skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you need 50 experiments to actually show that the effect exists, then even a small fraction of fraudulent experiments can heavily skew the result when looking at confidence intervals.

Think of selfhealing as a coin toss with 50/50 chance and a medication increasing this chance:

a) Medication increases healing chances to 80% -> Only few experiments needed.

b) Medication increases healing chances to 55% -> Many experiments needed to prove that the effect exists.

c) Medication is not effective but 5% fraud is introduced so that data shows 55% healing chances -> The same as in b) but with only "a little" fraud involoved.
"You have probably come across "mad" people in the street incessantly talking or muttering to themselves. Well, that's not much different from what you and all other
"normal" people do, except that you don't do it out loud. The voice comments, speculates, judges, compares, complains, likes, dislikes, and so on. The voice isn't
necessarily relevant to the situation you find yourself in at the time; it may be reviving the recent or distant past or rehearsing or imagining possible future situations. Here it often imagines things going wrong and negative outcomes; this is called worry. Sometimes this soundtrack is accompanied by visual images or "mental movies." Even if the voice is relevant to the situation at hand, it will interpret it in terms of the past. This is because the voice belongs to your conditioned mind, which is the result of all your past history as well as of the collective cultural mind-set you inherited. So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it. It is not uncommon for the voice to be a person's own worst enemy. Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.

The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind. This is the only true liberation. You can take the first step right now. Start listening to the voice in your head as often as you can. Pay particular attention to any repetitive thought patterns, those old gramophone records that have been playing in your head perhaps for many years. This is what I mean by "watching the thinker," which is another way of saying: listen to the voice in your head, be there as the witnessing presence."

Eckhart Tolle. "The Power of Now"
I like the concept, how much effort will it take to integrate into my existing app. Will send the link in PM
Vista Acquires Automated Insights, Startup Behind the AP’s “Robot” News Writing
What startup's can learn from New Delhi Elections
There is plenty of scope for moving cash purchases to card in the US. When I lived in Norway it was normal for even small purchases to be made with Chip and Pin. Many people hardly used cash at all.
Scott Alexander's "The Toxoplasm of Rage" (h/t mlp at Ello) describes how Tumblr is apparently the perfect storm of outrage:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage

More from Merideth: http://maradydd.livejournal.com/530110.html

The phenomenon reminds me quite strongly of Orwell's Two Minutes Hate from 1984
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate
No, but when you bring a charge adapter for normal electric, there's no risk. Whereas as USB gets more universal, you're less likely to bring your own charger, or even your own cable, opening up attack vectors.

There's probably no mass-appeal way to satisfy both goals.
A monkey will scream to warn its neighbors when a predator is nearby. But in doing so, it draws dangerous attention to itself. Scientists going back to Darwin have struggled to explain how this kind of altruistic behavior evolved.

Seriously, this is not that hard. If the prey is relatively mobile, for most predators the gig is up if the prey is aware of them. If the prey is alerting it's friends that a predator is around, then that particular animal has seen the predator and is usually therefore relatively safe from it. For example, if an angry dog is barrelling towards your unsuspecting friend, shouting out may draw attention towards you, but you can shout and take countermeasures at the same time. It's not a zero-sum game, and you don't need hundreds of iterations to make it beneficial to yourself. I mean, hell, watch a random Attenborough nature special, and you're likely to hear him talk about the prey spotting the predator, leading to an abandonment of the hunt.

The strange maths continues with the "Bat's Dilemma" example. In the case where both bats do the same thing, share or not share, there are disconcordant outcomes. Same population of bats, same amount of food available, yet somehow there is much more hunger if they don't share. This would only make sense if each bat only occasionally had a meal from a source which was much larger than it could eat by itself, then had a long period without finding food... in which case, sharing the excess really isn't a dilemma, since it's excess. I really don't understand the maths in that example.

Game theory really does seem to be a hammer desperately searching for anything that looks like it might possibly be a nail. It is interesting that the end of the article says it has some suitability for microbe research, where things are much more stimulus/response and much less complex.
It should be noted that making things static can impair testability a great deal. For this reason I frown upon static references across component boundaries. Even within components I tend to use dependency injection for this very reason.

I fail to see why static methods should be better with respect to maintenance unfortunately the author lacks an explanation of this opinion. I would express the contrary opinion as you can exchange the implementation easier at selected spots.
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First time I notice clickbait headings on HN. Let's not make it a trend, shall we?
Returning self or void suggests mutability
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Among the reasons that I "am" "Dr. Edward Morbius" and "work" is "Krell Power Systems, Unlimited".
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind helping out, but with the risk of downvoting, why does a prominent journalist family in NYC need help?

Honestly, not trying to be snarky, truly wondering.
Since there is a feverishly down-voting activity in this particular grade, let us all ask what it is that you fledgling participants who wish to have their opinions heard, have to say.

Please do so. Downvoting isn't going to the swing the pendulum to the other extreme.

Trust me on this. I've been on here long enough.

Please explicate your opinion and I shall make happen it, if I shall. Thank you.
What Is the Right Percentage of Women in Technical Careers?
If the rats had prefered the morphine solution it would have suggested the hypothsis was false, so it was a reasonable experiment. If other labs attempted the same experiments and were unable to reproduce the same results that would discredit the original but a lack of attempts to reproduce the results does not say anything about the original.
The problem with game theory is that you already have to know the outcome in order to know whether game theory matches up with the situation.
I'm sorry, I thought that FDA is there precisely to protect us from ineffective or dangerous drugs. Not to cover it up to protect the big pharma.
Ask HN: What do you think about ReactJS now?
I found this url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7669836 where people praised ReactJS while some people had reserved feelings because it was very new back then. Now that hundreds of days have passed, I wonder how the sentiment has changed.
If you're going to debug your own services (where you can own the certificate key) you can also do this easily by tcpdump and then importing the encrypted dump and decrypting it inside Wireshark:
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX116557

I had to verify how two services (not web browsers) were communicating the other day and this was the easiest solution for me.
JabbR is also very neat, it's a .Net project and actively being developped.

I installed it for my company (everyone here knows c# and asp.net mvc )

It's the best project that shows SignalR ( a real time js framework on the .Net platform)
Please don't break the HN guidelines by complaining about downvoting.

Please don't post comments like this as off-topic replies to the top comment. That's an abuse of the commenting system. (We've detached this one.)
I always found it interesting that the Prisoner's Dilemma is so context-free. For a lot of criminals, doing a moderate amount of jail time is far preferable to being a snitch. No point in getting out early if you're facing vicious repercussion from your peers.
Generally, generics are required to have the same active ingredient as the brand-name, in addition to showing bioequivalence.
Why the Node.js Summit Didn't Solve Node's Underlying Problems
Ask HN: What to do with a pair of HP 9807As (aka the 'integral')
A while ago I inherited a pair of HP 9807As, better known as the HP Integral, an early UNIX (early HP-UX) portable workstation weighing in at a measly 20+ lbs each.

I haven't really had a chance to play with them much (Technical BASIC is much more... robust than I remembered) but I haven't been able to find much information on them online beyond flyer-esque descriptions and some manuals missing most of their pages and was wondering if anyone had any interesting ideas of what to do with them (a hilarious serial terminal?) beyond just acting as the worlds heaviest portable paper weight.
BuildZoom Is Hiring Engineer Number Six
BuildZoom is looking for a talented engineer to help us tackle the $600 billion home improvement and construction industry.

For too long, this market has been plagued by information asymmetry but we're working hard to fix that.

We have built a huge dataset that nobody has ever had access to before: 70 million building permits (and growing) and licensing information for almost every licensed contractor in the United States.

We are using these data to do things like:

1. Identify the best (and worst) contractors are based on work history and other signals

2. Let people see who built their favorite homes, restaurants, and offices, and the remodeling history of their own home

3. Create brand new insights - e.g. we're analyzing publicly traded builders to forecast next quarter’s revenues (this actually works!)

To learn more about some of the things you’d be working on, check out these links:

www.buildzoom.com/newsfeed/san-francisco-ca (beta) -- map of remodeling projects in SF

www.buildzoom.com/charts (beta) -- analysis of remodeling projects around U.S.

blog.buildzoom.com/san-francisco-remodeling-activity

BuildZoom is built in Ruby on Rails, but we are open to applicants without Rails experience as well as to incorporating new technologies into our stack.

We have around 30,000 daily users so you'll be helping a lot of people.

We are still a small team. The office environment is fun, productive, and a great place to learn and work. Our office is at 1st street and Folsom in San Francisco - you can see how it looks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgaYLiw6bvo

BuildZoom has raised $4M from great investors including Formation 8 (Joe Lonsdale), Darren Bechtel, Sam Altman, and Y Combinator.

Drop us a line if you're interested in learning more by e-mailing founders@buildzoom.com
The worst grasping-at-straws-with-no-idea thing I've read in quite awhile - thanks.
As the author of the document - thanks!
> "And if you do this, you don't seek payment, you do it because you're a professional security researcher who cares about their security, not because you're trying to make a quick buck."

What if you aren't a professional security researcher, though? I'm sure there are plenty of underpaid people out there who stumble onto bugs like this every so often. Yes, asking the company to give you money on threat of revealing the bug is definitely extortion, but you are assuming a little too much in this case I believe. Some people may truly need the money.
Speak for yourself. I've always disposed properly all plastic bags that went my way.
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I gotta love the iPad spell checker. Puts words like "concubine" into the weirdest places.
You downvoters have only proven my point that Tesla is a cult stock. Nobody owning or admiring a cult stock ever wants to be told it's a cult stock.

May I remind you that Musk has a long way to go before his legacy matches that of St. Steven of Apple.

Last September Musk said "I think our stock price is kind of high right now, to be totally honest". The stock eventually fell from $279 to $203 today.

So now Musk says he thinks his current market cap is only 4% of what it could be in a decade. Really? Quite a change from "kind of high". His market cap needs to compound at about 45% a year to achieve that. That puts it into the top 1% of all stock bargains.

Don't downvote me. That's too easy. Instead, go buy the stock. Buy $35,000 of it. If Musk is right, your stock will be worth $1,000,000 in ten years. After all, Musk also said "I am hopeful that we can do this without any significant dilution to the company".
Analytics is useful and important. It is utterly baloney, though, to use still pretty simplistic analytics at current stage to gauge a player for a team sport that requires players to move and have direct body contacts constantly, like basketball and soccer.

For example, defense. There are better analytics than several years ago when rebounds, blocks, and steals were the primary statistics. But basketball is a team sport. The contribution of a player in team defense includes how much space a player can cover, how much a player's presence can direct the offense's ball movement, how uncomfortable a player can make his opponent feel, both physically and psychologically, how good a player is at directing his/her teammates in a defense scheme, how good a player is at anticipating a potential issue and cover it, how much a player can make his/her teammates trust his/her defense so that the teammates can aggressively pressure the opponents, and so on. One has to really understand the game to evaluate a player's defense correctly and fully.

It is the same with offense. A simple example is that Duncan requires more help defense than Barkley. That creates more space for his teammates, thus more opportunities on higher percentage shots, which will translate to more wins. It also help gets teammates more involved, make teammates better, etc.

I really like Barkley, both as a player and as a person. But it is nonsense to compare him to Duncan in regard to the best PF in NBA history.
This is a good article, and I strongly agree with the general premise (which is: when given an offer at a company involving stock options, get the percentage, not just the raw number of shares).

However, most startup exits aren't going to occur via IPO, they are going to occur via acquisition. This is where the "percentage" value can be somewhat inaccurate, because the terms and amounts of the previous funding rounds will have a massive influence on how much the common stock is going to be worth. Not to mention retention bonuses.

And another massive factor that nobody ever talks about is the founder(s) attitudes about cashing out. Do the founder(s) want to IPO? Are they capable of running a company for that long? So few companies IPO. Would the founder(s) be happy with a 20MM exit? 50MM exit? This is going to have a massive effect on the value of your equity.

The whole thing is just really hard. Stock options, even with complete information, are impossible to value. Certainly get as much information as you can (including the recommendation of this post), but basically whatever decision you make in regards to equity is going to be arbitrary anyways. Negotiating based on salary is probably a far more productive use of your time.
Well, that's an unfortunate turn of events. Isn't it?
Considering this specifically states video and not flash in general I would imagine none of the above. Please correct me if i'm wrong though.
They should just sell the real thing. I made the same mistake. Should have taken it back.
"that types are often a great name for variables, which both the programmer and compiler can use to easily and effectively understand most common code."

This hit me, what if variable names CONTAIN types? int__i = 1

And of course, it can be made optional. I will much prefer to do optional typing in the var name itself rather than the ugly syntax that guido has proposed with python.
I didn't even notice this. It works great and makes me a very happy camper :)
Maybe you'd be interested in the sovereign project?

https://github.com/al3x/sovereign.git

Sovereign is a set of Ansible playbooks that you can use to build and maintain your own personal cloud (I know I know). It’s based entirely on open source software, so you’re in control.

It seems to be a pretty active and prosperous project at the moment .. I'm part-way through getting my own rPi-based cloud infrastructure set up, and I'm finding it quite enlightening to be using Sovereign as the base.
Shumway doesn't decompile ABC bytecode to ActionScript, it compiles it to JavaScript, which is then evaluated. It has a from-scratch JIT engine that analyzes the bytecode and generates JS.

https://github.com/mozilla/shumway/blob/master/src/avm2/comp...

I've worked a lot with Flash bytecode and contributed to Shumway a long time ago, so if you have any more questions, let me know!
It takes less than 10 minutes to integrate it within your app!
Take a look at the first paragraph. With Forward Security, having the private key is not enough, you need the session keys.
This is what your angry mob looks like.

https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/03/mozilla-statement-on-...
https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/
Am I correct in thinking the face on the site is supposed to be like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2#mediaviewer/File:Acid2_r... , but maybe updated with some of Flash's capabilities?
> I also take offense at the libelous implication that Amelia (author) makes of the sexual nature of Wadhwa's offer to talk to people who disagree with him at his private office at Stanford.

I don't really think it's like that. It's more the latently threatening implications of requesting that someone come see you, one-on-one, behind closed doors on your own turf.

Think of it like the iconic scene in the film Network (as referenced earlier this week in the Better Call Saul premiere) where Ned Beatty's seemingly-harmless Arthur Jensen invites Peter Finch's anxious and ambitious Howard Beale to talk in his corporate conference room. Once the doors close and Beale is without recourse or defense, Jensen blows up into an apocalyptic rage, contextualized by his tone and environment to inescapably inculcate his forced parishioner that he is no less than, as Beale meakly whimpers at the end of the tirade, "the face of God".

Clip for those who haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe93FMiJc#t=20s
Nicely put, however, according to GNU.org:

> The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1).

I actually can't do that with GPL code - not because my employer tells me not to but because I know that could get my employer into trouble.

With MIT/BSD you run the risk of someone taking the code and never contributing back. With GPL you run the risk of excluding people from the ability to participate.

There is no license that encompasses all rights and freedoms because it's probably impossible to create a set of rules that would encompass everyone. Our freedoms are strangely mutually exclusive in some ways. I think forrestthewoods issue with GPL is that it is toted at 'the' way to preserve freedom - where the truth is that it's the way to preserve one form of freedom. That's why I never, ever, say "freedom" when talking about GPL and rather always say "free as in beer."
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Some religious institutions have been owning and leasing out property for centuries.
It's called Hungarian Notation, famously used by Microsoft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
Yes, this is what I meant. I also had a specific example in mind. Here's the scenario:

You're a hardware vendor, you lead the market. The hardware you sell has also has a software component. You'd like to take software out of the equation while maintaining your lead in hardware.

So you release the software under a GPL license. Other hardware vendors can start using the software, but they gain no advantage over you.

With luck, because it's free and widely available, your GPL software becomes a de facto standard. You maintain some control over it's development. But overall software becomes less of a factor in purchasing, which is now based on hardware (which is what you wanted, perhaps because your hardware advantage is secure).

New entrants into the market will also find it difficult to compete with you on software. Eventually a foundation may form to develop the software (like Symbian for example). Such a foundation pools the resources of a number of vendors, making it even harder to compete on software.
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The ERE described in egrep(1) has backreferences which can match non-regular languages. Are you thinking of some other notion of ERE?
By the way, you always have the option of dual licensing your (A)GPL code, because the code is yours. You can AGPL your web app and make a deal with a company for a commercial license that will let them derive another web app from it without having to distribute changes. You can make deals with different clauses with different companies.
I think the real question most people want to know the answer to is: Is one of them a front for homeopathy, anti-vaccinations and/or Scientology, or are they both mostly imperceptibly different degrees of serious research?

Downvoters: Please explain. I have no idea about what any of SBM or EBM is, and I hadn’t even heard about any of them before now. This is genuinely what I what to know when I encounter the terms.
Better be safe than sorry, in any country.
Equally, you have no more right to Harvard's free videos than a deaf person, and Harvard has no right to government funding. Turtles all the way down, with that argument.

> To destroy other people's access to a good because you have the power to, in order to coerce them into acting so that you receive such a good yourself, is wrong.

Sorry, Ms Parks, but you can't sit in that seat...
I think your comment is thoughtful and well-intentioned, but I find myself wondering about the seemingly egalitarian nature of it.

May I ask if are you saying that if I wanted to feed poor people, you would want to see me thwarted, unless I could feed every poor person?

In other words, if an organization only has the resources to do a little bit of good in the world, unless they can treat everyone as equals, they shouldn't be allowed to act at all?
But you only risk getting your employer into trouble because they're committed to releasing proprietary software. The FSF considers proprietary software evil; the GPL inconveniencing developers of such software is a central goal, not collateral damage.

Now, if the concern is that you can't modify a GPLed text editor or compiler or browser or other such tool at your workplace, that shouldn't be an issue. Unless you're releasing modified binaries from GPL code, you are under no obligation to distribute your changes to the source.
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thanks a lot for sharing! And yes, we are on our way to develop the multi-account features.

Please shoot me an email at ido@ladymarry.com if you would like to chat with us how you would take advantage of the multi-account functionality. That information will be valuable for our development.