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Does it matter if they are? The statement stands.

Does facebook offer that option?

Hm. I used to do competitive air rifle shooting (fwiw top five in the nation at the time), and this experiment comes close to the sort of training that I would do with my coach. He would act as a spotter and after every single shot, would ask me where my shot was (eg, 9pt at 4o'clock). We did this probably 300 times in the course of my training. Despite the "jitter", it was something that could eventually be done with surprising consistency after a while of training this way. It would be a completely different matter if the training was done on a new shooter (who were never, ever good when they first start). The training was also complete ineffective if I had caffeine, or wasn't in the right mood. My guessing ability would then effectively match what was seen in this test.

I'm not sure how this test would have proven anything, especially with such a small sample size. As another poster mentioned, this very much sounds like a test for sensory motor latency, which is absolutely a nontrivial thing for this sort of test.

If the test you described was done against trained shooters, I'd imagine the conclusion would likely be the opposite.

Neat - one of my requests is listed!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/foilies-2019#seattle

What I'm saying is - it doesn't seem to be cleverness in action - just plain ol' animal instinct.

The coyotes know exactly* where the invisible fence begins and ends, without the benefit of ever wearing a shock collar. How do I know? Because they intentionally leave their scat on their side of the invisible fence, creating a demilitarized zone as precise and as well-observed as anything on the Korean peninsula.*

Hmm.. couldn't this be just a result of the dogs not having marked the territory where the invisible fence is? As in, it's just territory essentially open for the taking?

Interestingly, at least in the US, a take-home prescription for ketamine is already suprisingly cheap - $38 USD for 100ml: https://www.drugs.com/price-guide/ketamine

At least near me, there are "ketamine centers" that already to ketamine clinics - $500 per session, and insurance doesn't cover it. Ends up being around $3000. I haven't done it, so I can't comment on its effectiveness.

It's pretty lame that the cost difference is so large. I guess the barrier is a psychiatrist's willingness to prescribe. Maybe all of this research will open up psychiatrists to prescribe take-home ketamine more readily?

As a colorblind person... please, for the love of god design for the colorblind! :)

You might find this interesting -http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/08/analysis-vs-algebra-pre...

Has anyone done any perf analysis between this and previous versions?

Anyone think the same holds true for HN? :)

Could you give an example of when a customer would need that? I'm missing something.

Is this common in web hosting? I'd be pretty livid if my web host was modifying traffic, regardless of the intent.

Sure it can. Treat it as a functional and immutable language, and you can go pretty far with it, pretty safely.

You're forgetting that bash really just calls other code. So you can combine two language's stdin/out functionality (eg, Python or Node) to pair code together. Sure, it won't be fast, but it can do quick wonders as an ad hoc data pipeline.

Have you tried Apache's tika? It's pretty decent.

Thanks - fixed.

Interesting to see this on HN. I applied for a job at propublica where the application asked to replicate the research for a story from their local reporting network. I picked this article, and went as far as I could on the FOIA side of research.

For anyone curious, here are my research notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iu_evesAD8hiSjAsZ5l7h6zr...

Anecdote:

About a year ago, I went through TSA and asked to opt out of the body scans in place of a pat down.

Another agent on the side watched the whole thing and made kissing faces my way the whole time while making gay jokes.

It was extremely belittling. Fuck TSA.

Last I tried, half of those don't work.. :/

I don't work there anymore, but I'm genuinely curious why you think that's simple. In theory, absolutely. In practice, though? Trust me - I tried to get a better on-call strategy. You're making a lot of assumptions there without knowing much about the company, their management structure, etc etc etc.

Eh, people are strange about their privacy.

When I worked in adtech, I had a flip phone up until the point that my boss made me get a smartphone so that I could get hipchat. It's believable to me, because I was only inches away from having a burner phone myself.

First rule of burner phones: don't talk about burner phones.

Just because you haven't seen it, doesn't mean it's not happening.

One small problem is that it sometimes doesn't make newline separations properly. In my use case, I was extracting email addresses from web scrapes - some email addresses would come out as "blah@blah.comRandomWord"

Well, yes, but sometimes it's not that simple. For example, when the oncall person is unavailable and you get an emergency work call and only have your personal laptop on you.

It's pretty understandable. My last job was in ad tech, and as part of the employment agreement, we effectively signed away our privacy rights through a clause that effectively waived the privacy rights on any machine that interfaced with any thing related to the company. Problem was - how does someone make the distinction between viewing an ad for work purposes and viewing it for work? Not to mention the company gave very reasonable incentives to use your own phone for work, etc.

A little late to the comment party, but I was wondering the same. I'm working on a web scrape workflow that's currently using Tika. I'm very interested in to see how well this does in comparison.

I've found it to be very hard. Very, very hard. It got to the point for me where my "creative projects" took over and started to become what I spent most of my mental energy on, so a fulltime job became extremely difficult. These days, I only work 10hrs a week doing independent contracting, which while it's not much time, it's been surprisingly exhausting considering the time crunches and other strange pressures that come with it.

That said, my "creative projects" are a pretty involved - two of them include FOIA lawsuits.

On a modded Minecraft server, I wanted to use an opencomputers 3d printer to print out pngs from the internet. It had a pallette system that let you choose colors at specified dimensions, but I wanted to constrain myself to only use colors that not only existed on existing blocks, but also in the same position.

1. Had to build a Minecraft computer and figure out its interface. The computer came with git and curl commands, so that's how I downloaded files.

2. Every block had to be pulled apart and every pixel had to be mapped to it's voxelspace dimensions.

3. Some blocks had extra logic which caused random transparent pixels to show up, so I had to find and exclude those from samples (flowers were the biggest contributor). This was a bulk of the work, because there was no simple way to find which blocks had extra logic. I even pulled out jad to find any sort of useful pattern, but there really wasn't any.

4. Had to do some k-map stuffs to find the closest color to each pixel from all images.

5. Create a file for each block, which all had to include the original block's color for that specified dimension.

6. Import each file one by one because the computer had limited diskspace.

7. Place each block manually.

It ended up working surprisingly well and could be scaled to any size. Problem was, even looking at a printed block used a LOT of resources at both server and client side. So I scrapped the project.

Fun stuff, especially with that being the first sort of image processing work I've ever done.

The first time I opend the start menu on Windows 10 after mostly using linux, it included news about Kim Kardashian. Since then, my thoughts have been sealed about Windows.

Have you ever used wikidata? It's kind of a shitshow.