skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out http://retractionwatch.com for a convenient compendium of scandals with published papers.

I think that in the technical community we have a habit of treating scientific publications as absolute truth, ignoring the many susceptibilities in the publication process. I guess people do that because it's the firmest way to centralize on the truth that they know how, which is fine as far as it goes.

I've found that these same people are quick to nitpick studies that don't reach conclusions they like and quick to weaponize studies that do, beating people over the head as "science deniers" for holding a non-compliant opinion (even if it's not necessarily a minority opinion).

Political, personal, and commercial agendas all seriously influence our output, even the output that gets published in peer-reviewed journals. Let's all agree that as humans, all of our work, developments, and opinions are subject to bias and error. Considering this, we shouldn't be too hostile to anyone who may have a different perspective.
Save yourself the bandwidth and get them in higher quality off modarchive :)

http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_artist_modules&...
The rise of social 'science' is equal to the demise of intellectual rigour and common sense. The sad part is that social science could be done right, but few do it right because most people who don't suck at statistics go for fields that are more worthwile.
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I totally agree about "[attackers] prefer to use system weaknesses over software exploits" for the reason mentioned (if you use someone password chances are no alarm will ring, if you scan every port on every possible network.. meh, you may get noticed).

I've seen a growing number of systems tracking the fingerprint of the user not only the password (e.g. salesforce), I think that is the way to go because it is very difficult to train users against every possible social exploitation.
Just curious. Is this the normal way:

let recursion_available = (0b1000_0000 & r_z_ad_cd_rcod) == 0b1000_0000

That just seems redundant. If you declared the var as a Boolean, would the == 0bxxxx part have been necessary?
Rieder's argument against having children seems incredibly egocentric to me. Our children will inherit a hellhole, and he doesn't want to subject them to it. Might as well kill yourself while you're at it.

The issue is that without children, there will be no experience of the hellhole. As terrible as humans have been for the rest of the life on this planet, we are becoming more conscious of it, and I think intelligence is a worthwhile trait to preserve. Since immortality is a fiction, children are the way to do it.

Children are very adaptable. It's us old people who will suffer through change. I mean, in the US, college freshmen have grown up in a world where you can be jailed for discussing encryption and kicked out of the airport for sharing a name with a suspected terrorist and police use military gear, and they're doing fine. For the most part.

We see how the world is changing, and we're horrified. For our children, that will just be the way things are. I am optimistic that some aspects will even be better. Our great-grandparents would say the same about our world now, and we're only around to experience it because they chose to have children.
After a few hours of Googling, I still can't figure out why these regulations exist. I managed to find a lot of people saying that the ADA requires a door to stay open for a certain amount of time, but nothing about why a Door Close button shouldn't override that.
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Also, smelling farts prevents cancer. Look it up.
I presume an example would be something like remembering to check `rows.Err()` in `package sql` at the end of iterating through all rows. If you check the error each iteration while calling `rows.Scan()` but forget to check the `rows.Err()` at the end, it could potentially be much, much later that you find out something went wrong.
Also see previous discussion at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12030791
If you're a human, you make mistakes. It's what you do.

Having the compiler check your work for mistakes and flagging them up early is better than letting them slide.
I'd find spam a lot more demoralizing than peanut butter.

I looked in the cupboard. Tuna, which is almost just protein and water, has 17 grams of protein in a 74 gram serving. Chunky peanut butter has 7 grams of protein in a 32 gram serving (http://www.jif.com/products/extra-crunchy-peanut-butter).

The tuna is 70 calories. The peanut butter is 190 calories (it has quite a lot of fat in it).

Searching online, canned ham appears to be ~100 calories for 50-some grams, with 10 grams of protein. Spam compares to the peanut butter, with 180 calories per serving and 7 grams of protein (http://www.spam.com/varieties/spam-classic).

So by mass, the peanut butter does a pretty great job of supplying protein, and it comes with a bunch of calories too. Oil packed tuna would do better with the calories, but I find it off-putting.

edit: Here's a link for tuna:

http://starkist.com/products/chunk-light-tuna-in-water-can

It's a different product than I looked at, but close enough.
I don't see how something that doesn't allow pinning versions can be an obvious default choice for dependency management.
Possibly a more direct way to offset increasing the population would be to donate to things that improve living standards and the amount of control women have over their lives in countries which currently have a high birth rate.
> Considering this, we shouldn't be too hostile to anyone who may have a different

I can conclude some
things with greater confidence than others. When an expected benefit can be concluded with greater confidence and sufficient magnitude than its expected costs, a decision can - and should - be made.
First sentence is strange to me

> Late for work in Manhattan, you push the crosswalk button and curse silently at the slowness of the signal change.

In other parts of NYC maybe, but in most of Manhattan I can't imagine anyone doing this more than a few times. They'd be more likely to just "jaywalk." Signal phases are very short and "jaywalking" is so accepted and normal that it seems odd here to have a word for it.

The real irony is that (so I was told) "jay walking" comes from an old derogatory term, "jay" meaning someone from the country not familiar with the city. But in Manhattan, it's the other way around -- the tourists are usually the ones that scrupulously _don't_ jaywalk.
I recently told a colleague who made a blanket statement that he didn't like country music but who liked punk rock that Waylon and Hank Jr. were the equivalent of punk rock to country music.
If r_z_ad_cd_rcod is of type u8, then 0b1000_0000 & r_z_ad_cd_rcod is also of type u8, containing the value 0 or 128. It is (by design) not possible to simply cast a number to a bool in Rust; comparing it with some value is the way you are required to do this. You can do this with `== 0b1000_0000` if you want, or `!= 0` would do just as well.

Rust is deliberately explicit about conversions between types; it’s less error-prone, though often more verbose. It’s a part of the language’s philosophy.
This simply shows the power of a union. If physicians operated more effectively there would be no NPs prescribing.

It cuts both ways. I do not begrudge nurses their income, they sure as hell earn it for the most part. Put an investment banker in a nurse's job at County and see how long they last, then tell me it costs too much.
As far as placebo effects in cars, a lot of newer cars are putting in "sound enhancing" tubes to pipe sound into the cabin from the engine bay to make the car sound more powerful. VW went so far as to actually play engine noises out of the speakers regardless of if the stereo was on.
What was the point of the medallion system in the first place?
GDP is a terrible metric. It encodes all sorts of micro-regressions as growth. For instance, a hostile society induces more people to live alone; They purchase a new everything. GDP goes up but utilization goes down. If it was our own business we'd fix it. When it's our society we're too busy clawing after that newly minted GDP.
Sure you can. Sun and SGI were viable for a while.
That study wasn't really key to the book.
So do clinicians in our system. When a senior attending who is also a full professor in an academic medical center is still filing reports at 11pm on a Friday (not on service), something is rotten. Especially when that's every Friday.
> Here is an operating system containing many nontrivial applications, all written in 100% Asm:

Here's a small snippet I found from draw.asm:

add r9 , [copyxe]
add r9 , [copyxe]
add r9 , [copyxe]
sub r9 , [copyx]
sub r9 , [copyx]
sub r9 , [copyx]
add r10 , [sizex]
add r10 , [sizex]
add r10 , [sizex]
add r14 , 1

72 bytes.

Here's what GCC generates with -Os for the same code:

imul rax,qword ptr [copyxe],3
inc r14
add r9,rax
imul rax,qword ptr [sizex],3
add r10,rax
imul rax,qword ptr [copyx],-3
add r9,rax

36 bytes.

As a bonus, GCC with -O2:

mov rax,[copyxe]
add r14,1
lea rax,[rax+rax*2]
add r9,rax
mov rax,[sizex]
lea rax,[rax+rax*2]
add r10,rax
mov rax,[copyx]
mov rcx,rax
neg rcx
lea rax,[rax+rcx*4] ; clever!
add r9,rax

52 bytes.

So, not only does GCC hugely beat this snippet of handwritten Menuet assembly in code size, it can even do so handily while folding all the repeated additions into LEA and eliminating most of the loads.

This is an excellent example of why you shouldn't write in assembler.
In that analogy, to me it comes across as a quote written in very large font, double-underlined, and surrounded by exclamation points.

Take, for example, the context behind "What is GIF May Never Die." I don't know the reference, but a Google search for "What is * May Never Die" says it's from Game of Thrones, and something to do with the Drowned Gods. But what does the video add to that quote? As far as I can tell, it doesn't. Or do I need to research further to understand the context for that specific scene?

(Transclusion would help here.)

For those who know the series, what does the video add to the quote "What is GIF May Never Die" to justify that use of space?

Or if that's not a good example, what's an example of using this technique at its best? Because the issue trackers I've seen which use GIFs this way come across as using a lot of inside-jokes that I don't understand, and saying little else.
What's the point of including a clip from the original video to share the words when there's no audio and the words are subtitled on? At that point, you may as well just post a still image with subtitles (which is just as interesting, but less distracting and doesn't use anywhere near as much data).
I believe Karpathy Char-RNN is from 2015 (that is at least the year on the 100-line gist and the "unreasonable effectiveness of ..." blog post[0]) but char-level RNN language models dates back to at least 2011 with [1]

So I don't think we should call him the inventor, though he definitely popularised it with his great writing and examples.

[0] http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
[1] Sutskever, Ilya, James Martens, and Geoffrey E. Hinton. "Generating text with recurrent neural networks." Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-11). 2011.
it looks like there is a umx decoder (libmodplug) in ffmpeg actually, and i have the games on steam. Maybe i'll convert them to mp3 myself for a trip down memory lane.

speaking of changing formats, Unreal Tournament 2004 was the first place i saw an Ogg file too.
Per state? Try per region. My department serves a tertiary referral facility and there's another one across town. Of course, "town" is 18 million people, but you get the idea.

I guess I could see having one tertiary center to serve say VT and NH but if memory serves even they have one apiece.
A csp can say that you only want to load things over https and Strict-transport security (HSTS) also helps here (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security ). I've found http://securityheaders.io quite helpful in securing my servers alongside ssl labs server test (as others have mentioned) to check that your actual server and SSL certs are configured well.
The more I see these the more I am thinking these psychological conclusions are just placebos. You pick the one that appeals to you most and ignore the rest. They work only because you want them to be true.
There actually are online webm converters, just like there are for gif.

And if you decide to do it yourself, I don't understand why you'd need to go through an mp4 intermediate. With ffmpeg you can trim and encode your clip to webm with a single command and a couple switches. Or if you want an easy GUI tool, there's always WebM for Gits (https://github.com/nixxquality/WebMConverter )
According [0] CSP can do it and offers reporting, unlike HSTS.

[0]: https://scotthelme.co.uk/fixing-mixed-content-with-csp/
Apparently audio mixing desks are sometimes built with such a slider or knob.
Most hotels that I've been to that don't have toothpaste in the rooms do have them available at the front desk upon request (at no cost.)

It's a cost saving measure, and I assume most people travel with their own toothpaste (so much preference, is small and doesn't flag TSA search.) If someone stays one night, even if they don't use the toothpaste, you still have to replace the tube. Makes more sense to keep a small supply at the front desk/back-room.
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What do you mean when you say "neither was X11"? X11 most definitely is designed to be network transparent. After all, that was the whole concept behind X-terminals.

Also, VNC is nothing like the network transparency of X11. In X, I am able to run a single application on one machine, connecting to an X server running on a different machine. The application will be a first-class citizen in the user environment. This is in contrast to the VNC case where it lives in a separate desktop that is forwarded as a whole to be displayed in a window on the receiver side.
Ah yes, the good old "let's hold up the most inefficient and expensive delivery mechanism known to man", and ignore that every hospital in America would shut their ER down if they could, because they lose money faster than the Pentagon.

The only reason those ERs are open in the first place is that you can't be accredited as a general hospital without one (which has specific tax benefits). Anyone who uses this example is either woefully ignorant or a troll.
Honestly, a lot of the professional content on the web today is awful. I say let it burn. I've met quite a few people who attempt to ~"get rich quick" or "retire early" off of something which passionate hobbyists did for the love of it. They might be "professionals" in the sense that they're now attempting to use such an enterprise as their sole source of income, but much of this "professional" content is garbage.

Hobbyist blogs, on the other hand, typically have great content, because the people writing it created it out of a desire to share their knowledge, not to drive ad clicks. There can be some overlap, and I've definitely seen what I would consider good content with ads on the side, but I largely believe that content created to drive ad revenue is a business which pollutes the web. Tumblr, GeoCities, etc had / have a ton of awesome content, and it's not typically the creators who are getting paid to put it there. YouTube does share ad revenue above a certain threshold, and I think that works pretty well.
And a GIF is worth a thousand * framerate * seconds words. How can anyone be surprised they're beating images?
I still remember the impact that Unreal had on me. Such a revolutionary game,a real jewel.
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There are many use cases for which Nim might very well be a very good language other than concurrency.
Thanks! It sounds like the IDE is the real feature
This may be the first time I've ever heard someone seriously praise Photoshop for good UI or software design.

Most of the people I know who work with it just barely tolerate its UI and its incessant bugs. Wonder if that has anything to do with trying to support everything everyone ever thought of? :)
I once sat next to Anne Toner at a dinner. (I admit I don't remember her name, but I doubt there are any other female scholars in Cambridge studying the same topic.)

I asked her what she worked on, and she told me that her PhD was about the history of the ellipsis. I tried making a weak joke along the lines of "why the ellipsis? Why not, say, the comma?" She surprised me by launching into an extensive explanation of how the comma was far less interesting because its use was standardized much earlier, it is used in fewer situations, and so on.

I felt abashed, but was happy that her enthusiasm and knowledge steamrolled right over the top of my weak mocking. It may be an obscure topic, but good for her for being so interested in and devoted to it.
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Great for childcare if your kid camps out in the NICU, for burns that require 3 weeks to be walkable again... Really, why would anyone want to streamline delivery of care when we can dispense it in the most staggeringly expensive and inefficient way possible? It's just a mystery to me.
Holy shit. Those are the longest implementations of `map` and `reduce` I've ever seen.
It's more easily mitigated by not placing a useless button in a high traffic area.
I thought I knew the basic premise of "Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow" even though I haven't read it... but I don't understand why this would be a key study for the book. Can anyone provide a quick explain?
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I agree - this study doesn't seem key to the premise of the book, the title seems misleading.
With a lower conversion rate, assuming identical order value, the earnings per click will be lower on mobile than desktop. So with a $100 AOV and 5% CVR, your EPC is $5 per click.

With mobile, the CVR will be lower (at least from my experience), so your EPC may be $2.50 per click with a 2.5% CVR.

If you're converting worse, you just pay less per click. So if you want your ad expense to be 10%, with desktop ads, you can pay $.50 per click, versus only $.25 for mobile. Google's inventory growth has only come from mobile, which converts worse, so it is essentially less valuable. Google has mitigated this by increasing AdWords CTR, which increases their earnings per mille. YoY I've seen AdWords CTR increase ~30% on mobile, likely due to the green ad labels and increased spacing between ads that push organic results further down the page.

Google is pushing hard to get advertisers to actually bid more on mobile, even though it converts worse, by eliminating metrics such as Cost per Converted Click in favor of Cost/Conversion (which attributes conversions across devices. Until recently, Desktops & Tablets were lumped into one bidding category, the latter being the worst performing of all 3 devices, the former the best) and pushing equally opaque metrics such as Store Visits. The Store Visits functionality is touted as a huge way to measure cross device in person conversions that big brands with huge, inefficient budgets love (clicks desktop ad, visits store and store visit is logged by phone), but having worked at an out of the way retailer who would be closed on major US holidays, Store Visits held steady even though stores were closed. There isn't anything you can really do, though, since over 90% of all US search traffic is Google.
Bloomberg had 2 large bank executives complaining very publicly on the low interest rates and advocating having the FED raise rates over the weekend. Here's one, I can't find the other:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2016-08-19/macquarie-s-...

Lots of pension funds have been destroyed (but the Fed doesn't care, and the ECB even less), and banks are not far behind. Soon the choice will be raise rates or face bank bankruptcies. My money's on that they'll raise rates and just let the many, many over-indebted companies refinance or go bankrupt.
Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:p3ffba...
Musescore has a user database that has lots of music (no song count that I could find quickly, but I want to say ~10s-100s of thousands) that ought to be convertible to appropriate formats.

IMSLP (<http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page>) has about 110,000 works uploaded. However, these are mostly PDFs (some of them are scans), which would be very hard to extract useful data from.

Such data may include multiple voices, which makes it harder for a neural network to learn a pleasant-sounding song.
If only I could view that "movie" with Chrome on Android.
Heh. Be sure not to get in an accident (very often another party's fault) and require multiple surgeries or PT. The person to whom you responded sounds young, like someone who has never seen what cancer or a bad car accident will do to a body. Let alone what walks into a county hospital.

News flash, folks: physicians in the UK and Canada still make a bit above a living wage. It's the insurers that suddenly have to compete, like when a school district finally gets its shit together and parents start wondering why they're paying $40k a year for equal or worse outcomes.

Granted plenty of Canadian plastic surgeons split to practice in the US, but that's a different (and competitive) market.
Double team prank
Does Visual Basic pre-.NET/WinForms even support layout at all?

Edit: Doesn't look like it. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/182070
I'd love to see DeepDril, derived from https://twitter.com/dril

Here's all his tweets: http://greptweet.com/u/dril/dril.txt
A vague word is useful when you are trying to convey a vague concept, in much the same way as it would be hard to convey the idea that you know that some metric is between 20% and 40%, if you are not allowed to be vague and are required to arbitrarily pick some number like 38.51% and say that one instead
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Public domain code is actually illegal in some places, if I recall correctly
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Good tip, thanks.
We have a placebo button on the last page of our online school interview booking system.

The last page clearly states that their bookings are confirmed and have been emailed to them, but during usability trials we found many people wanted another button to confirm completion. So now we have a "Finished" button that simply takes them back to our home page.
It's "Thinking, Fast and Slow", and the study in question is hardly "key" to the book, it gets all of one paragraph in chapter 4.
ok that I knew, I suppose you could compile python via C, at least theoretically.
Is the post title referring to "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, or something else?
Where do you think language comes from anyway? If we'd adopted prescriptivist ideas like this early enough, we'd still be grunting and pointing
My guess is that nobody wants to get their hands dirty working on what's probably very old code for a very old format.

That and maybe the fact that it's probably not very easy to travel back and forward in GIF's incrementally painted animation model described by Gankro in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12333329
I'm not sure if they're idiomatic. However, I did write both projects with the same amount of experience in each language. It goes to show then, how much easier it is to write idiomatic Elixir.

Also the elixir-lang Slack channel is just full of incredibly nice people. :P