skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure thing! In broad strokes, the most formal way (in our field's typically frequentist paradigm) to calculate confidence/significance is to build a robust statistical model for your entire experiment (including the random effect that various uncertainties, etc will have on the outcome), and then to randomly synthesize many many outcomes of your experiment with respect to a given hypothesis. The outcome of each "pseudoexperiment" is boiled down to a single number, known as a test-statistic, and this way we can generate a distribution of that test statistic that gives you an idea of the probability of any given outcome. Then, when we do the experiment for real and get a single outcome, we can evaluate the compatibility of that outcome with the distribution of possible outcomes sampled from the statistical model (e.g. by calculating a p-value). Generally the Profile Likelihood Ratio is chosen as the test statistic at LHC experiments.

This is possibly the most highly-cited statistics paper in our field:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.1727
It provides asymptotic formulae that allow us to estimate these p-values without having to simulate our experiment tens of thousands of times. But it also gives a nice overview of the different test statistics one might use.

"LHC Statistics for Pedestrians" is short and informative, but a bit haphazard and probably assumes you're familiar with a lot of jargon:
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1099994/files/p205.pdf

"Practical Statistics for the LHC" is a much more complete and thorough introduction, but it's quite long and technical:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07622

"Statistics for searches at the LHC":
https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2487
Similar to the previous one, but maybe more words and less math. Perhaps one of these will resonate with you more than the others!

Lastly, here is a public note that was created jointly by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations prior to the Higgs boson discovery. Basically, we got together and came up with a consistent way to present new results from the LHC, and this note documents those protocols:
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1379837
Why is the larger one better? i use email mainly over IMAP and can't see the better in using Gmail. Yes, you should prefer smaller email provider. We live in the cyberpunk world now, corporations are the ones with power.
Most people are thinking of this from the GitHub perspective, but MS Office is bigger, and random document editors could benefit a lot from smarter, easier version control.

That's just one example, but I'm honestly most curious if any ideas will go from GitHub to other products.
Also, the Forza (custom) and Far Cry (CryEngine/DuniaEngine) series. Titanfall uses a modified Source engine IIRC.
> the gluons annihilate into a virtual "loop" of top quarks (which are very massive), which then "lend" their mass to produce the Higgs.

Why are the words "loop" and "lend" in quotation marks? Are they just a handy visual a lay person would understand to describe a more complicated phenomenon? Is there no better word to describe what is happening, including within your field, but it isn't a technically accurate description?

I'm envisioning a room full of highly educated folk excitedly talking over each other... "Well it looks like a ring, but it doesn't quite meet up..." "It looks like a disc, but with more 'weight' to it..." "No, it looks like a loop-the-loop on a roller coaster!"
Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly [video]
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Because it does add value.

Brand awareness/clout. A reminder that you need or want that thing.
> I’m really surprised by all the Microsoft hate as if we were still in the 80-90’s.

You think the privacy nightmare of windows 10 happened in the 80's-90's?
I do, we are talking about a non-linear spinor dynamic here, omitting the gamma algebra inherited by Dirac spinors. This algebra is well known and omitted as it would render the text confusing indeed as spinor products are of relatively high order (psi-27 and psi-19).
Wow! This is amazing. Thank you!
Kubernetes and OpenStack solving AI complexities at scale
It’s fairly amazing the state of the laptop industry... the fact that we’d probably all be happy with worse screens, heavier chassis, smaller touch pads, worse speakers, worse battery life - in return for a functioning keyboard and as much ram as a solid PC from almost a decade ago... If you had told me this in 2002 I would have bet good money against it, and yet here we are...
That explains why it is blocked on my enterprise network.
Why Sanitary Napkin Market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 5.2% by 2023
That's true, except it is not common for a server to "die" every second day. It is not a problem to have uptimes in years. But due to updates it is reasonable to have a few minute downtime every few months. If you require 100% high availability (which only handful of people and companies really need) then you can set up a cluser on Kubernetes/Docker.
Excellent article and tips! I learned a lot from Joel's knowledge on Puppeteer and its intricacies.

I'm running a somewhat different business of which Puppeteer is a pretty big part. All points made in the post are valid, I could only add the following after having run ~400k Puppeteer sessions.

- Race conditions happen. This issue [0] is causing roughly 3% of all Puppeteer runs to fail in my case. I had to bake in a retry mechanism.

- Memory matters, CPU not so much. Just looking at my Librato and AWS stats, the CPU is mostly idle when running multiple concurrent sessions.

- One way to establish compartmentalisation is to actually run each scraping session in a separate, one-off Docker container. You pass in the code via a disk mount or such. No hassle with too many tabs, or shared context between runs. Each container is destroyed after running.

[0]: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/issues/1325
I clicked on it. I’m a regular visitor of HN. q.e.d.

And I want to look good on photos, 'cause I’m a good looking hacker in RL.
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yes it does indeed - it operates in much the same manner - set by the clock or manually enabled.
I wouldn't say it's true, but it shows we all got trapped in a way. Let's take Mac OS development. In order to be able to publish apps, you need to have a recent version of Xcode. In order to use a recent version of Xcode, you also need to have a relatively recent version of macOS. Unfortunately, this also means your hardware need to be up to date. When you discover you can no longer develop on your 2012 machine, you buy a new one with a fast processor and plenty of RAM. (NB Even your app is so simple it could run on 3GS perfectly well, your lowest target is set at devices supporting the most recent iOS, but it's a topic for another discussion.) Now you feel the full power of your hardware and your opinion of what it means "current hardware" and "fast app" changes. You start to say things like "Come on, it's 2018, 8 GB RAM is low-end." You stop caring about these Core 2 devices because it looks like Apple doesn't care about them too, co why would you? In this way the machine is pushed forward, and we're becoming more and more wasteful.
I would like to know what you consider as knowledge.

Yes, there are lots of developers who do not know algorithms and data structures in depth, yet they get the job done because most jobs simply do not require it.

It's not a universally accepted fact that college helps everyone, it helps some kind of students while others are better off without it.

But i think you simply downvote the comments who you do not agree with.
Just what I want, an app that will show me ads instead of Facebook ;)
There's just a blurb there, maybe consider using the included link.

https://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/the-truth-about-tolls-...
> ... even though the user wants them separate ...

Which "the user" is this? The same user that uses GitHub's OAuth as single-sign-on credentials for other partnering sites like TravisCI, etc? If I was in the MS ecosystem and already had an identity that I could re-use (and didn't already have a GH account), I'd probably use that, just like those who login to various websites with their Google, Facebook, Amazon, or even Twitter SSO identities. I don't see how expanding SSO to Microsoft accounts would hurt anyone.
He has to release the code because he is distributing an application (as in, distributing the binary files) based on GPL code. If you don't distribute anything, you don't have to share anything, that's the point of the parent comment.
The reality is very simple: I don't want any website (except those where I choose to sign-up and sign-in with a personal account) or any of its partners or whoever to save any data about me and provide any kind of "personalization" (I have even set up an extension to delete all the relevant cookies as soon as I close a page). And now I have a right to demand this yet the sites choose to annoy me by requiring to disable every piece of this crap manually before letting me in. GDPR does not allow them to just deny me entering if I don't allow tracking but it seemingly does allow them to annoy me and I'm sure they're doing it as annoying as possible intentionally.

By the way there even is a simple standardized way to know if I give my consent for tracking me or not without asking - the Do Not Track HTTP header field. That's a pity Microsoft has screwed it by turning it on by default. I wish GDPR would just require every website to respect this flag.
...you don't actually think that the majority of government bids are anything more than for show, right?
You value (individual) developer freedom more than user freedom. Which is totally fine. However, the goal of Free Software is user freedom. Copyleft licenses help with user freedom because a program released under that license can never be made proprietary by other developers, every contribution to that program will be free so the users (and original dev, and other devs) can benefit from it without sacrificing their freedom.
As a long-time professional game engine programmer, it is hard for me to see consternation over things like this, and avoid judging it as mainly ignorance. The amount of code in an engine that needs to touch the graphics API is tiny. A handful of methods for device init, filling buffers, uploading shaders, setting state, and saying "draw!" All of the graphics API code can easily fit in one medium-sized source file. As a proportion of the whole engine, it's very small. As a proportion of the whole game or app, it's negligible. It's also boilerplate. There are only so many ways to copy a stream of structured data into a buffer.

Legacy software, blah, blah, blah. No legacy software runs forever, and least of all on Apple platforms. Who cares.
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Gotta go down as one of the best acquisitions, it is clearly a foothold for Apple that allows them to release products no one else can... Custom silicon chips are the basis for nearly all of their differentiating products - FaceID / Airpods / Apple Watch
Any Mac that can use an eGPU.
Well it's a phase change system you can just use it to power your home steam engine.
Đi Mỹ EB5 như thế nào là đúng và an toàn
Làm sao để được thẻ xanh Mỹ cách an tâm, kết quả và nhanh chóng là vấn đề của nhiều khách hàng. để có giải đáp thắc mắc đó, dịch vụ tư vấn ImmiCa mang đến cho quý khách tin tức liên quan các phương pháp xin ở hiện nay quy mô lớn ngày nay. bởi những đổi mới trong quy luật về sự kiện định cư Mỹ, thẻ xanh Mỹ mà ngày nay có ba cách chủ yếu mà bất luận khách hàng nào ước muốn đến Hoa Kỳ cần làm xem lại và tìm tòi chu đáo. phương án trước tiên là nhập cư theo diện EB-5 dành riêng những người đầu tư tới Hoa Kỳ. cách này cách thức xin ở công nhận là quy mô lớn và có khả năng thành công cao nhất. phương án hai là định cư Mỹ diện EB-3 dành riêng người lao động tài giỏi, người có kiến thức và lao động phổ thông. Đây là phương án lưu trú được cho rằng dành cho đa số người tham gia cao nhất. cách thức xin thẻ xanh Mỹ rộng rãi điều khác là dạng quan hệ bảo lãnh người thân dựa vào mối liên hệ. tất nhiên ở mỗi dạng không giống nhau tồn tại các yêu cầu và quy luật khác đi nhưng đây là ba cách thức rộng rãi nhất hiện tại.

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With shops still selling un-upgradable Android devices with 5.1 on them, I seriously doubt non-technical users actually care about it.

https://tinyurl.com/yakmsz6b (sorry, in German)
Too bad Apple Maps < Google Maps, still.
So Adobe, Blender, Maxthon (Cinema4D), Maya, CaptureOne, DaVinci Resolve and 99% of the film, image, photo industry have to rewrite all their OpenCL kernels.

Also currently Metal and Accelerate are completely unsuitable replacement to OpenCL for Deep Learning ... Not that deep learning on OpenCL was a thing yet but I was adding support to it in my own framework.
Technically superior could mean in this case that a rogue plugin does not affect the core editing experience. Having a fixed extension API, if the API is well done, could provide that.

You lose flexibility, you gain stability, discoverability, speed, etc.
People who tend to have such interests I guess don't end up making or producing documentaries. I've found oral histories the best, when some old people have been interviewed with the interviewer getting out of the way so to speak. Don't have the list here so might misremember the names but Robert Brulle, Stanley Hooker and Doron Aurbach for example have interesting life stories.
I do the same but use Restic for incremental backups. The problem is people have minds washed by corporate marketing. Unfortunatelly they think they need multi-datacenter high availabilty, machine learning and big data DBs where only minority people really need it. :(
This is personal view. Caplan's work is mostly about social view.

What is claimed is that while you can make good use of education, society as a whole loses.
For most sites just disabling JS works perfectly, but not for Engadet. I just had a look at their source and found out the actual post ("18-core i9 CPU is still impressive, but that's last year's news") starts at the line 1086! Over one thousand of lines of useless crap before I can read the actual text. Incredible.
Intel introduces the first 5.0 GHz CPU: Core i7-8086K
Loop is definitely a technical term. I guess I shouldn't have quoted it? It refers to a Feynman diagram that looks like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-loop_Feynman_diagram

In quantum field theory, perturbative physical processes can be expressed as the sum of all possible diagrams compatible with the initial and final state of interest. Each diagram corresponds to an integral, and diagrams that have loops are special because they are underconstrained by the initial/final conditions. Hence, you are left with an additional integral over every possible combination of momenta that can be exchanged within the loop. These integrals are usually hard or impossible to compute and may require weird mathematical techniques (like dimensional regularization). So, yes, (theoretical) particle physicists talk about loops a lot!

"Lend" here is total b.s. that I made up. The point is that the gluons can't directly interact with the Higgs boson, so they use their collisional energy to create some massive top quarks that can.
Pretty useful. Was writing a script yesterday to log website availability including the HTTP status of the site.

This will be useful to make sure my script works correctly!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17235810
The phone network is federated (even if managed only by big corps), yet it has plenty of users.
Portuguese OutSystems raises 360M
Kubernetes best practices: upgrading your clusters with zero downtime
No, Americans decided (via their states) that they wanted to elect judges. Why? Do you elect teachers? Firefighters?
I had that in mind, which is why I specified isolated incidents
That... was a tough read, nay, more of a plod, it never came to a solid conclusion after a laborious build up, BAH!
And I'm a space/tech geek too, with an appreciation of the arcane, but it needs to be easy to read for those who may not have all the details the author clearly does.
My father worked on the A-12 (OXCART), several space probes, Mariner, Pioneer, etc., Project Gemini and Project Apollo.
He used to bring me green Anole Lizards that he'd find on the Pad at the Cape and he shot 8mm family movies most times he went down for a launch.
Sadly, no cameras allowed in the block house, so I never saw the inside and no home movies of the launches, because he was busy in the block house with the launch.
The Saturn 5 on the crawler slowly headed for the Pad was always my fave movie reel, but also the rain storm inside the assembly building when it's clear outside, that was a trip.
They do more than silence notifications; They allow you to effectively triage.

Your phone beeps and buzzes, you pick it up. The home screen shows "Email notification" because you're privacy conscious and don't show details on the lock screen, so you unlock it and enter your email app. It's marketing crap, so you close the app, but notice a Facebook notification, so you check that. And now you're on Facebook and off task.

Your watch buzzes, you look at it. It says "Gmail" because you're privacy conscious and you don't show the details on the notifications. You press the screen and see that it's spam. You dismiss the notification and the phone returns to showing you the time. You return to work.

Your watch buzzes, you look at it. It says "Gmail" because you're privacy conscious and you don't show the details on the notifications. You press the screen and see that it is from your solicitor saying some documents are ready to pick up. You hit Reply, press the microphone button, and dictate that you'll come over tomorrow after 4pm. You don't even notice there's a Facebook notification on your phone.
Not in terms of name recognition and public interest, which is what I was talking about
> their present has been so good

- Putting adverts directly into their OS (which people pay for by the way)

- Forcing their shitty updates, (and restarts) at the most inconvenient times

- making it impossible to permanently and easily turn off telemetry

Wow, you have low standards. I bet if you ate dog shit, you'd say it's not so bad.
Depending on the project type, the final release package can be just a few hundred KB, like they do when targeting WebAssembly.

OpenGL also does not come installed on my machine.
The masses use email.
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>other companies that make money on the time spent of the platform

This obviously refers to Facebook and the like, not Samsung etc.
because that's what all this manufactured, by-the-numbers pop music is, a cash generator.
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Yes, exactly! This has been exactly one of my major concerns, with respect to the "conventional" option of working with a publisher.
You are not getting the point.

MS will integrate Github with MS Ecosystem ( Azure , .NET , VSTS etc.. ) as described in their slides.

From this point there is two possibility

A - They open every single new API they use as well as UI/UX API so other providers can integrate themself to Github

B - They don't open (or partially) those new API and Azure/MS Ecosystem will be the de facto providers for every single stuff that is possible in github. You will end up with a "Open in [Insert Microsoft Products]" buttons and you won't be able to change that , third party providers won't be able to appear here as well. Github would have never done in the first place because they were independant , now every single stuff they do will have to be linked one way or another to MS.

Watch the slides , everything is very well described. https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https://c....
Yep. These are all fair points.
Number of "words of code"?
require("express")().get("/:status", (req, res) => res.status(+req.params.status || 400).end()).listen(80)
Show HN: Visual Inspector “Studio” available in private beta
Any idea if it would be affected by Spectre?
GitHub wins: Microsoft is shutting down CodePlex on December 15 (2017)
They don't have anything to loose regarding not adopting Vulkan, because all game engines that matter to professional game studios already added Metal support.

Same applies to Photoshop and other relevant 2D and video editing professional tooling.

Professional game studios always favored hardware specific APIs that allows them to extract all the juice up to the last drop.

For example, OpenGL ES 1.0 + Cg on the PS3 was an adoption failure, with everyone adopting the PS3 specific APIs.
The top 40 to me is a list of all the artists I should avoid.
I’m interested in trying it. As far as I know, it’s the only free and open source multi-format build artifact repository.
I'd say, the major concern has been the limited control in terms of the kind of deal I'd be left with.

Could you, please, provide some examples of those small publishers you got in mind (in case you actually did)?

> They'll save you a lot of pain -- don't underestimate the work of printing, marketing, and distribution.

That's a great point! I completely agree.
> Hardly anyone writes their own game engines these days

more people than ever do.
> You start to say things like "Come on, it's 2018, 8 GB RAM is low-end."

No. Electron "developers" may say that. The vast majority of us, do not in fact say that.

I've yet to actually see any argument directly from someone involved, in favour of electron apps besides "it was just or a web app" or "it's quicker/cheaper this way".

If I throw a bucket of house paint over your Honda, that's also quicker. That doesn't mean the result is really what anyone would consider 'acceptable'.
DHT uses UDP and is not encrypted. Go figure
Yeah, that's the idea basically.

And the question had to do with whether having such kind of a "platform" would benefit more from having the book component published by professionals, or self-published.
As much as I value the new file system (interestingly architected by the chap who did the BeFS, if only Apple had bought Be Inc!), it appears to still be lacking all the wonderful features of NTFS.

I'm still on Sierra at the moment as I delay upgrading after all the horrible bugs of the new release have been found - in everyone's opinion, is now a good time to leapfrog High Sierra? Time will tell.
The majority of Americans can’t come up with $500 in an emergency.
For those that don't or can't do Twitter:

Alex Stamos, CSO of Facebook, tweets:

"If this is about protecting privacy, and not just cute virtue signaling, then they should block all 3rd party JS and pixels."

Some funny responses:

""If this is about reducing the climate change, and not just cute consciousness about improving the world, then they should live in the forest with a wooden stick and nothing else" - you know exactly that Apple is trying to balance UX and privacy" @RL_Scharf

"Guy who set the house on fire is upset that he’s being denied access to matches, claims nobody should have them." @poiseavan
You actually defending banks here? The architects of financial crash after financial crash?
PC's use openGL and Directx
All the android devices use opengl ES.
Older ios devices use opengl