skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take the time to read the story (many comments don't reflect more than the headline), which is far more complex and interesting than the headline. For one thing, almost all studies' effects were reproduced, but they were generally weaker.

* Most importantly, from the Times: Strictly on the basis of significance — a statistical measure of how likely it is that a result did not occur by chance — 35 of the studies held up, and 62 did not. (Three were excluded because their significance was not clear.) The overall “effect size,” a measure of the strength of a finding, dropped by about half across all of the studies. Yet very few of the redone studies contradicted the original ones; their results were simply weaker.

* Also: The research team also measured whether the prestige of the original research group, rated by measures of expertise and academic affiliation, had any effect on the likelihood that its work stood up. It did not.

* And: The only factor that did [affect the likelihood of successful reproduction] was the strength of the original effect — that is, the most robust findings tended to remain easily detectable, if not necessarily as strong.

* Finally: The project’s authors write that, despite the painstaking effort to duplicate the original research, there could be differences in the design or context of the reproduced work that account for the different findings. Many of the original authors certainly agree.

* According to several experts, there is no reason to think the problems are confined to psychology, and it could be worse in other fields. The researchers chose psychology merely because that is their field of expertise.

* I haven't seen anything indicating the 100 studies are a representative sample of the population of published research, and at least one scientist raised this question.
In case anyone is looking for an example of an application and a video, here is my company's successful application and video from the S14 batch.

http://www.withkash.com/blog/2015/08/27/applying-to-yc-part-...
Loved the Hotel California quote :)
It depends somewhat on what you are doing. If you are on a walk through a (metaphorical) forest, do you think of yourself on a subpath of a subpath of a subpath, or is it just "well I guess I'm here now!"?

If you are just doing a simple search, maybe you don't need to keep that whole stack around. An iterative approach makes a lot of sense. If you are building a map of the tree and you're not even sure what scale to make it, you might want to reserve judgement about the supertree while you explore some sub trees so you might be glad that stack is there, and you might profit from thinking about that situation as recursion.

But the answer is: yes, a lot of things you do with trees make a lot of sense as simple procedures.
It's quite simple, really. I used to be like yourself, but then I read the famous How to Win Friends and Influence People. Dale Carnegie wrote it in the 1930s, which explains the weird title, but don't shy away from it because of that. It's actually very enlightening!
All of our lessons give you interactive tools to create and experiment with in various ways. For example this one is fun: https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar/modeling-c...
This looks suspiciously similar to https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy which is an older project. It even uses similar naming "toxic" "poisons".
Another factor here is that in most places, it seems including San Francisco, fire stations are much more evenly distributed across the city than hospitals with ambulances based out of them. So just in terms of travel time, the fire department is usually able to arrive before an ambulance, sometimes significantly.
Fascinating place! On a related note HONY is currently doing Iran (http://www.humansofnewyork.com/), you should check it out if you haven't done so for the intimate portraits or regular people.
If that's the real issue, then I'm in support of regulation that keeps Google from ignoring attribution in data it shows, but I would be interested in more specifics. I've heard enough horror stories about Yelp! to not take their word for what happened without a grain of salt. The memo you linked makes no mention of this type of issue though, it's about placement of comparison results AFAICT.

Additionally, the first portion of "The Statement of Objections outlines that the markets for general search and comparison shopping are two separate markets. In the latter market, Google faces competition from a number of alternative providers." is something I think is widely debatable. People have comparison shopped with search results from the beginning, Google as been iterating on it steadily and this is the result.

This is interesting: "Google does not apply to its own comparison shopping service the system of penalties, which it applies to other comparison shopping services on the basis of defined parameters, and which can lead to the lowering of the rank in which they appear in Google's general search results pages." I'm not sure what system of penalties they are referring to. The only ones I know of are for blackhat SEO, and if that's what they are referring to that's an interesting argument to make. I wonder how it will go.
Made a tiny webapp to do this, which lets you hover over the different parts of the resulting expression, to see which parts of the karnaugh map they cover: https://github.com/ysangkok/py-kmap
Fire crews are also trained as EMTs. So when you're trying to get an EMT somewhere as quickly as possible, that will often actually be a fire crew.
There's also the "Would you prefer to surrender to us, or the Soviets who are currently grinding your Army into sand in Manchuria?" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria)?
It would have taken some time for them to have arranged to invade more than Sakhalin Island on down to the Kurils, but it's very possible they might have grabbed some of the home islands, in which case Japan would have a lot more to be upset about than the four of the Kurils off Hokkaido it still wants back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute
I agree. But we are talking about average here and the parent comment (now deleted) had linked to a Glassdoor page [1] which said that Rs 400k was the average salary of a software developer in India and the parent thought that that is a per month figure. I just wanted to clarify that that was certainly a per year figure.

[1] http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/india-software-developer-s...
One can argue that many features of programming languages have existed in theory since days of Euclid and Archimedes. This article argues that ALGOL was the first attempt to "standardized" features of a programming language that was expected to be in wide spread usage. It was designed by committee of big name experts and the "comedy" part is that lot of these people considered recursion as unnecessary or even harmful. No one knows what would have happened if ALGOL indeed didn't supported recursion, became widespread and was considered as gold standard. How many years before someone would have broken the barrier and said experts were wrong and recursion is one of the most important part of language?
Depends how you define private.
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I see this regularly, it's pretty insane: if I do uberPool, my route home typically involves an illegal (but safe) right turn into a do-not-enter / buses-only street followed by an illegal left turn the wrong way up a one-way street.

I also tried it once when I actually got matched to another fare (a first) - the route was going to take us within ~3 blocks of my home but then go 20 minutes further to drop off the other fare and then 20 minutes back on the same route. (I got out when the car was stopped at a red light and walked).

AND YET FOR SOME STRANGE REASON I STILL FIND UBER INFINITELY SUPERIOR TO TAXICABS. FUNNY THAT.
If I open a restaurant supply shop to service restaurants in my city, is that a startup? Is my job to create believers?

There seems to be something especially grandiose about internet startups to a lot of people. 15 years ago I bought into it (I was a fan of Wired's long boom prediction). These days, I'm a bit more jaded. Starting an internet business these days feels a little like starting a rock band.
Absolutely. The whole public story is "decentralized techno-magic freedom money with no nasty governments!" But as was pointed out long ago in "The Tyranny of Structurelessness", a lack of visible structure just means the true power structure ends up implicit. Right now it's fascinating to watch nominally technical decisions being made based on what mysterious Chinese mining organizations will think.

I can appreciate the notion of having machines implement the transparently-published rules humans decide on as a way of increasing market trust. I'm not sure if it will work, as expressing rules sufficient to operate economies is very hard. But regardless, I'd like to see some rules about the humans who make the rules. Rule by law has been working out pretty well the last couple centuries.
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You can't evaluate every single slight variation on your testing environment. That's just the nature of the field.
Hah! Found it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7770129

That was my source (I was the parent). Unfortunately, it doesn't quite answer your question...
> And the idea of interfacing with systemd on cgroups wasn't very appatizing because it was guaranteed to lead to Docker needing special compat code for whatever non-systemd version of cgroups control came out.

Unless Docker is planning to move to running on BSD jails or fork the kernel, they have to do this no matter how unappetizing they find it, once the kernel moves to single writers on cgroups.
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Like what not tucking his shirt well enough or sweating too much to the point of having an imprint of a gun on his wet shirt?

The difference between open carry and concealed carry is meaningless it can't lead to more dangerous situations than open carry.
Did you click a different link than me? This one goes to Business Insider, not Gawker.
Those could very well be valid interpretations of the situation. If the story is supposed to be funny, it was delivered poorly, which may be due to the other problem you mentioned. For all we know there could be Citogenesis[1] going on at some level.

1: https://xkcd.com/978/
"Gartner placed autonomous vehicles at the peak of inflated expectations"

Sounds about right. I think that we all want to see self driving cars, but I don't think were ready for software with morality. If I'm driving a car filled with kids and I'm faced with the choice of running over the old lady or driving the kids off the cliff I'm pretty confident in what choice I'm going to make. Is that the choice everyone would make? is that the choice the programer made? do I have a morality switch in the car? will it make value judgements about the occupants and the external world when forced to make a bad call?

Its going to be interesting times if these things end up on the road.
the problem is that Facebook didn't ask explicitly if the user wants to activate that feature. Not everybody is sufficiently tech savvy to know what that icon means
I thought Uber used Google for back-end navigation. Is that not true? Is it homegrown?
No, I think about it recursively. But it hurts my brain. And to be fair, tree traversal is one of the things I find pretty intuitive about recursion.

Other stuff, not so much. Consider the Fibonacci Sequence written recursively.
Suspicious seems inappropriately sinister. The project you linked is a go project, the OP is JavaScript. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
The epoch based approach basically is on of the many variants of RCU (as e.g. used by the Linux kernel - thoroughly documented on lwn.net BTW).

It does mean that a stuck or killed process can cause rather noticeable pain. With a GC you usually have a upper bound of the amount of memory one stuck process can prevent from being reclaimed, not so with a generation based approach.

On the other hand it dies often voids concerns around ABA style problems.
Agree. And a business that's a "nice place to work" for awesome people is hard to find I think. If you've made one of those it'd be hard for employees to find one elsewhere.
Hello,

How early stage can the applications be?

Do we have a chance with no users, or no significant growth?
It makes sense when you have debt instead of net savings. And it makes sense when your consumables are local, but you export internationally, so now your foreign customers can afford to buy more.
In San Francisco, the Fire Department is one of the city's ambulance providers. They have ambulances:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/SFFD_amb...

Apparently sometimes they send the actual fire trucks, though. It would be interesting to know if these stats included the ambulance service.
In practical engineering (on circuit diagrams, bills of
materials, etc), you almost never see the "Ω" symbol. "K" is used for kΩ, "M" for MΩ, and "R" for Ω (as in 330R is a 330Ω resistor).

It's nothing to do with programming language design.
Sure, believing in your startup as a founder goes a long way. Keeps you motivated in coming back to work at it and walk the extra mile. But is not the founder's most important task to convince the press, investors, partners or even a team to believe. A mindset like that is only looking for acceptance in the external world.

The truly job of a founder is to focus on what really matters: user satisfaction. Working on the features they need, creating a 10x quality product, being the best at the specific area your startup is aiming at. Everything else will follow.
Yes, that's their claim to fame.

But that's a distinct issue from unregulated uplink sharing.
will def read
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Once upon a time I applied and was deemed unworthy. I kid, of course; it's a difficult road but immensely rewarding -- whether or not you get in.

Good luck to everyone!
how is the book relevant to cloud computing?
I dont expect to work for Free but maybe offer equity in the idea
Oh, one more thing: often an approach based on hazard pointers allows to reduce the impact of a stick or slowed down process, without using a GC. And while stool protecting against ABA. Another good thing is that luckily the patent application around it was rejected.
Where I live (in the SF East Bay), I often see multiple units servicing medical emergencies. I can't help but think that the extra units show up so that they can inflate their stats for community service when contract time comes.
Particularly regarding #4, a friend observed that, "people join startups for the vision. They stay for the culture (#4)"
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I think my advice would be trying to find something part-time to pay the bills, and then shop around with your other time, in totally different arenas.

Try working on a farm, try fixing cars (maybe some you bought yourself), try buying & selling on craigslist, whatever floats your boat. I'd lean towards jobs that put you outside and aren't totally miserable.

Anyway, you might find you'd rather do something else, and scratch your programming itch part time, or with a lifestyle business project, or whatever.

FWIW I'm feeling & often performing similarly (without depression), and I have plans to do more-or-less what I've outlined here. I've bought a property in a fairly remote location (but with internet) and I'm going to spend as much time as possible working on other things, outside, and getting away from this screen. I expect it to help--it has in the past.
One of the major selling points of React is isomorphic templating though, so it's a valid criticism.
I truly believe that general purpose self driving cars are much farther away than the latest press releases would suggest. Apparently they don't work well at night, in the rain, when the road lines aren't perfect, etc[1]. They basically only work in the perfect weather and roads of Mountain View during the day.

In Boston, the roads are shit, the drivers are crazy (including me), and everything is permanently under construction. Once people learn how to spot these cars, very quickly the tricks to passing them are going to be learned. Not to mention the jokers using laser pointers and whatnot to mess with them. If you think this won't happen, you are sorely naive.

I think self driving cars will work for specialized cases, like long haul trucking on highways, but for the commuter, it's going to be a long ways off.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/6-simple-things-googles-self-driving-car-...
I think a key property of RCU as traditionally presented is that writers always wait for global quiescence directly after their write, and then immediately delete the garbage. This approach wouldn't make much sense for data structures like stacks and queues where every operation is a write. I see Epoch based GC as an approach that defers the deletion to make the write path cheaper.
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CoffeScript is an abomination.

On the other hand, CofeeScript may have spurred many of the sweeping changes in ECMAScript 6 & 7.

On the other hand, are JavaScript classes actually a step backwards? Go doesn't have classes.

On the other hand, Go is an abomination.
Wait, is there a common ABI for C++? I genuinely don't know.
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A problem anywhere people spend most of their time being themselves instead of each other, i.e. all the places.
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Lol. This reminds me of communizing on my motorcycle in the rain (vfr800). Whenever I lay flat on the tank to avoid the rain a bit every human-driven car thought I was about to rocket past them. I wonder if a similar thing could happen with a motocycle. Someone on a sportbike can strike a much more speed-like pose than someone on a bicycle. Perhaps a motocycle looking like it was speeding into the intersection could convince the robot to panic break?
Agh, it's my fault.

I must have fumbled a key after pasting, as there was a dot missing; @/.git should read @./.git.

I'll add a note to the ancestor comment if I still can. Thanks and sorry!
You don't even need anything built yet - it can just be an idea! Of course, having users or growth makes you a stronger applicant, but you can apply with literally anything or nothing.
Yeah, there's always someone with a contrived answer like yours. If 1/10th the people die because the computer isn't perfect, aren't we much better off? Deaths are actually increasing this year: http://www.newsweek.com/us-traffic-deaths-injuries-and-relat...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths...

"In 2010, there were an estimated 5,419,000 crashes (30,296 fatal crashes), killing 32,999 and injuring 2,239,000.[2] The 32,479 traffic fatalities in 2011 were the lowest in 62 years (1949). Records indicate that there has been a total of 3,551,332 motor vehicle deaths in the United States from 1899 to 2012."
You should check cancer rate increased in Belarus, as Wikipedia states:
...Reports from Soviet and Western scientists indicate that Belarus received about 60% of the contamination that fell on the former Soviet Union...
If you waited 5 minutes, you were at 3/4 of a charge. Physics dictate how fast you can charge a battery, and it isn't faster than 30 minutes if you're at 1/4 or less.

I can only ask: why would you bother recharging at 3/4 of a charge? I've literally never in my life stopped to top off my tank at 3/4 of a tank of gasoline.
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I see your point but Uber is unregulated and it seems to be working fine. I'm not sure that cabs stick out as an industry that particularly needs this level of regulation.
> My understand of the usual common-sense interpretation is roughly "The actions that I take are supernatural, and are not a consequence of physical laws", which seems quite absurd to me, and I'd expect that to have very little support in the physics community.

I can't speak for the physics community, but most philosophers are ok with a purely physical being having free will.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/
I was missing a dot before /.git and can't edit the parent anymore… It should read

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Sorry!
Maybe autodrive cars, but I certainly do not want to see driverless cars. I want meat onboard. Licensed meat. Someone to get the tickets. Someone to sue when the robot does something stupid. Someone with a foot on the hydraulic braking system and mechanical steering for when the electrics fail.
Self driving cars are by no means the only solution to road deaths.
Yes, there's that too. So for busy two-lane roads with shoulders, it's not uncommon to see two lanes of traffic in each direction. Then you have overtaking on blind curves and ridges, with drivers of large trucks and buses serving as spotters. It may sound crazy, but it's an expression of community cooperation.
You definitely need to have talked to potential users and learned from them. If it's something you can build an MVP of in a couple months, we'd expect you to have put that in front of users. Some things take longer to build, and that's OK too.
> Once people learn how to spot these cars, very quickly the tricks to passing them are going to be learned

Crazy driving is itself often tricks to pass human-driven cars.

> Not to mention the jokers using laser pointers and whatnot to mess with them. If you think this won't happen, you are sorely naive.

No need to wait; laser pointers are effective at messing up human vision sensors today. But no epidemic yet...

Most of the operation of current society depends on the vast vast majority of us not being in a mass-murderous mood.
Surely this matters only if Google's priority is to avoid criticism. If you guys believe in keeping end-users safe, it's a straightforward decision.
I tells you whats: you convince Jane Austen to revise and correct Pride and Prejudice, removing the singular "they", and I'll concede the point.
> Law forbids it.

If you're going to cite "the law" I'd ask you to point to a specific law. I did a quick Google search and apparently some smaller municipalities have bans on feeding the homeless, but those bans seem to be targeted primarily at unlicensed soup kitchens and such.

I'm not sure how you would even devise a law which makes it possible to forbid giving the homeless your leftovers while not simultaneously making it illegal to share a candy bar with a friend.

Until you present some actual evidence of this supposed law, I'll continue to feed the homeless.
Which is exactly why Amazon is trying their best to make you integrate with Amazon-specific technologies as much as possible. They know that S3 and EC2 are commodities. Their other products are what keeps customers locked in.
Yep, it isn't that different than the linux sys call interface for running linux binaries.
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