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You keep acting as if the only claim you've made in this entire discussion was that FP Complete employees do not include upper bounds. It's certainly not the case that anything we've been discussing has bearing on that. But that's not an honest characterization of your comments in this thread.

You said (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12058419):

> The tool does not fix real problems. It avoids a real problem, which the authors of the tool created in the first place. The problem does not exist if packages use upper version bounds.

The implicit assertion in the following comments (which I found painfully clear, but maybe you genuinely missed it - surely we read from different contexts) was: Even if the tooling only solves a problem introduced by particular practices, it can be a "real problem" if those practices address a real problem themselves.
Yes, my logic is simple: stop trying to ban victimless crimes like drug use. A grown adult wants to inject himself with heroin? Let him. By banning the drug you create a black market, and all of the crimes that entails. The USA tried to ban alcohol, and the bootleggers won. Take all of the money we put into the war on drugs and redirect it to treatment, and tax the shit out of the drugs to pay for our schools.

Banning stealing, rape, and child pornography is nothing like banning drugs. Completely, totally, 100% unrelated and by trying to loop all of them together you disregard logic and sane, rational arguments.
> its flagship Medallion Fund generate[d] average annual returns of 71.8 percent, before fees, from 1994 through mid-2014.

Jeezus. That is about the same OOM as Moore's Law.
Nosek's finding was that half to two thirds fail to replicate: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716
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This page [0] seems to suggest that "less is also used with numbers when they are on their own and with expressions of measurement or time".

Lines of code is surely a measurement, which makes the use of 'less' here acceptable.

0: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/less-or-fewer
this post seems fishy

I was thinking the same thing. The same company whose CEO hobnobs[1] with Vlad Putin's buddies says:

remember to test sample passwords with our online password checker

Sure, be sure to send any password you're considering using to Kaspersky for thorough vetting. I'm sure they won't retain a copy of it. Trust them.

start thinking about investing in a password manager. Kaspersky’s password manager is a great one

How fortunate for everyone that they just happen to have such a useful product. But a quick Google also turned up a list of 7 open source password managers. Maybe consider using one of those instead?[2]

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-19/cybersecur...
[2] http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/13/7-open-source-password-man...
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If you look at Imgur for example you'll see two observations by users: 1) It's amazing and 2) They have server issues. Notice that #2 is incredibly vague and almost hand-waved as a joke. We as developers see the minor flaws but most people just seem to see the good of it.

EDIT: I'm not talking about Imgur. I'm talking about Imgur's posts about Pokemon Go. My bad for the ambiguity.
Iterated Least Squares? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iteratively_reweighted_least_s...

Unless I misunderstood the question...
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Around the messaging, to pull in idea from 'autokad's post, maybe just explicitly different peak/off-peak rates being advertised (like with energy) would make a big difference in feel.

Their experiments in not even mentioning it's in surge seem like an improvement themselves—I don't want to know that I could be paying a lot less—some higher level of predictability to make it feel like a mature market/commodity could close the gap even more.
Unemployed people have plenty of kids. Not sure what's being selected for, but it's not that
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After reading this whole article I do feel a bit tired... does that count as a meta meta study? Just kidding! Let's eat some cookies!

Richard Feynman was right... this whole field of statistical studies should be called something other than science.

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
The US did this stuff as well. Many of the woes of Social Security were set off by politically motivated benefit increases in the 1960s that.

IMO, people want to work and be useful. Ignoring that drive and substituting bread & circus is a dangerous direction.
and even though they are highly trained they still keep their attention on the plane's operation.

And pilots still make mistakes when adjusting to a context where the autopilot has unexpectedly handed control back to the humans.
Thank you for this detailed and informative reply. I have bookmarked it and next time I see a discussion about technical debt on HN I will link to it. If my question needed its own thread, your answer needs its own stackoverflow page. Cheers.
> My personal impression is that the rise of mental conditions is an increase in diagnosis, not occurrence.

Robert Whitaker [1] has looked into the matter, and proposes that standard treatments take an episodic disease and make it chronic.

[1] Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America - http://www.madinamerica.com/product/62043/

My step-brother hates what his psychiatrists did to him. He stopped taking their drugs, and is rather normal now.
I'd never thought of cancer like that before. You're pregnant with a fetus which is constantly reproducing, trying to make a fetus army in your organs.
Her dad worked for a U.S. govt. foreign agency, and if you look at his bio and all the countries where he was posted, you might infer that he was in the CIA.
I've used Imgur for years (though not wittingly anymore, due to their growingly shady practices) and have never known them to have a reputation for poor uptime. Reddit's stability issues seemed to be 100x worse.
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Right, but the context is that these problems comprise an evaluation suite for artificial intelligences. Even simply textually describing the shapes on the left and the right, is an accomplishment.

A better test suite would likely provide an oracle capable of generating new images belonging to the left or right and asking the program to judge which side it belongs to.
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When I think of Imgur, I think of 1) first 'decent' image host in a dark time, 2) terrible policies/management.
The limit is 100k Euro. There is a fund to save deposits under 100k if a bank collapses. The problem is that there is no enough money to save every single depositor under 100k if enough banks are in trouble. That in Italy and everywhere else.
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Agreed. February, when your article was published, isn't these weeks though.
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As someone who has previously used Chef and is currently using Ansible, I can understand those pain points. For me it's not as much of a problem as I have 10x less servers, but I have heard a lot of complaints about Ansible scaling. I definitely miss being able to just use Ruby in a cookbook, but it's usually very rare that I can't find a reasonable workaround.

Usually I describe Ansible as the tool for people who don't come from a programming background and won't be administrating a huge amount of servers. Otherwise, if you need scale then use Chef (as why would you want to have to deal with scaling AND Puppets terrible DSL).
This is really well-written, so I looked up the author, and no surprise it's Judea Pearl.
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The increase in suicide rates seems to be evidence against this hypothesis.
US VCs have raised more money than ever in 2016, so why aren’t they spending it?
The example I use is the sprinkler. Then you don't need God to intervene :)
Couldn't that be correlation as well? That is - those neighborhoods are the least likely to be rehabilitated and the buildings retrofitted to remove pollutants?
I've had issues where I definitely successfully capture a pokemon, but either lose connection due to being underground on transit or the servers 'crashing', so I wind up not having the pokemon saved to my record. Makes me think they aren't doing much, or any, local caching.
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Don't worry, Comey will not recommend prosecution so everything will be A-OK
I live in Docklands in Melbourne. For those unfamiliar, it's basically an ex-port that was transformed into an extension of the city 10 or so years ago. It's known for being basically dead after-hours and on weekends, as there's not much to do and not a lot of culture (and the weather tends to be rubbish, since it's exposed).

This weekend was... different. Even though the weather was miserable, the area was buzzing. I've never seen so many people with a common purpose in the area, or being so friendly and connected. The connection? Magikarp spawn near the water.
Maybe because the kids born in later in life are born to more educated, and more well-off parents?
CMMS just slapped Theranos hard. A federal investigation is underway and the SEC is also investigating. I personally do not think Holmes will escape jail time.
I'm frankly astonished at how bad Uber is at setting an image - or if they're not bad at it then they're terrible at deciding what image to set.

I've never used them* but based on their reputation and depending on circumstances I think my preference order would be Lyft, taxi, public transportation, livery service, call friends to ask a favor, Uber, walk - and "walk" might move up the list depending on the weather and distance.

* The one time I tried to actually use Uber they locked my account because the card on file was declined - it'd been replaced after the Home Depot breach. Their unlock policy appeared to be something like "send us a picture of the card," which wasn't going to happen since it had been shredded months before. The early press about their business practices had already started, so I wasn't that interested in pursuing unlocking either.
Ask HN: Best questions to ask users who leave
For consumer products, what are the best questions to ask users who signed up and eventually didn't retain?

For most of them, I'm having troubles getting them on the phone (understandably), what are some short quick questions that are good to ask to learn from users who don't retain?
Did you see the composition of her board? She's got some heavy-hitters there. No chance of an indictment.
I can't answer for parent, but I've read 50 books so far this year.

I'd say I spend at least 2-3 hours a day reading, mostly at night before bed and also in the morning. On the weekends this is higher as I spend almost the whole morning reading.

When my first child arrives soon I imagine this will change significantly. :)
But was it a good idea? There seems to be serious questions as to whether you can collect just a drop of blood and get accurate test results in the presence of tissue and extracellular fluid.
How can I copyright my book, blog, website or anything?
If his conclusion were true companies like Shapeways would only use cheap hobby printers. But ofcourse it is not.

Reliability, support, accuracy, all lacking with hobby printers.
The Works Records System and 3270's updating fields in buffer
The IBM 3270 DID have selective updating. If "Forms" were used (i.e. BMS mapping under CICS for example) that only worked on READ modified commands but (natively), any byte on the 1920 byte screen buffer could be updated independently.
When the ENTER key (or PF key) was pressed, only the modified data was read - preceded by a 3 byte "set buffer address" (SBA) order (to identify the field on the screen).
The read buffer command was only used mainly for debugging purposes and was actually used in OLIVER - my own developed CICS test/debugging System that was used by more than 600 blue chip corporations in the 1970's and through to the 90's.
I have recently posted some early promotional material about OLIVER and its companion product SIMON to Google+ collection. It was by the way never called "IBM OLIVER" - that was the result of some Wikipedian deciding to prefix it with "IBM" (dont ask me why!)

Here is a "Google sheets" document discussing the WORKS RECORDS SYSTEM (that OLIVER was used to create in the early 1970's at ICI)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19mi9x31pA5u4-GkYrj1gT45Rd18t4vqODgtMrIKAP4E/edit#gid=1710083428

and below are various links to the publications mentioned above about OLIVER and SIMON:-

https://plus.google.com/u/1/collection/wUwasB

https://plus.google.com/u/1/collection/oXlasB

https://plus.google.com/u/1/collection/cDbasB

https://plus.google.com/u/1/collection/Mk1asB

https://plus.google.com/u/1/collection/8vIZcB
Yeah, but will it get me laid?
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The boilerplate you have to write (and handle) is minimal. This is more important to me than the number of packages I have to install for development.

And, only React, ReactDom and Firebase (which has to be required in the page html, unfortunately, due to Firebase issues) actually ship down to th client

While I can appreciate the benefit of keeping your entire codebase small (especially the bits that aren't yours), I'm not entirely certain of the wisdom of trying to build a react/es6/less/sass transpiling development environment with as few external dependencies as possible :)
Probably because they sell mostly to businesses. The Raspberry Pi seems to be targeted to schools and hobbyists; neither of those groups spends a lot of money on software (certainly not compared to businesses).
That totally seems wrong. I'm certain it should fire on SPECint, since all compiler optimizations are pretty much invented just to improve the SPECint score - gcc's autovectorizer was made to do this for IBM's POWER processors, which are of course not x86.

Maybe it didn't detect '-march=native' properly?
It's hard to pay lawyers from the proceeds of piracy.
It would have been nicer to have seen a comparison using the same material as well as a series of parts designed to test for specific issues in 3D printing.

Add to this printing 100 copies of each part and we might have ended up with a useful set of data points.
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The Works Records System and 3270's updating fields in buffer
The IBM 3270 DID have selective updating. If "Forms" were used (i.e. BMS mapping under CICS for example) THAT only worked on READ modified commands but, natively, any byte on the 1920 byte screen buffer could be updated independently.

When the ENTER key (or PF key) was pressed, only the modified data was read - preceded by a 3-byte "Set buffer address" (SBA) order - to identify the field on the screen.

The READ BUFFER command was only used mainly for debugging purposes and was actually used in OLIVER - my own developed CICS test/debugging System that was in use at more than 600 blue chip corporations in the 1970's and through to the 1990's.

I have recently posted some early promotional material about OLIVER and its companion product SIMON to several Google+ collections. It was, by the way, never called "IBM OLIVER" - that was the result of some Wikipedian editor deciding to prefix the name with "IBM" (don't ask me why!)

Here is a "Google sheets" document discussing the "WORKS RECORDS SYSTEM" (that OLIVER was used to create in the early 1970's at ICI in Cheshire , UK)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19mi9x31pA5u4-GkYrj1gT45Rd18t4vqODgtMrIKAP4E/edit#gid=1710083428

and below are various links to the publications mentioned above about OLIVER and SIMON:-

https://plus.google.com/u/1/collection/wUwasB

https://plus.google.com/u/1/collection/oXlasB

https://plus.google.com/u/1/collection/cDbasB

https://plus.google.com/u/1/collection/Mk1asB

https://plus.google.com/u/1/collection/8vIZcB

Please can someone move all this to the appropriate thread (mentioning these topics and my name "Ken Dakin"). I cannot fathom how to reply or make a comment about an existing thread.
I've never played Pokemon anything in my life and I thought it sounded interesting and possibly worth a look based on the geocaching-like functionality of it. So they have the get-out-and-go-find-something of geocaching, the branding of Pokemon, the nifty factor of augmented reality, and multiple social aspects ranging from whatever online trading, etc. exists to people meeting trying to hit the same location.

I'm not surprised it's taking off.
When his fixer Dith Pran died, the NPPA magazine News Photographer talked about Schanberg's reporting and how it placed you on the bridge when the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh -- and how today, the first graf is the news and the second graf is reaction, followed by forward analysis.
Why is that terrifying? It's not like our spending isn't moved around by the whims of companies at the moment.
I've just spent some time experimenting with the state of X-on-windows.

It seems that there are two main options:
- Rootless mode (the default install for VcXsrv), in which your windows are managed by the Win10 WM and integrate quite nicely

- Rooted mode, in which you can use your own window manager, but the windows are restricted to living inside a native Windows window. Using this in fullscreen on a virtual desktop provides a near-linux experience, but some remapping is required so you don't conflict with Windows' alt-tab, etc. Other bits of integration like copy&paste still co-exist nicely.
This is an interesting suggestion, are you saying UBI will increase wages or decrease productivity? Or maybe some of both?
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No mention at all of the strength/rigidity/hardness of the jigs. The professionally printed one was made from ABS, which is a harder plastic than HIPS. It is also possible that the professional machine bonds the plastic filament to the workpiece better. The best way to test this would be destructively.

Of course, if the jig is just going to be used for a short period of time, structural integrity doesn't matter. And the hobbyist machines are just going to get better as technology improves.
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The crazy thing for me is the sheer explosive growth this has seen. I was walking around downtown Redwood City last night near the theater. Easily 50% of the people on the sidewalk walking or standing around were playing as verified by glancing at their screens as I passed them.

And these weren't just kids. Adults, men, women, all ethnicities, etc. were all playing. I've never seen anything like it. They've really stuck to their goal of getting people outside as summed up by this hilarious Reddit post [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4rwf24/pokemon_t...
Can someone explain how it works? I understand that it's AR- and location-based. How/where/why do you acquire the virtual creatures? Do you have to look for them aimlessly or are there clues?
That's pretty harsh for an app that just shows you people's European vacation photos and lets you talk to them.
The prices start at $300. http://snapterms.com/order/

I have never used it, but many friends have, and the owner is my buddy Aaron, who is an all-around great guy.
Causal models are more powerful than associational models because they support interventions. That means that you can answer questions about what would happen if you were to "do(x)". This is different than asking the question about what would happen if you were to observe "x".

Let's look at a concrete example. Suppose in the real world, the gardener leaves the sprinkler off, the ground is dry.

If you were to observe that the sprinkler is on, you would deduce that the ground is wet. If you were to observe the wet ground, you would "abduce" that the sprinkler is on.

However, the interventional question: what if I were to turn on the sprinkler requires a causal model. In this case, the direction is critical. Turning on the sprinkler, wets the ground. Wetting the ground, does not turn on the sprinkler!

Causal models also have better invariants: unobserved causal children (say WetGround) leave their parents (say Sprinkler and Rain) independent. This is not necessarily true in an associational model. If Rain is correlated with WetGround is correlated with Sprinkler, then even when WetGround is unobserved, Rain gives you information about Sprinkler. Since our model has no other elements (such as a common cause between Sprinkler and Rain), then this transmission of information is totally wrong.

I couldn't tell if you were arguing against the utility of causal models or whether the real world exhibits causal relationships. If it's the latter, then it is ultimately a leap of faith based on our intuitive understanding of the world. All scientific experiments rely on the notion of cause and effect and interventional reasoning (experiments).
Thanks shostack - very much appreciated. Will be making these changes over the next couple weeks, should be fascinating once its all wired up (I'm an engineer dabbling in all this for the first time).

Thanks Again!
Various landmarks are 'pokestops', where you can get pokeballs and other items. Some of those places are gyms, where you can pit your pokemon against others.

The pokemon themselves are spawned from random spots on the map and wander around, if you're in the area and have the app open you'll see it and can capture it by throwing pokeballs at it. There's a kind of wonky proximity indicator for nearby pokemon, and they're shown on the map by the random appearance of rustling grass.
It honestly has reminded me of when Facebook launched at my college back in 05. I remember being in the library and had Facebook pulled up, another student who I didn't know walked by and was like "Facebook! Add me!"

Immediate flashbacks when last night I was walking to my car from the grocery store with Go up on my phone. Guy yells "Pokemon go, right?"
>Ms. Holmes maintains a heavy security detail.

thinking as a Russian, i can see how that can be a channeling of [investors'] money to the CIA friends [of the father, of the board members, etc...]. You know a typical cost+ [a lot of '+'s] contract or something like it...
Just played a little bit on someone else's account. You walk around looking at a map on your phone (very little detail on the map, it's just a 3d street map) and sometimes you see a pokemon running around on your block. You tap on the pokemon and a screen opens up where you have to throw a ball at it. When you hit it, you capture it. There are also these floating disks with images of local landmarks, and when you swipe on them, you get more balls or other prizes. That's about it.
From the article: "One defect I observed on the Lulzbot printed part was the blade portion of the tool had a split in it from not bonding correctly. This was most likely a cause of pushing the 0.5mm nozzle to its limits in terms of layer height but a little glue and some pressure would fix this split no problem."

Er, that's called a "reject" in manufacturing.

This is the basic problem with low-end filament-type 3D printers - weak layer bonding. You're welding a hot thing to a cold thing, which never works well. And there's considerable thermal expansion, and thus shrinkage, in the material, which produces internal stresses between layers. That's where things crack.
We do have a great formalization of causality, which is Pearl's book.
I'm sure their employees have signed NDAs.