skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My point was that the selection bias proposed will not necessarily obscure a biological effect (or at least, correlation).

I'd argue that the sample was not representative of the general population, so "it will not necessarily obscure" isn't relevant IMO because the results aren't even remotely close to being applicable to any other group of men.

> looking for effects using statistical analyses of medical records is an interesting way to direct at least a small amount of research

I agree that it's interesting. And since I can't read the paper at the moment (I'll download a copy through my university when I get a chance) I can't really comment on the statistical methods they used (I'm not even sure what they asked on the questionnaire). Statistical analysis is only useful if you take into account all of the parameter space (or at least all of the significant parameter space) otherwise you'll get a biased result.

Even then, correlation does not imply causation, so a statistical analysis would only be useful as a survey of "what could be investigated to do actual science on". People put far too much faith into statistics, and it

> saying that such questions can only be asked when there is solid control of every factor is probably not a win

Anyone can ask a question. I'm saying that the paper published should've actually been an email (or maybe just an article) sent around a faculty so they could do real research on the topic. "Asking a question" and "publishing a paper on a topic" are very different classes of activities.
I agree. I think Sandi was just being generous and forgiving, for the sake of not getting sidetracked. The fact of the matter though is that those "small" refactors do take place quite commonly. Out of laziness or else, and start a slow spiral...
Baader & Meinhof, Private Eyes.
The distaste is for complexity. Adding new functions to reduce duplication can add complexity. It can also reduce complexity. It can also decrease complexity for a while and then in the long run increase complexity. Recall the famous quote, "It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures." Sometimes dependencies are really cheap - when they are the right abstraction. I think the article put it fine.

Rails itself is an example of an abstraction that reduces complexity for a while and then adds complexity when you reach a certain size. So it was the right abstraction at first, and then the requirements change and it slips over to the wrong abstraction. Here is an insightful comment about why that is both inevitable and doesn't matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11028885
SuperCollider has a series of classes called Patterns for sequencing and algorithmic composition. The output can be sent to the embedded server for live synthesis or to a midi output (or directly to Ableton with a virtual midi cable) http://doc.sccode.org/Tutorials/A-Practical-Guide/PG_Cookboo...
Especially given that France has the second-largest economy in Europe. If the author intends to say, "Everyone but Germany is lazy, because they're just not German enough, and I'm totally devoted to ignoring how the Euro has bent Europe's trade balance in favor of Germany and nobody else," they should come out and say it.
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I've been listening to a lot of Daft Punk lately and have been building some toy synths lately with the Web Audio API in JavaScript. I think I'll take the weekend to mess around with Sonic Pi.

Great work, this is super cool!
Well the only issues I have is that it requires the device to be implanted and the details are scarce on what that involves. How big is this device really? Capsule is used then business card and lets be honest, there ain't much in common with the two. Can new cells be added without surgery?
Bringing him back the US would be extradition, not rendition. Rendition means sending him someplace away from American courts to be [interrogated harshly].
blogspam, original source discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11033694
People with ST2 licences can use ST3 while it's in beta but will have to pay for an upgrade to 3 when it is released, so it's perhaps for that reason that he's yet to remove the beta tag.
Sitting on one of these roads, there is sufficient information the vast majority of the time. If you see more than one pair of brake lights ahead, then back off.

People seem to default to trying to minimize instantaneous distance from the destination rather than realizing that this does not sum to an optimum.
I'll take a trashed BIOS over a backdoored BIOS any day. Firmware viruses are a very real threat today.
No, I mean an editor that allows you to build a complete vim with macros, for example. The source for vim wouldn't be in C and you could implement plugins like EasyMotion.

https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion
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I do miss it sometimes, but after that initial FOMO the urge quickly disappears. For me, it helps to know that i'm simply unable to endlessly scroll through Twitter or whatever else.
I do still use social media while on my computer and like the intentionality that I now use my computer with.
Agreed, it seems that the economics simply don't add up. The article is also particularly deceptive, as it claims that 4 metres are enough to power one household, and 1km to "light a settlement of 5000 people". However, that means just powering the streetlights of a settlement of 5000, as 1000/4 = 250 only. It's interesting at least as an example of environmental action purely driven by an attempt to get cheap political support (pun intended). I wonder if such an experiment could at least drive further research and innovation.
> Rendition means sending him someplace away from American courts to be [interrogated harshly].

I'd fully expect from the US government to lock Snowden up in Guantanamo and throw away the keys.
It won't be. Tarmac is an incredibly well-designed material to use for roads. Glass + silicon is not (to put it mildly). Not to mention that the sheer cost of solar panels makes this a ludicrously expensive project (why didn't they just make a solar farm instead and save some of the money to pay for tarmac -- it's a much better way to spend your money).
The analogy does not seem to fit. Of course they built the new bridge before tearing down the old one. There is not really an option to divert traffic, it has to cross the bay.

The Scientist software copies the input and feeds it into two systems in parallel. There is no analogy for that in real life. There is no way to copy cars.

And I really hope they do not actually need to run load tests for bridges after they have been built.
As the initial source of infection in a certain geographical area maybe but as far as I remember most viruses (specially boot sector ones) spread through floppy disk sharing, first from people to people inside companies, from company computer to personal computer at home, from friend to friend personal computer and then from personal computer to company computer.

Much like the spread of HIV back in the late 80's and early 90's most people didn't really understand how exactly computers programs worked and didn't follow IT guidelines on how to avoid getting infected. The number of infections was naturally limited by the small number of people at risk: computer users.

But as the availability of computers and the number of useful applications increased so did the volume of infections being spread through the same bad habits: floppy sharing without protection, and by that I mean the read only lock.

And, instead of the ideal (but very hard) way to eradicate the problem (informatic prophylaxis and education for users) the industry "solved" the problem by creating the antivirus and accepting an occasional infection as something unavoidable.

Then the World Wide Web exploded, creating a frictionless media for the spread of these infections and here we are.
Mad respect, this looks so inventive. But as a coder by day / vinyl and controller DJ by night, shifting code around to gig sounds like a nightmarish personal hell!

Am I missing something about how the tactile control works, or is it really just shifting text around with a keyboard and mouse?
That's awesome. I had a similar one back in the day. Yeah, the phablet trend is a bit silly, but I guess to each his own, right? What would your ideal feature phone be if you could redesign it?
I use OneNote. I have a Notebook for each project I'm on, with tabs to keep my notes organized. My small team, 3 people, has a shared OneNote Notebook to allow collaboration.
At my previous employer, we used Atlassian's Confluence.
Linux on desktop is not subpar? Well that is news.
That's not portable bash though. Could you maybe provide a Docker image with the dependencies?
You don't need ads when they can carrier lock like tracfone/net10/straightalk does (all same company).

But you now can get free service with ad supported networks like RingPlus
Or baroque structures of abstractions where you have a real problem finding where stuff actually gets done - sometimes combined with a need to base all application classes on a common shared abstract base class even though they really don't share anything.
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marketing gimmick me think, there was a bunch of discussion about it in france and nobody knows if it's very worthwhile
Sandi, the writer, is a she ;)
It's taken me perhaps longer that t should have to get here, but boy oh boy do I think this is spot on.
There is no discussion there? limited reposts are explicitly allowed if a link hasn't been discussed before. Please do not flag as dupe in these cases.
get it down under 3lbs, and give it at least 9 hours of battery life, touch screen, precision trackpad and a 13in form factor and I'd gladly pay $5K for such a machine. Sadly we aren't there yet.
Apparently the author finds Rubik's Cubes to be sexual aides, so I think this piece may be more a reflection on the author than on anyone else.
I doubt that 4 meters of solar roadway would be able to power a household after 6 months of normal use (not to mention that the placement of solar panels on the road is such a stupid idea that it beggars belief).
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There is no discussion there? limited reposts are explicitly allowed if a link hasn't been discussed before. Please do not flag as dupe in these cases.

EDIT: I see now that jsnell's submission was resubmitted by HN, making this very close to it. I only saw the 12h+ earlier date before.
So... wouldn't this be a rendition from Denmark to USA (where he would be - no doubt - interrogated harshly)?
If you found yourself agreeing with article, yet have ever mocked mathematically-derived abstraction patterns like monads, it's time to reconsider.

Math is, at its core, the study of abstraction. Things that have been found to be good abstractions in math probably are good abstractions in programming.

Learn from history. Mathematically-derived abstractions probably are used because they are the right abstractions.
You would expect Obama to add prisoners to Guantanamo while he's desperately trying to close it? And you think he could just disappear an extremely visible personality and no one would be suspicious? The fact is they have him dead to rights on breaking the law and any court would easily convict him and give him at least a few if not many years in jail. He'd probably plea bargain to something face saving and be done with it.
i've been using mac os x as my primary os since the first version (still do on my MBA) and i've never gotten the impression that their software quality was any good: finder, itunes, etc.
That is precisely my point. I want to do it without weave. As long as I can control the Docker bridge (and be responsible about it), I should be able to just do it.
Some stop lights are really regulators - they reduce flow to another larger artery. For those, no behavior will improve throughput.

People going too slowly is not going to necessarily have a negative impact on throughput. It can - there are sets of roads that just are this way ( what you refer to as smaller roads ).

I see at least three run stoplights a week, so I'm more careful about starting than I used to be.
>You are making the unfortunately common mistake of confusing advocating something with making it legally required.

Nope I'm not. Try again.

>because as you correctly state they have no obligation to provide a platform to anyone or anything they don't want to... that this is illiberal behavior, not in the spirit of freedom of speech, and these universities are not living up to their claimed principles when they do it.

This is still trying to force a private institution to conform to your wishes. If you can't deal with a university telling you to eff off and your response is to try to bully them into opening their platform then you're a bullying twit imo. The HRC, GLAAD, and etc never demand that Liberty University (socially conservative institution) let say Dan Savage speak at their university. Why should the door be open only one way? You can speak big lofty words about free speech all you want, but the reality is that it's built on hypocrisy as the majority of online "free speech" advocates are socially conservative (they now call themselves culturally libertarian which IMO is an insult to libertarianism as a political position). So, I can't say I'm a supporter of the majority of free speech advocates since their agenda is as clear as day (i.e. to force widely rejected view points into class rooms of moderate to socially liberal institutions but not to open the door the other way to socially conservative ones for liberal speakers).
Why would you complicate something so "easy" like putting solar panels on the side of the roadway? It's going to be so much less efficient for so many reasons ( orientation, dirt, cars shade, scratches) and maybe dangerous for the cars.
The TL;DR of that is: Something that is oscillating can be damped.
Rendition just means giving something e.g. giving someone up for extradition.

"Extraordinary rendition" is some weird orwellian way of saying "we kidnapped people and took them to countries that will torture them for us"
I think it's really just a inherent broken market issue. They already have a user interface that can work on a small screen they just demand that you tether it to a smartphone.
Interrogated over what? He's publicly confessed repeatedly to what he's done. AQ subjects were tortured because the administration believed at the time they could find out about upcoming plots. Snowden has already done his business, boasted about it and fled the nation. If he ever set foot in the US he'd be very easily convicted by due process without needing to answer a single question.
> is kidnapping for political purposes not a crime

If you do it, it's a crime and SWAT will hit your home, if government does it, it's ok, it's for your safety, you know... terrorists.
Snowden would not have been sent to Guantanmo because he is an American citizen. The point of Guantanmo is that the US wanted a place to keep people who weren't US citizens and wasn't on US soil.
That's not true. Rendition is the act a host country takes in yielding a subject to the country requesting extradition.

What you're referring to is the Orwellian term "extraordinary rendition" (the correct term is "kidnapping"), in which subjects are detained extrajudicially and shipped to a third party jurisdiction to be tortured. "Torture" is important to the definition of "extraordinary rendition", as getting subjects to countries where they can be tortured is the reason "extraordinary" measures have to be taken in the first place.
Extradition is a well defined process subject to a defined judicial review by the countries involved.

According to the Wikipedia article on (extraordinary) rendition "in the United States, the first well-known rendition case was that of an airline hijacker abducted in Italy and brought to the U.S. for trial, authorized by President Ronald Reagan".

It seems like the Snowden case would fit the same definition.
Generally the reason statistics are so dangerous when used to support an argument is that the argument quickly becomes about the validity of the number rather than the underlying issue.

At a very basic level comparing wealth between economies requires all sorts of subjective normalisation which is pretty open to challenge, and accounting for things like student debt is obviously going to be contentious.

Frankly I consider it surprising that you can even find the calculation methodology for something like that.
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The audio podcast upon which the article is based is very good, which is not to knock the article: https://soundcloud.com/replyall/53-in-the-desert
I had a similar experience, but starting from a Nexus 4.

It didn't work correctly and there were no new Nexus devices smaller than 5".
Putting a link to an MP3 on a website is not that hard.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11035946
No, you're thinking of extradition. Rendition means sending him someplace away from American courts to be [interrogated harshly].
I think slipping margins are behind the move to the lease a phone model. The price point for a satisfactory phone is headed below $200, where most people are going to buy outright, or at least pay for it in 1 year. Lease a phone keeps them from thinking about the option to not have a phone payment.
It is a pity they will probably find out after 1,000 km, and not after, say, 1 km.
Oops... I guess I confused Cameron and Osborne. You're right, Prime Minister is the one!
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Danish politicians doesn't give a shit, sorry. If the US wants something, they get it, no questions asked.

If it turns out to be illegal, oh well, mistakes happen. The only reason Denmark isn't puppet state of the US (to a larger extend than is case) is because the US doesn't care.

Our politicians have absolutely zero spine when it comes to arguing against the US.
> > in order to be a whistleblower one has to blow

A lot of this reads like an adolescent's attempt to be profound.
At least this story gets it right that it was the DOJ's flight, not CIA's.
Please do, I think that they would make a great addition.
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I read somewhere, but have forgotten where, that having doing things same way twice is ok, only when you're second time repeating yourself, think about using an abstraction.

Or to say it more succintly, duplication is not a problem, triplication is ;)

I have found that following this simple rule I allow the development to go forward, and can go back to it when I have better knowledge of the system at large. At later date I might have a better luck in choosing the correct abstraction.
ButaneCSS is pretty close to what you want. I was hesitant to add lost grid but it is easy to add to the setup.
PGP, if used incorrectly, can actually be worse than if you had communicated in plain text (assuming you have some preshared phrases that make sense in context to use). PGP can reveal not only to whom your talking but without a doubt that it is you and only you and them and only them no matter what email addresses you use.

PGP doesn't necessarily protect against replay attacks either and when sent via email, the email the headers and subject lines are, of course, unencrypted and unprotected. Accordingly never put sensitive information in mail headers and, by extension, the subject line.

You can use a well-known strongset key for rendezvous but once contact is established always rotate PGP identities with every communication and discard target keys with the throw-keyid(s) option. PGP/GPG can keep you safe but it takes a significant amount of work to use correctly and one screw up can bring it all crashing down.

If you need it to keep you alive you must practice, practice and practice some more. Develop your own tools and filters to catch mistakes and always consider the metadata trail you might be leaving. Metadata can convict. Remember, the United States Government targets people for execution based on metadata alone.

Consider posting crypted/signed messages to Usenet instead of using email to obscure your communications. Sign and encrypt your messages on an offline system and distribute them online using a different and preferably public computer you don't own and only use once. Distribute and collect your correspondence via ToR if at all possible. Keep your keys offline on encrypted storage. Set up a duress key, always chain different keys (never thread messages with the same key) and always plan for failure, because if it can fail it will.

Only then will PGP/GPG have a chance at helping you stay alive and free.
Once the next round of developers join, the scrappy MVP has usually been pushed far enough to be messy and maintainability becomes an issue. Seeing that might trigger the "idiot" reaction, The old guard appreciate how far it's come.
I love when decades of research give the completely logical result.
Perhaps pour encourager les autres.
But why pay for QA testers when users settle for using buggy products.

Plus this trickles down, if I'm a small start-up founder and I see market leaders get away with half-assed releases despite having a lot more resources, why should I strain my limited budget by investing in QA?
Consider JetBrains' products, most of which are JVM based.

I can't remember any instances where IntelliJ was "laggy" except during processes that inherently take time for larger code bases (indexing, etc.).
The revelation that the US landed a private aircraft in Copenhagen

Who owned the plane?
I still can't work out how to get XCode to load up the LibreOffice gbuild projects. When I do I think I'll probably be a convert. Till then, I guess I remain with vi.
Side Bar: Why do all the articles about the "jewelry law" have quotes around the phrase "jewelry law"? For example: "Denmark faces backlash over 'despicable' 'jewellery law'"
Except the whole point of my argument is that while I personally believe in the ethical capacity of fully free markets to work, it requires all participants be informed, intelligent, and educated on how markets work, and they must be rational.

Go walk down the main street of any town in the US and realize how few people are actually educated, or rational, or functional. It is absolutely a product of both culture and the state as it exists that most normal people are raised to become these... zombies? But they are not going to use rational means to pursue products, which is why we have this nanny state consumer production giant looming over everything.

But like I said, we cannot just dissolve those overabundant regulations and growth stifling control with people as stupid as they are. That is just a recipe for pandemic exploitation to degrees even greater than what our current advertising industry pumps out. Just look at how often you hear a story of someone or their kid spending a months worth of wages on some shitty Android game because they were raised to be completely oblivious to obvious swindling.

If we could raise a generation and/or a nation of smart, rational, informed consumers, we could easily replace all the certification and licensing that slows innovation to a crawl with self regulation. Until then we are stuck in a world where people buy self-help books, booze, and Viagra instead of paying off their credit cards.
The internet of things won't be anything unless someone can figure out a better user story than "turn your house lights on and off from anywhere!"
When will it get to the point where 'arguing with the US' will become a political boon, rather than a liability?
I would agree, but not necessarily because OEMs don't have the skill. When OEM modifies it, they have to work within constraints of stock android.

Stock Android UX is average at best. It is too complicated and disorganized for ordinary people, and there is a lot of room for improvement.