skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw a study showing the best way to cut down on pedestrian deaths in residential areas was to eliminate the center line. When cars have to watch out for other cars they slow down and pay more attention.
I take a deep exception to the idea that a group of scientists attempting to reproduce the published work of their peers is, in any way, "an attack".

Casting things that way immediately exposes a speaker as either not understanding science, and/or not having good science as their primary goal.

Reproducing results is science. Perhaps the most important kind.
I understand that. There's no way to have the web store install a native app.

But once you have "installed" the web app, how would the API server have any idea whether a Google Drive API request was coming from a web server, some JavaScript running in a web browser, an Android app, or a remote island in the Pacific that has no electricity via the "IP over Avian Carriers" protocol? It's just HTTP requests with some authorization headers that tie it to your app's identity.
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> I predict a surge in Linux popularity once Steam is ported, bypassing OSX.

Why bypassing OSX? And why would linux support cause a flood of Linux games when it hasn't worked for OSX?
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Not only that, but you also strengthen the relationship and stay up-to-date (micro & macro).

In some cultures (eg. ex-communist countries) there is a natural "distance" (approachability) between employees and management. I did not see this in Western Europe (at least at such level)

EDIT: thanks for the tip about edw519 ( https://twitter.com/#!/edw519 ). New feed to read!
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I would love to read that article. Unfortunately the amount of advertising, popup junk, and other crap make it near impossible.
Nonsense.

The author confuses correlation with causation (employees at Google work long hours, Google makes good products, therefore long hours are needed to produce good products).

He also confuses anecdotal and empirical evidence (employees at Google work long hours, therefore this is the norm for successful companies). Anecdotal evidence is notoriously misleading; that's why control groups and large sample sizes are so important in science.

The author also doesn't account for factors other than productivity. Even assuming a company with a 5 day work week is more productive on average, it doesn't matter if the 4-day companies are more successful at attracting good programmers. A good programmer working for 4 days is going to be productive than an average programmer working for 5 days (and there is empirical evidence for this).

Employee turnover isn't touched either, or motivation, which are two huge things to deal with for any company that employs highly-skilled people.

Finally, the majority of development work is spent not bashing away at a keyboard, but instead spent thinking about problems. If you're interested in maximising the productivity of skilled developers, you want to give them environments that encourage creative thought. Keeping them in an office for 5 days a week doesn't seem like something that would encourage this.
contact with our health care system the fifth leading cause of death in this country

Whoa. Can anyone give this in-passing snippet some context?
Too right, I should have made that distinction.
There's apparently a parts supplier already selling the new home buttons: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/23/next-generation-iphone-p...

Which is a bit of a conundrum. If the new iPhone were to be released in June, you'd expect there to be more noise on the channel by now. But if it's coming in October, it's far too early for new parts to be in production.

I suppose the most plausible explanation is that it's a button for a knockoff product.
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You can read John Rennie's excellent answer to this question (http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/24018/how-can-som...) that always comes up during discussions on time.
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I suspect this is where it comes down to anecdote and personal preference. Where we both agree I think is that (for programming especially) it's not as simple as X% more hours give you X% more work done; there are other factors at play here..

Now, I could buy a four day work week causing an overall drop in the amount of work done, but comparing them based on the same productivity is meaningless.
"The responsibility for crashes always lay with the driver."

This is still the case here in Sweden.
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I don't know if Valve is capable of getting into hardware at all, but from a market-clout point of view at least, they might also have success in selling a Linux-based Steam console. If anyone can disrupt the Xbox dynasty, it's them. Making the dedicated console interact with the Steam clients on desktop and mobile would be a win.
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OTOH, look at some of the open-source projects that are managed successfully by people scattered across the world who rarely, if ever, meet in person.

I've seen the problems with telecommuting that you describe, but I think it's attributable to culture and expectations. If you're adding a layer of telecommuting to a business that's already got well-established conventions for operating out of an office, and all of the baseline expectations, communication channels, feedback cycles, etc. are adapted to face-to-face interaction, then telecommuting probably isn't going to work well, because the telecommuters are going to be significantly out of step with the rest of the company.

If you want it to work, you may actually need to eliminate the office, replace it with a core set of online tools, e.g. wikis, message boards, IRC channels, and force all internal communication through those media, until a new set of conventions and expectations emerge that optimizes 'virtual office' productivity.
Because even bcrypt doesn't make testing one candidate password against 1,500 users all that hard.
I've always had problems with fields like psychology. Part of the field revolves around hard science - neuroscience researchers (as one example) use tools like fMRIs, etc to capture observable phenomenon. On the other hand, there is the art of psychology - social/developmental psychologists use dubious tools like surveys and interviews to try and prove a thesis.

I think that the average Hacker News reader could write a survey that would 'prove' that gravity doesn't exist. What kind of experimental integrity do surveys have?

And then there are participant pools. These pools are primarily composed of undergraduates (who often earn bonus marks/money for participating).

Add in a strong publish or perish mentality and you can see some serious problems. A whole lot of researchers are using dubious methods on a set of participants that do not adequately reflect humanity as a whole.
This was pretty popular on HN last year:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2104872
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If you built it, I think you'd find the real problem is having enough resolution in your fingertips to work out what the hell the picture is about.

Lots of people who become visually impaired later in life can't read Braille as their fingertips aren't sensitive enough, especially if they did manual work earlier in their life. Working out a picture is even harder.

As a side note about this, William Moon invented 'Moon script' which was a kind of simplified alphabet in embossed writing to help visually impaired people read. It was invented a little before Braille invented the raised dot patterns, and even after Braille became popular, Moon still had it's niche for those who didn't have the resolution for Braille. As Moon was based on the Roman alphabet, it was also easier to learn for people who'd been able to read then lost their sight.
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If a car have to go up on a sidewalk and kill someone then the driver does not have a good enough control over the car.
I experienced this somewhat when consulting for a medical device startup. They'd developed a modular system supporting Laparoscopic procedures, reducing hands during surgery, which equated to significant safety increases as well as cost reductions. However, their big issue continues to be navigating the procurement process at hospitals, which is akin to requiring a full time lobbyist per hospital for the duration of that hospital's adoption of their system: 2-3 years, after getting them to actually try the system, which often requires 18 months of demos, trials, and negotiations.

Our technologies we, geeks, develop are going to have a very hard time revolutionizing the medical industry. The big players have closed the door behind them in a major way.
Many years ago. Perhaps the field has changed or I had a lousy course. But most of it seemed to be about describing the edge cases where our brains produce false models or find wrong patterns in the world.
Almost exactly the same with military equipment.

Design a product that saves the lives of front line troops, demo it to the troops and they love it.

Then try and sell it to the government and you are told that you have to form a consortium with an established supplier - Boeing/Lockheed-Martin/General Dynamics in the US, Thales/BAe/EADS in europe.

Now imagine the sort of deal you are offered as a startup negotiating with a trillion $$ global defense company with a stranglehold on the market!
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Same here. I'd love to read about this.
I'm not suggesting that the split keyboard is a bug. I'm suggested that the behavior of ghost keys to the left and right of the split might have not been intentional.
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> "It seems like bulk of their work is based on computer models"

Then it seems that you are confused. Climate science is about gathering data, putting forth a testable hypothesis and seeing how future data fits the prediction. Yes, they use computer models. In the same way that you or I might gather data from a wind tunnel test and make a computer model of wind flow from that data to extrapolate a theory and create new testable hypotheses of a more-aerodynamic shape.

But so long as new data is used to test those hypotheses, the use of a computer model is irrelevant. Science is being done. Testable hypotheses are being created and new data is being compared to those predictions. As long as we aren't running around half-cocked, believing the predictions of hypotheses that have not yet been tested, there's no concern.

And the core hypotheses under the umbrella of Climate science have been tested. Some disproved by data, leading to changes in thinking, further research and new testable theories. Some supported by data. None of the 'alternate' hypotheses can say the same. (No, it's not the solar cycle. No, it's not distorted temperature readings from data stations in urban areas.)

The very reason that there is a general consensus around the so called 'tent-pole' theories in Climate Science is precisely because they have been tested and have been shown to make accurate predictions and continue to do so. Some of them, for decades now.
From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosocomial_infection

"In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that roughly 1.7 million hospital-associated infections, from all types of microorganisms, including bacteria, combined, cause or contribute to 99,000 deaths each year"
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The rule against speeding on an empty road is there because the road may stop being empty before you can react and adjust your speed.
A reference to Lotus 1-2-3 I presume.
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Inability to communicate is not required in the classical prisoners dilemma. It's inability to credibly commit.

The distinction is illustrated with the common application of the prisoner's dilemma to cartels. Cartel members can tell each other they will restrict production, but they do not observe each other's factories. So even if they agree ahead of time to reduce production, that is cheap talk... and they can produce whatever they want.

It's quite similar to this game show, though as a previous commenter pointed out, the relative payoffs are different.
Keep in mind: MS is publishing games on Steam and the other DD services right now.

Unlike OSX, where Valve probably didn't get as much traction with Steam before the mac app store was released, Steam IS the primary gaming service for Windows PCs.
Someone needs to bring BYOD to the medical industry ;)
That is a reaction to the statement from the original article:

"Nosek told Science that a senior colleague warned him not to take this on “because psychology is under threat and this could make us look bad.” In a Google discussion group, one of the researchers involved in the project wrote that it was important to stay “on message” and portray the effort to the news media as “protecting our science, not tearing it down.”"

I see they say threat in that text, not attack, which appears elsewhere. Might I point out that if you carefully read my post it is vehemently agreeing that replication is necessary, and from there it should seem logical that I would not consider something necessary an "attack".
Yeah, hospital-acquired infections are huge. In fact, they're a huge reason why we have so many aggressively resistant strains of organisms.
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Well, the DCPU-16 does too:
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How do you define "minimax" such that it's not a Chebyshev series?
Add in that a lot of the psychology tradition is based on, let's say, "less than strictly scientific" traditions and personality cult.
"School is a very weird, twisted little society where none of the work has any real point"

Of course it has a point: learning. Whether it is successful in that end is up for debate :)
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It depends on quite what you consider a cause of death.

Medical errors officialy account for between 100,000 and 200,00 deaths per year, and between 20-35% of people who die in hospital are discovered at autopsy to have been misdiagnosed. BUT consider you are treating an 80year old man for pneumonia and when he dies the autopsy discovers he had undiagnosed prostate cancer - is that 'really' a medical
error death?

Then there are around 100,000 deaths due to hospital infections. 30,000 of them from MRSA alone = twice the number of people who die of AIDS. The rates in nursing homes and other 'medical' facilities are probably much higher but aren't as well monitored or reported.
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There is a prohibition to cross the street on a street crossing against a red light here in Sweden.

There is however no punishment associated with the rule, and you are allowed to cross the street at other places if need be. Drivers are always at fault for any damage caused by their car, regardless of if the jaywalker disregarded the lights. Also, cars are required by law to let walking people have right of way if they encounter any crossing not guarded by lights.
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OSX doesn't readily scale to the web.

Linux and Windows do.
I got stopped for cycling the wrong way on the cycling path, a sectioned-off part of the footpath. They do like their rules.
That's not what codeblocks does, though. You use a with statement and a new operator (<<). Then use indentation for the blocks. It doesn't look like you're passing a block to a function. The result is quirky code that will be hard to trace and sort out if you don't already know what's happening.
In 2003 I did the work that lead to this paper (http://bit.ly/I1qvuI). Could it be replicated? Probably not. Let me outline a few challenges that don't have to do with a result being true or not.

1. The passage of time

Unlike physics and biology, culture has a huge impact on the field of psychology, and cultures change. Additionally, my work was about addiction to online games. I have no idea if the same type of people exist today that did then. I do know that the game I was studying (Asheron's Call) does not exist in anywhere near the same form as it did then.

2. Copyright

While I was lucky enough to find psychological measures (aka tests) that were in the public domain, most are not. To replicate a result you may have to pay to access the tests and then most likely cannot re-publish them. At the very least this makes replicating work inconvenient and expensive.

3. Data

Because psychology is largely driven by statistics, to replicate a result you should really start by re-analyzing the data. The reality? This data simply isn't available. It is not published alongside the results, and I don't have it anymore. I might be able to find the cleaned data, but that's not important. Error and bias can just as easily be introduced during data cleaning. For example I removed many data points that appeared as outliers, but perhaps these should have been included. No one will ever know.

I hope barriers such as these are addressed in this investigation. It would be disappointing to impune the work of scientists when it is the process that could really use reform.
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With all these restrictions, I wonder how far they are reducing the possible key space? Some of these suggestions actually remove a number of permutations - like for instance you can't put in two digit years - this must remove a HUGE number of combinations!

Then you remove ALL the dictionary words, all proper names, all the TSAs serial numbers, all reversed words - well, that's gotta make cracking an 8 letter password easier :-)
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Taylor series is fine for implementing arbitrary precision transcendental functions though. I found this Python implementation enlightening.

http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/source/browse/trunk/mpmath/l...
Surprised no one has mentioned OpLop for passwords. I keep a list of sites (containing a site nickname and a password hint). I then wrote a simple md5base64 perl script which combines the nickname and password (similar to OpLop..basically md5(nickname+pass)). Script throws the result on to my clipboard, and I hit paste. Thus, no two sites use the same password. If one site is compromised (ex: zappos.com), I just need to change that one password. Script is on my phone, desktop, and cloud drive.

I use multiple passwords, a different one based off the importance of the site. I was amazed at how many sites impose a 12 character limit (Fidelity...really?).
The minimax polynomial minimizes the maximum error (the L-inf norm). The truncated Chebyshev series of an arbitrary function does not have that property (though it often comes close).
Pretty interesting. Might take a look at this. Monitoring syslog is a good thing that few do.
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I'm excited to see if they can pull this off. For me, the main dealbreaker has been clunkyness of sharing and concurrent editing. I've played with the new iPad and WP7 apps, and they are quite nice.
What, precisely, is bad about that list?

There's a problem that people when faced with a dialogue box asking them for a password will be unable to think of a strong password, but that's solved by giving them some form of auto generation.

Writing passwords down is not a security problem, if the slip of paper is kept safely.
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Even though Steam invites its own problems (it's ultimately a form of DRM, a closed platform, and a closed-source application), as a FOSS developer I can't help but feel excited about this prospect. I know many, many people in the 15-35 age bracket who are open to and curious about Linux, even tried it, but ultimately didn't stick with it because of the lack of high-end native games and because rebooting or setting up Wine is too much of a hassle. Valve has tremendous power to change this and legitimize Linux as a platform in their eyes.

Plus, there's already a lot of games in the Steam catalogue that have native Linux versions available:

- Dozens of independent titles, e.g. everything that was in those Humble Bundles.

- Everything using the DOSBox emulator to run even on Windows, e.g. id's Commander Keen, some Lucasarts Star Wars games, etc.

- Even a bunch of AAA titles: id Software's games (Doom, Quake) and games that have licensed their engine (e.g. Human Head's Prey), games that were ported by Linux Game Publishing (e.g. Egosoft's X series of spaceflight simulators), several games by Epic (e.g. Unreal Tournament) or using an Epic engine (e.g. Rune and Deus Ex, ported by Loki), Neverwinter Nights, Civilization: Call to Power, ...

Add Valve's own games and possibly some of the other games using their Source engine, and you could easily make 100-150 games available on Linux within a year of launch just from what's already there. But even more exciting is the notion of Steam's availability making more game makers consider adding Linux to their list of supported platforms going forward because the distribution problem is solved for them.
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If you assume the players in the classical prisoner's dilemma have common knowledge of the rules and that neither of their choices are revealed until both have made their choice, I don't think their being allowed to talk makes much difference at all to the underlying dynamics.
But most of those will be common passwords and already included on password lists.

password72 is not more secure than password. username84 is not more secure than username.