skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Creating an 100(1-a)% interval estimate of the population mean based on the sample's mean and variance is equivalent to examining the set of all values which produce a p-value below a%. Your view of the way Alice and Bob should be making inference about the true mean is actually exactly what hypothesis testing is. It's just that there is often a "status quo" belief about the parameter which has important theoretical implications. And academic papers are usually about that belief specifically, so it makes sense that they talk about it as a "hypothesis test". And that's the logical headline, the statement about the specific value. But standard deviations and distributions are often given, making it trivial to create the interval as a reader.
They do in the interface builder however if you just wanted to use programmatically created views then not really no.
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I have the same feeling toward them. They're chosen for the same reason new technologies are often chosen: because they're new. The people doing the choosing aren't concerned with effectiveness or improvement, only that they're keeping up with the cool new thing.
The usual solution to that is to go deep into an area that you are familiar with. If you live in Minneapolis and work for a Fortune 500 headquarters, solve problems that big companies have. If you're in Nebraska and work on a farm, solve problems for agribusiness. Or in either case, solve problems for the customers of these companies. The tech skills to build a prototype can be learned on the Internet; for market knowledge, work with what you've got.

It was a huge pain and expense for us to have to fly to New England to launch & get real user feedback. (Our target users were students at liberal arts colleges, because we believed they needed the product more than CS majors at top Bay Area universities. Even so, we did some user-testing at Berkeley and Stanford, but discounted the results because "they weren't our target market".) It was less expensive than continuing to work on the product for another month would've been.

There is a reason why Facebook started at Harvard, SnapChat is in LA, and the AirBnB founders were shuttling to NYC every week during YC. They didn't have to stay there, but they made a big effort to be close to their early customers. Now imagine what someone who was a native of that area could accomplish if they went after local customers with the same energy.
Discussed four months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10566776
Sad state? Not at all. I guess it all depends on the type of coder that you are. Let's say you need a theme/gui for your app. Plan A: get a bootstrap theme, tested, reliable, responsive, modern, etc. You'll be getting a ton of code/features of which you'll probably just need 5%. Plan B: get something ultra simple that gives you structure and add stuff as you need it, something that maybe has grids, buttons and forms (maybe something you even code yourself like I normally do). Backbone is like that: just the structure (hence the name!) with a couple of commonly used features. Angular/React/Ember are like the bootstrap theme. I personally like to have full control of what is added to my code.

Regarding Google Trends, if a framework has big (huge) money behind, it will most likely be more searched-for, sponsored, events held, conferences, hackatons, etc.

Finally, once you set to learn and use a stable tech, you will be profiting from it for a long time. I still have a couple of apps running classic ASP! With JS frameworks I think we can safely assume it will be even longer.
No, but you can tie multiple plugin executions to a single phase.
It's attributed to Hopper. If you can find it anywhere before July 1986 we can change the wikiquote page.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

Disney used it in a slightly modified form: "Better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission."
Which is the core of the argument. ZFS is simply not aimed at being included in the kernel at some point. Linux user's just wish it were so.
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That happened when they realized that dev mind share is (far) more valuable than tooling revenues.
Only works for treatments that go after the terminally ill, who already have massive issues.

What if it is a vaccine against cancer (such as the HPV one)?

You think a sane parent would offer their healthy child for a drug trial? You'd need the fucking Nazis to accomplish this (they did, see Mengele et al).

"ethically repulsive but from a consequentialist point of view" or just plain crazy.
Could be. Here's one thing in Oregon, not sure if it's what I remember, but I don't think so because it appears to be a going concern: http://www.oregonlive.com/foodday/index.ssf/2011/10/real_was...

"Mountain streambeds are the plant's natural habitat. Though some Japanese wasabi is cultivated in soil, the highest quality product is water-grown, with plants sprouting from gravel-laced terraces through which streams are diverted."

Still sounds tricky compared to a lot of stuff.
They do, but search and replace, diffing, and copy-paste of multiple elements and their constraints likely (I haven't used Xcode's editor much, certainly not recently) do not work as well as their equivalent in text.

And of course, some people find markdown more user-friendly than a visual GUI for more or less the same reasons, so it should not be that surprising to find some people experiment with this.

And of course, autolayout has a text-based language of its own (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserEx...)
Just checked, and the answer is "nope." Have fun debugging your migrations!
Not an expert on Quantum cryptography, but an ex particle physicist here. The basic idea is that using a quantum channel (sadly means new hardware, so not over tcp), eavesdropping becomes impossible without destroying the quantum state of the signal (guaranteed by the laws of Quantum Mechanics). If an eavesdropper intercepted a message, that would be detectable and you can drop that packet. Wikipedia has a good intro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography
Something my dad taught me is to bake them. Slice a cross in the top, add some brown sugar, wrap in foil, bake for a while until they're caramelly and softened.

You just eat around any seeds.
Nice clickbait, Scott Aaronson on this: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2673
It's funny but none of the circles mentioned in the article seem to have anything to do with selling shoes. I would be concerned if I was a shareholder.
Hah... this is one of the best "shit hackernews says" thread I've see unfolding in real time.

@minmaxir your brilliant impression of a sincere, self-serious hn'er did not go unnoticed. The following line in particular is a perfect example of cutting satire delievered with a straight face:

"Humor is fine on Hacker News if done properly"

Kudos to all.
Derrick Dewayne Charles seems to fit the description. Executed in 2015; black; Houston area; age 19 at offence; 3 victims.
I really dislike this style of narrative heavy pop sciency stuff. It's incredibly antithetical to the very principle of science (rigorously prove each and every step in an argument, don't rely on narratives, go where the evidence leads you rather than picking and choosing evidence to back up your pre-existing narrative). CGPGrey really is smart enough that he should know better than to fall into this trap, but it can be oh so tempting.

The Guns, Germs, and Steel narrative is an interesting one with some intriguing ideas but it does not stand up to rigorous scientific scrutiny well. At best it's a theory, at worst it's a story that people tell because it's interesting and not explicitly completely and utterly ruled out by the facts.

The overall theory relies on several key ideas, none of which have been validated scientifically. First the idea that there are more "good domesticable" animals in the old world than the new. Second that it's the domestication of animals which leads primarily to higher rates of endemic diseases. This is one of those ideas that has a bit of truthiness to it (since it's very much true for some diseases like the Flu or SARS) but is nowhere near a sufficiently fleshed out nor sufficiently verified theory. Third, implying that the impact of a disease on a civilization wide basis has only to do with the disease itself and nothing to do with the details of the civilization itself is a casual assumption of the underlying narrative though it is blatantly false. Perhaps enough to completely invalidate the rest of the Guns, Germs, and Steel argument, but since the "argument" is presented as a narrative rather than a scientific theory it doesn't even present anything to be falsified in that regard.

On the whole, while there are some decent thoughts in there, the overall narrative is bad history and even worse science. And it's really gut wrenching to see this sort of thing gain so much uncritical attention.
I agree it is better than MySQL, but you pay for it. Using MS SQL has heavy licensing fees.

PostGreSQL kicks both of them into the trash.
Price dumping is good, not bad. The whole reason why competition is good, is because it lowers prices.

The only "reason" why temporary price dumping is bad, is if it is being done for the purpose of raising the price in the future. But I don't think that was what was happening in this situation.

Amazon wins by having prices as low as possible, and beating everyone else at the cost cutting game. This is awesome for consumers as it means low prices.

The only thing that matters in monopoly/price fixing situations is what is good for consumers. Company welfare doesn't even enter into the equation.
Not entirely true.

- Safari; Certificate is fine
- Chrome; Certificate error due to SHA-1 signatures
- Firefox; Unknown issuer

Why is the DoD root certificate in OSX but not in Firefox?
Good feedback. Were you happy with the results? How much time did it take you to go back and forth to explain the concepts and ideas?
> Plan B: get something ultra simple that gives you structure and add stuff as you need it, something that maybe has grids, buttons and forms

While this is off-topic, I highly recommend PureCSS[0] for exactly this use-case

[0] http://purecss.io
Agreed. Netflix is known to be an outlier. My understanding is that it is also a relatively high stress place to work.
Someone page Vinod Valloppillil[0] for a quote on this one. Anyone know if he's still in the industry?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
He acknowledges his crassness at the bottom. Unfortunately, sometimes ignorant people have a point. Native regular expression support is a big deal, if it balances towards a better platform is another question.
From the court decision:

"It was as apparent to the Publishers as it was to Apple that Apple’s proposal would only allow the Publishers to raise the consumer prices for e-book versions of their key titles above Amazon’s $9.99 price point to the proposed price caps if they moved Amazon and their other e-tailers to agency."

"During this week, Amazon had a long-scheduled set of meetings in New York with the Publishers. In separate conversations on January 20 and over the next few days, the Publisher Defendants all told Amazon that they wanted to change to an agency distribution model with Amazon."

I don't see anything else but that Apple negotiated the deals which pleased the publishers. They did what they believed they had to do (introduce higher prices) even before Apple. That it was "apparent to Apple" doesn't mean guilt, for me.

That the prices raised doesn't prove more but that the publishers wanted them higher and were able to set them.
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What a ridiculous statement to make!
> If there's no guarantee how the browser will render text, that's a huge bug in the Web.

If that is what one wants, use PDF. Seriously.

I expect that User Agents will continue to give the user the option of overriding any and all styling the fetched web page wishes to apply until long after I am dead.
That's the thing. There's no particular flourish that makes her version remarkable. It's just a sentence.
I am interested, and will try to give you some feedback. Is this the correct link to what you are talking about?

http://amfarrell.com/saltstack-from-scratch/

I tried some different TLD endings to the link you posted but got bored after a few and hit google.
well, it's more like, "You may be the product even if you're paying. Who knows because nobody will tell you because they're not required to tell you." But yeah, 'you are the product' is probably the most accurate.
Maybe you should pay more attention to his sources and descriptions.
Is it a personal attack when directed at a public figure?
SQL Server was based on Sybase SQL Server. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server

Microsoft rewrote the code so there was no more Sybase code, but it still followed Transact SQL standards. T-SQL is not as complete as PL/SQL and others. It is just that Microsoft is that 800 pound gorilla so people use their products.

My last job I did migration from Excel and MS-Access to SQL Server using VB 6.0 code and ADO recordsets to copy and sync up data. They key was to use a column named date modified that had a time stamp when it was last modified to figure out which record was the newest and back up the old record to a history table in case it needed to be reverted later on.
For anyone looking for something a little closer to what they know from the web: https://github.com/facebook/css-layout
I find this really weird for the following reason.

Only cost conscious developers care about running db server on the same machine as application server to keep costs low. Such people wont buy SQL Server at all for the cost related reasons.

Non cost conscious developers can always run SQL Server on a separate Windows machine while keeping their application servers on Linux.

Except Microsoft intends to make SQL Server free and make it replace Mysql among small developers and later help them buy SQL Server instances in cloud and make money.
0,001% of the users is probably not accurate. I've used it for long distance calls every now and then, and if both are on WiFi or LTE, it works well enough. In reality, however, I'm never on LTE (because it is way too expensive) and seldom on WiFi.
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Note by "queuing and batching" Spotify may be aggregating events client-side. Given that messages are priced in 64K increments, it would be most cost efficient to to get each message as close to 64K as possible.

i.e.

# serialized: 1 message, 1 op
publish("['foo', 'bar']")

# instead of:

# a) 2 messages, 2 ops
publish("foo")
publish("bar")

# b) 2 messages, 1 call, 2 ops
publish("foo", "bar")
>Third, implying that the impact of a disease on a civilization wide basis has only to do with the disease itself and nothing to do with the details of the civilization itself is a casual assumption of the underlying narrative though it is blatantly false.

What does this even mean? The point about the impact of the disease is that when the Old World and the New World first contacted each other, something like almost 90% of the New World population died out in the subsequent century or so. This has nothing to do with "details of the civilization" and the "casual assumption" is something that is technically untestable but so blatantly obvious that it is basically undeniable.
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Oh, then that's your problem. MERGE is standard, and has clear semantics. UPSERT is nonstandard, and semantics vary among implementations.

Microsoft doesn't need to make SQL Server look like MySQL. Quite the other way around.
Right.

If you look at the API, the publish API allows you to push multiple messages in a single API call, and if that is the batching - publishing multiple messages - then yes, you and others are absolutely correct that there is no cost benefit.

But rather than publishing

{
"messages" : [
{ message 1 }, { message 2 }
]
}

You publish

{
"messages" : [
{ container message containing both, still less than 64k }
]
}

Then you've reduced your operations count by half. Cloud services like this have a per message overhead, for things like auditing and delivery tracking, which is why the pricing model is what it is.

If you are ok with having to unpack and process multiple messages at once as I've described, then it's a way to optimize against the pricing model.
He's talking about a single call containing multiple messages in their own serialization format.
which tech company matters.
I think they ported to Linux because Linux is being used by startups instead of Windows Server and they wanted them to use their SQL Server database instead of MySQL or PostgreSQL so they can sell tech support for SQL Server.

Keep in mind that Microsoft sells tech support to companies with a special hotline they can call and get answers and support for enterprise level software. Porting SQL Server to Linux means more copies of SQL Server being used out there and more tech support phone calls that companies pay for.

With Office 2000 there was the MSDE on the CD-ROM that had a developer version of SQL Server that could run on Windows 2000 Pro to test out databases without using Windows Server. It was limited in number of connections and other things.
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It'll need to be updated and patched at least once a day, which will result in reliable breakfast delays. I mean, that's how me TV and Playstation work; if I want to use them, I have to wait 30 minutes for an update to happen.
In my experience, people who like MSSQL are the kinds of people who prefer to use a GUI to access their database (or Entity Framework). Basically, the user experience is like this:

PostgreSQL: Just nice. Every once in a while, you learn about a feature that makes things easier.

MSSQL: Plain vanilla, slightly outdated. Works. Nothing fancy. Expensive.

MYSQL: Every once in a while you learn about a feature that makes things harder.
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You'll note I'm proposing this accelerated approach only for terminally ill volunteers, not healthy children. I haven't edited my comment.

Strangely enough, we already test vaccines and other drugs on healthy volunteers.
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What I see there is:

- React is off its peak, and may be flat-to-declining

- Angular is declining

- Ember is declining

- Backbone is declining

It looks to me like a consolidation phase.

But, yeah, backbone sure got hammered in the last two years. Having watched a big company make a bet on a client-side library that didn't work out... sorry about that.
I'll just point out that your "giant wishlist" is 240 bytes. One web font, even just for one face in one style, can be 20–100 thousand bytes, plus a DNS lookup and at least one additional roundtrip, both of which will block page rendering because at some point we decided it's better to stare at a white page than see a blip of the wrong font.
One big factor in the success of these ETFs is automation (aka HFT). You don't get SPY quoted in size at a penny spread without the massive investments in research and technology on the part of the ETF market makers.
I do not think it is a benefit to everybody. In fact, I think it will tarnish ZFS as a technology.

ZOL still has some very clunky usability integrations (zpool status vs spare, sudo requirements, device name instabilities etc). I'm running ZOL on production servers, and sometimes it feels like back in the day when I tried to get the first ZFS patchsets against FreeBSD7 to run on my P3 with 1.5GB RAM. Sometimes worse.

The majority of Ubuntu users will not attribute these deficiencies to the ZOL port, but to "ZFS". We will see a lot of "So $XYZ has ZFS, well, I have tried it on Ubuntu and it s".
Dogs do not provide food and barely add additional energy (except in Arctic conditions).

>the presence of mountain goats and bighorn sheep

Perhaps you should watch the second part, which is about domestication. He addresses this point in this part (you seem to have missed it) but explores it more in the second. Some animals are not domesticatable (e.g. zebras) despite seeming that they could be. It isn't like he came up with his list of potential targets of domestication off of the top of his head. There's a reason stuff like bears and deer aren't on it. And he only used bison as an example of something that would be profitable if it was domesticated, but it can't be by pre-modern societies.
I generally disagree but it depends on the server. That technical officer made the attacker's DoS attack a success. Imagine if everyone responded that way to questionable activity.
> “He was a good boy,” she answered. “Just like any other boy. A normal boy.”

Are they ever not? I don't recall ever hearing those who knew a multiple murderer as a child recalling him as bad or abnormal.

Edit: to clarify, I'm not saying that she was wrong in this case. This is just a general observation. It seems odd to me that I've never seen an interview with people who knew a mass murderer as a child where they say something like "that kid was a little shit who I knew would end up killing people".
Reexamining previous studies found them flawed, and their 'positive results' disappeared. That's not the same a 'a negative result'. This doesn't claim one experiment and Boom! the theory is disproved. Its disingenuous to say "a negative result in this study should be ground for further investigation" The issue is, why had so many studied done it wrong?
As a matter of fact, we are going to launch this very soon (hopefully tomorrow!) - it's a way for people to submit their startups and find a co-founder. Maybe it might be of a help?

http://www.heystartup.com
Tanenbaum mentions commentators on slashdot who never tried a microkernel. That's me and I never tried to write an OS either. Thanks for your thorough reply. Especially the last paragraph sounds interesting.

Suppose I'm just interested in desktop applications. Linux is already treated as a lost cause. That's what gets me because at the moment, the microkernels don't seem like an alternative in my case. If I'm not yet convinced by the opponents, I'm looking for facts, not anecdotes or authority. I can kind of understand the downsides of a free for all memory model, but Shapiro's rebuttal is lacking a bit of substance and doesn't quantify anything with a meaningful measure, probably because a model that shows the downsides might seem like a waste of time. That's him as a researcher putting the burden on Linus. That's not quite what I meant with shifting the goal post, though. Smaller steps are easier to take obviously, so shifting in that direction is helpful, but it also means adding more goals. I think, security and development speed are at odds here, too. I'd rather see them all cooperate (to my benefit, basically for free).
Tell HN: GitHub should suggest that popular projects switch to an organization
Popular unmaintained projects on Github are a real problem. There's really no solution other than disgruntled users creating a series of unrelated forks.

I believe Github could easily track the number of open issues, closed issues, and number of stars to determine if a popular project is no longer being actively maintained or attended to.

In the event a project is no longer being maintained, Github should recommend that the admin switch the repo to a free organization account and add some of the top contributors to the team.

I believe it could lead to higher quality (and better maintained) repos. The net benefit being the entire programming community wins.

Anyone have thoughts on how a flow like this could be implemented?
Ten years ago, Windows was a major component of Microsoft's revenue. They felt they needed to protect it. Today, it is not huge (and the enterprise cloud is). So the decisions at the time and now make sense. Microsoft is becoming IBM.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3041378/microsoft-windo...
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