skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Except such a data set is also inconsistent with an infinite number of models, so ruling one out via rejecting a null also provides practically no information value and moves us no closer to understanding.

No, that's not true, because experiments are not done in a (figurative) vacuum. They are done in the context of an explanatory theory that has already gone through a vigorous filter and shown to be consistent with the all prior experimental data and has better explanatory power than all of its competitors. It is only when more than one theory survives this filter that an experiment is done, and the experiment is designed specifically to distinguish between the surviving theories.

So while it is true that an experiment allows you to eliminate an infinite number of theories, it's irrelevant, because by the time the experiment is done nearly all of those theories have already been eliminated anyway.
Definitely, that's what I got out of it. Actually a pretty interesting win, telling tales. There's a market for this flavor of fiction and it'll spawn businesses and generate revenue like any other.
Yeah it won't be a pretty transition if it does happen.
Consider partial work-from-home for a couple days a week. I don't miss commuting at all, and for me, it would only involve a 45 minute bus-ride during which I can read all I want, since its an end-to-end ride. But working with a cat in the lap sure does beat those cold winter commutes.
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I think the point being made is his actions are understandable in context.
r/TheDonald should be banned for stupidity. It's not "politics". It's not "the other valid point of view". They did not choose stupid, stupid chose them.

/r/AynRandIsGod would also be wrong, but it would be legitimately wrong. Same for r/PracticalCommunism.
Microsoft is pushing Windows Holographic as OS.

It is a Windows platform where you can place 2D windows in 3D space while some applications can display 3D graphics. You end up e.g. having a browser on one wall, a photos app on another wall, and a weather app on a third wall. It is not quite there yet, I think. But it is actually pretty cool!

For now, it feels like Microsoft is way ahead of Apple and Google on the OS side.
For some nations, politics is used to advance their business, for some nations business is used to advance their politics.
Oh, here's a thing you could've googled: https://www.reddit.com/help/contentpolicy/
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And I think that is incorrect, and spez's actions are inexcusable.
They should be same as everywhere, and when your community becomes fixated on a conspiracy involving Hilary Clinton, Podesta, and a pedophile sex ring you should stop and ask:

"How far have I strolled from the herd?"
I have no idea what you mean by "reduced" but they are not the same thing. The difference in their explanatory power. A (scientific) hypothesis explains things. A null hypothesis simply says, "This hypothesis is wrong" but doesn't say why. It's a crucial distinction.
I think that all the news which we consume is misleading in one way or another; whether they deceive us through outright misinformation, unevenly balanced arguments, or priming (through repeated exposure to particular concepts).

While these small fake news creators deceive us through outright misinformation, big news corporations deceive us through priming.

If you repeatedly draw peoples' attentions to the same concepts and ideas over and over again; they will incorporate these ideas as part of their core belief system and it will cause them to block out real information which opposes those ideas.

Small independent 'news' creators just don't have the necessary scale to leverage priming effects, so they are forced to resort to outright 'sensational' misinformation to push forward their agendas.

I think that fake news is important for society, just like religion; sometimes the intention behind the text is more important than the actual information content within.
Not just an admin, but a founder of the site. I can fully understand his being driven to drastic measures, watching a site he'd built being used against him. General criticism is one thing, but accusations of paedophilia are horrific.
So let me see if I have this straight, your agreement assigns the IP rights from the get-go, but you don't actually deliver the IP until each milestone is paid?
Seems so simple that it seems to good to be true.
I am using pass on Mac and all other computers for over a year. The only thing missing is proper dmenu alternative for Mac but I modified https://github.com/oNaiPs/dmenu-mac to work with pass and paste username/password to the clipboard. If I get time I will publish this code because it makes pass fly.
Maybe rather than a design issue this can be seen as a development process and engineering management issue.

I expect that a top level system model should reduce the risk of this sort of error.

Of course, it is hard to justify the cost of developing these models without being able to amortize that cost over multiple products / missions, so product line oriented engineering management and strong leadership from the sponsor has a big role to play as well.
> One seeking a managerial position isn't necessarily asked to demonstrate and perform his skills on spot, are they?

Actually, they are. That is the interview. As a manager, you need to have social skills. And a lot of the questions asked give a good insight into how you approach problems and social situations.

And that is why the better coder interviews are more about talking through a problem with a bit of whiteboard sketching/coding.
I love the way all the kids with the glasses go :OOO THIS IS AWESOME!
Didn't see anything in there, despite reading two pages. Perhaps you could be more specific?
Not at all.

First, I don't think it really makes sense to say a subreddit has opinions as such; it's simply a place for people to post thing. And while the user's do have opinions, nobody is suggesting the user's themselves be banned. Which brings me to...

Second, it's not about opinions. There are much more fringe groups than that sub, and in any case, politically I'm probably significantly closer to the median The_Donald poster than the median Reddit admin. It's not about opinions, it's about tolerance and disruption. Because...

Third, Reddit is a business and a community which thrives on promoting free, open, tolerant discourse. Just looking at the political subs there are communists, fascists, anarchists, libertarians, and everything in between, all happily posting away in their little corners, and occasionally participating in discussions that bring out proponents of different views. And then you have The_Donald. The issue isn't their strange, outrageous views (which aren't so much "outrageous" as "what you get if you cross standard American conservatism with standard European conservatism, put it in a blender, filter through the eyes of a 16 year old, and sprinkle with american flags and memes"). You're talking about a site with actual unironic advocates of actual literal dictatorship on it, come on.

So when you say:

> They picked side

I'm not seeing it. In fact I think they're trying so hard to avoid even the appearance of having picked a side, that they're erring on the side of taking The_Donald's side, and in so doing they're harming the site.
That's hilarious. I've always found spez to be a genuinely good guy, on every front. I don't find this "disturbing" or whatever other thing people want this to be. People were being dicks to someone who's never done anything but try to make reddit a nice place for as many people as possible; he lost his cool for a minute and made a funny hack (a very specific hack, that required someone to have said "fuck /u/spez" to be changed, and the only effect was to change the target of the pointless insult). He rolled it back and fessed up an hour later. Big deal.

The reddit I want to see is the reddit Steve wants to build. It's doubly hilarious that the people getting so riled up are the same people who rant about "PC culture" and people being too sensitive. If ya get your knickers in a bunch about this, I think you have revoked your right to call anyone "too sensitive" ever again.
In clear we dont save user emails in clear on our servers. Nor do we log them. We want to as little as possible about our users.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll go Ask HN." Now they have HN problems.
1) NYT reporting on government releases is not peddling fake news. It is being lied to.

2) That was a the Bush administration, why would the "liberal mainstream" be colluding with the GOP?

If your goal is to stop spreading lies, I suggest an introspection to begin with.
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Why finding inspiration at work is so important?
Maybe a couple of years ago. Today, I wouldn’t trust the average HN commenter to evaluate even the silliest conspiracy theory. Even back then, it only worked because we aggressively downvoted the nutters and ignored their complaints.
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I got an idea. Current machine learning techniques should be advanced enough to detect trolls. What if we have a community that is completely moderated by an unsupervised AI?

The good thing is that the AI can be completely open: how is it trained? what are the parameters? This AI can still have bias, but that bias will be obvious to anyone joining this community.
and what are you doing with the random text per user (i.e. the encrypted emails)? Why do you need them?
If they are encrypted by the user, how can you verify their email then? This does not add up.
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Calling Android devices Linux is not productive.
I guess it depends on your page size. My pages average around 10kb and make two requests per page. At 1m hits that's still only $0.80 if we don't include Cloudflare reducing the number of requests that reach S3. If anything 87 requests and 4.7mb makes it sound like you have a bit of an obesity[0] problem on your blog.

0: http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
I'm okay with that since I rarely restart Chrome anyway.
Her symptoms described in this article are spot on.

My anxiety attacks were exactly the same, right down to crippling fear, and needing emergency medical help because I thought I was going to die. It doesn't help that most first responders are ill equipped to deal with mental illness (not their fault, they are trained in keeping physically damaged people alive long enough to get them to hospital) so they strap on the ECGs and tell you and people at the time that they suspect that you are having a heart attack.

People with mental illness need all the support they can get. Contrary to popular belief, it's not something we can 'snap out of'. It's very destructive, not only to the person suffering, but for their relationships and people close to them as well.

Back to the article though; If you get diagnosed with Cancer, your loved ones are also offered counselling, but for mental illness there is no such structure. The carers are left to work it out for themselves, often getting incredibly frustrated as there are no physical symptoms to work with.

To this day I have no idea why my partner stayed with me during my worst times - it was incredibly hard on them (and probably will be again), and I would have not blamed them for leaving if they had.
So basically they have different views, and thus bannable.
That's why porn without audio is not the same.
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I don't think what you're saying here is correct. 'fake' transaction problem between counterparties aren't an issue and as I replied to your comment on the 1-5day settlement period in the GS r3 thread

>> It takes some financial assets 3-5 days to settle

That 1-5 days to settle isn't due to slow and disconnected systems though, which is what many looking from a tech perspective believe. Most financial transactions are matched in settlement systems the same day they are traded. The 3-5 days is for prefunding of underlying accounts, tear ups and other asset class idiosyncratic reasons.
Exactly, it sidesteps the problem by decoupling branches and code review. A review request is just like a diff in a mailbox. It'd just update the diff.

It's really close to the Linux kernel development model and it scales very well.
Makes me really question if this article is fake to prove some sort of point, it's really hard to know (for sure) anymore
> It is fixing the problem as we speak. I, a security aware person...

The market of devices bought by security aware people is not the market that Schneier is concerned about. It's this other much larger market of normal people buying the least expensive devices with the most convenient features.

Those consumers won't notice or care if their devices participate in dos attacks, but the targets of the attacks care a lot. It's a classic example of a negative externality.
We will offer alternative domains. dikalo.net and dikalo.co beeing one of those. Also the landing page will have more infos soon.

With messaging done right we mean Messaging without you giving up any private infos. No email, no phone nr, no sign up required. In fact you can use Dikalo without ever opening an account.

The reason we started with dklo.co is because we wanted people to type as little as possible.
It is not that it is impossible to run photovoltaic panels production de novo (and it is done in large scale these days, as you have correctly stated). The problem is that it is economically unsustainable and have to be financed by government subsidies (or, alternatively, moved to cheap Chinese factories disregarding environmental costs completely).

Photovoltaics: scalable, green, economically sustainable (choose two).
>Use better type-checking?

You're not living in the real world. Users do weird things.

At some point someone will legally change their name to an emoji and it'll break a whole load of systems. Nobody saw that coming when they originally built some middleware in 1998.
> It can be straight-up misleading

It is only misleading if the reader doesn't understand statistics. There is, imho, nothing wrong with putting all your focus on the subject matter, and skipping the statistics while being frank about it.

Also, if you need statistics to show that your method is better than other methods, then perhaps your method is not really that much better.
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I was sarcastic to you because your question was answerable in ten seconds of googling, which suggests to me an insincere line of questioning.
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Can you be sure of that? Can anyone? Might you and I not be the same Markov chain generator without even knowing it?
Where the Dikalo name comes from is in our FAQ. I dont know we might be biased but we like Dikalo better than WhatsApp :) :)
I happen to think it's just more public.

Which derails your entire argument. Just because you call it out doesn't mean the word loses meaning.
> Nothing will improve until there are consequences for failure. It's that simple.

Of course it's not that simple. Clearly you've never written much, if any, real software.

You want to make an SSL connection to another web site in your backend. You use a library. If that library is found to contain a vulnerability that allows your site to be used in a DDoS, where do the "consequences for failure" lie? You used a library.

Do you think people will write free libraries if the "consequences" fall back on them? If not, have you even the slightest understanding of how much less secure, less interoperable and more expensive things will be if every developer needs to implement every line themselves to cover their backs? Say goodbye to anyone except MegaCorps being able to write any software.

Where does this end? Would we need to each write our own OSes to cover ourselves against these "consequences", our own languages?
A leaky capacitor could still be useful in combination with a battery - you can dump power into the capacitor for a super-fast "charge", then slowly move the energy into the battery. You don't get the capacitor's cycle stability, but at least you get the charging speed.
Shell sued in UK for 'decades of oil spills' in Nigeria
Which is insecure because the creator of the coffee maker didn't consider security to be a necessary feature. The true liability lies with the person that made that decision and should not be transferable.
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It's a big deal because he was making it seem like users had made statements they haven't made. Maybe these specific instances doesn't matter so much, but the fact he did it, and did it without leaving a visible sign it was edited creates an issue of trust. We now feel less safe that Reddit admins haven't done this in the past too, in cases where it matters more.
The head guy with God Mode needed a much thicker skin.

Running around like a headless chicken is the opposite of what was required.

Future people with God Mode should avoid repeating the same mistakes.

But that depends on what the God mode wielders perceive the mistakes were, either:

1) Losing composure and making secret edits

2) Getting caught doing it

Can trust be restored ? Open question.
No, but don't down play accusations about child explotation. This kind of behaviour allows pd rings to run in Norway for so long.
I didn't get all the drama even after reading top HN comments. Am I completely lost?
a lot of this post is around akka.
I mean akka is also relativly new... It was released in 2006 so .NET still is in his early stage for such things. I mean Java actually only has akka because of scala.
NIO in java is still bad and hard, netty makes that somewhat easier and also the big maintainer of Akka is not Oracle it's actually Lightbend.
For me the post makes no sense since Scala didn't had much code out there at the beginnings as well, I took some years to have a various amount of useful projects. (more than two years...)
HackerNews happens to share your values and opinions on things like religion and politics. Donald Trump just won the election; did you read the opinions of people here on this happening? And while we may not be pushing a Flat World, there are plenty of conspiracy theories and ignorance on topics (eg. banks), and a fanaticism with regards to a other things (eg. Tesla) . Opposing views on these sorts of topics are smashed with down votes.

My point is, of course it feels comfortable amongst like minded people. But don't extrapolate that to mean this is somehow a special place that's uniquely accepting of all opinions. If you don't believe me, do what the guy in the article did, and play devil's advocate in a few comment threads here.
I think they should be banned because last times subs were banned the message was pretty clear: If your sub's influence starts to leak elsewhere on Reddit (with its users acting collectively being the key), you'll be banned.

The "fat people hate" sub seemed to be banned, not even for its subject matter, but because it's users were spreading their mess into other subreddits as a group. From what I've seen, the same thing is happening with The_Donald
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"what are the odds that the results you observed could have arisen by chance?"

If you say it like this it will very easily be misinterpreted. Once your results are in there are two cases: (1) either the null hypothesis is true and you got those results due to chance, or (2) the null hypothesis is false and there was some actual effect outside of the null hypothesis that helped you get the results.

Due to this it is very easy to interpret you statement as referring to the probability of (1).

Two two following definitions of p-values sound similar but are not:

[Correct] The probability of getting the results by chance if the null hypothesis is true P(Results|H0)

[Wrong] The probability that you got the results by chance and thus the null hypothesis was actually true P(H0|Results)

I'm not saying you didn't get it, but somebody reading what you wrote can very easily be fooled. And there are a lot of dead wrong definitions on the web[0][1][2][3].

[0] https://www.americannursetoday.com/the-p-value-what-it-reall...

[1] https://practice.sph.umich.edu/micphp/epicentral/p_value.php

[2] http://natajournals.org/doi/full/10.4085/1062-6050-51.1.04

[3] http://www.cdc.gov/des/consumers/research/understanding_scie...
Sigh. Why did spez do this? His entire credibility lost to a bunch of people who made my head hurt when I read their material. I popped over to voat and caught up. I was genuinely thinking there'd be some kind of vague link of emails and a few jumps in assumptions, but it's full on "here's a picture. Here's another picture. Look. They have the same shape in them. They are connected. Also, here's the person in this picture. That means they are connected to the earlier connection" type conspiracy stuff. And then there's full on accusations firing away about who's an FBI agent attempting to silence them.

The fact that u/spez did not just laugh at the ridiculousness of it all and instead chose to take it on this way, I'm trying to imagine what kind of abuse he's had to deal with today. :( .
I agree. It's slightly political here, but easily avoided and you rarely see attacks.

I used to enjoy Google+ for the same reasons. The crowd was smarter, geekier and seemed a far cry from the Facebook swamp. Unfortunately in the last 6 months or so G+ has been infiltrated. This place and a few subreddits are all I know of.
Do you think he might have changed in 13 years? I don't really feel quite the same as I did 13 years ago.
> China can block all the websites they want, the damage they do to their local internet industry is probably irreversible

I'll need you to explain that to me slowly, because I can't wrap my head around your reasoning. Blocking foreign websites is the best thing China did for its internet industry: Blocking Twitter helps Weibo, Google exiting helped Baidu, and so on. Not having to compete with western companies on home turf can hardly be called "damage".

> From the west's perspective, it is a reasonable tradeoff.

A lot of western companies have effectively saturated the market in the west, the only room left to grow is in China, and so they pander.
So their model of the spacecraft behavior allowed for the possibility of the altitude instantly changing from 3.7km to a negative value. Seems like poor design.
I think he is being disingenuous. Maybe he started it as an experiment but it's obviously been all about the Benjamins for a long time (20-25 writers? $10000-30000 a month?).
I got Lasik on 13th oct(40 days before), I am quiet satisfied with the result. The only side effect is early morning dry eyes and minor fluctuation in vision of left eye. According to doctor, I will recover them soon. By the way i got complete 6/6 score!!!
What is fantastic here is that the telemetry was received for nearly the entire descent, up to a few seconds before the crash.

The could reproduce the exact same scenario in simulation by replaying the telemetry as inputs to their firmware and see what happened in the software. This is tremendous advantage for debugging, it's like a wireshark replay of network packets for debugging an error in the TCP stack.

This orbiter/descender architecture is really paying off for future missions. If the orbiter hadn't been there, earth wouldn't have received any telemetry at all.. Let's hope that this "real world" telemetry is saved for simulating successive versions of the guidance software of future probes.
If applied to social justice warriors or feminists who actually are Marxists, then sure. Personally I don't think you'll find nearly many Marxists there as you'll find self-processed nazis amongst the "alt-right".