skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a very important point - people who go to fertility clinics are already having problems and not representative/random.

Further, a "meta analysis" means they are not doing original research, they are just culling together other papers on the subject into a single study.

I'm terrified to think this study could be accurate.
15 Russian tanks are fighting Ukrainain army | RAW FOOTAGE 
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Of course it might be Precognition as opposed to Time Travel. The paper makes no attempt to differentiate between the two, just assuming Time Travel.

They have also not factored in the obvious assertion that given the publicity of the paper, any 'time travellers' to this time obviously do not want to be detected and as such probably spend their time writing scientific papers debunking their own existence.
I'm with you there. I hate when anything extends built-in types. Since all code uses built-in types, you can quickly end up in debugging hell.
This game is very similar to my first year of college mathematics -- studying Euclid's Elements and working through the proofs. I look forward to the game version of my sophomore year -- Apollonius' conic sections and Ptolemy's astronomy.
> I think it's probably worth the effort, but I'm not quite sure how you get from A to B without just having some super competent eccentric multi-billionaire finance a series of massive development projects.

And Elon Musk is busy doing rockets and electric cars!
Rails Forty Two method on arrays
a=*(1..50)

a.forty_two : 42

http://apidock.com/rails/Array/forty_two
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A&A doesn't supply enough bandwidth for our home (including work from home) use, at least on their pricing page.

On a 5Mbps line, our average monthly usage was about 300G/month, according to router statistics.

Now that we're on BT FTTC at 76Mbps (rate to nearest speedtest.net when there's no contention), I wouldn't like to guess the usage, but I'd estimate over 1TB a month at least. The BT provided router resets its count every 30 minutes or so, and I've not yet put my own routing box in the middle, so I don't know exactly.

Both my GF and I stream a lot of HD video, and I mirror a number of repositories every week. That video is a lot more HD now, and there's far less need to ever turn it off, since it doesn't significantly affect other users.

A more feasible approach would be to combine A&A with BT, and switch depending on reliability vs bulk requirements, but that would require a level of systems administration I'd want to be compensated for.
interesting request; I've wanted something like this before but never enough to really look for it.

I'm surprised there isn't a tool that can do this already.. perhaps under the guise of refactoring?
Another minor UI feedback: the yellow against white is very low contrast and difficult to see on my display.
You are referring to the error rate? :) We actually did about 800M additional requests two days after I've written the post.
> Operator overloading can potentially be abused because in Swift you are not limited to standard operators like in C++.

It is both a blessing and a curse, as far as potential for abuse is concerned.

You pointed out the downside of arbitrary operator names. The downside of operator overloading on fixed operator names is that you are limited in your choice of operators, so instead of choosing a more distinct operator, you sometimes have to go with things that are kind-of-the-same, or maybe not close at all. And instead you also have the problem of misleading people, for example by using the +-operator for set union, while the reader thinks you are adding together numbers.
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You can learn a LOT from HN itself.

HN is heavily moderated and the best part is a lot of people collectively do it and everyone accepts it. That's how the quality is maintained. You need to enforce this from the beginning. Quora did it and has quality. Yahoo! Answers didn't, and doesn't have that professionalism that Quora has.
Also, HN has quite a complex rating algo in place for upvotes. You might want to be inspired with that too.

Are you planning to give rating to users based on a voting strategy? It usually attracts people to be more interactive and get more visibility on a platform.

From my own experiences in managing a community/platform, concentrate more on the quality and quantity will increase gradually. Getting a lot of people joining initially itself can open roads for destruction in the future, which you might not be able to see now.
Appreciate the info. Consider my example to apply to earlier versions, in that case.
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It is an abuse of monopoly power in this situation to pay below market rates.

You don't screw people who had faith [investors; early employees with equity] in you. They shouldered a good deal of risk and you knifed them in the back by paying below market rates.
Isn't an IPO pop bad for the company? It indicates that they priced too low, no?
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It sounds like 7nm and 5nm are entirely feasible, but nobody is prepared to spend $10Billion on the fab until they're sure they've got (close to) the best solution.

Also, I feel like the whole industry is getting a bit lazy. The big foundries are all around 28nm and getting 100 percent utilization of their capacity. So long as their customers competitors have no better foundry to go to, there is little incentive to press forward. There is the possibility to fall behind, but waiting just means increasing certainty in the path forward. Meanwhile Intel...
Well, do you recognize my email address as bein one you contacted? You don't have a profile here, and your username looks unrelated to the person who contacted me.
'bringing on a specialist security team' (i.e. better programmers who know what the fuck theyre doing)
The biggest issue that I see with publishing this work in a physics journal is that although time travel is certainly a concept in physics, the research involved here is not physics research. I'd describe it as sociological(?) research intended to shed light on a problem of interest to physics. That may seem like splitting hairs, but there's a real question of competence here: as a physicist, I don't feel especially qualified to assess the methods they used or the reliability of the conclusions they draw. If they were instead describing an experiment to look for anomalous travel times of neutrino pulses or something, I'd know where to start: measurement apparatus precision, clock synchronization, etc. But here the observations are based on natural language and the conclusions are based on theories of how information spreads in social networks.

Like most physicists, I have zero formal experience in this. It honestly doesn't feel like a topic for a physics journal even though a reliable positive result would have profound implications for physics. In the same way, I wouldn't expect a technical article reporting measurements of carbon flow in the environment to be published in a political science journal, even though climate change might have profound implications for global politics. [Discussion note: the validity of climate change has nothing to do with my point here.]

All that being said, I also don't find their negative result to be particular compelling. If their two search terms were "Pope Francis" and "Comet ISON" as described, well, Comet ISON was a dud (and thus won't be much of a topic in the future), and it's easy to imagine scenarios in which future time travelers would not have a particular interest in Catholic history. And that's quite apart from the possibility that time travelers would make some modest effort to avoid asking their neighbors about future events. Maybe that's all accounted for in their paper in a compelling way, but I honestly don't see any way they could ever argue for more than a very limited negative result. And I'm not convinced that's publishable in any sort of competitive journal.
Don't know whether it's just because a lot of the library code hasn't been fully moved to this model yet, but I'm still finding most (possibly all) of the iOS API code to use the same error:&error) approach that Objective C uses.
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What is the difference between this and ack?

http://beyondgrep.com
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Yes there are lawyers who can help you however, options are essentially worthless unless the company goes public.

Option grants, employee benefits, bonuses...these are all carrot sticks employers use for employee retention. Bigger companies like Google can offer bus rides, better benefits, higher salary, etc. Make sense?
>that's a sign your talents are best employed somewhere else.

Or your recommendations aren't presented well or your recommendations are presented well but there are higher priorities for the business.
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I've found 8 so far [1][2][3]. Some are exact duplicates, some point to / while others to /index.html, /about.html, etc.

Note: most submissions were done by real and reputable users, so I'm not implying any foul play here. Quite the opposite; I backed the original project on Indie Gogo, and am pleased with the progress so far. Would strongly recommend anyone interested in the topic to donate to Michael (BTC address below).

My gripe is with HN duplicity detector, that let people submit equal or very similar links, over and over again.

[1] Book: (some are exact duplicates)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7920183

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6796703

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7555191

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7143192

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6801036

[2] Indie Gogo:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6795285

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6794584

[3] Original Blog post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6796917
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Ultimately, workers need to value the options properly: ~$0.

Interestingly, with options/RSUs clauses in employement contracts, workers are making "investments" in privately held securities on the order of ~$100K.
In general (outside of employment contracts) such investments are not legal if the worker is not signed off as a "sophisticated investor".

I would like the SEC to close this loophole, by mandating some minimum disclosure requirements about the potential risks of options/RSUs, and barring employers from making misleading statements.
Thanks you so much!

As for the ratings - users get karma (a la HN) for each upvote they get. There isn't any user-rating algorithm behind it, but I plan to do it in the future. Thanks again!
Link failure, anyone have a copy?
How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage
> don't know that I agree CASP was founded specifically because people found decoys, but...

Here's an example of what drove my work back then:

Look at the energies and RMSDs (a measure of distance from the native structure) of melittin in these two papers:

Table 2 in http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pro.5560020508/pd...

and

Table 1 in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1260499/pdf/biop...

In the first paper, the energy is higher, but the RMSD is lower. In the second paper, the RMSD is higher, but the energy is lower. How did this happen?

Well, in the first paper, phi/psi angles are set directly from a library of sequentially homologous dipeptides to pentapeptides that INCLUDES MELITTIN. So, by the time you get to tripeptides, you're nearly guaranteed to just be outputting the native conformation phi/psi angles over and over again. And this paper is just one of many to make basic mistakes like this.

As young turk back then, I got into a rather long and vigorous online argument with one of the founders of CASP who insisted the first paper was a partial solution to the protein folding problem. And I suspect that argument influenced the subsequent creation of CASP.

Anyway, it's been nice rehashing my post-doc glory days(tm), but we no longer have any excuses here. We have the tools, we have the technology...
Are you upset you received options instead of cash for your bonus? If so, you could have mentioned that you would take a salary raise instead of options. There really isn't much you can do with options until they go public or the company gets bought. You can also try to sell them on Secondary Market or SharesPost.
I think Ruby is the major banner-carrier for this feature. It is actually more awkward in Ruby to have non-trailing closures.
> What's to stop them from just doing business as usual in defiance of the Supreme Court?

The Supreme Court itself, and, ultimately -- assuming they care -- Congress.

But, in any case, this "new filter on patentability" isn't new with this decision, really -- its a fairly direct application of previous USSC decisions in similar cases -- and isn't contrary even to the CAFC en banc decision in the same case, which came to the same substantive conclusion, with the dominant (though plurality) decision applying broadly similar logic applying the same precedent.

So while the "out of control CAFC defying the Supreme Court on patent issues" story might have some relevance, it really doesn't on this case.

(There's always the problem that what a larger en banc panel might do is different than what the smaller panels of the same court that hear appeals first would do, but that's not a particular problem of the CAFC but of the way circuit courts work in general. If you picked random three-judge panels of the Supreme Court to hear appeals to that court first and had to petition separately by a hearing of the full court, well, I'd expect a panel composed of Thomas, Alito, and Scalia (or, alternatively, Sotomayer, Kagan, and Breyer) would tend to return decisions on lots of issues that wouldn't look like the decisions the full court would return.
30% commission on top of lower than market pricing in order to sell quickly. Sounds like a steep price to pay for some added convenience that should be part of the experience from the start.

On top of that, like others have said, it's not far fetched for eBay to give Valet listings higher priority in search results, due to their higher profit margins. Punishing users for wanting a streamlined experience, not cool.

I've been dealing with these pain points as both a buyer and seller for over 10 years, and I'm willing to bet I'm not alone here. I'm currently building a p2p marketplace app, and plan to enlist the features of startups like Shyp to make it an all around awesome experience. If anyone has input, feature requests, or would even like to join me, let me know, I'm all ears :)
Not exactly sure, but its interesting to think about
It's amazing to me what companies will stick in these contracts, and how deep down the rabbit hole they'll stick it. It's their stock to do it with, of course, but it's just annoying that seemingly employee-centric companies will do such seemingly abusive things. For example, I've seen instances of sale restrictions being four contracts deep (e.g., "shall be governed by (x) agreement", and that agreement says "shall be bound by terms in (y)", and so on) in an agreement that employees were only ever officially given a draft version of but apparently still held as effective. It should have never been signed of course, but the obtuse nature and comforting language these things are couched in can be confusing.

At the same time, it's also unfortunate that people don't do research to look at other instruments for liquidity (like pre-paid forward transactions) that the restraining company has zero control over. In Uber's case though, it seems like they're actually paying on the up-and-up. Many companies intentionally deflate the fair market value of shares far, far below the actual valuation (like 1/25th the value paid by investors in the last round, for example), so offering to sell at what the investors paid in at is pretty decent.

Private equity is confusing and usually doesn't work in your favor. My general advice is to always appreciate it, but never depend on it as part of your compensation in any way (and Good Lord, don't bank your retirement on it!).
Seemed awesome until I saw the $40 cutoff, though I can certainly understand why they'd want to avoid having a host of people sell their junk drawers.
I'd say the options are worth more like 5% of whatever their value is when you get them. They aren't worthless but it really is a high risk gamble that you are going to get value out of them.
> I started to think about how google and facebook have been solving these problems with amazing success in the last couple of years.

I read once that the way Google solves the heat problem is by not requiring people to be able to walk around the servers. This way they can keep high temperatures in server rooms (which the machines handle fine) and don't spend that much electricity on cooling things down.
They shouldn't be surprised, they knew Uber was going ot be disruptive and not inclined to follow regulatory practices when they signed on.
Just because you are a tech company doesnt mean you have to make a phone. Whatever happened to that facebook phone?

Or the IBM phone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon
There is plenty of sound!
Yes, my first thought reading through this was surprise that he didn't try any non-physics journals. I think any number of journals devoted to a topic like network science, internet research, web science, etc., would have found the topic of the study more within their area of interest. They would also be able to provide better peer review of the methodological/modeling choices, which mostly aren't related to physics.
Pope names form a fairly limited set. I bet if you asked 100,000 Catholics to guess the next pope's name, > 0 would get it right. I'm actually surprised there isn't tons of speculation about it. Maybe it's not a "thing" or sacrilegious or this sort of speculation is not on the Internet?
Although Google is best placed to find any time traveller, the time traveller is even better placed to go back further in time and correct the situation to prevent the knowledge becoming widely known. Thus if time travel is possible, it's almost a certainty that Sergey Brin is a time traveller.
> Choosing (C) only requires stopping the machines that got disconnected, not the whole system!

This post is generally good but I take exception to that statement. Partitions can occur between nodes. If nodes A and B are partitioned from nodes C, D, and E, but they all still receive requests, it's not clear which machines have been "disconnected." Generally you use a quorum of greater than 50% of nodes to decide which nodes should die. It's a more complicated picture than whether the network interface is up or down on the server.
Oh, I'm not upset, I'm doing quite well otherwise, I've just been unable to find a law firm advertising anything related to what I'm looking for, which either means to me I need a specific type of lawyer to evaluate it or any ol' lawyer might work?
I agree. "How I Tried to Solve a Tough Physics Problem Only Using Google Searches" isn't a classic research paper, and seems to be no surprise that it didn't get accepted in the biggest physics journals.
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> If you know how the stock market will perform in detail far in advance, though, rather than sit on a single tip about some deal, you can do amazingly well by moving sufficiently small amounts into each of a bunch of shares sufficiently long in advance that it'd be just noise.

If, however, you consider the stock market to be a chaotic system, your small trades will change the market's performance.
A quibble but Android phones have multi-user sharing turned off, and there is no user accessible setting to turn that on. So the metrics for multi-user devices is only for tablets, and presumably new non-phone devices like cameras and TVs.
Having sold two different SaaS products over the last few years, I would do a couple of things.

Make it clear on the website. $20.00/user per month. To most people, that is clear that they will be charged each month that price.

In addition to that, in your terms & conditions, you can explain the exact details of the terms.

Depending on the price of the product, I wouldn't waste too much space on the website explaining that they will be auto-renewed as it should be self explanatory and it could cause confusion.

Also, do you have a sales team or do you rely on people to just sign up on the website?
I think it's a fine line- I'm not in finance, but from what I understand you want some incentive to purchase a new issue as you have a set target of shares you're trying to move. I think that doubling in price is a bad thing, but I don't think movement of a few dollars per share is necessarily a bad thing.
This is the perfect checklist of someone who feels lost on doing sales/marketing.

It would be good to jot ideas down, prioritize and put them in a 3, 6 or 12 month plan.

This post made me start do that!
It's obvious why Amazon made a phone. Profit. People visit Amazon. Amazon has millions of customers. Sell them something else and Amazon makes even more money.

Amazon isn't trying to make the best product in the world but I'm not gonna lie, the Kindle Fire newest version is pretty good compared to the first models.

To finish my statement, Amazon is sucking up revenue wherever possible. They aren't trying to win the smartphone race but just trying to get a piece of the pie. It's smart and profitable.
Love seeing this. The other day there was a thread about how there is so much focus on supporting IE browsers with relatively low market share, yet not much on accessibility issues within all browsers.

I think this is a great step towards highlighting those issues, and offering up a solution to address some of them programatically.
You have to make it both easy to cancel, and easy to find out how to cancel. If they have to look for more than a few seconds or you make them jump through hoops, they're going to just do a chargeback.

>Obviously that did not stop recurring billing

Obviously? If I get a chargeback from a customer, I cancel their service.
I'm guessing it's cause they're bigger than T-Mobile and Sprint and less inclined towards crippling phones than Verizon.
Or, alternatively, the simple solutions have all been squeezed out and these are genuinely hard problems.
Wow! Is this for real or a white dread, lesbian, earth first parady?
There's still too much value to be had in high end smartphones for them to start competing on price. They're competing on ecosystems.
It's true that I can't provide evidence that scientific computing NEEDS operating overloading beyond my own anecdotal experience. However, I've also never seen any support that operator overloading muddies code, besides other people's anecdotal experience.

The simple example I always come back to is how hard it is to find the bug in the following code:

divide(add(multiply(-1,b),multiply(-1,sqrt(add(multiply(b,b),multiply(multiply(-3,a),c))))),multiply(2,a))

versus finding the same bug operator overloaded version

(-b-sqrt(b^2-3*a*c))/(2*a)
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