skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah. In that case, I agree with where you're coming from, but not on the details:

I think there's no reason to believe that bias from multiple layers of ML end up neatly rolled up into one wad of bias that can be extracted at the end of the process. If there is an empirical demonstration that this can happen, I'd love to see it.

And I think the cost of de-biasing is much lower than you think it is. I mean, I de-bias word vectors. The accuracy loss on intrinsic evaluations from doing so is tiny; it's much smaller than what you gain from easy wins that not everyone does, like improving your OOV lookup strategy (another way to improve ML results by intervening manually on your insufficent data!).

A simple example for a thought experiment: let's say you're classifying movie reviews for sentiment, so you've got a word-embedding layer (trained on general word embeddings) and a classifier layer (trained on the specific data).

The word-embedding layer will learn from corpora that it is negative to say "gay". The classifier layer will learn from the specific dataset of movie reviews that it's negative to say "Steven Seagal" (this actually happens in simple classifiers trained on the MovieLens data set). And sure, I could accept this one as objective truth, it's just an amusing and memorable example.

I think that if you save all the de-biasing for the end, you are likely to be able to fix the "Seagal" problem but not the "gay" problem, whose representation has become too complicated by going through another step of machine learning.

So I don't see the moral hazard of doing more de-biasing, as long as nobody presents it as a one-stop fix to the problem, which I sure don't.
Well the natural extension of what you ask, is a world like Japan where banks ask small and medium business owners for personal guarantees over business loans, bankrupting many SMB owners and entrepreneurs.
What does Seth Rich have to do with any of this? Surely you have better examples of stories under-covered by the media, especially when Fox News retracted its story and is currently being sued by Rich's family?
They will price match with other stores. I was in there last weekend to spend a gift card and knocked about 20% off the prices by price matching Amazon.
You're so vain, you think in-office work is about you
Clean code: takeaways of a love story
Interesting how some UIs appear to be limited either to education, end-user programming, or professional software development, and others (e.g. Smalltalk) strive to be universal and work as an integral part of the OS's user interface.
As a mathematician and a believer in God, I get uncomfortable when people start attributing math to God. I see math as being very much a construct of the human psyche and as astounding as it is, there are enormous gaps between mathematical models and physical observations. So in my mind math is to reality as human is to Divine.
The major differences:

1. The Democrats didn't harvest the data under false pretenses; the data came from people who signed up for a political app.

2. The Democratic campaign data wasn't illegally transferred from one company to another.

But I agree that the Obama campaign's actions should have been a flag and we should have worried harder about it, even if they weren't as bad as what Cambridge Analytica did.
In this week's episode, Don and I discuss our history with in-office and remote work, why junior devs might reconsider working outside the office, and how requiring folks to work in your proximity is a trait of managerial vanity.
Well,

It is interesting that a lot of great mathematicians have believed in truth beyond the sausage factory. Not that the reality isn't a sausage factory but belief in an ideal (truth, beauty) seems to often be what keeps them going.

Kurt Godel proved that the machinery of mathematics couldn't create a complete truth system accessible through proofs (which are ultimately a mechanical process) but he definitely was on the side of ideal-truth when he said "Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine."

Edit: And Grigori Perelman was certainly famous for rejecting what he saw as the sausage factory of mathematics.
For the requirements, these are written by an office in the military with say a dozen people in it. They will each serve in there for two to ten years then move to someplace completely different. None of them will be experts in radio design. They are going to listen to what their "customers" want, which will be an incrementally better version of what they already have. They are going to listen to what radio salesmen want to sell them. They are going to listen to what some futurist tells them is possible. And then they will write a specification.

The resulting spec may or may not be possible to implement. It may have pairs of requirements which require great cost to implement both, where the sane thing to do would be to relax one slightly, but the spec is cast in stone and that will not happen. It may have specs which could be vastly improved at small cost, but that also will probably not happen.

In industry, ideally, there would be a series of give-and-take rounds between marketing, the product designers, the engineers, and manufacturing which will find the efficient solutions to the conflicts and identify cost effective enhancements. This can't happen in military procurement because to engage in a design process with a company or companies would be unfair to the other bidders. They might engage a company to help them write the requirements, but it would be one which does not bid on the final contract and does not enable the iterative design cycle.

As a procurement system, it can fail spectacularly and is almost guaranteed to preclude optimum solutions, but it also deters cronyism and snake oil peddlers. If it seems like it always fails, remember that you never hear of the contracts which come in on time, on budget, and deliver a usable product.
Sincere question: this article in the last paragraph says "Facebook threatening defamation against the Guardian for calling this a data breach is ludicrous and Facebook should be ashamed and apologize"

-- does this conclusion hinge on the fact that Facebook should have realized earlier that the app is harvesting data? If the creator of the app said that he is doing it for academic purposes only then how should have Facebook known? Not trying to defend Facebook, but calling this a breach is at least a little bit gray area, no?

EDIT: concise wording
For tort law to work, you need a very effective universal legal aid system. It can't all be done by no-win-no-fee and class actions, and it takes an extremely long time.
To be fair, privacy and security are two different things
If you "I obviously can't share with you the list of specific clients I work for", then don't immediately precede that with "I can give you an entire list of F500 companies I've worked at that have the same mindset."

That was your original claim. Listing the Fortune 500 doesn't actually add anything substantive to the discussion or add evidence to your position (if anything, I doubt you even more now).

Do us all a favor and don't make boastful claims in order to make a point, if you are unable or unwilling to follow through.
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What Your Favorite Website Says About You
very good.
If I were you I would add a few bits of explanation in the comments about its usage.
e.g.

// go to http://news.ycombinator.com/show
// copy this script in chrome console
// execute it
// see the result

// also say when it was last time that it was tested (e.g March 2018)
// it might not work in a month or two
It's somewhat described in the article.

Sleep deprived/overworked people have less creative energy (all sorts of productivity studies prove this over and over again). Poorly managed people watching their flanks for toxic attacks at their ideas allow themselves less creative freedom.
I wish there was a name for this fallacy because it comes up so often. When you have a systemic problem, you do not have a viable solution if your solution requires the conscientious choices of every affected individual.

If that worked, we would have already solved car accidents (obey all the traffic laws!), suicide (don't kill yourself!), obesity (don't eat too much unhealthy food), debt (don't spend more than you make), and basically every other social ill.

Effective solutions are ones that can be enacted by humans while fully taking human fallibility into account. It's poor engineering to design a system that requires every part to function perfectly with zero tolerances.
better audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVuEPwNuCHw
Alex Stamos Leaving Facebook Is Bad News
You can see that already with the Obama staffer. Direct quotes from someone who was there yet the mainstream media simply isn't reporting on it. Just another right wing conspiracy, otherwise CNN would be talking about it, right?

You do sometimes get bits and pieces like the Time article from 2012 that haven't been memory-holed yet, but again, the media won't bring up something like that because the intent to paint this chilling use of social media as something unique to the Trump campaign.
If Amazon ran the store, they would have the same retail overhead costs as all the places they're undercutting...
Alex Jones is the scapegoat extremist. They regularly demonetize anything that occasionally contains an opinion even slightly right of center (Sam Harris, Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan).

Like Facebook, they partner with multiple left-leaning organizations to determine what news is "accurate", and don't allow even a center-right voice in that process.

Their internal politics, as we've learned from the Damore debacle, are so extreme that employees are allowed to physically threaten, in writing, other employees who hold right wing opinions, without consequence.
Russian criminals are using Uber ‘ghost rides’ for money laundering
It's almost certainly IQ. IQ also correlates to all those other positive traits. East Asians have higher average IQs than most other people, particularly spacial reasoning and math which explains their over-representation in engineering. Conversely Ashkenazi Jews have higher than average verbal IQs which explains why they appear over represented in media. But that doesn't get us very far because it just gets us back to East Asians outperforming us on IQ tests created by mostly white people and is supposedly culturally biased to have white people outperform. There's something definitely going on here. Maybe it's genetics, maybe it's diet, maybe it's culture. Possibly a combination. It's not really helpful to try to have a discussion on IQ, so I just focus on the positive traits that are derived from IQ. It tends to trigger people less and raw IQ isn't actually important to me compared to things like criminality and economic output.
At $1/GB, it's the most expensive option mentioned on this page by far. Even with GCP's pricey storage, you would have to download your data 10x for this to make sense (or 88x with DO), and that's before considering cross-cloud/transit costs.

Also since you're the cofounder of nodechef, you should add a disclaimer when mentioning your own product.
> Namespaces, functions and immutable data (as well as pervasive use of data instead of wrapping it in classes)

There are plenty of functional programming languages that believe static typing is a significant added value even under these conditions.
Since truth is an absolute defense to libel, defamation lawsuits are a particularly poor method to suppress provably true facts.
Yes, Lazarus is decent. Others they missed from the client-server GUI tools are PowerBuilder and Gupta Technologies' SQLWindows (one of the first GUI development tools for Microsoft Windows):

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

I didn't like PowerBuilder myself. But Delphi and Visual Basic were more easy to understand and still powerful. Did some work in both.
I’d never heard of your site but I just checked it out. I’ve got to say it looks really nice. I’ll bookmark it and try to use it. Thanks for making it!
Good point. I was assuming there would be third-party contributions, and the third-parties would retain their copyright.
The cloud security certifications that earn the big bucks. They did the math
how does this work, exactly ?
Tie between a trading firm and a bulge-bracket bank. The trading firm was two days onsite. The first day was a lot of tough programming questions and the second day was tele-conferencing with other offices including regulatory and trading questions. (They did fly me out first-class and put me up in an amazing king suite at the Trump with full kitchen and living room).

The bank's questions were just brutally difficult. From low-level C++ and Java internals to algorithmic ones where you are at best hoping for a good approximation. And one very good series of questions on modeling a game where the answer involved using a stochastic matrix or monte carlo simulations.
It's not a child. Even if you want to use a broad definition of child (and I do), this cell was not implanted in a women, and could not grow.

It's one thing to take positive action to stop a child from living (abortion).

It's quite another to simply do nothing. This type of stem cell research is done from cells that would otherwise be thrown out - you have not prevented a child from living.
>This is similar to a HIPAA "breach"

It's not, at all. The FB API was designed to give out this information before it was changed. That means the friend data was not need-to-know like healthcare data.
How to write Go middleware
Watch out, I'm about to "scaremonger":

1. Murder is the intentional killing of an innocent, human life.
2. Embryos are innocent, human, and alive.
3. Intentionally killing an embryo is murder.

What are you definitions for "murder" or "embryo"? How exactly is any of this "not based in reality"? Please engage with me on a rational level. Give definitions. Give an argument. This is what I'm trying to do. I'm not:

a: using ad hominims: "scaremonger"
b: begging the question: "no basis in reality"
c: ignoring the content of your comment
Edited, thanks, and yes, 9.81 m/s^2 is the gravitational field at Earth's surface.
Typically, no. There are some municipalities and areas of road where there is a minimum speed limit, but in the US, those are very rare. Granted, a law enforcement officer has wide jurisdiction to determine if you are 'safe' to drive and a low speed may become unsafe. But they are unlikely to ticket you and are more likely to try to help you out. Driving under the speed limit may be annoying, but it is nearly-universally not illegal.
might be time for Zuckerberg to consider resigning. house of cards is falling.
>House wall: - keep pesky neighborhood kids from running through it and ruining your grass - keep your neighbors from being able to see you while youre swimming in your pool

Not according to what I read on Nextdoor. The people talking about making their walls taller, better, covered in more cameras don't care about the neighbors. It's about keeping strangers out.
"Leaving" Facebook is close to impossible. They track you and keep a profile on you no matter what.

Other than that, there's no competitor to Facebook that exists in the same market. My favorite stores and restaurants downtown have events and sales and information that is only on Facebook. Saying "just quit Facebook" is like saying "just stop making phone calls" or "just get rid of your mailbox" or "just stop reading emails". Entirely possible, sure. But depending on your life situation, you might be giving up more than you're getting back.

Like it or not, for some people there are things on Facebook that are only on Facebook, can only exist on Facebook, and have only been enabled by Facebook. Anything else can replace it, but currently nothing like that even remotely exists.
Yeah, there's a lot of parallels. In my mind it was always closer to the shenanigans that went on in the music/record industry because there's very little unionization in gamedev.
And likewise, here you first to have to first take the step of implanting the embryo in a woman.

Left alone, these cells will not become a child.
As someone who grew up in a very much not-rich neighborhood, in a very much not-rich household that still got broken into, I'll have to disagree haha.

The only thing similar about these two contexts is the word "wall".

I don't think a border wall is a good idea because it will cost a lot, not solve the immigration problem, it symbolically means a lot in terms of diplomacy and there's better solutions. Also, a lot of these people just want to escape from local conflicts, poverty, etc.

My parents bought window railings because although they hated how they looked, they were cheap, solved the problem and, I mean, these people just wanted our TV and my mom's jewelry.

In my case it was railings cause we didn't live in a house with the square footage for a garden lol. But I guess for all the well-off folk with gardens and steal-able stuff in their gardens, fences ("walls") serve a similar purpose?
I don't know, I have not written a ton of Python, but after spending a significant amount of time with Rust and Swift, which give you adequate tools to provably eliminate an overwhelming majority of runtime exceptions, I never want to go back.
This is straight-up dezinformatsiya - disinformation from the Putin asset Snowden, attempting to sow distrust of western institutions.

Of friggen course the NSA worked to track down some users of BTC -- it is their job.

Especially so when those users are using BTC for illegal ops, particularly state-sponsored illegal ops (how about Russians smuggling cocaine from the embassy? https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russian-embassy-in-argentina...). And there are obviously many other nefarious uses for cryptocurrency that would be in the legitimate purview of the NSA.
And GDPR puts limits on those terms. Just like labour laws put limits on contracts between a company and its workers. You can agree to an illegal contract, but that contract is still void...

That's how society is supposed to work.
How could Bain not predict that Amazon would dominate toy sells?

Toys R Us made a 10 year deal with Amazon to be the exclusuve toy seller in 1999, that had already fallen apart by 2005. Amazon was already the top online toy reteller by then.
As far as debtors being "screwed", hopefully they are both diversified enough and demanded enough of a risk premium for them to at least break even on their entire portfolio of loans.

https://qz.com/1080389/a-dot-com-era-deal-with-amazon-marked...
Hello - I've been invited to some universities lately to talk to students about Y Combinator and the question "how do I come up with a good startup idea?" comes up every time. In this essay, I've attempted to write a guide for people with the same question. One thing I'll point out from the onset is that there are many paths to starting a startup and this one is not the only one (and probably not even be the best). While providing a possible path - my primary goal was to destroy some commonly held myths about "the right way" to start a startup. Even more specifically the idea that you need a "great idea" at the beginning. Happy to hear your thoughts and questions on the subject.
The public does not "give a shit". If Trump's win tells us anything, it's that there is not necessarily a correlation between what gets trumpeted as national news and what people actually believe, accept, or experience.

There are major power players at work trying to a) exert control over the internet as a speech platform; and b) ensure that their political opponents can't win without establishment support. I discussed this some at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16616227 .

As for my grandma, my mom, and my sisters, like most of the public, they don't care about any of this, because this data was mostly already public-enough (friends list restricted) and they just want a platform where they know they'll be able to engage with friends and family.
Good Luck Getting Rid of Mark Zuckerberg
> Funny thing is, this would all blow over after a few months, and everyone will go back to the usual habbits.

It can't blow over in the UK or the EU, because it is seriously f-ing illegal in those places.

Yes, we "knew" it was happening before this (hence all the regulatory steps taken that were dismissed as anti-American protectionism), but we were lacking hard evidence, so all we could do was reinforce regulations and regulatory authorities.

Now that shit has leaked, it's simply not an option for those authorities to not act. Not to mention the fact that they really, really want to act.

So no, this will not blow over. Maybe in the US and/or the media, but not where it matters.
You're begging the question that one of the following two is false:

1. The embryos in question are human, innocent, and alive.
2. Murder is the intentional killing of an innocent human life.

I'm going to infer that you're begging the question that (1) is false. Your argument seems to be an appeal to popularity: most people disbelieve x, therefore x is false. But this doesn't follow. I'd like you to give your reasons as to why it's not true.
I'm by no means experienced in this field, but wouldn't cochlear implants count to some extent? I know those sidestep the hearing loss rather than fixing it directly, but the end result is essentially the same. My mom has dealt with hearing loss since her early years of childhood, and peaking in total hearing loss about 15 years ago. Just a year or two later, she was included in a study and was able to get a cochlear implant for free. Not too long after, she was lucky enough to be offered a second one at no charge (the benefits of being a beta tester), and to this date, she's still being given new speech processors that constantly improve the quality of sound as well as adding new features. It honestly blows me away with what they've done already with hearing, and I won't be surprised if in 10-15 years, those implants surpass a normal human's capabilities, and people who still have perfectly working ears start getting them.
Oh no! I'm so hurt that you, a random stranger on the internet with no consequence to my life, doubt me now. /s

Believe me or don't believe me, I don't care. I too see the irony in saying "I can provide you a list" and then following it up with "I can't provide you a list", but that's immaterial to the point being made, which you conveniently dodged.
Hahahaha Bowman...my god do British soldiers get lumped with totally shit, overly expensive equipment - often made by a British government jobs scheme (sorry I mean defence contractor). The amount of times I've politely smiled when getting a demo of kit like the Bowman, SA80, various rubbish body armour and webbing designs, Snatch Landrovers, etc etc

This is a very good book on the topic:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions,_Donkeys_and_Dinosaurs
same with swimming. lungs expand dramatically.
You made your point very clear. Thanks.
I concur.
>In the UK, a central principle is that parliament is entirely sovereign. //

Not entirely sovereign, legally the Sovereign is advised by parliament, the government is hers, and she signs acts in to law according to her whim ... of course the power resides in a delicate balance and the legal situation belies the complexity of the true power structure.
Any influx of residents puts pressure on local and regional housing markets. Extra pressure on even low income rentals has an appreciating effect on the rest of the housing chain, because on the short term housing supply is inelastic, and space in desirable areas is relatively finite.
If it's a "little bit gray", then you probably shouldn't sue for defamation about it.

The "breach"/"something-else-that's-not-a-breach" debate from what I've seen doesn't hinge on Facebook knowing or not, it's about if all loss of data can be called a breach or if the term should be reserved for cases where the perpetrator did aquire the data without Facebook knowing.