skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd take the CLT as everything complicated being normally distributed by default, but with fairly common exceptions:

1 - If the problem isn't actually that complicated, the CLT doesn't do much.

2 - If the problem is dominated by one component, it will still mostly look like that component.

3 - Most ways of slicing a normal distribution lead to other distributions. For example the Rician distribution.
Yet again. Some idiot used a personal email address in the darkweb to run an illegal website. What did they think would happen! Hotmail!
Well wired are in a unique position to answer this question given I haven't been able to read their articles for sometime and instead get a message "Here's the thing about ad-blockers"

I don't use an ad-blocker.

The quality of their journalism usually isn't much better. Was it this time?
Whatever happened to that gimmick where an image from both the front and rear cameras was saved?
These kinds of things are usually indiscriminate. Reading too much into the kind of organization or even country vicitimized is probably counterproductive.
>Might not be, but they certainly aren't good evidence that parallel construction isn't going on.

On the other hand, the evidence that parallel construction is going on appears to be a belief that everything is parallel construction.
I live in Japan, where illegal drugs and their halo of crime are not really relevant in any way to normal daily life. I'm not a crusader against recreational drug use, but I reject the hypothesis that legalization is the only path to eliminating the criminal drug industry. Here, stiff penalties and social disapproval, combined with a unique cooperation between (well) organized crime and capable, uncorrupted authorities work well.
> The attack, KQED employees said, did not appear to be targeted. In fact, it didn’t seem that the hackers knew what kind of organization they had hit.

I find the word "hackers" quite a misnomer. Not just because of the unix roots, but because it makes it seem like one's dealing with a couple of up-to-no-good punks. "Russian hackers" come off as random people in Russia deciding they feel like doing whatever recent news worthy thing's going on in "the cyber"
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Are sure you know all that is being produced in indoor farms? What about what Growing Power is doing in Wisconsin and Illinois? In addition to producing leafy greens in their indoor vertical farms, they also produce fish, fruit, carrots, eggplant, tomatoes, corn, green beans, etc.
"When you roll your own, that is a non-issue."

I don't see how it can be. You've got to build and maintain it yourself now, instead of relying on a huge community of volunteers. If you're OK maintaining the entirety of the view layer framework (or whatever) yourself, where's the harm in starting from a known-good state? If you don't want to upgrade but want to add new features to the framework you picked, you can fork it and do that.

Now, if you don't like a given framework, having a framework is a loss because it'll suck to work on. I've seen this a ton. But, that's not the same problem and one that can be avoided by doing an extra day or two of due diligence and building a simple app before settling on your favorite. I dunno about you, but I've built libraries that I decided I hated after I was done with them. Sometimes, I rewrote them after I figured out why I was originally wrong about what I like, and sometimes I spent more time finding an appropriate replacement that somebody else made (this is usually the better choice).
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If you think a malware scan is enough to detect malware, I have some malware to sell you. :)

I suppose there's not much else to be done, but scans aren't enough to prevent pivots.
IQ costs Oregon parents their kids, but is that fair?
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The moment in the story where I lost all respect for this profiler was the description of how he insisted a "tell" implied lying. There are no known generic reliable tells for lying and anyone claiming there is are basically disqualifying themselves from being an authority on behaviour.

There are reliable tells that imply "pacifying behaviours" for stress, and those can be useful to pay attention to in order to get people to trip up in interrogations, but there are many possible reasons for that kind of stress, including an interrogation itself being a stressor. But people who try to identify lies based on their theories of such tells without intimately knowing that person in advance generally do no better than chance.

(A good book on the subject, which gives a very sober assessment of what body language can actually reliably tell us vs. where you need to thread carefully is Joe Navarro's "What Every Body is Saying" - Navarro is a former FBI agent and trainer)
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Perhaps a better question is "Why is anything normally distributed?" It appears originally to have been a simplification to make the math more convenient:

As Rand Wilcox reports, "Why did Gauss assume that a plot of many observations would be symmetric around some point? Again, the answer does not stem from any empirical argument, but rather a convenient assumption that was in vogue at the time. This assumption can be traced back to the first half of the 18th century and is due to Thomas Simpson. Circa 1755, Thomas Bayes argued that there is no particular reason for assuming symmetry, Simpson recognized and acknowledged the merit of Bayes's argument, but it was unclear how to make any mathematical progress if asymmetry is allowed." (Wilcox, p. 4)

Wilcox, R. (2010). Fundamentals of modern statistical methods: Substantially improving power and accuracy (2nd ed.). New York, New York: Springer.[1]

[1] http://amzn.to/2tkMRoI
So, do you have an example of that?
If you multiply random numbers together you get a log normal distribution. Which means the logarithm of the number is normally distributed (multiplication is just adding logarithms after all.) However multiplicative noise is a lot less common than additive noise.
Nobody wants to. In fact, doing no lunch break is considered a privilege. Nobody wants to work from 9AM to 8PM, even if you have three break hours at lunch. That's time you lose for being with family, friends...
I'm very glad for the outcome your son and family experienced, but can hardly imagine the horror that you went through in that 72 hours and subsequent time until you became assured of the outcome.
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Because not everything has finite variance.
> 10 of those will enter due diligence (at substantial risk to the VC in case the deal does not go through)

What exactly is the "substantial risk" that VCs take on by doing due diligence on ten companies a year?
Restaurants closed at 2PM? That's when most of Spaniards start having lunch...
I use KeePass on Linux via Mono (Arch and Gentoo). The UI is no worse than on Windows if you sort out your fonts. We have about 20 concurrent users of the same several DBs (one at least of which has many hundreds of entries) on a network share.

It is absolutely rock solid.

I'm not sure that KeepassXC can be considered unmaintained - their last release was in June, this year - https://keepassxc.org/blog/ . Also note the monthly tone of the updates - even the koolist of kool dev kids kant complain that is slow 8)
I work in CG animation, and one thing artists do when procedurally generating geometry is tweak the size distribution of things meant to mimic natural phenomena, such as leaves and rocks. They are typically assembling these as expressions, so it's common to first reach for a simple uniform distribution in the form of scale*rand(), but more experienced folks know to go straight to a power law instead. I think it's fascinating that such an extremely high-level way to characterize natural processes could make it into an artist's toolkit like that.
but looking at just one of their projects is antithetical to harc

from Götz' writeup:

> Simply building prototypes with prototypes would not be a smart recipe for radical engineering: once in use, prototypes tend to break; thus, a toolset of prototypes would not be a very useful toolset for developing further prototypes. Bootstrapping as a process can thus only work if we assume that it is a larger process in which “tools and techniques” are developing with social structures and local knowledge over longer periods of time.

a lot of the ideas, or prototypes, in harc are half finished and or completely abandoned

sometimes an implementation's best contribution is the ancillary knowledge gained by attempting or developing

also, i think kay's presence is less 'hero worship' and more a reminder of shared goals(o) as well as a default standin

Götz's first contribution to a project in the space was to create an animation using cutouts from multiple copies of a picture of kay that were lying around

would you call lenna 'hero worship'?(i)

(o) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY

(i) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
Do city governments have the power to tax unclean energy? Or is that more of a state/federal government power?
This is so obvious that the first thing I would do is look to see if they've addressed it in some way, instead of assuming incompetence.

If you have gone through the process of being charitable-first, instead of dismissive-first, then you would notice that they have explicitly spent engineering hours on this exact problem by using an SRP-based session key exchange for mutual authentication (and additional session encryption, in addition to TLS). [1] [2]

It's not easy to engineer for both security and usability, so I especially appreciate it when someone spends the time to accomplish both.

[1] https://blog.agilebits.com/2015/11/11/how-1password-for-team...
[2] https://1password.com/files/1Password%20for%20Teams%20White%...
As a Chinese whose international bandwidth has been abysmal, BBR has been a godsend. The difference in speed when I turn to BBR on my shadowsocks server is astronomical.
I wonder why vendors and buyers aren't using distributed markets like OpenBazaar or the like. Are those not anonymous?
I was thinking you would need to ship them custom servers and have a specific network setup on the system. Standard out of the box rental servers are not going to work.

I honestly don't know how that would work with getting servers to an ISP for them to rack and follow the networking instructions.
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> virtually no one would live in Arizona without massive amounts of air conditioning

I presume you mean south of Flagstaff. It's actually quite nice in the north :)
On one hand that sounds like pretty typically shitty behavior from someone who never imagines that there might be lasting consequences for anyone as a result. On the other hand that's a pretty low bar for a year of PTSD.
Set the QT_BEARER_POLL_TIMEOUT environment variable to -1

I work on a Qt powered project and we had the same bug
nice explanation
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Then be prepared to find out that not only do they not have a good plan, they don't even really understand what you're talking about.
Victor has indicated that his Realtalk group[0] at HARC is trying to release new research by the end of the year - so maybe we won't have to wait too long before learning a little more than this article provides.

[0]https://harc.ycr.org/project/realtalk/
I think the majority of the document is real but some of the pages have been swapped out with fakes. I totally believe that some pretentious designer did a lot of the backlog of work to look at the history of the design and I have a hard time believing that someone would put in all that effort to find those images, trace them in a vector art program, and then wireframe them just for a laugh.
Yeah, statist carries the same kind of close minded biased teenage baggage as "cuck", at least to me.
Agree. But companies aren't offering enough salary to buy something nice with a short commute.
We have the 3 hour lunch break here too (Greece), and yes, it is extremely inconvenient. It means you have to do your commute twice, and that you lose the whole day.

Some people like it, because it lets you eat and take a short nap and rest, but then you have to go back to work, which is a pretty big downside.

However, we don't consider it a lunch break here, we consider it as having to work two shorter shifts per day.
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well, neither CUBIC nor RENO can move your 10MB javascript over a poor connection as efficient as BBR.
For API the best architecture is flat file. For service, it's a totally different thing.
Pretty sure you've never been groped against your will.
Fair enough.

For the record I'm generally opposed to government induced market distortions (but understand they may sometimes be necessary). Not for ideological reasons but because practical reality and unforeseen side effects and the cure being worse than the disease and all. Municipalities dictating a minimum wage I'd think to be probably a bad idea.

Still, excluding nearly half the workers in question from a specific segment leaves the study much less credible than it could be otherwise.

Most Dominos, WalMarts etc. have been honed for labor efficiency for decades. I suspect they can't cut staff or hours much more while continuing to operate in which case workers are (temporarily at least until wage pain causes someone to invent a pizza store machine) better off. Maybe not so much "looser" mom and pop type businesses who this will cause to tighten up.

A final point is the value of extra time. So workers are $125 less well off at the end of the month. But they are working many less hours and no matter how you slice it they are making more money per hour. With more free hours they can take part time jobs, pursue education or training which increases future value, save money by doing things like cooking and their own childcare etc. etc. So the loss of $125 per month is at least partially offset by a certain amount of value.
Hey Paul,

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Background beacon services or location services also suffer from this although I'm not always sure whether it is the OS author or the manufacturer.

The trick here is that these manufacturers know that people will try a different phone if they believe that one brand or another's battery won't last very long. (Ironically they probably all buy batteries from Samsung)

It drives me mad since our company provides software and hardware that does beacon and geofencing related tasks but the flip side is that I also know that when my Samsung battery is half that of my Wife's phone even though its 2 years newer, I'm definitely starting to think to myself 'maybe I should switch to an iPhone'. I think the real issue here is probably people wanting to do more than batteries really permit at the moment and its a frustrating tug of war.

The obvious answer in my mind is to give users the power to choose what they want. Its fine for manufacturers to choose defaults that will work for non power users.
It doesn't matter so much what time the air is actually the hottest, but what time the sun will burn you.

I'd take 37 C air in the shade over 35 C in the midday sun any time.
Oh I see, cool, thanks!

Edit: I couldn't even post this because I've been supposedly "posting too fast" when I've only had ~5 comments in the last day. Are you causing/influencing/related to this in some way? I had never seen this happen before but ever since our last conversation I have seen it happen twice, both when you have been around the thread.
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2. echo "bbr" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_congestion_control

3. save it to sysctl.conf

4. restart and you are done.
Checkout the cloudron store. But they don't sell apps afaik.
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You're right and my comment made it seem like everyone has some grudge or something. I think in general the PARC community was weary that the takeaways would be centered around how computers, GUI, etc. were great ways of doing old things better (accounting, reading text, etc) instead of being captivated by computing as a medium for thinking. This happened with print, as Alan has discussed in some of his talks. The first 100 years of print was used to print and distributed religious text and it took a while before ideas that could probably only sprout in the print medium were invented (physics, calculus, some philosophies, etc). To some degree, I think some people feel like we're still in the "use print for spreading religious text" phase (or the "film is a great way of recording & distributing plays" phase.
rrix explained why it is bad. The safe way is to create the file using mkstemp (to avoid accidental collisions) in a directory owned by you (to avoid malicious collisions).
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Hyperloop is both passenger and freight, it is mass transit. Where do you see it as focusing on cars as a solution?

>"Mass transit can be way more efficient and desirable, as well as allow pedestrians to take back city life."

Indeed mass transit "Can be" more efficient and desirable. Unfortunately however there's often a host of real world constraints such as budgetary, political, and logistical that seem to ensure that its never optimally efficient or desirable. See:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogatio...
I remember seeing some show about Microsoft and some other company. The other company felt threatened by the encounter, that Microsoft was implying or stating that they would ruin the company. Representatives from Microsoft remembered the meeting very differently. The show dramatized the different perceptions of the meeting based on the different descriptions given.

Even though Microsoft swore they were not being threatening, they did, in fact, put the other company out of business.

If you are dealing with an 800 pound gorilla, the feelings associated with being so much as looked at wrong can be quite strong. With someone in a powerful position treating someone in a vulnerable position so aggressively, her description is not unreasonable.

Also, she said "PTSD-like."
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By the time you find out that your preferred choice of the private sector was another "Donald Trump," it's already too late. Your retirement money is gone.
So we now have React/Webpack + Redux + Apollo + GraphQL + Node + Pogstgres where once we had Rails/PHP/Django + Postgres. Someone hit me over the head because I don't get how all this is progress. There's no way I can teach web development to a beginner if there are so many layers between request and response.
Yeah this is spot on. The point of this kind of research is to discover how to frame the problem (we don't really know what it is yet) and create new contexts for thinking about computing. Under the lens of the current open problems in computing, their approach may seem odd, different, not grounded in evidence, etc. But like good art, good, foundational research provides new ways to think about the field entirely.
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> To give you an idea of how much this matters, in a gentle breeze, 39.5 C at 20% humidity feels like 57.3 C at 90% humidity.

That cannot possibly be correct.
I could probably be characterized as a social scientist, at least a behavioral scientist.

What you're saying is probably part of it, although in my experience that criticism can be leveled as much, if not more, at wet-lab-type biologists who eschew all but the most minimal stats.

With the social sciences, though, there's another phenomenon at play, which is that the phenomena are so abstract often that there's not really a good theoretical reason to assume anything in particular. And if that's the case, because the normal is the entropy-maximizing distribution, you're actually better off assuming that rather than some other distribution. You could also use nonparametric stats, but that has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Bias-variance dilemma and all that.

The truth is, it's hard to beat the normal even when it's wrong. And if you subscribe to the inferential philosophy that every model is wrong, you're better off being conservatively wrong, which implies a normal.

I'm not saying everything should be assumed to be normal. But unless things are (1) obviously super non-normal, or (2) you have some very strongly justified model that produces a non-normal distribution, you're probably best off using a normal if you're going to go parametric. And I think those two conditions are met much more often than we like to admit.

The normal distribution is kind of over-maligned, I think. I started my stats career being enamoured of rigorously nonparametric stats, and still am (esp. exact tests, bootstrapping/permutation-based inference, and empirical likelihood), but have grown to strongly appreciate normal distributions (or whatever maxent distribution is appropriate).
Yeah, people don't seem to know the difference between being upset about something and PTSD. That kind of exaggeration hurt what was otherwise a good article.
Neat to see a CSS version of emoji, but wouldn't PNGs or otherwise be a much more efficient use of data to display emojis cross-platform, instead of a 74.5KB (unminified) CSS file being loaded to display a few emoji?

Edit: I suppose if you're using A LOT of emoji, at some point the tables turn and the CSS becomes more efficient...
That's not a safe assumption to make.
Seriously, please don't go tell random people you don't know "pretty sure you've never X", especially if X is related to experiencing distress and/or a traumatic experience.

You have no idea whether they have. At best it doesn't add to the conversation, and at worse you're wrong and making everyone feel awful, yourself included.
I'm continually amazed that Reddit comes up in every discussion about darknet sites. Is anyone actually confident that the subs where vendors and buyers discuss their activities are only accessed over Tor by those users?

And that none of those accounts have posted on any other sub information that could be doxed?
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> I want to point out that it works perfectly fine making a JavaScript web app in just vanilla JavaScript using NodeJS as server and the browser as client. You do not need any frameworks!!

You just end up inventing your own framework this way. You'll come across problems, come up with some solution you think is clever, come up with conventions to follow etc. Surprise! You've just manually rediscovered all the problems frameworks were created to solved and reinvented the wheel.

I'll use vanilla JavaScript or jQuery if the UI required is really basic but anything beyond that, you're going to save time using a well thought out framework rather than thinking you're smarter than whole communities who have spent years working on these solutions. Coders don't invent frameworks for the sake of it, they exist for a reason.