skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are we even talking about correlation?

The study performed statistical hypothesis testing to determine that the means of the two groups are probably different.

Edit: and more to your point, correlation of the sample implies correlation of the population if the sample is representative. Is this the case for this particular paper? I don't know and neither does anyone else; that's why replication is the gold standard of scientific validity.
While the amount of work those upstream projects have contributed is indeed monumental, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss elementary OS' contribution to the free software operating system landscape.

I think their work in providing a good UX for GNU\Linux operating systems is admirable and it's a very important step to really make something most would be happy to use.
I think law startups is a vague term that can account for many points of view. Startups for people 'using' the law or startups for those 'practicing' the law.

For the past few years I've been making apps such as iJuror (http://www.ijurorapp.com) specifically for attorneys and law firms. Adoption has been pretty significant but the industry is a bit more conservative when it comes to technology. Other apps such as TrialPad and TranscriptPad have been successful as well.

ClearView Social (http://clearviewsocial.com) is another startup in the legal space that helps attorneys and law firms grow their presence on social media.

I think we'll see more startups in the space in the coming years too.
It's their fault for screwing up their business model so much that they have to resort to attacking their users. There is little to defend here.

I have never seen a project succeed that tries to trick or guilt you into giving money. Making users feel like shit is bad UX.
What effort is this? URL please?
... just like all those people who paid for WinZip and mIRC?
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To put this in some random hint of potential perspective, Sylhet is the center of the overseas Bengali community in Europe, ie. it's probably one of the most educated, wealthy and progressive parts of the country with the exception of the capital, Dhaka.
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In HA mode, you specify that this VM must be running. If its not do a list of certain actions.

But the thing is, making your app crash gracefully can be incredibly hard, and can almost always take a lot of dev time.

its cheaper in terms of planning and execution to have two have an HA pair defined in the cluster, and another HA pair defined in software (i.e. behind a varnish node or the like)

You can have virtual IPs so that if a node is not responding the HA partner picks up the traffic. If thats properly locked up, the hypervisor can kill the machine and restart it.

as for:
>migrate from overloaded hosts: just crash container.

try doing that with a clustered something, the host becomes overloaded, kills the app. not only does the traffic shift off to other nodes(which might already be started to overload), it takes resources to sync back into the cluster.

You don't want this behaviour as it causes failure hysteresis. (that is, as soon as you start to reach breaking point, the whole thing collapses and refuses to come back up, without stopping incoming traffic)
People are not too keen on betting the future of their company on a startup that may or may not be still around in 3 months to save a few bucks.
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WIPO: Humanity

While I voted for Family in the poll as given, what matters to me most, is to produce something of value to society during my lifetime, that will still be in use long after I am gone.

It's not at all hard to be remembered for doing something bad.

It's far far more difficult to be remembered for doing something good.

Apparently Musk denies having said that; I can't say either way, but were an employer to say something like that to me, I'd just pack my stuff up then walk right off the job.

I did that once before, but it was over an issue of engineering ethics at an industrial control systems vendor.
Place A has online death threats where people are literally hacked to death. Place B has online death threats where nobody is injured yet a lot of people get upset.

Xenophobia has nothing to do with it. It's a simple observation. Now if you followed up that observation with something like "And its because everybody who isn't in Place B are degenerate lunatics and shouldn't be trusted"? Then that's xenophobia.

Get your terms straight. Online free speech is under attack in a lot of ways: government surveillance, social peer pressure, fundamentalist religions, and so forth. I don't think trotting out terms like "racist" or "xenophobe" helps in understanding or coming to terms with the problem.
No. Because woman carry kids when they get pregnant and inadvertently will get behind on work experience compared to their male peers when they have to take time off for birth/etc. (Especially in the Netherlands it's common to take a full year off/more)
This will alienate developers that don't want to work on a distro that is a cash grab.
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Waiting for all one-time async operations to finish is not unfeasible. Async loops (like pinging server for possible updates) is a tad harder.
It is unfortunate that Ramanujan passed away at a young age. Had he been alive a few more years, perhaps with the help of Hardy, we may have seen some new mathematical foundations, that enabled him to create between 3000 & 4000 equations that mathematicians even today are struggling to find proofs for.
There is no doubt Google continues to get better at indexing client side rendered HTML but it is not perfect and indexing is not the same as ranking high in organic search. For ranking, there are distinct advantages to server rendering. The biggest one is consistent initial page load performance. Long story short, if you care about ranking and not just indexing, you still need server rendering.
So how many hours per week do you actually work and is there any number of hours stated in your contract? I need these two variables to be able to reason about your claims.
Are you saying the effect isn't large enough? If so, why?
I don't think that's a very good idea usability wise. I certainly don't like being interrupted during my work with requests for donations.
Hacker News sounds a bit gruesome now
It's early, so maybe I'm doing something stupid, but it looks like you can't! http://is.gd/9Y1HiS --- (I'm kind of surprised by the error message.)
Other European cities, a good example being Zurich, limit the number of available public parking spaces. If you may have a potentially hard time to find relatively expensive parking this could be a big incentive to bike, or use (excellent) public transport.

I'd be all for a congestion charge, but politically this is probably a non-starter.
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They probably don't care about that content.

My first guess would be that they snapshot the DOM in the JS tick immediately after window.onload completes. Maybe they have a short pause to let any fast timeouts or callbacks complete, but there's got to be a cutoff at some point (e.g. to stop an infinite wait for pages that continuously update a relative date). Of course, with their own JS engine, I bet they can get really fancy with the heuristics to determine when to take that snapshot.
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I don't think so, as more men tend to choose an education that paves an easier path to acquiring a board position. This is not because women are less capable, but because they somehow feel less attracted to this field of work. This of course also has to do with our parents, media and other surroundings teaching us about gender roles and such.

It's only since a few years that for example technical studies try to attract more women, as these were before considered 'a man's thing'.

It's going to take a few generations for all of this to 'even out' and then we might see 50/50, but it could also result in 70/30 or 30/70, if it turns out that in a gender-neutral unbringing, one gender might be more capable of leadership than another.
"Samsung's insistence on bundling crapware is killing Android."

Sadly, the same thing applies to all smartphone manufacturers, Nexus being the exception. The amount of useless apps that hog scarce resources and that the everyday user can't uninstall end up compromising the user experience.
Maybe down south, but I've never experienced anything like that up North.
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I have it disabled for SMS messages. I am not so much complaining that it offers SMS tie-in, more that it is unreliable in its transportation, so knowing how you're sending a message is more important if you want the person to receive it.

The problem exists for iPhone users as well I think - Messages will send via SMS or Internet and there is confusion amongst my relatives with regard to it. They don't know if they've sent an SMS or if it's gone via the Internet, so I won't get messages on my Mac/iPad because it's gone via SMS etc. etc.

Muddying the method of communication is a disservice.
This is exactly what i see, we have two in daycare. They are immensely more engaged, and do more activities at daycare. They have a gang of peers to play with all day, they sing and dance. It really quite delightful when our burst into a song we've never heard and starts jumping around to some rythm.
I think it's important to clarify your post with one simple fact: death threats and doxxing have occurred on both sides of the GG "debate" ("debacle" perhaps more accurate). Without that pointed out, you seem extremely biased.

I wasn't taking any sides there, just making an observation about the level of violence experienced in Bangladesh vs the US.
There are nutcases (organized or otherwise) professing allegiance to all religions.
Samsung smartphone/tablet hardware is fine, but their Android "support" is a joke. No Android updates after a few weeks. Samsung still sells some Android 2.3.x and 4.1.x devices and most of their devices never received the 2.3->4 and 4->5 update. Some of their flagship devices are also a bit overpriced. They used to offer a replaceable battery and an SD-card slot, but its gone in their latest flagship S6 Edge as well.

Many early Samsung smartphone/tablet customers turn away after their experiences. LG, HTC, Sony, Lenovo and many little known Chinese products are cheaper and usually better nowadays.

Samsung TVs already use Bada/Tizen OS, and Samsung announced that their S5 flagship phone would be released also with Tizen. The question is why Samsung hasn't switched to Tizen yet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bada
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I don't think having to type out "0" is that difficult of a choice.
Actually I'm very, very much in favor of regulations, which support my safety.

An excellent example are minimum rest requirements. You're strictly not allowed to moonlight as a cabby after a strenuous 10 hour shift. No such restrictions exist for "private" taxis.

You may like to gamble with your safety, I sure as hell don't. There are exactly such regulations, which keep the public safe.
I disagree with your analysis. Value types are being added (that's what the HotSpot team is busy working on) with relatively precise control over memory layout, and their negative impact only became clear when random memory access became more expensive (in relative terms). Still, Java performance isn't "killed" for the simple reason it handily beats Go, and often enough beats C++ in large, multithreaded programs. So if this is what Java performance looks like when it's "killed" by lack of value types, I'm very hopeful at the prospect of adding them, because Java will have no competition then, let alone Go, which lags behind even now. Large, big-data analytics software (like H2O) written in Java achieves 100% of maximum hardware performance ("Fortran speed"). The trend is that more and more performance-sensitive applications are transitioning from C++ to Java. Also, Quasar adds true fibers ("goroutines") to Java.

Now, I don't know exactly what you mean by memory consumption, but if you mean total memory consumption by the JVM, that's a feature of the GC chosen, which usually trades extra RAM for added performance -- it certainly does not negatively affects performance.

As to point 2, I think that was Java's greatest decision (which Go can't replicate), because the malleability of bytecode afforded by class loaders and agents have made the JVM extremely flexible while at the same time extremely performant. At the language level, annotation processors -- really, AST transformers -- are extremely powerful (see the new pluggable type systems for Java 8) and not easy enough to abuse by under-qualified developers. If you want a more powerful language, the JVM offers quite a wide selection, which is another thing Go cannot do.
That's a very... nice way of putting it. One thing I've come across is employers who talk about having "unregulated hours" - you can come and go as you please as long as the work is done! Quickly, you discover that there's always work to be done. If you're done with client work and it's only 3pm, we have some internal stuff you could be working on. What if client work comes in at 4pm? Guess you need to stay later to get it done.
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Not really - but it does let you chunk functionality together from smaller pieces.

So if you have function f1 that takes a and returns b (a -> b) and a function f2 that takes b and returns c (b -> c) you can compose them into a function (a -> c) all it does is call f2(f1(a))
Someone could put the code on github and have an s3 download link up in all of 5 minutes. A blog post and 15 minutes of retweets later and it has the number 1 spot on Google for elementary os.

It's incredibly trivial to spread gpl code now so charging for it is a non starter and just makes you look a bit foolish.
Just Watching Violent Events Unfold Online Causes Trauma
On a less-serious side note, this article reminds me a lot of this blog post: http://stuffdutchpeoplelike.com/2012/03/20/not-working/
This is a poorly written article.

If Philadelphia truly needs more cabs, then Uber can't be blamed for the collapse in medallion prices since it's clearly NOT filling a market need.

In New York City, where the medallion owners are demanding some sort of bailout from City taxpayers, all Uber drivers are regulated under the existing TLC system. I'm no fan of Uber, but they've operated and grown in NYC within existing restrictions.

Tried to comment on the article itself but their goofy Facebook bound commenting system failed with any of the accounts I tried to use.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but don't we pay for most products before actually being able to use them?
What do you mean by work ethic?
At what point do we know that the persistent death threats are just kids being obnoxious and no one is going to be hurt? At what point would you personally be comfortable if your inbox was being blasted with threats of violence?

And the only kind of xenophobia is the explicit, aggressive kind? So would you say the only kind of sexism is the kind where you must explicitly prohibit women from doing certain activities or holding certain roles? And the only kind of racism is the kind that existed in the American south prior to the late 60's?
The devil is in the details... if done well, you wouldn't be interrupted. Maybe springing it at login, or waking, or at some other time when a surprise might be more welcome.

(Also, I hate the word "donation" tbh. It communicates a sense of hopelessness, of misery, that is just sad IMHO.)
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Everything you said will soon be done by a machine. Don't like it? Then go to a lower ranking doctor who doesn't use this technology.
I think the attitude exemplified by phrasing like "cheating the system" is the sole reason why anyone has a problem with them at all. If we ignore the apparent entitlement, then sure, it's fine.
I do try and make Hangouts work for me. I ring my brother using Chrome on my Mac and he doesn't get notified.

My other brother will send messages to me via Hangouts from his phone and it doesn't appear on my phone (running Talk), and won't appear as a notification every time on my tablet (running Hangouts). Only when I log into Gmail on my laptop do I get a popup regarding the message. This makes it unreliable.

I also attempt to video call my family from my tablet using Hangouts - they don't get notified, either those running Talk or those running Hangouts.
I try ringing them from my laptop and they don't get notified.

If I call my brother from my phone running Talk, he gets notified. If I call my brother from the SAME ACCOUNT on my tablet running Hangouts, he doesn't get notified.

Your understanding of online/offline is different to mine then. If I am talking to someone next to me and they walk off, knowing when they were last next to me is of no use to me if I wish to continue talking to them. I need to know that they are still right next to me.

This is the way it used to behave in Talk and also the way it STILL behaves in Gmail chat, just NOT Hangouts on mobile. Hangouts tells me when they were last seen yet lists everyone I know in the contacts list. It would be far far far far far more useful to show those that are online NOW, not were online 2 days ago in my list. This is the way IM has behaved since I don't know when: for examples, see MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, face-to-face conversation etc. etc. etc.
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I think you are right - and for me having bad customer support is a miss. If the customer support "costs" why don't include that cost in the products price? Bad customer support @ Google has turned me away from their Google Docs. Customer support is also needed when the UI is not self-explanatory like Google's very often.

They have Google Apps for the Enterprise, but very often you can't reach the Enterprise without the proper support, product documentation and service. From the other hand, I got very positive experience with Microsoft support which proves that "Customer support at scale" is possible.

Thank you for the comment!
In what sense is the Samsung Electronics division larger than Apple?
I cannot watch most kinds of horror movies. I'm OK with ghost stories but not slasher flicks.

If I see graphic depictions of the mutilation of human flesh, I start visualizing them on my own, and cannot get them out of my mind for weeks after.

It is for the same reason that I have no piercings nor tattoos. There is a particular tattoo I'd like to have, but I don't have it as I cannot bear the thought of having my flesh mutilated.

Ironically I've had two surgeries, and as a patient of mental health treatment, vast numbers of injections and blood draws. Those don't bother me at all.
That's fair. I actually hadn't heard of any death threats or doxxing coming from the pro-feminist side but it certainly wouldn't shock me. There's dark depths and fanaticism everywhere. But it does come off as smug and privileged to laugh off any of those threats. I can't imagine someone threatening my life and me feeling 100% comfortable that they're just doing it to intimidate me.
I'm not quite sure most Americans find it 'funny' but rather do these things more so out of fear. Fear of job loss, fear of missed advancements, fear of missing out, etc. This also seems to explain why Americans as a whole take so little vacation time even when they are entitled to take time off [1].

[1] http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workpla...
Before Microsoft included decent compression facilities in Windows, a lot of people did in fact pay for WinZip. I bet some still do, considering it's still on sale -- something that cannot be said for most Linux distributions.
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> At what point do we know that the persistent death threats are just kids being obnoxious and no one is going to be hurt?

Well, a partial answer to that may be: you never know whether the death threats are real or not until something like what is happening in Bangladesh happens. But once bloggers actually get hacked to death, you definitely do know, for sure.

I don't think anyone would or should feel comfortable getting death threats via any medium. However, I know that I'd feel a lot less comfortable getting the same death threats in Bangladesh than in, say, Sweden, all other things being equal.

Also, please stop bringing your bias to this discussion. I understand you're passionately on the "anti-GG" side of this debate. I'm not. I really don't care for either side. I'm sure you can make your points without turning this into yet another pointless threat arguing about "SJWs vs misogynist assholes". Let's not bring this crap to HN.
Ask HN: How do you start an eCommerce business with little money for stock?
I've done eCommerce for years, just for other people. I know how to do it, I just don't have the money.

I'd love to sell some larger products, but I'd need a warehouse and all the equipment for managing larger inventory so that's out of the question. Then I look at smaller, lighter products which then has more competition and often the margins are so small there isn't an opportunity without large bulk stock orders.

The only feasible option I've found is to sell cheap custom-made products at a low margin and accept it will only ever be a lifestyle business.

Has anyone got advise on how to overcome this hurdle? I'd be very grateful to hear it.
I am not sure about the domain “personnal finance”, seems to narrow. It looks like a small H.E.R. application.

The design is convincing.

I went through your blog posts, nothing about your stack. Could you explain what do you use of “speech recognition” (and “speech synthetisis” if any)?
The top students in my machine learning classes are computer science students.
Another always on microphone from Amazon in your home. Welcome to 1984!
Milo Yiannopoulos has been fairly public, though blasé, about receiving death threats and even syringes in the post:

https://twitter.com/nero/status/506435662481219585

https://twitter.com/nero/status/513666683916255232

I recall some others were threatened too, though I don't remember exactly. Not exactly worth spending brain cells on, tbh...
I feel like these stats are kind of misleading because of their questionable usefulness. It's not like it's outright dishonest, but "performance showdown"? What are the chances that a situation like the ones they tested ever actually show up in a prod environment?

"it certainly pays to give io.js a look as out-of-the-box you get some rather impressive perf improvements." Might be true, but feels like an overstatement in relation to the data provided.
I don't see a compelling reason in this article saying QR Codes are bad or worthless. Maybe the ways people / companies have been using them are just poor.

We (my company) uses QR Codes all the time. They're on our business cards, theres one on our trade show banner. If a flyer we print pertains to a specific article or event on our website, the flyer gets a QR Code.

Anything that requires one of our users to goto an address on our site more complex then the base url basically gets one, and my target audience is post-grad students. No one has ever questioned what a qr code is or how to use it. If they ask how do they get to the site or article, they immediately correct themselves and say "oh, theres a qr code"

It's worked very well for us.
Aha, thanks (to twic also). Now I get it!