skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another analogy: Anxiety is like dirt, or the clutter in your house. You'll find bits of dirt on the subway platform. Some people's houses are awash in clutter. We often seek to get rid of it, but it's not evil. It's not important, either, in the sense of functional utility. Sure, you can construct arguments about how it's ultimately necessary -- an Earth without dirt, for example, sounds rather sterile; does it have no trees? Where does the oxygen come from? -- but if there is anything unhealthy about your attitude towards dirt, I don't think emphasizing the importance of dirt in your daily life is likely to help.

Mainly, we're stuck with it.
Not a regular language as mathematically defined.

Unfortunately, quite a few very-well-defined terms have been made much-less-defined by use in practice.

"regular expression" has come to mean "anything that can be specified by a Perl 'RE' expression, which can backtrack and may take exponential time", rather than the original precise definition (that I will not give here) equivalent to "anything that can be accepted by a memoryless finite state automaton"

Similarly, "real time" has come to mean "on-line" or "computation happening more or less at the same time input is generated", as opposed to the original meaning of "guaranteed response to input within a pre-specified time frame" (which has been relegated to being "hard real time", with the amortized version often called "soft real time").

One could think software construction, being somewhat of an engineering discipline, would be more precise with terms - but one would be wrong; software construction as practiced today is something between an art and a craft, and is mostly not related to engineering.
How do you enforce them as constraints on a method?
There are basically two options and they both suck. Either publish one app and distribute the push notification cert (terrible idea) or each hosted site needs it's own cert and thus an Apple account/published app (pain in the ass).
I wish they had a package offering between 1GB and 15GB.
> It was incredible to me how each matatu basically had its own personality. Some would be quiet like riding on a normal bus in North America. But then you would have the party matatus that would be fully painted and blasting out music at 9am in the morning and the tout would be lauging and joking with all the passengers or singing.

I wonder... Aggregating this data and presenting it in a single app is tremendously valuable but does it also preserve knowledge about these forms of "local color"?

Can I see which routes are party buses, and which have quiet (and wifi)? Can I review them and keep track of which ones are sketchy, or clean, or have bad drivers, or are newer vehicles?

You could argue any transit system should let your rank and favorite routes, though the difference in quality between one route and another is not normally that significant on first-world single-operator systems. Although every major city usually has at least one locally-infamous nightmare route...
SF Bay Area Jobs for C Programmers?
I like different tools for different things, and I'm just as likely to write a bash (or python or perl) script if it's something quick, and javascript is growing on me as I do more front end work, but C is one of my favorite programming languages.

I work free lance at the moment, and there is never really a great opportunity to work with C, except on my own personal projects, or occasionally contributing to open source. I've been reviewing it for technical interviews, and enjoying the clarity of it. Yes it's imperfect, but then so is javascript, and people built lots of stuff with javascript.

Anyway it made me wonder, what companies in the Bay Area hire people to write in C? A quick search through the who's hiring thread for this month shows... one.

There are 140 comments for companies in the sfbay area. 40 mention python. 28 mention ruby. 71 mention javascript.

That's fine. I am a software engineer, not just a C programmer. But I am curious if I'm missing any good ones in my job search where I could have a place. There do seem to be occasional jobs for C programmers, but they seem to be for people who have 15+ years experience developing kernel modules, or a masters in EE. I'm not sure how I can bootstrap that radically.
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Generally, the more data you have, the less your prior influences the results. And the less your prior influences the results, the more frequentist and Bayesian analysis will "agree" on the outcome. Note that there are still some epistemological differences that will cause the two camps to speak slightly different languages. Bayesians will have (a very peaky) posterior distribution on the parameters they care about, and frequentists will have (a very tight) confidence interval around the same parameter.

For problems where you have small amounts of data but a lot of intuition about how the where the data comes from, then Bayesian methods will typically give you a better answer. However, if you have a small amount of data and a bad prior, then your conclusions will be flawed. Essentially, it's garbage in, garbage out.
This is not a "sue first" case, it just hit the news when the process reached the suing stage.
It means they were too lazy to dig up better statistics for the US.
I doubt AmEx is looking for any exclusivity. The lack of acceptance is likely on the retailer's side, and due to high fees.
Rich Barton went on to found Zillow. He's cut an impressive path.
Hey! I don't have mental illness and I can barely land a date let alone lock someone down and start a family with a supportive spouse.

It sounds like you are doing pretty okay to me!
That's not actually true, since a deaf person (or community) could pay to get them captioned. That doesn't mean they should have to, but it's not the same as not having the video in the first place.
Is there a way to change user avatars? The screenshot has them but I can't find it in 0.3.2.

BTW the wiki page for Docker references release/0.3.0, but you don't have that branch naming prefix (release/).
> They can't give a cash discount without violating the vendor terms

Not true. US law not only allows merchants to provide a cash discount, they may now charge a surcharge specifically for using a payment card.

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3203344?sid=2110533961...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/as-ru...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/business/merchants-conside...

http://usa.visa.com/personal/get-help/checkout-fees.jsp
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Some details on the NAD vs. Netflix case:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/netflix-settles-w...
Funny enough, I get better customer service from Discover with their card then I get from Amex with my $500/year Platinum card. I've found my experience with Amex in general to have gone downhill over the last ~5 years or so.
0.3.0 is now merged into master
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I think they are using Gravatar (https://en.gravatar.com/) to pull them in based on your email as it surprised me for a second when I set it up locally, registered and then my current profile photo was already there.
Well, firstly, congrats on not getting the role. "on[e] of the interviewers was texting someone at how bad it was going" should give you a clue as to how bad the company culture is.
I believe the rules for this have changed and it is no longer illegal to suggest that using a charge card will result in a use fee: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/as-ru... . Heck, even gas stations in my town now have two prices listed: one for using debit/cash and a higher one for using credit.
This can be frustrating. They add another ISA that we have to bundle into iOS apps that make them %150 bigger. Have a +40MB binary and then you run into a wall by adding arm64
I appreciate (as always) your thoughtful candor. And I (certainly) appreciate your kind words with respect to my personal integrity; the sentiment is very much mutual!

In this case, we may have to agree to disagree: I felt (and feel) that a message from Joyent -- not a message from me -- was called for: members of the node.js community were calling Joyent to task for Ben's behavior, and I (we) felt that it was Joyent that needed to respond. That said, I appreciate your willingness to speak your mind and to earnestly engage on this issue!
this is a false choice; no one would credibly make that sort of claim about audio-only courses in podcast form or video recordings without audio. you're focusing on the economics, and that's fine, but the court is focusing on whether it complies with the law.
Can you explain how? Obviously at least two people either disagree or aren't privy to the knowledge you hold!
That hasn't been a practical problem in many years. Most servers have gigabytes of RAM and a 64-bit kernel nowadays.
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I don't buy the congestion-control argument. Transit routers have millions of connections going through them at any given point. What's an extra 10x in concurrency to them?
I consider Rand's political theories misguided, but it's certainly not "the state of nature", nor is that aneeshm's position. Claiming so is just flamebait, not having an honest discussion.
This is an ok overview, but it's missing a key point. Classical statistics can be viewed as the statistic of interest being fixed but unknown. However, it's better thought of as the parameter is fixed but set in a way that will be most troublesome for your estimation algorithm. Statistical analysis (when done carefully) represents a conservative view on how likely you are to be mistaken.

Bayesian statistics abandons this worst-case approach, instead opting for an average case analysis. Here, we average over the all the possibilities, weighting their relative merit by the prior. The analysis is always a little bit conservative (thus the connection to regularization), but it is never "worst case" in the same way that classical statistics operates under.

Lots of the other talk in this article is not really about classic vs Bayesian statistics at all. Both methodologies are perfectly happy working with more complicated, hierarchal models. Both approaches have plenty of work dealing with regularization, and both methods will suffer if you mis-specify your model. The fact that Bayesian analysis is less likely to "crash" in a case of model mis-specification can be thought of as just as much of a drawback as it is a benefit.
right. I know that isn't professional, but I can't help but feel like I was so bad, that it was almost warranted. I also, don't know that was the case, but I just assumed that was what was going on.
This is probably a rather simplistic question to answer, but I've been confused how we go from "on average, the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it’s moving away from us" to "the expanding Universe".

If every galaxy was observed in its present day state, then that conclusion would seem to be valid. However, when we're looking at a galaxy 5 billion light years from us, we're looking at it as it was 5 billion years ago (including the light shift).

Therefore, it seems at least plausible that expansion is slowing rather than accelerating, since galaxies were moving away faster the further back you go in time.

I'm sure the above can be explained, although it may require a lot more time/effort to refute than it took for me to make the argument, but could somebody with more training in the subject point out the flaw in my logic or explain why the expansionist interpretation fits better with observation?
Logarithms as practiced on the slide rule.

Latin.

Software dev and QA.
Only if you don't assume that everyone else will also use the same number of streams in parallel. If everyone else's utilization is increased by the same factor, the utilization balance should remain the same.
Every time you accelerate, you're drawing way more current from the battery than you do cruising at highway speed. So the average power draw is 17 kW/hr, but some of that happens in great bursts.
How can I contact you? Or want to shoot me a short hello email and we can connect? My email is a gmail address - tlalexander <at...>.
Still, s/Go/Golang/ would help clear up any confusion.
you should do Khan Academy stuff on programming, read up on data structures and why they are used etc.

honestly you would have been in way over your head if you had managed to get the job.
things might have changed over the past 12 months, but if you report an app from the store app in windows 8, the report gets looked at and they were good about removing apps that had issues.

I say this since I went through this process myself about a year ago and the app I reported was taken down. full disclosure: I worked on the app store team, but didn't use any internal mechanism.
Not everyone stands by the side they consider more sympathetic; some people actually try to be impartial and apply judgment based on their principles, whether they benefit a big institution or a poor person.

That doesn't mean we must agree with those principles, of course.
But why create your own parser instead of using proven-secure ones? Sounds like NIH Syndrome to me.
so access to knowledge--most of which, it's worth noting, is massively subsidized by taxpayers in the form of grants and related overhead--is a luxury good?

that's not a world i want to live in; access to knowledge is foundational infrastructure.
That's a really bold statement to make.
And why not use a proven secure parser in the first place?
"Flamebait" was certainly not my intention. I may be naive, but what is the difference between a society comprised of people with no obligations toward each other and the state of nature?

Edit: For instance, for Hobbes, that pretty much is the definition of the state of nature, in which everyone has the natural right to their own self-preservation and goals. The rise of sovereign power is often conceived of as the enforcement of obligations that override natural rights to complete liberty (through something that is probably even more properly called "thuggery" than deaf advocacy groups' political actions).
Type is such a generic word though. You can use the word just by its basic definition (a category of people or things having common characteristics) and everyone would mostly understand what you are talking about.

What Russell invented was a theory with types of a more formal definition.
Rather amusing title since it could be reworded as "Game theory still fails to explain biology." We know organisms cooperate. The fact that we consistently fail to find reasons to cooperate in game theory suggests that the simplifying assumptions that it makes are incorrect. To give only one example, what happens when agents can choose from among a set of games to play with opponents with known histories?
In healthcare, there are many skeletons in the closet - and many closets.

This FDA story is sad, but not surprising. The article seems to suggest the European equivalent (the EMA) is way better. Maybe it did behave better on this case, but as a rule of thumb, I strongly doubt it is much better.

The only advantage Europe has is how it works: if you want to bring a drug to the market, you either have it to get it accepted in one member state (then you can sell it everywhere) or go to the EMA. That's moderate competition. It may works slightly better, but it's still limited by the number of countries and regulatory agencies.

The only conclusion we should make from such stories is that there should be no public bodies susceptible to regulatory capture, but various independent organizations doing that.

See that as adding redundancy - if one was found to cheat and lie, it wouldn't be too big to fail, and a competitor would be glad to update its rating on say the 40 generics whose bioequivalence ratings are based on cooked data. That's a bit like how I trust Michelin guides more than any government evaluation of restaurants.

EDIT: I noticed a comment about financial ratings agencies. You realize there are only 3 big ones (Moody's, S&P, Finch) and that they have very strong ties to some governments, right? I predict they give you more quality that the FDA (because it's a legal monopoly), but less than what more competition could bring.
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I don't think it's ever to late to learn something. I'm kinda on the fence about learning / trying to get into theoretical science and physics. I find a lot of the space science stuff happening lately to be very interesting and I'd love to try to prove (for example) black holes exist (or don't)

currently a programmer / sys admin.
Since, as the author points out, the data is what is fixed in real life, the Bayesian model intuitively makes more sense.

In real life, both the parameter value and the data are fixed. If you knew the heights all of the humans on earth, you could compute the exact mean human height (at the time). This mean is the true mean, it's the parameter value we're looking for, and it's absolutely fixed.
I think the point people are making is that a video without captions is also far better than no video at all.
I might be blind, but where is your pricing?
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This is probably a fair indication of what might happen

http://www.smh.com.au/business/wotif-boss-and-other-staff-ge...
I am deaf and I specifically remember about MIT OCW from a couple years ago that, whenever I found something that seemed interesting and had video lectures available, the lectures didn't even have a transcript, much less captions. I went to their website again and literally the first course I picked lacked captions,[1] unless you count the YouTube-generated "love with a system age to have an with a system" as captions. It wasn't very hard to find another seemingly interesting course that doesn't have captions either.[2] Admittedly, after further inspection, more courses seem to have captions than before.

[1]: http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-6-008-digital-signal-proces...

[2]: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-851-effective-field-the...
Once you learn how to do these things, they become second nature. That's the problem though. People don't think twice about learning a new programming language. But learning how to caption videos, choose colorblind friendly colors, or turn transcripts of a video into something that's braile-display or screen-reader friendly are skills that are relatively simple to acquire and will definitely outlast whatever new framework comes out this year.

I am visually impaired. And I have been helping people make the web accessible since 2001. If you plan it from the beginning, it's only a few extra yards, not an extra mile.
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Need any algorithm development?
I guess I'm missing some nuances you're seeing in that press release, but it seems pretty innocuous. Certainly don't see any evidence of those thugs you mention, just some people concerned about deaf Americans not having their civil rights protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

And I'll take that bet: In 3 years, every video on the Harvard and M.I.T. websites will be captioned.
Maybe we aught to stop allowing corporations to run our media and arbitrarily censoring facts they don't like.
You are correct :-) I was careless in the way I wrote. I did not mean to imply that being on the koseki imparted citizenship. It does not, and you are correct to point out that there is a big difference. What I meant is than in many areas of the law, you are literally not a legal person if you are not on the koseki. They just have no way of dealing with you. Family law is the most obvious place where this occurs, but there are some others a well. Basically, if the law is written to look at the juuminhyou (essentially your registered address), then as a foreigner you are good to go. If it is writen to look at the koseki, unless you are married, you are going to hit a brick wall. Unless, the law has changed very recently (and I know that they were planning to change it), the example I gave (custody in divorce) is a classic example. There is no way that a Japanese judge can grant custody of children to someone who is not on a koseki somewhere because it is legally impossible to do so. Where I was wrong was to say that this is a right. It is not a right (and as a foreigner living in any country you have to get used to the fact that you have a lot less rights than a citizen). It is a consequence of the way the law is written. Still, I can tell you that the difference between when I was living in Japan before I had my name on that piece of paper and after is quite large. Even better is to start a corporation as you then have an entity that you control that is recognized as a legal person (houjin). But that is way off topic...
> Also, we expect to be able to run Sandstorm as a Portal app, so you could run many Sandstorm apps inside one VM, assuming they're okay with that.

I'm definitely OK with that. :)
His test showed what happens on a slow network - too much parallelism leads to retransmits and congestion on a slow network. But it doesn't show ill effects on a fast network with plenty of bandwidth.

The question is how to get it right, and the problem is that you can't get it right without knowing the amount of bandwidth available to you in advance. Limiting concurrency limits congestion on slow networks, but it caps you unnecessarily on fast ones. The same is true for SPDY/http2; using a single stream will never give you the same concurrency as multiple streams.
This looks really useful & interesting!

I have a few questions (about SigOpt / MOE):

* how many parameters can be optimized at once? Peter Frazier's slides [1] seem to imply that a gaussian-process based approach is suited for d<20 parameters

* can multiple objectives be handled?

* can the system produce experimental designs for n>1 points designed to be sampled in a batch, or is it just n=1 point at a time?

* in some scenarios, it might only be cost-effective to perform experiments in batches, where there are additional constraints upon which set of samples can be selected per batch (these might be dictated by the manufacturing process). Would it be possible to support this somehow?

[1] -- http://people.orie.cornell.edu/pfrazier/Presentations/2014.0...
But how do you know it's in the young generation? A long-running thread or goroutine can outlive the young generation and then its heap-allocated objects will need to be moved. Stack allocation is more predictable.
But the language is not named Golang.
Because the financial ratings agencies have proved to be such a huge success?
What was the role you where applying for? If it was a web dev job, where all you will be doing is working in frameworks, then the questions are not a fit for your role. If they where asking about sorting an array, to see if you can do simple logic and did not care about the efficiency, that is one thing, but if they expect a mathematically efficient sort algorithm from a self taught web dev, then they are not being realistic about the standard they are setting for a role that does not require it. It is akin to advertising for a doctor and only needing general practice, then asking questions about heart surgery in the interview. Now if it was not a typical web dev job, then you have to ask yourself what you where doing applying for it in the first place without being prepared.

The texting while you are interviewing is uncalled for no matter how bad the interview went. There is no call for making someone feel insignificant and anyone with any courtesy would know that, that is rude. I agree wit the other poster, it sounds like you dodged a bullet, they sound as if they have a high ego to talent ratio.
He means go to college
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Imagine a balloon being blown up. Two points close to each other move apart much slower than points further apart.
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