skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve watched my daughter do her 3rd grade math homework both ways. She’s an ardent rule-follower at her age (and can’t quite understand why the boys in her class can’t stay out of trouble) and really enjoys doing her math homework. Watching her work on the extra credit math assignments and her get so exited when the multiplication problems extend into 8 digits is a lot of fun.

Often she will do the problem the “new” way taking up maybe 10 minutes and a whole sheet of paper which looks more like an art project, and then when she’s done check her work the “old” way in a few seconds, and then go back and find the mistake in the drawings.

She’s happy to do it “because that’s the way [my teacher] wants us to” but she’s faster and better at doing it the traditional way.

My personal opinion is that CC is perhaps better at teaching basic math skills to the bottom 50% and is less likely to lose students along the way, but at the cost of holding back the top 50% of students approximately 1 full grade-level by the time they graduate high school. From my limited sample sized poll students see the new methods as being just as ridiculous as parents see them.

And parents are generally pretty frustrated about this whole fiasco: https://youtu.be/wZEGijN_8R0
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The interesting bit to me is that the guy didn’t make the cut. ML based methods are way behind humans at this point, but how far off is the day that we could train something to pass? 5 years? 3? Less? Especially for the sort of short-form comments on news articles, it seems possible to me to at least insert high-confidence “sounds American, but false” today-ish.
Is the Internet’s metric for Quality broken?
I wrote this originally about Medium.com following my published essay on Hacker Noon (see footnotes), but on second view realized that there is a larger theme: Medium Claps can easily be replaced by Facebook likes, Netflix ThumbsUp, or you name it.

Medium.com Clap System

Looking at the results of my published Medium essay it strikes me odd to see so many very enthusiastic people clapping on my essay (sometimes 50 times), when all I get in return is a mere 7 followers who are interested in reading my future essays. A closer examination revealed several readers who are neither followers of Hacker Noon nor myself. ???

Never-ending cycle

For me, Medium, just like Netflix, Yahoo, and many others, has joined a list of deteriorating technologies I once trusted. And it is deteriorating only to soon be replaced by another brand. Remember the old story:

* Hotmail is introduced - we love it!

* Hotmail is scaled.

* People abandon Hotmail in droves for new Google alternatives.

What I personally like to see is complexity of choices and their richness. For me the “complexity” of Medium’s original recommendation system provided a plurality of responses. Same with Netflix’s old rating system.
Perhaps we need more people like Craig Newmark from Craig’s List . We need more people to recognize quality when they have found it; and more importantly to recognize when to STOP.

On Quality Today

Read Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — it’s a very revealing book. It has been more than 40 years since Pirsig’s book was published. Pirsig’s focus in the book appears to centered around what actually defines quality. Today, the issue is no longer only about the emergence of quality. Steve Jobs and the likes have really nailed that one on the head. The real issue now is:

How do you maintain The Quality? How do we maintain Quality Internet?

https://hackernoon.com/why-does-the-boss-want-you-to-build-that-software-in-house-84c0c2afeb4d
The Helm chart with role binding and service account support to deploy Vault is open sourced as well.
There's a pretty cool paper that visualises the different layers in a ConvNet trained on ImageNet: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.2901.pdf - page 4 has the layer imagery.
More than this, in many jurisdictions, it'll be available publicly from a records office even if your home hasn't ever been listed for sale.
> AT&T does have a plan where any provider can sign up to pay for their customers' data use, which is different from waiving costs for certain large, established sites.

Wait, how is that different?
First html&css. Everybody underestimates this. Give at least a month to html and css.
I cannot explain how I form the sentences I speak. I still find speaking useful.
> "Serverless" is a marketing term invented by Amazon for what might in retrospect have been better described as mini-PaaS.

Almost. Imho "serverless" describes more the architecture of applications, in contrast to "mini-PaaS" which would then describe the platform on which such applications are deployed.
Yes. A library I write (Keras-RCNN) uses it to validate input before starting the expensive augmentation process.
At the end he makes an interesting point: that this worked in the US not because it has a lot of stupid people (which Russia presumably has too) but because it has a lot of stupid people who have not been lied to too much.

“Who really reads the comments under news articles, anyway?,” he said when asked whether the tactics worked in Russia. “Especially when they were so obviously fake.”

“But for Americans, it appears it did work,” he continued. “They aren’t used to this kind of trickery. They live in a society in which it’s accepted to answer for your words.”
Monopoly? There is nothing stopping other companies from selling the same things Amazon does.

Any what is Amazon's share of all retail sales? My understanding it's in the single digit percentages.
Try appuio.ch that is a young Swiss PaaS.
The cynic in me reads that as the founders realized they had put a decade into something which is going to be steamrolled by corporate machines and if they didn't get out fast they wouldn't have anything to show for it. That is a sad way to go if it was the motivation.

That said, there seems to have been a wealth of ideas about how to improve the product and better serve the customers which went unimplemented. If my understanding of that is correct then the fault lays solidly on the management team for not being able to communicate and lead the troops.
I think you hit the nail on the head here.

As an anecdotal example, I was hired as a software developer on a team of mostly electrical engineers, and our group develops software/supports the energy management system at a major utility company. Now when I was interviewing, what the team seemed to like the most was my background in actual electric utility operations (I was in the electrical trades for a long time before I figured out that I wanted to study CS). I was the only person on the team with actual operations experience.

My boss love it because I could go and talk with the operators, and speak "operator" with them. It made translating their requests into features/upgrades/updates a lot easier for our team, and our customer service improved as a result. By having that background in operations, which was different from the rest of my team, I was able to bring a different perspective, and most importantly, the perspective of our customers to our day to day work.
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Indeed, though take a look at their supported device list: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

You may be able to find something more commonly available.
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He wasn't great but he wasn't terrible. He had a very logical mind and tried to choose wisely as far as whose advice he took.

His only knock was that he believed the Cyber Security FUD too much.

Other than that, solid guy and I'd work for him avain.
Today? Probably not much. Historically? Yes, a lot. You still need to offset for that first, even if happened 150 years ago.
"an open source cloud platform" is probably an overstatement.
Someone give this guy a nobel peace prize!
Am surprised that a Grand rounds was not convened for this. There's an online service of the same name which has the same function.
First: you speak for yourself. I for example share nothing on my fake name Facebook account. I use it to tell relatives to call me/send me a Signal message. Even with an Facebook account, they can only share what you give them. Nobody forces you to use McDonalds WiFi. Use your data plan. Your ISP must have some kind of stricter regulations even outside of Europe (where I am) then some ad sponsored access point.

There are huge differences and data minimization is a thing.

Your approach however is terrible. It makes it look like everything is lost and there is nothing to protect anymore. This is not only wrong, it sends out a horrible message to others.
If you have an atomic clock in your GPS device, you need to see 3 satellites to get a fix. As you said, you calculate travel time for the signal from the atomic clock on the satellite to the one on the receiver and that puts you somewhere on the surface of a sphere. Two spheres intersect to give you a circle, and a third gives you a point (technically 2, but one is probably in space).

Doing it like that would require you to have an atomic clock in every receiver though, which isn't feasible (and anything less accurate would make the fix too inaccurate). Instead you add one extra variable (current time) and one extra constraint (extra satellite) and the equation is solvable again. This is why you need 4 satellites for a fix. The solution to the equation not only gives location but also precise time, which is why GPS receivers can be used as standalone time references.

The other thing you need to know to do all of this is where the satellites actually are: this information is called the ephemera and the almanac. You can download this from the satellite signal, but it is very low data rate and takes several minutes. This is why handheld GPS receivers can take time to get a fix. Mobile phones instead download this from the network which is why they can make very fast fixes - they just need to scan frequencies to get a lock while doing the download and then do a bit of maths.
This is wishful thinking. Sometimes these overlap completely. Other times, hopefully rare, there are decisions that favor one result over the other. It's not simply black and white.

If what you say were true, optimising for diversity would be totally irrelevant. I don't know if any company that is more racist than it is profit seeking.
Because supposing malicious intent without any evidence to support the conclusion is uncharitable at best, and libelous at worst.

It’s a philosophy which many people find beneficial, to try to shape your thinking in a way that you set a higher bar before believing something negative was done intentionally rather than unintentionally.

The inverse (converse?) is also be true — when lacking conclusive evidence either way, assuming positive things are done intentionally and not unintentionally.

Another way to think about it is; what’s the cost of being wrong? It’s as simple as giving the benefit of the doubt.
I'd like a side by side comparison of each implementation's effectiveness and feature set, but this is so common I don't see why proof is needed.
IMHO wave's biggest problem was the close beta hype.
This is the most frustrating thing about Wayland.

Since when should the compositor/window-manager handle keyboard layouts? At the very least, there should be a configurable library that can be used.
That's unfortunate. Because the people behind Bitcoin and Monero most definitely do not consider them comparable to or tantamount to shitcoins. Quite the opposite. They recognize that they are securing people's actual livelihoods and in some cases their very lives (privacy->safety).

To be honest, I actually already knew Vitalik was of that opinion. The fact people do not perceive what he (and other hypocrites) said as it is, is something I have also witnessed repeatedly. I wonder if that's why some of the greater philosophers in history mentioned that people see things exactly backwards.
> You're just old now if you remember "Quantum Fireball".

I remember. 27 isn’t old is it?
How is it better than any Firefox/Chrome extension (like say Leech block)?
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The 4s runs whatever latest it can be updated to.

How can you be so sure lineageos has not been malwared by some Chinese/Russian/nsa folks? I can trust android and iOS, cannot get myself to trust others. Moreover, the base os is not your only choice. You are free to port Firefox to iOS 5.x and install it on your device. No one is stopping you from doing it. Just crying over not have lineageos available for iOS is silly and a red herring.
> inherit tribalistic nature

I don't think its as simple as inherent in tribal nature. Leaders are selected and they need to consider the opinion of the electorate (this concept applies to non-democratic states as well).

In Political Science this is called electorate theory.

> I think that the leaders who push for war actually share similar beliefs as a nationalism-driven populace -- it's more than mere exploitative

Agree.

> Nationalism (and some things which are tangentially related like imperialism) was by many historical accounts one of the major forces that led to WWI. (As well as many other wars, I might add.)

Nationalism I would agree but in the end the choice was with some leaders, and many of those were not really nationalist but rather classical conservatives.

Your point about resources is correct, they wanted to control those resources, not relay on markets and cooperation. After that the Nazis doubled down on those terrible zero sum ideas.
Where's the statement directly from Visa or Worldpay? All we have is a blog entry in Coinbase's blog. "Joint statements" that only come from the beneficiary of the statement are always suspicious. Visa has both a press release site and a number of blogs. None seem to mention Coinbase.
So this is an entirely out of my ass theory but here goes...

The reason something like ML is failing here is because what the russian trolls are trying to do is fundamentally change how discourse occurs, how people in the US receive and process information, and the tone of the conversation. ML is great are reproducing things that already exist. That's why they get accused of being racist...because they are reproducing patterns in data. The russians were trying to cause things to happen by changing the conversation.

That's fundamentally different and I haven't seen a lot of ML systems where one can dictate a goal like that and have the system work out the response. From what I know, that seems like one of the differences in the 'older' schools of AI and the newer schools that let the field actually have such an explosion of success nowadays...they got way more comfortable with backward vs. forward looking learning.
Yeah, it hasn't innovated, but it hasn't needed to; it has been a sufficient product since the start and never needed to change much.

It's really a shame that I can't immediately bring to mind any stories of companies like Meetup that have a simple product that makes a small amount of money, enough to provide a good living to the small cadre of staff it requires to run it. Maybe Craigslist? Wikipedia, except they're always having to beg for money. I think there may be lots more examples in B2B, but it just doesn't seem like the consumer game lends itself to such companies.
When I moved to United States from a semi-communist country this was one the things that I found amazing about American Society. If you someone tells you something people just belive it. For example even CEO's have fake resumes[1], because people just believe what you tell them. In the country where I grew up, people are so used to lying and scheming that people just assume everyone is a cheat by default unless proven otherwise.

It was just an amazing feeling to be a part of higher trust society like USA. Things are just easier and less stressful, you are not constantly worried about someone trying to get you.

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/successful-executives-who-hav...
That was fascinating, thank you! I really appreciated the factual, no-nonsense documentary approach. So many current documentaries have annoyingly intrusive presenters and fill their runtime up with irrelevant aesthetic shots. (An honorable recent exception: Netflix's Dirty Money, which was produced by Alex Gibney, whose style I like a lot.)
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What on earth is the view of WeWork’s core competencies (whatever those may be, other than taking advantage of cheap money) that would lead one to believe they should be running for-profit elementary schools?
I've noticed the same thing.

I think it comes from a lack of experience which further creates fear and lack of self-confidence to challenge the practices of the cult.

It's also similar to the "nobody got fired for buying IBM" issue.

It's "nobody got fired for sticking to the established cult ceremonies".

They are people who are afraid and don't care about the team or the company. They are only concerned about their own job security and paycheck. So they never risk trying something that is not in the book.

The only way to get them to do something else is to make that thing the "new best practice".

Give it a tacky name. Send them to some conferences and get them a "Senior Lingo Bingo Dingo master practitioner" certificate for the new cult ceremony and they will do it with their eyes closed.

Or maybe ... just fire them.
Just useless benchmarks. None of them show any real world website load and render times. That is what matters to the end user. With JavaScript it is easy for the initial load time to overshadow whatever gains you get after jit warms up. Also safari uses WebKit and it has been maintained and updated decently.
Understanding an existing solution is very different from trying to find it. We get taught things at school that seem simple and obvious to us now, but were extremely hard to discover or invent.

I see these training approaches as a tool that makes machines search the space of potential solutions for certain types of problems more efficient than humans. The next logical step is to try and understand these solutions and improve upon them.

Consider adversarial input. Right now we cannot tell which classes of adverserial inputs can exist for a given NN. We can only try to find representative examples. If you had a good enough understanding of how the NN works internally, you have a chance to derive the full set of adversarial inputs or - maybe -prove their absence.
Thanks for the link!

Yes I would love to get the CoreML model onto the watch itself. I think the interesting part will be tweaking the model and exploring how we can build it with space, battery consumption, and resource utilization in mind. The nice thing is that we can possibly deploy 2 models (one to the phone and one on the watch): the one on the phone runs when the watch is nearby and is more robust. The other runs directly on the watch itself with some tradeoffs). We might discover that we need better hardware on the watch but that would be interesting to explore too.
What about the architecture is different, in your view?
Not disputing horse collar. Point made in a history of horsemanship (an in turn ploughman trades) was that the trade of ploughmen in england moved away from oxen more to horses as the result of a change in plough design.

This excerpt may have been the design change that was referenced.

"There was little attempt to change the design of the plough until the mid 1600's with the Dutch being among the first in improving its shape. This change in shape was soon discovered in Northern England and Scotland with Joseph Foljambe from Rotherham building and patented a plough having what was described as, the perfect implement then in use."

"http://www.ploughmen.co.uk/about-us/history-of-the-plough"

Perhaps there is a more direct way to discredit the implications of my original post?
The Wikipedia trafic (mostly text and thumbnail images) is also becoming quickly negligible compared to, say, Facebook with autoplaying videos, Youtube or other streaming providers.

They hint that the global penetration of Wikipedia in the rest of the world is less one of connectivity and more one of local politics and interest in permitting and encouraging such an open tool.
Cell towers require precise timing for a variety of reasons and phones can synchronise to that time source. Phone clocks are good enough that as long as you don't go too long between seeing cell towers then your signal isn't going to have walked too much.

The way they're using them, it sounds like 1 second resolution is easily sufficient. That would be achieved by a 1 ppm accuracy crystal (fairly standard) that is synchronised once a week.
You don't just have to learn it (that's the easy part); you actually have to grok it, and that's the hard part.

The piece of code |/0(0|+)\ (all 9 characters of it) efficiently computes the maximum subarray sum[0] of an array using Kadane's algorithm. You'll either have to learn K or trust me on that.

While it is possible to break it down to multiple parts and document each, it is idiomatic to just use it and document the whole line. Or not document it at all, because experienced K people know that already. Why call a function "average" (7 chars) when an implementation (+/x)%#x is only 6? Furthermore, you know from reading it what the average of a zero length list is (NaN). Do you know what a function called "average" would return in this case?

I would say the answer to your question is that K is very different than other programming languages, and requires a different mindset. Somehow, attempts to give it a more mainstream face (e.g. article author's "Kerf" project) do not seem to take off.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_subarray_problem
The other stat I think is relevant is that the average car today is 11.5 years old. Or looked at another way, in 11 years, HALF of the cars on the road are the cars that are on the road today. I guess if we cut down the number of cars total due to efficiencies of self-driving carshare maybe that goes down but still... If Level 5 autonomous drive were available TODAY, it's still a long metaphoric road towards complete switchover.

It's hard to tell what the average tractor age is, but it looks between 6 and 10 years old so you have the same rough math in the 6-10 years after we have fully autonomous self-driving trucks where we'll still have half the trucks on the road as human-driven.

Plus if autonomous trucks increase capacity and/or efficiency and cut shipping costs, that might also stimulate shipping demand and therefore keep human drivers on the road longer as well.

Your 10-20 years guess feels right to me, but only after we actually have the autonomous truck thing fully sorted out, IMO.
In the software development field (and I'm sure other fields as well), we have this notion of "ownership" that means something more specific than lay people would expect. If someone "owns" a subsystem, they are not just responsible for it, they also have the authority to modify it, and they understand it well enough that they can modify it. Most often (at least in startups) the owner of a subsystem either implemented it or implemented substantial portions of it.

OK, this is on topic, I swear. This notion of ownership can apply not just just to individual contributors but scales up to teams and even larger organizations. A team can own an entire major system for example.

Software organizations of any size at all need a process in order to ship usable software. Well-run software organizations don't just have a process, they own that process as in the sense above. The organization has the responsibility for the process, they have the authority to change it, and they understand it well enough that they can. Obviously such an organization can respond to deficiencies in the process and adjust it to work better. They can even revamp it completely if they need to.

Your Agile software development process isn't going to work well if you organization doesn't fully own it.