skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So at least two people reading this seem to think it's about using science in the context of their pet peeves. It's not.

It's about using a statistical test for a data dependent hypothesis and interpreting the test as if it were used for a data-independent hypothesis. That's all.

It's not about using statistics in politics or finance. It's about first looking at the data, then formulating a hypothesis, then running a standard test which is based on the idea that you chose the hypothesis independently of the data. This is a problem in any field.
Vyper develops new multi-functional ultra-light combat vehicle for US military
Barack Obama unveils additional cybersecurity measures
I belive this should be labeled "Ask HN: ..." so the title doesn't lead to wrong expectations.
An algorithm that is a primary determinate of whether customers find you.
Reddit Sync, Pocket Casts, Pushbullet, Fitnotes (frequent gymgoer) and Headspace
OCaml is another nice invention from INRIA.
It doesn't look so sad to me: http://www.univ-paris8.fr/en/?The-University
> In general, p-values are based on what would have happened under other possible data sets. As a hypothetical example, suppose a researcher is interested in how Democrats and Republicans perform differently in a short mathematics test when it is expressed in two different contexts, involving either healthcare or the military. [...] At this point a huge number of possible comparisons could be performed, all consistent with the researcher’s theory. For example, the null hypothesis could be rejected (with statistical significance) among men and not among women—explicable under the theory that men are more ideological than women.

The meaning of a p-value is expressed in terms of what would have happened with a different data set, yes, but that different data set would have arisen through a different random sampling from the population. The explanation above seems to completely misunderstand the issue.
Thumbs up for that book. The section about the development of mobile telephony is great.
I can understand both points of view with the disclosure of the security issue. A while ago I discovered some security issues with Adobe ColdFusion and Railo. I wish I had put a deadline on disclosing the Adobe ColdFusion issues, as they dragged their feet so much (with admitting it was an issue and progressing with a fix) that at points I felt like throwing in the towel. Regrettably, instead of lighting a fire under their ass, I waited. At the time I was working on an open source side project, which would have pointed fingers towards where the issue was for any curious people.

I ended up halting development of my project while I waited for Adobe, to the point where I no longer wanted to work on it. I had stopped for too long and I didn't want to dig anything else up. Having no legal type knowledge myself or knowing anyone who could offer such advice, I was also too concerned to reveal anything for fear or any legal reprise.

So, the threat of security disclosure is warranted to pressure others into putting in the effort. However, the impact of the disclosure should be considered. If it will seriously affect others (who aren't responsible for the fix) and put them at risk, there should be the flexibility there to work with them on a deadline.
Ms. Smith is confused. Income "top-ups" are not a GBI. Means-tested anything are not a GBI. Using the "the Speenhamland System" as an argument against the GBI shows a serious misunderstanding of what a GBI is. For a GBI to work, it'd have to be:

- national - otherwise you would get strange arbitraging
behavior

- unconditional

- available to all adults

The idea is that you get the minimum (let's say 22k a year if we started one now), then you work to get even more money. It's enough to live on. To not starve. To pay rent. If you want to live well, you try to get a job if you can. It would have to replace nearly all of the current welfare state (except maybe disability - 22k may not be enough for the seriously disabled), and not just be another program.

I'm also confused about her confidence that there's "so much work to do." Automation is on the march, and will continue (I'm sure Smith is very familiar with Autor / McCaffee / Ford and friends.) Many of the jobs that one might envision (and that still exist) are jobs that no one wants to do in today's world in any case. They aren't pinnacles of dignity and pride; they're soul-crushing, meaningless, repetitive, and body-destroying. The sooner we automate them, the better. No one will miss doing them. A jobs guarantee also puts us right back in the workhouse / make work mindset.

"People need a sense of purpose and social engagement. Employment provides that. History is rife with examples of the rich who fail to find a productive outlet and and whose lives were consumed by addictions or other self-destructive behavior."

Yes, many people would do drugs and play lots of video games. I think it's short-sighted to believe we can stop that (and as things like VR improve, we'll probably get to the point of wireheading.) Many others would spend time with their friends, make art and music, etc. I think pre-emptively assuming that most would just be loafers is falling to the same thinking trap that has sustains ideological wonders like the Protestant work ethic and modern Social Darwninism. There are other ways to encourage "purpose."

A jobs guarantee is, and will hopefully remain, a non-starter. Machines will free us from work; then we'll have to find our own purpose.
How is the rocket going to achieve a controlled landing with no thrust? It seems to me that it would crash into the pad anyway. Or was it that they did have thrust, they were just unable to steer because of the lost pressure?
A lot of people no longer have printers, or at least working ones. They'd have to find an Internet cafe and brave the risk of keyloggers, print things off at work, or get a document printing company to do it.
He was charged for it - it is part 4 of the "Narcotics Trafficking Conspiracy" charge in his indictment:

http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/February14/Ros...
I think he's referring to domain authority (PageRank) and not just indexing. GoogleBot can hit your site several times a day and index things quickly. Building your domain authority on the other hand and connecting all the dots (like your back-link profile) takes a long time.
Patio11: Putting the “family” in family business
As a more immediate fix with less collateral damage, since Unix programmers refuse to stop putting `rm -rf` commands in shell scripts (they seem to think the suggestion is an insult to their manhood), change the behavior of rm so that by default it either disregards -rf or moves the target files to a trash directory where they can be retrieved in the event of an error.
> That needed charging every 5-7 days, and this claims to last a week on a single charge. I don't wear the pebble watch any more because as lazy as it sounds, I kept forgetting to charge it when it ran out of battery.

Personally, I think this is why Apple will aim for a one day battery life for the Apple Watch. It's much easier to remember to put you watch on to charge every night, than to remember every 3 or 4 days.
DIY EKG (electrocardiogram) with Arduino and JavaScript
> And as far as drug developments go, due to GPU computing and molecular dynamics and monte carlo simulation methods, the cost of developing drugs has gone significantly down [4][5].

I don't see where they show that the cost of clinical trials etc. for getting drugs through the FDA is affected. From what I can tell, those are the largest costs involved. Especially considering that most of the drugs discovered, even using those advanced methods, fail in the trial phase after hundreds of millions invested.

> If Government of India thinks more about it's 2.1 million than bunch of corporate companies trying to siphon money from wherever they can, then YES, they are in the right direction.

"Siphon money" or "capture the rewards of the value they provide"? Undermining global incentives to invest billions in research that could save hundreds of millions around the world does not seem like the "right direction". Not the first time the Indian government has done something selfish but shortsighted. (Pokhran comes to mind.)
Show HN: Rbkit – a low-pause profiler for ruby
Except there's no glass, it just lands vertically on a coaster on the sidewalk.
Joe the .gitignore Magician
Google Maps adds lane guidance in India
For me the absolute killer feature for Gimp or Krita would be a way to save the editing history, which is currently lost with all the levels of 'undo' when you save in native format.

Versioning for image editing; I don't know how it would be done but by Jove it would be a time-saver.
Harvey Quinn isn't a superhero or "role model" either like Superman/Batman.

Ms. Marvel is a good character but of course drawn for men.

And I am bracing myself for the WW movie, I've got a really bad feeling. Wish it had been Joss Whedon running that show.

Speaking of Whedon, it is too grown up concepts for a seven year old perhaps but Buffy Season Eight in comic form is pretty great.
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Weird that I would look at the username for this single post out of the entire thread. You had me at "hypergolics".
Happy Nucl(y)ear – Evolution of an Exploit Kit
In communist Poland there was long-running (1959 to 1983) DIY TV program and it was one of the most popular things in TV. The person that did it (Adam Słodowy) was a celebrity.

Example show (in Polish but it doesn't matter): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq8xiHZ_3nE

It was hard to buy anything except vinegar, so people did everything the Mc Gyver way.

It was huge waste of time, of course - DIY is fine as a hobby, but it's not efficient way to divide labour.
Take it apart and examine it I would imagine.
As someone who isn't hearing impaired, having subtitles for speech & sounds in real life sounds awesome. Especially if I'm using my ears for other things, like listening to music.
Yeah, or a "that".
DevFreeCasts – A huge collection of free screencasts for devs
3D Printing an Apple Watch
Old school coding tricks
rm -rf is not self-destruct button. It's just a "take everything out of the closets, rip of the labels, and throw it on a heap".

A real self-destruct button would ensure you couldn't recover the data anymore.

So at least try "dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda" or more elegant when available, throw away the decryption key.
> Don't care about research bla-bla

Of course you wouldn't, since that's what costs billions to discover the medication that eventually costs "tens of bucks" to produce, which completely undermines your argument.
I love seeing kids involved in projects like this. The excitement that goes alongside building these kinds of things is likely to keep them interested in similar projects in the future.

Does anyone know of any similar initiatives?
NodeWebModules – A collection of web frameworks for Node.js
Uber now illegal in South Carolina
I might tend to disagree with the author's final conclusion, that his daughter is too young to understand (at least about sexism and double standards, if not sex). Talking about this subject with your daughter when she brings it up is absolutely appropriate. There is lots of societal pressure on very young girls to fit a specific mold. It starts with very mundane differences... like short/long hair.

Two weeks ago, for example, my daughter and I had a play date with a friend and his son. As we're leaving the basketball court, and putting on our winter jackets, my daughter says to him: "that's a cool jacket". To which the son replies: "this is a BOY jacket". My daughter laughed and said: "that's silly".

Anyway, speaking of Comics, PaperCutz has some very nice ones that my 5 year old daughter loves: http://papercutz.com/comics/monster
I missed them at MWC2013 but saw them in 2014 (or was it a ripoff of them?.) Although I found them nice and interesting, they didn't feel "that" groundbreaking.
Interesting, it seems it follows the same ideas as bariatric surgery, but hopefully less invasive.

Also, the results weren't that dramatic:

"The study found that after 12 months, the experimental group lost 8.5 percent more of its excess weight than the control group. About half (52.5 percent) of the patients in the experimental group lost at least 20 percent of their excess weight, and 38.3 percent of patients in the experimental group lost at least 25 percent of their excess weight."

Unfortunately, from several high-profile bariatric surgery patients, it looks like it's not a long-term solution, I guess neither is this one.

I have a BMI of 34.5, and I know that the only long-term fix is a lifestyle change - I managed to lose 80% of my excess weight by following an extremely strict diet, but I got all of it back in the following 2 years.
Having recently been on a comics binge after 20+ years of reading very few US comics and only slightly more European comics, and definitively not being very sensitive to this issue, I must admit it's still very much more noticeable today. The number of "lets make sure her ass shows" "shots" is much higher than I remember. Occasionally you even have characters comment on it. I'd think that if this was as prevalent when I was in my teens, I'd have much more vivid memories of it.

Most of the characters that were clearly targeted at children when I grew up are now clearly targeted at adults or at least teenagers. E.g. compare X-Men, Spiderman or Avengers from the last 10 years with the 1980's. The dialogue and over-exposition and extensive abuse of soliloquies alone in the 80's Marvel was something I didn't even remember from when reading it as a kid, but which makes a lot of them unreadable to me except for the nostalgia today (compare with Alan Moore's legendary Swamp Thing run which has kept fantastically), but the drawings were also lot less "realistic" and so I at least don't remember the same amount of overly sexualized images.

But at the same time, as some of the commenters on the article points out, there are also a number of titles with characters that fit better for younger readers, and some of them with female leads, and generally more diverse such as the new Ms Marvel (which is a teenage muslim girl of pakistani descent) as Marvel in particular seems to want to capture a wider audience.
Long-lost British space probe found on Mars
I don't see how this addresses grandparent's comment: if it does not have increased efficacy, why are so many people desperate to use it? The amount of alteration is a separate issue.
Yeah I alternate. There’s about six within a 10-minute walking distance of my house, so if I feel I’m not really getting any work done I’ll just move onto the next or come home for a quick nap.

Working at these places is not for everyone, specifically if you really prefer a quiet environment and without music, even your own. I used to always wear noise-cancellation headphones while working here but now I just use normal-type earbuds and can tune out the background noise without much trouble. The seating is not ergonomic; even if you do the standing desk thing and work at a bar-height table, your neck is still going to be at a position that works against you. So to offset the bad posture you’re going to develop at these places, it’s important to fix that in your off-time (strength training, yoga, massage therapy, etc.). Also keep security in mind: tether when you can, use a VPN if you have to use someone else’s wifi, figure out what you’re going to do before stepping into a coffeshop to work so you can seat yourself accordingly (if you’re dealing with sensitive documents you might get a bit anxious if you work with them with the entire cafe being able to view your screen).

I’ve done coworking before but I haven’t found the spaces in my city to be more than “just a place to work” for me. If I’m going to be going to one I want to have a support network as well, but the coworking spaces here cater to businesses and people I can’t really relate to. You also lose random events like running into a client who just needs a break or a student asking questions about the stickers on your laptop.

Hope that helps.
You are implying they could have built a watch that lasts longer but didn't?
Our hands are the most important part, it gives us alot of ability to build tools.Its highly complex and only humans posses this, its one of natures marvels. So i dont know about other parts but the the hand and the fingurs have to be the same.
The author sounds like a nice guy/gal but they seem to have selectively forgot several facts. First the NSA's Dual_EC_DRBG was used as the default in some RSA products. Is it debatable that the RSA was not paid for this (the $10m claim)? But this is not the only episode quoted as reason to consider NSA malice. The Bullrun program? And his/her employers constant lies?

If your employer is using your work for malice without telling you, and lying to many of their clients (the public)... stop kidding yourself just because they were nice to you and paid for your PhD.
This is a false equivalence: http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/05-the-death-o...
Am I the only one to find court proceedings very medieval?
The difference is that the big muscles on the men help them to achieve their superheroic aims, protecting others, evil plans, etc.

OTOH the giant tits on the women would only hinder them. Hell, even light jogging looks like it would be difficult.

This is an extension of how society values men for things they do, but women for things they are.
Seems like a useful utility. Good work Hemant and team.
Somewhat relevant given the topic, don't read "it" at not-human.

Not everyone here speaks English as a first language and translating a non-gendered/unknown pronoun to English may result in "it".
What security fixes has Microsoft put off forever?
The section on Elite was pretty interesting as well - I can remember being amazed playing it on an Acorn Electron in '84/'85.

Colin Pillinger seemed like a great bloke though, I really did feel sorry for him when the probe failed.
Everyone here seems to have this idea that MS should be able to validate and test a fix for all of their platforms and then publish it via their normal channels within the 90 days...That would actually mean that they only had 60+ days to get it fixed before the next patch Tuesday. But whatever, I just don't see why they can't work with MS to make sure that if a patch is in progress that the public disclosure gets delayed.

This could end up going very badly for customers at some point in the near future. Could you imagine if google had published POC code for the SCHANNEL bug that came out lat year? You would have seen worms and new botnets immediately. That doesn't really help the situation. If they've committed to a fix, let them get it out before the public disclosure.

In the end, MS has a support task that is unlike anything else in the tech industry. If they are trying to do the right thing, and they have really improved here, why beat them over the head with it?
Yes I think you've got it right - they had thrust from the rocket motors, but they ran out of hydraulic fluid required to use the fans to induce more drag, so the rocket came down hard.
Terrible writing... Some people code like this. You look at what they did and just wonder why something that can be written in 3 lines is written in 200 lines of code.
Probably each of those in some order. The first few recoveries will just be for taking apart and analysing, but at some point they'll be launching them; I believe they're already asking around for a customer willing to launch something (at a heavy discount) on a second-hand rocket, but I wouldn't be surprised if the very first reuse launch was self-funded.
The curves themselves are excessive, but look at the outfits and your argument comes tumbling down. Male superheroes are rarely portrayed in a sexually suggestive manner. Female superheroes see physically impossible cleavage and tons of skin as par for the course.

The exaggerated features make male superheroes look powerful, while female superheroes look like playboy bunnies. It's like you're supposed to identify with the former and lust after the latter — they're both drawn to male sensitivities.
IIRC they do issue out-of-schedule patches if a vulnerability is severe enough and/or being actively exploited.
I was a long time PS user on Windows. When I switched to linux as my work computer, the only suitable replacement was Gimp. The interface drove me absolutely crazy - window management is from some kind of sadist (floating toolbar panels) and its not possible to "Save as" (only Export).

Since then I have tried Pinta Image Editor - the toolset is far simpler than PS/Gimp, but it is 100x more intuitive. It reminds me of Paint.NET
There isn't quite as much money in targeting ads at fighter jet pilots as there is in targeting ads at people riding the bus. Asking Google to not do glass for the guy on the bus (fighter pilot or not) is like asking them to not do it at all, given the nature of Google's business. Which, in hindsight, might have been the right call.

The Nest division, where glass seems to be headed now, could maybe evolve into a completely new branch with a more straight forward business model, more product than platform. Maybe there glass could still be salvaged, surviving as a simple, focused HUD tool for the "jet pilot", after failing as a pervasive wearable for the guy on the bus.
If the demographics swing at the edges of the market the center will respond. Particularly if there is social pressure to do so. This is not a malicious endeavor it is a market response and we frankly don't have to be so hand-wringy about it.
This is precisely why I hate comparing building software to building bridges. Nobody builds bridges without knowing exactly where that bridge will be standing, but it happens all the time with software - furthermore same piece of software usually must fit all kinds of "unpredictable geography". As such, yes, I do think that building software is a problem far more difficult than building bridges.
>SAVE POWER

> Use the ultra low-power, ePaper screen to
extend your battery life

That's one way to put it but:

s/extend/save

is more honest.
It's nice, but easy too. Once you decide the last number
you have to move accordingly
John Calhoun would have wanted it this way.
It's france. We invented perfume :) Just like third world countries always keep one or two monuments extra clean and luxurious as a flagship, all universities have one or two brand new building, hosting very few students, to keep a good image. If you want real world images, have a look at this blog ( which shows all universities, but you can find some of paris 8 among them) :
http://universiteenruines.tumblr.com/

And those pictures really don't show the worst things i've seen.
I think that

rm --preserve-root -rf /*

doesn't save you.