skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seconded, the support lifetime of Ubuntu makes it woefully inadequate for use in an enterprise environment. I get that the hip startup scene wants the latest and greatest, but I work in the medical industry and rock-solid stability and availability are more important than anything else - we still have a couple Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows XP systems that we haven't finished decommissioning yet, along with a couple SQL Server 2005 installations.

When we made our first major Linux deployment this year there's no way I would have picked anything but RHEL/CentOS, we have critical services running on these systems that will be in use for a long time, and playing the upgrade dance in 5 years even (shorter than it sounds) is not an appealing thought.
You mean to RSS feeds instead of going to actual websites?
Just in time for your workshop. :)
I've been getting into serious production-ready web development for some time now and Rails has been the tool that kicked things off for me. However Phoenix and Volt are alternatives that have been on my radar recently and really caught my interest. Glad to see it reaching this milestone. Congratulations!
I'm not exactly sure what the moral of this story is.
Have we made even a single advancement that can increase the age to which humans are capable of living?

We've made lots of progress on stuff that kills us early, but I can't think of anything that makes our bodies actually last longer.
Anyone competent who wanted to boost their numbers could just pay someone under the table to buy a bunch of vps's or vpn connections and fake all of this.

You're just creating hoops, but you're not stopping anyone.
Congrats to the whole team!

It's also worth noting that Ecto [1], the core-maintained Elixir ORM-like package, also hit v1 earlier this week and has backends for dealing with: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, SQLite3 & MongoDB.

[1] https://github.com/elixir-lang/ecto
Yes. There's a good article on this from a few years back that began to popularize a term for this, called the "Decline Effect": http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/13/the-truth-wears... (oblig.: author is disgraced science journalist Jonah Lehrer, but this is one of his pieces that has stood up to all scrutiny).

The most straightforward explanation, mentioned in the article and in some of the /r/science thread comments, is that null results are much harder to publish than positive results. This is not limited to the field of psychology.

All that said, I'm really excited by this paper and by the gradually increasing interest in this problem.
I think this is a good setup. Not leaking metadata is uber uber important [1]. I feel that by revealing my weird setup e.g., mutt as a mail client I'm really easy to track.

Getting fingerprinted via font browser metrics is also a major worry of mine [2]. Especially if running an exotic setup, it's easy to stand out.

[1] http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/may/10/we-kill-peo...

[2] http://www.guanotronic.com/~serge/papers/fc15-fonts.pdf
Using the borrow checker to help enforce correct usage of the API is indisputably unique, given that C doesn't have anything approximating a borrow checker.
It's a particular problem with the "soft" sciences, though. For example, psychology is tough because you can't read people's minds, you have to go with how it affects their behavior in some measurable way or how they feel about it, and there's a tremendous number of confounding variables. Economics is another tough one, because experiments are not isolated from exogenous conditions and thus cannot really have a control. The whole thing is also highly interrelated with psychology as well. I'd throw poli-sci in that category too.

At least in physics somebody else can set up the same experiment and run it again. Sure, the same tendencies to publication bias, etc apply, but usually within a few years to a decade such things are discovered, corrected, and the problem identified. It's much harder to identify what resulted in the change of outcome for a soft-science experiment.
Pauling was a genius, great contributions to chemistry, but he also thought vitamin C was the cure for everything. I'm a "real scientist" and I can judge evidence for myself.\

Random searches on terms bring up a lot of stuff, but it takes time to evaluate everything. On the other hand, I'm already up to speed on the state of the art in protein chemistry, and I'm not seeing strong physical evidence from experimentalists supporting this.
Lol how old are you young man :-) I have been online since the early 80's I used to work for Telecom Gold and Prestel back then.

I even get a dedication (to my handle) in one of the books (written by a booker prize nominated author) covering the early online culture in the UK.

There has been an online culture at least the 70's - and that is not counting precursor tech like telegraph and radio hams
You're mixing up confidence vs probability.
Unsatisfying as this response may be, I think they would probably tell you--as courts have repeatedly told frustrated plaintiffs since the birth of the Republic--that this other venue is the political process.
Yes, the system is working very much as intended: http://popehat.com/2013/12/23/burn-the-fucking-system-to-the...

If governments were actually useful to us, they wouldn't have to take our money by force. We'd be happy to pay for their services voluntarily.

That tells you everything you need to know about the system's nature.
Not AA, but streams have been pretty much deprecated in favor of ranges.
Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity [PDF]
It's not phrased as a "probability that an individual human will live to 130", but as a "probability that any human will live to 130" (although I'm not sure whether that's the calculation that the original author intended to do or whether it was correct).

... but I think it was (if you assume the unlimited validity of that law as ages increase, and its validity to everyone in the population), because I tried to use that formula and my bc crashed (!), the first time I've ever seen that. It was trying to compute e to the power of

-1196855871164164755229127183619028619603176.29243358214210581124

which was the probability of a particular individual surviving to 130 according to the formula. That is a super-small number, which dwarfs the human population of 7 billion, so probably the original author did mean to say the thing about anyone-ever, and was probably correct within these assumptions about exponentials and their applicability.
My NDC Oslo talk gives a nice overview of the framework, Elixir, and its Erlang roots for those that want to evaluate the stack before jumping in https://vimeo.com/131633172
Few folk using Ghostery... but I thought Ghostery was the plugin backed by the advertising industry that just fed your data back to them anyway?

I use AdBlock (original) and Disconnect. Perhaps Disconnect does something with my data tooshrug
In addition to all the plugins that everyone has listed, I'm also interested in hearing about the default settings that should/need to be disabled in Chrome or Firefox so as to prevent most/all of the "dial-home" features. For example, unchecking the features in Chrome > Settings > Show advanced settings > Privacy, like "Use a web service to detect spelling errors" or the offer to translate pages further below.

While perhaps not as potentially malicious as 3rd party websites, I think that a discussion regarding privacy in web browsers themselves is a useful one.

Some discussion here: http://thesimplecomputer.info/the-private-life-of-chromium-b...
What does Sindre Sorhus actually make besides those two iPhone apps he put on the app store? He's a widely seen name in JS open source, but if you only write tiny bits of software here and there to help other people write software, are you really making anything, or just making the process a bigger pain?
> But in Swift, C++, Common Lisp, OCaml, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, Scheme, and many others, adding another map/filter/etc. will add another pass through the sequence unless you're going out of the way to avoid it.

I think this is wrong in the case of Python -- map/filter/reduce are lazy, and so chaining them does not result in multiple iterations of the source sequence.

In Ruby, its definitely sometimes wrong, because whether or not iteration is lazy depends on the particular Enumerable object; and, in the worst case, in Ruby, you don't have to go very far out of your way. In the event that the Enumerable you are operating on isn't already a lazy one, you just call its lazy method, and chain your operations after that.
"So...you're saying theres a chance!"
I use Emacs as an IDE and gdb for debugging and it works like a charm.
AVG Privacy Fix, HTTPS Everywhere, Ghostery.
I'm 99.999999% certain I would not want to live that long.
Where does the term “Data Science” come from?
Think the key difference is that Addison Lee provides the vehicles for their drivers, and their drivers have little leeway to refuse certain rides.

But Uber drivers provide their own vehicles, and can choose rides as desired.
The really easy part is it can happily run Docker containers:

$ sudo bin/rkt --insecure-skip-verify run --interactive docker://busybox
rkt: fetching image from docker://busybox
Downloading cf2616975b4a: [====================================] 32 B/32 B
Downloading 6ce2e90b0bc7: [====================================] 1.15 MB/1.15 MB
Downloading 8c2e06607696: [====================================] 32 B/32 B
2015/08/28 12:15:24 Preparing stage1
2015/08/28 12:15:25 Writing image manifest
2015/08/28 12:15:25 Loading image sha512-9d710100ce6769569b12a39100318bfed5b6b98115ee6315b724c11658db3751
2015/08/28 12:15:25 Writing pod manifest
2015/08/28 12:15:25 Setting up stage1
2015/08/28 12:15:25 Wrote filesystem to /var/lib/rkt/pods/run/e3cbf309-5f03-4ce4-b098-597b5ec3e040
2015/08/28 12:15:25 Pivoting to filesystem /var/lib/rkt/pods/run/e3cbf309-5f03-4ce4-b098-597b5ec3e040
2015/08/28 12:15:25 Execing /init
/ # ls -l $(which ls)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May 22 2014 /bin/ls -> busybox
/ # exit
Sending SIGTERM to remaining processes...
Sending SIGKILL to remaining processes...
Halting system.

The `--insecure-skip-verify` is to disable the GPG verification that rkt does for its native ACI container format. Beyond that, take a look at `rkt help run` and poke around.
Red Hat releases free/libre Overpass font family
Phoenix and Elixir are really great tools. I spent the summer building a bunch of interactive components for an EdX MOOC (https://imgur.com/a/rAXVz), and got to try out a lot of Phoenix capabilities (channels/websocket support is great!), but also using underlying Elixir/Erlang libraries for task-queues, email sending and receiving, etc. Super stable, never able to get our server above a few percent of CPU :)
I try to focus on DM's only. Written about my addiction to Slack bots here: https://medium.com/@RecurVoice/rise-of-the-slack-bots-5a7928...
it always bothered me that guides show whole lists of commands prefixed by sudo, instead of teaching people to disable the timeout and use "sudo -i" or "sudo -s" to get their stuff done

That gets to the philosophy of what sudo is used for in the first place. Back when sudo was experiencing a big upswing in popularity, it was a way to avoid having a root shell open at all. Forcing the user to type sudo before every command reminds them they're acting as root.

If you advocate for only using sudo as a different way to authenticate for a root shell that's cool and all (I often use it like that too), but you're going to run into a disagreement around the nature of sudo.
It's definitely not the same: I think you're missing a "not" in "99.999999% chance of an individual reaching 130". :-)
History paints a far darker narrative than the one you tell. You are falling victim to Cognitive in which you are shortcutting that data because, the data is so nebulous you are only looking at your experience as the whole set instead of a subset. As well you are falling victim to Confirmation Bias as your personal experience (of a stable peaceful government) deviates from the norm, but you are assuming it is the norm.

Outside of the first world the world is still a very violent place and it has really only been peaceful in the first world for the last 60 or so years. As recently the late 30's Spain was locked in a bitter civil war in which is government was oppressing and killing it's citizens. You and I where not born then and did not experience it, but on the scales of time that was 5 minutes ago.

So the answer to your question is yes the data spell out that you should be distrustful of government, where we are at right now is an anomaly and historical data says governments are a temporal thing, it's just that they, in general, span multiple lifespans and you and I got really lucks, but our life span could bridge the fall of that government.

Now things may have changed this time and we may have evolved but those are long odds looking around the world and the current political and financial climate. Again going back to the historical data if it does not rise and fall, then this will be the anomaly and mark a new epoch in civilization. And that very well could be, but no bookie in Vegas would take those odds based on the numbers.

You don't like guns and that's cool, but don't try and justify it by mocking another persons perspective on the subject by calling it a fantasy, especially when the data supports that persons position. There are a lot of valid reasons to tighten regulations on guns, but assuming that the government does not need an offset is not one of them.
We have no age preference. We've funded founders who are in their late teens, and founders who are in their late 60s. The average age of the last batch was 29 (and the average age of the previous batch was 30).
Congrats on hitting 1.0.0! Thanks for all the hard work. The Elixir community is producing some really exciting stuff.
Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10131387
> A field of study is not a science without replicability.

What's your point? That unless we achieve the same certainty we do in physics we can't know anything?

> without any replicable data

That's just an outright lie.

> and uses it to pass judgement on the behaviours of individuals without actually examining the individual's own motives for a behaviour.

I don't think you have any clue what research says. Now you're just making stuff up.

> I'd even go so far as to say that if you believe that Power Structures determine all human behaviour, you're living in the worst sort of Bad Faith.

You're speaking from such total ignorance and justifying it by stating (with no clue) that our research is worthless, and hence you don't need to know it. No one is saying what you're saying. It's like me saying, "oh, so you're saying that all matter is energy? So how come my car can't drive on water?" In short, utter ignorance and lack of understanding and curiosity.

> One either accepts that all study of human society (and all reexamination of values which occurs in its pursuit) is little more than observation, conjectures, and untestable hypotheses--or, one accepts that they do not understand what science is and how it is conducted and how it proceeds.

Listen, buddy. After I studied math and computer science in college and graduate school, I went to study history, and, again, you have absolutely no clue. There are different practices and tools, and a different level of certainty -- sure -- but we still know a lot.

> Calling the social sciences "science" is about as disingenuous and unscientific as calling Art History "Temporal Paint Physics."

And dismissing the work of brilliant researchers without even studying it is juvenile and idiotic. No one is saying history is science in the same way that physics is science (neither is medicine, BTW). You're making up ridiculous strawmen just to convince yourself that it's OK to stay ignorant.
Can you talk about your experiences with Ecto? How does it compare to ORM's in other langs, like Python's SQLAlchemy or Node's Sequelize?
The connection time outs will make your browsing experience feel slow as page take ages to load before they fail to do so.
Eh, might as well compare apples and oranges and expect it to describe a banana.

Most animals that live well over 100 years have a very low metabolism. For example turtles and tortoises. Other living organisms that have biological immortality are generally simple creatures. As in all the components of the creature can be replaced and the creature doesn't change in function. Fish, for example can live hundreds of years, but their biology is considerably different than a mammals. That said, whales and alligators can have extremely long lives. It may be that water acts as sunblock and reduces the amount of UV damage allowing life to continue much longer than most land animals.
> 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.

Are you able to demonstrate the breaching of the 4th Amendment ? Or there just has to be some sustained injury presented before the courts?
The distinction you are making is a bit artificial.
Do you have any blog posts on task-queues and email sending/receiving? I'm trying to learn Phoenix and Elixir by rewriting an app I have that does just this.

Sidekiq has been great as a background worker, but I'd like to try concurrency elsewhere.
Awesome! Great work Chris and Jose and everyone else.

Getting my feet wet with a few side projects and am really loving Elixir and Phoenix. Performance is great and I don't miss too much compared to Rails. I still love Ruby and Rails, but will most likely default to Phoenix/Elixir for most future projects.
The Backwards Brain Bicycle
One could argue that, but I'm not sure what recalled eggs relates to in this analogy?
Marcy Wheeler has more in a pair of posts on Emptywheel.

- one of the three judges said that the plaintiff didn't have standing because there wasn't explicit evidence that the government was collecting data from Verizon Wireless. [In a followup post, Marcy notes that a recent IG report (obtained by Charlie Savage of the NY Times via a FOIA suit) does explicitly include Verizon Wireless in a list; but this information probably wasn't known in time to include it in arguments in this suit.]

- another judge said that there wasn't any evidence the plaintiff had suffered any harm from the data collection

- and the third said that the plaintiffs "barely fulfilled the requirements for standing at this threshold stage, Plaintiffs fall short of meeting the higher burden of proof required for a preliminary injunction"

https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/08/28/dc-circuit-reverses-ju...

https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/08/28/government-recently-re...
Something tells me he has more important things going on.
This is the realistic scenario, where non-W2 service industry jobs provide few if any benefits, and individual policies are expensive, complicate and often require individual underwriting. Individual underwriting can require proof of a stable income (they pay a percentage of this in benefits if you get sick), and many have exclusions that can be difficult for people to fully understand, let alone compare against their own risk factors (if they're even understood). Other factors: affordability, exclusion due to medical history.

Take a look at the "service" lines in this 2014 BLS report: http://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-4/pdf/disability-insuranc.... 76 percent of the service industry jobs they surveyed provided no access to short-term or long-term disability benefits whatsoever. And this is probably optimistic, it includes lots of non-contract W-2 employees. Where employer-facilitated plans are available, most employers provide them at zero or near-zero net cost to the employee (take a look at access vs. participation).

SSDI exists, but has a five-month waiting period and (IIRC) pretty substantial past-income restrictions.

I'd love to see employers get out of the health care arena altogether, but I'm also not convinced private and/or for-profit insurance plans can completely solve the problem.
It's an Economist thing.

All of their letters to the editor used to be addressed simply to "SIR" as well, a practice they've only done away with just this year. Aside from a couple of pseudonymous regular features in each issue (Bagehot, Schumpeter) there are no bylines.

In 2013 they talked a bit about why they choose to operate this way:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/ec...
You're still missing the point.

My family in Gaeta knows the economy has been rough for a while, and yet their (and Italy's) strong social ties have kept society together in ways GDP and unemployment figures can't measure.

Contrast with China, where growth is less than double digits and everybody's losing their mind. GDP doesn't explain why someone on the street dying from a car crash can be ignored by hundreds of people who walk by because they don't want to get involved in something that isn't their problem (punitive laws that potentially transfer liabilities to involved bystanders don't help).

Society is more than economy. People often choose benefits to their society that tax economic growth, like preventing acid rain. If something seems irrevocably inconsistent about someone's decision, then I question the extent to which you choose to think from their perspective.
Since when do corporations have rights?

Google will do what the EU tells them to do or the EU will use violence to make them do it.
Really? All I can think about is how to not die. The thought terrifies me. It got to a point where it's my main motivator in what I do. I used to be lazy and play video games all day and when I realized how finite and easy destructible our lives are, I get crazy scared and work like crazy so I don't waste my time. There's so much I want to learn and do. The only problem is the limit of time.

Death is incredibly terrifying. I don't understand it and I don't want to, I just want to live. Forever preferably.
Wasn't one of the first Snowden documents basically #2 for Verizon?
Superfluous, stylistic commas. Or superfluous stylistic commas if you prefer. Commas are inserted seemingly at random by some authors to control the pacing of a sentence. It's not necessarily wrong. btw, "confessions of a comma queen" in the new yorker may be an interesting read.
This kind of argument is explored in Orin Kerr's "An Equilibrium-Adjustment Theory of the Fourth Amendment".

http://www.harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/vol1...

Kerr develops a notion pretty similar to yours at great length, which several examples.

We could make two kinds of counterargument: one that the fourth amendment (at least) is solely meant to constrain government power and never expand it, and doesn't "complain" if facets of state search power erode or disappear -- rejecting the equilibrium theory entirely, and another counterargument that there are still ways to define or examine the quantities in question where it's clear that technology has given government much more power overall. (For example, what proportion of all human communication can government intercept? What proportion of all human activity can government observe?)
Do you seriously think there were controls in-place to prevent Ashley Madison developers from doing just-that?

Auditors work with privileged information in order to provide assurances to third-parties that the audited entity is operating in a legitimate way. Sometimes they receive a sampling of data to spot-check things, while other times their review necessitates more-broad access. Both of these approaches necessitate some level of access to what would otherwise be considered confidential information, but audits are performed with the understanding that the firm conducting the audit has as-much to lose by compromising the data privacy of a client as the client. It makes no sense for a reputable auditor to expose the information they're analyzing because it would destroy their firm's reputation, and put them out of business.