skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first example is about "power posing", it's suggested that this has been "debunked". This has become a controversial topic for some reason (the idea that posture influences mood and mindset is not particularly surprising, but ok) but the episode has less to do about a surprising study being wrong and more to do with people getting carried away with findings.

It's interesting that we treat the debunking treatment with the same appetite for salaciousness though. Very little actual skepticism is reserved for those doing the debunking, because just as people yearn for positive results, they also like to see people being taken down. In Amy Cuddy's case it is particularly strange how personal people got who have attacked her and her line of research became and how eager people are to use the pseudoscience label despite the fact that this is serious research striving to understand a topic that isn't even that controversial to start with. Where does all that passion come from?

In any case, when follow-up studies fail to reproduce earlier findings or when other authors spot issues with the experimental methods used, this is just science working properly. Unsuccessful studies in the wake of a surprising study don't immediately indicate that the earlier study was a failure and to suggest so is to do the scientific method is disservice. A good line of research is going to produce successful and unsuccessful studies, calls for moderate interpretation of findings should go both ways and with respect to how we develop an understanding in the first place.

And for what it is worth, a further analysis of 55 studies from 2017 does show that the line of research has merit. See:

P-Curving a More Comprehensive Body of Research on Postural Feedback Reveals Clear Evidential Value for Power-Posing Effects: Reply to Simmons and Simonsohn (2017)
Made many, many WP sites over the years for clients or otherwise. It's brilliant for what it is. You can do SO much with it. Stuff like this always intrigues me though - I'd happily replace WP for client sites where they may want to make some minor amends to copy / content (and thus I can sell "you can edit it yourself" as part of the package), but they don't have to worry about updating it and all the heaviness that WP brings.
Woah. Not seen that before. That's brilliant.
In the wake of Obama's 2008 and 2012 elections, there was a ton of angst in Republican circles as they woke up to the seemingly insurmountable gap between the innovation of the Obama campaign and the pre-internet tactics of the GOP. Added to the early rumblings against the perceived unfriendliness of the large social networks, this resulted in a huge scattershot investment in a lot of poorly conceived and equally poorly executed projects run by PACs and by the party organization. Romney's election-day tech disasters come to mind as an obvious example. Some sort of oral history from the people involved at the time would be really fascinating.

Anyways, the shoe seems to be on the other foot today, as the Democrats appear to have convinced themselves that they're behind the eight ball on tech matters (a position I find silly, considering the massive advantage they have in potential recruits and sympathetic developers).

Despite all the changes wrought by technology, politics is still played more or less as it has always been. Charismatic politicians (Obama, Trump) carry their party, hiding its weaknesses and exposing the weaknesses of their opponents. "Social networking" is an extremely poor avenue for political organizing (as distinguished perhaps from political rabble-rousing). Politics is still a game of people and personality, and investments in internet technology can only perhaps have an impact at the margins.
In my mind 'manuscript' is a book length publication, while 'paper' is a standard short publication for journals or conferences.
Do any of its subsidiaries even generate revenue?
I've used Haxe a lot and at this point I see its wide array of targets as not only a strength but at times a major weakness. I used the C++ target most often, but didn't have access to all of C++ features because they had no analog on other targets like Lua or Python - essentially Haxe becomes a least common denominator of all its targets. Focusing entirely on C lets me have a great interop story, and C is highly portable already.
Year-long trip may dump 60% lifetime dose of radiation on you
If you’re asking seriously... tmux has a unique interface which is probably not worth learning merely for the purpose of managing multiple active sessions. You also can’t wire it to accept proper GUI commands with the mac command key. Tabs make sense.

Personally I recommend Terminal.app :)
how many gcp products has google abandoned in total?
If you have 2 tmux servers with different hotkeys you can totally nest them safely. I have a different hotkey prefix for my machine and then leave the default for servers. Works great!
I'm gonna dive into those later, thank you.

The way I see it, sensitive information should be offline. But you often need to access it in an automated manner. So set up a secure interface. Secure means that the protocol is minimalistic and you are monitoring unusual access patterns. E.g. serial interface with the sensitive data computer, where you only ask for X and it provides you X. Almost never you need to fetch all data at once. So you can set up some hourly limits or whatever. You can use microcontroller to validate data transmission. You can set up a hardware button if necessary. The beauty of it, is that the sensitive box could be running windows 3.11. The attack surface as minimal as it can be.

When you have it on a computer that's connected to the Internet, in my eyes you already lost the game. I'm quite convinced it looks the same in the eyes of some 3 letter agencies, and it sure gets an average script kiddie excited.
there's no guarantee he lasts beyond a month. streaming is very "fad" driven. follow the memes.

you're also ruling things like health issues, etc.
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After years of clicking cancel as a student, I was more than happy to shell out the full amount for a license after my first paycheck. Don't think I would've stuck around if the free versoin was gimped in any way.
"In 1994 a group led by John Harper of the BCS Computer Conservation Society started a project to build a working replica of a bombe. The project required detailed research, and took 13 years of effort before the replica was completed, which was then put on display at the Bletchley Park museum."

...says Wikipedia
Acquitted literally means "free from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty."
>It comes down to this: We're talking about a guy who plays video games while other people watch. And people want to mandate _who_ he plays with. What right do they have to demand that?

This is called rationalizing...
I think you are massively underestimating the ability of social media to manipulate behavior. These things are built just like casinos, to occasionally give you a hit of dopamine and keep you playing until you get another.
Regardless of the demonstrated use case, these principles can be applied to improve the performance of web pages that use JavaScript
Can certain types and angles of reporting be incentivized by the deep state and/or public fervor without direct "collaboration"? Or is every article a state sponsored propaganda-or-nothing deal?
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Yea, sounds like you have a culture mismatch, I wouldn’t play either if I had pet phrases I couldn’t say.
>We as a community of developers have learned a lot about the power of DVCS since git and mercurial got started. I'd say even the developers of those two tools have learned a lot since then.

So are we going to have something better than both hg and Git? There hasn't been any new DVCS for a long time.
I’m going to guess that food allergies is something MEPS would catch. As a former grunt I can’t see how having a major food allergy would work. There’s too much to worry about to also make sure your supply lines also have just the right amount of xyz food intolerant meals. Food prep for patrols was “throw a box of MRE’s in the truck and let’s go”.
> If you are poor and/or minority, the state can and will railroad you and the jury that holds your life in thier hands won’t be of your peers. Do you think that a cherry picked jury will really be that concerned if some poor Black kid gets locked up for life?

I did say it's an imperfection measure of protection against that. But frankly, the court is just not going to take you seriously unless it's clear that you will appeal any decision you don't agree with it. Sorry but ... that's how the world works. Still, the alternative in force in Europe does not seem better, in fact it seems significantly worse.

If you watch videos of judges in the Netherlands I assure you, first, the prosecutor is essentially the same, and second the judges ... to say that they are arrogant, unsympathetic and frankly assholes is a serious understatement of reality. Prosecutors are rewarded based on convictions, like in the US.

I think this video, even though the source is a bit ... gmrbl (I DO NOT agree with 99% this website posts) ... But this is the reaction of Jaap Smit, judge and vicepresident of the Amsterdam "fast" court, to a camera:

https://youtu.be/grW-nVrAWvM?t=18s

You can tell what sort of person he is, no ?

They apparently filed a complaint ... and surprise nothing happened.
There is a good case that five women have been denied the physics Prize because of their sex, including J.B.B. (although she herself disagrees). However, all the people who won did deserve it, which keeps the prize from being considered a joke, unlike literature (Bob Dylan) and peace (Obama).
I would think adding more salt would only worsen the problem. Adding soluble salts are used to precipitate other salts (e.g common ion effect). Not sure how valid that is here tho.
I have a fitbit (and have owned several different models). You can easily score a lot "steps" by air-drumming, so it shouldn't be hard to make it look like you are very active.

It would of course be pointless to have a fitbit if you cheat, so in practice it is going to be a small number of steps that miscalculated, so it is fairly accurate, but that changes once I get a bonus for hitting 10k steps.
This will be added in the near future. Thanks for the support!
Is it possible to use this outside of the context of Git? Such as diffing 2 different files or directories?
I'm planning to get a more detailed comparison with languages in the same space. Kit and Zig overlap quite a bit; the main difference I see is philosophical. A major goal in Kit is to be concise, expressive and eliminate boilerplate; Zig perfers to be straightforward and readable, where a function call at runtime always looks like a function call in your code. Term rewriting and implicits are examples of features in Kit that probably wouldn't be implemented in Zig. Also, Zig aims to replace and compete with C, Kit just wants to leverage it, so the scopes are quite different.

Zig is awesome - I've used it and would use it again, I'm funding the creator on Patreon, and I see these two languages as filling slightly different niches and having different pros and cons.
Any word on the testing situation? Currently, my inaugural app has a bunch of tests which won't run as a) you can't use plugins in unit tests, and b) integration tests (via flutter drive) won't work with platform channels, as it has a dependency on dart:ui.
Honestly, if all you're building is a 5 page website its simpler to bundle infrequent content updates into a maintenance retainer with the client. In my experience there's no such thing as a simple CMS, its either small enough that you can handle it via email, or complex enough to need something larger.
I would be interested in knowing how often trials with a hung jury are retried. Presumably if it goes that long and is that contentious there is a fair amount of resources that have already gone into it, would the state look at it as a sunk cost? Are they more likely to retry a case hung on 11-1 as opposed to say 8-4?
Just to be a bit annoying; I know a ton of people that download SublimeText and just ignore the little thing saying "Sublime is licensed software please pay", though I find that long term it does lead to them getting their employer to pay for it. Is SublimeMerge going to have a similar model?

Just a sidenote, good on you for keeping SublimeText fast and optimized. There are way too many systems out there that have moved to the "put every single application ever inside a self-contained chrome". I usually recommend Sublime before I recommend Atom because of this.
I believe there are tricks you can use to bypass that (attempting to download a free app?).
This is pretty shallow for an "inside" look, rattling off one-liners about various big money actors feverishly scrambling to hinder Trump or help progressives or Democrats, and how none of them seemed to have a lasting impact, but the bulk of the focus is on some plausibly-satire yet actually submarine app for a comedian, presumably laced with the sort of absurdist humour that people on the cusp of Millennials and Gen Z appreciate. In doing so, it succeeds in being a more half-hearted attempt at journalism than the political swaying of the businessmen it tried to cover.

The only true insight is the throwaway comment by the Virginia candidate for Delegate, where he lost by a handful of votes, and laments the Democratic party's increasingly obsolete and wasteful rules for advertising. Ironically, that has little to do with Silicon Valley, but there's real meat there that's worth exploring.
Last month, the official date for the SLS was June 2020. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/work-begins-on-rocke...

In 2017 they were saying it would be ready by 2019. Before that it was 2018. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/senior-official-nasa...
> This is weird because Bombes are really, really not computers

That's why it's generally called machines rather than computers. But the media plays loose with words to make the story more interesting.

Also, the british bombes were way too slow to be effective.

It was actually the US Navy that produced effective code breaking bombes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe#US_Navy_Bombe

You can see one at the National Cryptologic Museum in Maryland.
Yes, you would also read some research papers relevant to your work and cite them in your paper. So typically intro, hypothesis, experiments, results, conclusions/next steps.
I guess that was kind of my point: the terms don’t map well to any concrete economic description.
Come on, give avip some credit! That's one of the best comments ever to appear on HN.
“Remote Arbitrary Code Execution” Through JavaScript
You know the "this is good for Bitcoin!" response to any negative news is mostly a joke these days, right?
Won't solve the fundamental issue.
Analysis of liquidity (and illiquidity) in Bitcoin markets
I'd be interested in looking at co-developing something. I have been kicking around ideas about using constraint programmning for electronics CAD in my head for quite a while which is why I found this blog post so fascinating.
I began developing something I called Footwork [1] where you could write KiCad footprints in Racket, with the end goal of hooking this up to the Rosette constraint programming DSL, but I didn't get very far with it.

I know there are some experiments like fpmagic [2] and people drawing KiCad footprints in Freecad [3] (which I assume lets you draw using constraints). Like you said, there are proprietary commercial solutions as well but I rarely find the time to assess them.

After reading this blog post and looking at the author's libfive, I thought I would play around with that and see if I could start a solution using it. I'd be interested to hear what your own approach to this would be though.

[1]: https://github.com/monostable/footwork

[2]: http://fpmagic.engineerjs.com/

[3]: https://forum.kicad.info/t/import-create-footprint-dxf/11818...
How does it compare to Fork? My currently favorite Git client.
I wonder if there’s some context lost here with the term “sensitive”. I’ve seen data classifications use words like that. While “secret” and “ultra secret” is accurately described as “sensitive” or “confidential” the latter could be the names for distinct lower levels of data classification.

So this might check enough security boxes to allow public data and the data classification tier immediately above that on the same box. That might be as innocuous as HR data or something that could be released to the public after redacting some personal information.

Granted, my charitable speculation would require some inflexible or impractical data handling rules but I think a government bureaucracy could more than manage that.
Granting the right to private property ultimately deprives people of access to necessary resources. Private property is what forces people to have to pay ever-increasing rent, or work more hours for less pay. It's an inherently unstable social system because those with more property can more easily increase their ownership and thereby make it harder for those with no property from ever getting any.
Can you expand on how those regulations prevent you from competing on things other than price?
You just read other papers, find the ones you like, then try writing something similar in novelty, usefulness, layout and style.
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The book-length publication would a book or monograph if shorter. "Article" would be in my mind for non-peer-reviewed outlets. I typically use "manuscript" for papers that have yet to be published. -- I edit the above and I write "papers" instead of "manuscripts" to avoid confusion.
By not buying and not using their services.
Leave no dark corner (Realtime Surveilance Dystopia)
Thank you, world by Scott Aaronson
The percentages depend heavily on the specific university and on what you want to study.

How this works is that you have a set number of spots. Each person that applies for a spot gets points for high school grades, additional achivements, social conditions (I think), etc.

Everyone gets sorted by points. If there's 100 spots, top 100 applicants, point-wise, get in.
I agree, but as someone who works on airgapped networks it effectively doubles (if not even more so) overhead and burden, and not only for infrastructure and administration but you end up duplicating and creating a lot more work for every person.
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This is a huge concern, if you spend any amount of time working in an airgapped environment this becomes painfully obvious.
As you explain, the "correct" timezone does not correspond to most people's preferences. Metropolitan France's position within its timezone is a better fit for my preferences than the positions of more easterly countries in the same timezone.

I don't care where the sun is at noon; I care where the sun is after work.
PagerDuty - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=758653. Valued at $1.3B this month.
> What is the primary reason to create a new programming language?

The reason is that creating a new programming language is easier than learning C++.

For this same reason none of these languages will ever amount to anything useful. If you have the patience and foresight to bring a new programming language to fruition, then you have the patience and foresight to learn C++. You grow up and start programming in a real language.
Huh? What do you mean?
Instead of tech maybe they should have a real message that appeals not only to upper middle class or tech millionaires. The 2016 campaign showed to me how out of touch the Democrats are with most of the country. Silicon Valley has even less of an idea what's going on outside their bubble. As long as they have such disdain for the working class they will keep losing. At least Obama had a message. That's something I don't see today.
I feel like there's a gold rush on three-letter language names. It's going okay so far, but Nit and Zit and Nag had better have some nice features.
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Azure Dev Spaces, Kubernetes development experience for teams
People at Slack had the same doubts before they chose that name[1], but clearly it was a non-issue

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/633164558/slack-flickr-stewar...
Yeah, but that's only on real stores, not online?
I get plenty of "newsletters" I never signed up for. Those deserve to be marked as spam. I can't trust that the unsubscribe link isn't used to harvest email addresses that are still in active use, so clicking one of those links is a net negative for me.
Nice. Is the code search the same as what Google has internally? I do miss that.

(Though honestly, the value from the internal code search was that everything was in there. So if you got an error message from a service you were a client of, you could just search for the error message in their code and see what it actually meant. "Aha, this 'optional' field that's marked 'deprecated' isn't actually optional or deprecated," most of the time ;)
In retrospect, the amazing part wasn’t the science so much as americans working for something other than profit. Naturally, it was a proxy war instead. If only we could get our current batch of war hawks to push for research instead of bombings maybe we’d actually get something as a country out of our massive defense budget....
You’ve tried the rest, now try the longest-lasting: M.R.E. pizza, developed at an Army laboratory in Natick, Mass., is designed to remain fresh in storage for up to three years.

Fresh? Yah, a lot of words can be used to describe MRE’s but “fresh” is not one of them. Even mundane, seemingly easy to store foods, end up tasting terrible and have horrible texture. Most of HN couldn’t finish a slice of MRE bread with MRE peanut butter or cheese spread (oh yes we do) on it.

When I got back from Iraq I tried Jiffy for the first time in over a year and couldn’t believe how amazing it tasted. I think the words I used to describe MRE peanut butter included “tire rubber”.
My SO works in a library but does academic research in her own time.
It's difficult to find the time, but writing papers during evenings/weekends and, where possible, presenting them at conferences has resulted in some degree of success e.g. a published book, invitations to participate in editing/reviewing. Getting a full-time academic post is difficult, though, as there is a lot of competition for the few in the field that come up.
Well you know, security is a compromise. It's all about raising the bar for attackers while not penalizing too much regular users.
The same way most Americans don't approve of or want to be associated with Trump. Democracies allow more freedom of choice, but large minorities or even small majorities in democracies can be ruled by people they see as detrimental to the country or opposed to their own personal views.

I'm sure this is compounded by voter intimidation, limits on free speech, etc.

We have a long way to go in the US and Russia until every person is directly represented by either themselves or someone they ideologically agree with. Winner take all democracies are certainly better than aristocracies or dictatorships, but still result in the misrepresentation of huge portions of the population.
> The number of prisoners per capita seems to indicate that it's not just anecdotes.

Well, the sheer number of prisoners, and whether or not they are guilty are two totally separate issues. After all, someone committed the murder in this case, so you need to put that person in prison.
>considering the massive advantage they have in potential recruits and sympathetic developers

I don't think most developers are actually leftists, but if you're a right-winger your career is in jeopardy, so you learn to shut up about it.
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