skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't conclude anything. Even if you assume that the interviewer didn't know the parameters for the experiment, their biases could have accounted for the results. If a few of the interviewers were attracted to outdoorsy men and were biased towards the ones who crossed the dangerous bridge, their body language alone is likely to get a very different response.

You'd need a pretty large sample size of interviewers and subjects with varying attractiveness, "outgoingness", and confidence to draw any real conclusion.
You may be looking on the wrong site? In any event, this is why I created PlainSite: because PACER is too expensive and too difficult to use!
Twitter's IPO made lots for its managers. They ran a circus. Now it's going bust.
Someone with nearly 30K followers would feel this way.

Can't say I see that much that needs saving as an average user of the service. I'd actually rather it crumble and see what someone more competent can do in the space.
diaspora* has built-in XMPP chat for quite a while already. Groups are in demand indeed, so it's something developers are considering.
One thing I rarely see brought up is that people lie to exit poll takers. Maybe I'm just stupid, or politics are too far above my understanding, but I don't understand why exit polling is taken as gospel (see 2000 shrub vs bore, or brexit if you prefer an international flavor), given there's absolutely zero requirement that responses be truthful.

I know I wasn't good with my statistics classes (I managed low to mid "A"s, but I never really understood the steps I was reproducing, or the why behind the process), but how do you correct for that type of uncertainty?

Is there a good, basic statistics reference that HN would recommend? We used Devore's "Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences", and it didn't "click" with me. I'd love to find a good textbook on the subject.
That guy shouldn't. But do you realize that this flaw exists in today's presidential election system?

If in the entire state of California, only 1 voter casts his ballot and the millions of other don't vote or can't vote, then this single ballot would decide all 55 electoral votes of California.
The way you framed those two quotations is misleading to say the least. Clinton did not make that Tweet as a reply to Trump's tweet, his was from 2014, and hers was from 2016.

So, your statement, "Twitter isn't public discussion, unless you consider the following examples of discussion:", does not follow. You also say that "unless you consider" the aforementioned quotations to be public discussion, you therefore can not possibly view Twitter as a tool for public discussion, which is a false dilemma.

I agree with your last line though about Twitter being censored in a similar fashion to Facebook.
> Profitable companies aren't bad for shareholders

They are if the profits were greatly overestimated. Paying a billion for a dollar of profits isn't smart. Not to mention, Twitter isn't profitable. (They lose half a billion dollars a year.)

About a month ago I said I'd find Twitter a possibly reasonable buy at a third its current valuation [1]. To make that work, a lot would need to change. And Twitter's current investors would surely lose.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12710784
I recall that some group was planning to put one on a cubesat and see what happens.
The Guardian 2016 Interactive Presidential Election Map
There's nothing inherently "good" about the concept of an organized business.

I want North Korea to fail so the people in that country experience change. I don't care if the government itself survives, especially given the atrocities they've committed on their own people.

Companies shouldn't survive just for the sake of keeping people employed, either. They absolutely should be judged on their product. There's no ethical argument to make here.
Typical netadmin probably writes some minor scripts at most, or at least
this is what I have seen in corporations and in a medium-ish ISP.

On the other hand, network administration is not that far away from what
sysadmins do (tracking inventory of things, monitoring, collecting logs,
creating and distributing some configs), and there are several sysadmins who
mainly write code (old school system programmers), so it just makes sense.
Can we get an E-Commerce Shopping Cart platform written on this now? I'd like mine to be faster than 10 sec loading times most offer currently. /slightsarcasm
I know their lead JavaScript guy is not too humble at all. He's a real asshole on IRC and you'll see exactly what I mean if you have a disagreement with him.
War costs us $13.6 trillion. So why do we spend so little on peace?
How about the ability to dissipate that much heat? I imagine it would be an issue in vacuum, but I don't know much about space technology, just a guess.
Same here. I bought a computer for my folks in around 2009 and installed Ubuntu on it. Some youtube and other tube sites, gnome-games, look at some photos off a camera/phone. That's almost all of what they need it for. The computers been running just fine for almost a decade now.
Here's an analysis on the impacts that reduced car ownership and increased EV market share will have on the transportation and energy industries. If this comes true, Tesla, Uber, ReachNow, and company may do for those industries what Amazon did (and is doing) for publishing and retail.

http://markmancapital.net/blog/2016/10/27/auto-industry-face...

"Morgan Stanley analysts think autonomy is the tipping point. “We believe shared and autonomous cars can deflate the cost per mile to as little as 20 cents, triggering a doubling of global miles travelled by 2030,” Jonas says.

At that cost, it no longer makes sense for consumers to buy vehicles. So, auto dealerships no longer make economic sense. The business-to-consumer auto insurance model collapses, given diminished risk. Ride-hailing, especially for groups, becomes cost competitive with short, regional air travel. Skippingthe TSA lines is an added bonus. Public parking spaces become mostly obsolete, yielding huge swaths of valuable urban real estate. And the economics of electric vehicles for fleets hastens the migration away from fossil fuels, leading to an energy glut and more heavily taxed electricity infrastructure."
Some Chromebooks now support Android apps, with more to come over the next year.

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-suppo...
Ah, gotcha. That's not the absolute end of the world.

I've been using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jonikckfpolfcdcgdf... (on standard Linux) for ages myself.
Please delete my comments.
We're not talking about capitalism vs. communism. We're talking about capitalism vs. consumerism, aka Planned Obsolescence.

Capitalism _could_ produce products (even high-tech products like phones) that last for longer than 2 years (e.g. swappable chips/boards/screens, etc), but it doesn't, because the rapid, constant growth demanded by investors is antithetical to making products that are built to last.
Yes as I said in a later comment of course cohesion and gravity exist, but they are not relevant in this analogy.
For git I use Magit, I don't have any bash aliases, and anything I would normally see coloring in when using bash in a real terminal has a full-fledged Emacs analog.
I wanted to understand the context. Does my analogy correctly approximate the claims?

The power of 100 100 watt bulbs applied towards pushing a 1 kg object 1.2 millimeters.
Just curious, does anyone know if something like liquidation preferences are relevant when the money flowing out is due to lawsuits?
I'm not trying to be antagonistic here, but are they total dicks or exceedingly reckless or something? Or just "disruptive"? Why do people have a bone to pick with the soylent folks?
This is now two layers of garbage clickbait.

The article links to:

http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/11/new-nasa-emdrive-paper-...

which links to:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7kgKijo-p0ibm94VUY0TVktQlU...

which is a year old and basically says "more work is needed to rule out mundane sources of error like thermal expansion".

If there was a new published paper anywhere, it would be significant but there isn't. This is just a work in progress with any number of corrections to be made (NOTE: in 12 months, no one has submitted this leaked paper).

Even if it does work, it's less propulsion than an ion drive.
Over the past two years our company changed directions at quite a few occasions, I didn't always agree with it, but I kept working because I build this product from the ground up.

A few months ago we were told we were having financial issues, and if we couldn't find any more investors, we all would be out of a job end of May. Obviously I started looking for another job, but end of May comes around, and at the very last day we were told we had new investors and could keep going. On top of that, they asked us to give up salary for meaningless stock options.

I kept going anywhere because it's also my product and I could look for another job in the meantime. But obviously morale and motivation was pretty low, eventually the CTO sat down with me and gave me the option to either resign or be let go. That was about a month ago, just signed the contract to my new job.
Yep gonna have to bookmark that comment for some bedtime reading tonight :D
Since there's no drag the thermal system isn't as constrained in space as it would be for a car or aircraft. If you assemble the final spacecraft in orbit, all that matters is mass so you can create very high surface area radiators that are extremely efficient as long as they're a few AU from the nearest star (or pointed in different direction). It'd probably be as big or bigger than a solar sail but it would use the sails to emit photons instead of absorbing them and itd work far from any star.
But does .forEach compile to an efficient for-loop in Kotlin?
Once you have your spacecraft in orbit around Earth, you only have to overcome the the remaining drag of the upper atmosphere, the solar wind in case you are going towards the sun and maybe a couple of other [small] effects I am missing. But once you have enough trust to not slow down due to those effects, it just becomes a matter of time. Keep circling Earth, accelerating with whatever tiny surplus trust you have available and eventually you will reach escape velocity and off you go.
He is still a Director. That entails a fiduciary duty to Theranos' investors.

"But management pays me to kiss their asses" isn't a valid excuse.
Except Steve Jobs built a real business with real products.
Failure can be extremely volatile and potentially dangerous (it is one of the reasons we had a bailout). Incremental change can be often better.

I'm not saying I want the status quo but saying you want pretty much all tech companies to fail is extreme and is what the OP pretty much said.
If you're wondering how this isn't some weird form of MOND, which is basically dead as an explanation, here's an important paragraph from the paper:

> We like to emphasize that we have not derived the theory of modified Newtonian
dynamics as proposed by Milgrom. In our description there is no modification of the
law of inertia, nor is our result (7.43) to be interpreted as a modified gravitational field
equation. It is derived from an estimate of an effect induced by the displacement of the
free energy of the underlying microscopic state of de Sitter space due to matter. This
elastic response is then reformulated as an estimate of the gravitational self-energy
due to the apparent dark matter in the form of the integral relation (7.40). Hence,
although we derived the same relation as modified Newtonian dynamics, the physics
is very different. For this reason we referred to the relation (7.43) as a fitting formula,
since it is important to make a clear separation between an empirical relation and
a proposed law of nature. There is little dispute about the observed scaling relation
(7.43), but the disagreement in the scientific community has mainly been about whether
it represents a new law of physics. In our description it does not.
More distressing for GoPro is that they've only sold 2500 units so far. This product was hyped for a couple years.
Deep Learning ‘ahem’ detector
I've had a PACER account for years and am definitely not looking in the wrong place. Since you've familiar with PACER, feel free to double check yourself.
Indeed, it's an excellent language for what it was designed for: mainline data processing, consisting primarily of reading databases and creating reports.
There isn't some natural law that states "Twitter is with $12bn." It'a valued as such in expectation of future profits. Massive future profits. If it can't sustainably materialise those profits, it loses its valuation (and some of its investors lose their shirts).
Read the pipe as "given" (or "when"). P(A|B) = "probability of A given B".

You've got people who are actually suicidal. You've got people for whom the test comes back positive. There are two subtly yet crucially different metrics. The paper reports the answer to: if someone is positive, will the test come back positive? The flipside is very important for customers of the test: if the test comes back positive, does that mean I am suicidal?

P(+|suicidal) = the probability that the test comes back positive given the patient is actually suicidal = 0.93

P(suicidal|+) = the probability that the patient is suicidal, given that the test came back positive.

As a degenerate case, imagine Nat's Suicidal Tendency Detector.

10 PRINT "SUICIDAL"

It will correctly detect every single suicidal patient put in front of it. P(+|suicidal) = 1. IT'S A MIRACLE BREAKTHROUGH!

That test's critical failure is P(suicidal|+) ... it's identical to the rate in the population. As you could have guessed by reading the source code, taking the test doesn't give you any more information about the patient's suicidal tendencies.

Whew. Hope that was coherent! Google "conditional probability" if you want the math of how to work with these.
The Eagle* 1 might be in trouble now!

*Theranos CEO hired a top notch security firm to protect herself (for no good reason) and her code name was Eagle 1.
Your final sentence puzzles me. If it works, then it's new physics. That's tremendously exciting, no matter how little thrust it produces. Especially since this is a device built without the slightest clue of how it actually works, so thrust could no doubt be increased dramatically once there's a good theoretical foundation behind it.

Of course, the fact that it represents new physics is also why the smart money is on it being some sort of measurement error.
The author must not be familiar with shadowbanning: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/151981022076/is-twitter-shadowb...
This has also hurt the cause of feminists.
http://www.returnofkings.com/76246/is-theranos-a-girl-powere...
char is also allowed to be a signed type, in which case overflow is undefined behavior.
This is very cool. I'd love to see a tech write up later this month... and some stats!
Such is the price of using C on Harvard machines. It's even more pronounced on '51 as even the smallest $.5 chip has four (!) different address spaces (direct/register ram, indirect ram, xram and code) - and bigger chips have even more as they support memory banking. The real question is: why doesn't C support Harvard architecture natively, without ugly hacks?
I saw someone here lamenting the other day that they will never be "like Steve Jobs or Elizabeth Holmes". I can't believe anyone still considers her a success or worth emulating... well, I'll grant that she's an exceptional huckster.
I know that feeling, I would describe it as "robust". A chunky, solid feeling. But I would classify DVI and VGA the same, along with parallel ports, DIN (but not mini-DIN), and basically all mains power connectors.

At the opposite end are USB (especially micro), HDMI, 1394 and other dainty connectors that feel like they would break (and they do) if you don't take utmost care in mating them.

That being said, I don't think it's a feeling unique to "old" connectors; besides the mains plugs mentioned above, modern industrial, military, and avionics equipment connectors remain equally satisfying to mate. It's just that most consumer equipment has sacrificed robustness for compactness and cost.
>It merely remains to find VCs to sucker into step (1). More than one internet backbone got built this way.

This is pretty common in private capital-heavy ventures. From the early railroads in the UK, to canals in the US, to the Chunnel. It's the second owner that makes money.
I've been in that same boat, being blessed with both bipolar and depression, and although just saying "hey some push-ups will do the trick" is perhaps a bit trivial I will add that even a tiny bit of exercise will help as it releases endorphins that are rather pleasant. Even on really fucking shitty days, I've tried to do a little work out. It's not a work out that will get me buff or anything but that's not the point. It honestly started as a healthy form of masochism for me...I loved the pain and it took my mind off everything else for a minute so I could focus on breathing and form. Even one or two push-ups, a long run...anything really...can help. It isn't a solution, but it's a relief and in the world of depression sometimes that's the difference between waking up tomorrow or punctuating a very short life.
It's never too late to start playing with APL. I started around the time GNU APL was released (a few years ago), and I'm having fun with it.

I also ended up writing the Emacs integration for it. Please give it a try.
There are also cases where DNA fails, notably twins and chimerae.
>> read the standard

>> Casey Muratori, who's a better C programmer than me, is of the opinion that you should check your compiler's behavior rather than read standards.

In Casey Muratori's case, he's the type of person who cares to understand what the compiler is actually generating under the hood. He doesn't exactly trust the compiler to always do the right thing.

There was an episode of Handmade Hero where he caught an optimization #fail of the compiler and tried to figure out what was going on (live).
https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/596775025023287297

Casey Muratori also has been developing in Visual Studio for a very long time. Visual Studio has a long, tortuous, history of being non-stanards compliant and buggy. And Microsoft until very recently, never cared to fix anything. (And it still doesn't conform to C99, let alone C11.)
North Korea and china MUST be successes; people live there. Meanwhile, businesses can and should fail, regardless of my stake in them. This is just how the market preserves efficiency, which we all benefit from. I don't see your point.
For those who don't like raw notes, why not read the finished articles instead?

The index to the large collection is here: http://amasci.com/ele-edu.html
Is it really a multi-billion dollars company, though? Twitter has never made money, and it's not clear they ever will make money. A company that can't make money isn't worth more than its assets minus debt.
.docx and .xlsx are zipped xml, there are git plugins that produce reasonable diffs
This feels to me like "let's blame this on diversity" kind of spin, men and women do know how to treat each other with dignity and respect at workplace. Not sure I buy this argument or opinion.
Wouldn't that influence the voters?
Isn't the important thing from a practical perspective (agreed that the new science aspect is more interesting) that if proved this has near infinite specific impulse? (As bizarre as that sounds)

From an interstellar transport standpoint, that would seem a game changer. At minimum, slipping the bounds of the rocket equation and being able to accelerate an endlessly looping hulk to closer-to-c velocities seems fascinating. I'm curious what the specific impulse numbers look like given the hypothetical conversion rate on this powered by pure fusion.
Alphabet Pushes Out Leaders of Drone-Delivery Project
I'm confused how this was presented by someone 10 years ago, and with all the researches out there, no one has yet replicated or refuted his work, and NASA is the only one doing it... 10 years later?
Test-Driving a $200 Coding Font: Operator Mono
GoPro to Recall New Karma Drones on Reports of Power Failure
Would you please post a copy of the text that you consider to be "the proposed solution for the problem" that you think leancrew missed? Because I just re-read all of 4.2.3 and I don't see it.
It sure looks good.

I hope there's a solid statistical model behind it too though.
This. There's nothing special about Twitter.
Get them iPads
>Each tab/app runs in its own sandbox, and it allows them to do the things they want (i.e. browsing).

doesn't really help when rogue extensions can still do a lot of harm (ie. log passwords)
Drift velocity is unrelated to signal propagation. Otherwise it'd take entire days for packets to cross the country to get to you, which is clearly not the case. If we want to take an analogy, signal propagation is like a sound wave in the electromagnetic field inside the conductor; in real air, the speed of sound is clearly faster than the wind.
Forensic tool for iOS that dump every critical information from a device
My Message to Millenials: How to Change the World – Properly
It's not just JVM - even if you are a Unity 3d user you need to work around GC too. There are programming guidelines to ensure less frequent GC pauses. IMO the trade off of having a GC worth is for small developers.
Nice but the three top gauges are moving suspiciously fast. Do they add a little random the the real number to give a sort of error margin visualisation ?
I think it is very unfair to say that Elizabeth Holmes isn't worth emulating...

She may not be someone that you should emulate from an ethics perspective; but she did do a very good job amassing big names, capital, and fantastic media attention to Theranos[1]. Things that every startup needs to do well.

[1]You can attribute her ability to do all that to her family connections, but there are lots of people better connected than she is that haven't done what she has done.
I'd recommend you sandbox his favorite browser in sandboxie: http://www.sandboxie.com/
I believe the free version allows you to use one sandbox session.

Run him through the process of recovering downloaded files and you should be a lot safer.
Gravitons are basically unavoidable. They may not be fundamental particles, but they'll always show up in the long-wavelength approximation of any theory of quantum gravity that extends general relativity.
This perfectly illustrates the founders and CTO. Their arrogance is striking.
There is a proliferation of predictive models and their outcomes vary widely. LA Times consistently predicted a Trump win, FiveThirtyEight was down to a coin toss a few times, while The New York Times was persistently pro-Hillary. While those models were meant to help people make sense of the large number of individual polls, now we need models to make sense of the models.
Yes, but now government is calling back all the cash in the wild. I think they are planning to write down who has how much when they bring it in, I believe in a ledger called a bank account.
A Love Letter to Drinking in Bars
It is not remotely "let's blame this on diversity." But, of course, you have zero obligation to agree with the point of view in question.
I have the same problem. For now, I use Firefox + adblock + noscript + public fox (to disable download and exe). Not fool-proof but it's enough
The supposed effect is so small that it's extremely difficult to distinguish it from potential confounding forces, like air currents or magnetism. Sufficiently precise experiments require sophisticated equipment, so not many researchers can try it. Even with really good equipment, it's hard to tell if the measured force is real. The work has been replicated and refuted many times, but never conclusively.
Yeah, it looks hilariously fake.