skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We may be agreeing and mis-communicating, or agreeing violently, as I've heard it called, so let's get specific. What are you suggesting should happen to a paper when it's shown to have errors?

Nothing at all is wrong with adding new information to the public record stating the issues, that's what I mentioned is already happening -- new papers reference and demonstrate the weaknesses of old papers. In my field, as I suspect most, it's a time honored tradition to do a small literature review in the introduction section of a paper that mainly dismisses all related previous work as not good enough to solve the problem you're about to blow everyone's mind's with.

In my mind, nothing is wrong with what the statcheck authors did either. My one and only point at the top was that it's not surprising it ruffled some feathers, and that it didn't have to ruffle any feathers. That only happened because the results were made public without solicitation. @wyager was trying to paint the situation as a dichotomy between rude or unscientific, that rude was the only option. Rude is not the only option.

If statcheck hadn't published the review of old papers and contacted all the old authors, then I'm pretty sure two things would have happened: 1- this wouldn't have ruffled any feathers, and 2- it wouldn't have gotten much attention, and we wouldn't be talking about it.
> It also means they are relegated to being glorified trailers, which means they will never be on even footing in many important respect with a house with a foundation.

Well sure. It means you might have have trouble getting post delivered to your door or getting utility hookups in a city, or trash collection.

However those kinds of things are much more easily hacked than this:

"This isn't remotely solved and the primary areas that need to be addressed have nothing at all to do with construction technique. They primarily have to do with policy reform and financing mechanisms."

I completely agree! Meanwhile we have a problem... Get back to me when it costs 5-10 years of average wages to purchase the average house. Until then Tiny Houses are at the least a good interim solution to not becoming homeless or massively indebted or ripped into by landlords.

> Furthermore, because it is "cutting edge," it isn't yet accessible to most poor people. A lot of tiny houses are insanely expensive per square foot, containing quite high quality materials.

Remember I said 'in theory', it was a hypothetical. A lot of Tiny Houses are very expensive per sq ft because of the kind of people who are building them. Mine is for example because it is stuffed full of cool features, materials and designs. I believe one can build a mass production of Tiny Houses for 5k-7k per unit which have all the basic necessities.

> They are basically aimed at eccentrics

I'll take that as a compliment. I prefer 'unique individual' ;-)

> not normal people with a limited income.

You double your costs per sq ft if you hire somebody else to do everything for example.

Tiny Houses are very accessible to the lower middle class and to the working class, because they tend to have the right skillset or because they have some amount of cash flow. Most Tiny Houses are built and finished for about 25k. That is good number when contrasted with the alternatives.

If you have close to zero cash flow, you have two options available to you, perhaps to be used in concert.

1. Reclaim waste materials. People have built Tiny Houses for as little as 500 dollars although I don't recommend this if you can get a job and save up. But if your time is effectively free then this is a wise way to spend it.

2. Construct a micro sized Tiny House to be transported by bicycle. That's about 200-300 dollars. Better than being homeless with no shelter.

I think we're coming at this subject from different premises. Mine is 'obtain shelter' and yours is 'obtain housing'. I think government related problems aren't going to be solved for a long time and that in light of that a lot of people are going to get screwed over unless they adopt something like Tiny Houses.
Seems like pretty coincidental timing considering their account migration. Also I'm not sure that a DCMA takedown counts as fraud.
> I have known several people who were otherwise pretty competent computer users but would download a DMG, mount it, and run the app from the disk image every time.

Is there anything particularly wrong with doing this? I know that it's not the typical use scenario, but it doesn't seem like it causes any problems, and it's dead easy even for people for whom the correct procedure is hard.
Simple Google Sheets interface to track time
"Worse" is often subjective. And the problem is often just the removal of the possibility of a better product to take hold. For example, Google prioritizes Google services. It gets you on as many Google services as possible. Let's use, say, that it pushes you towards Play Music when you search for songs.

Maybe Play Music is the best thing. Maybe it is not. Neither of us can answer that. But if a definitively better product comes along it will have no way to make a foothold because Google is still pushing everyone to their own product, from their other product (Search), and even when people try your product, if they use Google's other products, they'll tend to stick to other Google products.

Honestly, the worst problem with companies like Google is vertical integration. The ability to provide a wide product line where you integrate best with other products your own company makes has an incredibly chilling effect on competition, and therefore, innovation.

And if your theory that companies prioritizing results for profit would lose to companies that always prefer the best products, why is DuckDuckGo still in what... fourth or fifth place?
This is why I love Snapchat

I can follow the thoughts of people without having to see most or all of their thoughts. I can follow people without becoming committed to their antics.
Game Maker Valve Ordered to End Support of Black-Market Gambling
They do not want to investigate. They do not care about pursuing matters with the authorities (unless there is major carnage). They just want to keep involvement low, close the case as quick as possible and move on. Fraud mitigation is a cost center.
I am annoyed by something else: today Apple stepped on the wrong toe, the community will cry foul and someone from Apple who reads HN will rush to salvage the situation. We have seen this pattern before (usually but not exclusively with Apple). But what about the thousands of small and nameless developers that were crushed by some script bug or killed by operator misclick? Who will ever help them?
تحميل متصفح سفاري 2016 Safari عربي للكمبيوتر وللموبايل مجانا
Yahoo scan by U.S. fell under foreign spy law expiring next year
Just to be clear up front, my site is actively trying to be a demonstration of the ideas I outlined in the above post, in addition to being an actual site. It's still a work in progress and I'm letting it evolve piece by piece. There are many unanswered questions.

> But only after consent from your the sender, right?

I'm struggling to decide the right way to handle this. So far, if the message is substantial and I want to reply for follow-up, I also ask directly for permission. If it is a small message or I otherwise don't end up with consent, I'll remove any personally identifying information and/or paraphrase the message. You can see this in action at [0].

I'd love to know where most people think the proper line is. I usually consider direct email to be a rather private communication channel.

[0] https://www.gaxun.net/commentary/knuth-challenge/comments/
The current top500 machine has 64KB scratchpad per processing core and seems to be capable of running real HPC applications well <http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/PAPERS/sunway-....
Which is why giving your credit card info to Google, Apple, or Amazon is more sensible than giving it to cheapelectronics.com.
Stop blaming on JavaScript when all you want is to talk about Front End
"After the author royalties, PayPal fees and chargeback costs, our gross margin on the storefront is about 8%..."

I'm surprised they accept Paypal at all, given that Paypal offers no seller protection for anything but tangible goods via tracked shipping.
CSS was "better than what we have" in the 90's. It's not optimal, kinda like Javascript. Other than HTML, what other technology uses something similar to CSS?
It's hard to believe that the problem is a lack of funds when the city's 2015-16 budget allocates $241m to help ~7k homeless people. It sounds more like we can't figure out how to deploy these resources effectively.
Having just installed SolveSpace, a parametric 3D CAD tool which includes a solver in 1.9 MB, I can't help but feel a bit sad when a minimal Markdown editor is a 34 MB file :(

I wonder if there's a better option for crossplatform apps than Electron. Maybe Rust? Or Python+PyQT?
And this is a reason, why I take care in archiving installers, license keys, serials, etc for every application I use. Learned my lesson some 25 years ago, when there wasn't Internet to try to find the installer and email archive to hunt for licenses.
Definitely agree that moving the money into savings may not make the most sense. Unless the interest you earn in savings out-paces the interest you're paying on the loan, paying off the loan is always better. That's why we want to solve this problem. The longer that people wait to pay extra money towards loans, the more interest they pay.
Totally agree, if the assumptions made on that theory were correct. The fact is, many of the diseases we get vaccinated against: rabies, polio, small pox, chicken pox, etc. Are not spread through the air. And pretty much everyone was voluntarily vaccinated for those.

Meaning the less people around you who have the disease the better, as you pointed out this is the general idea. That totally breaks down for air born pathogens that aren't spread via feceal matter, saliva, etc. one sneeze on a railing a train station can spread across 10000 people. We will always come in contact with it, vaccines may help, but yeah... it doesn't spread node to node as chicken pox, more like node to 100 X node.

We haven't even come close to solving air born pathogens.

Also, I'd argue that many of the reductions in disease rates have more to do with better plumbing and teaching people to stay home as opposed than vaccines. Both help, but the theory is just that a theory, with some pretty large holes and ignores the easy international travel, air born illness, and the evidence doesn't really have enough behind it to say "everyone has to be vaccinated"
Or, you know, actual plants, that are healthy and probably always going to be environmentally better because you cut out a middle man in calories to mouth, one that is now sentient...

It's weird how much people try and peddle different solutions and proteins like "low methane cows" or crickets!" Instead of something much simpler and already tried and true, beans nuts, grains, etc...
A good distinction between "peer reviewed" vs "computer verified"

>“The literature is growing faster and faster, peer review is overstrained, and we need technology to help us out,”

This is a problem in every field, not just Psychology.

I want someone to tell me the distribution (or average ratio) of papers read to papers written.

Every thesis written is supposed to add some delta to the state of the art. But there is no method for doing a diff between past and previous versions of human knowledge. How to make science less redundant and more efficient?

I dream of aggregators for everything.
Jeez, $35k/yr/person and they're still homeless? If this were happening in my country, I'd be certain most of the money is lining someone's pockets.
I would assume it is Rebecca Frankel as well. I looked for a connection to Piaw and he had blogged about her during the period this conversation had taken place.
That you decided to take my comment, directed at no one and certainly not some random person I've never spoken to in my life, as an indictment of your intelligence is surely not my problem, nor is it what I wrote.
Have witnessed this in Atlanta......
We saw varying levels of traction throughout the years with different product iterations. In the talk, I discuss why we made the specific product decisions at different points in time. We target busy families, and we saw the least traction with a la carte and on demand, more traction with subscription prepared meals, and the absolute definition of product-market fit traction ever since we launched our weekly subscription of freshly prepped 10-minute dinner kits in August 2014.
Some of the numbers you're thinking of come from:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/03/police-complaints-drop-93-...

Which also makes the point that the behavior sticks even when the cameras are gone.

There was also another article a few weeks ago that made the point that the majority of police officers actually wanted the cameras back after the experiment ended.
The Metamorphosis: from best practices to disaster overnight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis
That ECS stuff makes me think about that old Heather MacDonald article about The sidewalks of San Francisco and all various interest groups and cynical factions she unveils in her article which she refers to as "Homelessness, Inc". It's forever changed my skepticism around this topic.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/sidewalks-san-francisco-133...
> You have to rescue the princess... In PHP...
Yeah, I dunno. I see your point and will certainly explore it, but I easily use tabs for both. I mostly use marks to skip around in a file and tabs for opening different files. Why? Because I can see them. The drawback with buffers (and too many marks and registers etc.) is that it's easy to lose track of where things are. So tabs make buffers easy- you can glance up and see where the file that you need is.

The numbering system is a little screwy (starting at 1 instead of 0) though.
Yeah, but how the hell do you think I found out? I don't think something that can kill you should be compulsionary, nor should it inconvenience me.

I guarantee the vast majority of people will vaccinate given an option. I know I would and do (for some vaccines)
I can't remember or find what the "slow O" is about, but it's definitely real; I think I read about it in relation to it being fixed in v8.
You could very well be right, it could take decades.

I think Augmented Reality will abruptly allow a lot of non-geeks to suddenly be aware of certain realities (imagine seeing a calorie counter on your food, or the fact their data flows are going off somewhere outside of their control), so I hope that will accelerate progress in an Agent based direction.

Agents will be easier to build if they are visualized, they may allow for metaphorical understandings across millions of people.
Lol I think you know...
Cool! As I suspected, it's based on the Ceres nonlinear optimization library that they released a few years ago, originally built for Street View: http://ceres-solver.org
Not sure if you have an ad blocker running, but that was the source of that issue for me.
That's why we have Paypal for...
According to my reading of the code, an open process file just holds a reference to a relatively lightweight handle to that process (struct pid), which means 1) resource exhaustion by holding onto full process structures doesn't happen 2) numerical process ids can get recycled even if someone is holding a long-dead /proc/PID directory open for that pid, but the old opened directory keeps referring to the dead process.
Lafferty said that, but has this been confirmed by academics? He was awarded something by the Soviets for Utopia, and I doubt that they'd do that ironically.
Hi Ooshma :)

Our products is being used by few people, but we still haven't found those users that really love our product. We feel that we should make a major pivot on our product. But it seems like a big rick. Any recomendaciones on making the transition a bit smoother.

Thanks!
There are a lot of ways of slicing these numbers, but the 59 bln vs 20 bln figures are not direct comparisons as they are counting different things.

Still nobody tops Japan per capita in direct subsides as they have USD$46.5 billion in subsidies, and a population of ~126 million.

PS: It's really hard to get a single subsidy number as laws are designed so things can be presented in many different ways. AKA, US calls something specific an income tax while excluding social security.
Human support is supposed to help them.

What I found unacceptable is "We are banning you and we won't tell you anything about it". This pattern is extremely common. And extremely frustrating. You can't put one in jail without telling why (and right to defend). In many developed countries you can't even fire a worker without a solid reason. It should be prohibited for companies to halt service someone without providing a reasonable explanation.
The advantage of decimalisation is the geometric expansion it engenders which cannot happen because the year is not 10, 100, 1000 or any other multiple of 10 days. It is not an integer multiple of anything days. It is evidence that no matter how much we try and break the universe up into nice coherent chunks, the universe has other ideas. Fighting reality will fail.

The advantage to breaking up the day into units less than 1 day is the factorisation that can be applied. 24 factors much better than 10. Pretty much everything factors much better than 10.

There is no advantage to decimalising the day except to give basement-dwellers a boner.
It's probably worth pointing out that a graph consists of nodes and edges. The Internet (protocol(s)) standardized building & discovering nodes, but they are not standardizing edge discovery. And they only cover a very ephemeral mode of edge building.

That is what the social graph is about - making it possible to describe and discover the edges.
Last week's NYT article on free trade was pretty good: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/business/economy/more-weal...

This is the bottom line on American manufacturing:

> From 2000 to 2010, the United States lost some 5.6 million manufacturing jobs, by the government’s calculation. Only 13 percent of those job losses can be explained by trade, according to an analysis by the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University in Indiana. The rest were casualties of automation or the result of tweaks to factory operations that enabled more production with less labor.

> American factories produced more goods last year than ever, by many indications. Yet they did so while employing about 12.3 million workers — roughly the same number as in 2009, when production was roughly three-fourths what it is today.

Most of the jobs that left are never coming back. They didn't go to Mexico or China; they simply disappeared because automation and productivity increases rendered them unnecessary.

If the US sheltered its manufacturing sector from foreign competition, a small number of jobs might come back, but the increased cost of manufacturing things in the US would strongly incentivize companies to automate those jobs away as quickly as possible.

Manufacturing has a powerful political resonance, both in terms of the imagery of hardworking middle-class factory workers and national pride, e.g. "Why don't we make things in this country anymore?" However, I suspect that most politicians who talk about a manufacturing revival understand that it won't really happen.
Ask HN: How to get better at technical interviewing?
I've recently failed technical interviews. I want to know how I can get better at these types of interviews. Failing these interviews lead me to believe that I'm not a good programmer, and I want to be a good programmer, so how do I get better?
(Zoho CEO here) Thanks for the mention, but we are not yet at a billion dollars - we wish we were, though we are gaining on that goal :)

We are bootstrapped like MailChimp, have never taken any venture capital, and we won't. We have focused on building what we call "the Operating System for Business", because we envision that all the business applications will come together. That's why we have so many engineers to build that vision. By the size of the engineering workforce, we are probably already bigger than Salesforce.
Bulk surveillance review is ‘fiction’, claims former NSA technical director
They were trying to pivot to at least two additional revenue models during he last year, but it seems to have simply took too long (1. Custom closed code for enterprise customers, 2. Hosted Horizon). I have paid RethinkDB for support by the way, just to support them.
How Mailgun uses machine learning for everyday tasks
Additionally the apps outside the app store tend to work a lot better (nearly all the apps I wrote work far better in the website versions, not having the restrictions of the MAS versions), and also the developer gets more of the money, 95% instead of 70%. And then you're a customer of the developer, not of the app store, which is also better.
Yes, gaxun, you are living the dream and using the internet like it was originally intended- However, very few people can live your "extreme" lifestyle, it's cumbersome, enforces significant constraints, and requires significant technical knowledge.

You are one of the few people right now using the internet in a decentralized fashion- I hope that the recent advances around cryptography, mesh nets and blockchain systems will soon make it practical for more people to join your ranks!
I'm assuming your being hyperbolic or sarcastic. I don't think it's intended to mean literally a Nanos worth of a degree. More attune to just buzzword for a certificate or completed coursework.

The word "Certificate" comes with a lot of preconceived thoughts. I think they are trying to break away from with a new name
I figured they were just suckers for factory tours, or at least photos ops with the "working man".

Also, a lot of the Left longs for the days of big factories and big union collective bargaining that could raise the wages a lot of people quickly. It's a great thing to point to with good economies of scale. Globalization has made this a mostly untenable strategy, but the longing remains.
Batteries in devices are allowed, because they are assumed to have the necessary protection from things like accidental short circuits. Bare spare batteries are what's prohibited from checked luggage.
Abject failure IMHO. A CDN must be as transparent as possible for both end users and sites using them. DDOS can and should be dealt with passive detection.