skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias#Effect_on_met...

From the paper:

> Funnel plots, Egger tests of funnel plot asymmetry and fail-safe number tests were used to assess publication bias (37) (see online supplementary Table S13 for further information).

(Some fail-safe tests are completely worthless and misleading, but I haven't looked to see which they used.)

> Strong or moderate funnel plot asymmetry consistent with a publication bias was detected for approximately half of the parameters. However, it is not possible to definitively attribute discrepancies between large precise studies and small imprecise studies to publication bias, which remains strongly suspected rather than detected where asymmetry is severe (see Table 1 and online supplementary Table S13).

There's a table of all the endpoints they looked at, like the various antioxidants, with a column grading none to high:

> Publication bias was assessed using visual inspection of funnel plots, Egger tests, two fail-safe number tests, and trim and fill (see online supplementary Table S13). Overall publication bias was considered high when indicated by two or more methods, moderate when indicated by one method, and low when indicated by none of the methods. The overall quality of evidence was then assessed across domains as in standard GRADE appraisal.

A copy-paste of the publication bias column and then a `xclip -o | sort | uniq -c` says that there were 16 parameters where publication bias was estimated to be low or 'none', 17 'medium', and 3 'strong'. That said, publication bias tests are considered to be fairly weak in that you need a lot of studies to be confident bias isn't there, and looking at figure 3, the # of studies for the parameters may vary from what looks like a low of 4 to a high of 332; so the publication bias estimate for the latter will probably be good, but the former means next to nothing.
What do you mean by same thing? Monsanto has hands in many things, including software development. If you mean GMOs, which they have have become infamous for, then absolutely. Bayer, for instance, is significantly larger.
> if my business and all my competitors are forced to pay twice as much for components, we will all raise prices, we will probably keep similar margins

No, the organic food fight has always been about should we reap the (positive) economies of scale that are so abundant in agriculture? That's the cost structure of concern here and it only applies to one side - those currently taking advantage of those efficiencies. We were able to feed society with family farms, it just took 90% of the population to be farmers.
Everything is a chemical, and organic farming in particular

Everything is a chemical? [0] How about outer space, warmth, love, freedom, sunshine, and rainbows?

[0] http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3324
Good point. Still, the 1.5nm scale they mention is significantly smaller than anything we have now.

Is it conceivable that we will see a whole new type of electronics on a subatomic scale in the future though? (Where the structure of a chip is not even made out of atoms, but entirely of subatomic particles?)

I actually have an electrical engineering degree, but the couple of materials courses I took back in the early 2000s are starting to feel a bit dated!
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Arbitrary choice in the face of uncertainty isn't wrong though; it is an aprroxumation technique.

"Room temperature" is arbitrary, but 75F is better than 100F or 0F
True. But still , doesn't it need rapid, guaranteed response times?
Hmm,

Now, this and other articles about the difficulty of writing standard algorithms in functional languages makes me want to see FP's pitch be unbundled. The thing is that FP is pitched as a useful thing to learn to get an insight into programming, improve your mental fitness, see things at a higher level and so-forth. But it's also pitched as a way to be more productive and effective as a programmer. Effectively, it's sold as an exercise cycle and a real bicycle, a way to improve yourself and good way to get somewhere.

Now, I'll acknowledge that functional programming probably is great for the higher-level view of programming and such. But the challenges outlined in this article makes me doubtful fp is a productivity tool, a system which will allow some large number of programmers to make a large step in productivity.

I mean, if fp doesn't make simplistic programming faster and stands in the way of a large number of algorithmic approaches, it seems your productivity would consistently hobbled. Is there a counter-argument to this problem?
I like Glojure. I am not sure if it is worth the hassle of changing the name, but I registered glojure.org just in case I decide to do so.
Democracy is nothing more or less than rule by the will of the majority, either directly or indirectly. If the will of "the people" is to exterminate a minority, and the military carries out that intent, that's not anti-democratic. It's lots of other things, it's definitely oppression, but it's not anti-democratic. It doesn't represent an existential threat to a political system rooted in rule by the majority.

The genocide of native Americans, slavery, segregation, and Japanese internment were all carried out consistently with the desires of the relevant polity of the time. When George Wallace stood in front of the school house and shouted "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" he didn't do it to try and impose his idiosyncratic view of the world. He did it because he knew it would endear him to "the people" of Alabama.
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I'm not sure that is the reason they won't use the restrooms nor that we are actually hearing the specifics of the rule nor the reason for it or if it is anything more than internet rumor (wouldn't be surprised).

People like Michael Pollan are ideologues (a good writer...I have read "Botany of Desire") but you have to take some of their views, particularly on science, with a grain of salt. Something like Micheal Moore. Not that he isn't often right but...... then there is reality.

And (to reply to a parent) I don't understand how insisting on and legislating sanitary food production, record keeping and food tracking has anything to do with mono culture and isn't a reasonable precaution.
Well, I didn't say that anything nature-related is ought to be good and desirable. What I meant is that 'conventional food' yet has to be proven to be equally safe as food that was not genetically tampered with, grown without using pesticides, etc. pp.

And quite honestly, I doubt that Moore had genetic engineering and todays massive (ab)use of pesticides in mind when he first stated that law. He might even have added an exception ...
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Data without context is low information content. Your snark is misplaced.
Make this a facebook app and publicly embarrass the user if he misses a goal on his timeline and this will go viral.
I didn't read forced as force fed, or compelled, in your message. That is strange! no doubt enough anise would cover the flavor of a tranquilizer or something.

Regarding the psychological thing, you or I wouldn't ignore a friend's extreme suffering the first time. The fifth or sixth? I believe this is referred to as loss of affect. I understand it as an imperfect defense mechanism against some of the even more horrible things that can happen to a person's psyche in those conditions.

In any case, I'm happy your grandpa made it through the war ok.
Ha, I might give this a shot :-)
I'm personally a huge fan of Chicago in the midwest. If I had to choose anywhere other than the bay area, it would be chicago...if it weren't for the weather!
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The animations on the website is very smooth and dynamic. Until now I have thought that we have to settle for choppy animations on the web on mobile devices.

I tested this on a new phone and a older one running Android 2.3 and it gracefully degrades.

http://www.nimbletank.com

ps:Works on desktop too
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The standard counter-argument is that by enforcing purity, Haskell improves encapsulation and the ability to reason about the program (see paeans about equational reasoning [1]), and prevents all the myriad classes of bugs associated with mutable state - thus greatly improving productivity. (The same applies to its more precise type system in general.) I'm not sure how much I believe it, but some people swear by it...

[1] http://www.haskellforall.com/2013/12/equational-reasoning.ht...
Ups sorry I see... looks like a bug, i'm on it already, could you please use username: demo and password: demo123 at meantime? Thanks!
Yeah, several companies make them, they're very popular in cheap set-top boxes. Having found what I think is the Broadcom press release you're referring to[1], the thing that's unique about their SoC is that it supports DVB-T2 which is newer and less widely used or supported. Looks like ALi have just announced a SoC for that too[2], though unlike Broadcom's it requires a seperate tuner chip.

[1] http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s736006
[2] http://www.digitaltvnews.net/?p=24266
Except if your application generates dynamic queries. And not of the sort where variables in the WHERE clause are dynamically evaluated. Of the sort where the entire structure of your SQL is dynamically driven by user interaction with your application.
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I work the other way, if I have an important project I keep it "stealth" to move forward until it is ready (in my opinion).
Very cool. Is there a reason why Linux tools don't react to SIGINFO, other than just "not implemented"?
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There's a big difference between blasting music in someone's face for hours and playing an instrument regularly.
It depends on your toolbox. FP (Haskell-FP anyway) appears at first to hobble a lot of mutable algorithms, but (a) it has its own toolbox which has its own strengths and (b) you can embed mutability in such a way to use all of your standard mutable algorithms just the same.

From a personal perspective, I program a lot in Haskell and I find it perfectly fluent.

Just don't expect to take an algorithm predicted on assumptions of a particular memory model and translate it unmodified without at least using the embedding trick I mentioned above.

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Fortunately, you're in luck. The whole point of this series is to culminate in a description of the "embedding trick" I referenced above. Part 2 is written and being edited now. It introduces a slow, simple, buggy way of writing Union/Find "purely".

Part 3 will fix the bug and then explore a fast embedding trick.
I do have a phone, i AM tracked, ans i DEPLORE IT, but i do keep things SAFE the range i can that mean i'm not using any app i use my phone to call people and receive call.
I don't have facebook or rubbish social network account where I expose my life.
Yes all my stuff is recorded by the NSA, i DEPLORE IT, so i'm careful of what i can say over the network, you don't seem to be.

I just can't understand you can't see any danger for the future the way things are moving. We need to stop all this data collection on people. This data is being used already, for commercial matters and as a matter of fact for spying and mind control. One have to be nut to yell "conspiracy theory" when the fact is spreaded all over the news. Just go for curiosity on Wikileaks or Snowden files, just be curious. I'm not american and i'm not native english speaking, broader you vision.
I love the site and design. Maybe displaying some values at nine decimals out is perhaps a bit more for eye candy than for information.
> If there were some navigation metadata in there, I could theme the browser to show that as a viewport at the top. I could change the aesthetics to the user's preference.

This is the most design-ignorant post I've seen on HN in a long time, and I think this quote really highlights what's wrong with it. No, not all pages have navigation that can be put in some One True Hierarchy metadata style. To take five high-volume sites as example: Facebook, Bank of America, Google Search, Google Docs, and Google Maps all have fundamentally different usage patterns that simply would not work if styled in remotely the same way.

Yes, if all pages were just essays with occasional links (as they were in the 90's), then pages w/o site-provided CSS would be great and you could use user styles for all your customization (FYI, feel free to click View > Page Style > No Style in your menu bar to do this for yourself). Cool, but it's 2014 now, and people expect their websites to be native-competitive applications that allow them to get things done quickly.

> Honestly, the hubris of designers can be amazing. As if aesthetics is a universal.

another choice quote. FYI, design has very little to do with aesthetics; Design is how something works. Aesthetics is just one tool that should help to make clear how something works.

> They'll do your work for you.

No. No they won't. They'll leave your site for one that is easier to understand and use, where they can do as little work as possible to get done what they want to get done. If you disagree, go try to prove it in the marketplace. I think the market has made quite clear what level of design users prefer.
"Friendly" reminder?
I think the point of the post was, look at how you can see this government's edits, why can't we see every governments edits?
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Interesting comment in the blog (by Raphael) http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/07/11/smeared-richard-fe...

> With regard to the censored words, I would argue that they are probably “my former husband,” instead of “my ex-husband, the”.

Author reply:

> Yeah, it’s possible. I don’t put a lot of faith in character length analysis, [...]
Did you think my argument was that when the government directs and funds research, they disproportionately waste it on WMDs? No, my argument was that big government research spending leads to monstrosities that would otherwise not even exist.
How is this different from http://www.stickk.com/?
You might be the parody has someone who seems to not care about privacy at all.

I'm not american and I'm not native english speaking, broader you vision a bit please, you understood my point, how many languages should I speak and write fluently to have your attention ? Oh and how many ones do YOU speak and write fluently ?
That quote omits the actual alleged "extreme cruelty":

"...the appointee's wife was granted a divorce from him because of appointee's constantly working calculus problems in his head as soon as awake, while driving car, sitting in living room, and so forth, and that his one hobby was playing his African drums. His ex-wife reportedly testified that on several occasions when she unwittingly disturbed either his calculus or his drums he flew into a violent rage, during which time he attacked her, threw pieces of bric-a-brac about and smashed the furniture."
You lost me at "Silicon Valley of X". They need to chart their own path. Trying to recreate silicon valley is doomed for failure.
Looks like fixed, should be fine now :)
Thanks for the in-depth answer, I appreciate it. While this is exactly what I am looking for, I want to know what is the minimum amount of equipment needed to get any jobs. For example the most important are the cameras, but to mount them you would need a ladder. To be able to bring a ladder to sites you need a long van. Then you need experience as an electrician if the house in question does not have the Ethernet cables installed. All these expenses add up to 100k plus 100k for a storefront at a minimum, correct?
I didn't really understand the 'how it works' video, I 'subscribe to a business' and then what? Do I get emailed with offers or do I need to go back to the website to see new offers? How are you going to get people back to the site after the first viewing if you're not going to email or connect with them on social media?
When life is a virtual reality...
Is that illegal? Will those parents be charged with altering safety devices in case of accident? I'm perfectly aware how good it is, but insurances and labs don't really care about that.
Did anyone else get a blue bar in the middle of the text while trying to read fr mobile?
That's a big assumption. I don't think I've ever seen 100-lines long function with no dependencies between the 100 lines of code... Maybe in a constructor which calls 100 setters? Which is another great example why turning long functions into sea of one-liners isn't always a good thing.
Hahaha, really? In the US it's slang for "boss."
Whatever happened to doing and completing something because its important to you? This strikes me as seeking approval/validation from others, which I'm not sure would make me feel so good about myself if I indulged in...
> Is there really bigger companies than Monsanto doing the same thing?

I concur, who are these hidden giants?
These "Silicon Valley of [insert city]" articles are tiresome. Notwithstanding the fact that Silicon Valley doesn't represent the same thing to everyone, these articles tend to gloss over a number of facts:

1. "Silicon Valley" basically covers the area from San Francisco to San Jose. There are also a growing number of companies in the East Bay. "Silicon Valley" is not a city, it's a sizable (and effectively growing) geographic region.

2. While startups are a prominent part of "Silicon Valley" lore, most startups fail and are incredibly vulnerable to economic cycles. Dozens of large companies are the glue that hold Silicon Valley together. There is a revolving door between these large, established companies and startups and it provides a talent pool to startups and safety net to tech workers that no other region can currently match. Attracting "startups" to your city is the easy part; attracting (or organically growing) the big companies is the hard part.

3. Not only is there more money for tech investment in Silicon Valley, there are more sources of it. One side of Sand Hill Road probably has more venture firms ready to write checks to technology startups than most cities have in total. That's not going to change any time soon.

4. While the percentage of total employed persons in the Bay Area who work in tech is much higher than the national average, it's still below 10%. The economy here is incredibly diverse and there are plenty of people earning good money in other industries like law, finance and medicine. In fact, a lot of folks working in these fields in the Bay Area make more than the average tech worker. Without this kind of strong broad-based economy, a city or region won't be able to replicate "Silicon Valley."

5. California's weather can't be beat.
Yes the main idea is that after you subscribe to businesses you're interested in you are able to access your offers stream in several ways: of course you get notification emails about new offers from businesses you're subscribed if you want to get it (there will be settings for that because idea behind of that is that EMAIL IS NOT FOR SUCH THINGS LIKE SPECIAL OFFERS:) ) also there will be push notifications in mobile apps about new offers you're interested in (subscribed) and maybe you want to visit spoffer directly to see "whats new" like you do with your Facebook social news stream? :)
It sounds like there should be something like a libopenbsdcompat containing arc4random et al., which both these packages would then import+depend on.
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He means "They use pesticides responsibly but I am passionate about hating pesticides"

My gramps had a vinyard and an orchard. Pesticides are a bitch to use. Windy the next day? A bit of rain? Dew too strong? Well screw you buddy, you get to re-do everything because it's as if you didn't spray at all. Ha ha.

And those stupid grapes wouldn't even grow without pesticides. They're so bloody fragile and finnicky. Sometimes the whole thing would go belly-up because gramps would miss the spraying window by a few days (due to weather).

Seriously, anyone who is passionately against pesticides has never tried to make money off of food production. And anyone who's worried about pesticides having residual effects on them (and doesn't get in direct contact with the stuff) has never tried to make pesticides stay on those god damned plants long enough to work.
No it could not. Admittedly I only skimmed the article, but from what I can tell you could say the same "civic booster club" kinds of things about 50 other cities in the Midwest. Lots of other cities also have some minor little incubator activity going (which will never, ever make any of them the Silicon Valley of anything, by the way), and almost all, or let's just go ahead and say ALL, of those other cities are not nearly as much of a spiraling hell-hole as Detroit. God bless them Detroiters for trying to keep hope alive, but… no.
Did you fall for the anti-sugar campaign? There's nothing wrong with sugar in reasonable quantity.
I feel that a discussion of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law should be mandatory when introducing parallel programming

Small sequential portions of an otherwise parallel algorithm can have huge effects on the overall running when trying to scale up.

"parconc" explains this while discussing a parallel version of k-means, talks about how things like granularity of data needs to be fine-tuned for parallel algos, and provides some nice visualizations into what the CPU's are actually doing on a timeline: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929/ch03.htm...

Overall I think multicore is a good tool to have in your toolbox, but it seems like there needs to be a lot of tuning and effort to get good rewards for the time invested.
Vinegar is a herbicide.

Concentrated urine as well.
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Almost. The concept was great, the implementation, not so much. Sad that Google didn't improve upon it. (Then again, they're no longer an innovation house, as I see it.)
Now if they could better prove the value of antioxidants.....
Please look up Dependal. It's a medicine to control an upset stomach / loose motions. You might want to re-think your project name.
I don't know where this is going, but so far it's cute.

There's one major gripe i have though, the UI doesn't let me accurately express my beliefs.

On the question "How many dollars does the average American spend at vending machines during a year?" i thought it might be somewhere around 100, between 10 and 1000. However i could only get it as far as 38 - 162, which didn't allow me to cover the right answer. Optimally though i'd like to be able to answer "i haven't got a friggin' clue".

On the other hand, i guess it demonstrates a massive cognitive bias on the side of the makers of this: Not everyone is confident in knowing the answer to something.

Difficulties on other questions:

- cat sleep hours in a day: allowed me to set ranges like 0-48
- degradation time of a plastic bag: did not allow me to set 200-5000
> Everything is a chemical

It is as though words in human language can have multiple meanings.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chemical

> 1. any substance used in or resulting from a reaction involving changes to atoms or molecules, especially one derived artificially for practical use
There's also a nifty Chrome plugin you can use that shows you the backend any site is using: https://wappalyzer.com