skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. A good reference is Geoff Cumming's "Understanding the new statistics," although its focus on analysis in Excel may put off the typical HN audience.

Effect sizes and confidence intervals are much more useful than a p value or two.
Never cited explicit examples or quotes.
I'm pretty sure gizmo686 is referring to "executive privilege". Clinton tried to invoke it during the whole Lewinsky thing and was told that it doesn't apply to personal stuff.

(This is entirely from me reading Wikipedia earlier today.)
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Culture difference.

Jade Rabbit is a figure in Chinese legend, companion of a fairy named Chang'e.
When I get depressed, which usually happens around this time of year, I typically enjoy talking to other hackers. We can talk about something that isn't our own mind(s). This goes for music, too. A huge key for me is to distract my mind with something that interests me, and makes me feel productive, rather than "sitting & spinning" on a subject that is making me feel bad about myself. Talking about things that interest me makes me feel better about myself.

Disclaimer: I have never been psychologically evaluated for depression or anxiety.
You're misreading. E_{DT} is not the D+T fusion yield; it is the heat absorbed by the D+T fuel target (sum of external heating and self-heating from fusion alphas). E_{fusion} is the fusion yield.

E_{fusion} is the calculated neutron yield Y_{total}=6.1e15 times 17.6 MeV: 17.2 kJ + rounding. Check out page 3, right column.
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Yes and no. Yes, the media sucks, but no, most scientific papers are not replicated -- or if they are, it's by a hapless grad student using the results in their research, only to find they don't hold up. The hapless grad student usually doesn't get to publish this, because negative results are boring and not usually published in prestigious journals.

Most scientists have better things to do than replicate previous findings, unless that previous finding directly bears on their own work.
Update to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8
"Unique users per month"?
One of my favorite novels, Carter Scholz's _Radiance_, spends much of its length all on NIF and this controversy, actually: http://www.gwern.net/docs/2002-radiance
Someone who's depressed enough to consider suicide probably also experiences a crippling loss of hope which prevents them from taking the steps necessary to make local friends in the first place whom they would be able to reach out to. At least that's been my experience.
The day King goes down the drain many will dance upon its grave, and other indie devs will take turns to pee on it.

May swift karmic justice fall upon them soon.
This may be a bit too anecdotal, but I didn't hear about this campaign until a week before it happened. In my opinion, the organizers failed to consider awareness propagation time and as a result TDWFB felt rushed, sloppy, and silly. According to wiki the organizers announced this protest on January 10, 2014 for the day of February 11, 2014. We even saw posts on HN "wishing to add more features" to the Github projects that helped websites easily show their support.

I realize I'm sounding quite negative (sorry), but really this entire campaign should have given itself a bit more runway for prep and awareness. Just my two cents.
Actually, it's working - not perfectly, but it's 'awake,' sending and receiving signals:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2014-02/13/c_133111283...

Xinhua is adding new info on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/XHNews
Flappy Bird and inspired cloning: Indie devs explore
I wonder what kind of impact this will have on waterfront real estate.
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I found the hitbox so frustrating I took an airplay video of several games and was surprised when instant replay showed a 1 pixel collision between the bird and the pipe, when I thought I was clear.

The conspiracist in me wanted to believe the pipes had additional gravity or something that caused me to hit, but practically speaking I wonder if we're simply used to games making hitboxes smaller than the avatar. I certainly noticed that in Jetpack Joyride.
Interning had other problems. Until some of the more recent JVMs, interning strings was permenant. The memory could never be reclaimed until you restarted the JVM. It was basically a programmer defined memory leak.

Why? My understanding is that when you interned a string you were given something like a constant token to reference it. This did two things:

1. Equality was trivial. Instead of taking to strings and comparing each character, it could just see if the constants were equal. For strings you know you'll see often this could be great source of speedups.
2. You could end up saving a ton of memory. Let's say that string you're interning is 250 character long. Instead of taking up 250 unicode characters plus overhead, it's now... let's say... 8 bytes. Maybe you saved a few hundred bytes. Now multiply a few hundred bytes by a few fields times 10 million records in memory and that's nothing to sneeze at.

Interning is definitely optimization and not part of normal Java development.
"Silence encourages other bad behavior and contributes to a toxic atmosphere."

Sound familiar?

It should. That's a quote from one of your previous comments.
Just curious, if I'm using say version 0.92, how would I go about backing up my ElasticSearch instance. Besides creating a replica in a server, then "freezing" it by disconnecting the server?
A great deal of effort has gone into keeping the ISS at civilized temperatures:

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/as...

It's got 100,000 watts of solar power, so that combined with good insulation means it won't freeze as long as the panels keep working...
Thanks! Complex products like exact target or constant contact really hinder development; our hope is to make everyone's lives easier.
This exists: http://pilif.github.io/2008/05/why-is-nobody-using-ssl-clien...
When you don't have a client, you should find a customer. It boils down to what your motivation is though. Not everybody wants to invest their time on a side project.. but if that's okay for you:

1. Pick a problem that you're passionate about and try to solve it in a better way.
2. Give it to a few people, ask them to tell you how to make it better.
3. Go back to step 1

Development isn't an end in itself. There are only so many books you can read - the real learning comes when you refer to a book/resource while you're trying product something tangible.
- Most trivially, your prior distribution can assign equal probabilities to different outcomes, if you have no reason to do otherwise. Beta(1, 1) for modeling a coin's bias, for example, if you have no prior information about its bias.

- There are more advanced tools in Bayesian analysis such as Jeffreys prior (known as uninformative priors, look it up).

- As was mentioned in other responses the same "big problems" exist in every other statistical and mathematical modeling approach, namely that you have to make assumptions and your results are going to be crap if your assumptions are crap.

- Generally, Bayesian stats got a late start due to high computational resource costs, not some theoretical limitations. The issue with priors that gets repeated by philosophers and some statisticians does not stop the huge, monumental progress Bayesian statistics has had in a ton of applied fields, from computer science / machine learning all the way to economics and political science.

Edit: language
Flappy Birds postmortem: The double standards of "indie" game development
We have that party here in Norway, and it doesn't really work as you want it to.

When you base your political stance on reason and reflection, you're appealing to a ridiculously small portion of the population. Most people either won't be able to grasp it, or does not have/take the time to do so.

Not to complain, the situation feels pretty good over here, with political power shared between multiple parties. It's still frustrating trying to debate politics, because you cannot argue facts with a person driven by emotions.
Trying to means racing against the clock of attention span, while ELI5'ing as best you can, and this is on an individual level, debate panels are even worse because you're even more time-constrained and cannot assess an individual's response to better reach them.

This of course, leads me to my point, politics are what they are because there is no demand for truth, there is only a demand for emotional gratification. It's easier to sell war against satanic evil, than it is to sell funding for research into solar energy hodgepodge technology.

> Water tubes? Why don't I just go in the back yard and fill up some bottles! hah!
> Most of Android is written in Java, so no, that's not going to happen in our lifetimes.

It could easily happen if Google wanted it to. Java can call native code (and vice-versa). Other system vendors have changed core implementations before. Apple has pulled it off 2 or 3 times at least.

It wouldn't be easy, but it's certainly possible.
May I suggest you try the Authy[1] app for your phone. Its much prettier than GA, has a PIN screen lock, and can save your encrypted credentials in case you lose your phone. Plus, if you run OS X it will sync to your computer's clipboard via Bluetooth.

[1] https://www.authy.com/
I commute from the Jersey shore to NYC daily by ferry, and while it is often the most relaxing part of my day (stormy days being the exception) and more convenient than the alternatives available to me, I don't believe rapid transit by water is inexpensive or environmentally friendly.
I hadn't even thought of that unintended consequence.

A firm I used to work for did a hiring freeze. The well run parts (in a part of the world that is easy to fire people) of the organization obliged. The poorly run parts (in a place that's hard to fire people) didn't. So the bloated core got fatter, and the money generators got starved for growth.
Yes, believe it or not.

Path's brand image is still relatively intact in Indonesia, as compared to USA (where the privacy concerns has tarnished it).

It's all to do with one's status, and Indonesian election is more or less a popularity contest. Of course, you'd get more points in investing in a household name (i.e. Path), especially being a 'Western' company.

The effect is similar to Erick Thohir's [1] stake in Intermilan, D.C. United, and 76ers. He's probably more popular than the President right now ;)

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Thohir
you gonna pass that thing around, or are you gonna bogart it all night?
On a pure transportation-time basis, ferries are nearly useless in the SFBA, because they take longer than just running a bus would.
My tax dollars paid for that gun officer, so let me hold it.

I mean, I agree with you, but this is a silly statement. Just because the government pays for something does not allow you access to it.
Link to LLNL release:
https://www.llnl.gov/news/aroundthelab/2014/Feb/NR-14-02-06....
Of your four points, the first two strike me as generic development skills (knowing what and when to test, knowing what and when to document), and the forth is just reading the docs and following their instructions once. Proper idiomatic language use is probably the only thing you mentioned that is language specific.
Cockpit, a web-based server management interface
> Tidbit uses the Stratum protocol, which would enable websites to get paid based on total work contributed to the mining pool rather than total Bitcoins mined

No, that's what P2Pool, or really any pool, does. Stratum, as the link states, is just a long-poll protocol to reduce stale shares when a new block is found.

But speaking of pools, it seems like the best bang for their buck would be a scrypt profit-switching multipool, that mines the most profitable scrypt coin and exchanges for btc or dollars or whatever. This would potentially create a huge pool so p2pool is better in that respect, but it's just not profitable to mine BTC like this at all.
Most developers don't need to ever write novels, and most development tasks do not involve writing novels, for what that's worth.
That page is referring to the native Linux binaries that Unity can export (which work great and has been available for a while). It's also quite stable so not sure why they're still calling it a preview.

The parent post is referring to the Unity web plugin for Linux which AFAIK does not exist at all (only Windows and Mac support for the browser plugin).
Maybe the developers have a Macbook and know iOS?

And if we're going to talk metrics, at the rate that Google Play spending has been exploding, it will be passing the iOS ecosystem sometime very shortly.

By no stretch am I saying that anyone should target Android instead of iOS, but right now if one hits one or the other it is primarily driven by skillsets and not some objective evaluation. Ideally toolsets and skills cross platforms where possible, and it is leaving money on the table to ignore either.
> it's bloody fast

Not so fast (yet).

http://tech-beta.slashdot.org/story/13/11/08/1818258/taking-...
Here's the enormous hangar Google bought to fill with robots
As a biologist I would argue that we also cannot dwell too much on p values. The true test is to design follow up experiments to test causal predictions from many of these borderline p value phenomena, for example: analyzing microarrays data to find interesting GO categories. Whether it's p=.001 or p=.051 is less important than whether or not it provides a good clue to the underlying mechanistic biology, and there is no way to address that without designing specific follow up experiments. That's why experimentalists don't dwell too much upon p values. They're, for the most part, a clue.
Isn't the primary cost of fission complying with safety regs? In that case, a safer design would directly translate to lower costs.
PHP is whack. Get over it. Agnostic != ignorant.
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Thanks for the suggestions, we'll revise this tonight.
I agree there's nothing good about Obama and that he just cynically tries to stoke the socialist base every time he does something.
> Bad writers write too many long sentences, and it makes their writing difficult to parse. So just forcing them to write shorter sentences will improve their writing a great deal.

See, I don't think the above is any better as two sentences, and I think it works better as one. Perhaps I just don't like starting sentences with "So".
The protocol is still in prototype development, so there is no general server support yet. At least some of Google's severs have it enabled though.
http://www.maluuba.com Does the same as wit.ai I guess
Which is why the alt text on that particular comic is so key.

Correlation suggests that if you're looking for causation, it might be somewhere over here. It doesn't insist that the two are the same, but if you're looking for clues, it's a hell of a dowsing rod.
All cool, but who is behind this project?
Note the caption: Rubin v. New Jersey. Rubin is the plaintiff. The AG is acting in its capacity as the government's lawyer, not in its capacity as a prosecutor. There is no prosecutor, because there is no criminal complaint. What's at issue is a civil subpoena (a request for information and materials) issued by a state consumer protection agency.
Are there any equivalents to the BrightBox for redhat based systems? I have looked around but found nothing at the moment
How many production servers out there risk to upgrade their kernel? I've seen plenty of 2.6 boxes even today.
I appreciate the response.

So you're telling me there are more public speaking workshops for male developers than female developers? I'm not sure I believe that. I think ALL developers could benefit from this workshop. And that inviting all developers would still provide women the skills they need to become successful public speakers.

I agree, this is not a zero sum game, but github just turned it into one.

If you are a github employee and now have public speaking skills on your resume as well perhaps as a speech or two at a conference, your career will probably do better than the male github employee without, who, contrary to your claims, is underserved with public speaking workshops and the networking opportunities they will provide.
Depression doesn't really need a qualified person. You're not talking to a mentally ill person, at least not in the sense that you cannot spring a bolt in a depressed person's mind and have him go on a killing spree.

The blue sticker says you'll happily talk, and also listen if they have something profound to get off their chest. That's really the important part, it's not about giving advice.
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And that is why this is such a preposterous idea. You can't actually sue the President for things he does as the President. If it were for private actions taken as a private citizen that would be different.
I've only ever heard of one person being RA'd (she then went to Lenovo, and was eventually let go from there) and coming back. Now she's a manager at IBM again.
I think you're mistaken about what frequentist p-values mean. The definition you're using is the one we would like to have - the probability that X is president given the data. But what a p-value actually gives you is the chance of seeing the given data given that X is president. And if X is the president, we have p=0, since there are no false negatives. So a p-value is useless in this example, although better frequentist measures can handle it.
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I haven't yet heard any good music done that way, but I'm looking forward to it.
>I want the post-WWII days back where we didn't bother anyone that didn't bother us first.

Perhaps you meant the word "days" literally. The CIA, created in 1947, solely exists to butt into other countries affairs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_re...
* Canuckistanians
Not a big fan of sametime, but I don't have a problem with Notes...
500px.com does something very interesting. They allow you to start a live account using a temporary "guest" account. No email, no passwords, no nothing. After you start, you realize, shit, I want to save this stuff, so you create an account and you've already started. Brilliant.
From Cognitive Biases to Institutional Decay
Check and mate.
Good article, great advice. Scary how closely I follow that advice, varying only in sometimes using a Ubuntu Linux laptop. I also chose a Samsung Galaxy 3 rather than an iPhone because I already have an iPad, and also having an Android device is fun.

All great points about Amazon, Dropbox, and Evernote - they all deserve the money I pay them.
I thought it was kind of hard to take the article seriously after that. I know it's the guy's real name, so I feel bad about this (as bad as I can feel for someone with an awesome name!), but it doesn't change that it sounds like something from a comic book. A fusion scientist named Omar Hurricane? Come on! Next thing we hear is there's been a horrible lab accident involving high powered lasers and lead scientist Omar Hurricane has died. Only he hasn't really, he escaped death and and went into hiding, avoiding public shame while also training to use his new found weather controlling laser eyes. But for good or for evil? Is Mr. Hurricane a villain or a hero? Buy the next issue to find out!
I dealt recently with a friend who was suicidal. Since I didn't know what to do I called Suicide Action to ask how to deal correctly with the situation and get some pointers on dos and donts.

Basically you WANT to talk explicitely about suicide. From what the lady on the phone said, most of the time the suicidal person wants to talk about it.
I've been getting really concrete with FP and programming in general lately to build a bridge between the programming and the machine. Intermediate representations is one of the more fruitful areas I've been mining.
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It's not a question of finger pointing so much as asking what social structures we have that make this harder.

You mentioned your kids live with you. How hard would it be if they didn't? Does the fact that we stigmatize adults living with their parents and make mental illness into an individual problem contribute to it?
I don't understand, wouldn't this be a good investment opportunity with San Francisco growing? Facebook could build its own tower and lease out space for condos, apartments, offices, ground floor commercial, etc.

I'm really kinda bummed they're building a huge sprawling building. I think Amazon is being the best citizen in this regard.
> Something is either correct or it isn't, is the point.

Correct \Cor*rect"\ (k[^o]r*r[e^]kt"), a.
[L. correctus, p. p. of corrigere to make straight,
to correct; cor- + regere to lead straight: cf. F.
correct. See {Regular}, {Right}, and cf. {Escort}.]

Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to
truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard;
not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct
behavior; correct views.
[1913 Webster]

Always use the most correct editions.
--Felton.

Granted, 1913 webster is almost an archaic resource at this point, but it's interesting that its very first example of use is "most correct".
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I went from "Hmm, that's a weird lump" to chemo in just over two weeks. The quality of care was stunning, and the success rate is one of the highest in the world.
Ah, very clever, thanks :)
I hated Hemingway in high school. His writing style is really mediocre. When reading A Farewell to Arms, if it wasn't for the fact that it was a professionally published and bound book, I would have thought it was an amateur attempt at fiction writing from one of my high school classmates -- and one of the weaker writers at that.

I couldn't stomach his writing style for an entire novel, so I ended up not finishing the book.

I would like to see someone make a similar website to guide you toward writing in the style of Charles Dickens.
I don't know if I was a sucker for typically tipping 20%, but the last dinner we went out to and had bad service I realized that I really need to discriminate the service much more than just almost automatically calculating that 20%.
I'm telling you that there is no shortage of events for developers where you can go and see very few if any women at all. Go look at any picture from any local programming meetup if you would like to confirm this.

And no, Github did not turn anything into a zero-sum game. And no, male Github employees are not now forbidden from gaining public speaking skills. That is just needlessly dramatic. Take a step back and ask yourself, "Does the landscape I see in the field of software development really look like one where women have a large advantage over me and I need to defend my sex from them?" I posit that the answer is "No, male programmers are doing just fine for themselves and Github is not endangering them in any way through this workshop."
The Biggest Bullshit Job Titles in Tech
Which Austin did you mean? Jane [1]?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_G._Austin
Actually the biggest commuter ferry routes in the Seattle area can be drove round. Ie Kingston and Bremerton are on a Peninsula and Bainbridge Island is connected via the (short) agate pass bridge.

The idea of more bridges has been brought up but met with strong "not in my backyard" resistance. A short bridge from Bremerton to Bainbridge would make a lot of sense (and allow two ferry routes to be combined) but the wealthy Bainbridge Islanders are against being connected to the less well off Bremerton.
Looks like a more accessible front-end client for IRC - this is awesome. I love using IRC for communication and this just makes it an easier sell on less technical colleagues.

I hope that the Slack service supports using your own IRC client as well. That would be the bees knees.
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