skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is no different than being able to tell when someone is bullshitting just as you walk through every day life, and thinking we need to shield the poor naive populace from harmful ideas is borderline stereotypical paternalism.

There is a huge difference.

If someone is bullshitting you in real life, you don't give them a giant microphone so they can reach millions of people. You ignore them, or politely engage in conversation with them, or maybe even try to help them see the errors of their ways.

Why should Facebook be obligated to amplify deceptive messages? I don't see a reason.
Totally should have The Matrix screensaver playing at all times.
Thanks for reminding me, I picked this book up a few months ago but haven't read it yet. Really need to get around to it.
This is a great list of the main concepts to know.
You've just cherry-picked a generic industry description of FaaS functions.

"Executes within a few seconds as a rule" - otherwise you're not really building an event-driven API, but something else. You can run the code for however long you like and even invoke via async.

Left pad adds whitespace to a string? Don't see the connection
I don't understand.

Why is being young a good reason not to be sceptical?

Wouldn't being young in a healthcare startup be all the more reason to be sceptical?

Assuming that there is a distribution wherein some industries and products are simply better tackled by founders with substantial experience, e.g. by conducting research in the area, practising medicine, consulting on healthcare, ..

That is not to say you cannot successful being young in healthcare, I just don't see any prior reason why being young would be an advantage here, unlike in e.g. social media.
Another infamous Onion video in a similar style is "The Power Of Selling Out: Your Customers As Political Capital".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8c_m6U1f9o
And then an unequipped vehicle comes along; or worse, one broadcasting with malicious intent.
Are you willing to die for it?
want to work there
I work from home for a profitable business-to-business startup servicing the payments underwriting industry. I did not know such an industry existed before working on this project, and the job came through my alumni network on LinkedIn. I just started my fifth year with this organization. My responsibilities include everything engineering; everyone else focuses sales.

I've met one of the three co-founders twice, first for an interview and second for a weekend with his family. All three co-founders join me five days a week for a brief standup/scrum and one day each week we include a sales and strategy update.

They pay in the range of my market value and have steadily increased my equity share of the enterprise. I supplement that income by teaching sea kayak technique and rescue year-round and snowboard instruction in the winter.

I try to put in at least four hours of work every day, including weekends, and balance that with four hours of year-round kayaking, hiking, house-work, seasonal snow-sports, or some other physical activity.

I do this "job" to keep my brain sharp and hope to continue well past the point of typical retirement. The same applies for my non-"job" activities. If I did not need to worry about saving for retirement, I would probably still do this. The joy comes from solving problems, not from stacking cash.

Become the low-key hero your co-workers need.

p.s. I started kayaking seriously twelve years ago because I would see these people in their 70s surfing big waves in 16' boats. "That's what I want to be when I grow up, that or retired!"
If you want to go very fast you can basically only go in a straight line and you need a long time for accelerating and braking. G-Forces on passengers are fairly limited, typically to around 1m/s^2.
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The second bit clearly depends on the person / company, but the first is a gem.

This last year, I've been automating myself out of the company. It's hugely liberating, better for investors and employees, and means I can spend more time focused on what's next rather than day-to-day ops.

I love what I do, but it shouldn't disappear if I do.
Nothing, shockingly. My supervisor just shook his head and went "man, I just...you can't..oh man." I felt like an idiot and had another serious talk with supervisor. Apparently, only a few members of our marketing team had seen it, and I had been doing good work so the damage was mitigated somewhat.

It helped that I was the only person on staff who really knew Javascript and Coffeescript well and that I was also well-versed in writing and editing. Had I lacked any of these, had another staff member been better at them, or had the project been further along I'm sure I would've been canned. The president didn't find out until weeks later, thank god.
Azure Resource Manager Batch API
Possible counter-example for your teacher: Arthur C. Clarke's 'The Sentinel'?

I also recall Robert Graves' writing, in 'Goodbye to All That', of one of his fellow soldiers saying that after the war, he would read the whole of Trollope's Barchester chronicles, as nothing happens in them, though that is not strictly true.
These are coverage when it finally failed. What about when it was first implemented? This TC article can't even wait.
And something tells me that the political party that will benefit may invest heavily in these information-filtering companies (if they are not already), closing the circle.
https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/90197511779785113...
@elonmusk: "No such thing as true vacuum"

BTW, speed of sound doesn't change (to first order) with changing pressure (edit: nor does it change (to first order) with density, assuming temperature is the same). Mostly effected by temperature.

Hyperloop uses a partial vacuum, of course. No true vacuum exists.
>When you understand that it’s based on checks, it makes perfect sense.

That just explains how the USA got into this mess. Nothing about any of this "makes perfect sense".

I guess it's a bit like the imperial vs metric system thing. The US system is obviously inferior but they're too invested in it to change it.
Hyperloops would also have those constraints on track layout.
Yes, you're correct -- my mistake. Bittrex's fees are 0.25% of each trade.

My point about doing 30 trades every week manually is a lot still stands though. Maybe I'll try scripting this with Bittrex's API. It would be cool to have an option to scale each trade size by the current relative market cap, so you can have your own crypto index fund.
Would that were true. There are any number of companies that get close to zero (Theranos) and others that do go out of business (see 2008 - Lehman, Washington Mutual, etc.)
I have 19 managers, none of them understanding the job at hand and a family I can't see because of 3h/day commutation.

Else the job is fine.

Ho! And I inherited a fork of 500k slocc using 5 languages and so much frameworks I can't count them anymore.

I am the janitor of a huge codebase with a management under acid, but it pays enough for me to not sleep under the bridge, so I guess I am happy.
You guys definitely seem to be on the right track - especially with being open about your results in light of the whole Theranos debacle. I remember an article a few months ago describing your CV/ML based approach and think it's a great use case. Good luck.
80% of success is just showing up
This might explain it a little better: https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/proxying/ssl-prox...
None of those previous platforms had anywhere near the reach Facebook has, or the amount of control Facebook has over the private and public communications and content seen by their users.
The example says they want to invest $1000 over the course of 3 months, so 1000 / (3 * 30) = 1000 / 90 = ~11$ / day.

But aren't the transaction fees (at least for Bitcoin) something like ~$2 per transaction? So you'd end up only investing ~$820 instead of the target of $1000 and losing the rest. Am I missing something?
GE shifts strategy, financial targets for digital business after missteps
Well, I recommend buying everything at the moment you decide you want to buy, no matter the price.

Anything different than that is likely to give you headaches.
> How are there so many people willing to do something so insanely stupid?

You're going to die anyways, probably from something a lot more terrifying and/or painful like cancer or Alzheimer's. I'm not convinced that hitting the ground really hard is a worse death than average.
You're right. All these investing "strategies" ignore these costs.
In the article we tried to convey the main idea behind that — take the best tool for the job at hand. There's no "one size fits all" framework or product to put you money on. It's much easier to handle this zoo than making something do that it's not supposed to.

Furthermore, to get high scalability, you have to make things as loosely coupled as possible. This means you're up to making some choices.

Hope that makes sense and answers the question :)
> Do you think overcharging is a conscious business decision on the part of WH?

Honestly, I don't think it matters when the question is trust in Whole Foods.

Whether the widespread systematic overcharging is due to executive malicious intent, executive neglect, or executive lack of control despite best best intent, or some shade in between or combining elements of these, it's a negative signal for trustworthiness of the organization as an organization, though some explanations are not negative for trustworthiness of executives as individuals.
Unfortunately we are stuck between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, we could have completely open and unfiltered platforms which guarantee freedom of expression but at the same time leave our institutions (public and private) vulnerable to malicious influence.

On the other hand, we could attempt to build systems whose purpose is to remove fake news, so defending ourselves against a particularly aggressive form of attack on our institutions, but at the same time creating a situation in which that system is given the power to decide what is fake and what is not.

Are highly speculative opinion pieces which make accusations far from the main stream fake? What about when a complex event takes place and there are numerous 'takes' on how the event played out. Whose version of the events - whose version of reality reality - does the system use to make judgments on the veracity of news?

The situation is complex and we must tread carefully.
It's worth asking which problems fall into the set of those that can eventually benefit of exponential progress, and why. This reminds me of Taleb's distinction between mediocristan and extremistan, or non-scalable randomness vs scalable randomness.
If they can, it's not a feature that has yet been released. There is no data about the outside world coming in to the headset.
'Snowdrift' game tops 'Prisoner's Dilemma' in explaining cooperation (2007)
Thw article also mentions removing some non critical binaries and modifying the ME filesystem
I agree. I had a similar experience and was thrown into a Kafkaesque bureaucracy. It was so bad I stopped using their site and just started buying directly from airlines.
My recollection is that you need neither real analysis nor measure theory to appreciate it, but it's been a while since I read it. You might get more out of it if you have studied those.

I disagree on multivar calc. Statistics often makes use of matrix derivatives. I have found it helpful to know.
I can't speak from ever using a proper current headset like Vive or Oculus, but I have done some (very short-term) experimenting with Google Cardboard sets and Oculus/Vive emulation software that pipes the display over the local network to the phone-headset.

With some of that porting/emulation software I was able to play some SteamVR and other games. As a control I just used an Xbox 360 USB controller and the results surprised me.

Now working with a G Cardboard set isn't fun for very long, but the way that a few games translated was surprisingly good, as long as you're happy to not have the full experience. I found the headset was a lot of fun as a change of perspective.

The games I recall in particular being pretty good were GTA V and Skyrim (though I think Skyrim had a little bit of a perspective offset issue, but I didn't really tweak it). For native VR apps I tried ADR1FT (http://store.steampowered.com/app/300060/ADR1FT/) which was pretty good as well.

I imagine trying this with a proper headset work work far better and be more comfortable than my experience, but like I said I haven't worked with one.

A conclusion I made though was that I really didn't mind using the controller as I would on a console.
Thanks--I actually posted to try to verify or reject my own biases: as software lead for a startup focusing on LDTs, I've been ruthless about shooting down any suggestion to veer towards EMR/EHR integration as very likely lethal to a fledgling business.
Please consider this question before making one-off throwaway accounts here, "Does this really need to be said, if I cannot say it with my real identity?"

Is it more important to you to get your comment posted, or is it more important that you aren't held to account for your statements?
I would think that some form of insertion sort is the most intuitive. That's what people use when they do things like sort cards in their hand.
Rhesus monkeys found to see faces in inanimate objects too
I hope jetbrain will do something magic on repl
This isn't about giving people a platform but monetizing it.

I'm against Facebook for this particular stance. They think people are idiots and try to shape their version of what they consider facts and truth to suit their own bias.
"Some groups" includes the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Rolling Stone, etc.
I'd be useless, I'd have to take my mother, the proverbial doctor, to try it out :o)
> I feel like I lose 5-10 minutes a week sitting behind people who are checking their phones unaware the light has changed.

A quick blip on a set of train horns can quickly change that behavior.
Microsoft branding? This is the same thing Magic Leap has been touting, it's an actual term in the industry.
Cyber Grand Challenge: The Analysis
Details on the winning pod: http://hyperloop.warr.de/pod-ii/

IIUC it accelerates using a wheel pressed towards the track, powered by an electric engine... no fancy magnets or fans and air cushions.

It's cool, but it doesn't look a lot like the original Hyperloop white paper.

e: from the competition rules at http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/2016_0831_hyperloop..., it looks like they were at least using an evacuated tube.
> There's a Perry Bible Fellowship comic of a child in a VR suit, clutching his simulated wounds while saying "Cool!"

You made me find this website (thanks for the implicit recommendation) and go through every single comic (they're not that many), and there is no such comic on this site as of now.
"Some groups flat out make up news stories to fit some narrative. What else are you going to call that than 'fake news'?"

Thankfully we have a word for that, and it even has a relatively well agreed upon meaning: lies.

The problem with the label "fake news" is, as has been pointed out, that it can mean different things to different people.
> as a behind-the-scenes knowledge

You can't reason about information you haven't included in the logic. To say it another way, if a predicate doesn't have a letter representing it, you won't get any conclusion about the predicate.
Surprised by the hype in this thread, I was wondering the same, so I went out and bought some. I've had oat and other grain milks before, and I'm not a fan nor an expert. Also, I didn't do a direct comparison with another oat milk.

That said, I find Oatly less watery and much less sweet than the last oat milk I remember trying. It has a darker greenish-gray color than other plant milks (maybe from the added algae?). It still tastes like oats (though less than others) and not like milk. In a blind tasting, I think I would prefer it to other oat and similar milks because of the more rounded, less earthy and less sweet taste than the others I have had.

Overall, it's better than the competition, but it won't become something I will buy regularly (as opposed to cow's milk).
So do you support people manipulating and creating fake news but not the people who are trying to prevent it from happening?

Facebook can absolutely kick out people who don't behave on their platform. Playing the freedom of speech card doesn't work when you actively try to oppress other's freedom of speech through tactical manipulation.

Punishing individuals and groups who willfully and knowingly engage in spreading information containing false facts concocted to support their intolerant views is absolutely necessary to protect freedom of speech.
34 years of experience... I am reasonably happy with my compensation and work/life balance. I am not reasonably happy with what I do 40 hours a week, primarily because I do not control the high level objectives, nor the resources to make it happen. This is why they pay me, to do their bidding. I'm ok with it because it allows me to make my time outside of work, fulfilling and meaningful.
> For me, FB, TW, etc have become unreliable sources of news.

For me, it has shown that a large chunk my social network is incapable of detecting bullshit. Last year I tried linking to Snopes or Politifact when people would post obvious falsehoods, but most people just don't care.

What I want from FB is a feed that doesn't include shares or likes of any external content. Seeing and reading about life events of my friends and family is what got me hooked on FB, but right now that's all lost in the torrent of bullshit.
What "maths" is keras? Or scikit-learn?
For what it's worth, to understand scikit-learn doc/tutorial I'd say you'll need Probability, Linear Algebra, Multivariate Calculus and, yeah, Stats.
Not necessarily at a PhD level but still. And more you understand maths farther you can get in AL/ML.
It's quite a machine:

- 4x Tesla V100 GPUs
- 2560 Tensor Cores
- 20 Core Xeon E5-2698 CPU
- 256 GB RAM
- 8 TB SSD, RAIDed
Which is strange, because didn't they just get a lot of flak for having "editors" that they subsequently had to let go?
> "the game has changed" after thousands of years of human history proving it hasn't.

But it clearly has. Only in the past 5 year did it become possible for one guy in Romania to pose as a small town Ohio news agency (or 4) and spread nonsense to millions of people.

Do you feel that academic journals violate the principle of free speech? If not, why is what facebook is doing any different?
Can one device be shared by multiple people?

What are the details behind $20/month? E.g. is the machine "rented"? Or is the $20 for consumables?

Is it connected to the cloud? (In other words, is the machine-learning algorithm's "counting" happening in the device or are you uploading image data to a server for analysis?)
I'm an ad buyer on Facebook and sometimes Facebook gets very strict, and they ultimately come to a compromise between ad performance/advertisers and their policies.

I know people are scared of 'censorship', but they probably will end up just targeting those crazy conspiratorial pages that clearly share the most bogus stuff to prey on people to later sell bogus products to. You'd be surprised at what's out there..
Does AMD have anything like Intel ME on their chipsets? I recently completed a Ryzen build and am curious.
This sounds great, I’m looking forward to access.

One question from a business standpoint: is the effort based on a market segment or problem that has been validated as worth worth addressing?
The Fake-News Fallacy
It seems unlikely that he was brought in to take Expedia public, since he joined 6 years after their IPO.

Expedia went public in 1999 [1], when Dara Khosrowshahi was working for an Expedia competitor: IAC. He didn't join Expedia until 2005, when IAC acquired Expedia [2].

Maybe I'm missing something?

[1]: http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/company/expedia-inc-1567-...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dara_Khosrowshahi
I wish there were OpenSPARC super computers in the US...
those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
of course they're entitled not to. however, they allow BS they agree with so they must accept that obvious bias will be called obvious bias.
Much more than that (~4m/s^2) is experienced nominally by jet liner passengers.

Roller coasters do 50-60m/s^2.

I don't think this is a major problem. Just accelerate slower.
Cough. Well, except the the "simple" part...
That has no bearing here because it's not the user mis-clicking on the link, but the app in question deliberately following a link on behalf of the user with the stated goal of causing harm.
I just think of it as P->Q only says something about Q when P is true; no information is given about Q when P is false, so Q can be whatever it wants in that case. And since any value of Q is acceptable, then the statememt holds regardless of Q's value (when P is false).

We only have the chance to return false when P is true, because thats the only time P says something about Q (that its true)
The reason English speakers understand it is because "I would have" when contracted to the maximum "I'd've" sounds like "I'd of". The fact that the two are effective homonyms doesn't make both spellings right. Rather, the "of" variant just looks a little bit ignorant. Not much, just a little.
> it has shown that a large chunk my social network is incapable of detecting bullshit

Most people didn't have to. When they heard something, it had been filtered. We switched context on millions of people without warning.
Microsoft's new partnership with Valve looks like a win-win
Leap AI: guaranteeing interviews for tech job seekers
"No true vacuum exist."

How high is density of atoms in space? Could there be a 1mm x 1mm space without atoms?
Well, the echo chambers, or at least the effectiveness of them is absolutely new.

In the past you shared and discussed news at gatherings of all kinds, and unless its a cult (which are easy to identify, and if required, outlaw) you had a fair chance of atleast coming across differing opinion. You had a face, a body and a mind attached to a differing opinion, a great humanizing factor. That is missing in FB echo chambers.
350M/day = just about 4K QPS. Is that considered impressive nowadays?
Back in November, PC World did some testing with fake FB accounts to see what fake news would be targeted at them. It was pretty eye-opening: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3142412/windows/just-how-part...

> The Macedonians may still be at it, because our Republican supporter, Todd White, was flooded with partisan posts. Worse, over a little more than two days, we counted 10 such posts in his feed that were fake, most accusing Democrats or their supporters of illegal activity. In all, White was clearly exposed to more spin than his Democratic counterpart, Chris Smith, who saw exactly zero fake news stories.
Part of the strategy employed by mainstream media to misinform the public is _selective_ reporting. That is, either the entire event is not reported if it doesn't fit the narrative, or parts that don't fit the narrative are simply omitted or deemphasized. Will FB detect and demonetize that as well?
i.e. who watches the watchers?
The Roman Rule: The one who says it can't be done shouldn't interrupt the one doing it.

I agree that it's harder than, say, Musk or Waymo's teams want to admit. But it also seems to me like Toyota has a bit of sour grapes, everyone around them is doing interesting, useful things, and Toyota is stuck at lane departure and adaptive cruise control and blind spot detection, all of which work pretty well for them.
Search for "AMD PSP".
The trouble with these echo chambers is that they nullify efforts of the society to promote meaningful debate and discussion.

I saw this coming years ago. So did others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
A proposal to end security interstitials for RFC1918 private IP addresses