skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always interesting to look at past ages through the lens of the modern age. I wonder if, decades or centuries from now, the misuse of statistics and inadequate up-front documentation of research methods in science will be seen as a great scientific scandal, or scientific failure, of the 20th and 21st centuries. We should have known better, but many of us failed in these basic ways.

An NPR episode of Planet Money covered the "Experiment Experiment": http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/15/463237871/episo... and described how the Reproducibility Project was unable to successfully produce a significant percent of studies that they undertook to reproduce. There is legitimate concern that data-dredging leads to misunderstanding or misrepresenting of results; and even if some of the studies are valid science, it's clear that the documentation of the studies do not suffice to allow others to replicate it, which is the bedrock of science.

The episode above also discussed a number of psychological fallacies and errors that experimenters make. Imagine that you begin a study of 200 people, measuring some variable. You see promising results, so you decide to extend the study and add more people; you test another 100 people.

By adding 100 more people to your study, have you increased or decreased the likelihood that your results were due to statistical chance? Counter-intuitively, the answer is that you have increased the odds that the result was due to chance. You cannot add or remove people to a study while it is in progress, based on preliminary results in the study, without impacting its statistical validity in important ways.

These and other changes that experimenters make during the course of an experiment create a great risk of conducting bad science. I for one support any effort to encourage all research studies and methods to be declared ahead of time.
Reporting Scandal at the Intercept
Day One 2.0 release notes are online before the actual release
Which a cynic would say means they had an opportunity to save tons of money over the course of their life (relative to those who paid for having kids).
I don't believe that the 6502 had such a thing as a positive/negative bit that would have this kind of effect.

On that hardware, if I was going to do this, I'd just reverse the order of the entries in the scanline lookup table. On the Apple II the address of the first pixel of each scanline did not follow immediately after the address of the last pixel of the prior scanline. So every program that did any graphics work used a lookup table to get the address of a particular scanline.

As long as you were consistent in your use of this table, that would be the only necessary change to flip the game upside down.
> I see AR being useful in verticals ie "pipe fitter" or "nurse".

I do think IT folks forget just how many nurses, doctors, pipe fitters, car mechanics, telephone engineers, etc etc etc are out there. Literally millions.

Hook these glasses up with google maps and other online databases will be neat.
I'm more talking the charisma route - watch him work a crowd. Jeb does not have that. Actually, watching Bush and Clinton work a crowd is pretty interesting since they appear together a lot over the last couple of years.

I remember Ford/Carter and I didn't really like Carter since he was sad all the time (I was 6). I did get to see Ross Perot's speech in Fargo, ND for the 1992 campaign. I was amazed at the lack of visible security and his stage presence given how he sounded in interviews.
Docker has very little overhead (apart from all of the setup required to start a container). In principle it has no overhead, but Linux memory accounting has implicit memory overhead (this is a kernel issue, not a Docker issue).
I shall be sure to quote more pertinent examples in future.
<some counted him (GWB) as one of the least-talented (intellectually) Presidents the U.S. has ever seated>

That's the popular media and pop-culture narrative, but it just wasn't true. Read firsthand accounts from non-media policy experts who were there, for example...
http://keithhennessey.com/2013/04/24/smarter/

Similarly, Eisenhower and Reagan were portrayed as a dottering grandfatherly types disinterested in policy during their tenure, but honest historians later gave them their due.
I see his point, but it's not very funny.
There is some kind of irony in the fact that an augmented reality company seems so successful in presenting investors with an image that nobody else can see.

> Maybe it'll all shake out positively, but I am of the opinion that this is not real.

But after all, isn't that the whole point of it? :) I wonder what kind of stuff they managed to project in the eyeballs of the VCs.
It's going to work but it's not going to work amazingly so, probably just suffering from a low FOV. With that said, there's too much money and too many people being hired for this to fail incredibly hard; it just wouldn't make sense.
It's the total opposite of release early and often.
I suppose this is my generations basic : / Visual basic was my first language actually. It was pretty fun, built some cool stuff with it. I guess the web more free since people a share with and I dont need windows computers. And I dont need visual studio to make an application. When I first started with website dev I used to write in notepad because I didnt have the money for dreamweaver and I felt like I was joining the elite. Then I learned about notepad++ anf it felt like a very natural progression
Try this: http://markdown-here.com/
No, the oldest is to give out free advise, get a commission on the buy and then win or loose get a commission on sale.

That's the key underpinning to the stock market. Just ask any broker.
I've asked myself the same thing. I think burn rate alone can't explain it, unless they are paying their employees way, way over market rate.

Probably what they are planning to do with the money is a couple of acquisitions. I'd not be surprised.
You can use it to run desktop apps if you're as anal as me about having a clean host machine. I also use it to run all of my small services (my website, IRC bouncer, etc).
28 best and motivational quotes of all time (entrepreneur inspiration)
I had a smartphone that was conceptually similar to the iPhone in almost every way years before it was released. But the iPhone had a capacitive screen, longer batter life, a desktop quality browser, and it was a much better size.

It didn't create a new product category but it created the best example of that category.
I would love to use Yahoo! as a "homepage" and get my news from there, if not only to show support for this company because the Yahoo! brand holds a place in my heart.

... But the duplicitous insertion of "sponsored" content that is intended to look like news among the legitimate news is too much for me to handle. Trying to consume news requires enough focus, nevermind having to scan each news story on their homepage to determine if it's a form of actual journalism or someone trying to sell me something.

A major problem with Yahoo! is the lack of compelling reason to even visit their properties. Everything is half-baked.
mm yes sounds fishy a bit like women on maternity leave getting a bad appraisal.

and allowing only women to appeal sounds like an automatic win on sex discrimination grounds.

Sounds like HR had a quota to fill and took the easy route and screwed up.
Wow if that's true, this is not the way to reduce the gender gap.
"This may discourage some of your potential users & contributors, and that may reduce the quality of your project."

The exact same argument was made about not discouraging non-technical users who don't want to bother with the arcane-ness that is IRC, and the reply was that they don't matter.
> His brother was a master at the campaign trail

Really! Master at what? Endless supply of comedic material...
I think the javascript ecosystem has a fundamental difference from all other languages/communites that came before it: it is universal. Hence I think a lot of the debates raging about the right tools come down to different people using it for different purposes.

I doubt that everyone can consolidate on just one set of tools, because in javascript-land "everyone" means something different than other places. How can a tool that is good for a front-end designer who needs basic DOM manipulation also be the right tool for someone building an entire application in js and only using HTML as a delivery mechanism for their app bundle?

I wish people would recognize in these discussions that their use-case might be different from others, and instead of talking about "the best tools", instead talk about "the best tools for this class of applications".

So hopefully the toolset could be consolidated down to one clear choice for each class of usage. Then the biggest decision to make is deciding which type of application it is you're building.
I use Sandstorm daily. Effectively it replaces Google Drive/Docs for me. I use Etherpad, EtherCalc, and Text Editor a lot on it. And I use Davros for storing arbitrary files I want to share. My blog is hosted on Sandstorm tlo, but I've posted to it like four times so it doesn't really count.
Pretty amused that they use a stock image of an early 00s D-Link router on their product page... seems like exactly the place the sole non-rendered image of their product should go.

http://www.bitdefender.com/box/
Vaio to Start Selling Laptops in the US (again) This Spring
I think you're underselling the technology. The hologram appeared to be a small attachment to a multi-purpose droid that was recorded off of a single camera. Being able to record and project holograms on your phone would be extremely impressive even today, regardless of the fidelity. And the Palpatine hologram was likely monochromatic because it was being received in outer space.

The hologram standard for a dedicated device without transmission issues was much higher, seen in the holographic game board that C3P0 plays with Chewbacca on the Falcon. But in general Star Wars was smart enough to keep the technology basically gimmicky - the real targeting computers and useful stuff was 2-dimensional.
> the AR-15 is impractical gun for both home defense (Too long to for hallways. Too powerful for drywall.)

1. Actually, the .223/5.56mm round has less penetration in residential[1] that most handgun rounds due to its tumbling characteristics.

2. I'd say the AR-15 is impractical for home defense due to its stigma of being an evil black rifle, and that it seems like "overkill" to uneducated people. That's a shame, due to point #1, that it has less drywall/wood penetration than most handgun rounds.

The AR-15 is a pretty useful and relatively economical system, due to its modularity. That said, I agree with a lot of your other opinions regarding elements of the gun/tacticool culture.

[1.] In the drywall/stick-built US, anyway.
Elliptic Curves for Security
I agree. Nonprofit status is such a scam. The same way with other non-profits like the college I attended.|

Charge different tuition rates based on income. Pretend to 'subzidize' those who make less, in reality just charging you based on your income so they can maximize their endowment (corporate profit).

$6.5B endowment and still pestered the shit out of me for $20.15 upon graduating with debt. I paid it too, cuz otherwise I wasn't allowed to attend one of bigger graduation ceremonies.
You don't do it by running a discriminatory discipline regime.
That seems to be the trend lately. Most of the reviews are polluted with this SPAM now. Amazon Vine is an AMZN sponsored program to enable this.

I had a similar issue with a lightning cable purchased on Amazon that claimed to be a licensed Apple cable, but wasn't. I plugged it into a real Apple charger, went to plug the other end into my iPhone and sparks flew out of it as soon as it got close to the phone.
For pretty much any political issue the people caring are a minority (on each side) with middle being populated with people who don't care or don't know what's going on.

Those people on the sides that do care then shape the debate and ultimately the outcome of pretty much any democratic decision (as little as those are still left).
Good catch, fixing it right now.
"isn't going to affect law enforcement" - at least the way it is now (and has been forever), but it greatly affects the way law enforcement would _like things to be_.

And I'm not at all happy with the implications of what "they" want...
Slap a depth-sensing thing (like Project Tango https://www.google.com/atap/project-tango/) onto the AR stuff, you can probably get a Kinect-like algorithm to sense peoples' limbs, bodies, etc., and come up with a hypothetical-location-in-3d-space. Then the hilarity will start with projecting cartoon body overlays. Successive versions of the app will do better recognition and fitting and come up with more realistic images. Eventually you can have AR "beer goggles" or whatever effect you want.
Seems as if people have had a few negative experiences of 'pagespeed'. Why is this?

Well, not every Pagespeed feature works with every site. However that tends to get learned the hard way. Those lazy loading images were working a treat on Friday, come monday - ah, no Apple users could see any images, consequently in an instant Pagespeed gets removed.

To take an automotive analogy, Pagespeed is a bit like doing things to a car for improved 'performance'. Let's save weight, let's put some active suspension in there, let's remove a few bits to improve the aero, let's put some 100 octane fuel in the tank and chuck in some twin turbo. All these improvements - let's keep going there are 50 more tweaks we can do in the garage, why not try 38 of them at once? What could possibly go wrong?

So, the main problem with Pagespeed is not how it works it is just that it encourages people to keep going with it, layering on more 'improvements' until the website does the computing equivalent of leaving the road to spontaneously burst into flames.
Impractical for home defense? That statement is a bit broad. It all depends on your home and you. Are you in an apartment in the city or multiple acres in the middle of nowhere? For some, home defense might start with the unknown drunk guy driving his ATV in a circle on the driveway while yelling crazy things. Home defense isn't always a bump in the night inside your house.

I won't tell anyone they shouldn't use a handgun or shotgun or AR-15 for their defense - they all have their place, but I know which one I wouldn't want my wife to have if I were the bad guy. It has something to do with being light weight, very low recoil, fast follow up, multiple rounds and the way the steel silhouette made a "ding" each time she pulled the trigger.
I agree.

A subtle problem is where to put things that don't just add noise and clutter.

Look around your house or office, where would you like digital things to sit? Ok how about when you move 2 feet this way, whats the new answer for where you would like it so it's easy to see/interact with?
Anyway, the end result is that you have decided that I can’t own one of your cars, and I am terribly disappointed. ... I’m likely to just keep driving my irritating BMW X1.

A special category of first world problems: venture capitalist problems.
There are similar plugins for sublime out there.
Because PCs kept getting faster for the next decade... and software kept requiring the faster speeds. Once we got to the point of the Intel Core Duo (06-08) the modern processor was fast enough for the majority of the PC fleet. You can take one of those 8 year old PCs and install Windows 10 on it and it will work as long as you have at least 2gb of memory in it. Also, PCs at the time didn't have much horizontal competition yet, notebooks were still pretty expensive, smart phones weren't smart, and tablets didn't really exist.

The current and previous generation or two of tablets do what most people ask of them. Facebook, Youtube, record some crappy video, all still work. If the tablet stops working the user might just stick with their new smartphone with a 6" screen.
Why is this so much upvoted? This is old news. IMHO ngxpagespeed is a good option if you have a lot of old legacy stuff which cannot be converted for a good web compression nowadays.

But compiling your own nginx is not trivial and I would not recommend it for everyone.

It would be great if there would be a great precompiled nginx with newest security fixes for my Ubuntu which can enable ngxpagespeed or the new brotli compression: This is missing in the open source world.
It sounds more like the group in this case had a "hands off" approach. If they talked with the individual, gave him chances to change behaviour, which he did not do, and then cut him loose that's one thing. Ignoring his bad behaviour, and just asking like if you stick your head in the ground for long enough it will go away isn't useful to anybody.
I like this idea. As Firefox tightens its sandbox security eventually things like It's All Text! won't work anymore.

I have some bugs open on the project and maybe someday I can switch from Vim to Atom comfortably.

I also hear that the It's All Text! author is lazy... every time I go home to the family. ;-)
For those wondering about komi:

Standard komi is 6.5 points under the Japanese and Korean rules; under Chinese, Ing and AGA rules standard komi is 7.5 points

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komidashi
I am looking forward to Hornet[0]. The authors haven't put a PoC out yet. It is described decently in a recent mailing list post[1] (and impl[2]) on a BitCoin decentralizing project. A quality project might take the speed of the Hornet protocol, the tor hidden services approach, remove the exit node concept, make everyone a relay, and incentivize bandwidth sharing.

0 - http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.05724v1.pdf
1 - http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/201...
2 - https://github.com/LightningNetwork/lightning-onion
lol@adblock block trend for time wasting articles
Is there a way to scale up the fonts for the UI of the whole app? On a 27'' screen it just begs for it.

Is is possible to quickly switch a cell to a code format with a specified language? (triple backquotes? like ```python?)
No, they said "non-starter". Not non-starter for them, just non-starter.
Combined with the fact that less than 62% of legally registered voters voted in the 2012 (Presidential) election, well under half the population.
Well, my point was that the 100% electric cars don't run on gas. They would have to purchase a new car to take advantage of the gas prices, which is a higher barrier than just choosing to fill up with "electric fuel" or "liquid fuel" when your car is running low.
You can think of Porter Duff compositing as an upprojection of bitblt to
multidimensional, continuous space.
That's true in the sense that if A has 50 resource points and B has 40, A has an advantage that is lost when, in rectifying inequality, we redistribute the resource points to 45-45. What is being suggested here, however, is that perhaps it is possible to find 10 extra resource points in the budget and give them to B so that we finish with 50-50.
It's strange to me that this article with such brevity is on the front page, yet the NYTimes article about the difficulties of individuals to survive in retirement age got bumped?
John Ioannidis: "Reproducible Research: True or False?" | Talks at Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPYzY9I78CI
Adding a psychedelic overlay to reality would be a pretty cool use, but I don't see that being compelling in the near to medium term.
Mall CEO claims Amazon Books will open up to 400 physical storefronts
Incorrect, if the key is shared the encryption is breakable. If you're just doing one round of XOR it's pretty easy to break the key given a known plaintext, in the same way that AES is very breakable in ECB mode.

For unbreakable encryption, I'd suggest XORing with the contents of /dev/random (assuming /dev/random is unknowable). Of course decryption may be an issue.
While I oppose things like encryption backdoors, I think it's disingenuous to say this is a "fake crisis." The 4th amendment has always required balancing security and privacy--that's why the distinction between "unreasonable searches" and reasonable ones appears right there in the text. And society has always balanced those two interests with a simple mechanism: the police can only search with a warrant, but once they have a warrant their power to search is nearly limitless.

Thus, the government has always had a way to search the long-distance communications mechanisms of its day. Wiretapping telegraph or telephone lines was not deemed a violation of the 4th amendment until 1967. Even after that, a wiretap was authorized with a warrant.

Now, you have a pervasive mechanism of long-distance communications, and it's increasingly opaque to the government, even with a warrant. That's an unprecedented state of affairs.
Being that endymi0n was talking about an iPad, it certainly relates to the conversation.
Surjtech USB-C cable damaged equipment of Google engineer
Does this only work with pre-recorded video or does it support live-streaming (like Twitch too)?
Will Potato support Visas for Non-EU residents for the London/Bristol position?
one way to think of macros that i like is, a function that can take code blocks as args...

#define filter(a,b) ...
filter( arr, { v=="foo" } )

but:

C: you cant define @ or "= (args) =>", and no var_args.shift()/pop()

M4: wtf language, unusable to me

all of them missing: "foo bar" declarations with spaces, a manual override for regex based macros, things like lineshift (to insert macro 1 line above or 1 line below), access the function definition or includes, var_args.shift() etc

i'm actually writing the same thing as your project now. so good luck :)

i was wondering if i could use this for other languages? I'd love to define @ to this. and add lambdas to my current workflow.
It's worth noting that lots of these optimizations don't really apply to google as it'll often be served from cache and tends to be in an unique position re: network RTTs.

It's also worth noting that the author loses 6 points just by loading google "wrong", realistically there's not that many times when your browser is actually going to hit the redirect from http://google.com instead of just going straight to https://www.google.com/
Whether it succeeds or fails, you might consider the opportunity cost of that financial investment and hours of work.

For example, that's a lot more than the development of the original Macintosh, roughly 0.5% of the Apollo program and roughly 3% of the Manhattan project (both in today's dollars).
Microsoft acquires keyboard app SwiftKey for $250m
I'd imagine most of yahoo's users are not as tech-savvy to know how to disable ads, and since so many people use it it's probably full of these "common-denominator" stuff that we're not used to
Benson Leung works at Google and has been doing quite a lot of reviews for USB-C cables on Amazon before this incident: https://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A25GROL6KJV3QG/ref=cm_...
Thanks, I was about to ask about Emacs.

What a cool idea.
We're talking about a guy whose job is to test USB cables.
Wasavi – a browser extension that transforms TEXTAREA elements into a VI editor
I speculate that after a week-end of nightmare, he was just happy to have implemented a solution that offloaded those trillions of requests onto GitHub, has put it behind him, and was not quite eager to make it his problem again.
Could an Encryption Backdoor Tied to the NSA Have Let in Foreign Spies?
In my reading, the description of the process running in this manner is an allegation, not an established fact. So it's not really clear that Yahoo has anything to answer for on this point.
Are the triggers classified, or are they generic?

To be more specific, do users set their triggering scenarios in the extension (eg shark attacks and water but not clowns) and only recieve warnings for that type of trigger, or are all reported triggers displayed to all users?