skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[Edit: yeah, I know it's a gag study, but this analysis still stands. Even if the study had been performed it would have issues, and it is worth pointing those issues out.]

I wonder if their p-values are Bonferroni corrected?

That is, they ran three different experiments (that they reported on) and so the significance of their results should be concomitantly reduced.

Consider: if you examined a hundred different outcome measures between control and treatment groups in any given study you would be almost certain to find at least one that by chance alone was different at a p=0.05 level. The Bonferroni correction (or some variant of it--there are numerous similar approaches that go by different names) adjusts for this.

Failure to correct p-values for multiple experiments is one of the most common causes of spurious results in otherwise apparently well-designed studies.

Furthermore, they don't actually include the raw data, don't give a detailed description of their method of analysis ("The χ2 test was used to test for the significance of the results shown in the tables. As most of the continuous variables did not have a normal distribution, the Wilcoxon rank sum test was used for comparisons" is no-where near sufficient for me to reproduce their results) and base their "fever" indicator on multiple measures of which they take one.

Also, their control group has a maximum hospital stay of over twice that of their treatment group. How do the p-values vary if you look at large sub-sets of the data? That is, re-run the analysis with 10% of the data left out. Do the effects persist? This is a pretty routine test for robustness, and a claim with a prior as low as "Retroactive intersessory prayer is effective in reducing fever and hospital stay duration but not mortality" requires extremely compelling evidence to increase its plausibility to the point of being worth bothering with.

Not only is the conclusion questionable on statistical grounds, but also on theological ones: why would one expect a loving god to intervene to shorten trivialities on hospital stays and fever duration, but not morality?

The answer cannot be "God works in mysterious ways" because that completely obliterates any reason for believing that intersessory prayer will ever have any effect of any kind. It is equivalent to the claim that god is a black box that has a completely random and unpredictable response to stimuli (prayer) so we should study which stimuli have predictable outcomes.
Search over only articles I have read - I often want to find an article I read last week
Thanks for reply.

I should have added that I have a bit of experience in Scala.

The point you make about Node is the exact reason I'm not sure I want to learn it: in my mind JS is a mess, and as awesome as NodeJS can be, it's still built on sketchy foundations, since JS is sketchy...
Ansible support would be spiffy.
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ROI /= Profit.

See Amazon (or as noted below, Instagram).

However I also think that is a problem for many people who want to startup. They don't usually think about how they'll show a profit and manage to run their business within that profit. Investor money gets them started and an exit by selling an unprofitable yet growing business to a larger company is the goal.
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The Harrison Bergeron-ing all things is a terrible path and we should definitely encourage people to rise to the challenges of their environment, and celebrate those who do.

But that doesn't have to be the end of the story. Some of the challenges that women face in the workplace can't be solved simply by those women. I think that was a major point of the article. There are common subconscious biases that businesses would be well served to address. That doesn't have to mean that businesses treat anyone like victims. It means they aren't necessarily maximizing the value of their human resources. I don't think there's a single optimum strategy for running business meetings, but we should certainly better understand the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches.
We would love to have used cursor: url(...); but in our testing you run into constraints (like sizing and rotation) that don't let you do the stuff we're doing here.
> How do they know members of the control group weren't being prayed for?

Randomization should balance confounders like that: there should be on average an equal number of pre-prayed-for people in both the experimental and control groups.

(And even if all subjects had been prayed for, it seems reasonable that prayer would be additive and one would still expect to detect an average treatment effect.)
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SelectMany is flatMap.

Could the java equivalent be?

articles.stream().flatMap(article -> article.getTags().stream())

Or is the previous map required?
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I've wondered about this exact question for a while now.

If I were to become a lunatic dictator, this is how I would deal with dissidents. (Disclaimer: I have no intention of ever becoming a lunatic dictator!)
i think at some point everyone is one of those in life
While the factoid is appreciated, I don't think it's fair to call it a fallacy: 'the mercury' is a common metaphor for temperature these days, whether the element mercury is involved in the process or not.
Speaking of, I think we'll see nvme being the new hotness this year. NVME is going to bring crazy parallelism and queue depth to block devices. Finally we'll be able to exploit flashs inherent parallel access in a sane way.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVM_Express
Darn, it's a fossil, not a live creature. Cool anyway, of course.
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I wouldn't call it "utf8 support". It's barely a starting point. string.xxx functions still work with single bytes, and there aren't equivalents on utf8.xxx side.
Visit us in summer in Australia, when in some of the cities the temperature during the day often exceeds human body temperature. There's only so many clothes you can remove :)
I don't know why people wouldn't just use TextSecure instead? Then you actually know.
Looks legit. Someone got off 8 tweets that I saw before the account was closed.
One can argue that the problem is that we've cared too much, not that we don't care at all. The biggest argument I've heard against it from various sources is just "Where's the money going to come from?" Individually everything the government is doing could be fantastic and wonderful, yet the whole can still end up being a bad idea when the whole turns out to be unaffordable. Of course it's wonderful if we don't have to consider costs, but we do.

I could also argue that if 4 year colleges have even in part become so expensive because of all the subsidized money available that bringing subsidized money to the community college will have an "unexpected result" so expected that one could hardly call it "unexpected" anymore.
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Regarding the Nexus one that's surprising and disappointing. I was under the impression that the Nexus line used vanilla android (no device manufacturer or service provider customizations) and would be update-able as long as the hardware could handle the new OS.
It's relevant because the vast majority of people living in the U.S. are far more comfortable with the NSA having this data than hackers. Policies are rarely made for outliers, and in this case, you are an outlier.
Sammy mentioned, he would tell us how to prevent this but he never did. I am guessing since Microsft keyboard emits the CD at all time and is prone to this attack, for now I should stop using it.
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> Even if the study had been performed it would have issues, and it is worth pointing those issues out.

What amuses me is that a lot of real research papers would flunk your criteria. To pick just one:

> Furthermore, they don't actually include the raw data,

So, do you see papers providing the raw data often? I don't.
Depends on "what" you are being educated. If you are a designer, painting can be very educational as they contain:

- Line

- Color

- Form

- Space

Studying the use of these elements can make you a better designer for sure.

If you are a film maker, you make study an artist's use of color (Monet, Mondrian) to get inspired for your color palette. You are right that studying paintings won't magically make you a better person or make you a better at basketball but in the realm of creation, studying paintings are definitely valuable.
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This is great when your inner loop is calculating the nth Fibonacci number, but I'm skeptical that there are all that many practically occurring inner loops that are linear recurrences where the author of the code has not already recognized them as such.
Not an improvement at all. Highly annoying.
I don't. I use Google site search. It's never failed me.
The added electronics just rest against the adapter's boards: http://samy.pl/keysweeper/testingsize.jpg. This looks quite unsafe because of reduced clearances. It has a chance of either exposing HV on the LV (USB power) side or shorting the various boards, potentially starting a fire.

It's a pretty cool proof-of-concept, but I wouldn't connect anything to the USB port. These issues could be solved for deployment by potting or by using a custom smaller PCB integrating the various boards.
I read basically the whole of the TeXbook (the spiral-bound book documenting the TeX language and implementation) many years ago, and found it fun and quirky, and very educational regarding how typesetting is done, and how typesetting practices can be transported into a computer implementation.

It was, for example, where I learned what an "em" is, the difference between a hyphen and an em-dash, what a kern is, what italic correction is, what leading is, and on and on.

But I found the language description not very clear. There are passages in the TeXbook that refer to different stages in processing as the stomach, mouth, gullet, etc. I later read an offhand comment that Knuth did not use a conventional lexer/parser setup in implementing TeX, and that decision made TeX more ad hoc from a language point of view. This, in turn, may have made the macro expansion setup more complex, with its expandable vs. not expandable tokens, restricted modes, etc.

I wonder if others who have more experience with language design had the same reaction?
Yeah, it's definitely a situation that wouldn't have occurred to me from my background. Around here, you mostly just look around craigslist or get a real estate agent and in a couple of weeks can find a nice, legal rental that meets your needs. I'm sorry to hear the situation is so different there and hope it improves at some point.
That brings back fond memories.

My Mom & Dad met doing TSD rallies in the 60s. They both worked for the same company. She had a Morgan, he had Curta. They have both passed away, but I still have a number of their rally trophies, as well as my Dad's Curta on a shelf in my home office. I would love to be able to say that I have my Mom's Morgan, but they sold it when I was born to get a more practical car.
It's just simple lying on taxes. The inflated value wouldn't hold up to an audit.
AWS does not charge for first 100 IP addresses.

They also have OpenVPN AMI.
No, the composition aspects. Go privileges composition over inheritance syntactically, which has a surprisingly large affect on the whole. Interfaces end up extending it in other interesting ways, but that's a different aspect.

The whole is still an imperative language in the end, but I've found that while it may not encourage composition and separation of concerns as much as I'd like, it fights me less than some other imperative languages.
Yes, StripeCheckout is being called when it's not defined and they have a problem removing a Node.
The language he describes is not Turing-complete, which limits the number of use cases. Still very interesting when you have such a situation.
I think it would be great if there was a concerted effort to do such a reimplementation (maybe in clojure, but maybe in another language, eg Python). This may be done in the style of NeoVim, I am sure a similar or even greater amount of funds could be fundraised if a project leader with sufficient credentials steps up to do it.

The challenges are of course formidable, as detailed in TFA. Any such project would have to maintain almost full backwards compatibility, unless the huge amount of work that has gone into CTAN is to be lost.
Most hobbyist multi-rotor flyers use an analog video feed over 1.2ghz or 5.8ghz radio, which has very minimal lag. Converting the video to a digital signal typically introduces 500-1000ms of delay, which is enough to make flying by the camera difficult or nearly impossible.
Transmitting the signal over an IP switched network would likely introduce more lag in addition to the digital conversion.

Ultimately it will depend on which you value more-- response time or resolution.
Why so many comments about this? Why would they even be interested in buying it, and why would GitHub sell it? Doesn't make much logistical sense.

Microsoft is actively trying to embrace open source.. where else would they go?
> SHIP ONE THING TODAY.

> RELEASE IT TO THE WORLD.

> If you don’t have an idea, imitate something else.

> You will think it’s not important enough.

> You will think nobody will care.

> You will overestimate its importance.

> You will sometimes fail.

Counterpoint: Instead of focusing on quantity ("hack it together and ship it", "ship it today", "finish it and release it to the world", etc.), let's take a step back and think about quality. I have personally been bitten from having to maintain side projects that I shipped prematurely just to "finish them".

I'm not saying you shouldn't finish things, however I do think there's value in raising standards for what you consider "finished", and that finishing something every day is a goal that is likely to be at odds with those standards.

Two articles that I recommend reading:

1. Generation Javascript by Manuel Bernhardt (http://manuel.bernhardt.io/2014/12/30/generation-javascript/)

2. A Generation Lost in the Bazaar by Poul-Henning Kamp (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257)
I get that. And in certain scenarios where even pagers aren't available require that. But I'd expect that team to handle it, not for it to be a general purpose rule. In contrast, a Nokia postage stamp feature phone can display a message more than twice as long (SMS - 160 chars). Limiting to 72 chars across the board seems to be more dogmatic than anything else from my POV.
Why Do All Records Sound the Same?
Inspiration? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/steve-j...

That said, I'm not a fan of tax incentives for art from a government that's borrowing money, as one definition of art is that which has no function.
This talk makes so much sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1nNkS4SVRw

I first thought the article is written on similar lines of sarcasm.
There have been many similar studies performed that showed materials with female names are ranked lower than those with male names[0]. Same thing with black vs white-sounding names[1].

0: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.abstract

1: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/spring03/racialbias.htm...
Be right back, going to Xerox some papers.

Pass me the Kleenex?

Give the Tesla some gas, let's go man!
This is ridiculous, in the fact that, even if they ban well known encrypted chat apps. Terrorist and outlaws could just create their own? I have a phone, I am a developer, I can do whatever I want with it at that point, outlawing apps won't stop outlaws from writing illegal apps with encryption.
Something called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation alters brain activity at about one Tesla (10,000x earth's field).
TMS has been shown to induce euphoria, amnesia, and relieve depression. Unclear what stronger magnetic fields could do. A ten Tesla magnet can levitate a small animal.
The one thing I do like about the new search site is that it doesn't open everything up in a new tab... something that is an annoyance with the current search. Please keep it that way! If I want something in a new tab, I'll just Ctrl+Click on the link.

Some other issues:

* Stories which have no external URL (text submission only) have titles which are not clickable.

* Comment results link to the submitted URL of the story. I was expecting the link would go to the comment itself, though this is likely a personal preference. When I view an individual comment, I either want to see all the other comments on the story or see the context by navigating to the parent if the comment is a reply. Seldom would I expect to view a comment several replies deep and then want to read the story.

* Clicking on the time reference (eg: "an hour ago") takes you to the anchor for the comment within all comments in the story, whereas clicking the "comments" link takes you to the specific individual comment. This is backwards.

* The up arrow shown in results seems to have no function. While it preserves the HN feel, it breaks expectations by having a different behavior. As it's unlikely upvoting from an external site is going to ever work, this should be changed to some other visual indicator.
AOSP is not at all like most other open source projects. And even if the bugs would be fixed or backported to upstream AOSP, it's not going to magically be sent as an OTA update to customers.

This is a real issue and it's Google's platform, they should take action to not leave customers at peril or force them to buy a new device. Google is the only one who has the power to make sure that the updates get all the way to the customers' devices. This might mean exerting pressure on the device manufacturers and operators who make downstream changes to Android.

Otherwise we'll end up with millions of vulnerable devices that could be used (and are currently used) as zombies in botnets.
The more I work with languages, parsing, etc. the more I think that the lexer/parser setup is a bad idea. Many non-trivial languages are actually harder to implement clearly in the traditional lexer/parser setup due to required coupling between the lexer and parser.
Here's an interesting video of one in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0cGjC62XRQ
I think that there aren't many fans of TeX's design. (Well, I rather like it, but probably because I am not a language designer.) Seibel (http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3613#comment-51120) quotes Knuth as saying (in "Coders at Work"—but the relevant page is not on Google books):

Mostly I don't consider that I have great talent for language design.
On the other hand shared IPs are probably quickly flagged by anomaly detection software.

I.e. Tor IPs typically have very poor 'credit' score.
It fits with the logic though. If your god is omnipotent, then whether you pray before or after death shouldn't make any difference.

I suppose, given the existence of a deity that is able to heal people, then this would be a decent way to determine whether or not said deity was truly omnipotent.
It is a good tutorial. But do take it with a pinch of salt, b/c I have already seen some zealots defending this as religion of writing games from scratch as something easy and achievable in short time. It is time consuming and takes lots of practice and tweaking even for seasoned game developer.

And most importantly, if you want to deliver a complete game as single developer/designer, doing it from scratch is probably the wrong path to take. You would have to wear so many other hats besides just game programming.

But if you want to build renderers and learn the craft of rendering stuff in low level. Or you are doing as a hobby without intention to deliver a complete game with rich content, then this tutorial is good for ya!
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Somehow reminds me of Comet Cursor. :)
How does that crude approximation make it any easier?

I am pretty fluent in conversion just by remembering that 10 Celsius degrees are equivalent to 18 Fahrenheit degrees, then practicing counting by 10s:

-4°F, 14°F, 32°F, 50°F, 68°F, 86°F, 104°F

Once you have those under your belt you can figure most earthly air temperatures pretty quickly and exactly.
So I guess, whatever you do, don't use the BFG 9000.
> It's a bit disappointing that we see legislation instead of dialogue.

Legislative proposals are part of dialogue. You can talk all day about generalities and get nowhere, having specific proposals to discuss -- and either criticize or propose alternatives to -- is what moves the dialogue forward.
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Contracts are to business what skeletons are to people. They explain something of the raw structure, but little more. (Also, if you find yourself looking at it, something has gone wrong.)

Every time I have taken investment, I have seen it as a commitment to see a venture through. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't, but I am going to give it all I have. So no, I don't think, "gosh, I found something more fun to do," is a legitimate reason for walking away from a startup. If that's how somebody thinks, then they are not cut out for starting a company, because there are always points where almost anything else will be interesting or appealing.

Fellowships are different. I'm advising a new fellowship program right now and, like all education, it's seen as an opportunity to help someone learn. We expect a certain percentage of people to go on to do the thing we want people to do, but if not they'll be taking the knowledge and doing something else, which is also fine.

My concern here is really with the system. If we are pressing money upon people who aren't suited for it, then something's pretty wrong. Nobody should be "trying a startup for a bit".
There's also "The Invincible" by Stanisław Lem.
> If somebody invented it today, it would be thoroughly illegal. My point here is that teddyh's conflation of "legal to buy without a prescription" and "safe" is incorrect.

Fine, so exclude alcohol for being a special case as it was grandfathered in. I’ll readily grant this, since reclassifying something from safe to non-safe is generally risk-free. How does this affect the issue at hand, which was about Modafinil, Provigil and the like? If you think that alcohol is a special case, treat it as such; either it is an exception since it was grandfathered in, in which case it shouldn’t fall under the categories which you should consider safe merely because they are non-prescription, or it really is safe, in which case my argument is still valid. You can’t have it both ways, and it is really an irrelevant outlier example. What matters is not how I categorize it, but how you categorize it, and however you do, the argument works.
Comments sections on some sites have had the regular "way to waste money ..." types of comments but that's hardly indicative of the nation as a whole. The reason I believe it will run up against a lot of opposition is because every year when my town sends out the breakdown of how taxes were spent I can't count the number of people I hear whining about school taxes already. "I don't have any kids in school so why the hell should I have to pay for it!?" is a VERY common theme in my area. Maybe it's not as common everywhere, this is a big diverse place after all, but it's common enough that some places have started to implement charter schools as a response to it.

The best argument I've heard, that I agree with in a way, is that we should first focus on fixing our broken pre-college school system. I don't see why we couldn't do both at the same time but if we're forced to pick one or the other I'd agree that that is probably of greater importance. Though that's a separate debate :)