skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are, but they are fairly discouraging.

Peters and Ceci (1982) resubmitted a dozen articles after changing the authors' names and affiliations and retyping the manuscript (this is 1982, after all). Only 1/12 was accepted on the second go-around, while 8/12 were rejected for quality-related reasons.

Rothwell and Martin (2000) examined data from neuroscience journals and conferences (2 each), where reviewers grouped papers into three categories (high/medium/low), and found virtually no agreement (they calcualted kappa, a measure of agreement that ranges from 0 (none) to 1 (perfect), to be ~0.1).

Someone (sorry, can't find the citation; it's in the last year or two) recently analyzed attempted to link grant scores to subsequent publications to see if reviewers could prospectively find "good" proposals. The reviewers could successfully identify terrible proposals and brilliant ones, but had a terrible time with those in the vast murky middle.
Darkchess.io: Programming Challenges
Actually I doubt the article is right when it comes to performance. I mean nodejs could be faster than scala for some things, but scala could also be faster than nodejs for other things. It really depends on what you are doing.

Working with big lists and manipulate them is definitly faster in scala than in python, node, etc..
>Java is not an interpreted language by the way.

Java compiles to native machine code?
There is a difference between definition and assumption. An assumption says that something about the world is true. A definition just says what meaning you will intend by a word in the current scope.

When you define OOP, you aren't saying anything about the real world, just stuff about the words you will be using within the current context.
These attempts at 3D UIs never really caught on, but I wonder if they might make a comeback with VR.
I Am Your Conscious, I Am Love: A Paean 2 Prince
The conclusion is a little confusing. If his mother Dorianne is also a member of 'Aphantasiacs Anonymous', why does he quote a chat log where she claims to see stuff all the time?
Does it really take 10,000 hours to learn to code?
The Dehumanizing Myth of the Meritocracy
One problem with business as science is that even if we found a perfect recipe for success the fact that it was found would change the market in such a way that would render the golden recipe invalid. And that's assuming all things being equal which is never the case, at least not these days. Admittedly though, that's not how you sell thousands of copies of business books.
CloudFlare is the only reason these technologies get quick adoption, kudos
The Android Administration: Google's Relationship with the Obama White House
If it's helpful I think I have aphantasia and am also an INTJ engineer.
Not only can I imagine the beach, but sometimes I don't snap out of it until an hour (or more) later. At this point I have imagined an entire plot with myself as the main character and multiple other characters. The "movie" starts off at the imagined beach, including the bright sun making me squint, the feel of the sand under my feet, the smell of the salt water, etc. Next thing I know an hour (or more) has passed by. In this time I have befriended my fellow imaginary beach goers and joined them in defending the beach from a zombie invasion.

I had a similar experience to the author. Except that it was when I learned that not everyone experiences these intense fantasies. I experience a psychological concept known as Maladaptive Daydreaming. I find it difficult, and at times impossible, to stop visualizing through my minds eye.
Governments can ban anything they like but the ban doesn't mean much if they cannot feasibly enforce it. Such is the lesson of the War on Drugs: the government comes in and makes trouble for people from time to time, but otherwise they simply haven't got a clue, and for the most part people just live their lives as they please and ignore the laws they don't agree with.

I'm glad there are people fighting the political fights too, though I can't imagine where they get the patience. I certainly have nothing to offer in that arena.

I take your point about the NSA, but it doesn't appear that political action will stop them either, because they are happy to ignore political constraints (and lie to Congress about it, for example) and simply do whatever their technological capabilities allow them to.
I don't know that's really measurable except over very long periods of time. A discovery may be "interesting but useless" for many decades until engineering catches up, whether through improvements in engineering technology or subsequent discoveries that make the first discovery more actionable.
Investors love to spout this stuff. Unfortunately, it really isn't true (even though as a founder who generally prefers to bootstrap, I wish it was.)

FTA:
> If the cost of customer acquisition (CAC) is greater than the lifetime value (LTV), a startup can grow itself to death.

Oh, you mean like Salesforce? No, wait, they had an IPO and they still only rarely show a profit. And they hold their LTV very close to their chest, so we still have no idea if CAC is lower or higher than LTV.

> When investors talk about growth, we’re talking about sustainable growth.

No, you're not, because you continually fund companies that do the opposite. Salesforce, Webvan, Pets.com from the first boom. Instacart, Uber, Lyft, WeWork, HubSpot from the latest.

> The period of cheap capital and billion dollar checks has ended.

Same thing we heard in 2001 and 2007.

> In this capital constrained market, buying scale is no longer going to be a credible lever for the next generation of startups. ... Companies can no longer look to money as a performance enhancing drug for scale-up.

Until it is again. It wasn't OK to "buy scale" in 2001 or 2007, but it was in 1997-1999 and 2012-2014. And now in 2016, it's fallen out of fashion again.

Either we're going to have a raging depression, or the bubble will inflate again. Hypothetically, both of those scenarios could actually happen--a depression followed by bubble inflation yet again.

This is why I suggest that founders tune out the idiocy and focus on building a sustainable business. You probably won't build an Uber as quickly as Uber did. But you'll be hugely protected against the inevitable downfall, and won't find yourself cash-strapped and forced to switch gears quickly (notice Uber now singing the "we plan to be profitable in most U.S. cities this year" tune.) And, more importantly, you'll have built a life for yourself, your employees, and their families that are depending on you.
14/40

I said vague and dim for most of them, but it feels like fleeting glimpses of bits more than anything else. I can't really imagine coloured objects, though I sort of label an object as coloured. Geometric arrangements are easy to imagine but I don't have a real picture. I have no problems imagining sound, music or voices. I'm not sure if I dream in pictures and rarely remember dreams. (I work in science)
It depends on what "network operations" you are trying to do.

For high-concurrency purposes, asynchronous programming is far more scalable (see: epoll/kqueue + state machines).

For high-throughput, low-concurrency operations, it doesn't matter as much.
As with most language jokes/prejudices, I think the hate comes from seeing the misguided, incorrect or unnecessary uses of that pattern.

Java's prominence in the corporate world means sturgeon's law is more apparent.
All evidence points to the people I mentioned getting deeply engaged in many of the experiments they're funding. Friends who work at Space X have confirmed that Elon at least is intimately involved in the projects.
I don't fully understand the conclusion that "the period of cheap capital and billion dollar checks has ended." Uber won in a unique market place primed by underutilization of personal vehicles and widespread customer dissatisfaction with taxi services. There's even an argument that the so-called gig economy is mostly Uber and its competitors. [1]

So yes, companies in less valuable markets are going to have a tough time getting funding as VCs pull back. But it does not follow that if you found an equally valuable market somewhere else you would not have access to funds to make it big. There's still a lot of money out there looking for good investments. I don't see a complete downturn as predetermined without some other externality at play.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/03/28/the-entire-online-...
Does anyone know what headsets were used? Are there any cheap/alternative/DIY versions for playing around?
I've also been working with Play Framework and I'm pretty impressed at how awesome and easy to use everything is. The documentation is great, the performance is great.

I'm using it for just a web API, and I've had several scala developers tell me to use akka-http instead because it is simpler. I tried, but the route api is quite horrid in comparison to a simple file-based routing description, and the utilities (like the web service client) were a nightmare to work with and debug. And to top it off, the performance was still worse than play. Maybe all of that will get better, but as of right now, Play is hard to beat.

My only complaints so far:

1) Slick is bloated and kludgy and still produces bad SQL queries...I've resorted to using the plain SQL interface which is nice, but not great.

2) It could use some support for API description languages like swagger.

3) Testing your code using the dependency injection framework has been very unintuitive (I'm pretty new to dependency injection frameworks though, so maybe it's just me).

4) Action composition has been a lot harder than expected (for example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36683676/play-action-comp...)

5) I wish I didn't have to deal with an opaque SBT plugin, and that the project just used a regular SBT project structure. I realize there are reasons for needing a plugin (like codegen for routes, etc.), but at least document how to work with the plugin better. SBT is like working with a black box as it is, no need to make it worse.
I don't think it must be absolutely so that a language without garbage collection is uncomfortable, as I said I feel Rust comes very close.

The only popular languages without a garbage collector are either from the 70s (C) or based on a language from the 70s (C++xx). Both have extreme discomforts when compared to modern languages (Ruby/Haskell/C#/Rust).

Also, technically, that would make Java bytecode an interpreted language, not Java itself ;)

edit: Ok, apparently according to wikipedia I am wrong and Java generally is considered to be an interpreted language, I had a slightly different definition of interpreted in mind.
Does the Perphenazine reduce the frequency?
Never heard of that law. Brilliant.
Do you really need to read all the 8 million lines into memory? Wouldn't it be better to have some kind of streaming and read up to, do some work, read the next??
I don't understand how you can be unable to visualize scenes in your head but also write a script for _Silicon Valley_ that contains descriptions of visual humor.
I Spent a Week Talking to a Millennial Chatbot Character on Facebook
I agree with a lot of what you're saying. On Django though (or any library that intends to drop 2.x support), I feel if they truly go through with it, they'll be in for a shock.

It will more than likely hurt them more than it hurts Python2 (I also don't understand the obsession with people wanting to kill or hurt Python2). People and companies may be more likely to start new projects in Flask or another alternative, maybe even fork Django which would be a disaster for them.

But as of today, Django's roadmap has the LTS release that supports 2.x as an unknown EOL. So it won't be anytime soon.

Overall I tend to agree that Python3 will eventually take over. That wasn't what I was arguing and I never said otherwise in my posts. My problem is with the harassment over Python2 folks to port and all the associated nonsense. That's the part that is more counterproductive than anything.

"A matter of time" is a really bad last leg to stand on as well, because time has an awfully broad range. :)

As far as the other points, I have doubts about the impact of Ubuntu or others defaulting to Python3. That won't stop me from building for PyPy, I can say that at least.

In general I feel that I'm on a similar page to your stance though. I do use Python3, and have since the 3.0 release in testing alone. For someone who has tried every release and found performance issues and bugs galore, it's a testament that I (and others) haven't given up completely. I think many have.
Uber won because a massive amount of stored trust (capital) was put into it while users were trusting it would do what it said it would do then, now and in the future. Being able to change the business model and not violate user trust, as most software does eventually unfortunately, is much tricker. Saying they "won" when the game is ongoing is illogical. Post this in 20 years when Uber is still a brand, the customers (and drivers) are still joyful (and the company isn't bringing them suffering) and then you can talk about success.

Huge cash inflections into companies isn't helping user experience. In most cases, the game theory behind the huge cashouts causes user suffering. It's time to think differently.
Apply HN: (be) Nice.AI – A personal assistant for business powered by AI
Problem: We spend a lot of time doing some low value tasks like sending the same emails for prospection with the same presentation again and again and recontacting prospects each week hoping these people will answer. The same happens when you need to contact n times one of your customers for an unpaid invoice.

Solution: a nice AI called Joy who can help you to manage your business. It can alert you when a prospect doesn't answer one of your e-mails or it can even talk to him directly if you want. No tools, no sign-up, all you need is to CC joy@nice.ai in your email.

Background: We are two tech guys in our thirties from France. We started a previous startup called Vadequa: company culture survey and culture fit assessment.

Idea: After six years in our startup, we learned one thing: for our next company we need to develop a product for a real need. Culture fit assessment was a "nice to have" in France not a "must to have". For the last two years we have been looking for an idea which we can build with our experience and strengths. Among all these ideas, we think the most promising is nice.ai. Why? Because at Vadequa, we realized that there was too much personalization in the sale process to be scalable. So now we want to focus on a more scalable startup. That is precisely where this idea comes from: automating what has been the weak point of our previous startup : the sales process.

https://nice.ai

Looking forward to your comments!
There is some discussion about this at:
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/04/23/0149257
What languages give you more control over GC than Java? My only experience is Java and Go. Go gives you literally one knob, whereas Java allows you to tune MANY factors on top of picking a collector.
This is really fascinating. I'd say that I really only have a "milk voice" when reading things. Most of the rest of my private thoughts are images and particularly sounds.

In fact, I often know I'm about to drift off to sleep when the music in my head starts getting interesting. My dreams are often very intense, visual/audio experiences with plots and special effects, like AAA Hollywood movies.

I'll often wake up when the brass section of my mental orchestra gets too loud and I'll hear the last few beats repeating over and over as I gain consciousness.

I've actually found the multi-media/search aspects of modern chat systems very helpful since I can often reply what I'm thinking by just searching for a picture that represents my thoughts instead of writing out words.

I'm also absolutely terrible with directions on roads, but quite good inside of large complex buildings (my wife is the opposite).

One thought, instead of "giving in" to this fact, I wonder if exercising it might do something. Perhaps take some community sketching classes and work on drawing to see if exercising the unused visualization areas of your mind might activate them?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the author's point but I kinda disagree that Uber has created a 'network'. To me, it's more of a commodity service. My use of Uber doesn't really increase it's value for other users. At least compared to something like Facebook where network effects are obvious.

I also think it's too early to call the game. They're doing well but again, with a commodity service, it doesn't take much to fall behind. I see the logical end game here as more of a marketplace where I can request a ride and anyone can bid for for the job.
The Web isn't uniform
If they wanted to write an article against ad blockers, why not just do that? Why the bait and switch?

Mods - title of the article is "Here's the deal with ad blockers", the submitted title is just clickbait, the article gets replaced with another one as soon as you scroll a few lines down.
Is it aphantasia or is it the general severe cognitive changes across many domains that usually accompanies MS?
You can't really hide a satellite dish, seems to me it would be easy to find houses with illegal equipment?
It's the same thing for sports. Even with pain as feedback something happens during sleep that helps you better absorb new lessons. The other thing is that for an athlete learning a new movement pattern they need time to build supporting muscles and perhaps improve mobility.
Pretty sure biodiesel isn't a reasonable option - the extra bulk and mass to make a safe diesel-style engine would make a chainsaw unbearably heavy. Plus you'd have wicked problems with fuel gelling in cold weather.

Alcohol is possible - but it'd probably be a considerable overhaul. Most stock saws really don't want to run on gasoline that has any ethanol mixed in, although you can use E10 if you have to. And really you should be using at least 89 octane, if not the 91 high-grade stuff.

Chainsaws are also all pretty much two-stroke, so you'd have to keep a stock of the mix-in oil, or you're going to destroy your crankcase and pistons. Also, unless you want to burn up your saw bar and chain, as its whirling around at thousands of RPM, you need to have a good stock of either actual bar and chain oil, or, in a pinch, regular 20/30 wt engine oil.
It's only a goal I set to myself, if we can do better, heck let's do it! Keeping the code short, on the other hand, is really something I care about.
Advanced Null Object Design
We're not gods. We're still monkeys. (2015)
This comment is made redundant by linking to the full article, rather than the boing boing stub which I was originally commenting on.

The new article talks about the point of deterrence, and the associated logic, in greater depth.

Here was the original article that had been posted:

http://boingboing.net/2015/12/11/proposal-keep-the-nuclear-l...
Yeah felt the same thing. Turned off the adblocker, still won't load because it wants to load a ton of privacy invading scripts to track everything about you. Yeah it's fine, your article might be interesting, but it's not that interesting. Get a Google cached version if I really want to read it.
The Entropy Law and the Economic Process
Excellent walkthrough I'll be sure to give this a try on my next project.

Any good references for an intro to the traditional arima models?
Yes, very well put. I really enjoyed his technical answers, but when he dives into the philosophy I was disappointed to see the same very naive and narcissistic attitudes so many scientists have (that are even alluded to at the beginning of the article): you don't need to try to understand philosophy, just use your superior STEM brain and technical intuitions and if you think about it for a few minutes, with a healthy splash of "assuming my thesis, it is obvious my thesis is correct" , the problem is trivial -- why have people been thinking about it for centuries?
The human mind adapts, he only recently concluded that there is a difference... It doesn't mean he can't have visual humor. He just experiences it differently ( text/facts vs images)
Only creates market for super glue solvent. In the end Iran needs a revolution.
Besides the performance benefits (roughly 40% according to some test cases[1]), the HTTP/2 feature I'm the most excited about is server push, which should save many many TCP roundtrips. It solves the use case of the sort-of-gross hack where some sites inline important CSS for performance. More here: [2]

[1]: https://www.cloudflare.com/http2/
[2]: https://www.igvita.com/2013/06/12/innovating-with-http-2.0-s...
The book on immutable and persistent data structures is named "Purely Functional Data Structures" so I don't think there's anything wrong here. Functional means a lot more than programming with functions nowadays. If you can't look past the letters of the word to see its meaning in a larger context idk what to say.
> I kinda disagree that Uber has created a 'network'.

I agree with your disagreement. In particular because the network effect means that it's hard to go from facebook to somewhere else because the services are useless if your friends are not on it. Both drivers and customers of uber already use competing services.
Sure. I now know:

* What a great feature function pointers / procedural types / other call-by-name/reference-mechanisms were. (J8 lamdas are used like function references, but are kind of heavy)

* What a source of mystery "annotations" are.

Java started out like an interpreted version of Delphi or UCSD Pascal disguised as a cleaned up C++, but since 1.1 it evolved slowly and/or in the wrong ways.

Actually, as somebody who has been programming since 1983, in quite a few languages, Java brought little to nothing new to the table. Nothing personal against you, I'm just sick of the Java language/syntax and how it failed to live up to the hype.
I have nothing against books and I'm firmly against censorship. I've read about half of Mein Kampf myself, only because of curiosity.

However, when it comes to extremists, I think you're wrong. You see, this is a war of attrition they are playing, bringing forth the same arguments, discussing the same hateful ideas, only packaged differently, over and over again. And you see, the moderates, the liberals, the ones combating such ideas, get tired and move on, or are silenced through harassment. There is no useful dialog one can have with a far right supporter. And you think debates are healthy, yet they wouldn't give you that privilege if they were in power. The irony being that the liberties we liberals believe in are being used against us.
Yeah, i think there is a correlation somehow. Thanks
It's true, this is the reason we are invite only right now.