skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The site is down so I can't read the original report, but I've read reports on this topic in the past so I'm going to chime in with some "usual suspects" caveats:

1. No result is 100% reproducible because you can never completely reproduce the conditions of any experiment. The best you can hope to do is to reproduce the conditions that matter, but enumerating those has to be part of the theory you are testing, and so you can never be 100% sure that you have a complete list.

2. Even a completely non-reproducible result can be scientifically significant. For example, celestial events are almost never reproducible. Our understanding of celestial mechanics nonetheless rests on solid science.

3. The end-product of science is not truth, it is explanations of observations. Those observations can (indeed must) include non-reproducible ones. Sometimes the explanation of non-reproducible results is "experimental error" or "delusion" or "we just don't know." But non-reproducible events are nonetheless within the purview of science.

On the other hand...

4. The statistical tests currently in widespread use as a criterion for publication in peer-reviewed journals guarantee that at least one result in 20 will be due to chance and not because the hypothesis being tested is actually true. That, combined with the suppression of negative results, guarantees that the results published in scientific journals that adhere to those standards will be unreliable. But that doesn't really have anything to do with reproducibility per se, it has to do with the fact that the journals use a weak criterion for defining positive results. That, combined with our human predilection to value positive results over negative ones and the understandable desire of scientists to advance their careers, all but guarantees that journals will contain many defensible but false results. But this is not because of a lack of reproducibility per se, it's because of poor policy choices.
Local SEO can be very competitive depending upon what you are doing. Having a physical address is good and so signing up for a cheaper local listing manager (cheapest I have found is from Vistaprint https://www.vistaprint.com/digital-marketing/local-listings?...) will get someone's website on 20-30 sites with authority immediately. Then having long articles and having keywords that focus on the local market. But depending upon what you are doing that might not be enough... for example local insurance agencies there is a lot of competition sometimes with up to 100 insurance agencies in a tight geographical radius. Time helps to rise above when there is a lot of local competition.
We've had perfectly viably cross platform GUI-applications for decades. Lots of them. Done one way or another, or a third.
I'm sorry, I fail to see the problem that abominations like Electron are trying to solve.
Maybe we just need to start a poll and brain storm the idea out. (dreaming) I think this is a bad enough problem on software that it needs headlines (with properly shaming name to the activity) in major news sources globally to get the behavior to end.

If it stinks bad enough, no business would want to be associated with it.
I think they just feel that way because we hold them extended with one arm. In a backpack with tonnes of other stuff I doubt it would be that noticeable.

Cast iron dutch ovens weight about 30lbs. How much do you normally carry in your backpack, that 30lbs would not be noticeable?
>- skirt labor laws by positioning themselves as a marketplace that facilitates transactions between pizza buyers and pizza sellers

>- blockchain record keeping

>- Create an AI that generates customer specific profiles to fine tune people's pizza

>- Implement invasive tracking, expose the DB to the internet, have it show up on pastebin, pray nobody notices.
I'm a fan of Dominos since their re-making, but I don't think they really deserve much credit for it. My understanding is that the USDA spent millions working with Dominos to basically come to the conclusion 'yeah, use more cheese'. The tracker has always made me curious. At least according to the delivery drivers I have questioned from my local place, the names which appear are indeed accurate, and the timing advancement is not fully automatic (so if your pizza is sitting there not getting any attention, it shouldn't move forward on its own). But, in talking to a friend whose wife works part time in a Dominos in a different part of the country, she says at least for her store the names are all fake and the progress bar has nothing to do with whats going on in the store.

Also, not sure if this is commonly known but I went to the Dominos site a couple weeks ago to order... got a blank page. Thinking it strange, I viewed the page source. The source had loaded, there was just some screwup with the js I presume. But I noticed a comment block in the source that was the Dominos logo in ASCII art... except it was clearly base 64 encoded text. Upon decoding it, it presents a little js coding challenge and tells you to tweet a solution to their careers account. Pretty neat.
While I take your point, I often see people who don't really understand accounting avoid the topic entirely by fully outsourcing the preparation of their financial statements. This often leads to disaster because I've noticed that if you're not really on top of your outsourced service provider, they get sloppy/lazy and make lots of mistakes.
It's almost as if it's gone viral...
Yeah, I was socially isolating myself online WAY before facebook!
> Imagine all the plastic items in the World suddenly as susceptible to rot as wood. It would fundamentally change almost every aspect our existence, in a very short amount of time.

Absolutely! The first thing came to my mind is the usage of polymers in construction industry (epoxy for joining material, coating for anti-corrosion measures) and the predominant PVC underground sewer lines and plumbing pipes. If those aren't as durable as we previously assumed, the rebuild/replacement is going to be catastrophic. (PS: I had almost had to replace the underground clay/cast iron sewer lines that's been there for 50 years and reaching the end of life for the material at our new home last year. The cost was astronomical and requires many town permits and time to even start the project. Thankfully we didn't have to!)
One of Slate Star Codex's top all-time articles discusses this very issue. Highly recommend: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou...
No it really doesn't.

Microsoft have marketed it to business and portrayed it as intended for professional business use ever since XP introduced the version split. Until large enough to be allowed near volume licensing SKUs, when you pass some point past a hundred seats, it's the most professional offering a business can get.

That covers nearly all small and medium businesses.
A combination of low appetite for taxes, poor spending, and the disadvantages of being the first movers when it comes to infrastructure.

China is able to rapidly build infrastructure because it didn’t have very much. In twenty to fifty years when everything is dur for replacement, that will be the true test of infrastructure.
That's why we want to build a world where that hypothetical case is not in any real system. Since Babbage we've known that "putting garbage in" means "getting garbage out".
> But of course, not having a specialist “looking over the shoulder,” as Abràmoff puts it, raises the question of who will be responsible when the diagnosis is wrong

Ultimately, accountability and transparency will be the Achilles heel.
I don't know about the BAS account template, but my accounts have the num column as well.
I thought it was used for ordering transactions that occur on the same date. Personally, I just stopped using it because it rarely matters for me the order of multiple transactions in the same day.

Looking at this page on gnucash.org now (1), it's referred to as just "optional Num (such as a check number)".
Hope that helps.

[1] http://gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-guide/txns-registers1...
YC Summer 18 ( Invites / Rejections )
Has anyone received an invite/rejection email for the Summer 2018 batch yet?
IRS online filing system experiencing technical difficulties
That would never work. We have no accurate way to identify the "best" students so early in the educational pipeline. High school grades and standardized test scores are poor predictors of who will make major contributions to science.

More public funding for basic research (including reproduction studies) would probably deliver major long term benefits.
I'm a little biased because I currently work as an SEO Manager at an agency, but I would say yes. It REALLY depends on the type of business, what stage the business is at, their goals, and probably a few other things. SEO should almost always be a part of a larger overall marketing strategy.

If you're an ecommerce shop optimizing product and category pages - SEO will help.

If you're a plumber and ranking higher than your competition will bring in new leads & jobs - SEO will help.

If you're an established SaaS company launching a new product - SEO will help.

If you're a brand new SaaS startup - SEO is probably not the best thing to spend money on. That money is likely better spent on PR getting press mentions, and on PPC ads promoting your brand.

The main problem I see many small businesses making is relying solely on SEO to bring them leads while having no other marketing strategy. This may have worked well for them back when you could spam websites to the top of SERPs, but it's not the case today.
Based on my experience watching doctors (good ones) trying to diagnose "weird things", they are just manually executing an expert system algorithm anyway. They aren't doing what an engineer might expect -- working from a basic understanding of how the body works and looking for plausible explanations. They're instead simply pattern matching against a database of facts.
There is a Chinese proverb that says there are two best times to plant a tree... 10 years ago and right now.
> All languages should have something like Go's gofmt -- or even better, mandatory whitespacing/tabs rules. If you don't respect them (which the auto format tool could help you automatically do), the program shouldn't compile.

It exists `clang-format`
I think the number is closer to 6%.

90% of people are accurately detected as not having the disease, i.e. 10% FP rate. So ~3m people would be falsely diagnosed as having the complication, to 200k/3m have the disease.

10% isn't a great number, but it isn't clear from this coverage whether this complication is generally asymptomatic or not. If there are symptoms to go with it, the numbers may be far better.
My wife and I use it so that we aren't forced to put our financial data online with some cloud service.
> Though I am a fan of the tracker, over time it has become increasing clear it is just a psychological trick. Show some progress bar to make people happy. Many times I find the tracker stuck at "preparing" and only to update delivered directly.

I haven't delivered in over 5 years, but when I worked there it was 100% real. It was worked into the inventory and time tracking system. At each step an employee had to key their employee # to move the pizza to the next step on the in-store computer. Generally after saucing the dough, after applying other toppings, after removing from the oven, and then when the driver finally takes it.

Of course, there's no physical limitations preventing you from just passing a pizza along the toppings table and going "This one is pepperoni", so that does tend to happen during peak-hours and things get cleared in batch whenever there's a moment to breath. Usually by a manager because you need an override code when keying in too many items at a time. At least in my store, we tended to prioritize getting too many orders over too few, so this was pretty common. During big sports events and stuff we'd sometimes just pick up the phone and say "the oven is broken" to 50% of callers because we were so slammed with orders. It's better to just not take an order than deliver it an hour late. In the first case, they'll still try another order next week.

I delivered at a few other stores afterwards. Mostly small Mom & Pop style places, but I also tried Burger King when they launched delivery. And all I can say from that experience is Domino's really had their shit together technologically. Burger King specifically was the worst. Domino's had a great mapping system that would plot orders. At Mom&Pop shops the owner or manager would just work it out in their head. But at Burger King, it was some crappy naive implementation where orders were assigned to drivers chronologically. So I would frequently get 2 orders on opposite sides of town, meaning one of them will be arriving cold and late.

Don't specifically know where I was going with that anecdote... but while I agree Domino's isn't run like a startup at all they really had their tech together during the time I worked there, and felt much "younger" than other companies in that regard.
From the intro: The new, alternative view, was that college and universities should be places where fresh ideas untrammeled by hidden connections to the established structures of power in American society should have the chance to develop themselves. In practice this meant a hearty welcome to neo-Marxism, radical feminism, historicism, post-colonialism, deconstructionism, post-modernism, liberation theology, and a host of other ideologies.

Also from the intro: The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has long been interested in the politicization of science.
The author of the app took the project down. As far as I know, it's a student project that is still a work in progress, so they might not yet be ready for full HN scrutiny.
For example, someone could tag your face in a photograph even if you don't have a Facebook account.
... offering a job to the guy who did the comeback ... which apparently he did not take
I don't think the rigorous definition of the field is the important bit, rather the kind of area one has expertise in. These days people will develop expertise with a set of "tools" and then apply them to whatever area they'd likem. We get feminist critiques, Focauldian critiques, deconstructive arguments, LGBT critiques, etc., that take on political and social issues in a very slanted manner because they analyze the issue in terms of a this framework. Instead of being experts on feminism, for example, we get experts on everything from a feminist perspective. It's good to have this perspective, the problem is that the perspective is overwhelming. The point is to analyze the issue from this perspective, but we've lost a focus on the relative importance of this perspective and the issues it raises. Moreover, sometimes the issue itself is obscured because it is contorted to be analyzable by this framework.

I will say, the problem he delineates doesn't seem to plague all of the humanities, only certain areas. Analytic philosophy departments and history departments seem to not suffer from the same problems.
Most cities keep a set of permit drawings, but generally you need to have a proximate relationship to the building to get access to them
It would probably help the argument if all of the 'data-driven' products: dropshipped watches, Echo Look, whatever the hell 'Svpply' is, and virtual Instagram influencers weren't completely obscure. None of these things represent mainstream culture in any way, and as a result this article starts to look more like an exercise in the writer showing how smart and well-connected he is.
The problem might just be that it's genuinely incredibly difficult to get infrastructure right at this level, and the cost to move in-house is still too high, even accounting for the savings over the long term.
The laws were part of much much larger cultural context. Racist laws weren't imposed from authoritarians.

Some intro reading for the tip of the iceberg:

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

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-in

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
A modern high rise- but only as long as you are confident there were not basic design/engineering/construction flaws?

Which, for those of us who are not structural engineers and cannot review the work to see that it is indeed well done...
GraalVM
How to Spot a DeepFake Like the Barack Obama-Jordan Peele Video
I think that is simply another misinterpretation of what people mean when the word science is used.

What was said above was "one of the most horrific and important examples of widely accepted science". Important words here are "widely accepted science". So science didn't go wrong, the LABEL of science was attached to something that didn't meet the scientific method. That something was then sold to people in power, and the science LABEL was used to convince people of the correctness of that something.
GnuCash 3.0 is available via homebrew cask:

https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/dc825c8fe0cd3...
'How are your Golden Insight Nuggets today?'

'I've been collecting all these great Golden Insight Nuggets.'

God it's horrible.

Why not just:
"GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insights"
...using machine learning
The debatable origins of loss aversion
Being a local authority on a subject matter will overcome anything about a new domain name. For example getting a local paper to write about you and linking to your domain will help you regardless if your domain name is only a few months old. SEO is like a snowball it starts out small and you just build it over years. Eventually your seo can be so strong it only needs minor maintenance.
The margins you're paying for include functionality you don't use and your own cost of integration, observation, and management of their stuff. The principal advantage of using a cloud provider is avoiding capital costs and any useful apis they have that you'd otherwise have to develop/maintain in-house.
Video about this situation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVFdFoj83a8
Implementing SVM and Kernel SVM with Python's Scikit-Learn
I'm old enough to remember when we would joke that "you could order a pizza using the Internet" -- hahahah. Initially you would get a GIF of a pizza but it seems now you can get an actual edible pie. Amazing progress in 25 years.
NLP in this context refers to Natural Language Processing. Neuro-lingustic programming is a very different thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming
It's not 'taste perception' that is affected. It's literally taste. People aren't lying or tricking themselves, the pizza literally tasted worse if they knew it was Dominos in those studies. They've done similar studies with wine. They took professional sommeliers and gave them cheap wine in bottles with expensive labels, and expensive wine in bottles with cheap labels, and had them try them while lying in fMRI scanners. The bottle it came out of had monumental effects on the taste centers of the brain.

The book 'How Pleasure Works' goes over a lot of this sort of research and is quite interesting. The 'American Association of Wine Economists' (which isn't what it sounds like) also does tons of research on things like this. It's thanks to them we know that people can't actually tell the difference between expensive patte and wet dog food.
Also, for a very comprehensive survey on parsing techniques, I can recommend "Parsing Techniques" by Grune and Jacobs: https://dickgrune.com/Books/PTAPG_2nd_Edition/
All that I'm saying is that Khmer Rouge hated cities and Republicans hate cities. The reason it is dangerous is because it creates a hated "other" (urban elites) that can ultimately lead to atrocities.

On victimization and resentment, it's basically the whole appeal of Trump. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/07/21/...

The whole point of the anti-urban elites propaganda is to make people feel like they're victims of the hated others.
I hear this frustration a lot - mostly related to wearables and internet of shit, right?

We shifted from consumer IoT devices because there's just no money there. Toy Mail is one of our only customers that made it work.

In my mind, the places to look for Iot solutions are generally the same places you need a hardhat and steel toe boots to enter.
Xbox owners.
Depending on the details, that could be considered a trust and then you'd be in the same boat as if you were declared a monopoly.
KinX: keyboard controller with 0.225ms input latency
AWS Amplify Now with Angular JS
Yes, content should be much more closely paired with SEO. Googlebot's algorithms change a lot[0], so there is always going to be a lagging trend trying to keep up with it, which is why good SEO should be an iterative process. You get what you pay for (or for the effort you put in) with SEO.

[0]: https://moz.com/google-algorithm-change
This depends entirely on how your business is structured. I'm pretty sure the way GnuCash recommends handling business accounts is to have a completely separate GnuCash file for your business, then pay yourself under the Income category with that business and use that as a normal salary income. The complete separation makes tracking everything much easier.
In my opinion, SEO will always work because Google will keep trying to be build the perfect system (search engine) and it will never stop mainly because Google has to keep evolving depending on the current human understanding. And you cannot have a perfect system.

The changes Google will do to their algorithm will sooner or later be gamed, SEO 'experts' will beat a small subset of the system, Google will penalize them and adapt making it vulnerable to more exploitation.

The search engine is interacted with by humans so no matter what Google does, at the end humans(SEOs) on the other end will try to present their content first the way they see fit for humans.
jitsi does this.
This is assuming you can do everything at the same efficiency level as Amazon or Google. It's likely that you wouldn't be able to outperform on these metrics to a degree that it would make the profit margin difference a wash.
I find the illustrations in this somewhat profoundly undermine the thesis of this article, given that they are rooted in the “vaporwave” aesthetic, which basically comes from Millennials sorting through their faint memories of the 80s culture they were born into.
I have heard that the facebook "download your data" feature on the website does not give you all the personal data they hold. For that you need to contact them directly (maybe a letter), and quote data protection law to them.
Same with the big NASA science payloads - if you're spending $8-9B on JWST, paying a $100M premium for a launch vehicle you're slightly more confident in is totally worth it.
It's an interesting thought, but perhaps we should consider how susceptible we would actually be. We still build houses from wood, which can rot and be digested, but generally doesn't with a reasonable amount of maintenance. Even if an hyper effective microbe were to spread, the manner of spread is unlikely to be any more effective with respect to dispersion than others that e.g. attack wood.
Most people interpret “Companies over countries” as “My company over my country”.

It's an heresy only if it is my country.

As an example, a lot of people is mad because Intel didn't tell (officially) to the US government about Spectre&Meltdown before the disclosure date. Should they also had toll it to Russia, China, UK and France?
You are comparing badly functioning government with businesses functioning as intended.

At least there's ability to enforce governmental responsibility through elections and free press.

Facebook can be leveraged in no other way then through government regulation, even if you opt out from facebook it still watches you, and good luck even understanding of what's going on if you're not a technical person.