skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The choice between which is 'better' is a moral argument."

I wouldn't disagree with you on this. But I just couldn't see how forbidding students to choose school would imply, quoting the OP of this thread, to "sacrifice individual preferences in favor of the 'greater good'". I guess it is less of a concern for Nordic countries who have genuinely good public school systems. If schools perform equally well, then perhaps people would not be uncomfortable with the fact that an AI rolls the dice to decide who goes to which school. But this is definitely not the case for the US public school system. If the goal is equality > excellence, you'd more often than not get equally bad results than "better averages" + "less disparity". Not to mention that restricting the freedom of choice gives rise to a bureaucratic system that feeds itself and cannot be hold accountable to what it does.

Think about this, if one is not so fortunate to be living in an affluent neighborhood, chances are that the schools are mediocre or bad, teachers teach to the test and don't care if students learn or not, dropout rates high, and college admission rates low, and if one still wants to go to college in this condition, they better get the heck out of there. School choice could potentially give them a chance to study in a better school and go to college.

The danger lies not in this legal case itself, but that it further empowers the government to interfere and exert more control on how an individual live their life and spend their money. On the end of the spectrum, you'll get totalitarian states. I hope that is not what the West is heading to.
If you find a watch on a beach... was the old argument. The argument in the paper is that the Octopi change is so fast and so immense it leaves every known instance of PE, including human evolution, far behind along with every other known leap forward. I'm not endorsing that view, just retailing it.
I'm a fifth generation Detroiter but I'm based in East Lansing now where I went to school. But I have a lot of friends working in startups in Detroit and I get back once a month. Also ran a civic hackathon (Code Michigan) with the state in Detroit for a few years that was held at both the Madison and the Grand Circus https://www.grandcircus.co/
Am I right to infer that taking 2g of baking soda in 250ml water (as done in this study) to fight my autoimmune issues might lead to me having a higher risk of esophageal cancer?
Before you jump to mock this, remember we should encourage well thought out discussion that acknowledges it's shortcomings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/us/politics/fact-check-tr...
More on "Understanding Software" by Max Kanat-Alexander and how it helped me:

Thanks to this book, I've started re-factoring code before adding new features, our code base is getting a little better every day (more maintainable) which reversed a trend, it was getting harder to add features, now it is easier; plus when I design now, my designs are cleaner and result in maintainable code.
Well, that sounds an awful lot like an optimization problem, and is actually reminescent of a Machine Learning technique called Active Learning: the model suggests data points for which it has low confidence (say images that resembles both a cat and dog according to its own understanding), and a human labels those (or in your case: the AI itself runs an experiment to get the ground truth) to gain the most information.
Coinbase is essentially transforming itself into a bank to compete with the other Wall St. banks, but rely on their early crypto position as a competitive advantage. This seems very much opposite of the "No Banks" and "Decentralization" mantra of cryptocurrency.
I'm not saying this idea is wrong, but it comes with a large grain of salt. Like everything else in the world, 90% of science is crap. If there is no proposed falsifiability criterion, there is no science here.
”For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
Robot, yes, or a sim. Simulators are like dynamic datasets. The "feedback loop" is also called the scientific method. Propose hypothesis, experiment, refine hypothesis.

People needed thousands of years to put together a few causal concepts about the world. AI would need its playtime too. It's not like a single person can come up with a causal model of the world by himself/herself. Just keep in mind that when comparing human intelligence with AI, so as not to ask of AI what no human can do.
Back when I was rowing, I heard of a way to boost your performance in sprint races called "soda doping". The idea was that lactic acid buildup (leading to fatigue and pain) limits rowing performance. Therefore, consuming something basic should help, right? Apparently, drinking a baking soda solution right before a race could make you go a lot faster -- the caveat was that you would have be shitting like crazy soon after.

I have no idea if this is true or even plausible, but it seems somewhat relevant.
Ok...I mean you see it that way and I don't really agree, but that is unrelated to my comment. Mine is a general comment about the flow of "news" concerning large web companies. It feels like this article was just the next one on the weekend assembly line. I'm not really a fan of manipulation even if I agree w/ the manipulators. Granted, my observations are my own based on the news cycles and my limited empirical evidence leaves my suspicions in the realm of conspiracy theory. Just a comment on the patterns I see.
I think here's what the parent wanted to say:

math is hard, but it shouldn't be painful.

Mathematicians, contrary to the opinion of the article writer, anre't masochists. We do math because it's rewarding and fun. Being hard doesn't make it necessarily painful.

An analogy: to some, going to a gym is a painful experience. But a lot of people do enjoy it! Of course lifting weights is never easy - but that doesn't mean going to gym is inherently a masochistic experience. Only if one makes it so.
Like in most countries, it is probably linked to social class.

I studied at a private school in Amsterdam when I lived in the Netherlands in the 70's. Most of my parents professional colleagues sent their children to private schools too. The reasons included quality of education, availability of certain subjects and the relative lack of troubled and disruptive students.

A relative recently married a Dutch man from near Rotterdam. He and his siblings went to private schools.

I recall nearby state run schools were pretty dismal.
Perhaps things have changed.
I'm curious then, do you know on what basis they made the decision that you did not have enough experience?
I can't find the link on mobile right now, but there was an article I read a while back (on HN, actually, I think) where someone did statistical analysis on the speech patterns of Trumps tweets and correlated those with times he was known to have been using his phone (or something like that) and deduced that there were two primary parties responsible for his Twitter account: Trump himself and a PR person/team. Any politically-minded (in the classical sense) or campaign tweet was almost always by the PR team, and every inflammatory, grammatically incorrect, etc. tweet was by him (presumably).
so it's just a matter of time before someone proposes to their girlfriend with a targeted Facebook ad :(
This is ridiculous, and I'd also point out, despite my being atheist, that it's blasphemous.

Monotheistic religions (almost all) believe in an omnipotent God. Omnipotent means that nothing binds the hand of God, at all. An omnipotent being can literally contrive any situation; they can change anything, from moment to moment, without leaving any traces whatsoever. They can change the very nature of logic itself without consequence.

You are saying that you try to understand and talk about and reason about God inside of some kind of logical framework, where you can't just _deus ex machina_ your way out of any situation, but this explicitly binds the power of God. God and logic can't be combined, God and debate can't be combined, because both deny the omnipotent nature of God.
Have you tried “crazy” things like going low fat or easy to digest foods? I used to have to take nexium, but stopped after having my gallbladder removed and, more impactfully, going vegan. I used to have full on esophageal spasms. They led me to the ER twice out of the pain. In hindsight, dairy’s fat content (amongst other things) was really irritating my stomach.
"Almost 70 percent of schools in the Netherlands are administered by private school boards, and all schools are government funded equally.

The instrumental variables results show that private school attendance is associated with higher test scores. Private school size effects in math, reading and science achievement are 0.19, 0.31 and 0.21"

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/705501468323653171...
Can you elaborate specially on Waymo's approach of combining machine learning and geometry, or point to a resource?
I would say it's even more basic than that: the 5 whys are a way to push people to gather information and talk to one another before making decisions about solutions. The point is not to achieve perfection, but to consistently not make stupid and easily avoidable mistakes.
To be fair, Bruno declared a distinction and was burned at the stake.
Llvm can't be used. I wish it could - http://doc.pypy.org/en/release-2.4.x/faq.html#could-we-use-l...

I'm not sure about your point. There is a new Python version built on Graal, that promises to largely maintain C compatibility (like graal Ruby) and still deliver performance.

I wish Pypy were getting funded by someone and have a lot of respect for what those guys achieved...But the fact remains that it is not bring used. Maybe graal Python can change that.

I used the words "industrial quality" instead of "pioneering" or "innovative". I think it's accepted that the millions of man hours spent on the JVM has made it one of the most incredible VM anywhere - is the defacto foundation on top of which you build big data (spark/hadoop), language theory (scala, closure, kotlin) and a billion mobile phones.
Yup, here is a good example of that in the wild: https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/issues/495
Yes. I completely agree. I think he (Pearl) is being unfairly provocative and there has been a lot of progress in these areas.
Evaporative coolers were popular in Australia before the widespread availability of electricity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolgardie_safe
"Spread the unhappiness as equally as possible."

This could be Socialism's new motto!
I think the article explains this?

"The year after, in 2016, the Amsterdam school boards switched to the single-DA variant of the mechanism. With this variant, striking situations like those where students get a place at each other’s top choice school can only occur when a student has priority at a school."
The well-known Elsevier linguistics journal Lingua had an editor revolt (reconstituted as Glossa, not published by Elsevier), but Elsevier continues to publish a 'zombie' Lingua.
I too am awaiting the return of the old ones.
Mine went away so long as I don't eat after 6pm.
Damn this is a good idea.

The general problem with "free" is that, without the price signal, overuse occurs. But public transport is orders of magnitude more efficient at moving people than cars, so even if people use public transport to travel 10x more than they would use a car-- which is a ridiculous assumption-- this would still make cities like 6x less congested if those people stopped using their cars.
> I'm really not sure what you mean by this.

If you assume the major groups of life evolved from common ancestors, the fossil record doesn't offer a lot of help to fill in the early details (i.e. transitional types). Also, you have the problem of the origin of the first single-cell organism.

> You don't see a distinction between life on another planet and supernatural phenomena...?

My point is that insisting on it being an alien life form that seeded life on earth (as opposed to the God hypothesis) is kind of begging the question. Philosophically, what is the difference between an unknown alien life form and God as the origin of life, other than different starting assumptions?
Even repeater is not really accurate. Like you say, in normal operation these systems are not working in collaboration with a wireless provider for the data passthrough/handoff. In my experience running these, it's more like the user briefly connects with a service with no connectivity and IMSI/IMEI connection logging only.

So in practice it would look like briefly, usually imperceptibly, losing cell service.
If so, I wonder if their experience cancelling sounds waves is just similarly applied to what is ultimately also a problem in counteracting input movement with the inverse.
> limiting ourselves to natural explanations

So you mean looking into supernatural explanations? How does that fill any of the holes? It's by definition out of the realm of explanation... Also, saying that "God did it" has about as much content as panspermia ("somewhere else made it").
Earth’s abiogenesis could have started via a cosmic payload as well, which potentially answers your question regarding the shared biochemistry.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
Just like printing its own money also brought down a couple of civilizations. http://www.usdebtclock.org
I used to pop Pepcid AC's like candy. Having nothing to do with my reflux I started doing IF with a low carb diet, and about a month in I realized I hadn't popped a single Pepcid. It's been over a year and I've had like 2 or 3 of them, when combinations of foods just provoke the reflux.

I can't say for sure, but I think both were important factors for me.

Btw, the IF I do is called 4:3, I think. Basically, 3 24-hr fasts a week. The rest of the days are regular. That's it. I don't really hold to it strictly anymore. I didn't do any full 24-hr periods in the last week, but it definitely trained me to eat a lot less, and that's what really helped the reflux.

Just passing this on, in case it helps you.
> Or you can clean the trash and help Wikipedia

That sounds very noble but imagine every time you lifted a bit of litter you had to argue with someone about why it should be put in the bin. Sometimes even when you win the argument they take it out of the bin and throw it down again.

That's how many qualified-to-contribute people feel about Wikipedia now. I run all my web searches with '-wikipedia' as I lack any confidence in its pages. But that's only half the battle, it doesn't address people who arrive on topic-specific fora with statements like 'Wikipedia says that..'
most of those i suspected or was aware of, but the last two (sourcemaps, websockets) are bone-chilling. I'd like to know more.

also, in your opinion, how effective is Ghostery against this vermin?
It’s not just open source though, because of his position Reitz had pipenv blessed by Heroku as the default and endorsed way to manage python packages as early as March.

Reitz is (was?) a developer at Heroku and pushed it as the solution for paying customers.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python-support
The problem crypto has is simple: You can't pay your rent in crypto, and you can't earn crypto as salary. So you need an intermediate to convert it to/from fiat. And you need to keep using fiat. Therefore you need a way to convert.

The most decentralised is something like localbitcoins, but for most people its too much hassle. It's like selling a second hand car type process (which most people hate) just to get cash to spend. Therefore a centralised bank it much more preferable.
This sounded like BS to me so I looked it up, but it seems like there is some genuine scientific evidence that this is a real thing. The baking soda doesn't actually make it into your muscles, but it does lower the pH of your blood, which in turn pulls the lactic acid out of your muscles.

http://doctoroffitness.com/resources/fitness-articles/item/q... . Checked a couple of the referenced articles and they seemed pretty legit.
Is hate never justifiable?
Here comes the Science:

"The effect of chronic progressive-dose sodium bicarbonate [baking soda] ingestion on CrossFit-like performance: A double-blind, randomized cross-over trial."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29771966

"CONCLUSIONS:
Progressive-dose SB [baking soda] ingestion regimen eliminated GI side effects and improved CrossFit-like performance, as well as delayed ventilatory threshold occurrence."
It's called a tilting train: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilting_train
I'm sure other people feel likewise, like so:

As examples I've encountered, virtually anything touching on Soros, Open Society Foundations, Clinton Foundation, The Climate Reality Project (and other "charitable" organisations), or their interests, particularly global warming topics, and most especiaally their stable of alarmists.

It's not that valid and truthful information cannot be added, but it runs a fearsome gauntlet of protectors.

Imagine being in their shoes.
I am surprised that Reddit CEO does not use adblockers.
I don't think that U.S. is lead by some evil forces that target civilians. . I'm trying to say that you should expect the worse in wars regardless who's fighting or how weak/strong they are(see WW1/WW2).
That's why people should avoid wars. Syria could have avoided the war but it preferred to keep the dictator in place. Too bad that it ended-up with the worst deal: a revolution, a war and the same dictator at the helm..plus a huge debt to Vlad.
I keep checking in with USAA on auto insurance, and they consistently quote double my current premiums... they may have a bias against quick cars, though.
IANAL - If my reading of business history is of any service, you build your software or demo (you don't need a patent to tinker as long as you aren't distributing it or selling it or making money of it.) Then you demo it to those with blocking patents you've had to incorporate in your work. (Hopefully you have tech you can patent.) Then you negotiate.

Remember, patents can only be obtained for methods, not results - so in theory if you can find a new method to accomplish what they did, that's cool, you just got around their patent. (This is what Watt of steam engine fame did, in the end, when negotiations for patented tech he really needed proved futile. Took him a while to come up with a parallel invention or two he needed.)

So as noted, these negotiations can go very wrong - or proceed very well.

Find out what patent exchanges have already happened between the relevant companies. If, as is frequently the case, a number of companies have the rights to the whole palette of patents blocking you thanks to those rights swaps, you may only have to make one deal, with any one of those companies and can therefore take the best offer, playing each company off against the others. For a final deal to distribute your software through them, say.

Note that FRAND patents won't be a barrier to you. (Unless someone wants to break the law to thwart you, and that's happened too.)
Not entirely sure I can take that site seriously. Their ads seem pretty strongly in the fake news territory.
Because their methodology does not take into account the most important right of all.
geofft could just ignore the library completely without giving his valuable opinions on the kinds of things that should be specified in a reference document. That isn't complaining at all. Maybe the author really has no clue on what information to put into an API document; geofft's comment provides stimulating ideas.

geofft doesn't have an "issue" because he's not using the library; he can avoid the non-documentation problem for himself quite adequately by ignoring the library and moving to a different one.

> If you can answer those questions,

No you can't. You can only reverse engineer what the code does, not what the programmer intended.

Why would I sit there reverse engineering someone's code to write a document for them which codifies the bugs they didn't intend to make? They will just reject the doc "oh, thanks for writing this but that's not what's supposed to happen; that's a bug. Can you wait until next release and then change your document based on the new code? Thanks.".

Fuck that, you know?

Will the designer even take the document seriously going forward? Or will he just regard that as someone else's unimportant opinion about what a particular revision of his program did once upon a time?

We already know something about the designer's attitude is toward documentation, from the lack of it.

Satellite documentation: different story. I mean, tutorials, guides to internals and things like that. But, no, I'm not writing the basic, fundamental spec for your undocumented code you've already written.
3rd derivative is a simple filter on acceleration. Obvious feature in something like fault prediction on heavy machinery.

What you really want, though are the ability to decouple and infer relationships between short and long term features (something like the cepstrum transform from speech analysis).
Seeing Google's approach to quantifying life's special moments in this blog post brings out the luddite in me.

When we had our first child every moment we captured felt special.

It was awe inspiring to watch our little human encounter and respond to the world.

The big ones like the first step, the first word, the first laugh.

And the smaller ones like encounters with new friends, grandparents, first time at the beach, etc.

After we had our second it was strange to see the similar reactions.

And we realized how many of these milestone responses were innate. And predictable.

It wasn't necessarily less endearing but a little less magical as parents.

Google's approach is spot on.

And it makes me sad that life's "special moments" aren't just predictable, they're inherently quantifiable by very basic AI.

As we barrel towards an AI enabled future it's going to be bittersweet to unwravel & index the human experience.
you can get some 90s software, compile it and run it,

The "compile" is the tricky part; with Windows, you can get a binary from the early 90s and it will just run. My experience with Linux software is that while the kernel-userspace interface remains stable, userspace is itself full of breaking changes, and software has so many dependencies that trying to compile it quickly turns hairy.
The Nazis had the wrong enemies. If you have the right enemies, you can slaughter millions and statues will be built in your honor.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
OK, but "gene complexes", not necessarily octopuses, per se.
I don't know much about Google Duplex, but recently I had to do the following: call all dentists in 20 mile radius, and make an appointment if they can:

1. treat a 3 year old kid

2. accept insurance xxx

3. see us within 5 days, preferably at 9am.

Out of all which meet all these criteria, pick the soonest available appointment, if multiple available on the same day, pick the closest one.

How should I explain all this to Google Duplex? How can I make sure it understood me? What exactly is it going to say to the appointment desk person? How can I verify it made the correct appointment? Would it need to make all the appointments first, then cancel all but one?