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> If I feel like I'm more focused, I am more focused.

But the end goal is almost never to feel more focused, the end goal is to (say) accomplish a task faster or more accurately. And there are definitely placebo interventions that make people feel like they are doing things better without actually doing anything better.

Likewise, in this case, the end goal is for the surgeons to have a longer career. It's easy to imagine a placebo intervention that makes one feel better, but doesn't actually reduce wear-and-tear on joints, and hence doesn't prolong one's career.

Also, like the other commenter said: placebo effects are often less reliable or generalizable outside the specific context of the study. They may be motivated by, e.g., a subconscious desire to please the experimenter which goes away in real-life circumstances. Actual physiological interventions are much less likely to do this.
> Google is a search engine for finding webpages, not facts.

How can you justify that claim? It seems pretty obvious to me that it's trying to be both. Search for "current time utc" and tell me Google is just a search engine for finding webpages.
I'd say it's a mixed bag. You have a good number of very entitled people, particularly among legacy admissions and undergrads that go there primarily for their career.

But yes, people who go their primarily to study (often grad students or international students) can be very down to earth.

Frankly, I'd expect more narcissistic or mentally unstable people in high-IQ clubs (though two fellow students at university were at some point placed in the closed psychiatric ward).
Heyo! I work on this process @ Stormpath / Okta. It will largely be an automated process in two stages: export then import. You'll be able to do multiple exports / imports, so you can continue running in production on Stormpath while testing on Okta.

The flow is pretty simple: export your Stormpath data (no interruption), import to Okta, test, then when you're ready to go 'live': export from Stormpath again and pause servers, import to Okta again (to get new things added), and switch code to run against Okta.

We'll be releasing more details soon.
This is the default view when you click on the Explorer icon in the Windows Taskbar on a new user account: http://i.imgur.com/TM8ZyLg.png

This is the default view for Finder on a new user account: http://i.imgur.com/Dni0Kpo.png

The only thing I changed in this Finder screenshot is collapse the auto-populated Devices, Shared and Tags list for privacy, so I didn't have to edit the image. Notice that it defaults to the "All My Files" view which is empty for a new user and would be even more of an unfair comparison to the default Windows view.
The reversal could take hundreds of years, where our planet has no electromagnetic shielding. All of our technology will be toast.

I call that bad.
No one suggested that we stop publishing. Instead we have to publish in open access journals, even if these don't give us as much prestige as the established science tabloids (as Andrew Gelman calls them). Either that or we stop whining about the evil publishers. They are only as evil as we allow them to be.
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I occasionally start a VPS for a few hours to download stuff using OpenVPN AS... Living in France under constant phobia of HADOPI law :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADOPI_law
>I think we should go down of our cloud of righteousness and learn to laugh of ourselves once in a while.

No doubt. The headline is ludicrous: why should we tolerate? Because being tolerant is a positive trait. Buffet has done more for mankind than most of the people who are bound to complain about his lame joke on their Facebook page.
These Mackeeper guys had some high pressure dude on a live chat get my mother to pay and install their software. Worse - she was having trouble installing it and the guy suggested a remote session. Luckily she got wise at that point.

I wouldn't even visit their site to be quite frank.
The university would be obligated to request they take it down as well.
The editors of the journal are the ones selecting the reviewers. It is a small community, if you are a good reviewer, the chance that your own papers get accepted is getting up because of course, the editor will find the right reviewers for your papers...

Source: I review papers (pretty irregularly) on Elsevier journals and my supervisor was/is editor of such journal.
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No, I mean traditionally smart. As in honor students, engineers and writers, etc.

I mean, who here doesn't know at least one intelligent person, who because of issues with upbringing, socioeconomic status, mental health, etc earns considerably less than their peers of similar ability (because they couldnt go to or dropped out of college, because they didn't have the network to get a job after, etc)?

My experience is that it's often those people who make the transition from street and neighborhood level dealing to managing portions of the supply chain, because their cousin's uncle's friend said they knew a way to make a lot more than their dealing small-scale to pay bills or whatever dead-end job they're at. Then once you're in the network, it's entirely a business of managing op-sec, negotiating deals, and efficient operations -- all of which require traditional intelligence, the same as actual businesses.

Literally the same way anyone I know goes from small time employment to a serious position.
An objective piece of data like what? A digital photo? A network traffic log? A printed photograph? A phone call recording?

These are _all_ based on someone's word, in a world of Photoshop, text editors, hex editors, scanners and printers, voice synthesis, etc.
It doesn't appear we are waiting longer to get a better solution, rather we appear to be waiting and getting no solution.
Why new domain? Sci-hub.cc (the domain currently advertised on sci hub Twitter) seems to be still working.

But yeah back up domains are useful, I guess.
Sound bites can be powerful when convincing people. I will use this in the future, at least to get a real conversation started. Without the backing of real conversation sound bites can be used to dismiss meaningful arguments. In turn this leads to them being dismissed.

Switching back to copyright, I think that saying "copyright is not a monopoly" it is not as cut and dry as the linked site would indicate. I think one's ability to hire lawyers matters here.

Consider Disney, they will have a much easier time defending themselves, where a smaller author might not be able too. Disney will also have a much easier defeating a legitimate defense of another real author than a lone author might be able to. It is not hard to imagine a hypothetical Disney of yesteryear suing people to keep other space operas down with their Star Wars IP. It is harder to imagine a small defendant succeeding in that defense even if it is legitimate. I think this is largely a non-issue, because Disney of today is less of jerk.

Of all the kinds of Intellectual Property I think Copyright is most fair, the kind of legal abuse I described is much more common with Trademarks and Patents. I think the recent "flow" trademark issue or anything King software (the candy crush guys) does with game names so how asymmetric IP laws can be in general.
"Almost eight years later, it turns out that the list had its share of flops—companies that shut down or lost value—but some notable home runs as well. Cloudera, Palantir, Evernote, Twitch and Spotify all increased at least 30 times in value since 2009. If YouNoodle’s list had been a venture portfolio, it would have been one of the best-performing funds of the last two decades."

Am I crazy, or has only one of those companies (Twitch) actually made it to a liquidity event for its investors? There are some serious doubts around some of those "home run" companies keeping anything near their crazy private caluations.
This is the dark underbelly of startups. I think it's important to recognize that this happens- founders keep thinking they can close the next funding round, sign the next big deal, and as a result, employees pay the price.

I think it's important to recognize that this happens, and shame the founders & investors into making good their commitments to their employees.

Also- if someone stops paying you, you should almost always stop working for them. That's a major red flag.
I somewhat understand the intention, but this feels like a ham-fisted 'solution.' Deprive majority of people access because it doesn't suit everyone? Being partially physically disabled, I absolutely sympathize with the need to push for more adherence to accessibility standards. But why not work with the institution to hammer out a timeline to meet certain standards and while allowing for people to still access the information?
Why is that? archive.org isn't a public education institution.
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@franklee2, sure. just change the text after the = sign. It needs some work, but you'll get an overall idea of who's doing significant work in the topic! It's a summary of funding, papers and patent data.
Because they can't be under US law.

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communica...
Thanks. Though I should point out your entire notebook is visible, not just this particular note.
@ericsun, sure, I use a combination of W2v and Wikipedia for the concepts. I then query a repository that I assemble (funding, papers and patent data).
Direct link to 2013 paper: http://www.cond.org/deception.pdf
That could be a reflection on the rather thin documentation around the standard library.
The problem is that it uses largely the same treatment as it does for actual facts.

In other words, I don't think there's anything wrong with trusting Google when you search for "25 divided by 5", "33rd president of the US", etc. But when Google extends that response structure to things that, on further research, are not established fact, it shares some blame in spreading false knowledge.
A lot can happen in 8 years.. :)
Google has RankBrain to process search results, and that's only what they've admitted to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RankBrain
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I took a course that used that textbook last semester and I got the international edition for around $30, and it was the exact same book with less problems.
The versions are different across platforms. Version 1 on iOS WILL open desktop version 2 files. Here is their site where they talk about that: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener_ios.php

Also we are talking about iOS and Apple in this thread not sure what Android has to do with it.
Exactly. It's hard to say that they've had massive successes when none of the companies have returned money to their investors. That's proof that you've succeeded. The rigor imposed by the SEC makes it a lot harder to fake/inflate the valuations.

That said, I think all of those companies have done great things. Spotify, for instance, has revolutionized the music industry, and Palantir is a major player when it comes to government software (my employer competes with them in Canada).
It's 2017, and two employees from Gallaudet University can cause the destruction of 20,000 free lectures, including some with nearly half a million views, because of ADA requirements?

Of all universities, I would've expected Berkeley to stand up for how blatantly this damages public access, but I guess not.
This is my thinking as well. Hamfisted attempts to make LCD's look like CRT's by artificially curving the screen and messing with colors is just nostalgia. It doesn't add anything to game and 1980s designers were most likely pissed they had to deal with these limitations like color distortion, curvatures, ghosting, burn-in, etc. Pac-man isn't better on a shittier screen. Pac-man succeeds because it had novel game mechanics for 1982.

I mostly agree, though I think it gets a little muddier when you consider that the artists of the day — while doubtlessly wishing they had access to "more perfect" displays — were often designing their art to take advantage of those distortions to get effects they wanted. So, if part of why we're doing emulation is for history's sake, we have to keep that in mind. The painters of ancient Roman frescoes probably wanted more vibrant pigments than they had and it might even be interesting and attractive to "enhance" one with modern pigments, but it's ahistorical.

That being said, I've never personally found added distortion in emulators to improve the experience. I'm always constantly aware of its artificiality and that far outweighs any potential gains in "authenticity".
Just so I understand...

In order to make the information more accessible we're removing them from YouTube and requiring users to sign up for an additional account?

How does this improve anything? Either you have the internet and can access these videos on YouTube or you don't have the internet and you can't access them on YouTube. How does this satisfy the court order?
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Does not appear to work in my browser (Firefox).
Honestly, although I use the Omnibox/Awesome Bar/whatever a lot, I think it is ultimately a mistake: there are too many search terms which end up resolving to domains, esp. for a developer — and it was never a problem to just click in the search bar before I ruined my muscle memory and started clicking in the location bar instead.

One of these days I'll just disable it altogether.
The Go plugin does seem to work reasonably well although I may well switch once the JetBrains offering is ready.
[...] everyone knows a monopoly is bad [...]

I don't think that is true. Neither does everybody know that a monopoly is bad, nor, and more importantly, is a monopoly inherently bad. Take for example the monopoly on violence. And even if you want to restrict the meaning to monopolies in the economic sense, even then is a monopoly not inherently bad. It only becomes so if its powers are abused. Sometimes having competition will increase the total costs, think for example of having five competing power distribution networks. In such cases it may be a better choice to have a monopoly and regulated it to prevent its abuse instead of having competition.
But it's not on the Finder, and the Finder defaults to the "All My Files" view which is completely empty on a new user account, so I changed one thing on each side to make the screenshots more comparable, but here are the absolute default views for each OS:

http://i.imgur.com/Dni0Kpo.png

http://i.imgur.com/TM8ZyLg.png

The Finder is still less cluttered, with all its buttons in 1 toolbar instead of spread across 4.
I specifically referred to NIH as one the funding agencies that needs to take a leadership role for publishing policy. So this comment isn't super relevant to my original comment.
You can right click on the folder/document icon in the title bar in any app, and you can left click it to drag it. The icon, not the window.

"You are holding it wrong".

The only reason to know this seems to be because someone has told someone it seems.

There is no indication in the design of the element, and IIRC not even a subtle glow when you mouseover.

Sorry: as much as I like Apple I don't waste my time on their software. Not saying it is bad but for me I had to admit it was a waste of perfectly good working time and focus.

If you like it: good. I know people who seem to be more productive with Macs. And more Apple users is good news for both Linux users and Windows users since they force companies to think cross platform and force Microsoft to be more humble.
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We ask questions now because we can get "an answer" so quickly.

I would have liked the prof to push back on the student and say Why do you want to know?

The answer is yes. Now what?

The answer is no. Now what?

Are you asking for what reason? What will you do with a yes answer and a no answer?

Then I would break into a short lesson in decision making. That decisions are just based on future probabilities. Future probabilities are based partially in the questions you answer.

If the question is academic?purposes only then good... But I believe we ask dumb questions just because we can and get an answer.

Start by not asking questions where the answer is useless.
> embedding the word "snow" in a sufficiently rich abstraction

What do you mean by this?

(I could have written my comment more politely. Didn't mean to offend.)
This looks like a language designed for use with a commercial product / development environment (http://creolabs.com/).

I'm curious how well that works - I know that used to be fairly common in the '80s and '90s, but it feels like that hasn't been happening much of late. The only very similar examples I can think of are Swift and Xamarin; Swift had the advantage of a large customer base (everyone writing iOS apps), and Xamarin was based on an existing, well-established language (C#). And all the older big examples that come to mind, VB, Delphi, Objective-C, etc., were variants of an existing language (Basic, Pascal, C, respectively), not a brand new language.

Creo folks, are you finding that customers / potential customers are excited about picking up the new language? I'd love to live in a world where there's more work on programming languages (clearly, none of our existing languages are optimal) but I'm not super optimistic.
MacKeeper? The company that aggressively advertises something that looks like scareware? Surprised that they are now supposedly the good guys.

The Wikipedia intro reads "The software is heavily promoted and has been the subject of a class-action lawsuit for false advertising.".

They are now writing about a data leak of some spammers because these accidently left their repo open while MacKeeper had their own nice similar leak: "In December 2015 security researcher Chris Vickery discovered a publicly accessible database of 21GB of MacKeeper user data on the internet, exposing the usernames, passwords and other information of over 13 million MacKeeper users. According to Kromtech this was the result of a "server misconfiguration""
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The difference is that the University can provide their own students ADA accommodations without captioning and making accessible every video on the platform. The only requirement is that the material they provide comply with the ADA; if they don't provide any, they don't have to make any changes to it.
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Next they will sue amazon for not providing closed captioned audiobooks.
Grep'd for "meta", "annotation" returns no results. Elsewhere in this thread someone mentioned "struct tags".

Strings and comments as band-aid meta-data is one of Go's glaring weaknesses.
Thanks, that's a great suggestion and it does seem like there should be ways for the HN community to plug into this. It's probably also the case that we should let the new thing grow a bit before trying to extend it. But I'll talk with Sam about this the next time I see him.
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> I think you're mistaking the tooltip for a menu item.

It's a bona-fide menu item, accessed via that extra dropdown button below the primary "Options" button.
I heard an interesting take on this on the Planet Money podcast. While I still think books are over-priced here, it allowed me to think of different 'forces' that shape book prices: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/03/353300404/episo...
Is there a word for cases where ADA action causes net harm to society? When a great good can be achieved for almost free, and it is hindered because ADA compliance would cost a lot, what is the benefit to the disabled?
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> I received a call just last Thursday from a professionally recorded American sounding female voice saying it was my credit card company. "Nothing was wrong with my account" but there was an opportunity to reduce my interest rate on EITHER my "MasterCard" OR "Visa."

I've gotten phone calls where the recording introduced itself with "Hi, this is the credit card holder rewards center for Visa Mastercard."

Can they be any more obvious they're a scam?

And then there's the generic "Hello, this is Rachel from Cardmember Services". Or "Cardholder Services" or whatever name they're using at the moment (it keeps changing names as the feds keep going after them).
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It looks nice but... How do you call into existing C libraries? I didn't see an example of that.
But Schwartz stresses that the overall amount of crime in this range is still “much, much lower” than among people with very low IQ scores.

The smartest criminals don't get caught.
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There are some objective measurements you can make on surgeon performance. Things like rate of infection or other complications have variability but do relate to surgeon competence in aggregate. Assuming, random patient selection.
Nope. The chicken and the egg starts where the money starts. If all the candidates' papers are in immediate open access journals (like the Gates Foundation is mandating soon and hopefully NIH will follow), then hiring committees won't have vanity journals as the signal.
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I use Ableton and Logic and their built-in drum software often. They're both very good. When you want to program super real sounding drums EZDrummer and especially Kontact are unbeatable (and as another comment mentioned Kontact has libraries for much more than just drums). For me the reason I like contact is that the mixing interface for each element in the kit is really easy to use and tweak. Besides that the samples are phenomenal. Another option that may be more relevant to you is NI Battery [0]. Personally I just like to experiment with different options as I find that the simple fact of working in a different UI will result in different creative output.

[0] https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/drum...
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More often than not, Google "Alerts" are from very questionable sites.
I randomly picked a video [0] from their course list, jumped to the middle of the video, and compared the YouTube automatic closed captioning (CC) with the spoken word. I'd say CC was about 95% accurate.

In addition, the videos have slides, which would provide context to be able to figure out the remaining 5% that wasn't properly captioned.

So, my question is: who is served by this lawsuit? Surely there are deaf people who are quite alright with watching these videos with the auto CC, and believe they would be better off if the videos were available in their current form than not available at all. Just look at the list of courses [1] that will be removed.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3PF_vD2n4g&index=1&list=PL-...

[1] http://webcast.berkeley.edu/series#c,s
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