skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If, like many people here, you have a wifi signal 90% of the time, you shouldn't have a large cell phone bill. Get a prepaid plan from, say, Page Plus Cellular. Or get their $12/month plan. It's nice to have the cell network as a backup, but it shouldn't be costing you too much.
Relevant article on similar lack of reproducibility in cancer research.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/28/us-science-cancer-...

Summary: a team at Amgen discovers 47 of 53 "landmark" studies published in high-quality journals could not be reproduced. A team at Bayer did an internal review of programs they had initiated based on journal studies and found that less than a quarter of those findings could be reproduced.

Three very damning quotes:
"Some authors [of the journal articles] required the Amgen scientists sign a confidentiality agreement barring them from disclosing data at odds with the original findings."

"'We went through the paper line by line, figure by figure,' said Begley. 'I explained that we re-did their experiment 50 times and never got their result. He said they'd done it six times and got this result once, but put it in the paper because it made the best story. It's very disillusioning.'"

"The problem goes beyond cancer. On Tuesday, a committee of the National Academy of Sciences heard testimony that the number of scientific papers that had to be retracted increased more than tenfold over the last decade; the number of journal articles published rose only 44 percent."

Academics are pressured to produce publications, not to produce science, and their studies are not always rigorous (not blinded to experimenters, etc.). People with high integrity and ability do produce good science that gets published, but unfortunately that appears to be the minority, even in highly prestigious journals.

So I'm curious: how would you fix it?

One thing the article mentions that might improve things is every journal dedicating one complete issue a year to reproducing the most influential studies of the year. Another could be getting a consortium of pharmas (who try to reproduce studies all the time, because if you're going to successfully make drugs you need the thing to work) to publish their internal data for the benefit of all. Does something like that exist?
I'm surprised by this news because I feel like most game developers would usually pick ~100 million in income for a few years and total creative freedom over a much larger number and having to do the bidding of a corporate giant.

What makes the most sense to me is that Notch is completely tired of Minecraft, never wants to touch it again, and he wants to hand it off to someone completely. Even though he hasn't been directly working on the project for a long time now, he must still get dragged in enough that it's an issue for him.
Hangouts on everything is much worse that gchat was, mobile included, sadly
Hardly. I even begin my commentary noting that "FP is a moving target" and a social phenomenon more than a technical one. I personally avoid the term as possible in much the same way I avoid the term "data scientist". If you want me to do Data Science I'll get excited and ask you for statistical project details.
I was in the Santa Ritas last weekend and noticed the same thing. The local interrogation point outshined the city. Our tax dollars at work.
I have the feel that the salary stops growing up very quickly.
Do a 10 years guy earn more than 200~300k/year? Or it says in 100k/year for ever?
GChat in Gmail still does voice calls as you described them. I use it all the time.
Any enterprise company that's all aboard the .NET and Team Foundation Server train. With the daily scrums, sprint planning, and interruptions from the stakeholders, taking a full work week to create one table in Oracle/SQL Server is par for the course.
> have much brighter LEDs

Where did they announce the brightness of the heart rate LEDs?

> specially designed case for shutting out exterior light

Well, it's sitting right against your wrist, pressed against it. I think that'll block out enough light.
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A kind of map/reduce using CTE's
Nicely done. When you say using Impulse, is that a language?

Only thing worth noting is I found that I was unable to scroll with my mouse wheel for what it's worth.
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I'm using a sip provider with much better international call rates than this, however I understand that free calls in the US is really good. I don't have contacts in the US though.

I'm using voipstunt.com now with qutecom (after I really fed up with Skype) but there are many similar providers. I'm making phone calls 0.01 EUR/min + VAT to mobile in Hungary (where I live) which is not free but still much better than other providers here.

Also I could bind my phone number so others can see my number when they receive my calls so they can call me back. I don't know if hangouts handles that.
A terrestrial transmitter spoofs or overpowers the GPS signal.

GPS satellites have a signal strength on par with a night light's, so it's easy to overpower in a small area using a low power transmission.
What is “net neutrality” and why should I care?
Last time I checked Hangouts required G+. It was the only reason I kept my G+ account.
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A beautiful way of saying, "We're sorry... but not really sorry."
A display like this...

[ ] Mode [10.0000 DEG]

...that once toggled turns into this...

[X] Mode [32.1234 FTS]

... is bad. This is better:

[10.0 DEG] [32.1234 FTS]

You don't have to think, you can use different decimal places to reinforce cues, you can confirm the values are correct by seeing both values at a glance. Further, there's no mode button to fault, the display can't be in an inconsistent state (accusing one mode and showing the value of another).

Sometimes you can use modes to hide unnecessary information, but for something that answers the question how fast am I falling you really don't want ambiguity or cognitive load.
Of course, but it accomplishes something similar. Also, trackpads already have the two finger tap for additional actions (i.e. right click menu), and I still don't know what this has to do with the topic. :)
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How is this Apple's fault? Slapping the big A on the headline seems like a derail at best.
Vim kinda has this. You can spend your entire time in insert mode, and then use <CTRL>-O to run an individual command.
Isn't the whole scenario far fetched? Does anyone really wander around and then suddenly have an urgent need to be somewhere (other than a restroom :)?

The only thing I can think of that might make me suddenly need to go somewhere is a message/reminder...from my phone.
There's really no reason to not open source it. Unless you just want to burn your code and your work. Throw it on github, and maybe somebody will find a use for it.

I'd say I'd like to play around with it. But merging data files doesn't work over a web interface :\ since then I'd need to upload like 4 GB lol.
Easiest way to find out is to open-source it.
Life is way to short to hide behind fear of the unknown. Think of yourself in these shoes? Would you want to be held back by someone well meaning? I personally wouldn't. I can't even begin to fathom what being estranged from your parents feels like and I'm not about to ever get in the way of someone trying to reconcile that if I have even the slightest bit of information that can help relieve that. It's not my place to deny them. If that brings hell to my family, I would tell them to put their big boy/girl pants on and grow the fuck up, full stop and I completely adore my family. This isn't a decision they get to stop, stifle, or refute. Let the estranged cousin make all the decisions. You're there to help empower them to do what they feel lead to pursue, nothing more or less.

I hope none of this feels like a personal attack. At the end of the day you're still entitled to your decision and opinion. I just know how I would feel or act. The feelings of only one person matter in this instance and it wouldn't be me, if I were in your shoes.
Is Critical Mass a protest? I never noticed it being that. I thought it was just a bunch of folks riding? Maybe you just don't like them personally?
You would think they only view it as data networks!

Instead, Verizon for example, likes to charge per minute, text message, and media message if you are not on an "unlimited" (which is actually limited unless you are truly grandfathered in from an unlimited plan)

I think a lot of people would welcome a 'data plan bill' only and get rid of the nickel and diming
Great to hear! That's exactly what I'm trying to replicate as well. I'm mainly trying to do it for industry myself. Not a lot of people like making this stuff for the JVM ecosystem (understandble of course...I love python as well)

I also agree about caffe as well. The python ecosystem is amazing and should be leveraged which also increases adoption.

As I said before, being able to do this at scale for people where their data is stored on the JVM should help it make it more accessibble to a lot of people.

Re: Twitter bot. This looks really cool.!

I'll be keeping an eye on developments here. Good stuff!
Thanks. Impulse is a new interaction library: http://impulse.luster.io/
It's ironic if the 910 can't tell you the time, since one of the necessary components of a GPS device is a ridiculously accurate clock.
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For people who don't trust outside companies (known to work with governments) with their confidential and/or expensive data.
Most browsers ship with popup blockers, and they're on by default.
Let them know that I told you to contact them.
> What outreach have you tried to get more women to apply?

We haven't done outreach to any specific group (I'd guess because we aren't "looking for women" per se, we "looking for good developers and gender doesn't factor into it"); looking at the currently active developer ad, it makes no explicit assumptions about gender of applicant and makes no reference to the gender of the current team...

(Though there was that thing saying that "we are a strong team" is subconsciously excluding of women, and we should say "we are a caring team" if we want more women to apply, so there may be things like that that I am too much of a white male to notice? :S)
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> Apparently Apple has their own metallurgists now... nauseating...

Given how many things they make out of metal, they've probably had metallurgists for years. I'm not sure what you find nauseating about that idea.
iOS6 user base will be miniscule in a few weeks unless you are targeting corporate or education markets which update slowly.
> Why people with large experience struggle to find work ?

#1 Reason: ineffective, non-focused job search strategy.
#2) Passive approach, negative or even a pessimistic attitude.
#3) They've stopped learning and growing.
I need good delivery services in LA?
Recently I moved to LA and I need good delivery services to hire?
It didn't though for many years
Not if you upgraded to hangouts.
I end up missing incoming calls because of this - it takes 3-5 seconds for the call to be answered from when I click the accept button. It was much better before.
Like what? Seriously, if you have experience with this, giving more detail would be appreciated.
My point is that extrapolating error rate reduction only applies to this tightly defined task.

You can only make claims about machines being better at "general" pattern recognition when we make progress on the issue that's stopped all Cognitivist General AI projects dead, which is that of situational awareness.

Arithmetic operations, spam detection and the task described in the article have a much smaller, and static, problem space than most human activities. You can demonstrably already knock up an automated-barrier style security guard. However, I'd argue that there does not exist an algorithm or appropriately weighted n-layer network that can handle all the ambiguity, countermeasures and ill-defined or contradictory situations that human security guards, or even just their object recognition capabilities, handle largely instinctively.
It's free to call US and Canada from anywhere in the world. It just uses your data.
As far as I can tell Critical Mass is propaganda of the deed against pedestrians.
While I dislike the term, the author didn't understand what "hacking" is. To him, "hacking" is breaking into others' computers and stealing data, so he sees "growth hacking" as using any method to get more users without regard to whether the method is ethical or not.
There is certainly value in open sourcing a project, just for the attention it can get you. I don't know if it's going to change much for what you are doing, but you never know.
People who buy Rolex and other luxury brand watches aren't really the target market.

There is a reason there are no LCD type watches (/smart watches) with luxury watch brand names on them. thats not their target audience.

Hell, most rolex's are automatic (not quartz). Its about the perceived quality of the watchmaker/the insides for most people who buy luxury brands watches. And people buy good quality watches because they last for years and years. A smart watch won't (you could wear a watch from the 80s now, and it would not look out of place. I can't imagine wearing a iWatch in 30 years...)

You could compare it to the watches made by consumer brands like Gucci, Armani etc though i guess.
It's not, it's just interesting that the level of media coverage of an Apple event overshadows everything else.
I'm 41. This is what I am doing (doing consulting to keep me going until my startup actually starts-up and stays up).
This happens in construction way more than you might think. From 2005 - 2008 there were thousands of "paper generals" building houses as a way to make a quick $50 - $100k. Most of them subcontracted every aspect of the job and knew little to nothing about construction. Industries that experience a boom attract people that are looking to strike it rich.

The key to being successful for a non-tech founder is to have solid domain experience. A Realtor acting as a "paper general" stands a much better chance than a dentist.
Anybody have an opinion on just getting the Bose QC15?
For all PGSQL graphs, the signification of each graph and label is (only :/) documented in the check_pgactivity "--help" option, as it's the direct source of these graphs. Sadly, we didn't have time yet to write a proper documentation on the wiki page, or on the UI. We'll add a better documentation as soon as possible.

For the SYSTM graphs, they correspond to standard nagios system checks.
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http://andrewaustin.com/an-overview-of-angularjs-for-manager...

I wrote this to convince my boss to use AngularJS.
Then post something interesting about it I guess.

It's pretty clear it happened. Is there anything else to say about it?

(Personally, I think the Tinder thing is more outrageous than the Snapchat thing, and it was a bigger drama when it first surfaced.)
I've got to say I'm impressed how persistent you are in explaining the same thing over and over again to someone who clearly doesn't want to get it.

I'm glad you challenge people's stupid assumptions.
Modal behavior always introduce cognitive overhead. It's something that you have to track, and it introduces the possibility of getting it wrong.

To your point, that overhead can be reduced through various UI techniques, but it cannot be eliminated. It's an extra bit of information you need to track. It's an extra check you need to make before reading the situation (and critically, it cannot be done in parallel). Switching modes is an extra step you need to take before performing an action. These are all additional points of failure. In a high-stress, high-stakes situation that's something you want to avoid.

That's not to say that modal UI's are always bad and never should be used. I'm saying that there's a tradeoff, and that tradeoff is not worthwhile in safety-critical applications.
You just need to prove your work was pre-existing, and also prove that what you learned in your meeting wasn't used in the further development. Basically it can get very sticky.
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Mitt Romney also gave a huge amount of his annual compensation to charity, which reduced his tax rate substantially.

The big reason why the rich guys can lower their tax rates is because they can use investment losses to offset taxes. It's not a loophole, just a tax deduction you can optimize.
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The political environment all but makes it impossible. Can you imagine a congressman or senator going out on a limb to fund a 10-15 year project that starts with three failed launches? God forbid one of their employees donated to that congressperson's campaign, Issa would have the CEO in front of a committee and in front of the cameras within the week..
I think the other lesson here is to consciously know when you cross the line away from an amount of money you're willing to walk away from to save the friendship, and be sure that's what you want.
They knew her gender and that she'd been talking code for an hour, and still assumed she was not skilled because of it. Some people are unbelievably dense.
>Take that for what it's worth.

Which is nothing. We don't have the context and it's always amazing how people, even just observers with no skin in the game, will have wildly divergent interpretations of the same events. There's definitely some interpretation going on here as Snapchat guy almost assuredly didn't say "I'm more successful than you".
That's a ridiculous statement. The product and the announcement are completely disparate. They could make an amazing presentation about a mediocre product (and have been known to do so).
"what good reasons still exist for having a cell phone bill?"

Ultra high interest rate subprime loan to buy a phone.

Can't afford a once time charge of $599 to buy a phone? Save tons of money by paying $100/month on a 24 month contract!

Based on your post you would be very interested in some of the services republic wireless offers. I've been a customer since the very earliest beta days, first wave and all that. RW used to have legendary issues with MMS (I don't use MMS so I don't care)
Mildly similar I guess, but non self-hosted, and you don't download anything.
Whether anyone wants/is interested in the code, open sourcing it is effectively the modern bullet point on your resume. Open source, it, write some good documentation and let it run wild if it's desired, but if it's not, it will still look good as a personal and technical achievement.

Good luck at globocorp! :)
Offtopic: Conventional wisdom says he who chases two rabbits, captures none.

How is Elon Musk able to succeed on more than one Company?

Even Steve Jobs is famous for focus. He once said, "I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do."
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1 ace developer will have no communication overhead (internally), whereas 10 will have a ton... no contest if they are of "questionable value". Big companies/organizations do otherwise because of politics (hiring a better developer might cost more than the business manager) and incompetence (if business people are picking, they usually can't tell the difference). But smaller, stronger teams are ALWAYS better, outsourcing or not.
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The best way to do that is to educate young girls so they grow up into women who don't want to just pump out kids. It happened in the West, it can work elsewhere.
Apply Richard Hamming's golden advice from "You & Your Research" to your career.

1) What are the most important problems in your field?

2) Are you working on ONE of them?

3) Why Not?
and when they do apply pressure on Airbus from their side of the cockpit, they can't tell if countervailing pressure is being applied from the other side?
Are we to assume that with this update, we can finally get rid of the old "Google Voice" app to do text messaging and playback voicemail?

For my use case, I ditched my iPhone 4S last year and got a Retina iPad mini with a prepaid Verizon data plan. It's pretty good, though there needs to be better integration between Hangouts and iOS. For example, if I get an incoming call notification, it sometimes will not automatically open Hangouts to receive the call. It would take me to the Home screen, then I have to open Hangouts in hopes that I can answer the call in time. If iPad's locked, then I have to act fast to enter the passcode and launch Hangouts manually.

This many not really be a problem with Hangouts than it is that iOS doesn't support deep integration with 3rd party telephony, so that the experience is no different from receiving a native phone call on an iPhone. Other small complaints are that the push notification (incoming call) sound persists for a few seconds after the call's connected, and that it only shows me the phone number of the incoming call and doesn't display the contact's name if it's in my contacts.

Considering I don't use the phone much, and have saved a lot of money by not subscribing to a smartphone plan, this overall was a good experiment. But I'll be going back to an iPhone soon because it's been a burden carrying an iPad everywhere for the past year. With Wi-fi calling now available in iOS8, I'll probably try out T-Mobile's test drive and if the coverage is good enough in my area, will probably sign up for it since they have the cheapest plans.
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As a daily bike commuter around Boston, this idea terrifies me. Multitasking is extremely dangerous while biking. There are already enough bikers out there who choose to distract themselves with earphones and music while biking. Reading a text message while weaving in traffic is a recipe for disaster. When you're on a bike, be on the bike.
Any other company who's language runs over 1.3 million apps used by hundreds of millions of people on average every 6 minutes?
Originally in the 90's it was a protest of "cyclists reclaiming the streets". It may have morphed into something else. Still, causing traffic jams and blocking people from getting home on a Friday evening seems a bit selfish and more annoying than a way of garnering support...
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Exactly. That's what confuses me - with this approach, a company could use Apple Pay to circumvent all the app store fees altogether.
Are people really typing their emails into this thing? It just seems like a really bad idea.
If you think Google Docs is a real alternative to LibreOffice, you haven't even tried 1% of LibreOffice features. You probably don't need the other 99%, but some people do.
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Good point.
Looks like google doesn't add these headers if you're using their web interface and apparently the majority of people I email with don't leak this either, however once I started looking there's a surprising amount of emails in my inbox that do.
I'm now trying to remember if I deliberately disabled this when I set up our new mail server or not...
I agree it would be useful, but I can also see a myriad of reasons why they'd never do it.
Who needs a voice plan now?

You can also receive calls on your Google Voice number in Hangouts. This means that if you have data service, you can make and receive calls.

It seems the best argument for a voice and SMS plan nowadays is for traveling in areas where data coverage is poor or spotty.
I was talking about the app store. Sorry if that was unclear.
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