USDCHF: Reverses Its Losses to Close Higher
In most of the recent threads about investors hitting on founders, the HN discussion has focused on the fact that investors have power over founders. However, parts of this blog post seems to imply that hitting on someone in a professional setting is never OK, even if there's no power imbalance:

> I guess the point of this story, and why I share it now, is that there is a right way and a wrong way to handle attraction in a professional setting. The right way is to back the fuck off and let people do their work despite any attraction. The wrong way is to blur the line.

I'd like to hear peoples' opinions on under what circumstances (if ever) it's OK to hit on someone at a corporate holiday party, assuming there is no power imbalance.
Talking about gullibility when it comes to religion is disingenuous.
I just use rsync and a weekly cronjob.
Also it cleanly bridges to IRC so it's not a one-or-the-other situation. Was really impressed when I looked at it a while back.
Well, I don't think that anyone claims that it doesn't work, and I don't think some packaging system is a good comparison. I mean, email effectively has been using SRV records (even if they are called MX records in that case ...) for three decades, so obviously it works. But it commonly requires an additional round trip for (initial) resolution, which adds delay, which is kindof relevant for interactive use, not so much for package managers or SMTP.

Also, you as the site operator can't really do anything about how recursive resolvers handle additional section data (and there are millions of them deployed on crappy home routers with probably equally crappy DNS software), in contrast to out-of-zone glue, which is something completely under your control.

That being said, I don't think it makes sense to not standardize it for mandatory client-side use with HTTP, (a) because network latencies are not exactly increasing, even mobile networks are moving towards single-digit millisecond RTTs, and (b) browsers could just be backwards compatible, and issue SRV, A, and AAAA queries for the URI domain name at the same time, so you would only need one round trip to figure out the addresses of sites that don't want to use SRV, and you'd only get a negligible amount of traffic for one additional DNS request without any additional latency.
Hospital generators will run dry within days, and then you'll be losing thousands of people who are dependent on life-support equipment, medication that needs refrigeration, or those that are in urgent need of surgery.

You have about 48 hours until things start to get really ugly. See also: Hurricane Katrina. They were able to minimize casualties by moving people to other hospitals that had power. Imagine if there weren't any.
Uber applies some ridiculous optimizations to their map and routing often times ending a trip while in blocks away from where I need to be and leaving a confused driver (and frustrated passenger). Lyft never has this issue.
By what measure is a 2.5USD fee modest?

2.5USD is not very competitive with the old guard unless you are moving more than $100.

I had to pay $20 to sweep some old wallets(circa 2011). In my case it was worth it, but there is so much dust out there which is not worth collecting any more.

People used to tip using BTC.. those days are gone.
Indeed, and I should have been clear that I was elaborating on your excellent post, not suggesting any error/omission/ignorance on your part. My intent was to comment on the idea ("if you just consider this one fact, it could be misleading"), not to say anything negative about you personally. My apologies that it came across that way.

So no worries, and no criticism intended. After all, how could anyone say everything that's possibly relevant in one comment? And more to the point, why in hell would anyone want to? :)