skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can flip a widget that claims to do something. How do you know it actually does what you think it does? For example, it might simply mean that you no longer have access to your location history - which your experience documented here implies. That does not mean that the data is no longer there or being added to.

Have you read the small print?

Nearly appropriate anecdote: For a customer, the SNMP "public" community has been deemed a security issue. The GUI for three of their systems showed that the SNMP agent was not configured, let alone running. $snmpwalk -v2c -c public w.x.y.z enterprises from my PC says otherwise.

Here we have a saying: "it does what it says on the tin" to imply a form of integrity (a quote from an advert, funnily enough.) Not all tins tell the complete truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdjcdZqODoE
I feel this. This is my viewpoint as someone who cannot realistically afford an "entrepreneurial" lifestyle. Similarly, I'd rather not see my savings dwindle every month rather than grow. I feel that concern only goes away when you are practically-speaking rich or FIRE.

When I see people talking about entrepreneurship on HN or quitting their X job to do Y project, I feel no different than it being the "minimalist lifestyle" of tech. All this talk about how it's freeing you of all these things that tie you down and what not but it's only "freeing" because you're rich AF.

This article read like: "I'm a rich dude who worked at Big X and went to an Ivy League university. Fuck being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. I live in one of the most expensive and desirable cities in the world. I'm gonna do whatever I want with my ridiculously large savings and I hope to make even more money with whatever I come up with! I'll probably go back to another FAANG if this doesn't pan out in a year and say I did some seriously cool stuff on my resume. I'll get an even bigger package. Wooooo!"

Ugh.
George Osborne became editor after he got fired from the government following the Brexit vote. The Evening Standard is pretty consistently negative on Brexit and negative on the current Prime Minister, Theresa May. Both of which are consistent with Osborne's views, I'd imagine.
US plans to limit visas for Chinese STEM students
The Story of Big Data: A Technical Comedy
You don't think that trivialises the issue just a touch?

We're talking about an institutionised score which effectively administers your social mobility.
For Channel<T>, you can take a look at https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/tree/v2.1.0/src/System.Thre...
"When you look at the obesity numbers" ...

Unfortunately, theses 'lifespan' measurements have a lot to do with violent crime, car accidents, suicides, war deaths etc. - i.e. things that aren't so much about health than otherwise.

It's why average lifespan isn't necessarily a very good measure of health outcomes.

I think US is down due to overdoses, which is a kind of health issues, but not necessarily a regular measure of diet and quality of regular medicine, it's an epidemic.
First, this post is not about flow program control, it's about controlling data-flow. I made the same mistake at first, but the post literally makes zero sense with the other reading.

Second, your solution does not limit the acceptance of new incoming client connections, it only limits the frequency with which "work" is done. That solves some possible problems, true, but it does not solve the problem that the post is about.

On the other hand, I see no evidence in this blog post that callbacks are the inherent cause of the flow-control problem; it's rather that high-level languages that abstract the connection event are the inherent cause. Callbacks or no callbacks, the problem is the level of abstraction.
Right, no one is asking anything in those communities, because they’re the tumbleweeds.

Voat has fulminating hate boners and tumbleweeds, and literally nothing else.

https://voat.co/v/gardening

Jesus that’s dead. Meanwhile if you want to hear some skinhead rant, that’s plenty active. Accept what you want, but I’m not interested in the internet equivalent of a Klan rally or a skinhead bar. I’ll go to the reputable establishment down the street that 86’s violent drunks, because loud, violent assholes make for a lousy social experience. You can enjoy a post every month or so in Gardening on Voat, because “freedom”.
Why Performance Matters
It’s definitely not limited to one side but I think America’s general historical right lean means that calling something “left-wing” has carried more of a stigma and is thus more common. Even a fair number of people who like liberal/socialist get uneasy about being called lefties since that brings in a lot of Cold War baggage.
In my defense, it's a very pretty watch.

But rest assured - given your demonstrably comprehensive knowledge of my altruistic habits, I'll make a note to consult with you about which particular lives I should deign to save the next time I'm considering funding one of my hobbies. I'm sure playing messiah and saving "a dozen lives" will be even more satisfying to my narcissism than shiny things; thanks for the suggestion!
Source
http://www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/life_tables/...
I worked on a project that did a little Watson work as well. Same result as you described.

The shame is decision tree based expert systems can be pretty powerful, but the tools these guys were using were not that great.
That's not what a non sequitur is.

Massive layoffs at a company that hypes its AI and is actually named after that same technology is called "irony", not non sequitur. I'm disappointed for having to explain this.
Pardon my utter ignorance/disbelief - are opioids killing/debilitating that many people to get this result?
>I agree with some happiness researcher who claims travel is best in short < 1 week bursts every few months.

Got a link to that?
CA Senate Votes to Restore Net Neutrality
Yay paywalls!
You're talking about SAT scores right? Or did you mean US credit scores, which are maintained by three opaque and unaccountable private corporations.

More seriously, yes, the explicit social credit system that China seeks to establish is evil. But the west isn't much different.
The Disappearance of the Universe, by Gary Renard...and following naturally, A Course in Miracles (supplemented by lots and lots of Kenneth Wapnick).
You're using it wrong.
How do you know? The criteria are not public either.
Recognition of MicrE13B Barcode and Better Barcode Generation Process Using .NET
Unikernels have been a thing for awhile but have yet to take-off:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel
doubt that, just a "momentary lapse of reason" :-)
I used to kind of like Trudeau Jr, but right now he's made me ashamed to be Canadian. I'd like to know the full story of how he justified this and what kind of pressures were involved.
Depends what you do, I am building EU (UK) company right now. We started before GDPR but we had it in mind early on and I don't believe it made it any harder for us. Obviously our business model didn't assume selling our costumer data.

Being 'GDPR ready', 'privacy first' and putting our users in control of their data was a good selling point and important part of our story. It definitely made it easier for me as a tech guy in founding team to argue for reasonable privacy policy, avoiding data monetising revenue models and attention to security.
I'm not sure all Google products use the same voice recognition tech. Almost sure that they're not.

In the NLP realm for instance, Google translate is (or used to be) based on a much older statistical model rather than the hot deep learning models the cool projects use nowadays.
“ B.C. to choose between 4 systems for electoral reform referendum
"This is true in the west as well. Especially now in 2018, if someone you're even tangentially connected to does something deemed to be unsavory you are expected to immediately and forcefully disavow them or face the social consequences. Even then, you still may be tainted by association."

No, this is generally not true.

Unless you're a public figure and only then in specific circumstances.

Almost nobody holds people accountable for what their friends do.

Bill Clinton's brother was a drug dealer.

Barak Obama's father was a kind of unsavoury deadbeat dad.

I suppose both of them would have had nary enough 'social credit' to become President.

Also - it's borderline shocking to hear a casual defence of this system. Theoretically yes, I can see a rhetorical argument, but in practice it's pretty scary. In America people do have 'credit scores' but that's generally a more open thing, and you still get to vote and ride the subway if you have low credit score.
No. I would guess the biggest factor is our number one killer, heart disease. Healthy lifespan.... People live a long time with heart disease, but they are never healthy again. Same with many terminal cancers, etc.
It would be interesting alongside estimating general "consensus" on stock performance development using NLP processing, sentiment analysis etc. to utilize game theory to find a contrarian strategy utilized by a few players that has the highest probability of yield, being one step ahead of moving average of dominant expectations, and mastering equilibrium where transacted amount doesn't affect the dominant trend to keep surfing the wave as long as possible.
Yes, but if you’re a small business, it could be 40,000% of your profit. Goodbye business, goodbye employees.

Meanwhile the large company grudgingly pays their fine and rolls on.
The new microaggression: calling someone middle aged. Even if they are
Dan Ariely's research for example shows that duration has little effect on our memory of an event. Check his TED talks.
I posted a BBC article about mental health and it received complaints about being off-topic and it was removed.
Three Ways of Looking at FizzBuzz in J
I really hope image posts like these don't catch on.
I'd say that breaking free of either mentality is equally important. Everyone should recognize the choices they have in their careers, and in tech we have quite the choices indeed. At least for the time being, it's possible for skilled workers to join a company paying extremely high wages, but also to leave said company to pursue a big idea or to take a sabbatical.

While we praise companies for effectively pivoting after building a product that didn't seem right, we should also recognize that we too can pivot if we feel dissatisfied spending time in an office or if we feel a desire to join a team taking on a hard problem.
The front-end world is rediscovering lessons learned in the days of desktop thick clients from the 90s, if not earlier. I rage far too often that I have to jump through all these hoops to slam out some UI that I could have done in high school with VB6.
I Write Letters to CEOs
Have you heard the phrase "know your audience"? A professional comedian should. Because if they don't, they might not produce any laughs. And if they can't do that, how are they going to get paid?
“Some cities” isn’t “every city”, and this article isn’t talking about ferries or about big harbors. I can see this having more advantages in a medieval city with narrow streeets than in a city designed for cars.

I imagine that leaving the mooring to human operators (either those waiting to (un)load the ship or remotely) also could be an option.

More importantly, we’re talking research. This need not lead to a economically viable product in decades.
With a lot of the fentanyl flowing into the US market being made in China, it's almost like a reverse opium war between the east/west.
I was on the outside vendor was panel at the event (along with Oracle and redislabs) if anyone would like an engineering view of the technology.
Personally, I think much of what makes the best explanations great is not the writing as much as charts and illustrations and other supplementary materials that make it easier to understand how things go together. While not technical or a blog, I like The Book of Shiatsu by Paul Lundberg as a great example of this due to the art style really helping with the explanation (you can get an idea from the Amazon preview (towards the end)[0]). I've seen one or two CS blogs that are good like that too but I don't have any links handy. Exactly how that would look depends on what you would like to create, I'm just suggesting that giving some thought to the artistic style of presentation can really draw people in and clarify things. Even if you aren't an artist, picking what to put in charts and tables or what code snippets to include can make a huge difference in presentation and even minor stylistic touches can make your explanation easier to remember (also complete and accurate explanations of the supplementary materials are extremely valuable and often overlooked even when a helpful illustration is given). Even things like taking pictures of your notes on paper or screenshots of whatever tools you use can add a more personal touch and give your readers something not found in the textbook (sometimes really mundane stuff turns out to be the most helpful). Or since you are interested in machine learning, maybe put that to work to create a unique style. Of course, you also need to decide how much time to spend on it and I don't mean figure out the best thing right away, just give thought to things other than text as you go. Some dramatic text styles can be helpful and fun too (like up goerizing[1]).

Challenging yourself to explain things quite a bit differenty than the materials you are learning from is likely to be a better experience for both you and your reader (who may well be reading the same texbooks as you anyway).

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Book-Shiatsu-Complete-Pressure-Manipu...

[1] https://xkcd.com/1133/
This is not very convincing. It reads like a semester project for an undergrad or a summer intern. In particular, the prediction task used for evaluation is not very meaningful, and the intended use case (predicting biotech underperformers) is not very meaningful without predicting by how much they would underperform, i.e. just using the output of this model as yet another regression factor with questionable significance in the end.

But in that case, it’s very unlikely a heavy CNN text model would be better suited than simpler methods like a classifier using LSA vectors, or even just extracting the gloVe vectors and doing no convolution. Especially given all the metaparameters they mention needing to tweak.

For example, an ablation study to figure out that you need Lecun initialization seems both overkill and requiring way more specialization in deep learning than a typical firm would be looking to have, all just to squeeze out what might be some slight efficacy in one industry group.

When I previously worked in quant finance, I used to be very passionate about trying to apply the latest & greatest methods.

But over time my feeling is most of it is inapplicable to finance, because it ends up being a lot of work for pretty much no efficacy, like in this post. I found much more value in simpler regression and tree models, and using simple bag of words models with text. The only “advanced” stuff that ever seemed to add significant efficacy was Bayesian hierarchical regression, but only for helping overcome limitations of classical random effects models, not for adding any greater complexity.

The post author deserves plenty of credit for skills in deep learning, but the analysis seems unconvincing if it’s supposed to market for using MSFT cloud for deep learning in finance.
Trust me, there are a whole lot of entrepreneurs not like the ex-Google "I'm self-funded for several years" types.

I'm definitely not rich, and there are some months when I'm not sure I'll make it; but somehow I do, and then there are other months where things work out better than I expected.

But when I walk out of my house and go where I want, when I want, while most of the rest of the people are told when and where to be, I feel free. And when I do work for a client from a hotel room in the Caribbean, after my day of scuba diving, I feel pretty great.

If I continued with my old way of "every job must pay more than the last", I would still be in the oil business, in an office every day. Instead, I now see how much I was wasting on a new car, daily driving commute (time and gas), eating out because I'm too exhausted after a day in the office to cook when I get home, etc... turns out I don't need nearly as much money to live on as I did when I was working for $$.
They would not.
Please point out where I am actually defending the PRC's various "social credit" systems rather than criticizing the west for having similar systems of social control.

Speaking of Clinton, is "immediately and forcefully disavow" not exactly what his Sister Souljah moment was? Ditto for Obama's Jeremiah Wright moment.
This article resurfaces every time a new version of Firefox gets released. I'd love for someone more technically inclined to explain how the new iteration of Firefox is better than the current build of Chromium for Linux (66.0.3359.117).
What does it mean by popularity? Number of visitors? Number of visitors x time spent on site?
Which tools-for-tools have you tried? Any thoughts on LiveCode (https://livecode.com, modern day Hypercard) or Jupyter notebooks?
All good points. The most interesting thing about Reddit to me (again, the tiny slice of it that I see, I always come in through the front door) is civility in the presence of anonymity, in 2018. "Come for the cats, stay for the empathy" is pretty right-on.
A quick google search would show this is untrue.
Opioid overdoses kill 40,000 a year. 2.7 million Americans die per year.

Even if you were talking about a decrease in healthy lifespan, Opioids do not generally cause a person to transition from healthy to unhealthy (they are prescribed to treat a preexisting condition).

Sources:

https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/index.html

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
Why is that a dark pattern? Seems the same as almost every other site, except with the relaxation of the requirement for an email
Two tools I think are great that a lot of people don't know about are PDQ Deploy/Inventory for software deployment too big to do manually but too small to justify buying SCCM, and PRTG is a pretty robust modern network monitoring system.

But yeah, mostly filtering.
Pick up the guitar like I have been doing. I even wrote a quick article on how easy I’ve found it:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/learning-play-guitar-jay-paul...
But not all of them are equivalent. Push flows can deal with multiple sinks while pull flows can deal with multiple sources for instance. It's totally reasonable to mix these if you match their flows (or have unlimited memory to buffer stuff).

Ideally the compiler could figure out a data flow that runs in constant space from a declarative program. There are some papers into that direction but afair we aren't there ysr.
60,000+ people are overdosing in the US. The Fentanyl China is dumping into the US killed 20,000 people in 2016, up from 3,000 just a few years prior. By comparison, Cocaine killed 10,000, Heroin killed 15,000, and prescription opiods killed 14,000.

The reason it disproportionately impacts life expectancy, is because a lot of the people overdosing are young.

If you suddenly have 250,000 people under 40 years of age overdosing over five years, you're going to see it in the life expectancy numbers even if your population is 320m. The small increases you'd expect to see in life expectancy year by year otherwise, will evaporate.

To get a picture of the overall health impact (non overdose deaths), one would need to look at how many additional addicts the opioid explosion has caused (eg in the last 10-15 years), study the health impact over time on those people, and so on.
One tweet? No no... that isn’t what happened. She crapped out a hundred tweets today alone, but let’s look back.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/05/29/rosean...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/arts/television/twitter-p...

Just a list of mad shit from her: https://www.buzzfeed.com/marcusjones/roseanne-barr-tweets-th...
Are you familiar with Thomas Kuhn? I ask because he wrote a book basically arguing that's not how science works at all.

Because the total amount of phenomenon explainable is too large for any theory, you cannot test or even hold entire concepts of "what each theory says" in your mind.

Schools of science form into communities which determine what is deemed "in scope", what are the grounding frameworks and concepts of the theories that explain the foundational phenomenon really well, informally what is out of scope, and the border territory of active research anomalies.

I only bring it up because I think it's one of the few works of genius and insight into how science and knowledge actually works in practice.
I agree with absolutely everything in your (really well written) post when applied to a random salesperson who fits the description - and I'm sure there are many, many, many.

But I don't think goatherders wrote anything to indicate he was in that category. I read his comment as saying he wouldn't sell to anybody who was completely disinterested in a relationship, not that he wouldn't sell to a less senior person.
Or, like companies picking employee investment plans and insurance, they'll go for the lowest bidder.
The point is, there sometimes isn’t a polyp, they take a chunk out of your bowel and say the did a polyp removal.
They don't even require that
Hey jamesecurry! I'm actually just starting to do the EXACT same thing! Blogging about controls and ML, more specifically for autonomous aircraft/rotorcraft; I'm halfway into my M.S program. We should discuss more outside of HN!
And what is compression but borrowing from the past?
https://qntm.org/calendar

Your idea will not work. Here is why:

(X) "7am" is a social construct

(X) social constructs are actually very important

(X) the day of the week shouldn't change in the middle of the solar day

(X) this would further ambiguate the word "day"

(X) local "midnight" should be the middle of the local night

(X) timetables would become unreadable

(X) nobody would agree to pick your time zone over theirs

(X) how will I know when I can call you?

(X) time zones exist specifically to resolve the problems with that scheme

Specifically, your plan fails to account for:

(X) humans

(X) rational hatred for arbitrary change

Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

(X) sorry, but I don't think it would work

(X) this is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it
The aerospike demo Intel did at the event showed 17 seconds vs over 2000 seconds for a restart. The difference being rebuilding a dram index on a many many terrabyte data set. Remembering aerospike has consistency, so you can't have the index be slightly wrong.
Arguably, the big deals and optimism indicate that there is a lot of pent up demand for successful things, and people are willing to take some risk to get solutions. It’s not all doom and gloom, solutions just have to work.
Yeah I think you're sort of missing the point if you think it's acceptable to have to keep up with this season's registry hacks or hex edit a DLL or whatever so you can play a game or do your job.
wow, do you have a citation for that ?
By and large I agree with the nitty-gritty, which will show up anywhere under any scheme.

> In the above cases, you can fairly easily fix the problems and still have sprint commitments.

You can also fix them and not have sprint commitments.
Respectfully I disagree. Some airlines will make you buy a second seat, but if there is no second seat, you could be bumped from that airplane due to incredible obesity. Likewise, with enough big Macs, you might grow to such large size that you present safety issues for other passengers. As such, you might be denied boarding.
Any idea how honestly China reports these statistics?