skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Active placebos are chosen to have side effects similar to the drug being tested.
"Boss" is often too restrictive as a word. You can call it "leaders", "spiritual guides", "representatives", whatever, but they exist in a hierarchy.

Even though the individual is the indivisible element of a society, we as individuals inevitably take part in different organisations (financial, political, religious). In each of these more or less spontaneous organisations we assume a role and in some of these roles we will make decisions for several people.

The mayor is the elected leader, chosen by a majority, to make these decisions for us in a certain scope. You can't challenge his decisions on your own. If you don't like them, you either try to have someone else elected the next time or move elsewhere.

If you are catholic, the pope is also not our "boss", but boy does he have the power, legitimacy and support to influence a lot of people in arguably one of the most successful organisations to ever exist.

Don't get hung up on the "boss" word.
It's a problem of testing the efficacy of going through treatment (with any substance, inert or active) vs testing the efficacy of a certain active drug. In double-blind experiments, where placebo effects are attempted to be disentangled from actual drug effects, such a baseline would introduce too many variables to be taken in account. There are psychological factors related to the participants response ("Hey, I joined this clinical trial, but I'm not being given anything, what's up with that?") that make it difficult to conclude anything from the results. The participant might even be adversely afflicted by this seeming "lack of care" from the experimenters side. Next to that, experiments might experience observer-expectancy effects, where the expectations of experimenters cause the participants to behave in certain ways.

Also, if a positive result was found in the "not given any drug" vs "given the active drug" trial, one would still not be sure if this was due to the participant going through the treatment, or due to the treatment + the effects of the drug.
I think that you should differentiate between state communism or statism in general and Anarcho-Marxism or Marxism in general
I've taken a liking to a lot of what Microsoft is doing. I like the open source efforts, I like the RX libraries, the hardware looks great, to my mind the Metro interface is actually better than IOS/Android. I even like Windows 10.

Problem is I could never go back to the DOS command prompt. I only moved to the *nix prompt about 6-7 years ago, and I could never go back. I know I can do cygwin etc but that still feels like a layer on top of something else that is awful.
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Ask HN: Am I going to hell for doing this?
Long time HN poster, using an account not in my own name to write this. [--that should answer my own question--]

I AUTHORIZE YOU TO TAKE THE GLOVES OFF AND SAY WHAT YOU REALLY FEEL ABOUT HOW CRAPPY THE SITE IS OR HOW CRAPPY YOU THINK SOMEONE MUST HAVE TO BE DO THIS - I (or this account) can take it. Or you can say nice things about how it's good that someone had the balls to do this and focus on the victims (subscribers and those in relationships with those subscribers).

My goals in posting here are:

#1. to get some actual beta testers on a new site that I will launch tomorrow -- need to test with some load, get advice on UI and mainly to find bugs

#2. counseling / therapy (for me) -- regardless of the fact that lawyers have advised me that this site can be done, it would be helpful to hear from others on that.

#3. talk tech -- my first ReactJS app (LOVE IT!!! best thing I've seen in a LONG time); graph databases - great idea and biggest innovation in RDBMS since 1974 but I'll never use the one I did (no names) because it was a POS.

WITHOUT FURTHER ADOOOOOO....

The site is http://amInvestigator.com and it's a search engine of the Ashley Madison data drop.

(I'll put a link to a premium login in the next post.)

Like any respecting hacker (and 10k+ others just during the first week) I downloaded all the data dumps allegedly from Ashley Madison. I didn’t go to sleep until 10AM the next day because I couldn’t stop looking at it – EVERYONE I KNEW WAS IN THERE! I contacted most of those people and chatted about it with varying responses. So, I decided to put up a site (I estimated 2 or 3 days) to allow people to know what’s been leaked about them --- well the problem of dealing with what is now 200GB of data turned out to be much more than I had anticipated. A month late, and way past the news cycle, I am putting this up.
Great work, I really like this. Maybe allow other ways to sync JSON file OneDrive, GoogleDrive etc.?
I had a look at one of the papers and, although I have absolutely no ability to understand any of it, I get a kind of quiet joy from the knowledge that reality has such fractal-like depth that things like this can be created/discovered. And that some of us can dive down there and bring them back, even if I can't.

(Also, I like the term "Frobenioid". As in "precise specification of the
relevant monoids/Frobenioids within each Θ±ell NF-Hodge theater".)
Yeah, but when they compare subjective measurements across studies like that, it's really an apples and oranges comparison. The entire reason we use placebos is because there is no objective measurement for things like pain or sadness or "how well are you feeling in general?".

If the gap between placebos and pain medications is narrowing, my first assumption is that the experimental designs have tightened over time, so that the blinding is better, and subjects and doctors are less able to distinguish between treatments. It's not that pain medication is "less" effective, it's that it was always only (say) 9% better than placebo, but in crappy earlier studies where it was less well blinded, some subjects (or researchers working with the subjects) could tell they were taking the placebo, and reported feeling worse, and some subjects could tell they were taking the treatment, and reported feeling better.

If you tell me the gap has narrowed while the subjective reports of the treatments' effectiveness has stayed the same, I still believe my first assumption above, but now I'm a little bit suspicious of actual researcher bias. There are a vast number of ways researchers could "tune" for a target effect size, from classic ways like choosing the stopping point of the experiment to more subtle things like interpreting patient responses up or down based on whether a running analysis is coming in hot or cold.

(The later could be less overtly malicious than you might think -- imagine that you're continually analyzing the results of your experiment, without breaking blinding. You "know", from past experiments, that treatment X is 70% effective. If you are seeing it as 80% effective in your running analysis, you might assume your interactions with your subjects are subtly biased to encourage over-reporting of the effect and consciously or unconsciously alter them to encourage under-reporting, and vice versa if you only see a 60% effect. If your blinding is still good, your gap in effectiveness will still narrow, but the "absolute effectiveness" of the treatment will still narrow.)
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How many people have died under capitalism?
Watching TV in America is nothing but a continuous flow of commercials about symptoms and diseases that they really want to convince you that you probably have. We know advertising can make you want all kinds of things, so why not symptoms and diseases?
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That was state socialism, not a true communist society. Any form of repression, coercion and control are condemned by anarchists / libertarian socialists. The USSR was certainly a state which was did of that.

The reason why the USSR was trumpeted as socialist was that it suited both sides' propaganda to do so. For the Americans, to vilify socialism, and for the Russians to give their rule the appearance of genuine socialism. When both of the major propoganda systems in the world agree on something it's bound to become a popular conception.

But let us not also forget that hundreds of millions starved in non-communist India, which suffered terrible famines up to 1948.

South and Central America was a horror chamber throughout the 1950's-1980's under violent brutal capitalist dictatorships supported by the USA. Many Asian countries too.

The rise of communism in China, although violent and of the state-socialist kind, also brought hundreds of millions out of poverty.
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I think people with this attitude would be really pleasantly surprised by PowerShell and Cmder. Windows makes a very bad UNIX, but it has a great command-line story these days if you'll play with it on its own turf.
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I think (and if I'm wrong someone please correct me) that adaptations the bacteria evolve are specific features to specific pathways that they have for removing toxins (to a bacteria an antibiotic is a strong toxin).
Just because the "big players" all do it, doesn't make it right.

> But we're just used to it now.

It's time for complacency to end, yes?
I'm an MSDN subscriber, write C# all day and am sitting in front of Win8.1, writing this in IE11 with a Lumia 640 next to me.

They are still utter bastards and I sleep with one eye open.

Currently the tally of bad stuff is pretty high: Patent wars against competitors, forced bundling agreements, lock in despite the open specification stuff which is mostly just wrong, being fucked over on audits and licensing agreement shuffling repeatedly, collaboration with NSA/PRISM, disregard for privacy, plain arrogance since Windows 8 the repeated termination of developer stacks (silverlight, WF3, AppFabric etc) that people built their entire products on.

The marketing tactic of talking constantly about everything shiny drowns out these things going on behind the scenes. The press doesn't help this.

If there's any advice I can part on people is not to get all mushy and happy about it and always keep that eye open.
Don't forget corruption of ISO over OOXML standards.
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But what they did to destroy netscape (bundling a competing app with some other thing)

One other point worth remembering: their browser, at least by version 3, was superior in speed and vastly superior in stability. They also ushered in the modern era of web applications by inventing XMLHttpRequest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest).

Netscape destroyed itself as much as Microsoft helped them by incompetence in developing software, server as well as browser. A common pattern in the '90s was Microsoft's competitors losing their ability to develop mostly working software while Microsoft didn't. That sealed the fate of Lotus, WordPerfect, Netscape, and Ashton-Tate (dBASE), and Borland did themselves no favors by buying the latter.
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Your comment would be more honest if it started with "Things you can't do with GPL".
This was sloppy on my part. I meant "interact" in a statistical sense - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_(statistics).

I'm not a medical expert, so I'm a bit inconsistent in terminology, but have ran my fair share of (cognitive) psychological experiments (and developed methods for them), which rely on similar logic as to that of double-blind testing.
> (I can't install my legally purchased copy of OS X on my Intel machine? Really?)

I thought the only way to legally purchase OS X was to buy it preinstalled on a mac.
I have read the whole thing and I was really surprised that they didn't mention anything about individualism or non-authoritarian decentralized governance given the "libertarian" label in their name and unless I'm mistaken, they sound more collectivist-leaning than individualist-leaning and this is very troubling esp. for communists as they tend historically to favor heavy-handed measures to reach or realize their political goals even if it means to oppress and intimidate their opponents.

BTW: I'm a leftie myself but very skeptical of collectivists and statists whether on the right or the left.
The communist ideology resulted in that in the same sense that the capitalist ideology resulted in the genocide of Native Americans, the creation of largest imprisoned population in the world, and centuries of slavery.

Or maybe we're misrepresenting things a bit. I've never read a thing about having to kill 100 million working class people in any of the books about communism and anarchism I read. plenty of communist states survived without forgetting to feed their own people.
GP probably meant Nadella, if someone's wondering.
Well I guess because communism, unlike nazism, doesn't have hatred hardcoded in ideology.

On the other hand there is difference between theory and practice, you can have any ideological system, but if you depend on totalitarian dictator everything can fall apart - You depend on mood of that person/party.

Just guessing ;-)
If you double the amount of placebos people take do they get better twice as fast?

A placebo placebo trial if you will. But what would you use as a control? ;-)
"That was state socialism, not a true communist society."

Ah. the "No true Scotsman fallacy". It would be funny it it weren't for the countless millions of tortured and murdered women, children, peasants...
"The company was so in love with P.C.s (the hub for all things and for all time to come) that it came late to the Internet and much, much too late to mobile phones."

In the early 2000s, Microsoft did try pushing tablet computers, "pocket PCs" based on Windows CE (rivals to Palm PDAs) and even had Windows Phone OS in some smartphones.

That did not gain traction, because the user experience was not captivating, and they had missed the insight that fingers would be the way to go. (I'm not sure if earlier the capacitive touchscreen technology was already available in alternative to the resistive screens that required a stylus.)

I'd say that Apple's post-2007 success would not be possible without learning from Microsoft's expensive failures. But Microsoft did try.
They don't change anything software wise. Windows 10 is still being forced as a benchmark of how popular the OS is (and hilariously we heard this first on the MS event), while they didn't have the balls to address the privacy questions regarding data collection upfront and what will they do about it.

I guess people and media forget fast.
Sure there are - but for him it seems to trump all the others.
Thanks for the link!

Do you have a similar great and concise introduction to Nazism or other related extremist totalitarian ideologies?
This article adds a little bit of info about the solids:

http://waterfx.co/blog/an-inside-look-at-the-aqua4-technolog...

What are the leftovers after the distillation process, and what specifically will happen to them at the HydroRevolution plant?

The HydroRevolution plant is aiming to produce two products: water and solid salt. The water will be transferred to Panoche and the solid salt will be further processed by WaterFX and industrial partners into various downstream by-products that can be sold into the industrial and chemicals markets. Examples of these by-product materials are building components (gypsum), metals, selenium, and recovered fertilizers.

I think if they were distilling seawater they would probably end up discharging brine.
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The two worst thing ever happened to earth in one ideology. Congratulations!
I was expressing my opinion, as it should be clear from my comment and the challenge to find a counter-example to my argument is called proof by contradiction.
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yeah. I actually suggested that to someone who sells an industrial historian and his response (believe it or not!) was that no, there is too much data, a relational database solution is no good (and by the way! the business model of inductive automation will never work!)

I'm sure writing would be no problem, the only thing I wonder about are complex (aggregating) queries in situations where you care about delays (interactive visualization perhaps).
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100 times this. Eliminating structure just transfers the heavy lifting to informal mechanisms -- i.e. your "culture." No culture is sufficiently well-defined that everybody has a consistent definition of it, meaning you will inevitably have a situation where 2 people are doing directly contradictory things in the name of the company culture. The whole situation at GitHub from a few years ago with a founder's wife running reckless is a perfect example of this.

Ultimately there are probably non-hierarchical models that allow for effective and interesting coordination in certain types of small organizations (viz the Kibbutz), but Holocracy seems like it's replacing Shit Umbrellas with Shit Centrifuges.
I agree on the background needing a change. But I think a hand drawn icon needs a very geometric background to contrast the icon's organic drawing.
>why can't the SJW's and their ilk who came late to the party go find their own place?

Because their cause is evangelical in nature.

Were it just kept to Tumblr then they wouldn't have much with which to stoke the fires.

SJW's are specifically about pointing out to others where they are wrong/insensitive/racist/sexist/ableist/etc.. if they just kept to themselves then who would they persecute with their 'justice'?
It's not funny. It's also got nothing to do with Libertarian socialism, which is simply a a democratic economic system. The USSR was a system with concentrated power which directed from above.

Right wing Marxists such as Bolsheviks have always had deep divides with left wing Marxists and anarchists.
Where does your body get electrolytes when you're fasting? Did you take a multivitatmin?
Please tell me the new logo is satire.

I cannot even recognize it as an "M" anymore.

Well, actually the small one almost works. The large one ahown in the article itself doesn't. At all.
Except there's no market. Free agency is a more general concept than free markets. Assumably, cooperation rather than competition.
I'd argue, in this regard, there is nothing qualitatively different about being an IT worker compared to any other occupation or any other time under capitalism. Marx never considered labour power to be a purely physical act. Otherwise technology alone would be a source of value, too. Of course, we are the only source of value because of our innate creativity, our ideas; our hands or interaction with others, merely sets it in motion.
Out of interest, what two worst things are you referring to?
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Wonder how much Nadella really changed vs the changed perception of the company, much of this stuff must have been brewing while Ballmer was at the helm..
They not only set it up for the Irish High Court, but also set it up for two separate avenues of appeals on human rights grounds if the Irish High Court still decides it's ok:

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union covers privacy in article 7 and data protection in article 8 [1]. The European Convention on Human Rights [2] covers privacy (in article 8).

It's noteworthy that the ECJ made the statement it did, because the ECHR has national security exceptions that would make it easy for them find differently, whereas the Charter does not say a single word about whether or not there are legitimate exceptions and it'd be easy enough for the ECJ to infer exceptions without any uproar (on the contrary, in Europe both the ECJ and ECHR tends to cause more uproar when they expand peoples rights than when the curtail them).

But instead they explicitly referred to "access on a generalised basis" (my emphasis) which makes it fairly clear that they accept the exceptions of the ECHR but believe the exceptions can not be stretched this far, and at the same time they it might be seen as drawing a line with respect to the Charter as well.

So they've basically put everyone on notice that it's not only the EU Data Protection directive and associated national laws that are in play, and that surveillance must be considered, but that there may be legitimate claims under both the Charter of Fundamental Rights and under the European Convention on Human Rights as well.

This is going to make it extra fascinating to watch, as while the ECJ is the final arbiter of EU law, including the Charter, the final arbiter of the ECHR is the European Court of Human Rights.

If this goes to the ECHR, and ECHR agrees with the above statement from the ECJ, then that has effects far outside the borders of the EU, as the ECHR is binding on members of the Council of Europe, and the CoE includes most European states outside the EU as well. Including Russia.

[1] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/charter/pdf/text_en.pdf
[2] http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf
Who needs the printing press when you have cheap copists?
Well I guess because communism, unlike nazism, doesn't have hatred hardcoded in ideology.

Bullshit.

That the hatred is on the much more versatile axis of class instead of race doesn't make it any less vile. You don't rack up a 20th century record of a bare minimum of 100 million slaughtered without exercising a lot of hatred.
"The rise of communism in China, although violent and of the state-socialist kind, also brought hundreds of millions out of poverty."

Indeed, absolute world poverty has halved over the last 30 years because of state-socialism. Oops sorry, it was capitalism that halved poverty, not socialism. What a mistake to make!
To be clear this libertarianism has nothing to do with libertarianism as it's called in the USA, which essentially is an extreme protector of individual property rights.
Fascism: kill millions of poor people for their race.

Communism: kill millions of poor people for their politics.

Fascism and communism are the same thing, if you define them by how many poor people they torture and murder.
I think you could leave "Roman" out of that first sentence.
I'm assuming you mean vdevs — you can resize zvols (virtual block devices) just fine.
(and you can even grow disk-type vdevs, though they'll be somewhat unbalanced)
But it's also possible to argue that that guaranteed revenue stream would not have come about if they hadn't had the structure they did.