skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For instance, I don't want to spend time figuring out whether an n<100 study is any good. It isn't.

So an AIDs cure that cured 80 out of 90 men wouldn't be worth reporting on HN?

Studies that have >10,000 people I'd think are close to non existent, these are hugely expensive and I think most are well known.

I think it's a job for the scientific community to work out, I can't see moderators on HN doing it.
Oh God yes. Skin tone combining characters, anyone?

http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14173-emoji-skin-tone.pdf

(I was fine with unrealistic, inhuman, Simpsons-style yellow...) I imagine fine gradations of locale-dependent zero-width gender identity modifiers will be added at some point. Unicode is a horror-show that will be producing bugs for decades to come. Every time you see a bug caused by "\r\n" vs. "\n", double-encoded HTML entities, or "smart" quotes, remember that Unicode is orders of magnitude more complex.
No, they were still basic in 2008. (ES3 was published in 1999.) JavaScript hasn’t changed very much as a language; just the tools around, mostly.
You would borrow from the bank, using your stock holdings as collateral. Not as easy as he makes it sound, but not unheard of if you have even a meager amount. Say, at least 50k.
Geo: Google's S2 geometry library in Go
> In general, law and media are two of the worst fields for technology

Could you expand on the "media" part?
Theodor was thrown out of the Hitlerjugend for being black, avoiding the SS
Surprised nobody has mentioned getting married yet. Dual incomes is probably the easiest path to wealth. Just don't ever get divorced...
This is nothing really. If you sign up for a New Relic trial. There sales people, hey Dom, will email you pretty consistently and then start using language like "I’m looking for a courtesy response.". I owe you nothing...
I guess they'll just raise inconvenience to block the ads higher and higher, just like they did on Android phones, where Chrome did not have any extensions and apps serve ads that cannot be blocked without you getting root access to your phone (which is another inconvenience) and editing your hosts file or something like that.
The very first input scheme the article talks about is Pinyin, with which you'd input biang by typing... "b" "i" "a" "n" "g" then selecting from a list (most likely a list of length 1). Not insane or even difficult.

(Except that biang is not encoded in Unicode yet so you can't type it anyway.)
Clever.

Friendly correction: peace of mind, not piece of mind =)
eCommerce as a percentage of all retail sales is a decent measure.

1999: 0.2%

2015: 8.4%

42x

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ECOMPCTSA
Show HN: What is MOLEHEAD?
If we are promoting censorship can we start with:

1) Politics

2) Links to Reddit; any discussion about Reddit

3) Stories about the dinosaur tail found in amber https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dinosaur%20tail&sort=byDate&pr... (posted 26 times in the last week)

To be clear I'm not for censorship, but if I was the above is where I'd start.
It sounds to me like you reject the premise that an intelligent reader who reads studies like this will have their beliefs diverge from the truth over time. I read your comment as saying, "Sure you shouldn't be convinced by a single study. But if you read enough of these, you'll converge towards the truth". I used to believe that, but I don't now.

Let's say some study is an increment of evidence about some hypothesis H. We start off with a prior on H, and we want to know how to update it after reading about a study.

What I've taken away from the replication crisis is that my average update was an order of magnitude too large. The appropriate evidentiary weighting of a study in social psychology is so small that I can't usefully consider it as any evidence at all. I'm better off ignoring it.

A little example for you. Let's say you read some study about the act of physically smiling causing a positive change of mood, due to a feedback effect. Before reading this study, you would've given this claim p=0.1. Possible, and you can make sense of the explanation, but no particular reason to believe it. After the study, you give it p=0.4. By no means settled, and you don't even necessarily believe it. But you're giving it much more credibility than before. Later it turns out that the study was actually on very few people and was p-hacked. It therefore fails to replicate. The appropriate post-reading belief level turns out to be around p=0.101. You were tricked.

If you repeat this pattern, you end up carrying around a bunch of surprising beliefs that have a quite random relationship to the truth. Some of the studies will be correct, but on average you'll be more wrong.

Reading these articles might be "interesting", on an entertainment-based definition, but they're the opposite of information. If you read enough of these, you'll make yourself superstitious.
umm.. thats not entirely true. kubespray is the org that created kargo. its not a kubernetes incubator project.

https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/kargo
I think you are really stereotyping here. I suspect your impressions are based more on your social circles than the actual culture. If your circles are in work related settings or with other transplants from outside D.C., the experienice is a lot different than if interacting with D.C. natives. Likewise for non midwesterners who move to the Midwest.
Given the comments, I would assume that the other commenters don't know about intrinsics, or embedding ASM code into C, or "handholding the compiler into producing great code".
Opening this website in Chrome on my Android device gives me the "ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID" error.

Checking the certificate details, I found out that the certificate is issued to the organization "OpenDNS, Inc."
I use OpenDNS's family safety DNS.

I don't think that TOR is owned by OpenDNS. Is it possibly that OpenDNS is MITMing me like previously Avast was reported? But how is that possible? I don't have any OpenDNS software installed that could change certificates.
Ask HN: Are you coding on your android/iOS tablets?
I'm wondering how many people are actually working either on an iPad or Android tablet.

Whenever you search for IDE or editors in both play store and app store, the obvious ones don't offer solutions for these platforms and there are very few to choose from. There is a lot of learn to code sources but that's it.

Is there anybody who actually gets real work done or even uses one of the two platforms on a daily basis?

Why wouldn't you not do that even if your favourite editor/IDE supports the platform?
See the 50 year old Hugo winning novella by Philip Jose Farmer: Riders of the Purple Wage.
It's Tatars, not Tartars:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_T...

...and no, this is the opposite of deportation and there is no ethnic filter being applied.

Please see other comments in this thread for the reasons for deruralizarion.
Personally I wouldn't click on a link that was reporting on a potential AIDS cure that was tested on 80 or 90 people.
Only because people have a natural aversion to being peddled to, does marketing exist. Blame the consumer!
Why not. I think LB should to be integrated as much as possible. I'll check these ecosystems in a week.
And add these integrations into our roadmap
What website do you need?
Of course people that are interested in it would pay, although I suspect a "subscription model" at $20/mo would be off-putting.

Doesn't the actual question revolve around:

(a) how many people are interested

(b) of those, how many would pay a quarter grand a year for the privilege

(c) how many people would think that the added level of complexity would outweigh the benefits of just using Swift?
for a simple reason - credit.

India works a trillion dollar economy on a lot of unstructured credit products. One of them (semi illegal) is hawala.

The other is cash-on-delivery. Almost 4 billion dollars of India's ecommerce works on cash on delivery.

Including Uber - in India, you dont pay for Uber until the NEXT TIME you take a cab!
I'm not a non-believer. I'm neither a believer nor a non-believer. It certainly seems plausible, but I've seen a lot of conflicting evidence and arguments about law enforcement and race.
Sweet lunacy, you make me envy your free time.
How do you usually use the system? Automation? Remote control. I get what it can do, curious what you actually fo with it :)
Perhaps that will change with the demonetization scare recently. If I were holding substantial amounts I would be concerned about the future validity of my money.
I would also add that the author's book http://earlyretirementextreme.com/ere-book is great,
and lets one get the essential points of what he has to say without trawling through numerous posts.
What you described isn't complex logic, it makes sense, but that's not where the moral ambiguity enters. Abp is basically a cop that allows some criminals to slip through as long as they pay on the side... that's the moral issue.

Granting access for paying members simply means ABP has become a gatekeeper with its own power and it is now offering access at a price, unethically
I agree, I need these answers to work on it for full time. So basically I created this interest check thread.
> in India, you dont pay for Uber until the NEXT TIME you take a cab!

Since when has this been an option? Earlier this year when I used Uber in India I either used cash payments at the end of the trip or credit/debit card as in other countries.
Phew, I'm not alone. Word for word, to the letter.
Indeed. The code is a disappointment.

The various AVX.c versions don't use any AVX instructions. That is deceptive.
Using that logic, by Google forcing users to provide data and not allow anonymous access, they're bartering services for data.
I absolutely love that the maintainers can stick up to any company that tries to add shit code to the kernel.

There is no excuse for AMD. The response reads like a total whine to me.

It's not the kernel maintainers fault that your company does not give you proper resources or approach Linux in a correct way.

If you had proper opensource drivers I'm sure the "in" crowd hackers you speak of would take it from there...

I've personally had horrible experiences with AMD drivers on both Windows and Linux. I had a GPU that worked wellfor my purposes, even ran games well enough for me, but you dropped driver support for it, so I was left with no option but to buy another card...
Garmin wearables surpass Apple Watch sales
I made some silly fan designs on CafePress many years ago. Haven't really touched it since then, but it still generates $50 per year. Provisions have been going down. though.

That being said, it's mostly 2 designs out of ~35 that sells anything at all.

I'm sure there's some potential in there, but it's kind of hit and miss.
I think it depends where you are in the cycle. If you just finished putting in 50hrs of work, and have so far made $100, I wouldn't consider that true passive income. Fast-forward a year, and your income from the site has surpassed $2500 (the equivalent of your salaried wage for those hours), with minimal additional effort - now you are making passive income.

We're just defining words here anyway. I think a core component of what people think of when they think "passive income" is making a disproportional amount of income relative to effort put in. Until those proportions get dis'ed, you're just working at a sub-optimal job.
Am I missing something? If Der Spiegal doesn't want people to view their content while using an ad-blocker can't they detect and block those users (assuming those users also allow JS)?
Marketing is not the same as advertisement, though.

There's a lot more to it than that.
On Contrarianism
> Using FFT to decompose someones speech, I'm getting peaks at 300Hz, 600Hz, 900Hz etc.. My crude understanding is that those are all related to one another, though I can't quite fathom why.

This is not a quirk of FT but a result of the way physical things actually vibrate. You get this output from FT because your input consists of 300/600/900/...Hz sinewaves superimposed on each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonics
How I wish this were actually true. It runs contrary to everything I see around me (ecommerce, specifically).
CIA wants to overturn Trump and Russia with false news
>I co-wrote a book on user acquisition and co-created an accompanying video course to climb out of debt left over from a failed startup.

I hope the startup didn't fail because it couldn't attract users?
Although it's interesting to see the types of threats he has outlined in the past and how at the time when he was saying it people were calling them paranoid, and looking back we can see that he wasn't paranoid, but on point and predictive.

Perhaps the things we think are paranoia now are similar. They may not be apparent, but perhaps they are similarly on point and predictive.
Has Der Spiegel ever distributed malware via ads? I can't find anything solid, I can find a few scattered reports of such ...

* https://plus.google.com/100667046318444095686/posts/brFPEa1j...

* https://plus.google.com/+SaschaEm/posts/K9Uvc6KCHKx

(TIL: Germans swear by saying "Fuck!!" in English)
Then he was in prison and has been resocialized. That's what prison is for and when your prison sentence is over your dues have been paid, history is history.
So many people still don't get this.
I'd click on a link on a report that cured 80 of 90 AIDS patients.

I think you've misunderstood the nature of preliminary clinical trials.
banks are heavily regulated and cannot just put deposits (the money you put into a bank constitute a loan to the bank) into stocks. They have to invest more conservatively, e.g give money to solid companies or hold low risk bonds. See Basel-rules to learn more about risk weighted assets (RWA): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_III
I wrote Hello Web App and Hello Web App: Intermediate Concepts (http://hellowebapp.com, they're learn-to-build-a-web-app books using Django) and self-published both in 2015.

Just checked and this year I've made about $13,000 in profit. It's mostly passive — this year I started using a fulfillment company so the majority of my work is sending them orders (and answering questions about the book.)

Hoping to continue the trend next year by launching a book on teaching design for engineers (http://hellowebdesignbook.com).
back in the day, using a bbs was grounds for a wiretap. (The fact bbs were full of phreakers had absolutely nothing to do with it im sure....)

so they sit, they listen, then do what exactly?

Someone has to read through the material, decipher it, translate it, interpret it. and how exactly do you act on it?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3A_VT9YGA10
What, really, is wrong with noise as long as there is signal?

The only people who care about flaming are the flamed. They should be able to take a good argument, and besides the flamers get modded down. Slashdot is a great example that HN would well to emulate in my opinion. It is in no way an echo chamber.
Python transpilers/compilers are such an amazing pain in the ass. For users also. Have you done this before?
Sales and marketing are as specialised talents as programming.

Competitive advantage: get a marketer you respect, and get marketing that doesn't suck.
You may consider the indie game scene if you love games enough. I too love games, but I don't see myself doing game dev outside of indie developments.
> It's also in my hands and the hands of everyone else. If someone's done terrible things in the past he's the sort of person who's capable of doing terrible things

Everyone is capable of doing terrible things. The idea that some people are capable and others are not is naive at best. The assumption that someone who has done terrible things is more likely to do them again than someone who didn't do terrible things (or wasn't caught doing them) has no base in reality. It is simply pondering to the lizard part of our brains "you must fear the evil ... fear the evil .."
RE2 is great! I first discovered it while building namegrep.com and after benchmarking it against PCRE I never looked back. :)
Might be true if you belief in magic or slavery — otherwise, believing sales & marketing are skimming from everyone's success is like saying intellectual property should not ever be owned.
while coupons (e.g. the regular payout) might be stable, bonds, too, can fall in value. One interest rate hike by the FED or ECB would send bond prices tumbling.
Show HN: ParaBalls – html multiplayer pool like game where players play parallely
I skimmed this article, but isn't it basically saying that the distrust is justified? The examples of success are unhealthy, consumer-oriented products (e.g. breakfast cereal, cigarettes, Trump), or marketing aimed at marketers. They couldn't give one example of the value they add to tech startups?
as long as the ad lists are not kept private, but public/open and free, you as a consumer can always choose to use a different piece of adblocking software. This should create pressure where users decide what they would like their adblocking software to do (by voting with their feet).
The projects goal is not to build a reactor but to study plasma physics. I'd guess the diamond window is surely industrial diamonds.
Fun fact as well: There are inner plates for shielding which are screwed into place. The question is: So you have a shield to protect from very high temperatures but also a screw on the same side. How do you protect the screw? You put a diamond coating over it. :)

Also, of course we could do it cheaper now. The project began around 20 years ago and had much luck, because there were many occassions were the techhnology needed to build the Wendelstein was just invented.

Source: A german 2h30m podcast with the project lead: https://alternativlos.org/36/ Extremely interesting!
A study of 350000 is almost certainly just a survey.

It's not a stretch that there are other correlations at play here. People who feel sick or lethargic try vitamins.
Disagree, somewhat loudly.

I don't blame other sources for my own beliefs. If I choose to believe something based on a news article that's squarely on me.

In any case, the paper you cite is available here:

http://fulltext.study/preview/pdf/917856.pdf
Well yeah that's the interesting part the exploit is simple, but finding it is difficult. Which is very interesting. It's like the intelligence problem. Where hard stuff is easier than the simple stuff. I guess in the future we will scan for whether the js file is trying to read any other file which should put a stop to this sort of thing.
You buy food in BRL yes, but when the BRL has a massive swing up or down food prices can swing the opposite way to compensate. If BRL drops 30% and food prices rise 30% you're going to be in a bad situation — dollars are likely to be far more stable
Aren't we tech people taught that sales and marketing is the cost you pay for being unoriginal?
Those marks can be a real problem... How will your stomach handle seeing the marks after you chewing the bread?
/s
WebGL Tutorial: Rendering Wavefront 3D Models
Advertising is a subset of marketing.
TTS narration (yet another) for the internet content, with human proofreading
They started 2003 with the construction. Of course it can be built cheaper and more efficient know, but in 10 years you could again write the same comment about dated technology and cost. In that sense, the project is using up-to-date technology as there is no other similar stellarator running with newer technology.

> This project is going to

You seem to imply it's still in construction. It's finished already, in fact they finished testing it a year ago.
Supply and demand can both increase. It's the difference that matters.
I really do enjoy the DC area, however I would love to be back in the Chicago area. Sure it would be a locality pay cut, but housing is so much more affordable.
dokku and deis is tools you need to setup on your infrastructure. They provides you heroku like style push to deploy.

LB is complete platform build on top of kubernetes, support clusters, apps builds (like dokku and deis), apps build from git url, GitHub, ... , deploy from prepared templates (mongoldb cluster, elk cluster.. ) supports custom docker registry.. hook system and many other things.

LB Cloud is an apps cloud hosting comes with LB under the hood. Where you can buy compute cloud resources and receive all LB functionality with dashboard and other cool tools.
Information isn't the opposite of information.

You more or less sum up my reaction to your suggestion with this (rather telling) phrase:

"you'll make yourself superstitious"

(Emphasis mine.)
If you delay in filing for insolvency you become liable with your private assets in Germany (certainly true for GmbH).
Awesome marketing blurb to trick people into believing this marketing company is different and better than other marketing companies and, in fact, has a marketing strategy that can change the world. Well done!
then again: beware of averages. Historical PE ratios are quite high (though EV/FCC would be more instructive) - so it is unlikely that the next couple of years will bring 7%. We're living in a world of free money: if central banks change interest rates the party could come to an end.
Well, I don't know the answer, obviously, but I wouldn't quit my day job.

As someone who needs to write an iOS app, I'm going to use Swift, and the tooling built around it. Transpilation would mean you either need to integrate a debugger (hard) or I'll have to debug transpiled code (and have to check the transpilation)--I have enough "fun" doing that with ES6 in the browser. No thanks; I'll stick with the supported tools.
At the end of the day attention is the only finite resource. Everything else is infinite. If you have something worthy of my attention, then I might just pay you for it. It has nothing to do with print or infinity. It has everything to do with the value proposition. Mass media has very little value proposition when put against its competitors. Other things might not. Things that you care about that are harder to find. That are easier. That are prettier. That appeal to identity politics like vinyls and other retro things. That make you a hipster or a snob. That differentiate you from the poseurs.
The insistence that Linux be called GNU/Linux when even Linus calls it Linux is exactly the kind of behaviour that alienates people who would otherwise align with them.

There is also no requirement that a Linux distribution includes any GNU software at all, should we refer to them as e.g Busybox/Linux?
Google isn't just a platform:It frames, shapes and distorts how we see the world
All these wearables will be gathering dust in future, and or band will break and owners will not bother to get it fixed.
This is a more general problem.

Radio and television finally admit, in 2016, that they’re competing with the whole vast Internet.

https://rocknerd.co.uk/2016/09/29/radio-and-television-final...

I literally had no idea the Olympics had actually started until occasional posts about it showed up on Tumblr. Nor did I realise it was in Rio until then.

The media hegemony broke absolutely the moment we could escape them.
TFA is in "news & comments" rather than "research" (which is the respected part).
Our marketing department is literally making its revenue by adding hundreds of trackers and ads to our site, which goes counter to the goal of the actual business of selling our goods and services. I call that skimming.

Marketing has taken ad networks and ad to sale attribution, and turned it into "we are going to sell all our customer's data and every click so marketing can claim revenue."
IMO there's not that much you have to learn to cover the fundamentals of programming: variables, arrays, control statements, and functions. When I've worked with deficient programmers in the past, they seem to struggle on this level. I think if you can master the fairly limited fundamentals, you're basically set. True no one will want to hire you without experience, but you will already be a better than average programmer.