skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is funny asbout p<.05 is that while we frequently have a specific hypothesis in mind (e.g. Mean1<Mean2), convention still dictates that we should use a two-sided t-test instead of a 1-sided t-test. If I am asked to go to .001, then I will use 1-sided t-tests when I have apriori one-sided hypotheses.
Open source projects with no large company support or full-time employees == no browser will want to continue to support this.

Open sourcing flash just means that devs who have spent years building games in flash can still play those games. It is still a death sentence for the future of flash.
Have ya tried kiwi.com
Computers using linguistic clues to deduce photo content
Ask HN: Data Science certificate program worth it?
I have a diploma in Computer programming from a Canadian college. In Canada college are more practical while universities are more theory based. Since my graduation in Aug 2016, I haven't been able to get a programming job. I am now thinking of doing a Data Science certificate program at UofT School of Continuing Studies. I was wondering if programs like these are worth it? Has it helped anyone get a job?

Info about the Program: http://learn.utoronto.ca/courses-programs/business-professionals/certificates/data-science-fundamentals
Again. From my game dev days, the people that really lose (over and over) are the artists. Millions of hours have been sunk into laying out vector graphics with the Flash IDE. Code I understand should eventually be tossed away, but, not art. I guess staring at millions of beautiful vector timelined illustrations changed my opinion - but it is art to me. And like books, I think its a sin to toss. I hope the artists convert their .fla files over and save what they can.
Can any headless browser solution be considered complete without GPU support? A large percentage of sites use GPU enabled and accelerated features and without GPU support, headless options are worthless to many applications.
It doesn't necessarily need to be broken up, but if you wanted to weaken Facebook you could mandate that they made their APIs open so that social networks that wanted to spring up would be able to automatically show you content from Facebook in their UI.
my first thought was 'wow now flash will finally be safe to allow to run on my machine'.

am i being naive?
Genomics generally uses 5e-8 (p<0.00000005) as its significance threshold. That aside, your point is clever. How to handle coauthors of different ages is left as an exercise to the reader.
They're not stupid. If they cared so much more about pinching every last dollar than about security, they wouldn't have launched the bug bounty program at all.

BTW, as others have mentioned, this is strictly better than the policy of other bug bounties until now, which is "We already found this, so you get nothing"
Makes sense. I've had home IPv6 via Comcast for at least half a decade, and they're the largest ISP in the US.

They are an early adopter and innovator of IPv6, partly because they had more modems in their private network than the number of all possible 10.x addresses.
Why People Buy from You
They are definitely doing better than before, though considering they essentially replaced their OS with 10.0, and then went through a whole architecture change to Intel, I still have to give them props.

The PPC to Intel migration was handled beautifully. Rosetta was straight up magic. It "just worked" and was around a few versions.

Intel Clover is not even a different architecture, it's still x86. Makes me wonder if (and believe that) Microsoft could've made this transition more graceful had they wanted to.
Show HN: A simple front end for localStorage objects
I don't even think it's clear that it would be a disaster to completely outlaw facebook.
I would do anything to preserve those white buttons with glowy green borders.
Interesting product. Are there any screenshots / videos of it in action?
> while for "parse an apache log line" you'd probably use a grammar instead of a very nasty regex.

That's actually a fairly easy endeavor with perl regex capabilities, especially named captures. Parsing HTML, or a programming language, or other much more complex structures is much easier with a grammar. For example, JSON parsing[1].

That said, there are ways to approximate some features of grammars with Perl5 regexes[2].

1: https://github.com/moritz/json/blob/master/lib/JSON/Tiny/Gra...

2: http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2013/10/parsing-json...
TRF derruba liminar e repõe aumento de imposto sobre combustíveis
> He further showed that this statistical tendency to dissipate energy might foster self-replication. (As he explained it in 2014, “A great way of dissipating more is to make more copies of yourself.”)

Then the atoms will become happy and try to do more of that to become more happy?

My BS detector is screaming loudly.

First, this stuff about the second law of thermodynamics leaves me cold:

> the second law of thermodynamics, which says that energy constantly spreads and the entropy of the universe always increases. (The second law is true because there are more ways for energy to be spread out among particles than to be concentrated, so as particles move around and interact, the odds favor their energy becoming increasingly shared.)

BS. That argument has a huge, hidden assumption, that we are looking at an inert gas in a bottle. So, there are no chemical reactions, etc. Then there are lots of possible configurations.

Try that with some sticky ping pong balls and soon will have just a solid clump with only configuration. Try that with a lot of billiard balls, and soon they will arrange themselves on the bottom of the container with a lot of hexagons and tetrahedra, that is, with a relatively few number of configurations.

So, to discuss how life began, let's f'get about the second law.

Instead, we know that we can cook chemicals and get amino acids. Why? Because get chemical reactions where the atoms stick together, and it would take energy to split them apart again. Then if we cook for a few hundred million more years, we can get a configuration that can consume energy from its environment and reproduce itself. Then we are off to the races because what took a billion years to do the first time now just takes the time to reproduce. Then with small errors in the reproduction process and lots of reproduction, we get forms of life that are better at extracting energy from the environment and reproduce faster; soon that life form becomes relatively common, in that sense, dominates. Eventually we get a very creative farmer and expert with domestic animals, stone, wood, and metal with a very fertile wife, and they have lots of kids who also do really well.

There are some questions and issues, but IMHO the model for the second law of inert atoms of a gas in a bottle is nearly irrelevant.
In Finland they all do. Before mobile apps, they mailed you cards with one time passwords in them, every time you logged in you had to provide your account number and OTP. Also, every time you confirmed a payment, you had to use a random security code from said card.

These days they provide apps for phones where when you make a payment you have to open the bank app and enter your PIN to confirm the payment. Same for logging in to online banking (for which there are mobile apps as well).

Also, when making a debit/credit card payment online, you also have to confirm it with one of the aforementioned methods. You can't do anything with just the card details.

I can't believe some banks around the world use plain old passwords only...
It does not. It refers only to prescriptions for asthmas inhalers to treat burned throats from smoking various drugs.
The puritanical impulse to hold people to super-high standards of wholesome rectitude in their private lives seems silly to me

The "in their private lives" part stops (not just stops - comes to a screeching halt) when we have incidents in which other people's lives are directly (and callously) endangered. By someone in a high-profile position in the medical profession, on top of that. In fact, that's precisely the point at which we star to call it a "legitimate public interest story".

So it's not a story about puritanical moralistic standards -- or about this guy's "party animal" life on the side (per se) - at all.
Ignoring debt:

Microsoft ($126b), Apple ($256b), Facebook ($35b), Berkshire Hathaway (near $100b), Cisco ($68b), Google ($92b), Oracle ($66b), Softbank (a lot), Amgen ($38b), Ford ($40b), Samsung ($73b), Johnson & Johnson ($39b), GE ($82b)

There are a lot of financial entities and the like that have more cash than that of course. It's held under a different financial context than the cash that eg Apple is sitting on. JP Morgan for example has $650b, Citi has $422b, Bank of America has $643b, etc.
its the drugs in our drinking water : http://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/health/03iht-snwater.1....
Sure, that happens, but not because of Stripe or through Stripe. Stripe just acts as a means of transferring a user's coin balance into a fiat currency that can move into a devs bank account from a users bank account. Stellar acts as the ledger for the coin or token system. Stripe facilitates a means to do something with that system that actually moves real money around.
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If it weren't for Flash I doubt we'd have anywhere near as advanced CSS, SVG, Canvas and HTML5 bells and whistles that designers can actually use now.

And the web is much worse because of it.

The one thing that was excellent about flash was that you could easily disable it and all the security issues and annoying crap would disappear. You can't do that today without breaking stuff.
This is exactly why I think monopolies are awful, but at the same time not a concern for legislation. Monopolies only persist in the long term - i.e. exist as _true_ monopolies - when enforced with the force of law.
Yeah, they are much more focused and control the whole stack (especially in iOS, where they build the SoC too) from hardware to applications.
No, if your standard of "statistical significance" is .05, that means you have a 5% of getting a "statistically significant" result.
Yep it seems to be rare, thus falsifying the theory that England is developing.

And by the way, can't multiverse thinking be invoked pretty much anytime to explain anything?

"Oh we have fine tuning that is a knife's edge 1 part in 10 to the 127th"

"Yeah well maybe we have even more universes."

That's not real science. That's actually digging your heels in and saying "there is nothing beyond what we already found and understand". How will you go about testing this?
It's crazy to me in the sense that Snap is apparently <1% of growth in digital advertising.
There are several companies that allow teams to apply. In Tech companies especially, teams are very valuable and it's only time that more companies start looking at teams together.

Stripe is one company that got a lot of press in 2016 for hiring teams: https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/blog/recruiti....

Your model is definitely more common, but in no one does anything prevent teams to apply to companies and for companies to hire teams. From experience, I can tell you teams moving together happens more often than most think.
Asking the Tough Questions with an 18th-Century Debate Society
I’ve made a lightweight React library influenced by functional setState, and supports async/await/Promises, extracting values from DOM / forms easily, pure function actions, animation with requestAnimationFrame, and reloading when props change.

I’ve put a lot of effort into providing some good examples (more coming!), and also on keeping it lightweight: core is 1.18KB gzipped.

https://github.com/RoyalIcing/react-organism

Feedback welcome, here or as issues!
IF Adobe open source it with a good license would make the live easier to the other projects, you could probably reimplement 80% of Flash without problems just by using the API documentation but the rest of 20% will be harder, having the code would solve this.
Well, one thing is that the marginal profit of labour is bound to be diminishing at such scale. However, keep in mind that it's not marginal revenue, but profit. This means that it's still a viable strategy to increase the amount of employees for them. That drop is not necessarily an issue in accounting terms.
The article mentions

> Broadpwn is a fully remote attack against Broadcom’s BCM43xx family of WiFi chipsets, which allows for code execution on the main application processor in both Android and iOS.

But it doesn't go into any details on this privilege escalation actually works for iOS and more specifically that it doesn't require additional exploits. Can anyone explain this in more detail? If this actually allows code execution on iOS application processor, that means we have a jailbreak right?
>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.

Of course you can, you just need to have standardized protocols.

You and I can use any email provider we like, your client can use exchange to talk to it's server and mine can use a version of POP from the 80's and it /doesn't matter/ because the servers talk over a standardized protocol.

Facebook and Google used to support this. There was once a time when Facebook and Google Plus both had XMPP gateways for their real time chat traffic, which meant you could send a message from Google Plus to Facebook Messenger with no problems.

They shut it down because they both have a strong incentive to push vendor lock-in. They've been so successful that you've started to forget that life could ever be otherwise.

Take a look at projects like diaspora and mastodon. There's nothing stopping Facebook from reaching out to these projects and working with them to incorporate Facebook nodes into their network using the same protocol.

But it'll never happen, because Facebook needs the corral nice and enclosed before they can start tagging you and selling you off.
If I recall correctly in the US court case history they ruled one couldn't both own the means of production (ie movie studios) and the means of distribution of content (ie movie theaters). Not sure if the movie business used market power in one to take over the other, but that would be interesting to know. If you take it as an assumption that the only things that changed with the internet were 1) the volume of content increased and 2) the barrier to entry reduced, then it gets tricky. Example: the Huffington Post proved that content creators would be willing to do so for personal brand exposure instead of pay (kind of like I'm doing now as I am now realizing...). FB has created a content collection and distribution engine "employing" people who are willing to populate it for free in exchange for some non-monetary benefit. This doesn't really get FB out of the antitrust problem IMO.
The burden of proof should obviously be reversed! Complex, synthetic chemicals in our water, food, packaging, or furniture should be assumed harmful and disallowed until it there is sufficient evidence that they are safe. Escalating trials basically. This is what we do for pharmaceutical drugs that we ingest or contact, why don't take this approach with other man-made chemicals we are adding to our immediate ecosystem and bodies.

the history of flame retardants is instructive https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2013/11/21/its-official-toxic-f...
if industry/government had been required to prove these things safe beforehand we would have never exposed the population them in the first place.
That's not how it works.

If Whole Foods is currently getting a 10% margin on a product and Amazon says we'll sell it for a 5% margin, nothing else has changed in the store or the product, but the price and margin are lower.
I should have done some more research before commenting. Also, there is the new effort to open source Flash.
Thank you!

Out of curiosity, how did you put together that list? Googling seems to only bring up second-hand lists like https://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/08/22/big-money-the-comp... but I think I'm using the wrong terms.

(That's an interesting list too -- for comparison, Apple apparently had $76.2B in 2011.)
It really bothers me how often people repeat it like it means anything in this case. Like they forget Amazon was just selling books. Also no idea if it still uses any of the old code or just the name itself.
This is a very interesting point. I actually thought Americans with insurance went to the doctor for absolutely anything, and felt very entitled to that since they pay so much for their insurance. What you point out is that it might be the exact opposite - and although I do often think "oh, I won't bother them with this..", I never consider cost to be an issue..
How are those people called who preserve their garbage?

Well, I am happy I never annoyed my fellow humans beings with any flashy products and I would be happy if none of those flash applets would survive 2020.

To those who spend a lot of time creating stuff with flash: You knew from the first day that flash was a proprietary software... What happens now, is what happens to all proprietary software one day. So please keep that in mind when you start using the next one.

I am truely sorry to be so honest/mean today.
Is God an Accident? (2005)
Browser vendors are already disabling flash by default.
There is no need to "kill" anything. Even if it were opensourced today it will still meet the same fate. The only people who care about open sourcing are those who want a standalone flash player for archival purposes.

Gnash works pretty well with non AS3 noninteractive movies and looping swfs. Most games are still broken though.
Amazing! And also remember the article about positive thinking making people younger?

I wonder how much the brain can control aging processes.

Since statistically, senescence is kind of super-exponential, one wonders if it's a mix of several factors that compound together. If you achieve improvements in just some of these factors, perhaps the human life span can be extended to hundreds of years!!
Manufacturer: Device(S)

BlackBerry: PRIV

Fujitsu: F-01J

General Mobile: GM5 Plus d, GM5 Plus, General Mobile 4G Dual,

General Mobile 4G

Gionee	A1

Google: Pixel XL, Pixel, Nexus 6P, Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 9

LGE: LG G6, V20, Stylo 2 V, GPAD 7.0 LTE

Motorola: Moto Z, Moto Z Droid

Oppo: CPH1613, CPH1605

Samsung: Galaxy S8+, Galaxy S8, Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge, Galaxy S7 Active, Galaxy S6 Active, Galaxy S5 Dual SIM, Galaxy C9 Pro, Galaxy C7, Galaxy J7, Galaxy On7 Pro, Galaxy J2, Galaxy A8, Galaxy Tab S2 9.7

Sharp: Android One S1, 507SH

Sony: Xperia XA1, Xperia X

Vivo: Vivo 1609, Vivo 1601, Vivo Y55
in a dense urban environment, like where i live, waze significantly out performs google maps on a day to day basis. its routing is much better for real time issues and is very quick to react to things happening on the road, including cops, stopped cars, hazards, etc. when i am doing less serious driving (i.e., outside of commuting or running late), my car's navigation or google maps works fine.
Ask HN: Up and coming marketing tactics 2017-2018
I've been doing vast research on marketing tactics and they all seem so repetitive, "use social", "SEO", "Content strategy" etc...

Everyone is doing these things, I'm looking for a practical, tactical approach that is up and coming, and hasn't been completely exploited yet, to test.

Let's make this the GO TO post for obscure but effective white hat, and grey hat marketing tactics in 2017 and onwards.
Also interested, this would be excellent fit for a use case I have archiving certain important government websites.

Btw, does the .viewport() option not work in the demo? I'm seeing a `TypeError: Failed to fetch` when I set one.
70s would be the start of boomers entering their 30s, where their consumption slows pretty dramatically and affects the economy. Inflation from oil shock too.
It probably also depends on funding they have received from places like the Department of Energy and contracts they have signed for their research being publicly available, but if Paul Allen is the funding and not the government maybe it's all private. My own naivety would say billionaires investing in clean technology would share it with the world, but who knows?
They just need one viable competitor. That's the crux of it.

They need something on the other side of the "or" in "Uses Facebook or ..."

They do their best to buy anybody that sneaks in there.
Think like (a) git
I think movies and animations are not the problem, those would be easy to playback if the codecs are right, there are planty of games, some 3d, and some interactive applications that use Flash and Flex, there are tons of APIs that Flash supports and implementing all of those exactly as in Flash was a huge task for the community, since Flash is not used in new projects just as legacy very few developers are interested in working on that in their free time.
And even re-depositing it back!
I am doing something similar at my apartment:

http://pi.tafkas.net/temperatures/

Blog post: http://blog.tafkas.net/2012/10/03/gathering-and-charting-tem...
Nonsense. Flash certainly has technical issues, but it provided a platform by which people could build things that they had no other way to build otherwise. Hell, there _still_ isn't a platform which makes this stuff as easy as flash does.
> Preservation and reduction of bit rot is a great reason to open source Flash

It's a reason, and a good point, but it's not a good reason. Improving the already-open-source players would be a better alternative. Adobe could even help facilitate that, by documenting the interfaces and enough of the internals so that other developers can achieve better compatibility. A canonical sandboxed version would also achieve the goal of preservation, without the security woes. Open-sourcing Flash is would just ensure its continued use as it is today, crowding out either of those efforts.
I have three Pis currently "deployed":

1) Internet radio w/ an amplifier in a cigar box. It was a gift for my gf and only plays the station she listened to in college. https://github.com/rocktronica/curpi

2) Timed camera and GIF maker for my cat feeder. https://github.com/rocktronica/feedergif

3) OctoPrint server for my 3D printer http://octoprint.org/

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For archiving you can bundle the Flash runtime with SWF in a standalone EXE file.
Burn it to hell ∆
Why is that interesting?

Companies should hire more people until marginal profit per new hire is $0 to maximize profits. And that number says nothing about marginal profits.
'equate the blowback against Kite with extrajudicial (and mostly racist) murder'

I didn't say anything about race anywhere. way to read between the lines again and attempt to make my original comment look WAY more inflammatory than it actually was.

I was more equating it to large groups of people getting up-in-arms and angry without actually taking a step back and looking at the whole situation.

To say that is a lynch-mob mentality is 100% accurate.
So you talk about EM fields, but then don't mean them. Ok. Nice shifting the goalposts there.

What's up next? Which "high field" shall it be?
That's a good one. I'm not sure how enforceable that would be, but in principle that'd be beneficial for competition.

There are a multitude of problems, like privacy concerns and the fact that FB would have no incentive to keep the API very up to date or reliable, but I wonder if something like that could work.