skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is SportsQuest the new Quizup?
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That's a fascinating take on things I didn't really internalize. In the Boston community (which I'm a part of) it's being treated more like a "we couldn't raise the B, so we needed to shut things down and admit defeat."

That being said, a core team poach would definitely have killed the team, as well.

Consumer plays are hard in general, but particularly difficult in Beantown.
I don't consider that to be part of the school system, though -- rather, that's a scheme to allow students to escape from the school system, just like the one I used.
I know, doesn't it? But sometimes someone finds a way to simplify the patch so it's less code and almost as effective, and sometimes future improvements are made easier because the existing code is easier to work with. And it's hard to argue with the results.
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My favorite quote from this has to be

Meanwhile our eager-beaver researcher, undismayed by logic-of-science considerations and relying blissfully on the “exactitude” of modern statistical hypothesis-testing, has produced a long publication list and been promoted to a full professorship. In terms of his contribution to the enduring body of psychological knowledge, he has done hardly anything. His true position is that of a potent-but-sterile intellectual rake, who leaves in his merry path a long train of ravished maidens but no viable scientific offspring.

The problem boils down to the insistence on statistical significance testing. Whenever you test an intervention (priming experiments or whatever a psychologist might look for), it's reasonable to expect there's some effect -- even if it's negligibly small or practically useless. But significance testing is about proving that the effect is not zero, so you will always get a significant result as long as you collect enough data.

This is why I am so frustrated when I see a psychology paper claiming something like "Women wear pink shirts while more fertile" and the paper says the effect is statistically significant, but doesn't say how big it is. Maybe it's a completely unimportant effect.

This is why someone (I forget who) suggested that null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) should be renamed Statistical Hypothesis Inference Testing, for the aptness of the resulting acronym.

There's a whole legion of other common problems (enough to write a book on [see my profile]), but in psychology especially this is a big one.
The Outer London figures haven't changed much with the extra year of data: 2012 Q3 £275,000, Q4 £270,000, 2013 Q1 £266,500, Q2 £276,000, the Croydon figure went down by £8,000 over that period, so it's unlikely to be two years of 17% growth.
This is something I've thought about a lot.

It's not entirely clear to me why Ed Snowden had an account on Lavabit in the first place. Surely he must have known that any companies he operated with were going to receive NSLs. Did he pick Ladar Levison in the same way he picked Greenwald?

The DoJ went after Lavabit the day after Snowden went public.

I don't know what Levison's reputation was prior to Snowden's leaks, nor do I know why Edward Snowden used Lavabit for an email address.

My hypothesis at this point is that Snowden hired an email contractor who he knew would go to bat and antagonize the legal system, in a similar way to how he had seen Glenn Greenwalds earlier work, and knew he would argue relentlessly against NSA press cycle.

The goal is, obviously, to make a lot of noise, get a lot of people to disagree with you, and then prove them wrong. How are we going to look back on the DoJ 5 years from now?
I remember there was http://click.pocoo.org/ once on the front-page too.
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What does this have to do with technology or "hackers" ? Real wizards code in Lisp.
You're being snooped already. Chances are your automotive systems are keeping logs, and your cell phone regularly broadcasts your location. That cat long ago left the bag.
Nice clarification. I kept reading through it trying to get the connection -- knowing that I had missed something. Eventually I realized that they weren't related at all except both used the same phrase (which I don't think is a common one).

Honestly, I probably wouldn't have read it, if I had known that it wasn't related. After having read it, I'm not sure I would have recommended to my past self to do so (not that it's bad, just not something I'm interested in).
And comments like these are why I pop into the comments before I open the story.

Cheers :]
The reason this distro is so intriguing to me is that the packaging system builds binaries in Linux containers and requires no root access.
Bugger all, it's just a random site I happen to host.
Perhaps the best policy is to make a note that these children are gifted, stand by while they do their own thing, and when and only when they start getting bored, give them access to the kinds of challenges they need.
Wow, CI for books! Cool idea :)
Microsoft's Entity Framework is similar, except that they put the Select at the end so that the editor is aware of the availability of relevant variables when you're writing the "select" part of the statement. Such simple changes that will never be part of the SQL standard.
It's basically a GPU without the graphics-specific hardware.
I guess it's all about the order of events. _If_ the poaching happened first, then the investors found out that core-talent got poached they might hesitate to invest.
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Then I'm sorry to tell you that new cars are already run by software, even though the input devices have not changed. Your car software can start the engine, disable the brakes, steer and so on. The cars on our roads already can be and have been hacked. Still, software glitches make up very little of the accidents that we see.

Software glitches can be tested and fixed. Human errors cannot.

Also, as a cheeky sidenote, do you also refuse to use driverless trains, driverless elevators, driverless escalators and driverless theme park rides? :)
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I'm using base16: https://github.com/chrishunt/color-schemes
Another clarification: the Philosopher’s Stone may be known by Americans as the Sorcerer's Stone. The US publishers of the first Harry Potter book thought American children wouldn't want to buy and read a book with the word "philosopher" in the title, and so renamed it to suggest magic and instant gratification, rather than thought or learning.
Exactly! Thanks :D
Gifted writer, deserves postmortem attention. RIP.
I have now spelled it out for you. "Reliability of 100000000000000 is unacceptable! I need exactly 1000000000000000 of reliability (a factor 10 differnece only)." It's hilariously specific. If your error rate is riding up against your usage so that you notice it, you wouldn't expect to just want to cut it by a small factor like that.
Oh nice, a golang opt parser that doesn't flout age-old Unix traditions.
I'm not certain about the exact color scheme, but my terminal looks pretty similar. I use a ZSH shell, and I use Oh My ZSH to manage my configuration. The ZSH theme I use is called "amuse", and it looks pretty similar to this one. Hope that helps!
I think we have very different definitions of 'completely shameful'. One bit wrong in four trillion, on a device that only costs a couple of hundred dollars?
I see this argument a lot, and it seems to beg the question to assume that there is such a "litigious environment."

Why are Google and other companies trying to develop this technology if all it takes is a single fatal crash, and therefore a single lawsuit? It should be in their rational self-interest to avoid any contact with this technology. It would be lighting on money on fire.

This is not the strongest example, but automobile companies have ignored fatality inducing problems, yet the practice didn't end their business. There is likely enough profit in the pursuit to deal with such issues. These lawsuits are slow-moving enough that there would be room to maneuver.

The greatest threat, in my opinion, is over-reacting politicians passing laws due to a shock in public opinion on the safety of the cars. The shock could be legitimate, due to reckless implementation, or just due to an unpreventable accident.
Well, I for once am hoping they don't all come back to haunt me!

I've rarely met a good one. In most agency style environments PMs are responsible for the messes that will have to be picked up by the devs, having promised the world and are unable to backtrack on any of it "because the customer has already agreed to it". I'd rather talk to someone about what they want out of their product and then let them make an informed decision where they can weigh up cost and impact of a certain feature. After all it's their money.
Like quite a few on this site, I'm one of those kids.

I have a kid now, he's not going to be sent to a regular school. I wasted about 30 years trying to work out what/how other people were thinking. School wasn't a challenge, everyone in it was - so I initially focused on that.

They'll spend time trying not to offend people. (I really like people, and want them to like me). It's really tiring and difficult to maintain a persona that's compatible with the crowd. Is it even right to do that?

The smarter you are, the less people listen to the 'true' you (boring, being annoying etc). My guess is being around 30% smarter than average is the sweet spot.

They need a framework to cope with the entire inefficiency of everything in society, and the apparent willingness of everyone around them to perpetuate it.

They need to learn to let people they love be, even if it appears they are walking off a cliff. That sucks.

Being smart is wonderful but it's not everything. It means things are easily understandable to you. It doesn't mean you know everything, but it means you can learn almost anything quickly.

If you want a PHD you can get one easily, it's like when you're really rich - things have a different meaning. Many smart people I know don't care about things like 'PHDs' - infact, quite the opposite. Friends and family matter, not PHDs.

TL;DR; IQ is one over-sold metric; teach your kids to be happy first.
huh. I thought they had to justify the inquiry to prisms database, not justify collection itself.

Are you sure it's the later, and not the former?
Two points:
- The move from server administration to devops has made editing files on servers much less necessary. We should be treating our server environments like the output of a deployment function rather than a stateful, manually-created environment.
- GUI editors like Atom have had SFTP integration for a while and it would be quite simple to add remote editing capabilities to Atom.
Ok, we'll take that out of the title.
Please re-read the site guidelines. Hacker News is about interesting things.

Not everyone will find this story interesting, but that's true of any story. The post certainly isn't off-topic.
C++ has a similar (though more carefully specified) limit on template instantiation depth.

I would be surprised if this were not true in practice for all compiled languages - some programs will be too large to compile given the memory constraints of the machine the compiler is running on.
Catch Notes had around the same number of users when we "decided to go in a different direction" last summer.

It was incredibly challenging for us to monetize the service and our user numbers where an order of magnitude off of where things would have been intesting for some investors.
Wouldn't it be easier to have the hole go straight up through the center shaft without looping around?
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Has RAID5 stopped working? (2013)
I'm actually writing a book now, and would love to use this. The first thing that pops into my mind is: are there any example books I can look at so I can see what this will look like?
All the stuff the grandparent post mentioned. Insane 3-value boolean logic. The fact that the result-set must be in the form of a table instead of a graph of data (when the client code wants a graph). Even just moving the "select" keyword to the end of the query so query-writing tools can provide some autocomplete.

Even simple things like providing a simple syntax for walking foreign key relations instead of cumbersome Join operations. Using any ORM worth its salt, I can say customer.company, whereas in native SQL I have to say "from customer join company on customer.companyid = company.companyid".

To me, SQL is like Common LISP. A fantastic invention of a bygone era that has stood the test of time... but is stubbornly resistant to real improvement and shows too many warts of its age.

And again, as the grandparent said, the cases where the abstraction fails and you end up having to figure out how exactly it's implementing your query. Abstraction failures make a tool worse-than-useless, because it means I have to not only understand the problem the tool is trying to solve, but I have to understand the tool and the quirks of its handling of the problem.

I don't want to imply that ORMs are better (the last thing we need is another abstraction layer) or NoSQL is better (throwing the baby out with the bath-water there) just that SQL is old and has not seen the kind of improvement that other languages have seen.
But we don't do nearly enough for the small fraction who are highly gifted. We simply put them into "harder" or "higher level" classes than their peers. This isn't an acceptable solution. We need to stimulate them, to find out where their passions lie then feed them accordingly. Do they react better to lectures, or readings? Do they react better to more solitary studies, or in group environments? Do they need a standard amount of repetition to help boost retention, or does that simply bore them and artificially stunt their natural abilities?

We should do this for everyone. It's unclear to me why we should not find the passion and best way to teach "average" students too.

The only difference between "gifted" and "average" students is really how quickly they can learn certain material -- and maybe an increase in their ceiling for learning certain material. But I don't think there is a fundamental qualitative difference in how they should be taught.
I always preferred Springpad's UX and way of structuring data over Evernote's. Not sure why everyone is obessed with the later.
I think the rationalizations devs use to defend their arbitrary choices are fascinating. Readability? My dead-tree Wall Street Journal uses 30 character width columns. NYTimes online is about 70 chars. New Yorker about 80. Textbooks, paperbacks, magazines, newsletters... all have different char widths. Yet I've never suffered an aneurism reading any of these things. The fact that it doesn't matter much would be sacrilege to most devs.
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Lock-free Data Structures. Part 4: The Inside. Memory Management Schemes
The difference is that the HTML in Ur/Web is not just a string like in PHP. Ur provides a special syntax for building XML trees and so if you include the code like "<b>something<b" in Ur/Web it just won't compile. You can't ever output malformed HTML in Ur.

This also allows for type checking of HTML - for example you can be sure that you won't have unescaped output in your HTML because the type system makes it impossible (won't compile) to use unescaped string in place of escaped one.

So in short, what you saw already is a template engine (also look at React (and maybe Opa?), which also has a special syntax for building XML/HTML), and it's already insanely powerful.
E.P.A. to Seek 30 Percent Cut in Carbon Emissions
isn't that what emacs god-mode is for?

http://chrisdone.com/posts/god-mode

and

http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/21c49e/combining_evil...
Would love to see that mail chimp option. Also I'd like to have more images. Why not use some images form unsplash, little visuals etc. I remember a hn post couple of weeks ago which had a list of stock photo with a license attached so that you could use them.
I had the same thought logicallee :)
> I would be surprised if this were not true in practice for all compiled languages - some programs will be too large to compile given the memory constraints of the machine the compiler is running on.

Clearly this is different to a compiler which intentionally rejects programs that can't be efficiently implemented/compiled.
I don't know why it just happened now, but it finally dawned on me after seeing the video's kernel/shell/utilities graphic: the shell is a wrapper around the kernel.
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I trot out the power generation industry as an example. People sue nuke plants out of existence, despite them being far less damaging than coal - in both lives and environmental destruction.

There's also the vaccine industry. Some vaccinations result in severe adverse reactions in a handful of people. But the public health benefit is so vast that the government has stepped in to shield vaccine makers from the lawsuits.
So that's the Dee from cstross's quote:

"for iterator count from zero to number of entropy sinks within ground state, hear ye, hear ye, I open the gates of starry time for ye that you may feel the ground beneath your feet and the air upon your skin; I invoke the method of Dee and the constructor of Pthagn, forever exit and collect all the garbage, amen."

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Is BTRFS really still at the "do not use in production" phase? I'm surprised it's still considered unstable. Seems like a case of the "google beta's"
All of those function call kill-region, FWIW. The extra code defines which region and handles things like attempts to kill text that is wholly or partially read-only.
I always wondered what happened to the child prodigies after they grew up.
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unfortunately thats sort of flamebait.
Your added context worked for me. I saw your original title but did not have time to read an article, but your title interested me enough that I noted to myself to come back and read it later.

I would have skipped it under the current title.
How to do server side processing with ngReactGrid
Do you consider remote people based in continental Europe?
A lot of technology I've had the opportunity to explore has made me uneasy with regard to privacy, so I have opted not to use it with my home automation systems. Surely there must be a subgroup of the population that cares enough to make a market of privacy-respecting electronics.