skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just silly.

Any golden value for p is bad. If I go back to my statistics text book (and I assume all of them say something to this effect): The appropriate value of p depends on the particular topic of study.

Not on the whole discipline.

And definitely not across all studies and across all disciplines.

You cannot pick a value of p and say "this is good". Pick too low and you'll likely not be able to reproduce many legitimate results.
Also curious about people who enjoy it and say it helps with back pain etc. :

What's your age and how active are you?
Given Facebook's global reach, every year is going to be election year. I appreciate nobody spends on elections quite like the USA, but there's still a lot of money to go around in other countries.
See: BoringSSL
I honestly don't care what people do in their private lives, it sounds like he managed his life pretty successfully in spite of his heavy drug use. The fact that a physician let a young woman overdose in his company is pretty damn slimy though, and an indication that he might not have been doing as good a job keeping things under control as he thought.
are you sure?
i worked with flash and actionscript, and i doubt they are more complex than html/css/js, personaly i think the contrary.

What make more difficult the reimplementation is the abscence of a specification or a standard.
@recursion posted this around the same time: http://archive.is/h2465

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14860289
@schickling - When will the PDF support arrive?
https://github.com/graphcool/chromeless/blob/master/docs/api...
This is an interesting question for two-sided operations like Google and Facebook. Having a near-monopoly in online search also gives Google a near-monopsony in online search advertising. Likewise for Facebook with social networking.

I'm wary of introducing regulation without clear evidence of its necessity. However, there is a reasonable argument that if exploiting a monopoly to gain advantage in an adjacent market can be harmful, then exploiting a monopoly to gain an advantage in an opposing market could be harmful too. It therefore seems reasonable to ask whether the traditional applications of anti-trust principles are still appropriate for these huge modern tech markets.
Kitsune: Efficient, General-Purpose Dynamic Software Updating for C
The Batman Killer – a prescription for murder?
Yeah, they sold their open source version to Revive and OpenX is now only closed source. Revive is the only existing option. I don't run mysql nor php on my server so I'm a bit reluctant to have to manage it, but it looks like I have no choice.
when I worked in the ads part, it was not glamorous (as compared to search, or mobile, or social, or whatever the hot area was at the time) but I think we were treated well, and acknowledged for running a critical service that provided revenue that allowed other parts of the company to do research and development into new things.

I can't speak for the entire advertising staff, of course.
>While plugging in my phone to Android Auto is easy, there is still the time required to allow your phone to transition from WiFi to LTE

Tip: open the Android Auto app on your phone while you're unplugged, go to the settings menu, and choose the "Limit WiFi" option.

This way it'll just outright disable WiFi when Android Auto is engaged, so you don't have to wait for it to realize you've driven away from your network.
This is, in fact, how corruption in Russia generally works. The laws as written are onerous, and then the enforcement arm of the government sets up a market in unofficial permission to flout those laws.
>In publications, one could use Bayesian methods and report a full posterior.

I fail to see how this is superior.

I'd never advocate banning a legitimate tool just because of abuse.
>What features does Windows 10 have that require a chipset upgrade?

The original Windows 10 already works on those machines. In an update to W10, the graphics API has changed, and the GPU vendor isn't willing to update the drivers. I suppose MS thought it would be best to block the W10 update. From what I've read, the changes are to do with the newer features surrounding High DPI monitors.
Flash is cancer. It literally retarded the growth of browser technology by years.
It seems like it would be a disaster to break up Facebook. You can't really have more than one social network that everybody uses. Forcing everyone to split off into groups wouldn't work, to put it mildly.
As mentioned in the doc, one of the options is to simplify WebRTC by making some components optional to enable it's better adoption and easier to implement on the back-end as well as on front-end.
Foxconn to Build $10B Factory in U.S
Yeah, I also like to use redux with a clear separation between actions that change state and those that don't. (For example, reducers only take actions prefixed by DATA_ or UI_, all other actions...the bulk of them really...don't have anything to do with changing state and are handled by other processes. But because of this I don't bother with action creators, so what do I know!)

A conceptual appeal of mobx to me is that this distinction seems baked in. The original mobx didn't click with me like redux did ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but if MST gives transactional updates and support for redux dev tools (right?) could be worth trying.
I often jump straight to comments, but I think Google's blog post for this is required reading: https://research.googleblog.com/2017/07/so-there-i-was-firin...
The Harlem Globetrotters towed around a stooge team for a long time.
Definitely an interesting service. I appreciate the functionality that you can cram into a Facebook messenger bot. It's given people km the marketing team an impetus to program which is always appreciated. They don't ask for as much stuff once they know how hard it is.
They partied in his office, and he's supposed to represent the institution both on and off campus.
How would you define "killing it" to a non-native, English speaker?
This really doesn't seem like public interest reporting. It's well sourced and not outwardly judgmental, but the facts of the story are all in the headline: rich successful older man secretly does a lot of drugs and hangs around with younger women. If he was an actor this wouldn't be news.
The Guardian explores paywall plan B as turnaround effort cuts costs
>why exactly Win 10 Creators Edition needs updated drivers is an interesting question.

From what I've read, they improved their Graphics API to deal with High DPI monitors.
Side projects are better compared with other investments in your skills, such as taking classes.

If you "need" them to go somewhere, you need to start on a commercial path. Arguably, models like the App Store (while certainly flawed in many respects) do provide at least an option for hacking a project into a viable product without necessarily needing a full startup and investors, etc.
Great idea and nicely done. Having said that, this is quite depressing. While the creator does give some positive tips at the end re what we can do to change the situation, they're hardly of any help. The problem is that we can never be quite sure what kind of game we find ourselves in at a given point in time. I've met many "genuinely warm-hearted" people who have stopped being approachable cold turkey whenever they found they've received enough of what they were after. Could be a couple of hours or a couple of years. Before that point they were very reciprocating, though

And so I've grown tired of reaching out to people. There simply have been too many let downs. I mean I don't even expect people to return favors. It's just hard to see "friendships" end abruptly after, say, 2 years just because the other person changes his/her set of goals. In other words, you learn that all the times you had fun together you actually never had a friend.

I wonder whether this kind of behavior has become more prevalent in recent years. I'd like to believe that 10 years ago I was better at seeing through people. But these days? It feels like many people have got the pretending of being genuinely nice down to a fine art.
Chrome OS supports the same thing: https://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_network

The SSH and mosh apps use a binding between the POSIX socket interface on the Native Client side and these APIs on the JS side.
I believe its 99% of the growth in digital advertising[1], not all advertising.

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com.au/facebook-and-google-domin...
Please, let it die.
but they can break out instagram/whatsapp
Maybe you'd have more interest if you wrote up a proper RFC.
Right, and I don't think anyone would describe the Globetrotters vs. the Generals as competitive.
Simple. Most of the database is "large" in terms of data (say 50M rows) but that database gets maybe 10,000 updates a day. The read load is well-controlled with caching.

One table is small in terms of data but involves an interactive service that might generate 50 updates/sec at peak times.

With the "hot" service implemented on top of a key-value store, the database is the ultimate commodity, I have many choices such as in-memory with logging, off-heap storage, distributed key-value stores, etc.

The service is not "in front" of MySQL, but is on the side of it so far as the app is concerned.
I was under the impression that even this was okay, it was using a monopoly position in one market to take over another market that wasn't kosher.
Liberally tagging bookmarks with http://www.pinboard.in/ and going through the list once a year to prune
The Atlantic tomcod in the Hudson River has evolved immunity to the PCBs dumped in the river by General Electric.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/110217-hudso...
The design go-als, you mean.
Slightly interesting aside, 3.9B for 20,658 employees is ~$188K/employee profit, which is about a 20% drop from a few years ago[1]. I'm not an economist nor statistician.

1. https://www.buzzfeed.com/peterlauria/what-18-of-the-biggest-...
It's FB and GOOG that account for 99% of growth, not just FB.
Are people aware of https://www.w3.org/TR/tcp-udp-sockets/? I didn't see it mentioned so far.
The issue with a plugin architecture is that it makes it difficult to compete. There essentially will come a pool of plugins which are expected to be installed on every user's machine, & without standardization or open source implementations you'll end up with 1 plugin being used on any base browser as opposed to different versions on each browser

In theory we could create a basic browser with various HTML/JS/CSS spec features created as a plugin
yep. They could keep it a trade secret (no patent), patent it and not license it, or patent it and license it so others could use it under some terms.

This only matters for the life of the patent, and is consistent with the intent of patents.
Proposal to add partial application to ECMAScript
They could be the global distributor for individual companies operating different regions, like a franchise but without regional providers existing under one corporate umbrella. That could open the market to competing distributors and regional operators.

Unlikely and less efficient but that could be one way to handle it.
>There are two legitimate ways to get lower p-values: You can have a larger effect size, or you can have a larger number of samples[0]. Of course, you can't change the effect size, so this would lead to larger necessary samples sizes to study smaller effects.

Be careful with this. Larger sample sizes are more likely to give you a significant result even if one doesn't exist.

Say my null hypothesis is that X=100. The alternative hypothesis is X>100.

What if in reality X is really 100.5? Depending on the problem domain, this may well be the same as the null hypothesis. But a larger sample size is much more likely to give a significant result.

There are ways to fix this, but one should just be aware, though.
doing really really well :)
Doing extra-ordinary well, or even just "doing great" or "doing very well".

Usually, "it" in "killing it" refers to some kind of game, so they're "killing the game", or doing a really good job beating the game.
That's a good point - how could one even break it up? It depends on the network effect to get revenue from the ad platform. Maybe all the acquisitions or something - it's all so intertwined. Instead of it being a cable company, its more like "TV" as a whole.
Giving someone illegal drugs, watching them OD, then lying to the cops about why they're passed out is pretty bad. Agree that if you get caught doing that as a leader of a high-profile organization, you should get fired.

However, this article seems to be trying to whip up anger not just for that particular case of depraved negligence, but more broadly for the fact that Dr. Puliafito led a hard-partying secret double life.

The puritanical impulse to hold people to super-high standards of wholesome rectitude in their private lives seems silly to me, and I think it's ultimately to the detriment of large institutions, whether universities or government or big corporations or whatever else. I'd much rather work for a highly competent CEO who indulges a few vices in her private life than a soup sandwich straight arrow, so long as the party animal keeps things professional while at work.

[edited: previous draft erroneously said he gave his companion prescription opiates, not the case]
I've kind of got to agree.

Reminds me of a joke I read once, where someone says "I'm shocked that Lance Armstrong was on drugs when he won the tour de france. When I was on drugs I couldn't even find my bike.".

Well it seems this guy was able to find his bike, and I can't really say I mind what he does in his private life.
Basketball is winner-take-all and is itself part of a larger competition (a season which leads to a playoff), making it a poor analogy.

A better metaphor would be 2 people playing golf. They can both achieve personal bests during the same match.
Midwestern cities are experiencing housing inflation too. Urban houses that were 140k five years ago are well over 200k now.
I had a decent chunk of BTC. I would be shocked if I ever saw any of it.
They are doing it for Android and iPhone

> With Build 16251, we are introducing the first set of features that enable “linking” your phone to your PC. This build’s scenario is focused on cross-device web-browsing. Today, we’re asking for you Windows Insiders to help us test this experience out using your Android phones. Support for iPhone is coming very soon, stay tuned.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/26/annou...

Also still updating and advancing Win10 Mobile; though obviously not making any devices.
Typical arguments over the past 30 years seem to be "it's in the best interest of the consumer".

Next thing you know, Facebook and Google end up merging.

Please knock on some wood for me.
Prevailing wage for an entry-level "Computer Programmer" in SF is $73k [1].

[1] http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?code=15-11...
I would like it if the major cloud providers implemented microsecond boot and teardown times for instances along with suitable pricing.

Unikernels and a whole zoo of other types of tiny operating systems would be enabled by this.

I'm not a fan of containers - I feel they are reimplementing much of the operating system infrastructure within the OS at the price of high and unnecessary complexity.

It's frustrating that cloud computing has so many benefits, but at another level we must wait and hope that Amazon Google and Microsoft are willing to implement new architectures such as microsecond level boot and teardown.
It sounds like you're describing HumbleNet: https://github.com/HumbleNet/HumbleNet
Once they get the x86 emulation on arm working, the problem goes away. They can start running apps from the windows store. I highly doubt they're done unless Intel follows through on a lawsuit and wins.
But we could have an open social network that operates outside a single company... building on the foundational principles of the internet.

These "social networks" exist because it's still too hard to setup and manage a personal website, and those sites lack the interactiveness of FB.

Imagine if everyone had their own 1-click website with glorified RSS feeds, webrtc-based chat, access control, media sharing, and standard APIs for 3p apps - plus, perhaps, a web-of-trust or some other mechanism for validating identity. All rolled into standardized APIs backed by large competitors of FB (perhaps MS/Goog/etc?).

If the ISP monopolies can be broken, perhaps all that could be hosted on a little Android-like box connected to a home ISP - your little social box, connecting you to every human on earth... always online, it caches messages from friends when your phone looses signal, p2p shares videos from friends so you can watch high quality with no load time, and automatically curates content from connected feeds (perhaps with some on-board ML).

No ads, no big brother, for pennies a month.

I know Google's ad revenue is getting eaten by FB - perhaps they would profit from something like this. Cap FB at the knees by giving people FB's functionality without the corporate data-mining/lock-in, and reap ad revenue from the increased relevance of el Goog's search.

There are similar benefits to shops, manufacturers, services, bands, etc all too. Standard information/inventory protocols, and a review system connected to those individual personal identities, could undermine Yelp and even AMZN.

I've been thinking about this quite a bit and I think it's mostly a matter of execution. There is prior art covering all of the pieces, but no one has assembled all the pieces into a compelling product (think: iPod vs prior mp3 players, FB versus the myriad of ex-competitors)... hard but tractable with the right support.
curious - but how would heroku be a win? I know nothing of heroku, so not insulting it.

I pay about $3.50/mo total to run these services.
I am still very skeptical that a human is really that good at avoiding the problem areas, although they might be marginally better. Plus, they don't seem to claim that anywhere in the paper, instead, they just rated shots as either "better" or"just as good", ie., a local evaluation which won't let you avoid such areas, which of course is a judgement that requires more knowledge than just the conditions in the neighborhood of the current reference.

The only thing I think that can lead someone to your conclusion is they can judge based on a host of criteria, not just a pre-defined set of criteria--may be that's what you meant. Of course, intuitively, changing your criteria midstream would lead to bias in your judgement, I'd think, but that may be the real innovation here, that is hard to do without a human judge in the mix.
We got a small app that tracks activities
"performing at the highest level"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Killing+It
"Doing really well".

Heard in the context of many competitive activities.

E.g. at a jazz club, someone might say "He's killing it, man!" if they were really connecting to what the trombonist was doing.
Let it die.
Does it say anywhere that he gave people prescription opiates? Only thing I saw that was similar was him giving a prescription for an asthma inhaler.
My experience as the only girl in an engineering college in the ’60s
IIRC the site was written in PHP and it was a miracle it didn't get hacked earlier (or, now it seems, it did, but the hackers kept the site running to maximize the heist).

https://gist.github.com/alainmeier/9319451
Hot or not, but for dynamical systems optimization.
Definitions for "killing it":

1. Performing a task exceptionally well.

2. Facebook
I personally didn't read it like that, but your interpretation makes sense. After thinking about it, I think your interpretation of the post is superior.
If you like your flash plugins, don't delete them.
Shumway is a dead project (hasn't been updated for a while). Too bad, because it showed promise.
It's ok to dislike something and recognize how poor it is compared to better implementations it helped inspire, but still respect what it did for us in the past.

Flash, Java Applets, and jQuery all changed the web for the better and were amazing things at one time. But we should move on.
I like the idea behind this, letting people who got laid off, have a chance at making something new, even if only one of them make something great, it will at least be interesting to see what happens down the road
Open sourcing code allows a new vector for finding vulnerabilities. Just because the software reaches its EOL doesn't mean it is removed from every computer.

I believe that open sourcing Flash should be done for the sake of software preservation. But I would recommend 2025 (end of life for Windows 10 and IE11) as the earliest release date.
partly, you still build Grammars out of "token", "regex" and "rule" definitions, but some things are more natural with one or the other.

So, if you are doing "test if string has whitespace" you'd use a regex, while for "parse an apache log line" you'd probably use a grammar instead of a very nasty regex.

IANA perl6 dev though, just a casual observer.
It's funny. Anyone following the NBA right now would tell you it's a league with just two teams :P
With so many major vendors of professional software switching to the software rental model, I'm hoping for an open source renaissance from the bottom-up.
I feel like the main issue is that the Republican party has stood as against LGBT rights, women's rights and against global warming. If a professor is Republican, they have to find some way to reconcile the attack on science that so many right leaning politicians support. Also, science as a field has issues with gender disparity so to not be pro women's rights would also make them look like part of the problem. Additionally, a lot of the platform consists of biblical thought which is very unscientific.
This is the point where I'm smiling happily because I moved from being an FB user to being an FB stock owner.

I feel like this pattern could be applied more often in real life... some company is being "evil"... don't just abandon them, buy stock in them!
I bet you love usatoday.com.
Cool. Now can you use it with webdriver functions instead of re-inventing the API?
> We should probably draw different conclusions given a tiny effect at p=0.05 versus a large, obvious effect at p=0.05

I'm not sure that "large, obvious effect" and "p=0.05" are compatible, though.
That is exactly what they're doing. See the section on Exploratory Technique, second to last paragraph. As I said above, the possible innovation here is they can change midstream the criteria one uses to decide what is a "better shot".
Not surprised. My wife started a local franchise that provides a service and I've been doing the Internet marketing. I ran local ads on Google...lots of clicks and cost lots of money...but no one came in saying they were referred by Google.

Other owners I've talked to told me to use Facebook, it's more effective.
DrQA PyTorch code is open source
> Say my null hypothesis is that X=100. The alternative hypothesis is X>100.

> What if in reality X is really 100.5?

Then the alternative hypothesis is true and the null is false. (Though normally if the tested hypothesis was X > 100, the null would be X ≤ 100.)

> Depending on the problem domain, this may well be the same as the null hypothesis.

No, X = 100.5 is not the same as X = 100, irrespective of problem domain, so long as the mathematical symbols have their usual definitions.

> But a larger sample size is much more likely to give a significant result.

Yes, if something is only just barely true, it is more likely to take a large sample size to distinguish it from the case where it is false. But since in this case, the alternative hypothesis actually is true, it's not a problem that a bigger sample is more likely to reject the null hypothesis.
Slang for "doing very well".

Ex: "You got an A on that midterm? Dang Carl, you're Killing it!"