skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was similarly opposed to those but then I found myself writing quite long posts and enabled "Read more" links for the sake of making the front page useful. Google searches return links to full articles anyway.
I wonder if it would be better to treat this as a technical defect that needs to be detectable at compile time through something like static analysis.
DHH did suggest it would become a runtime check, vs a gem dependency last week.

But it seems to have made it into the beta as a gem dependency.

https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/22585#discussion_r475154...
That's very interesting. I think people need answers from the "answer authority", and once that authority is established, it is treated reverently and pressed to provide answers. As the "priests" are humans, too, there's no reason to believe they themselves are immune to this effect, even when they know how the sausage is made.
The dichotomy in the title is false. As the article states:
"This observation fits together with studies that show the best way of maintaining mental harmony during mind-wandering is to be able to be aware of the fact that you are doing it."
Which means, precisely, that it's a state of mindful watching a stream of thoughts, without exerting any pressure or expectations of the result.
With mindfulness you can do everything better, including thinking - the fact that you are aware of it doesn't mean that you overly control or restrain it. You can let the thoughts flow freely when it's useful, you can stop them (with some practice) when it starts to be counter-productive.
In Germany, voluntary Firefighters are still called to service with those air-raid sirens on rooftops. So whenever I hear a sound like that, i'm basically halfway out the door.
But for emergency purposes, we still have a hand-cranked siren, and Its an absolute marvel of mechanics, and about as loud as the rooftop-devices, while still operable by a single man.
Pretty sure author is just making stuff up. There's no content to this at all. One has no ground to make such empirical claims without showing any data backing it up.
> All of social science is sketchy

Not any more than any other science that relies on sampling humans (I'm looking at medicine). Both start yielding stronger results when they explore the effect of mechanisms that are already known, and have a bad record of discovering "surprising" effects.

The antidote is simple: never rely on a single study, or even two.
So ... my plan is to put the tuple (hash(source), hash(bin)) into the blockchain as a part of each build ... could this work?
The normal distribution is important because it arises naturally when the preconditions of the central limit theorem hold. But you still have to use your brain - you can't unquestioningly assume that any random variable (or sample or whatever) you will stumble upon will be approximately normally distributed.
Good Mathematician vs. Great Mathematician
Thought I'd put this in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGfaJZAdfNE

This is EH's response to the WSJ article. Very positive defence of EH. Just wanted to add this for an alternative take.
I would be surprised if they were not a separate subsidiary of Dole.

There is usually no reason to have completely unrelated industries (especially when you depend on many companies in said industry to make your primary business function) as part of your main company, especially when, yes, as you stated, the non-related-industry sub-company will usually look for work to optimize its cash flow, ie, to not have idle assets that could be making money instead.

An example we're more use to: Amazon's AWS is a separate company that works for competitors to Amazon's other services (Netflix vs Prime Video, one of the Spotify customers (can't remember which) vs Prime Music, etc.
Thanks again mswen
The reason for taking larger samples on many tests using "normal" methods is not that the instruments are not sensitive but that one needs to draw enough blood to get a representative sample of what's actually inside your body. A little prick of blood that comes out is often not such a representative sample. I always wondered how Theranos was going to get around this fact of life. Now as things unfold it increasingly sounds like they can't... they just wanted us to think they could.
Are we rediscovering the wheel all over again? Millions of people can confirm this. I also have ideas in the shower, when mindwandering. And also I have greate ideas when cycling home from work. At work I focus a lot, this allows me to push work and do a lot of things. But creativity comes in bursts, often outside the office, while cycling, walking, showering, eating ... but this is old. All this "new trends", are the same old things with new names. I'm sure the greeks had discovered most of this millennia ago.
Current State of SSL/TLS Security: Interview with Prof. Kenny Paterson
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(A potential issue might be people’s awareness of stereotypes associated with their astrological sign. I’m not sure how big a role those play of how important and consistent across different astrologers those are – as I said, not an expert – but if stereotypes associated with astrological signs are consistent and generally well known people might be able to identify the correct horoscope just based on the knowledge of those stereotypes, not any predictive power of the horoscopes.)

Good point.
Conversely, those all make anonymity hard to do. As in, somewhere between impractical and impossible.
I find it interesting polarized light is taking off now that we can manufacture cheap polarized sensors of sufficient resolution.
whole article comes only with 'hunches' and not a single data point researched.

it conveniently ignores many facts and makes up some, like Androids being the cheaper, low quality choice, ignoring there are devices sold for as much as iPhones. one could argue that those are sold in lower volumes, but then that'd be a gaussian distribution

also, of course economics stats are not a good fit for a gaussian. they tend to stabilize around exponential. that's why the price pyramid is a pyramid.

I have to concede that by looking at some data, it seems there is a exponential distribution going on for all price ranges except at the highest end, but that's more a hint of the product price/features space being discontinuous than we being in a post scarcity society where gaussian/exponential distributions suddenly vanish.

but anyway, the fact remains that the data is out there, even for the other field, this on smartphone is but one of the many he didn't research preferring to follow intuition. and human brain is very bad at applying intuition to statistics.

http://image.slidesharecdn.com/tomiahonen-engagewithmobile-w...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uY7kRAl6XfA/URibddfrTqI/AAAAAAAAPL...
ScreenOS seems to predate git (the NetScreen line is an acquisition made in 2004, according to Wikipedia).

I'm not sure if the older VCSs were as tamper-proof as modern ones so the line may as well be part of the original commit which added password authentication, decade before the hack.
No one doubts that most regulation has been created with good intentions. Problems start when the interest of those creating the regulations are not aligned with the population. Once given the power to regulate, politicians and officials tend to use that power regardless of whether the regulation in question is really needed.
> So for every person who moves up, someone must move down.

Standards of living and wealth are not a zero-sum game, there are plenty of situations where changes benefit everyone.
Videos from DEF CON 23 [2015] are now on YouTube
"Why Is So Much Reported Science Incorrect,"

There's my contribution. This is from an illustrious institution like Berkeley?
> "The crisis, as Ellis and Silk tell it, is the wildly speculative nature of modern physics theories, which they say reflects a dangerous departure from the scientific method."

Well, there are other areas of Science that have similar or even worse problems with speculative nature and departure from the scientific method. Read "Goo-to-you evolution". Not much "repeatable, observable experimentation" there.

If only Biologists were as honest and honed in consistent, rational and logical thinking as physicists.

I'm prone to think the historically more mathematical nature of the physics discipline plays a role here.
My company's main app (~50k LOC acording to rake stats) has been upgraded continuously from 1.2 up to 4.2. The most painful upgrade was 2.3 to 3.0, followed closely by 3.0 to 3.1 (which was incidentally painful because of a performance regression affecting ruby 1.8, so we had to simultaneously do the 1.9 upgrade at the same time which was the most painful ruby upgrade of recent memory). Since then the upgrades have been easier.

From what I've seen 5.0 should be on par with the 4.x upgrades, which is to say, not bad. YMMV of course.
I think the market has splintered a little bit, low-latency "real-time" stuff tends to be targeted more by simpler devices, whereas the GHz SOCs and DSPs are more often used for heavy number-crunching or "less real-time" applications where they may be running a full OS. Some of the delay is probably due to hardware support for things like scheduling, multi-threading etc.

As for current tech that can match the Z80, I know the MSP430 can have an interrupt latency of about 10 cycles. This can be below 1us with the kind of clock speeds many of the parts will run at.

Apparently (according to the manual) an ARM Cortex M3 can enter an interrupt in 12 cycles. This can be much faster as the parts can be run above 100MHz.
Error 451 is the new HTTP code for online censorship
When you expand...In big cities, you'll need to get the drinker's car home. In Los Angeles, parking costs and fines will dwarf the cost of a taxi home and back in the morning if you leave your car. If you park on the street, you also run the risk of being towed if your meter expires or there is no overnight parking.
Author tries to find some anecdotes that would verify his claims, without actual data of course. I would like to know for example, what is the actual distribution of money people paying for a cellphone (without contract) in different countries? Or the distribution of topics that people are looking in Facebook and elsewhere in Internet. Answer would probably not be a Gaussian but quite different than what author claims.
Poll: Why do you use free antivirus?
This article may look like science, but it's actually just an opinion. Don't be fooled by the graphs.
Survivors are few and will soon be extinct, but what about their children and grandchildren, who kept hearing their stories and were raised feeling their trauma and terror?
Or any of the cheap panel-sharing services that will do small-run PCBs for a few bux.
Haha! No worries. Mom does not frame any of my Hacker News karma points, so it is all good.
Be an ipad (by spoofing your User-Agent header)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298240
Any new dependencies, besides NodeJS? .Net portable runtime? Swift? Rust for safety?
SuperMalloc: A Super Fast Multithreaded Malloc for 64-bit Machines
Is this work still state-of-the-art, given that it has been written in 1950?
This is the right answer.

Quite a lot of things are not normally distributed. Often this is because there's more than one generating mechanism. For instance you may have a financial market where normally things go up and down smoothly, people are reacting to news as normal. But then there are also panics, where people are not behaving normally.

There's also cases where the past influences the future, and drawings are not identically and independently distributed (though Wikipedia tells me there's weak variants of the CLT).
For anyone on HN seriously interested in this topic, I would wholeheartedly recommend the recently published "The Mind Illuminated" book written by Culadasa, professor of neuroscience and a _very_ accomplished meditator. [ http://www.amazon.com/dp/0990847705 ]

For all the other commenters asking why Mindfulness and Concentration are used as technical terms - that's because they correspond to Sati and Samadhi - terms in Pali used by the Buddha.

One of the takeaways of the book mentioned above is that concentration is NOT a state of being concentrated on a single object. It's a state of unification of the mind that persists regardless of its current object. The other important information (obvious for any serious meditator) is that, once reached, it DOESN'T require lot of force to sustain. On the contrary - it's a much more energy efficient mode of functioning. That's why in the 4th Jhana (one of the most advanced states of concentration) the breath completely subsides. It wouldn't be possible if it required so much force. BTW it doesn't mean that the oxygen intake stops completely as there's still some absorption caused by the air diffusion in the lungs and through the skin (cutaneous respiration).

Again, I really recommend the book by Culadasa for anyone even remotely interested. It's amazing from theoretical point of view and even more concerning meditation practice.
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2015: The Best Year in History for the Average Human Being
Also interesting: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/06/uber-actual...
In fact it seems to be related to the "among" meaning of "unter". The etymology is similar for other languages:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=entertain
Sesame credits in china
Discussion on nio-dev mailing list: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nio-dev/2015-December...
I strongly recommend using acme-tiny for generating Let's Encrypt certificates:

https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny/

No worrying auto-configuration; no need to take sites down; no unknown unknowns.

Just follow the simple steps, and automatic certificate generation can be set up in moments.

(in fact, I'd be kinda surprised if Let's Encrypt don't start recommending it as their "know what you're doing? then use this" option)
(Lola is 1074 LOC in Oberon, Oberon is 3099 LOC in Oberon.)
Worked fine on my end.
The conclusion is to try to study about society before trying to make unfounded assumptions such as "as in the past" = "greatest happiness".
I'd imagine it would be nearly impossible to generate a collision that a.) does what you want, b.) is small enough to be unobtrusive, and c.) can be discovered in finite time with the computing power reasonably available to NSA/GCHQ/insert SIGINT organization of choice.
Really the culture they are tilting against is the go-getter "productivity" culture that puts everything into two buckets: productive, and not-productive. Everything that can be directly measured is productive, while other things are recreational at best. That's according to this 'productivity' culture anyway.
A less common question we get, that a lot of web devs are interested in is 'How do I mitigate against MITM attacks'.

- As a browser, by using a default OS and watching the root CA store. You can control the key stores on most devices except iOS pretty easily: https://certsimple.com/blog/control-the-ssl-cas-your-browser...

- As a server, setting up key pinning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Public_Key_Pinning) which throws up a browser warning if someone accesses your site with a new key.
> This looks bullshit to me

It's obviously bullshit since the guy analyses ZERO data and says the normality is dead. Obligatory facepalm.

And obviously Android smartphones pricing look NOTHING like what he has drawn, there are cheap as well as high end Android devices out there at about every price point.
The article is about relative mobility (getting from the bottom quintile to the top), not absolute mobility (having cool toys that didn't exist in 1980).

Relative mobility is a zero sum game.
Very very late for a company like Facebook. I'm not sure they needed a blog post to explain such an obvious move.

It looks like they decided to go all for HTML5 at once and avoid having to live with both Flash and HTML5 support with the cost associated to it (maintenance, support, etc.).
I was really hoping for something about how marketing identifies consumer market segments and custom tailors product offerings and prices to make the best margin they think they can get. Even so, I'd guess that for commoditized products, there would still be a normalizable distribution of prices offered within the confines of a targeted market segment.
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BTW, if all our models are no better than random, the basis for relying on past behavior as a predictor of future happiness is no less shaky than any other. In that case, we'd have no reason to believe that ignoring past data would lead to any worse decisions than any other assumption.
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Translate your/any website to Wookie (Star Wars language)
Code at https://github.com/kuszmaul/SuperMalloc.

Paper seems to be there, too, at https://github.com/kuszmaul/SuperMalloc/blob/master/paper/cp...
Yes — I wonder if Let's Encrypt sets this up by default.
>“Freebooting” is a silly but oddly appropriate word invented by YouTubers CGP Grey and Brady Haran that means “taking online media and re-hosting it on your website without permission.”

http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/108548517677/facebook-f...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6A1Lt0kvMA
Standards of living isn't zero sum, I agree. Wealth, or rather relative wealth or a class society is zero sum.

Again, everyone can't be rich (relative to other people), unless you want to go the direction of communism / socialism / classless society. So as a thought experiment...

PS. Why did you downvote, seriously you downvoted a thought experiment meant to stimulate thought.
Sure, but even comments here questioning the regulations behind air travel show that people's idea of their interest may not be aligned with their actual interest.

I have a feeling that the present generations think that relatively sane job market where employees ae not treated as resource to be used up is something that occurs naturally, and are happy to keep reversing all the changes our grandparents' grandparents paid in blood for, that let us have safe workplaces and not-too-unhealthy hours.
Admin -> select account -> select property -> View Settings (on the view you want) there's a checkbox:

Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders
Show HN: Running k-means algo in ClojureScript and Excel
Well, let's see how she responds to this Federal investigation that essentially accuses her of being a fraud. If her company really did fudge FDA testing results then that's beyond bad.
It seems simply financial engineering - Chiquitas sold the ships, then leased them back on long term contracts, but freed up a bunch of short-term cash

http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/chiquita-completes-sa...
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But that’s not the experiment that’s being conducted.

The question you ask is whether people are able to identify their own horoscope, not whether they think the horoscopes are correct, i.e. they might well believe that on a 1 to 10 scale their horoscope is a 7, but if they then also score all the others at 7 (on average) then the horoscope had no predictive power. Basically, all the other horoscopes act as a control. It’s a quite elegant setup.
Why is it pointless? (real question) Also, something I'm not sure I get entirely is why violence is like the silver bullet of cartels? Necessary I get it, silver bullet? Why? What is calculated violence?
Vayyar – low cost 3D imaging sensors
Wouldn't using a tuple in Java be like using inserting things into a Object[] and pulling them back out casting to the object you want to use?

What library was this?
change the https into http.
I think the disparity between CEO compensation and regular salaries is a proxy for the growing popular distaste towards income inequality in general.
Communism / socialism / classless society doesn't escape the zero-sum game you mentioned. Relative wealth is zero-sum by very definition. If everyone has exactly the same wealth, no one is richer than others.
I agree with your second point, real concentration doesn't require lot of force to sustain, actually it requires much less force than regular mind wandering.

In regard to you first question, he's right - if you're interested look up topic of "Five Mental Hindrances" - when you reach really deep state of concentration (called Jhana) you drop all of these. Which means that if you still feel any strong emotions, you still have some work to do as the mind is not stable.

Stability and calmness of the mind are very important factors of right concentration, however it's not immediately obvious, as the english word 'concentration' has lot of these forceful connotations. That's why there's lot of people criticizing translation Pali term Samadhi as Concentration and suggest using 'unification', 'centeredness' etc instead.
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That looks like a lot more work than the official client. I don't get why so many people immediately on the first day of public beta turn to alternative clients. I used the official one, and by looking at the --help options I easily found how to automatically generate a certificate without taking down the server, and without using root privileges:

letsencrypt -t --work-dir /tmp --logs-dir /tmp \
certonly --webroot /var/www/example.com/htdocs -d example.com

With this in nginx.conf:

listen 443 ssl http2;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem

Those paths are examples obviously. But I did that, issued a 'service nginx reload', and it was done. I can reissue that command in a cron job to renew whenever I want.

There are some Python dependencies for the official client, but my package manager installed them for me, so I don't get why people avoid it, especially when most of these alternative clients require more work.

The official client handles your registered account, and I don't trust the alternatives not to mess with that or be incompatible in some way, so if you ever want to seamlessly use the official again you might end up with a different account identity or something. I don't know, I didn't look too deeply into it, other than the steps, and the official one was easiest for me.
That's pretty impressive - we've basically stalled at 2.3 because of the Ruby 1.8 upgrade making it near impossible to bump everything we'd need to at this point.
But isn't it quite clear to anyone booking a Cessna without a commercial licence that it's different? Shouldn't it be okay for someone to say "yeah I get that you're not the same as a real pilot" and sign off on that risk themselves?
Interesting detail: the cartel guy is wearing a kevlar when arrested. Odds must be the guy could shot right here.
I'm told[1] that Node isn't a new dependency...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10770732
Elasticsearch Data Engineering
Will the true component please stand up
It's not about ease of use, it's about trust.

acme-tiny is short enough that anyone with a cursory knowledge of Python can audit it and know exactly what it's doing.
How I finally learned to build stuff with Rails
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