skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only a quarter of scientific drug research is successfully reproduced as well.[1]

This is a debate in semantics: research that is not successfully reproduced is not scientific.

It should be part of that which society frowns down on as non-verifiable testimony.

Natural sciences or engineering-related research that cannot be reproduced is nothing but scientific theater. There are various reasons why people do that (including financial ones in the drug industry), but that's a discussion for another time.

This is not proof that "scientific rationality" is brainwashing people. If anything, it's proof that non-reproducible research dressed as legitimate science is dangerous -- so dangerous, in fact, that it can put lives in danger (e.g. when it happens in drug research).
It looks like the headline technically violates the HN guidelines[1], unless we consider "languages that are not English" to be "misleading or linkbait" :)

What might be getting lost in translation here is that in English language news it's customary to use "says" when the quote is actually a translation, without noting that it is. See e.g. news articles about world leaders ("Putin says Y") that don't note that he actually said X in Russian, it was just translated into Y.

Now I'm curious, is it customary to note that such quotes are translated in German language news?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Strong Jobs Report: 271,000 Jobs Added in October, Unemployment Rate Down to 5%
Here's the author's thesis, buried in the last paragraph with "little data to support" it:

In the final paragraphs of this article, let me assert something I have very little data to support: At some point early last year, the standard knock against Twitter—which had long ceased to be “I don’t want to know what someone’s eating for lunch”—became “I don’t want everyone to see what I have to say.” The public knows about conversation smoosh, and that constitutes, I think, a major problem for Twitter the Company.

I don't think I agree with the author's conclusions about "conversation smoosh" causing the decay of Twitter. Would love to hear any rethinkings/clarifications of the author's points, as I found them near inscrutable due to the convoluted structure and logic of the article.
Former VP of ICANN Hired by Facebook for “New Domain Name System Strategy”
Connecting international startups with US customers
This was the site I was actually looking for as great examples of correlation http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Square Sets Conservative I.P.O. Price Range
The Book Is Better Than the Movie 74 Percent of the Time
A utility to convert ESLint files into JSCS and JSHint files (and vice-versa)
Teens Spend 9 Hours a Day with Media
Recently, within the past month, someone I follow either posted or retweeted a link to a survey about paracetamol use in accident and emergency departments in the Uk, and how it was about as effective as opiate meds for most people.

Today there are stories on HN where that link would be relevant. I would have posted a link to the tweet, and a link to the study mentioned in the tweet. But Twitter's search is not good enough for this kind of thing. I have no way of finding this tweet apart from just ploughing through the twitter streams of the four or five people who might have posted / retweeted this link.

Filtering trolls and harassers is still too hard.

Controlling what's on my feed is a bit tricky. Some people post nonsense but retweet useful to me info. Others do the opposite - the stuff they tweet is useful but the stuff they retweet is nonsense. I have limited options, and I usually just unfollow.

I'm ad tolerant, but the ads Twitter show me are always useless. The ads have zero relevance to me, my profile, my twitter stream, the people I follow, etc etc. I have no idea where Twitter gets information about me, but it doesn't seem to come from Twitter.
"also Microsoft SQL Server on top of Solaris on Sparc"

MS SQL Server DOES NOT run on Solaris on SPARC. The author should have done his/her research before making that claim.
Here is the study, which requires making an account to access: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/the-common-sense-c...
Yeah but you technically also nullify your protection against fraud if you write your PIN on a sticky note or tell it to your partner. The question is whether a bank will use that as an argument, not whether they can.

E.g. Barclays:

"You must memorise your PIN or password ... Never give them to someone else or let someone else use them, or do anything that would let someone else use them, such as writing them down in a way that might be recognised by someone else, keeping the letter carrying a PIN, or giving someone else access to a device like a mobile phone on which the relevant details are stored."

"If you have either deliberately or with gross negligence:
• failed to keep your card, PIN, password, PINsentry or mobile PINsentry generated codes, device or equivalent secure, or
• failed to tell us as soon as possible that you have lost your card (especially if you think someone else might have been able to ind it)
we will not refund any payments made before you tell us that it’s been lost or compromised."
>This is a debate in semantics: research that is not successfully reproduced is not scientific.

That's both untrue and fallacious (see: no true Scotsman).

If you set your p-value threshold at .05, then one in twenty experiments will produce a false positive. As such, plenty of research is conducted in a benevolent and meticulous fashion, only to yield a non-reproducible result. It's still scientific; it's just not true.

I don't agree with subliminalzen, but (with all due respect -- really!) your comment is hogwash.
How the Russian Crash Investigation Could Alter the War on Encryption
Agreed but it is just postponing the inevitable. The bailout and bankruptcies made their closed-source hierarchical paper system even more highly centralized, while the superior electric medium is doing the exact opposite in becoming more decentralized, distributed, and open source.

http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09...
Don't forget that it should ideally be cryptographically random. If the sequence is predictable (like based on an auto incrementing number or on time) then you might still be able to guess a 256-bit number.
Health Inequality in the US
When I was a kid, I had a heart condition called 'SVT'- Supra-Ventricular Tachycardia. When you're born, you have a collection of nerve endings which control the heart rate, & normally, the weaker ones die off & leave a single strong connection. In my case I had a tie for the heartbeat-signalling transmitters. They would oftentimes get caught up in a feedback loop which would leave me with a double heart rate until something would interrupt them & set a hiccup to make my heart just listen to the dominant transmitter again. It was eventually rectified vie an Radio Frequency (RF) Ablation procedure which burned & killed the second-strongest transmitter causing the problem. But before I had the operation I was instructed to dunk my head in ice water when I had an attack- to try to initiate a hiccup & disable the second-in-command transmitter. Another technique was to do a handstand & stay upside-down as long as it took for the gravity to cause an interruption in the signals enough to disengage the offending transmitter. Yet another technique was to bear down as if I'm taking a constipated dump, which increases blood pressure in spurts & would issue just enough resistance to stop the feedback loop. The most effective of these methods was the ice water & I remember since it wasn't readily available at school, I'd be upside down alot of times in the hallway outside my classroom- & it took forever to get it under control alot of the time. I got picked on for that- it sucked.
Might be worth converting that nice PDF to indirect DjVu format to get the size down.
To be fair, they are actually very transparent about their use of Google Analytics [1][2], and anonymise some of the data [3]. That is not too bad keeping in mind they share a huge chunk of that data with the public [4][5].

[1] https://www.blog.gov.uk/cookies/#googleanalytics
[2] https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2015/05/22/upgrading-to-univ...
[3] https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/spotlight/javas...
[4] https://www.gov.uk/performance/web-traffic
[5] https://www.gov.uk/performance/about
I'm saying those aren't accounted for, and as such the gender wage gap (which is taken to mean the differences in wages caused by modern day sexism, and not just a difference in the pay of the average man vs. the average woman ignoring all factors) does not exist.

>Do you know what confirmation bias is?

Thinking that because a small list of factors account for ~70% of the gap that the rest of it must be sexism.
The drivers who would rather be employees--which Uber claims are a small minority--might be better off finding a traditional job with a livery service. The whole point of Uber and its ilk, or so I thought, was to "crowd-source" transportation using ride sharing. It's not "sharing" if they're employees.

Amazon Flex is going to crowd-source deliveries by engaging tens of thousands of individuals to drop off packages in their neighborhoods. Does that mean Amazon must automatically hire tens of thousands of employees, with all the paperwork and overhead, even if some of them only deliver an occasional package?

This whole approach probably needs to be hashed out in the courts, but my gut feeling is that some people are wanting to have their cake and eat it too--the ease and flexibility of self-employment combined with the benefits of full time employment.
Maybe it will seem as a dumb question, but how Twitter can be in the loss (in order of millions of US dollars) since day one, without (IMHO) clear path to profitability and not be bankrupt?

It is growing, but it still has huge losses. Do investors believe it will be hugely profitable 5-10 years from now?

Is this new normal in business?
Possibly inaccurate title? I see nothing in this that says it is $500 million to buy "offensive and deadly cyber weapons".

It looks more like a requisition for staffing of management and leads to help with (from the doc):

This TO provides Cyberspace Operations support services to USCYBERCOM.
...
1. Cyberspace Operations
2. Cyberspace Planning
3. Cyberspace Training & Exercises
4. Strategy/Policy/Doctrine Development and Campaign Assessments
5. Information Technology/Communications (IT/Comms)
6. Business Area Support and Project Management
7. Engagement Activities

The objectives of this TO are as follows:
1. Define and analyze cyberspace capabilities needed and Cyberspace Operations to meet both deterrent and decisive National Security objectives
2. Conduct planning, integration, coordination, and execution, of the Cyberspace Operations mission ISO the Joint warfighter
3. Receive, track, and resolve cyber issues and provide input to the Commander Situational Awareness Reports of Cyberspace Operations

Am I missing something? I didn't read the whole thing, but I did read a fair amount of it.
You are completely right. In a sense, it is also what draws people to Twitter. There is a low barrier to entry if you want to make an account to just broadcast to your family, fans (if you are celebrity), advertise for companies, collect people for activism (whether political, economic, or social media activism), etc.

Then again, there are probably better mediums for this. If you want to talk to your friends, why not use Facebook? If you want to advertise your art, why not go on tumblr or Soundcloud? Nowadays, the only Twitter accounts that seem to get much traffic are celebrities and companies (I am thinking particularly Twitch as I don't go on twitter much) advertising.
Even things like listening to music were included in this. You could do this while in class (whether earbuds or sometimes the teacher might play some during working time), commute/riding the bus, doing homework, etc. which could make the number go much higher for those so inclined.

Reading is included.

Coding is included.

Writing is included.

Not speaking as a teen, but my time would be even higher if my day job, what I do when I commute, and most of my leisure is "media."
Actually this should (and I believe some day will) be mandatory. Everyone who wants to take money for software should be obliged to disclose full source code to purchaser. In case of mass market software it would be just publishing the source code.

As products grow in complexity and corporation grow in power the only way to secure safety of the public would be to prevent corporations from profiting from secrecy.
Twitter is somewhat of a quantum state for me. It's a complete cesspool on the whole, but the academic community is absolutely outstanding.

I follow @Neuro_Skeptic, @StanDehaene, @practiCalfMRI, @sensorimotorlab, @davidpoeppel, among many others, and they certainly seem to squeeze a lot of insight into 160 characters.

In any case, everything I've been hearing relates to twitter not growing. I understand the pressure on investors, but as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't need to grow. The niche is saturated, and there's no problem, per se.
Do you have any stats for this claim?

I found only this link and look like rate isn't really high http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1414751/table/T1...

>Suicide numbers and rates per 100,000 young persons aged 15-19 - Canada 10.8, Singapore 8.5, USA 8.0
Is this an advantage or disadvantage?
No one implied causation. The study found that states who legalized medical marijuana found a decrease in opium mortality but roughly 20% after 2 years. Around the country, opium mortality rates are increasing. Thus it is quite reasonable to say 'the opium mortality rate is statistically significantly less in medical marijuana states than in others.' No one has claimed anything more than that, and it is in fact science.
If you have source code then you can tell whether a particular executable was built from said source code. Pull the executable out of the car and also build the source code yourself as instructed by the manufacturer, compare the two binaries.

If the binaries don't match, then whatever certification the device needs automatically fails and it cannot be sold.

What that means is that later on, if "Something Bad" happens, you are in a position to be certain of what code was running. This makes investigation much easier as there is no chance that the original source code cannot be found when needed later. This does get a bit more complicated with software updates, especially OTA updates.
So what happens now? Is this going to happen or are all those people stuck?
For the second time in a century humans have developed a technological advancement with the potential to change the course of our entire race for the better and all those in power care about is how to kill with it.
I wouldn't worry about that either. As you're compensated, just do your best and deliver value every time you're there. When you make the best of any situation, you'll find that there's so much to learn and it could really open your eyes to what's possible, including building solid relationships for the future.
> But it is not given that a user has physical access to the machine, is it?

Yes, I think the logic here is flawed. The only way to know someone can do something in the physical security theatre is by their doing it. Needing to cajole any normal user into running a script is a tad more optimal than convincing them to physically move devices from the server room to the new machine that they won in your raffle.
Why should Linus comment on such nuttery?
And the article linked with evidence uses the term SJW.

That doesn't show them as having any bias in the manner, eh?

Like maybe making this all to try and discredit the women in tech movement? Now they can point and say "Look at those sluts trying to honeypot us!!!"

I mean, if we're going to put on our tin foil hats, we might as well go all the way and look at the other side too.
I think you're reading into it a little too deeply. The point isn't to chew on a random leaf or avoid medicine.

We're in a situation where many people with chronic pain are handed marginally effective, dangerous and highly addictive painkillers, when they could literally grow a more effective and less dangerous pain control medicine in their backyard.

I had a severe back problem that led to a spinal fusion at age 25. I don't react well to most of the painkillers, so my only relief from excruciating pain (to the point where rolling over at night would wake me up) was motrin & hot towels. No idea if marijana would have helped me, but if it can help others basic humanity should compel us to legalize it.
Video deletion policy, account deletion policy, community etiquette
The best part of the story actually comes at the end, back-and-forth messaging with slack about the bug report
Technically there are some states that refuse to sign compacts with the tribes. It's a myth its automatic. Further, some states (e.g. North Dakota) do not allow direct payment to tribal members and require the money go to social service programs.

I am getting a bit sick of all the FUD in this area.
It does help. Malicious users intending to share files can do so without having a public URL.
Just to agree with this point and elaborate: when the text uses the word "party" it refers to a nation signing the treaty, and not people.

So when it says "No Party shall require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition for the import, distribution, sale or use of such software, or of products containing such software, in its territory," Party refers to a government.
Well, if you are trying to measure whether men founders or women founders you have funded on average make more, then you would have to include Uber. The real issue with the analysis is that results are unlikely to be statistically significant due to small samples and high variance, which means they are useless.
Think Bogost fairly captured the trade. So, raises the question what do we call folks that earn a living working on something until some else says its good enough?
This is brilliant for criminals. If they get to exploit those gov't backdoors, there will be no way to prosecute them right?
Yeah but you fire it and go to jail for discharging a weapon, vs no one being the wiser.
so many downvote's...
> This site, however, is a load of pure propaganda.

No, it's advertising, and not dishonest advertising.

> You can create applications on the web with Lisp? Really?!?

Yes! You know, something on the server has to generate the content.

> And tell me about all of those wonderful command-line games!

They point to a game engine written with guile: http://dthompson.us/pages/software/sly.html

> But then there is always the "more". Whatever the hell that is.

Because it's a Turing-complete programming language: that's what the 'more' is. You can do practically anything you can imagine with it.
Nope - you've got it right. This looks like a typical operations and staff aug style support contract. Didn't see anything in here about buying cyber weapons. That said, C.4.2.13 Subtask 2.13 could be expanded to support something like that with the "REcommend, develop, evaluate, analyze, and integrate cyber weapons/tools/capabilities" line item. Sounds more like "developing capability" instead of "software development" which can be related to processes.
Top FBI lawyer: You win, we've given up on encryption backdoors
But can't we infer a lot about the formation of the Solar System from the masses of the planets and their current orbits?

One could argue that the particular reason we're here is because Jupiter swept the Solar System of most of its dangerous asteroids.
Nancy Pelosi's vineyard makes her fourth-richest Californian in Congress
> like if the cops arrest me and ask where i was last night and I don't tell them i was having dinner with their chief's wife (and thus not murdering mine), does that mean i absolutely cannot use that fact as part of my defense if my lawyer decides during trial it might be a good idea?

The issue is that a prosecutor may use the omission of certain facts during your interrogation as a way to cast doubt on your intentions or character. It's a very common tactic.

>do u at least have the right to have a lawyer present when you're being questioned like this?

In the US? Always.
Is that a good thing?
Far more worrying is that only a third of economics findings can be replicated without the author's help, and yet these are the supposedly scientific findings our politicians insist on basing policy off of. Even if policy seems counterintuitive and clearly harmful to the general public, we're given the explanation "because economics says so." It's clear now from the Federal Reserve replicability study that we're being duped.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/feds/2015/files/20...
The problem is the indirect costs of a product which are offset from the corporation or the consumer (e.g. onto the environment) - people buying and Volkswagon selling cars that do not meet emission standards isn't an isolated issue.

It's not so much a question of regulation as establishing a truer cost for what is produced/consumed. If the above is correct the TPP will basically mandate obscurity on (again this particular issue as an example) that indirectly impacts everyone who must continue to exist on this planet.
uber drivers are not meaningfully self employed, but its of great advantage to uber to pretend they are.

It is uber that is trying to "have its cake and eat it".
>I don't know why you are getting up in arms how this is represented

Because for decades it has, for some obscure reason, been romanticized and presented as "good", while reality is more blunt. A large part of the partygoers are underage or young people while there is extremely excessive drinking, it's notorious for being violent, and riddled with sexual assaults.

I don't know if you're an Icelander or not, but looking at Thjodhatid from the inside, and looking at its history for the last 100 years or however long its been going, it may look a lot different.
> I'm ad tolerant, but the ads Twitter show me are always useless. The ads have zero relevance to me

I have actually thinking about this and some ideas come up. If you don't mind me asking... What would be your ideal non-introsive ads mechanism? Maybe a relevant mention to you on a recommended tweet?
"I for one would much rather use a _plant_, rather than opioids that cause addiction, physical dependence, and potentially a life-ruining downward spiral of misery."

Do you know where opioids come from!? PLANTS! Really!

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium
I honestly believe it's a trend. If I'm not mistaken, there are quite a few tech companies that have set up shop in Vancouver.

Canadian tech labour is generally comparable to the States and have almost the same work culture as well. With the Canadian dollar dropping, companies are paying great talent for less. It's a no brainer. The visa/immigration laws are also more lax making it easier to get the best foreign talent in.

In my opinion, it's a pretty smart move.
Whether it's dilutive or not isn't as big a deal as what the options' strike price is.

If Square has issued options with a strike price based on the Series E share price (which appears to be ~$15.46), then those options are looking like they're going to be under water. It's not unreasonable to assume that the options would be issued at a discount (because they wouldn't have the guaranteed return provisions provided by the ratchet) but there's no way of knowing if that's the case and, if so, what the discount might be.
The self-replicating smartphone app that’s ready for the apocalypse
1) I don't work for some "boutique consultancy".

2) Yes and the fact I felt it was relevant to say that might mean I work for some place with a large number of employees too hmmm?