skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or for some websites, simply ignore the EU regulations.

They'll be fined millions of not billions. The interest will add up on the fine if they don't pay, then assets will be ceased. This isn't a reasonable way to do business in Europe. Either follow the law or effectively shut down.
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>The question is, why is the CIA trying to sway public opinion about this?

The WSJ actually cares about this issue, and they want to stay on their good side as they're a huge help in their PR campaigns. Nothing they are releasing is really new, this release was already claimed by a Saudi aide, and their releases have happened at times where they'll easily be missed.
This article made me wonder about not just the density of information in words but time. Just as with compression with computers, you have to balance compression ratio with the speed to compress and decompress. So a slightly more verbose language might actually convey more information per unit time because it's easier to understand and speak.
Lion Air flight on the new 737 Max I presume.
It isn't exactly the autopilot at cause though according to initial reports, it's the anti-stall system pitching down due to a broken stall sensor, and the pilots not knowing how to disengage it.
"Third, people vary, and two groups of scientists might end up with very different results if they do the same experiment on two different groups of volunteers."

This seems to me to be such an important key to understanding this. Considering even myself, I'm not sure I would behave the same way as a subject from one study to the next (pretending there was a way to blind myself). And when you look across regional and global cultural variation, it must have an effect on participants.

The results are less headline-getting if they seem to be overly qualified (e.g. we find that midwestern white women with the middle name Susan have a positive psychological response to salsa dancing) but a deeper appreciation for the complexity and diversity of individual psychology would seem superior to the current state of affairs.
It is common to publish the layouts and dimensions of mazes in such studies. The mazes[1] themselves often reflect the nature of the study (e.g. a simple fork to test desicion-making or a complex maze with dead ends to test navigation and/or memory.)

1. http://www.ratbehavior.org/RatsAndMazes.htm
I haven't done it, but if you want to propose a change to JavaScript, it looks like there is a process to follow, and it doesn't necessarily involve spending money:

https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
Biochemistry and creating pharmaceuticals is absolutely a hard science
> It can't be anywhere near as disruptive to the ecosystem as modern cattle.

Farming spiders sounds a lot more inefficient than farming cows to me.

Cows eat plants eat sunlight. Spiders eat ants eat plants eat sunlight (or longer chains). The rule of thumb is each step only transfers 10% of the energy.

Cows are nice and easier to herd, have live on the land with minimal infrastructure. Spiders sound like you'd have to keep them in relatively expensive closed rooms or something.

Cows have been bread into great farm animals that produce large amounts of milk, spiders have not.
What I hoped would come through was something like:

ROI for that spend was XYZ. LTV for user acquisition was ABC compared to Adwords/FB/print etc...

Is 129 signups good compared to other efforts? Are inbound leads from podcasts more engaged or higher likelihood to pay than other channels?

I'm not sure what the value here is, other than saying something like "don't spend advertising money in an ad channel if you're unfamiliar with the details of the ad channel"

My main takeaway: it’s not always all about measurable ROI.If you look in the right places, you’re likely to see some other kind of magic at work.

Sounds like good advice if you want to waste ad money, even considering the "half of all advertising money is wasted..." koan. At the end of the day this "magic" has to turn into measurable ROI.
Reading your article, I wouldn't necessarily interpret it as "failed":

> Instead, it suggests that the capacity to hold out for a second marshmallow is shaped in large part by a child’s social and economic background—and, in turn, that that background, not the ability to delay gratification, is what’s behind kids’ long-term success.

I.e. it would still seem to say that the capability to delay gratification is tied to economic success, except that's really a confounding variable. It's also very possible that the ability to delay gratification that one gets from being more affluent is also a factor in future success.
> This is absurd. Who is selling SA the weapons it will use in Yemen.

Everyone who gets a chance? (-a few European countries who stopped recently.)
This thread and the complains about Node.js broken ecosystem proves you wrong.
> Fine-tune your browser settings

This is not so great advice, especially as a "bare minimum." What setting would a user really want to change here?

The only advice should perhaps be the last sentence "Consider using plug-ins like Privacy Badger or HTTPS Everywhere to block tracking or keep your activity safer from snoops." And then explain what they do.
Silicon Valley "disruptors" discover they're actually reinventing the wheel. Film at 11.

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Is there anything that prevents 23andMe from selling the genetic data they collect?
I do research in psychology and also a little in machine learning (classification using text samples). I've actually been working with the Many Labs data (the project that's the focus of the article).

My impressions of machine learning match up with yours. There's just so many parameters that there's so many opportunities to capitalize on chance, combined with [necessarily] huge datasets that preclude replication, that it's hard to avoid. I have also been surprised at how much tweaking there is of parameters; I'm used to work in traditional statistics where more is derived from theoretical principles, as opposed to trying a bunch of values to see what "works." This all lends itself to overfitting. I strongly believe that a lot of the adversarial input work is basically capitalizing on this overfitting.

To be fair, I don't think people are necessarily being nefarious, I think people across all fields just don't appreciate the dangers of overfitting.

The one upside of this Many Labs work, mentioned in the paper, is that it tends to show that the common criticism of "how can you generalize from this sample of undergrads" is not so much of a problem. Not that it's not an issue at all, but if you're studying some basic cognitive process it's probably not going to matter that much if you use undergrads versus some perfectly representative sample of the population. People have shown this in different ways before but it's useful to know more about. Obviously with some things sociogeographic variation will matter more though.

One thing that might not be totally obvious from this article and others is that although some effects clearly replicate, and others do not, there are some effects that seem to be in a grey area, where the effects are probably real but much smaller than originally reported. The distribution of effect size estimate distributions is more continuous, with shades of grey, than these news reports would have you think. Whether or not it matters that an effect is tiny versus zero might not practically matter, but at some level it is important to be mindful of.
This is a really optimistic take. I agree with you, ultimately, this is positive because it shows that it's possible for psychology to be done and have widespread meaningful results.

In the short term though this seems extremely negative as it indicates that the psychology field and researchers we have today are producing substandard results. Two parts of this article increase my negative feelings. First, they mention that these 28 studies were selected because they were well known and influential. If well known and influential studies only have a 50% reproducibility rate - what about the average study?

Another point I find very troubling is that people betting online were able to predict, with high accuracy, which studies were accurate and which weren't. This tells me that the problem is an "Emperor's New Clothes" type of problem and not just a challenge with the fundamental difficulty of the subject since the subject is so yielding to the public's intuition. Instead of a problem with the fundamental difficulty, the problem seems to be with the psychology of the researchers - being unable to diagnose and prevent methodological flaws in their research. This class of failure is much less excusable to me.
I was kinda on the other end of this, truly a wonderful experience. It's absolutely true that as soon as you meet someone related to you, it's completely obvious.

It's a funny story for me - one year in the fall, when I was about 12, my mom got in contact with her biological daughter, my oldest half-sister, so boom, new sister for Christmas.

Next year, my father confirmed that he was the biological father of my older half brother - boom, new brother for Christmas.

I sat both my parents down very seriously and said "This shit has got to stop. It's becoming a trend. Are there any others out there? Even the tiniest possibility?"
> the text is clearly worded to target the likes of Google and YouTube without calling them out by name

Have you read the text? Nowhere does it target only the likes of Alphabet (Google and YouTube). The exemption threshold for small companies (50m revenue, 43m balance sheet, or 250 headcount) is orders of magnitude below Alphabet's revenue and headcount. Sure, hobbyists and truly small companies are exempt, but the threshold is so low that far far more companies than just the tech giants will be affected.
Code I cannot understand, I can ask for help with understanding. Code I cannot view, I cannot.
The problem with English subtitles is that you will usually just end up reading the subtitles and not focusing on the audio.
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I am not entirely sure how it would be peaceful considering the state of Taiwan against China.
Ocaml vs. Maybe not
What does it mean to be a non confidential source? Did the journalist explicitly say it was not confidential, or did they just not swear it was confidential?
Can you please tell us more about the specific tools you designed and built?
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I think it would be more accurate to say that they were far more separate disciplines anciently, and far more rarely mixed. See for example, Euclid vs the the contents of this work of Aristotle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_(Aristotle)
The war in Yemen has been going on for years, and started during the Obama administration. I'm glad it's finally getting the bad press it deserves, but that's as likely a consequence of the press beating up on the Saudi government as a cause of it.
The roots for the modern word slay go very far back with a basic meaning of 'to strike' or 'to beat.' So shooting and bombing are definitely in that range, since they involve a bullet or shrapnel or a concussive force striking and killing. The reason it seems inappropriate is because it is archaic.

P.S. The better past tense is slew, not slayed.
I completely forgot about it, that mod was AWESOME. Sort of a pre-cursor to COD in a way (more "military" focus vs "swat" focus of CS).
I feel like it's one of those things that wasn't necessarily done constantly. I figure there were probably those clothes making days where they'd sit and darn old clothes while maybe working on some new ones.

I imagine a lot more clothes used to be resewn or patched and passed on down to family members rather than new ones always being made.

But I have noticed the same thing as you. People I know who practice knitting, crocheting and sewing can usually makes something pretty quickly and I guess for a lot of people if it was your only option what else arr you going to do other than get fast and good at it.
Behind the wheel of a city bus, from a San Francisco Muni bus driver
> I don’t think there’s any question as to the quality of cia intelligence. If anything Snowden really proves us the scale of their gathering and capabilities.

Weren't Snowden's releases about the NSA, not the CIA?
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This is a great list! Twitch.tv is #31 according to Alexa!

One thing to point out, is that 4 of those are country-specific TLDs (or the historic .net) which have been around for awhile so they might still have some familiarity.

It starts to look very unfamiliar to non-tech people when URLs have a long TLD, such as:

example.blog

example.website

example.foundation

example.engineering

example.international
I don't think this is the same. The pirate bay is just straight up infringing causing lost sales. Reddit or memes/derivative works in this sense don't directly impact the work unless there are serious branding issues that result from it. The profit Reddit gets in this case isn't really due to the work in a way that takes away from the original creator, and it may benefit them. Many indie games would love to go viral and reddit. It's more trying to control all forms of hosting.

Oh, and you don't want mickey mouse in the public domain. We already have characters like him in it, Betty Boop and Max Fleischer versions of superman are in it, and you can go buy a DVD for under $10 usa that has hundreds of public domain cartoons.

What happens when something is put in the public domain is often no one has any incentive to care for, advertise, curate, or promote the characters. Yes, you can view the content for free, but it's almost always done in a basic or slapdash form, maybe a bad vhs rip or ebook with scanning errors. You often very rarely see actual new works based on the properties, because no company has an existing interest to keep the brand fresh.

Honestly copyright is the only reason some characters even endure. Woody Woodpecker would have died out had lantz not sold the shorts to universal, for example.
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The little black book of scams (2016)
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Not at all. In the hard sciences you can run reproducible experiments and have mathematical models used to make precise predictions and come up with "natural laws". Biologists were moving in that direction up to 1940 or so but that is not what is going on now.

Here is the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world admitting that $27 billion out of $30 billion per year is wasted on unreproducible research:
https://nihrecord.nih.gov/newsletters/2016/07_01_2016/story3...

And I would say that is optimistic because it does not consider misinterpreted results (interpreting your data correctly is even harder than figuring out how to perform and report reproducible experiments)...
Man I still have my cs 1.5.5 bootleg CD with podbot (and a key that works?) so many good memories of playing after school. I always liked the AWP maps, and the twin towers, tree tops, and who can forget de_rats?
At a recent Boulder deep learning talk a distibuished scientist asked the speaker 'how can I use your result?' There are not easy ways to publish and distribute such results / models.
I consider CS 1.6 a bit of a phenomenon. I could never get myself into it. I love most competitive games, shooters included, but CS feels so bland to me. Everyone plays de_dust, as if there was no other maps. Everyone picks the same gun (m4a1 for CT, ak for terro, or the sniper rifle), as if there was no other guns. Also since the maps are fairly linear, the tactics for each round are basically the same. I could never understand why the game is so popular.
Clearly, the solution is to breed really big spiders and then milk them.
after reading https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzjmze/saud-al-qa... I think they are screwed, too much money and no in house INFOSEC.

Whoever they hire, is likely to be in touch with foreign secret services before they do the job. The fact that they have a common fixer posting on forums to buy zero days is very amateurish and shows their sorry state. USA, Russia, China, UK etc all have homegrown expert with security clearances doing that stuff.

Maybe MBS is too dumb to use open source apps like Signal, who knows?
yeah, i was looking for something like that too.

also, thank you for saying "waste ad money" instead of "waste ad spend". (some people think it's a good idea to use "spend" as a noun. i wish i knew why. it sounds idiotic.)
> Support for tree-shaking in Javascript build tools is improving.

I agree tree shaking could help a lot. But every time I have tried to implement tree shaking properly in a JS codebase, it is not trivial to solve. If one configuration is not properly setup then the entire library gets inlined during compilation.

Furthermore, libraries like lodash use a lot of inter dependencies so using something like `get` could bring in a ton of stuff that is technically used but totally unnecessary.
Absolutely. And it's sadly also correlated to the overall poor quality of science news reporting in our societies. One of my favorite PhD comics: http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
That's not what my post said. The argument would be the same for any way of making decisions, no matter how complex, so long as individual preferences are the input.
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Ram Dass's intention was to get a chance to sleep with someone he found attractive, and he was willing to use drugs (against a solemn agreement) to help get himself there. Euphemisms have nothing to do with it; just what he's admitted to in so many words. If you find drugging others for sexual purposes acceptable behavior, make sure you check out local statutes before you act on that belief. We can probably infer that the strategy didn't work, but I think we can also infer that the failure wasn't due to any inaction on Ram Dass's part.
Ask HN: Why doesn't HN use tags?
Are tags bad or counterproductive? I mean tags like "computer security", "law", "biology" etc. I ask because I am sometimes in the mood to read specific topic rather than just front page. Was curious if this would help new posts get more eyes and also make searching easier. Sometimes I try to find a post I've previously seen and have a harder time even thought i know what "category" it is.

Thanks for reading.
Seriously if he didn't spend the time making this did he gain $42,500? No, he would have gained 820 hours.
How would this be translated into Riau?

"Sorry, Charlie. Starkist doesn't want tuna with good taste, they want tuna that tastes good."
If biochemistry is not a hard science then the only hard sciences are math and physics
The fact that other governments are involved does not make SA's actions less bad.
Thanks for this. The 2d sketches to 3d is what I do with Fusion, and allows you to build nice 2d spec sheets as well. I will have a look.
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The entire genre of roguelikes might fit that.

Because they generally have this permadeath mechanic, every step in the game is meaningful to not losing, and the game developers are also kind of forced to make every part of the game fun and not too tedious or superfluous, as you'll generally replay them many times.

I currently quite enjoy Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, which you will need a free afternoon to get into, but after that, you can even have meaningful episodes of 5 minutes. You're not gonna complete a run in 5 minutes, that's rather gonna take 8 hours (though the world record is at less than 30 minutes), but you can load up the game, play a few hundred turns and then save and quit easily in that time.

http://crawl.develz.org/
I'ts not without precedent. In the 80s a police officer was shot and killed from the Libyan Embassy in London. Escalated to GB cutting diplomatic relations, then a siege.

FWIW I don't see anything controversial in your comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yvonne_Fletcher
Yes, I also like to hold on articles critical of things that happened 20 years ago for the day after the subject dies. Classy job Intercept.
Thank you very much for this. I'm thinking about using ZFS on a single big ssd, as a storage for several simultaneously running VMs. I'm aiming for easier administration and advanced features like error detection/correction on the drive. Would ZFS make sense in that case (single physical drive)? Or do I have to put in more physical drives to get the actual benefits of ZFS, like you did with NAS backup?
> Statiscally, immigration fraud through this route is uncommon.

Citation needed.
Amusingly, this is often taking to the other extreme. Just being able to run the exact same code on the exact same data doesn't really tell me much about if it replicates anywhere else.

That is, I agree with you that the code and the data should, ideally, be available. I lose confidence when people just rerun the same code on the same data. The slides a while back about why someone didn't like notebooks resonates well with me. Something like "Shift enter through the lesson. Is this learning?"
>The PC software world did run for quite a few years on the model of predominantly commercial/proprietary software, most of it being closed-source, so it's not like it is some far-fetched idea that doesn't work in economic terms.

And now Microsoft uses linux on the majority of their own cloud offerings. Open source beats propriety software on economic terms a lot of the time. It doesn't matter that both can work in economic terms, it matters which one is better in economic terms.
IDK, many serial killers are known as The Foo Bar Slayer.
> Coordinate to get code coverage.

This may be a central part of the issue. It's a coordination problem and creating common knowledge.

Each corporation might be willing to pay to have some bits of their dependencies audited as long as others cover other pieces. But to do that they need to be able to announce the audit result and scan their dependency trees for pieces that are not audited and pick from those. You'd also need some common standards what constitutes an audit and the lawyers would probably want some limits on liability so results should be considered as best-effort or whatever.

There are no conventions and social protocols in place to support this.
No, that's not true. That function name was copied directly from the MySQL C API. It was not added by PHP.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysql-real-escape-st...
Regarding the use of footnotes in non-fixed media, such as webpages and ePub (ebooks), I feel that the distinction between footnotes and endnotes is somewhat irrelevant because they are hidden at the end of the relevant article/chapter. However, with ebooks the notion of endnotes makes more sense to me, as the notes would be pushed to the back of the book instead of the back of the relevant chapter.
I agree. The section on "Use tough passwords and change them frequently", except for the final suggestion to use a password manager, felt like antiquated password advice.