skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I apologize if I misrepresented your point. I went back and re-read your comment again, and I guess I'm still confused. It looks like you pivot in the middle of your comment with the statement: These discussions about replication always sadden me...

What did you mean by you can come up with reasons not to believe anything regarding testing on undergrads? That sounds to me like a broader complaint about replication generally.

How is it that discussions about replication "miss the point"? I thought the point was that replication is fundamental to science, so it seems like these discussions are usually spot on.
Clever business idea: private toll road
The CIA uses a previously unknown program, code-named Hydra, to secretly access databases maintained by foreign countries and extract data to add to the watchlists.

Hmmm, this seems like a pretty obvious vulnerability. When's the last time the CIA actually did something "secretly"? (Oooh, how would we know? Actually the last time they did something un-secretly was like a month ago, so there's a bound of sorts.) So if you do something to piss off the spooks in e.g. Russia or Israel, expect to be entered into their troll-the-CIA database, soon thereafter to be Hydra-ed into Obama's special uncategorizable tracking system.
We debated whether or not this Exposure article was the right place to dive into specifics about our infrastructure and the choices we made (including our decision to use OS X), but ultimately decided that it wasn't a good fit. Exposure is more about showing than telling, with some light descriptive text for context.

imgix's founder and CEO (zacman85) replied in another comment with a few more details about why we use OS X for some things, but there's a lot more detail we could go into. We're thinking about exploring these kind of topics in more depth in future articles, and I hope you'll check them out.
I think this fits well in our existing bankruptcy system.
Ripple (and therefore Stellar, the hostile fork) is not decentralized, at all. The underlying protocol does not work in an adversarial, decentralized context.
Looks like they might have blocked this one now as well, I'm getting undefined passenger rating.
Mapping Happiness With Twitter Natural Language Processing
Apropos. I'm reading this article, killing time waiting for my EC2 high compute spot instance to finish converting 33,000 TIFF images to PNG and resizing them.
Perfect thanks - reading now!
Last place on Earth without life
The Fame Trap
It's the hot technology in the same way that Rails was the hot technology in 2005-2007.

This does not make it a must-have. I did just fine learning Django instead of Rails in 2007, and when I finally got into Google in 2009, I ended up using neither for the bulk of my time there (okay, I think I had about 3-4 Django projects in my tenure, and knowing Python definitely helped).

There is a certain segment of the employer market that is always chasing the latest hot fad: Java applets in 1997, ColdFusion in 1999, J2EE in 2002, Rails in 2005, Angular in 2009, React or Polymer or Go in 2014. Knowing the latest hot fad can be an excellent way to get your first couple jobs in software, because these employers are always looking for people and typically don't know much about technology themselves. However, it often signs you up for a lifetime of retraining, unless you leverage experience at one of these places into domain knowledge with a longer shelf life. Companies that live by the latest fad die by the latest fad; the same ColdFusion or J2EE skills that got me my first jobs in college are basically worthless now.
I was going to raise the same point, but with India.

Would be interested to hear how these "wide-zones" work in practice from people who have lived in them for a while.
This is such a tragedy. I think a couple of comments should be made.

First, we truly lost a fantastic member of the stem cell community. His lab produced some of the most ambitious and amazing directed differentiation of stem cells into neural tissues including the retina (see an old news story here [1]). Whether or not he was deeply involved in this latest STAP cell controversy is immaterial to the tremendous contributions his lab has made to the field.

Second, we should be more careful on how we as a scientific community react to scientific scandal. Michael Eisen (UC Berkeley DevBio Prof, HHMI, Founder of PLoS), who's father committed suicide in a similar incident many years ago, had some poignant comments [2].

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/tissue-engineering-the-brainmaker...

[2] http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1619
I believe that there is only one bad apple among cellphone manufacturers that didn't bring this change to the USA. But I guess that is to be expected with Apple and they might have made millions inconveniencing their customers.
Sure, as long as it references imgix. It would be nice if it linked back to the Exposure post too.
Thanks - will read next :)
I am all for HUDs, if not most instrumentation, simply telling me what is wrong. When driving all I really want to know is, my speed and the speed limit. I could care less about the rest.

Yet I am a still a gear head at heart and having the option to see engine temperature, oil pressure (provided its a real reading), fuel, and such, would be nice I do not need it in my field of view. Perhaps the items I want to really know can be designated to pop up when I stop.

So, nav dream state.

default, speed and limit.
Navigation if I am following a route
Ability to designate selected other values to display all the time, at stop, when near threshold.

optional voice
>'All I'm saying that given the job fluidity within the tech industry as a whole, it is unlikely that individuals are going to allow themselves to be compensated at rates very much less than the value they provide.'

The industry is not necessarily fluid [1] and more importantly any intra-industry fluidity there might be is irrelevant in the context of an entire industry demonstrating the issue you mean to avoid.

>'So the other side to the parents argument is that maybe the tech industry as a whole is not deluded, maybe it just wants this freedom.'

I'd hardly call that 'the other side'. A possibility, sure and if you personally feel that way, fine.

To suggest that the industry as a whole would or does consciously trade an considerable amount of pay for that 'freedom' is absurd.

Also, please stop selectively quoting the grandparent (neatly avoiding the predicating 'partially' of course) in these responses as if you didn't just sum up and summarily dismiss an entire side of this discussion with 'go find another job' in the intervening posts.

1: http://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage-... - Note: 1M people is a enormous number in relation to an industry the BLS sizes at ~4M, plenty large enough to be worth considering as capable of characterizing an entire industry.
Show HN: Starboard a tool for creating Trello boards for on/offboarding
Australian Startup – Moneysoft raised $500k in latest round
Building a gimbal in Rust
> The explanation for this phenomenon is usually that authors have lazily, sloppily, or fraudulently employed sources, and peer reviewers and editors have not discovered these weaknesses in the manuscripts during evaluation.

I've seen this sort of thing in the literature I'm familiar with (HF Radar). I don't think
it's laziness or fraud, but a version of the telephone game played as a kid. A 'fact' will
get stated, and then repeated over and over until some of the original meaning is lost and
it becomes gospel. This can happen because the fact is not crucial to the science in the
paper but always part of the introductions or statements about how the system works.

The statement I'm thinking about in particular is "if you have N receive antennas, you
can only find (simultaneously) N-1 signals". This is true if you are using covariance-based
methods such as Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC). It got repeated and repeated
until the caveats (simultaneous, and MUSIC) are longer included. Of course, if you have
two orthogonal antennas you can distinguish two directions, perhaps not in complex situations!
In some uses of the CRON format there is also a seconds field at the beginning of the pattern. In that case, the CRON expression is a string comprising 6 or 7 fields.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#Format
Let me ask you a question. Do you personally (or anyone else) think that there is anything wrong with trying to negotiate down what the government tried to recover and possibly penalize? Before you answer please review the facts here again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8138922
Almost half of Europe [1]. Average wage is better than vast majority of people in these countries earn. That's proof enough. You can optimize for smallest price levels [2], safety [3] or local English level [4].

Other than that, basically most places in the world.
I heard Bali is nice.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_a...

[2] http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/graph.do?tab=graph&plug...

[3] http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/safety/

[4] http://languageknowledge.eu/languages/english
I've heard that handling ultra pure water, can cause acid like burns due to water drawing out chemicals from the skin. I heard it from a bio PHD, and can't find any evidence googling it now.
Well "only mate with a bird of a similar color" seems like a hard problem that is wrapped up in 1.2 billion lines of DNA code/evolution.

The 82 letters of DNA that separate them may just be their color codes?
Yeah, throttled LTE may still be faster than unthrottled EV-DO. Verizon just released their official rationale: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/verizon-we-throttle-...
You can call it an ice skating competition - doing so doesn't make it more true.

Instead - can you name 5 people who are at the top of the LNR / DNR with their respective citizenships.

I'll give you a little help:

1. Girkin
2. Bezler
3. Borodai
4. Bolotov
Reflection Song
As very recently discussed right here on HN, that's not how the Japanese necessarily view things.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/24/last-call-3
It was foolish because I worked at a large company, and team leads were basically impotent eunuchs who ran errands for the higher ups. I also worked in a department that had pathological ideas on how long developers ought to work (including weekends), and how short product schedules should be (unfeasibly short).

There were some benefits. I loved being able to help the guys on my team. I did my best to promote their achievements, and argue for them at project schedule meetings. I was very happy to get one of my guys a really good placement on the "technical career path" system when it reared its ugly head at the company.

Ultimately, my strengths are in technical problem solving, not in managing the psychopaths who seem to ascend to the upper echelons of large companies.
I tried this code with ghc 7.6.3:

import Control.Concurrent
main = do
forkIO (putStrLn "thing1")
forkIO (putStrLn "thing2")

It only outputs "thing1", not "thing2". What gives?
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2
I dont think your quote is entirely relevant here. We are talking about someone who was under huge media pressure following the Obokata case. The Obokata case was heavily featured in the media here in Japan, and you can imagine the people involved must have been under tremendous stress. This scientist may have had some level of guilt because of his involvment with Obokata but that was nothing worth dying for to clear his name. This is much more about media exposure and pressure, and in that sense a more regular kind of suicide.
I apologize for the sensational and generalizing title. What I'm talking about is focused on web applications, and from empirical data, it seems that most web servers handle very few concurrent requests, therefore it would be silly to go all async to avoid threads.

I'm very surprised that many people here argue that async code is much better to understand than sync code. Ok, so that part is subjective, and let's file it under personal preference. For people who love synchronous coding but fear the cost of threads, I'm trying to make an argument that the fear is probably not justified.
Actually, what I think would be even better would be to record the bag of chips through the window, but play the sound outside where the camera is.
Thanks for putting this here!
FWIW, Obokata would never have made Nature without Sasai's help, and there's plenty of scurrilous scuttlebutt on the Japanese Internets about Obokata and Sasai possibly being romantically involved. There's a slightly more informed that unusual discussion about the suicide on r/japan, from which I'll quote the first comment in part:

Not surprised, actually. Within the last week there was an NHK show on this whole thing, in which it was pointed out how key Sasai was to Obokata's paper. According to the show, the paper had already been rejected by two different outlets for shoddy writing and presentation, and Sasai was called in to clean it up - he did, Nature accepted the paper for publication, and the rest is history.

But several scientists NHK got to sit down on camera and read over the Nature article all said basically the same thing: "Sasai sure knows how to write an attractive paper, but the contents are garbage." Things like possible flaws with the samples or data would be defacto admitted, but glossed over with a simple "We checked the STAP cells to see if they were not another kind of man-made stem cell" - but then never stated what the results of that check were (and it seems to have turned out the "STAP" cells were stem cells that for some reason Obokata had stocks of in her office).

These same scientists on the show were saying that if Obokata's results could not be independently duplicated, Sasai had just destroyed his entire career and Riken itself was going to be in a world of hurt as Sasai was instrumental in getting grants and funding for them.

I feel bad for Sasai's family. As for Sasai himself, I hope Obokata was worth it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/2cnjq8/obokatas_super...
> admire the Japanese honor though..

This is not about honor, this is about having your reputation flushed down the toilet by media who have no idea wwhat they talk about and you having not much of a future carreer anymore in what you used to love doing, no matter what.
I love how most of the PC's in this video are macs, but they are all running windows.
I'm bemused by your surprise that that people would be entitled to "money" (the very thought) for working. :)
Hm... the link only talks about the CPU, but calls itself a SoC. There's a lot more than needs to go on any chip that calls itself a "SoC", and much of it is very poorly served by existing "open source" solutions:

+ DRAM
+ I2C
+ GPIO (with stuff like 3.3v, tristate outputs, pull up/down, etc...)
+ USB2 host/device
+ SD/MMC

And that's just at the very basic level. Once you get into the consumer world you need to start talking about video output, camera input, video decode and encode acceleration, programmable GPUs,...

Really the CPU is, in some sense, the most solved problem from the perspective of open source. The designs themselves may be closed IP, but the instruction sets are meticulously documented and their behavior is very standard across many vendors and ISAs.
Thanks for your comment. Did you search for something specific? Your comment on randomness totally applies to the home page, but not to the connections, we think.

Fun fact: Brian Eno played with an early prototype of Seenapse and gave us some feedback too :)
The whole process dies before "thing2" gets a chance to do anything. The idea is that if the main thread is done and not waiting, we don't really care about what any of the child threads are doing, so we just axe them.
Well I can see how that bit works. If the TX and RX signal paths are short enough (remember EM energy doesn't move infinitely fast), you can subtract the TX's signal from the RX's signal and appropriately gain adjust it, then you will be left with the RX's signal only.

However the problem I have with this is that if your signal propagates 100m then is reflected back another 100m, how does the RX then discriminate between that signal and the signal from another TX on the basis that the signal is so far out of phase (670ns P-P approx assuming vacuum) having travelled such a distance and back.

You need buffers, software and all sorts of magic there as the RF carrier has gone a few cycles then.
> This wasn't a recommendation to a specific friend with a track record, but thousands of random people.

Really? None of my Facebook friends are random people to me. Nor did I have thousands of people on my Facebook account. Please quote the exact number of friends I had on my profile, as well as the full-text of my sign-off message. I'll wait patiently.

> I linked my friends to his paper "I’ve Got Nothing To Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy" [1] when I was closing down my Facebook and other social network sites;

Weird how my HN account is not closed and I never told anyone on HN that they should read it.

It's almost like I made a comment that was relevant to the author of the linked article (a paper by the same author that expands upon the limited scope of the article) that concerned something between my friends and I and included the link to the paper that I had also mentioned.

But thank you for being so invested and concerned about what happens between my friends and I. Have a good day :-)
Great visualization “what if you were in palestine?”
No, I think this falls entirely in line with the Japanese idea of accepting responsibility through suicide. Sasai was Obokata's mentor, he was instrumental in getting her papers published, and now he's caused a massive loss of face for not just himself, but the generally very well regarded institution he works for (Riken).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he should have committed suicide, I'm just saying that I can entirely see why he would have considered it a valid option to discharge his guilt.
What picture? I'm not seeing it.
You can get research internships at large companies. If your PhD grant doesn't cover summer at full-time rates, SV companies pay on the order of $5k-$8k per MONTH for interns. Actually, even if your PhD grant covers your summer expenses, it probably won't match the internship salary.
> Isn't Belgium notoriously bad when it comes to internet service? I remember hearing that a decade ago. 150GB is really low, unless it's some crazy cheap deal.

Belgium is sooo backward for Internet. When I used to live there 7 years ago, prices were like twice the price of what you could get in France and my ADSL contract would only get 10 Gb per month, and I had to pay 5 euros to get 5 Gb more of data. The total ripoff. I'm so glad I left.
Can you share more about what's stopping you from using other languages rather than Javascript?
Navy diver drowned refusing to leave his fellow sailor
Your focus on asymmetry of information ignores asymmetry of power.
I don't see how civilization as it is currently organized on this planet can exist if climate change accelerates due to positive feedback. It seems geoengineering, or rather ghoulishly, a massive die off of humans, are the only possibilities for preventing this. Antibiotic resistance may provide the latter, but I can hardly countenance it. We really need another planet.
Awesome, thanks! I may use this to choose my new home :D
The concentration of methane cited is above the lower explosive limit of methane in air (4.4%). Let's hope no one throws a match down this crater without filming it.
Fleming: better datetime manipulation in Python
Thanks J. My worry with CRUD is a constant polling that would be required and it absolutely kills the battery on mobile handsets. Correct me if I am wrong.
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I think that's kind of the point. He doesn't look like an actor -- he's an everyman.
I think the worst we have is Kabel Deutschland, they say in their ToS they'll slow filesharing services down to 100kbit/s for the day if you reach 10GB on that day with any kind of traffic. But as far as I know that limit is not enforced.
So much has been said regarding the bigger form factors and iOS8, but I'll just say what I've heard around where I live wand work: Lots of people are ready to buy the new iPhone.
Apple is now ready to take back market share from Android, in a big way. Combined with the mixed thoughts about Google I/O and Samsung's poor sales outlook, we could be looking at a real shift back to Apple as the dominant mobile platform in more than just profits and hype.

Add in the app extensions, family sharing and the synching of passwords across apps and websites, lots of very useful updates.
IIRC in California you need to have at least 2 direct reports to be considered a supervisor vis-a-vis exempt status.
You already did a Show HN a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8028890
While the idea seems cool, as far as the home page is concerned, I found the colors jarring, the illustrations unsettling (especially that first one), and the text mostly empty of meaning.

There are 4 paragraphs spread out over something like 1600 vertical pixels.

When I saw that the video was not only in that same "clown on acid" visual style, but 2:45 long, I bailed hard.

Pairing mental associations seems like the kind of thing that should be demo'd on the home page, not buried behind a signup wall.

In other words, you need to provide value upfront. By upfront, I mean within the first 500 pixels of page height.

edit: I'm not affiliated with these guys, but they showed up on HN recently and I found their site compelling. http://www.timeful.com/
I think posts like that should be accompanied with some tools that help to deal with grief or suicidal thinking.

Here is an online grief support group:

http://www.onlinegriefsupport.com/

Here is a phone number to a grief counseling group for those in US:

1-800-260-0094

Here is online suicide support group:

http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/GetHelp/LifelineCha...

Here is a suicide prevention lifeline for those in US:

1-800-273-8255

[EDIT: suicide is a very complex disease that is far from being understood. I'm sure that prof. Yoshiki Sasai had to deal with much, much more than just two retracted articles.]
"the role of a jury is not to rule on the merit of a motion such as this, but rather to decide the facts of a case"

I don't think that's correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
For context, this is the really-almost-final draft of HTTP/2. I would say speak now or forever hold your peace, but it's even too late for that.
Please, no. The twitterification of academic papers would be terrible - all subtext and nuance would be lost. This is seen already with 'science journalism': a scientist reports an effect, couched with appropriate caveats, but a journalist then rips that effect free of any nuance or context and states it as fact. It can be highly (and sometimes intentionally) misleading.
Dynamic Typing: A Local Minimum for Code Comprehension
Jury nullification, i.e. deciding on the law itself is a right of juries. It is not true that juries can only decide the facts of a case.
how did the testing go? any other findings?
...The Terminator's eyeballs.
What kills me is that this is all happening under the leadership of a president who once taught constitutional law. If someone with his background won't stop this kind of thing from happening, who will?