skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is just as misinformed as someone who thinks there's no problem.

In my experience, about a third or half of the 'real' scientists I've met are firmly in "Big S" science. It's really not that different. People that complain about this a lot are often jealous, in my experience. The failures are certainly high-profile, though.

As for reproducibility, it's all case by case. We've (real? scientists) been having the same discussions about data quality forever. It just seems to have found a fresh audience. There's a reason a curmudgeonly PI might insist in Western Blots and - gasp! - Northerns from time to time. Most fields were built off of some real science. Molecular biology certainly was, and to think that just stopped happening in the early 2000s is the height of ignorance.

There is cause for alarm. I give pretty much all 'genomic' work a very wide berth unless the lab has a real genetics background, and aside for a few labs, anything with 'microbiome' in it is certifiable garbage. And clearly some entire fields are on shaky ground, namely psychology. But lets not circlejerk our pure 'little s' science ego's too vigorously.
I think that the changes of n-back comes with a 30 day training 20 - 30 minutes a day. I create a Melody position n-back Link: http://competicionmental.appspot.com/router?page=melodynback...
How come "Arimo" is the default font for sans-serif, though?

img: https://imgur.com/a/ULr4I

page: http://www.juliendesrosiers.com/

Edit: I know I should've used @font-face for my logo, but still, it bugs me.
If Chrome’s implementation of web workers is too heavyweight, that’s Chrome’s problem.

I don’t think there’s anything in the existing spec that makes it inherently heavyweight (or if there is, this new proposal doesn’t explain the problem).

Current standards shouldn’t be thrown out and rewritten on a whim. All else being equal, current standards should be supported forever.

If you still really really want to rewrite some bit of HTML5 from scratch, start with Web Audio.
Grow https://grow.io/
You’re feigning outrage. You get it perfectly well. All I’m saying is I apparently don’t get invited to social gatherings where such things happen. Anything else is a fruit of your imagination.
"Configure your billing alarm to send you an email when you cross a threshold that is more than you can afford."

Does AWS offer you the option to just have all your services shut down when spending reaches a threshold?

I'd hate to get billed for something I can't afford when it could be prevented.
That's... a different kind of right and wrong?

To use the parent comment's example: almost everyone will be more willing to dance or sing really badly, or maybe kiss the wrong guy. Only a tiny fraction of people commit crimes under the influence.[0]

But you aren't completely wrong: Criminality just has a very low prevalence, so even if alcohol were to double it, it'd be rare to see. But from my experience it seems to be a very specific effect, making some people rather aggressive, for example, while having absolutely no such effect on others.

The difference just seems to be that some people have traits of aggressiveness, and alcohol stops them from controlling it.

Is that an excuse? Legally, it sometimes is: If you get blot-out drunk and shoot your wife in the head trying to reenact Wilhelm Tell, it's not murder, because no intent.

At that point it all depends on what you could reasonably expect yourself to do when drunk: If this is your third wife and the third Apple you missed, it starts looking quite different.

In this case, it appears Scoble had a history of such behaviour. Not only was he possibly behaving similarly even when sober (see the anecdote from her talk at the beginning), he had the chance of protecting people by avoiding such situations altogether.

[0]...although my singing may qualify
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Vollmer#Death
Sorry, I don't see how this acocunt violated the guidelines, or how the username is trollish. Can you clarify?
I speak French and Spanish both fairly well. I learned them both, over the past 20 years. Studied them in college, then lived in Lausanne, Switzerland for a year, then lived in Mexico for a year. It all started off when I had a giant crush on a French exchange student in high school.

> conversations, they terrify me

It is awkward! But that's why you should do it. Because, it doesn't matter. You have to stretch yourself. You have to get comfortable with being bad.

Everyone feels embarrassed and weird when learning a second language. They feel embarrassed that they are bad. But, of course they're bad, they never learned. It doesn't mean you're stupid. In fact, if you can force yourself to do something hard and you can force yourself through the awkwardness in the pursuit of a goal, to me that's a high indicator that you are smarter than average.

For me, learning a second language was so important in terms of the humility (being as a child again, accepting being bad, being the foreigner, being "that one weird guy"), then the recognition that the foreign culture & foreign people are so very similar to my own, and then the ability to see my own culture from another perspective. It's so good for your brain and there are so many fascinating little details, just the poetry of the foreign language and its words ... the way the words echo English in some ways and then in other ways are different.

In a practical sense it would be hard to point to specific things that the foreign language did for me, but in another sense it was one of the deepest, most soul-expanding things I could have done. Gave me courage, a lot of perspective, many friends, and many good times. Anyone who wants more specific advice feel free to write me: good luck, go for it, it's worth it!
> I understand, I would hate to be proven wrong as much as you have been in this exchange.

What a revealing sentiment. It speaks to your desire not to engage people here, or share insight or build consensus, but rather a desire to score debate points.

What's more, your entire argument is about addressing tangential (and debatable) inconsistencies and not actually addressing the larger point. If you think observers are blind to this, you're dead wrong.

If you really want to argue that there isn't a wage gap, scoffing and sniping won't work. The overton window, as they say, has shifted. The burden's on you now to provide an alternate hypothesis and shift the consensus.

Consider what this website is for. Folks with math, science or computer education are going to demand a higher standard than sniping around the edges of an argument attempting to discourage the debate.
I often wonder whether a much older professor sleeping with a much younger student (with consent; both adults obviously) is always a case of attraction based on intelligence and maturity as is often portrayed - esp. in books and films? e.g., One I watched recently - Pelican Brief. Just a random example really but my curiosity is broader in the sense that I want to know from people’s experiences - what they have seen around them.

My example seems to make my question sound like having fixed gender roles in this context - it kind of is so. I mean I rarely come across examples of such relationships with reversed gender roles. In fact when it’s an older female faculty member and a younger male pupil it’s often portrayed as, directly or subtly, something perverse or an abuse of some sort and isn’t shown to be as open and accepted as its counterpart (my example). Maybe the historical patriarchy or so?

Anyway, this has always intrigued me. Partially because where I am from this is rarely heard of and is a not at all socially accepted. In fact it was a taboo till very recently (maybe it still is), where as in the west it seems to be at least socially accepted (I am not sure how the reaction is at much smaller like concerned families level) and very common (unless I read it wrong from the films).

(typed on mobile)
The right way to help declining places
It's a guideline, not a rule. The more you treat it like a rule, the worse the situation is.

There will never be an objective measure for conclusion 'correctness'.

It will always be the case that you actually have to think about the data and statistics critically and decide whether the conclusions are appropriate. In certain well-defined situations, you can start to use harder metrics, but that's rarely where the controversy is in the first place.

So if you want to, you know, do science, I urge you to use that big beautiful brain of yours. As a bonus, you don't even need to commit mass rat genocide to do it.
I want that on all APIs but I don't think Bitcoin or Ethereum is suitable for such micro-payments. Waiting for something like lightning network to be adopted.
I mean this in no way to belittle the students accomplishments... certainly they have done something that is extraordinary for highschool and something even trained engineers might find difficult.

But one takeaway from this article is how amazing it is that open source, the availability of hardware/electronics for reasonable prices, and open online courses where people can learn at their own pace have all come this far.

It is incredible to me for instance what is out there for object recognition algorithms and models now. And sensor hardware that used to cost thousands can now be had for a few hundred dollars.

Again, kudos to these students. They deserve praise for what they accomplished. But I am a little jealous I did not have access to what they have when I was a kid :)
Messages to nil ... sure, OK, fine. Allow that, but CRASH because someone sent an unhandled message? That’s just mean.

Either crash when messaging nil, or don’t crash when improperly messaging an object.
That is orthogonal concern to what is being discussed if you run geo distributed Mongo cluster you will either have slow queries or will compromise on data integrity.
From the sounds of it, you were downvoted for not recognizing this as a textbook scenario with decades of practice and engine improvements devoted to allowing you to balance query performance against your server budget.

Interestingly enough, many of those techniques are common in the NoSQL world as well — a billion records is enough to require thinking about data flow anywhere — but the difference is that you have to deploy them more frequently.
Functional Decision Theory: A New Theory of Instrumental Rationality
Uber is a scum company. Most "tech companies" are.
Why do a group of people need permission to start a union? Can a group of people unionize without permission of their employer? Does the employer need to sign a form or something?

I thought unions were just groups of people who bargained with collective power. Why don't all researchers at these universities just use their abilities as leverage? Most people in universities are hired because they're one of a few thousand people in the world who are up to speed on a specific topic. That makes them very difficult to replace, one would think.
Until governments start deciding that these are mandatory safety features.
The div hell.
Yup. I also can't verify much, but I know a person who performed electrical work in one of their buildings and you wouldn't even know that building belonged to CSIS.
My work setup is Windows -> Linux VM with TMUX and Neovim.
I have my VM configured to use SAMBA so I can access all my files from Windows.

I was pretty impressed when Oni for windows handled my legitimate .vimrc (init.vim now) without any issue.

- https://github.com/bryphe/oni

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15060417

-
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5gm5wa/oni_a_i...

- https://devhub.io/repos/extr0py-oni (gif dump)

Other neovim frontends:

- https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects#gui-p...

(I tested the QT one on windows and was a bit disappointed).
A way to declare (or ideally automatically identify) functions that do not mutate global state and return a value created from inside the function.

Yes, I think that’s exactly the right idea.
Having gone through a few acquisitions where MongoDB was used, I would never recommend using it from a legal/compliance perspective. You either have to pay for a very expensive commercial license OR adhere to their AGPL license (which is very difficult).

https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/GNU-AGPL-3.0.tx...
There is no big airplane company without Gov subsidies. They generate so many "good jobs".
Creating objects in “empty” states is lazy programming. The point of references is to guarantee an object exists. But don’t pretend an object exists just to satisfy the reference. Rethink your code to take advantage of the guarantee.
and going to the mall and searching through stores for that thing you need is so much fun, why do people bother with amazon? ain't nobody got time for that week after week. well, i don't anyway
I read everything you said and I didn't assume anything. It is fine to have no desire to learn modern PHP.

Just don't then make opinionated statements in an abusive manner and expect to be able to contribute anything to a discussion on PHP as a development platform. I would have tried to address the points you brought up but the only thing you said was that PHP is a "bucket of suck" and something about dependencies.
As a front end dev / designer I used to agree with the author, but now I think it depends.

Wikipedia, Reddit, even HN are great examples of successful projects with good enough UI. Even Gmail or Facebook had terrible UI when launched.

If you are solving a unique problem, UI is not so important.
Let's just say that in the 33 or so years that I have known "Eric the Flute" personally, he has always acted creepy and irrational, but he really went off the deep end after 9/11.
How bad is this for Embraer?
Agreed. The mantra needs to be selling, selling and more selling. For a CEO everything else should be second.
One of the Biggest ICOs yet Crashes Before It Even Launched
What would happen if Amazon brought 50,000 workers to your city? Ask Seattle
There are many racists and men's rights activists at Trump rallies, but (gasp!) are you saying that Trump is himself one of those? Maybe he's actually an upright ethical human being with extraordinary leadership abilities, who simply panders to racists and men's rights activists, but doesn't actually believe any of the words he says to wind up the crowds at rallies?

The best evidence is all over his blog and Google+ account, but I refuse to link to it. Google for "esr", "Is the casting couch a fair trade?", "low IQ" and "Blacks are lazy" yourself. You're probably going to want to take a shower afterwards. ...Unless that kind of stuff appeals to you.
I guess I'm just stating hard truths here, rather than trying to pitch to anyone. I don't know how I'd win anyone over. And in any case for other reasons, I suspect H.Sapiens overrunning the Earth's carrying capacity is probably a biological fait accompli.

> (I don't know if you're suggesting this) starting from the point of having to stop all economic growth

I sort of am, except that I put "economic growth" in scare quotes not as a childish jibe, but because I believe it is a fiction. The 'growth' is just a transfer of matter from living ecologies to dead technologies. A certain amount of that could clearly have been managed, but as (from most accounts) we're already roughly at 200-300% of the earth's carrying capacity, degrowth (ie. reducing matter transfer out of real complex ecologies so they can re-establish themselves) is now the only thing that could save us. And it won't happen, presumably.
Maybe “purpose” is the wrong term, but surely the effect of judicial & law enforcement systems is to be the mechanism by which a state metes out “violence” to assert its power & legitimate authority.
> that people absolutely need

A tough one. Asking myself what I absolutely need, I come up with air+water+meat+housing. And I'm a coder! =) but even for softer interpretations of "absolutely", haven't ran into any such non-niches (we're talking "people", not obscure-exotic-niche-use-case-prospects) in a long time lately.
> It wants to own the app store for enterprise services.

For this to work the way an app store works they would have to be able to control access by service providers to their tenants. Like, if you're a lawyer and you want to meet with a WeWork tenant you have to pay them 30%. I highly doubt that they could pull that off without getting stopped either by the market or by the law.
You have to be careful when you see claims of a company receiving $x in subsidies. There is often some questionable accounting which going into computing those numbers. For example, the $64 billion figure from the headline of the first article appears to be mostly from loan guarantees. Loan guarantees are definitely a form of subsidy, but computing their value is not trivial. You need to figure out what the rate would have been without government backing and compare that with what the actual rate was. Simply taking the notional value of the loan, as was done to get the $64 billion figure, vastly overstates the magnitude of the subsidy.
Yes please point to the series of posts.
mongodb is not the only nosql db :) I use hive/hbase
Could Estonia be the first 'digital' country?
Created a Code of Conduct? What the heck is wrong with these people? Full stop, you call the police immediately. You do not cover it up. Was he raised by a PR firm?
Starting Up Security
The best thing I've seen lately was a couple that took an old see'n'say and glued the names of local restaurants over the animals. Don't know where to go out for dinner? Pull the string, and let fate decide :-)
Yes, I was talking about keybindings, and it's reassuring that Sway is just as capable as i3 in this area.

I'm looking forward to giving Sway and Wayland a try.
Huh... Someone reinvented Lotus Notes!
Ask HN: Customer returning items after defects
We have a customer who recently received his new pair and then complained that it is got a defect. He is been wearing them for few day.

We happily exchanged him with a brand new pair and issued shipping fee as well. He is now returning his second pair after few days complaining that the shoe arrived in a worn condition asking for refund this time.

What to make of this situation?
How did you determine that speed was what gave the site its first toehold? Did you collect some kind of data that supported your internal push to make that a priority?
I love this story. I hope the snobs at r/machinelearning get a good read of it. I've seen HS kids there ask questions and get talked down to instead of encouragement. Those people want to keep ML their exclusive little club and apply intimidating terminology to simple concepts to keep people out. Congrats to these kids. Middle fingers in the air to the snobs.
My post on a similar topic: http://blog.zhenzhang.me/2017/09/12/eth-priv-net.html
I can say that CouchDB makes Mongo look like an absolute dreamboat.
Im using neocities, it seems good so far. I'm paying 5$ per month so i can use my own domain.
I used to love TED talks but over the last few years I have developed an aversion. It seems a lot of popular TED people have traded scientific integrity for showmanship (and money). Makes me wonder how Feynman would be doing today. He was a charismatic talker. He could be a superstar.
I am on my phone. This should get you most of them:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/search?q=yeoh

Edit: plus this
http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/07/not-drinking...
Currently on most distorts you’ll get an error. You’ll need to use python3 explicitally for now.
What exactly is the problem with this?
a bit of language correction on your homepage

"Provide a different title and text if the visitor is returning and hasn't clicked yet!"

"When the user clicks in your CTA, it won't be displayed anymore!"

"User-friendly design that your users will love to see", probably better as
"Beautiful design your users will love" or something like that.

At the same time, is it important that this is built ith React and GraphQL?
There's an essay by him defending Timothy McVeigh, and another one where he makes that rotten old "affirmative action is racism!!!1!" argument. Plus, I seem to remember, gives pretty much the impression that all black people are gang members on welfare to him.

Then, there's the really-not-as-smart-as-he-thinks biologism trying to explain "why women are different than men". It's actually funny how there's this never-ending supply of people posting those arguments, promoting them as some sort of intellectual revolution, completely unchanged from ESR's heyday (early 80s?) to today's google-memo-writers.
You're wrong in every case, but am I supposed to feel ashamed or something?
I didn't realize we were only talking about 100+ millionaires.
For beginners I recommend truffle + testrpc as it handles everything for you out of the box.
that Paperclips game cost me half a day of my life... I don't know whether to thank you or curse you ;)
if your doing a join on two size N tables, your O(n) cost for each record is N, thus you are doing N^2 lookups. basically reading the entire DB into memory each record.
Yes and no. The UX -is- part of the sell. You can sell the implementers on features, but to sell to a business (especially a traditional risk averse enterprise), you have to wow non-technical people. To do that, having an amazing UX for the features the non-technical people care about goes hand in hand with a sales pitch ("Look at how beautiful those charts and graphs are. You can really visualize the data to make better decisions!")
One of the reasons I love PostgreSQLs jsonb type is you get the power of relational database and power of (nosql?) Document database at the same time. i haven’t run into any query I couldn’t write against a jsonb doc. Granted dot notation on json would be nicer than ‘prop’ > ‘prop’ > ‘prop’, but I don’t feel limited.
I know this is off topic but I've been recently digging into geometric algebra. Boy is linear algebra a shit algebra compared with GA. It's particularly well suited for computer vision and what not. So check it out whatever if you are trying to get into it. Things actually make sense!
Do they get to take advantage of labor laws protecting organizing since they're not actually, like, employed? Obviously the minimum wage doesn't apply to them...

If they don't have the protection, doing that could jeopardize any chance they have of going to the NFL (not that most of them make it anyways).
It’s just going to be one after 3.9. Nothing special.

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2014/09/17/why-python-4-0...
Marten > RavenDB!
In addition, fabric 2 is making progress.
The end of Australia's car-making industry
Author here, I agree that "good enough UI" will do but I can't remember Wikipedia or Gmail having a terrible user experience on launch.

In case of Reddit and HN, I started to use them many years after I learned about them – mostly because of the weird UX. I still prefer hckrnews.com for HN.