skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very interesting review of some of the most challenging published literature on the reliability of psychological science. The author's point is correct that parapsychology (ESP and the like) basically has no prior plausibility. Yet a researcher who has the chops to do reliable research, Daryl J. Bem, has conducted "experiments" that appear to show that some human experimental subjects can see into the future. As the article says, "Bem definitely picked up a signal. The only question is whether it’s a signal of psi, or a signal of poor experimental technique." Please read this submission from beginning to end and follow the links to see more of the background.

I had the opportunity to discuss the original Bem paper on psi in the journal club I regularly participate in. The conclusion is plainly wrong, but the error in procedure is subtle and it took a while for response papers to come out about his initial finding. (And everyone agrees that Bem is a smart man, so the subtle errors are all the more dismaying.) If Bem can't design experiments carefully, who can?

AFTER EDIT TO RESPOND TO QUESTIONS IN ANOTHER SUBTHREAD HERE:

Another participant is asking why parapsychology has poor prior plausibility. Parapsychology is a rather recent discipline, always with sloppy experimental practices,[1] and meanwhile the disciplines of physics and medicine are much older. The study of how information is transmitted by electromagnetic radiation and how the human body perceives sensations is incompatible with supposed abilities like ESP, and completely incompatible with seeing into the future in the manner described by Bem. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. A million dollars says that psychic claims are bogus,[2] and so far no one has won a million dollars by proving that proposition wrong.

[1] http://www.skepdic.com/projectalpha.html

[2] http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html
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Some advantage over portage?

I think that portage has all of these features plus USE flags and source code compilation (and it also supports binaries).
"cause them to be regulated under ITAR and be non-exportable without a license". Even more complicated because they are US designs manufactured overseas, and I'm sure the design team includes a lot of non-citizens, so there are ITAR violations during design and production as well as (re) export.
(Reading this a few days later in an open tab. :-) )

Imho the most important thing is to have a good design document for the data model. Partly because it often decides a lot of the structure of the code.

It is e.g. easier to rewrite code than realize that you lack some stuff you should have captured about customers years ago...
Does QBASIC really have a putpixel command or the pset and preset ones? You're right about everything else.
>How can I see the whole data available to the browser in FF, similar to ChromeDev Tools

It's a lot different than what chrome does, but I believe they're integrating the resources with the network tab: (scroll to the bottom where the pie charts are.)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Network_Monit...

> Cannot install nightly versions on customers

Do your customers develop web pages? If so why are they paying you to install a browser?

>But not yet on the Scratchpad

This appears to be true.
The biggest shock for me when I moved to US was to get to know that my apartment complex has an exclusive contract with one cable company. I think they would be sued out of existence (both of them) in Europe for trying to do the same. Net neutrality starts here, so that I have access to at least 3 major service providers in my home and nobody can get an exclusive deal on providing internet to a certain area. You could see how fast Comcast and Verizon disappears when the real competition comes in play...
Splitwise even has a really well thought out rent calculator:
https://www.splitwise.com/calculators/rent

This even allows you to do the "Two people sharing a single room in a two-bedroom" calculation, unlike the NYTimes calculator.
I feel like MVC is being treated as like the one true pattern to design your web app with and that's just simply not true. Rails is MVC and maybe that's all it should be for what it is intended for. Other projects might not be a great fit for such a simplistic view of the world and maybe that means Rails is not a great fit for projects that don't fit into the MVC abstraction.

In my experience MVP, MVVM, super thin Sinatra API's, hexagonal architecture, functional programming, and other sort of weird approaches fit certain projects much better than the standard Rails MVC approach.

Also, not every project is a web app and there are plenty of times where various testing approaches make a lot more sense than they do in Rails. It's too bad that a whole line of thinking about software quality is being disparaged because it isn't a good fit for Rails as DHH sees it.

TDD is a useful tool in the right context. Maybe that context isn't Rails.

It seems unwise to be telling a lot of smart people who care about software quality to "get off my lawn" so to speak, but I've never run a successful OSS project as big as Rails, so I probably don't have a clue about how to lead a community as big as Rails is.
That was my point, Apple reduces the price by $100 but reduces the memory to 4 GB. Which you can get by paying the $100.

It would have been better if the price stayed the same but with 8 GB instead of 4.
Light would travel about 660 millimetres in 0.22 nanoseconds

Important note: the wave propagation speed in copper can be as bad as .42c
Net neutrality and QoS are different things. I have never understand why they are both mashed together.

Neutrality means non discrimination on who sends the packet and who receives is.

QoS means that the provider have obligation to deliver a packet with strict timing.

So you buy 100-mbit slow lane and 1Mbit fast. They can even give you 2 IPs for that. If you are a call center you buy 100 of the fast lane and so on.
I agree. Add some bookmarks bar items and it's even taller. Add the 'Title Bar' and it's even taller. And I dont see the short icons option available anymore.
Product Prioritization for Startups
It is very interesting, because the dominant narrative seems to be both that it's hard to hire for and hard to find jobs in, which can't both be true without massive communication inefficiencies, which I'm fairly sure don't exist. My experience has been that it's somewhat harder to find a job writing Haskell than it is to find a job in a mainstream language, but that it is still very doable.
I'm pretty sure you are always supposed to feel you are successful in some way. If not, than you should have something you progressing towards/working on that WILL make you fell successful.

Why would you keep doing something that doesn't make you feel successful if you have no real obligations?
Does anyone know of a public example of a Rails application that does testing in the way that DHH says is good?

I'm tired of the talk talk talk talk talk talk of "proper" testing in Rails, yet the examples always seem to be hidden away behind company firewalls. I've only seen a couple Rails apps with Rails-Way test suites, and they were nightmares that took many minutes to run. But I have seen dozens of Rails apps written by opinionated Rails devs with strong views about what proper testing was... and the apps had no tests at all.
I'll be there, who else is coming?
Are you willing to say what language you're using the repository pattern in and what tooling you've found useful in supporting it? I think my use of DAOs in Java struts projects was somewhat repository-pattern-esque, but regardless of the frustrations I have with ActiveRecord, it is way better than that was, so I'm really curious what, if anything, is better than either of them.
Anyone know how to "tighten up" the spacing between icons?

http://imgur.com/YYmEuED
Thoughts on the Datomic License
Can you stick them all in the menu at the end of the toolbar? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-firefox-contr...
Thanks, but I neither track my score nor care that you think I'm condescending.
> * Separate address and search bars is old-fashioned. As a user, I don't want to have to make this distinction, and it's hard to imagine most users-on-street wouldn't find this confusing.

The big reason I really like this is that the address bar is local to the tab, and the search box is window. If you have a topic you want to dive into on another tab, you can safely transcribe information from multiple current tabs and then create a new tab with the search. Especially when some of the information is in the current url.
It's about accountability.

There are two types of it: a leader either recognizes and understands the gain to be had from using something like Haskell and has the resources to hire someone really good at it (who is therefore accountable, but he/she knows how to replace that person if they leave), or the leader themselves is an implementor in the esoteric technology and is comfortable being an accountable party themselves.

You rarely see the first type, more often it's the second type. Being accountable means that even if all of our programmers left us, I could at least keep the lights on without panicking (funny enough, that's actually easier to do in Haskell than a large Python / Ruby codebase).

BTW, it isn't hard to find them but it is expensive. These are people that have a level of motivation above the average and subsequently have a level of knowledge and skill also above the average. Basic economics can be used to answer why they are more expensive. Particularly when you start looking at specialized fields with a specialized technology: applied mathematicians that are also skilled Haskell programmers, or kernel hackers that also understand Haskell well.
Introducing the Canary Release Channel
I was reading with great interest until I came to the heading about "disruption" at DC. Defending "ask later" practices is neither disruptive in the proper sense, nor particularly ethical.

The reporting here attempts to paint a picture of a slow, outdated USPS (and they surely are, to some extent) by way of obviously false comments ("digital is a fad"? Really? I'm supposed to believe someone at the USPS actually said this, in context? Let's critique the USPS, but let's not fabricate silly positions.)

Too bad, really, it sounds like a great idea and excellent technology, but marred by a shameful ideology.
they greatly overestimate the performance gap between C++ and garbage collected languages

I think you're right about that, but I also think that people greatly underestimate the determinism gap between them, too. (Not necessarily the same set of people, of course.)
Nope. Even entitled snots don't deserve to be killed when it can be avoided. Not going to debate that point.

Passing on the right by cyclists is legal in Chicago, BTW, when done so with care (the law was clarified last year). It's not clear if that's the behavior you're referring to.
Making your information store and your GUI separable is the whole point of the C in MVC. That is not what David is complaining about. He's complaining about inserting another layer of indirection between the controller and the view, and between the controller and the model, particularly when the reason for introducing this indirection is purely to allow inserting hooks for tests.
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Cloud is not a one-size fits all solution. Jonathan Siegel (Rackspace) interview
There is a reason for the taller top chrome: it makes the window easier to drag around. Compared with Chrome, there is a larger window drag area above the inactive tabs (but not the active tab). I think this is a pretty neat design.
Meta warning...

That breaks down in the world of finance:)

For some reason, it was decided that people would be judged based on the socks that they wear.

I guess when you have to wear a suite each day you need to differentiate yourself and after a watch socks are the next best way?
Supreme Court to Decide If Cops Can Search Cellphones Without Warrants
It seems so:

http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/app/pr...
If you put '/' at the end of the internal address it will resolve it correctly. Although I switch between both browsers a lot so I don't always remember that trick.
Don't get me wrong, I am pretty happy with Rails in general. I just think that the way controllers are implemented seems just totally random. Another, possibly worth, part are lifecycle callbacks on AR models. Those are just a huge invitation for confusion and trouble down the road.
I don't think that the point at which the mail is diverted is the issue here.

The article leads me to believe that the USPS took issue with mass-unsubscribing from junk-mail, not with having mail diverted before reaching the addressee.
Yes, and they have quite a few calculators [0] for other stuff as well:

* Should you get renters insurance? [1]

* The Splitwise Furniture Calculator [2]

* The Splitwise Guest Calculator [3]

* The Loud Sex (and other night-time noises) Calculator [4]

* The Splitwise Travel Calculator [5]

[0] https://www.splitwise.com/calculators

[1] https://www.splitwise.com/calculators/renters

[2] https://www.splitwise.com/calculators/furniture

[3] https://www.splitwise.com/calculators/guest

[4] https://www.splitwise.com/calculators/noise

[5] https://www.splitwise.com/calculators/travel
Yea but the prices there are arbitrary. With the NYT calculator if you make "rational" choices you are guaranteed at least a fair split (better if your mate is irrational)
It is extremely easy test. Are you costrained by latency or bandwidth.

If it is latency - to have VOIP you need 200ms round trip top. That is the first lecture in Communication Technology 101.

Video streaming is latency tolerant but bandwidth sensitive. You moderately don't care if a packet gets lost or spikes as long as you have long enough buffer.

So any kind of conversation needs a fast lane. Downloading and streaming don't. But they need bulk.
Should the 3D demo work on IE11? It started fine but then broke, on desktop and wp8.1.
I can confirm that this add-on brings back the "status bar" and WorldIP extension works with it nicely.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/the-addon-bar...
I may be being too naive, but what's to stop a startup like outbox from opening up a digital version of Mailboxes Etc?

Instead of forwarding mail from current addresses or physically picking up mail from peoples' mailboxes, they'd get a new address managed by the digitization service.
A critical issue in "following dreams" is the way in which people do it. Case in point: I have two close friends who decided to become poets. Not "poets" in the colloquial sense, i.e., liberal arts majors with no quant skills. Poets, as in people who hope to earn a living writing poetry.

One of those friends has been writing poetry her whole life, has become phenomenal at it, got into the Iowa Writers Workshop, has been published in the New Yorker on multiple occasions, and earns a respectable living in academia. The other abruptly quit his day job at the age of 33, declared himself a poet, and enrolled in some beginner's classes. I support his dreams, but I do not support the order in which he took those actions.

People often forget that chasing "dreams" is hard work, and it follows the same principles as chasing success by more conventional means. In fact, the less conventional of a career you chose, the more conventionally hard you'll have to work to make that career remunerative. Following your passion is a wonderful thing, but you need to do it sensibly, strategically, and skillfully.
I think he is was being indeed sarcastic.
If I had to guess, I'd say "box" is a reference to "boxed values" mentioned in many papers about functional language compilation. Typically, the stack of these implementation would either be "unboxed values", or pointers to "boxes" on the heap.

Clearly, some of those folks have worked on ML or Haskell implementations.
Just bought this per your recommendation and I'm excited. My girlfriend and I have just been keeping a bunch of the receipts for shared expenses in an envelope -- this is way better.
Compared to what, IE? Memory leaks are about memory being left claimed when isn't actually used. It doesn't just mean using more memory than you think it ought to.
Lol... Everytime I see Alembic, I always think of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alembic_(Computer_Graphics)
and what phone do you use?
The Reformation: Can Social Scientists Save Themselves?
They're arbitrary, but in my experience, are generally fair, and leave fewer feelings of resentment than with a bidding system.
How to gain $1500 running a project for your clients
Weakness in your argument 1:

"bit-torrenting The Avengers" is a Strawman - illegal things are illegal and should dealt with regardless of net neutrality. Everyone does a load of stuff on the Internet, who's to decide what should have priority? Games? Email? Business? Youtube?

Weakness in your argument 2:

Slippery Slope. Let's see if "not making it easier to buy better access" is a good thing, regardless if it affects Netflix and their hypothetical attempt of "using a private network parallel to the Internet".

ISPs should not care where the packets are coming from, end of story. Agree?
For Sony : I always regret buying from them pretty soon. Even if the device looks good on paper, you soon discover that obvious functionalities are arbitrarily disabled.

For instance, I quite liked the specs of VAIO TZ31 and bought one. But Sony decided that depite the fact it includes a processor that implements VT I should not use it. http://blog.steelooper.com/2009/07/enabling-virtualization-o... (Resulting in the fact that to this day I can't use VirtualBox with it.)

And this is to say nothing of the cryptic hardware devices that lack a free driver (webcam, flash memory...) that made my life very hard when I installed Debian on it.

FYI, Dell XPS13 Developer edition (natively under Ubuntu) looks good to me... Caveat : it lacks an ethernet port.
It looks like the symmetry of the 9gag's logo as well.

http://9gag.com
There needs to be a solution for people who want a solid Pentadactyl/Firefox instead of the newest version of FF breaking a lot of functionality.
Set the delivery date with plenty of extra padding, and have your software move the date forward as more pre-orders come in.
Netflix signs traffic deal with Verizon following Comcast agreement last month
Fun with IDS funtime #3: heartbleed
Reporting memory bandwidth in Gb is misleading.

The page you cite here:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/benchmarks/server/xeo...

shows a triad bandwidth (STREAM) of 246,313.60 MB (megabytes) per second which is 240 GB (gigaBYTES) / sec.

If I'm making a mistake I'm sure we can work it out.
Even when you type "facebook.com" and hit enter (without using search), it still sends "facebook.com" to Google so they know what you typed every time.
So here is the really good news: whatever happens you've learned from direct experience the sort of potentially disastrous naive [in the technical sense] mistakes founders and early hires can make at a time when coming away with nothing will certainly suck if it happens but won't be absolutely devastating. [1]

Now to me, if I were one of the founders, the most critical question on my mind would [hopefully] not be, how much value have I put into the company in the past six months versus how much you have put in. The critical question on my mind [hopefully] would be how much value you bring to the company in the future. Maybe it's 10% - in which case I would consider looking for someone else. What I would want [hopefully] is someone with the potential to exponentially increase the value of the company and therefore who is worth a founder's share. The idea is that a new company is born the day you come onboard.

Yeah it's a little crazy, but a startup is about big risks and big rewards, not little ones. 10% is fine for a lifestyle business with a proven business model and where the founders bring irreplaceable assets [big capital or licensed access to a restricted market]. But lets face it, though most people probably cannot grow and run a company, there are a substantial number who can unless you're Wolfram Research.

Anyway, I don't if that's advice good bad or indifferent, but good luck.

[1] If you walk away with nothing financial from this deal, it's still pretty much identical to the most likely outcome had you been granted equity six months ago. Startups usually fail.
I agree with every word you wrote.

To take it further, assuming both that projects built by experienced Haskell programmers are "better", and that those experienced Haskell programmers are more expensive, are those projects actually "better" enough for the company to break even. For the vast majority of projects, the answer is almost certainly "no", because most projects don't live or die on their technical merits. I think this limits the supply of companies further than even the perception-of-difficulty effects.
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DHH is arguing from the perspective of a Rails developer working on a Rails application. It's no small kingdom but to discredit TDD as a practice for all software developers is short-sighted. There are enough counter-examples of the benefits of TDD in my own experience to make the claim invalid as a universal truth.
My grandfather used to give me coins to count. Loved it. (Was older than a toddler, though..)
AFAIK Airbnb uses Ruby and Rails to some extent. An actual job offer lists it as a requisite: https://www.airbnb.com/jobs/departments/position/2192
This has been posted many times to HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=how+to+pair+socks#!/story/forever/...

The most recent repost was over a year ago, but not by much.
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So, a cartel would not double-spend because it would cost them long term? The premise of the article is really that people don't act in their short-term interests, or did I not understand?
Editorial: Markey’s mission creep
TabPatterns: UI Design Gallery for Tablets
UI design pattern gallery focuses primarily on iPads and other Tablet devices. Good source for inspiration
Good points. This post is actually meant for the initial setup. You're right, though: - there will be downtown, albeit not much. But down time is down time.

It may be beneficial to update the post to specify the initial setup vs. migrations after the production env is setup. Or we could just add that in the next post.

Thanks!
The day before the end I had a $19m valuation, then it dropped to $10m on the last day :(
But even if you consider that decision rational, think of the cost of property insurance.

Seriously, what insurance company is going to offer to insure the Daily Planet building with it being a known magnet for supervillans looking for Superman? Based on that can we assume that the Planet is almost certainly uninsured and paying for it's own repairs out of wafer thin newspaper profits. If so frankly how is it even still in business?
Note that even Firefor has at least one kind of phone home "feature" enabled by default - malware protection. It keeps asking Google if the sites you are visiting are OK, thus sending the list of visited sites to Google.

I know that they are supposed not to misuse this information, but I would feel much better if they didn't receive it at all.
And, according to your edit, you missed my point. That blog post explicitly states that Chromium has many of the same "phone-home features" of Chrome. That includes the specific one discussed in this thread, "search suggest".
>That's true. So it's even more important to retain them by having sensible defaults.

Not really. What is wrong with having a product that caters to a power user, or a niche group? Why does everything have to be dumbed-down for the "user on the street"? If you want dumbed-down then use the browser that came with your OS. If want something that isn't dumbed-down then you most likely have the know-how to customize your toolbar.
Amazon Has Opened Wearable Technology Store