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You might find this thread[1] of interest.

All you have to do is drop the word "sorry", it doesn't matter if the apology actually addressed any of the concerns that were raised.

FB was sorry for being "unclear". Mozilla is sorry for "the confusion" and for "letting down members of [the] community".

The headlines will read "[Company] apologizes for [event that triggered criticism]" and everyone will carry on as if the apology directly addressed that event. The lawyers and shareholders will breathe a sigh of relief, and the matter will soon be forgotten.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15449954
True, but for better or worse python has support for spark/sklearn/pandas/numpy/plotting/deep learning/web which makes it a good jack of all trades language for data/research science. Its strength is that it can do all of those at levels varying from proficiently to best-in-class.
I’ve only seen the opposite effect in practice. My odd look as well.
That's because they are. The article is wrong.
Richard Shweder on the End of the Modern Academy
I can't count on two hands and feet the countries that it's better to be poor in than the US.
Co-founder of Bitcoin.com sold all his Bitcoin ,says it's 'as good as useless'
We are sleepwalking toward war with North Korea
Great idea!

I'm going to show this to a few of the folks on our non-profit board. From first glance, it looks like a great fit.

Thanks,
Matthew
Or perhaps a country with a national medical program?

https://www.gofundme.com/StephenSykes

"Unfortunatey, the cost of the drug is above the NHS funding threshold. It is not therefore available on prescription and the Consultants have told us that we will need to raise the funds required to purchase the treatment that Stephen needs to give him the real prospect of becoming well again."
Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11379475

swanson: My hobby: role-playing how I would respond as the CEO if my company was getting skewered on HN. Here is my version!

Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3523763

abbasmehdi: Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I’m sorry that I hurt you. 3) How do I make it better? It’s the third part that people tend to forget…. Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

(Couldn't find the exact YouTube timecode; https://teamrich.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/pausch-last-lectur... )

>anon808: The most import part of that apology formula is missing, actually meaning it. Also if the answer to #3 is obvious (ie stop doing what your apologizing for) then one shouldn't have to ask.
The computational graph abstraction can be exploited to bypass the CUDA ecosystem btw.
I donno, some 'third world' countries seem to have better healthcare than America.
That's because if you live in the US, you know better.

The only people that are going without proper healthcare are those that make too much money to qualify for Medicaid. But that live beyond their means and can't afford other insurance.

The very poor have it just fine when it comes to healthcare in the us. It's those that make too much for Medicaid but not enough for private insurance that have a problem.
Ask HN: How would you solve the Windows Phone app gap?
I’d love any discussion around this if anyone has answers....
North Korea punishes your whole family if you misbehave.

If you're a North Korean hacker, you're probably living better than 95% of the country. You and your family probably get to live in Pyongyang and get good food, housing, healthcare, opportunities for your children, and so forth.

Why would you risk that? What could you, as one person, possibly do that would have any chance of success in fixing your country? The only thing you would get is your whole family thrown into a labor camp for the rest of your lives.
I do this as well and it's fantastic. Also, a standing desk helps as I rarely want to stand up and procrastinate. It's too easy for me to feel lazy sitting in a chair.
The emergency room will provide insulin 100% of the time whether you can pay or not.
> the popularity of FB and Wikipedia shows that people value simple, uncluttered interfaces

I agree with Wikipedia, but FB has a horrible interface.
It's nothing to do with "the influence of Facebook", it's to do with progress in usability and use case.

If you just want to send a message to a friend then there are a myriad of ways to do that which neither involve email nor Facebook.

If you boil it down to why people actually use Facebook, then Facebook is nothing but a fancier and comfortable version of "keeping a list of emails", just with very nasty side-effects.
I've noticed this too. You also have to make sure there are words on the photo posts to get any engagement. Articles do all right too, but yes, I agree that people aren't engaging with just regular text and I often delete stuff and repost it figuring the posts are just getting screwed by the algorithm. Same with Instagram but in different ways.
Just read it. It's a scary potential. It might start doing it automatically one day. If anyone discovers the bug it will be just "oh sorry, just an algorithm bug, we'll tweak it, we promise".

> Does facebook have enough power that it can chose to kill off certain people? A

I never signed up for Facebook to start with, but I got a glimpse of this power with Netflix. The movie recommendations were so good that I end up liking them if took its advice. Where normally I wouldn't have watched them based on rating, synopsis, or title. I had realized some algorithm at Netflix seems to know me better than I knew myself. Then thought what if it suddenly decided to use that against me, because it somehow would be more profitable for it.
I think checked builds did not disable optimizations, though it did include useful stuff.
Higher paid employees means less reach especially without the use of good software.
Except most hospitals charge _after_ they've administered life saving medicine. (Which is why illegal immigrants and the uninsured have burdened the medical system. This isn't a 'clever jab'--like yours--the way the legal and medical system is setup, hospitals are the ones that are screwed the most and have to fit the bill for non-payers.)

https://www.quora.com/What-do-doctors-do-when-a-patient-cant...

>When a patient comes into the hospital and there is a limb threatening emergency, there is no consideration to the patients financial status to provide emergency surgical management, PERIOD.

https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/who-bears-t...

>That means hospitals are effectively serving as “insurers of last resort” within the American healthcare sector by providing care to uninsured patients who cannot afford to pay their medical bills. “People are still going to the emergency room,” Garthwaite says, “and they are still receiving treatment—so the cost is still there. When governments do not provide health insurance, hospitals must effectively provide it instead.”

And before some brilliant downvoter comes along, I'd call attention to the fact I've provided sources for all of my claims. Doctors in the USA don't go through 8+ years of school and residence to simply let people die in front of them.

[edit] Per the child poster's date, I've got one more source:

>According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 55% of U.S. emergency care now goes uncompensated.[13]

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

That reaffirms my point. And my God, 55% is a staggering amount and it highlights many sides of the issue. That many people know and use "free" emergency care when they have to, without paying insurance. And that hospitals are the ones stuck with the burden of our medical system.
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As far as I'm aware, a gun can't shoot a projectile into orbit - no matter how high it shoots a ballistic, the ballistic will eventually come back to earth (unless it gets captured by another body's gravitational field). In order to achieve orbit, you need to impart additional energy onto the object in order for it to get enough velocity to actually orbit.
Exactly the same outcome as Runescape "merchanting" aka pump and dumping where the majority of the participants were looking to make a quick flip and end up screwed over by the organizers who bought in much earlier start selling early as well. I think much of what is happening in the crypto currency scene has played out in virtual economies a decade earlier and irl for hundreds of years prior.
> LazyLoading impacts what data is retrieved from the database (or more to the point when)

It impacts more than just that, it will impact the query generation as well. If you have a property that is not lazy loaded then it will attempt to join the relation or load it very another query in the same round trip. Turning it off tells the ORM that every single time you want A it needs to go and get B as well. If you have it off universally it will attempt to load the entire database, or as may be the case here, crashing while trying to generate a query to do so.

> You likely should have asked for more information before concluding it was "user error."

Perhaps, but you've got multiple conflicting accounts of what went wrong, some comments indicate that it returned data, others say it never touched the database.
> find an employer who does that for them

Most [0] employers who "offer health care" don't actually pay the premiums for you; they'll usually negotiate a group rate that's better than individual (ACA/ObamaCare) insurance, and perhaps chip in some, but you're still paying the premium yourself. Half of ridiculous still rounds up to ridiculous...

[0] http://fortune.com/2016/03/30/employer-paid-health-insurance...
I doubt WannaCry or the Shadow Brokers leaks were meant to actually make money. They seem more like they were executed to make NSA look worse than it already does. Most of the recent sensationalized leaks have seemed to fit that bill.

But you're right, attribution here is dangerous unless they have some solid evidence.
This is not about the size of the system. You really cannot predict how the system will work, since its observing input from the outside and constructing its actions based on it.

Sure, there are ways to ask some ML systems why they made a decision after the fact, and they can elaborate which variables had the most effect. But before the algorithm gets the training data, you don't know what it will decide - nobody does!

It picks actions that maximise a value it was told to maximise. It does this based on "well, when I encountered a situation like this other times, I did these 5 things, and this one thing maximised that value I'm told to maximise in most of those cases, so I'll do that.

At the beginning it will try random things. After several iterations, it will find things that "stick" i.e. maximise the value. There are sophisticated techniques to get unstuck from local maximums and minimums, too, in order to find even bigger maximums.

When you have enough data, enough users, enough actions in a system, you can very quickly try a lot of things and learn a lot of stuff. But what those stuff would be, no human can predict.

The main problem is that its unethical to train a machine learning system with a value function that doesn't take into account basic ethical behaviour. There are 3 challenges here

The first challenge is technical, and its the easiest one - how to come up with a value function that encodes additional measures of human ethics. Its easy as in, you take a bunch of ethicists, give them various situations and ask them to rate actions as ethical/unethical. Then once you have that, you try to put it into the value function, so that the system can learn some decency. All done. (If only it were that easy!)

The second challenge is a business one, which is, how far are you willing to reduce your value maximisation to be ethical, and what to do if your competitor doesn't do that. One way to solve that is to have regulations for ethical behaviour of machine learning systems. The system could be held responsible for unethical actions. If such actions are reported by people, investigated by experts and found true in court, the company is held liable. Public pressure and exposure seems to help too. Perhaps we could make machine learning systems that detect unethical behaviour and call it the ML police. Citizens could agree to install the ML police add-on to help monitor and aggregate behaviour of online ML systems. (If these suggestions look silly, its because they are)

The third challenge is philosophical. Until now, philosophers were content with "there is no right answer, but there have been many thoughts on what exactly is ethical". They better get their act together, because we'll need them to come up with a definite, quantifiable answer real soon. On the more optimistic side, lets hope that any generally agreed upon ethical system is better than no system at all.
If only for how they have oppressed their poor people, the NK regime deserves annihilation.
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Do epidemiological studies on the benefits of different ways of doing things.

Share stories of what being in a program is like.

Focus on the cost of administering complex vs. simple programs.
What you cited -- Private conversation, by any device electronic -- makes no mention of private vs. public when it comes to areas. IANAL but that would mean that "private conversation" is open to interpretation and could very well include conversations that occur in public places.

I can't speak to Washington state specifically, but it seems successful lawsuits and charges have been brought against people in 2-party consent states who have recorded conversations that took place in public areas:

- Pennsylvania high school student was criminally charged for secretly taping bullying in his classroom: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

- Project Veritas is facing a lawsuit for a Florida sting that took place at a teacher conference: https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/a-teacher-is-suing-br...

- In MA, which is 2-party-consent, there appears to be an exception for recording of public officials in public areas: https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2015/04/24/how-a-bost...
When you die, how effective are you going to be at telling everyone you consider your friends that you've passed on?
Do you have an email list right now that someone could use to share that news and hit 100% of your friends?

Yes, and my next of kin has a clearly written set of instructions to follow in that event. Plus I don’t have hundreds of “friends” defined by algorithms, just friends who would rapidly miss me and inquire as to why I vanished. It’s the kind of thing you consider when dealing with actual people, and not just text you’ve read to yourself and attributed to a set of imaginings you call your “FB Friend” and which may or may not bear any particular relationship to the real person.
I don’t think that this is something we get to define at this late date of human social evolution, just because the alternative would be to accept the reality of your isolation. Ergo, I’m not deciding anything, just explaining what I believe to be true regardless of my or your feelings on the matter.
He means the floodlights (usually motion-triggered) attached to his own house.
I'm pretty similar - by far my most productive days are when I successfully ignore the world for hours on end. And it really doesn't matter what I'm doing, though creative work benefits the most.

When this doesn't work, it usually means I'm spinning my wheels on something and not getting anywhere. On those days I tend to set up an hourly "write down what you're doing" reminder - it's just enough of a reminder that I notice the lack of progress and switch to something else, without losing any kind of groove if things are going well.

But personally, I go to a coffee shop and get a ridiculous amount of work done, because I know I can ignore everything that happens around me. At work people ask me questions, or at home the cats celebrate my presence by knocking stuff over and then throwing up on it - anywhere else, and the only channels to reach me are async (chat/email) or high enough priority that they're worth never ignoring (phone, pagerduty, etc).
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You are probably right, I just copied it from Wikipedia verbatim. I did have the "citation needed" label. My pedestrian take on this is if Iraq could afford to build a gun which shoots satellites into orbit, after all these years we'd have a few of those around by now. But it just highlighted the craziness and planned scale of the project. The assassination of course also adds to the intrigue.
The nearly 70M Americans on Medicaid or CHIP - which both pay for insulin - would beg to differ with your ‘too dificult’ argument. If you can start a gofundme, you can get Medicaid.
Only on phones, there is no option to encrypt on desktop.
This has been a legal requirement since 1986. It’s one of the odd things about the debate over socialized medicine: the US has had socialized medicine for 30 years now. The debate is merely over how it’s provided and who pays for it. But it’s never actually mentioned that this is the case.
Ask HN: Are browser notifications user-hostile?
Allow me to apologize for my leading questions in advance, but I am looking for arguments for and against the title topic.

What percentage of the time do you accept notification requests? How often was it on purpose? How often do you deny them? Does this feature feel like it is abused?
Third world country by definition cannot be the United States. The term refers to countries unaligned with a cold war superpower. It's outdated and has better alternatives.
The lesson to learn here is: "if something in your computer environment annoys you, spend a few minutes to permanently fix it." I configured my email client to trash pretty much all email from "@facebook.com" years ago, and this is no longer a problem for me.
> If “Include history from Chrome and other apps in your Web & App Activity” is checked on the Web & App Activity controls page, Google also uses your synchronized browsing data to provide personalized Google products and services to you.

That's the default, isn't it? So no, not only anonymized and in aggregate. And either way, your compylete raw browsing data is sitting there on Google's servers and associated with your account.
Insulin is a much cheaper intervention than that.
> a country with zero conflicts in 60 years

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

Incidents ranging all the way up to shelling South Korea and torpedoing their ships.

The country has literally been at war since 1950.
If you don’t have insulin at home it’s easy to go into an acute diabetic shock and die without anyone knowing. A diabetic without insulin quickly loses their higher brain functions, including decision making like “Is this an emergency? Should I call 911?”
Philosophy Needs a New Definition
Because you're not their customer — advertisers are.
12yr old Scott Farquhar's (Atlassian) guess about todays future
Nevermind the hardware, the electricity to run the hardware costs more than the coin generated.
I think he meant Deck building is like magic the gathering. You gain cards each round and use that to your advantage. Also another popular deck building game is dominion online..
If you've ever seen NKs propaganda videos about Americans being brainwashed slaves to commercialism (set to insane black friday footage that makes their point very well) you will understand how being told that they are not free will have minimal impact. The "hackers" are probably part of the elite ruling party and quite happy with their position in society. Just like the SV software engineer living in the homeless hellscape of San Francisco is also quite happy whilst walking amongst the lost and destitute on a daily basis.
To quote AL Daily:

Philosophy now comes to us in one form: the peer-reviewed article, published (preferably in English) in an academic journal. No wonder philosophy has become so irrelevant.
Before social media, you probably wouldn't have these distant connections to begin with because a lot of them are conceived in forums that just didn't have a parallel back in the day besides pen pals or someone you met at a conference once somewhere random.
What if you live in one of the many states which refused to expand Medicaid under the ACA, and make enough money to be ineligible for Medicaid but not enough to afford health insurance or directly pay for medicine?
They work in the sense that you can predictably purchase customers and users. I don't know what you mean by treading water. People who buy these ads do it because it's profitable, not because they trying to keep up with some competition.
My problem with instagram is that I need to be careful what to "like". I used to follow Redbull, and they post great content that I would usually like. Then one day I noticed 3/4 of my feed was redbull. So I had to unfollow them. Now I follow some lifestyle accounts (mainly skiing) and I have to be careful not to like their content in case it takes over my page and hides my actual friends' posts.
TL,DR: A Facebook user died and his online friends were not notified because he did not post much so Facebook presumably assumed it was not worth notifying them.
You know I wasn't going to respond to your comment, but as someone who has seen people used as a mere piece of flesh to defuse landmines, I have to say you have no idea how lucky you are to live in a country where you were even able to write your comment from your computer, in your house, with electricity and hospitals nearby. Seriously one of the least productive comments I've seen on HackerNews.
Do you really think this correction is relevant or helpful in this context?
They aren't always government employees. For lots of programs the funding is awarded as a contract to a company to administer and fund the people in need.
If he was really getting pushed in front of the bus, the apology would be from the CEO (I think it should have been here, for something as serious as a loss of trust) and the CMO wouldn't work there anymore. :)
It is very difficult to take Brave seriously given how very shady its fundraising (the entire premise of brave is that they can capitalize on selling your attention) was and how historically dishonest Eich has been about using his money for socio-political, anti-libertarian activism.

It's quite a disservice to Palemoon and Waterfox to include such an anti-user project as Brave.
We’ll never get anywhere with this attitude, just because it’s worse in other places doesn’t mean we should let our bottom earners live in this shameful system.

People of privilege truly believe that it’s simple but it isn’t.
You don't think two party politics are adversarial by design? Wake up. Politicians talk the way they do because to get elected, you energize your base. You do that by shitting on the other guy. Good ideas don't get you elected. Emotion does and that emotion is usually fear. Read a newspaper website. Pick any.

Do you think the "October surprise" every singe presidential election cycle is just one hell of a coincidence?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise
I meant you shouldn't blame yourself. It is a very hard problem to solve.
My parent post was not referring to ads but short text posts with colorful backgrounds.

I have no issue with preview images and preview text even for ads. Although I wish Facebook accurately labeled them as ads