skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you're referring to "Against Method" by Feyerabend?

His argument is absolutely not that science is "random". It's that the methods of science cannot be predicted, prescribed, or universal, even over very short time scales and between similar fields.

Even if Feyerabend is right [0], it's still perfectly reasonable to expect studies to be repeatable.

[0] I'm sure he is but I think that the degree and practical significance of his observation is questionable.
Twitter has almost $2 billion a year in revenues and 60%+ gross margins. They should be or could be very profitable.
Autotools? In my Linux?

It's more likely than you think.
The Guarantees, Limitations, and Tradeoffs of Cassandra and Materialized Views
The article uses both the terms reproduce and replicate, but doesn't go into the difference, and seems to use the them with just the opposite meanings they've had in academic use - roughly speaking:

Reproduce - to verify a study's results by re-analyzing the same data.

Replicate - to re-do the whole experiment.

Though the terminology is not quite intuitive, and there are other relevant distinctions to make. See http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=21956 for some discussion of the history.
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I absolutely agree with you, but that doesn't stop the people complaining about Chrome memory bloat. The same people that consistently complain about Chrome will now have a new browser to complain about.
For anyone interested in data analysis in R or Python (specifically Wickham's dplyr or McKinney's pandas), I can't recommend reading Wickham's paper on the split-apply-combine methodology enough. It really helped me understand working without looping.

The paper's examples might be slightly dated as they use dplyr's predecessor, plyr. I imagine they're pretty similar though.

http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/plyr.html
An awful lot of pulp wood comes out of managed woodlands. I'm not sure it is very comparable to growing a crop. The timescales for harvest are 30 and 40 years, and it's land that people think of as forests, not as plantations.

(there are certainly tree plantations that are very comparable to growing crops, it's just not the only source for pulp)
A strong encryption ban would not make math into contraband. It might make implementations of some small subset of math into something that's illegal under some constraints. SFAIK, you can encrypt away all you want so long as nobody needs it to comply with a court order or summons.

"Computer security" embraces that ELINT now includes hacking type activities. The most "Dude, epic" version is the STUXNET story.
> Is that not indicative of being the product of a sexist environment?

A large number of modern feminists strongly believe that most *ism is a result of institutional and societal force - i.e. that people oppress others because they've been taught to, their society pressures them to do so, and that not doing so can result in harm to them.

The problem is... how do you solve this? Whose fault is it? The institutional pressures are almost certainly not any individual's fault. But the fact remains that on an individual level, the man in this example is oppressing the woman, and something has to be done about that in the short term.
Twitter's been around for 10 years—and maybe it's just my perception—but I feel like the tech. media has never done anything but hate on them. It's well-founded criticism at times, sure, but at what point does it become a loop of negative attitudes simply based on pre-existing negative attitudes? That's just my take on the whole thing. I personally have some confidence in Twitter and have nothing poor to say about their product / direction.
Previous discussion (also today) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11086981
Lol harassment!
NSA data internment is not a red herring, its one of the raisin darts [sic] for crippling encrypton - the goal is to keep everything forever and mine it later. strong encryption presumably breaks that use model (save quantum computing and the miniscule possibility that p v np is somehow solved ).

In the coin you've presented, certainly [1.] is the option we should all be expecting, sadly.

Option 2 sounds damn near utopian. I'll continue, as i mentioned before, to daydream about that one.
This might even be useful when applied to learning say data.table or other parts of the Hadleyverse. These days data.table is not an option given the size of data and how slow R data frames are.
Maybe we're all thinking: It's embarrassing that this happens, but would be an interesting thing for more companies to try. Scientifically we know we're happier when we interact with attractive people.
Gravitational waves: Numbers don't do them justice
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This is rather a nonresponse. It basically says GitHub read the letter. It makes no promises, proposes no solutions and no timeline. After working in gaming for years we would post responses just like this all the time and get something scheduled 6 months to a year out knowing that just responding with general affirmations would placate customers without having to do actually fix anything.
I see frankly none of those things here. I see annoyance that it takes a month to respond to a frickin' letter, and I see many opportunities for improvement.

A smart organization will focus on that, rather than weak tone arguments.
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I strongly agree with this criticism of the language (I winced reading it), but I also agree that the way it was criticised here was unnecessarily inflammatory.

There are many people who are not sympathetic to calls for PC language, and including accusations of "insane chauvinism" isn't going to make them any more palatable.
I'm really not sure what the rules of evidence have to do with your right to a jury trial in the adjudication of a small fine.

(There are places where you do have a right to full trial over a traffic fine, but you wouldn't want to avail yourself of that right).
> You clearly can be compelled to produce private documents as evidence.

You are correct - but only via due process (court order/warrant, etc..).

What we have here is not due process - but rather systematic bulk collection and inspection of all electronic communications from every citizen. These private communications are then sifted through, looking for anything of interest... and if found, we then (sometimes) go get a warrant to retro-actively wiretap your communications. That's not legal, but it's what's going on.

Regarding full-device encryption - it's the same thing. You need a warrant to compel me to turn over my device. No law makes it legal for the government to "hack" into your device remotely and inspect it's contents (unless you have a specific warrant). If the individual refuses to turn over the device or decrypt it, it's no different than someone refusing to turn over a written letter... and we have punishments for these actions. We don't need to ban encryption for this, we already have mechanisms in place to handle these situations.
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> * I can't remember if this was the case in UK, but I noticed that transfers to some Western EU countries

This is the law for all Euro-denominated transfers in the EU (even in the UK -- but unless your account is Euro-denominated they can still make money off the forex).
Estimates are a tricky thing. Ultimately, I don't think they work in software. We should be looking for a different solution.

Think of it this way - a physician can prescribe a medication and tell you how long you'll be on it, but can she estimate how long it will take before your blood pressure falls within normal parameters? She can tell you what has happened in the past, but suppose you take the medication and your blood pressure remains stubbornly high. Has she failed to meet her targets?

A lawyer may be able to tell you, roughly, how long litigation tends to take, but can your lawyer estimate how long a case will take, what it will cost, what the outcome will be, and the date it will all be wrapped up? If that doesn't happen, did the lawyer fail to meet targets?

Well, in both cases, sort of, yeah. You didn't get the outcome you wanted. But these professions, run by the people who staff them, understand what can be predicted and what can't.

This blog entry uses the task of estimating painting a room as an example, and focuses on breaking the task into subsections. Ultimately, I think the entire approach is deeply flawed, and it all starts by thinking that software development is similar to something like painting a room, just a more complicated version of it.

In my opinion, it's very different. Of course, it's very different from prescribing medication or litigating as well - in fact, I'd say that it's generally considerably less predictable than even these things. I'd say it's closer to writing a novel, creating a film, or recording an album, except that software needs to work, and can be much more mundane at times as well. Ultimately, I don't think the analogies are useful, we need to realize that software is its own thing, and steer clear of too much reasoning by analogy or example.

Unfortunately, the anxiety caused by making estimates under conditions of uncertainty (and possibly duress) is a source of stress and unhappiness for developers, and I do think it's one of the things that drives people out of the field. I actually think this may also be one of the reasons people love creating apps as a hobby but hate doing it for money.
Lack of loyalty can't be attributed to loose laws during the recession,
because it's much older than 2007+. For how long is it uncommon that somebody
stays for dozen years in the same company?
you should really kickstarter this project if you are really serious. I think this can really be something if pushed hard. For all its hate, systemd is a one man effort that changed Linux. And so was git.

There are people out there who would love to financially support this if you ask and have a good sense of what you want to do. IMHO your post above (about zeroinstall and click) are jumping the gun.

Would love to see what you come up with.. once the excitement has died down ;)
The problem in Vancouver is the house prices are not driven by economic activity in the city itself. Bay area and Manhattan prices are a product of the local economies. Vancouver prices are a product of speculation and wealthy people who live/have property there but don't work there.
Option (2) is what's going to happen. It's not utopia; it's a mortal lock.
I'm not sure if this is a valid comparison, but imagine that a group of doctors got together and founded a hospital, and decided that they would run the hospital as a co-op, where employees would buy into the co-op rather than receiving a normal salary. However, as they grow they realize that they actually need some corporate guidance, so they find a management company. The management company doesn't want an ownership stake in the co-op, and the co-op doesn't want to dilute it's members, so instead they mutually agree to pay the management company a fixed X million dollars for it's contracting services. In the meantime, the co-op grows 10-fold, but the contract with the management company doesn't change (somehow, let's just assume the co-op doesn't require active management, they just need guidance occasionally or something). Now, someone looks at this and says, hey, if you had the normal management structure you'd be paying 10 times what you pay for your current management since they would take home y% of the profit and that would be taxed, but instead your co-op gets better tax treatment.

This would clearly be absurd, the management company is happy with their fee, and the co-op members are happy. The fact that "normal" corporate structure would pay more in tax shouldn't really factor into the decision since the question should be, given your corporate structure, are you paying taxes.
I dislike this practice :)

https://medium.com/@narsimham/on-web-authorship-trends-828bf...
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Along those same lines - we recently needed to have some blood tests run on our son in the hospital. While we were waiting for the doctor to come back with the results, my wife received an email stating that the test results were online and available for viewing. Naturally, we looked at the results right away on her phone. I wasn't expecting them to be so efficient!
Tried many alternatives, from GNUCash to MS Money to various iOS apps to heavily smart/complex spreadsheets to solutions in the local Brazilian market (GuiaBolso and Organizze).

GuiaBolso is most of what I use today, beucase it works like Mint, auto sync with banks. In Brazil, Mint does not work and getting statements automatically is a major PITA, so much that GuiaBolso is a major, funded startup, relying mostly on the auto sync feature.

Even then it's a bit ugly, they likely use web scraping, you have to share your internet banking password with the app, and some banks go the extra mile to prevent scraping, such as requiring a one-time access token (time generated) each time you want even to check your balance.

Good thing is, in most major banks, your "internet banking" password is a read-only one, since you need a second auth step to move money in any kind of fashion (either by entering the plastic card PIN, or by authorizing with a QR code from a previously-authenticated smartphone)

Side note: Brazilian banks, if you're somehow reading this, please add some dead simple, read-only, API-like mechanism to let me (or apps) automatically download statements.

It also attempts to autocategorize your transactions using black box magic (likely by your own historical categorizations + heuristics or some degree of machine learning as a catch-all net), and it gets most things right (especially credit/debt card spending, where it gets like 90% right), so that's a good start.

While it has nice features, it still doesn't do all I want. In pretty much every solution I tried, there was always something that was not quite how I'd like it to be.

So I decided to roll my own - I scrape data from GuiaBolso to an sqlite database, mix it with manually entered data (which I grab from sources where GuiaBolso does not reach), and built some Python scripts to fit things into my own category structure (GuiaBolso does not allow subcategories), and crunch numbers for more sophisticated analysis.

I did this because while GB's graphs cover some basic needs, there were still things left unanswered - how much do I spend per day of the week? Per day of the month? Only in a certain category, to avoid odd transactions interfering with the analysis? Am I spending more in large purchases from time to time, or consistently?

There's no way GuiaBolso will offer all of this, and it also does not offer any kind of data export (I would guess that their current business model depends a lot on data lock-in).

I also ordered a NuBank credit card, a smart-ish credit card, where everything is done via app or otherwise digitally - spending tracking, payments, order details lookup, etc, which I plan to try over the next few weeks and maybe integrate into my workflow somehow.
Again, who are you arguing with? Abuses of systematic collection are a great reason to support universal encryption. Certainly, it's the primary reason I support it.
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I don't know of a general "how to" but 'a' is a keyboard shortcut to send a reply (with comments).
I had to disable e10s because whenever I switched tabs the page would sometimes be replaced indefinitely by a white screen with a big loading indicator. Tried it again recently and the problem was still there, but less so.

I get that multi-process is important, but I really hope Mozilla holds off on a wider release until performance and stability are fully ironed out.
>If a system stores data, the vendor will provide an API and/or SDK, with accompanying documentation, such that authenticated requests may create, read, update or delete that data programmatically as appropriate.

I almost feel like you're overstating the current state of the market here.

Yes, things are very bad as they stand today. Interop is nowhere near where it should be. There are definitely vendors that do their best to wring out as much lock-in as possible (e.g., Epic), but most systems can be integrated through HL7 messaging and --increasingly-- CCD exchange. I'd say that the biggest issue with it right now is that most vendors treat integration as a (very expensive) value-add rather than core functionality. The situation could be better, but the problem today has as much to do with legacy systems that are going to take a long time to integrate or replace as anything, IMO.

I do find it interesting that you talk about healthcare taking a page from social media because that's essentially the direction the market is already headed with HIEs. I'm most familiar with McKesson's RelayHealth because it's what I've worked on, but HIEs can be thought of as Facebook for healthcare. Patients can connect to their providers, messages can be sent between provider and patient, and clinical data can be shared to the patient or to other providers that are appropriately linked (like with a referral).

From what I've seen, industry reaction to HealthKit has been pretty lukewarm. I'm not optimistic about Apple establishing themselves as a particularly strong presence in the larger healthcare space.

And, FWIW, the HITECH has lit a fire for both facilities and vendors both to get their act together on this front by tying Medicare reimbursement rates to use of both EHRs and interop with HIEs.
Is it supposed to say unbreakably encrypted?
Great visualization in this article. Is the next step to build more instruments, in more parts of the world, to be able to add perhaps direction-finding/triangulation capabilities?
PG wrote "Do Things that Don't Scale" less than a year after "Startup = Growth."
They're both examples of the same general phenomenon - complexity-induced contradictions eroding our rights.
Also, before computing, wiretaps were extremely labour intensive. So mass surveillance wasn't a possibility. This is what repulses people.
Does Vancouver have rent control? I thought rent control was one of the big causes of the SF housing crisis... or so people say. For me, at least, it's the only way I can afford to live in the city!
screenshot: https://twitter.com/mankins/status/698207680830296064
I feel like it's probably better to drive the conversation to an end kindly than open up the opportunity to reply.
Are there any examples for running Docker applications on vSphere?
Are there any examples for running Docker applications on vSphere?
video serving on netflix is done through openconnect, usually on-site in your ISP: https://openconnect.netflix.com/

The AWS stuff is all support services like watchlists, descriptions, etc
Cradle to Cradle?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0865475873/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...
The fact that this discussion is being made by committing to a README.md file seems to point to a serious lack of tools for interaction...
> any fundamental differences between sandboxing of every thread in chrome and what electrolysis is doing?

"Sandboxing every thread" isn't exactly what Chrome does. Chrome provides a separate process for each browser tab. That, of course, requires more memory (since processes cannot directly share memory).

Firefox, on the other hand, uses a single process for the rendering for all tabs, but this process is separate from the main Firefox process. This means that the browser UI is still responsive even if one of the tabs is not responsive.

Of course, actual profiling may yield different results due to other factors that also affect memory usage, but ceteris paribus, using only two processes for n tabs should consume less memory than using n processes for n tabs.
We have the same 'Source Code' link in GitLab on our tag/release page. Should we rename it into 'download source' to be more clear?
> I don't know anybody who would agree with this.

std::array<int,ARR_SIZE> is better than int arr[ARR_SIZE]

I don't know how you could disagree with that after looking at the facts. From what you're saying here, there seems to be a culture that favors "old school" C programming in games, but the reasons behind it seem like nothing more than a fear of the unknown. I don't mean to be disrespectful, it just seems like nothing but stubbornness to me.

> Just to be clear, I am talking about destructor of an array

Can you be clear about why this is bad?
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Oh, that's all?

It would be a disaster of epic proportions. Every law abiding company would have to instantly shut down. All the stock markets would go to zero. The whole country would basically be reset to nothing. Millions would die.
I wish Microsoft would crackdown hard on this, perhaps by make non-trusted root certs an Enterprise/Pro feature guarded by a group policy entry.

I can't understand Google's reasoning in disabling Cert pinning for non-enterprise users either! How do common or garden home users of Chrome benefit from this feature?
Hopefully the recently begun work on a Polymer based interface (PolyGerrit) will help in that department.
I'm not sure it puts anything on hold. Some real action might.
It took me a while to figure out that there was a second page with no scrollbar and a non-obvious arrow.
This is exactly why talking about this is hard. People are too quick to draw causal conclusions. I didn't watch the movie. The movie will tell you why she slept with him. Science just gives context for what might be going on "under the hood" in similar, real, situations.
>Also keep in mind that push polling is a thing. Every time you hear a statistic like "only 27% of Americans oppose mass surveillance," expect that the question was whether the government should be able to tap your phone if it was the only possible way to prevent a terrorist attack that would kill you.

Yep, this is why so many polls are BS: the questions are worded in such a way to coerce people to answer a certain way, or options are left out.

It may not even be intentional; if you use the OKCupid dating site, they have thousands of questions you can answer so that it can match you up with people. I think a lot of these questions (probably most) were actually submitted by users, and many times they have terrible choices. For instance, there's one question about dogs: it asks if you want to own a dog or not. The choices are (I don't have the exact Q in front of me here) "yes, I do or would love to own a dog!", or "No, I dislike dogs". WTF? If you pick the latter, it makes you look like you hate dogs. But what if you like dogs just fine and are generally an animal-loving person, but you just don't want to own and care for a dog? I like horses well enough too, but that doesn't mean I want to buy a horse farm and fill the barn with horses. I think iguanas are cute, but I don't really want one as a pet. I think parrots are beautiful and interesting animals, but I really don't want to live with all that squawking (plus I think they should be left in the wild). But somehow because I don't want to take care of a dog, I'm suddenly a dog-hater according to this poll question.

The way a poll question is designed really reflects a lot on the bias of the person writing the poll; the only way to mitigate it is to have every poll question thoroughly scrutinized by a diverse committee. But they never are, they just run the poll, collect the data, and assume it to be gospel truth.
> You have to dismantle products and packaging, cut cardboard into little squares no more than 20cm X 20cm, sort glass bottles by colour, remove the labels

This doesn't describe recylcing in any place I've lived or seen for a long time. Either all materials go in one big bag/box or at most they are sorted into paper and 'other'.

Some of what you describe I saw with early recycling programs long ago, but I've never heard of 20x20cm squares of cardboard.