skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you got it backwards, a factory is never going to be more efficient by using 3D printers. The whole point of a factory is to be very very specialized in only making screws the most efficient way possible.
It made some sense to me. The author used the G/M thing to introduce an idea: that it's powerful to think at scale. And then seeks a way to make a thinking-at-scale structure (bayes' rule) as accessible to the programmer as an if statement, by putting it in the language.

That was the only bit of the article that did make sense to me :) I get lost trying to read ML-style languages.
How exactly is this different from sending unwanted java-script with ads and tracking code? The CPU cycle and bandwidth is not exactly free, and both cost electricity.

Not that it matter. Current legal thinking regard consensus is a very simple one. So long the user stay on the site, then an implied consent is given to what ever the EULA says (so long the EULA page is linked in tiny text in the corner somewhere). What the cookie law in EU showed, is that there aren't enough political power at the layers below elected politician level that will enforce a strict consensus requirement on the web.
a challenge based on public key crypto, user has a known public key and can sign a specified message with his private key to prove he owns that public key while remaining anonymous.

This also allows for password recovery in the opposite direction, site can publish passwords signed with users public keys and then users can decrypt their own using their private keys.
What people are referring to with respect to Google is that if higher-level statistical operations are as easy as an if statement, then this may explain why google takes (presumably amorally) such a statistical approach their customers (because it is easy to).
This is way too complicated!

How about an easy explanation, one that a middle- or high-schooler who just learned to solve 3-equations and 3-variables and has seen probability can understand?

Let's say you have three websites: Reddit, Yahoo, and Google.
Let's say Reddit links to Yahoo and Google, and Yahoo links to Google, and Google links to Reddit.

If you start on a random page and click randomly, what happens?
You'll land on Reddit with probability x, Yahoo with probability y, and Google with probability z.
Notice that if you continue clicking randomly, x, y, and z will stop changing after a while.

Okay, now stop clicking.
How likely are you to have landed on page Google? (i.e., What's z?)

- You're on Reddit with probability x, and 1/2 of the links there will take you to Google.

- You're on Yahoo with probability y, and 1/1 of the links there will take you to Google.

- You're on Google with probability z, and 0/1 of the links there will take you to Google.

Therefore, z = x(1/2) + y(1/1) + z(0/1)

Similarly, x = x(0/2) + y(0/1) + z (1/1)

Similarly, y = x(1/2) + y(0/1) + z (0/1)

Since x + y + z = 1, we get: x = 2/5, y = 1/5, z = 2/5

What does that mean?
It means Reddit and Google are twice as "important" as Yahoo, since you're twice as likely to land on them.

There, we just learned how PageRank works with zero linear algebra business.
Sweden does have very high taxes, but they are not the highest in the world. Belgium and Denmark have higher rates (measured as percentage of GDP).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenu...
Here's more of the quote:

Look at how Google does spell checking: it's not based on dictionaries; it's based on word usage statistics of the entire Internet, which is why Google knows how to correct my name, misspelled, and Microsoft Word doesn't.

It's also why Google knows "Jews should be wiped out" and "Muslims should be exterminated" and "blacks are ruining America" and "whites are neanderthals", all suggestions based on the first two words of each phrase. Yes, I'm provoking Google - but surely people also encounter these by accident.

If Microsoft shipped a version of Office that suggested any of the above as "corrections," they would be lambasted for it, and rightly so. Why does Google get a pass? Is it because our standard of decency is so much lower on the Internet? Or is it because we know that Google is merely reflecting popular sentiment on the Internet, and so the true villain is ourselves?

(In fairness, Bing happily suggests equally monstrous ideas.)
core reason for this is the aging population of course. most of western europe is shrinking, so measures like this are meant to get people to procreate.

not needed in the US as it has population growth through a still massive influx immigrants. also a lot of poorer people who traditionnally create more children.

wealthy, educated, non-religious populations tend to stop having kids. scandinavia being a prime example. if there is no need, kids are a pure hassle if you don't really want them. turns out a lot of people don't.
I experienced the same thing in Mexico. I always assumed it was because you couldn't trust a check (i.e., no way to verify the account balance).

I'm still shocked my companies here in the U.S. that don't offer non-check payments. Most government agencies require cash or check (I never carry either).

I recently switched to Simple bank, which doesn't offer checks, and I've definitely hit a few snags along the way because of it.
Yes, mainly the GCC.
I entered expecting a cool implementation of Bayes through a simple if statement.

Instead, I saw Bayes' rule in Haskell, a form that's more idiosyncratic than probability expressions.

Simple is in the eye of the beholder. Perhaps making monads isn't actually making Bayes' rule simpler.
Consensus is in, very addictive, great job.

Consider partial comparison for multi-word answers.
> I don't have to sympathize with somebody's actions because they share my chromosomes.

I didn't at all mean to imply that you should have. I only hesitantly used 'women in tech' here because I was talking about my own wish for one of my own abstractions.

> Bullies who glory in their bullying with the expectation that their powerful in-group will congratulate them, on the other hand? That's exactly like people who call other people faggots.

You might be right. I guess I can't judge the situation nor the cultural differences accurately enough to determine which side is the evil-doer here.

Let's just that if she really did honestly believe she was (selflessly) fighting the good cause, I can relate quite well to what she must be going through right now.
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.ora? (OpenRaster)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRaster

gimp (plugin), krita, and mypaint
You've conducted a single experiment and found out that the LinkedIn and AdWords adverts you ran put nobody in your funnel. This is useful data. Come up with some more ideas for experiments to run and run those. Pivoting after a single marketing experiment though? Too soon.
I'm guessing that the article has been updated, because it doesn't say that any more. The Android client is also open-source and doesn't require a network connection, so it should keep working :).
Original purchase price - two dollars = ?
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If you can buy one.

The problem with ASICs is that, once they get under the profit curve, they have no other usage. I can very reliably expect a 7970 to be useful for a few years at least. An Avalon, if I manage to get it, may or may not pay for itself before difficulty makes it unprofitable to run. And then it's completely useless.

Lots of hypothesis and conjectures.
This could be a good way to get some minor extra cash out of hobby projects. A ~$5000 might not be much for a investor, but for a student/hobby project its clearly a nice bonus.
Yes

I'd find it very hard pressed to find a place where you can work remotely. (Especially with all the useless crap IT pushes usually)

Or make it easier, you can work remotely only by remote desktop access (like Google does internally).

(Yes, you can capture a video of the data, but it's one thing to see a picture of a cad drawing, another one to have the file)
china is basically doing exactly what the US did to come to economic power and people are shocked, shocked! to see it.

people really, truly, honesty believe the last 200 years of US and European ascent didn't happen, as if the world sprang forth fully formed in 1997. the vast majority of people haven't spent 5 minutes really thinking about how this stuff works.

a lot of this double-standard is inextricably tied to racism also.
Exactly. This is basically just that: "employers forced to discriminate in hiring:" I wouldn't hire a woman.

The reason is very simple: women give birth to children. I don't have the right to ask if she still wanted to. If I had the right, and she would answer, she could deceive me deliberately or she could change her mind.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have any problem with women giving birth to children. That's how I was born and that's how my child was born. I wouldn't hire a woman because when she gets pregnant, she goes for a 3 years maternity leave, during which I can't fire her. If she wants two children, the vacation is 6 years long.

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2012/01/09/this-is-why-i-dont-g...

Edit: Just to clarify, this is not my opinion, just a link to a blogpost about why said author shows why (in Hungary) it is basically impossible to hire a woman (or older people, or basically anyone) for that matter.
I can't try it on the web ui right now, but I can definitely do all the things you just described from the android app.
Shameless plug:

Mathematica knows about Bayes' rule and makes reasoning about it quite simple. If you look here [0] you'll find Bayes' rule in the section: "Properties and relations".

What makes it extremely powerful is that it's fully symbolic so you can do things like:

Probability[x^2 > a \[Conditioned] x < b, x \[Distributed] NormalDistribution[m, s]]

and have it evalate to a bunch of Erf…

[0] http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/Probability.htm...
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But what did any of that have to do with Microsoft, or even Google's practices?

The entire article was a tutorial on Bayes's rule, with a completely irrelevant introductory paragraph thrown in at the top. Nothing about Google or Microsoft's practices was actually mentioned anywhere.
This should be called "Why I quit working at a startup to work for Apple"
I worked, long ago, at the group in QinetiQ that got hacked. A couple of observations:

1. The Talon project (the robot pictured) is not, in fact, super secret. I worked with the Talon platform, and while my projects were "confidential", it wasn't some super secret thing. Would the government rather not have the Chinese have that IP? Of course. Is it at a security disaster? Hardly. That's not to say that they didn't have other, much more secretive, projects that were also compromised; it's just that the stuff being reported in this article isn't, like, nuclear launch codes.

2. IT security there (and, as I understand it, at similar government contractors) really was laughable. Total cowboy land. Assuming it hasn't revolutionized its security and culture, this attack didn't need to be some amazing exploit; it may have been a phishing attack or something similarly straightforward. So while the article lacks details, I'm not sure there's anything interesting to find here about the merits of the attack.

FWIW.
If I was a mother, I'd rather a simple phone call than flowers ordered online from a someone that consider it to be only a diplomatic gesture and hate the whole commercial logic of it.
The article's font sample image is pretty shoddy. They've resized it and so lost all the features of the renderer! To my eyes, the top example seems clearer and sharper than the bottom one.

The original image is found at http://google-opensource.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/got-cff.htm... and is much better.
so a legal drug like alcohol is actually causing havoc in society, as you so vehemently point out... and you are advocation MORE drugs be made legal?

Really look forward to a night out when a bunch of people are buying heroin in one bar, cocaine in a another and ecstasy at the club - sounds awesome!

I am from Europe, yes I've been to those games. No doubt alcohol is a problem. Comparing pot to alcohol is just dumb, they have complete opposite physiological effects. I've seen what long term pot smoking does to normal people, with normal jobs and normal lives - it's not harmless.

I have not seen any studies on the health benefits of pot or cocaine as part of a regular lifestyle - can you enlighten me? I've seen reports of pot and ms or cocaine used by doctors for procedures, but I never heard of them being recommended for regular consumption as a way to improve health.

And, again, point out the draw backs of some drugs (alcohol) does not mitigate the problems associated with other drugs (pot).
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Is it true that iOS uses a different font renderer than Mac OS? I thought that the fonts on an iPhone looked pretty good actually. Perhaps they are referring to apps that decide to use the FreeType renderer?
Not sure about this specifically, but the DWP use Siebel extensively all over the place.
labour conditions are a tricky sort of a topic and I think the lens of liberal economics vs socialist-labour economics hides some important perspectives.

Our politicians have a serious roles as leaders. It's intertwined but (IMO) still distinct from their role as legislators

Most leaders in history and outside of the "western" liberal democracy tradition place a huge emphasis on cultural leadership. The King/shah/cesar/great leader represents the ideal citizen. They don't just make laws, they make values. In Europe, you can still see this concept in the vestigial monarchies. In The States, it's present in the idea of a first family (sounds similar to "first citizen," the title of Roman Emperors.

To those of us that grow up in modern democracies, it seems hockey, cultish and dangerous to think of political leaders as paternal figures. We make a point of being critical of our leaders and react to attempts at deification as paths to tyranny - a way of maintaining power. That's probably a good attitude and keeps us safe from tyrants to an extent, but the role of political leader as cultural leader is so embedded in human political structures everywhere that I think it must have some fundamental role that's hard to do without.

Anyway, labour laws do seem to be capable of creating moral/social norms more effectively than say drug laws or tax laws. Our attitudes to discrimination, sexual harassment (or sexualization generally), bullying and other things are distinctly different in a work environment. These cultural elements evolved fast and I'm pretty sure legislation/ors have played a big role.

An employer paying under minimum wage, denying a woman maternity leave or only hiring attractive young women is not just breaking the law, he's an arsehole. He's abusing his role as employer.

Manufacturing, codifying and maintaining cultural norms in parliaments seems to work exceptionally well in the labour laws space.
This is the DWP homepage if you come via http://gov.uk:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-w...

As a Brit, the new Gov.uk site makes me feel very proud, even though I had nothing to do with it. :o)
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I still don't understand bayesian statistics and every article I've read to try and learn has had syntax I didn't understand. I just don't know lisp/haskell/etc syntax. My college math stopped at calc 3 and it's been many years since I took that.

Is there a good "bayesian probability for dummies" type resource out there? Any suggestions?
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Always have a version that has what seems like just plain stupidly high pricing. Many people wind up getting the majority of their revenue from such an option.
OTOH, Even in California, the costs of hiring women who might potentially have children are far lower than the costs of either not hiring women (and missing out on highly qualified candidates) or not hiring women (and getting a reputation for gender discrimination which either exposes you to legal liability or causes both men and women to not work with you).

Co-founders are IMO somewhat different; if a vesting agreement is set up properly, it probably will not vest during an extended leave -- even for protected reasons like maternity or military service. It's probably not worth having someone as a cofounder who would seriously game that, anyway. (and there are plenty of situations where issues other than pregnancy would cause an extended absence; illness, disability, ...) I am not a lawyer, of course.

For a regular employee in tech, I'd still not care, since the market for top talent is so tight. Where it might be an issue is in a job market oversupplied with talent, and where the job has substantial on the job training or search costs or whatever, and in small firms. A lot of these conditions don't apply to companies under 5 or 50 employees, too.
Sorry, I mean: what does “GCC” stand for? It is jargon not defined in the post.
I think this is the most useful use for one I've heard so far, but when I think about how often do I need a little plastic knob - maybe once a year? I'm sure a couple of shops could do this as a business but other than that it seems crazy to think people will buy these things en-masse for homes.
Aye

From what I've heard reported[1] about periods of extreme caloric restriction is that it takes the body around 4 days or so to start dealing with the lack of carbohydrates. Until that point the person feels tired, grumpy, headachy, out of sorts, hungry.

[1]act 2: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/259/t...
The rules of the game are not in the code. If the bug would be the other way around, where it would suddenly payout 82$ if you'd press this sequence of buttons, the casino would definitely return the money.
Soylent Orange. :)
Although I haven't min maxed the ratios yet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjA38cUd4BZBdGZ...
Yes, the article was about simplifying statistical operations. The comments were inferring that some observed practices may have followed as a consequence. I'd prefer to discus the meat of the article, but it's not unusual to see comments go off on a tangent like this.
Try:

An Intuitive Explanation of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Intuitive Explanation of Bayes’ Theorem

http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=13156
Dumb idea, IMO. If people can access stuff that they shouldn't, by guessing URLs, then your problem is access controls, not the URLs.

Switching to opaque, meaningless strings for your URLs does not solve your problem. URLs leak, they risk being recorded and published (e.g. Referer: headers on weblogs), and so people will find them anyway.

You still need access controls and all you have achieved by making your URLs complicated is to create more work for you and your users.
So how does this work for entrepreneurs? Do they also get a free allowance for their first year?
I happened to know several security guards and bouncers when I was young -- a lot of them really are gifted when it comes to noticing anomalies in individual and crowd behavior.

Bartenders, too.
Keep calm and continue rebasing
I learned programming with Turbo Pascal, so I knew before that compilers could be fast and produce efficient code. ;-) If only innovation in Pascal hadn't stopped, we might be using it more than we currently do.
In my humble opinion everyone should live at least for a year outside of their own country. It makes people more open, and better. People who always been living in one country tend to be more stubborn, and trying to hold to their beliefs as if it's death or life question.
I like the way they apologise in advance to those with accessibility issues. That's a nice touch.
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I thought that actual revenue is actively frowned upon because it's just an obstacle when you hype up the acquirement price tag.

I guess Foursquare could actually serve as an example supporting the validity of that insane strategy... They're trying to actually make money, and found that there just isn't much money to be made with what they're doing, and now nobody wants to buy them either.
"But however any religion starts out, sooner or later it enters into a Faustian pact with state power."

This. The basic fallacies of any religious doctrine when mixed with the desire for power makes for a dangerous cocktail.
I wish I could downvote purely on the basis of that hateful "Keep Calm" meme.
Mongoose mainly just provides a handy programmatic API in Node.JS to native MongoDB features. The querying power and types/structure (derived mainly from its inherent JSON-ness admittedly) are part of MongoDB, not the software around it.
+1 it was actually a rather horrifying presentation of Bayes's theorem.
I would just explain it in 2 lines:

P(Cause and Effect)
= P(Cause) × P(Effect given Cause)
= P(Effect) × P(Cause given Effect)

so
P(Cause) =
P(Effect) × P(Cause given Effect) ÷ P(Effect given Cause)
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Article title: "Oil prices to crash in two years"
Actual quote in article: "oil prices could crash to a low of..."

Yay for sensationalist writing. And put a link in to the original source, you lazy bqdoha.com journalist. Or maybe they are too busy selling oil futures...
As an American in the UK who constantly needs to find information about living here, it reduces massive amounts of frustration. Good on ya lads!
The front page of http://dwp.gov.uk/ says in pretty big writing "We have moved to www.gov.uk/dwp"

Which is a much nicer site:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-w...

Of course, they could break every link out there to their old site if they wanted, but instead they're implementing redirects for all the high-traffic pages.
I never realised that this was a thing, but now that its been brought up, this is a big issue that I've been facing at work for some time. I'm not a programming rockstar but I am the only programmer at work. And I can't seem to find any other programmers in similar fields in this town. I only found out recently that going to conferences for programming was also a thing, although they seem hugely expensive. I just discovered user groups too, but there isn't one within 100s of miles of me. Still, now that I know these things exist and why people go to them, I have something to work towards.
... which is useless when you're trying to develop Java code.

Java also eats a lot of RAM in many applications (J2EE apps can easily eat a few GB of RAM), so combined with the multi-second latency for startup, you're basically confined to a single programming model: One giant, long-running, multithreaded program.
it was a browser bug (opera mini ) sorry
Nice throwaway comment written without actually having much of a clue about what the UK Government is doing with its web presence.