skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data and anecdotes are rarely actually contradictory; by combining data, which can demonstrate broad trends with authority (while taking special care to avoid giving extrapolated conclusions the same authority as what is actually shown), with anecdotes, which can fill in detail by suggesting what factors may cause some cases to defy the broad trends, one can come to a broader understanding of a situation.
I don't think a subreddit is an authority on anything. Please provide more substantive evidence, such as peer-reviewed scientific literature.
I suggest re-reading my comment.
My partner just got an offer from there a couple weeks ago and fortunately turned it down. Theranos actually negotiated hard on that initial extra $10k, got turned down, then called back a bunch of times offering even more money.

Hopefully they can meet fda requirements in a reasonable time frame and aren't wholesale deceiving everyone. If not, a whole bunch of employees totally unrelated to any potential deception are going to get hurt.

Also, I think they're a perfect metaphor for why startups can't hire. They were clearly willing to pay more than the initial offer, so they negotiated hard which would have started the relationship off on an antagonistic footing for what? Then when they were turned down, they were willing to pay even more than requested. The whole thing is just stupid. (But engineering shortage!) They were also unwilling to even discuss comp for 3 rounds of interviews, and were pissy when my partner refused a 3rd round interview at 9am the next morning when emailed at 4:30pm the night before and asked to drop everything on zero notice to come in the next day.
That's part of the issue, the but another part is bankers seeing property mortgages as safe ways to invest money, which has led to higher lending over time.
And once you're at 150, it's only 50 weeks until you are weightless!

No disagreements on keto being useful for many. For those who want to maintain their weight, though, it's not often the right diet. So I'd argue it's not "general-purpose."
Can quantum physics beat cyber crime?
Self reported is unfortunately very common in nutritional studies, for obvious reasons. I don't think it makes sense to dismiss a single study for having the same flaws as most others, as opposed to the general recognition that nutritional science findings are baseline less robust.
Gradle vs. Maven Numbers
Interesting comparison bw Gradle & Maven - Gradle has 29648 commits and 176 contributors whereas Maven has 10120 commits and 47 contributors
Actually, making the user wait is against Sony compliance and the game won't be certified. In order to do that you have to get a waiver from them, and you need to make a good case for yourself. GTA and Batman got away with it because they both have a huge open world that can be navigated wherever, so the whole thing has to be installed to actually play the game. On any other game, Sony allows you to install 5GB install chunk and you should be able to play at least something from that install chunk(a tutorial level for example) while the rest of the game is installing to the hard disk.
We are in process on this ourselves. I asked this recently on reddit too and got a lot of unique answers. https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/3pzmrc/wha...

I have so far identified the following:

- Central distribution room (have this in my current house and it rocks).

- Cat6 (shielded) I am running this for both phone and data, yes costs a little more but should help future proof the house a little.

- IP Cameras (inside and out), mostly hidden inside to record key doors for security purposes, nothing creepy.

- Television cabling, central distribution room with IR repeaters and no DVR's etc in individual rooms.

- Stereo in every room & outside

- Towel warmer in the bathrooms (nice to have)

- Larger Conduit drops 2-3" in places for running new cables. So far I have laid out separate ones for signal and voltage to make things stay separate.

- WiFi of course, with likely a automation hub supporting all the key standards.

- Security system wiring.

- Temperature sensors across the house to allow me to adjust the A/C (won't happen immediately).

- Water sensors, flood detection etc

- Soundproofing specific rooms/walls, my office, utility room, kids rooms, garage walls, insulating all walls etc.

- Solid core doors everywhere

As things have been progressing I have been documenting (and imaging) all the runs for plumbing, electrical etc. I am being anal about where things are at and being able to find them in the future. The electricians will hate me in the end, but I am requiring lines to be labeled in the attic space every time there is a change in direction and at all entry/exit points. I am also requiring they run all electric in a specific pattern, not just thrown about the attic. The A/C guys already found out I am a real ass about that type of stuff. But in the end it is you who has to live with it and fix things or pay for them to be fixed and if you can cut out the hunting it saves tons of labor costs later.

So far my estimate on extra costs will be around $10-15k above normal, with a lot of that going for the extra soundproofing materials and labor. I am running all signal cables, cameras and extra conduit so that is helping on costs. I also did some of this in my existing house after it was all put together so I have some benefits of learning from past mistakes.
Here's a few, partially shameless plugs, of similar articles that have some overlap but hit some other niceties of psql.

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/02/21/more-out-of-psql/

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/02/13/How-I-Work-With-Pos...
Publish or perish mentality is insidious. I've seen some downright unethical, unscientific things in my short stint in academia. Glad I left for industry. Miss the intellectual stimulation though :(
I don't think the article conflates the two at all, it lists each out separately and in no way implies that they are the same thing, only that they are part of the same problem.
Good examples! I regret that mainstream gaming has forgotten these games. Non-mainstream gaming hasn't, fortunately. There is the Interactive Fiction community, which has produced some of the best games I've ever enjoyed; there are some indie designers doing experimental games about personal issues -- I'll avoid mentioning them, because that's a can of worms I don't want to open here -- there is the "agitprop" of Molleindustria's Paolo Pedercini, etc.
As a person with math degrees, I cannot agree with this more. I'm fighting this battle at home now with my first grader. There is way too much focus on the mechanics of grinding out arithmetic and way too little in teaching kids how to think about numbers and mathematical operations.

You can't teach kids how to think about math when the focus is on mechanical mathematical operation.

When I work with him on his homework I have to undo a lot of stuff before we can make progress. Then he goes to school and they undo all the stuff we did at home. Rinse, repeat, it can really drive you insane.

Furthermore, he's already terrified about getting the wrong answer. He's so worried about doing it wrong that he is afraid to think. When he thinks he does just fine.
Hi there.

Sure --

"Necessary" and "sufficient" are technical terms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_and_sufficiency

You described Qi as "the perception of a composite of the various aspects of a body's state as well as mental awareness of that state". I'm saying Qi is neither necessary nor sufficient to perceive these things.

Similarly, I could say "Aether carries the mental awareness of my body's state". Or "Tiny homuncli exist in my brain, and it's the job of one of them to make me aware of my body's state". These things are neither necessary nor sufficient to explain awareness of ones own body. Consequently they could detract from explanations that may be genuinely useful.

It seems difficult to point to exactly what Qi is, and how it's different from similarly vague postulations.

Whether your idea of Qi helps you or not wasn't mentioned in your previous comment, so I wasn't responding to that.

If Qi is simply an "abstraction" then we can call it whatever we want. Why call it Qi?

If Qi is not "an objective property of the universe" is it entirely a subjective property of whoever believes in it? If that's the case, I'd struggle to understand how "useful" it is.

Certainly, I can see that things like self-awareness, relaxation, mindfulness, stillness and so on are "useful". They can be potent, restorative, healthful, etc, and we can demonstrate those effects through experiment. Unfortunately concepts like Qi tend to unravel in the light of experiment because they are so indefinable. Or more accurately: the definition constantly seems to shift.

Not everything is definable, of course. I have no issue with finding beauty, wonder and awe in life. In fact -- that's probably one important element in living well.

Ultimately I don't particularly mind if you believe in something called Qi, although I find it odd, and I hope you have a happy life :)
I would rather see less standardization and more diversity in teaching methods. All of my children learn differently and would benefit being able to go to schools that match teaching style with learning style.
I wonder where they get that number from.
I think you can still get around that with some effort.

In 2010, I purchased a dumb phone/sim card for use on a prepaid plan. At the time it was the only way to get onto a super cheap prepaid plan since they wouldn't sell you a sim/the plan directly. I then put the sim into my own purchased smart phones(multiple nexus devices and a one plus one). For convenience reasons, I refill my account online with a cc but I technically could simply buy the t-mobile refill cards for cash then activate the time on them.

As far as I know, there's nothing stopping me from doing this fresh again with a new prepaid phone and then never associating my real identity in any way.
They must have deleted one of their border roads.
Ok, we added 'obese' to the title.
my initial thought was how many teens are patronizing $MALL_STORE or how many people are stopping at Chevron gas stations versus Shell.

at least that's more demographic/general, in my opinion. what you suggest is bordering "creepy".
This JSConf talk is very funny, and a little bit interesting
Yep. You can't see the Emperor's clothes, either?
I worked as a "holiday helper" for UPS during a Christmas season when I was in college. My only job was to take the package to the door for the truck driver while they queued up their next package.

I could see these drone systems working a lot like what I did at that job. Even if the driver still had to drive almost right next to the house, if they could reliably have that "last 100ft" delivery taken care of by drones it would be a big efficiency boost.
Ah, thank you for articulating the problem I have with that statement that I could never quite put my finger on.
IIFYM is a layer of complexity on top of Calorie Counting. If Calorie Counting is "Eat whatever you want as long as you eat below X Calories" IIFYM says, "Hit your calorie mark, but make sure you have enough Fats/Proteins/Carbs". It's not shocking that it would work since it is strictly better than Calorie Counting which also works, but its goal is primarily Body Composition, IE becoming leaner. There is plenty of room to improve on top of that by improving the quality of the nutrient sources and managing micronutrients.

This study isn't a contradiction. It just says that micronutrients matter, which is pretty uncontroversial.
Ah, I see. I misread your comment then. I'm not familiar with SM's product, but there is a high chance they are incentivizing participation.

edit: Yes, this seems to be the case:

"You can install the Contribute Plug-in on an iOS device (US only) to increase your contribution to participating charities from $0.50 to $1.00 each time you take a survey."
No, it's important to assign blame here. Teachers welcome praise with open arms, but the minute we criticize them, "oh you know, the issues are complex, it's not my fault". They are the sum of the education system, it is wholly represented by the person leading the classroom. Just like we blame a president for a shitty economy, so too must the teachers carry the blame for a shitty classroom.
This is great. It's one of the few (only?) platforms I've seen that handles both deployment and service-level concerns.
You can tell it's propaganda because of the rampant question-begging. The author isn't "simply pointing out racism is absent in the game." Here is a direct quote from the Kotaku article:

In the same interview he also admits that, in the U.K., incarceration is not a major issue with huge class and racial implications as it is in the U.S.. Thus, as Brits, they may see the world in a different way.

Note the presupposition: Incaceration in the US has class and race implications. That is the dogma. That is the "message." The next several paragraphs discusses the state of prisons in the US, linking to biased sources with sensational language like "out of control."

Now, you could claim that this tangent is needed to establish the relevance of the subject, but the manner it is presented strongly points to the fact that this is simply a propaganda payload. There's this:

The America justice system disproportionately and purposely targets minorities, which make up about 60% of the population behind the bars, according to the Center for American Progress.

Again this is propaganda. Question-begging. This isn't part of some kind of intellectually open enquiry about prisons, video games about prisons, or even prison simulations. This is one-sided preaching about a subject completely unrelated to videogames.

> Well, I didn't write the article; I merely said I think the author has a point

You did phrase a portion of comment in a way that took responsibility for the idea. Obviously incarceration in the US is racist, right? We're talking about how a videogame designer chose not to focus on this obvious truth about how incarceration is racist especially in the US.

PS to whoever is downvoting me: I have made my post less sarcastic. I will endeavor to be more respectful however it is worth anyone's time to study propaganda and how it works, so as not to be so easily fooled. It's important to be able to recognize it and not excuse it with "oh he's just pointing out <etc.>"
I recommend you take a couple of university courses in biochemistry and energy metabolism and then reread what you just wrote. It's full of inaccuracies that you probably notice right away after you've learned the basics.
If Sweden and Germany Became US States, They Would Be Among the Poorest States
I figured I'd share a relevant anecdote: throughout most of my school (at least by seventh grade) I did virtually no homework. Not with the blessing of my teacher, nor of my parents. But I knew that my parents wanted to shut their eyes and pretend that my grades were improving for as long as they could until the report card came home. I knew that most teachers could be convinced into letting me make up some work at the end of the quarter to turn my Ds into Cs if need be. And I knew that without doing the homework, I could still swing a 90% or greater in the remaining assignments.

I could sit down in class and be fully engaged an learn everything I need to and more. While I avoided some higher-level classes because often they were just the same as the regular classes with more homework, most of the classes I took were of the advanced level. I wasn't just coasting.

I repeatedly tried throughout high school to change my habits, but for various reasons, many personal, these attempts were doomed to fail.

I know I'm not the average case, but clearly homework is not at all necessary for every kid to do well in school. Other commentors have given the opposite anecdote, saying they did only homework and did well. I think maybe we should accept that these grading policies should be tailored to the student. At the risk of just rambling off my life story, I'm going to continue to show how these homework problems affected me beyond high school.

Despite these problems, I was admitted to a good state university. I had a 3.0ish GPA because I brought it up with easy A classes like band, and because I had several classes that where homework comprised only 5-10% of the grade. I guess that. combined with my above-average extracurriculars got me in. I then essentially flunked out after two semesters.

It's not that I didn't have the study habits. They were probably lacking a little for the academic environment, but I definitely knew how learn independently. I was just so completely used to ignoring my academic responsibilities that I couldn't stop. When you've been saying "I don't need to do this homework" for years, it's very easy to say "I don't need to study this thing" even though you know very well that you have a lapse in understanding.

I'm convinced that I would have done at least somewhat better in college if only not doing homework in high school didn't feel like not doing something that I had to do; if my parents and teachers hadn't treated not doing homework as a bad thing. Obviously it was in fact a bad thing, but it didn't have to be.
In the .NET/Enterprise world, absolutely.
Measuring distances is an always active part of astronomy, as I understand it, but it starts with parallax.

See this page for more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder
And then right back again: http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/apple-drops-computer-from...
No preorders.

Well, unless you want to, then that's fine.
Art and creative design are not necessarily invalidated due to motivations of economics. Some people might have something to say of their opinions on how financial aspects of creative projects influence the final 'product', but that's all mostly irrelevant to the main experience of the end user. If a single person created Splatoon in their basement and released it for free, it's interesting to think about, but the experience of the creation remains the same as it is that the game was intended to sell for $54.99 a copy.
Looks like you need to preconfigure a "priority device" in the app, and then waving over the router at any given time reserves more bandwidth for that device for 2 hours.

Here is a help article that explains the wave control a little more.
https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6294727#post-wave
Set your pager to let the overflow go off the screen:

export PAGER='less -S'

And the lines will not wrap in the terminal, when you have a lot of output.
Many studies measure total calories as well as sugar. The study linked above explains the correlation between the two. High sugar provides little satiety, leading to higher total caloric intake because you tend to eat the sugar in addition the other, satiating calorie sources.

You do not simply control for an additional variable when you know there is a direct link between the two. You study it as a dependent variable.

Edit: replaced "fulfillment" with "satiation". Sorry about the vagueness, I thought the meaning was pretty clear from the context.
Wow, I assumed that was a guesstimate, but it's the actual stat! Crazy.

http://www.statisticbrain.com/wal-mart-company-statistics/
Europe abolishes mobile phone roaming charges
A Dare police officer, as in D.A.R.E.? Is that program from my childhood still active? Or is that something else?
I think we should differentiate two things:

First there's state level surveillance.It's a hard technical challenge and I'm not even sure those steps would help.

Second , there's what this article talks about. Probably using VPN(and maybe some software that turns down 3G/4G connection unless it's strictly necessary) would neutralize most of this issue - because planting baseband malware and maybe risking exposure doesn't seems to be worth it just for ads.
> re-license your derivative work,

No, you cannot relicense. Only the original authors can do that. You can add on top of the existing code stuff of your own under a different license, so that the combination of the two is under both licenses. Practically, it amounts to almost the same, but for example, you cannot remove conditions such as attribution, which only the original authors can do via a license that does not require attribution.
Lots of cities plant decorative fruit trees, and more rural area often has feral fruit. You're allowed to harvest fruit on public property (at least where I live). It's actually better if you do, the sidewalks can get nasty if the fruit is left to fall and rot.

https://fallingfruit.org/

In the neighborhood around my work we have cherries, plums, apples, blackberries and raspberries. By my house there's more cherries, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries. There's tons of it everywhere in the summer and I rarely see anyone picking it.

Won't do you much good out of season, though.
Yes, but this property is probably more regularly used for ROP attacks.
I agree completely. This is Apple telling develpers how they want gaming to be on their platform. And it is not clear that this platform will be that strong a market for gaming. Apple can get away with it, but they may be squandering an opportunity.
Wow; an excellent piece from a16z! Not only is it the best piece of analysis I've seen on the merger, it's arguably the best piece of (free) analysis I've seen on any merger before it actually closes. One question: Oracle has long been rumored to be interested in EMC, and they have a history with the Sun acquisition of surprising other potential acquirers. Especially with the "go-shop" clause, it seems likely that EMC is being explicitly shopped to Oracle; I wonder if the authors of the a16z piece see an Oracle acquisition of EMC/VMware as a possibility. It seems that Oracle has the cash on hand to make a better offer -- and that a combined Oracle/EMC makes more sense from a product mix than Dell/EMC. (Indeed, I wonder if a combined Oracle/EMC wouldn't be such a menace that there would be regulatory questions.) Are there other potential acquirers here that could derail Dell/EMC?
Shoot. I could have sworn this thread was nested under Balgair's comment about journals that charge $70 per paper. I must have misread something.
Anyone's health
I'd think about it carefully and see if it had some plausible scientific explanation. I'd look at the cost of trying it and the cost of not trying it. And then I'd try it for a month or not. It's a month! In a lifetime, it's not a long stretch of time. If there's a real benefit you win, if there's no benefit you learned something. (Keep in mind the above line on considering costs and whether I'd do it in the first place -- that's meant to put a bound on costs.)

There are probably places in the US where switching to bottled water would be a great idea, sadly. Northern Iowa, for instance, is struggling to remove nitrates from its drinking water (nitrates affect oxygen transport by blood), and in parts of Pennsylvania fracking has led to flaming tap water. If you live there, it might not be a bad idea to try your example of a silly experiment.
I am bothered by this - it's a completely unnecessary reinforcement of a stereotype. I don't understand why an androgynous name (eg Alex) or a neutral name (R2D2) is not an option, if the software is not up to recognising two different appellations.

And it can create a cognitive dissonance if you allow people to modify half-assedly - eg. it annoys me that I have to ask Siri for help when I have set Siri to be an Australian male voice.
Surface Pro 4 iFixit teardown
There just have to be backdoors built into the Intel Management Engine. Intel won't disclose what code it executes, so we have to assume there's a backdoor. The question is, whose backdoor.

It would be useful to install some honeypot machines which would appear to be interesting to governments (an ISIS bulletin board, for example) and record every packet going in and out.
I ditched my old consumer WiFi for an enterprise solution–and I’ll never go back
Why was there a DARE officer at that school three days a week?