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Well, where "Machine Learning" (aka: black box you can only get weights for a given question), one can train a machine to be racist, sexist, ageist, or whatever.

The problem is that the end weight distribution is different than the GB's or TB's of training data. How do we know the training was fair and impartial? How did the trainers even know if it was? What biases crept in on this stage?

Worse yet, what if the bias of the black box does denigrate black people... Say, we take in all pictures of convicted criminals- it's disproportionaly black. I would argue part of that is because of inherent policing biases, but that's embedded in "guilty" verdict. Who's at fault for this "bias"? Is there a fault? How do we detect, other than exhaustively?

I'm eagerly awaiting for methods to "open up" ML black boxes and see what makes them tick. See their decision trees, their neural weights. I want to poke and prod to see what's behind those series of numbers like [.888271829 1.10999292992 37.999999921 1000.32 .73] . Right now, it's shove data in exhaustively and hope for the best. I don't particularly care for that way of analysis.
You should have a mailing list. I would like to be notified when my target language becomes available.
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I flag stories whose thrust that I agree with but that are leading to toxic conversation. To me, HN value is the stories that are posted as well as the discussion. When the discussion gets out of hand, that is a detriment to the site.
You can also have paper trail documenting that you never did anything illicit during the development of the model.

There will be protocols for sensitive areas.

Can't do the same with individual decision making.
> Please don't go to Starbucks because its coffee is better or cheaper (it's neither), but as a lifestyle choice

Try telling a Bostonian that Dunks isn't a lifestyle choice...
Yeah. The "why do I care?" part if often missing from posts on HN.

The other posts I see are the ones exclaiming "X is harmful" while often only presenting a very narrowly construed use case, that doesnt fit the norm - or making a big to do about a nothing - another trope is posts promoting YAPL (yet another programming language) and YAF (yet another
framework) - without making it clear why this programming language or framework is any better than the eleventeen other ones.
To be fair, Mongo is better than it's ever been. They even got through Jepsen just fine after wiredtiger.

That said, it's pretty hard to make sense of when you would want non-relational dbms these days, especially in an era where you can get 100core systems in AWS/GCP. Write-scaling is still a pretty obvious reason, though things like Citus might help here.
I'd really hope Billions are not being spent on basic pettiness. But these companies are competitors and their long term incentive is not to work together.
Firefox Developer edition - it's dev tools are amazing and rival or surpass Chrome for anything with the possible exception of the performance tab, which Chrome still has a edge in.

Then, using your analytics package (which you have, correct?) You run testing either on actual hardware, or something like Browserstack for everything else in descending order of popularity by unique visitor.

Really, you have several different rendering engines and JS engines in play at any given time - and it's helpful to have an agreed upon support model in place prior to starting development. Generally speaking, support anything with 5+% in the past 90, and make a argument for not spending time supporting things below that without very good cause.
I sorta feel the same way - but then I think about the 800(?) employees they have and their combined skillset in database administration, internals, research, philosophy and I'm left feeling like there has got to be a very strong technical and business use case that I just don't see. Like I would imagine that if I were locked in a room with their Sr. product people and devs, they could easily convince most people of mongodb. I would pay money to see a debate style db-off between Postgres' core devs, and representatives from Mongodb.
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not just the authorities; the moves your company makes are scrutinized by shareholders and then you have to deal (more) with the court of public opinion.
At a minimum it does appear I have a better ability to read and understand what I am reading because none of those sources refute what i stated.

Number 1 is not comparing Equal Work and experiance, infact one of their summary bullet points is how part time women earn less than Full Time men... ummm yea. Part time people earn less than Full Time people.. That is not a earth shattering fact nor it is a symptom of sexism

They also point out that Part time women earn MORE than part time men...

Further most of the study looks at Overall wages in general with out comparing actual job roles to job role. This is a general misdirection often used by people that want to invent sexism where there is none. The fact that women often choose careers in fields that are traditionally lowering paying like Social Work, or Teaching is not a symptom of sexism

Number 2 is not a study

Number 3 is 404 page not found
Hard to take that article seriously, seems that guy just lives to complain. That phone has gotten fantastic reviews across the board from everyone else. His inflated ego and biased opinion mean nothing.
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Why would a resource department need information from payroll? They aren't the bosses of the employees so it's not like they are making the ultimate hiring decisions.
is the latter a hedge against the former? ;)
Per the "gender" input in the GP, socially "conservative" likely means "enforcing the social construct of gender".

These are interesting times.
Agreed. I run many plugins locally and love that workflow. Just means you need to keep all the basic vim commands in in your head too for remote work.
I've used Zeal for Linux and Windows: https://zealdocs.org

For offline docs. I prefer a native UX. I've found it doesn't always work well to access an offline capable page from my browser without internet.
These are all non-profits that work closely with a university and have basic research as a premise. They are both privately and publicly funded. I think that is different than a private corporation. Having worked in R&D at GM, and currently applying to jobs as I exit graduate school, the trend that I have seen personally as well as talking to many research scientists at private corporations is that R&D is an expense and must be focused on a business case. In discussion with some long term employees at some of the most research-motivated companies, this is in contrast to what private research was 20 years ago. Number of people, funding, and capabilities have been in decline. General Motors used to have an applied math research group and 10x more people in R&D! This led to things like the catalytic converter, the artificial heart valve and more. From what I have seen, nowadays private research will quickly test out a problem over the course of 6 months to maximum of a year, but will not do a 5-10 year project like academia has the freedom to do. These projects also like @gp stated, must have an application and not just be intellectually stimulating. Take it for what you will, this has just been my experience, but there are massively different purposes for current day private vs public research, which didn't use to be the case.
I went to WeWork just because I needed a few month-to-month desks quickly. WeWork has excellent execution but I don't think of them as a lifestyle or luxury brand. If someone else can provide me the same ballpark product for 20% less then I would likely switch. There's a lot of room for competitors to move into the market.
Starting at age 27 I learned French, Spanish, and Italian to a pretty good level: I can understand movies and usually communicate with native speakers without asking them to slow down or switch to English. I used a combination of Assimil (a book + cd series), reading news, listening to the radio, and taking some lessons on italki. I focused on French only for the first ~two years (at the time I was interested only in French and had no ambitions of being "multilingual" or anything). After that Spanish and Italian were much simpler to pick up thanks to shared vocabulary and grammar.

I had no background in linguistics or learning languages apart from (almost entirely forgotten) high school Spanish and a bit of classical Greek in college.
You can install GalliumOS distribution and get full Linux on most Chromebooks. You can flash firmware and get a proper laptop too
Nice.. I didn't know about this.

Some people here seem to recommend it and they have been using it a lot apparently. Where did you learn about it? Is there a community our there I am missing out on?
By "forefront of USB-C connectivity", you mean the new iPhones still use the proprietary lightning connector, to the detriment of progress.
Trust me. In Alaska you are still the apex predator. That bear has far more reason to fear you than you do it. The bear doesn't know that you aren't carrying your rifle.
This has been around since well before stack overflow

Here are a plethora of examples from the Windows 95 days: http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplech...
Amusingly, I would not be surprised to find some people need both. In particular, exercise is boring. Very very boring. Anything that can help with concentration during boring tasks is useful.

Obviously, that is my experience. Ymmv
This is an interesting thought experiment, but I imagine it having precisely the opposite effect. Modernism, as a technology, works precisely by making power relationships seem obvious, natural, and therefore not something subject to critique. These relationships include definitions of gender, race, and class, as well as capitalist and colonial relationships, and many more. Probably the most salient power relationship to this article is deciding who should benefit from the work of robots. Acting through computers amplifies this effect, and makes it easier to uphold oppressive power relationships while keeping one's hands clean.

I recognize that this is not immediately an empirical claim, but I will observe that discarding it offhand in favor of the equally ideological dominant interpretation would be exactly the dynamic I'm pointing out.
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That isn't true. It will actually boot. In fact, you will even have unaccelerated graphics. Depending on the phone, you will probably have working Bluetooth. WiFi will work if you copy the firmware image from the original Android installation. Touch screen will work perfectly fine. Power management and thermal management are going to be a lot of work. Graphics acceleration is unlikely
I thought the unique aspect here was comparing techniques against each other. Not that the techniques hadn't been studied.

It didn't seem like a great distinction to me, but maybe it eliminates control issues when comparing two studies of different techniques vs comparing two different techniques in one study.
Here are some posts whose flags I consider questionable:

Harvey, the Storm That Humans Helped Cause (23 points)

ES6 imports syntax considered harmful (12 points)

White-Owned Restaurants Shamed for Serving Ethnic Food (33 points)

The evidence is piling up – Silicon Valley is being destroyed (27 points)

Personally I'm glad all of these posts were flagged.
more than swimming? seems surprising
I'm happy to hear that I'm wrong. It obviously looked a lot like an aqui-hire from the outside, and that was the speculation on HN at the time. I hope the FoundationDB team ended up doing great things at Apple.
Their comment didn't imply that they think this.

Competition, generally speaking, is good.
And as to it being "worthwhile for learning" ... failure in that context just means you didn't learn/know enough before you tried.
Kings College London is an academic institution - doesn’t that mean that you’ll never have a consistent core team

Not necessarily. Matthias Felleisen has been working on Racket (and MzScheme) for decades and several of the core contributors to Racket (e.g. Mathew Flatt) are hacking on it in academia. On the other hand, Racket is their baby and that may not be the case with LuaJIT in the culture of Kings College...Racket is bootstrapped in academia by it's pedagogical hat and its facilitation of programming language research.
Actually stock analysts do compare Starbucks to Dunkin' Donuts, as well as other fast food chains.
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A tip on Netflix - in the US, it's often nearly impossible to get foreign language dubbing or subtitles. I've found that I can watch Friends in German by using TunnelBear or another VPN to get a German IP and then downloading them offline and watching them in airplane mode.
The money in renting is if you own a gazillion apartments and can easily weather losses in one or two properties. It's hard to see the appeal of being a small-time landlord.
Many people, including the author, skip the more interesting point in favor of the lazy critique:

WeWork is not being valued by its investors as an office rental company. It's made the case that it is a business services marketplace, selling vendors' insurance and HR and legal and servers to as large as swath of the small business sector as it can grab with its fancy offices. It wants to own the app store for enterprise services.

It hasn't fulfilled that promise yet, not even close, but it's not an unreasonable proposition. Is it possible to capture a big, fragmented market with kitschy decor? Will the services marketplace be as fruitful as it thinks? These would be interesting questions to explore.
Indeed, they go there for the foosball, table tennis, coffee and self-congratulation.

Sure, sure, physical proximity to other startups, mentorship, etc. - but frankly the impression I've got from each wework location I've been to has been of people wanting the "startup lifestyle" rather than wanting to build a business.

The actual startup lifestyle is sweating in a cheap grotty office, rice, and sleeping under your desk - but I suppose that's not a palatable option for most.

Yeah, I'm contemptuous - but I'd sooner invest in a frugal scrappy business than one that thinks it needs mahogany desks for its team.

And yes, of course, I write this as one who did it the scrappy way, and had a reasonably successful exit.
This has a PCIe x1 if I gather correctly. Not sure how would you attach a USB C chip to that.

Speaking of, I really would love if someone assembled a tiny computer with an USB C socket on one end and an M.2 key M (just PCIe 2.0 x2 is enough) with a simple copying firmware thus creating an external enclosure for M.2 key M disks. As Intel does not allow selling Thunderbolt enclosures empty there really is no other way. But, this could work and while 10 gbps is not the fastest, it's still quite a bit faster than 6 gbps SATA... Right now, the cheapest you can get is the BOXNUC7I3BNK and then probably run networking over Thunderbolt which is stupidly limited to 10gbps as well...
Love Hugo but really wish it supported dynamic page generation like Middleman [0].

[0] https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/140
Tried it a few weeks ago to run Windows, guest os got corrupted right after installation. Searched Google and apparently this happens quite a lot. I’d say you get what you pay for, but KVM works fine. It’s just slow because there’s no graphics acceleration.
Living in the UK here. We don't have money for college anymore, but we still have the NHS. And we've never had that much trouble recruiting.

Perhaps they should send a fact-finding mission across.
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I think the other thing "cheap money" bypasses is a relative metric. Fed fund rates are low compared to... what?

Obviously compared to a hypothetical higher Fed rate, but that's not much of an argument.
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Housing, food, and books results in a $70k raise? Is this for in-state students who attend for 4 years, or just 1 year?
> exercise is boring

Yep. So listen to podcasts during. Seminars About Long Term Thinking and In Our Time being my favorites.
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It's called working from home, and it's a lot more than 20% less.
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But you're making the wrong assumption that effort is fungible. That if something new didn't exist, that the effort would have instead happened on the old thing.

I don't understand why people think this way since those same people certainly don't operate that way. It's just backseat driving how other people spend their free time. Just comes off as a circlejerk.
Looking back on our migration from bare metal to GCP: Sentry
They raised 192M but their valuation is much higher.
Ironically, the _maximums_ for women pose a serious problem for women who want to go for the toughest roles. You need to seriously bulk up to get in.
That's already started: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/14/technology/lyft-waymo-sel...

Although, while looking for that article, I also found this:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/21/16005636/lyft-self-drivin...

So I'm not really sure what's going on, now.
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If you think a rifle/pistol is going to save you from a bear then you have a lot to learn about being out in the woods.
I think you're vastly overestimating the sophistication typically going into selecting targets for home burglary.
I suspected so, I just got a queen mattress from them two days ago, I've really enjoyed it so far.
That's a daily update, so it's paywalled. :(
Isn't some R documentation only accessible via pdf files? I couldn't provide a clear example, but months ago when I used R intensively I stumbled upon very extensible documentation via PDF only
I think this is a pretty bold claim and would appreciate the sources you found probative.

If the statements you offer constitute sufficient evidence for you, I would say that numerous companies and industries have more contact with our lawmakers than what you have described.
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I forget where I got it from, but I have this JS snippet saved as a bookmark--it gets around the WSJ paywall by 'redirecting' from Facebook.

javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
Is there any push to unify the way content is arranged so one could hop from one static site generator to another?

I currently use middleman but I find it quite slow I might be tempted to go somewhere else but I am putting it away because even the migration from v3 to v4 of middleman took quite a while.
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>>Why exactly was it that out of my CS graduating class of 100 there was 1 woman?

Why are you not asking why out of 100 janitors, or 100 trash collectors there are only 1 women?

I love how every time this subject somes up it is always how there is a lack of women in tech, never pluming, janitorial, auto mechanics, etc. Only Tech.

Do you ask why there are are lack of men in Nursing? or a lack of Men in Childcare, social work, or any other field that has a majority of women doing those jobs?

Further what does that have to do with the subject of the wage gap, which is defined as an employer paying a women less for the same work.
And yet if you compare SBUX and DNKN, they have nearly identical PE and EPS. SBUX only has a larger market cap because they have more revenue than DNKN.

At the end of the day, WeWork uses X sqft per desk, has an average occupancy rate, etc. So one way to look at their business is revenue/sqft.. which is very similar to a traditional landlord.

The only real difference is that WeWork can improve their revenue/sqft by adding desks without tearing down walls or remodeling the building; and they can increase prices at a faster rate than a traditional landlord who has a longer lease term. But on the downside, they have shorter lease terms, which makes their earnings less stable and more responsive to market conditions (ie: it's easier to stop paying WeWork during a market downturn that it is for a traditional landlord).

The question is, are WeWork properties similar to Boston's properties, and does WeWork generate 5x the revenue/sqft as Boston on similar properties.
Screenshots are useful, but diffs of screenshots are even more useful.

You could maybe immitate the workflow used by wraith?
https://github.com/bbc-news/wraith

For example to setup screenshot diffs between an existing production site and local dev, use:

# (required) The domains to take screenshots of.
domains:
current: "https://prod.yoursite.com"
new: "http://localhost:8000"

paths:
home: /pageyouareworkingon.html

Not sure how to connect to localhost 8000 from the web though...
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It doesn't seem like that link controls for the area you live in. I don't think it addresses the concern of being conspicuously wealthier than your neighbors.
More like a "death to the viability of Facebook as a means of advertising your business."

Small businesses will do what they did before Facebook, as it turns out, small businesses did exist before the creation of Facebook...
Does anyone use Mongo anymore?

Edit: Honest to god question. I was surprised when I saw the headline, because I've never seen anyone use mongo in production, and never ran into any articles talking about using mongo.
I believe there is an automatic penalty if the comment count goes above the vote count beyond a certain percentage
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Given that Oracle seems to have the midas shit touch (RIP John Dunsworth), does anyone have suggestions on Virtualbox alternatives? VMWare is the obvious one I guess.

It's great that they have released 5.2 and that they are adding new things. Virtualbox is a handy tool for me and I'm just afraid one day soon Oracle will turn it to shit.
pretty much my experience too. I never got that good at dual n-back (4 I think, and only if I was well-rested) and my IQ didn't improve, but I did find an increase in the ability to relate recent events to the present and keep track of recent events. For example, during meetings I was much more able to recite back to someone things they had said earlier in the meeting in the context of what we were presently discussing.
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I didn't know about this either, but I guess people find these things by visiting sites like HackerNews, just like us!
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Seems similar to bro pages (as a pun on man pages): http://bropages.org/
Some movement on addressing VirtualBox Shared Folders performance issues would have been really nice to see. Has anyone been able to make it perform well for filesystem intensive (npm install, docker builds, etc.) tasks?

https://www.google.ca/search?q=virtualbox+shared+folders+per...
People want to feel trendy. They are not running "Startups" because they want to build stuff that scales. They are running mostly failed businesses that look trendy/cool, so that they can "fit in".

Selling emotions is a big business. Lots of brands are relying on it.