skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) companies had 2 years go comply. Furthermore, the guidlines of the European Commission are clear that the process should be gradual - inspect, write recommendations, small fines, bigger fines. Nothing like "20 million in June"

b) the law had to cover a lot of usecases and in order to do that concisely, it may sound vague in places. I also don't like (developers never like uncertainty), but there's established practice already in regulators and courts about what is considered "adequate", "appropriate", etc. I agree it could've been better though.

c) that is happening already, e.g. ICO (the UK regulator) has a pretty good set of guidelines and examples. There's also the process of "prior consultation" where if you are not sure about something, you go ask your regulator for a decision

d) this is exactly what the "proportionate", "adequate", etc. are in for. If you are a small company with 2000 data records, you are not posing a high risk for the rights and freedoms of data subjects and so most of the things are not a strict requirement
Oh yeah. Probably, yeah. I glossed over that one because its criticisms were strangely technical for a theory that, iirc, just rephrases regular quantum theory.
Never, since you have asked this question.
Why do you strongly believe that?
Yep. This is because rinse aid contain surfactants that lower the surface tension of the water. The point is so instead of forming droplets, the water tends to sheet off.

Another thing that helps is getting a dishwasher with a stainless steel interior. The interior then retains a higher temperature which aids the drying process (more complete dry, and faster dry).

Last, as mentioned in the article, is to ditch the plastic where possible. For storage containers, switch to glass (preferably stackable ones) so the nuisance no longer remains. As someone else mentioned, for any plastic that remains, get thicker pieces that are designed without ridges, divots or depressions that can trap water inside them.

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I got a Bosch Benchmark series dishwasher and had it installed in my apartment when I moved, since I knew the one already installed was going to be a huge disappointment. Additionally it uses a filter instead of a disposal, so it runs nearly silent, which is good when you work out of your living room. No issue save for the plastics, which I replaced with glassware. Never a drop on anything anymore, even without using the hidden heating element the Bosch has (a step-up feature in the Benchmark Series). Worth every cent for the 15 years I'll likely use it before replacing it.
Time away from the keyboard is as important, if not more important as time at the keyboard.

Taking guilt-free breaks for a few minutes every hour, an hour every day, a day every week are invaluable and restores productivity and efficiency the other 6 days of the week like nothing else.
Nothing has changed at all in fact. For better or worse.

Russia just rattled their sabre because they're desperate. They've recognized an inability to keep up economically with the US and China, and they will fall further and further behind because of that.

Russia's population hasn't expanded in nearly four decades. In that time the US has added 100 million people. China added 400 million people. That population expansion is an economic weapon.

Russia's economy hasn't expanded since 2006-2007. Putin entirely failed to transition the Russian economy off of dependency on energy prices. Without economic growth, they can't keep spending more on their military. Meanwhile the US and China perpetually expand their economies.

The gap between the US and Russia economically has gone from 11 to 1 in 1989, to 15 to 1. And it's worth noting that output gap in 1989 was already extreme, as Russia was effectively a bankrupt nation at that point. That the US has continued to put distance between it and Russia economically, is a massive failure by Putin. Or to put it in another perspective, Canada now has a larger economy than Russia.

And then the China story. Well, that's just a joke of a comparison. In 1989 China had an economy 1/3 smaller than Russia. Today it's 10 times larger. It leaves Russia wilting in contrast, they've become a second tier power.
Except that the dog is an exhausted human being wearing hand-tracking wristbands [ https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/31/amazon-patent-hand-track... ].
Take over any museum with an AR gallery:
While Anvil sounds interesting, one thing that pops to mind before buying into such a technology is "what are the limitations?" Could I build a multi-tenant app? Can I integrate JS components, like a sophisticated datagrid? Will I be able to query the DB with SQL as I wish? Does it use AJAX behind the scenes to speed up the responses? etc.
As an urban Midwesterner, who has also lived on both coasts, you have less in common than you think.
Love watching that print.
No if you care about performance.

To go the extra mile in GC performance, the compiler and GC implementation have to collaborate, taking advantage of language specific features.
Stealing Hyperparameters in Machine Learning
I don't really remember the software, but it probably was.
In that case, the GDPR actually sounds quite positive - I believe users should be able to request that their data is deleted, and be told in advance if it's going to be used for anything non-obvious (e.g. training an ML model).
No, I understand that. But look closely at the x-ray/CT and you'll notice that the rubber is nowhere near even around the core.

The background images appear to actually be a video or something, but here's a screenshot I took:

https://share.neosmart.net/View/Index/nfgSDo.png

The two balls in the first column (so one old and one new) have a pretty symmetric distribution, but look closely at the others. Some are ridiculously uneven.
Only marginally. The difference is negligible and even if it weren't, there's certainly far more contributing factors than the quality of healthcare provision.

Playing devil's advocate, I guess one could speculatively argue that Ireland's private system* brings up the overall average while the public system only caters to the poor and deprived, but I don't think this would be enough to bring the averages up on its own. I'm sure it's more likely lifestyle factors.

* for those unfamiliar, Ireland has a two-tier health system with extremely poor, underresouced single-payer free healthcare coupled with privately-run hospitals for those with the means to pay.
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Maybe you could count number of Ph.D contributors? I bet Bitcoin has as many or more than every other project combined.
I used to only have a policy against ordering food items from amazon but after I ordered a couple bottles of Neutrogena face wash (standard stuff we've always used) and it made several people in my family break out immediately after using it I won't order any soaps or toiletry products either. If Amazon could guarantee there was no comingling I'd pay extra for some things for it.
As is Craigslist.

Though payment is only required for limited categories.
Besides the issue of Go main compilers not using LLVM, that would only be about the instructions.

There is no way around porting the runtime as well.
+1 to J. It is open source, has lots of libraries, documentation, examples, and runs on most mainstream desktop platforms.
As a point of anecdata, my dad, an American, lived in Wales the last ten years of his life. His arthritis got too bad for him to work, and the NHS took excellent care of him for years. Then he had cardiac issues and although his NHS doctor recommended heart surgery, they didn't schedule the procedure for several months and he died of a heart attack in the meantime (age 62).

Public healthcare took great care of him and then it killed him. Hard not to be ambivalent about that (though n.b. this is not an endorsement of the US system by any means).
> That's $450k/yr, treatment required for life. I suspect that many American insurance companies wouldn't fund that.

The question is, how did NICE arrive at the decision to fund it when it doesn't meet their CBA threshold?

Isn't the whole point of a CBA threshold to say: "We should defund really expensive treatments so we can pay for more cheaper treatments and improve aggregate outcomes per GBP"?
You are not the one who initially used the phrase "pyramid shaped", so I don't see why you would expect others to defer to your authority on what it means.

Given the cooperative* nature of normal conversation, one must assume (at least initially) that there is a reason for saying "pyramid shaped" rather than "pyramid scheme". The obvious interpretation (to me) is that there is a continuum between pyramid schemes and non-pyramid schemes.

Objecting to the placement of In-N-Out near the "non-pyramid scheme" end of things, on the basis that it is not at all a pyramid scheme seems like an aesthetic preference for binary categories - that's all right for you, but other people may generalize.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle
All payment orders and credit transfers to and from all accounts.

For any Bitcoin address you find on the Web.
I guess most people have children because thats the default? Maybe a better question is "why did you choose not to have children"?
Yes, I agree he should have communicated better and likely his own pride got in the way of suggesting he is overworked. However, management should have never allowed so much strain on a single employee; if one works nights for so long, likely they must have seen his health deteriorating and all kinds of warning signals. That's simply mismanagement at its finest. Ask some top athlete to run marathons every week and see what a shell of a person they become, even if they do that voluntarily. They should have sent him to 2 weeks retreat on Seychelles instead, even forcefully.

I inferred lower competence of colleagues from the project they delivered with, as you say, smaller scope. There was also an insightful comment on that article from somebody describing point of view of high performers surrounded by mediocre developers, how they purposefully isolate themselves from dysfunctional teams in order to deliver something and not having their motivation destroyed by complacent teams comprised of people that stopped evolving the moment they got their graduate degrees.

As for your next comment, thanks for spotting the author was a "new guy", I confused him with somebody from upper management in that company that was there from the start.
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It does seem trivially obvious - if you are already closely familiar with the log-normal. :) I read the first few lines and thought, 'a long tail of infection times? Infections are based on exponential growth. I bet this is a log-normal!' This is because I like the log-normal and notice it, but it's not something which gets a lot of coverage or is routinely taught in statistical material.

A similar thing is the tail effects or order statistics of a normal distribution: if you set a cut off or threshold and look at the distribution of samples beyond it, it can look very surprisingly different from the original distribution. This comes up all the time in discussions of IQ, testing, higher education, racism/sexism/bias in general, health & disease, genetics, optimization etc, and keeps surprising the heck out of people because even though it's a statistical triviality, it's both counterintuitive and not typically taught.
> ... the mechanism is super simple and I'm pretty sure I could rig one up (minus the auto-adjust) for like $30 of parts; it's just an air compressor lubricated with something that doesn't stink with a regulator. As far as I can tell, if you want a CPAP machine and are paying full freight, you can pay anywhere from $300 to $3000, which seems pretty cheap for the difference it makes.

Part of the price is no doubt to cover the cost of liability insurance for the manufacturer, the distributor, etc., in case a user claims that the machine malfunctioned and damaged the user's sinuses, throat, or whatever. (My dad used a CPAP machine.)
Like Math CAPTCHA, only deeper and with more subject matter versions? One of the math forums (Cut the Knot?) had something like this, that actually required (I think) calculus.

Reputation systems such as HN itself are another approach. These might not scale; or they might require an eigentrust-like system to scale; or scaling via eigentrust might create and reinforce the same kind of filter bubbles we see on social media. Who decides who’s a climate expert?

Steemit is an attempt at a blockchain-based reputation system. Whenever I’ve looked, it’s been dominated by low-quality content, mostly about crypto itself. Maybe this is growing pains, or maybe a reputation system needs a different go-to-market (that bootstraps from an existing platform or community), or maybe wedding reputation to crypto — or at least to crypto that pays out — just isn’t a good idea. (You didn’t exactly suggest that, either; I just riffed my way over to it.)
I forgot to answer your question:
"I want to know if any orgs actually use probabilistic decision making in their day to day operations."

The short answer is "yes!" The long answer is, well, rather lengthy.

Check out the fields of advanced analytics and BI.
As an Amazon customer I'm tired of their beefs with the rest of the tech industry.
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I love the minimalism of the site! Something you don't see often anymore.
> a) bring out regulation gradually instead of in a single big change like GDPR to have companies time to comply

GDPR wasn't announced yesterday. The time span between announcement and implementation date is over two years. Of course if you only start now there isn't much time left, but then that's your own fault.
I didn't exactly choose to have children. When I was younger, I suffered from a series of highly debilitating health issues (the details of which I will not go into here) and a young woman chose to take advantage of the situation and become impregnated.

Now, don't get me wrong; I love my children dearly. I did not chose to have them in any normal sense, however.
>In the US, having sat in many an ER waiting room for hours at a stretch, the idea of a hospital seeing nearly 9 out of 10 patients in four hours would be regarded as a miracle.

That is so bizarre. I'd be concerned if it takes and hour. Seriously it's called emergency room because it's an emergency, not a "it can totally wait" room.
The brand specific ones are probably so. Simply listing "organic butter" isn't such a thing, and it happens quite often. I understand enough to just use the butter I have, but some folks truly aren't. (I once had someone tell me ibuprofen didn't work for them: they had to have Advil. Same stuff happens with cooking, even with ingredients mandated to be the same).
That's one of the ways these could run, yes. But hopefully not the way this one is -- there are direct exchange and indirect heating methods that have been researched.

Check out Project Pluto on Wikipedia [1], and the Direct Air Cycle part of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion page [2]. From the Pluto page,

"The principle behind the nuclear ramjet was relatively simple: motion of the vehicle pushed air in through the front of the vehicle (ram effect), a nuclear reactor heated the air, and then the hot air expanded at high speed out through a nozzle at the back, providing thrust."

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

2 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion#...

while we're at it, have a fun tangential short story by Charlie Stross about rockets, missiles, volatile oxidizers, and more, with only a touch of plausible-sounding scifi nonsense:

https://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/a-tall-tail/
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Making art is arduous, risky, expensive, and often a very lonely endeavour. Galleries can do a lot of great things, but they are not the ones doing all the work.
Oddly enough, I've found that I can usually find better deals on books from other sites. And the one time when I needed a book to arrive quickly and so had planned to buy from Amazon (to get fast shipping), they didn't have the book in stock.
Woooah. Huuge assumptions here.

First of all, when we say that a classifier "misclassifies" an image, we have
an agreed-upon definition of what that means: it means we have an image, we
have a target label for it and the classifier assigns it a different label.

What exactly does it mean that a human misclassifies an image? More
specifically, when the article says that "humans think that they're looking at
something they aren't", what in the world does that mean? I mean, I have to
assume a confusion between "looking", and "seeing". I can't really believe the
article is saying that when I'm looking at the top right image I'm not
actually, you know looking at it; but instead ...looking outside the window?
Or what?

On the other hand- seeing? Really? Who knows what it is that anyone else is
seeing? Who knows what is there to see? Especially when it comes to an image
specifically manipulated to be confusing, as opposed to a real-world image?
What is the ground truth here, for the image on the top-right? Is it a cat,
just because Google reserachers say it's a cat and it's fooling my senses into
thinking it's a dog ish? Is it fooling my senses just because the Google
researchers say it is? Google researchers are the final arbiters of objective
visible reality, now?

To be more precise, who is to say that that image can just be a "cat" or a
"dog" and nothineg else? Because, you know, the first thing I thought when I
saw that image on the top right was "that looks like a jumbled mess made with
bits of an image of a cat and an image of a dog", or something along those
lines.

Of course, if you sit me in front of a computer with two buttons, one for
"dog" and one for "cat" like in the researchers' setup... well, then you can
force me to misclassify the image all you like. But what does that prove?
Besides the fact that if you force me to choose one of two things, without
knowing what you think is the "right" thing to choose, I'll choose the "wrong"
thing a lot of the time?
Similar discussion on cricket ball and how science shows no impact of weather on balls flying through air significantly enough but still remains a common misconception through out the sport's fraternity.

http://theconversation.com/why-we-think-the-weather-affects-...
Do we need to move away from Elm?
I think my wife and I came to the conclusion at the same time. We were a little too infatuated with our cat and found that there was a growing vacuum in our lives that was appearing despite most other things being constant. It was the feeling of wanting to create something. As a subconscious trigger, the nerdy part of me started thinking about getting into AI. One day, we had a very brief discussion in which we agreed to let it happen.

Though it had been difficult at times (twins) and each day is a new challenge for them and for us, we made the right choice. My wife is sitting with them building Lego houses as I type this.
Does Google actually sell our personal data? I know they use it to advertise more effectively but I see this claim thrown around a lot but I'm not sure I've ever seen evidence of it. I'm sure they have a treasure trove of data and use it liberally but selling it is something else entirely.
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> Canada which is just a single socialized healthcare system

I wouldn't say single. Each province runs its own system. Each province can't decide how many sub health regions it wants (SK just merged theirs, ON collapsed their community care regions into their health integration regions). GP practices are basically private for-profit companies. Hospitals operate like independent charities with wildly different processes, costs and outcomes.
That's for casting to a chromecast — not receiving a chromecast.
opportunity here to create cloud computation platforms where people submit work which gets executed on other people's machines who are getting paid to allow their browser to contribute compute ... eventually price of AWS / google compute engine will drop ... win win
Rather depends who is there and why. Last time I went was for a small animal bite (had gone to the docs but they had no tetanus shots so sent me on), hardly life and death. Was triaged quickly, but then waited to be dealt with properly.
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Kinda funny to see packet capture being called "a little-understood forensic process" :P
Plex can receice chromecasts, as Amazon was planning to with the Fire Stick, and as open source projects did?
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How do I receive a chromecast with that SDK, please?

The point is not about sending, but about receiving, as was possible with miracast, and which would have made the fire stick a killer product (by having immediate compatibility with all Google apps' casting feature)
I didn't claim otherwise - is there a need for that tone? What have private GPs got to do with it?

I don't doubt that the NHS would treat me reasonably quickly and probably quite well if I had stage 2 cancer. People in the UK have been trained to herald such as a result as heroics from the NHS, as if the alternative was third-world level service. I do expect - based on a lifetime of anecdotal data from myself, friends and family - that the whole process would reveal repeated mistakes, bureaucracy and time and money wasted. False dichotomy often prevails in NHS discussions.
Within the States, I'm really well traveled. I grew up on the West coast, spent two years on the East coast talking to more people than you've ever met, in more towns than you've ever driven through, and have been living in the Salt Lake valley for about five years. There are profound cultural, even psychological differences in all three regions, that can't be boiled down to red vs blue.
>Are the NPs not permitted to treat these other conditions, or incapable?

Both. They're cheaper because they've received much less training than a GP. We could allow them to treat a wider range of conditions, but there would be serious patient safety implications.

The use of nurse practitioners in primary care is relatively new and we don't have a lot of good-quality evidence on patient outcomes, so it's reasonable to act with some caution until we have better evidence. Even in their current role, they could be missing significant clinical issues that a doctor would have spotted - we just don't know at this stage. The concern isn't about the 99% of patients who have something mundane, but the 1% of patients who have something that looks mundane but is actually very serious.

There's undoubtedly some amount of territoriality on the part of doctors, but at the moment everyone is just desperately trying to cope with demand. There seems to be fairly good esprit de corps throughout the NHS, with practitioners at all levels uniting around the need to maintain good patient care against the common enemy of Jeremy Hunt.
And Facebook has the right to 'inform' another company about all data it collected from its users (only in exchange for a nice sum of money!)

Except in the EU, freedom of speech and privacy are both considered human rights, which need to be weighed against each other. Freedom of speech will win when someone uses the GDPR to try to censor e.g. an online news article with some personal facts. But it won't for my Facebook tongue-in-cheek example, and I doubt it will for the redacted committer example either.
They've signed agreements limiting the amount of nuclear weapons. This is an intent to improve capabilities while staying in the framework of the treaty.
The digital signature of the serial number would probably be sufficient. That’s not a bad idea.
bad taste, you give a link to 10 page version and tell people to look at p. 36
Not sure why you were downvoted. I think that's a terrifying statement but I don't see any strong evidence that you're wrong.