skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I think you should try to run Shor’s algorithm, because if you succeed that will be a slam-dunk proof that your claims are correct. You will win a Fields medal, a Nobel prize in Physics, and become fabulously wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of Croesus. I think it’s much more likely that the attempt will reveal some flaw in your scheme, but either way, it seems like a worthwhile endeavor. Worst case, you will learn something."

That's a decidedly non answer from a non expert and provides no insight to the person being critiqued. That would be like if Alcubierre came to you with some ideas for his warp drive and you said, well if it can travel faster than the speed of light then you've cracked it, but I think its more likely that you will fail. All of that being said without any knowledge or attempt to run the mental exercise you purport to be fond of. It's still a theory and the math is what I said it was, its clear in the papers, its clear in the classification experiments, its clear in the raw math of it.

What's also clear from your comments is that you won't and can't actually say anything about the algorithm because you don't know anything about it. From my experience, people like you who can only see things and explain things from a high level and never actually critique the problem head on, don't actually know what they are talking about, thinking Theranos level. If it weren't the case, you'd understand that a quick glance, which I already did when you mentioned it, at wikipedia isn't going to make me understand anything if I don't have the fundamentals under my belt. Which, believe me if it was possible, I'd be glued to this computer on wikipedia becoming an expert on everything as fast as I could read.

I've tried to be a bit civil with this but it's clear you don't care and you'll probably never care. If it trolls like a troll...
Training Turi Create Models in Google Colab
>Framing this problem as "bias"

Except that's exactly what it is. Much as your model was biased against interns.

> and especially hyper-focusing everyone's attention on diversity aspect of it is extremely irresponsible.

Why? Pointing out a specific and concrete harm badly designed ML models cause is irresponsible? Just because the same kind of methodological flaw can cause other harms its irresponsible to use a motivating example?
Now you're being disingenuous and borderline trolling.

At no point did I say it's literally impossible to read.
How Algorithms Know What You’ll Type Next
Might be nice if the author understood the difference between the CEO and CTO before he went off insulting their positioning.
Except when it wasn't for a few notable decades.
> Being an athletic vegan is borderline impossible in my opinion.

There are a great number of vegan athletes that disagree. E.g. Patrik Baboumian, one of the strongest people alive, is vegan. America's best Olympic weight lifter (maybe not currently but has been), Kendrick Ferris, is vegan. Keep an eye out for the release of the moving "The Game Changers" [1] for more.

[1] http://gamechangersmovie.com/
I'm doing GUI programming for many years (from the DOS days) and while closures can be neat for small stuff (like updating an object field and calling some sort of refresh function for a visualization of the object when a GUI widget that represents the field changes), they are certainly not invaluable and you can do GUI programming perfectly fine without them - just pass a method pointer (obj+method) for C++ and similar languages (e.g. "procedure of object" or "function of object" in Object Pascal) or just a function address that takes an extra pointer (or whatever) argument that is given during handler registration (e.g. in a C toolkit of mine you register stuff with "register(widget, event, handler, param)" and handler is defined like "handler(widget, eventinfo, param)").

Actually, IMO if you are using closures for events that are more than 5 or so statements (i'd say lines but people love to pack their lines with multiple statements), you are doing a disservice for every poor soul who will have to understand your code later.
Apparently the studies were industry-funded. It would be nice to see an independent study because the chemicals at hand are known to be neurotoxic and they also have those symptoms.
>I get the point, but why didn't you just exclude intern resumes from the training data?

That was the logical next step and we started on that, but it required exporting more historic data out of the HR system and filtering out anyone who started as an intern as well. Sounds simple, but in practice it's anything but. Just for the reference, data extraction, cleaning and filtering in that project took at least an order of magnitude more time than anything related to machine learning.

The project eventually lost steam and got abandoned.

>Do you still suspect a skewed result?

Absolutely. My personal intuition is that there is very little correlation between resumes and candidate quality. If that is true, any seemingly accurate predictions would be the result of a similar problem. Testing this hypothesis was a large portion of why I agreed to work on the project in the first place.
The Soul Programming Language and API
The average enterprise would buy something like SailPoint which claims to provide IAM for tons of things including AWS.
I haven't read the full paper to know what hardware it needs, but if it can be put into a headphone like wearable and integrated into phone to be output as text, then we can type on phone as fast as we can think. Looking forward to it! Also once of the major impediments to using voice assistants in public is to not want to shout into the phone and if it can be directly integrated into the assistant, the voice assistant use will explode. The possibilities are amazing!
Pilots are also naturally going to parse that as (cabin (pressure altitude)) rather than (cabin pressure) altitude [or any other grouping].
Automated ML: A Journey from Crispr.ml to Azure ML
@jenanwise, I can't really tell by the example aside from not being prompted for a phone number, but is the 2FA via SMS for returning customers going away?
About Editor in Chief Julia Angwin’s Firing from the Markup
Seems like they should add another 0 to the fine after the recent hat trick:

1) Prompting users to give Facebook their email passwords.[0]

2) Using that email access to "inadvertently" upload the information of their email contacts.[1]

3) Storing said passwords and others in plaintext. [2]

It's pretty impressive that a company could do something so brazenly malevolent and be confident that they will escape with no more than a fine.

[0] https://www.thedailybeast.com/beyond-sketchy-facebook-demand...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/18/facebook-...

[2] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds...
HN hivemind is triggered! Thanks for spreading awareness (I'm vegan btw)
> For anyone curious, the GM EV1 was by far my favorite. Those were years ahead of their time.

This is literally true: they were compliance products that were years beyond GM's (or anyone else’s) ability to make and sell sustainably, which is why GM and other manufacturers lobbbied to neuter the mandate and discontinued and destroyed the vehicles.
Can someone explain how Facebook gets a fine but Equifax doesn't? I don't understand how? Or has Equifax not been fined yet?
It does add some unfairness I can see that, but I’m not sure it’d be permanent. Is it possible since short people are caught at a high rate this would deter the thieves who are also short and then through feedback the system would begin to target thieves who are also tall?
Removing the option that 40% of your site's customers are trusting to complete the transaction sounds like a terrible business move. Even with the horror stories.
It takes less than a decade of concerted effort to erase ~4000 years of culture.
HN discussing aviation incidents is often a striking experience. A true demonstration of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

HN has a comfort zone, and aviation is not it. When you skim the comments of an aviation thread, you recognize conversational tactics used in arguments found across other threads, except in an aviation thread, they emerge as profoundly off target, and you see the thrust of the tactic laid bare. It's like a batter whiffing as hard as he can at absolutely no baseball, because there's no one else on the field.

At first, you might chalk this up to the plentiful MBA paper tigers that pepper HN's ranks. The bluster of some foolhardy corporate suit, trying to blend in among geeks, where ALL CAPS typing styles simply do not fly.

But no. The geeks are bad too. Out of their depth, with the exception of a handful of civil aviation nerds, and their limited coping skills, designed to beg borrow and stealtheir way through a rudimentary weekend flight plan in a single engine tail dragger.

It's like watching two high school seniors in a driver's ed class put their heads together, only to make a whole ass out of it. Did he use his blinker? What about gas, maybe they forgot to fill up the tank? You know, tire pressure is important folks! Be sure to drink your ovaltine.

Asking open ended questions to karma whore, and feign expertise across all problem domains, because software is that abstract, so it will just generalize to anything within five whys.

Dissecting miniscule fragments of the article, to name drop and nerd signal jargon awareness. Only chiming in to wrangle an empty go nowhere comment, neither wrong nor right, and oblique so as to be totally directionless and solicit no replies, part of a see and be seen status play for reputation maintenance. (this one in particular is most frequently used by tough guy crypto and security try hards, in almost every zero day panic parade)

You see it in other communities too. And the Gell Mann effect is apt. It's a reason to tune out. Days on end, turning into months, weeks, years of constant jousting and sparring about nothing. Distributed systems. The cloud. Mobile apps. Javascript.

And nothing changes. This is the apex. The trajectory, now, is descent.
> Is it, though?

Yes, I believe so. I'm not even sure the Dark Ages are taught outside of countries with European heritage.

Nevertheless, anywhere the topic is discussed, it's usually mentioned in comparison to other periods of European history. That alone tells us that it's a term intended to describe regional rather than global events.
$5,000,000,000 reminds you of $50,000? A fine of 1% of Facebook's value seems a bit more than pocket change.
Yes. That works great. There are however two troubles:

1. it would definitely be a different aircraft with different training

2. the more-difficult flight behavior is prohibited for commercial passenger planes
If only there was a way to find out how much profit a public company makes, instead of going three-deep in a threat with “would be my guess” numbers...

FWIW, FB quarterly profits Q1, Q2, and Q3 2018 were 5.1, 5.1, and 6.9 billion, respectively: https://www.statista.com/statistics/223289/facebooks-quarter...
Bad Habits Creeping into Your Writing?
An amazing bit of context here is that Accenture were the ones who got hired to replace the incompetent contractors who built the disastrous first version of healthcare.gov. Apparently large-scale web development projects have a hard time getting good talent.
The existence of fume events, and the basic health concerns that come with being exposed to jet fumes or aerated oil, are not a conspiracy theory. The idea that fume events are somehow linked to mass exposure to a neurotoxin that the FAA and every other major government are suppressing information about is a conspiracy theory.
It's a back and forth. You get excited about building lambda functions and are surprised at how easy they are, and how much autonomy you have as a developer. Then, you try to deploy them, and realize you have to file 14 tickets to get the correct IAM settings setup for your production function. No one knows all the permissions you need, and the only way to understand is to try one, see if it works, and what other services you need access to. And, it'll kill all sense of autonomy you had a few hours prior.
So if intelligence is the marker, is it ok to manipulate mentally handicapped people?
Those were the dark ages because previously there was a highly developed civilization with its sophisticated culture, art, science, technology and liberties, and then the western world sunk into an era where almost all of it was temporarily forsaken. It fell into the darkness and chaos (at least from the point of people who lived in the Roman empire). Barbaric tribes raided the lands, many local wars again started since there was no central rule anymore, Catholic church imposed insanely strict rules - pushing art and science knowledge and skills of humanity hundred of years back. Ideas of health and sanitation and hygiene that Romans cared a lot about were practically non-existent, so diseases ravaged the population. And then came the plague and killed more than half of the population and the rest mostly fled to country-side leaving many fortified cities completely uninhabited. It doesn't mean that people were stupid or that they didn't craft pretty things back then, of course they did and the conquering tribes also had their primitive culture and crafts, but it was very limited and heavily sanctioned by church, unlike before, and almost all art was reduced to just religious themes or simple decorations. In Byzantine Empire there was even a brief period of iconoclasm, when it was forbidden to show any humans in paintings, like in Islam. So, yes, maybe it wasn't the world from Mad Max movies and there was no Orcs, but it wasn't that far away from it as the author makes it sound. Just compare it to the renaissance (which was still lagging behind classic era) and you'll see how dark it really was.
You have 70 (seventy) first cousins from only 10 aunts and uncles? That seems unusual because I have 15 blood aunts and uncles yet slightly less than 30 first cousins.
Recently I was interested to learn more on Data Lakes, how to design and maintain them.

There is a lot of information in articles, blogs, but I prefer books as a solid source of structured and aggregated information.

Surprisingly, I found just a single proper book on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Big-Data-Lake-Delivering/d...
>My problem with overly-flowery writing is specifically that it's about style and not substance.

There is the snobbery. Bad writing is everywhere. Some people have large vocabularies and use them well, some people don't. Becoming a good writer also requires a lot of bad writing. Complex writing more so. If you say everything complex is just about style and showing off, it reflects poorly on your ability to determine quality of complex, or any writing.

There is nothing wrong with not understanding something or having no interest in something, but doing this virtue signaling to put yourself above anything you don't understand is anti-intellectual bullshit and you might as well be protesting against vaccines. It's the same as black kids shaming each other for "talking white" or people yelling about how "we speak English in this country".
Name the nutrient that exists in meat that does not exist in plants or produced in our own bodies
I think you've misinterpreted their point. They were pointing out that whether or not we know the thing existed doesn't change the fact that we don't have it, and it's the fact that we don't have it that prevents it from contributing to culture today.
> but "Dark Ages" isn't really taught as specific to western Europe.

Er, even 20 years ago when I was in college it was taught as both largely a misnomer and a label applied to a (somewhat ambiguously bounded, especially as to the ending point) period of Western European history.
These are all good points. Debugability and general support for the development lifecycle are important. We are definitively working on providing first class development experiences for .NET developers. .NET for Apache Spark is already available as a nuget package for local install. We are currently working on adding support to VS Code, Visualstudio etc. Feel free to provide us your preferred dev platform. [Disclaimer: I am Program Manager for the .NET for Apache Spark effort]
I’ve always wondered, is there a better way to annotate music? Essentially, we are transcribing temporal patterns into spatial 2D patterns. Discrete notes were created to allow for hand written notation, but if we assume notation doesn’t need to be handwriting-compatible, I wonder if we can do a better job of capturing details? Perhaps some kind of spectral/FFT scroll?
Probably because it'll bind to low ports. setcap would fix it for OP.
Similar punishment for similar transgressions is how the law is supposed to work.
According to YCharts, Facebook's 2018 revenue was $55.8 BN and their profit was $22.1 BN, so 1 month of revenue is 2.5 months of profit.
Yeah, it's a shame that the bad publicity gets more visibility than the good on HN sometimes.
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The entitlement
What it's like to go on a book tour
> If it were that easy to find the next electronic device that would have 66% world wide penetration who do you propose is the person to find it?

Of course its not easy, but I would hope that the CEO of one of the most valuable companies on earth would have that kind of foresight and skill. That's what he is there for, or to hire people that can do that. They're not and that's my point. Time for some significant changes at the helm.

> People were clamoring for an iPod + phone for years before the iPhone came out. What electronic device are people clamoring for now?

These devices were already out before the iPhone, the iPhone was just more polished, and the ability to buy from iTunes was huge. This is where Jobs deserves his credit, not for inventing a device that was a phone, camera and music player in one, but for making it a good experience. These new MBP's are a horrible experience.
I’m skeptical you’ve ever worked in the private sector. I’ve talked about my experience in government in another comment, but as example of private sector corruption, I used to work at what’s known as a food brokerage which handles getting food stocked on grocery store shelves. Something you wouldn’t think on the face of it would be naturally corrupt, but bribery and kickbacks and cheating were rampant and merely winked at. People faked numbers, faked photos of displays, bribed managers and store employees, faked time sheets. It was far worse than anything I’ve seen in government.
Yes, you can and should. But how do you define negligence in IT? We don't have the same codified norms as civil engineering so it'd be very subjective.
Is there any possibility of an infrared laser attack?
Facebook is a popular target right now and the subject is politically charged. That's it.
Microsoft to join MLflow project, add native support to Azure Machine Learning
Do you have a source?

My understanding is that what 23andme et al do is very far from actual full sequencing.
Please don't ask that. It's in the HN guidelines:

> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

– https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> If Amazon is playing a dangerous game, then it's risking my money, which is not OK.

If you're so sure of that, then why did you buy AMZN? Why have you not sold your AMZN?
the message I take away is this, Ford is so far behind they have to buy into something and do it quickly and loudly to show their investors they really are paying attention.
I suppose both are still called an ASIC. What I'm wondering is if it is gate-array/semi custom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrate...

or full custom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application-specific_integrate...
> I'm referring, of course, to AWS IAM, which absolutely is the worst form of cloud lock-in that currently exists, at least relative to the zero people who seem to be talking about it.

I assume people don't talk about it because it's not trivially solvable. While we can have many abstractions out there, abstracting IAM across providers is very difficult because while you could get roles and users/members/policies abstracted, you couldn't get resources and permissions abstracted. They are too bespoke. The best you could hope for is a common API, but you'll still be provider-specific in everything you pass.
NSA Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program
Soak the Boomers to Save Capitalism
That's funny. Am I crazy, or do I remember Salesforce being a self-hosted PHP app up until around 2011?
The only people worried about vendor lock-in are people who have practically nothing of value to be locked-in. "Lambda is horrible for lock-in, once you're hitting billions of invocations a month you're going to wish you could cost optimize by shopping around with other providers! I've got my personal website hosted there, it gets a dozen hits a month, sure glad I'm inside the free tier."

I've heard CTOs/CIOs of large companies express concern over it, but at the end of the day they'll sign that $100M contract with Amazon or Azure. It doesn't actually matter. Its a concern, but its not going to stop the sale or development.

Today, if you're not locked in, you're leaving business value on the table. I hope that changes in the future, and maybe Kube will be the standard platform we've needed to push it forward (for example, I wish I could tell kube "give me a queue with FIFO and exactly once delivery", it knows what cloud provider you're on, if you're on AWS it provisions an SQS queue, if you're on GCloud it errors because they don't have one of those yet, and in either case I communicate with it from the app using a standard Kube API, not the aws-sdk).

But for now, lean in. Don't fight the lock-in; every minute you spend fighting it is a minute that you should be spending fighting your competition.
Assuming those punishments are fair and just - the punishments companies have been getting lately for privacy violations have been relatively consistent - nobody is actually being punished.
I don't see any entitlement?
Does any currently operating exchange actually care about the origin of coins?
Same reason Martha Stewart got jail time. Ever watch Billions?
Well, 20 aunts and uncles (I was only including the ones I share DNA with). But yeah, most had 7+ children. My paternal grandmother, who is still living, has 100+ great-grandchildren and counting (the most recent great-grandchild was born just 2 weeks ago and quite a few other grandchildren are expecting). The leading edge of the great-grandchildren are just now reaching their early 20s and one of them has a great-great-grandchild on the way.
The Reporter and The Serial Killer
This technology uses an electrode array referred to as ECoG, which needs to be surgically placed on the surface of the brain. Current technology does not make it possible to have the signal quality from non-invasive methods.
The problem is not merely with the words chosen but they way they're stitched together. Someone else tried to rewrite it without the over-the-top flowery language and it's far more concise despite still not being particularly minimalist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19741886

>60% reduction in content for a single off-the-cuff rewrite implies the original work needs an aggressive editor with an aggressive amount of red ink.