skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth noting that there has been a fair bit of good research in causal machine learning in the last year or so, for example "Implicit Causal Models for Genome-wide Association Studies" (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.10742.pdf).

The key point of this paper is that neural networks really are very good at "curve fitting" and that this curve fitting in the context of variational inference has advantages for causal reasoning, too.

Neural networks can be used in a variety of structures, and these structures tend to benefit from the inclusion of powerful trainable non-linear function approximators. In this sense, deep learning will continue to be a powerful tool despite some limitations in its current use.

I think Pearl, who's obviously remained very influential for many practitioners of machine learning, knows the value of "curve fitting". However I think it's a bit hard for a brief interview to sit down and have a real conversation about the state of the art of an academic field and the "Deep Learning is Broken" angle is a bit more attractive.
Great article.

Copying was analog back then.
I think the whole 'hot-module-reloading' thing is pretty compelling, but its possible to do apart from a JS environment (see flutter for instance). The library that Vuido runs on, libui, has bindings to all kinds of languages:

https://github.com/andlabs/libui#language-bindings
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Totally agree.

> If I was a video content producer, I wouldn't use a Facebook Youtube clone, even if it seemed better. I'd expect to get kneecapped, probably in the 2-3 year timeframe.

But unless any platform has an exclusivity clause, it's pretty risk free and largely effort free (a multi-platform deployment tool will emerge I'd think) for producers to publish to all platforms. Actually, if(!) platforms would cooperate, this would be nice because they could then differentiate on features.
So when you buy a discounted item is it a charade?

How can two people being prevented to perform an exchange make things better globally? I don’t think that obvious at all. In fact allowing the exchange will make things better globally, by definition, because more people will be better off, while no one not engaging in the exchange will be worse off (unless you consider maybe envy).
I didn’t mean to say LTE is deliberately complex, compared to older specs it’s very simple. I was thinking more of ASN.1 itself which even in later editions added features that only made the parsing and codegen harder, though they made authoring simpler.

Specifically I was looking asn1c but IIRC it could not handle parameterization used in S1AP - maybe 3 years ago? It might have changed right after I tried, I didn’t follow it up and took a different route.

I think we agree, the problem is worsened when you need to support multiple ASN.1 protocols, including MEGACO, S1AP, RANAP, H.323, GSM MAP, TCAP etc - you need a tool that provides a stable and unified API for all protocols. And if you want that, today you still have to pay for it or struggle with multiple tools with different APIs.

Don’t get me wrong I like ASN.1 very much. Text based protocols (esp. over TCP) have caused me more headaches than ASN.1 and ad-hoc binaries protocols combined. HTTP/2 is worth it just for ditching text. The rest of it is just icing :-)
I think it was 0.42%... If you look into why the EU came up with PSD2 you should find out some more about it.

Honestly can't find it now. It may just have been something I heard around the office (I am currently consulting with Open Banking in the UK but do not speak for them here or anywhere else)
I believe the article is a more or less verbatim transcript of what happened. I wasn't there and I don't really want to speculate, but I would expect LWN to mention everything important that was mentioned and not add their own interpretation either.
Are you in the UK? Tell Trading Standards. This feels like a breach of The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3134/part/3/made
Related article, "Feds: There are hostile stingrays in DC, but we don’t know how to find them" [0], and discussion [1] from 45d ago.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/dhs-to-senator-m...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16748971
so many yet the number of ICOs out there is aplenty already
https://www.coingecko.com/en/ico
I had a bit more fun with my math degree than the author did, but the curriculum taught me similar things.

I'd add one more: I think it helped me be a better writer. All of college and the closing out of adolescent cognitive development probably contributed some of that too, but I noticed that by the time I'd made my way through analysis classes that I was getting better responses to my written communication and that I could detect a tightness in some of it that was familiar. I think it came from spending so much time trying to clearly articulate details of abstract concepts that I was struggling to come to grips with. A proof is arguably a (very specialized) form of a persuasive essay designed first to illuminate and convince oneself.

Perhaps it contributed to the author becoming a better writer too.
No one is worse off by others’ exchange, they’re the same as before.
...he posted sources
https://apnews.com/d716aac4ad744b4cae3c6b13dce12d7e
Is Telegram Secure?
Code is data is often touted as the integral feature of lisp though, so without it, a language really isn’t much like lisp at all.
In the US, this algorithm is used to place medical graduates at teaching hospitals, by the National Resident Matching Program. And of course, college admissions was the topic of Gale and Shapley's 1962 paper, 'College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage' which publicized the algorithm [1].

[1] https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2312726
Walling off the content directories was an experiment to boost community membership signup, as community members are far more active than anonymous visitors. It's worked — people have joined the community at a much higher rate — but the downstream results haven't been significant enough for this to really be the backbone of our growth strategy. I will likely revert it soon in favor of other approaches, for example, creating search engine friendly evergreen content like this article.
Snowden's post links to five news websites quoting the claims. The original source for all of the claims is the declassified US Senate report on the CIA's torture program, downloadable from https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_tower
That looks great. More countries should have this kind of initiatives, so we could have technology to spread worldwide, instead of getting concentrated into a single high-cost area of the world.
"Accidentally in Code" is the name of the blog. The title of the article is "Creating Success, Together".

Anyway, this does provide some food for thought on how to create an effective working environment.
Well it's certainly nothing to keep the masses occupied. Our latest war got practically zero coverage. And it has nothing to do with secession of the states.

Wanna maybe expand on the point you're trying to make?
It doesn't matter if you can correlate user id and account holder, what matters is that somebody can. That's the same reason why IPs are considered personal information.

>Furthermore, in such situations there's a case to be made that this information cannot be deleted if the whole point of the site is to provide global rankings.

You don't have to delete it, anonymizing is enough. For global rankings you don't need to know that user 1456 has rank 56, you just need to know that somebody holds that rank. So whenever a user requests to be deleted, replace his id with -1 (or choose a random number outside the normal range) and you have satisfied the request (only the PII needs to be deleted, not everything about the user).
I'm in the opposite camp. Even small features are very expensive. You need to support them for the life of the product. You need to think about them every time a new feature, bug fix, anything comes along. I prefer products that have smaller feature sets and those features are rock solid and very well thought out than just throwing every possibility in because you can.

If skipping EXCEPT means say the postgres team can focus that much more energy on bugs and stability, then that's a good trade off in my eyes.
Could Blizzard deny signing the Processor agreement, thus effectively limiting the access to their, otherwise public, API?
Sent, hopefully I interpreted your email address correctly.
Yeah, it's philosophically valid that you'd want to measure certain critical things that are different from the everyday grind.

But I think the simpler explanation is that these interviewers mostly had picked "cool" recursion problems.

I did get the job, and seeing $BigCompany's hiring process from the inside didn't contradict this.
Agreed. Unfortunately it had that clickbait title. That said, though nothing in the article was ground-breaking if you're a student of the science around time, it's still a practice of most humans to articulate a relationship to time that is a constructed story... Somewhat like our way of experiencing "free will," to digress way too much. Ordered the book, anyway!
Ask HN: Where can I learn Computer Science online, and think like one too?
My background: I've been programming for 7 years now without any formal education. I have been doing enterprise work for this entire time. The company I work for basically runs on the code and programs I write for it. I am at the point where I am no longer being challenged at work.

I've considered applying to school, but the hefty costs have turned me away for now (USA). I'd like to teach myself what I can until I hit another wall. (Eventually I'd like to get into machine learning/AI/statistics). I feel a lot of cognitive dissonance knowing that I can build programs that run a company but I have only a vague idea what a tree or linked list is.

So, I'm looking for free online resources that are preferably NOT videos (cause they are too slow for me), with all content available upfront. I would love to learn this with C (first language I learned, felt like I was much closer to the computer), so I both understand what the computer is doing and where/when it should be implemented.

thanks!!
It’s the implementation that is difficult. For example, if someone wants their data deleted I need to go delete all of the email correspondence, I need to delete them from applications like Google Analytics. If I follow them on Twitter or interacted with the on Twitter I need to delete those posts. Oh and then there are backup archives that I now need to scrub. The point being is a lot of data is not well assembled and cleaned for deletion which is why data analytics on your existing data is so hard in the first place!
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That’s definitely an option that satisfices, but would it reduce the amount of satisfaction by increasing the number of “acceptable” solutions while decreasing the number of “desired” solutions?

Humans are greedy, and that’s where these algorithms seem to fall apart in the real world.
Thanks, I will try that. I used email.
I am in the US
Spritemate
This is bad. They mostly hire people who look like them.
Medications scare me too.
Here’s a really hyperbolic example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0908.4425.pdf
Nature and nurture probably dealt you a pretty good hand, even to endowing you with grit. Had it been otherwise, though, you might now feel somewhat differently about how our institutions should respond to the fact that people get dealt unequal hands.
> This is why you have to ban racial supremacists.

The problem is, there is far from an accepted common definition (by design, I'd argue) for "racial supremacists".

> It's happening all over again with the Rohingya.

Is this related to online forums somehow or just a reference to consequences?
Metrics and chance are bad substitutes for tutelage. If a world values scholarship (which seems self-evident), then scholars should not be presented with obstacles. I'm not sure what the measure of a person's scholarship is, and indeed this such measures are often turned to different purposes. It probably becomes a Grim Trigger Game for some.
Indeed, it has a huge impact on what writers can do. Content is shaped by the container it's in, and Netflix is a different kind of container.

No ads? Don't have to cater to advertisers, don't need to have advertiser friendly content.

No ad breaks? Don't need to create cliffhangers on a defined schedule. Can preserve flow.

On demand? Don't have to worry about people missing episodes.

No syndication? Don't have to worry about episodes being watched out of order. Now the world and characters can change in meaningful ways.
FWIW, decent real estate is actually more expensive in large Chinese cities than in the US.
That is the kind of honesty that I'd hope my employees would grace me with instead of sugarcoating and telling me things I want to hear. IMO that director is an idiot.
No. I’ve actually lived in both.

Also, it appears(?) the parent comment to my initial comment was adjusted.
I dunno, I'm objectively fairly good at maths (I got a first in the Cambridge MMath), but the reason I learned so much from the course was because I spent almost the entire time failing miserably to get anywhere on problem after problem. Sure, eventually you make the breakthrough - but only after hours of failure. Every avenue you try that doesn't work out is a frustration - often a blank-wall kind of frustration - and there are lots and lots of them before you succeed. Further, every avenue I try feels equally fruitful at the beginning, and frequently reaching the end is highly nontrivial even when you're on the right path, so "if it feels hard, you're on the wrong track" isn't a very easy thing for me to apply.
> No one is worse off by others’ exchange, they’re the same as before.

Not necessarily. Second-order global effects need to be considered as well.
While I'm not much of a fan of social media overall, I'm not sure I agree with your last point. There's lots of evidence to suggest that a huge amount of human evolution rests on social connection. Without it, we are way less healthy, from an empirical standpoint. The issue with"social" media is that it gives us some neurological rewards but doesn't really make us feel less lonely; and sometimes may increase our feelings of isolation if we're not really connecting, just seeing superficial information or, as is increasingly the case, information that isn't social at all (news or other forwarded content).
It's the start of a post scarcity society. I'll take the not having to work and having a cure for every disease route of history, even if it's bumpy.

There are real threats to the transition though. My honest fear is that the people who discover it make themselves immortal gods and subjugate or kill everyone else.
An example from my local area is a bus route connecting deprivedNeighbourhood with largeIndustrialSite, with the timetable arranged around the shift patterns of the employers on that site. It doesn't have enough passengers to be profitable, but most of the passengers would be unemployed if that route didn't exist.
Fairness in statistic is not not a subjective concept, it's a property of an algorithm.
Edit: the deferred acceptance algorithm they refer to in the article __is__ the Gale algorithm.

Those sort of algorithms (actually refined versions) are starting to be deployed for those problems. It's being used to match kidney donors to recipients, and freshly minted doctors to residencies.

School districts have more problems implementing it due to regional politics.

I would encourage you to look into the research by people like Al Roth, Itai Ashlagi or Atila Abdulkadiroglu.
They should be. Aside from operation in Europe eventually US legislative bodies will wake up and start passing laws to protect data. GPDR will be an obvious practical example to study, much as Obamacare was at least partly modeled experience in Massachusetts. I have no doubt that many tech companies have already put preventing this at the top of their DC lobbying agenda.
For me it's the 5 minute recap, 5 minute content, 5 minute break, 5 minute recap loop on most shit.
Standardized tests are only good at measuring hard skills (eg. reading comprehension, math). “Soft” skills like empathy, conflict management or leadership abilities are very hard to measure in standardized tests. So if you pick students based on a test, you risk rejecting students that you want.
It's unethical to give a piece of your company to an oppressive government like China's or anyone else involved in human rights violations.
> One sparse byte array: C, C++

What does sparse mean in this context?
The Magic Furnace is a great book about the history of how we came to understand atoms and where they come from. It shows a lot of the missteps and twisty turns along the way.

I also love learning about how scientific understanding actually developed over time. It's a messy, fascinating process.
My main problem with Tk is you have to theme it on Linux and I couldn't find compatible themes for GTK and Qt.
Netflix actually does have interactive titles. Search for "Puss in Book" on their website.
It really annoys me when journalists write headlines that directly conflict with what the company has stated.

They got your click though. Mission accomplished!
Please show how the current system is better than what he proposed, based on a watertight definition of "better off".

You've proposed a constraint that can't realistically be achieved.
Is that really how you think GDPR will be interpreted? As a European, are you OK with that?

If a football team plays, and a stats website (call it ERDB) uses Eredivisie's API to get player stats and then publishes them, should ERDB have to be processor? Then there would have to be a processor agreement every time Eredivisie issues an API key. And they can't have a public API. And if ERDB wants to switch from AWS to GCP that will have to get written approval from Eredivisie for a new sub-processor?

Is that really the world people want to live in?
Then at minimum they should be interested in making their own tooling better.
Or the US spying on its own.
This seems awfully close to the Kevin Kelly interview with Tim Ferriss, including the order the points are raised. I'm surprised he wasn't quoted or at least referenced.

https://tim.blog/2014/08/29/kevin-kelly/comment-page-2/
I wonder why they just wouldn't go to a small cases court.
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I know companies do this, but I don't understand how it works. Given the competitive nature of hiring good engineers what type of candidate would accept a contract position when they probably have five other offers?
Yes, a single Prometheus server can probably handle the scale of most SaaS applications.
You don't want or need an educated workforce-to-be? Huh.
> While this isn't a surprising tradeoff for the Netherlands, what does surprise me is the size of the tradeoff they are willing to make. Almost eight percent of the entire student body would be going to a not-first choice school as a result. (Using the numbers in the article) That's quite a hit.

It is, but it needs to be balanced against the percentage of disappointed students in a regular, non-lottery system. The article doesn’t say what that is, unfortunately.
Most of the interviews are just technology-wrapped ways to confirm our initial biases about whether we like that person or not. One could ace an interview but if that person is not liked/relatable, they won't get the job. OTOH when we like somebody, we try to help even if the person is not up to required level. The only exception I can think of is when a team needs to hire a scapegoat before performance review to be fired when the expected axe lands on the team and somebody has to go. I've seen this played out at Google, FB, MS etc., regardless of what each company thought about its "scientific" interview process.

Next time on interview just for fun try to ace all technical questions but contradict some interviewer's notions held in high regard (those could be usually inferred pretty quickly during initial conversation); I am 99% sure you won't get the job. Then on another one make yourself just average tech performer but amplify agreeability with the interviewer's ideas. What would you guess would give you (much) better success ratio?
A playful joke like that would land someone in prison for a decade today.
It's true - Netflix is the new television.

I can't help but wonder how long it'll be before there are ads, the price goes up a lot or it gets split up into 'channels' where you'd have to pay separately for separate set of content.

Another thing I think that's coming, is Netflix adding daily shows like the Jimmy Fallon show or Ellen. It seems like a no brainer - they're trying it out with David Letterman monthly series, and it's doing very well as far as I can tell.
I had the same experience, also as a college student with my personal site. I pretty much stopped using most Google services after that point (adsense, webmaster, even search thanks to ddg).

It took me months to slowly watch it rise up to the $100 threshold and I was thrilled to get my first ever ad revenue check, small as it might be. Only to have it taken away after I had given them my personal information.

Free ad space for Google, accusations of having a click ring for me (would have been a pretty pathetic ring if was anyway).

/vent
I wouldn't use the optics of commercial VR headsets as any kind of quality benchmark.
Yeah, I feel the opposite.. I go to the home screen and see so many things I want to watch but don’t have time for... I only have a few hours a week to watch tv shows, and there are so many ones that look good on Netflix. I don’t think I will ever get through the shows I want to watch, even if they never added anything more.
That's called a game!
I'm one of the co-organizers.

Why are we doing this?

Most projects in the blockchain space focus on working towards an ICO to finance the operation. For many projects that makes sense. Sometimes however gearing the concept towards an incentive structure suitable for an ICO leads to non-optimal outcomes.

It also leads to a lack of generic infrastructure that is designed to be soundly engineered and easily reuseable.

What would you like to tackle during such a workshop?
The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie has Krispy Kreme product placement to the point of absurdity, even having the main villain chowing down on one during the action.
Because digital reproduces the signal accurately while tape introduces a kind of degradation you find appealing?
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Well, the question I'd ask is whether you began approaching simpler math as being hard? Getting used to going up against brick to solve really hard problems is useful once you have a toolkit needed to solve those problems. But getting the relatively simple manipulations of the toolkit should be easy - and math undergrad work (at least at not super-advance school) is about putting together the toolkit.
There are so many bad cryptocoins that trying to build an "exhaustive" list is futile.

Are you distinguishing between plain scams, clueless founders with good intentions, penny stock coins that are easy to manipulate, joke coins, heavy premined coins, centralized coins that pretend to be a cryptocoin, coins with a dead chain, ...?
Indeed. In fact I can get to 1 when its quiet and I have my full concentration.

I think the nervous system has a dynamic gain. Its when things are quiet that the gain is high enough to tune into the high pitch hum. Hearing it for me is a good sign that I am now ready and in the 'zone'. It is insanely frustrating when you want to get into the zone but cant, at such times i really crave for the hum to start.
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