skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My stance is much softer than that, but I should have made it clearer, because similar arguments are often made in anti-frequentist rants. I think that there is an appropriate place for most statistics used (including NHST under the right circumstances) - and often, the differences between the results are entirely negligible.

My goal is to make people aware of the various stats out there, their benefits and pitfalls, and let people choose whatever is the most appropriate for their needs. Those choices need to be informed, and given that most introductory stats starts with p-values and seems to teach them wrong, that's where this post is aimed.

Regarding your aside, the universe of possible observations in a given experiment assuming 100 trials may be very different than the universe assuming trials until we run out of money, which happened to fall on 100.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5682308
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If only it were so. Often important parts of the protocol exist only in a hand written entries in a lab notebook. Because very few people are reproducing experiments and it is lots of extra work and jornals have limited space all the required details are rarely included. This is a big part of the problem. The typical work around is to contact the original reaseach to fill in the missing details.
Very nice presentation, but it seems like this could benefit from an Emscriptened browser-based Objective-C compiler.

Fabrice Bellard's browser-based Linux boots in less time than this prints out "Hello, world!"
Doubleday and Compass Labs boost sales 23% for John Grisham
I was hoping that Dropbox acquires Crocodoc and use them for online document editing. That would free me from using google docs for anything.
I don't think that's entirely accurate. The point of the creative economy isn't to largely regurgitate the ideas of others and then slap a price tag on it. The idea of a creative economy, at least in my eyes, is to reward those who are exceptionally talents and create something new and of value. Taking an amazing open source project, putting some new makeup so to speak on it, and calling it a product hardly seems to fit with the spirit of what I call the creative economy.
Now You Can Fork U.S. Government Policy On GitHub
This was all just too irresistible. Well, I was here for the same reason.
I like using a physical whiteboard. Maybe it is the smell of markers...
These are plenty of business that exist solely be use of the iPad/iPhone market. Accessories and apps. And this is quite apart from those business that have been changed. I have watched a radiologist do a consult with someone using an iPad in a car park to view images. That is a change.
We're reusing the stuff we built for the Try iOS course we came out with late last year. I've looked into Emscripten for this and from what I saw it really wouldn't work with this course, although maybe I missed something?
Yahoo acquires MileWise flight-search service and shuts it down
These young people amaze me.
Nocebo Mass Delusion
Excellent advice and reminds me of the Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage article from Derek Sivers: http://sivers.org/hi
Appreciate the post; have my own complex task also involving sorting that I was tempted to spin my wheels on building a tech to accomplish. Think I'll forego, and instead collect data on manual sorting instead.
this article misses the point of open source? how?
Is the Chevy standard a good or bad thing? I ask this because the cars they sell (or rebadge then sell) in New Zealand aren't really that well built compared to European and Japanese cars.
Good info coming from https://twitter.com/jguynn on this press conference.
So there is a theory that if something doesn't reproduce it's because the other guy was just incompetent, and that may be the case, but just like everyone wants to believe they're above average, everyone will want to go to the theory that the other guys just aren't any good, when I suspect that that will be much less of a factor. At any rate, when you start trying these drugs on the wide diversity of the patient population, if they're not super robust, they don't be of much use anyways.
That endorsements looks more or less like a poll. People with whom I have barely worked also endorsed me! Very creepy!
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Your phone might be 1' from your hands, but not your eyes. I always hated trying to read a 4" screen on my windshield or in my cup holder while driving. I am not sure if refocusing your eyes on Glass's display would be an improvement though.
My Licensing Wake-Up Call
Because "Ford acquires Visteon" sounds better out of context?
Pebble Community Steps Up Its Game With Hundreds of New Watch Faces
Just to play devils advocate, isn't the Prius shares a fair few parts with other Toyota vehicles, so that likely saved a bit of cost/time/complexity.
I am using the Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner which also has all the parts needed to run very nicely on Mac.

I agree that there is a bit of expense; the time is quite reasonable.

Insofar as

>eaching/demanding the lawyers and courts

good luck with that.
Cool site. I just signed up too!
The schema.md they link to currently leads to a 404...
Congrats to Crocodoc! They're one of the hardest working teams I know and totally deserve it.
Wow! Congratulations guys. Very glad to hear the news.
It would be nice if the Digital Millennium Copyright Act only applied to Copyright violations.
What a horrendous article. There is so much more to the story here.

Sure there are problems with it, but it's not quite a disaster... yet. It's limited to a small group of phones and is only the initial release. The idea is still solid and needs fine tuning.

Even Siegler can see its upside http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/09/htc-first-facebook-home-rev...
Bipartisan Bill to Enable Cell Phone and Wireless Device Unlocking
Yea they do, wonder how fast they will drop support for it (and build their own)
I thought it was that, too, and it reminded me of Amazon's approach to product management, which is still pretty relevant to this post. Amazon's concept is working backwards, and they start with a press release of the product/initiative. It forces a clear articulation of what it is, how it's different, and who it's for. Internal circulation is used to refine it.

More details: http://www.quora.com/What-is-Amazons-approach-to-product-dev...
Don't be fooled - we're selling off our assets as you speak.
But hey, we can buy shares in them, so the thing I partly owned I can pay money for and partly own it again.
It makes sense as "Great Britain"
I don't understand. You want a good keyboard for programming because of shoulder pain caused by your mouse? Why are you using a mouse while programming?

(I have a Kinesis Contoured Advantage keyboard. I use Emacs and I've configured Firefox so that I rarely need my mouse. I experience no physical pain while using my computer.)
Am I the only one not amazed by this?

Moths can walk. The scientist simply switched what the moth thought was ground with a trackball.

The moth walked to the pheromone as it normally would have.
It assumes an anonymous protocol. The identity of the nodes does not matter.

> a step towards proving that there will always be a polynomial time attack against such protocols

I had considered that to be the definition of a majority consensus. I find it sort of surprising that you'd think otherwise.

Lets just assume that some alternative protocol has a property where a an attack with the >50% computing power would be ignored. Then it follows that it would also allow an attack with <50% computing power— unless "attack" could be detected as a function of network state, in which case any sane system would just ignore those entirely— as Bitcoin does, e.g. a transaction outputting more coins than it inputs is ignored regardless of the hashpower— so they're not the kind of attacks we're talking about here.

Even if you dispense with all the crypto-computing-power-mumbo-jumbo: A _consensus_ ultimately depends on linear energy applied to an attack. Lets imagine a magical version of Bitcoin solves the sybil problem completely and counts the consensus of _users_ instead of computing power. China (for example) could reorganize the consensus by spending a lot of energy to manufacturer a lot of additional people. So long as the attacker put in more energy mining people than all the honest participants they'd always eventually win.
burpscroll.js would be an easy fork
Maybe somebody should put their client on Nimbus.IO.
The gevent/eventlet part of this has me pretty excited. We needed this in order to do some experimenting with PyPy without investing a good deal of time on a test conversion. I'm also interested to see if cffi is as good as I've heard it is (relative to ctypes).

Excellent work, fijal and team!
This article gives way too much weight to App Reviews. There are so many 1-star "haters gon' hate" ratings that probably should be [completely] ignored.
Democratic senator demands DOJ, FBI seek warrants to read e-mail
When I read some of the comments above, I thought "Oh come on, they make the client's source available to prove security, and you're complaining about lack of self-hosting? They're a business!"

But yes, it's not an "open source <something>", it's a "<something> with source available". It's great from a security standpoint, but "open source" implies that all the components are open-source and that you can self-host, and referring to it as "open source <something>" is disingenuous.

That said, this is just the HN post's title. It's not described like that on your site, so that part is good.
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Haha -- to be honest, they edit a lot of what we wrote on there.

Disclosure: I'm the founder of GoPollGo
I wish box had photo synching mobile apps. There was a third party one for Android but it wasn't up to much.
I think you are misinformed.

There are links to multiple Bitcoin clients on bitcoin.org which is controlled by "the main Bitcoin developers": http://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet

Where did you get the impression that the Bitcoin devs treat other clients as "suspect and more-than-possibly threatening"?
I have to ask (I do t understand this stuff), how do you ban software from import - login to NZ server, pay, download?
Would a banner saying that people in the US are forbidden from doing this be enough to get the seller off the hook?
Bvsnarayana
> So any attempt to mitigate that trend can only be a good thing

Yeah, that is something that remains to be seen.

This is an intervention in the lives of these students. Whether it's a good or a bad thing, for them or for society really is an open question.

Amongst the entrepreneurial community there is a lot of discussion of trying something interesting, and failing fast to learn from it. The real question is, does giving a 17 year old 100k$ help with that?

Do they need 100k$ to do something interesting? Are they at a point in their life where 100k$ the responsible amount of money to give them to experiment with? Where do they go from there? (these are not rhetorical questions, and I am not entirely convinced the answer is no)

There are also broader societal questions. There has been an impetus in the US at least that everyone should get a university degree, come hell and/or high water. That's a model that in its current incarnation is really screwing over a number of people. But I don't see that Theil's program is a solution either. He's picking people he thinks will succeed, just as much as universities are pre-selecting folks who get good marks in classes (as opposed to picking people who will be improved/edified by going through university).
Not every day you see a Salon article on the HN front page.
78,000 sign up for one-way mission to Mars
If you want this to pass, don't sign the petition, and don't email or write your congresscritter. Call them. Interact with a human being in their office. Anecdotally, that has a much greater impact.

(Source: my cousin and his wife were congressional staffers for several years.)
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http://www.investopedia.com/ is a decent resource for the beginner to understand terminology.
If someone has information that they only want certain people to see, would circumventing a technological measure that controls access to that information be allowed under this bill? For example, internal documents, trade secrets and documents under NDAs?

If someone has information they only want licensed people to see, would circumventing a technological measure that controls access to that information be allowed under this bill? For example, publishers of stock market analysis which is released only to licensed subscribers.
Exactly. This table is a great metaphor. But it says more aboutthe responsibilities of this party which is more mature and knowledgeable. Like parents we're responsible for helping to articulate the needs,prevent misunderstandings and moderate the conflicts.not the toddlers.
Agree 100%. As an example, when I first created Cocoa Controls, I wrote a little Ruby app that iterated over every single one of GitHub's Objective-C repositories and stuffed them into a database, where I then manually checked each one to see if it was worth including. Literally every repository. By hand. It was a huge amount of effort, but it was also the only way to get the amount of content that I needed to make the site useful enough to get contributors to submit content.

Nowadays, the content volume is more than self-sustaining (I have 46 different repositories in my queue, all submitted by readers), but I still check every submission, clean them up by hand, and manually publish.

(https://www.cocoacontrols.com)
We are switching to Parse now, away from AppEngine and GCM, because GCM doesn't work for iPhone...
Adam Winn our resident badass :)
Sorry if I wasn't clear. We're not using MD5. And we're not using proprietary cryptography.

What's "proprietary" is the implementation of the integrity check technology, which is based on published research.
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/05/nih-detail...

Already funded grants are getting cut ~20% across the board. There is a ton of cuts going on right now to the NIH budget, google it and take a look.
This has been happening for years now, trying to get an RO1 (large research grant) is becoming more and more difficult and it isn't helped by the constant changing in requirements.

Every other point I agree 100% with, the culture change has to happen. Nothing is impossible, and it just takes the right people to make the right things to happen. Everyone recognizes the problem, I can't tell you how many times I hear people complaining about the same problems over and over. The problem is that they aren't taking action, and with no action, nothing is going to take place. While there are many efforts in place (my project being one of them, http://omnisci.org), they need to be implemented properly.
The same rule of startups applies to science. The ideas/concept means nothing with proper execution.

While the culture change may be slow, the academic world is having a really hard time keeping up. NIH is also fighting to stay afloat. I have a few friends who work as program officers and they really have a negative outlook on the future of research funding.
That's not a con for the car, that's a con for living in a condo. The list of things that are impractical for someone living in a condo building could fill a warehouse.
The Ultrafast Shape Recognition (USR) algorithm is a very simple yet interesting application used in drug discovery that I tried speeding up with Numba (the similarity calculation part). The NumPy implementation looks roughly like this:

def usr(X, y, S=0.9, N=10):
scores = 1.0 / (1.0 + 1/12.0 * np.abs(X - y).sum(axis=1))
scores = scores[scores>=S]
scores.sort()

return scores[-N:][::-1]

Where X.shape could be (2000000, 12) (or more rows) and y.shape (12,). The idea is to retrieve the top N most similar hits above a similarity score of S.
My father got a letter from his small ISP saying that they won't be playing along the the three strike thing, and for some reason even if they wanted to they couldn't be sure which of their customers was the infringer. Heavily suspicious, but not 100%. So carry on, we got your back. He is just outside Tauranga.
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"Range" can be confusing though....how does range compare on an open freeway vs stand still traffic?
Insertion sort in JS, functional style
Numba's original purpose was not to speed up concise, optimal NumPy code. The fact that it can actually do that is an extra bonus. Numba's purpose was and still remains best at allowing you to still write the "hard-to vectorize" algorithms that require for-loops without having to use C/C++ or Fortran.

If you never are resorting to using C/C++ or Fortran, then Numba is not necessarily going to be helpful for you.

I don't think we are trying to mislead. We are simply showing examples that illustrate what Numba can be used for. Of course your code does not have many for-loops in it because you never could write code like that and have it be fast in Python. The big-deal about Numba is that now you can. You don't have to rely on a C/C++ library that either write or get someone else to write for you. You can just use Python.

I agree with you about the "unrolling". I don't recommend adding for-loops when good vectorized expressions work. Keep using them as we will be able to do a better job of parallelizing that code in the future. However, when you can't vectorize and for-loops are all you have, Numba is great.

We have spent some time on optimizing NumPy expressions like you describe and some array expressions can be translated down to equivalent LLVM loops. But most of the effort in that direction has been happening in the Blaze project which is generalizing NumPy so it can deal with much larger data but still produce optimized code from those vector expressions. This actually requires a re-thinking of how NumPy is implemented from the ground up.
The acquired companies rarely survive and the technology or systems they developed are usually gutted and stripped and the founders generally flee for the exits as soon as they can.
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Can someone knowledgeable compare PyPy, Numba and Cython? I mostly use Cython. Tried Numba also, it has very nice workflow when it works with autojit (when it doesn't error messages are pretty cryptic). With PyPy I don't understand why for example all that type information obtained from jit wouldn't be used to make something like Numba specialized functions or Cython modules (noob question but please answer).
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I was with fixthedmca and grassroots.io during StartupBus and Sina works at the same office with me — the cause is important and the new design is very good!
You obvisouly don't know what is taught in SE.
Let's take McGill as an example (from http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/academic/undergrad/programs/science-...)

CS: This program is the standard Major program offered by the School of Computer Science. It provides a broad introduction to the principles of computer science and offers ample opportunity to acquire in-depth knowledge of several sub-disciplines. At the same time, its credit requirements allow students to take an additional minor.

SE: This program provides a broad introduction to the principles of computer science and covers in depth the design and development of software systems.

For example, I recall that my SE program had some common courses with other engineering branches (ethics and technology, entrepreneurship, communication, finances for project manager), which were common to all engineering disciplines.
Not to mention, I bet the electric drivetrain is much simpler than existing internal combustion engines. Modern gasoline engines are nothing less than engineering marvels; Tesla, on the other hand, probably gets to devote proportionally more money and effort to other aspects of the car.
Ask HN: If clean simple design is better, why are magazines so busy?
I happen to think that clean, flat design is the bee's knees. But in critically evaluating my own assumptions, I don't have a good answer for why the magazine industry, which has a much longer history of graphic layout than do apps and websites, does not seem to have ever gone that way.

Even leaving out covers, which have to vie for magazine rack attention with each other, the inside pages of most magazines are a mess of color and gradients and designs. Thoughts?
You can write plugins with Racket. However the API is AFAIK the same as for Python or Ruby so you can't really escape vimscript.
Do Russia and Iran have a monopoly on gas in Europe or something? Because they sure don't on the US. Less than 10% of our oil comes from Iran and Russia combined.
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I agree, and there's another interesting parallel: Ford has their own version of Jony Ive in J Mays. I've often wondered why GM doesn't back a tractor-trailer full of money in Mays's driveway to switch sides; in my opinion, GM never found the magic again after Harley Earl died.
If I would see any purpose in striving for this level of separation I would use the DataMapper pattern (http://martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/dataMapper.html), but I do not see it, so the Player etc. models would probably be ActiveRecords.
The thing is... and it's true for Windows Phones or Blackberry Phones... people think of iPhones as the standard. Android is a close runner up, but the others are all distant nobodies. To your average user, another interface is just annoying to learn how to use.

Try giving your mother this phone, see what she says. At this point with the evolution of mobile devices, people are just used to what they have. Could they be improved? Yes. Will they slowly? Yes. Are we all generally happy with what we already have? Yes.

Facebook doesn't need an OS, it needs an App.
Equally important after signing the petition is sharing it on social networks; you know so that the effort gets amplified.
The Logitech K810 is a good compact keyboard. It uses scissor-switch rubber-membrane keys, like Apple keyboards do, but unlike Apple keyboards, the keys are of standard size (.75 inches between the line through the center of one row and the line through the center of the next row -- same as almost every desktop keyboard since the keyboard on the original IBM PC but different from Apple's keyboards) and they are slightly curved (spherical, to be exact, as opposed to cylindrical like most desktop keyboards or flat like Apple keyboards).

It is wireless, illuminated, light, only a few mm high and able to be picked up with one hand. (I value lightness and ability to be picked up with one hand highly; maybe I pick my keyboard up more than most people do.)

(Disclaimer: I do not actually own a K810, but compactness is not a requirement or a desire for me -- time spent moving my hand to and from the mouse is not something I seek to reduce. I did test drive a K810 for a couple of weeks and own similar Logitech keyboards (two K750s, which shares the Perfect Stroke system with the K810).)

I tried a mechanical keyboard (with Cherry Brown switches) and it was nice and all, but when you press a key, the feel of the Logitech keyboards with the Perfect Stroke system (the K750, K800, K810, wired Illuminated) is sufficiently close to the feel of the mechanical keyboards that the other advantages listed above -- plus the fact that the key tops are spherical rather than cylindrical -- put the Logitechs in the lead.

Note however that the keyboard I am recommending is more expensive than a mechanical keyboard when you account for the fact that the mechanical keyboard will last for about 10 times more key presses.
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Specially patents.

Require all blueprints to be digitally accessible, with stl or step open formats for 3D shapes and svg for 2D.

I continue seeing crappy drawings in new patents. What year is it? 1891? In 1891 they were patents better formatted than today.