skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In most fields, if there's less than a five percent chance that you'd get the two numbers by random chance, then you can reject chance—the results are considered significant. In statistical terms, this is called having a p value of less than 0.05.

No it isn't [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value
In physics, we use 2-sigma (95%) limits all the time. 5-sigma (99.9999%) is generally required only for a claim of detection.

If you're just feeling your way around in the dark, 2-sigma is a useful way to work, so we use that to guide exploration.

Why 2-sigma? Well, it's twice as big as 1-sigma.

Experiment didn't go well, but you need a more-impressive result? Use a 90% confidence interval instead of 95%.
Argh, no support for the HTC First! Please god make it so!
The key difference here is that Rap Genius does not use clips, but rather the entire lyrical work. Also it's important to note that often times the lyrics on Rap Genius contain no annotation, so in that case, it is not the same situation of referencing bits of work to create a new work.
IIRC, they've been working with nutritionalists and doctors to continually check on how Soylent is affecting its testers.

I'm too lazy to find the sources, so feel free to dismiss my claim.
Protip to all non-sociopaths: You can't fake sincerity. Trying will backfire in the long term.

You seem to know a lot about psychology. What do you call someone who doesn't recognize jokes?
A systemic (political, not free-market) policy of inflation encourages people into debt by decreasing the cost of borrowing (minus the increase in risk-cost, which most people are bad at judging), and by squeezing people by decreasing their cost-of-life margin versus their earning power.

Not to mention politically motives to encourage debt, by incentivising things like mortgages, or creating educational debt systems, etc.

The very dollar itself is an instrument of debt, and it is self-perpetuating -- there has to be a way to pay off the interest on that debt that was the genesis block for that dollar, of course that's done by "printing" money (adding a zero on a digital ledger), which creates inflation, which encourages people into debt, which requires more money to be printed, which requires interest to be paid off on that dollar, which...
If you're getting hit 10-20 times in a row then it means that the enemy is getting the time to take 10-20 shots at you... which seems far too much; the battle should be over much sooner almost always - you can't afford attrition battles since any damage costs you funds that are required for upgrades.

But starting with hard difficulty probably was the mistake - unlike other games, it's not something you do before trying other things, it's something to do after you've tried other things and found out a strong strategy that works for you.
Case in point:

http://monome.org/aleph-detail/
There's still a bit of civil discourse left in HN. :P

Both Founders Fund and DFJ seem to take larger bets. I wouldn't count on AngelList to fund the next Fairchild.
The license is probably not entirely static, most likely based on traffic like paid web fonts. My guess is that it would be significantly more expensive for Rap Genius.
they are incorporated now. Trust them as much as you trust Samsung or Google. Or maybe less.
They said IE11 is the first to make TLS 1.2 default. And it is apparently true.
Undesirable Lyric Website List - David Lowery, UGA Music Business
If you have cancer, you will seek treatment, regardless of the expense. The difference between $10,000 and $500,000 is not a factor when your life is on the line.

To put it bluntly, perhaps this is a problem. There's all sorts of articles you can find about "how doctors die". They spend neither their last penny nor their last six months dying slowly in hospital beds. Forgo treatment, die with dignity, and pass a little something on to your grand kids. (Such heartless ROI calculations are probably best reserved for old people. Cancer treatments for the young are likely more popular.) Anyway, it's an idea to think about, not a concrete suggestion.
All of that is fine and probably true but doesn't respond to the rule from the FAQ:

Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.

I'd suggest posting your additions to the comments here to stir the discussion.
If Bitcoin becomes "civilized" then why would anyone use it? The whole argument in favor of Bitcoin is that it is the "wild wild west" of currencies.
I see where you're coming from, but that argument opens up a pretty big loophole to use any copyrighted material however you please. There's a big difference (in terms of both effort and value) between a documentary and some user-generated annotations of varying quality.

I'm not clear what you mean by "at best half of the work being used" regarding lyrics, since the full lyrics are reproduced.
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"Chemistry for Boys" pg. 3. Old school indeed.
Never thought I'd see a Pitchfork article on the frontpage of HN.
Yeah, the 95% confidence interval is completely arbitrary to begin with. Is it really better than, say, 94% -- which will most assuredly not get you published? In many fields, I think that a p-value indicating 95% confidence in the results is fine, you are never going to get 99.999% or even 99% due to the errors inherent in the subject of study, which doesn't invalidate the results out of hand. It's the other host of errors, up to and including blatantly cherry-picking or fabricating results, where the focus should be. There's been a series of recent posts encouraging scientists (and, moreover, journals) to publish negative results, which is probably a good starting point to promote greater transparency and honesty in the paper publishing game.
I don't see mention either way of subscription/cloud requirements. If it isn't fully self-contained, then the risks out-weigh the benefits.

Edit: Drilling down to the ninja blocks pages I see mention of a "ninja cloud account" as being required to install drivers. That sort of unnecessary external dependency is a deal-breaker for me, essentially negating the entire value proposition of open-source.

http://ninjablocks.com/blogs/how-to/9555237-installing-drive...
I am pretty sure the set pictured would be illegal in the state of Texas without registering with the state. Maybe these laws have changed in the last decade, but they don't allow all manner of glassware.

Yep, here is the list.

(A) a condenser
(B) a distilling apparatus
(C) a vacuum drier
(D) a three-neck or distilling flask
(E) a tableting machine
(F) an encapsulating machine
(G) a filter, Buchner, or separatory funnel

(H) an Erlenmeyer, two-neck, or single-neck flask
(I) a round-bottom, Florence, thermometer, or filtering flask
(J) a Soxhlet extractor
(K) a transformer
(L) a flask heater
(M) a heating mantel or
(N) an adaptor tube

It sucks telling your kid she can't have a chemistry set because of this nonsense.
1-sigma is 68% confidence. 90% confidence intervals assume 1.64 sigma.
exactly wrong, it's the multidisciplinary scientists who don't get enough depth or rigor to come close to understanding sources of error and error propagation.

The thing I fear is underexperienced multidisciplinary researchers coming up with convoluted procedures that put their hands and eyes on their work in so many places that small sources of error have compounded themselves and entrenched themselves into nooks and crannies.
Hitler -German +Italian = Sofiene Zaaboub apparently. Was hoping for Mussolini.
The big difference, of course, is that you can be on any operating system with Chrome/Chromium. It's not ideal but that is huge. The "lockin" is no longer at the operating system.
I'll bite.

Where's the install step that asks the user to verify the origin and hash of the installer binary? Why can't I see the source of the installer? Where are the GPG keys?

It's not just some game you're downloading, it's a ROM for the device you're (statistically) putting the details of your life into. Trust? Don't get me started.

Edit:
>beta.download.cyanogenmod.org uses an invalid security certificate.
>The certificate is only valid for the following names:
> *.cyanogenmod.org , cyanogenmod.org
I'd have to agree with the sentiment about, "if you are asking what root is" and not needing a custom rom. I rooted my first couple android phones (first being the original G1), and my most recent (Nexus 4) I didn't need to (yet), it's still seeing regular updates, and wifi tethering is in the box. I might once it's no longer receiving updates, but will likely sticking with what I have for another year.

I think that for the most part, it's a risk.. the first few years of tablets really needed third party updates, because first party were horrible.. same for some phones. I also find that mfg skins are equally bad. That said, clear warnings, even multiple warnings are important.

When I rooted my G1, IIRC, there were several downloads I needed.. downgrade X, upgrade Y, root, upgrade X, install C, then B, then R... then apply GAPPS, etc. It was very unnerving, and that was important for me to triple check everything. I needed the extra functionality... While, as a user, I appreciate a click/next/next/done experience. It just depends on the risks.

Note: I have the same paranoia when updating a computer CMOS/BIOS
Google's Spanner [1] uses something it calls TrueTime:

"The key enabler of these properties is a new TrueTime API and its implementation. The API directly exposes clock uncertainty, and the guarantees on Spanner’s timestamps depend on the bounds that the implementation provides. If the uncertainty is large, Spanner slows down to wait out that uncertainty. Google’s cluster-management software provides an implementation of the TrueTime API. This implementation keeps uncertainty small (generally less than 10ms) by using multiple modern clock references (GPS and atomic clocks)."

[1] Spanner: Google's globally-distributed database
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi12/osdi12...
>Since the near total majority of people who will be reading the lyrics already posses a copy in audio form

If you mean "legally possess", I very strongly doubt that's true...
> F. Each search result is assigned a value. A number one search result is
assigned a value of 1. A number two search result is assigned a value of
0.995. A number n"search result is assigned a value of 1X(nX1)*.005.

> G. Scores are tallied for each root domain.

The core of the method that puts Rap Genius @ the top of the Undesirable Lyric Website List, and from which the top 50 are targets of NMPA lawsuit.
The reason the market doesn't price such things in is that the guy holding a $300k mortgage is unlikely to personally realize $300k in improved public health by forgiving the debt.
It may be all the words, but it is not the entire lyrical work. Intonation and cadence are incredibly important for the genre. Songs like Freeway, Kanye and Mos Def's "2 Words" do not have even close to the same impact without being heard.

Also, the entire work includes the beat. I'm guessing Kanye would argue the beat to "2 Words" was pretty important too.
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I don't see this in the guidelines. Was it recently removed?

EDIT: Nevermind, I found it in this paragraph:

Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead.
Agreed, I'll add a line break to denote that they're separate thoughts. 1-sigma is indeed 68%.
the REAL problem with GMO is this:

someone cross seeds, radiate them, etc... gets a seed that naturally produce a harmless parasite poison. He sacks that. Keep crossing, radiating, sprinkling magic dust, whatever those guys do... now he gets one that is healthy even after being bombarded with some common pesticide. But that common pesticide is public domain. So they keep doing their thing until they get a seed that survives whatever pesticide the company can patent and exclusively distribute. Is it better then the others? well, the pesticide to not have been patented have to use weird stuff that is probably carcinogen (good reason to not have been patented before) and the nutrients is probably worse than the others... but if they sack the research on the others nobody would have that option. anyway, i'm tired of typing. but you get the idea.
Does anyone else find this "first they ignore you" style of belief-reinforcement to be vaguely troubling?

I vote that we colloquially dub this the "fight makes right" fallacy. And yes, I find it more than vaguely troubling.
Here's an example of a licensed lyric site: http://www.lyricsoverload.com/

And a mobile app that uses licensed lyric content:
http://musixmatch.com/apps/
Value in government money gets inflated away. Sure, someday that will probably happen. Someday, our entire civilization will collapse (every civilization in history has done the same). Unless you think we're close to a total collapse of the global financial system, your money isn't going anywhere, especially if you put it into non-currency investments. If you do think we're about to fall off a cliff, then your Bitcoins will be basically worthless because we're about to enter a period of relative lawlessness with greatly reduced access to information and the Bitcoin network probably won't survive (or the Bitcoins will be plundered by rogue information-pirates or something weird like that).

If you want to mess around with Bitcoin, awesome, but please don't see it as more than it is: a toy for the privileged.
It didn't start as that. They edited my original title & link...

http://subimage.com/blog/2013/11/12/startup-rapgenius-among-...
like AOSP, support for older phones is always dropped.
This is the only publicly published information that's even slightly relevant (AFAIK): http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf. It doesn't mention any manufacturers by name, but you should be able to draw some inferences from the paper.

I'm not sure that the information would be all that valuable anyway. Google's data-center environments, workloads and requirements are likely pretty different than your environment and requirements, so I'm not sure how the information would be useful?
Well, it seems the primary harm would come to debt collectors who wouldn't be able to buy enough "good" bad debt.

On the other end, no one wants to deal with debt collectors, so it seems that they do provide a disincentive to defaulting. Still, the primary stick they have is the threat of a credit ding, which is there even without the debt collectors. And, with enough such dings, the borrower would no longer be able to obtain credit and perpetually abuse the system/drive debt prices down.

So, in this scenario, the market value for debt would seem more a function of the quality of the borrower in the first place. I generally don't think most people want to default and get dinged for it.

So, it seems that the biggest consequence is debt buyers going out of business. I don't know. I'm starting to have trouble seeing the real downside here!
Wow. If this had been available when I was learning Apple II assembly when I was 8, I would have lapped it up. (Heck, I still will for nostalgia's sake.) At least, I had the source code for some games from computing magazines; that was enough to get me started.

That a major operating system today is open-source is a fantastic thing for young budding coders.
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How often Malthusions say:

OOPS, we are sorry, our predictions did not pan out. Good that we didnt follow our own conclusions because life would have been so much worse and it was not necessary.
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For all the "NSA's probably in on this", remember this also leaves openings for China, Russia, and possibly others to get in on this.
So true and so sad. From the great innovator to the follower. I also realised that the people are quite inflexible and unwilling to change.

The following article explains it so well. Although it's about design/web but it gives you an insight to how Japanese think.

http://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-differen...
I think a pretty close comparison would be a complete transcript of a movie or television program.
That's exactly what I did, and they changed the link and modified the discussion!

Notice, people below were talking about RapGenius specifically, their VC, and how much a license costs - yet that stopped once the editors modified the URL & headline.
Most of the fair use case law I have seen doesn't try to differentiate between good and bad commentary about the work they are building upon because it's really tricky and subjective.

Also, with "at best half of the work being used" I was referring to the fact that it is just lyrics and doesn't include the other elements of the song.
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>If they do it too often people will deliberately not pay their bills

Perhaps not, if it resulted in a credit ding.
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Is he using some sort of static site generator for blogging? whatcms.org has failed me.
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> pepper.js shows that Pepper is effectively equivalent to the functionality the Web APIs provide

From my reading of it, pepper.js can only support a subset of Pepper's complete capabilities. At a high level, it is missing:

- threads
- memory mapping
- memory protection

There's also stuff like this in pepper.js that clearly demonstrates a lack of parity:

// The Web Audio API currently does not allow user-specified sample rates.
var supportedSampleRate = function() {
return createAudioContext().sampleRate;
}

Also pepper.js is filled with chunks of code like:

var FileRef_GetFileSystemType = function() {
throw "FileRef_GetFileSystemType not implemented";
};

var FileRef_GetName = function() {
throw "FileRef_GetName not implemented";
};

var FileRef_GetPath = function() {
throw "FileRef_GetPath not implemented";
};

var FileRef_GetParent = function() {
throw "FileRef_GetParent not implemented";
};

var FileRef_MakeDirectory = function() {
throw "FileRef_MakeDirectory not implemented";
};

var FileRef_Touch = function() {
throw "FileRef_Touch not implemented";
};

I don't know enough about these APIs to say whether this is just incomplete or whether these Pepper calls can't be reasonably implemented on Web APIs, but pepper.js seems far from a demonstration that Pepper is "effectively equivalent" to Web APIs.
Very cool, doubt I'll look into it too much considering its tons of Assembly in pdf form, but still super neat.
3,000 people out of ~300MM in the US is not one tenth of a percent.
I know a lot of the songs up there don't have much in the way of annotations, but wouldn't an album review heavy with lyrical analysis be more appropriate in this case?
Lawrence Berkeley national laboratory is always hiring hackers: http://cjo.lbl.gov/ . I currently work there building software that helps scientists discover new lithium batteries.
There was a great Defcon talk about this called The Secret Life of SIM Cards that I can recommend watching (they release the video for these some time after the conference).

The talk itself was about a group that had an enormous camping trip (I hope that phrasing doesn't diminunise it) called Toorcamp of a few thousand people that thought it would be fun to also put together their own cell network for just them. They bought and programmed SIM cards and hid puzzles in the programs on them.

But the amount of programming that can be done on the SIM card alone without involving the main processor at all was really quite fascinating and there's a lot of detail in the talk if you can track it down. Here are the slides at least https://speakerdeck.com/codebutler/the-secret-life-of-sim-ca...
It's hard to reach the top of your game if you're not willing to play.
You think bosses just spring up out of the ground? Or political leaders? Or parents? All of these authorities are created by society through social processes and their behaviour is determined by social processes. Parents are given authorities XYZ based on social consensus, but denied authority to e.g. abuse their kids. Bosses are given authorities ABC but denied other authorities and so on. These roles are all socially defined and came about through social processes.

"Who should decide?" The appropriate authorities that have been selected by social processes to have that authority. Your question is so fucking dumb because it pretends to be oblivious to the fact that legitimate authorities are put into power precisely because the community has delegated the job of deciding to them.

Your question amounts to saying "It's wrong that the legitimate authorities who have been elected, selected, chosen to decide questions within their sphere are making decisions within their sphere! What right do those legitimate community chosen leaders have to make decisions on behalf of the community!?"

Fucking idiot. The community leaders have the legitimate authority to make the community decisions precisely because the entire purpose of their office, and the reason they were put in that office, is so that they would and could make those decisions.

You're begging the question. "Who should decide?" is a retarded libertarian talking point that just emphasizes how little you understand co-operation and the entire fucking purpose of government.

"Who should decide?" The fucking GOVERNMENT. THAT IS WHY THEY EXIST. TO BE THE ONES WHO DECIDE.
Anybody have a feel for how strong the "clays" are compared to ABS as well as the actual metals?
I was excited to read your article because based on this comment I thought it would have in-depth analysis of the issue, but I found it to be a very shallow in terms of additional content. It has one paragraph with the licensing costs, which is useful information, and then the two sentence blurb on David Lowery, which didn't seem to be meaningfully connected to the issue at all (it actually is somewhat negative in my view, because it seems to imply a slight hint of perhaps ad hominem, but that was just my initial impression, and doesn't seem totally justified upon rereading). If you had multiple discussions with song publishers and research on this topic, it would definitely be valuable to share them.

With respect to disrespect, Hacker News exists for the benefit of its readers, and not necessarily for the benefit of the Internet's citizen-journalist army. Hacker News admins prefer "canonical" sources in most situations. That said, I wouldn't consider your post "blogspam."
Plenty fast and not fast enough just don't do it then, huh?

No, "performant" is one of those words which is usually chosen to flatter the speaker, not because it imparts some meaning which is so difficult to describe without it.

When it comes to technical topics, amateurs write to impress. Professionals write for clarity.
Like from Adobe circa last month :P
I watched the entire video and I still have no idea what it is or does.
Ah, I see. AFAIK the lyrics and the recording are considered distinct works with separate copyright (and often different owners), so the lyrics count as the "full" work in this case.