skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Each of 0.32 and 0.001 is the conditional probability of type I error conditioned on the data actually used in finding it.

The probability of type I error of what exactly? Could you be more explicit?

For example: we want to perform a test at the 5% significance level. The procedure is simple: we reject the null hypothesis when p<alpha=0.05. If the null hypothesis is true, in 1000 trials on average:

- we get 0<p<0.01 10 times, we reject the null hypothesis

- we get 0.01<p<0.02 10 times, we reject the null hypothesis

- we get 0.02<p<0.03 10 times, we reject the null hypothesis

- we get 0.03<p<0.04 10 times, we reject the null hypothesis

- we get 0.04<p<0.05 10 times, we reject the null hypothesis

- we get 0.05<p<0.06 10 times, we cannot reject the null hypothesis

- we get 0.06<p<0.07 10 times, we cannot reject the null hypothesis, etc.

The type I error of the procedure is (by construction) 5%: when the null hypothesis is true, we have a rejection (false positive) on average 50 times in 1000 trials.

The "type I error rate" is a property of the test, not a property of the outcome. Using your example, we perform the test once and:

- we get p=0.001, we reject the null hypothesis. The Type I error rate of the test is 5%

- we get p=0.32, we do not reject the null hypothesis. The Type I error rate of the test is 5%

Now, could you please fill in the dotted lines?

- we get p=0.001, we [ reject the null hypothesis / do something else]. The Type I error rate of .................. is 0.1%

- we get p=0.32, we [ do not reject the null hypothesis / do something else ]. The Type I error rate of .................. is 32%
Among the movers and shakers in the scene, isn't there generally a predilection to use free software over non-free software? E.g. the only time I run across matroska contained movies is when it's released from the scene.
> I’m not questioning the health or merit of added chemicals (“natural” or “synthetic”)

Oh good, I thought you were afraid of chemicals

>I’m questioning the health or merit of so-called foods that are so devoid of flavor or color that we have to add back in chemical flavorings and colors to make them palatable.

Wait what? I thought you weren't questioning the health or merit chemicals? People like orange juice (more specifically, not from concentrate), and the cheapest way to produce something that resembles that is to store them in oxygen-free vats and add back flavor packs. Who cares if chemicals were used to achieve that flavor?
Pocket¹, and also Hello are being migrated to extensions now.

1: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215694
Double-blinded studies have debunked the idea of MSG sensitivity. Preparations high in MSG tend to be high in sodium as well, which people are sensitive to.
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Another major contributor is likely that with rar you can make a multi-file self-extractor. Seem to recall that before broadband and torrents, many a pirated game was released as a split rar .exe that could fit on floppies and was spread across numerous upload sites.

Dump them all in a dir, run the exe, and game on...
“As soon as the tailor saw me he embraced me and started sobbing,” Mr. Zimmer said. “I have a bond with tailors. It’s not because I’m a tailor myself but because they know I care about how they experience their jobs.”

On a day like today, I am especially grateful for all the "Mr. Zimmer"s in the world who respect the craft, even if they're not a craftsman themself. The tech world needs more of this kind of guy.
Yes, this legal situation brings about lots of unwelcome outcomes, environmental and social impacts often have to be put aside by a 'caring' company as the law dictates they must do whatever is legal and best serves the interest of the shareholders. The UK has a relatively new entity that can avoid this and still operate with most of the benefits of a regular limited company, a 'Community Interest Company', the 'community purpose' is regulated.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-of-the-re...

A slightly off-topic aside, but tangentially related... I find promise in the 'Economics of Happiness' and GNH work, it's an emerging term and field attempting to measure human happiness in a consistent manner, this would allow any proposed action to have a line item on the costings with a figure that is derived from the amount of 'happiness' that would be created, or destroyed, as a result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness
Was the original development language for Apple's. Portable, too, with P variant ported to 70 architectures or so from 8-bit to mainframes.
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No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate#Safety
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This is because, on Windows, you can't double click a 7z file and have it open 7zip. If they fixed that, they'd have a winner.
Do you know how to perfectly prepare tofu?
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I find this (not used for cooking, just for storage) to be a great option http://smile.amazon.com/Ziploc-Vacuum-Starter-3-Quart-1-Pump...
That's not a meal, though. It's a somewhat unhealthy snack, comparable to pork rinds, perhaps (more protein and less fat, perhaps, but still unhealthy). A vision of a future that has humans consuming insects on a large scale needs to involve meals made of insects, not snack foods that are much more expensive and only moderately more nutritive than their plant or animal based alternatives.

The environmental and economic cost has to be lower than the current alternatives (if not now, during the infancy of the market, then eventually, once mass production has been figured out), or it doesn't make sense to pursue it. It's already an uphill battle to convince people that bugs are food.
I propose the following - nutrition is only perceived to be "fiercely debated" because of research with conflict of interest.

Could you cite any examples of purportedly biased "low-protein" researched funded by that group you've mentioned? I'd like to take a look.

The high-protein diet fads are not new. You can find a lot of information discrediting their authors and methodology. Here is just one example,

> There are two kinds of high-protein diets popular today: Those that limit calorie intake by causing the body to develop a metabolic state known as ketosis; and those that make stringent rules which limit the dieter’s intake of food.

> The “ketogenic diets” cause the body to produce ketones by severe restriction of carbohydrate intake while allowing unlimited fat and protein intake. With insufficient intake of the body’s primary fuel, carbohydrate, the body turns to fats from foods and from body fat for fuel. Byproducts of this metabolism are acidic substances called ketones (acetacetic acid, B-hydroxybuteric acid, and acetone). The metabolic condition is known as ketosis. Ketosis is associated with loss of appetite, nausea, fatigue, and hypotension (lower blood pressure). The result is a decrease in food (calorie) intake. Ketosis is the key to the diet’s success, by allowing the body to starve while reducing the suffering of severe hunger pangs.

> This same condition, ketosis, occurs naturally when people are literally starving to death or seriously ill. During starvation this metabolic state is a kindness of nature allowing the victim to suffer much reduced pains of hunger while dying. During illness the suppression of the appetite frees the person to rest and recuperate, rather then be forced by hunger to gather and prepare food. Because ketogenic diets simulate this metabolic state seen with serious illness, I refer to them as “the make yourself sick diets.” As we will see below, another reason low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets deserve this title is they contain significant amounts of the very foods — the meats — that the American Cancer Society and the Heart Association tell us contribute to our most common causes of death and disability.

https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/health-science/...
Two things:

a) Maxime works on a compiler for JS, so even if something is documented to death, it usually makes analyses less precise and/or more complex.

b) Many statically-typed languages have a REPL (OCaml, Haskell, Scala); this is not an issue with the typing discipline, but with the tools available to the developers.
Thanks, Albert
;-)

Why do you think so?
> Who cares if chemicals were used to achieve that flavor?

He should have just said he was questioning the health of those chemicals. That's what I would say.
> ll of the data says otherwise: if you want to build lean muscle, eat quality protein that the human body will use most effectively. That means animals.

Which data, exactly? You can get sufficient amount of protein to build muscle on a vegan diet.
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You don't need to get a "complete protein" in every meal. If you're eating a varied diet, the "complete protein" requirement is trivially fulfilled.
> Also note that without a degree your employment possibilities are more limited. You will probably have the most luck in web or mobile app development.

I don't think this is really the case anymore. I work at a largeish game dev company and know quite a few people (coworkers and just other developers working for other companies) who have no degree and no trouble finding jobs. Admittedly this is purely from personal observation specifically in game dev, but it doesn't seem like my degree-less friends get any fewer recruitment offers or advancement opportunities than friends who went to college.
None?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/tag/hacker%20news

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/tag/hackernews

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...

Or do you mean "none" is some other way?
When that "fresh" OJ has a fraction of the nutritional benefits of the real thing, is it even the same thing?

EDIT: https://www.google.com/search?q=nutritional+value+of+jurice+... (Change Juice type to Orange
When consumers buy juice labelled "natural" or "100% juice" they expect juice that hasn't had anything added or taken away from it, especially not something that doesn't actually exist in nature.

The article was written to inform consumers about what they're actually getting and how they're getting deceived.
I usually buy when they have a promotion on of some kind -- I spend about $2k at a time and usually get a couple suits and perhaps a couple shirts. So that's maybe $800 (CDN) per suit? They also offered snazzier fabrics etc. for higher prices (although I still got 100% wool, not synthetic).
Animals are inefficient and unnecessary in food production. You're pretty much throwing energy out for no benefit.
Central banks are still testing the limits to how low interest rates can go
I am being nagged continually about IOS updates. It's even suggesting that it can do it overnight. It's not forced, but it's getting pushy.
We technies like to think that any and every notification/email/etc is annoying and is like spam. But non-technical users really don't work that way and may even WANT notifications.

Examples:

- My girlfriend keeps asking me to sign up for snail mail advertisements (e.g. discounts at local stores).

- When I was performing maintenance on my mother's laptop, I saw an annoying "daily offers" ad popup from her virus scanner. I immediately went for the "Don't show this again" checkbox, but my mother stopped me in my tracks. "Don't do that! Those daily offers are useful!"

It blew my mind.
So when a computer tells you that you made a mistake, would you get all embarrassed and apologize to it?
Build them out as dummy media boxes and sell them for a markup. I've had people knocking my door down after they saw my Kodi setup but I simply pointed them to the how-to guides and told them to learn for themselves. I'm sure there's a few people out there who'd take one for $50 or so.
Well, considering I'm in the IT/CS group and I don't use those tools, the idea that "everyone" uses them is demonstrably false.

Secondly, the fact that it's the most probable explanation of the link between facebook/dating sites, and it hasn't been mentioned yet....clearly they're not that popular.

Finally, can people stop thinking that the way they use the internet is the same way everyone does? That's so far from reality it's not funny.
Look at the content world, whether its Disney, the movie studios, Comcast, the news networks, ESPN, HBO etc. why aren't they putting their top quality content on Youtube?

Why are they building their own infra?

Why are Amazon and Netflix making their own content?

The most simplified reason - after whats happened with the music and news industry, the content producers don't trust Silicon Valley. And most importantly marketing of content cannot happen without Facebook today. And that's just media.

There is the telecom sector (Verizon, Vodafone, AT&T) which believes all kinds of interesting things about the traffic silicon valley generates.

There is the advertising industry which has seen more and more of the data and tools they used, being built into FB and offered directly to their customers.

There is Apple which has suddenly realized their user base might pay for security, privacy and non ad supported networks.

There are all kinds of other players in tech from Twitter to Linkdin to Quora to Snapchat to Uber who are constantly worrying about how their data might overnight start flowing into FB\Whatsapp\Instagram etc.

And this is just the US. There are all kinds of extremely resourceful entities outside who would love leverage against FB and Google.

Mozilla is the ideal non threatening entity they might get behind. Nobody is expecting FB to be dethroned anytime soon, but that doesn't mean any of them are enjoying the control they hand over to them. Tapping into that frustration, can result in a more even playing field in both search and social.
As one of the people who has done work to keep Linux running on an neglected hardware platform (OpenSPARC T1 with an FPGA target) I agree with this article.

The patches for supporting various functions in the FPGA version of the T1 chip were never mainlined and have diverged from the current version of the kernel. The old version of the kernel they originally applied to no longer compiles without a number of changes. Automake doesn't work with the old makefiles anymore. So if you type make, you have to rewrite the makefile. Then if you do that, they still don't compile because of behavior changes in gcc. Some of these are the fault of the kernel developers making bad decisions, like including both -Wall and -Werror in their flags which cases compilation to fail with newer compilers when new warnings are introduced. (Compilers are always allowed to add warnings later, and indeed they do.) Along with a few other things that fail.

Since I didn't want to develop on a years old kernel anyway, I forward ported Sun's old patches to a newer version of the kernel and successfully moved the newest kernel code available for the platform forward a few years. But was never able to get the latest kernels working, because the newest kernels all fail on that platform during initialization.

I'm sure it's something I could fix if I needed to, but tracking down why a kernel crashes on an entire platform before it starts init is just no fun.

Maybe someone else fixed that bug and pushed it forward again, but as far as I know the current status of running Linux on an FPGA with the OpenSPARC T1 core is that the latest kernel available is 3.9 from my tree on github. [1]

Which is a shame, this is one of the very few open cores for a truly fast and well designed processor available in the world.

[1] https://github.com/djcapelis/linux-kernel-opensparc-fpga
I'm really starting to wonder what the point of juice even is.

If you want fruit, eat fruit. If you want a drink, drink some water. Why combine the two?

Fruit juice seems like basically a way to drink soda but with the delusion that it's good for you.
Do you live in a large city? Know a really good Thai or Chinese or Vietnamese restaurant there? Go there. Order a curry with tofu, or kung pao tofu, or lemongrass tofu. If that isn't at least as tasty and satisfying for you as the same dish with chicken or beef, I'll be very surprised. I prefer the tofu version of all of them over the meat option (I am vegetarian, but have not always been so...I remember the taste and texture of the meat options).
I think the main grievance is not about EFI booting though.
I wonder if the drying paint movie could be marketed as meditation aid. Need to put "mindfulness" and "artisan" somewhere in the description.
Presumably the effect of notifications to at least some users is that they increase engagement. If you've got more users that start using your app after a notification who weren't previously using it, than stop using your app who were previously using it, then it's a win.

For myself, while I'm annoyed at notifications, they also work on me for the apps I care about. (For apps I don't care about, I wasn't using them anyway.)
>Would you serve a lifetime prison sentence for a crime you did not commit?

The thing is, if you let a serial killer off the hook because you didn't actually catch him red-handed (though the other evidence is very reliable) then you're killing innocents by inaction.

Therefore, we can reframe your question as:
"Would you let you and your family get murdered by a repeat offender to ensure that no innocents are imprisoned?"

As long as there are prisoners, there will be some amount of innocents imprisoned, simply because it's almost impossible (entire impossible?) to prove that someone did something to a 100% certainty. By setting such insane standards you're killing way more innocents than the amount you'd falsely imprison.
I think most users don't care either way. But a vocal minority has gotten very hung up on UI/UX design.

Frankly i see this as a ripple from the .com era. As the web went commercial, people that formerly learned about print (and other) media production moved online. Thus we got the "geek" persona, someone who worked with servers but was still "stylish". This to distance that activity from the "nerd" persona, that was seen as "non-stylish".

Sadly, the geek get all the attention by being "social savy". Thus a small, but apparently loud, group of people end up with undo influence.
The claim that deoxygenated orange juice has a fraction of the nutritional benefits of hand-squeezed juice is an assertion that needs to be backed up with evidence, not blindly assumed.
Is it really so ridiculous to think for-profit groups care not for interests of my health? The evidence was simply unconvincing to me - mostly cohort and case control studies with small sample sizes, done by researchers I have never heard of (one lead author's credential was a degree in exercise physiology, for example). Compounded by the fact these individuals were paid money to seek out certain results, I simply find the whole of "evidence" to be laughable. If high-protein diets are truly so magical, why is it the World Health Organization recommends just 10% or fewer calories be derived from protein, and the majority from carbohydrates (fruit, vegetables, etc.)? Is there any recognized nutritional authority or respectable medical group which supports these sponsored, high-protein diet findings?
I'll bite :-)

Name two that have the current stock price artificially inflated by destroying the long term company value.
If they want it then they'll say "yes" when you ask them if they want it. Much simpler than trying to determine the consequences of unsolicited messages.
It seems awfully silly to argue that it costs the same once you add in the price of a retail monitor. You're just saying that the price of the computer is negligible to the setup. They don't manufacture the peripherals, it's weird to blame them for not magically also dropping the price of those other things that they don't make or sell. Besides, it's pretty easy to get free mouse/keyboard/screen via donations from companies or individuals who upgrade if you're that worried about cost.
The argument given here that they should prioritize "obesity, cancer and heart disease" more is ridiculous. Those are a lot harder to deal with than diseases that you can just vaccinate against, like measles or polio -- so, given a finite number of philanthropic dollars, anyone halfway reasonable is going to prioritize the stuff that gives more bang for the buck.
I currently work in a French administration predicting which companies are likely to hire in the next 6 months (in France).

It's a long-term freelance gig in a joint venture between the french secretary of economy and the national unemployment agency.

My job title is officially Lead Developer for the project but since we're such a small team (the idea is to borrow the organisation and process of a startup in a big french administration, bypassing their hellish processes), I also help in copywriting, system administration, monitoring, and the most interesting : machine learning using a huge amount of economic/recruitment data to predict which companies will hire. We have pretty good results!

It's a great gig and hopefully of social value to France which needs it at the moment (unemployment is at an all-time high right now).
That sounds interesting! Could you tell what problems are vehicle data companies trying to solve? Haven't heard about this field before :) thanks!
Worth it just for the water bear gif. Fascinating history.
I'm not disputing that it can be a win, I'm simply saying that more basic principles like "don't spam people" should override that.
What are the use cases for this kind of data?
Yeah, my experiences reflect this as well. Personally, I only opt-in to 2 retailer notifications. They both reliably send me offers which I deem valuable. Everything else is nothing short of a nuisance and I opt-out almost immediately. I get overly irritated about this sort of thing :)
While not quite to the same level of obfuscation, your suggestion reminded me of this project:
http://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/
Its essentially port knocking with a single encrypted packet.

Haven't tried it (yet) myself but sounds interesting.
Do you have evidence for that? I prefer freshly squeezed juice because it tastes better, but processing like this allows for cheap juice to be available in large quantities year-round, which also has value.
I never understood how the companies expect these films to work in the long run. Essentially, they eagerly portray themselves (and the legal system they control) as a dark, Nazi-like totalitarian force with lowly filesharers being the persecuted underclass. I'm sure fear is the message, but doesn't it hurt them more in the long run? Who would willingly buy products from this regime?
Hmm, I would disagree. Data Structures and Algorithms, definitely. Linear Algebra, maybe, for certain jobs. Computational Topology? No way. Totally unnecessary unless you are going into academia or a very specific subfield. It is not even standard for most undergraduate CS curriculums.
Done. Submitted title was "Zano Drones: how they squandered $3.5M then failed to fly".

Submitters: please don't use the titles of HN submissions to editorialize.
His words reminded me of the writing of Sumantra Ghoshal:
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2005/07/23/ghoshal
What percentage of users actually ask developers for notifications? This submission highlights a fundamental problem with notifications on iOS: there are very few fine-grained settings for notifications and very little feedback for annoying notifications. If I find certain app notifications annoying, there's very little I can do past turning off notifications for that app.
I speak from my experience flying in Europe, every airline that I've flew with boards first slower customers, business and the rest of the customers. I figured the US would be the same, wrong assumption.
If you have .7z files associated with 7z File Manager, it will open on double click. Is that not the default on installation?