skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is whether some psychological are falsifiable matter? Why is a paper like this one concerning itself with falsifiability?

These are questions the present paper does not concern itself with. It seems to take for granted that falsifiability of a study is something important, but never bothers to say why.

Falsifiability was popularized in the mid-20th century by the philosopher Karl Popper, who proposed it as a criteria of measuring whether something is "scientific" or not.

Unfortunately for his project, and perhaps for the authors of this paper, the falsifiability criteria was largely rejected by later philosophers:

"Sir Karl Popper is not really a participant in the contemporary professional philosophical dialogue; quite the contrary, he has ruined that dialogue. If he is on the right track, then the majority of professional philosophers the world over have wasted or are wasting their intellectual careers. The gulf between Popper's way of doing philosophy and that of the bulk of contemporary professional philosophers is as great as that between astronomy and astrology."[1]

More critiques here: [1]

I'm not sure if such critiques or philosophers of science other than Popper are looked to by scientists, if scientists have some special reason for still caring about falsifiability, or if they just latched on to the concept and now either don't know or don't care what philosophers of science think about the demarcation between science and non-science.

One other thing that goes unremarked on by this paper is why whether a study or branch of psychology is considered scientific or not matters. There is in fact sometimes a lot of money involved, and certainly careers to make or break. Scientists and psychologists both have a vested interest in making their way of doing science or practising psychology the most highly respected, desirable, and valuable way.

In the current money-conscious climate, insurance companies are often keen to pick the shortest possible (ie. cheapest) and most "evidence-based" (or most "scientific") treatment, and reject the rest. This way, they can reject as much as possible, and pay as little as possible for treatment. Consumers, usually knowing little about psychology or the battles that have happened between branches of psychology often pick the most "scientific" sounding treatment (if they have, or one that their insurance company covers, if they don't -- and they often don't). So that's where the money goes.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability#Criticisms
You forgot to mention that anyone who doesn't get Forth is too stupid to be a programmer. Other than that, perfect.
Non-white people do this too. They just call it being laid off. The holistic, "I just feel so fulfilled!" crap just irks me at some visceral level that I can't fully explain. There's just something so entitled and lazy about this way of existing.
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Is this like StayFocusd?
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I read it mainly as a criticism of this site and this application of deep learning. Predicting stock prices slightly better doesn't really make the world a better place or improve anyone's lives. But it does consume the time and resources of very intelligent people who might be able to do incredible things elsewhere.

Particularly the problem of this website, is it's huge focus on anonymity. You don't need to expose your code or methods, or even your name. It's an ongoing competition so it encourages secrecy so you can make more money next week.

This means even if someone does invent a new super ML method, they have every incentive to not share it and keep it a secret. So this website could actually have a net negative impact on the world.
I agree with you in principle, but it's impractical not to respond to attacks from the foe. Even if the US stops, Russia/China won't. It's an ever lasting game of cat and mouse
I have such good memories of Chipotle from a decade ago and earlier. I'm in a rural area recently so I hadn't been to one in some time. The last time I went to one (after their troubles; I figured my odds weren't too bad), I was surprised at how dirty the restaurant was and how rude the staff was (without my even mentioning the former condition). If Chipotle's prices were like Taco Bell's I could tolerate those conditions, but given their expense I won't be back. After all most Taco Bells are clean and polite, and one generally can tell which ones won't be before walking in.
Server push is pretty much the only real difference from an interface perspective. Otherwise HTTP/2 is semantically the same as HTTP/1.1, just with certain optimizations like header compression and multiplexing. I don't think we'll see many applications built on top of HTTP/2 libraries wanting to directly control that kind of plumbing.

Even server push can be abstracted away via a cache. Pushed resources fill the cache, and when the application tries to fetch those resources the underlying HTTP/2 library could return the cached resource. This should be quite interesting to API clients, so that services don't have to make aggregate resource endpoints just to avoid round trips.

I do think future applications will want to have code triggered when a pushed resource arrives, though. I'm not aware of anyone doing this but it could be an interesting alternative to long-polling or streaming. That said, long-polling and streaming become very attractive within HTTP/2 as well, so it'll be interesting to see what developers end up doing.
Any benchmarks?
Absolute inelegant shit, use Elm
Was this posted by the author?
Looks like HTTP/2 and Auto HTTPS servers written in Go are on the rise, https://armor.labstack.com/

Good to have options!
How about an app that locks down your phone when it scans one particular fingerprint?
I went through this - it definitely affected me, but I wouldn't call it a negative.

It wasn't so much the living away from home (we were overseas for 2 years when I was 10 years old) it was the return - the shocking disparity between how I now saw the world, and how my peers (who were frozen in time in my memory) saw things. It forever separated me from them in ways they could not understand.

In hindsight, it was one of the best things my parents did for me - compared to most of my home-grown peers, I adapted faster to new situations and had little difficulty adapting to life as an independent adult - in my opinion, thanks to the expanded perspective I gained when I was younger.

YMMV, but IMO, calling it "challenging for a child's social development" implies a negative, but it really depends on what your goals for that child's development are. It's certainly an experience I'd like to repeat for my own children if I can make it happen.
You could use this same quote for anything.

"This revolutionary new toaster that prints memes/tweets on your toast in the morning will soon be found in every household"

"That's stupid, no it won't"

"Well, Ken Olsen said 'There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home' so this toaster is gonna really take off'"

Many (most?) ideas fail. I'm not convinced that the fact that Ken Olsen failed to anticipate the PC revolution has any bearing on VR's success. Yes, sometimes people fail to predict success, but just as often people succeed in predicting failure.
This view isn't really accurate – the relationship is one of non-empty intersection rather than inclusion in either direction. Machine learning algorithms are meta-algorithms where a large portion of the specific algorithm to be applied is filled in based on training data. Most ML algorithms are statistically unsound and many statistical methods aren't machine learning.

To make the case that ML - stats isn't empty, consider neural networks and singular value decomposition (Netflix winners used SVD): both are wildly successful ML techniques – and neither is remotely statistically sound. Their correctness is at best heuristic, yet, partly because they can be efficiently applied to huge amounts of data – far more than classical statistical methods can handle – they are very effective.

Statistics has traditionally focused on making the most of a modest amount of data – because in previous eras, data was the limiting factor. Huge data sets today render most statistical tests useless since no hypothesis is strictly true given enough precision, and the focus on eking the most out of every data point is overkill. It turns out that a naive, imprecise method with a huge amount of data is often more effective than a sophisticated method with far less data. As ML gets better at building statistically sound models and stats gets better at scaling, the two disciplines are converging slowly – but we are still very far away from inclusion in either direction.
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They are betting that there exist people who are capable of performing that work who cannot work at a hedge fund, for whatever reason.

Perhaps they live in the wrong location -- it's hard/impossible to get a quant job if you don't live in a major market center. Not everyone is 23 years old and unattached and prepared to move around the world for a job.

Perhaps they can do the predictions but they didn't go to a high end university and have no track record -- just try even getting an interview at a hedge fund without one of those.
Considering that its being publicly disclosed, this seems mainly for domestic consumption.
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So, pretty much the same as Hillary, except we must add "by proxy" or "accomplice" after the word "abuse".

The real difference is having played opposite roles in bribery. We have a choice between a president with a history of paying bribes and a president with a history of getting paid bribes.
> The researchers think the virus uses latrotoxin to enter animal cells and reach the bacteria that it targets.

How would it do that? The phage can't synthesize latrotoxin itself, so it would need to instruct its bacterial host to produce it. Can bacteria even produce this toxin properly, with all proper post-translational modifications?

Secondly, how is it even obtaining the spider DNA when it infects the bacteria. I've heard of viruses packing extra nucleic acid from their hosts into their particulate forms when they replicate, but how does the spider DNA get into the bacteria so that this can happen?
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
That's an area of very active research, it's not like people are ignoring it. And it's just starting to bear fruit.
Headspace is a classic Samadhi+Vipassana meditation wrapped into casual language. I used it a bit for a couple of years and it's a great intro into the practice before going guideless.

I also highly recommend "Mindfulness in plain English"[0], I wish I found it sooner.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-English-Bhante-Henepola-G...
No, he's saying HFT are great and should be kept because they are a net gain for society. They lower spreads and take margins away from the huge players. So much so, that the big players are lobbying for taxes like this to make HFT less effective so they can make more money for themselves.

HFT is just another example of software eating the world and doing a job that used to be done by humans more efficiently. This is a good introduction to the mechanics of what HFT is, written by... yummyfajitas on HN I think?

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html
We were supposed to be nation of 'Jeffersons', or at least educated people with skin in the game. Only educated and land owning males were allowed the vote.

I'm sure part of the reason non land owners, slaves, women, etc. were not allowed to vote was in order to keep a certain group in power, but there have been many writers who correctly predicted what happens when everyone is allowed to vote:

"A democracy can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury."

The fact that you have something like 1/2 the citizens working and subsidizing the other half, along with our 24 hour news cycle that cannot be trusted anymore than Pravda at its worst, and I think we will probably look back and realize allowing everyone a vote is a bad idea, or no better than a monarchy or some other rule by a select few.

Not that I have a better idea, though
It's very weird to call data normalization "encryption". This is just a standard procedure done on most datasets. Encryption implies they've gone to extra processing to make sure you can't figure out what the variables mean.

I think it's either an abuse of the word 'encryption'. That, or they really have done something weird to this dataset. Which will probably make it useless for statistical algorithms. Even normalization destroys a lot of useful information.
> Still most of the species that ever lived are extinct today.

Depends on your view of the Ship of Theseus.
A bit harder, yes.
Sorry about that -- updated profile
That is an informative perspective that many people who haven't been following VR for as long could benefit from.

However, I think I have some even more beneficial context. One of the biggest problems with society is the fact that people just cannot distinguish between merit and popularity. They don't know that they are two separate things.

Also, I will go further and say that relates to the capital-oriented nature of society, so people often cannot distinguish between something that just currently fails to make lots of money and something that doesn't have merit.

Nearly every major innovation goes through years where it doesn't quite live up to the hype, isn't particularly affordable, and/or just isn't fashionable or popular. That doesn't mean they weren't great ideas.

Actually the best ideas are often the ones that face the most technical, economic, and social challenges. But eventually we look back and recognize how advantageous the transformation was. And the armies of non-historically-informed detractors look silly in hindsight.
> which essentially sterilizes food such as chorizo by blasting it with 87,000 pounds of water pressure for three minutes.

How does the chorizo survive that?
> Every vehicle is stopped, its occupants questioned about where they have come from and where they are going.

This is great and all, but it's not truly consistent with an American style of democracy which respects the rights of individuals to travel freely.

It's easy to imagine what would happen to any US city/county/region which set up a check point with the sole purpose of asking those questions of every person who passed through it.
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That is explicitly in the future plans: https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM/wiki/Features
VR is fast approaching the hype-cycle "Trough of Disillusionment" as well as the chasm of "Crossing the Chasm". Expect to see a whole lot more doom-saying over the next couple of years.

What will happen is the same story that plays out with every breakthrough technology. Now that we have the early implementations in consumer's hands, everyone will expect everything and a pony immediately if not sooner. But, the reality will be that there are still a lot of very difficult problems to overcome that will still take years to sort out. So, the general consensus will overestimate in the short term and underestimate in the long term by large margins. In the end, VR will make a very large difference in a whole lot of people's lives. But, it won't deliver <insert-magical-fantasy-situation-here> on any predictable timeline. So, people will say it turned out "OK, I guess".
I for one like to think my parents brought me into this world by choice and not by accident.
Didn't dig too deep, but how do you make money (or are you yet to monetize)?

The reddit posts all repeat "completely free (note: free does not mean "freemium", it means totally fucking free)".
Measurable progress is great, but it would have been helpful to have some indication of what pressures are needed to produce a useful fusion reactor. Three atmospheres? Three hundred? Are we approaching a break-even point, or is it still incredibly far away?
Reporters from larger networks have their higherups "filter" their assignments for them. Ms Goodman doesn't appear to have any higher-ups.
You can't use deep learning in cases where normal statistical modeling is invalid, like multicolinearity among features. (Of course, some deep learning methods can get around that!)
To me the real growth in the next few years will be in augmented reality more than in VR. At the same time I think pro vr and anti vr are both taking extreme positions on where VR is heading.
I'm not a citizen, but I live in America. Nevertheless, I still have views.
> working 80 hours per week

Why would you do that, in America? (Assuming you're a software engineer or other white-collar job). Are you in game programming or something?
Could a mouse's optical sensor be used for a fairly accurate way to track how far a motor has turned? I've seen hall effect sensor used for this, but for slower things I wonder if a mouse could work.
I was going to say the same thing, but then the article says:

> For that reason, the warrant authorizes the seizure of ‘passwords, encryption keys, and other access devices that may be necessary to access the device,’” the document read.

So the "power off the device, now it's a password" seems to be something they were prepared for. The article is unclear as to whether or not this was granted, but if so it'd be seemingly unprecedented.
Did you not read the article? The points he makes are not due to technological or environmental constraints. It's about what people actually are interested in and capable of doing.

Pretty much everybody wants to be able to use a phone on the go. However, if cellphones made 90% of people nauseous after a short time just from walking around with them, they wouldn't be that popular.
I'm willing to take that risk when the deescalation is to prevent WW3. The time for a world sheriff passed, and using proxy wars is like playing with matches next to dynamite. Why are we bristling for a status quo foreign policy, which was shown repeatedly to be predicated on false terms of engagement?
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Isn't that asking the impossible though? From the way it's told in the article, Chipotle combed as exhaustively as they could through their ingredients in the immediate aftermath and as soon as possible, searching for the culprit. They probably knew that it was their only shot of owning the PR result. But since it takes several days for the illness to set in (four, in the case of the one guy they profiled), even an immediate reaction was too slow to have a hope of figuring out which ingredient caused the poisoning.
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Ask HN: How to handle less-than-committed colleagues?
I am working day and night and send emails 24/7 whenever I have a question or have completed a task, but my colleagues never reply unless it is during business hours.

I am putting an incredible amount of effort to help the company succeed in it's mission, but to the rest of my team it seems like this is just a job, and that is really bugging me.

Career growth in the company (raises, bonuses, stock options, promotions) depend on being evaluated according to "relative performance", and I don't want to make the rest of my team look bad (they aren't lazy, just have interests and commitments outside of work, and they are very good at what they do), but they aren't really stepping up to the plate either, and in some ways I feel they are holding me back when I have to wait until the next day for a response.

I am getting the feeling that I have to choose between working as hard as I feel I need to in order to succeed and make the company a success, and maintaining good working relationships with my co-workers.

Note: synthetic post written in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12719089
/r/programming transhed this entire implementation real bad...

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/57psx6/gun_a_r...)

I'd like to read some of amark's replies to these criticisms
A bunch of people mentioned turning off the device, to require a pin or password. The article though explicitly seems to claim the warrant included anything imaginable to unlock a device:

> For that reason, the warrant authorizes the seizure of ‘passwords, encryption keys, and other access devices that may be necessary to access the device,’” the document read.
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Ask HN and you shall receive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12722587
he wants to jail journalists and his political opponents and he's been actively undermining the legitimacy of the electoral process for weeks

i don't know how to describe that other than he wants to 'dismantle US democracy'
Still lines at all the chipotle's near me. Is that not the case in other areas?
It is a relevant quote, but both the cheaters and the developers tasked to combating the cheaters both learn a great deal in the process. That, I feel is the true value-added.

The real value is knowledge gained. And I've seen some pretty crafty solutions created.
It was a joke. Some embedded processors lack a cache.
I got a xps 13 in 2012 and it is happy with 16.04 - my only reason to upgrade would be for longer battery life, less fan noise.
> But sometimes it seems that they are probably happier than the rest of us.

I remember one episode of Anthony Bourdain from years ago. He was in some South American country in a village and he went along to gather some yucca with a local farmer. Saying how great these people live in communion with nature and so on. And the farmer looks at him and says something to the effect of "you can have this, how about a trade". Meaning "you get to farm yucca and I go to live in your apartment in New York".

Not sure what my point even is, but I think it is about choice. It is ok if they end up living and doing that by choice, but if they are forced by circumstance they might feel trapped. We can go and start farming and living like this (I would certainly fail there quickly). But if they want to, they can't come and sit in cubicles and get paid for it.
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Apparently, a recent fire was caused by a powered off device.

And I wouldn't trust end-users. I was just in US customs today where they said not to use your phone, 3 people within my reach were talking on their phone.
I started developing seriously in '99 and ColdFusion was how I got my start. Many fond memories as well.
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