skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's sort of like a lottery ticket, but people are buying the stock in the hopes of awesome new technology, rather than merely hoping to get rich. As long as you buy only what you can afford to lose, it's probably worth it for some of us.

There aren't a whole lot of companies willing to even try really ambitious projects like they do.
How does Go handle select statements when multiple channels are ready?
Yury Delendik on the Shumway team is working on RTMP.js. It's a standalone JS library, but will eventually be used by Shumway.

https://github.com/yurydelendik/rtmp.js

AFAIK, Shumway does not support UDP sockets, but, as a Firefox extension, it could access Gecko XPCOM APIs that are not available to JS on the web.
I will ask a possibly naive question but...can anyone recommend a good "doing empirical science the Bayesian way" or "Bayesian quantitative methods" type of book? I'm mostly looking for something that can "replace those p-values for undergrads". Use of R, Python (or PSPP/SPSS if need be) would be appreciated.

My knowledge is pretty limited, I have heard of BEST but happily t-test away on a daily basis. Essentially what I'm looking for is a "I know t-tests and ANOVA and use them regularly...how would I switch all that to a Bayesian approach".

Does the book I look for even exist or would my best bet be reading the BEST paper (and the author's website/youtube video)?
Edit: It lookes like the second edition of "Doing Bayesian Data Analysis" by Kruschke looks good. It does have a dedicated chapter on NHT (vs. MCMC)
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I think some countries have orders of magnitude worse road safety, as the USA too had in the past.

On the other hand, most of the world's population doesn't drive a car so the number of trips is probably a lot less, making the number higher.

I think you have good points but your somewhat aggressive style is unnecessary.
I think the sad thing here is not that deaf people are suing for access to educational materials. I think it's sad that they are ignored to the point that they feel their only option is to sue in order to have their voices heard.

People don't just wake up one morning and say "Hey, I have an idea. Let's go sue M.I.T. and Harvard". There is likely alot of stuff that happens leading up to that moment.

If you think that this is just a random thing where the "big bully deaf people are trying to push poor little M.I.T. and Harvard around" I legitimately feel sorry for you. Your sheltered view of the world is so out of touch with reality it isn't funny.
In other words ... program it on pure assembly without macros
I love watching P&T's Bullshit, passing the time counting logical fallacies. For example, the good old No True Scotsman in 'you don't have problems unless you're (registered as) legally blind'. Their ringers in that episode each had some point were they talk about true disabled people.

Also nice was the "zomg, an empty parking space, that's due to a gun put to the business owner's head!"... in a place where there are plenty of other empty parking spaces in shot. Curiously, this point is put forward by a prolific author with a disability, who they present as a typical example of people with disabilities. My favourite part was towards the end, talking about workforce participation: "The ADA has had no effect and hasn't helped increase workforce participation, which has stayed around 30%. That means it's done a lot of harm". What?

Rather curiously, Penn keeps talking about how you can't legislate compassion, and even make a point of it explicitly - "If this wasn't legislated, people would be more compassionate" - referencing the parking spaces in particular. But hey, nothing is stopping business owners from being more compassionate than is legally required. It's almost like the arguments they're making are... somethingsomething :)

P&T heavily editorialise their Bullshit show, use selective sources, and pull all kinds of psychological tricks to make their case (which they're fully aware of, being veteran magicians). If it were a different kind of show, it wouldn't matter, but it's pretty unethical to position yourself as calling out others on their bullshit when you're making up as much yourself.
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But IPOs are essentially zero too. If I took a sample of 100 startup employees, the number who have made any significant money in an IPO is way below 1.

The fact that the fraction of a person made a really huge amount of money doesn't matter if we are talking about the decision making process of these 100 people.

I'm just saying the whole thing is very arbitrary in acquisition, IPO, or whatever. I agree that you should know how many shares are out there, if you think you are getting 1% and you are getting 0.1%, that is a big difference. But if one startup is offering you 0.8% and another is offering you 0.1%, how the hell do you know which is a better offer? You don't.

Salary is very comparable and money is practically useful. Worry about that. Maybe you can estimate if something has a big enough market that it could IPO, do that. But you can't predict success. Look how bad investors are at it.
She would probably find the lectures much easier to understand than films. It's not only the background noise (the background music is worse) it's also that the voices in today films are often much quieter than the effects and that the acting and directing style for films favours "natural" sounding vocalizing vs. the one used on the theater stage (where ther's really care about pronouncing everything clear).
This does seem, at the least, irresponsible of the browser vendors. I'll be especially angry if Chrome doesn't have very prominent warnings, considering they harass some developers and power users with a warning about an "insecure" configuration Google basically forced them to use.[0] By analogy, I expect nothing less than a blinking red warning covering the entire browser window whenever keys are being logged because of an environment variable.

I also don't think readers should be encouraged so readily to put this into the persistent global environment.

[0] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=337734
The juxtaposition of adverts for "earn money participating in medical trials" at the top of the page made me smile.

http://imgur.com/nZTnzb5
Just trying to reconcile the unanimous negative comments (at the time of writing), with the 14 points/front page position.
Does this just mean a voting ring is promoting it?
>Certainly possible, but why make our lives harder

I cannot imagine anyone that has written a compliant HTTP parser, or attempted to make a fast HTTP implementation thinking the new framing is harder.

As the article mentions, yeah, it would be nice to be able to look through raw captures. But overall, it's simply too much of a massive downside. It wastes space and burns CPU for nearly zero benefit.

Text protocols make developers start treating them like text than protocols, so you end up with a nightmare of things that look ok to humans but introduce compatibility or security issues when parsing. Even getting line endings right is a pain.
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Can't you cross check with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Medicines_Agency ?
For example, how would you go about measuring the distance to the sun?

So, what's the answer? Where can I read more about that?
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So all this, plus the details in the doc, imply that the Go GC isn't very good.

Just an amateur opinion:

I do not think Go the language is suitable for a copying collector and all GCs that are generational require copying (although it would be good to be wrong). This makes escape analysis a win.
I normally cross-check with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_for_Healthcare_Research...
This New Feature Sends Your iPhone to Silent Mode Automatically
Sure thing.

France: Dieudonné sera jugé pour «apologie de terrorisme»

http://www.rfi.fr/france/20150114-france-dieudonne-sera-juge...

France arrests 54 for ‘defending terrorism’ after Charlie Hebdo attack

The Justice Ministry said that 54 people, including four minors, have been detained for defending or verbally threatening terrorism since the Charlie Hebdo attack. Several have already been convicted under special measures for immediate sentencing.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/14/france-charl...

France arrests 54 in hate speech crackdown, boosts anti-ISIS support

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/french-lawmakers-approve-more-ai...

French Comedian Dieudonne Goes On Trial For 'Defending Terrorism'

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/04/383767811/fre...

Why French Law Treats Dieudonné and Charlie Hebdo Differently

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/french-law-treats-di...
As the comments to that page mention, though, it's not a representation of the central limit theorem at all. It shows how a binomial distribution "becomes" a normal distribution in the long run, but it doesn't show why this would apply to the distribution of errors of a series of sample means.
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It gets presented as an obvious and basic game theory result, but it only makes sense if you don't believe in the basic tenants of game theory, amongst which is the claim that it is a theory of maximizing rational actors.

There is no moral choice-making for maximizing rational actors, and both actors in the PD have exactly the same information, including the fact that the other individual is a maximizing rational actor. As such the off diagonal elements of the payoff matrix are irrelevant to any rational decision making because any two rational actors with the same goal will always make the same choice in the same situation. To do anything else would be irrational.

So within the frame of the theory both players know with certainty that because the game is being played by maximizing rational actors that the other player will always do exactly what they do. This is true no matter what they do: the other player will always reach the same conclusion. Rationality dictates it, if rationality means anything at all.

It is only when you smuggle in the possibility of an irrational choice on the part of one of the players that the off-diagonal elements become relevant, because one player can for unaccountable reasons choose to do something irrational, which a maximizing rational actor would never do.

Game theory is not about people. It's about rational actors who want to maximize their payoff. For such entities there is no dilemma, since only the diagonal elements of the matrix matter, and cooperation is the obvious maximizing strategy.

Unfortunately, game theory under this constraint becomes very boring. There is probably a salvagable variant of it that remains interesting, but I'm honestly not sure what it's a theory of. "Semi-rational not-very-smart actors"? That would describe humans reasonably well, I guess. It certainly describes me. Or maybe the decision-maker being analyzed could be considered a rational actor and the rest of the players irrational, although that would be equivalent to playing against a random number generator.
There is at least one current project - Mezzano -that boots a Common Lisp and some apps on bare metal.

But the Lisp Machines were more than Lisp on hw. They were about the software, the shell, the IDE. Some work was started more than 15 years ago to revive the CLIM API that made this possible and the original authors still work on it now. I'm really glad about this:

https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano

https://github.com/robert-strandh/McCLIM
Legitimate question: Why isn't this being done with software? The Speech-to-Text problem has been around for a long time, and it seems like there are a lot of people who are financially motivated to solve it. If the best solutions on the market, or ideally a combination of the best solutions, can't provide a baseline decent transcript then why aren't people tripping over themselves to solve this problem?

It seems like an 80% solution would be good enough. Hell, even a 66% solution seems like a good compromise or starting point. If an automatically generated transcript can convey at least 2/3rds of the information from a lecture for a one time or small incremental cost then I don't see why both parties wouldn't be ok with it. Those with disabilities would have to do some extra work to look up garbled words or ideas that don't translate well to text, but it would be within the bounds of reason (say a 1 hour lecture would now take 2 hours to parse). The organizations producing the content would most likely having to pay for speech-to-text software, either several thousand dollars per year per class or $X per lecture, but they would still come out cheaper than paying someone per minute to do the transcription. It isn't a win-win situation, but more of an equitable lose-lose.

They say a fair deal has been reached when both sides in a negotiation are a little bit unhappy. A software solution would seem to do that without ignoring the rights of the disabled or placing prohibitive costs on the content producers. And it would set a precedent going forward: Content producers must make an effort to accommodate those with disabilities, but the disabled should be willing to make some extra effort themselves. Asking an elderly woman in a wheelchair to lift herself over a sidewalk curb is not reasonable. Asking the same person to spend an extra 30 minutes to decipher an unclear transcript might be.
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This is absolutely NOT in line with the GNU philosophy. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

This ought to be easy to see. If I take a modified emacs, put it on a web server, and provide access to it via a terminal emulator in a web browser, I've effectively distributed it without actually distributing it. It's an end run around the GPL.
Why are you calling this a backdoor?
This has all the markings of a placebo "supplements" marketing scam. Tons of "infographics", zero science. What is this doing on HN?
A quiet hours feature? What an innovative idea! I hope they get their patent quickly.

Perhaps next year they can invent and patent "silence phone for x minutes".
I chosed Zoho mail over Fastmail, but not sure if this was good idea. Webmail is so 90s, and spam control is too agressive at Zoho.
Will try today new Fastmail webmail.
It is only with a false view of the past that today can be seen as more corrupt than any point in history.

Of course there is an ebb and flow of where the corruption lies, and to what extent it takes hold. People tend to forget that we're living in the safest, most transparent, most free point in the whole of human history. We've been digging ourselves out of a pit of corruption for ten thousand years, don't let yourself be fooled into thinking things are terrible by focusing on a few things that have gotten worse over a decade or two. Big picture: things are and have been getting massively better continuously.

You should be celebrating that such corruption can so easily come to light instead of decrying doom that it has been discovered.
Evolutionary psychology tells us anxiety is necessary for the survival of the species. This is obviously the case in social interactions as they can change our status/value in the social hierarchy which increases or decreases our chances of survival.

Like jobu said - humanity has a baseline of anxiety.

What about when our anxiety is severely deviant?

Meditation and Eckhart Tolle changed my life. Unfortunately, I still need to use medication sometimes when I get attacks.

There's so much I'd like to type out about not being the contents of our mind, Libet and free will, meditation, etc. It's only taken me 20 years to understand and I always feel like I want to tell everyone since I figured all of this out two years ago. But you can do it yourself. Buddhism, Tolle, meditation. Meditation got me to CBT. CBT brought me to Buddhism which brought me to Tolle.

vis a vis prostoalex's post - Tolle's right.
Who was the dude? I would mention in the title. Would save me those wasted few minutes.
I think you've misunderstood the context of the title. It's in reference to a milestone being reached (ie Shumway now supports playing Amazon.com videos) rather than Shumway's end goal.

From the discussion on HN, it sounds like Shumway aims to be a drop in replacement for Adobe's Flash plugin.
In that case you can't possibly read any code whatsoever.

Yet again the GPL does not restrict your freedoms. It just adds to them if you're in the pro-user freedom camp of software development and leaves you no worse off if you don't.
> What is your actual point within the context of this particular newpost anyway?

I was curious whether anyone had compelling reasons for believing in the idea of objective or absolute meaningfulness. What I have learned is that the reasons people have offered are extremely weak, in my opinion.
You make two good points I hadn't really considered.

"Lottery ticket" resonates with me since we just recently had a big discussion about playing Powerball.

But also (sad for us in general) most companies don't try to do really ambitious stuff. Established companies don't want to rock the boat (The Innovator's Dilemma), startups just want to survive long enough to get noticed and acquired.

Of course, there are exceptions. I think Bill Gates really did have a vision of getting a computer running Microsoft software into everyone's house.

And there's biotech. A lot of what they do is bet-the-company moonshot stuff. Finding a cure for cancer, that's pretty ambitious. I'd like to invest there, but I know absolutely nothing about the field.

You've really helped me understand why people are pulling for Musk and Tesla.
> With GPL you run the risk of excluding people from the ability to participate.

Prohibiting actions and thus excluding people is the point of GPL and most licenses. GPL is a cause. I'll keep reiterating that point. To some people, "freedom" means a WTFPL license. To many GPL users, WTFPL would be antithetical to their pursuit of freedom. Freedom is abstract. Many people feel they must perpetuate certain underlying principles to embody any semblance of freedom. Paraphrasing the views of Free computing advocates: in a world where oppression is normal -- in this case, speaking of any inherent oppression in non-transparent boxes that comprise most of software and hardware today -- one tactic to break the cycle of abuse is by harnessing any available tools of the system (e.g. copyright law). There are various voluntary, peaceful strategies to promote freedom. That's one.

Freedom means many things to many people, understandably. To me, GPL does speak to a 'freedom' I want to increase. Personal freedoms of developers and companies [to do whatever they please] is only a secondary concern. Your employer is a secondary concern. Perpetuating transparency in computing is the primary concern.
Yeah, you are right, I should have mentioned that.
Did you read the thread? :-p

> Haskell provides more infrastructure for making code reliable than most (or maybe all) mainstream languages.

Is there any empirical evidence that Haskell programs really are more reliable (all else being equal)? Is all that infrastructure actually useful?
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Cats versus Robot – Lethal Battle of Cute
How come Go has popularized Type Classes?

They are nothing more than Objective-C protocols that served as inspiration to Java interfaces.
EBM is meant to be serious science, but there's been a real effort to co-opt it for quackery. SBM is an attempt to inject science back into it. The difference comes down to how they treat evidence.

For example, homeopathy states that a remedy becomes stronger the more dilute it becomes - i.e. the lower the dose, the stronger the effect. This defies the dose-response relationship between an active ingredient and its effect. Further, it states that even when no more of the active ingredient remains, it can still have an effect.

SBM would say homeopathy isn't worth studying because it has no plausibility based on what we know of medicine and physics.

EBM would say let's test it and see what we get.

The problem is that if you test the same thing enough times, or measure enough variables, and then discard the ones that don't meet your desired outcome, you can gather "evidence" for basically anything.

SBM would say weak evidence for a claim like homeopathy is meaningless, as the claim is extraordinary (it overturns physics), so you need stronger evidence than you might accept for a less exceptional claim. EBM doesn't make that judgment, it treats all evidence as equally valid.
Organisms don't cooperate all the time, cheating is also common in the world of biology.

I find it fascinating that twisting the parameters changes the outcome. Thinking about our social world, for example fraud in finance, perhaps there is something to be learned about the way the rules of society should be set up to eliminate cheating.
"I honestly don't think it's simple. How can I possibly use GPL code to reduce anyone's freedom? By creating some derivative work? By doing so, I have not diminished your access to anything that already exists!"

Suppose you were a farmer that left town for a week or two. In that time I came in, fed your chickens and then took all the resulting eggs.

How can the above be theft? I haven't diminished your access to anything you already owned!
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As an aside, I'll note that working on stuff that I needed has fared quite a bit better than working on stuff that I was told others need.

Someone once told me something similar, "always be customer number one".
300mg of Theanine every morning 30min before breakfast very good for anxiety and strong productivity side effects when taken with caffeine ;)
Alabama police officer badly injures Indian grandfather during sidewalk stop
These are really nice plots for the web. For publication it's quite essential for me to produce pdf charts with the text rendered with LaTeX. I use python's matplotlib for that. Can ggplot do something like this? That would be really nice.
Is there a "one page" HTML version of this? I tend to read stuff on my phone via apps like Instapaper etc, PDFS don't really suit mobile devices :(
Why Is My Smart Home So Dumb?
> Obfuscated AS1 code can do strange things like jumping to unaligned SWF addresses in the middle of bytecodes.

Oh, I've seen much worse. The AS1 VM actually treats the entire SWF file (after decompression) as an AS program. That means it's possible to jump outside of the bytecode tag and into e.g. the metadata of a JPEG file.
You are also missing the cost of the distribution and transmission infrastructure, which distributed generation avoids in addition to the transmission losses
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Yes, there can.
How to Get a Job in UX: Goran Peuc
It is the approach taken by Eiffel. Byte code interpreter for the IDE and compilation to native code via C for distribution.

Also how the first C++ compiler used to generate code.
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Is there a mirror? Seems like too many connections at the moment.
A Lawyer’s Amazingly Detailed Analysis of Bilbo’s Contract In The Hobbit
In business, we need to accommodate to the changes and needs of the customers. By just sitting in the same comfort zone will eventually lead you to nowhere and risks of losing customers to other new and innovative businesses.
Well...I guess it was indeed a lesson for the 15 year old. Now I hope that kid turns around and puts this jerk on blast all over social media. Lessons go both ways.
Emacs just lacks the whole operating system written in Lisp, a capable Lisp implementation, the GUI library, and a whole bunch of other things...