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In addition to the inter-rater reliability issue, there are also a lot of unanswered questions about the statistical distributions involved. The results are reported as population …

I mostly agree with the article in the context of distribution of a final mix. However, the article ignores one glaringly obvious reason to distribute in 24/192 format: to allow th…

I agree that many programmers need to work on improving their writing skills. However, I disagree with the notion that the humanities department is suited to providing an education…

The books that are beloved by practitioners in a field are not always the best choice in terms of pedagogy. Clearly, these professors think that another book choice will help their…

Apparently, neither of these guys paid attention in high school civics class. Slander involves oral, not written, communication. Libel (not "liable") is the term for a tort involvi…

These are hardly the "most dangerous" programming mistakes. Nobody is maimed or killed by SQL injection attacks on a website unless there is physical machinery that is under the di…

The really bad news, if they decide to be evil, is that the purchase of MySpace provides a means to circumvent anti-spam and anti-telemarketing laws - if you have a MySpace account…

How do I end up paying more in taxes? Because I'm aware that I undoubtedly bought something from Amazon in the past fiscal year and, therefore, in compliance with my state's laws, …

Frankly, I wish Amazon would just give up the fight and go ahead and charge sales tax for all 50 states. They're the only retailer that I do any business with that doesn't charge s…

"Supposedly the same argument could apply to a safe combination, hence a defendant cannot be compelled to reveal a combo but can be compelled to open the safe." Can the defendant e…

"Your expectation that you will understand it without the necessary background is misinformed and frankly amusing. That being said, the popular press is there to do exactly that; c…

Hats off to you, sir. That is the most excellent troll post that I have seen in a very long time. Well done!

Wow. Here comes the bury brigade to crush my dissenting opinion without bothering to address anything that I said... How dare I criticize the sacred cow? How dare I challenge conve…

"2 million unique students are viewing our videos every month by choice" Page hits isn't a very good metric if you're trying to get feedback about what viewers actually thought of …

Regarding #3: Division by zero should be a recoverable error in many programming situations. That's part of the beauty of NaN as defined by the IEEE standard for floating point num…

The ongoing attacks on academia have little to do with geek culture in particular. Academia is under attack primarily for cynical political purposes. Specifically, because the poli…

This article totally fails to mention the #1 reason why Kenya is becoming a tech hub. Specifically, it's one of the first places to get a fibre connection to the Internet. Kenya is…

In my opinion, using antidepressants by themselves to treat depression is like buying a faster computer to run a computation that is implemented with an O(n!) algorithm. Sure, it m…

Watson isn't a replacement for the physician. It's a physician's extender, a tool that allows a physician to "see" more patients in a day and provide diagnostic results in a more t…

Why is this "get rich quick" crap on the front page of HN?

Of course the period should follow the quotation marks. Periods, exclamation marks, and question marks are the delimiters for English sentences and belong at the end in the same wa…

Disbelieving the official story doesn't make you a conspiracy theorist. Disbelieving the official story and also believing that you know what really happened is what makes you a co…

Glad he had fun because that's kind of an expensive boarding pass. When I've printed posters at Kinko's before, it usually comes out to about $40 for a 1 meter^2 poster.

I agree. She's way off base. If you search for worldwide rankings of universities, although answers vary depending on the source, higher education in the United States is universal…

Whether displayed or not, the points never really contained any useful information about the quality of a post. The ability to dispassionately evaluate an argument solely on the ba…