Paradoxes of Probability and Other Statistical Strangeness - Quillette
You don’t have to wait long to see a headline proclaiming that some food or behaviour is associated with either an increased or a decreased health risk, or often both. How can it be that seemingly rigorous scientific studies can produce opposite conclusions? Nowadays, researchers can access a wealth...
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Posted on 2017-06-14T06:18:10+0000
Persuasive proof that America is full of racist and selfish people
What millions of Google searches reveal about our national psyche.
Hasnain says:
"I'm pretty convinced that the United States has a self-induced abortion crisis right now based on the volume of search inquiries. I was blown away by how frequently people are searching for ways to do abortions themselves now. These searches are concentrated in parts of the country where it's hard to get an abortion and they rose substantially when it became harder to get an abortion. They're also, I calculate, missing pregnancies in these states that aren't showing up in either abortion or birth rates."
Posted on 2017-06-14T05:57:26+0000
How MutexGuard was Sync When It Should Not Have Been
A couple of weeks ago, our ongoing effort to formalize Rust’s type system lead to us actually discovering a bug in the Rust standard library: MutexGuard implemented Sync in cases where it s...
Hasnain says:
"So all’s well that ends well? Not really. Notice how the bug is not caused by an incorrect piece of code somewhere in the implementation of Mutex. One could go over that entire file, and prove every single line of it correct, and all proofs would go through. The bug is in a line of code that was not written. I don’t think it is very surprising that this was overlooked."
Posted on 2017-06-13T07:08:10+0000
Lessons I've Learned from Three Million Downloads
In January 2011 I was on summer break, but instead of getting a day job, or socializing, I spent a lot of time holed up in my room writing the first version of an iOS app called
IRDC US 2015 - Brian Bucklew, Data-Driven Engines of Qud and Sproggiwood
"Brian will discuss some of the interesting design decisions he made during the development of both Caves of Qud and his latest game, Sproggiwood." ---------...
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Bookmarking for future reference.
A great video on entity component systems, data driven design, and why composition > inheritance.
Posted on 2017-06-13T03:21:51+0000
The Design and Use of QuickCheck
QuickCheck is the grandfather of property-based testing libraries. Despite being imitated in over thirty languages, the original implementation remains pre-eminent due to the type system and consistent logic of the Haskell language in which it is written.
Wordpress's owner is closing its San Francisco office because its employees never show up
The blogging platform's parent, a remote-working advocate, wound up listing the property.
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Posted on 2017-06-12T15:31:02+0000
Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers And Breaking Into Email, Bank Accounts: How To Protect Yourself
If you have a cell phone and use Gmail, Yahoo Mail, iCloud, Facebook, Twitter, your bank's website and countless other web services, you could very easily be hacked.
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Posted on 2017-06-12T04:55:08+0000
Why do millennials keep leaking government secrets?
Without intending to, employers and policymakers have engineered a cohort of workers that is bound to yield leakers
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"What’s more important than the document Winner leaked is that policymakers know there are people below them who will keep them accountable or at least expose them to the world.
Just as employers can’t rely on worker loyalty they haven’t earned, neither can the federal government. Young people were caught up in a post-9/11 nationalist surge, but it ebbed quickly. In 2016, Gallup found adults under 29 least likely to say they were “extremely proud” to be American, with just over a third agreeing. Every other group, including self-identified liberals, was more proud of America than millennials were. If managers in the national security industry think they can count on patriotism to dissuade potential young leakers, they are mistaken. The cycle self-perpetuates as each leak that reveals another government lie or secret makes the state look less trustworthy and leaking information more legitimate."
Posted on 2017-06-11T22:38:41+0000
How to Make $80,000 Per Month on the Apple App Store
It’s far easier than you think. No luck or perseverance necessary.
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Posted on 2017-06-11T17:51:56+0000