skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I'd glad you linked to the bill, I hadn't read the text of it, though I'd heard some murmuring.

Perhaps you would like to be more specific about which parts you object to.

It says "teachers shall be permitted to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught."

It says administrators and bureaucrats shall not "prohibit any teacher in a public school system of this state from helping students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught."

It also "only protects the teaching of scientific information, and shall not be construed to promote any religious or non-religious doctrine..."

This is all said to be needed because "An important purpose of science education is to inform students about scientific evidence and to help students develop critical thinking skills necessary to becoming intelligent, productive, and scientifically informed citizens"
It's funny because, coming from an "interdisciplinary" research area, many of us cower in fear of psychology journals, completely daunted by the rigorous level of (perceived?) statistical knowledge required to be accepted. Psychology is viewed by many as one of the most hard-core sciences, just because it has taken such a hard-line attitude toward statistical work, out of shear necessity, due to past problems arising from a history of more philosophical approaches to the subject. Other sciences (e.g. HCI) are often somehow "softer" just because they take pains to avoid the kind of criticism that can come from the kind of complex statistical interpretations we see in pure psychology journals.

Although, I suppose I could be mixing up psychology with what we call "psychometrics", which is the kind of psychology that I'm more familiar with due to my research area, which involves perception of virtual reality.

By the way I agree with others that this is not an "attack" on psychology, it is simply science. Verification of results can invalidate claims, but it can also easily provide further evidence for claims. Nothing bad can come of this initiative, if it's carried out properly.
The premature demise of Windows 8 on ARM, courtesy of Intel’s Medfield
You do say "Here is what I believe" but before you get to that section you throw out statements like "Giving up an extra 13 sprints/year to a competitor is simply unsustainable."

If you meant your whole article to be taken as mere opinion, then it wasn't clear at all. It looked like you were making a series of statements that were supposed to be taken as fact, and that only the last section was your opinion on these facts.

As for my statements being false choice, I did not claim that it is impossible to have talented people working long hours, just that people are generally inclined to go for the better offer, and a 4-day week is a very good offer for someone who's pulling in six figures. If you subscribe to the theory that getting talented people is several orders of magnitude more effective than making them work long hours, then a 4-day week makes serious economic sense.
Ah, you know what, I just figured out what the issue was. I was using the "metal" TST skin and when I switched it to another one, the 150px-tall-tab problem went away.
In most cases, merely mounting a filesystem causes a few bits to change, unless you take special care with your mount options. I'm not even sure if you can tweak mount options with TrueCrypt. So I still think that per-file encryption systems like EncFS work better with cloud storage than container-based systems like TrueCrypt.
Pay Up, Suckers Top Tech Stupidity Taxes
After some digging I found the link to the actual "data porn", pretty cool.

http://www.torbit.com/insight/standard-features
FYI, that last line says "patents", not "patients".
"Those compliance rules may suck but they are there for one purpose, to protect the company."

Not completely to protect the company. I'm sure the company would love to drop those compliance rules and return to the good-old-days. Unfortunately, they used the "but that was just a call-center guy, why would you listen to his advice?" defense too often, after too many pump-and-dumps.
As just about everyone else has already pointed out, this position was clearly inappropriate for someone with the skills of the OP.

Why did the OP take the job? He strikes me as both passionate and of above average intelligence. Is the financial sector competitive to the point that the only positions available are at call centers?

While I'm not familiar with the financial industry, this strikes me as odd. I feel as though the OP is either overstating his skill set, or the job market is doing a very poor job of allocating resources.

This is all anecdotal, but the barrier to entry to banking careers has never struck me as insurmountable. While my friends who work in i-banking or PE have all jumped through the appropriate formal hoops to get there, financial advisors (especially retail) tend to run the gamut of educational backgrounds and intellect. Despite the fact that this is essentially a sales job, I would think it would be infinitely more satisfying that being a call center jockey.

edit / anecdotal source : I was approached for recruitment as an FA right out of college. I do not have a finance education or background.
I like the hangman idea...how did you promote that? How many visitors to the game actually continued on to spinto?
Besides procrastination, is there any reason why having deadlines later would be beneficial for students or the teacher? It seems that you can almost make a universal law that shorter feedback cycles make for better course correction in almost any type of system.

I agree that the classes I've taken where there has been significantly shorter feedback cycles I've always felt more engaged.
The Physics that Explain Why You Should Wear Black This Summer
Then either you've never had to deal with regulatory compliance, or you've caused some serious liability risks to your employers (or yourself). It's a 24/7 issue, and there's no boundary between work/life when it comes to liability or complying with the law. It's the exact same reason that your lawyer friends will not dole out legal advice unless you're on the client role.

Software is a lovely industry where these things don't matter until you're going public. But in banking, they do. A lot. The company is protecting itself from getting sued based on negligent advice given by one of its agents. This is why unless your job in a bank is to give financial advice, you don't give financial advice. Ever. To anyone outside you and your spouse.
I can tell you from firsthand experience (as an investor) that the gist of this article is 100% correct: there are significant barriers to bringing a new medical device to market that have nothing to do with the merits of the product or the supply chain, but are quite simply pure protectionism for the established players. If anyone wants details, contact me privately.
I would think threatening the other person to split would be a dominant strategy. I wouldn't wanna steal if I knew the other person was gonna harass me the rest of my life.
what valve's doing:

- hiring linux devs

- hiring hardware devs

this points to a linux/x86 gaming console - but x86 is only relevant if they want to sell existing games for it.
There are some US laws against insider trading and information disclosure for public companies; that is typically the main concern leading to this type of behavior for the financial industry.
Just because I haven't used either, doesn't mean I cannot speculate. I didn't claim to be the preeminent expert.

"CQL aims to be an easier way to read and write to Cassandra databases. CQL was designed to closely resemble SQL, easing the burden of developers being exposed to Cassandra for the first time."

Mongoose uses javascript objects to write to MongoDB. Unless you have a lot of SQL experience, I don't see how using SQL-like syntax will be easier than using mongoose.
Dropping vendor prefixes entirely is a bad idea. The syntax for gradients has been revised a couple of times. Without vendor prefixes you'd have to pick which version to support, back when different browsers had different implementations.

Same is true now of IndexedDB.
Voting rings, where a group of people upvote each other's posts all the time, are generally discouraged on forums. The behavior could lead to banning on some sites, but on HN, the behavior is automatically detected and the votes simply don't count.

But asking some friends to upvote an individual post is what all HN submitters are doing anyway! That's not gaming the system.
As a recent Psychology PhD, I agree completely, and I'll add this: people outside the field commonly believe that neuroimaging tools like fMRI are better and "harder" science than more traditional experiments that measure human behavior, but they have it totally wrong.

Here's an analogy for computer nerds: imagine if you had an "fMRI" of your computer's operation. You'd see that different tasks result in different parts of the computer "lighting up". Tasks such as graphics, disk I/O, numerical processing, etc., would lead to different patterns of activation. And if your scanner had could resolve, say, 0.1mm voxels in your CPU, you might even learn that certain parts of the CPU are related to certain tasks. But what all this tells you is something about the gross physical structure of the computer; it doesn't tell you much about the abstract, logical structure of the computer. To draw an analogy, you learn something about the brain, but not very much about the mind.

What's of interest to most people (except hardware engineers) is what the computer does, not what parts activate.

With a "computer fMRI", you'd learn little about how, say, a filesystem works, how a programming language works, or much of anything that's of interest at the functional level of the computer. The same is true of fMRI and humans: it doesn't tell us much about the mind works. Instead, it tells us that there's a brain region associated with some task. For example, one of the major recent-ish findings with fMRI is that there's a small brain region that's associated with face recognition.

I'm not saying that traditional experimental psychology is going to answer everything. The mind is very complicated and I'm pessimistic that we'll ever have a good reductive model, the way that we do in many other sciences. I'm also not saying that neuroimaging is totally useless -- but it's certainly not as enlightening as many people imagine.

Here's a summary of a paper that found that lay people thought that psychological explanations were more convincing with neuroscience talk (even though the "neuroscience" was totally irrelevant), and that those with experience in neuroscience/psychology thought the opposite:
http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/03/when_we_see_a...

Here's another one that did something similar, but with brain pictures: http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/06/whats_more_co...
>> Obviously not going to happen.

> Why not? This is obviously going to incur some significant cost to Valve, I doubt they would do it just so they can run a store with a handful of $5 indie games or free games.

No, they will definitely have AAA games. (Or at least AA games...not sure how many A's Left 4 Dead rates.) The thing that's obviously not going to happen is sudo apt-get install steam -- at least, not from the official repositories. They'll probably provide their own debs and rpms, or maybe a straight binary download like they do for the Steam dedicated server.
Des, where is Intercom based out of?
The desire to not go to jail is stronger than the desire to not kill someone? I know when I slow down for pedestrains I'm thinking about not hitting people, not not going to jail. Maybe I give others too much credit.
Awesome insights into what goes into building a search engine. Very impressive indeed.
I'm pretty sure it's a reference to Ender's Game. Also, the fact that Ender's Game was published in 1985 is of no import whatsoever.
Ask HN: Can, and will, the dupe detector be improved?
It's apparently trivial to get around the current HN duplicate submission detector. I thought it was catching URLs that only differed in query strings, but it seems that unique query strings, as well as appended ID fragment hashes, are enough avoid detection.

It's frustrating to submit a link, have it ignored (oh well) but then see essentially the same link re-submitted with a trivial appendage.
Can you be more specific about what you're doing? I'm in medical device and I would love to see software startups help untangle the mess that is healthcare reimbursement and purchasing.
You do not use surveys to learn about gravity. That would be stupid. You use surveys whenever there is no better way to get the data you want. We have better ways to learn about gravity than surveys, so we use those. This is true for all scientific methods we have: All are not perfect (some are better than others, though) and all are not appropriate to answer every question.

(I know very little about psychology so I’m going to put on my social scientist hat.) The Large Hadron Collider can tell us nothing about which political issue people think is the most important one (one of the variables needed for Agenda Setting research, for example), so even though it’s a great tool to learn about gravity, it’s not a great tool to learn about Agenda Setting.

fMRIs are currently also about as useful as the LHC when it comes to answering questions like that. fMRIs are not very precise, we don’t understand the underlying system (brain!) thoroughly enough, they are expensive so we can’t look at very many people and have a representative sample.

They are just not good tools when it comes to answering certain questions and surveys become then our only realistic option, warts and all. (Some warts every good social scientist knows about: social desirability bias, reactivity, ceiling and floor effects, …)

So, Agenda Setting. The hypothesis is that issues about which the media reports a lot are also seen as important by the recipients. If you want to answer that question you have to do a quantitative content analysis and a survey. There is no other way to get to that data.

Surveys are not dubious tools. In the context of this research question, for example, an fMRI would be a much more dubious research tool.
>but throwing the nix way of doing this out the window in favor of the AD route is a really silly idea unless you need to integrate with existing windows crap.

This betrays a lack of experience with a large organization. The "nix way" is every program having their own configuration file with its own syntax and needing a signal (or restart the process) to change said configuration. Directories are far superior for this and it isn't a "windows" thing. It was Novell who first got serious with directory services.
If you want to transpose a matrix-like list of lists, but the sizes don't all match up, you can use izip_longest from itertools and give it a fillvalue to "fill in" for the missing elements:

>>> m = [(1,2,3), (4,5,6), (7, 8)]
>>> zip(*m)
[(1, 4, 7), (2, 5, 8)] # Wrong
>>> from itertools import izip_longest
>>> list(izip_longest(*m, fillvalue=None))
[(1, 4, 7), (2, 5, 8), (3, 6, None)]
"Your customer data shouldn't be in silos."

True, but as someone affected by having to conform to PCI, FERPA, HIPAA, etc., they don't make it easy on you if you do it the way you are supposed to. Proper summarization of data and setup of reporting DB is non-trivial.

Outsourcing this is tempting, but outsourcing customer data analysis is also fairly risky. It is one of the greatest frequently untapped resources a business has. Why give it to someone else?
Wait, so now anyone who wants to index Facebook can, as long as they don't crawl? Obviously, that's not true. So what's the deal? Does Facebook now have warrants in ark.com or something? There must be some quid pro quo.
Countering an unsubstantiated accusation with another unsubstantiated accusation isn't going to get us anywhere.

It's not about being ethical. It's about exposing yourself to liability.
Steve Gibson is not considered expert:

(http://radsoft.net/rants/20010714,00.shtml)

(http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060113111825193)

(http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/)

etc etc.
Can, yes. Will, no. PG doesn't care.
Here is how York Butter is trying to attract startups, in wrong way..
InterTechTion: It's like SAT Question of the Day, for Technical Interview Q's
Let me see if I understand this technology correctly: you take a picture of something, mail the picture to someone, somewhere, they write a quick summary of the picture and mail that back to be printed out on what appears to be a thermal receipt printer.

Wat?
I only have undergrad research experience. In general, I haven't really seen focus on replicating previous results - but it depends on the work and the researcher.

Most of what I've seen is a researchers who extend their own work. in doing so, they replicate their previous research and reveal other information. In this case, replication is definitely a goal, but it's focused on a researcher's own work and a byproduct of exploring a particular research problem.

I've witnessed people discussing replications and discussing that they were unable to replicate X's results. Here, there were clear are efforts made to replicate results, but I've only witnessed this in an informal setting, so the results were never published. I've never seen a big push to publish results that discredited a result due to an inability to replicate results

I suspect that there is little effort made after the fact unless the theory was particularly 'significant,' or if a researcher can offer a competing account. The one time I learned about replication was when two competing researchers were offering competing accounts and discrediting anothers' results. However, in these cases, there were flaws in each others' research

Obviously, in a classroom setting, we have seen many cases were replication has occurred, which makes a particular theory very strong. It is rare that the published results are straight-replications, though. They are often extensions.
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Mallika Sherawat is very keen that her second innings in Bollywood become successful which
Just the findings that involve charges stemming from the penal code, and involve being found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt vs. the civil standard of a preponderance of evidence.
You're cherry picking statements to make this bill sound like something positive. I'd suggest just doing a Google search though; it's been debated to death.
Looking at the numbers now, I see 13.5% of visitors went through to Spinto. We're only talking about 350 visitors to playhangman.net though. Most were probably from a discussion about Ember.js on meetup.com.

I spent a little time optimizing hangman for iPad and iPhone, I want to make the games easy to share and play on those devices. So, there is more that can be done.

In general, making games or projects on Spinto is obviously a win. Plus, yeah, it's fun to send people messages with playhangman.net they need to guess to read :-)
As a product guy who works in medical device startups, I can reinforce this statement. Even if you find a way to exit the supply game by developing something that doctors have some choice over because they believe it has an impact on patient safety/outcomes, you still run into many of the issues detailed in the article. Here's just one: if you develop something that is truly revolutionary, you'll play hell trying to get paid for it, because the payers (private insurance and Medicare for the most part) only pay out for certain codes. It takes years to get a new code.
I don't know about other places, but on the highway in Michigan near construction sites they sometimes have signs saying something like "If you injure a worker, it's a $5000 fine and up to 25 years in jail".

Note the precedence of the $5000 fine before the 25 years of jail time. Clearly the Michigan DOT thinks that fines and jail time are necessary incentives to not kill or harm construction workers.
Is it time to drop the funnel?
Alternatively, the Red Dwarf explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxWN8AhNER0
Compiling/sharing a list like this, so that it can be used in password strength checkers, would be a strong plus.

The best password is one that's never been used before. Rainbow tables and other methods mean that any known password (and in a list of exhaustively compiled passwords, finding only 1.3 million distinct values is "small") can be found very quickly given access to hashes, or tried relatively quickly via brute-force. Even a series of login attempts to known / common account names with top-50 (or some n) passwords will generate many hits.

I'd love to see online sites check against known lists. I've suggested it to several. One problem is coming up with a good "known list".

It would be even more useful for this to be added to standard OS/system security features.
I have found Hacker New to be full of some of the smartest people I've encountered on the internet. However, every time a discussion pops up where a social or soft science is involved, the discussion becomes mired by arrogance, bias, and general small mindedness about what constitutes "real science." I see comment after comment of where the author implies or outright says that psychology is pseudoscience or close to it. The challenge in designing, implement, and supporting a study in psychology or similar science is staggering.

That's no excuse for questionable statistics interpretation or outright manipulations, but to write off an entire field of study because it doesn't have the convenient quantitative measuring capabilities that other sciences have is ridiculous.

I have noticed a pattern as of late, or maybe its just the articles I have been reading on HN, but there seems to be a lot more people making dubious claims, commenting on things they no nothing about, and just genuinely turning this place into a cesspool like the rest of the internet.

What is so hard about not posting an opinion on subjects that you don't have knowledge of or any proof to back up your claims? If you haven't studied psychology, have even a vague idea of what it's about, or what its past or present state is then why muddle up the conversation with you BS conjecture?

I'm sure a legitimate licensed clinician would have a field day with some of the posters on this site.
How does this have anything to do with what the article is talking about?
Thanks! (And also thanks to pron, boredguy8, and duwease.)

I have an enormous mindmap/document of all the most important facts and reading for understanding various major areas of society, so I am going to version all of this stuff in once I get through it. Eventually this entire document will be published, but this will take a while.
We bet our chefs' food beat the traditional takeout/delivery stuff by a mile. :)
Quite possibly. Roy Baumeister has possibly the best thinking process I've ever met. He had the gall to approach a subject like this, and do it with flawless rigor: http://www.amazon.com/Meanings-Life-Roy-F-Baumeister/dp/0898... Too bad his latest book (Willpower) is coauthored with a professional writer... I miss his style.
I didn't necessarily mean to suggest that it would necessarily be available directly from official repos (although perhaps it could be, being able to easily install steam would be a good selling point of a distro that was not intended to be 100% free software). I wonder how ubuntu would feel as this could be competition for their own app store.

What I meant was will this be targeting the traditional distributions (Fedora/Ubuntu) and be installed in a relatively normal "Linux way" (like dropbox or spotify).

They could of course create their own Distro which would essentially be minimal WM + Steam + Other basic apps (Chrome,thunderbird,openoffice).