skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Original paper - SOX17 Is a Critical Specifier of Human Primordial Germ Cell Fate:
http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674%2814%2901583-9

A write-up on Science-Alert:
http://www.sciencealert.com/two-dad-babies-could-soon-be-a-r...

Reddit discussion:
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2wz757/study_paves_...
Hermosillo could be a good target, it's like 40℃ - 50℃ all f*ing year
This is false. The null hypothesis is either correct or false. The veracity of the null hypothesis does not change as long as the experiments are repeated the same.
Since this is limited to about the length of a tweet and requires to fully trust a third party (Sharelock), why not just send the message directly on Google, Facebook or Twitter?

What is Sharelock adding here other than a false sense of security? Are we supposed to trust Sharelock more than the aforementioned services?
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Makes you wonder whether it's truly possible to get good food fast, and cheap. In any service industry its usually pick two and forget the other. In a food delivery startup, which two would you prefer the most? Good food, fast, or cheap.
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After reading that they had to waive the regular zoning laws, I get the impression that this is a developer's approach to fulfilling an affordable housing requirement while actually trying to push median rents upward.
> By deciding that only users of Go can criticize Go

This describes my feeling when going through the thread and reading that significant weaknesses of Go are not significant.
I think this Wikipedia section summed it up really well for me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value#Alternating_coin_flips

Extreme example, but explains how the context can shift the findings significantly.
What he refers to as "technology" companies are not ones innovating in any technological area. He's really talking about online application business-to-consumer startups ("appcrap"), for which there's a well-defined assembly line process. A real technology company is defined by their ability to do something hard that others have trouble doing.

The first mover has an advantage, but it's not overwhelming. IBM didn't come out with the first personal computer - Apple and Commodore did. Microsoft didn't have the first operating system for x86 machines - Digital Research did. AOL once dominated social networking. Facebook moved into a quite mature space - Myspace, Geocities, and several others were big companies when Facebook started.

Luck does indeed play a big part. If Gary Kildall, the author of CP/M, had been in the office the day IBM was looking for an OS for their new PC, the history of personal computing could have been very different.
The amount of idiocy surrounding one project to build new studios and one bedrooms with very little parking one block away from a train stop in Chicago was maddening. The market wants these units but developers literally cannot build them.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20141031/CRED03/14...
No idea, but they recently shut down their public software mirrors, too:

http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/
Based on the limited available information, my understanding is that ISDS claims are arbitrated by an extra-national panel, then they become law in the affected country, then the country's courts are bound to enforce the ruling. So the question of "what is normal in US courts" seems inseparable from ISDS and any other extra-national trappings of TPP/TTIP.

Thanks for your original answer. I agree completely that the reported proposals seem absurd and inconsistent with precedent. Yet, the reports of leaked documents have been consistent in their absurdity, for more than a year. The push for fast-track does not inspire confidence that such a complex agreement will receive sufficient due diligence and public review by affected stakeholders, before being subjected to an all-or-nothing vote.
1.7 has migrations (huge), app loading refactor (big), system check framework (big, but relatively internal), and custom lookups API (cool, but not fully utilised yet). Most of the other features were smaller niceties.

1.8 has public Meta, multiple template engines, contrib.postgres, and query expressions (my pet). Again, most other features were smaller nice to haves.

I'd say the features of both are relatively on-par. Migrations probably give a false sense of scale just because that one feature was so big.

As for the "new normal" comment, I agree with you. I'm not sure there are many big bang features ready to go or that have been proposed. I think 1.9 will see lots of incremental improvements and bug fixes.
Agreed. Unfortunately, some implementations missed that:

https://github.com/namshi/jose/commit/127b4415e66d89b1fcfb5a...

https://github.com/davedoesdev/python-jwt/commit/5ddb71b2ed5...
I listened to the whole song and about half the words sounded synthesized to me, while the other half often sounded like they started with a real human voice and maybe were subject to autotuning or heavy postprocessing.

Still, there were at least portions of the song where I would have been fooled and said it was a human being singing!

(But maybe the prevalence of autotune is actually gradually lowering my standards for what sounds like human signing...)

On further listening I think there are some specific syllable codas that sound extremely synthetic, while there are others that sound tolerable. /s/ as the coda seems pretty uniformly bad, while /n/ seems quite good.

More listening: the r-colored vowels are pretty uniformly crummy; open syllables are good. I found the words "reflection" and "connection" (in the song "Run Away") pretty impressive. Suprasegmentals are often a weak spot.
AOSP is fairly basic and somewhat limited on its own, unless you have the resources to replace all of the "gapps", including setting up your own app store. Google Play Services has been slowly taking over a lot of core (and not-so-core) phone functionality over the past year or more, and it's entirely closed source.

Google even stopped open-sourcing new versions of Google Authenticator, which you'd think would be a prime candidate for a full-blown open source project. (And hell, it's a crappy app; there are better GAuth-workalikes available.)
I'm not saying there are no solutions, but saying "just add an event bus" is unlikely to be sufficient. Whatever you do, you're going to pay additional costs in terms of complexity.
Depending on how you might want to use the GPIO pins, this is a clear yes, or no... Traditionally, GPIO is somehow a strange beast when integrated as tightly on SOCs like the Broadcom on the Raspberrypi.

On one side, it's a pretty dumb interface: You put a bit in a memory address and the output changes state. No fancy logic, everything done in software. On the other hand, it's very tightly integrated on the CPU, so you have a very fast path to toggling them.

If you really need this tight integration because you want to trigger interrupts from an external source, or want to bit-bang a non-standard serial protocol, you'll have little luck: The USB latency will make it orders of magnitude slower than "native GPIO." and the better solution will be to directly hard-code parts of the logic into the external microprocessor, and speak to this special purpose hardware.

If you are only interested in turning on- or off a few lights, one of the popular GPIO expanders via i2c will be cheaper and probably just as slow :-).

But: A huge strength of this project would be if the i2c-over-usb and spi-over-usb ports get decent native support in-kernel-support in Linux, because that's where you can get pretty decent performance with the well-defined protocols. That's something that would fill a huge gap in available products, both for the PC and the 'pi.

{I've tried to get something running on a special-purpose CH340(?) uart/i2c/spi-to-USB bridge, but unfortunately the two latter modes are severly underdocumented...}
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for those who don't know it, it is a basic human trait that failure is more impactful (e.g. you think of a missed opportunity more than the ones you took) than success, it's called negativity bias[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
This is very interesting for me. I recently switched from AI to Human Computer Interaction which is more cross discipline, specifically with a strong influence from psychology. I'll gladly admit that I don't have the best understanding of NHST but I think I understand it well enough.

Interestingly enough there was a post on HN somewhat recently about Bayesian alternatives (BEST). The paper that was linked was:
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/CRAN/web/packages/BEST/vignettes/BEST.pdf

And the recommended book I settled on was by the author of that paper (Doing Bayesian Data Analysis)

I feel like I'm "ahead of the curve" thanks to HN :D
Slow news day... human interest.

(Yeah, I'm jealous, trying to hustle my game's launch with dozens of indie blogs got me almost nowhere...)
Just to add to what the others say, rejecting the null hypothesis is also not evidence that your alternative hypothesis is correct.

Often the hypothesis testing framework is stated something like:

H0: µ = 0 (null hypothesis)
Ha: µ ≠ 0 (alternative hypothesis)

When you reject H0, it means that you can be somewhat confident that there was was some kind of distortion in your data that moved the mean away from (in this case) 0.

You can create a number of theories that purport to explain this mechanistically, but you'll often need particular setups like a randomized controlled trial that can eliminate alternative explanations. When you've eliminated all the competing reasonable hypotheses, there can only be one. If you can use that hypothesis to make non-obvious predictions, that's further proof that it's right as well.

Hypothesis testing is there to tell you when to take an effect seriously, it doesn't tell you whether your explanation is right outside of very carefully constructed circumstances (i.e. where if you see a particular effect, only one theory can explain it).
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TPP has nothing to do with freedom of trade, the name is misleading on purpose.
Where? That's less than prices in Phoenix.
I lived in a place about this size in Amsterdam for a year. I did not have a ton of 'stuff' at the time and for obvious reasons it's better if you can take a minimalist approach to physical possessions. I liked it OK; I had a bit of a view, it was quiet, I was single at the time so it was easy to keep tidy. Living in a similarly small space with my wife before we got married was stressful. We're both inclined to be cluttered but whereas it's easy to manage your own clutter it's trickier when you share. I live in a house now and it's full of stuff - it's like when you get a big hard disk and fall out of the habit of deleting things because you don't really need to manage the space any more XD

If I was single again and needed to be in a dense city I'd consider such a place - though not at these prices - I don't like dealing with roommates, so I'm willing to pay for solitude. But I'd give serious thought to whether I might be better off living in a more rural area and having more space to play with.
All of Perlman's companies seemed over-engineered considering the immaturity of their respective markets. I guess that's his curse.
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"A real technology company is defined by their ability to do something hard that others have trouble doing."

You're right. But of those companies that just "use" high tech for their services start to put efforts in R&D to stay on top later in their game.
First things that comes to mind:

Intercepting calls before they go out through the main dialer, and instead using some form of VoIP.

Intercepting an incoming SMS that's used for phone number verification, rather than requiring that the user switch to their SMS app and manually enter a code.

For that matter, replacing the SMS app with something better.

Reasonable app backgrounding support for any purpose you can think of, not just for those that Apple has graciously allowed you to do.

Hell, you couldn't even have custom keyboards on iOS until recently.

Apps can also have access to stuff that iOS never allows: e.g. I have a 3rd-party app that backs up my SMS database to Google Drive every night. It can also do backups to Dropbox and a couple other services. With iOS your one and only cloud backup solution for "system related things" is iCloud, and you can't change that.

None of these things require rooting the device. Yes, all of these things can be abused. But I prefer permissiveness that requires a little vigilance on my part over living in a restricted environment.
You know, I really botched that opportunity at Be. I was really in awe of you guys. I had been on the outskirts of the tech biz for my whole career at that point. I didn't know that there were that many amazingly smart people in the whole world, let alone in one company.

It didn't help any that Be's heart was already broken by the time I got there. I don't think anybody really believed that the eVilla was going to be a success. But I could have overcome that problem, if I'd been smart.

Ultimately, I'm just not cut out to work in the rarified air that you work in. I can certainly see the appeal, though.
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Unless i am mistaken, Amazon can't give premissions to another app install. The user has to leave the "unknown source" option checked as each APK installed goes through the same rigamarole.

Play gets around this by being bundled as a system app initially. And if you have a rooted device you can potentially promote the amazon store to the same status, and so forgo the "unknown sources" switch.
It seems to me that a domicile of that size would be kind of depressing, unless you do spend most of your time away from home. Your life, contained in one small box.

It's not fundamentally different with houses, but you can fool your lizard brain a little more.

Or maybe it was really 100sqft where that feeling starts to set in...
I do not see what the big deal is.

So there a few CCTVs cameras and an increase in private property - since the public seems not to use it anyway - along a river ?

London is becoming a city for the elite bankers and capitalists, everyone knows it. The world is a massive place. Rather than working like peasants I suggest to the people complaining to have some dignity and create wealth somewhere else where they think is a much fairer place.

I am slightly frustrated that so many young people spend their prime years enriching a city that cares little for them and takes so much wealth from them.
Ignoring all other considerations, one could produce a distance using the inverse square law.
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In addition to "the quick and the dead", it also appears in the idiom "(cut) to the quick", meaning to cut someone deeply - usually emotionally.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cut_to_the_quick
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/to_the_quick

Take it back further, and it's cognate with bíos in ancient Greek, whence the prefix bio-.
So... You need a Surface.
Did the big bang and immediate expansion necessarily distribute matter uniformly? If not, couldn't this just be the dumb luck of this black hole that it started its life itself with many solar masses, so it didn't need to accrete as much in the next 900 million years?
So could you define an cost function for these activities?
Sometimes being that impatient programmer can become a lot more worse. Instead of deciding to start learning by themselves, they can get impatient and decide to pursue other avenues which then keeps of going and ultimately they end up not knowing anything at all!
I just looked at a few slides but it looks like the transcript of this awesome talk at defcon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5JBMyxvuH8

The big wow was that a lot of people seem to use those complicated and extreme ways of messaging.
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I have never had great performance with recursive queries in SQL Server, does postgre perform better in this respect?

I have seen a few posts on HN regarding recursive CTEs recently and I shy away from them because it seems like an additional invocation for each different recursive lookup and a lot of the queries can be rewritten and potentially optimized using more traditional approaches.
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Would that just mean taking the square root of the luminosity and interpreting it as distance in AUs?
I honestly don't even know how to begin to explain this to you.

There are highly valuable pieces of land (as happens with nice waterfronts) that developers have promised to make accessible to everyone in exchange for being able to develop there. They then make those places as unappealing as they can to the public by using misleading architectural cues, being less tahn helpful in enabling the access they promised, or even having guards flat-out lie about the public's access to a space. If this does not seem like a bad thing to you, and I mean this with no malice, I don't believe there is enough common ground between you and I for me to be able to explain why it is.

If you think this is just a London thing, it's happening in San Francisco (which, yes, has similar issues with inequality) [1] and is an ongoing issue along the entire coast of California where the beach is public up to (at least) the high tide mark, and often with trails to get to it too. But landowners there also put up fake signs, block off access paths, and hire security guards to lie about whether the general public is allowed there or not.

[1] http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2015/01/little-known-publ...
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Have you tried [Git Cola](https://git-cola.github.io/)? It has support for staging chunks/selections.
This is a good post for those not familiar with all the details. But I think the rent you listed is unfair. Certainly there are apartments that expensive, but you can get a nice 2bed/2bath apartment for quite a bit less(though it probably won't have a hot tub ;) ). My friend lives in Mountain view and found a newly refinished 2bed/2bath for $2500. It's a 10-15 min walk to downtown and shopping. He had an ad up on craigslist for a month before he found someone else to move in with him. Who knows what the rent will be next year, though.
It's a good article and has some good points.
But after some thinking, it seems that almost none of successful startup ideas come with capturing the change of environment. Instead, most of successful startup ideas come from hobby, solving a problem, iteration, improving existing products, etc.
Besides a good idea, building a successful startup requires a lots of other stuff like great team, good fund raising, great execution, great user growth, etc. I guess all the other parts are much difficult than finding a good idea. If you don't have a good idea yet, you can just focus on other parts: building a good team, or learning to executing well. You can start with small projects with positive cashflow like consulting, etc.
The best way to pickup a startup ideas is to look at new startups and find the ideas that you like and that you can improve and execute well. Just as some other posts mentioned, if you are smart, you can make difference even in mature market. Market is not efficient at all, especially for new and emerging market.
>>> He's really talking about online application business-to-consumer startups ("appcrap")

No, I don't think so. The author is Slava from RethinkDB. His company is definitely not "appcrap" (as you put it), and I think his same line of reasoning applies equally well to "real technology" companies (like RethinkDB), it just takes place on a longer time horizon. If you extend his metaphors to include the time to competitively create "real technology" they apply equally well.
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I've been playing with some more advanced feature in postgres (lately, mostly json and jsonb related), and one of the main aspect I'm concern about is the potential pitfalls -- specifically performance pitfalls. Mostly because I feel like there are too many magics around, and I have no idea how much overhead for any action is.

The advanced features allow you to have more than one way to do things, sometimes in a slightly more concise way (I've been tempting to use jsonb type in place of simple many-to-many tables if one of the values are just always be string). It's not that I'm expecting my app to be web scale or anything, but I'd rather not having to redesign everything one a query choke on a million records. And most of the docs tend to be light on performance characteristics.

As performance is one of the most important aspect in database system in general (which I'd say on par with consistency, and way a head of features), it'd be nice to have docs focus more on not just how to use features, but when it shouldn't be used.
The PR is misleading, it is only available for iOS.
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I looked into turn.js and the licensing is beyond my understanding:

The turn.js project is released under the BSD license and it's available on GitHub. This license doesn't include features of the 4th release.

The part about 4th release seemingly links to a pdf but redirects to the same page.

Going to github I find the following:

https://github.com/blasten/turn.js/blob/master/license.txt

"""
turn.js 3rd release

www.turnjs.com

Copyright (c) 2012, Emmanuel Garcia

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms,
with or without modification, are permitted provided
that the following conditions are met:

- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

- Any redistribution, use, or modification is done solely for personal
benefit and not for any commercial purpose or for monetary gain.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE PROJECT AND CONTRIBUTORS ''AS IS'' AND
ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE PROJECT OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
SUCH DAMAGE.

"""

Not exactly BSD as far as I see (is there a non-commercial BSD license subtype?)

Furthermore I'm not the only one to wonder:
https://github.com/blasten/turn.js/issues/491: Commercial licence turn.js

And in the comments on that issue: "I'm waiting for about 2 years now for an announced / promised update. "

Edit: added line breaks
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Because centralized control by IT has worked so well for corporate security over the past few decades...

I don't understand why organizations still want implement an IT paradigm which has done nothing but fail at its primary goal but has held back innovation and made workers miserable.
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This saved my ass last night when I needed to share a highly sensitive legal doc.