skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10131387 (33 comments)

Many Psychology Findings Not as
Strong as Claimed, Study Says
(nytimes.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10131818

100 psychology experiments repeated,
less than half successful
(arstechnica.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10131891

Over half of psychology studies fail
reproducibility test
(nature.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10131921

Experiments in leading psychology journals
can't be confirmed most of the time
(ap.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10131921

Study: Most Experiments in Leading Psychology
Journals Can't be Confirmed
(ap.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10132251

Yes, many psychology findings may be "too
good to be true" -- now what?
(retractionwatch.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10135274

Psychology Research Fails
(theguardian.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10135391 (5 comments)

Scientists Replicated 100 Psychology Studies,
Fewer Than 50% Got the Same Results
(smithsonianmag.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10135617

Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as
Claimed, Study Says
(nytimes.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10135696 (1 comment)

100 psychology experiments repeated,
less than half successful
(arstechnica.com)
If this takes off I see potential in software that automatically orders GrubHub if your levels get too low.
The github repo https://github.com/openaps/openaps includes a description of some of the things the project can do. One of them is "predict - Can make predictions about what should happen next."

All diabetics ever have is a rear facing indicator, fortunately it's not really true that you can't predict the future when it comes to blood glucose. The simple equation is `exercise + carbs + current blood glucose level + insulin on board` along with all the attributes that make your body respond to artificial insulin the way it will. The system doesn't really need to predict the future to be a massive improvement on where diabetics already are thanks to slow moving organizations like the FDA. With appropriately cautious buffers around when to shut the insulin pump off a huge majority of diabetics will rarely see a low blood sugar. The technology is here, we just have to summon up the will to move medicine forward.
I confirm we can not download the app through Google Play. It also does not work for my device (Android Nexus 5) in Shanghai due to the connectivity with Google Maps. It is a pain I must say, but most people find workaround.
We also have humans who vary widely in skills who are writing software. The same people who allow acceleration and braking to be linked to the entertainment system, and by extension, controllable over the internet. You seem to be assuming the worst possible case for autonomous car software will necessarily be better than the best human driver, but that's not an assumption backed up by reality. More likely (to me) is that, while both humans and autonomous cars might be safe in most situations, the fail states for autonomous cars are likely to be less predictable.
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It's almost as if Google's business was somehow entirely supported by advertising.
https://foobar.withgoogle.com/
Over $1M in Sales for the 15-Year-Old Entrepreneur Behind Fish Flops
It seems that it will indeed allow to push things forward. Now to see what and who the concurrents have in their pockets.
Why is a VPN better practice?

Only I've been using sshuttle to make ad-hoc tunnels and it's exceedingly easy - there's details at http://alicious.com/digitalocean-free-credit/ (if you'll forgive the rather mercenary promotional slant in that post).

In short "$ sshuttle --dns -r root@X.X.X.X 0/0 --exclude 192.168.0.0/9 # start sshuttle" tunnels everything but my local network over a server with SSH on it [I've not checked for myself with Wireshark yet, do your due diligence].

When setting up I found [Open]VPN a bit protracted in comparison.
"The key thing I would focus on to expand this would be the writings of Plato regarding Solon. I have heard that it was a mistranslation that Plato said 9000 years and that it really reads 900 years, but I have not yet been able to find out where the original text is to ask to for a picture in order confirm/deny this"

You want the Loeb Classical Library:
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/collection.php?cpk=1031
You're leaving off two details in your otherwise nice list. First, the backups aren't going to help you in a targeted attack if the attacker can mess with them. For this reason, I always recommended write- or append-only storage for backups. Or a second copy on these made later (i.e. batch process). I used CD/DVD-R's.

Other thing is you've hit problem (0-days) without solution (isolation). There are numerous technologies, especially separation/MILS kernels, that can isolate damage inside one or more VM's. They can also run security-critical processes outside of them directly on the kernel or in their own VM. INTEGRITY Desktop, LynxSecure, and Turaya Desktop are commercial examples. QubesOS, GenodeOS, and Muen Separation Kernel are open-source examples.

So, there are two things. We also have all sorts of interesting tech for protecting kernels in the works in academia that might transfer to rest of us eventually. Better virtualization (esp I/O), DIFT, CPU obfuscation, tags, capabilities, automatic safety/security transforms... you name it, there's already prototypes. So, all is not lost yet. :)
Do you have infinite time and omniscence? If not there isn't. If Morning Edition is an echo chamber, all media is.
Pretty well summarized!
In Baidu maps? Awesome, I will check it out. Do you know when it was added?
4 Ways Sci-Fi Tech Is Already Revolutionizing Medicine
Your Body Wasn’t Built To Last: A Lesson From Human Mortality Rates (2012)
My problem with intentional vulnerabilities is this: if we (Americans) supposedly have the best and baddest intelligence agencies in the world, isn't asking for a key under the doormat akin to a magician asking the crowd to close their eyes while they get their next trick ready?

If the FBI and NSA really need backdoors to do their job, then it makes me feel less secure...and less trusting.
Proving it would require the cooperation of witnesses and aggrieved parties who would be publicly embarrassed if they were to provide testimony.

So it's usually safer to cheat someone if you can do so in a manner that would also humiliate them if their role in the con was exposed. They discount what they lost by the price of their own dignity and reputation.
Maybe you missed it, or it's since been edited, but see item #1: "Groups that submit early have a significant advantage because we have more time to read their applications."
Sorry to disagree, but legislating a right-to-strike relationship with a company that is once-removed is not a solution; it's just a concession to a union demand that temp/contract workers be paid more money. The net result will undoubtedly be much higher prices for goods and services, and a number of start-ups will either fail, or be forced to downsize.

Regarding McDonald's in Denmark: do they operate on a franchise basis there as in the U.S., or are the stores directly owned and operated by corporate McDonald's? What kind of prices are there on the foods they sell?

I didn't say it was impossible to make a profit at $20/hour; I DID say I'd love to see it, and I'd like an explanation of how it would be competitive in the U.S. economy. In Denmark, $20/hour is not the same as $20/hour in the U.S., because Danish income tax is 55.6%. Also, they have a VAT of 25% on most goods and services (not sure if it applies to fast food). Thus, that $20 is really closer to $10 or $15 in U.S. purchasing power parity terms.
After spending time sysadmining in biotech and as a side-effect reading lots of papers in the field, my confidence in the validity of many scientific papers has shot way down. Coming from outside the scientific/academic arena, my view is that the system has become a resume/job padding tool for far too many people, who have simply learned how to A) hit all the main logic points the publishers/journals look for so they get published, and B) find ingenious ways to get their names attached to papers even if they were barely involved in at all.

So tired of hearing X has been cited in over Y Z-journal papers! as a way of touting their scientific merit.
With containerization growing in popularity I suspect this will change. Ubuntu based images are huge and include more features than needed to run basic web servers.
A Cyclists Encounter Wit an Indecisive Google Self Driving Car
As semiconductor industry consolidates,can chipmakers grab bigger slice of pie?
I've been mostly happy with the switch from Bower to JSPM. I like SystemJS and the use of ES2015 modules and transpilation support over CommonJS.
Why did it exactly work inefficiently? There are plenty of legacy systems out there, scientific and engineering equipment is a very common place to find them, i still got couple of scopes that are running DOS they are very good and very cheap why should i care?

On a side note one of the big drivers dictating the shuttle decommission final date was that NASA ran out of 8086 chips they ran out of them in 2002, and there wasn't a big enough supply to push servicing them beyond 2012...
The chips were apparently part of the pre-launch diagnostic module for the SRB's and there was an 8 months delay in shuttle missions in the early 2000's until NASA found a fresh batch some where.
Since reading about that 13 years ago I still haven't heard of a cooler job at NASA (other than actually flying to space ;)) it's like being a modern day Indiana Jones hunting for new old hardware to keep their current missions in play...

The International space station is probably running out of their 486DX's these days if some one has a hook on a good supply of fresh one's they might make a killing :)
I guess that /usr is probably on the same partition as his root.. But depending on the distro, and how the system is managed; it may be the case that every single file in /usr comes from a package, and can be cryptographically verified using your package manager (this is certainly possible with RedHat, Debian + derivatives at least). As long as /var or wherever your package DB lives is encrypted..
You don't need wheel to modify your terminal environment, $PATH or .bashrc. If your user account is compromised, your user account is compromised. Anything else is lipstick.

And I agree that the typical sudoers config that allows opening terminals as root isn't a good idea.

What I prefer lately is using a yubikey neo to ssh access a root shell. You can configure sudo and authorized_keys to allow directly opening a root shell and you never enter any passwords anywhere except the pin to unlock the yubikey's openpgp applet. The yubikey will lock the key after six unsuccessful pin attemps and you can just yank the key out when it's not being used.

Now all I need is some sort of phone app that reaches out to me on a side-channel to pops up asking me to authorize each login (something like libpam-askmeonmyphone)--(I really like the way the Microsoft Account 2FA phone app works in this regard). If I could change one thing about the yubikey neo, it's that I'd require it to make me physically interact with it to decrypt anything (beyond entering the PIN).
No you can not, only Dididache (滴滴打车) through the WeChat wallet.
For those wondering what this is about: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=143725996614627&w=2

The current process is forced into a restricted-service operating mode.
A few subsets are available, roughly described as computation, memory
management, read-write operations on file descriptors, opening of files,
networking. In general, these modes were selected by studying the
operation of many programs using libc and other such interfaces.

Sounds pretty interesting.
That is true, but the world is big and there are people who (1) wouldn't be ashamed, (2) could do it as an intentional investigation. And the crooks can't detect those people in advance.
Just because something isn't surprising does not mean it isn't newsworthy.
> At a startup you'll have way more responsibility and be making decisions at a much higher level than at bigcorp.

LOL. Seriously LOL. Literally laughing out loud and people are staring at me.

We've worked for some VERY different startups. At the last startup I worked for, I couldn't even choose whether my monitor was rotated to portrait or landscape mode. The co-founder changed it to the "better" mode for me.
I don't think it has changed really at all. I think you have. I was on in the early days, and it was terrible. It was full of dark people looking to get a rise out of each other. It was full of brilliant individuals using that brilliance to get a rise out of each other. It was awful and amazing, it was brilliant and it was pants-on-head retarded at times. Those people were the closest friends I've never known.

It still is. All of that. For many people. But the difference is that you've aged. 4chan in general, but specifically /b/, was, is, and will forever be the best introduction to the anonymous internet for young people. You can say whatever you want to whomever you want, and you don't really have to worry about being bullied. It gives juvenile individuals a way to express themselves, and experiment with just how horrible and creative they can be.

All that said, I'm in the same boat as you. I used to go there, but I avoid it now, because my tastes have changed. It's still good for a quick chuckle once every three months or so, but that's about it.
I wish more scientists studied meta-analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis; an area of study specifically tasked with the challenge of synthesizing various study results. Roughly speaking, each study is treated as a (weighted) observation and then combined using statistics.

To put it another way, interpreting empirical results requires (or should require) statistics from bottom to top.
Thanks for the sleuthing. I wish more folks here on HN read such parts of source and reported back what they found.
Tl;dr: The plaintiffs/petitioners presented only a tenuous case that their records were actually collected, which reduced their perceived likelihood of success on the ultimate merits of the case enough that they were not entitled to a preliminary injunction.

Let's unpack that a little bit. This is not a final ruling on the merits of the case, and it does not have anything (directly) to do with the 4th Amendment. Plaintiffs had moved for a preliminary injunction before the district court that would have stopped the program well before the ultimate outcome of the case. For obvious reasons, the standard for evaluating such requests is high. One of several factors used for evaluating such a motion is likelihood of ultimate success of the merits.

In order for plaintiffs to ultimately succeed, they have to convince the court that they have actually suffered an injury by having their own call records collected. They need to have been injured in order for the court ultimately to have jurisdiction. At this point, the DC Circuit concluded that they do not have any specific evidence of this (and, in fact, some of the indirect evidence weighs against them). So, the DC Circuit concluded that they were not so likely to ultimately succeed that it should give them the injunction they wanted before the ultimate outcome of the case.

This is not a good sign for a plaintiffs' case, but its important to emphasize that this is an early look at it with, necessarily, the benefit of only a small amount of evidence. The case will continue in the district court which will, among other things, try to determine whether the plaintiffs were actually injured.

Of course, the predictable outcome of that inquiry is that the NSA will invoke various legal privileges against disclosing the evidence necessary to actually make a determination, ultimately rendering plaintiffs' case impossible to maintain.
Thanks to propose your help !

What I find vague in "ZooKeeper and consensus" is the answer to
"Why does this proposal work compared to the original one?":

>> Because each of the workers has “proposed” a single value

Does the processes read or propose the value ?

>> and no changes to those values are supposed to occur.

Not suppose to ? How do you ensure that ?

>> Over time, as the configurator changes the value,

>> they can agree on the different values by running independent instances

>> of this simple agreement recipe.

Sorry, but I fail to see what recipe you speak about.
Thank you for that! I'm no archaeologist or historian but I love ancient history so this is going to be my weekend reading.
Especially since a "right to not be triggered" is impossible to enforce.

Let's say I had a traumatic experience involving a dolphin and an harmonica in my youth. Am I gonna demand that people/movies/songs/... give me a trigger warning before talking about dolphins and harmonicas?

People have their own experience and it's great (or not when it's traumatic), but why demand from others to know about them before talking?
Perhaps I'm just not privy to this terminology - but to me this sounds like "kernels suck, and don't really do much to run your PC. Post-kernel operating systems do better."

Calling it post-AV just doesn't seem to offer anything. That's what's making this sound like PR for SentinelOne - maybe they do have a better offering than anybody else, but drawing an arbitrary line (the 'post-AV' line, where everyone else is 'left behind in AV-land') doesn't lend any credibility.
There certainly is: don't pay attention to the "news". Easier said than done I admit.
Great comments here. My advice would be similar to what others have said. Try working with people. Last year I was tutoring high school kids and it was a great experience. Working with stressed out kids was much less stressful than working with stressed out adults and it put everything into perspective. Any kind of work where you are interacting with people in a non-competitive environment (or compassionate environment) but also using your intellectual skills (Don't work at Taco Bell!). Try contracting rather than permanent work. Contracts have an end and you're not committing in the long term which allows you to take breaks to take care of your health between contracts. Focus your energy in maintaining a healthy lifestyle (exercise, eat healthy, get enough sleep, meditate). Do as much as possible to keep your thoughts out there (talking and writing) rather than letting your throughts eat you alive. You're not alone, good luck!
There ar e ways to audit... Timestamps of account creations, IP block where signups and messages come from....
Thank you for sharing!
Yeah exactly, so practicing sword fighting doesn't prepare you for real sword fighting as good as boxing prepares you for a real-life fist fight.

Because you can practice boxing at full force, and you can find out if you're able to knock someone down. Of course noone goes 100% on every sparing, but once in a while, or in competitions - entirely possible.

Every practice is an approximation, sure, but some approximations are (inevitably) orders of magnitude more crude than others.
Thomas, I suspect that thaumaturgy is responding at least indirectly to writing like this:

In 2014, Lastline Labs discovered only 51 per cent of AV scanners were able to detect new malware samples.

Let's unpack this statement.

First, consider that for some definition of "new" you can get that number up to 100% or down to 0 (stuxnet). Second, the fact that over half of a crowded, very uneven field accomplish something really difficult is remarkable, and yet you use the word "only" as if all antivirus should detect modern threats. Third, you somehow manage to imply that it's rational to dump any AV because 51% of your options fail at doing something hard.

Perhaps I'm old-fashioned but I think reporters should work hard to avoid spin. In this case, removing the "only" and fully explaining what the take-away is (and isn't) would help a lot.
I don't understand why so many people are so enthusiastic about flatmap. It's never seemed particularly difficult to understand, and in my experience is less useful than map.

The Scala community in particular seems to have a comical number of articles praising it and explaining how to use it. I just don't get it.
I thought I'd throw in a mention of a book on a similar topic, "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains", a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2011:

http://www.nicholascarr.com/?page_id=16

If I had to summarize a few takeaways:

* Books are read in a linear fashion. Following a simple linear path helps us focus our attention on the content in a book and digest it. Reading cultivates habits of focusing and thinking deeply about a single topic.

* The internet is full of rich sources of information but is also full of distractions. People browsing the web simultaneously digest content and make decisions about how to navigate through that content, which distracts from the ability to absorb the content and form associations with it. Compared to book reading, web browsing also encourages quick-pleasure-seeking rather than focused, intentional, sustained attention that books help cultivate.
Right. How often do you hear people say "_ studies support my claim, _ studies controvert my claim, and _ studies are agnostic on my claim?" That would be more intellectually honest.
The way auditors have complete access to people's financial records?
but...but.. this one is _post_-AV! It must be better!
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A big reason why it dominates the cloud is tons of web developers use Ubuntu as their desktop Linux of choice.

This is exactly why people were screaming at Red Hat back when they decided to kill their (then) consumer offering, and later when they started actively eschewing talk about desktop Linux. Everybody knew that developers drive adoption of server OS's and that once developers started moving away from Red Hat derived distros on the desktop that they would eventually start moving away server-side as well. But I guess the higher-ups at RH either didn't believe, or didn't care.

Personally I still use Fedora as my personal desktop OS and mostly run CentOS, Fedora or Amazon Linux on servers. I never saw the appeal in Ubuntu. From what I recall, their main claim to fame had always been "we pre-ship all the proprietary audio/video codecs that RH won't ship" and the supposed superiority of apt over yum.

I use Ubuntu on the desktop on my work provided laptop and it works well enough, but I don't see any particular advantage over Fedora. And I prefer yum (now dnf) to apt, so I doubt I'll switch anytime soon. Still, if RH cares about this sort of thing, they really should start embracing "Linux on the desktop" again.
I'd argue that institutional opposition to free speech is a critical threat to freedom of speech. What you say outside work hours should be especially protected.
That can happen here and in other forums, but it still doesn't mean your rights are being trampled. You go into a polarized community and start speaking against the status quo; what did you expect to happen? I'm not saying it's right, but it's the way of society. But being modded down or +gasp+ having to hear someone's opposing position does not equal your rights being trampled. You make it sound as if you only want your opinion heard, and anyone who doesn't agree with you is "trampling your rights". There's a ton of irony there.
Here is the paper (with ~190 co-authors!): http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716