skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You had to introduce a lot of assumptions to invalidate the n=31. So let me lay it out in more detail.

I recruited 31 white men who self-report having no hair on at least 500cm^2 of their head. They all had hair as adolescents, and lost it gradually throughout their 20s or early 30s. They're all at least 37 now.

I then sort them into the two groups by assigning sequential IDs in random order. Those with an odd ID are in Group A, those with an even ID are in Group B.

I then give each participant in both groups a placebo for 24 weeks, having them check in every 2 weeks to measure hair growth, if any. At 24 weeks, I randomly assign two new courses of treatment to each group. I do this blindly, giving Group A pill X and Group B pill Y. Another 24 weeks (with check-ins every 2 weeks) and I find that Group A (taking pill X) all have full heads of hair. Well, except for Paul and Maury.

Meanwhile, Tom, in Group B (who took pill Y), is the only member of his group to have a full head of hair.

Statistically-speaking, my n=31 was a great sample size, and I'm also pretty sure Tom discovered he had sugar pills and stole the real stuff from Paul or Maury. :)

To address the possibility of seeing these results due to a confounding variable (like above average testosterone), this is about as likely as shuffling a deck of 31 cards, and all the red ones ending up in the front and all the black ones in the back. About 0.0000003%
> Do you have a source for your first claim that cancelling to avoid a loss is insider trading?

Yes: https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/33-7881.htm.

The purpose of a prearranged stock plan is that it's autonomous and outside the control of insiders with privileged, confidential information. Making any decision with regards to the plan once it has been adopted, either to trade or not to trade, voids that autonomy.
Sounds great, I would love to try it someday!
Sure, but in the counterfactual non-rent-control world, staying in SJ at $1000 isn’t even an option. Maybe efficiencies bring down prevailing rents a little bit, but enough to matter?

The more interesting question is, why are the 50 miles between SF and SJ reserved for sparsely packed single family homes and one story strip malls?
Sure you can't avoid any theoretical ground-based observation -- my point is there are plenty of places on Earth that don't actually have them -- or don't have any available to amateurs or organisations without access to exceptional resources.
> I did manage to pull out an old Lenovo ThinkPad W510 with an Intel Core i7 720QM Clarksfield that is from 2009 and lacks PCID but is affected by this cpu_insecure issue.

> On that old Clarksfield-era ThinkPad I wasn't going to be surprised if the performance was disastrous, but it wound up being better than I had anticipated given all the ongoing drama... In general purpose workloads there was no reportable performance difference in our frequent benchmark test cases. Under I/O, the PTI-using kernel did yield some slower results but not by the margins seen on the newer systems with faster storage. The laptop consumer-grade HDD in this laptop appeared to be the main bottleneck and kernel inefficiencies weren't causing as dramatic slowdowns.

> To some surprise, when carrying out network benchmarks with netperf/iperf3, in at least those contexts PTI didn't have a noticeable impact on the network throughput performance.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-mo...
I used to work on satellites and so I know how sad a day this is for some people. Think of the team that would be involved in a billion dollar NASA probe. There would be thousands of people involved from component manufacture to ground control to data processing to ground stations. A team just like that has just had more than 5 years of their life's work go up in smoke. Classified or not, it's still a sad day for space engineers today.
Restricting performance.now()'s resolution to 1ms is really bad news :( Once the other mitigations are in place, will the webkit team consider increasing the resolution again? Can we get a Developer menu or Web Inspector option to temporarily enable the old resolution again?
Kent Beck has a similarly-themed list of mental models:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/a-searching-and-fea...

I love the idea of cataloging your interests at this high-level of abstraction, and wish it were more common.
Bitcoin Is a Hit in Countries Where Locals Face Currency Troubles
Perhaps foreign governments have suspicions, and whatever agency sent it up wants them to think that it failed.
What? On a average year Michigan gets way more snow than Minnesota. In the UP alone many areas average over a 150 to 200 inches. No where in Minnesota does it break 80 inches in average.
The scheduled sale was for less than 100k shares. He modified the schedule to 900k shared after finding out about meltdown.
Yeah I find it strange that publishers & such bother to release AMP versions of their sites but then opt to keep their crappy, bloated versions around as the default.

Google should just more explicitly rank pages based on load times and incentivize sites to fix their crap.
> if you consider ETH to be a currency

That's a huge "if".
Sure - The example in context to this thread is right here in Damore's memo:

> Women, on average, have more:

> - Openness directed towards feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas...

> - Extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness...

> - Neuroticism...

Damore supports this with a link [1] to a Wikipedia article, which immediately says:

> On the scales measured by the Big Five personality traits women consistently report higher Neuroticism, agreeableness, warmth (an extraversion facet)...

Damore incorrectly uses this information to make the broad statement that "Women have..." instead of "Women self-report...". This is incorrectly classifying your women coworkers as being, among other things, more neurotic than their male counterparts.

You may think, "So what?", but this is being used in an argument about how a company fights social biases, and this is incredibly relevant because lexical self-reporting is open to the same biases that are being fought. Damore, intentionally or not, glosses over this, but more importantly was not receptive to this type of feedback, hence the broadcasting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology#...
This doesn’t explain why they kept Safari at the same version number.
I'm sure there is video but it wasn't and won't be made public.
VW, Hyundai Turn to Driverless-Car Startup in Silicon Valley
Are SpaceX paid extra for this service? Would we know if they were?
Ok...

#1: Price discrimination, because you know you have to reserve >75% of the bandwidth to assure that the guy with the 100mbit plan isn't being pushed out by the dozen or so users with the 20mbit plan, on a docsis 3.0 network with 16 channels bonded... Really, ever wonder why the cable industry won't actually tell you the line utilization on your node? What they have been really successful at is selling people service and modems that barely give you line quality information, knowing what your modem is actually capped at, or what current activity on the line is privileged information available to only the select few.

And finally, the article you linked mentioned that the amps haven't been upgraded in 12-15 years... you may be in a market getting a docsis 3.1 upgrade, but in many markets docsis 3.0 is barely rolled out, and it rolled out at speeds achievable with docsis 2, a standard that is 17 years old.
Never mind the insane garbage peddled by the DSL providers in many markets. So I maybe I exaggerated a bit with 20 years, 15..
Food Stamps are based on your actual income, so if parents are writing checks directly to the university there is no real way for the State to check this.
They should put two antenas, one on each side, to ensure this doesn't happen :P
Bing is so relatively tiny that its existence hardly matters. If Microsoft can't compete effectively against Google, then who can?

Edited to add: Perhaps the main problem is that Google has access to waaaaay more data than anybody else. They know what everyone is searching for. They know which search results get clicked on. The data that you would need to have any hope of building a better search engine is all owned by Google, so there is no real hope of competing with them.
It was a scheduled sale of 30,000, and he ended up selling 600,000 shares.
Important quite from the above linked article:

"Intel says the sale was preplanned - but that plan was put in place months after it learned of the chip vulnerability"
Location and trajectories of all satellites have to be closely tracked to avoid collisions.
Quietly?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EZLN

It is fairly famous, in anarchist circles, that half of a state of Mexico consists of anarchist communes, independent from the state. It has been that way since at least 1994.
I feel raw channels provide more possibilities than Actor model.
In fact, you can build such an Actor model by warpping CSP channels. It is not too hard.
Google should just more explicitly rank pages based on load times and incentivize sites to fix their crap.

Apparently they already did this and it had no effect. It seems like anything less than a binary signal (in the carousel vs. not) is too subtle for publishers to understand.
It was true in my case when I turned 29. I founded a product and built a startup from that.
NASA wasn't involved. (?)
I think people have a tendency to find meaning in things they've done after the fact. In this way, waiting on a boring conversation becomes a lesson in the difficulties of life. This is the root of "character building" activities as well. Is it really better to be bored than not bored? Will my children and I both be better off if they are bored, and my conversation is constrained by increasingly agitated children?

I'd prefer my children have something to do. A book, a phone, an iPad or Switch. Why shouldn't they be entertained while I am? Actually, forcing them to sit quietly while I have fun seems like a weird message to me.

Granted, being bored is a part of life. Undoubtedly then, they'll encounter many boring experiences without the need for me to artificially create them. And, if I know I'll have to wait for someone or something, I bring a book or phone. Why would I deny them the same pleasure?
My Sharp EL-5813, which I first acquired in 1981 (I think) is still in my desk drawer, and working fine. The most remarkable thing about this particular gadget (aside from the fact that its still working at all) is that in 37 years I have only had to replace the batteries twice.
The facade is only going to last another week if the payload is in orbit and stable (at which point anyone with a telescope will be able to see it).

Otherwise, there was a failure on the Northrop Grumman side of the house (they were responsible for mating the payload to the second stage adaptor at their facility due to the classified nature) or this was an ICBM reentry vehicle demonstrator.

If you listen during the launch stream, you can hear where video telemetry control is relinquished and passed off to secure ops. That telemetry should make it obvious if fault needs to be assigned.

It is not yet certain this is not a misinformation campaign (which would not be without precedent [1]).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_(satellite)
I have no suggestions honestly, I have looked into it pretty extensively and would like to go ZFS. But it will cost a decent amount for the setup I am looking for. It seems to be "all or nothing"
In straight short selling, no you don't. Your broker gets paid though.
Can anyone comment on the efficacy of the CNSA algorithm they are planning to use?
Really? Guest mode is a standard feature since Lollipop, but that just logs you into a completely blank account without any installed apps or user data. You can switch Google accounts, but that's a multi-tap process that can't be activated directly from the lock screen.

Second Space isn't unique in functionality, but it's exceptionally slick in execution.
Haven't the read anything about MySQL but http://www.interdb.jp/pg/ is a good read about Postgres.

A few things to get you interested:

* Postgres is a process-per-connection/ shared-memory model vs MySQL that's multi-threaded-per-connection

* Postgres has more than one index-types (bit-index, generalized-inverted-index, partial-index, btree-index).

* AFAIK (might be wrong), because of the way Postgres implements Consistency and Isolation (as in ACID) via MVCC (Multi-version Concurrency Control), it is at the mercy of the notorious VACCUM (think: Garbage Collection in Java).

* Postgres does Streaming Replication (typical of NoSQL and distributed databases in general) which is superior to what MySQL had prior to them introducing Group Replication in MySQL 7.

* Postgres is known to have an advanced query-processor engine as well and AFAIK driven by academia as much as engineers orgs.

Apart from that, to know about what's latest in the DB field, pick up the Red Book (can't say I've read it myself, but it does get recommended a lot).

----

People famous in the Distributed and RDBMS space include:

* Martin Kleppmann of Apache Kafka and Samza fame.

* Peter Bailis, Researcher

* Michael Stonebreaker, creator of Postgres, Ingres, VoltDB

* Murat Buffalo, Researcher

* Curt Monash, Researcher

* Matei Zaharia, Researcher

And a bunch of other folks, the list is big, but these are the one's I keep an eye on.

You might want to look at the winners of VLDB, SIGMOD, and SIGKDD conferences, too, for cutting edge research in the area (and the Red Book, too).

You might want to follow developments on the new-age databases:

* RAM-only DBs: VoltDB, MemSQL

* GPU-accelerated DBs: mapd, SQream, alenka

* NVMe-only DBs: Onur Multu et al wrote a seminal paper on the subject.

* OLAPs: Not familiar with this field per se, but it is huge in itself. Think: RedShift, Spark, and so on.

Best!
4K vs. UHD
I think many grab a 16 inch plastic shovel and pick up a much snow as it will hold. That’s a good way to do yourself in, literally and figuratively. If it snows five inches, I’ll typically take it in three lifts. I go slow and take a break once an hour, more often if it’s in the teens like lately. For old and heavy snow, like the berm the town plow leaves across my drive, I’ll switch to a nine inch aluminum shovel.

Or, haul out the Ariens 12 hp snowthrower. It’s a lot faster, but horsing it around is no picnic either.

The main thing is to take it easy!
Lost, or in stealth mode.
Right and wrong are almost entirely subjective on issues like this. What is the right level of political boundaries for people to have a vote in these decisions? Should residents of San Diego be able to influence housing policy in San Francisco? How about residents of Chicago, or Madrid, or Karachi?
All launches must be coordinated through the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs even secret ones.
I recently had a very similar thought. I feel like you could use NLP to analyze the type of language associated with predictions that turned out to be correct vs those that were wrong.
AzureOneSkyLive is a much snappier name though.
Really a shame- we’ve come to depend on redux-form in a data collection app. The rate of turnover of seemingly popular libraries in the JS ecosystem makes it tough to know what is safe to use
Arguably, immigration controls are also similar to the movement controls of Apartheid. They're just more socially acceptable because pretty much every country does it.
There isn't a method of calculating trig functions with less than 30 steps?
One counterargument is that he might have thought there was a chance he'd be asked to step down, and thus his days pulling that kind of money were limited. Just speculating, of course.
log/telemetry information I imagine.

I'd be surprised if SpaceX didn't have in their contracts that "all results are based on the source of truth. the source of truth that you accept is this telemetry data" All care no responsibility essentially.
I think kratom is helping me. I experience no psychotropic side effects, which is great. At some point, I'll stop kratom for a few months, see how my pain mgmt handles it.

YMMV.
The real failed experiment is that of renting property in general. If nobody were allowed to own more homes than they could live in, or derive income from rentals, there'd be a much bigger supply of housing on the market for buyers, and a much more liquid market for buying and selling as people's jobs shifted.
That's a great question. I bet the DoD does something like investigate and place fault with an independent way to appeal the ruling.
Sounds like a China problem.
I agree with this. Mobile to me seems boring but I grew up in an age, and with a cohort, who was much more into messing about with computers and seeing what we could do with them.

Mobile seems so restricted and I'm always amazed by how effectively distracted by phones people generally are. The games and apps to me seem utterly boring in comparison to hacking about on some open source project, making games, or working on something. Computers are fun, and were always fun because you could do so many things. iOS seems like a bunch of lame apps and a web browser with a camera somehow wedged in there.

I'm friends with a Computer Engineer who just finished his undergrad and he doesn't have the hacker spirit at all. I doubt he even knows who Stallman is and considers some of the most basic config a huge hassle. I don't think this is necessarily a reflection of Engineers in general but I always wonder why he studied computers at all. He doesn't seem to enjoy them.

I remember when what.cd was taken down someone on reddit saying, perhaps hyperbolically (perhaps not) something like, "this has ruined the internet for me; it's no longer for fun. only work" or something along those lines. I always think of that comment and don't really disagree with it: as this technology ages and matures the things that made it fun or interesting in the first place to me seem to be slowly getting destroyed. All these little battles keep getting lost and as time progresses it's just kind of "meh..". Instead of wondering what we can do with computers maybe we're finding out?

Proverbs for Paranoids #3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. --Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Well, Quantstamp is backed by YC, so perhaps not "every."
Interestingly, SELinux implements MLS.
The most interesting thing to me seems that they plan to decoupled signing of content from TLS connections. So that packages could be signed using normal TLS certificates (or something like that).

Hmm, so maybe in some future static-only sites will be able to sign a bundle with offline keys and not use TLS at all.
Or maybe we just sign static bundle with a TLS key for our origin and upload the bundle to Google and other web caches. As in maybe the internet can be distributed again.

I see lots of interesting potential in decoupling origin verification from TLS connections.

Web Packaging Format Explainer:
https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/master/explainer.md
We have to acknowledge that this testicular physiology study has been published on p-nas, right?
I don't get all the amp hate. They seem to make an effort to do the right thing, and from a user perspective it's a great experience imho.
I would say it should have been the first thing automated.
Google is a private company. They have no obligation and having an employee that does not get along pretty obvious has to go.

Why also nobody is going to hire him.
Um, blaming each other? WSJ doesn't know crap. For all we know, the mission was a complete success. And why would someone tell the WSJ otherwise while risking jailtime? Classified mission.

This headline is BS. Which makes sense, as it's written by Andy Pasztor, a well-known SpaceX troll.
So far they're not admitting that there's anything wrong with their chips. If they're flawed enough to pull them from the shelves they're flawed enough to warrant a recall and they really don't want to do a recall
That table at the end has a column "Median Lifespan Increase (treated/control)". No, it isn't an increase, it is a ratio.

Eg, the first entry, scenescent cell removal %135, is a 35% increase, not a 135% increase.
Things I Hope People Say at My Funeral If I Die Tomorrow
See, this is why evil is better.

Less whataboutism.

Of course I believe that the republican parties current path will lead to the destruction of America. So I'm probably not worth talking to.
Not quite — Martha Stewart was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and lying to investigators.

You can get away with a lot of things if you’re rich, but annoying federal prosecutors is rarely one of them.
It's a good rule of thumb that whenever you hear someone starting the phrase with "The American people want ...", you can basically ignore the rest of it, because it's meaningless propaganda drivel.
Russia satellite launch failure recently. Someone configured the launch system with the wrong pad location, apparently.

For a foreign power, the cost of infiltrating and sabotaging a $5-10 billion satellite launch is such a bargain that it would be hard to pass up. These systems are so complex, so all it would take is exploiting one flaw per project.
But less turnout than Obama. Disastrously less.
They didn't ask however whether people oppose specific changes to FCC regulations, but whether people oppose the consequences that those regulations' supporters claim that will result from removing those regulations. This is somewhat different. In any case, thanks for the links.
What a fantastic breakdown. More developers really need to understand how the whole stack is interacting especially as we see the proliferation of server side js
Google is trying to run a company and having someone like Damore does not help that cause.
CNSA isn't an algorithm. It's the NSA's update to what used to be called "Suite B". It's a set of algorithms that NSA recommends for use in National Security Systems (classified systems that use unclassified algorithms).

Currently, that's AES-256, ECDH over P-384, ECDSA over P-384, SHA-384, and then also RSA/DH with a >3072 modulus.
Not if it's black.
Yes ! the clickwheel is too good, it has no competition in the UX dept be it with the Apple OS or the Custom aftermarket Firmware.

Still rocking a 5.5G iPod 30GB, Recently modded it with a 200GB MicroSD and it runs on the Rockbox which is Open Source and doesn't have any limit on the songs or storage that my other iPod Classc 6G 80GB has, thanks to Apple for that limit on the 6G iPod Classics, Rockbox can break that limit, But yeah you always need to boot to OF (Official Firmware) to copy tracks onto the iPod else there will be song skipping etc, Perhaps due to the third party HW chipset in between which is the SD Adapter (this is for every iPod 5G-7G with aftermarket modded HW)

And also yeah the 5.5G iPod (I think there are older iPods with this chip plus the iPhone 2G also had this/the same company's chip and 1st gen iPod Touch as well iirc) DAC chip is from Wolfson Audio which used to be great before the CL (Cirrus Logic) engulfed them & this makes it great fun to listen over my CL chip 6G, forget the phones, Apart from the Wolfson powered Voodoo modded Android phones nothing comes close to that level of detail, fun.

To people who want to mod them head over to the iFlash and get a hold of it, you'll be shocked to see how robust these things are. Plus there can be lot of inter mods that can be done like you can fit a 5.xG chipset into a 6-7G shell and vice versa - the frame can be interchanged+faceplate also goes in hand with the respective frame or need to shave a few bits off the metal frame, along with the backplate, headphone jack/hold switch flex cable plus massive battery upgrade(s) also exists - 2000mAh and up, these all are interchangeable. The Clickwheels, LCD panel aren't)
Existing discussion about the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16102931