skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All good stuff. Thanks. I'm just saying, don't make publication a requirement for graduation.

I'm not a statistician, but as I understand it, a problem with the p value is that the standard calculation hinges on assumptions that are not necessarily met by the data, and if those assumptions were correctly accounted for, p would be higher.

If p < 0.05, and in practice 50% of published results are bunk, then regardless of the underlying math, a practical rule of thumb seems to be: Multiply p by 10.
So to make true backups, is one limited in practice to tapes and DVDs?
It rightfully shames tribal thought that attempts to masquerade as "scientific." There is value in shaming uncritical thinking.
> That you can still order when you are short on cash is a great argument against leaving the tip up to the customer (the driver gets screwed on ~100% of those orders).

If you get paid in tips only sure but around here it's minimum wage + tips. No-tip order still pays to your employer - of course it sucks for you but it still keeps the business going.

>(In USA, the delivery person probably can't get away with reporting nothing to the IRS, they will have to declare some tip income or risk getting chased around)

I meant reporting to the owner and waiting to get the money back trough paycheck.
Well, critics warned it was a scam and crowdsourcing funding was a way to bypass legit medical processes and review. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt, but a year's silence doesn't look great.
Isn't Sweden the country that was trying to extradite Julian Assange? If their Supreme Court judges can come up with probabilities greater than 100%, then I seriously fear for their justice system!
> Outside of very short intervals, I've yet to meet a single person (myself included) in mentally demanding jobs who actually increase their productivity more than very marginally (in terms of work accomplished in a week) this way. I'm sure exceptions exists, but in 20 years in development and operations work I've yet to meet them.

I think this rule-of-thumb holds true when you are doing intellectually stimulating, challenging work that requires that you be your "best self".

Unfortunately there are a lot of jobs out there, the great majority of jobs in point of fact, where marginal productivity doesn't drop off precipitously past 40 or 60 or even 80 hours. Investment banking comes to mind....
There's also the question of whether or not people need rescuing. Simply because you see somebody adrift, even if they're waving their arms, doesn't mean it's necessarily a true emergency. And now we would make container ships stop and investigate? That doesn't work.

Still, even if the data was simply collected and logged, perhaps others could sift through it for clues about where rescues might need to take place. With the cost of cameras and bandwidth continuing to go down, it wouldn't be a crazy expensive thing to install.
I'm curious about the long-term health affects from such an experience. The parasites sound particularly nasty. [edit] It would be nice to know if he is expected to recover his physical health or if he is left with chronic conditions.

raw birds had infected his liver with parasites. Alvarenga believed the parasites might rise up to his head and attack his brain
I've studied this one a few times and it's very much a positive feedback loop.

Rewind to 2005: Django and Rails had just been released. PHP had already been out for 10 years and there were dozens of large systems - PostNuke, phpBB, WordPress, Drupal - that were already out there being useful.

For many hosts, their customers wanted to get a blog, forum, etc online quickly and easily. The vast majority were written in PHP, so they set up with PHP by default. Throw in the fact that most of these companies deployed Cpanel (or similar) with one-click installers like Fantastico, etc - which dealt with PHP exclusively iirc - and it was a no-brainer.

The availability of apps drove PHP deployments.

The sheer number of PHP deployments drove the installation of the same apps.
I don't think it's necessary to include an affiliate link here. Foremost, I would be surprised if it gets enough traffic to matter, and in quite a few forums it's considered quite rude.
Maybe more time communicating and he could have cut out a lot of the "engineering".
Crypto for kids
Doesn't them being ghettoes mainly have to do with them being occupied by poor people, not the architecture? Europe also has ghettoes in a number of other architectural styles. And in the other direction, Manhattan is packed full of International Style modernism, and yet not considered a ghetto... because it's full of wealthy people.
Big leap to go from "global warming deniers" to "holocaust deniers". Talk about logical fallacies.

First off, I want to clear something up for you. Science is, in fact, all about the "revealed truth". It serves to reveal the actual truth about the universe around us, from the tiniest particle whose truths we are still struggling to discover, to the machinations of huge, massive bodies as they hurtle through the mostly empty space around them, interacting with other massive bodies from a gargantuan distance using forces we can now predict with relatively simple mathematics.

The "revealed truth" of our body of knowledge is just that: the truth of how things work, which is true whether or not we coax it into revealing itself to us through investigation and experimentation, but becomes revealed to us after the considerable effort of the scientists whose works you seem ready to dismiss because a handful of scientists don't agree with them. Is it also advisable to skip brushing your teeth because a commercial once said only "four out of five dentists agree: brush your teeth after every meal"?

These scientists you speak of are not persecuted geniuses who are just misunderstood, they're actually bad at science, and their arguments have, time and time again, been proven incorrect by actual science, their methods have been proven flawed by actual scientific method, and their epithets hurled at all the "establishment scientists" serve only to weaken their position because it comes from a position of emotion rather than science.

The comment to which you replied was clearly written by an impassioned observer who cares how science is applied, and yet you seem to confuse his position with that of actual climatologists. His comment is about the masses who do not understand how science reveals the truth of the world around us, and you literally stepped in to discredit his opinion statement by invoking the holocaust. It's shameful. And it's a shame, because your passion is better served by fighting for the pursuits of those seeking to reveal the truths hiding in plain sight, not arguing with concerned humans who just want the work to continue.
Why did you waste your time responding then, and still do?
If this is the only problem maybe it has a solution too? It shouldn't be too hard to make a nutrient-poor spongy substrate to carry Soylent.
Now lets recall who bought Boston Dynamics.
Because the drivers are paid a lower wage under the assumption that they will get tips.

If you want to be righteous call the manager at the place you're ordering food from and complain, don't stiff the guy delivering pizza for a living.
I feel this is partly made up for by the way they would revisit certain myths if the fans felt they hadn't been tested properly - showing the importance of verification of results in science. A good example is the Archimedes Death Ray myth, which they tested in 3 different episodes. When they claimed a myth was "busted," that didn't mean the myth would not be tested again!
In general, the purpose is to get a meeting. So it needs to be short and exciting.

You very likely have little in the way of financials that's exciting. But, you (hopefully) have exciting points in one or more of the following:
1) user traction
2) Significantly better user experience / solving pain point in a large market - like dropbox doing a demo of their product for YC. And the more disruptive it is, the more proof you'll need that it's true
3) social proof

And then it all comes together in a concise story. You don't need anything more than that.

So let's say you have come up with a low-calorie bacon-alternative that's just as tasty. It could go like this:

"We have developed a low-calorie bacon that tastes like the real thing. It's made from a blend of plant materials, and in blind taste tests against bacon, 93% of respondents were unable to tell a difference. We even did a taste test on Oprah and she was unable to tell the difference.

Since appearing on Oprah a few weeks ago, we've sold 5,000 boxes through our website, but we're quickly falling behind demand and are seeking the right partner to grow with. We'd like to set up a meeting with you because of X & Y - are you free next Tuesday at noon?"

Who wouldn't take a meeting with that story?

So that's ideal hyperbolic case. But the closer you can get to that, and the more exciting you can make it, the better you'll be.

Note that in the above, I didn't explain why low-calorie bacon that tastes like real thing is amazing - it's self explanatory for lay person. But if your product satisfies a less obvious demand, it'd be helpful to include that.
Would those obligations be spelled out in the contract for data centre services?

I'm interested in whether the ISPs have any form of protection against the disruption caused by a customer of a shared service coming under a criminal attack of this kind.
Because realistically, most of those dual citizens started out as foreigners and were eventually naturalized as a consequence of pursuing an academic career in the US.
Scientists Fear Another ‘Little Ice Age’ Is on the Way
Precipitation doesn't fall where it enters into solution with the atmosphere.
I have found it quite easy to ignore FB without having to actually delete my account. I login every couple weeks and spend maybe 2 minutes. I have all email notifications turned off. FB doesn't need to control your life just because you have an account.
Raw [programming language of choice] or custom CMS that someone's nephew hacked together and they don't care enough or have the time/money to replace.

In 2005-2008, I made good money switching people from those systems to Drupal with the simple pitch of plugging into a larger community and being able to shop around for modules and developers who wouldn't have to learn a new codebase.
Yup. For OSX, Timing is a completely local version that does automatic time tracking, down to the "open file" level. By far my favourite utility for work!

http://timingapp.com
this article is great, in a way. People pay ransoms with extreme agony, but because they are supposed to be effective. If they don't work, there goes the only reason to pay. this is exactly the article the DDoSers don't ever want to see written about them.
Normally I work 8h/day, 5days/week.
Last month I was demanded to work also on a pair of weekends. Man, I still am not totally recovered from the stress...
The Neuroscience of Despair
Oh, yes, the Godzilla mouse cursor was a great feature, and as I recall there wasn't such on the Xerox Altos that were donated to MIT in ~1980. In those days, pretty much anyone developing a window system was doing serious innovation.

There was another big UI detail that's been somewhat lost, a "don't move the text" default behavior you see with the less program. When I first visited Western Digital, which was developing the 68000 engineering workstation that LMI's first custom processor was going to run in back then in 1982, the people developing the video were spending a lot of effort and budget on scrolling of the bitmapped screen.

The MIT AI Lab's approach, initially out of necessity when they first did this with a first generation PDP-11/20 and Intel 1103 first generation DRAMs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_1103), they just kept the text in place and moved the cursor, which can be confusing in that new text is not automatically at the bottom, but is a lot easier to skim and read than moving text.
There have been numerous studies since WWII that have shown that working more than 40 hours per week only gets you more from your workforce for a very short period of time. As in 2 weeks. And for that two week period the amount of increase you get only happens if you're not going over 10% increase. So ~50 hours.

Generally speaking, those who are working 70 hours a week are doing what could be considered productivity theater.
This is why I start all of my git aliases with capital G. Gs = git status, Gc = git commit, etc.
Haha you're right. I love flock of birds analogy.. and thanks for the mention!

We've also been floating 'Software defined infrastructure', 'Software defined compute'. Sounds a bit like something out of a Gartner report though. It's really the idea of 'The developer doesn't think about infrastructure or writing server-logic. I only write business-logic, and I can run it anywhere.'

vs Lambda, we focused on the big pain-points:
1. Lock-in, lack of agnosticism. You can run StackHut wherever (and on-top of k8s, mesos soon). Lambda can't even be run on your local machine for dev.
2. Inability to do most of the stuff you do actually do on servers. With StackHut, you can define your stack completely, so if you want ubuntu with ghostscript and a bunch of weird binaries copied in.. go for it!
3. Built for RPC from the ground-up (dynamically mapping functions between languages so you can call your Python functions in JavaScript etc.)

We really are seeing infrastructure moving to a more open, agnostic world. AWS in 2015 is kind of the Windows 95 of infrastructure. Might be a bit of a stretch, but we see the cloud primitives of compute, storage, db/cache become almost like the CPU, hard-disk, memory. There will be an orchestration platform on-top of that (k8s, mesos, etc.), which is sort of like a hypervisor. And then on that there will be OS-like things (like us!)
No. Unstructured binary data in arbitrary formats if fundamentally impossible to parse successfully. Oh, your parser works you say? It won't next project after the format change again.

The pbm stuff is an attempt to specify the simplest possible format that can be used robustly in practice.
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Hours of work done as a measue of being "better at your job" sounds kind of similar to lines of code.
Climate change. And, odds are, looking out your window for a year and comparing that to what you saw and documented in previous years would show that the climate you've experienced this past year is different. It's changed. The weather on any given day may not, but the sum total of annual energies revealing themselves to you through temperature, atmospheric pressure, precipitation, humidity... that is likely to be different from past years in a statistically significant way.
Thats a bit exaggerated unless he's working with really bad hardware/network connection. I generally see ~10 seconds. Which is still painfully slow.
I wonder if the second attack was trying to punish them for paying, and a warning to others?
How Space Cadet pinball won the Windows desktop
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I think that's over stating it quite a bit.

Most people don't work anywhere near 70 hours a week. I think even fewer of them are proud of it.

The reason you hear about it is because the few people who do it are trying to justify it.
I've heard different years and that's why I bring it up....because the "science" has been disagreeing on this point. Does this take into account the emissions deal w/ China? Because that should push that figure out a couple years or decades from that 2100 figure, no? How much? It's science.

Boils down to if you believe the authors are giving an unbiased viewpoint. They receive funding from someone, no? Do those sources benefit from taxing emissions?
I don't get what this bigger trend is that shows how humans will be slaves for technology. Could you explain please?
Indeed, the LM-2 was a repacked MIT AI Lab CADR, the 2nd version and the first to be put in serial production. As I recall being told, the wirewrap CPU and wirewrapped peripheral cards (Chaosnet LAN, disk controller and video) were converted to Multiwire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed_circuit_board#Multiwir...), and the Multiwire memory cards were converted to PCBs (everyone wanted lots of DRAM). And of course packaged in something more convenient than a full height 19 inch rack.

As I recall, Symbolic ordered up parts and did 50 of them, and LMI 25 CADRs, and both really wished they'd planned on doing more of them. Although LMI perhaps more, we had at any one time around 3 CADRs in house, which were mainly used for CAD for designing the LMI LAMBDA, and some Z-80 CP/M machines to do documentation and the like.
I've gotten rid of my Facebook account probably about two years ago now, and I haven't missed it since. I always thought it would be essential in keeping ties with old friends, but I've found that I naturally stay connected to those I care about regardless of Facebook.

I use twitter regularly, but it's mostly to keep track of my interests rather than social connections.
In retrospect, my comment's language was probably a bit harsh. I just always felt like Norm and Will got trampled a little during the buyout and made the best of a tough situation (from an "ego" point of view, given what they had turned the site into).

To be honest, adding the Mythbusters most likely gained them quite a few new fans and, at a minimum, more page views than they were receiving previously.
Don't be, I learned trough being pushed in to art classes from young age that most of "high culture" boils down to pretentious people trying to show how superior they are to uneducated plebeians.
The difference is that planet.com will give a picture per day; every day.

1x1m is what they claim and if you get one image a day i recon one could use some statistical analysis and get better results.

I do recognize that it wont be easy despite that. Image all the shit that is floating around that is not a shipwreck.
Maybe every year she received several rejection letters telling her just how close she came to making it. I remember getting a few "you were one of X finalists so please try again next year" letters; they made it really difficult to move to industry and really easy to think that all would work out in my favor if I just stuck around for another year.
Mr. Buffett on the Stock Market (1999)
In my mental model, rescues differ from stowaways in that the rescued would likely be glad to pay for any fines incurred whereas that's almost certainly not true of stowaways.

But, as has been said over and over in these threads: it's one thing to make commentary on the Internet and quite another to be there and have to choose.
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I agree. Personally I generally don't believe most people are capable of even meeting 37-40 hours a week of productive time. 30 maybe.

Sitting in a desk for 40 hours (or 60 or 80), sure. Doing work spread out over that time, sure.

But none of my most productive time periods have ever coincided with the time periods I've put in the most hours. And I've yet to see someone get through a 37 or 40 hour work without spending a substantial proportion on them zoning out with non-work stuff or just being slow and lacking in concentration from time to time. Or both. The longer the work, the worse it gets.

These days, I do sometimes still put in ridiculous weeks, but they are rare, and they are often explicitly with the trade-off that I know I'll take productivity hits and where I carefully schedule naps and caffeine etc. accordingly in order to be productive when it counts and "phone it in" when I can get away with merely being physically present (e.g. when someone drags me to meetings I know there's no real reason for me to be at).

In my experience with long weeks like that, most of the time the reason for the long hours is usually 90% about politics and meeting room posturing and someone panicking than it is about actual productivity benefits. It may be worth putting up with occasionally to humour someone important enough to your income, but these days I refuse to let it be a major part of my life.

There are the rare exception where there are genuine crises that really actually need everyone to be present for long periods, but if they are frequent, something is very wrong. In 20 years, apart from dealing with alerts keeping me awake for a few hours here and there, and where I compensate by according rest afterwards, I've maybe experienced 2-3 extended periods of excessive working hours for multiple days after each other where it was actually necessary.
Caution. Behind tools like Rescuetime is the idea that our work can be boiled down to time and motion studies. In software, there isn't a strong relationship between time spent and the value created. Much of our best work is conceived or discovered when we're not writing code, often not even thinking about code, but dreaming or distracting ourselves. It is a generally highly creative field and where it isn't creative it is of low value.
If you're genuinely interested in an answer, then like a sibling said, its "neither". Colonialism wasn't as inevitable as its made out to be, and the countries that were colonized weren't "uncivilized" or "barbaric": things that world history (amazingly) continues to propagate.

e.g. Colonialism in India was an incredible amount of good luck and some wily statesmanship, and not due to lack of technological progress. Once the country was colonized, the British had an ulterior interest in preventing industrial development and the concomitant economic progress.
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Anyone else could drive up there as well.
I know what you are saying as I have spent plenty of time "completey alone" in mountains in Europe. But to me the type of remoteness we got there, knowing that its actually going to be quite an effort for other people to get there is somewhat special.
Historians searching for Victorian crimes
Theoretically maybe, but I'm sure they'll be using a mixing service to obfuscate the destination(s).
I think WPEngine has the same advantages as wp.com hosting but with more flexibility.
I gotta warn my friends about this!
A Rose in a Glass by Any Other Name Is a Crack Pipe (2012)
The Reuter concession
Yes, APK size is still critical. We still see a huge amount of people owning and running cheaper devices which have problems installing large apps.

Your friends with 700EUR phones aren't really all of the market and there's still enough devices out there that will not successfully install a 30+MB APK. And that's not even talking about how wasting users storage for things he doesn't need (just because you're a bit lazy) is just... wrong.
See also the NRRD format which is a generalisation to higher dimensions.
http://teem.sourceforge.net/nrrd/
Or, you know, just spit into the soylent as you're constituting it?
Well, I guess my point is if menial tasks are so cheap, that type of work will basically be worth nothing to humans.

On the other hand, people will still need places to live, to store food/goods and spaces for recreation. Land and personal space will also become more scarce with larger future populations.
"the curse of capitalism" - I guess it's the curse of the media-driven society.
That's a completely different argument from the one you gave before, and it's a justification for "why to tip, given the system exists", rather than "why this is a good system", which was my original question.
Ask HN: How do I evaluate my equity offer?
I just got an offer from a late-stage startup, that is offering me a small number of shares at a strong price (the latest valuation is already 2x the strike price I would get).

But, if I give up some portion of my salary, I can get more equity.

How do you think about this trade-off? What inputs do I need to ask the company for?

Thanks!