skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really screwing us up and will force us to cancel paid subscriptions prematurely. There was no outreach to the developer community to even find out what interesting and/or thriving applications are relying on the API - just an expiration date. I understand a new architecture for mobile is most important right now, but it's at the expense of pissing off a loyal group of Skype developers who could help further drive the platform's success.
Then they're probably going to have to roll their own.
so... non-scientific articles about scientific research are true? probably not.
I've never been able to work to music so I end up having to blast white noise over headphones to work in open office spaces. There is nothing like listening to white noise for 8 hours to make you hate open office spaces.
Actually, that's too slow.

ig.game.nextWave();

I advanced to wave 10,000 and while its probably impossible for a human, the difficulty doesn't seem to scale as I expected.
HN is not gcc bug tracker nor stack overflow. Your code is wrong.
yes, probably false. This is not news, e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/ came out in 2005.

of course, research "proving" that research tends to be false can get us into a little circular game...
I have absolutely no idea how this works, but can't you just put it through a bank account/company you set up in your home country and pay tax on it there?
Why First-Born Kids Do Better in School
Clearing Bootstrap 3 columns
Offtopic: I didn't know about `git branch -v`. Not something I needed enough to go looking for it, but nifty and good to know! Always learning more Git tricks :)
Summary:

The author of this article came out of partial retirement to construct a novel bankruptcy plan for GM, which is what GM used.

The normal route would be for GM to file bankruptcy and have the court approve a restructuring. This restructuring plan would be fought over by creditors, and GM would be "dead in the water" while this was happening and loose market share. The author asserts this would have been a death blow to the reorganized GM.

The novel plan was to split GM into two companies, "OldCo" and "NewCo," either before or after filing for bankruptcy (the article was not very clear). NewCo would emerge from the bankruptcy as the new GM, and OldCo would be liquidated. The bankruptcy process would complete faster as the restructuring plan was already "set" by splitting into two companies.

There was internal debate in GM about this plan. A more standard bankruptcy was also being prepared. The Obama administration, in providing funding to GM, decided for the NewCo/OldCo plan and also ousted the CEO of GM.

This article is written by the author of the NewCo/OldCo plan, so it may be self-serving.

The article spends more time describing the process of and drama around creating the plan than the details of the actual plan.

[edit for clarity and typos]
In certain fields, that's not implausible. Many results are along the lines of "compound X is effective against disease Y", where the negation, "compound X is not effective against disease Y", is a reasonable baseline assumption, because most compounds are not effective against most diseases.

Results where the prior odds could plausibly be considered 50/50 are another story. Scientific research that doesn't take the form "rule out the null hypothesis with p values" is also a different matter (lots of CS and physics, among other fields, has a more complex mingling of theory and epistemology than experiment/nullhypothesis/pvalue/repeat).
I wouldn't be so sure. Not talking about mathematics or CS, but in many social sciences (and also medicine and so on) the paper is just stating that A->B but i) there can be a lot more things going on that explain whatever correlation you are finding (from reverse causality to bad experimental setup), and *more importantly ii) in order to get published, you need to present a somewhat interesting or controversial statement.

If you state something obvious and most likely true, good luck getting to Nature/Science. If you state something unusual, then that will sell (where selling is getting citations) so you will see it published
While you are correct, it does essentially advocate getting rid of it in that it puts forward the example of the Articles of Confederation.

My issue is that it's seeking to abolish what exists presently in whatever manner it can manage it, else why would it use the Articles of Confederation as an example? Modify things piecemeal.
I have

function LispOpts()
inoremap [ (
inoremap ] )
inoremap ( [
inoremap ) ]
endfunction
autocmd FileType scheme call LispOpts()
autocmd FileType lisp call LispOpts()

in my vimrc, which gains me all the ease-of-typing I really want. I don't think it'd really be worth anything as drastic as actually creating a new keyboard layout.

Then again, I don't use lisp all that often, so YMMV on that point.
Pixar and it's not even close.
It's been several months so I may be wrong, or perhaps I am thinking of a different regulation, but I was under the impression electronically signed documents required an audit trail, and that the signature could not be modified post creation of the document.
just to point out -- while the marketing is "4-inch screen is now 5-inch screen", the ergonomics aren't so bad. The 5 is several millimeters taller and only half a millimeter wider than the 4. But for holding the thing in my hand, I only really care about the width.
> That dysfunction is what has led to the extraordinary prosperity experienced by the United States.

I think this is a rather simplistic view of history. Supposing that American history unfolded along Australian lines (no revolution, eventual unification by vote, constitutional bicameral monarchy with fused executive), I expect that it would still have wound up as the richest and most powerful nation in history.

The USA straddles what is, quite simply, the best place on earth for agriculture and trade. No other country in the world has better internal navigation by river. No country has such a vast bowl of rich soil red reliably by rain from two massive mountain ranges draining into the interior. No other country in the world has so many ideal ports. There are more good ports on the American Atlantic coast than there are on the European Atlantic coast.

It is difficult to make and sustain an argument that, once British institutions took root in such fertile conditions, the USA was never destined to be very wealthy and successful.
I haven't seen it mentioned, but working for a university project funded by public and/or private grants (in my case for free educational software) is working quite well.
There's a follow-up paper to the one you linked that claims that much less published research findings are false:

>We estimate that the overall rate of false discoveries among reported results is 14% (s.d. 1%), contrary to previous claims. We also found that there is no a significant increase in the estimated rate of reported false discovery results over time (0.5% more false positives (FP) per year, P=0.18) or with respect to journal submissions (0.5% more FP per 100 submissions, P=0.12).

[1] http://biostatistics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/0...

The circle has begun :)
I've gotten in that habit as well, but then, I'm a neat freak when it comes to git, always using `git add -p` and filtering out any unrelated changes into different commits. I'm often dismayed how sloppy other programmers are with git :)

Commit messages like "Ugh, I really need to commit more often. Did X, Y, Z, and maybe some other stuff." make me cringe. Those people need this change the most!
Look. Clearly science makes progress that's "true" in the sense that it becomes useful and can be used as functional models of the way things work.

This video's using a very reductionist kind of statistics to point out that, yes, an individual piece of research making a claim might have a good chance of being wrong. Which is why science doesn't say, "Oh, well Larry just proved that Saturn orbits Uranus so let's just never think about that again and instead move on to proving that the Sun is fully powered by excess heat radiating off of Elon Musk's brain." Science is a process that works in aggregate, using a large volume of research and scientists checking one another as a way to smooth over this very imperfect process. Over time. Science checks itself. That's the whole point. That's why it reaches some pretty damned good conclusions about the way things work.

So.

I don't know what the point of this video is. Science is wrong? Scientists are stupid? The Economist is smart? I should believe the Republicans when they say the Earth couldn't possibly be warming because that one time it snowed in a part of Texas where it never really snows all that often?
The problem with their reasoning is that it relies on a very high prior that the hypothesis is false.

In fact an explicit analysis of the prior over the hypothesis and the power of the test, would be roughly equivalent to the informal discussion that goes along with the statistical results.

The main issues in my opinion are that the number and nature of studies that produce null results if unknown, and that there is a bias in the literature towards positive results. While this bias incentivizes researchers to use powerful tests, it comes at a big cost.
37signals doesn't have a four day workweek. They tried it and found it wasn't quite enough time to do everything they wanted to do in a week.
> the time tested bulwark that is our iterative and flexible legal foundation.

Other traditions are time tested too. I note that Australia didn't fall into a brutal civil war within 8 decades.
you'll need to still download and gzip -d the file... but this will help you search

https://gist.github.com/taf2/7285640
A new federal government would require control by somebody other than Democrats and Republicans, otherwise it's just more of the same. However the US system of elections makes it very difficult to escape from a two party system.

As for size and scope of the federal government, that's surely been decided by elected representatives according to the procedures of the constitution?
Seeing as many companies get their furniture from Allsteel, they have a fantastic headquarters. http://www.allsteeloffice.com
Asimov wrote an excellent piece on this - The Relativity of Wrong: http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm

The Earth isn't flat, but it certainly approximates being flat for small measurements of its surface (such as those early civilizations would've been able to make).
The conclusions of this video depend on an idealized view (and thus a poor model) of research and science. In fact, there are many different kinds of results (associated with different levels of confidence and which almost all require a nuanced interpretation in order to be properly understood) and many different kinds of researchers. The best results, across many fields, are rarely if ever single papers with a single experiment with p<0.05. The good ones have multiple mutually-confirming experiments with much smaller p-values. And often for the very best results, p-value-style analyses are redundant: what would be the p-value associated with the line that Hubel and Wiesel claim was triggering the firing of their cat's retinal ganglion cell [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOHayh06LJ4]? Does it even matter?

[Edit: Parenthesis in first sentence, for clarity]
Self-driving vehicles work today and are legal in several states. Elementary pieces of self-driving tech are selling in production cars. I take it as a foregone conclusion that everything will be self-driving in 50 years—probably much sooner.
This is where it makes sense to point out that the US, the source of these troubles, still has a much higher standard of freedom (including of the press) than countries like the UK. Ironic.
Zero to employable is a different audience then "program a game for high school kids". I don't like TDD either but it can only help if you're new
An ASM Monad
This reminds me of something my Latin teacher used to say: We don't know how Latin was actually pronounced because all of the audio tapes were destroyed when Rome burned down. :-)
> In Greek this isn't the case: the relative lengths of the vowels is part of what defines the word.

The same is true of Japanese, but nonetheless, Japanese music is often all over the place when it comes to the pacing/rhythm/pronunciation of lyrics, just as English music is. In music, ease of understanding isn't always the primary concern....
Huh, and I though GM was saved by the government giving them $50 billon dollars to play with, of which they managed to lose $10 billion. I guess the success criteria was that they didn't lose all of it?

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/u-s-reports-9-7-billion-loss...
See the original paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/
In what way is the US government stymied? I don't see much difference compared to other democratic systems. Just count the number of laws and regulations.
Two game-theoretic strategies need to be mitigated/bred out out of Academia:

(1)'Security through obscurity' problem, where nobody can be bothered to verify your results as they are likely meaningless, lack broad applicability, or are not intellectally cost-effective for anyone to be bothered to understand them (etc).

(2) The "lick the cookie" problem, where nobody will verify your results because there its considered degrading (professionally) to 'not be first' at the table, as the author of origin. [a]

These both in combination lead to something of a "tradgedy of the commons" where the basic core of the discipline erodes in presitige/utility, as the individual contributors seek to maximize their personal productivity from the public good (the repuation of groundbreaking science).

[a] This is the childhood strategy of making anything you touch first unatractive to all those who follow.

edits: for clarity.
As a recent novice-to-employed developer myself, I would caution against jumping into the rails stack. This is not a knock on rails, however. Where I live (Michigan, US) there are plenty of web dev job openings at any given time. But about 50% are C# MVC or ASP.net, another 25% are PHP drupal or wordpress and then come Django, Rails and the rare node job.

My point is if "employable" is the goal, check out the jobs listed on stackoverflow and indeed, etc., in your area before picking a learning plan.

(Incidentally, I learned Java/Android and Python and count myself very lucky to be employed in non-web dev.)
love playing this game.
Larger phones fit bigger batteries.

The nexus 4 had terrible battery life.
In an Iterated Prison's Dilemma, Tit-for-Tat and Win-Stay-Lose-Change are both viable winning strategies from a game theory point of view. If your competitor is playing one of those strategies, and you aren't, then not responding to an attack merely guarantees continued loses.
I will gladly send you a prototype to try (and return the 20 dollars to you if you do not like it). I don't believe in NDAs, so be aware that if you decide to annex the design, I will eat you.
Richard Crenna shows up at a retired corporate consultant's cabin and implores him to return help save GM. He does so using an innovative restructuring which the GM board chooses at the very last minute. Obama calls the GM CEO a failure, but in fact the guy is awesome. When it's all over the consultant returns to his cabin and broods out the rest of his days.
{{ block.super }} does the trick for me.
That’s a nice axiomatic assumption made based on faulty observations.

Not only are the facts to support that assumption not in evidence, the facts that exist about the history of the U.S. government show that

(a) dysfunction is not the normal mode of operation of the U.S. government and that

(b) the extraordinary prosperity of the U.S. since about 1930 has been to increasing levels of federal government involvement and investment in both infrastructure projects (e.g., the interstate highway system, the Internet, advances in medicine and sanitation) and social projects (the social safety net, some basic medicare services, education investment as a whole, desegregation and civil rights in general).

The U.S. has not been this actively dysfunctional for at least eighty years, and more likely for about 160 years (and the secondary reasons for the dysfunction 160 years ago are not too dissimilar to the reasons for dysfunction now, as ways of life and economic growth are deeply threatened by modernization). I’m not sure that we've seen sustained partisanship for this long ever in the history of the U.S. (about 18 years since Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich’s clashes in ’95).

Further, it’s questionable how sustainable the “prosperity” in the U.S. is over the 18–20 years, as has been well documented. Most of the money has flowed away from the middle class (the proverbial rising tide) and toward an already wealthy upper-upper class.

That the U.S. and its constitution have survived several shorter periods of hyper-partisanship and a civil war suggest that it is, as a document, more resilient than the article suggests, but there has been a sea change in the U.S. where I no longer recognize the country of my birth and can foresee the day when I choose no longer to be a U.S. citizen because I no longer identify with what it has become.
In Praise of Art Forgeries
Yeah but your thumbs or fingers still need to traverse 5inches of screen because thats the tappable area now.
I released something similar to this, jsgrep, but the query syntax is actual JS with special variables marking the placeholders. I think the patch syntax makes more intuitive sense in jsgrep; although it is more limited:

$ cat c.js
f(x < y, x == z);
$ grasp bi --replace '{{.r}}+{{.l}}' c.js
f(y+x, z+x);

In jsgrep, the same substitution could be made by:

-f(A < B, B == C)
+f(A + B, B + C)

jsgrep: https://github.com/facebook/jsgrep
Django Test Addons to make testing easier
Ok, I don't read TechCrunch that often, but leading a story with a giant unicorn picture that literally takes up the entire screen on my 13" MacBook Air, such that all of the meaningful content is not even on the screen is really terrible design. I wish that design trend would go away like yesterday.
Doing a web business "on the site" is definitely very hard. However, you could invest money into highly tech startups, so that it balances your "old money" ;-)
>>As a recent novice-to-employed developer myself, I would caution against jumping into the rails stack. This is not a knock on rails, however. Where I live (Michigan, US) there are plenty of web dev job openings at any given time. But about 50% are C# MVC or ASP.net, another 25% are PHP drupal or wordpress and then come Django, Rails and the rare node job.

As a novice who is learning web programming, I find this... odd. No JavaScript/Jquery? Is that not by far the most commonly used language/framework on the web?

For server-side, I can understand PHP, Rails and ASP.NET but I would expect JavaScript to dominate the front-end.
> Science checks itself.

Not that much, actually. There's no point in reproducing the work of others to advance your own scientific career. Unless your research directly directly depends on them, it is counterproductive.
So, because the comments here are busy fighting over patriotism and tone rather than the substance of the article, here's a list of salient bits:

> When 24 military officers and civilians were given a single week to craft a constitution for occupied Japan in 1946, they turned to England. The Westminster-style parliament they installed in Tokyo, like its British forebear, has two houses. But unlike Congress, one is clearly more powerful than the other and can override the less powerful one during an impasse.

> "No democratic principle exists to resolve disputes between the executive and the legislature about which of the two actually represents the will of the people," Linz wrote.

> Most parliamentary systems, which unify the executive and legislative branches, have this sort of fail-safe mechanism. If a budget or other must-pass bill can't get passed, or a prime minister can't be chosen, then funding levels are placed on autopilot and new elections are called to resolve things. The people decide.

> The Senate, he says, should be expanded to give more populous states at least a bit more representation, and it should also include "national senators"—all former presidents and vice presidents, maybe others—whose job it is to guard national interests over parochial ones. Sabato's plan would also double the size of the House (to make representatives closer to the people) and enforces a nonpartisan redistricting process to end gerrymandering. Elections for president, Senate, and House, in Sabato's vision, are rescheduled to coincide more often, while presidents would serve a single, six-year term (the idea is to make their governing less political, while giving them enough time to implement change).

> Instead, Lessig, along with fellow Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe and many others, proposes a bottom-up form of public financing where voters get a voucher of, say, $50 off their taxes, which they can use to donate to candidates.

> If Americans managed to convoke a constitutional convention, they could draw on hundreds of possible tweaks with text already written, available online thanks to the Google-funded Comparative Constitutions Project. After hundreds of tries, we (humans) have gotten so good at chartering governments that we've developed a set of best practices.

> instant-runoff voting has become increasingly popular because it allows voters to rank multiple choices instead of picking just one.

> Germany's Pirate Party advocates something called "liquid democracy." A cross between New England-style town meetings and Facebook, this model of delegative democracy leverages social relationships and expertise on an open-source software platform for collaborative decision-making.

> Clay Shirky, a futurist at New York University, advocated for a "distributed version control democracy" in a recent TED talk. The New York state Legislature is already experimenting with this on its OpenLegislation platform, while the OpenGov Foundation, a nonprofit organization cofounded by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is doing something similar on the federal level, allowing anyone to comment on and annotate legislation pending before the House.
I like this personally as someone who submitted something to HN and I don't mind my content used this way as a link is used pointing back to the main site and its obvious where the main site is but if it downloaded every post I made, then I might take issue.

However some of the website owners may not like you're downloading the content of their articles and hosting them elsewhere. There is a great army of spam sites that will just watch http://pingomatic.com/ and scrape each new entry. Then they will on host it on a splog and stick adverts up. Which gets website owners annoyed.

Trouble is Google might not realize which is the main site and won't get the page rank or the visitors don't come to their site but an alternative. They'll get annoyed as they won't be able to monetize them or see who is reading the page through analytics.

So you may want to set up a DMCA page and abuse email address to stay on the right side of the law. Also a robots.txt which denies Google and Bing from crawling the pages you downloaded.
Unknown or expired link.
Why do I get 'Unknown or expired link.' message whenver I click the more button at the bottom of the hacker news feed?
Guido van Rossum, John Resig, DHH, and Pamela Fox are Judges on CreateHS
minor pivot:

One of the major pieces of advice for up and coming writers is to transcribe the books of an author you love/admire. Teaches you to learn their cadence, and, on some level, think about why they choose certain words.

Now, the speed here would SORTA kill some of that but... I could see wanting to transcribe a great novel while playing a game, and I would be forced to consciously think about each word. So, let people upload RTFs or text files to download. Or choose from open source books.