skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The district court opined that the bulk collection was not authorized by law, so the NSA was acting illegally (but ignored whether it was constitutional or not). The FISA court ignored that and said they still have 180 days to bulk collect, per the so-called 6/2/2015 Freedom Act.
> Meta-analysis is interesting, but it's ultimately a shoddy attempt to patch over the much larger problem of widespread methodological failure.

I think I know what you are getting at. Let me try to unpack what I mean, and I would like to see if you would agree...

I agree that "widespread methodological failure" is a problem with science in the real world.

However, by your writing, it would seem that you attack meta-analysis as a technique.

1. Meta-analysis (MA) is a solid technique and not shoddy. I'm not saying it works equally well in all situations, but I am saying that it works better than not using it. :)

2. MA cannot "correct" one underlying study that is flawed. (This is obvious; doing statistics with a sample size of one is silly.)

3. Nor can MA correct for a systemic problem in underlying studies.

4. However, in the same way that statistics can be resilient over random errors in measurement, MA can handle studies of varying quality, provided that they do not have significant errors pointing in the same directions. (This is the often claimed, but less-often tested, assumption that errors are randomly distributed.)
Just by way of comparison - Brit here. I'd choose to move to many countries over the US for various reasons:

1. Health care cost
2. Crime (especially violent and gun crime)
3. The lack of a political center ground or any sensible centrist discourse.
4. And of course - broadband and mobile data cost/speed ;-)

(* http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/United-King... - although I'm sure those statistics are massively affected by area)
10 Days to Better Productivity
I primarily use Django REST Framework for APIs... has anyone moved from Django to Phoenix and can give a report on how the developer productivity compares currently? If it's not there yet I'm sure it will get there as the community grows but how is it now?
Not really. At a certain age people die of "nothing", they just die, without any specific reason.

It's not the same as curing something that kills people early.
Which would have the odd side effect of increasing the ratio of women on the site.
Engineers Are an Inferior Form of Life (2011)
As Jose was one of who contributed the most of RoR code and now is focusing on Elixir/Phoenix, will the RoR community move to Elixir/Phoenix? I think so, as Rails 5 doesn't seems to be that promising as one discussion here took place
I'm not a 4th Amendment expert, but I believe the beach of privacy inherent in a substantiated 4th Amendment violation is itself a sufficient injury to support standing.
We reverted the submission title from “99.999999% certainty that no human will ever live to the age of 130” to the article's.
I believe it should be possible to use two cards of the same model, using pci-stub instead of blacklisting the driver. I've never gotten it to work, but I also think it should be possible to move a card from the guest back to the host (though that might require some more work on the kernel and/or other components).
Flash is not installed, so there is no need to block.
For Adblocking I use Bluhell Firewall, to stop tracking Ghostery and Self-destructing cookies. On top of that I run noScript to kill remaining junk.
And because I like to encrypt: HttpsEverywhere.
That's an Economist thing. They feel that "what is written is more important than who writes it"[0].

[0]: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/ec...
We already live in an anarcho-capitalist society. It's just that in the U.S., there is a government that has managed to convince most of the others in the area to acquiesce to it. Those few alternate governments that do arise aren't able to convince the U.S. Government and its subsidiaries to choose a different arbitrator than the ones they currently go to.

If you can explain how to construct an Anarcho-capitalist society that somehow prevented a sufficiently militarily strong government from deciding not try to dominate or collude with all other governments operating in its territory, I would love to hear it.
> The fallacy of using history to predict the future, with math.

You say that as if we have anything aside from the past that we can use to make predictions.
It's an interesting question what substance the Petition Clause has.

Isn't the Petition Clause what makes lobbying a Constitutional right, and not something that Congress could ban or otherwise unduly burden?
It's not artificial at all. Lifespan is a distribution, what OP describes is moving the distribution around a bit without moving the bounds.
As if competence in web design had anything to do with it. There's a subtle difference there. Rage harder though dude, it's Friday!

Someone who bitterly states that "you know nothing about design" is obviously a web designer who is personally insulted by this article, who is obviously defending "web design competence".

You've been arguing that "web design competence" is key here since you said that " A designer either designing for his or her own tastes or trying to find some best-of-all-worlds design will ultimately fail to satisfy the vast majority of visitors to the sit". As if.... but no, they add things we don't like because they have to. That's all you had to say. I think we agree otherwise, so whatever no big deal...
This article is just a math lesson on exponential decay using human mortality trends as an example. The author states the following in the article:

Exponential decay is sharp, but an exponential within an exponential is so sharp that I can say with 99.999999% certainty that no human will ever live to the age of 130. (Ignoring, of course, the upward shift in the lifetime distribution that will result from future medical advances)
The key is 'or better'. And no, even with the best modern (as in today) medicine you have no chance of 130. The convergence of accruing damage along with DNA that is not optimized for such long life puts a lot of pressure on the older body. It is very likely that the solution to the age 'problem' will occur at a much younger age with genetic manipulation to avoid or prolong the issues that occur at old age. The question then becomes, if you manipulate your DNA, are you human, or a human subspecies?
Sure, but you obviously can't "protect your rights and freedoms" without armed forces, police, and prisons. A "legal system" with no power to enforce its laws and judgments is useless.

All you are left with is an organization that collects money from its citizens and then spends it for them.
It's strange how different people's attitude to death are, I don't fear it at all, I'm going to enjoy life for as long as I can then check out in the least painful way possible.

Maybe it comes from been atheist (I'd find proof of life after death a lot more scary), the universe was around 14 odd billion years before I was and it'll be around long after I'm gone.
Adulterous... eggs.
I always assume startups are riding investment money for personal income until proven otherwise.
This feels particularly acute in the 'soft sciences' (e.g. Educational research) where the bar for truth-y results is even that much more diminished. I look forward to the day that educators use a common platform for planning/performance/assessment allowing for large-scale data analysis... But that's not even on the radar for in-person educational environments.
You are correct and I posted that prematurely. Your pricing should always reflect the value you provide your customer. Helping a small company save 3% is worth less than helping Walmart save 3% and your company should price accordingly.

That said, if you have correctly priced your product, than the pricing should also align and scale with your costs, so you can use that as a quick short cut to evaluate a pricing model. When pricing doesn't scale with costs, it usually means your having properly valued your product.

I would argue that seems to be the case with the pricing for this Show HN
Probably? Or do you mean possibly? If you mean probably then what data are you going by that shows they probably wrote false testimonials / reviews / etc? It's certainly possible but I haven't seen any data to warrant a "probably" for that assumption but if you have it I'd certainly take a look.
The ammonia maser uses proton tunnelling.. the guy who invented that also got "laughed out of the room". Well, it's probably a different pressure / temperature than enzyme kinetics, but those physicists, they like to own the quantum and not let anyone else have it. :-)
This is addressed a bit in the Reddit thread, where the comments from practicing scientists seem to mostly agree with you. Mathematicians are claiming they aren't affected at all, physicists are claiming that disproving a major theory in physics would get you a Nobel instead of scorn, and the bioscientists saying it's a bigger problem in their field.

That said, I think it's dangerous to give any branch of science an automatic pass on this. The fundamental causes of the Decline Effect aren't limited to the "soft" sciences, they just currently seem to have a more susceptible culture.
Le Tote (YC S13) Is Hiring Ruby Developers – Change Fashion with Us
Don't know about the OP, but I've tried it with Python and Go. The Go stuff works pretty well, the Python stuff is buggy and incomplete (and the code looks overengineered)
ZeroClipboard doesn't use the HTML5 clipboard APIs yet, but there is an open issue:

https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/171
Hello everybody,
I was an intern at the Center For Science, who are organizers of this reproducibility study. It's kind of strange to me that the COS's first mention on HN is this study when they have been working on a large open source project for a few years now, but it's obviously a welcome surprise.
Anyway check it out,
https://github.com/CenterForOpenScience/osf.io
I'm curious, do you know of any existing invoicing software that handles discounts that way? I'm sure it exists, but I've never seen discounts that are tied to the date paid...
How can they pretend to write with authority on a subject? They don't even publish their editorial board. Its little better than a random guy on the internet quoting made-up facts without SOME idea where they came from. And don't say "The Economist" because they don't say who that is!
Even if you had the same body as when you were 25?
Show HN: Minutes Without app (Android)
Tarzan Boat, a mobile floating water park
You're right, and what comes to mind is that in both examples business interests stood to significantly benefit from each upheaval. Perhaps what makes USG so resistent against ideological competition is that it openly courts business competition - it took a pretty short time for "web" to get a seat at the table with finance and entertainment. Business revolutionaries are better off subscribing to the existing power structure rather than needing to foment revolution to thrive.
Nice checklist, signa11. But there are few moments which I should point:

1. TPM on recent Intel hardware is controlled by Intel Management Engine (http://libreboot.org/faq/#intelme) which basically acts as a hardware backdoor which cannot be disabled or controlled in most cases.

2. About firewalling: It's good to filter out even ping from Internet (it's almost always fine to keep it enabled for lan segment) to make automatic detection slightly harder (LOW). BTW, installing coreboot instead of manufacturer-provided firmware (if possible) also could be good improvement (PARANOID).

3. As for browser(and skype and all the rest of Internet applications) It's good thing to block and audit strange actions such as attempts to access ssh or pgp/gpg keys. By audit I mean set up quite visible and persistent notification. (MEDIUM)

4. Also, It would be great to add links to NSA Linux Configuration guide (http://www.nsa.gov/ia/mitigation_guidance/security_configura...) and CIS Security Benchmarks (http://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/downloads/browse/index.cfm?...).
Hey guys, here's the description:

"This app lets you track how many minutes you've gone without doing a certain habit that you either want to build or remove. You simply enter a habit like "eating junk food," "smoking", or even positive things like "flossing". You'll be told how many minutes you've gone since doing the activity, so you can try to either minimize the time for good habits or maximize it for bad habits. See if you can beat your all-time best!"

I built it using Ionic, which is an amazing framework that lets you build an angular app that is compiled for Android/iOS. I don't have an iOS dev account but if there's enough demand then I'll upload it.
Haha, sorry, my bad.

but with names of FOSS distro's like "Beefy Miracle" you can understand why. :P
Show HN: Brodal-Okasaki heap implementation in Go
They don't even do that. The company positions HR people between candidates and the hiring manager as a way of thwarting negotiation, but the HR person is invariably required to escalate back to the hiring manager if they can't get to "yes".

The idea that women have an outsized role in tech job screening because of the demographics of HR is totally specious. It also has nothing whatsoever to do with Rayiner's point.
Discretion?

Hindsight has its benefits here, but I already automatically suspect anyone asking for my e-mail address of turning around to sell it to the highest bidder.

If I'm looking for discretion, this is what I expect to see on the HTTP site: "You are being redirected to our secure site." And this is what I expect to see on the HTTPS site: "How to delete this site from your browser history and router logs" and "How to access our Tor hidden service."

Finally, on the Tor hidden site, "How to maintain anonymity while using Bitcoin" and "Create a new account".

But I'm probably more untrusting than most.

And there will probably always be people willing to visit http://www.blackmailphishing.cc/new_mark.php to create a new account and upload their dankest, dirtiest, and most embarrassing secrets, for free!

Wait. Wait. I got that address wrong. It's actually https://www.opm.gov/investigations/e-qip-application/ . And they got hacked, too.
The Internet Is Failing the Website Preservation Test
I dabbled in the research of computer vision, a branch of CS, before. Most of the papers published do not have any codes attached, and given the "black magicness" of many of the training approaches, a lot of the papers are hard to replicate. In fact, I find it dubious that many papers claim significant improvement when the same amount of improvement can be brought about by simply better parameter tuning. Without codes I can never be sure that their methods actually worked.
Not to mention all of those developers are writing their own "Getting started with AWS!!!" blog posts that recommend Ubuntu as well.

If I were Amazon (and if I really cared which OS my customers used), I would rebrand Amazon Linux. Having the company name in the title just screams "vendor lock-in" to management.
At my current company, those using Linux use Ubuntu. One guy is on Xfce, I'm using e17, and I don't know what the others use, as they're on a different team.

I've become known for advocating its use.
You can look at the mechanics of the thing you're studying and make predictions based on what's possible.

Like if you were watching the development of the space program you could make a prediction about when we'd get to the moon, without just looking at the historical top speed of airplanes we'd built before.
Artificial hearts is the most obvious example.
Content/Ad Blockers: The Numbers
Let's be a little more honest here. You say this, but like everybody else that makes this statement, it only applies to things that align with your narrow view of the world.

It's a common tactic to root out and silence opposing view points used in dictatorships and non-free nations. As long as someone isn't making death threats or something similar, speech should be free.

But I think people like you need to have their livelihood and speech taken away for good for something they said on the Internet to fully understand why speech needs to be free and protected for all, not just the chosen few.

If I donated some money to a pro-gay marriage proposal, I shouldn't get fired from my job (or bullied online)..so why did the ex-mozilla CEO get bullied and then fired for donating to what he believed in? Because it's against the narrative? This isn't how freedom is supposed to work...

How about gangsta rap groups of the late 80s? Local law-enforcement and many other people used the exact same words that you use today: The freedom of speech has limits. Should they have been prevented from going on stage?

How about occupy Wall street? Why should specific types of speech be allowed in the name of freedom and others deemed conflicting with 'human rights'????

I suspect you and many other people posting here will
attempt to come up with reasons why the examples I listed should be accepted but other forms of free speech (which happen to be against your personal views) are wrong and need to be silenced.

This bullshit only creates a divide between us and if our society weren't so lazy, it would lead to another war.
Similar theory, though using the Red Sea, is used in the book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus.

What do you think of the maybe prevailing theory that Atlantis was actually located on Santorini? Wikipedia has all the links, but I like the fact that it is close to Greece, as it seems Improbable that Atlantis would not be mentioned elsewhere beside Plato (although perhaps other sources mention similar events??)
And if I had an idea for a better social network, I could replace Facebook.

Just because there exists the opportunity for a competitor doesn't mean one will emerge. Until then (if it even happens!) the courts of Europe will continue to view Google as a disproportionately powerful force. Because it's an American company backed and staffed by people who fundamentally see the Internet and global economy in a different light than most Europeans (right to be forgotten, etc), Europeans have every reason to be suspicious.
Also a disingenuous argument, as the thread is rooted in an argument about hiring programmers.
That's partly true, I'm sure. But the other half IMHO is that Ubuntu's LTS releases are available for free. Fedora is arguably a better distro, but the 18 month upgrade cycle is just too rapid for typical server deployments. RHEL costs a ton, and CentOS and Debian lack corporate backing.

So if I need to throw up a server right now that I'm reasonably sure will be supported for the ~5 year lifetime of the image and I don't have funding and a Red Hat sales rep already set up for licensing new instals, then an Ubuntu LTS is really the best option available.
Oauth2 simplified
but will continue to autoplay html5 ads provided by Google ad network? Or does Google ad network explicitly prohibit auto play?
All religious aspects aside, it's amazing that this was documented back to at least 2nd century BCE to within 2.5 years or so.

"... they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years."
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Genesis%206%3A3

... with the longest living person in modern times documented as being 122 yrs, 164 days:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
Well the jerk store called, and they're running out of Shorel!
Like this? https://archive.is/jOq2m

That whole story seemed bogus and now the data would suggest that it probably is.

I think news outlets publish stuff like that because it's pure clickbait and will get traffic. It reads like a press release for AM.
What if there are no upper bounds, and all there is to work with is the distribution?
Related: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/20/on-overconfidence/
You mean advancements as in in practice on humans? There certainly seems to be research and progress in areas that affect lifespans (neurdegeneration).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_(company)
Python linting at Venmo
LizardStresser: Six people arrested for using Lizard Squad's DDoS attack tool
Exactly - the internet had been a big contributor to online culture through the 70s. Of course this stuff all had precursors in things like ham radio, model trains, etc. but it's not really sensible to identify those as "online". Nothing springs from the void.

Nice to get called "young man" though, it's been a while :)

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For relative frequencies, sure, but these are absolute numbers. You won't find them in the states, for example, because Very few senior ride bicycles there.

Also, and now that I think of it, probably more important: the absolute number of deaths for younger people has decreased significantly, while that of seniors has not. Part of that is due to having more seniors and fewer children, but part of it also is that policy has worked in making cycling safer for juniors, but not so much for seniors.
Show HN: Learn JavaScript and Google Maps API- 4 part video tutorial and sample code
I created a 4 part video tutorial about 10 months ago and published it to YouTube. Figured I'd share it here. Hopefully it helps some of you.

The tutorial takes you through a project from start to finish. Full source code is available for free on GitHub.

It covers intermediate JavaScript, the Google Maps v3 API, and the USDA API. It's a real world project using two different API's.

Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVhDux1vmIU

Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygNn7P-Fas4

Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vImMDfaqA2A

Part 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv76o8PEKwk

Finished project: www.seedtip.com

code here: https://github.com/pauldessert/SeedTip
> 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.

So let's see.. Because a person can't prove to the government that the government is violating its own rules, the government decides that the person doesn't actually have a case, even though everyone knows the government is spying on everyone, and thus violating its own rules.

Rright. So even if the government decided the case against itself, i.e. forbade itself from spying on everyone, why would anyone think they'd actually curtail their spying activities?

If a wolf had been eating sheep left and right, and suddenly declared he'll stop doing that because eating sheep is Ba-a-a-ad, would the sheep have reason to believe he'd actually stop?

Eating sheep is in the wolf's nature, and he's never had a problem with it before, so why would he stop? It would serve the wolf's interests to distract/placate the sheep though, so that they'd be easier to eat!
It always seems absurd to me that there are people walking around who literally want to die. It really highlights how closely people associate suffering with aging. It seems especially short-sighted when everything we want to do to extend life would involve reducing that suffering as well.

I.e, you won't live a long life if you aren't healthy. So you are basically asking for an unhealthy life.
If you're willing to go through the headaches of having to reload some pages multiple times, a combination of NoScript and RequestPolicy Continued (not the original RequestPolicy) may be your best bet.

For sites that you visit regularly you can simply whitelist them; for rarer sites you may have to reload pages 2-4 times as you allow requests out to CDNs, etc. and allow JS.

I run that way in Firefox as my daily driver, but have Chrome much less locked down with uBlock Origin for things that I just can't get working right. Chrome is also the only version of Flash installed.

I also tend to do most purchasing (or at least checkouts) in Chrome - annoying to get stuff all set then have the order go screwy because you have to reload the payments page several times to make it work.