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by scribu 9y ago
> Very BigQuery like system. What makes you say that? The main innovation in BigQuery was the ability to store and query nested data. Amazon Redshift doesn't support querying nested data. It only has some convenience functions for l
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by scribu 9y ago
> We have a society where we can air discussions about topics like this What's the use of being able to freely discuss any story if the people who's job is to uncover sensitive stories are silenced?
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by scribu 9y ago
I think you can use both: Start with the lead feature, so that the potential customer has a simple idea to kick around in their head. Then, describe the benefits, giving them a fuller story for why they should use the product.
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by scribu 9y ago
Not sure about being clickbait, but it's definitely not informative. My suggestion, after reading it: "From Software To Permaculture"
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Lies My Parents Told Me (About Logs)(honeycomb.io)
1 points by scribu 9y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 9y ago
You scoff, but I'd wager that a USB stick would count as folksy in 50 years.
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by scribu 9y ago
I'm not sure what your objection is with regards to the independence aspect. Why would having the morality checks integrated into the "learning about the world" part be better? If you had an unwavering moral code which dictat
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by scribu 9y ago
> put it through an algebraic transformation that subtracts known biases > Do you consider that algebraic transformation enough of a "morality system"? I would consider it a sort of morality, yes. But keep in mind that the l
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by scribu 9y ago
I agree that if your goal is to build a machine that decides who gets to become a doctor, you need to do more than just let it loose on a bunch of text. But I don't think preventing it from learning the current state of the world is a
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by scribu 9y ago
What humans think they know is not actually reality - fine. But then what's the difference between a fact and a stereotype, in your opinion?
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by scribu 9y ago
The GP is saying that the bias isn't an attribute of the Wikipedia text, but of reality. If the reality is that only 34% of doctors are female, why is it not desirable for the machine to learn that?
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The Dangerous Academic Is an Extinct Species(currentaffairs.org)
19 points by scribu 9y ago|16 comments
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by scribu 9y ago
If you mean that the algorithm was non-trivial, that's probably true. But I don't see what else you could do with it besides recognising a hand-drawn shape.
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by scribu 9y ago
> So get over it or provide a solution, but stop complaining. Complaining is a necessary first step in finding a better solution. Before being able to solve a problem, you need to first articulate what the problem is.
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Resentment Against Replicatipn Movement in Psychology(mobile.twitter.com)
1 points by scribu 10y ago|1 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
Fortunately for 'Inside Out', the concept of memory is not the central component of the movie. Rather, it's the idea that we each have multiple competing subpersonalities inside our heads, which remains a useful model.
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by scribu 10y ago
It seems like there was a study from Stanford, regarding effect on the latest USA ellection: > Gentzkow and Allcott find that the most widely circulated hoaxes were seen by only a small fraction of Americans. And only about half of those
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by scribu 10y ago
I agree that it sucks there is so little competition in the mobile OS space, but I don't think government involvement is enough to explain this situation. Take Microsoft - it became a handset manufacturer and is still struggling to mak
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by scribu 10y ago
Submission from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14036454 Personally, I find this blog post a better starting point for discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14045014
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Over 80% of images on Docker Hub have at least one vulnerability(blog.acolyer.org)
5 points by scribu 10y ago|1 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
Back when I was using Ubuntu, I could install an app called Redshift, which is basically the Linux equivalent for f.lux.
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by scribu 10y ago
The first part of the article gives a brief introduction to the history of postmodernism: > The term “postmodern” was coined by Jean-François Lyotard in his 1979 book, The Postmodern Condition. He defined the postmodern condition as “an
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Postmodernism and its impact, explained(areomagazine.com)
2 points by scribu 10y ago|1 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
I'm not sure if knowing the salary causes candidates to always ask for the maximum. But that possibility doesn't seem to deter some companies from making salary ranges public (see Stack Overflow job listings for examples).
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by scribu 10y ago
Except this article does address that concern, tangentially: ask the recruiter for the salary range.
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by scribu 10y ago
> It is in the candidates interest, as it doesn't waste anyone's time. Wait, isn't it also in your interest to not have your time wasted? So why not just share the salary range with the candidate, then?
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by scribu 10y ago
In the EU country where I'm from, you do pay a percentage fee each time you make a transfer to an account from a different bank.
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CERN LHCb experiment discovers a new system of five particles(home.cern)
4 points by scribu 10y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 10y ago
I agree that it feels like an ad campaign, especially since the CMS was on the front page recently. The speed improvements could have been achieved without switching from WordPress, by installing a caching plugin with a CDN option.
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by scribu 10y ago
For anyone interested in a minimalist track laying game, I've had a lot of fun with Mini Metro. It's available on both iOS and Android. The goal is to transport as many passengers as possible, so it has a little competitiveness in

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