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9,801karma·1,821submissions·April 12, 2011
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That can be skewed by people who marry and divorce multiple times, making "percentage of marriages that end in divorce" somewhat disconnected from the probability of any one marriage survivi…
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Unfortunately the feed died for me ~20s before launch (in S. America, and also for several people I was online chatting with [US, Ukraine]). After a bit, the audio briefly came back and I heard the so…
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There is a lot more to the video than that quote (or the current HN title – "Steve Wozniak Debunks One of Apple's Biggest Myths") suggest.
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From the discussion yesterday on "HN for data scientists"[0], there was mention of a service which enables one to deploy "HN for X"[1], as well as some discussion that (some versio…
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Awesome – the announcer just noted that there's a UAV which will be used to capture the final descent splashdown of the Orion capsule. That should make for interesting video. The UAV—Ikhana—looks…
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There are over 200 results of HN stories along this line[0]. Just eyeballing the list, it seems as though there is quite a variety. [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hacker+news+for+#!…
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Ah, I thought this sounded familiar. From a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6896237 Has there been some sort of update/change to the site or is this post a (re)dis…
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Toomre and Toomre, 1972, "Galactic Bridges and Tails". http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972ApJ...178..623T This paper addressed the question of how galaxies with bridges …
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After waking up this morning and seeing the replies to my comment, I realize my answer was not sufficiently nuanced/specific. My first paragraph was in response to the author's explanation o…
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I recognize the difference between science and math, but the author, in the article, specificially says "scientific journal".
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For physics and astronomy, there is the arXiv. Essentially all the papers (at least for astronomy) are posted there. The next step would be to add a community voting/vetting scheme on top of that…
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A quibble with the author's impression of peer review: As we know, the process of submitting to a scientific journal has, besides the diffusion of one’s results to the community, the aim of veri…
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I know Google was the inspiration for the meme. I think we are just interpreting "for" differently, in "the UI design is for the customers". I was assuming a very literal interprat…
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Those things may be all true, but are unrelated to the point I was responding to, which was your invoking the "if you are not paying for it, you are the customer" meme.
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> This is yet another case of where if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer. So they're not designing it for you. I do not think that necessarily follows. Even if you ar…
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The preprint of the original paper, "Logical Limitations to Machine Ethics with Consequences to Lethal Autonomous Weapons", is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2842 …
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Can someone provide context for this? I am not familiar with Debian and do not know the back-story. Also, I assume this is not directly related to the recent resignation[0] of Heen. But does the resig…
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> A restaurant isn't a 501(c) either, but I would call it absurd if they charged a customer to use the restroom. The cost of the restroom visit is, in a sense, folded into the cost of the meal…
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> comets go round the sun, not into it But that does not mean all comets survive their close approach to the Sun. Some, such as the sungrazing comets[0], come quite close to the surface and can be…
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> I hear some of the instruments were owned by private research institutes rather than European taxpayers (who funded the vehicle) so for some areas may take a while to publish. Might have to wait …
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Right, the aside about "starting" was hyperbole. And I purposefully said "approach 0%", not "be 0%". As an example, there are astronomy publications stretching over more…
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This is a duplicate post of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8607623 , from ~1 day ago.
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“Our analysis indicates that, in 2013, 36% of citations were to articles that are at least 10 years old and that this fraction has grown 28% since 1990,” Put another way, in 1990, 28% of citations w…
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> With that in mind, this development can only be a good thing. I wonder if it measurably speeds up scientific developments? If time and energy don't have to be spent rediscovering something, …