skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PS: If you want to build or train your own model or make predications, you can find open (structured) data about all world cups at the football.db, see https://github.com/openfootball/world-cup and https://github.com/openfootball/world-cup.json Enjoy the beautiful game.
I mean, just open up any Windows 10 laptop and look at the 'Market' app, it definitely has the bare essentials. The side effect being that I can download movies and shows on Netflix for offline viewing on a Windows Laptop but not on a Mac (yet, looks like they caught on to this approach - sadder when people will claim Apple thought of it first).
It reminds me of a project I worked on. It was for critical embedded software in aircraft ("make an emergency landing" critical, not "we are all dead"). Obviously, the code is certified, with specific requirements (DO-178B level B) and third party audits.

And we made the choice not to have unit tests. Everything was done through integration tests. What made up for it is that we had very good traceability. So for we knew which lines of code were related to which requirement and which test. So if we changed some code, we knew which test to run, and if a test fails, we knew where to look at.

For the edge cases, we had the ability to inject data directly into memory, triggering the otherwise unreachable error conditions, and the very last cases where done through code analysis (we needed 100% coverage).
Not taking anything away from this nice job and at the danger of saying something obvious I'd like to note that the HN job board is not representative of the whole IT market. It's a corner, an interesting one but when it comes to the question what skills provide the best overall career outlook in the long term for a developer the trends on HN are not necessarily the best predictor.
Anything IBM can do (with the census) - Accenture can do better, huh?

Waiting for the claims it's government sponsored Chinese hackers attacking the opt out website...
Do you have an example of a similar fine on a nation from history that worked?
Correction on the second last sentence: "...-+--+-".
The resolver is less of an issue because you have free choices there, ISP is harder to change. Plus you increase the number of parties that need to collude (ISP + RR provider) to spy on your traffic.
You can make the A) argument about any centralised database system. There is a down side and as always the challenge is finding the balance: the problems being solved Vs problems being added.
Off topic but I am so entirely sick of amp/mobile pages like this that just fail so hard at delivering the advertised content. Multiple reloads, pop-up conditionals, auto-scrolling...yuck. Clicking the link briefly flashes the title of the topic followed by a blank square with a “close” X then flashes a couple of times and I land on a listing of videos none of which are the op topic. I’m not using ie4 or something - this is the current version of Safari on the latest mobile device from one of the biggest phone manufacturers that exist! All on a “tech” website.

First world problems I know but goddamn is it frustrating.

Sorry for rant.
Interesting. I do think that any machine learning study of time series should present a statistical time series model such as ARIMA as a benchmark.
For example: Croatia got to the final via two penalty shootouts, which is very much like coin flipping.
In my country, healthcare professionals form a union - so hopefully them?
I hear your pain but it wasn’t what I meant. It’s good to learn lessons and I understand that it’s hard to have them work together. But that’s the thing, having 7 incompatible websockets do suck. And that’s my point.
There are problems with paper-based systems but they don't affect everyone to the same extent:
* I visit another doctor when on holiday - they don't have my records
* Certain treatments need the approval of my home doctor, it talkes longer than it should
* Harder to collate statistics that are supposed to show the state of the nation's health

But there are problems with an electronic system:
* A single point of attack
* No way to assure people it is ultimately secure, because it can never be
* Fluffy exemptions to the protection offer - especially if they are more far-reaching than existing exemptions used for accessing your paper records
* Creeping requirements mean that a few years later, the government might change what they can use it for.

At the end of the day, neither system can be measured in terms of risk or reward in any meaningful way - many advantages are theoretical and risks are downplayed - so you pretty much have to accept the centralisation of the worlds systems or move to a Banana republic!
Bingo! However this guy had owned his last Mercedes for almost 20 years and had a million little questions like this about new features.

Really smart dude, but just needed some help with his new car.
We're calling randos walking down the street in San Francisco the "urban elite" now?

The vast majority of people I know who are attractive do not spend a lot of time on beauty regimes and are not gym rats.
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For those on .NET, we now have LibMan to save us.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/04/17/library-m...
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The federal law says you can't upload data if the patient tells you not to. Max penalty for that seems to be 2 years imprisonment, though I doubt we'll see that. Some states have further restrictions which expand the scope of this -- for instance, in NSW, uploading anything about HIV would be illegal, even with patient consent.

The Australian Medical Association has said that the interaction of the MHR system with their code of ethics implies that doctors must get positive consent from patients.

In practice, your new patient registration forms are getting another checkbox.
A much easier solution is for the government to circumvent PKI entirely. Basically you issue a National Security Letter to some cert provider and require them to give you their keys. Now you can generate valid certs as that provider. You use this in combination with a MITM tool to auto-generate certs for any requested domain, and those certs are implicitly trusted by all clients because they trust that CA's keys. So the state can now MITM and listen to all secured connections, and the only giveaway is that the cert is not in the certificate transparency log, or if the CA used does not match the domain's CAA record (when it exists).
I'm going to stick to recent stuff that was like no sci-fi I'd ever read before:

Ninefox Gambit - Yoon Ha Lee

A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers

The Broken Earth series - N.K. Jemisin
Their target market is "negotiating with MPEG for lower royalties"
Ethereum is talking about 2020 as its target for scaling upgrades. There are other projects that haven't launched yet that probably have an advantage over them, as so long as it can integrate with Ethereum rather than claim it can totally supplant it.

There are projects like Cardano and Zilliqa, but then there are some like Orbs that are using blockchain virtualization claiming it can work in tandem with Ethereum.

I assume Ethereum will implement some of its solutions before that 2020 date, but they will probably need to rely on more partnerships to do it.
Governments don't store private data, corporations do!

The only difference between government-fronted storage and direct-to-the-corporation like Salesforce is that corporations are mostly driven by profit and have slightly stronger reasons for protecting data to avoid losing your trust and money. Government motivation is mixed and changes over time.
>When Musk's offer of help to Thailand was first discussed here, I said I thought I didn't think it was a cynical PR stunt,......... people who argue, "Well, at least he helped!", as if attempts to help are always a net good. It's fine if he sent help,, .........?

I think this precisely capture the difference in majority of audience thinking form Silicon Valley / US vs EU / UK.

As per the article "The Silicon Valley model for doing things is a mix of can-do optimism"

Calling someone who risk his life, saving children a paedophile because he felt he was insulted or attacked may have been perfectly acceptable in the land of freedom, but definitely not in UK.

And generally speaking, it isn't very polite to decline help on offer or to flat out label something doesn't work, especially from the British. May be next time they should just replied "That is not quite what I have in mind.". [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/soverybritish/status/517736334841352192
Thanks, this is great!
Maybe they should be. If you can make it work, fixing the bug seems like the obviously superior solution compared to letting it fester and working around it locally with incompatibility declarations, slowly degrading the ecosystem up to the point where you have lots of little islands that can't be used together anymore in a sane manner.
Most of them are very good but the assumption that there is a mythical 100% good system or company would assume that requirements are reasonable, unchanging and that the time and money to build it well are all present undermines everything. Even a simple application will quickly unwind when the whims of the customer change 10 times quicker than it takes to build something (same in most other industries).
I've been bothering my doctors to actually check my E-health record for years. Sure, one specialist and a GP can communicate fine, but add on a couple of different specialists and it turns into a nightmare to get everyone the information that they need. Even in its current form, without mandatory use by doctors its been useful to me. I'm looking forward to having a proper record of my healthcare as opposed to the fragmented buy in there is now.

But that's mostly convenience for me. My wife worked as a doctor in emergency for a while. The only way to get a new patient history including all the information you've said is to call their doctor or ask them. Many patients can't give a full medical history and very few can do so in detail when it's complex. Many doctors aren't at work 24/7 when you want to call them. An E-health record is better.
Same on Android

Edit: it works now but it is badly broken video player, stopped when I tried to seek forward
however, if anyone's never read Bester before, don't audio-book it. The typography is important to the story telling.
Statistically, most PhDs will work in industry because academia is a pyramid. Do PhDs get higher paid jobs in industry than academia? Unsure.

Entry postdoc salaries in the UK are on par with industry outside London (£30-40k). Over time industry will probably pay more, but professors earn £60k minimum so they're hardly underpaid.

Being a postdoc is something of a sweet spot. You get paid enough (finally) to enjoy life a bit, you have immense working flexiblity and you aren't lumbered (yet) with the bureaucracy of the university system. The only way to advance is usually to take on teaching loads and more admin.

But.. postdocs are almost always contractual, lasting 1-3 years. This has benefits: most people do a couple of postdocs before getting tenure and it allows you to move around the world if you like. Academia is only permanent if you get tenure, and even then it's still dependent on your research output and teaching performance. If you got a job in a grad scheme, you'd have a more stable job after finishing your PhD.

Getting tenure is hard. This is absolutely not the normal route for PhDs, as much as they think it is. There are far fewer permanent positions than there are postdocs, so it's not uncommon for people to move abroad just to get a stable job.
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You would rather not sign up and go for the 100% percent chance they give you nothing and you die?
I agree. In the US, the equivalence of a packed Boeing 747 of people die every day because of medical mistakes. It's the third leading cause of death. If you could reduce that number by 1% through this policy, that would mean thousands of people saved every year.

In my opinion, the risk-reward analysis is clearly in favor of a centralized system.
> I recommend ”A short history of nearly everything” to everyone, regardless of background

Yes, not forgetting to mention that Bill Bryson is such a fantastic writer who can not only make the complex simple but who is also fun to read. Love his travel memoirs as well.
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I think that you have to come at this from an analytical direction rather than an empirical one; the problem is that everyone can say that the approaches that you have used to show how difficult it is to model the world cup are just the wrong ones and you need to redo the experiment.

Analytically the difference between premier league and the world cup is that you have momentum and continuity in the premier league and the world cup is essentially one shot. So in the PL team A will play team E and G and H before it plays team B, team B may play team E and H and Q (which played G). Team A may be winning games that your strength model shows they should lose, Team B may be losing games... and so on and so on. There is more evidence that might matter. More importantly you can be wrong quite a lot of the time in a season and still be right at the end of it (as the bounces of the ball even out over time). Not so much in the world cup - one goal knocks you out and there is no coming back! Basically the world cup demands an algorithm that works with less evidence and with a much higher degree of accuracy.
You're right, there's ways to detect it, though I don't think browsers today actually check the cert transparency log or CAA record when making requests. Without these two checks, valid certs created by a MITM tool using a CA's keys should pass without flagging any validation errors.
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> ... stronger reasons for protecting data to avoid losing your trust and money

Well, I'm not a customer to Salesforce, so they have no incentive to keep my trust and they get no money from me, but they can make money on my data, and likely would, why not?
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> they should have known better than to try to predict this.

There's no downside, only free publicity. If they, by good fortune and a following wind, get it right - then the publicity is incredible. If it's wrong they laugh and say "well, better stick to predicting what we're good at!" and they still get a shitload of headlines and awareness of their product.

This was not a mistake.
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* A single point of attack

Totally the same with your data in that one primary doctor's office or whatever

* No way to assure people it is ultimately secure, because it can never be

Totally same with your paper records, someone could walk in and steal your data, imagine that.

* Creeping requirements mean that a few years later, the government might change what they can use it for.

Just like paper records, you can't say what they will use them for in the future.
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But you also have a significant risk to your life if your doctor can't get to them and orders the wrong treatment. The risk of that happening to you is actually significantly higher than dying from a lot of pretty common illnesses.
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You have to write 10 of them if they are not part of your workflow. If you TDD (which is applicable in a lot of cases in my experience with web development), then instead of testing with Curl or a web browser, you write tests. This takes the same amount of time upfront, so the additional cost of writing the tests is actually 0.

Not sure about other types of development, but in web development, TDD can be a good way to have automated tests without the additional cost.
I think that's not right way to test units. You should test the interface resp. the right execution of the specification of the unit and not testing implementation details.

That means you're either testing the return value or testing the inputs which were modified by the unit.

If the behavior of a unit changes in such a way that it does something else with its inputs, it's a specification change which requires other test cases.
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Yeah, how would they delete data they’ve already sold?
Where to begin.. perhaps the projects with code metrics tied into the check in system - want to commit code changes? You're now on the hook to provide at least 85% unit test coverage or the source control tool will not accept it. So what did most people do? They wrote useless tests, assert true equals true, no-ops or pass statements, basically anything to just get past the arbitrary metric.

Or how about another project that had lots of real tests, that were old, unmaintained, did humongous amounts of work in each single unit test and took a weekend to run, and of course, fail.

Or perhaps the team that obsessed about the testing for each user story, spent all the time doing that, then running out of time to deliver the actual stories.

And those were the less egregious examples!
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ASide note: they are using the google recaptca on the opt out site shows they have no idea about privacy for a government agency.

So now google know everyone opting out I assume?
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Can someone clarify if this author's methods are actually inline with the core principles of functional programming?

I've been doing OOPs from very early in my career (I run into FP from time to time but never as a core of my own work), and much of the example he's implementing here seems like make-work simply to enforce a specific paradigm. Am I missing something?

For example, at first his concepts seem brilliant, until you get to the refactoring steps, which feel painful.

Is this the end result of high-level extreme veteran coders use of FP? With OOPs, simple inheritance & factories seems like it would solve all the dependency issues he's addressing.
I'm reminded of "Barbiephonic (redux)"[0], although it's only related in the sense that through this story I found yet another story involving Barbie and crypto[1].

> And the other thing lying around on those open shares were recordings of names. To reach a wide audience they’d recorded some unstoppably perky young woman reciting kids’ first names, Aaron, Abbot, Abby, Abigail, Adana, Adena, in an upbeat barbie-girl voice, every single one. And there I was with a pile of free disk space, university bandwidth, wget and why not.

> There were seventeen thousand of them.

> After a bit of experimentation, I figured out how to stitch them all together with .4 seconds of silence between each. The resulting audio file was almost five hours long; four hours and forty five minutes of relentless Barbiedoll voice reciting seventeen thousand first names in alphabetical order.

> To my knowledge, nobody has ever listened to the whole thing.

> Of the six attempts I’m aware of, four were called off when the death threats started, one due to the near-breakup of the couple making the attempt, and one person drinking themselves to unconsciousness at about the 90 minute mark. I’m not saying that to make a joke. I’m telling you because this is real and it’s an SCP-grade psychic biohazard. No highly esteemed deed was committed here; this is not a place of honour.

The "SCP-grade psychic biohazard" is not that much of an exaggeration, by the way.

[0] http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2015/12/05/barbiephonic-redux/

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/inter...
When AI progresses, it evaluates you, not the other way round. By the time this is realised, it is already too late for yet another 'generation' of AI researchers.
"Of course, past data don’t always predict the future; Goldman Sachs never tells clients to make decisions solely on the basis of its models’ findings"

in the real world Goldman Sachs would manipulate the games to make it looks like they got it right and their clients got richer.
In clinical trials, pure placebos are very rarely used (only in mild conditions or where no treatment exists). Commonly novel therapies are compared against the current treatment of choice.
Who are your customers?

Locate where they gather, and go meet them. Maybe small enterprises, which you could meet during a trade fair?

Which pain are you trying to fix? If it is "just having an online presence", then FB already solve it.

FB is good enough for a lot of people seeking online presence. It's even mandatory for some to be there, regardless than the existence of a real website. So a lot of people make to choice of "just FB" instead of "FB + website" (when "website only" is not seen as an option).
Does the author never ride in a car or shop in a strip mall or box store? Life is much better than it was a hundred years ago, and the author should read some books by Julian Simon.

"looking out the window with her at the rows of cars in the hospital parking lot, the strip mall across the street, the box stores and drive-throughs and drainage ditches and asphalt and waste fields that had once been oak groves. A world of extinction and catastrophe, a world in which harmony with nature had long been foreclosed."
>With growing size or sophistication of the program, the operational argument quickly becomes impossible to carry through, and the general adherence to operational reasoning has to be considered one of the main causes of the persistence of the software crisis.

What "software crisis"? Since its inception in the 50s or so, software has only gone from strength to strength.
> I do not think so. And I think Webpack actually clearly shows the way where JS ecosystem goes – creating one layer of complexity on top of another. Each new layer, of course, solves the problem (not an easy one) of the previous one, but creates new problems, that will be resolved by the next layer.

If there ever a need for red blinky text that quote is it. That is exactly what is happening. And JS fan boys get pissed about it when you point at it.
Wow. What do they expect the take-up rate to be with that kind of vote of no confidence from the people who commissioned it in the first place?
Just looked at the site:

For me the required(?) link to Facebook is already a showstopper. I also don't understand what info is being pulled from there. It's also not clear from the sign up page whether there is a trial.

Considering that the subscription is not exactly cheap I don't think I would sign up.
Aren't outbursts at odds with quiet professionalism?
I don't think it is the intended idea but the fact that the coding/decoding facilities are not in the manual but still on the device actually make it even more exciting. It has a secret feature for writing secrets, you can't get more secret than that.

Nowadays, adding a not-so-secret feature could be used to generate buzz.
Great to see these young guys attempting to tackle these huge problems out of their believe that they can make "the world a better place". Not sure DLT will live up to its promise, but these guys truly believe the world is better off with trustless systems. And I cannot blame them, intermediaries, wether it be Google or Facebook, standing in between the user and the content creators, or banks, standing between creditors and debitors, haven't got the best reputation. A lot has gone wrong overthere, but I'm afraid DLT will bring entirely new problems to the table that we cannot forsee at this point. So I'm curious what the future will bring.