skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
p-values are a minimum standard. They demonstrate that certain models are too simple to explain the data. By all means having ruled these simpler models out go Bayesian with your model of choice, but there's no good reason not to first demonstrate that your model's complexity is necessary... and it's rather suspicious if you don't.
> It could be a different tree, or the person might just have moved closer to it

I think the flowers are there to address these two problems -- though that's an odd choice, because normally the flowers would change much faster than the tree.
One other tricky scenario: if someone is really invested in a particular field of programming, like crypto, they may be in a situation where any work they do outside of their employment is at risk of having their employers claim it as a work product or as a violation of a non-compete contract.

I've met several very brilliant programmers in my day that liked to work long, super-focused days on the problems they were presented with at work and then would go home and do anything but look at a computer. I'd be hesitant to suggest they had any lack of love for their chosen profession.
I anticipated that use of backquote might not be popular, but this particular case was unknown to me.

The decision actually arises from avoiding using both single and double quotes for quoting (http://prog21.dadgum.com/172.html), so I just copied golang's string literal syntax.
Such things are only ever made illegal when there's someone else that wishes to make life on earth a living hell to promote the sales pitch of a better life after death.
One of the 'advantages' of national service is that it spreads the cost of war more equitably to the country. For that reason I support it. I was of the right age to have gone to Iraq or Afghanistan. Many of my friends did. I actually considered joining at a couple points.

My parents were very much in favor of the wars. They also were 100% adamant that I could not join the military.

With national service, that choice doesn't really get to get made. I feel that over the last 10+ years, the wars were out of sight and out of mind for a lot of people because their kids weren't at risk. I feel like the questions would have been a lot harder on the gov't if we still had a draft going on.

Interestingly, the US armed services absolutely 100% do not want the draft. They get less oversight without a draft. The all volunteer force is higher quality and there are fewer issues with people going AWOL, and people are more likely to stick around so training costs are lower. I think the people that don't want a draft are those that could be drafted (totally understandable, I wouldn't actually want to go to a war myself), and those that like their wars without having to deal with the costs.
What is wrong with HN that simple questions with no obvious agenda are getting downvotes? It's becoming impossible to have even a simple conversation here any more.

(sorry, yes, rant ..., and far more deserving of downvotes than the parent)
Just placed an order after loving the measuring experience, here are some thoughts and questions.

* I would have felt better if it had said something like "we believe you're a 38" chest with a 15" neck circumference" so that I could eyeball whether or not what you've done really worked.

* Definitely would love to see the fabrics on people! Shows how good your product looks.

* I would LOVE an option for a third collar button as well as for a pocket button. If I'm getting a bespoke shirt, I want it the way I like to wear a shirt!

* To order again, I'll need a statement on your work conditions.
On what time scale?
> you don't really "run out of slots" as fast.

If their company only hires once a year or so, that's still running out of slots quickly. The author works for an individual company, not "the IT industry".
Once a company has too much power, the physics of corporations states that it will be abused: https://medium.com/@ad_insider/googles-latest-monopoly-trick...
An incredible amount of knowledge was 'lost' in the period between the Golden Age of Greece and the Dark Ages, including the ideas of spherical Earth and heliocentricity.

Also, if Earth were to take a direct hit from a large coronal mass ejection like the Carrington event of 1859, there is no telling how much data might be lost. "Forever" is never a good assumption to make about anything.
Some large websites (I've heard this about Google Search, specifically) have ironclad latency limits. If a feature can't be added without increasing latency above XXms, then it's not shipped.
I'll propose a different conspiracy theory: perhaps it's the other way around - new versions of iOS are specifically timed to coincide with the release of new hardware in other to make people feel like their phone is now slower and get them to upgrade...
How about Tellico or GCStar, which support custom collections?

http://tellico-project.org/

http://www.gcstar.org/

For metadata indexing of physically distributed storage (like hard disks), see http://git-annex.branchable.com/ . Git-annex could likely be integrated with metadata from GCstar or Tellico.
WebKit has long been known for having a good set of automated performance tests and has a "zero-tolerance policy for performance regressions": http://www.webkit.org/projects/performance/
It's worth noting that the sole reason the government can garnish your wages and seize your assets, is because they have the understood threat of eventual guns to back up it all up. Without the guns and the threat of potential violence, they could never manage it. You're confirming the parent.

Try seizing houses from people without the threat of guns and violence, see how that works out.
Google itself might have remained relatively benign, but the fears have absolutely materialised on the government side. Google is now clearly being used as a point of central control over the internet with the "right to be forgotten", the NSA interceptions, etc. The fact the internet made this far has been largely due to its decentralised nature. The point of the article was that centralisation of any of its functions undoes that robustness.
This is great -- I'm planning on burying most of my substantial fortune deep underground in the New Mexico desert, and this looks like just the thing to signpost around the site so people don't mess with it.
No I understand that, but it's a lot more nuanced than "it's the police!".

Which specific lobbying groups are for and against it? What factions of the two political parties are hardline for keeping it illegal? What newspapers and TV stations? What arguments are they making?
T-shirts are generally stretchy, so they don't need to be custom-made to your body size.

From personal experience: I can buy ready-to-wear shirts, but the armholes are slightly larger than necessary, and there's always excess fabric around the waste, which means it bunches up when tucked in. Some places have choices of regular/slim/extra-slim, but even extra-slim is a bit baggy for me.

When I wear a well-fitting shirt (either custom-made, or one where I've used my sewing machine to take in the sides), the shirt doesn't look better. _I_ look better.
Is there any explanation why the editorial board of the Times is writing this now, after many decades of harm have already been done? Has something changed or do they just feel as if the bandwagon is big enough that it is OK for them to climb aboard?
Maybe, maybe not. The civilization we enjoy today could be gone in a few hundred years, the Internet and it's semblance of informational permanence notwithstanding. I'm sure ancient Romans thought the Empire would last forever too.
The version I was thinking of is 'The Bible / Designed to be Read as Literature'. It doesn't appear to be still in print but can be found on Amazon. From the Amazon description: "Exquisitely redesigned, this Bible is rendered in a readable continuous narrative, arranged in historical order, and is based on extensive scholarship. The text has been restyled to reflect the soul of the different literary forms, from poetry to drama, song to psalms, blended together to create the most widely read document in the world."
Instead of saying [citation needed], why don't you just Google it? For reference:

http://norml.org/news/2014/04/03/study-higher-thcblood-level...

And your point about .08 being illegal is pedantic. Driving at .0799 would be legal, and the risk is identical.
The BAA only applies to the dedicated instances—in particular, you have to VPC them—you cannot achieve HIPAA compliance with a non-dedicated instance.
They are not. Enthusiasm != Competence.
I'd love to know more detail, if you can share it without spilling the secret sauce.
By a long shot. I'd say they could start producing joints with exactly the same production lines they already have. You'd see tobacco+marijuana cigarettes too - a highly marketable combination of high and addiction.
Its's not too late. Many cities are creating more human scale neighborhoods when it comes time to revitalize a run-down area (think warehouse districts)
I was actually shown this by another Haskeller once, and I agree that Haskell is a very expressive language allowing for a myriad ways of doing things, including the concatenative paradigm.

But I have always doubted that if the language doesn't explicitly endorse a particular paradigm, you will find it pretty awkward to work with other people. Which is why less expressive languages that emphasize particular ways of doing things still make sense.
>on the contrary, iOS7+ is filled with transparencies, bouncing effects and other gimmicks that add no utility but demand hardware

No, Apple doesn't want their devices to feel slow. For example, my iPad 3 doesn't gaussian blur UI backgrounds. If Apple was nefarious as you're suggesting, they would force my iPad to render the expensive blurs.

Also, you can disable animation "gimmicks" (whose purpose is to orient and mask loading): http://www.iclarified.com/35637/how-to-disable-the-animation...
I'm not going to engage with you (we've had this conversation before at excruciating length) but I do want to call one thing out: the government supporting and enforcing laws is necessary for the laws to be perceived as credible. People will only accept prohibitions of behavior they wish to engage in if they believe it is a credible restriction instituted by a legitimate authority.

Governments that rely on violence may be perceived as legitimate by force but they frequently lack credibility.

Locke's _Two Treatises of Government_ is one of the earlier sources for this model, but it's a common theme in liberal political theory.
> The same is true of Apple when they ship a new app that does more.

Presumably youre implying here that people who complain about their iphone being slow are the people who upgraded their OS while keeping their old hardware?
Thanks! I am a mathematician, so am fine with the discussion of the 𝜁 function. I get the impression that de Sautoy is overselling the connexion a little bit in his zeal to make an analogy, but (1) I don't know the area, and so shouldn't really comment, and (2) it's interesting even if it's oversold.
How is this a Google Tax? Websites indexed by Google give permission in their robots.txt file (or lack thereof)
There is only very primitive file name completion for now, but programmable completion is planned.
I really hope that the magic question is useful, and I agree that many boilerplate Java-specific questions are misguided and less useful. Still, but I find it unwise to bet everything on one question.

Did the author collect data once he perfected his technique. Is there data?

In my experience, the best tests have many questions, including "experimental" ones, because you want to be able to test your hypothesis against various data points.

I'm also not saying that everything needs do be quantified. Open ended questions are very useful. But why not at least collect the data and tally it to the best of your ability.
> Be the change

You want him to build cities?
Like I said, I think the NYT quote confuses two points - no evidence for increased driver fatalities; and evidence for increased number of accidents. While I can understand how you made the inference you did, as I pointed out, elsewhere in the same NYT article points out that the accident rate is 2x that of other drivers, so there is an internal inconsistency. The simplest correction which makes it match external evidence is assume that the Romano quote omitted the "fatal" accidents context.

The study I linked to says: The data were stratified and analyzed according to study design, type of drug assessment, study time period, study location, or age of the study subjects. A more than 2-fold increased crash risk associated with marijuana use was found in each of the subsets of studies

Table 2 shows the age breakdown as "<25" and "all ages." See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276316/table/tb... .
>>Hell, we know about the meaning of loads of sites from over a thousand years ago. I feel like we'll have ways of knowing what the site contains forever.

It's not about knowing the meaning of the site. It's about knowing the meaning of the site with little or no loss of critical information.

This may not seem like a big deal, but it actually is. Technology didn't improve that much between ten thousand years ago and 150 years ago. This is why we're able to examine ancient sites and kinda sorta make something out. But the rate of technological progress has been increasing, and this acceleration has no end in sight so far. What that means is that ten thousand years from now, our descendants may have no way of relating to the way we do things now. That's why we need to think really, really hard about how to make the information survive in a way that is still digestable to a hyper-advanced civilization.
There is nothing scientific about making unsubstantiated claims, demanding we take away people's rights based on those unsubstantiated claims and then complaining about other people's sources. If you'd like to take this conversation in the direction of well-researched science, that would be fantastic, but by all appearances you are only here to grind your axe.
One problem with modern digital storage is the lifespan of the storage medium. Compact discs only last about 10 years, and the "longer-term" magnetic tapes are not much better at about 20-30 years [1].

It seems like we've made the tradeoff towards increased convenience of access vs. reliability, not the other way around. Hopefully new tech is developed that reverses this at some point, without relying on higher-level systems built on top of unreliable media (e.g. Amazon Glacier, Archive.org, etc.)

[1] http://sportsvideo.org/main/files/2010/08/video-tape-white-p...
Tangentially related: readers interested in alternatives to bash might be interested in a golang library called Gosh that provides shell-ish dsl, which you can see an example of here: [1].

Author here; I use it regularly to replace bash scripts in system glue code -- using golang channels to pipe data between shell commands is awesome. It's heavily (heavily!) inspired by amoffat's "sh" library [2] which lets one call any shell program as if it were a function.

But, Gosh exists to scratch some itches as a shell scripting alternative. It's nowhere near the full-fledged interactive shell environment Elvish is gunning for. Elvish looks to have a very exciting future :)

[1] https://github.com/polydawn/pogo/blob/master/gosh-demo.go

[2] https://github.com/amoffat/sh/
I addressed that. Employers cooperate with garnishment orders because they wish to continue to be perceived as law-abiding, and because they have accepted the proposition that paying a reasonable amount of tax is a civic duty. The same is true of banks.

What possible motivation would employers have to shelter a lawbreaking employee, at no benefit to themselves? Why would the threat of violence be remotely necessary?
(Also see my reply to thinkpad20.) I'm not sure about Haskell, but Clojure's -> is still a serial construct (functions invoked one after another), but pipeline is parallel.
The article specifically notes that the spikes happened when the new iPhones are released, not just announced. So, new Iphone envy is less of a reasonable explanation..than the release date usually coinciding with new versions of iOS being deployed.
I don't think it's as simple as you've put it, in terms of solved problems and entropy limits. Part of the quest is to find a transformed space in which the probabilities bin out bit better.
The spike for the iPhone 3G suggests that the effect is as much or more in people's heads [1] than due to new software. The 3G had all the same parts that affect how fast a phone works: the CPU, GPU, RAM etc, were all the same models as in the first iPhone. Even if iOS 2 were designed more for the 3G than the original iPhone, it couldn't have required significantly more resources because no more became available!

The spikes for iOS 4 and iOS 7, which are relatively larger than for the other releases, may be justified. iOS 4 brought limited multitasking and more significant OS-level changes than iOS 3, and iOS 7 brought the visual refresh which is more CPU- and GPU-intensive.

[1] Or due to the upgrade process itself, rather than changes in newer OSes, slowing down phones
Looks like it's exactly where everybody thought it would be. Nice to confirm, but it doesn't give us a lead on any new physics.
Well, there's JSON and variants. Probably a lot simpler than what you had in mind, but if Unix pipes were based on JSON (and had a suitable shell language to work with it), that would already make many tasks easier, like

- Grep the output of ps, without having to count column numbers or do special work to preserve the header line after filtering.

- Search for files matching some conditions, without remembering the weird and unique syntax of find(1) - instead you would write something vaguely along the lines of

ls | filt {< $1.size 500} {eq $1.type file}

where the stuff after the pipe is the shell language, so theoretically more memorable than

find -size -500c -type f -maxdepth 1

As a bonus, if you want to cache the output for multiple searches rather than going through the the kernel every time
(OS X find is rather slow on huge source trees), you can save the output of ls to a file and keep the rest the same. Good luck doing that with find.

- Handle filenames with spaces and newlines without issues. Simple, but newlines at least are near impossible to solve in the standard shell environment - only a few select tools support null-separated lists. Spaces are easier... unless you want such extravagances as multiple filename columns in a table.

Of course it's not that simple: structured data can sometimes be hard to work with and formatting for display is an issue; Unix's "everything should be plain text" philosophy didn't come out of nowhere.

But I honestly believe that it's time to reexamine that tenet.
My old iPhone slowed down noticeably when I upgraded to 7, so I dumped it and bought a Nexus 5. Couldn't be happier - thanks, Apple!
A link isn't a quote though. It's an address. It's metadata. It's not in the content of the article.
This piece isn't trying to contrast NYC to anywhere in the US, since there are essentially no traditional cities in the US. A more traditionally-built city, and one that's even larger than NYC, is Tokyo.

The couple clusters of traditional urban development in NYC are extremely valuable— the West Village comes closest:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.733584,-74.000469,3a,75y,44....
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.729827,-74.001507,3a,75y,76....
Most of the rest of NYC's oldest neighborhoods have been demolished (or rebuilt as nothing but skyscrapers, in the case of the Financial District).

Brooklyn Heights, DC's Georgetown & Boston's North End are also extremely desirable neighborhoods with narrow streets, at least by American standards. I personally don't spend much time in any of them, since they've become so desirable as to drive out anyone except the wealthy, but they generally absolutely ooze charm.
Even in the US, where labour laws generally don't favour the worker, it wouldn't make much sense to set the bar too low and count on being able to fire people to eventually get the right one.

Hiring people is resource consuming and is always a large investment for a company. Unless you are hiring low-skill workers who can easily be replaced, a high-tech worker will require time before she's productive on the job. Those weeks/months, cost money and figuring out that someone is not working out after 3 months of investing in her could cost a lot more to the company than just the cost of re-hiring someone else.

It's always a better strategy to be diligent early and avoid wasting company resources just to shorten the hiring process.

That being said, being able to easily part ways with an employee is important for a company since the cost of taking a risk is much lower. In France, employers are very reluctant to take risks as they can get stuck with people who are either bad or don't fit in.

There is a middle ground between a system where you can fire people for any reason, whether related to their work or not, and a system where you can't even fire people who don't work out.
G()('al')
But what about the fact that he later rejected the "white devils" philosophy of the NOI? Doesn't that matter?
I don't recall our previous conversation, and I don't share your professed reluctance to engage in discussion. I agree that the vast majority of people in many countries (probably all developed countries) perceive their country's government as a legitimate authority. But whether most people in a society perceive their government as a legitimate authority is entirely orthogonal to whether the government uses violence and the threat thereof to enforce its rules.
Not to mention that sometimes paid jobs lead to getting to work on large projects that have millions of dollars of input or output, or on hardware scales you never could as an individual. I have to imagine if I worked on some software for the Mars rover, it would trump everything not because it was the best software I ever wrote per se, or it was the greatest environment, but my software is on f-ing Mars!

I'm incredibly proud of some independent projects, but they're definitely informed by my days working on million-dollar projects, some of which were pretty awesome.
I'd guess not. I think they ran the simulations out completely, until the Sun died.
Why not just save JSON in localStorage?
What's wrong with just a skull by itself?

Despite all the shift in cultural significance attached to skull&crossbones, etc. that the article discussed, I don't see how any culture could interpret a human skull by itself as anything other than a symbol of death.
Take someone like my mom, born in the 50's: she was raised in a conservative household, and when authority figures told her "marijuana is bad", her instinct was to believe them. So she's been against it her whole life. But I can tell she's kind of dubious about that position--the reality she's seen doesn't match the horrors she was warned against. But when you've held one position for so long it's kind of hard to change without losing a little face.

Having a respected media outlets come out and say they've rethought their position might give her cover to rethink her own position.
It's interesting - to me, anyway - that there's endless talk about patterns and methodologies and various heavily promoted (but often questionable) project management traditions in software.

But there's no formal, explicit and established pattern/process which guides a project through the stages of invention, innovation, refinement (debugging and user feedback), deployment and promotion, and preparation for maintenance with documentation.

If you're lucky and/or experienced and/or have good project management some of these things will be done well.

If not - nope.

In your case I can see why ASIC culture crept over to software. But if software had an existing culture, you - and everyone else - would be able to try out new ideas without management terror that you were going to break something.