skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the whole, I agree with you, but replication is often expensive and in some fields (e.g., software engineering research), it's not enough to warrant a publication in a high profile journal or conference (especially if you confirm the original findings). Heck, you may not even get funding to do that.

Regarding "if you seem to have done everything correctly", I don't think that any honest scientist can claim that his/her study had no limitation or flaw. I regularly review papers for big conferences and there is no such thing as a perfect paper/research project/study. It's more like a threshold: despite the issues, were the findings novel, relevant, and found through a rigorous process? Would the community learn anything valuable by reading this?

Articles like the one cited by OP are useful if they make scientists and normal "folks" realize the limitations of alpha values, they are useful if they make scientists reconsider some of their methods (and way of presenting findings), but they can be harmful if the readers conclude that most scientific findings are "false" and thus, that science is bogus because it cannot find the "truth". Science is rarely, if ever, about true and false, religion is.

P.S.
I realize this answer was more about the article, and less about your reply, it's just that your reply prompted me to write something :-) Again, I agree with you!
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There are scale issues as well:

* things go in the way when you want to move (change of house, country...)

* you have to maintain, clean them, keep things tidy

* you're tempted to take a better insurance (against robbery or fire) as you own more

* you're tempted to buy/rent a larger house (and one extra room costs a lot, which translates into less time available for me)

etc :)
Experience is the only thing you have.
Green tea (mainly, other teas as well), and Blueberry/Bananas/Whey Protein and Soy milkshakes. No alcohol for me! :)
Updated with more relevant links. Also, tsumego is a Google-friendly word. (Unlike Go, which is now a programming language, too. Fortunately there is baduk and weichi.)
Was never much into coffee, so only drink not strong coffee with milk in the morning.

During the day I drink pure water and black tea with strawberry of maybe fruits, something like that.

In the evening I drink fat-free kefir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefir).

About two months ago I started adding as less sugar as possible to coffee and tea and one month ago I drink tea and coffee without sugar at all. I have a feeling that digestive system started working much better after this change.
I did consider it, actually. The thing is, I need to use the Adobe suite a lot, much of that for graphics work, and I loathe Windows. If all I did now was code, I'd consider a Vaio running linux...I would say that's a better value overall if you don't need to do any graphics. I toyed with the idea of getting one and hackintoshing it, but I wasn't really committed to the headache of potentially having a brand new machine play badly with software I need to use daily.

Also, to the poster who wrote about the MBP vis-a-vis video...Yeah. Firewire is what's missing from this machine. I don't do any video work at all anymore so it doesn't bug me. But it would.
Thanks. Much appreciated. I have been thinking this cannot be a 'how to' book, more like 'slice of life' piece but with potential to be instructive in some sense. Then it can be called "entertainment", I don't have to worry about lawyers getting all up in arms about it or something, and provocative is good when it is entertainment, not good when it is advice.
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love those comments next to each company...

Cowan’s college friend rented her garage to Sergey and Larry for their first year. In 1999 and 2000 she tried to introduce Cowan to “these two really smart Stanford students writing a search engine”. Students? A new search engine? In the most important moment ever for Bessemer’s anti-portfolio, Cowan asked her, “How can I get out of this house without going anywhere near your garage?”
You'd think NASA would know well enough to start the y-axis at 0. Lousy graphs of this sort create the appearance of deceit, even in it absence, and wind up giving ammunition to skeptics.
2 liters of water a day.

White tea. Clears the mind and raises energy smoother & better than coffee, without later energy drop. Remember that as for any tea you cannot pour it for more than 3 minutes, otherwise it will make you more sleepy, not less.

Czech & Slovak beer.

White vodka - the healthiest of alcohols, if you know when to stop and don't mix with other booze.
I drink a good deal of diet coke, though less than I used to. As I get healthier, I don't need and cannot tolerate as much caffeine. I also keep an assortment of fruit juice in the house. These days, I frequently mix fruit juice with diet coke. I have even begun taking a small bottle of fruit juice to work and mixing with diet coke bought on site (from a vending machine or the cafeteria).

As for alcohol, I don't tolerate most alcoholic beverages well. I do okay with Kahlua but still don't like the taste. I tend towards frozen drinks, like a Mud Slide or Kahlua Cappuccino. If my tongue is numb enough, I can hardly taste the alcohol. :-/
It would be interesting to know what programming language(s) each of these were written in.
When I lived in SF last (2 - 3 years ago), groceries were inexpensive in comparison to rent and eating out. I think my girlfriend and I spent around $200 per month on groceries (shopping at a Safeway in the financial district) vs $2.1k for rent and $50 - 100$ every time we went out for a decent meal. If you want to be in the city and save money by cooking it does make a big difference.
yes. I wish i could move to an apartment building that offered most amenities already, in which part of the rent is to keep certain things in stock or buy new things. Why buy fancy dishes when you can just "rent" them.
Why does the y-axis of a graph need to begin at 0? 0 is a number like any other number. If the result set you're attempting to display doesn't have any values at 0 then why would you display 0? The graph in question also doesn't show any data points at y=-257,687 ... does that concern you?
That actually sounds quite nice (the second). How do you do it, just squeeze fresh lemon juice into it or some sort of bottled stuff?
i'm in the imperial IPA capital of california, san diego, so i tend to fill a lot of growlers. ballast sculpin (2010 world beer cup winner), port brewery's swami (first imperial ipa in the california style) and booya steez, alesmith's wee-heavy and speedway stout, and we must not forget green flash and all their wares...their imperial ipa probably being the best.

when i'm not drinking that, i drink lots of water. a moderate amount of coffee, some laphroaig or lagavulin (i like the peaty stuff), some noah's mill micro-batch bourbon, and lots of mugicha.
What do you mean 'cannot pour it for more than 3 minutes'?
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Only about 1 in 10 surface weather stations is sufficiently properly sited to produce data accurate to within 1 deg. C.
I would definitely use something like that one day, if it'd have Emacs keybindings. After switching from Mac OS to Ubuntu, i really miss those (C-{F, B, P, N}, M-{E, A}, yank, insert and so on). Well, all those things.

For now, I'm using Emacs Chrome plugin, that creates a button right next to any textarea to type anything more complex than plain text (indents, lots of moving text around etc).

It's nice to have an online pad. But so far Evernote does everything I ever wanted from online type pad, and I still prefer Remember The Milk - for tasks. Although, I'd be much more happy to use Emacs org-mode, but up until now I haven't seen an online service that'd store and present them in some fancy great way. maybe i should build it?..
Thanks. That led me to this page:

http://senseis.xmp.net/?ProblemsAndExercises

Which contains links to actual puzzles.
Espresso, SuperPump 250 for workouts/energy, Lots of water, juice with Greens Plus. Ocassional diet soft drink.
I think at this point, everyone has made up their minds which side to believe, and more evidence isn't going to help the matter, unless it is the sort of rock-hard evidence no one can possibly ignore (like repeated snowless winters in Detroit).
The more i think about it, the more clever the idea of flash using HTML5 as a backend sounds from adobe's perspective. In the (very) long term, it would remove a big maintenance responsability from them, and put part of this weight on the browser's engine shoulders.

They wouldn't have to bear with the vocal linux and mac crowds saying their player sucks, for once, and their stuff would play on other platforms too.

I think Adobe realizes this. The problem is that Javascript performance/graphic performance isn't there yet.
Club Mate when in German speaking lands is a favorite. My other favorite non standard staples are tap water + a few tablespoons of juice, microbrew beers, soy chai with a double shot of espresso, coffee made with Moka pots, and gin.
I'm addicted to beer with coriander, most notably Franziskaner, but also ones like hoegaarden.

Otherwise water is good, or a 1/3 tomato juice 2/3 water blend.
In the late 1970s I played both the women's world champion, and a year later the South Korean national champion in exhibition games. They both mentioned that I was about 2 kyu but experience getting bruised up by an 2 dan amateur makes me think that my rating is less than that - so I would not be a good opponent for you.

My older brother taught me to play when I was eight, and we played fairly equally for about 10 years, Then, within a year's time, I was consistently giving him 9 stones.

Also in the late 1970s, I wrote a Go playing program I called Honnibo Warrior which played poorly. I sold it cheaply for the Apple II (written in UCSD Pascal) and actually made some real money selling the source code.
Fighting a four-year addiction to Vitamin Water :)
One thing that I never regret spending money on: Travel.

Spent a year and a half in Brazil (just came back). Best year of my life.
I think the usual username TAB password ENTER process is simple enough. If you want the space saving you can hide the password field until you press TAB.
Interesting bits about prior publication.
Apparently this new edition will see more than 50% of the content published for the first time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twains_Autobiography
i've spent about 2 months out of each year for the last 7 years travelling to japan or europe. each time there is usually some big ticket item competing for my dollars.

often times, when i succumb to the material good i'm perpetually disappointed with it in what it can't do or offer me.

last year i went around the world (ireland 1wk, england 3wks, france 1wk, italy 1wk, belgium 3days, china 5days, japan 1month) and it cost me about $7500. i was thinking of buying a fancy TV instead. had i bought the TV i wouldn't have spent quite as much, but no doubt i would have just sat on the couch ... watching TV. even though $7500 is A LOT, i've never regretted it. not once.
I used to play Chess when I was much younger and could beat pretty much everyone I knew by age 10-11. That's not saying an awful lot because I didn't know anyone particular good, and that was really the problem.

I lived in a town of about 10,000 at the time (and later in a town of 15-20,000 up until the end of high school) so didn't really have the opportunity to learn and get better. This was before the internet and playing a computer isn't quite the same thing.

It's something I'm a little disappointed about because I wish I'd had that opportunity by living somewhere bigger.

You learn from people who are better than you far more than those that are worse than you.

In university I met up with someone I'd gone to high school with (until he moved). He'd become something of a gun when it came to pool (eight ball). He used to practice 6 hours a day (I later learned) and won a junior state championship. He could beat pretty much any of us with his eyes closed. Once he beat someone when he was drunk only playing with one hand and won convincingly.

I used to play with him and actually got pretty good. By pretty good I mean I could take a game from him maybe 1 in 10-15. Against pretty much anyone else I did extremely well and even did well in the odd local comp (second place I think was my best).

That's what I mean about getting the opportunity to get better.
Edward Tufte agrees with you:

Baselines

In general, in a time-series, use a baseline that shows the data not the zero point. If the zero point reasonably occurs in plotting the data, fine. But don't spend a lot of empty vertical space trying to reach down to the zero point at the cost of hiding what is going on in the data line itself. (The book, How to Lie With Statistics, is wrong on this point.)

For examples, all over the place, of absent zero points in time-series, take a look at any major scientific research publication. The scientists want to show their data, not zero.

The urge to contextualize the data is a good one, but context does not come from empty vertical space reaching down to zero, a number which does not even occur in a good many data sets. Instead, for context, show more data horizontally! .

-- Edward Tufte, October 18, 2001
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
Also see http://code.google.com/p/tempgraph/
I think he means let it steep in the water for at least 3 minutes before pouring.
1) Buy green coffee from http://www.sweetmarias.com/

2) Roast it in a Hearthware i-Roast 2* .

3) Pull a ristretto [1] shot from a Rancilio Silvia* .

4) Enjoy!

I highly recommend home-roasting. It's fun to geek out about it and completely control the process, experiment with different roast levels and curves, etc. You get the freshest coffee in the world. If you drink coffee with any regularity, the roaster pays for itself quickly and then you're saving money on coffee [2].

* Of course other equipment can be used; I mention what I use because after a lot of research, I found these items to be the best bang-for-your-buck for beginners, and I'm quite happy with them after several years.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ristretto

[2] Assuming you like roasting, or at least don't mind it much. I think it's really fun, so it's a double win.
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In the meantime mobile phones will probably (if not already) be most people's interaction with "computing" and there Linux is a compelling story.
Religion doesn't belong here.
Every year my wife and I spend a day throwing out anything we haven't used in a year. Anything that wasn't used for 6 months goes upstairs where it's still accessible, but out of site.

Actually we ebayed a bit last year, and we give stuff to charity shops rather than just throwing it out if we can, but doing this once a year refocuses your view on buying stuff. Will I still use this a year from now has a substantial impact on your buying decisions.

As with many others here, the only expenditure I never regret is travel.
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An interesting concept, albeit insecure. You should never tell the user which element of authentication was incorrect.

Tell the user their username is incorrect and you open yourself up to brute force enumeration of user accounts.

Tell the user their password is incorrect and there's now an easily scriptable way of brute forcing logins for an individual user.

The correct thing is to tell the user their credentials were incorrect, and offer a recovery mechanism based on something else (like an email password reset process).
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+1 if by myself or w/ a buddy. But beers if it's a group hacking session. A group of us meet every Wednesday night and we rotate who comes up with the challenge of the night.
Hi thangalin,

I'm "grooviest" on KGS. I'm only 7 kyu so you'll need to up-skill me to 1 dan so I can give you a nice game (hint hint). My relationship with Go is turbulent. Currently we are in an addictive (God, it's sooo addictive) phase and she is breaking my heart. My one regret in life is that I was 30 years old before I learned how to play. All those wasted years playing chess. sigh I recently moved from my native land of Ireland to snowy central Finland and one of the first things I did was find me a Go club - hello the Tengen Go Club of Jyväskylä, nice people all round.
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Travel is probably the best thing to spend money on. Get out. See the world. It's big and it's weird and you come back a better person for having reveled in it.

(I did 2 months last year - 1 month in Thailand/Laos, 1 month in Europe & Egypt. No regrets, at all, save the mad case of food poisoning in Egypt, but I'll spare you the gory details ;)
For anyone having trouble viewing it here's the guidance from the site:

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In no particular order:

* Water only when I'm thirsty

* Orange Juice

* Coffee in the mornings

* Raw whole milk

* Homemade beef broth

Alcoholic wise:

* Craft beer

* Wine

* Vodka

* Scotch

And that's about it.
I never went beyond 14-12 kyu. I still want to improve, but life is always getting in the way (also, I get pretty nervous when playing and it is discouraging). But I also love the game.
Cowan appears quite a few times in these, and in his profile it says he's on the Forbes Midas touch list.
I would remove the playing 9x9 against igowin. It will do more harm than good. Play them in KGS, or in a play-by-email style in Littlegolem.net or Dragon Go Server, all against real persons.
I would add Erlang and node.js to the list. I need to build a HTTP server for frequent polling for a project that I am working on (polling or websockets if available, lots of users) and I narrowed down building that component in either Erlang, node.js or Python.

I have really taken a liking to the Erlang model. Processes share no memory and communicate by passing messages. There is no shared state locking/mutex.

Once I have more data/information (benchmarks, ease of development/integration etc.) I will publish my results.
If you imagine that Canadian surface stations are sited altogether differently then you're living in a fantasy world.
I've had a design in the works for a few years that is a completely network-based Go AI. The idea is nothing new. It involves multiple computers, each assigned one problem from a board position. One computer might be responsible for calculating ladders, one solves tsumego problems, one to look at influence, one to apply joseki, another for yose, and so forth. Each of submits their top ten moves, in the allotted time, to a master engine. The master engine evaluates the moves (possibly using Monte Carlo simulations) and selects the best.

The idea was more about the framework than the actual worker machines. The ability to add and remove different problem solvers on the fly appealed to me. One of the problem solvers, for example, could be your program, or GNU Go, or a program that runs ten Go playing AIs simultaneously, returning the "best" move from each.
I thought that, but ideal steeping time varies greatly on the tea. He may be referring to white tea specifically? And why will it make you more sleepy, not less?
how soon can we expect this capacity to fit in a usb stick?
I like Hendricks but it's very expensive here, so I might only get one or two bottles a year. I tend it drink it straight on ice - it's the only gin that I do that with.
I was entranced with go via "Hikaru No Go", a Japanese anime about a boy who discovers the game through a spirit seeking the elusive 'hand of God'. I am currently at 9 kyu but am trying to better my game.

Unfortunately there aren't too many Go players where I am, and this makes Go as a point of social focus difficult, as it often is in chess over here.
I'd say yes - with B2B too although the sales pitch is different. You're usually dealing with somebody a couple of levels removed from the person using the product, and the usability benefits need to be emphasised more clearly - since they generally don't encounter the consequences of a bad user experience themselves.

A usable system is generally a more efficient system. More efficient systems save you money. Cut a couple of seconds of each interaction a telephone operator makes on the support lines of a major international and you've saved them a hundred grand every year.

There are examples out there like IBMs Intranet revamp http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200209/ij_09_25_02a.... or the Australian Defence Organisation e-learning setup http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9030669/Mission_Educa....

You might also find "Cost-justifying usability" http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kDVgsGgkF4cC&dq=roi+u... a interesting read.

(Also - as others have commented fewer features / simplicity and usability are somewhat orthogonal issues. You can have a terrible experience with a small/simple interface. You can have a great experience with a large/complex interface. Depends on the user, the task and the goals.)
The only difference between Cowan and the other top VCs is that he is honest about his mistakes and approaches them with a sense of humor - while others attempt to uphold an image of being perfect (eg. by removing failed portfolio companies from their websites, not speaking of deals they passed on etc.)

All the top vc's have their bad deals or deals they missed. Cowan is just very transparent about it.
Vesper Martinis. I am a Martini nut, and the vesper, whilst an acquired taste is incredible stuff. If you're not able to make this and are in London, go to the Dukes Hotel Bar in Mayfair and ask for one there. They will only serve you two of them, on account of the strength.

You will need:

1 bottle of Berry Brothers No. 3 Dry London Gin (Tanqueray 10 will do as an alternative, do not use Gordons)

1 bottle of Potocki vodka (a neutral vodka is great, Belvedere or Ketel one will do, Finlandia is ok-ish, Smirnoff is not)

1 Bottle of orange Angostura Bitters

1 Bottle of Lillet Blanc - Do not use Martini Bianco, Noilly Prat can be used but will change the taste substantially. Cocchi Americano can be used instead (in which case don't use Angostura Bitters).

An Amalfi Lemon

To make the vesper, pour two splashes of Angostura Bitters into a classic cocktail glass or Champagne goblet if you have one. Take a shaker, fill with ice and add 85ml of the Gin, 15 ml of Vodka and 25ml of Lillet. Shake vigorously for 10 seconds or stir for 30 (stirring will result in a weaker drink from the melting of the ice, shaking oxygenates the gin and gives it a sharper taste) and strain the resulting drink out into the glass. Take the zest of the lemon, twist it, pass it gently over the rim of the glass and let it settle in the centre. Serve.

At the moment I'm drinking mostly water as I'm trying to shift a bit of weight, although I do love Dr Pepper Zero, or a great Latte. In Reading the best Latte I've had can be found at the Workhouse Cafe near the Oracle.
If I were to type all 52 exercises from the book and use 2to3 tool, would it convert to a Python 3 book?
If you want to read some thorough reviews, guides and even hear some sounds, you should check out geekhack: http://geekhack.org/
I love a decent Speyside, but tend to prefer Irish single malts. Scotch-wise, I quite like the Balvennie Doublewood. What do you drink?