skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't changing the assumed rate of 50% to something higher make the probability less extreme? I know my initial inclination is to believe that less than 50% of the published studies have results that are able to be replicated, but that could be just the cynic in me. I know that the article mentioned that just 39% of the selected studies were able to replicate the results, but that could be caused by a selection bias in which 44 studies were used. I'm inclined to believe this study, especially because the results are rather amusing, but there is definitely room to be more sure.
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Just sprinkle Distributed Scaling Magic on your servers and voila! Your problems are solved!

Nobody is saying scaling out to an additional 1k customers is easy. The great thing about scaling slowly is that you can grow into the problems and address them as they come up. Suddenly doubling your userbase, most of which will ultimately churn out without paying you a dime, and having to deal not only with the technical but also the support ramifications, is a recipe for failure. As the article says.
They first dropped support for all 32-bit only machines with Lion, then some 64-bit machines (including I think all 945 chipset machines that have only 32-bit physical addressing) with Mountain Lion.
Stuxnet will always be possible. The vulns/trojans just replace having to get someone to knowingly install it.

Or rather, will always be possible until we move to doing protocol and behavior analysis of SCADA commands (as they enter the machine). And that'll just mean it has to get more subtle. If there's a way to do it right, there're more ways to do it wrong.
People are already 'liking' things on Facebook and Instagram so it isn't as if people are unfamiliar and will forget to use it. Some people who used it as a bookmarking took might not use it anymore, but everyone else can now just transport the mentality of liking things to Twitter too.
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Seems unlikely most users will see this announcement. Would be nice if it is shown to them within the application if they are using the affected operating systems. Maybe put a notification bar across the top that can be dismissed but comes back each time it is launched.
The way to tap into that excitement is by making a blog post of your own highlighting what makes DB unique and special and how you do your thing, not by making disparaging comments about companies active in the same space. I'm sure your post would get just as much or even more attention as this one.

It's very easy to do what you just did and quite hard to do what Backblaze did. Essentially, if you're not willing to do what Backblaze did here the graceful thing would be to either stay quiet, simply compliment them on their achievements or, and most useful, to be specific about what could be improved.
I'd be interested to see if this is just because it's new and novel or because of some sort of human psychological difference. The latter would be really interesting.
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I hope the memory is ECC, but don't see a mention in the article. Is it? At least the CPU (and I think motherboard) support it.
Yea, Google blogs often do things like this.
What happened to putting it on the shopping list? Or do you never go to the store?
Fuck it, I am going to build an open source project with the sole goal of automating access to all of these sites with selenium or something.

Get ready for war(in the nice, data science-y way)
Paintball guns are usually limited to 300 feet per second in competition- that's 91 meters per second, which is about what you are measuring.

A paintball weight 3grams, whereas the rail gun projectile is 11 grams. Paintball guns can shoot faster than is competition legal, and the much longer barrel could allow it to add more energy than it could with a heavy projectile in an equivalent paintball gun.
As a point of fact, 17-21 credit-hours at a university does not translate to 8 hours per day in class, plus additional study time.

A credit-hour is roughly the amount of time you spend in class per week. At my university, most classes were 3 credit-hours. This was usually 1 hour on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, or 90 minutes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. If you have 20 credit-hours in one semester, you are spending 4 hours per weekday in classes, not 8.

Depending on your aptitude for the subject, you may spend an equal amount of time studying or working on assignments outside of classes as you spend in them. But if you pay attention in lecture, and are evaluated mostly by exams, you might not need to spend any additional time.

And I will not be taking any time management advice from anyone who admits to getting only 4 hours per night of sleep, thank you very much. This dude should have dropped his second part-time job, and cut the time spent dating in half, or less. And now that we're at it, he should have studied petroleum engineering instead of linguistics. And instead of attending KU, he should have gone to MIT. And his side projects should have been Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Dropbox.~

Other people are not you. The things you did to succeed won't necessarily work for anyone else. They might not even work for you more than once.
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Not sure if this is related to the Hawthorne effect, but I could easily see more traffic with liking just due to the fact that it's new and fancy. Maybe a significant number of people noticed the change and clicked the heart a few times just for fun.
I'm with BoA and have a mint account. This happened months ago. I pretty much knew what was going on, but didn't pursue the matter. I was always a little leery about letting mint into my account anyway.
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What, then, is your workflow for when you are reading through tweets, see someone you follow/respect post a url to an interesting article you'd like to read later? Or perhaps post a quote you'd like to use later?

Copy/paste the url into another tab, then bookmark it? Favoriting tweets for later review is a substantially more convenient workflow.
Yes, would be interesting to see a comparison of new Twitter users before and after. Not that they only care about new users, but the data would be more pure at this stage.

It's promising anyway, considering the number of people who were internet-outraged at the time.
I prefer MortPlayer Music

1. it is directory/file based.

2. it supports global random playback(When I hit next, it grabs a random song from under the base dir and plays it.

3. Allows me to specify the next song to play. (it would be cool if I could built a queue like in the desktop version of Winamp.)

Other thoughts: The search works, and I like it, but it could be better. (Also, I haven't used the latest version, so things might have changed)
Not sure the Hawthorne effect can be used here although I understand what you mean.

Most probably it's more just simply the news media effect. And yes you are right, it's going to be more interesting if this stays up.
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I think you're missing how a lot of people (I would argue most) are using Tumblr. From what I've seen most content on most pages is not original content, but rather reposting content relating to their blogs theme or whatever they happen to fancy. It's a much more social platform in comparison to WordPress.
I'm a little disgusted that this self-evident fact is greyed.
>and streaming royalties

Stopping the author here. Streaming royalties are fine. Labels keeping 80% of those streaming royalties due to exploitative record deals is the problem. Furthermore, playing live gigs and selling merchandise has always been how artists earn their money unless they're one of the superstar artists who are too big for the label to let go.

Streaming services pay more than radio and have better statistics to track how many people actually heard/listened to the song. Streaming services can help promote CD sales or influence merchandise sales.

Furthermore - I'd place a large wager that streaming has lessened piracy. It has made music easier to obtain and listen to on-demand and you don't need to go to some shady site (for those unaware of private trackers, which is most people) to download the album.

#1) Few people ever cared.

>maven class that infuses the culture with informed enthusiasm

To most people, this is a nice way of saying "pretentious asshole who won't shut up that they can name any minor detail about an album".

#2) I can agree with this point. But the value of radio in general has gone down with on-demand/XM, being able to play an iPod in the car, etc. Why do I need a radio station to help me find new music when I can use Spotify's "similar to [___]" feature?

#3) This is a problem with media as a whole. For most places it's about views, clicks, and ad impressions now and that means trendy/viral/pop. Not covering some obscure up-and-coming Jazz artist.

#4) No. That's because of hipsters and music snobs who believe in special copper wiring. This seems to be a case for analog vs digital ; because there are music players that aren't media players. They're just less popular because people would rather have a program that does both.

#5) Look harder. I like the picture of ICP. Staying in the same genre, would you say Aesop Rock is anti-intellectual? The thing is people listen to music for entertainment. Not to think critically about things or have to decode metaphors to understand what is being said.

#6) I didn't follow the point being made.

#7) Citation needed. I've always been huge on music, I avoid concerts at all costs. Also define "serious" concerts. Do you mean classical? Methinks the author has a huge Jazz/Classical bias here.

Closing paragraphs: Define "serious music". I'm thinking you mean Jazz/Classical?

>Complex instrumental music has become marginalized to within an inch of its very existence

That's because most people find it boring. Next you'll be telling me people are reading less!
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Am I the only person who hasn't changed how I use that button?? It's what I use to "mark" a tweet so I can easily come back and either read/refer to it later.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. … What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?

Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787)
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I believe it's the latter, but there is no way I'm discussing that viewpoint in here.
To be honest i click the article and instagram or pocket that instead of the tweet. I used favorite for things I liked.
Yeah, and one other thing they seem to be leaving out is the possibility that the initial measured effect IS legitimate, and it was the VERIFICATION test that produced the false result - a false negative on the verification test.
I don't use the aggregators because I want to, and they don't use my passwords and screen scrape because they want to. I just can't have being aware of my finances take all fucking day.

I wish there was a standard and secure format and protocol for collecting balances and transactions built into the FDIC or NCUA rules or something.
I don't know why this is getting down voted.

I've come across near duplicates of this code and its always "that's how we did it after punch cards."
This is an interesting topic but the article is very pie in the sky.

Talking of members of the public using scientific research (In high school even), code reuse to save money etc. is a bit silly.

For starters I'd imagine code, like an arts student theses is copyright the researcher?

As mentioned 10% is getting code working. 90% is getting it working for others. Researchers just don't have time or skills. And it loses most of it's 'possible' value without that 90%

But as a start a simplified git framework would be nice. Git is way to hard for researchers and other easier version controls won't be suggested cause everyone loves git. Not allowing branching for instance in the gui of some sort of easyGit program.
I agree with your assertion that the increase is at least in part due to the fact that the feature is new, but I think this would more aptly be classified as the novelty effect. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_effect
I read andyl's comment as one laced with extreme sarcasm.
Lump of labour nonsense -- a claim I certainly didn't make -- is your response to VCs/large employers doing their best to leverage h1bs to reduce wages for software engineers? If that's the best you can do, let's just call that you conceding the point.
I think that approach to using the button fell out of favor a while ago. That is definitely how I used Twitter in the past, but now its more of a "read this, enjoyed it, didn't feel need to respond further"
You could add a line after the "$70/h", explaining that your normal tariff is something like "$120/h" or "$150/h", but that you learned that long-term commitment, i.e. work 1,700 h/year, often means a lower tariff, because of job security.

You think that passing the hat once was bad enough and that a second round will overdo it. If Liz and I would have thought that in 1994, we would not have become the first Dutch company making websites, and not getting many of the biggest Dutch companies and institutions. Of course you will do a second round. They might say no, or ignore you, but they might say yes. Make your explanation clearer. Did you go to the top of the companies that you ask for support?
> breach of contract to take greater risk than is allowed in the contract is a harm to the landlord, because it denies the landlord the opportunity to choose to rent to a different party who would pay for the privilege that the usurping tenant is taking without paying for it.

I don't see how it's the tenant's duty to inform the landlord about the most profitable way to rent out their property. If the landlord wants the opportunity to rent to a different party for a higher amount with more risk, they should go find a different party and make that offer.

Ultimately it's up to the landlord to enforce the terms of the lease. If they aren't going to do it, then they're going to get taken advantage of. If a tenant stops paying rent and you don't evict them, don't complain about not getting your rent. You have a legal remedy available to fix the situation.

If you don't want your property on AirBnB, check AirBnB and make sure it's not there. If landlords started doing that and breaking these leases within the first month or two, this would quickly become unprofitable. They have all the power in this situation.

If the terms of the contract don't sufficiently compensate you when a tenant breaks the lease, change them so that they do. I'm sure plenty of landlords have a story about how they got burned by a poorly worded lease. The smart ones learn from their mistakes and move on.
So hackers go to jail when they steal from bankers, yet bankers don't go to jail when they steal from EVERYONE?
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Why don't banks implement read-only passwords?
A study last year found a 3:1 ratio of people liking vs bookmarking. http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/pubs/icwsm2014-favouriting.p... [PDF]
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I clicked a few just to see the animation. If a lot of people did that there is your 6%.
A guitar is a user interface for expressing yourself through sound. If you want that user interface for a digital synthesizer, well, you can hook up an electric guitar to a synthesizer and process its output, and you could probably do quite a bit better if you sample the pickup for each string separately. But you still need the electric guitar! You don't save any money that way! And the guitar enables fluent, improvised expression in a way that analog modular synths don't. (Everything I said for guitars goes for violins, too.)

By contrast, the user interface for modular synths is a bunch of knobs and cables. Going to physical knobs on a USB controller and virtual cables on a touchscreen is purely an improvement, and one that vastly expands your expressive capability.

So, guitars are on some axis more expressive than Pd, and less expensive; while analog synths are, in my view, less expressive than Pd, and more expensive. Why would you want to use a less expressive, more expensive instrument that works the same way? Maybe as a conspicuous-consumption status symbol or some kind of meta-level meditation on the nature of modern society, but not to make music.

Your digital keyboard will probably sound a lot better than your upright piano if you get a good set of samples for it and reasonable speakers and headphones. (Well, who knows, maybe you're patching bells and belt grinders into your upright piano. That's harder to do with a digital keyboard...)

Also, I hope you weren't reading any ill will into my "rich people" phrase. I have nothing against rich people. I used to be one. Many of my family and friends are rich people. I might be a rich person again myself someday. I just feel like this article is only relevant to rich people — for those of us for whom spending a few thousand dollars is a significant decision, modular analog synths are silly!
Oh man. Huge flashback to downloading FastTracker 2 back in '93, excitedly hitting "play" on e.g. Chillzone.xm by Norfair (edit, actually that tune wasn't released yet in '93, but there were so many great tunes) and seeing 32 waveforms going at the same time, sending amazing sounds through the Pro Audio Spectrum 16 I had gently installed in my ZEOS 486 DX/2 66 MHz.

Amazing to see it all there in JS today...wow. Thanks for sharing the article.

(Wait...where is Nibbles?)
You're not thinking this through: they'd set up more operations abroad.
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They've only "diluted the meaning" if what they designed was different than facebook likes. Perhaps they just blew their chance to name the feature initially, and this is the correction.
> The guy got his for < $4k.

Thanks. I missed that. How did he manage to get these for 1/10th the cost? Still, I'm pretty sure a black-market handgun or a beater car can each be obtained for <$4k.

> Most of the popular dangers don't multiply the power of an individual enough. But biotech does.

I could see that. I'm not sure how much biotech is really going to be accessible, though. I think much of it will end up locked down (legally), and I suspect that the regulations will be fairly effective. There are already biological agents that people can harvest, but it's relatively uncommon.
I'm happy for them but I fail to see how a '6% increase in like activity' will change the financial situation for twitter in any meaningful way, assuming that this is not just a momentary up-tick (which is fairly common after any change).
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I've tried to understand what are you saying, but I didn't get it. Would you care explaining it in simpler terms?

Would you argue that our system is much more based on taxation than on decentralization of decision making? Isn't taxation a form of decentralization of decision making as you move the means to make decisions to a central pool? Also, why do you have to let people vote to feel what? What is WotFC a proof of concept for? How will weapon technology and resentment against conscription shape, what are possible scenarios you have in mind?
Well, I'm starting the to see the beginnings of the same things. Different departments, different areas true. But it's the same.
Cite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10538766
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I know from a product design and engineering standpoint why you have made the service that way. Every user have unique best backup strategy- it is a nightmare to accommodate all. Just proving the simple second best strategy to all is a good decision. And as I said I know what have I purchased and I am fine with the service. I stopped juggling directories and file types after couple of reinstalls though - those settings are not transferred on backup transfer and setting them all again is too much PITA.

Backups transfers are also a minor pain point - the error horse (on freshly installed BB on windows) and when, how and why it disappears and allows you to do the backup is still a mystery.

I guess that the BB cloud storage will solve some of the customization problems though - if you are power enough user you could write a custom strategy on top of the API.
> a company that shouldn't be tamed

I don't know -- a next-gen, armed BigDog is kind of scary.
> I understand both, but I'll do more of one than another.

But until I read the rest of your post, I wasn't sure which one you'd be using more.
Copyright protection does more than generate profit. For example copyright provides the teeth for the GPL, and the various CC license requirements.

In general, I think the concept of tying copyright explicitly to profit and fees could produce a pretty strong chilling effect on hobby projects and other free culture.

I'd prefer to see some sort of safe harbor defined for people to archive orphaned works, or otherwise keep track of them. Active copyright holders could opt out of the safe harbor on a regular basis via some centralized process akin to registration. If their opt-out lapses, the safe harbor returns.

The difference is that the safe harbor would be narrowly defined to permit archiving, but not free distribution or reuse. That way a community can keep track of things, but there is no radical shift in the protections that rest on copyright.
What is its status today, before it is published? It's very low, but there is a system in place to get a select few peers to review it. Could there not be a similar system of reviewers in place, without necessarily making a difference between "published" and "rejected"?
Hello. Are these positions only for German and USA candidates?
Correlation != Causation. It's a highly visible change - users will be testing it out and in many cases it seems - making fun of it.

In my opinion the main (not only) reason it feels familiar to people is because of Facebook. Since when was it easier to understand the use of symbol for 'love' towards 140 characters of text than use the symbol for 'favourite'?
You mean we haven't hit number three yet.
If that's what you sold them. It is not your customer's fault that your business plan isn't working.
The concept of making VISAs fungible is flawed. We are not talking about Werner von Braun and the V2. or are we? Are we trying to poach foreign talent so they they DO NOT make THE NEXT BIG THING?

Are we trying to subsidize our commercial sector the same way that communist and socialist governments have in the past?

And then the same companies register as foreign companies anyway to avoid taxes?

If the US really has so many great ideas that do not happen because of a 'talent' shortage, why don't we just give free airfare for companies to fly their departments abroad and recruit local talent. We can keep track of who goes where and also make sure they pay their taxes.