skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be right on that point. For some reason I was thinking they just summed up the velocities, etc from whatever hits the detector. Perhaps somewhere they assume something about the Higgs boson though.

This makes the significance testing they do even more ridiculous though. At first I thought the model of background noise was simply not providing much info about the topic of interest: the existence and mass of the Higgs.

According to what I have learned here, it is much worse. Not only are they testing a purposefully rendered false model (and taking rejection of that known-false model as evidence for the Higgs), but they are also assuming the Higgs exists (and has whatever properties you all are referring to) as part of this process. As a result, the Higgs exists either way (whether background model is rejected or not) according to this process.

Doing this test sounds pretty meaningless to me.
Another takeaway:

> But “ability to concentrate” is a normally distributed trait, like IQ. We draw a line at some point on the far left of the bell curve and tell the people on the far side that they’ve “got” “the disease” of “ADHD”.
Using the same version of Chrome on Ubuntu and I cannot recreate this. I have to click ~somewhere~ on the page before the password is filled, just refreshing does not cause the issue.
Have you never worked at a large organization? Things that appear like a good idea locally within an organization can easily be bad decisions at the scale of the company as a whole. It's not like Tim Cook or higher-ups personally had any idea that this was being done, much less asked for it to happen — this was likely just one of a million mini-features that team within Apple ship every release. One that was even likely well-intentioned, if poorly thought-out.
Also, 500 lines of tested, working code takes most people quite a bit of time to write.[1] So where was this developer's team lead or manager while they were writing all this unnecessary code? Why didn't they give the developer feedback much sooner? This sounds like as much of a management failure as a technical failure.

[1] If the developer only spent a couple of hours writing it, they wouldn't have wasted too much time, so why should anyone be talking about firing them?
Something seems off about this guy!
IMO, that list puts the entire issue usefully in context.
I have (relatively) low-speed, inexpensive Internet service at home. For me, ads can have a pretty big impact on page load times.
> Finding out what is so expensive and fixing that never occurs to anybody

It occurs to a lot of people. We're just completely powerless.
The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.
Same experience on an iPhone 7. I wish I’d never upgraded to iOS 11 :(
> there’s definitely a correlation between poverty and gang activity

Broadly, I agree. To refine my point: Most street gangs are in poor areas but most poor areas don't have street gangs.

> gang-related activity near NYC is now concentrated in parts of Brooklyn and Long Island (I.e MS-13)

Does anyone know any hard data on MS-13 activity? Government has made it a talking point recently but I haven't seen data on how common it really is.

> I’m also not necessarily suggesting gentrification is a net positive, just a big factor in declining crime rates in NYC.

That seems true to me and I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.

I guess my general point, which was not a criticism of yours (yours just made me think about it), was: Let's be careful about broad stereotypes which can and do result in criminalizing poor people. I will add an observation by the esteemed Woodrow Wilson Guthrie: "Some will rob you with a six-gun, / And some with a fountain pen." I would guess that the latter cause far more harm each year than the former, and in NYC especially.
There are techniques to prevent reading stored data in chips. Smartcards often have some of those protections.
Surprised they don’t switch to monero if they’re switching cryptocurrency. Fast and cheap (like litecoin) but also many added privacy benefits.
Does gender matter? (2006) [pdf]
Blogspam of

http://news.mit.edu/2017/how-brain-selectively-remembers-new...
I make mobile apps with my brother. We’ve found that we’re much more efficient when we can work in long uninterrupted periods of time. It takes a while to get reloaded into the program, so if we do an 8 hour work day we may have 5 hours of productive work, but on a 16 work day we will have ~12. We only do this when we make new apps which we aren’t always doing. But the latest we’ve been working on for 3 years. It makes planning social activities hard cause we never know our schedule much more than 48 hours in advance. My body has adjusted but I am legimately concerned if there’s long term health impacts to doing this (but I guess not concerned enough to see a doctor). But if anyone has more knowledge on the risks Id love a response.
Wow, I never knew that. Reminds me of some recent moves to prevent skipping ads on streaming video.
Introducing Hyperapp 1.0 – A 1KB front end library
What benefit do they get from spamming the exchanges? Is there ever an reason to mine 0-fee transactions?
I run LineageOS on an old Moto G and think it's a great way for us technical people to keep our devices relevant beyond their intended lifetimes. For people less technically inclined I will always recommend Apple devices, however if Apple keeps rushing out buggy software releases this may change.
Look at the crime stats:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/public_safety/crime-selec...

In 2014 (NYC has only gotten better), SF is substantially worse by virtually every measure - some metrics over 3x worse per capita.

Trying to equate them - or even consider them similar - is generally dishonest.
But if the rate of clearage is the same then because I’m sleeping longer it should clear more of the protein?
Me too! I have the Nvidia shield and it's ok. But it's getting to where I need to replace it and I keep not finding any good options.
> An accountant discovered the discrepancy while reviewing the budget for new train platforms under Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan.

> The budget showed that 900 workers were being paid to dig caverns for the platforms as part of a 3.5-mile tunnel connecting the historic station to the Long Island Rail Road. But the accountant could only identify about 700 jobs that needed to be done, according to three project supervisors. Officials could not find any reason for the other 200 people to be there.

> “Nobody knew what those people were doing, if they were doing anything,” said Michael Horodniceanu, who was then the head of construction at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs transit in New York. The workers were laid off, Mr. Horodniceanu said, but no one figured out how long they had been employed. “All we knew is they were each being paid about $1,000 every day.”

People may disagree with the following view and downvote, but still...

Where can I read an account of what the accountant found and how they reached their conclusions?

I can only trust/hope that the accountant had experience in construction and/or could consult with trustworthy advisers.

But the two things that came to mind as I read these three paragraphs were that

a) this is a puff piece written from the POV of "spending too much money" for whatever agenda this spin would help

b) this is cost-cutting being re-spun to look good

Some balance:

I live close by to a brand new driverless underground metro network that's being developed. I'm super excited to travel on the new trains when they arrive. I even hope to work there at some point.

When I was poking around the websites at an early point in the construction process, I found that one site's design/layout was clearly mobile-first to the extent that it was mobile-only and displayed Amusingly™ on a desktop PC; I also found a bit of a headscratcher with another site's DNS setup that I didn't know where to report; and when I poked around the bid platform that let any contractor sign up to be recruited to be part of the construction, I decided the whole system (bid platform and everything else) felt very very rushed-through.

So I have no industry experience but I've had a very tiny whiff of what a multi-billion project looks like on the ground as it's developing. Tons of overhead, lots of space for little things to fall through, etc etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if what's happening here is really just most of the same kinds of industrial-scale rounding errors.

But that makes it equally possible that what's reported really is unambiguously what happened, or that this is the uncomfortable norm and there's some spin.
a nice video about bolometer arrays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFIUpvcmQLU
Can someone explain to me why they want to show you the ad even when they don't care if you look at it, let alone click on it? Are advertisers still paying for just showing the ad?
I think that's a legitimate argument. However, it seems unlikely that law enforcement agencies fudged the rest of their violent crime numbers to show a corresponding sharp decline in non-homicide rates. (Though given enough pressure to have good stats, anythings possible!)

But New York's low crime rate is remarkable not only when compared across decades. The 2017 reported numbers are notable because it's yet another year of improvement in the post-Bloomberg-tough-policing era. At its peak, Bloomberg's policies resulted in 685,724 stop-and-frisk reports in 2011. After a lawsuit in 2012 -- stop-and-frisks declined to 45,787 by 2014, Bill de Blasio's first year. In 2016, the number was 12,404:

https://www.nyclu.org/en/stop-and-frisk-data

This radical departure in policy was blamed for a jump in homicides and shootings in 2015 [0], even as the NYPD reported a massive drop in complaints [1]. In 2017, both complaints and violent crime are at lows. If only felonies and violent non-homicides had decreased, you could make an argument that the dropped rates are from police cooking the stats. But healthcare tech hasn't improved that much from 2014 to make a huge dent in killed persons.

[0] http://abc7ny.com/news/mayor-de-blasio-calls-on-nypd-to-lowe...

[1] http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/544-14/de-blasi...
Those charts almost never adjust for feminism and the fact that we added about 40% more people into the work force by allowing women to work. And for the US it certainly doesn't account for the 30 million or so in additional population we've gained through illegal immigration which increases wage competition on the low end of the spectrum, keeping the working poor wages down to the benefit of the upper classes.

I've noticed that the "decoupling" in your UK chart roughly coincides with the creation of the EU which allowed cheap Eastern European laborers to come in which potentially had a similar impact to the illegal immigration in the US. Though I'm less confident of that since I'm not as familiar with economic changes in the UK over that time period.

Productivity and wages are still related, it's just that productivity is not the only variable.
That's part of running 3rd party scripts on your site. I guess the worst part of this is sniffing auto-fill credentials without user interaction- i.e. submitting a form- however listener/callback on the submit button could accomplish the same thing.

Only thing I can think of to thwart auto-fill sniffing is populating the form with junk data on page load then waiting for the user to enter their access id/user name before the password field is filled. This "solution" still doesn't protect the 3rd part script from intercepting the submit button.
It sounds like production is the key here not clearance but I am also interested if meditation affects that. I did a quick search and didn't see anything.
Increasing block size definitely can solve the problem. Bitcoin Cash solves many short-term problems, I am not saying otherwise. It is NOT, however, the "main" way Bitcoin is dealing with the problem. It is the way another coin is dealing with the problem and this coin is not Bitcoin.

>I won't address the attacks on Roger Ver because it is my belief that attempts at turning a technical debate into politics should be met with contempt.

I mean, you just did, via this comment.
You wont get anything close to the bokeh provided by larger sensors. It is fine as long as you know what your tradeoffs are.
All fine, but the courts bear more responsibility than the average man for the absence of fathers in children's lives.
I responded about why I do it in a sibling comment. If you ever find a link to other sleep cycles I’d appreciate it. I’ve heard of people taking many shorter naps before but not staying up longer and sleeping longer.
Sure, and groups of teens in NYC have been sucker punching random people on the streets for a few years now. [1]

[1] http://www.newsweek.com/new-yorkers-are-getting-sucker-punch...
I've only done a small amount of travel outside North America, but, from what I've seen, water is generally less expensive and easier to get in the USA and Canada than elsewhere. One of the more unexpected things I got out of my first trip to Europe was a much greater appreciation for public drinking fountains.
Do you happen to know the reason why there is only talk about increasing block size to increase the number of processable transactions, and not keeping block size the same but decreasing the time window for the average block to be mined down to 5 or 1 minute instead of 10 minutes?
Regarding healthcare, the problem is that, regardless of how that industry got to the point it's at right now, it's in the state it's in, and doing anything to jeopardize that would destructure a lot of things.
> But the block is only 1 MB.

Do note that this was the maximum allowed size. Many blocks are under that, or even empty. It's completely up to the miner that mines the block. This is probably not something that can easily be changed.

The 1 MB maximum size was also true only up to August. New style transactions are allowed to go above that, and inputs and outputs are counted differently towards the limit in order to incentivize transaction defragmentation.

It's not relevant to speak of a fixed size cap anymore. If everyone changed transaction type overnight we'd see somewhere around 2 MB blocks, but it is expected that the rules would lead to a change in what transactions are made which would make blocks larger. Especially if things like Lightning transactions are more popular in the future.

> thus you need to pay $10 to secure a place for your transaction.

That's probably something like the average fee for the past few blocks, but the minimum fee you need to pay is much lower. The exact number is not very relevant however since Bitcoin fluctuates in value, and so does the transaction volume.

Note that fees are denominated in Bitcoin. Fees have actually been pretty stable over the long term, but the skyrocketing price of Bitcoin has lead to it not being practical for low-value USD transactions. This was always true, but the minimum value for which it is viable increases as Bitcoin is more valuable.
To get threads like this created about how the mempool is packed and it costs $20 to move BTC from peer-to-peer and to drive media in that direction. For what second-order reason would someone do this? Well, I can think of a few....
> ...as in "handwritten HTML with no bloat"? ... free of fluff

Are we looking at the same page or are you being sarcastic? The one I'm looking at has a ring binder theme, lots of random low resolution icons and is basically just a wrapper for a big pre element so everything appears in an awkward typewriter font. Part of it looks like it's dynamically generated by JavaScript.

I mean the chap is free to design his website however works best for him. I'm just saying that and the vanity publishing triggers my skepticism before buying the book and I was looking for opinions.
I help firms sell to business (B2B lead generation and sales) which at least rhymes with the author's consulting practice. My experience has been:

Things that worked:

+offering low cost but useful workshops/seminars

+public speaking

+referrals from existing clients

+blogging / referrals through blogging

+networking events

+participating in communities of peer consultants

+partnering with other consultants

+handing out business cards (at the end of a serious networking conversation)

+comments on HN and other entrepreneur oriented forums

Things that didn't work

-hound people (defined as contacting more than three times without a response)

-cold outreach

-advertising / sponsorship

So...your mileage may vary.
Yea, it was the last (and best) of the luggable systems. It came out as the first of the MSDos lap computers arrived. You can still get working ones on EBay for about $500.
>> But how does it lead to better feedback?

Because you can use static_asset (only accepts constexprs) and in C++17 static-if (a first class cousin to #if)
In the paper, this excerpt:

> We choose Adblock as it is one of the most popular. It is also possible to use Adblock Plus or uBlock, as the way they operate is exactly the same — HTTP filters and HTML element hiding.

AdBlock in the Chrome store uses Adblock Plus filtering engine[1], so to say the way these two "operate is exactly the same" makes sense.

However uBlock Origin uses its own code base, and is far better equipped than AdBlock/Adblock Plus to deal with anti-blockers, so to say that the way uBO operates is "exactly the same" is a stretch.

* * *

[1] Since version 3.0: https://help.getadblock.com/support/discussions/topics/60000... -- it's not explicitly stated in the announcement but this code repo mirror shows it: https://github.com/kzar/watchadblock/blob/c5f5b7f535182d6774...
> Indeed, if you just want to sandbox a process, just run it under a dedicated non-root user account, and it won't be able to unduly interfere with the rest of the system.

This is simply not true, unless your definition of "sandboxing" only means "run it under another account" and absolutely nothing more -- but under this definition, non-root processes can 100% interfere with the rest of the system without proper control being put into place. "Intereference" can mean a lot more than "writes to my ~ dir" -- for example, monopolizing a system resource (e.g. IOPS or network bandwidth), adding code to the kernel (module autoloading) or simply using a resource at all when it shouldn't, or rogue problems like termination of a hostile/stupid set of processes (cgroups and namespaces are one of the few reliable ways to kill process groups in non-racey ways, etc).

> Most of that is not really necessary if you are just coming from a standpoint of "I want to sandbox a process".

No, a substantial amount of it is necessary if you actually want to sandbox a process in a way that's remotely isolated from the host system. Use cases like Flatpak and Docker are nice, but merely byproducts of the design that allow custom mount namespaces, etc. The original use cases for namespacing, cgroups, etc was precisely to give more fine-grained resource and isolation control over existing applications, in a hierarchical manner.
In that case, the iPhone designers might find it puzzling that other smartphone makers have managed to deliver user replaceable batteries on their products without making them heavy OR thick. Or for that matter, other Laptop makers too.
Two things bother me about this theory:

* First instinct is that the fall-off should be more gradual if it's based on people's ages, not have that sudden sharp descent. I don't put a lot of weight to this though since the 20-year gap makes it sound like the exposure has to be under a certain age (and so within a relatively small range), which would appear as a relatively sharp drop.

* Second, after noticing the graph doesn't actually look like the one I posted (which jtmarmon posted confirmation to in a google doc), I took a closer look: It claims to be using "violent crimes per 100,000 population", but instead matches this chart from wikipedia [0], which isn't scaled by population - it's using raw numbers from the UCR data tool [1]. If the gasoline line is labeled wrong as well, then there's probably no issue, but if it's labeled correctly then half the correlation for this story isn't actually a correlation. Not sure where to look for that one, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Violent_Crime_in_the_Unit...

[1] https://www.ucrdatatool.gov/Search/Crime/State/StatebyState....
Some miners are likely paid outside the blockchain to pick up certain transactions. It is clear that at least one miner do it systematically but I don't think they have ever divulged who their client is and why they do it.
It can be detected analytically, but you can’t directly query the CPU for throttle state.

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/defective-heat-...
PulseAudio emulation for ALSA - https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse
Android =/= Google: you can easily have an android phone with zero Google services if you choose a phone supported by one of many AOSP-based OSes.
I was ready to order the first book until I realized the second version is not available on the Kindle format, which really sucks. Digging deeper, I've found this on the change notes:

"Please note that the Kindle version will not be updated at this time. I get very little
interest in the Kindle version and at this time will no longer pursue that format. If I get
enough interest from you readers about the Kindle version, I may decide to update that
format then."

That's a real bummer, I don't feel like paying the international shipping fees and hassles... this really demotivated me from the buy.
The offer is "starting in late January" and goes "through [to] December 2018" and it's "available worldwide."
The fixed lock size cap was removed last August and block sizes increased. Now it's just the problem of making people use the newly available space. Pricing out legacy transactions is a perfectly valid method.
I've never felt unsafe walking around in the Tenderloin, e.g. carrying an infant. The main 'problem' people have is that there are poor people living there in SROs, and a good number of homeless people loitering all the time. But they mostly keep to themselves. Some folks certainly have substance abuse or mental health problems and will be talking to themselves, and if you walk through you might get shouted at, and sometimes there is a shouting match out in public, and statistically there is some amount of crime between residents, but it's generally not a physical threat to people walking through. It is by no means a 'no-go area'.
I absolutely love my $65 Samsung Chromebook I got on a Black Friday sale a few weeks ago, and while of course it bogs when I have 15 tabs open, I am constantly surprised at how well it performs even under heavy loading.

The ridiculous price point of the Pixelbook literally makes me laugh out loud. A thousand fucking dollars for a damn Chromebook?? Absurd.

I personally like the $199 price point and would love to see manufactures deliver a kick-ass chromebook at that level....something that almost matches the Pixelbook performance.
It could easily have started out as 5% in crypto a year ago and just recently grew to be 50%.
Health needs to be under 80%. Sadly my iPhone 7 device is at 87% and nevertheless suffering from frequent 5-10s UI freezes when doing anything as complicated as opening an app, responding to a notification, or switching IMEs.

As reported by so many others, this happened immediately after the iOS 11 update. And by immediately I mean within seconds of booting right after installing the update. I stupidly waited for 11.1 hoping it would address the issue rather than revert while it was still possible.

Apple will not replace my battery even under this new program, as it’s still considered healthy by their standard. However an iPhone 7 with 87% battery health is unable to run iOS 11 without frequent UI freezes or sudden power loss, as I’ve found out, due most likely to the fact that I’m running iOS 11 on hardware designed for iOS 10. I’d be okay with that if there was some way to revert, but there is not.