skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sort of implied by me being the only test subject, no?

Not at all. For example, you could be sent the same email with a difference separated by a period of months, where the 2 versions of the email are directly compared (sort of a within-subjects design). Or the difference could be randomly applied to all incoming emails, and then the overall populations compared (between-subjects).

Just because _n_=1 doesn't mean you can't do experiments on yourself - I do self-experiments all the time: http://www.gwern.net/tags/experiments

> HTML email gives a bad impression to me and people who share my prejudices and attitudes.

You don't track your clicks. For all you know, you still click more and get more out of the HTML emails, despite your negative attitude.
I'm struggling to think of a scripting language that requires linker and binary compatibility with supporting modules.
The Irish Tax loophole and why Apple doesn't really care
As others have stated, China does not have a monopoly, but they do supply 95% of rare-earth metals, and have been buying mines in other countries, which is leading to a monopoly type situation.

http://www.mining.com/china-growing-uneasy-over-greenlands-r...
>But anytime you become close-minded and think that you are the best in the world, you close yourself to alternative ideas beyond your borders and will inevitably decline.

While it is easy to get up votes claiming America is like this the fact is we get the best and brightest to such an extent that other countries have to work very hard ro keep their smartest people.
I don't use Facebook's app but have you tried Greenify to see if that helps keep it in check?
> And given how thoroughly researched and annotated the "how" section was, I was surprised so little consideration was given to why in the world you'd want to do this in the first place.

Yes, well... If I may quote Nietzsche: "Lessing, the most honest of theoretical men, dared to say that he took greater delight in the quest for truth than in the truth itself."

I care very little for the 'why', but once the thought has arisen - 'how vulnerable are chip fabs, anyway?' - then I am completely fascinated with the 'how'.
Not trying to be funny, but FaceTime has made a real difference to peoples' lives here
You haven't validated any of those assumptions. Moreover a "common scientific mistake," while regrettable and something to reduce, may not have a lot of impact on actual clinical practice based on what physicians read in published medical journal articles. You'll have to connect a lot more dots to show that there is a high-impact problem here.

Meanwhile, life expectancy at age 40, at age 60, and at even higher ages is still rising throughout the developed countries of the world,[1] so at least the trend lines look good for continued improvements in health as medical research is incrementally improved. Girls born since 2000 in the developed world are more likely than not to reach the age of 100, with boys likely to enjoy lifespans almost as long. The article "The Biodemography of Human Ageing"[2] by James Vaupel, originally published in the journal Nature in 2010, is a good current reference on the subject. Vaupel is one of the leading scholars on the demography of aging and how to adjust for time trends in life expectancy. His striking finding is "Humans are living longer than ever before. In fact, newborn children in high-income countries can expect to live to more than 100 years. Starting in the mid-1800s, human longevity has increased dramatically and life expectancy is increasing by an average of six hours a day."[3] An article in a series on Slate, "Why Are You Not Dead Yet? Life expectancy doubled in past 150 years. Here’s why"[4] makes clear that it's progress here, and progress there, and a lot of little things adding up that have resulted in the dramatic increases in healthy lifespan over the last few generations.

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...

[2] http://www.demographic-challenge.com/files/downloads/2eb51e2...

[3] http://www.prb.org/Journalists/Webcasts/2010/humanlongevity....

[4] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_...
Do you have any idea how expensive those electronic basketball helmets are?

Come to think of it, I'm having trouble remembering how much regular basketball helmets cost...
They might be the first NBA team to do it, but I know of at least one Major League Soccer team that does this.
As you wrote, even an apparently simple idea like currency is actually incredibly complicated in its historical reality, so complicated that there are thousands of books about it, very active research, and competing school of thoughts that propose completely different and incompatible theories about what are the "causes" and what are the "effects".

So, my opinion is that every simple explanation of any big phenomena regarding human history actually explains very little.
> Scala's complexity is a serious problem. I once overheard a conversation between two people (one of them family) who implemented a 'binding' for a distributed key-value store in Scala. One complained that he couldn't even understand the other person's code. The difference: one library treated Scala as a Java with classes, while the other was written in a very functional style using Scalaz.

I guess that's a predictable consequence of the design goal of "scalable language". Scalable to the point that people should be able to mold the language in ways that the language designers hadn't foreseen (though in this case the two styles are the two styles that the language was designed to accommodate from the get-go). Maybe people should treat it as a language with many dialects which has the benefit of having a unified ecosystem, instead of having one ecosystem for every dialect.
Who cares. It's IE which needs to catch up to the standards Mozilla and Google are implementing. It's not like Windows users will be left out in the dark, they can always install Firefox.

Tell your users to use a real browser, or write a letter to Microsoft telling them to get with the times...

Even the University I attend doesn't support IE with their web-apps. They support Firefox...
From the author:

"We do try to throw up appropriate error messages when a browser lacks the necessary support. (WebRTC isn’t required to use TogetherJS, only to use audio chat, so the error message there comes up if you try to activate that function without WebRTC.)"

So, the issue is not specifically WebRTC support here.

Edit: Also, the official browser support page: https://togetherjs.com/docs/#browser-support
So, it could mostly work in IE10, but won't be a development focus.
Sorry to hear about your dad stevie, hope he's ok
Small bit of feedback, in case the devs are reading.

The site is needlessly vague about what it's going to show me. What are "my results", and will they be compelling enough for me to send personal information to somebody I don't know?

Coming to this site cold, with no expectations, I had no desire to enter my parents' ages, to tell you where they live, or to tell you how often I see them.
I've always found Satoshi's choice of email address interesting. Gmx.com didn't launch until 2008, the same year Satoshi published his Bitcoin paper.

GMX is a German company and the @gmx.de email address is highly popular in here, especially since Gmail was late to the party (legal action over 'gmail'). Web.de and Yahoo are the two other big players.

GMX uses geo-location to direct users to specific GMX TLDs. To use the .com you would need to use Tor or a VPN. Without using some kind of geo-anonymising tool, I am stuck with a GMX.de account.

Why choose GMX.com? Did he/she read about GMX launching in the US as he was looking for a new email account provider specifically to be used for Bitcoin correspondence? Was he/she based in Germany, knew of GMX and in using Tor or a VPN from Germany exited in the US and got a GMX.com account?

It doesn't mean anything in itself, but I always thought the choice of gmx.com was a curious one.
lol yeah telling our clients to use a real browser is totally going to be good for future business with them..
For those downvoting the parent comment, read the following to get the joke:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
How do you figure this was SEC bullying? Looks like a clear cut case of insider trading to me.
"Engineers" who use so many nested if's that I have to horizontally scroll my 2560px width monitor.

They've lasted because they've usually only had one or two employers, as a permanent employee (rather than a contract) and no-one code reviews until it's too late.
I know what you mean since I develop in Scala for a living. I wonder though if the complexity isn't with Scala itself but rather the abstractions that are created to enable functional style programming. I recently bought the Oreilly functional javascript book and the code also looked complicated once the author introduced unfamiliar abstractions such as trampolines.
Apologies, I did mean install. Thanks for the tip- I'll check Ambari out.
> Tell your users to use a real browser

Suddenly I have the impression I'm on Slashdot in the early 2000's.
One web page, likely hosted from a dynamic IP address, does not a web site make, and it is misleading to suggest otherwise. ;-)
This so so mean. I've got 6 more times left. Now I'm buying ticket home for xmas.
There are tons of website builders that allow you to create simple (to rather complex) websites nowadays. Squarespace, Jimdo, Wix to name a few can be great tools depending on your needs. No technical skills required, content creation and publication tend to be pretty accessible and all the hosting and domain name handling is usually fully taken care of.

I'm myself working for a French startup called Pikock[1] that is working hard on the next iteration of its drag-and-drop website builder. We're trying to make it as simple, efficient and streamlined as possible so that everyone gets a shot beyond the tech-savvy. Our core vision is that everyone, no matter the skill level is entitled to a presence online if they so choose.

Ultimately I want my 65-year old mom to be able to create content and share it with the world, even though there might not be an audience for her collection of hand-painted pebbles :)

[1] http://www.pikock.com/en
This is unreal. With syndicates, you can pretty much close a Series A round of investing in one shot. Looking forward to seeing how this changes the game.
Beyond it being expensive to replicate once, for observational studies and clinical trials, you need many repetitions because of statistical variability. That gets expensive in a hurry.
That isn't entirely true. The audio chat won't work in IE10, and IE10 support isn't a priority, but most everything else will probably work: https://togetherjs.com/docs/#browser-support

Edit: Ok, looking at the issues tracker, it looks like the current IE bugs basically break togetherjs on IE10. As such, hopefully this issue gets some attention: https://github.com/mozilla/togetherjs/issues/812
The jury didn't say he "did not commit insider trading"; they said the government didn't prove that he committed insider trading. They didn't say he's innocent of the charges, but that he's not guilty of them.

There's an important difference between the two.
"The 40-something's list of complaints include... hardened arteries, gallstones..."

Stuff like this makes me wonder how much of current health scares about modern diets (HFCS, glutton, carbs, dairy, GMOs, bad food of the month) should be taken seriously. The narrative presented is often that our bodies aren't suited to modern diets and people used to be a lot more healthy. It's too bad we don't have more long dead guys to fill the research gap.
If insider trading is such a big deal to the government, they can start by banning congressmen and congresswomen from having the ability to do so.

For those that don't know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act was passed to prevent insider trading in Congress, but Congressmen have been quietly pushing and scaling back insider trading laws, basically rendering the law useless.
I think the parent meant growth in scope, not in scale.
> That depends on several things about the replication attempt, such as sample size and methodology, summarized into the concept of statistical power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_power

It's not just power, you also need prior odds if you want to make an unconditional estimate. This is pretty much the core of Ioannides's famous paper http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal... - even after taking power into account, the replication rate could be anywhere from 0 to say 80% depending on the prior odds.
Asking some one to work for free before you interview them does not give a terribly good signal as to how good you would be as an employer.
The premise, for non-technical is perfect. I've heard stakeholders and clients saying that making a website is like pushing a button.
The project itself seems interesting nonetheless. I just need to see the limitations of it.
As nginx and others can be quite powerful.
Thanks for your prompt advice. I shared it with someone I trust, and they agree too. I'm grateful for your offer to give feedback on ideas. I look forward to taking advantage of that. Thank you.
The actual bill passed in the House is H.R.807 - Full Faith and Credit Act, which was buried in the Senate. It provided for continue servicing of the debt.
Well, it's factually inaccurate from the very first paragraph. Bitcoin has had several end-of-the-world vulnerabilities found and corrected.

e.g.

OP_RETURN bug (let anyone spend anyone elses coin)

Value overflow bug (let anyone produce billions of bitcoin)

Block merkle tree hash practically vulnerable to second preimage attacks (allowed anyone to select and kill arbitrary blocks, and thus rewrite the consensus)

Plus a mountain of smaller design bugs and more conventional software crashes issues.

The overall design is highly idiosyncratic in many ways. Novel integer serializations, random byte endianess.
Don't feel too bad. It's a very common mistake; see some of the citations in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value#Misunderstandings and http://lesswrong.com/lw/g13/against_nhst/
It's also a fact that our country is collapsing in on itself. We're still on top in a lot of ways, but the trend is definitely downwards in too many ways. We'd hardly be the first "empire in decline", and like many we can probably last decades or centuries without becoming completely historical and overshadowed by the next great empire. So I guess it's not all bad.

Honestly, if someone else can take over the "World Police Force" job so we can stop with the insane military spending, we could probably start taking care of our debt and getting our economy into reasonable shape again.
polygon.com

2013 cpu burn test,
Not far off, post is kind of spammy.
Evan Williams talk at XOXO Festival 2013
A pertinent pair of novels (by a Westerner) are "Under Heaven" and "River of Stars" by Guy Gavriel Kay. While set in the author's usual "slightly alternate" history, they are effectively set in the Tang and Song dynasties respectively. I have no idea how the Chinese regard these novels, but the linked essay could have been written, in part, on these novels instead of actual history. The second book's central theme is the peril presented by an isolated ruling class, institutionalized military incompetence, and the lack of trust in military leaders. They're good reads if fiction is more your speed.
Colonial conquest of foreign cultures is a very Western concept.

This is far from what the historical sources reveal. Many of the dynastic histories of China recount conquest of neighboring territories, and no one who has read those in the original literary Chinese (as I have, in excerpts) can doubt that there has been an imperialistic, expansionist drive in Chinese history that made China an expanding empire at least as much as in Rome or in Persia.

There is no evidence that traditional Chinese medicine, and especially nonscientific concepts like 氣 qi, have anything to say to improve medical practice in any country. More references about that can be found at the Science-Based Medicine group blog.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?s=qi

Responding also to the blog post kindly submitted here as well as to the comment above, let me disagree in part with the statement "China led the world in political organization as well. No other ruler's writ ran a third as far or has even a third as large a chance of being obeyed as that of China's emperor. Tang Dynasty cavalry skirmished with Persians on the shores of the Aral Sea. The Sung Dynasty river navy was the only military force to even temporarily stymie Chingis Khan's Mongols, before his descendants took to fighting each other rather than expanding the empire. No pre-industrial central government anywhere ever managed to match the reach, extent, and power of the landlord-scholar-bureaucracy mode of domination invented under the Tang and developed under the Sung."

No, China didn't really lead the world in political organization, because China's theory of human nature and thus its theory of politics didn't take enough account of the reality of human greed. China's political philosophy (which I have read extensively in the original writings of Confucius and Mencius that were the state ideology for a long time) is based on finding a virtuous ruler, and (as the blog post correctly points out) giving that ruler unchallenged power. China had an ideal of rule by men rather than rule by laws, but the Roman ideal of rule by laws rather than by men (so that in principle anyone, even the ruler, is subject to law) has proven to be a more durable principle for prevention of corruption and abuse of power. Medieval Europe, even in that harsh era, had more day-by-day personal freedom than China at its height, and that laid the foundation for technological and scientific and economic innovation in the West that helped the West thrive while China stagnated.
How to Avoid Problem Clients
You might show what format the form expects, e.g. mmddyyyy.

But now that I think of it, I would probably have to count pixels to tell if I switched month and day. The effect of seeing that is still neat.
With New gTLDs Comes New Cybersquatters – One Trick For Protecting Your Brand
I'd pay money to read that.
> I've yet to hear of anyone using a C++ REPL as their shell even if such a thing may exist.

Actually, it seems such a thing does exist, and there are quite some people using it (like, CERN) -- see a recent link from proggit for a C REPL called "CINT" (and its top comments for a C++ REPL dubbed "Cling") at:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1lqdor/cint_is_...
Making $114 a day mining Bitcoin in Jakarta
Try TogetherJS on hackurls
Just copy-pasted TogetherJS and deployed on hackurls.com, I can finally know who my users are, super cool :)
The Butterfly that Started the Apple Tsunami
If the target customer group needs sales staff (such as B2B solutions for decent size companies), then you will need direct boots-on-ground sales staff anyway - it's not even a matter of competition, it's table stakes to be able to participate.

If it's B2C / mass market B2B then sure, a website can do half of the job; but there are huge markets where even they really like your product and they call you, then 0 sales will be made unless you get a sales rep in their office.
Aging, taxes and the state of the labor market
During shutdown, DC residents eat out less, drink more
> There are some green-thread C libraries

Shameless plug for CPC, a compiler translating green-threads to event-driven code: http://gabriel.kerneis.info/software/cpc/

Used to compile coroutines in QEMU during the latest GSoC: http://gabriel.kerneis.info/research/files/qemu-cpc.pdf
http://www.rac.co.uk is built on ASP.net as is http://www.dell.com
There was virtually no possibility of default. It was theater, and the more people bought into the idea of default, the more it fed into the narrative.
Unfortunately the conclusion leads directly to the problem. Their is no difference between tablets and PCs in Microsoft's long-term vision.

This doesn't mean I agree with their design decisions, but I do agree with their vision.
Oetzi was clearly the victim of dehumanizing, evil modern technologies, like agriculture and metallurgy...
I don't actually agree with him but I just wanted to thank you for posting the recant. :)
Can you explain what "power consumption" refers to in this context? The power released by the fuel to achieve the thrust, taking efficiency into account? Or how is it calculated?
As far as I know, Firefox has never used SChannel (the Windows native implementation of TLS); it has always used Mozilla's own implementation, NSS. And Chrome has used NSS for a while as well. So SNI support shouldn't be a problem for Firefox or Chrome under XP.
> You haven't validated any of those assumptions.

There's an entire field of researchers researching researchers, so it's trivially easy to put together a list of common research errors and their prevalence. The only difficult thing is calculating the degree of independence. But there isn't any evidence, so far as I know, that these errors are highly correlated. Nor is there much reason to beleive that they are, since presumably the more errors a study has, the less likely it is to be published. Also, we already know from Ioannnidis et al. that the percentage of medical studies that can't be replicated is (iirc) in the 80-90% range. And just because a study can be replicated doesn't mean it's accurate, so 10-20% is really an upper bound on accuracy.

> Meanwhile, life expectancy at age 40, at age 60, and at even higher ages is still rising throughout the developed countries of the world

But as I've posted previously, and as you can find trivially easily via Google, of the 30 year increase in life expectancy in the US, a minimum of 25 of those years have come from public health improvements rather than from modern medicine.
Indeed - thank you for clarifying. This does sound expensive, though all the more necessary.
Jesus, how much I waited for this! :O

Literally just deployed, absolutely love it:

http://hackurls.com/#&togetherjs=global

One liner copy-paste for community on your website. I can finally talk in real time with my users and understand why the use my website.
they're really bad. i interviewed people that couldn't fill in a simple fizzbuzz after defining a function body and return type for them. they last because they can last, a lot of these jobs really just require codemonkeys. I have seen if states literally hundreds of words long made by these kinds of people.

that said i feel you. tbh, i have managed to impress anyone i worked with. most were people i met at hackathons, people that wanted to bootstrap their startups or general referals. on the other hand I failed most interviews i took(with a few noteworthy exceptions)

It once took me until after the interview to figure out that the guy just wanted to find out whether i understand how variable scopes work.

A lot of interview questions are questionable at best, and most code challenges are even worse. they're exactly how universities teach programming. The only problem is that universities suck at teaching programming. I know a lot of really awesome people that went to university because they thought knowing the topic they study was a good idea, but it turned out to be the opposite.

But one lady once asked me is there a special command to find out where traffic goes? I said route. Is there any special flag you would use she continued. But what she wanted was to hear route -n.

I'm pretty sure in those kinds of interviews they think i'm an idiot
I'm not sure that 'marketing' means what you think it means.

Your problem description is vague but it sounds like you're saying in this comment that you are looking at evidence that in this market you either need to get a strong salesperson or be a strong salesperson, but currently aren't making either of those happen.
Why did the SEC not try to move the venue of the trial?
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