skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"a majority of science publications are wrong"

As a scientist, I think this is probably correct. In my experience, a great majority of publications draw improper statistical conclusions, and I believe many of these are wrong in substance.

"What if the broad strokes are right but the statistics are sloppy?"

Publishing statements as statements of truth when they are improperly or falsely backed up would be better described as politics than science.
Yeah, it's weird. And for all it's inefficiency, there are absolutely brilliant things to be learnt that you'd never come up with it all.

I'm not sure it's specific to programming, but I find it dismaying to see how many solved problems we still need to fight with every day just because the people that originally wrote the code never paused to think enough about the theory behind it all.
[status-reopen] http://imgur.com/zZRveUH
This is usually how running out of money works. If they had 6 months runway they wouldn't shut down the company.
I don't think I was making any association between online & cloud that wasn't inferred from the article itself. I could be mistaken though.

Desktop mail clients have been queueing mail for delivery since their inception (as have MTAs but that's out of scope here). A desktop mail client also has to live in both worlds - while you have a connection you expect to be able to get near-real-time notification of new messages; yet while you're offline you expect to be able to view most of your message content as well as compose and queue messages. You more-or-less expect to be unaware that you're offline.

Firefox supports an offline mode where all content is served from cache (I'm not sure if Chrome does, haven't used it recently). Switching into and out of it isn't very graceful or automatic, but it is there and fairly well done.

Which leads back to my point. I agree it should be done gracefully, and will concede that the kinds of data have changed. However, at heart it has been done previously, and more-or-less gracefully.

In an age of always-connected phones, web apps, and a world confined to the browser, those lessons seem to have been forgotten - I just wouldn't want to see this go the route of re-learning them from first principles.
Sadly, Intel's integrated-GPU OpenCL still doesn't support Linux, and only just started supporting OS X in 10.9 Mavericks[1]. Usually Intel's Linux GPU support is great; I don't know why this is different.

(Intel do have a Linux OpenCL implementation for Xeon CPU cores and Xeon Phi coprocessor[2], which doesn't help me much. On-CPU OpenCL is fine but hardly faster than regular CPU code, and Phi coprocessors aren't very common currently.)

[1] http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1620203
[2] http://software.intel.com/en-us/vcsource/tools/opencl
They yesterday claimed they would make it public once it was stable.
http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/24050-i-apologize-ahead-of...
Gen Y here.

I think they answered their question halfway through.
Total student debt in the US is currently about $1,134,752,535,374.00 and increasing at a rate of about $2,853.88 per second.

The article title is linkbait -- any generation that spends that amount of money isn't "cheap" (I think the word "exploited" is probably more appropriate).
(For those unaware, modersky is the creator of Scala).
> My problem with xfce and most other Linux desktops is that they look like a Windows desktop from the early 2000s. It's an aesthetic that I don't personally enjoy; I'm much more of a shiny/fancy user, which is why I like Aero, or to a lesser extent, Mac OS X.

Sounds like you might enjoy Elementary OS, or at least that's probably the closest that Linux gets to what you're describing.
Note depending on the field, published research is 6-18 months old by the time its printed, and depending how specific of field you are talking, stuff that is as much as five or even 10 years old may be just as relevant as what has just been published.

Second the Google Scholar alert system, its pretty decent. I believe you can set an RSS off of it as well for your research keywords?
When did Google try to force Dart down your throat? Just because Angular is being ported to Dart? Seriously? Are you saying that Dart developers don't deserve Angular?
Every TV, my Twitter feed, Facebook, Google News, Google+, Newsblur... all Rob Ford. HN was my last refuge from this madness. It is so unbelievably ridiculous, this could (should) be a Chuck Palahniuk story.
Enterprise ready is such a useless term because the readiness is dependent on the particular enterprise asking the question.

For some enterprises Scala or even Go are "enterprise ready", for others, it will be decades.
But it wasn't necessarily scalable from a business perspective, and that might not have been attractive to the investors they needed. Especially if it's true their pricing was low.
HR does not understand engineering.
So I am wondering: as a startup founder / cofounder are you obligated to return investors' money/funds if it comes to the point that you have to shutdown your startup? Or was the raising of the money done with the understanding that investors may never get it back ?

Obviously, the answer here depends on the exact agreement(s) between the investor(s) and the founders but I am curious about the typical case.

If indeed, as I suspect, you are not "in-debt" by the amount of money that you had raised, this makes the shut down a bit less painful and also gives you room to try and do another startup in the future (due to not been burdened with paying back huge sums of borrowed money).
One said 'must be good at ping pong'....and they'll verify that how if I'm working remotely? Cut and paste bs reqs.
without British rule India would be an even bigger shit hole.
Someone's renting their place out on airbnb or similar in my building (in NYC) and it kinda sucks. Most people are just rude but otherwise uneventful, but some are noisy, some smoke outside my window, some can't figure out how trash works. Some lock themselves out at 4:30am and buzz and bang on my window until I let them in since my buzzer is the only one that works. Not sure what to do.
I'm not sure which letter applies to me, but I'm still under 30. Whenever I think about a car, I think about where I'd park it (either on the street and risk nature damage, or fork some extra cash every month for a parking spot), the cost of gas (more cash), the nightmare that is driving in the city center, finding a place to park it (usually, involving even more cash), maintenance (cash) and the cost to the environment. And what would I get for that? Reducing my commute 15 minutes, and being designated driver at the weekends. Small, electric cars would solve some of those problems, but car makers insist we don't want them.

I really think they are asking the wrong question - instead of "why aren't 'millenials' buying cars?", they should ask "why would millenials buy a car on the first place?".
I would apologize, but I'm confused. Care to spell that out? b^)
That's not at all what I was suggesting. I'm not suggesting setting up subsidiaries or anything of the kind.

It's easy to subcontract work out to other countries if you're not tied to the idea of having employees, but instead hire companies (companies which already exist, like say small design shops, packaging firms for apps, or tech firms) to perform services for you, rather than individuals.

Take 37 signals for example, when they were a consulting company. A company in say Paris could have hired them to work remotely, without worrying about paying income tax - that's all handled on the subcontractor end if it is a company.
The World Chess Championship, like all other competitive sports and games, provides entertainment - it doesn't feed people, cure cancer, etc. Gaffney's argument is logical, but for that matter, abolishing competitive chess would be just as logical - or illogical.

Weird to see this on a mainstream site like slate.com. The world title is merely one symptom of the professional chess world's many problems.
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I'm curious about how the Hacker News duplicate detector is working today,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6677539

and how the policy about titles of submissions is being implemented by the moderation team. The article kindly submitted here is a very interesting article.
It's not inflammatory for the sake of it; the point is I wrote about this four years ago:

http://alblue.bandlem.com/2009/10/scala-is-still-not-enterpr...

and there has been very little change since that 2009 post and the 2013 post to show any kind of serious movements on these issues. For single teams based on small projects the ability to up and move all your tools (IDEs, build train, library dependencies) really isn't a problem; but if you're dealing with hundreds or thousands of users and tens of thousands of libraries, you simply can't do an all-in-one upgrade.

And no, 2.10.x and 2.10.y being compatible isn't something to crow about; it should have been the default. The fact that you can't compile or test code in Eclipse with the Typesafe developed Scala IDE plugin for anything other than that exact version is one reason why developers are moving to IntelliJ's Scala development tools.

Ironically the problem is that the Scala IDE is written in Scala, whereas the IntelliJ tool is written in Kotlin, and Kotlin doesn't have compatibility problems (plus, it shells out to the specific compiler instead of Eclipse's Scala tools which embed their own).

Yes, teams at the Guardian are using Scala - but only in teams of less than ten people, and where they don't need to share libraries across multiple users and clients. That still doesn't make it enterprise ready.

Sadly I feel that Rod Johnson's keynote presentation at ScalaDays - which pointed out the same things as this post, and was the trigger - is being ignored. Unfortunately Typesafe are also ignoring this advice, and until that changes we won't see Scala being adopted in large enterprises.

Scala had a chance back in the late 2000s to be the next Java. Now - even with Java 8 having been delayed so much - it's probably too little, too late.
I think it might be the second--a protest against the need for self censorship.

Along those lines, a local DJs admitted that whenever he bleeped profanity, he actually put the beep after whatever word was being censored. Like "What the fuckBEEP". He claimed he never got a single complaint.
www.tandemcap.com is an excellent one. we just spent the last 6 months with them.
Haskell seems more united than the lisps, though. There doesn't seem to be a lot of 'dialects'/direct descendants, with the possible exception of languages that try to achieve specific things (Agda, Elm...).
Yeah, take a real close look at what led to our needing RICO (another non-sensical law): prohibition of alcohol and gambling. Without those two legal battles, the mob would have still been shaking down the corner grocer for a couple of bucks protection money (which our country's law enforcement should have been taking care of, instead of chasing down bootleggers and betting operations).

Watch Ken Burn's documentary on prohibition and soak in all the parallel's to today's war on drugs:
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/
Off course it still has its use. It comes in handy when you forget your d-link router password.
Why is Andy Kieffer in Mexico?
I make a lot more than a lot of GenY, and have less student loan debt, and it is a MAJOR part of my budget. I don't see how someone with an average salary and average student loan debt could get a loan for a car or for a house.
I am fascinated with your second comment. I've asked this question on HN before as well, though my focus was on San Francisco rather than NYC.

What happens if the airbnb tenant does pay rent, but insists that he or she is now a long term tenant governed by SF landlord-tenant law. Tenant protection laws are very strong in SF, and typically require some kind of "cause" for eviction. If San Francisco courts do not recognize the legality of a short term rental agreement, what would they do with it? I'm not a lawyer at all, these are just questions... but would the courts allow the tenant to remain as a long term tenant? How would the calculate the rent? Would they simply disregard unenforceable provisions and default to existing law?

Does anyone know if this has been litigated?
Since when does "not taking loans out for shit you can't afford" equate to cheap?
I'm trying Folding@Home on it now. Looks like it might not recognize the GPU.

22:42:58:WU02:FS00:0x15:GPU memtest failure
22:42:58:WU02:FS00:0x15:
22:42:58:WU02:FS00:0x15:Folding@home Core Shutdown: GPU_MEMTEST_ERROR
22:42:58:WU02:FS00:0x15:Starting GUI Server
22:42:59:WARNING:WU02:FS00:FahCore returned: GPU_MEMTEST_ERROR (124 = 0x7c)
Google engineer here too. I completely agree with the fast edit/refresh cycle being a huge plus but that's precisely what Dartium (the build of Chromium that includes the Dart VM and ships with the Dart editor) is for.
Less and less of a counter example. If you leave out work mailboxes, most people these days don't send their email any more: they ask Google, Microsoft, or their ISP to do it from them, from their web browser.

Some people are worried about Facebook taking over the internet? First of all, I'm worried about the web taking over the internet. And becoming more and more centralized in the process.

Alas, any truly distributed scheme will face the lack of symmetric bandwidth. Which is why MegaUpload ever existed in the first place: if we could upload as fast as we download, distributed networks such as Bittorent would be too damn efficient. (On average, we're ultimately limited by the smallest of the two. Upload minus download is exactly zero over a closed peer to peer network.)
Except Google has its own plateform ( ChromeOS ) that has its own eco system. Native Client doesnt work outside Chrome yet it exists. Google will push Dart VM is Chrome sooner or later.
the dood abides.
Startup Idea: Used Car Leasing
Scala has the potential to become an enterprise useful language because people can write a simple script to monitor how many mutable states appears in the codebase.
I agree. It's weird. I'm sure there are people who can tell who that is, just by squinting a bit.

> not the acid inspired thing used in this case...

I'd be interested to know what it is - pseudo CMYK halftone or Ben-Day dots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Day_dots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone
The modern drug war was well underway in the 1970s (watch Donnie Brasco again). It just had not yet morphed into the crack epidemic (an epidemic whose roots lay partially in the skyrocketing cost of cocaine due to the war on drugs).
That's simply disgusting.
An MBA in entrepreneurship has business classes adapted for an entrepreneurial audience.

A typical MBA involves the study of topics such as marketing, finance, risk management, accounting, economics, statistics, operations, HR, organizational dynamics, business law, and strategy.

Many of these can easily be adapted to be more useful for entrepreneurs. A finance class can focus on venture capital more than the bond market. A marketing class can focus on new product development more than the promotion of existing products. A law class can deal with the issues most relevant to startups. The accounting needs of a startup exec are different than those a future partner at Deloitte. etc.

As a clear example of the type of content that an entrepreneurial class could cover, Steve Blank's book Four Steps to the Epiphany originated not as a book, but as the notes for his class at Haas.
Thanks for the answer. It sounds like your per-user profit was insufficient.

Did you have intermediate milestones before reaching the "economies of scale" one?
I think there's a push to turn Bezos into the new Steve Jobs. Media always likes to have a figure like him around.
Apply anyways. The person reading the resumes usually knows what they really want.
"why would millenials buy a car on the first place?".

That's exactly it. It's not the status symbol it used to be, because it should've never been one in the first place. You can't work on cars much anymore, and it's clear that the car-centric planning we've gone with was a terrible fucking idea and has been setting us up for much sadness.
> the nature of so-called "Open Source" at Google

I don't understand why did you put "Open Source" in quotes there.

Did Google take Angular of the internet?
Did they not put AngularJS out to the world, open sourced?
Did they forbid you from forking Angular, working on it, and create a refuge for all "abandoned" developers?
You can't take a library compiled with Scala 2.8 and have it run with Scala 2.10.

You can take a library compiled with Java 1.4 and have it run with Java 7.

That's the key point that is made here. The fact that version compatibility at the patch level is laughable; that should have been the default, not an additional selling point later.

The problem is that it's impossible to create a library (like log4j) and then make it available/support it across different versions. Each time you need to release a build, you have to build different versions - one for 2.9, one for 2.10 - in order to work.

At some point that breaks down; one key library in your chain no longer compiles on 2.9, so you have to move everything to 2.10 to do further work. It's the transitive closure for all those libraries and their dependencies that will get you in the end.
"fuck these guys" is way over the top. there's nothing wrong with deciding you only want to invest in businesses you think have a shot at being worth 1 billion dollars some day.
I'd love to see a cross browser app, one that worked on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux that just required to to drag and drop an image and write to USB.
I know I'm quite late to the party, but I actually keep 100% of the source code open. The only parts I keep in a secret repo are tied to keys, hostnames and addresses, and certificates. But, just having a secret repo where sensitive information (including proprietary algorithms) was enough to satisfy the few investors I talked to.

Mind you, my next project is closed source, as I plan to open-source reusable pieces that will actually help people instead of a massive codebase that few have the means to run.
He did design the physical chip, gates and all. He wrote the design software himself (supposedly, 500 lines of forth called OKAD). He uses a simpler model that is accurate enough for the process he is using.

http://www.colorforth.com/vlsi.html

Everything he does is fascinating, but don't expect any of it to be useful unless you are, in fact, Chuck Moore (perhaps Chuck Norris also gets a pass...)
One can include the narratives of the key figures depicted. One recent Israeli movie, The Gatekeepers, did so (for leaders of Israel's security service), and the differences in opinions remained unsettled at the end of the film.
The public API at the source level is very stable.

I mean, my major touchstone is Ruby-land, and over there there's nothing like it. Even point releases of libraries or the language itself can and will routinely break your code. I've never seen that happen with Scala. Not saying it definitively hasn't, but I certainly haven't experienced it, and that's not because I'm using less of Scala than I did of Ruby...

It feels like shifting the goal posts to say that binary compatibility should be a bigger factor in versioning (and it's already represented in the minor version) when you've already arguably got better stability guarantees than many of it's contemporaries.

Unless we really are limiting the conversation to Java. But how do you compete with "we never break compatibility at the cost of never evolving"?
Your alternatives are

1) Switch to other cloud providers, I'm not aware of any very cheap ones.

2) Switch to other hostings, which can be 1/10 as cheap as AWS, but then you have to deal with the failures.

3) Colocate and build your own servers/storage. It's only cheaper if your bill is much more than a 24/7 sysadmin(s) salary.

I suspect DropBox don't give a shit about server costs, they are swimming in money. But I bet having their own data centers will save them money.
I'd wager that's a better idea than many of the other pitches I hear
Remote doesn't generally mean completely de-coupled. For us it's more of a timezone issue than anything else. It's still very handy to have people who can meet and collaborate at least for a decent chunk of the day. Which means for a company in the United States getting farther away than western Europe is a real challenge.
Thank you Google. From all of us.
Since it started hurting profit margins.

Remember, being efficient pretty much negates the opportunity for someone to make a buck off of you.
You might as well use a standalone window manager + various apps if you need something more "lightweight" than xfce.
Just FYI; semantic versioning is split into three numbers:

major.minor.micro

Changes in .micro are assumed to be interchangeable. Scala does this.

Changes in .minor are assumed to be backwardly compatible, but with new features added. Scala does not do this, it requires a recompile.

Major versions indicate a completely incompatible change.

If Scala were to follow semantic versioning, it would need to coalesce the first two versions together and have e.g. 210 and 211 to indicate that they are not compatible with each other.
Nah! You don't need to hate your self, OS X is good and that's it! hehe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%281940s_subculture%29
I'm a Millenial and I enjoy owning a car, but I definitely don't care about it as an indicator of social status the way older generations did.

I would much rather own a self-driving pod with a comfortable couch where I could work or relax without thinking about driving. Or even enjoying the view! Driving is fun, but for day-to-day stuff, I'd much rather get online as soon as possible to get my work done.

I tend to think of time in a car as time wasted, unless I just happen to be in the mood to drive.
I think I will be sticking with my Nexus 4.

I acknowledge that the new 5 has bigger and better everything, however, I can live without it. Furthermore, I think the Nexus 4 is a design classic, I like the glass back with its embedded speckles. I am a bit the same way with the N7, I prefer the original to the new and improved version. All considered, I am pleased that I do not feel 'miffed' to have the old models of both tablet and phone.
That should be a TED talk
> A Dart to JS compiler will never be "decent" compared to having the Dart VM in the browser.

I'm new to javascript & dart, so honest question here: why?
There might not be a formalized 'grand plan,' but Dart doesn't have the open, cheerful intentions of CoffeeScript.

It's being designed as a javascript replacement. Google's overbearing intention is obvious.

You're right: Dart is, functionally, another CoffeeScript, but that's despite Google's plan--ok, 'experiment'--not by design.

>So, please, can we discuss this on its merits

Your criticisms are shared. That's what causes the friction: resentment that a pretty flawed language is being pushed. Dart does take time away from other more worthwhile projects.

None of the cynicism is over wishing that Google would stop experimenting with technology, it's over Google's waste of time.

Edit: Actually, apparently there might be a formalized 'grand plan,' reading nateabele.
It's a filter in Photoshop called color halftone.
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I had the option of getting my dad's old car for free, recently. It works fine, looks nice and is about 9 years old, but I decided not take it (so he's giving it to his troubled sister).

I live in a suburb of NYC (Floral Park) where it might be useful sometimes, but its just not worth it just considering the cost of monthly insurance. I take the bus/subway everywhere and can take many taxis a month before a car makes more sense.
Late Gen X here.

If these feelings are widespread amongst Gen Y, that actually makes me optimistic for the future. Thanks for writing it up.