skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think Study 329 was productive research? (Productive for patients, that is, as was productive for GSK's income.)

If a study is always adjusted then how can you make a precise prediction about it?

Once you've done the research and found a post-hoc correlation, what additional tests are needed before making a policy decision, like recommending Paxil for depressed youngsters?

If there was outcome switching, is it okay to omit noting that in the paper?
Solution:

1) Pin your packages to a specific version. If you aren't doing this already they you are in for a world of hurt when someone who doesn't know what they are doing releases a breaking package change on a minor version number.

2) Shrinkwrap your packages. Once again if you aren't already doing this then you npm install will probably break about once per three months when someone pushes a bad package to NPM.

3) Publish your NPM packages from an NPM in one vagrant development environment and run your code that installs from NPM in another vagrant development environment. If you have one shared environment then you are going to have other issues of which the small chance of an NPM worm is probably going to be the least of your worries.
I think @sangnoir was too quick to retract the point. A typical middle class American is one job loss or disability away from despair. Funding a child's postsecondary education is also expensive. The middle class are certainly better off than the poor but the 1 percent have much additional peace of mind.
see - Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6t...

/*
* If the new process paused because it was
* swapped out, set the stack level to the last call
* to savu(u_ssav). This means that the return
* which is executed immediately after the call to aretu
* actually returns from the last routine which did
* the savu.
*
* You are not expected to understand this.
*/
if(rp->p_flag&SSWAP) {
rp->p_flag =& ~SSWAP;
aretu(u.u_ssav);
}
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I have a Huawei Watch[1]. It's great, and actually looks like a normal - nice looking watch.

It's fast, great battery life (~2 days). I don't find the interface bad (I've never got lost in it like your experience). Not sure if it is the same software as on the G2 - I thought it was standard Android.

I use it for notifications - single glance to see if I should read an email/message.

I haven't worn a watch in years, but I'm really enjoying it.

[1] http://consumer.huawei.com/minisite/worldwide/huawei-watch/
I do think the middle class and the top 0.01% have a different life expectancy and likelihood of ending up in prison.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Walton#Automobile_inci...

As others have said, even most of the top 1% isn't immune. They have to work to make money. Many people who are not billionaires probably spend more than they earn making them vulnerable to losing almost everything if they have to spend a year or two in prison.
Cultures, ongoing traditions, religion etc... can be seen as a way to pass on wisdom/intelligence via affirmation to the next generations. Empirically, you could say our ancestors have internalised the notion that individual intelligence isn't enough to persist knowledge at civilisation timescales and implemented mechanisms that would overwise be superfluous (eg, recounting of legends that tell of danger, flood myths, some religious codes).

This is pushing the argument a bit, but it stands to reason that this pattern of information preserval could indicate the necessity even for an 'advanced' civilisation with forward thinking individuals to reinforce diffusion/acquisition of knowledge of little short term value but high absolute value to survival/evolution
Things I Won't Work With
I don't buy the thesis here that 'solitary confinement' is the reason this happened. These guys were both murderers before (including when they were free in the world and totally unconfined) and seemed unbothered by the thought of killing each other. These guys are exceptionally aggressive and with major psychological issues on top. They are going to kill over and over unless they change (not likely) or we simply never let them interact with another human.

This is the consequence of having any person like the two highlighted in this article living and breathing and having the ability to interact with any other human. If you are going to lock them up and never let them interact with anyone ever again, then that is considered torture as well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-the-tort...

So the choice is to either let them kill each other (you can try to stop it, but so long as they have physical access to other people they will kill them for no reason), or you don't allow them that access and this is torturing them. Seems like a Catch-22.

For my money putting horrible people like this together is a way of letting them solve societies problems by killing each other. It's certainly not desirable to have this happen, but clearly nobody is solving it in any other way.
Taxing capital is about the worst, most destructive tax policy you can have.

1- Capital is the main driver of productivity, and productivity is the only long-term way to increase the standard of living.

2- Capital is very mobile. Static analysis of taxation doesn't just fail, it fails miserably. It can move offshore. It can be structured so that its gains are realized in years or ways that avoid taxes.

3- Taxes on capital affect everybody, not just who they are intended to affect. If you want to tax those with very high incomes, directly tax those with very high incomes. Remember, ALL taxes are paid for by people by definition. A corporation doesn't really pay taxes, but shareholders take a hit in the form of a lower stock price and lower dividends, employees take a hit in lower pay, the jobless who would have worked there aren't hired, the suppliers take a hit in less production, and the customers take a hit in higher prices. Most people hurt are those that aren't the 1%.

The US has one of the highest marginal tax rates on capital, and it has only exasperated the problem because capital is what improves the lives of those at the bottom. Tax it, and the wealthy will find ways to shield themselves, but those who can't afford sophisticated tax strategies will be hurt the most.

STOP TAXING CAPITAL. The single best thing the US could do to raise the standard of living for everybody is to entirely eliminate all corporate and capital gains taxes. They collect so little money for the damage they do, and when you count in the cost of enforcement, they barely pull in their cost.
For everyone wondering why this exists, it has fixes for things that aren't included in the kernel regularly. Along with that it's just as lightweight as possible. A boluddy of mine runs fedora on his Chromebook, with a weird combo of a tiling window manager, and KDE, and doesn't have a capacity problem. So if this is optimized for Chromebooks, I'm sure it's even better in that regard.
One quote stuck with me: “But it’s a tough place to do time. People that say cons have it easy, they ain’t never been in Menard.”

Not an American, but between saying that cons have it easy and the fact of mass incarceration in the first place, it seems that there's a certain mercilessness in American culture.
> VJ-23X sighed. "Space is infinite. A hundred billion Galaxies are there for the taking. More."

> "A hundred billion is not infinite and it's getting less infinite all the time. Consider! Twenty thousand years ago, mankind first solved the problem of utilizing stellar energy, and a few centuries later, interstellar travel became possible. It took mankind a million years to fill one small world and then only fifteen thousand years to fill the rest of the Galaxy. Now the population doubles every ten years --"

[...]

> "Once this Galaxy is filled, we'll have another filled in ten years. Another ten years and we'll have filled two more. Another decade, four more. In a hundred years, we'll have filled a thousand Galaxies. In a thousand years, a million Galaxies. In ten thousand years, the entire known Universe. Then what?"

– http://multivax.com/last_question.html
How is "if GMail was self-hosted, we’d have the benefits without the disadvantages" off-topic to the parent thread, which was about privacy concerns regarding GMail?
iirc packagist.org (for php libs) allows deletions for packages that have been downloaded < 100 times, which covers the situations where something was published accidentally and needed to be reverted.
I'm a big fan of tests but have to agree with you. The average IT job is just CRUD or all the logic is in a stored procedure.
For what reason? Amazon offers their own free certs [0] and I doubt you can get an LE cert for a local IP address.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/aws/new-aws-certificate-mana...
"hint at"?
Is this specific to Chromebooks or would it work on an old netbook?
I know it may sound trivial, but I work from home almost every day using short pants and no shoes. What I want to say is that home is still home, my kids will appear and yield, my tv might be turned on, and the dog would eventually bark. By no means I would want to transform my home in an office, I work from home for lot of things that wont be allowed in an office ever. And thats fine, I guess.
ChromeOS updates will occasionally break something in crouton, but it's usually pretty minor and gets fixed quickly.
Run jsperf locally
This is sickening-grade bikeshedding. Next time, spare us, and say it to your rubber duck instead.
This is sad. I really feel for them. I'm making a similar website for another country and am planning to bring it to the US later this year. It will largely fill the gap of Price Zombie. Big shoes to fill, though.
I've been using a Chromebook Pixel (64GB version) as my primary work machine since I received it in 2013, first running Debian and now Arch. You'd be surprised at how well it's held up:

-It only has 4GB of RAM, but that's been enough up to now. Most builds are I/O bound anyway, and the SSD is fast.

-I don't use an external monitor, as the high pixel density of the screen more than makes up for the small size.

-The 64GB can be limiting, but in some ways its been beneficial, as its forced me to actually pay attention to backups.

-These days, if I have a long-running/high-resource process, I just spin up a VPS and run it there.

I think Google was pretty prescient with the Pixel laptops. When this one isn't enough, I'll be upgrading to the 2015 model.
The X-gene 1 is a 3 year old design in 40nm [1]. It's not blazingly fast, but it's a reliable workhorse that boots the upstream kernel out of the box. The AMD A1100 is much newer, with the excellent superscalar Cortex-A57 core (but only 4 of them).

I believe that's the space that the Huskyboard and Cello are meant to occupy, although you may well think the price -- $300 just for the board -- is not exactly in that gap, and I'd agree.

I have the Cello on order, and will blog about it once I receive it, expected in a month or two.

[1] http://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc26/...
Why would the police be after you for saying dumb shit on the internet? Unless you're posting child porn, anyway.

Note, that the US doesn't have any real (stupid) hate speech laws.
> I feel like noone has struggled in life as much as me. Its ultimate struggle that I hate.

Re: struggle (just for some perspective)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps
I did indeed... I was questioning why you thought this was exclusive to state controlled prison and suggesting the issue was with those drawing a govt paycheque rather than the whole machine.
There will be another alternative later this year, which I'm sure you'll love. Hang tight!
In terms of publishers, Dover Press springs to mind? http://search.doverpublications.com/search?keywords=origami

admittedly I haven't looked at them for years, but they still seem to have quite a range of Robert J Lang, John Montroll, etc.

An aside - there are other connections between computing and origami; 20 years ago Bern & Hayes showed that assigning mountain or valley folds to a crease pattern in order to make it fold flat was NP-complete http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.28.1... (and is also in the "I wish I'd thought of that" category. It was a question from me on Usenet that piqued their interest in origami, so I got an acknowledgement in the paper - but I wouldn't have come up with that idea in a million years)
Tax policies are evolved creatures with the very big evolutionary force being the practicalities of what you can tax.

For most income earners, defining money as income is easy and taxing it is easy. For high income earners, it is not. Is this a revenue, profit, personal income, capital gains, etc? Capital is mobile, you're right. So are cash flows from that capital. A lot of that is for reasons to do with legal structures: jurisdictions, corporate law, etc. It's hard stuff to change, especially if your goal is "raise more tax next year."

This is why the upper middle classes pay so much tax. They're easy to tax.

Anyway, I agree with you to a certain extent. It's hard to tax capital gains, or other incomes that are not "salary from job X." But, I don't think the "improves the lives of those at the bottom" argument holds water at all. So is "Labour" and so is "Natural Resources" or any other economic fundamental.
> you see the code calls the .babble() method on the object... Where did the babble method come from?

I call it "grep-resistant programming"
If an HN post with 10 upvotes makes your site go down, do you really have the right to tell people how to write code?
which is described in more details here:

https://wiki.galliumos.org/About_GalliumOS
I moved all of my sites to LetsEncrypt in an afternoon (including writing the scripts that will auto-update the certificates so that I never have to worry about it again).

I highly recommend their service.
HOW to Get Blog Traffic
I'd like to see a large shift from taxing productive activity to taxing things like pollution. I.e. reduce taxing things we want people to do and increase taxing things we want less of.
How do you then prevent a regressive tax policy, given capital is almost the exclusive form of wealth accretion for the 1%?
Archived version from 11th of March:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160311062403/http://fare.tunes...
2 things:

1.) that's more a statement of the hardware than the software, and they may be running on a tight budget (I have no idea b/c I can't see the site).

2.) If it has 10 upvotes, then that probably means that a significantly higher # of people are trying to view the site so they can decide whether or not to vote, which is not a trivial situation if you aren't prepared for it.
Well if you see them as biological machines, the correct answer is "training". Currently, putting these biological machines into these prisons trains them to use violence as a problem-solving tool and trains them in the understanding that they will not be protected by the authorities and they must look after themselves (with their problem-solving tool; violence).

These prisons are a way of training people to be criminals.
I never hear or see anybody mention this, but I feel that it is important to note that the actual surface area of the HoloLens is currently way to small to give anything resembling the presented experiences.

They always show the hololens used from a third perspective. Filmed with a camera, not the actual Hololens capture.

The hololens that I got to use (admittedly, almost a year ago now) was just nowhere near the expierence of any of the demo's. It's just a tiny tiny augmented display, compared to the massiveness of the headset.

Let's say it's more toward Google Glass than towards Oculus rift.

I really believe in this (type of) product, I have clients in certain fields where augmentation is just a obvious next step, but it is not going to be what they currently display.

And they know it, because there isn't a single image on the internet where you see what the Hololens user is actually seeing. Though I'm sure I'll be proven wrong at that in the comments below.

[Edit] Yes, I see there is a small render of the Hololens in the bottomleft corner, but you really need to see it compared to your full field-of-vision to get how small it is.
Direct Manipulation: A Step Beyond Programming Languages (1983) [pdf]
Nuclear alert after security officer found dead with his pass stolen
These are different goals.

All trials is about not hiding when you have done a trial that doesn't produce your desired result. (Publication Bias)
COMPare is about being transparent if you change the purpose of your trial while it's happening. (Outcome switching)

Both problems can be countered by good preregistering practice. And both are important issues that need to be fixed. (And by the way: not only in medicine. This is a problem that is widely a problem in science.)
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Some animals kill far more than they need to for food. They kill one, and instead of eating it or leaving with it, kill many more and then just leave the fresh kills behind. That's not for food, and it's not for self-defence.
> All humans are capable of horrific acts.

I think it's important to internalize this idea.

Whenever you hear of a violent and sickening act, ask yourself: under what circumstances would I do that?

Answering 'never' is a failure of imagination. Engaging honestly with this question is the path toward solving the problem of our capacity for harm.
Haha... Try being a programmer outside Silicon Valley... Or outside the USA... Disparity comes in many forms.
But in referencing those affected by Tay, it was both genders, hence their usage of it. This was not 'PC use of pronouns', but 'correct use of pronouns', due to said pronoun's use in drawing an analogy between Microsoft's response and that movie scene.

You're a little alarmist. That's also quite a bit of hyperbole, that PC use of pronouns leads to something being -unreadable-. But you know that, hence your use of a throwaway account.
The Day My Partner Drown
There's a lot of interesting numbers in this article, but I find the central premise to be a sad way of looking at games, and it kind of spoils the rest.

A self-examination of his belief that games are ruined by computers being able to play them would have made the article a lot better, but it's just a straw man that's been inserted as if everyone agrees with it.
MacOS XI: It's time to take the next step (concept)
nice ad absurdum ;)

I don't have any objection to dependencies where they're necessary. But the node culture isn't "where necessary", it's "wherever some code might be vaguely useful". Left-pad is a classic example: this is a one-liner[1] so why the hell are we including it as a dependency?

[1]: ((str,len)=>("0000000000"+str).slice(len*-1))("test",10)
Introduce Scala Native IR (Nir) Code Generator for Dotty
The knowledge that failure will never make them poor. Investing to maybe reach an even more dynastic level of wealth is an entirely different game than investing to hopefully be able to pay your bills when you are too old to work.

And this very same difference applies not only to financial investment but also to how young people approach the topic of careers: with a golden spoon fat enough to feed them and their future children for the rest of their life, people can focus 100% on aiming high. In fact they even have to, because it's their only chance of ever getting any sense of personal achievement. The lower ranks however have to split their attention between big dreams and ensuring basic hirability for when the big dreams fail. This distraction alone should be enough to keep the dynastic wheel rolling.

And maybe another thought, I don't really want it to be part of my argument, because I think it is too speculative, but I think it is an interesting idea to consider: there might be a little Dunning-Kruger at work here as well. What if the most intelligent 99ers would focus the strongest on hirability/food on the table, due to being least delusional about actually making it into 1% territory? Then the only people who are both intelligent and aiming high would be golden-spooners who got lucky with both brain and parents, while their less intelligent peers would duke it out with equally not-so-intelligent risers. Certainly no rule as in "refuted by a single counterexample" (as I'm sure there are many), but maybe one of the forces at work nonetheless.

Edit: see "Edit" in
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11364978
, totally missed the part about 1% vs 0.1%. This all applies much less there, but still somewhat, because the "rich dentist" from the original article would surely be closer to middle class than to dynastic wealth in most aspects. Offspring will enter the workforce knowing that they will eventually need to put their own food on the table and personal investment strategies will still revolve around sustaining a given lifestyle until the end, not around concentrating power.
Dog-fooding has been described as "The Golden Rule of Platforms"[1] and was apparently part of Jeff Bezos's mandate:

"His Big Mandate went something along these lines:... There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team's data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network."

1. https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
My take on this is that automated tests is a developer tool and doesn't matter to them. As much as they shouldn't care which text editor we use, they shouldn't need to know that we write tests. In fact I tend to avoid as much as possible commits that only impact tests in case they would look at the SCM history and be tempted to blame tests for a delayed delivery (no "fixed the test suite" commit messages). Also I never explicitly count automated testing in my estimates, it's counted implicitly as part of normal development.
> So, not sure what you're saying.

That naysayers are usually wrong.
Having an insight into one area of computing doesn't make you an expert in all areas of computing.
It's not that every one has to collude it's that enough collude to make things worse.
Does this mean it will be (is?) possible to deploy Concourse on a single machine without the headache of BOSH Lite? I've wanted to use Concourse, but when all you've got is a Mac Mini, doing a full BOSH deploy (or even BOSH Lite) is quite a big ask.
Not aimed at you, but in and out in 5, or 3 second rules just reinforce why I won't even vaguely consider a smart watch.

Most smart phones are bad enough. I've yet to own a smartphone (mostly android, one iphone) that's as snappy as an old dumbphone like the v8 or v3, where most things are instant. Adding numbers to contacts or even simply browsing contacts feels like a kludge. After 5 years of constant Android use I should never still accidentally call instead of add or view... But I do, so I start to question the interface; and my sanity.

Get battery life to weeks, and a .5s rule, and I'll consider buying one.

Psion should never have stopped making hardware. :)
I feel as though this is at least somewhat relevant: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com
Testing the framework seems to be a common unwritten theme in unit testing tutorials I have seen
Sounds good, if only I understood double accounting :-)
It is true that in practice, you can't foresee everything that is going to happen in a practical experiment (you wouldn't do it anyway if it was the case). But it doesn't justify not enforcing clean research practice. If you need to move the goalposts, you can do it, it's call "adjusting the hypothesis". You make a new hypothesis and you test it properly. Sometimes you need to iterate a lot, and you fall into the risk of https://xkcd.com/882/. Which still underlines the importance of having a strict scientific approach.
The Typelevel Summit in Boulder Is Cancelled