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Hypothesis testing is "soul" of science.

What's impossible is thinking that just the output of a single experiment gives hypothesis certainty, or a fixed probability of a hypothesis or anything fully quantified.

You're alway going to have the context of reality. Not only will you have the null hypothesis you'll competing hypotheses to explain the given data.

But the point of science isn't blinding constructing experiments but instead forming something you think might be true and doing enough careful experiments to convince yourself and others in the context of our overall understanding of the world that the hypothesis is true. Common sense, Occam's Razor, the traditions of a given field and so-forth go into this.
Netflix is not replacing Christopher Nolan's films anytime soon. This isn't a battle for the blockbusters, it's a battle for the little and medium sized films. The bigger movies will have a place in cinemas for a long time because they have wide appeal. For smaller, niche, films that have a potential audience of 2 million people that are spread across the world, there is no way to make good content for them and deliver it to theaters. It makes absolutely zero sense economically. Netflix can make that same movie and recommend it to the 2 million people that they know will like it. Movie theaters that show movies to hundreds of people at a time can't ever compete with that. Medium sized movies are the true battleground right now, which is and the Academy is trying to put a stake in the ground to help the movie theaters. It is not going to work because the economics are not as compelling, and they will only get less compelling over time.

This move will mean that comic book movies will rule the Oscars one day. At least until the Academy realizes they are just being a bunch of old fogies.
Exercise.
Certainly not as sexy as Ketamine. But it's effective.
There's lots of studies... here's one pulled out of the bag: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC474733/
Don't you always have to start with the question of "stable relative to what"? Relative to the price of gold? Relative to the price of Bitcoin? Of USD? Of a loaf of bread? Of a unit of energy? Of a plot of land? (Where?) Of a "basket of goods and services"? (What goods? What services? How much of each? In what location?)
And it's not purely a race to the bottom; as expected price levels are achieved, it also becomes possible to read signals in the price, so that medical practitioners who are willing to do extra work (reduce wait times, better followup, home visits, etc.) can charge more to compensate for that, rather than just doing the minimum amount of work necessary in order to get the fixed payment.
Kids with cell phones and hands-off parenting killed theaters for me...
This is ridiculous the more you watch movies the more you want to watch more and in different setup. Here in France pirating is known to have brought back people to theaters (mainly because theaters stroke back with $20 monthly subscription for unlimited entry).

Netflix is an even better vector than piracy because people actually pay royalties to Hollywood to watch movies at home. How can they be so blind?

I’m pretty sure that if they could come up with a combined subscription Netflix+Theaters for around $30 sales would skyrocket.
Actually I think it’s what will happen anyway, depending on how it turn out it will be a cross deal or Netflix will just start to buyback theaters at some point.
Not sure with the amount of sloppy code I have been maintaining for the last couple of jobs.The people appear to be able to do "clever" stuff, but have an inability to keep things simple or follow best practices.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7

Anyone with a license can download the ISO. Even then, you need the license to activate it once it's installed.

This guy was just providing the ISO burned onto a disk, with instruction for the user on how to activate it with their existing license.

Microsoft lost zero revenue - they just don't want people extending the life of their license, because they would rather people needlessly purchase additional licenses...
In what way does "White" play into this discussion?

Islam, whether practiced by whites, blacks, Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, is clear in its denouncement of homosexuals as people. Islam doesn't even separate the act from the person, the person must be killed as prescribed in the Quran.
Well, that's specifically my point - fundamentally the two attacks are the same. The key part here is the BGP leak itself. This specific attack would potentially be solved by DNSSEC, but if you can poison the internet routing table, you can just advertise a route for the IP you want to steal traffic from just as easily.

The potential downside there is the specificity - last I checked, the internet routing table won't take anything more specific than a /24 - so if you can't provide a more specific route, as-path-length becomes the next determining factor, so you might be in a situation where you can announce the DNS cidr with more specificity and not whatever IP is in the A record... But that's pretty far outside of your control and could just as easily flip the other way.

All of this is to say: I think the important part of this whole thing was the BGP hijack, and not necessarily the lower level specifics, because the hijack isn't dependent on a lot of those specifics.
Is it fair to say this is objectionable mostly due to the government enforcement of one "score" per person?

After all, we have a "karma score" here on HN and we think it's great... in part, presumably, because it's opt-in and it doesn't follow you around.

Is there a middle ground? As in, an identity service that offers this kind of "trustworthiness score" across services but it's opt-in and you can have as many "identities" as you'd like. You could use a high-trust real-name identity with certain online accounts like banks but also have the ability to use throw-away identities for anonymous browsing and commenting? If such an identity protocol included some kind of cryptographic chain of proof as a way to validate the trustworthiness, it could be quite useful.
> the value Peter Norvig is trying to provide is making readers understand the principles, he's not trying to provide some monetary value

I think he's trying to show how to approach solving this kind of problem. Juniors will copy it, and will then write tests in a business-logic environment which have dubious value.

The code shows how to solve the problem very well. The tests do not.
A few years back my son got his tonsils taken out at a private hospital in the UK (my employer at the time provided it) - after the operation the anesthesiologist and apologized and said that due to a billing mistake I'd have to pay an additional amount directly and handed me a bill.

Having read horror stories about medical billing in the US I was prepared for a shock. However the bill was for something like £4.50... :-)
> it would probably have taken 12 years to get to where I am vs 6

This isn't a small difference, it's huge. 6 years of your most productive adult years.
Not only was it false, but the representative of the company that made the accusation works for VW - the same company that lied and defrauded customers by installing emissions cheating software on their cars.
Yeah, I've come to appreciate that their frustrating robot.txt policy is actually a wise way for them to avoid chipping away at the complete archive. Obviously they have a mission that stretches far beyond the lifespan of todays internet users and the relevance of robot.txt files.
And fixing this, is exactly what this 64-bit Tiano Core UEFI for the Raspberry Pi 3 is for. :-)
Nowadays counterfeit means the vendor says it's counterfeit. The burden is on the buyer to prove it's not
My issue with theater popcorn isn’t the price, it’s the fact that it tastes like stale styrofoam covered in “buttery” oil, at least in America.
I'm sorry. I actually misread that, yes.
Windows can be installed without a license but must be activated online using a valid license within a certain time frame (128 days?).

Windows 10 activation is done by device fingerprinting to match a license which is different from how windows was activated in the past. With previous versions of Windows you activated by providing a product key.

Restore and Recovery discs are different form standard installation media, the kind you can download for free from Microsoft.

R/R discs are custom builds from the OEM, who is required to have a software distribution license from Microsoft, and don't usually prompt for license activation. They circumvent the need for the user to input a key by either storing it on a recovery partition, in the BIOS, or hardcoding it on the media.

> To use your analogy, it would be like you redistributing an encrypted book file that the publisher had emailed me when I bought my hard copy, but I couldn't open it anyway unless I had the key from the back cover.

Not just distributing, selling without permission of the publisher and decryption keys are widely available online.
I wonder if they can make it behave like Elixir's pattern matching. Multiple functions with different params, same name.
No, because it's a rant, and it's an off-topic rant to boot. It's like someone has an axe to grind, and takes a slightly-related topic as an excuse to try to hijack the discussion onto their pet hobby horse. That doesn't contribute to a good discussion.

Also, it's borderline paranoid conspiracy theory drivel.
quantopian.com sounds interesting. I am going to check it out.
> people without insurance or high deductibles get screwed.

I've used the high deductible plus HSA approach since it was an option. I don't know if this varies by state or plan, but all I ever pay is what the insurance company considers allowable.
Propose an alternative.
Chicago Is Trying to Pay Down Its Debt by Impounding Innocent People’s Cars
I would like to see a stronger law:

Hospitals and doctors must post their price list online.

Hospitals and doctors must disclose to each patient before any non-emergency service how much that service will cost. The disclosed cost must be consistent with the price list and must not depend on what insurance is involved.

Hospitals and doctors must not give any non-charitable discount to anyone that lowers the total amount that they charge below the listed price. (With the possible exception of Medicare.)

Hospitals and doctors must not attempt to collect more than the listed and disclosed price from any patient for any service.

In other words, if a doctor is willing to see a patient with some particular insurance plan for $100 (split between the insurer and patient however the insurer sees fit), then that doctor cannot bill a patient $300 for the same service becaues they have a different insurer.

Yes, a law like this would thoroughly invalidate the entire way that insurance contracts work right now in the US.
Medication does work. I had depression for about a year, and they gave me Paroxetine. It is very effective. It was a bit complicated to get off the med, as I got some side effects when I stopped (sensations of falling down, that kind of thing).

Anyway, probably best to talk to a doctor about it.

Hypericum extract is supposed to help in episodes of mild depression and is much less problematic that strong meds.
What's your company? (Your HN profile is empty).

Shameless self-promotion is encouraged in this type of reply so don't be shy!
With that approach, you increase the number of threads being used for a single "block" by how deep your "wait" stuff goes.

In C# and Python, an async context shares a single thread loop that all joins jump back to. Simply starting a thread and waiting on it isn't suitable in most scenarios, namely web and UI dev.

I wish Go had something like this as well.
>Louis Farrakhan. Joy Reid. Hillary Clinton

These people were called out (or continue to be called out) for their actions and words, and unlike their counter parts on the right had the intelligence to correct for it. Whether you believe it to be sincere is kind of irrelevant, so I'm just going to stave off that talking point right there. Notable "leftist" institutions like the SPLC track such statements and view points and won't play disingenuous games with who they point a spotlight on.

>but I would argue, even more insidious.

Please do. I'd love to see how "bigotry" on the left is somehow equivalent to the decades of economic and social policies advanced by the right+ in the U.S.; policies that have quite literally decimated entire communities across the nation via incarceration, lack of education, and lack of capital access.
The ability to figure out actual requirements from poorly phrased requirements is also a very valuable skill to have as a software developer.
the [28,000] disks had "labels nearly identical to the discs provided by Dell for its computers and had the Windows and Dell logos," the Times wrote. As a result, Lundgren pleaded guilty to two of 21 charges, conspiracy and copyright infringement. He told the paper, "If I had just written 'Eric's Restore Disc' on there, it would have been fine."
So who pays for the treatment of people who can't afford to pay for their own private health insurance?
Dental care more or less already works like this, and I've certainly shopped around for dentists. And optometrists.
I'm a longtime Flickr paid user (still am, as others have said, mostly from inertia). I am curious, if Flickr and Smugmug will stay separate, what differences between the two will be highlighted/ upgraded? What does the new owner envision will be their respective "expertise". For now I'll stick with Flickr, but I'd love to learn more about how Flickr and Smugmug will be similar and more importantly, different. There are so many photographers out there - differing quality, attention span, interests, and purposes.. so time will tell if/what niches these two entities will be touted to meet best.
> The supposed law broken here (none, actually) is based on multiple judges being absolutely clueless about technology

The problem is we criminally charge commercial infringement. The defendant put others' logos on disks he sold. This shouldn't result in jail time, but that's what the law says. The problem isn't the court, it's the law.
It depends on the field and the policy would best be followed in an area like experimental psychology, where replication is not extremely costly (and where it might be an especially large program).
The article doesn't mention it explicitly, but this is a nice example of how using Bayes theorem helps you ignore the hard-to-compute normalization term of the input space. In the article, this is the P(w) term of

P(c|w) = P(c)P(w|c)/P(w),

where c is a correction, and w is the original word.

The author does implicitly talk about this when he explains that P(c|w) conflates the two factors, but it's also not that hard to see that getting a handle on P(w) -- the probability space of misspellings -- is harder than getting a hold of P(c) -- the probability space of actual words, and Bayes lets us get rid of the former during optimization.
I laughed pretty hard after reading this blog post.

Netflix movies have been on a horrific downhill trend in quality (though their documentaries have remained great). After the Adam Sandler flicks, Bright, The Cloverfield Parodox, and especially Mute, it's become clear that Netflix's film department has no fucking clue what they're doing. It's getting to the point where people I know who are avid Netflix bingers would literally rather rewatch a show or film they just saw than watch the latest Netflix film.
Or hospitals could have on site urgent care
Anecdote: along with the public health care system in Italy, there's a parallel, private system if you want something a bit fancier, or a bit faster for non-urgent things. One of the things that made me laugh was when I went through that to see a local ear-nose-throat doctor. I was able to call and ask for prices on the phone.

In other words, along with covering everyone via the public system, Italy's private system is a better functioning market than the US system.
Quite a lot actually! I paid a bit under 10 grands Canadian, but the total value is much higher (got everything on sale.)

But when considering I use it every day (netflix, spotify, 4 game consoles, 2 computers) it still costs much less than going to the theaters every other day for 2 years yet the experience is better; always got the best seat, no crowds, no commute, high-end quality :)

The way I think about it is in the long term. I'd rather have high-end stuff thats a one-cost expense I'm going to use for decades, than cheap stuff I constantly replace or upgrade. In the end I pay less and enjoy myself more on the way. I also set money aside when planning such purchases instead of using credit, while looking for sales in the meantime.
We take it for granted now, but it wasn't that long ago that theaters deliberately degraded the experience by deciding to show advertising prior to a film. Movie trailers are one thing, but when I see the same ads that I see on TV, I think I'm better off staying home.
> Randall Newman, Lundgren’s lawyer on the appeal, said there was no basis to seek a rehearing from the full 11th Circuit. Lundgren said an appeal to the Supreme Court would be a costly long shot.

The tech community should band together and fund Lundgren taking this to the Supreme Court. It's worth trying to stop this precedent.
MacBook Pro from late 2013 is just as difficult to repair, only cheaper because they don’t have touch bar. I can’t replace the keys at home (expensive parts, so many things can go wrong), so it’s waiting for pickup to go to a company to stay there.

I’ll probably sell it and replace with another Lenovo, which is one of my machines since 2011 and it’s only two philips screws away to receive maintenance and upgrades.
Reading the comments here I find it interesting how management totally ignores feedback from developers. A lot of devs think open offices and endless meetings are a drain on productivity. So you would think the reasonable response would be to address these issues to get as much productivity out of these often highly paid people but instead the top guys often do exactly the opposite. It's a very curious dynamic.
I was considering getting a Mac Mini for Xcode and developing remotely on it using my Linux desktop. I figure I can just edit the code on the desktop and push it to the Mac when I need to build. If I get a good workflow going I'll share it.
Well if the question is a legitimate duplicate then it is clearly a win for everyone, not least the one asking the question, since now you have a link to answers to your problem which have already been written. Which means now your problem is solved.
Spotify launches a redesigned app with on-demand playlists for free users
If you take Medicare, it is illegal to charge anyone else a lower price than what you charge Medicare. Therefore these prices will be the floor and nothing else.
Currently have some friends and family members pursuing help.

Exercise is key. Probably a hard one to implement, but makes the largest difference in all.

Speak to a counsellor. Pragmatic, impartial perspective seems to be a good addition to other methods.

Eat well. A crap diet will put a lot of drain on your body and its part of a terrible cycle.

I've heard mixed impressions on things like SSRI's, but they can help over the short term to tear you away from burying yourself in negativity. I've heard over the longer term they become rather insufferable due to emotionally suppressive nature of them.

If anxiety is a part of it, other pharms like Citalopram can be a great help to manage attacks and help you see the 'other side' as it were.
I suppose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_Civil_War would be the extreme worst case?
I have a 50" 4k TV that fills most of my vision, surround sound, and fibre Internet to deliver a immense range of content in various flavours of hi def. I switch off the lights and immerse myself just as well as at the cinema, perhaps better given lack of obnoxious punters. What does cinema offer me beyond expensive tickets and food, uncomfortable seats and sticky floors, and aggressive idiots on their phones?
>the people pushing the policies that created our problems are also the most enthusiastic using immigrants as a scapegoat and misdirection

Yup, Trump's wall is a fantastic example
There is indeed a good book's worth of depth: https://www.amazon.com/Finite-Infinite-Games-James-Carse/dp/...
Its possible to use opioids safely with the correct social support structures in place. Rituals, best practices, etc.

Theres a difference between using a drug as part of a positive experience, and habitual constant use to numb pain (whether physical, psychological, or sociological.)

https://harvardmagazine.com/2000/03/deep-cravings.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1247121
>The authors present five case histories illustrating controlled use of opiates ("chipping"). Long-term chippers tend to develop consistent social use patterns that permit and also limit use. The authors conclude that controlled use of opiates is possible and that large numbers of people are involved in such use, although they are hard to locate and identify. Controlled users are differentiated from compulsive users more by their development and maintenance of social drug use rituals than by such variables as availability of the drug and personality and family background of the user.
Everybody is reading this wrong, which isn't a huge surprise because the Post seems to have nobody on hand who understands the facts of the case and relied on an interview with Lundgren heavily. He was not providing people with restore media they could use to fix their own machines. He was taking the restore media, burning it onto discs _with official Microsoft and Dell logos on them_ and then _selling them to computer refurbishers who would then include them with PCs they were selling._ In other words, people were buying PCs with these counterfeit restore discs passed off as actual Dell/Microsoft product. Yes, the media only works with a valid Windows license on the machine already, but reselling the PC like this with the counterfeit restore media likely voids that Windows license agreement. Lundgren is far less innocent than the Washington Post article implies.
I was until my trading provider eliminated API based trades 10 days ago. Commented on it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16310321
What's more telling is many countries such a Canada with full socialized healthcare spend less taxpayer money per person than the US does.

At this point socialized medicine could literally save US taxpayers money while also removing the need for health insurance.
You seem to be using the wrong (though obvious) definition of what it means to be incompetent. A doctor who is incompetent because of poor treatment is handled by the system.

However there are other incompetents that someone who is medically competent can not the less fall into. The doctor with poor human interaction skills makes the patient feel horribly before, during and after treatment. The doctor who takes "bribes" to prescribe a more expensive treatment when a cheaper alternative would work as well. Those are just a couple examples of how someone can be incompetent yet still not raise to the level of not being allowed to practice.