skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any scientific study with less than 200 participants should be discarded ...

Imagine you're investigating a drug for hair loss. You gather a group of 31 bald white men. 15 of them take a placebo and 16 take the experimental drug for 24 weeks. If, after 24 weeks, you find 1 of 15 controls with a full head of hair, and 14 of 16 test subjects with a full head of hair, is 31 too small a sample size?
I thought it was a rich part of Spain didn't want to subsidize the poorer bits - like say the south east of the UK wanted to dump the poor parts of the north.

If the opposition is boycotting the referendum its sort of obvious the promoters of the referendum and a hidden objective
True. The statute of limitations (or whatever the consumer credit regulations equivalent is called?) doesn't extend to what individual organisations already know about you.
This is a relief to hear.

I personally would be happier if there were national incentives to keep nuclear plants and not coal operating as long as safely possible. Even completed, operating nuclear plants are losing money in competitive markets where gas generation has made big inroads. Nuclear has a much lower emissions profile than gas generation, comparable to the lowest-emission renewable sources. Some states like Illinois and New York have made efforts to support nuclear for that reason.

Today's reactors will have to retire eventually, but while we're still burning coal in power plants it's a shame to retire them any earlier than technically necessary. Decarbonization will go better if renewables are nibbling away at fossil generation share and not being responsible to fill the hole left by prematurely retired reactors too.
$99 for one month access? That gotta be one of the most expensive paywalls I've seen in a while.
Same story as you. I use both extensively and the tracking on the Vive is just in a completely different league to me in day to day use.
I've got a Hero2 or Hero3, I think. I just don't know why I'd replace it. I mean, I wouldn't mind 4k video, I suppose (assuming mine can't do it, I really don't know). But it's a toy I rarely use, and I can't fathom why they needed Hero3/Hero4/Hero5/Hero6 Silver/Black/etc editions. I know the Sessions are smaller, but even after consulting charts on the matter, I'm confused about which one would be the best replacement for what I have -- and, again, a purchase I probably wouldn't repeat for another 8 years or so.
I imagine you're not pondering this problem if you're a clock.
Saw these guys in LA a few years ago. Mark Pauline is a true visionary.Excellent show, well worth attending.
Just because it can be explained in that way does not make it so. Getting rid of things is much harder that adding things. We see this in systems all the time. Layers and layers and layers are added, but seldom taken away. We also see this in the law.

Probably the last politician who was proud of saying no was Calvin Coolidge. The vast majority of politicians are wired the other way.
Does she even bother looking at the docs or would that also denote how useless she is?
It's funny to see a Mac user complain about toys for rich kids.
In California. Most of my POS transactions use Apple Pay. It's much faster than the chip. Of the businesses I visit routinely, I only pull out my wallet at restaurants, Target, and one of three local grocers.
> so there is no fundamental deficiency in unrestrained capitalism

Except a tendency toward consolidation and monopolies. And, inherent in the word "unrestrained", a tendency to use corporate money to unduly influence politics to benefit the corporation at the expense of the public interest.

> it just means people free to interact, while secure from other social actors in their person and property

It's kind of irrelevant anyway, all I really meant was UBI should be evaluated in comparison to "the status quo", whatever you choose to label it.
> The solution is to tear down low-density suburbs and replace them with high density residencies. But there's no incentive to do this because people are more than willing to just spend more time commuting so they can have a yard to mow on the weekends.

It’s hard to tell what people actually want. The lots in my neighborhood, laid out in the 1930s, has a standard plot size of 1/15 of an acre. This is a suburb of detached single family homes. A few people have doubled up the lots, but for the most part people just deal with having no yard. Today, the minimum lot size is five times bigger, 1/3 of an acre! So is there no incentive to build denser because people are willing to commute more to have the space, or because it’s illegal to do anything other than build ultra low density housing?
Good idea. Though the phone will have to look like it's not hiding/restricting the officer in any way for this to work.
> isn't enriching yourself, it's flicking through instagram posts like a cat pawing at a washing machine

How is looking at cats not enriching yourself though?
I've been thinking a lot lately about this Herbert Simon Quote:

"In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."

Btw, this was from 1971. ;-)
Initial setup? I was amazed when I simply put my .yml file into the root of my repo and pushed to gitlab. It just worked and the job was running. What other initial setup are you referring to?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16101706
That quote frustrated me too. "Smartphone use" is such a vague term here.

They seem to reference this again later in the article, but it doesn't seem to clear things up much.

"All that distraction adds up to a loss of raw brain power. Workers at a British company who multitasked on electronic media – a decent proxy for frequent smartphone use – were found in a 2014 study to lose about the same quantity of IQ as people who had smoked cannabis or lost a night's sleep."
Human race always needs time to digest/adapt to new stuff, such as smartphones.

Unlike previous new gadgets(TV, even internet), smartphone is so powerful that nothing in human history can match, basically, it stretches our very brain with this little super computer in the pocket at all fronts: be it knowledge, games, constant-on social network, it is just too much for the young.

They're as addictive as drugs to kids' brains, especially when considering teens should be learning the world around them at their age, now they stare at the little screen as much as they could. it makes kids dumber, more lonely, while feel good, the way how drugs work.

The phone makers, the router makers, the cellular operators need work together to give us a few kids mode for their online life, as soon as possible.
Not that I particularly agree with this, but I've seen it enough to recognize it as a use case.

You're at a restaurant with your kid, and they're bored because you're having adult conversations with your friends. You give them your phone and they play whatever game for a while, while you have no need for your phone because you're in a conversation.

Or, alternatively, you're sitting around the house and they want to play a game on it.
>Really? Name one artist that Spotify has broken exclusively.

You're really gonna have to go easy on me and realize I'm using the name Spotify as a means to blanket address all streaming services. Artists break on streaming almost exclusively these days, and I feel like you are with me on that. But in the interest of specific artists:

Spotify's playlist RapCaviar catapulted rapper Lil Uzi Vert from the underground into the stratosphere[0]:

“XO Tour Llif3” also made history on the May 6 Billboard Hot 100 as one of five hip-hop songs in the top 10, only the second time that Billboard’s preeminent chart featured five rap songs (Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble” was No. 1; Lamar’s “DNA” No. 4; Future’s “Mask Off” was No. 5; Kyle’s “iSpy” featuring Lil Yachty No. 6; and “XO Your Llif3” No. 10). Strikingly, these songs were getting little to no airplay on the nation’s hit-driven radio stations, traditionally, along with sales, the most powerful factor in determining a song’s Hot 100 placement. “Let’s be honest,” says a top major-label executive: “No cool kid is listening to top 40 radio.” Instead, those kids are glued to streaming services."

An underground hit on SoundCloud first, and then Spotify single-handedly turned this kid into a superstar. Lil Uzi Vert became one of the hottest rappers of 2017 due to Spotify's featuring of his single on a highly influential in-house playlist.

And more about streaming breaking artists, in general, from the same article:

"And in numbers that sometimes strain belief, users are opening their Spotify or Apple Music apps and streaming hip-hop and R&B tracks at nearly twice the rate as the next most popular genre (rock), according to the research company Nielsen."

>Amazon, Google, Apple, Pandora, Deezer etc. Spotify needs the labels more than they need Spotify.

People don't subscribe for the catalogues. The catalogues between services are so similar as to be completely negligible. If you pull your catalog from one service, you don't hurt the service you hurt yourself – all those subscribers simply won't listen to your music. Those are your customers now, whether you like it not.

I guarantee this is how a conversation goes between two people, one with Apple and one with Spotify, when talking about a new song rising in popularity:

A: Hey, did you hear That New Song by Artist?
B: No, is it on Spotify?
A: Nope, they are a Sony artist and only on Apple now.
B: Oh, okay, have fun.

Artist – That New Song now has 0.5x listenership. Meanwhile, Universal is still streaming on both services and will completely own the charts.

Labels aren't in competition with streamers, they are in competition with each other. If one major pulls their catalogue from 1 of the big streaming services, they will lose any semblance of relevancy as now the other 2 major labels will own all charts and social listening. That's IMO.

0. http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/spotify-rapcaviar-most-influe...
If the law says the homeowner is responsible for clearing the sidewalk in front of their property (like in my town) then your dad needs to hire someone to do the work if he can't. My neighbor is well into her 80s so she hires. It's not even all that expensive. Not being physically able to do the work yourself is no excuse for neglecting your responsibility as a homeowner. Your dad should be shamed for putting pedestrians in danger.
I had this TV and just bought a new one for Christmas. To be fair, the TV was released in mid-2010, the YouTube app was supported for over 7 years. Many other apps on the TV still worked when I got rid of it a month ago. There's a lot of valid complaints about smart TV software not being updated, but I think this is a stretch.
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Sure, I was thinking that may have been why they were not considered an Australian unicorn in regards to the article in question.
Of course. I'd much rather trust the anecdotes of a stranger on the internet
No, because there are plenty of other ways of doing this that don't require forgiveness from an organisation he's previously tried to screw over.
Well, while the numbers of nines is finite, it's still AM.

I'm arguing for switching the very moment the number of nines is infinite, or, in other words, they've turned into (an equally infinite number of) zeros.
> A possible first step in the research program is 1700 doctoral theses called "A Correspondence between x and Church's λ-notation."
Spectre also applies to other address spaces, not just the kernel.
Well, it's not ambiguous what the word "midnight" means.
Sorry if I misinterpreted your response, but do you think doing away with timezones in "normal" life would be a net gain? I think it would add way more confusion than it would eliminate. (e.g. "Let's have dinner Wednesday night" would be very confusing in some parts of the world. "Is that the Wednesday night just after Tuesday night? Or the one just before Thursday night?")
I am convinced there would be a decent market for a dumb phone with an iPhone quality camera, and the only 'smart' functionality it should have is getting pictures off the camera easily.

I know several families who have transitioned to all dumbphones, and the only thing they report missing after a while is a having a decent camera on hand.
I’ve prototyped such a bot. See my submissions for the blog post.

Another dev and a HN user, stervy, built something similar and was able to get around 80% accuracy on old gameplay.
I still haven't really figured out how CR is supposed to be sustainable. I am around BMI of 19, and have been as low as 17 (6'2", 133lb). I become extremely unhealthy when I don't eat enough. As far as I know, I can't eat less and maintain the same weight. CR would, for me, send me to the hospital. Is CR just another name for "lose weight"? Is it working towards a goal rather than a lifelong steady state of living?
I can't tell, is the impact irreversible and if so at what dose threshold? Anyone know?
Limits work from both directions. 12:00:00.1 is PM, 12:00:00.00001 is PM, so 12:00:00 is PM. Contradiction. /s, it's all in good fun :)
Have you tried weight lifting soon after you wake up vs 2pm in the afternoon? The strength difference is telling.
> to something that looked like an headphone jack to connect to computer

The word you're looking for is "serial port."
You are asking a hobbyist drone to fulfill professional functions. If you need a drone for government accountability you need to own your own stack.
This hit Twitter today because a short section towards the end mentions a prefetch bug. But that bug is from 1992, and concerned instruction prefetch. It predates not only out-of-order execution and speculative execution (introduced in the P6 microarchitecture) but superscalar x86 altogether (introduced in the P5).

There is an interesting history to covert channel analysis and modern side channels. It wasn't until the late 1990s (as far as I can tell) that anyone made the leap from covert channels --- which have cooperating agents on either end of the channel --- to side channels, in which the transmitter is unwitting.

It's possible that there's other interesting side channel stuff lurking in covert channel analyses. But I think the research link there is also pretty well known.

At any rate, what this analysis primarily concerns itself with is the suitability of x86 for multiuser multi-level security (MLS), in which you have differing levels of classification and absolute barriers to sharing information between those levels. In that setting, a covert channel is a serious problem (it allows you to bypass the MLS barrier). But in modern industry computing we've largely moved away from the concept. You can think of this paper as referring to a different concept of "security" than the one we think about.
You would need 3 leds on the display - AM/PM, noon, midnight
I knew that blue eyes were due to light scattering but didn't know the theory that excess collagen resulted in a grey eye colour. I have blue-grey eyes - they look more blue in bright light (pupil contracted) and more grey in dim light (pupil expanded).
Great pictures too for a post created in an hour and a half.
Amazon Marketplace is one of world’s most profitable – an analysis
> Toys for rich kids, really

Alternatively, potentially valuable business tools, that return their investment in a short period of time. The most interesting uses of VR that I've seen have all been business related, rather than games or entertainment.

Architecture is one obvious case (I almost took a job working for a company that did VR for architecture, until I found out I wouldn't be working with the VR part), it gives you an unprecedented sense of scale that's otherwise not possible in regular imaging.

The business opportunities for VR are much more interesting than the entertainment ones, in my opinion.
I think trains in Britain avoid being scheduled to leave at 00:00, it's easy enough to leave at 23:59 at that time. It's not busy. But 12:00 wouldn't be ambiguous, since that can't be 00:00 or 24:00.

It would be pronounced "twelve hundred hours" by the automated announcement systems, and 12 o'clock by people.

Example of leaving at 5:00 (a minute in)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0cg-n-GF38E

00:01 is announced as "midnight oh one". ("The train on platform nine and three quarters is the midnight oh one service to Hogsmeade, calling at Hogsmeade only. A buffet trolley of drinks and light refreshments is available on this train.")
And their PC fonts were their ugliest.

No other font of theirs compares to their flagship mainframe terminal product https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

(the original, pixel-by-pixel, is the one used in x3270, from which this was based)
The thing I found most insightful in this piece is that Iranian primary schools were teaching English.

As someone from a country that has English as its first language, I often lament the fact that I don't know any foreign languages and feel a sense of choice paralysis with so many languages to learn. It strikes me that for many learning English as a second language isn't a choice.

The only foreign languages I was introduced to were French and German, and these were in secondary school. I couldn't speak either then, but I found my understanding of spoken French improved when I spent time around Geneva. Can anyone outline the norms for English teaching in the rest of the region and the rest of the world? I often wonder if I'd been born in a particular country, by what age could I expect to be reasonably proficient?
So if you suspect your hiring process is biased the solution is to make sure it is by implementing quotas. Mhh...
Exactly, I'm not using it to bolster my statement, rather to prevent being called a Nazi
Wonder what he's doing with the money...
Coinbase Inc. has 933 CFPB consumer complaints
Thanks to the government intervention with what is sold as 'free education/free money', but it is actually making education more expensive.

If you want poor people to get education, empower them. You can start doing so by NOT making it even less affordable by handing out free money.

If you hand out free money the education market will take notice and prices do increase.

Imagine if you suddenly had someone offering to pay for your food everywhere. You should expect your food to become more expensive if suppliers take notice of it. This is what happens to the education market.

Also, the suppliers start with lots of misalocation just because there is a lack of signals about what is most important. For example, they might spend loads of money on sports just because there would be money left over if they didn't, etc.
Thanks ahamedirshad123!
Thanks jackaroe78 :)
QC25s are great at reducing noise, but it’s not just noise that’s the issue! I find that older planes have more more vibration in cabin and that’s not something that noise cancelling headphones can help with.
> I read it somewhere but I can't remember where.

Maybe in the stackoverflow answer we're discussing here? :-)
> Of course it is about moderation, but how can you moderate yourself when there is an infinite supply available?

Correction: an infinite supply using psychology tricks A/B tested to keep you going as long as possible.
1000 cases in the US, which means you're about 30x more likely to die in a car accident in any given year. Also, the syndrome isn't immediately lethal.

When people worry about infinitesimally small risks, it always makes me chuckle.
Hi ahamedirshad123, yes there is documentation for react :D

Link: http://books.goalkicker.com/ReactBook/
I wonder if there should be a court that decides what is ethical and what isn't (according to the prevailing view of the society) as opposed to the current system where all you can do is try to right wrongs or punish actual harms to society.
Thanks for the tip. Do you have any recommendations for good hardware?
The IBM terminals were a totally different story. A sans-serif, simple and elegant design, modern and yet timeless.

I reproduced the 3270's here: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
Incorrectly using evidence to support your opinion as you broadcast it at work

Sorry, but while your observation is interesting, there is nothing incorrect about citing such evidence.

Especially when it means incorrectly classifying your co-workers and trying to change how your work fights social biases.

Exactly how did James Damore go about classifying specific co-workers? [Citation Needed] Seriously, cite James Damore and show how he "classified" anyone in particular.
What's your BMI & BF%? IMO as another skinny person, you should probably clean up your diet and put on some healthy weight (muscle & bone) first.

The discussion about carbs, keto, etc applies to some people, but for the truly skinny, that feeling of weakness is your body slowly starving.
This is what happens when American companies offshored all of their production to China. Eventually the Chinese companies figure out that they can do the whole thing themselves, and do it better.
The rocket performed nominally… The payload, maybe not.
Diversity, even based on outward appearance, has real-world advantages for companies. Or at least, lack of it can lead to making serious errors that can lead to underserving or even insulting customers.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/07/01/google-apolog...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/08/09/faceapp-spa...

https://www.rt.com/viral/400927-robots-racist-sexist-bank-lo...

http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-huawei-smartphone-bea...
> Long distance transmission is currently high voltage AC to work around losses.

High-voltage DC actually has less losses.

(Why? Because a high-voltage AC signal is actually low-voltage two times per cycle)
Is Damore responsible for the failure of some of people in managing their own emotions? "He's saying things we don't like! Fire him!" That doesn't seem valid to me.
> I did at 36, Went from 250lbs to 185lbs in 7 months.

This is crazy fast, hope it doesn't bounce back during the next 3-5 years. 18 months in, you're well on your way, keep it up with the consistency!
I recently noted Solaris 11 boots the console to the same they used with the SPARCStations.
Exactly, that's very different from "because we want to," it's, "because there's a very big stick over our heads if we don't."

I just thought the attitude/assertion was in discord with my own experience/understanding.
Snow shoveling is more of the weightlifting kind of exertion (think squats) than the running kind. Your body is trained for the running kind, something very different.
Is the /d per day? If so that's well within what I've seen "normal" people take.

A regular Advil is 200mg. The usual dose is two pills, so 400mg. If your larger it's common to take three or four pills. Multiply by a dose ever six hours and it's quite easy to get to 3200mg per day.
Bingo. Some time ago, I watched a video of Mark Zuckerberg at some VR conference and he said something like "VR is not about replacing reality. It's about making it better".

I mean, imagine the quality and realism of the AR/VR tech in 10, 20 or 30 years.

You can almost see some Black Mirror-esque scenario where the earth is overpopulated, resources are diminishing, there's less and less quality jobs, so why not upload your brain into a VR world, get rid of your physical body and live in this virtual paradise forever without having to work, pay taxes, without worrying about getting physically hurt, etc... The question is: are you still alive? Is it still "you" that is in this computer?
Look at the broader picture. I'm talking about world consumption (http://www.tsp-data-portal.org/Breakdown-of-Electricity-Gene...)

Fossil fuels (coal, gas - on which CA depends for more than half its electricity production BTW) represent more than 60% of electricity produced worldwide.