skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So then, one could propose any ridiculous hypothesis (e.g. vaccines do not work), and when nobody can reproduce the results, applying your line of argument, it would lead us down a rabbit hole of second guessing and proposing even more complex reasons as to why others are unable to reproduce the results.

I think that in the - day-to-day usage of the word / most commonly understood meaning of the word - 'true', it is fair to say that Science is in the business of determining truth from fantasy. Sure, you are permitted under science to investigate anything and everything that pleases you/(your donors :) ). I think that scientific consensus is very closely associated with 'truth'.

I totally get the larger point you're making, but even the nature of science itself is a bit of a grey area. I think that some ideas should, and have been laughed out of the room. The so called man-on-the-street does not have time for subtlety or scientific hypotheses which are carefully couched in nuanced terminology. I think that its OK for people to think that science has all the answers, every once in a while :)
The Thunderbird one is somewhat understandable at least: not that many people are still using standalone email clients any more. Almost everyone's moved to webmail. Not everyone, of course: there's still some stalwarts out there using pine, for instance, but pine isn't under active development or even maintenance AFAIK, and doesn't require full-time developers to maintain it.

But yeah, they really should focus on core technologies, especially the browser itself. There just aren't many alternatives: Microsoft's "Edge" (or whatever they call it today) (closed-source, corporate-controlled, Windows-only, not well supported by plugins), Apple's Safari (closed-source with FOSS engine, corporate-controlled, Win/Mac/iOS-only, not well supported by plugins), Google Chrome (open-source but not completely, corporate-controlled, privacy issues), and Google Chromium (same as Chrome but missing the closed-source stuff). Oh yeah, don't forget whatever piece-of-junk browser that Android comes with by default.

We really need a non-for-profit-corporation-controlled browser that keeps up with standards and gives us open access to the web, arguably the most important communications technology now in existence. So Mozilla is really doing society a disservice by losing their focus on this and screwing around with unimportant BS like FirefoxOS, IoT, etc.
they're the only ones who can.

This is true, in the same way that it's true that the US could vote in a constitutional amendment to allow a dictatorship.

First, Oracle only has the copyright to the original ZFS code as it existed in 2010 when they stopped working on OpenSolaris.

Second, the AUTHORS[0] file from the 'zfs on linux' project that was imported into ubuntu lists 73 authors not including the Oracle developers, which appear to be both individuals (gmail accounts, etc) and multiple individual businesses (nexenta, ovh, etc). So Oracle cannot naively relicense those 6+ years of contributions, since they have no copyright over that new code. Thus changing the license of the original ZFS code would have no effect because all of the years of contributions since then would still be licensed as CDDL.

Third, Oracle does have exactly one 'option'. The details of the CDDL license specifically state that is 'auto upgrades' if a new version comes out, and an older version is not specifically mentioned. So theoretically, they could release a CDDL license version 1.3 that has radically updated text in order to be GPL compatible. However, since that effects all CDDL licensed code, they would end up relicensing every bit of CDDL code (related to Oracle or not) in the entire world. Is that something that Oracle should reasonable be expected to do? I think this is as likely, and as reasonable, as GPL v4 coming out with the text of the MIT license, thus affecting any GPL code in the world that says 'or any later version'. In other words, it's just not reasonable to use this 'one weird trick'.

So there is no remotely reasonable way in which Oracle can have an effect on this issue.

[0] - http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/ubuntu-xenial.git/diff/z...
I really hope they open it up to iOS devices sometime soon. I would ditch Verizon in a heartbeat.
For clarification, on the FLIF GitHub "Issues page", there is a ticket indicating an intention to build FLIF into FireFox's rendering engine Gecko, and also Servo (which will eventually replace Gecko). This ticket is a placeholder declaring Servo's interest in FLIF once it is finalized.

FLIF does not have an problem preventing it from pointing to a common Rust image library. (which is how I originally read it).
It's a fair critique though I didn't write this because I thought I was breaking news. The Canonical announcement was honestly exciting for me, in particular because they evaluated the licensing issues and decided that they were within their rights to provide ZFS to their users. It seemed though that the voices of practitioners was being drowned out by those focusing exclusively on legal matters. I was hoping to provide some information for those unacquainted with both the technology and the legal miasma. Regardless, I'm excited that ZFS is about to have many more users.
Not cool. No personal attacks on HN, please.
> Even n > 20 can be difficult for certain studies.

For some expensive experiments even n=3 is difficult to reach. "Should we do another replicate and go from n=2 to n=3, or should we hire another post-doc?" is a relatively common (rhetorical) question.
Amazon to Restore Encryption to Fire Tablets After Complaints
Just like Apple. Anyone remember Nothing Real's Shake?
http://www.google.com

> Give a man a search result, and you help him for a day. Teach a man to google, and you help him for a lifetime.
I can understand protecting genuinely historic stuff, but Silicon Valley? The area is all about change. If there weren't constant change, the area would still be rural.

I can understand wanting to channel it to some degree, too, but it's ultimately an iron triangle where something has to give. Right now, it's the less economically fortunate who are getting turfed out and losing access to an area that generates a phenomenal amount of wealth.
GCHQ: please help us spy on your customers
No it's not. Democracy doesn't mean everyone can block anything they don't like.
Adobe Flex did that... with a plugin. I could easily create any app layout quickly without coding, without relying on hacks.

Flexbox is better... but still overly complicated and requires hacks.
Maybe. The other explanation is that men in general and young men in particular tend to have a higher tolerance for risk, which is reflected in everything from crime rates to willingness to ride a bicycle in traffic.
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If they don't have a need for another person, yes.
OK, fair enough. So distributions that ship the Nvidia drivers in their distro install image (AFAICT OpenELEC does this, not Canonical though) should be in trouble then? And Canonical would find a way around this by autodownloading the ZFS driver when the user select the "ZFS" option in the installer?
> If I'm writing more than a sentence or two, I'll sometimes type it into a separate text editor first

Same! I always hop over to Sublime to do this. It'd be nice if Slack had a full screen popup focus mode where you could just write with a large text box and without UI distractions.
Thanks! Sorry to rain on your parade :)

> In future work: Progressive JPEG with the Huffman encoding replaced by FLIF's MANIAC entropy coding should be an interesting direction...

That would be super cool.
Yes Arch is another one that treats building from source as a mainstream option. My root question, though, is whether or not that obviates the license issue. I think it does, but I'd like confirmation.
This definitely isn't slack-specific, and it drives me nuts as well. I've seen the same in hipchat and just about any real-time chat client in the past.

From what I've been able to tell, it's conversational, where the person types as they would speak - at the speed of thought, and others can potentially jump in (as is possible in normal conversation). This brain-dump method also seems to avoid the "x is typing..." (as fluxquanta mentioned) pause, which, if poorly implemented in some chat clients, will show "x is typing..." even if x stopped typing and stepped away. That's just as infuriating - especially if you actually need to know what x was typing.

Personally, I still prefer email. There are very few times that real-time communication has been better for me, personally, than a well-thought-out email and response chain, which I can search and reference at another time. The more a team I'm working with leans toward real-time chat, the more I find myself logging out of chat to get things done and then reviewing and responding at length when I can focus on doing so.
You don't need to know of changes unless the user is on that page.

You can use websockets to broadcast/listen for changed data and updated the DOM accordingly (if you're on the web).
I really don't understand where you're going with this argument. My point was that war sucks and we should be laying fault where it's due (not on the civilians or GIs). I'm sure most everyone involved out in the field would rather be somewhere else.

I know plenty of ex-military and nearly uniformly, those who have served (and saw action) considered it to be a mistake regardless of whether they were shot at or did the shooting.
because that way you don't need to keep these files locally.

My collection is quite large, it is backed on a hard drive and also available on Play Music.

Since they have a good matching algorithm, uploading an album is often instantaneous.

It is probably not for everyone, but I really like this service.
Is this oddity just because scenario 1 fails to account for order?
Your own life is the richest source of information you have about social psychology!
I hope this fixes the "read only filesystem" issue.
> Tesla sits on an encrypted VPN, good luck with that

Well, if you say so. Still, what about the locally built products? Oil isn't the only import needed for a traditional car.

The ethernet port, bluetooth/NFC key fobs all the chips, are made in china no doubt, maybe even many engine parts. Recources are exploited from mines outside America under bad conditions. The energy to load the battery is generated partially from fracked fossil fuel. America supports Saudis for a bit more than just oil and they sure don't care what the tax money was generated from. * In 2014, about 27% of the petroleum consumed by the United States was imported from foreign countries.* [1]. Half the American designers are probably immigrated from India and China.

Our visions of the great US of A diverge a little.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=32&t=6
A few of us are against it. The value of my home in SV has roughly doubled since I bought it in 2010, but it brings no benefit to me, since I plan to stay put and don't need to borrow against it.

The increased tax revenue has some benefit, but at the cost of pushing renters to the brink. I'd rather have a community where it's not so brutally hard to get by for renters who make a good living.
I'm pretty sure Matz is still working at re-architecting the Ruby global interpreter lock (GIL) for genuine concurrency. JRuby and Rubinius are alternative Implementations of ruby that do support Concurrency, but they are just that, alternative Implementations.
to be clear, I don't think anyone is using all of these libraries in a single project. Most Backbone web apps probably use 2-6 of these repos. So the fact that some of them have gone stale is not in itself a problem, and is normal. The fact that nearly all of them have makes it much more difficult to build sophisticated web apps with Backbone. Everything non-trivial has to be done in an in-house ad-hoc basis, or using lightly maintained 3rd party code.
Could just be lost in translation. You'd never hear that in the US, but you might hear "Hi, this is James from Chase Bank, may I ask who I'm speaking with?" which is the same question asked politely.
Planet Money did a podcast that was basically about this: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/15/463237871/episo...

There seems to be a few issues at play. First is the "file drawer effect". If the experiment doesn't show a positive (or surprisingly negative) outcome, then it's most likely to get filed into a drawer and forgotten.

The second issue is just random luck. Suppose you flip a coin 10 times, then it's possible that you might get a run of nine heads and one tail. Based on that experiment you could publish a paper that the coin has a 90% chance of flipping heads. That would be a surprising result, and it's likely that it would be debunked if anyone tried to reproduce it.

The third issue is that it's exceedingly rare for anyone to try reproducing an experiment. There's no grant money for reproducing experiments and regardless of the outcome it's unlikely to advance a researcher's career.

Together these mean that most published papers could very well be the product of random luck that will never be verified.
They are also the copyright holder of a huge chunk of ZFS' code. So they can also sue Canonical over their violation of the CDDL which oracle (as the copyright holder) has licensed ZFS under.
First you need to work for established infosec companies. They get pentest projects every day, easily. You can't be like them day 1. So when you work through those companies and do pentest for a client, show yourself. In our team, maybe 10 people were working with me on pentest projects, but if you ask clients now after years, they probably ONLY remember my name, because they know and understand who did what. So after years and years of good reputation, it's super easy to expand your client base, do for yourself, ask for top $, reject offers might be a dream salary for some. But just like everything else, you start slowly and gradually "level-up"
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Despite all the outrage against Verizon, a small part of me feels sorry for them. Having consulted with large corporations in the past, I know that most (all) of them don't generally have expertise in this kind of thing, and usually outsource it to a variety of digital agencies. My guess is that they will be having a very hard conversation with one or more of their vendors.
If you register is "foverver", but yes, maybe 5 days is not enoguh. How about 1 year?
How is this assessment any better than judging a physical community based on their loudest/most controversial members? The "4chan garbage fire" is a rude stereotype.
> housing density increase tends to have the opposite effect.

Which is why house prices in Manhattan and Paris are so low?
Games developer here. Yes, I do work insane amount of hours and I would get paid a lot higher for my skills almost anywhere.

Why? We use technology not to 'disrupt' some industry, get bigger returns for a financial firm or big data problems with users information. Instead, we create software with the sole purpose of making people happy, And we also get the chance to tell stories that will influence thousands maybe millions of minds.

So we are in a never ending search for big insights about the world and ways to encode them into fun games. I'll never grow tired of that.
> This just adds to my observations regarding people that say LSD and other psychedelics give you insight. I disagree, they make you feel like you've achieved insight when in reality you've achieved nothing.

Many empirical studies were done in the brief span between the (re)discovery of psychedelics and their subsequent ban. The research has existed since the 1960s. We are finally at the point where some new research is being allowed, and the results are lining up nicely with what the older studies reported. The majority of people who go through a properly guided psychedelic experience consistently rank it as one of the most important experiences of their lives. Follow-up studies have shown that the positive effects are tangible and frequently lasting. If the insight were illusory, you'd have only the patients talking about it while the psychologists reported that there's nothing meaningful going on there. This is not how it went down.

I'm at work so can't track down references online, but there are several chapters in the book The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide by James Fadiman that describe in-depth a number of studies, with lots more referenced in the bibliography. Fadiman was one of the psychologists doing studies until psychedelics were outlawed.

There was recently an end-of-life study done in somewhere in Europe, I believe, which gave a large dose of psilocybin (in a comfortable setting with psychologists present) to terminally ill cancer patients who were having trouble coming to terms with their own death, and all of the depression etc. that comes with that. The outcome was highly successful, with most patients reporting a higher quality of life afterwards. One patient is interviewed in the documentary DMT: The Spirit Molecule, AFAIK available for streaming on Netflix. You can readily see that she isn't faking her new positive outlook on what's left of her life.

This comment is already too long. The point is, if you think there is nothing going on there, you clearly haven't looked into the research at all. It's possible to take LSD and not get much of anything out of it, just like it's possible to miss the depth in any experience. However it is undeniable that in the proper setting, with the proper mindset, psychedelics can be used to gain personal insight (and more importantly the ability to act on that insight to change one's life for the better), to deal with past psychological trauma, cure drug addiction, and to enhance creative problem-solving among other things. As more research avenues open up, the body of evidence will only grow.

Two quick references for further information:

http://www.heffter.org

http://www.maps.org
Bookkeeping is the wrong place to start learning the basic building blocks of finance and accounting. It's too detailed and step-oriented. You should start at the high-level of reading financial statements and dig deeper as you go. Try to see how financial statements flow by using everyday concepts.

If you are trying to spot mistakes an accountant made, you won't spot it by going through accounting entries. If you are trying to see how your business is doing, you won't know from knowing debits and credits.

You can spot an accounting mistakes or see how your business is doing by comparing the financial statements to what you are seeing in the business in real life. "Why is my net income look great, when the cash in the bank is so bad?" Or, "why does my cash in the bank not match the cash in the financial statement?". By asking these questions you learn accounting much more effectively. And your accountant should be able to explain that to you convincingly and in detail - if not get a new accountant (In fact, it is best practice for corporations to switch accountants every 4 years or so to catch mistakes).
This has been my strategy for the last few years. I've been making games on my own dime for just a few years but I now have two self published games on Steam, and a few Micro-Consoles, and a Job in entirely different industry with great benefits and hard stop 40 hour weeks.

I absolutely love programming games! It's the most fun programming I've ever had in the 10+ years of writing code. Nothing beats showing off your creations with family and friends and them "getting it."

I've gone back and forth of whether I should join the industry but with a kid and high priority of family time, I just can't do away with what's actually important to me. I've never regretted working a solid job to support an awesome hobby.
> Why would it need an OBD-2 port when it has an API?
> http://docs.timdorr.apiary.io/#

Why would any web site support HTTP when you can use their proprietary protocol, only unofficially documented by some random dude by reverse engineering.
So true, its interesting when you look at the political landscape. Mountain View wants to stay relevant, and they want their share of sales tax and other revenues. The building of new apartment complexes in Sunnyvale's re-done downtown has people moving closer to the action that way, and the population numbers have reflected it. A lot of people remember the difference between San Jose and San Francisco. San Jose has been trying to shake off (for at least a decade) of the city with a downtown that dies at 5PM when everyone goes home. Contrast that with cities like Denver or Austin where downtown is a night time destination and has a lot of foot traffic (and the revenue associated with 18 hours of human activity a day, vs 8)

Cities seem to understand they either have to embrace the "bedroom community" aspect of things, or re-make themselves into something where millenials will choose to live. I don't think the older residents have all gotten the memo yet :-)
This point of view is not supported by the mathematics. If you think otherwise, then you do not understand the mathematics.
"If you like games and you’re a programmer, go work for a firm that will pay. You will earn enough to buy all the games you want."

This and similar advice have been repeated through the decades and have stopped no one. I heard that line. Didn't stop me. I dispensed this line and have stopped no one. Life is a different thing when you're young.

Let me have another chance at giving out unwanted advice:

If you enjoy programming games get a regular job that you work at 9-5 and use the time you would've spent working unpaid overtime at a games studio to work on a game at home. You will have creative control and freedom to choose any tech and tools you want - neither of which you'd have at a games studio. Do I even need to mention a normal salary and other benefits at this point?
I blog at https://glebbahmutov.com/blog/ as a reminder to myself how some problems are solved. Now people at work, especially new hires, comment how 50% of my communication or answering questions are just links to the blog posts.
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Same thing happens here. Generally I think in these cases local management only gradually comes to the realization that nobody actually wants to sit and listen to a soulless executive spout off a bunch of non-information-transferring coporate newspeak.

So, to avoid the embarrassing spectacle of an empty conference room, they go from "invited" to "encouraged" to "drop what you're doing and get in there now."
He backpeddaled from that position fairly quickly. Moot banned Tor use on 4chan, he banned VPN use, proxy use was banned, he added ban-tracking cookies, he added unique IDs, he aded country flags to many boards that didn't want them, etc.

He supported anonymity for publicity and did a lot on his site to dissuade its use. When he gave interviews on 4chan, he used to tell everyone that "4chan is not anonymous".

About the only thing that's left on 4chan that's "anonymous" is the default username: which is still "Anonymous".

You have more anonymity on HN with a throwaway account than you have on 4chan.

People also give him too much credit when it comes to community organizing as well. He got lucky with 4chan when he copied 2chan and catered it to english-speaking audience. When he tried to actually create something from scratch, both of his apps failed miserably.
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This red dot notification badge is maddening in a team of 20+. It should default to off.

They have added the option to disable it:

Preferences >
Notification Settings >
Dock App Icon >
Show (•) symbol on icon to indicate unread activity
Exactly. There are more ways to get this unusual outcome in scenario 1 than scenario 2.
Right. Look, I don't care. Reddit is reddit. I'm just saying, neither of those things is a shadowban.
I'm so sorry you lost your daughter.