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> Why on earth would intorture myself by teaching my toddler to expect perfect cookies?

You're not doing it intentionally or consciously. Children form habits from imitation – "Do as I say, not as I do" doesn't really work for them.
WW1 and WW2 were both caused by the desire of some people to engage in empire building.

Empire building is not the same thing as "nationalism" by any stretch.
Never realized that I code like a navy seal. Algorthims, Devops, Emacs, every fix is hot.
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I created a site that gathered curated stand-up comedy videos: http://www.comedylib.com/
Now it has around 50 weekly sessions and is on autopilot.
UEFI Firmware ThinkPwn Zero-Day Puts Several Laptop OEMs at Risk
I've used Picnic CSS in a project I've been working on. I sent you an email about a bug I've found and have another bug to share if you're interested!
These illegal events come downstream of the policy of what tends to be liberal government: multicultural immigration done hastily, and without the necessary frameworks in place to support it. Regardless of whether these were ill-considered side-effects or whether the consequences came on purpose, they're that government's mistake and their responsibility.

If you're talking to your friends, and none of you are directly involved in political office, then I don't think you're getting the opinion from the people who matter. I would beware apologists, though.

I think it is the throughput or volume of importing that is most foolish about this effort, not even the intention. In Canada, there exists at least one public school that has to educate 19-22 year old Syrians who don't speak a lick of English in the midst of 15-16 year olds: same classes, same resources. It turns out that these uneducated adults are giving the administration a tough time and I fear for the sexual safety of those children.
[2] works better with the y at the end ;-)

https://github.com/shashankgroovy/notify
I think that's intentional. As I understand it Jewish humour is typically self-deprecating, which explains the irony of saying that about language in Yiddish; a language which has neither a navy, an army nor a country (except for a short time during the Soviet era), and was generally dismissed as "just broken German" similarly to AAVE.

Considering the history of the quote it's probably a direct dismissal of the "just broken German" assertion (because German had an army and a navy but Yiddish obviously did not).
And yet the Independent, the Guardian, the FT, the Economist etc have all been posting nothing but pro-EU articles for weeks now. The Indy seems to have gone into complete meltdown. So you think these don't balance out, huh.
Error D would be particularly confusing, since it would still produce the result the programmer intended (at least with my setup where implicit int -> bool).

"The right thing for the wrong reasons".
I cannot believe it's been 5 years. I remember reading about this like it was yesterday. Congratulations on the success!
This has definitely not been my experience. Users vary greatly, some like simple mental models, but some love complex mental models. You definitely shouldn't be letting your users define your product.

Rather, listen to your users problems, listen to what they think a solution is, then let your design team determine if there is a better and more simple solution. Sometimes there may not be, but often there is.
Yes, whatever the reason, we all have good days and bad days.

What you're talking about is what the statisticians call nonstationarity: on one day you make 30% of your shots, while on another day you make 40%, or whatever. Then your teammates, estimating your probability of making the next shot based on how they've observed you playing that day, decide whether to give you the ball more or less often. That would be one explanation -- and to my mind, a perfectly reasonable one -- of the "hot hand" theory.

But that's not what the authors of the original paper measured; and interestingly enough, it's also not the theory that Collins has now un-debunked. That involves a different measure, called autocorrelation, which measures "streakiness": how the odds of your making the next shot change based on whether you made the previous one. Autocorrelation and nonstationarity are orthogonal -- you can have either one without the other.
this article is a load of crap, assumptions and bad references
Putting any effort in fighting "corruption" in online gambling/lottery/casino sites when it is known that the health, food, and politics industries are full of it seems like misdirected efforts to me.
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PHC provides an archive[1]. I've used Audio Hijack [2] in the past to grab some of them, but that's a bit of a pain in the neck.

[1] http://prairiehome.org/shows/

[2] https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/
napster used to do this
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Spending money in the US is poetic, because it's symbolic of how we're all intertwined with each other through our labor. Participation in the economy here is a social act as much as it is a necessity. That's one reason people get so upset at the idea of welfare. I think they feel threatened by the idea of a separate class of people who don't participate in the social ritual of commerce in the same way that they do.
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How is it possible that it took until 2015 to discover the mistake in the original 1985 research (Gilovich et al.) "proving" that hot hands in basketball don't exist?

It became mainstream news, discussed in places like ESPN and has been repeated countless times in popular science books. Furthermore, the debunking in the Miller and Sanjurjo article referenced in the parent's blog post is not the result of arcane mathematical analysis, but uses extremely basic math that any undergraduate could understand.

It's almost shockingly hard to believe that no one noticed the problem before, when the result was the subject of such passionate, widespread controversy, and so many people had the tools to see the flaw....

And not only that, the edge case condition makes the flaw painfully obvious. From the Miller and Sanjurjo article's description of the original, flawed research: "...a streak is typically defined as a shot taken after 3, 4, 5, . . . hits". Looking at only the case of a shot taken after streaks of length 3, the miss rate is 100% (because a hit would imply the streak actually had length 4).
Any internet comment that ends in "psychopath" is probably a bad one—this pattern is a Godwin mini-me—and to get there from one colorful anecdote of adolescent cleverness is a particular stretch.

Please don't practice unsolicited psychiatry on HN.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12032277 and marked it off-topic.
XPCOM is one particular ABI.
the original healthcare.gov was made using SCRUM. SCRUM fails by design on projects involving more than one team with dependencies between them, and the result in such cases is usually complete devastation like the original healthcare.gov. There is no surprise that the [small] "team of young people" were able to incrementally build a [simple] webapp and an app using SCRUM - that is the sweetspot of SCRUM, pretty much the only situation where it doesn't screws things.
I'd have serious problems if my healthcare information was processed and stored on servers controlled by a company like Amazon.
Ask HN: Why it is seemingly hard to break duopolies in hardware?
I noticed that for desktop Add In Board GPUs there are only nVidia, and AMD.

x86 CPU, Intel and AMD.

Ram chips, SK Hynix and Samsung (Micron and Elpida were tired in third/fourth place, when Elpida went bankrupt and got purchased by Micron, they temporarily overtook Hynix, but now their combined market share shrunk even further than before Elpida went bankrupt, cementing Hynix in second place).

Flat Panels I remember there were only a couple manufacturers, and just by Sony and someone else decided to stop making CRTs they killed the entire CRT market at the same time.

Internal Sound Cards, Creative and Asus Xonar.

Many other stuff is divided between Asus (ASMedia + spinoffs, like ASRock) and Formosa Plastics (owners of Via, WonderMedia, S3, Centaur...)

HDDs now are mostly WD and companies they purchased, or Seagate and the companies they purchased.

and the list keeps going on.

Many of these look ready to be disrupted by new competitors... but there are few attempts, for example PowerVR started as desktop GPU product, Intel tried to get into GPUs, Via still attempts sometimes to launch x86 CPUs, but for most part, all these markets are de-facto duopolies, and sometimes real duopolies, having literally no competitors (not even tiny ones).

Why is that?
Yes, very.

Brexit was a decision about a policy, Trump is a decision about a man. The key personalities of Brexit are now all gone. What remains is the policy.
Those 'legal' gambling scams are all over gaming. Where the F are authorities?

Eve Online has a juggernaut EVEBet, plus hundreds of smaller 'oh look I won XX mones its legit' scams per month.

Even Nintendo cartridge collecting gets its share of rare cartridge Facebook group Raffle Wheels with shill accounts of the owner of said raffle winning x-xxK items repeatedly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnXeFDQqBQw , one of the "winner" suckers not acknowledging the reality he got scammed(probably because he runs illegal raffle wheels too, which he admits at the end, mind blown :o) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCeq--49Fu4
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But the graph in the article shows otherwise.
The methods I am familiar with, mostly dealing with volumetric measurements, registration, and automated segmentation were either robust or had well characterized limitations.

I take some offense to blanketing the entire field of MRI based on a couple articles pointing out that some (admittedly a lot) fMRI experiments are statistically unsound.
There are many Spanish speakers ... who don't truly know their own language

Of course there are not. They may not know whatever it is you are talking about, but it's tautologically true that a group of people communicating with a given language know the language they are using to communicate (the language that they would likely refer to as "their own language"). I guess no one will care if you don't want to call that language Spanish (they won't heed your opinion, they just won't care).
Many carriers allow you to send emails to {phone_number}@carrier.com which become text messages for free.

See here: https://github.com/typpo/textbelt/blob/master/lib/carriers.j...
The salmon thing was a statistical problem, not a technical one.

fMRI data generate an incredible number of data points: imagine a movie, but in three dimensions, so you get a sequence of x/y/z-volumes. A typical scan has ~128 to 256 voxels in each spatial dimension, for ~1 million voxels per volume.

This means that if your analysis contains voxel-by-voxel tests, you're going to be running a huge number of them. Even if each test has a fairly low false-positive rate (say 0.1%), there are still a huge number of tests, and thus, a huge number of false positives.

There are principled ways of correcting for this; there are also hacky "folk methods" like setting a more stringent false positive threshold. The fish poster argues that the latter doesn't work, using a deliberately silly example.

http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf
Just goes to show that with Show HN posts you may very well be witnessing history in the making. 111 points on that original post...valuation is now something like $100M per point :) .
Most ccTLDs are heavily weighted by Google in favour of their locale, in practice this means if you use a ccTLD you can expect to suffer from a ranking penalty outside of the ccTLDs locale. If you use a .it domain you can expect to rank well in Italy but to rank poorly in the United States.

The exception to this rule are "generic" ccTLDs, Google has a number of generic ccTLDs, these are ccTLDs that they will treat as if they're not ccTLDs. This includes .io, .me and .tv[1].

I used to run a site from httpstatus.es, last year I switched the site from .es (Spain) to generic (.com) and have seen a significant increase in search engine traffic. Here is a 3 year traffic chart, red box is the switch from .es to .com: http://i.imgur.com/60RXFjP.png

I am confident from my own experience that there is a big penalty associated with using a non-generic ccTLD and businesses should be very careful when choosing a ccTLD if search engine traffic is meaningful to their business.

[1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399?hl=en (scroll down to "More about domain determination")
This Map Shows Why a Pro-EU Party Might Flop at the Next General Election
It was done under New Labour, and it was Blair/Brown who chose not to activate transitional controls. So not the Conservatives.

However I'm sure they'd have done the same thing if they had been in power at the time. Resentment about EU immigration followed the entry of eastern European states into the EU (with the UK being one of the only countries to allow their populations in from the start).
Would love to see a video of that. Any idea if one exists ? :)
I posted about Purple Services (On-demand Gas Delivery) about a year ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9535989

Users + revenue has been growing quite well month over month since we launched. Our biggest hurdle now is optimizing for profit.

http://purpleapp.com
I posted about our small medical app about 6 years ago. So far we've been,

1. Started a company around the medical apps (http://www.medicaljoyworks.com)

2. Managed to create a revenue stream and released more than 12 apps in the medical education field (Some completely new apps and some sub specialty apps of the original app idea)

3. Employed several full time people through out the years - in four different countries.

4. Our apps have been downloaded more than ~4 million times and been in the top ten medical apps around the world continuously.

5. Have been featured in many prominent blogs and medical college study guides (Also few research papers on medical education using gamification and pilot programs from universities)

6. Released more than 600 case studies in English and Spanish. (We are on the process of translating everything into French, Italian and Portuguese).

7. Doing quite good on revenue/profit and about ~200 content creators are working for us on contract basis right now.
I think a more apt comparison is miles driven while distracted. the guy was watching a movie and completely not paying attention. How many accidents were and are caused by people texting and driving per x number of miles? There were apparently enough that they passed laws against distracted driving in many states in america.

This is a beta product that explicitly says not to use it without paying attention. there are alarms that are supposed to go off and the vehicle is supposed to slow down to a halt if you do not have your hands on the steering wheel.

I see it like the beginning of the airline industry. At first they weren't as comfortable and safe as they are now. any time they have an airline disaster they do a thorough investigation and if it is warranted they will issue new mandates that airlines need to follow. over time, every accident makes air travel safer from those mistakes/edge cases/etc.
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It depends on perspective. Getting education or acquiring skills or better network is ol'good combination of carrot and stick anyway. Those instruments just happily passed from teachers to students themselves. Time will tell who is using these precious things more wise.

Full disclosure - I am big fun of didactics in delivering knowledge, since only implying of proper level of didactical pressure makes the right chemical background for application of nootropics.
I'm a member of the Marketplace Lite team, and of the resulting public benefit corporation, Nava. I'm happy to answer any questions!
A bit over five years ago I posted an 'Ask HN' (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883123) for my side project PCPartPicker (http://pcpartpicker.com). I received great advice and many feature requests that would later get implemented.

A few years after that post I left my job to work on PCPartPicker full-time. Then a year later I hired my first employee. Now we're a larger team working toward expansion.

The feedback I got from the original post was extremely helpful.
Prohibit "embrace-and-extend"

Errrr... like what, ban the Fork button on github?
I think this is a matter of perspective. I don't live in Bulgaria but my company has a pretty big lab in Sofia and I work with the engineers there constantly. They are excellent. I have had nothing but good experiences working with them. There are talented people around, and Sofia is pleasant and safe. The country itself is quite beautiful.

Bulgaria is not free of problems (see the corruption perceptions index [1]) but it's also far from doomed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#2...
And this is miniscule. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost hundreds of billions more than they needed to (not talking about whether they should have been started, just the effects achieved for the cost). I flew F/A-18s off the carrier for 6 hour missions that could have been handled by a small propeller plane in country. These missions required a carrier (millions to operate), extra more-costly flight hours ($10k/hour for F/A-18s), and 3 air-to-air refuels (cost of tanker flight time and gas). Not to mention the deterioration of incredibly expensive assets that need to be replaced. I also saw artillery and tanks in country that had no use. Could go on about the waste.

The sad truth is government bureaucracies spend all their budgets so they can ask for more. Limiting cost is the least of their concerns. I applaud 18F and the Digital Service for their efforts to advance and streamline IT and development costs. It’s an uphill battle. There is no reality check in the public sector as there is in the private sector, where inefficient behemoths eventually go bankrupt to more efficient companies.

Outsourcing is supposed to prevent this, but the big contractors just milk it for all it’s worth (Oracle failing to build Oregon’s healthcare website for $250 million is an example, HP and NMCI is another). I don’t believe it’s just the byzantine contract bidding process but the fact it is easier for leaders to say they chose a big “reputable” company so it’s not their fault it failed, whereas if they had chosen a small no-name company and it failed it would be their ass. So real competition and efficiency end up being non-existent in government, unless the president’s legacy initiative is in jeopardy and he throws his weight behind the fix. I don’t know of any way to fix this behavior except to limit the size of government and make it more local so accountability is easier to maintain by the electorate. I wish more good people in government could change things, but there are already a lot of good people trying their best in a top-down system where CYA and optics are more important than efficiency and results.
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The publicized objections to welfare in America from politicians over the decades have been dog-whistle hold overs from the Souther Strategy era. The "welfare queen" with a Cadillac and six kids stereotype was pushed because it played on the idea of a black person living it up on my money.

Unsurprisingly, welfare states that exist in homogenous cultures are seen as fairer by participants. Take a look at Scandinavia.
Depends how big the effect size is. For putting a loaded revolver next to your head, and pulling the trigger, n=30 is plenty.
Veblen goods, like $1000 'Im rich' app that made the rounds few years back.
That's often the case in other countries as well, I believe. Why not pay out of pocket? Those don't seem like the kind of things you'd need insurance for. Even the most expensive operations won't exceed $10.000 which should be more than affordable for any retiree.
Actually for fMRI studies most people use matlab and share it. It is not really closed-sourced. But I guess many guys in the field won't bother too much to read the codes from a widely used and well-cited matlab script
I agree. Nevertheless in the world of today the cover is important too :) I think...
Suprised that nobody mentioned 'xargs -I{} -P N' yet. It is a GNU extension, but quite handy as it comes preinstalled pretty much on every Linux machine.
Second that. Very simple and convenient - you just use it with your gmail account which pretty much everyone has.
Thank for your opinion, just out of curiosity I was reading about the 28 questions you have posted on HN to try to guess what kind of job you do. The questions are so general that I can only imagine someone trying to learn but not specialized in anything.

I can program in many languages and I have a steady job (math associated professor with tenure in Spain).

Sometimes I think I could try to use my computer skills to create something valuable. Perhaps something related to machine learning.
That's not a positive light, demand doesn't pay the bills.
I say the girl should be congratulated for her ingenuity. The amount of effort she put into tweaking the teacher's tail is commendable. The real "solution" here is for her to find a mentor who will channel her efforts into more projects that make people think as well as shock them. Sometimes this is risky for the teacher, but god knows we need more critical thinkers.

When I was 14, more than half a century ago, I got into trouble for holding opinions that the people her would consider merely progressive. One of my daughters in high school got into insulting her peer group by using a vocabulary they didnt understand. They thought she was praising them. She is now in her thirties and very well adjusted. If she had done such a thing in middle school, I would have been very amused, but her mother would have been absolutely mortified. Probably best that she didnt.
I've personally seen the Dutch government spend millions implementing open source software. This was something that could've been fixed for a fraction using a closed source solution. After a couple of years, the project was canceled and the closed source solution was implemented anyway.

I'm not saying that using OSS is a bad thing. I don't, however, think that 'OSS only' is the solution to the problem at hand.
The quote was slightly off, apologies. I was quoting from memory, this was 3 years ago, and I can no longer edit the parent post. What he actually said was more like (translation): "Only someone who does not know how to turn on the computer, can suggest that the election counting software's source should be made public" [1].

[1] http://www.mediapool.bg/mihail-konstantinov-podade-ostavka-k...
...or in other words (can't edit what I wrote any more):

Statistics can tell you that there is a connection. It can't tell you how (it works).
This is the source of the 'admission' referred to: http://www.npr.org/2016/06/29/483890378/during-tenure-in-rus...

I don't know what to make of it since it's a quote translated from Russian but it at least reads to me less like an admission than a claim, unless the speaker was actually involved:

FRANTS KLINTSEVICH: (Speaking Russian).

KELLY: "Let's be frank," he says. "Snowden did share intelligence. This
is what security services do," adds Klintsevich. "If there's a possibility
to get information, they will get it."

It's a possibility that Snowden's lawyer, Ben Wizner of the ACLU, denies.
Maybe it shows my ignorance, but I was surprised to learn that Valgrind converted the binary to be analyzed into bytecode.

This was an interesting exploration of using trampolines for debugging instead of relying on traps.
You're not expected to answer the question, just say "not bad" or "pretty good" and move on.
That doesn't make any sense. If demand outstrips supply, you'd expect a long waiting list for new orders. You wouldn't expect production to decrease.