skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my products was featured on product hunt in it's early days (no idea who submitted it). I remember thinking then - "well, cool, but people looking for new products are not really my target market."

Has anyone seen any value come from PH?
You aren't in a position to demand anything.

And, admit it -- you didn't look that hard. In fact, your research was so weak, that you failed to point out additional Cato-published opinions re:lead -- literally in the top google search results for the appropriate terms. Failing to do research when being critical is not anyone else's problem but your own.

If you want to apply your skepticism correctly, the point is to test your own beliefs, not ask everyone else to test theirs. Not just reading from the sources that make you comfortable or attacking easy marks, but reading sources you disagree with, with a generous attitude and thinking about the hard questions related to those.

A lot of the time, you'll find you are correct! And then when someone says something you know is incorrect, you'll actually have something to say, rather than asking them to say it for you. Otherwise, one should not be happy with following a fixed ideology, and you should be happy when people point out flaws -- as no one is happy with a clock that is correct only half the time.
>"The only way to measure the size of genuine placebo effects is to compare in an RCT the effect of a dummy treatment with the effect of no treatment at all."

This is just wrong, the following procedure would be much more convincing than a RCT:

Decide what you are measuring, collect group of people A, measure it, give people placebo, measure it again, record results. Then repeat under different circumstances with a different group of people B. Maybe even go back and do A again. Are you getting consistent measurements? Good.

Now come up with an explanation for why the results have that distribution, sources of variation, etc. Use that to quantitatively predict what should be seen a new group of people C. Now go check group C. Did it match the predictions? If so, good, keep at it.

Make a prediction for group D. Do the group D results match? If so, you are probably interpreting the results right.
Better expensive than not for sale.
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I'm finding it very difficult due to the sheer number of choices. Angular 2 supports ES5, ES6, TypeScript, and Dart. It's hard enough evaluating what our upgrade path will be from Angular 1.x, let alone which language we should end up using.

I kind of have a feeling that by the time we actually need (and have the resources) to upgrade or even start mixing in Angular 2 on our project, native browser support for ES6 will be close enough to complete that we won't need a transpilation step. That might be a nice time to do the migration.

Looking forward to hearing what other devs end up using.
Since it's apparently obligatory that someone gripe about this on every single thread mentioning Firefox, I will post the obligatory link to the Bugzilla thread where they are working on breaking Pocket out into an add-on: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215694
Maybe it's my lack of experience with Bash, but I feel the same way. While I generally find most interpreted languages easy to parse, bash just looks like Greek to me. I'd be curious to know what advantages a Bash script would have over, say, a Python script (aside from the obvious Python dependency).
I was wondering the same thing; I had to check on wikipedia that indeed consumer-grade 64 bit processors were on the market in 2003 (AMD Athlon 64). I also remember Windows XP and Mandriva had support for 64 bit processors at the time. This launch doesn't feel like the celebration it should be.
Has the release happened yet that removed the ability to use unsigned extensions? I think this version is no longer safe to upgrade to if you want to keep that ability. As I understand it the behavior can't be disabled with a setting.
Well, test it on iOS 8 if you can, because I've noticed that all apps with Listview (don't know how it's called on iOS) stutter when scrolling. Not flick scroll, but when you keep the finger on the screen and swipe and down. For instance Twitter app, Settings app (in Cellular data particularly).
I guess the way the world works is that there's a certain amount of meritocracy in any given system, but it only accounts for like 20% of success.
I imagine it's mostly for companies looking to attract investors, not customers.
I don't know why the release was so late, but I'd speculate that it took a while to find enough compelling reasons to go from 32 to 64 bits on Windows. Having run Waterfox, the third-party 64-bit build for Windows, for some time along with the 64-bit version of IE, I haven't seen any real difference in performance relative to the 32-bit versions of those browsers.
I love love love tiddlywiki. I've been using it for probably 6 or 7 years now. It's simply amazing.
Nope, it's got useful applications in the real world in, say, chemical compound databases.
I don't think so, the actor is supplying the 'raw materials', this is another tool for the director to achieve the truest representation of their vision, actors might appreciate not having to do an entire retake due to one duff line, they still get paid :)
Not all that long actually. A century or so should do it.
This is how I think Shark Tank and Dragon's Den work too. The "sharks" all parade their new products on TV under the guise of entertainment, and throw in a couple silly/heartwarming ideas and people.
>the same argument was made about the industrial revolution.

A bit of a specious comparison which assumes that the degree and quality of the technology are irrelevant.

There was no Deep Mind during the Industrial Revolution.
Something tells me the remodeling isn't the reason nobody wants to build a startup there.
> I doubt Wikimedia Deutschland would fare well
> if their US-based parent organisation disregarded
> rulings of German courts.

Well, this has always been the interesting case with these lawsuits against Wikipedia/Wikimedia. The local chapters do not in any way run their respective language editions. After all, why would the Wikimedia Germany and not the Austria or Switzerland chapter run the German Wikipedia?

Even if the heat was turned up on Wikimedia Deutschland as a result of something like this they'd be unable to dictate what goes into their language editions of Wikipedia. The local chapters simply have nothing to do with the editorial policy.

There are plenty of German speakers who edit Wikipedia who live outside of Germany, some even live in the U.S. Is a German court ruling going to decide whether a German speaker living in the U.S. can insert factual information into a U.S.-hosted encyclopedia article about some subject pertinent to Germany?

The entire legal framework around this sort of thing is based on the assumption of locally published paper media, and it's really interesting to see how these cases are treated in the Internet age where it's not a case of local publishing in your country, but your citizens fetching foreign-published information over international boundaries.

So I'm genuinely curious to know what their standing in the case was considered to be.
It looks like it supports sizing:

> "Going beyond the system font, iOS has dynamic type behavior, which can provide an additional level of fit and finish to your content. These text styles identify more than simply a particular font family; instead, they represent an entire style, including size and weight. "

Note that "dynamic type" in Apple vernacular refers specifically to the variable-sizing accessibility feature, so I'm pretty sure this does what you'd want.
I'm very impressed with the power Visual Studio Code offers for developing JS/TS projects. Do you do all of your development in the .NET flavour of Visual Studio?
Why don't they call human trafficking slavery? Once I realized that it was basically that, it made a lot more sense.

I think PR wise you would get far more support in the public if you called it what it was.
Part of the problem is being given an assignment two weeks before a ship date. I know people do stuff like that all the time but that's hardly an excuse (we do terrible things to each other all the time so it's okay?)

The author is already screwed before he even has a chance to start.
I am not comparing it to Eclipse.. because when I did Spring development I used vim + sublime.
Lithium batteries are not portable, hydrogen can be. With sufficient solar power generation that forty odd percent efficiency would become a non issue.
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That was in reach of my Nokia N900 in 2009. 32GB internal storage with a 32GB SD card. We've gone backwards*

* Yes, it'd fit on any 128GB device, I guess.
I think what works even better is to have "permission" to gradually change both the old and the new. It can drastically simplify the process of creating a replacement, if you're only replacing a slightly more sane version of the original instead of the actual original.
For what it's worth, the actual term for this is the 'marginal product of labor'. It is a type of economy of scale, so I wouldn't say it's confusing, but it is a little weird to describe this way.
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That's an interesting statement considering you like to use links from nutritionfacts.org, written and run by a questionable [1][2] indivdual, Michael Gregor with an obvious bias towards vegetarian/vegan diets.

[1]https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/death-as-a-foodborne-il...

[2] http://www.humanewatch.org/hsus_doc_exposed_as_schlock/
No, NativeScript is a Telerik product. Angular is a Google/ Open Source project. I'm not sure how they are related, I haven't seen anyone use the two in conjunction.
Seems like a 8 dollar add for their promotional services, really.
Funny to see you downvoted, have an upvote instead. Reality is a harsh mistress apparently. Makes you wonder if the same people that are harping on promoting science and only trusting in the facts are the ones that would downvote a comment that is about as factually true as possible. Uploading and resurrection are - for now - hard SF and well over the horizon of the final sunset for everybody living today.
The only issue with red meat would be the carcinogens that come from burning or charring. Saturated fat isn't the evil the FDA once thought it was.

There are also a ton of studies that suggest that one of the leading indicators for wellness and longevity is total lean mass, and protein is a fundamental building block for this. There simply isn't a way to eat a whole foods diet and put on muscle mass--you have to supplement with a bunch of pea protein and the like. And vegan/vegetarian diets are notoriously high in carbohydrates and low in fat and protein. Not necessarily a great recipe for wellness.

Add to that the androgenic affects that meat (and dairy) produce, and there isn't much that compares. And part of the reason why meat carries some association with cancer is its growth producing effects.

Of course, overeating and being sedentary is one of the worst things you can, regardless of if it's meat or not.
That's how America works unfortunately.
I am pretty sure that most CS students don't have the algebra background to understand what's going on in this algorithm. I've taken a year's worth of algebra and the algorithm still relies on stuff that I don't get.

Edit: and most CS programs do not emphasize traditional math anyways. No analysis, some linear algebra, very very little abstract algebra, and that's pretty much it.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/ has a similar model, although by the nature of the content it may not be that easy to read if you don't have a certain level of scientific education.
Well I made a command-line Go program that processed a 10+GB XML file, made some computations, and put it in a JSON Redis structure. It had zero bugs, with months of development. I made it myself, so you can have zero bugs if you do things yourself. The point where you have to work with others results in bugs.
Using Job DSL + Jenkins Job Builder here, trying to move as much stuff off Jenkins as possible.
'Devastating' flaw found in Windows' authentication system
Then they should have had a big fat "begin playing game" button for the browser, and turned it off the rest of the time. The user should still be in control.
Ah, the 29.3GB PBF might be better, I don't know about the CPU/RAM requirements of it though.
Websites like https://clara.io and https://www.onshape.com/ really appreciate having a 64 bit browser. Loading a large model on a 32-bit browser often results in random crashes.
This is probably very context dependent, because I've learned the opposite.

For example, I was rewriting/consolidating a corner of the local search logic for Google that was spread throughout multiple servers in the stack. Some of the implementation decisions were clearly made because of the convenience of doing so in a particular server. But when consolidating the code into a single server, the data structures and partial results available were not the same, so re-producing the exact same logic and behavior would have been hard. Realizing which parts of the initial implementation were there because it was convenient, and which were there for product concerns let me implement something much simpler that still satisfied the product demands, even if the output was not bitwise identical.
Yes, Skeptical Science. See:

https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php
I don't want to pigeonhole it, I want to buy it and read it! Which book was that?

(For the first half of the description, I was sure I knew what it was, but hesitate to say so out loud because that would be a spoiler.)
I hope with all that cash laying around they'll hire some developers to invest in software quality, performance and stability, specially on iOS.

Cook seems to have forgotten that it was iOS that brought the customers, not shiny bricks with high margins.
I haven't been rigorous about testing it, but I think Inbox messes with mine too. Firefox will eat an entire CPU core for multiple seconds every time I click in any text box, or close a tab, or load a new tab in the background. It's the main process that uses CPU, not the content process. This is on Win7, and my only add-ons are uBlock Origin, Ghostery, LastPass, HTTPS Everywhere.
The points in it a good, but I am suspicious this is one of those marketing type blog posts that's not actually from a manager from Google.
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Indeed. And the big news is that the paper is available today.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03547v1
in other words, somebody's agenda is always being turned into 'reality'.
Because that's how the state/federal financial model works. Some states are a burden (usually poor conservative states), some states pay for more themselves (New York, California, to name the biggest).

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." as it were.
I've been thinking about this recently. Our phones have so much connectivity yet that allow them to be smarter than us. But you can be dropped in a new location without signal and suddenly you know more than your phone. It's a strange thing.

Yes I believe our phones should have a base level of 'knowledge' stored about our world which doesn't rely on connectivity to a server. Updates could be made either continuously or with each OS update, but they should happen regardless.
I really really love Firefox as my personal browser, but I always find myself using Chrome to develop/debug my applications because it's dev tools outclasses those in Firefox.

I've tried the dev edition and firebug and neither comes close - the console is particularly bad. Sometimes expressions randomly don't show the evaluated results, stack traces don't use codemaps and the whole design makes me think of the python IDLE debugger. I've also spent ~2 days in total tracking down a reverse heisenbug, one that only appeared when the dev tools were open. Maddening.

I eagerly check the release notes each time for some improvements, but I'm still waiting :(

Edit: To be fair they do seem to add interesting developer features, but on the day-to-day usability front it's still pretty dire.
Agreed, it's just not quite the same now.
PH is more like a collaboratively edited magazine where the founders have selected a large group of friends to act as a top level filtration system for "products".

Mostly what they're selecting for is "is this of interest to our audience" - of which said audience is currently mostly free tech / designery / social type things (even as they start to add more categories).

While it's nice to be featured, it's quite unlikely to bring you a large amount of traffic and/or signups. A submission to a decent sized sub-reddit will likely drive 2x the traffic that ProductHunt will, a submission to BetaList more signups and a front page HN post 10x.

If there's a reason to get featured it's to try and get some feedback from the community (if they're your audience) as they tend to be quite helpful.
Yes, the bar for a good HN comment is much higher than just "what I took from the article". The question is whether what you "took" is anything others can learn from, and "Americans are disgusting pigs" is at the bottom of that barrel.

(Nothing to do with Americans taking offence, btw. Anyone who cares about HN would take offence.)
This algorithm in its current state really doesn't; GI for most natural instances was already being solved quickly via some heuristics.

This algorithm proves a quasipolynomial upper bound on the complexity of GI.
Trying to find info on their packaging story. Last I heard the official tooling seemed to be moving off systemjs+jspm in favour of WebPack, but I don't see any clear info on this; does anyone know?

We've started experimenting with systemjs and really like it (though support is a bit limited right now, plus it not really liking PhantomJS/karma), and we want to modernize our Angular 1.x app packaging/loading/bundling, but don't really want to do needless work if we have to move to another solution for Angular 2.x.
There are ways to optimize submissions to Reddit/Hacker News for upvotes, yes. (and I've done a lot of research on both services.) However, I would say that neither is rigged; that is, moderators don't control what is seen on the front page. (Although in the case of HN, moderators have bumped up good posts which have not been upvoted, which is a positive intervention)

Product Hunt, as noticed in the article, requires shennanigans to be successful. The real problem here is that PH presents itself as a meritocracy when it really isn't, and it has mislead naive entrepreneurs into thinking a given product is "good" when it truly isn't.
The bible of CSS centering:
https://css-tricks.com/centering-css-complete-guide/

There is this too:
http://willkoehler.net/2014/08/28/vertically-align-content-w...

There are a lot of ways, really.

As someone who writes CSS daily (css, less and scss), I've yet to understand how some people can have any issues at all with CSS. Sure, it's quirky but you can pretty much master it in a few months at most.

(That being said, I make my life a lot more easier by using tools such as autoprefixers, library of mixins that allow me to summon arcane CSS declarations at will, etc.)
The downtown was a mix of boring and cut and fill. We moved to DC in 1971, while much of downtown DC was torn up, with lots of detours and one-way streets. I remember whole blocks that were just steel plates over pits. My father was not much of a city guy to begin with, but when he found out that most of the maps were wrong, because of all the temporary changes to one-way streets and such, he just revolted. It offended his private pilot sensibilities for the maps to be so wrong. It was hard to get him to go into DC for a long time.

One reason for some of the cost overruns was that Metro discovered that many of the buildings they were boring under weren't built very well and they had to do a lot of extra, unplanned, work to strengthen the foundations. I remember a building somewhere around Florida and U Street that had these massive girders holding it up while Metro rebuilt it's foundations. Who knows? Maybe that extra work helped us during the East Coast earthquake a few years back.
I think I understand the humor, but could you please explain so that I'm certain?
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How does that address the get-better-anyway effect, without a group to measure it?
No, I don't think so. O(1) is "constant" time. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_complexity
Totally agree about Evernote. Man did they drop the ball on staying ahead with their UI. Certain things that have been solved in text editors for years are still major issues in Evernote.

That said, I do use it still, and will continue doing so until there is a solid alternative that I don't think will go poof in 3 years.
One strategy that I've seen work for this kind of deep architectural change is to write the new system, then write a shim that provides a compatibility layer (however hacky and ugly) to emulate the old system. This lets you test the new system without then having to also test everything that the system interacts with. And then, start replacing usages of the shim with direct interaction with the newer prettier system.

Think the win32 to NPAPI transition.
The big difference between TS and ES6 is dependency injection. Types can be resolved through TS types while you need to use decorators with ES6.

The problem I have with decorators is that they are not officially part of ES7 spec yet, even if there is a big chance they end up in the final spec, features like ES6 modules are a proof that things can be reworked to death before being standardized.
These are my suggestions:

Take Emacs as a lisp machine, a working environment, a framework. Then start building it up to your liking. A bit of Emacs lisp knowledge is essential, and it is an easy language, though with rough edges. With org, be experimental and incremental, don't try to create a perfect system from day one, start small and tame it to your habits and tendencies. But get used to the capture+refile flow (see info).

I can't comment about evil, but I do not really feed the need for vi-style editing. Typing speed is not the bottleneck for me. When I type prose, I use Emacs standard bindings + visual line mode. When I program, and nowadays I program exclusively Emacs lisp, and exclusively for my needs, I use paredit. I feed good with these, and I do not feel a need for more speed. But everybody is a bit unique in their needs, so if you'll feel better with evil, go for it.

My last suggestion will be that of avoiding things like Prelude and SpaceMacs. Steal from them, but build your own config yourself. Apart from this, I always use a stable release of Emacs and always check in to git the packages I use, so that I will not have to depend on 3rd parties for my setup. My .emacs.d is simply vital to me.

Edit: about controls, mapping caps lock to ctrl is a life saver, though I do not know well the mac keyboard.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#EU_cookie_directiv...
One resource I would add to your list: http://www.uptodate.com/

Since few MDs can actually stay on top of the latest developments for all the different items that cross their desks, UpToDate serves as a curated summary of many medical conditions, and is updated every 6 months (? maybe 9, it's been a while) for each topic.

It is a subscription service, and if you are dealing with anything in between problematic-to-serious, it is well worth subscribing for a month. If the language is difficult in whatever article seems relevant to you, it is worth figuring out the language because it will provide a good jumping-off point to go examine the literature on which it is based (which is likely your next stop, for serious conditions.)
regardless, thank you for the concise tl;dr
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