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Inside universities, it does not seem realistic that this will lower people's opinions on the value of social science statistical research, or in the related fields of psychology (esp. management/organisational psychology), or even all of the humanities.

That opinion is already "reject it all".

Even when it comes to medicine that opinion is strongly represented. A few people even ascribe the placebo effect to massive and widespread statistical error.
Every prof I had in university trotted out this same issue. They all tried to take down answer sheets as soon as possible, got upset when people asked with help solve them past questions, etc.

Except one. This guy had been teaching for like 10 years, and put EVERY SINGLE PAST PAPER HE HAD out there. He provided students with a massive, massive stash of questions and answers.

For any given problem, you could either solve it, or you could just navigate thousands of PDFs trying to find the solution. And when you wanted to do some solo practice, you had endless options.

He reused questions from those papers in midterms, but the chances of you actually picking the right question from all the possibilities was very slim.

It's one of those situations where, paradoxically, by being completely gregarious, he achieved better results than by being ultra guarded and secretive.
Did anyone ever believe such a thing?
Have you tried cubetto, robot teaching kids programming even before they can write? https://www.primotoys.com/

There's great medical improvement in treating autism, especially in US - my simple understanding of those advancements is that they try to remove cause of autism which in many cases seems to be related to brain being damaged by toxins.

Wish your son lots of health! And fun quality time with you :-)
Where's the proof that it was a driver education problem? This argument gets rehashed every month or so here on HN.
Is cannibalism legal anywhere at all? I'd be surprised if it was.
I didn't knew about your website, and I was planning to improve my Italian soon. Seems I'll be starting right now, and it comes really handy to read the newspapers.

Good stuff!
Moderation / curation / selection is present in every single organization; this cannot be helped. Not only is it human nature (humans are tribal, and newspapers / magazines often target specific demographics or mindsets). but the sheer quantity of news makes it impossible to do otherwise.

I expect, in other words, the Wall Street Journal curated headline list to look different from the New York Times headline list, and likewise for the New York Times headline list to look different from the Economist headline list, and that to look very different from my local city paper headline list.

To me, "unbiased news" therefore does not in practice exist (and most complaints about bias are merely complaining that something exhibits "the wrong" bias.) The only true way of coming close to "unbiased news" is probably via meta-analysis. Humans probably cannot handle this for all articles -- a single person would be overloaded with information.

Realistically, the best you can do is limit yourself to a few select news sources that you find the most trustworthy, or that you care about personally (eg more specialized news sources). There is bias even in that, but as long as your curation isn't in one silo, you are probably more informed than most.

(Maybe machine learning could be used to generate meta-analysis of news items with as little "bias" as possible, however even here there's a strong possibility that the bias of the "trainer" would end up dominating...)
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This whole topic is so interesting to me. Software programming is actually, in reality, a mind numbing process involving extremely repetitive actions. Thanks to Hollywood and the fact that technology is transforming our world (not programmers... technology) the myth of the programmer as an intellect has flourished. That is true for most programmers; there are brilliant programmer of all ages who make the tools the rest use, and that's another topic altogether.

The reality is that young programmers are popular not because they're brilliant, but because they are more willing to engage in repetitive tasks for long hours. The idea that older people don't have the intellectual chops is total BS; it's rather that as people get older they lose interest in unrewarding endlessly repetitive tasks. That is to say, they become more intelligent about how they are going to spend their time and their life.
The system that killed people didn't represent a point of progress for their self driving tech. They decided to abandon the hardware package it was using.

Their current implementation doesn't seem to be learning any higher level behaviors (there's a Youtube video of guy using it in a park where it repeatedly accelerates towards islands in the road and then flails off the road as it goes too fast around the island).
But again, that's just a restatement of accusations, not evidence.
Doubtful. There are plenty of high wage occupations in Europe, but computer programming is not one of them. Just like the market for doctors in the US is insane compared to elsewhere in the world.
Humans will do stupid things. A self-driving car has to drive safely in spite of them.
I go to the gym in the early morning but when I worked out over lunch it was:

00:00 - 00:05 Change into workout clothes
00:05 - 00:40 Work out
00:40 - 00:45 Shower (yes a shower only takes 5 minutes if you're not just relaxing under the water)
00:45 - 00:55 Back into work clothes
00:55 - 01:00 Back to the desk

Eat at the desk after the lunch break. If that's not practical you can cut the workout in half and have 20 minutes to eat which is rarely not enough time.

If you have a plan and don't waste time an hour is an exceptionally long time.
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It's not an aesthetic judgment, though. Aesthetics has to do with beauty. Epistemology has to do with defining knowledge and knowability. The commenter I responded to says we need the one for the other, but hasn't offered any justification.
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The idea of a for-profit institutions convincing volunteers to do the work is the same model Google uses for projects like Go, NPM uses for NPM, Docker uses for Dockerhub, StackOverflow uses for StackOverflow etc.

So far as I am aware (I am not an attorney) none of those institutions indemnifies voluntary contributors.
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That's a valid additional point. I'd also say that they should at least offer optional courses with skills. That also applies to language. While universities don't offer a major in English speaking/writing, many have opportunities for second language learners to improve their English skills.
> Every page i download, every news article, easily 2-3MB,...

That's typical, and completely insane. I run an image-heavy (but ad-free) blog using standard Wordpress, and the 8000-word homepage is around 1.1 MB on first load. I would never use a cellular data connection without aggressive ad- and tracker-blocking.

(FWIW, HN seems to have about 3x markup overhead, 2x compressed, for a typical comment page, which is not that bad.)
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Anecdotal evidence means shit, of course there is biological difference between men and women. The point is you making arbitrary claims using it without evidence is stupid.

Centuries ago there were no women scientists, now there are, so does that mean the people like you in the transitory period claiming "Women can never be scientists due to psycho-evolution (whatever bullshit that is)" are right.

Without scientific evidence, your psycho-evolutionary boundary on what is achievable by men or women is just convenient excuse for sexism because it changes and is arbitary.
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I've got a few other references on Bezier curves, including a link to a previous HN conversation:

https://github.com/melling/ComputerGraphics/blob/master/bezi...
I used this resource about six months ago as a refresher so I could build bezier splines[1] for character pathing while I was learning Unity. It is probably the best resource out there for this.(Outside of game engine specific information.)

1: http://i.imgur.com/8pWMTZS.png

2: https://vid.me/GMso
No, it's always been that way from the initial release. It's literally the only file system interopt that exists.

You're not supposed to access the Linux filesystem from Windows -- it's in a system hidden area of your profile but some people still tried to mess with it with unfortunate consequences.
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The company I work for has showers, a decent on site gym and secure and convinient bike parking. All of that does get used, but the bike parking is probably 1/10 of the number of car parking spots and there aren't more than a handful of people in the gym in the morning.

This is in Denmark, btw, probably one of the easiest countries to bike in.

I really don't know how to get people to start exercising.
Plus Bresenham is for doing things just using integer math, with floats rasterizing a line is little more than straightforward linear interpolation.
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I don't think the people that wrote this know how QUIC works and what its benefits are.

The problem is not QUIC, it's the request API the adblockers use to filter the content. QUIC is a fast, documented protocol used by way more people and organisations that aren't Google.
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Ha! An app that could differentiate LBMs (little brown mushrooms) would be impressive, indeed.
"At fault" is one relevant metric, but not the only one. An autonomous vehicle should at least meet, and ideally surpass, human-driven ones in avoiding accidents for which they're not at fault as well.

I'd be curious to know if Waymo vehicles experience more, less, or the same number of not-at-fault accidents per mile driven as human-driven ones.
My wife and I are on basically the same schedule. No kids which I'm sure makes it much easier but the alarm is 4:30, gym by 5:15, asleep between 9 and 10, usually closer to 9. We both do a lot of weights and HIIT so try to stick to 3 days on, 1 day off. It's also helpful to have that rotating schedule in case something comes up.
I run Debian (hi Jess!). It's mostly stock except for ZFS, and using OpenBox+GKrellM+xfce-panel as my window manager. I love having virtual workspaces and configurable bindings for everything. I use irssi for IRC, Mutt/Geary for mail, Chromium for browsing, and Pidgin for IM. I edit photos in darktable and The GIMP, and do my vector work in Inkscape. Morganastra sold me on the Fish shell a few years ago and I've never looked back.
I have similar experiences with hockey. It's obviously not as cheap as squash, but most of the pickup in my area is 6:30am or so. The rink is also walkable from my office, so sometimes I bring my skates to work and skate during lunch just to get myself moving. The best part is, it's never too late to start! I took lessons starting at 22, but I was easily the youngest person in the class. Lots of people in their 40s learning to ice skate for the first time.

This is coming from a person who you couldn't pay to exercise two years ago. Recreational sports don't feel like exercise, they feels like playing a game. Also with something like ice skating all your improvements are very noticeable and it feels really good to master a new skill or pull off a deke or score a goal in a game.

Obviously also not for everyone, but these kind of stories are true for every sport. Find something you like, it's never too late to try something new.
We'll manage. Already a lot of critical technology (electric grids, military weapons) is connected to the internet. Civilization hasn't collapsed in spite of that.
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Software is full of introverts, come on.
My chief concern with this situation is that when these rules are applied you're essentially moving li-ion batteries into the hold of the aircraft. Laptops that are accidentally left on could overheat in suitcases, tablets could get impact damage during turbulence etc. Surely this is a huge fire risk?

I recently flew and was asked if I had spare batteries or e-cig devices in the bags I wanted to check in since they aren't allowed in checked luggage - presumably for this reason. In fact, I just did some searching and found this article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-07/laptop-ba...

Are there fire suppression systems in modern airliners? Would they be able to stop a laptop battery that's combusting?
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"I imagine most people would put them on charge after coming back from work or at night."

That's true, and it would indeed present a significant problem as the early evening already represents a peak demand period on many grids.

However: plugging in doesn't necessarily mean the same thing as charging. Pretty much any EV already supports scheduled charging. It's useful to take advantage of cheap off-peak energy rates that start around 10 or 11pm (here in the UK, you can get overnight off-peak rates that are about 30% the cost of a typical all-day or peak rate).

The next step is to have the chargers (or the EVs themselves) interact with the grid so that they automatically slow or stop charging during peak periods, in exchange for some incentive from your utility company.

There are already trials of these smart chargers going on with in places with high EV uptake like California and the Netherlands.

Taking that concept further, V2G will mean that your car can not only stop charging during demand peaks but actually sell some energy back to the grid. If your car needed, say, to top up 20 kWh overnight, it could first sell 10 kWh to the grid, receiving a high peak-time feed-in credit, then "buy" 30kWh later in the evening when prices are much cheaper. The net result could mean that the overall cost of charging is much cheaper or even free!

Finally, as EV range gets bigger, the need to actually charge every night less frequent. Where I live, there are several EVs that are typically parked on the street (without access to a charger) and only seem to get charged every week or so. The owners probably only average 10 miles or so a day so daily charging isn't really needed.
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A lot of people will probably disagree with me but I'm not a fan of remote work and don't think it suits most companies.

So many employees like to slack and procrastinate. At all the companies I've been at people will instantly open Facebook, reddit or HN as soon as management can't see their screens. It's so easy to wing some BS at the daily stand-up that makes it look like you're productive. No-one really questions how long things take and even if it puts you in unnecessary crunches sometimes to catch up to some deadline you still do it.

Working from home is like haven for slackers. No-one can see your screen and you can do whatever you want. I'm sure there are people that are highly effective working from home but I think those are in minority.
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That's because virtually no one at the time of its writing would have understood the term to mean "wide-scale re-distribution."
It is, of course. Nobody is calculating the cost of the war as the defense budget multiplied by the time. The cost includes about $750 billion in direct appropriations for the war itself (separate from the overall defense budget), plus numerous indirect costs such as additional medical care and disability payments to veterans, replacement of destroyed equipment, and interest payments due to increasing the national debt.
SV is full of people like Pai. Their culture is one of haves vs have nots. Hope you're in with the right caste, it's coming to a town near you.
You're talking about a colleges' costs, whereas the original article is talking about students' costs.

You have the causality backwards.

An increase in # administrators isn't responsible for the increase in students' costs (primarily through tuition fees). An increase in administrators is enabled by an increase in tuition fees received by schools.
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What the heck...!?! I would really love for someone to explain how something like this happens.
Clojure's gonna take off any day now, I just know it... any day....

I'm surprised I don't see Java (could be included in 'Backend', I suppose). As a JVM guy who's always wanted a remote gig I find your list depressing.
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A history course I took, the profs did the same (pair of them at the school that wrote the textbook together). Tear out assignments, I photocopied and submitted that (not marked down). But they frequently updated it so even though I took care of my book, I couldn't resell it for much anyways. The textbooks were still around $80 or so, so this did nothing to keep prices down.
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RTFA:

> The glowing element was hailed as a panacea for everything from blindness to hysteria.

Literally the second paragraph.
Have you ever tried a Martial Art? It does not need to make you a "fighter", but (at least for me) actually learning and improving at has never been boring (28 years of Aikido and counting).
The amazing thing is that none of the BBC, The Financial Times, WiReD, or even The Register (whom one would think most likely to want to ask hard questions and not simply regurgitate the PR, given its coverage over the years) asked this, or even mentioned Wikinews.

How does this relate to Wikinews, a crowd-sourced newspaper that actually is connected to Wikipedia and that has been trying to put into practice much of the model being put forward here for the past twelve years? is a fairly obvious question. No journalist covering this story apparently asked it.
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Interesting that they only let you borrow for now. Will car ownership be killed with self-driving cars? Will Waymo let you actually buy and own a car that isn't network connected and fully yours? Seeing how value extraction works in today's enterprise, i.e. via rent-seeking, I'm guessing we're headed to not owning cars any more.
They ask google to:

'Confirm, with appropriate supporting data, that their bid requests made with QUIC are not anti-competitive, and justify why bid requests are being used by a new and opaque request protocol under conditions where competitors are bound to use TCP with its extra round trip overhead.'

Which just looks like they have no idea what they're talking about.

Things QUIC isn't:

- Limited to Google(rs)

- "Opaque" as-is, it's just that the JS APIs are bad. It's still experimental software after all.
>I think there are just too many visual similarities between various plants

I get the impression that you tried to train a single classifier to diagnose disease in any species in the PlantVillage database.

You might get better results by training a separate classifier for each plant species (or starting with just one species, such as tomato, for which PlantVillage has 10 disease categories). A farmer knows what crop they're growing, so can select the correct classifier when they submit a photo.
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News on Facebook is a real problem, because the news stories that get shared on Facebook are things that people get really upset about. Donald Trump got tons of press because he deliberately and repeatedly said the most outrageous things.

I've now individually hidden every major news source (BBC, CNN, etc...). Huge improvement to my Facebook experience. While I still get ads from companies, my Facebook feed has been entirely purged of Donald Trump and mass murders.
Thanks for the reply. It looks like you've managed to carve out a successful practice.

Another reply states that I'd have to spend 25% - 50% of my time getting clients. Is that the case with you? Was it the case when you started out?
It may well be futile, but I will never stop trying to convince people that we should spend less on war and more on science.
I hear rumors from security researchers as well regarding Tinder. They allegedly seem to leek a lot of personal info to 3rd parties.
> When I started actually tracking my intake

This is the key point. Eating healthy is absolutely a good idea and helps you perform better but most people eat a lot more than they think they do.

When I started exercising I lost 50 pounds over a year and a half or so without a single change to my (absolute garbage) diet.

Saying you can work out 5x week and eat anything is idiotic, but the key to weight loss is to track your calories, not to eat healthier. You should eat healthier for other reasons.
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> (The used book market actually drives up the price of texts – to see why, think of what would happen to car prices if used car sales were not permitted.)

My best guess is he is trying to argue that if you disallowed used car sales, you'd get better economies of scale on new cars, as more would need to be produced to fill the void left my used car sales. While it might drive the price of a new car/textbook down, I still think it would drive the average amount paid by drivers/students up, which is what we really care about (as students, at least; obviously the textbook companies would love to sell more books).

In fact, this seems to a case of the broken window fallacy[1] — a textbook case, one might say. ;-) (In that, if you essentially destroy the used text book's value by not using them, that this is somehow beneficial.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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Can you add it percentual? I mean I can do the math, but I think it will be a lot more useful to see out of the total available remote jobs were it stands. Thanks!
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It'd be interesting to put tamper-evident seals on the data ports of any machines you are forced to put in checked luggage.
Too easy for a competitor to hop on and get casual intel, maybe?
It's wrong for the state to declare human driving illegal. I will prefer if we voluntarily adopt self-driving cars because of its huge benefits. I think that's the likely scenario, consider that horse buggies are currently only used as tourist attractions or by isolated communities like the Amish.
Yep. This is an analysis on 1,950 remote jobs in the last 90 days. This is a somewhat representative sub set of most job boards remote jobs as I aggregate from there but it's indeed not the whole remote work market obviously.
Last year, I had a 3 UK data sim (30pounds, 12 gig, 1 yr) that travelled with me, and it was good. Ireland was fine, France was fine.

This year, I got a new one, and once I cross into Ireland it's throttled pretty badly. Which is better than my Irish one that goes on roaming at .25/meg once I cross the border, but it's still not as good as it was.
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Efficient at what? Efficiency is always relative to a particular goal, what did you have in mind?