skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well to put it in a data science terms, the employers are looking for precision, at the expense of recall. They don't care that they don't find all the good data scientists so long as the people they do find are good data scientists.

I actually think that requiring an advanced degree doesn't help toward that end.

In the finance world we call these people quants. And actually in my experience having a phd does very little for someone; the critical skill required is software engineering.

Thinking about investment strategies is about testing hypotheses, and you can't test things properly if you don't know a few things about how to organize code. This is actually an insidious problem, because there's nobody telling you how to actually build an alpha generating strategy. And if you can't investigate properly, you fall into all the traps (you make excuses to do the following): too many features, choosing too small a sample that happens to do well, filtering the data in so may ways one of them is bound to "work", and so on.

Imagine that you're a chef, but you can't chop stuff effectively. You would then work around that limitation, maybe work on dishes where it's not needed, or perhaps get a junior guy to do the chopping. You might think this solves the problem, but actually it just swaps one problem for another, because now you need to communicate and coordinate with this other person. Or you don't explore that whole area of food with chopped stuff in it.

CI pipelines, version control (branching, diffs, etc), database maintenance, a bit of OS basics. All things that tended to differentiate the productive quants from those who merely thought they were useful. I've seen things done in a few weeks that others had spent years not achieving.

As for the ML skills themselves, you do need a bit of math to do it, and the math is relatively easy to learn. There's loads of materials to help you as well. What's not explained so much is certain philosophical issues around what is being examined. A course in economics has examples of these things: endogeneity, Lucas critique (which is Hume rehashed), experiment design (do the observations mean what you think?).
> Is there a person who claims to be a coder that has configured and launched a multi-environment microservice with several attached artifacts like DBs and queues, that knows in depth what each is doing, that can't code?

Funny that you mention it. I know a person who can't shut up about microservices, Kubernetes and CI and can't code their way out of paper bag. They had no problem passing one of those interviews.

And sure rote API memorization isn't the point. But if a candidate can't code say bubblesort (or any kind of sort) in 30 minutes they are not very good at coding - and it doesn't matter if they can quote their architecture patterns by heart.
Being able to improve the exponent to 1.25 is probably wrong. After thinking about it more carefully I think you end up with a number of steps proportional to the generalized harmonic number of order -0.5 of L which seems to be Θ(n^1.5) but I am not really sure about that.
Exactly and that's one of not-so-many reasons I'm so happy for GDPR to kick in!

Basically a big fuck you to Google: "give me all the data you have on me or I will report you and you may be on the hook for 4% of your revenue".
I too am a T-Mobile customer. On Sunday and Monday the 6th and 7th of this month in two separate incidences my SIM number was also changed. I don't and have never had an Instagram account.

In the first instance I received a notice that someone using my phone logged into a Yahoo account I once setup for a test but never really used. During the second instance I received an email with a Google verification number. I guess that time I got the SIM changed back before anything could really happen.

So far there have been no ramifications in either case. No passwords were changed (although I changed a bunch after that) and I've seen no other effects. I've requested that T-Mobile look into the issue but have heard nothing back yet and I have not checked back with them.
Or we just avoid the EU altogether.

It shouldn’t even be possible to request anyway.
How about this, but folded? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenstein_prime
Guile Scheme is the GNU system's designated extension language. In GNU there are more applications that support Guile scripting/extensions than there are CL applications.

(I'm a Schemer and I'd love to have a Lisp machine user environment using Scheme.)
If only it were hosted on Pandora Nexus.

(Unoriginal names are a pet peeve of mine. This is worse - it's "drafting" like a racecar behind an unrelated recent marketing campaign.)
I love everything about this. When I started programming I had zero interest in boring cli programs. I wanted buttons and stuff. _why is one of a kind and missed.
I wouldn't even bother remembering that pattern.

With R#

Generate Code -> create Relationsl Comparison and click on the properties that I want to use for comparison.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Do you mean “they won't catch you"?
Thanks everyone :).
Amen. I am so tired of trying to read these articles that spend so much time on random personal backstories because they don’t have faith that the core subject matter is interesting to read. The worst are the ones that jump back and forth between A/B/C plots, jumping away before any satisfying conclusion is reached on any of them, as a way of tricking your brain into reading the article ... like a really bad TV show, or Westworld.

All those articles can go burn in a hot, hot fire.
American propaganda at its finest.
I invite others to repeat the experiment for themselves. At this point I am starting to wonder if the Chinese government is playing both the pro and anti-Chinese sides in order to make both seem equally ridiculous.

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

I am seriously tired of this weird and new trend but I will continue to fight against it when I can because HN used to be better than this.

EDIT: Just remembered the fact that Russian propagandists made both pro-Bernie and pro-Trump propaganda. Their goal was simply to divide Americans. I don't doubt that the Russians and the Chinese cooperate.

Also I find it quite telling that Lionsion still refuses to respond to any of my points.
Just FYI many (most?) people with STEM PhDs don't pay for it, but in fact get a stipend.
I would love to actually just buy one of the scooters; I'm looking at getting something robust that can handle gravel, water, dirt, etc in questionable Stockholm weather.
Even under current rules the common household IP-Address appears to be (in combination with any other relevant data (a timestamp for example)) personal data.

> Article 2(a) of Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data must be interpreted as meaning that a dynamic IP address registered by an online media services provider when a person accesses a website that the provider makes accessible to the public constitutes personal data within the meaning of that provision, in relation to that provider, where the latter has the legal means which enable it to identify the data subject with additional data which the internet service provider has about that person. [ECLI:EU:C:2016:779]
This is actually an amazing idea.
> This is a small panel of economists selected from a right-wing economics association.

Why do you claim the interviewed economists are “right-wing”?

> The question is worded in the most deceptive way possible to encourage that misunderstanding.

What is deceptive about the question?

> He's clearly for net neutrality

Where did you get this from?

> the question as stated... has nothing to do with net neutrality.

Letting companies pay more to send content faster to their users has nothing to do with net neutrality, in your view?
I was not equating this to a scenario where you are only looking for one watch. The expression (and anecdote behind it) is also used to describe managing according to metrics that are easy to collect, often at the expense of outcomes.

That applies in the case of caring more about false positives than false negatives, since nobody (or close enough) even knows how many false negatives they have.

Your statement that someone being successful elsewhere doesn't prove we have a false negative underscores the uncertainty involved. It doesn't invalidate what I'm saying in the least.

But if we want to be rigorous, we could do some direct testing. Let's say we give a telephone screening and four interviews to each candidate. Simpkifying somewhat, let's say that our policy is that a fail on any one eliminates the candidate.

If we hire lots of people, we can collect false positive and false negative stats by randomly passing someone who fails exactly one test.

If a lot of people who fail a particular test end up succeeding, we can infer that the test provides false negatives.

On the other hand, if everyone who gets the random "free pass" on one particular test ends up failing, we can presume it has low false negatives, and maybe abandon the random passes for that test.
You can also use alternates:

echo ../../../git/.git/objects >> git2/.git/objects/info/alternates

or use the original as a reference:

git clone --reference git git://github.com/git/git git2

This sets up the alternates for you.
Yes

http://shoesrb.com/manual/Shoes.html

Nobody Knows Shoes link, follow the redirect, then second link from the bottom

https://github.com/downloads/shoes/shoes-deprecated/nks.pdf
Hi Ted,

Oh wow, is there ever crud at the bottom.

Yesterday I apt-get install'd probably 5 such cruds just to record a small rectangle on my desktop. TBH I did this after apt-get install'ing 3 other animated-gif related cruds to do simple motion animation, then just gave up and used the half-baked Web Animations API in devtools of Firefox because it was easier and better documented than anything else I could find.

That's 8 total cruds written by who-knows, maintained by whoever, audited probably-never by no-one. Also, they pulled in various dependencies I didn't pay the faintest attention to.

How many of those 8 apps would you estimate sent my email contacts to a third party upon instantiation?

How many of those 8 apps would you estimate gathered various pieces of data to fingerprint my device? How many keep gathering data from every sensor source they can poll every time I run and use the app?

How many of those 8 apps would you estimate even touched the network at all?

Now let's suppose I download 8 cruds on iOS just as mindlessly as I did here. Do you think the answers to those questions will be different?
I believe it is worth considering also that there is an extremely strong survivorship bias taking place with these works in particular. The works of Plato, Socrates and Aristotle have survived millennia and while most works can likely be successfully summarized, over enough iterations there are bound to be a few that cannot. Reasonable people can disagree of course and this is all subjective anyway.
Ok, now that you mention it - that does sound correct. It was a long time ago... ;)
I really miss Mike Magee ripping on this architecture regularly, it was great:

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1039092/how-intels...
Copyright is a monopoly on a specific creative work, not an idea. It’s intangible but it’s not an idea (Microsoft Windows for example, isn’t an “idea”). It’s a product of labor, just like a house you built.
I dont think there is enough karma in the world to upvote this topic. I've seem it in every organisation I have worked at and scratch my head in wonder at the number of meetings, powerpoints and spreadsheets I see that achieve nothing.

To me it looks like a lot of the pointless jobs are formatting datasets that nobody reads
Correction, it was of course the Federal Court of Justice, not the Federal Constitutional Court.
Those have to be really clumsy then.

There's a number of people with CS or SW engineering degrees who can't actually code. Those can often quote you Gang of Four patterns, discuss broad slices of tech and draw architecture diagrams on the board. But still can't code.
Wouldn't think Burger Kings and subway stations would be considered the property of the rich and powerful.

In fact, this is the most snobbish and pretentious article decrying snobbery and pretense I've seen.
I do :-)
That's what they say, but the generated image is different (e.g. the first cell of the second row should be red)
You don’t violate copyright by creating a “trivially similar” work. Maybe if you start with someone else’s work and make only trivial modifications.
The claim for publication is that the public has a right to know about potential criminal activity and so on. Of course, the reality is that publication of the mugshot is accepted by many as proof of criminal liability notwithstanding disclaimers to the contrary.

It's less clear why police departments publish them, but I think it has a lot to do with sheriffs and prosecutors being elected offices in the US. I've never agreed with this process since the potential for abuse is so obvious, and also since it makes it that much more difficult, time-consuming, and expensive to assemble a neutral jury when a case does go to trial.
Whether he is right or wrong, that was a fantastic writeup.
> Largely pointless. EU courts have in the past ruled that IPs are personal data because they can be tracked back to a person. End of story.

They are wrong. IPs are not personal data. End of story.
> just as performant as any JVM based application can be?

I know this is not meant to be a leading statement or a subtle dig, but it's left open enough for interpretation that I think it's probably why you got downvoted.

If you want to get performance out of your Ruby application and it needs to be multi-threaded, I think you usually switch to jruby. I've never had to do that, this is just what I've heard... how I personally read your statement is basically the opposite, as in "JVM is dragging you down, man" - whether that interpretation is warranted or not is left as an exercise for the reader

I am really not a fan of drive-by downvoters, by the way...
Per the TLS 1.3 RFC:

> In previous versions of TLS, this field was used for version negotiation and represented the highest version number supported by the client. Experience has shown that many servers do not properly implement version negotiation, leading to "version intolerance" in which the server rejects an otherwise acceptable ClientHello with a version number higher than it supports. In TLS 1.3, the client indicates its version preferences in the "supported_versions" extension (Section 4.2.1) and the legacy_version field MUST be set to 0x0303, which is the version number for TLS 1.2. (See Appendix D for details about backward compatibility.)

It's really too bad that the version field can't be used as a version field anymore, but thankfully the "extension" format is pretty flexible in that regard.
You are making a ton of assumptions with absolutely zero evidence and using that as the basis of an argument for attacking the company. Fortunately he replied stating that it is a small consulting company, which is exactly what you'd expect, thus making your entire argument moot.
Or just like: how do you mess up a centrifuge controlled by SCADA without them knowing? just change the speed and report another speed, done.

You don't need to know classical mechanics to use a bike, or know about internal combustion engines to use a car.
It worked for Steve, for sure, but it's definitely not the only way.

There's the famous Tim Cook story where he gets his point across, but instead of shouting, he's just ice cold:

> ...One day back then, he convened a meeting with his team, and the discussion turned to a particular problem in Asia.

> “This is really bad,” Cook told the group. “Someone should be in China driving this.” Thirty minutes into that meeting Cook looked at Sabih Khan, a key operations executive, and abruptly asked, without a trace of emotion, “Why are you still here?”

> Khan, who remains one of Cook’s top lieutenants to this day, immediately stood up, drove to San Francisco International Airport, and, without a change of clothes, booked a flight to China with no return date, according to people familiar with the episode. The story is vintage Cook: demanding and unemotional.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/24/technology/cook_apple.fortun...
Not only are the speakers loud, they are those PA-type speakers with a limited frequency-response and a piercing, gritty sound — fatiguing to listen to.
It's fucking shameful.
No you are wrong. I don’t care what some silly EU court said. IPs are not personal data. They can apply to a range of people.
Then don't waste peoples time with vacuous comments.
So true. Missing from university textbooks is the fact that real world data is often dirty as hell, inconsistent, distorted, biased, incomplete, and/or just plain invalid (measured the wrong source or too imprecisely to be useful).

Unless your DS group is big enough to warrant hiring data engineers / cleaners, as a data scientist it'll be your job not only to eventually choose the algorithm, but foremost, to confirm that the data is sufficient to serve the intended purpose of mining it, ideally before you waste a lot of time curating it or paying for a raw data dump you can't use.
It depends on the particulars of a problem, but structural recursion is often substantially clearer. One reason is that it enables more abstract reasoning about the behavior of an algorithm. You can reason like you would for an induction proof, instead of mentally executing steps in a loop (denotational vs. operational).
What would break? Are you saying a TLS 1.3 client would not be able to connect to a TLS 1.2 server because the version request would cause the server to reject the client?
American govt fabricates wars for social distraction, China needs to step their game up!
I think you dramatically underestimate how difficult that would be. What incentive does the city have to sit down with them and take them seriously? Inevitably some people will complain about the scooters, even if they're in the road and not on the sidewalk. The problem is you can't have both sides of the argument represented before people even know about the scooters and have been able to see whether or not they're useful. Permissionless innovation makes possible all kinds of improvements that would never gain enough momentum to get off the ground otherwise.

(Also, to push back on your argument about the fee part - most of the city has free street parking. Why should scooter companies pay to let people park scooters there when cars weren't paying previously? In the ideal scenario you're proposing, we should just get rid of some street parking to make room for other uses. Let's start cutting down on the massive amount of money we spend subsidizing car ownership.)
If you're doing lawful processing, you don't need consent.

Have you even read the legal text you are complaining about?
My misnomer pet peeve is "passive restraints" in cars. These are restraints like airbags and automatically-applied seat belts that actively restrain the occupant. They're called "passive restraints" because, by being active, they allow the occupant to be passive (not having to bother latching the seat belt manually) and still receive the benefit of the restraint.
To be fair, I didn't pay for my PhD, but I gave up the opportunity to earn more than a grad student's stipend for six years.
I like them. Bicycles are too sweaty. I don't ride on sidewalks for more than half a block because (A) I'm not an asshole and (B) my entire commute has bike lanes. Even if I am forced onto the sidewalk I either ride walking speed or walk the scooter. They aren't capped at 10, they are capped at 15mph. It's faster and cheaper than a Lyft for my daily commute (Tenderloin to lower SOMA). I park them out of the way so that nobody can trip on them (my work has a nice spot right outside where they can live). You're correct - I should probably wear a helmet.

In all reality, I'm probably going to end up buying one for myself as it will be cheaper within a year, but it will come at the cost of having to carry it indoors (or lock it some place?) when I go somewhere other than work.
People will read the online reviews when they buy some trinket on Amazon, but they won't do that for their doctor. About two thirds of this doctor's patients rated him one star. These days, your life may depend on your willingness to read some online reviews.

https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-jorge-zamora-queza...
The problem is that such a bill to do the same in the US would probably violate itself with a cute name.
please, just look at things like cambridge analytica, the west is way ahead, not just in its own countries, but others as well.
There is a very strong correlation between cavities and IQ, as well - suggesting that high-IQ peeps are "gas-guzzlers" who prioritize getting more energy in. Having a network that burns less (because fewer connections) might be the other half of that equation.

The source is Vernon's old book from decades back, he dismissed a lot of science using this factoid as a counterexample; to him, this was a proof that looking for correlations was pointless. I find it more significant. Someone who didn't want to go to the front in WWII occupied himself by going through all American recruits' data and looking for correlations in order to look too busy to be reassigned to combat. The largest correlation they found, as I remember, with tested IQ was number of cavities (more, better.)
Tax Treatment of Crypto Currency in Croatia
I've also seen multiple people build models that reflect the data collection instead of the biologic/medical process, and present it without even realizing how wrong their results are. The problems in these cases is often their "objective" measures of performance (e.g., precision, recall, accuracy, AUC, whatever) look pretty good, but they don't see that it's because the model AND data are both heavily influenced by this larger problem.

This is great. It's something I notice I have to mentor my junior data scientists and ML practitioners on with some regularity. Data science and machine learning aren't necessarily useful without some additional domain knowledge and discipline to recognize the need to view the data from many different perspectives and with many different relationships highlighted. Too often they see high P/R numbers and call the job done, or something similar.
It's interesting, he made absolutely no mention that he considered them morally equivalent, yet you refer to that notion in a very passionate manner.

Do you believe it is possible for anyone to hold partially imperfect beliefs? Do you believe it is possible for you to hold partially imperfect beliefs? Do you think it's possible that some people mistake matters of opinion (or personal preference) for matters of fact? Do you think it's possible for two people two hold differing opinions on a specific subject, with neither of them being wrong?

I appreciate that in these times these types of questions might be considered deliberately hostile, but I say them with non-hostile intent, as hard to believe as that may be. I think they are valid, and extremely relevant.

It's these sorts of questions that I hope some day can be discussed in a reasonable and respectful manner in a public forum. There was a time not so long ago that we could do so, I hope initiatives like this might help to regain that capability in the internet age.

I will link a few videos that I believe are quite thought provoking in this respect, I would be surprised if you don't as well after you've finished watching them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SOQduoLgRw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMqPcVUTlD4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gZ5UD1hFM4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKIhk3zOE4k
True. Yet we do also grow new ones - to set up the next cull, one supposes.
Woz is right!