skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
talking machines had an episode on the difference between algorithms and models, and how the general public understands the meaning of the word "algorithm". In general these are conflated terms which is hard to be absolutist about, at the very least

The general public (& journalists) use the word 'algorithm' to mean any computerized process that "does things to them", such your facebook news feed, or what a credit agency does.

This is a different meaning from how social scientists use these words.

http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog/2017/9/22/the-long-vi...

In the episode, he talks about how even something like Principal Components Analysis (PCA), which is something that normally we would call an algorithm, which follows a discrete sequence of steps, can also be thought of as resting on something that resembles a model
Indeed. This is what FairVote has been fighting for in the past 5+ years, and it's already making some progress:

http://www.fairvote.org/fair_representation
> no one seems to think it's due to fraternities essentially being gangs.

Probably because the word "fraternity" already captures all of the features that overlap with gangs without bringing in a whole load of irrelevant connotations?
I don't think there's a correct word here. He's talking about widely differing things and using a vague word to try to relate those things. The correct thing is to reject the relation and treat each of the notions he's talking about (such as web search results, government policy, and economic models) as the distinct things that they are.
NRT is nicotine patches, nicotine gum, the drugs Chantix, and Zyban (Bupropion). These are FDA recommended treatments to help with nicotine craving. If you read the reference provided, the FDA is against e-Cigs.
RNNs are pretty close already:

https://soundcloud.com/reivalk/basic-rnn-joplin-example-over...
Reading the study (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2763720) I'm amazed it did not consider parental income. Not only does parental income correlate strongly to child income as adults, but also to college acceptance. Most importantly in this case, parental income is usually used to pay fraternity dues.

Fraternities might give a strong sample set of students with poor parents being separated from students who have parents with moderate to high incomes. Not to mention the obvious cultural divisions that might keep a high percentage of low income students from being included in many fraternities.
Isn't the whole problem that users don't listen to music with equal frequency? If I use Spotify more than you do, then in effect some of your subscription money goes to the bands I like instead of the bands you like, which is weird and kind of destructive.
>>We spent the last few decades dismantling whatever shambles of a social safety net we had

The empirical evidence would suggest the opposite:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/01/16/us/politics/16fiv...

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/01/16/us/politics/16fiv...
Brilliant. I am looking to redo my portfolio site and this will help with wording examples
This is a big issue. Clinical studies to get a chemical approved for therapeutical use are very expensive, and since most of the chemicals were first explored a long time ago, they can't be patented anymore, so no pharmaceutical company would fund the studies since they won't be able to be the sole provider of that drug (at a premium cost), and public funding for clinical studies is quite low.
> Vilifying "algorithms" only serves to distract from root causes.

But that's the goal of some actors. They want to misdirect attention and responsibility away from themselves when their creations misbehave.

The root cause is no-one is really at the wheel once the algorithm goes into production to provide human discretion. For instance, pretty much the entire consumer facing apparatus of Google and Facebook consists of "algorithms" and there's no one empowered to call when they go wrong. Fixing that would cost money that the tech giants don't want to spend.
Can you give some examples of what succeeds on your side of the pond?
This missing element of that analysis is that in the smartphone era you almost never type out a phone number. You were texted it and click on it, see it on the web and click on it, found the company on Google maps and click on it...

The dial-pad may be too difficult to reach on our big screens now, but the momentum required to change it will never exist because it simply doesn't get enough use to be a pain point anymore.

Excellent write up and use of graphics though. The Bell labs part was really interesting.
They have emailed a few times about it.

Some info here: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/23/crashplan_ends_cons...
350 answers does not look like a helluva lot users.
(edit: I finished it,as I should have the first time. Not that i change my point of view though) 
I couldn't finish the article, not because it was too heartbreaking, but because of the stupidity of the author.


..."went to the already-crowded Dollar Store and Dollar General and bought dog food, dog treats, Slim Jims, three six-packs of Milwaukee’s Best, pruners for digging roots and a backpack to carry it all."

I have been on the poverty line, I'm damn close to being there again. You have money for dog food and beer? Also earlier noted in the article smoking.

I'm not sorry to say, fucking pull your head in.

I have had to grow my own vegetables and cut lawns to feed my family (when I was 14!), None of us had money to mnoke, drink or have pets.

Oh you spent your day digging up roots? Why not plant something then?(if you're already stealing from public land, why not at least try and utilise it somehow?)

“I worked underground until I started having anxiety and I couldn’t stand to go back underground,”, I sure hope that doesn't deserve a disability payment, there are many more deserving than that. Shit I don't like underground either, doesn't mean I'm disabled, just means that I don't like the idea of that much mass over my head. I can still do other work.

My opinion on this piece is that the author was trying to pull heart strings without actually being objective.
Which is nothing
Man, I'm convinced that half of my computer knowledge comes from jumping through the hoops of the early internet to find dirty pictures.

Back in my day, you had to buy a box of parts at the local computer store, put them together, buy a modem, figure out how to install it, find a local BBS that provided internet, install and configure Trumpet Winsock, get a usenet reader, script it to download the Base64 encoded data, write another program to combine the parts and decode it.

Now a kid gets an iPad and types "boobs".
Chubby Checker?!
That's why Spotify takes its cut, no?

Comparing listening to different artists to funding multiple agencies with tax dollars isn't a valid comparison.

It's like saying that when I buy my favourite brand of ice cream at the store, that the other ice cream brands will get a cut simply for gracing the shelves.
Well look at it; it says Java derives solely from C++, that's not remotely true. It's simplistic and misleading, here's some better ones...

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b9/45/71/b9457106d7a5d602a2923597d...

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/250a-fall-2005/docs/Compu...
I don't understand, so Bieber made $596,000 (assuming he owned the other 80%) from this song? No way, it would seem like?
but in the smartphone era how many times do we type the number. usually friends' numbers are stored in the contacts, any phone numbers found on websites accessible through phone are tap and dial. I imagine you need to type a phone number only when you find it outside your smartphone.
but we all know that the whole pandora business is exactly to get around that.

you get to hear the song you want, and a few similar ones, in a guise that it worked like radio and you didnt select any song, so they can keep the royalties down.

...that said, i'd be very curious what's YouTube excuse. if they need any and are not just shoving their weight around. for tv series and cartoons they are using the "but thats our users streaming content live! we will punish them, after suggesting their live stream to everyone and collect ads revenue" excuse
Minumum wage in the US is $7.25/hr. In West Virginia specifically it's $8.75/hr.

That means that a full-time minimum-wage employee in West Virginia costs about $1460/month (assuming they get paid for 50 weeks a year and take 2 weeks of unpaid vacation; if they get paid for 40 hours every week, that's $1517/month). That's just for their salary. Employers also have to pay half of the FICA tax (7.65%), unemployment taxes (several percent, typically; no idea what it's like in West Virginia), provide the actual space to work, etc.

So you can get 2 T-1 lines easily for the cost of a single minimum-wage employee. Assuming your "several thousand dollars" is less than $10k, that corresponds to about 5 minimum-wage employees.

And maybe, just maybe, there might be an incentive structure that involves wages above minimum wage for people who do a good job.
Sure, no one's ever bought Tableau along with a Windows Server license to solve their data warehouse analytics needs.
I have my doubts. The website does try to associate itself with these companies but some of the lines look like they are referencing side projects or very small startups.

> Doubled new user acquisition from 10-15 users to 20-25 through the implementation of new marketing strategies focused on online advertising and improving the company's web presence, social media, and search engine optimization.

> Identified steps to reduce return rates by 10% resulting in an eventual $75k cost savings

> Designed and implemented 50+ E2E tests using Selenium & Protractor, simulating each user group's actions
As the author has mischaracterized Alito's intent, you have similarly mischaracterized the stakes. The peoples self-determination is the subject of the case, but it is not under any sort of existential threat from it. Not even close.
There aren't quad socket Skylake yet :). You can also see that the largest public single package is 28 cores (56 threads). I'll sadly have to let you figure out how many because silly.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
I'm aware but I built the habit before that was available.
Eon and Enel trade power using Blockchain technology for the first time
If you want to know what I would do to make these lives better, it'd be campaigning for universal basic income.

Unfortunately, that would be labeled "socialism" and made political suicide in seconds. An alternative would be to heavily subsidize housing, food, gas, healthcare, medicine and do that disguised as an attempt to bootstrap a local self-sufficient economy. It'd actually be a lot more socialist than UBI but politics is the art of the possible and not all state transitions are allowed.
Ask HN: What are some must watch videos?
I need to kill some time this weekend
I'm agreeing with you that a case like this isn't being fairly measured by this gap. I'm not trolling but the likeliness does play into it. This case is not much of a concern if it has never happened in any state in US history, e.g. I think there are other things that can be done to make it even harder to create all 75-25 like saying all districts must have a size or density or .... that is within a standard deviation (or two?) of the mean. I don't know what the right math is offhand but something like this adds another constraint.
Interesting research.

I'd take a couple of thoughts.

Most of my dailing is done via voice, phone URL or stored contact.

Most of my time in dialpad is spent entering digits for automated systems (e.g. "press 1 to join meeting" or "dial meeting code then #" or "press 0 to talk to a receptionist").

What dedicated call vs. hangup buttons?
who cares, if you know your shit, you walk in the interview and make them feel stupid, make them feel like you have a monopoly on knowledge, like it oozes out of you and drips to the floor and if they don't lick it off they might miss something, lol, then they would be stupid to pass on you, then they will surely want you on their team. but you can only do that if you really learn or you can bs to a professional level

there are many ways into the castle, some people walk in the front door, some take the back door, some sneak through the side gate and some ride on the shoulders of others..., some fuck the manager or blow the boss, or maybe play golf at the same golf club or are in the same motorcycle club, or fuck the same prostitute and catch each other at the door and have an understanding, or have the same drug dealer

if you are sitting on the sideline keeping score, you might end up hungry while someone eats your bread.

it doesn't matter what color the cat is, as long as it catches mice. but my moms favorite quote was machiavelli's maxim, the end always justifies the means

i guess the question is, if you would be in their shoes? you would read this article and say, damn right!

i still think in a lot of corporate environments, money is definitely being made on the side by the decision makers when it comes time to pick an outsourcing firm, or award a contract to a contracting company, you know, you jack me off and i will jack you off later kinda thing, gotta grease the wheels of the company politics once in a while or else you might get caught not working
#2 seems like it could be incredibly controversial depending on the criteria. The example you give, agricultural vs urban, is sometimes just code for conservative vs liberal.
It's native in the sense that it doesn't bundle an entire Chrome browser runtime with it. But it does not interact with native APIs; it re-implements the native platform's look and feel.
What does "OW" mean in those Thumb Zone diagrams?
I think their latest instances were 4 socket Broadwell.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
> I was greatly disappointed with this book because none of the 'Game' examples had a graphical interface to them. They are all text based.

Chapter 19 is titled "Creating a Graphical, Web-Based Version of Dice of Doom".
That's true, I was still looking at it from the perspective of a safe setting (such as an internet comment). In physical contexts, my strategy is a bit more nuanced, in that I'll assume I may have misinterpreted[1], but make certain decisions as to involvement with the assumption I interpreted correctly. In other words, I'll choose to disassociate myself from situations where I feel danger. What I endeavor to do after situations like that is to not assume I was correct (without further evidence) and use that in future decisions. That is, I try not to say or think "the guy driving in front of me was drunk so I made sure not to drive close to him" but instead "the guy driving in front of me was swerving a lot and it appeared he might be drunk, so I made sure not to drive close to him." To some it seems like a small difference, but keeping your assumptions classified as assumptions in your head can be hard.

1: Of course this is with respect to how possible it is to misinterpret. "Kill the Jews!" is unlikely to result in a different interpretation on examination that results in a different action on your part.
Well, that's how a lot of colleges in the US and UK have historically worked. In the UK it was more explicit; if you were an aristocratic sort, you would send your children to a private boarding school where they would meet and befriend the children of your Peers of the Realm, and since Britain was a global empire back in those days, often the children of a similar upper class of people overseas. Prestigious universities functioned as an extension of that into young adulthood.

In the US today, it's less about class and more about money. It's not that your child grows up among the children of nobility, so much as the children of people who can and will spend 5 (or even sometimes 6!) figures a year on their kids' education and future. Things like 'legacy admissions' and a difficult-to-navigate application process keep prestigious institutions largely full of the well-off, and again, since these really are world-class educational institutions, that includes well-off individuals from around the world. I think that Greek organizations are just one common part of the system that persists more visibly after graduation, but it's really about getting to know broad network of as many powerful people as possible.

That sort of dynamic in education really stymies social mobility in general, though. It's like opportunity hoarding.
It's funny. I wonder if they took it from some other source. Thanks.
Or conversely, nobody will mind if you start changing it. Maybe they'll appreciate the improvement when they do have to do it.
As in "ouch," it's uncomfortable to reach there.
Google has been working closely with all of their favorite SEO blogs.

They often work with them to mold the narrative around algo updates and best practices.
Everyone knows that songwriters do not make their money off royalties. They make their money off charging pop stars hourly to write music with them.

The same way performing artists don't make money off their albums, they make money by touring and increasing their brand reach as an artist.

Music industry is not about creating IP, the same way the tech industry is not about creating IP. Making things and making money are two separate, yet intertwined tasks.
Entrapment
> if you walk in the interview and make them feel stupid

... then you won't get hired, because nobody wants to hire an asshole with such poor social skills that they can't talk to someone without talking down to them.
"Ow! It hurts to reach that far!"
I took it to mean "ow that hurts". Maybe it's actually an acronym for something though.
This tread is full of ignorant sourpuss who missed the boat.

What people fail to see it that steemit is only 1 of many many websites being built on top of that blockchain. Youtube, twitter, instagram...they can all be built in their own little silos. With SMTs they will even be able to have their own tokens with their own economic models.

Get your head around it. Steemit alone will soon pass you by on Alexa. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com / https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/steemit.com
Another solution in the same space is Apache Geode. Its commercial version has been around since a long time and has been well proofen on very large loads in systems that require low response times.

Disclaimer: I work on Geode.
I did, but I also saw this:

They could also do things like send paper mail to the last long-term address, to confirm it. Why don't they do that for credit card requests? At a guess, it's because these stronger schemes are too inconvenient, and will drive away consumers who are trying to apply for credit. If that guess is correct, it suggests that the real solution is regulatory: make credit providers liable for the full damages, including ongoing inconvenience, suffered by victims of identity theft. SSNs are not the problem; authentication commensurate with the risk to all parties, including especially individuals, is.

That’s a loooooot of guesses for my taste.
What de-humanizing nonsense.

I have inate creative abilities. What should it matter to me whether others find value in what I choose to produce with them?

Participating in free market capitalism is simply a pragmatic choice when no others exist. If people can't create freely and survive, that's a problem with our society, not where an individual is putting their efforts.

"But now distribution is free, instant and global."

You got subsidized free internet? A free computer? Free software tools that aren't a kludgey mess? What sort of fairy tale world do you live in?
There's an algorithm to rank the documents by an arbitrary metric. And there's an algorithm to calculate the number of occurrences of each search term in that document.

However, those are insignificant implementation details - all the logic (and all the good and bad results) comes from the arbitrary decision to use the number of occurrences as meaningful for measuring the relevance, from the choice of heuristic.
Maybe if it were the default various frameworks would be less likely to use exceptions as flow control.
This just sort of seems like DVORAK layouts to me. A possibility that it MAY be more efficient, just not enough increase in efficiency to make it ever worth it to change, especially in a world where there is no real evidence its actually more efficient.

Also I find that doing standard dialing is pretty rare these days, and so low mental load, that I think I wasted more brain cycles reading this than I have ever just dialing a number.
Wow, I cant believe that I forgot about Iridium... my mom had a sat phone powered by them when it was consumer... I cant recall her cell bills - but they were massive... Didnt know they were still active.

is there a DB some place that has all the satallittes and their respective owners/services/orbits/launch-dates/etc that is available to the public, even if incomplete and salted with bullshit?
This is a different issue. No reason we can't also fix gerrymandering. Also, while outside money certainly is an issue, there is still research showing the limited effectiveness of money in politics. It only goes so far, whereas siloing opposing voters can be at least as effective, and more permanent.
Am I mistaken or is that Alan Kay smashing bugs in the comic? :)
The encumbrances that this license places on the downstream modification and redistribution of code largely eliminate any of the material advantages that come from the code being open in the first place.

You should explain this. As far as I can tell from a 1st reading, so long as I'm non-commercial, I can just treat it as BSD 2 clause.
Solving non-existing problem.
But, what do investors do when markets don't go up? because there's a giant drain on asset prices? especially very liquid assets.
Chapel 1.16 released – New modules, tools, fixes
Hi, Screenshots developer here –

We've gotten similar feedback about the Save and Download buttons, we added the cloud icon in part to make that clearer. I feel like there's a ticket about it as well, but I not able to find it. We're planning on adding a Copy button, and we'll probably do some user research on the buttons generally to make sure the choice is clear.

We did have a full page screenshot feature, but it didn't make the cut for Firefox 56. It's back in Firefox 57.

If you have any issues or feedback on Screenshots, we track most of our work in GitHub and welcome new issues there: https://github.com/mozilla-services/screenshots
The last I heard, I understood that Backblaze doesn't go around replacing single drives that fail in a pod, rather, their software marks that drive bad and only once a certain percentage of the capacity of the entire pod is gone, do they yank it our and rebuild the pod. That probably helps a lot versus an environment where had to have technicians replacing single drive failures randomly throughout your data center.
Understanding software testing
At the same time, what you're suggesting encourages the constant dumping on marginalized people with those "questions". Constantly being assailed like that takes its toll, and can lead to those people withdrawing from social media, removing their point of view from the discourse, and emboldening that of the bigots.
Concept to Clinic: use ML to detect cancer
The first thing that comes to mind is my Slashdot account. I don't remember exactly when it was created, but probably sometime around 1998.