skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's beyond unfair; it's absurd. But yes, of course calling individuals psychopaths with no substantive basis is a personal attack, and a nasty one

I personally think monetizing via advertising is unethical, but I'll concede on this point. I realize I'm in the minority here so I accept that by currently ruling norms advertising is not a psychopathic activity.

> I'd say the odds of this type of thinking arriving at truth aren't high, but I don't know, and neither do the commenters. The stuff simply isn't verifiable.

Here, I strongly disagree. This stuff is very verifiable... by just going to news outlets (prestigious, established outlets, not just blogs) which have verified documentation of chats in which Zuck calls users of his site "dumb fucks" for having trusted him with private photos, SSNs, etc. We have documented proof of Evan persuading drunk women to perform sexual favors for his friends (no, it's not referring a friend to a friend, it's not innocently hooking up a date, it's getting drunk women to "give blowjobs" to his friends), in chats he is describing peeing on women, doing cocaine, about installing strip poles in places he owns, etc. This is documented in places like NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/magazine/whats-really-at-s...

What's more, Spiegel himself admitted this, Zuck similarly has recognized the chats to be true (not that such proof was needed -- it was validated by prominent journalists independently).

These folks need to be called out. At present we see a pattern of young brash founders who are misogynistic and disrespectful getting their way. Per the persistence of the patterns this kind of behavior is becoming normalized as being okay in society's eyes, one way to stop this is to do anything we can to stigmatize the non-consensual peeing on women, the violation of people's privacy, etc. It's by saying it's bad. Otherwise, what would-be entrepreneurs are internalizing is they can get away with this, that hustling in this way is just part of the game, that it doesn't matter that you're living life without recognizing others' dignity.
What an alarmingly raw exposure of the narcissism that pervades the Valley. The author's conflicted, borderline self-loathing struggle for counter-cultural self-awareness amidst the myopic career obsessed pursuit of "achievement" and relevance is quite revealing.

Should she further the "achievement" of her child through cultural conformance and obsession with "achievement" and corresponding status, or is it her who needs to find her own voice, not defined by external validation. She laments how comfortable she is with her status accredited largely to Stanford, and is ambivalent to whether she wants her child to drink from the same source.

This is a "humblebrag" mix of a genuine and slightly insincere search for yet more validation. Children are a symptom and reflection of their parents' values. To acknowledge the limitations or shallowness of a life defined by a pursuit of "achievement" and validation for her child, she must become self-aware and acknowledge the same throughout her own life.
I am not an expert, but I have always tried with a small budget campaigns to see the results. That gives me room to expand in several campaigns to learn about more targeting options on Facebook.

Trying with different text and image contents, cpc campaigns can drive huge traffic.
> this year there were 26,678 residency positions and 412 people who didn't match. Even if we opened more residency positions, we'd still need more medical schools too, right? Because 412 doctors isn't enough to make a dent in the status quo.

Well, for starters, some of that is self-selecting, in that the only people who feel they are competitive candidates for a residency even apply. Overall, there are about 15,000 more applicants than first-year residency positions as of last year - 40,394 total.

Also, that 412 number is looking at the people who didn't match, which isn't actually the same as saying how many were "unaccepted". Residencies don't work like undergraduate admissions. The residency matching is a complicated two-way process that separates by field, so the 412 aggregate number isn't actually answering the same question. This is implied by the discussion of primary care residencies halfway down the article you link, but if you're not already familiar with the process, you wouldn't notice it.

Finally, that is only looking at students in the United States who did not match. Many residents in the US attended medical school outside the US. In fact, it's very common for US students who don't get into medical school in the US to go to medical schools in the Caribbean instead, and then come back to the US to do their residency so they can practice in their home country.

> I mean, we'll need another 412 doctors just to account for population growth in a couple years.

The number of residency programs is increasing, so population growth isn't the concern. The original topic of discussion was increasing the availability of doctors - in other words, increasing the number of residency programs by an order of magnitude, rather than incrementally, as has occurred almost every year since 1952.
Hey, just a heads up, you posted your AWS secret key. I'd take that down and change your key ASAP. I had my keys compromised before and someone racked up a $5k AWS bill mining bit coins.
LOL at "incidental"

You know, it's just Google's main revenue stream. By several orders of magnitude.
I'm not the parent commenter, but I added some comments to the commit for you. Thanks for the article!
> The loose collective running the site today, estimated to be 90 percent male, operates a crushing bureaucracy with an often abrasive atmosphere ...

Management wisdom of the crowds.
he mentions in the article he created that account specifically to only have the ability to call that one lambda function - which I didnt realize you could restrict to that level.
I think we should assume by default that code is not reasonably written.

Tool chains that check properties for us are incredibly useful.
As I said below, I work in the industry. And yes, it's extremely incestuous (not just games journalism... the entire non-mobile games industry). Corruption is rampant and until gamergate surfaced, nobody cared because "whatever, it's just games".

> Which I found sexist

Huh?
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Well thankfully that listing includes the actual address and an aerial view of the property. Will facilitate the drone strikes when the revolution comes.
I wasn't looking for grade improvement, I was looking to point out the discrepancy in grades between the hard and soft sciences. Whereas for Math, CompSci, students are graded on the 0 - 100 scale the more social sciences are studied on the 0 - 70ish, as there are no solid requirements for each milestone grade (i.e. 70; 80; 90), as opposed to the hard sciences.
One user's private information could get sent to another user, or you could have a subslice that gets "validated" and then overwritten.

Edit: Of course, this isn't exclusive to data races, this can happen with anything that decides to save the slice for a while, without, say, defensively copying it, when some other code decides to reuse it.
It's sad you made a throwaway just to be able to downvote me. On HN of all places. Kind of ruins your credibility, doesn't it?
Are you implying that "warlords" are better than the US government?

Which system is better? A libertarian warlord system? Or the US government?

What exactly makes a warlord system more favorable than the US government?

If you want an example of a government, you don't need to bring up Stalin's Russia or Nazi Germany.. you have an example of government right here in the US!

Clearly you thought through your cunning "less government" libertarian plan, and have concluded that such a system, which results in warlords, would be better than the US government, right? Let's hear that rationale then.
When talking about deviation, you're describing the spread of a distribution. It's perfectly fine to describe your data using mean (or median) average deviation, but then fit a model on top of that minimizes the sum of squared errors. Taleb's point is that squared deviations make for a lousy descriptive statistic as it leads you to underestimate the average distance of observations from the mean.
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Have you used Go and ran into problems with people overwriting data in slices underneath you? Was it to such a degree that it took precedence over other bugs and slowed down development in the effort to catch these mistakes manually?
The author is right- square error isn't completely natural. However one great property is that it gets expected values right (so using it helps you develop unbiased estimators). I have some notes on this here: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2014/01/use-standard-deviatio...
Wow, this is almost a description of a pyramid scheme.

Investors invest because they think more investors will invest later. You need the brand name investors because investors need to see the brand name investors in your company's pitch, making it more likely there will be future investors. The firms are selling shares by promising (well, making a string indication) someone else will buy the shares at a higher price later. Also, you can make money by investing without the firm making money.
What's the typical latency for a request when you use lambda, such as for this example?
Yeah, it's missing the "Hi", "Thanks"... Mistakes are made, support people are usually not the one responsible. I've a business that > $1M with Google too and I aim to be kind even if they screw up and even if it's a lot of money.

That's said Google is going down hill for a while now.
To expand a bit - in the car selling example, it's an information asymmetry, known and ignored by the seller.

In the slot example, it's an "information-computation asymmetry" - the slot machine literally knows how you think and is pushing your psychological buttons in order to cheat you. It's even rewiring your brain (your dopamine response AKA your computation) so that it can push your buttons more effectively.

In both cases, the "cheater" is enabling and taking advantage of asymmetry. They are explicitly harming the other party in a way that benefits them.

(If you have a better term than information-computation asymmetry I'd love to know what it is!)
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Most online social games also make most of their revenues from approximately 2 % of their players.

They even use casino terminology , bucketing their users into minnows , whales and what not.

For free to play games most users spend almost nothing. But there are these users that spends thousands of dollars on the game as if it were nothing.
Ask HN: MBA or No MBA –  Classic debate for late twenties
So here is my background. I work in SF as data engineering lead. I am good with technical stuff and have enough understanding of current business processes.
I am deliberating whether to go for MBA or not. I want to do it part time ( or weekend classes )
Given the current startup craze and not-so-much-love for MBA I just don't know if that right choice.

Looking at 2 yrs ahead, we are bound for some correction in stock market, little cool off of startup hype. So one question I am trying to answer is what is it with MBA I would gain than just continuing current job. Silicon valley and MBAs stand at 90 degrees apart.

My goal is go into executive management for any tech company. Would MBA be best choice for this goal ? I have seen super early employees become VP and part of Exec team. Though, this is not true for mildly established company.
I will be 30 in six months so finding a girl to marry will also be on horizon in next year or two.

Those of you who did part time MBA or executive MBA while working -
1. How did it benefit you in terms of Payscale
2. What's impact on overall career prospects since you did MBA
Last question is reverse question -

Did you have experience where you were deemed overqualified because you had MBA ?

Thanks for all help.
For future reference; being a dick to the guy in support trying to help you doesn't really do much to help the situation. It typically only results in you getting less help - nobody has the desire to go the extra mile for someone who starts out with that kind of tone.

I get you're mad at "google", but taking it out on an employee tasked with helping fix your issues is kind of like being an asshole to a waitress...
> estimated to be 90 percent male

Why did you include this? It seems out of place, unless you're saying it's the heavy skew of males that's causing the beurocracy?
>> "We made the deadly mistake of thinking of MetaMed as a business that was trying to turn a profit and grow organically, rather than a start-up whose ‘profits’ would come from selling its stock to investors at a higher price. Even in the explicit context of a profitable case, this was still true."

When the author explains that the goal of the startup is to profit through selling its shares at ever higher prices, it seems like he's basically saying the entire industry is a giant game of Find the Greater Fool.

I'm sure I'm missing something though.
Try travel, especially weirder types like long distance cycle-touring or sailing. This way you get new society, new people, new environment, and exercise and a sense of adventure to boot... and these often appeal to nerdier types because of the system / self-reliance element and the freedom to escape annoying environments.
> One thing you might note is that we’re exposing our AWS public and secret keys. This is actually not that big of a deal. To make this secure, we actually created a new AWS User and with a Policy specifically preventing everything except the one Lambda Function:
If you want to go a little overboard it's possible to use the C abi and write a thin wrapper in C++.
I've used http://www.Webscript.io in the past which is essentially just like AWS Lamda to make static sites 'dynamic' with no backend.
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If that's a full and accurate transcript; then there's a lot of things deeply wrong with that.

If you pay a company over a million dollars in advertising fees, you'd expect a phone call prior to service cancellation. And you damn sure wouldn't expect a chat window analyst to say "lol" to you when you pointed out their own hypocrisy. I know they like young employees there, but are they staffing their customer support team with teenagers now?

I get sense of humor, but there's a time and a place. A customer just had their account blocked, now's not the time to be anything but apologetic. Customer Service 101 stuff here.
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It's a quote from the article. Why are you fixated on that sentence fragment from a much larger quote?
a) If I chose to exercise my main account here, there's nothing that would prevent me from downvoting. There would be no need to create a new account. Even trying to wouldn't make sense because...

b) New accounts cannot downvote anybody. By operating here with an alt account instead of my main account, I give up my ability to downvote.

Given A and B, your entire premise is totally messed up.

c) It's sad that you've resorted twice to the "it's sad" shtick. The comment was a non-aggressive, good faith one. How about you not take it as an attack? How about you take it as a genuine request? How about you consider following through with the request on that token?

Do better than that response, too.
incidental, adj.: accompanying but not a major part of something. Which is why I picked the phrasing I did; advertising is completely and inarguably incidental to the consumption of the content that somebody is on YouTube to actually see. Is it Google's main revenue stream? Sure. Is it significantly impactful to the consumer? No, not really.

But let's take a step back. Do you actually intend to defend your assertion that advertising is the same in kind as literally taking money out of somebody's pocket? Or is this just the tacit admission that, no, you can't, so let's play definitional games?
It just seemed out of place and unexplained.
> You seem to think Western nations are the primary contributors here

I don't understand how you can possibly think that from what I wrote.
I dont like this article. It mentions, but glosses over, the real reason squared error is used. Assuming a Gaussian error term, squared error yields the maximum likelihood estimator.

That is the core reason to use squares - if the error is not normal, it just won't work. This is why, e.g., a small number of outliers can wildly skew a least squares fit - if error was normal, they simply wouldn't exist.
We don't have the whole conversation. How do we know that the author didn't selectively show us his conversation with Google? Let's not jump to a conclusion.
Restrict airspace access for densely tethered wind-farms and if they are needed closer to cities then we can figure that out later.

I was thinking some sort of central tether connecting a large group of them then either directly beamed or daisy-chained balloons high up in the air. It would be an amazing technical and engineering accomplishment to do that but it might provide energy with minimal airspace disruption, though you wouldn't really want planes flying under them either, just in case.

Maintenance could involve having detachable cables (which would deploy a parachute and have bring lights in case a place was passing by at that time) so that the cable falls gently against the central tether and can be reattached using a heavy-lifting drone or blimp/drone hybrid.
Harvard's endownment earned over 12% annually averaged over 40 years (http://www.hmc.harvard.edu/investment-management/performance...). I bet the government would love to tax some of that money.
Show HN: Simulation of common page replacement algorithms in C
With new technology, you could solve the major limitation of digital back compared to digital camera of not being able to immediately review the picture on display. Should be possible to wirelessly connect digital back to phone or tablet to review photo right after it is taken.
How to turn an Arduino-based proof of concept into a final prototype
As a parent with a 5 year-old and a 14 year-old, I assure you that the word "no" is quite effective.
I use the "I hate your favicon" extension for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-hate-your-favico...
What he's describing is a feudalistic, dysfunctional reputation economy.

I wish there a way to make everyone realize this at once, so we can abandon this mess wholesale and come up with something else.

The reputation factors dominate in light of the realization that the current Bay Area "tech" scene is built on taking behaviors (insider trading, market manipulation) that would lead directly to jail if done on public markets, and applying them to unregulated private equities. Since the people getting burned the hardest on the investment are young employees, no one seems to care, though.

This is also why there will probably never be a competing VC-driven tech hub, and why VC will always be extremely local. The VC business is that way because so much of the note-sharing and market/reputation manipulation is borderline unethical and it would be suicide to put too many of the conversations that actually matter in writing.
Virginia's flag also suffers (sadly) from not being flown due to the nudity.
Right now we don't have any search at all, but we plan to generate search indexes locally in the background.
When I hear Stockholm syndrom, I always think javascript and css ^^
Unfortunately it's likely that many many types of animals take advantage of low-altitude wind-streams, especially during migrations.

But maybe we could place several of them into the jet-stream (at 10-15 km) which is higher than all birds except one type of vulture.

Edit: Nevermind, Google is working on exactly that: http://www.gizmag.com/google-x-makani-power-airborne-wind-tu...

The cable seems to be the most difficult part: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_wind_power
Wikipedia gets a worse rap than it really deserves.

If you ignore most of the pedantic self-important editors/trolls on WP, it's actually a great experience to contribute. I write a lot of articles on Canadian/British law and history, and the WPProjects are very supportive and generally polite. Otherwise, I don't really need to interact with anybody. I simply enjoy contributing to the organization of human knowledge. Nearly a decade and thousands of edits (on various accounts for reasons of anonymity) later, I have yet to have a real negative experience that has affected me in one way or another.
How does Java inside Oracle DB is doing nowadays?
Asians aren't just discriminated against relative to black students, they're also discriminated against relative to white students. Your distractions like "shameful legacy of mistreatment" and "single mother with a father in jail" don't work so well then, do they?

> If I ever see Asian's in this being denied social mobility

All the ones that would've been admitted if they were white. You just have to treat them as individual sentient people instead of a mass statistic.

Edit: For that matter, compare Asians with academically demanding parents and white people and black people with academically demanding parents. Looking at that subset of the population, Asians are discriminated against, keeping the variable you were considering constant. Then consider Asians with single mothers and white people and black people with single mothers. Asians in that strata are discriminated against, too.
There's no question whatsoever that Google/Youtube would not exist if they didn't have advertising revenue. This is not in any way a debatable point. It's not even a little bit "incidental".

My point, no matter how you attempt to recast it, is that Google/Youtube depend on an addictive dynamic. They do. You keep coming back. You keep watching the next video. they make money when you do that. You can try to recast that all you want, but if people didn't keep clicking on the next result or next video, Google/YouTube wouldn't make money.

Why do you think there's a related videos sidebar on YouTube? Why do YouTube videos end with more links to other videos?
The elderly have limited lifespans in addition to limited income, taking their time could be more costly than taking money in some cases. Money isn't the only thing of value in this world. I don't come down on the side of Google being responsible for YouTube addictions, nor of F2P game makers being resposible for IAP addictions in a general universal sense.
This is a great article! It's always surprised me that, in machine learning and statistics, we take an objective function like squared error as a "given" rather than trying to design an objective function that's tailored to what we really care about.

As the article notes, we can often use more sophisticated optimization techniques to make use of objective functions like absolute error which are less "nice" mathematically, but closer to our end goal.

There's a related idea in speech recognition that goes under the name "discriminative training." The idea is that first you train a model using a standard fast objective function like maximum likelihood to get a good "seed" model. Then, you can retrain using a more expensive objective function (maximum mutual information) which corresponds to what you care about--whether the speech recognizer got the whole sentence right. Since that function is discontinuous, MMI represents a smooth version of it with a "randomized" decoder.
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I had a feeling you might have already told me :). Sorry.
If you had said "90 pourcent female", I think people would have felt inconfortable. I don't see how the gender has anything about the bureaucracy.
Well, because they harassed that girl and were all about "look how those girls can sleep them to the top" blabla