skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the miscommunication. I was trying to give biomed an easier hurdle to surmount (reproducible at least in principle), not change the subject.

Your reading of the paper did not make sense to me, so lets figure that out first. You wrote: "This editorial is about making it so that preclinical publications are only published when they're ready for the clinic."

To me, the problems identified and suggestions provided by Begley and Ellis sound more like science 101 lessons rather than complaints about premature publication:

"In studies for which findings could be reproduced, authors had paid close attention to controls, reagents, investigator bias and describing the complete data set. For results that could not be reproduced, however, data were not routinely analysed by investigators blinded to the experimental versus control groups. Investigators frequently presented the results of one experiment, such as a single Western-blot analysis. They sometimes said they presented specific experiments that supported their underlying hypothesis, but that were not reflective of the entire data set. There are no guidelines that require all data sets to be reported in a paper; often, original data are removed during the peer review and publication process.

[...]

As with clinical studies, preclinical investigators should be blinded to the control and treatment arms, and use only rigorously validated reagents. All experiments should include and show appropriate positive and negative controls. Critical experiments should be repeated, preferably by different investigators in the same lab, and the entire data set must be represented in the final publication. For example, showing data from tumour models in which a drug is inactive, and may not completely fit an original hypothesis, is just as important as showing models in which the hypothesis was confirmed."

So why have we been able to interpret the meaning of these words so differently?
Blocking breaks webpages sometimes.

Part time blocking can create even more focused profiles
Poisoning the well is better if you aren't willing to or can't commit to 100% blocking.

Obfuscating snoopers' profiles is more satisfying.
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You can stimulate muscles with electricity. So I don't think that will be an issue. However, I agree that the taste won't be the same. All natural meat does not taste the same, I don't see how something grown in a petri dish could taste like every other piece of beef when not every piece of beef tastes the same. It will certainly have its own taste to it. But I think in the end, it will taste better than what we can grow naturally because all of the variables are so controlled. Maybe it will taste like shit when it first comes out, but I'm sure they will engineer a way to make it taste better. They will be able to manipulate the nutritional information as well.
Sweden's Self-Inflicted Nightmare
Is there a native Windows port of RN yet? I noticed that an OS X one is on Github now.
>someone has to go first

Probably there'll be animal experimentation first. Then when Fido's still able to fetch they'll give humans a bash.
> Anything other than that strikes me as theft of service.

How so?

Theft of service requires a couple of other bits to flip in my view, after all, you're not actually required to view the ads on webpages when they're there, you're not required to click and you're not required to buy any products. It's no more theft of service than zapping to another channel when there are ads on the TV or switching off the radio when advertising starts.
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My favorite terminal font right now is OCR-A green on black - love the retro effect.

Mainly doing PHP editing in Aptana the theme is a variation of what I had used on Quanta...
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Is this you: http://plumlife.com/ ?

Interesting. The pricepoint is a little high, but I didn't know that they were full linux-clusters. I run my own home-automation server in-house, so I could use this. I see that the android-client is in the works. Is that still the case?
Some high quality journalism right here. I think a lot of people involved with traditional newspapers believed his type of reporting would not happen online. The funding for drawn out investigations, the editorial oversight, the resources to get research information. But articles like this make me think maybe real journalism is still alive in the new medium.
Fwiw the djvu-version might be easier to convert than the pdf version. It also renders ok on my phone with the djvu-plugin for fbreader (android).
Well this is amazing!

I honestly think if a majority of people start using this, Click Fraud will eventual become indistinguishable from clicks made my AdNauseam and ad companies for once will worry about milking the ad-cow.

But then... I know this will die in someway or the other.
Please keep this condescending tone off of HN.
I agree, that's what I meant by "overvaluing" the proposition offered by GroupOn. I think they were great as an introduction or reinforcement to existing customers but the value of the deals demanded to run a promotion was too high.

A staged proposition as you have outlined seems far more prudent.
What do you envision having it mounted on that will drive at the speeds mentioned in the article? It's not like you can throw It on the front of your regular dual wheel or track machine and operate efficiently at those speeds.
I see an instance as sort of a compiled binary of your app and the environment it runs in. You can install your app, all its dependencies, get all the config files correct, run tests on the created instance, and then you have a Docker instance and can start up any number of them in production.

If any of those steps fails in the middle of some script, you haven't put any server in some half way there state.

If a rollback is needed, you can switch to the previous Docker instance, and changed requirements won't trip you up.

We used to do it with zipped chroot environments and some startup/shutdown scripts, Docker is more or less that.

Of course you need to store data outside them, as otherwise you lose once you switch to a newer version of your instance, but that's easy enough.

All that said, still not really a fan of it.
Which non-Chinese bank would that be? The party on the other side would have had to have a bankaccount abroad already and in that case they probably would have held the funds abroad if they could have.
Only if the observer were some metaphysical being, rather than simply the inside view of a particular computation. If you reproduce the computation faithfully, you have reproduced the observer.
New Zealand power generation and transmission, live: http://www.em6live.co.nz

Shows a breakdown of how the energy is generated and where it is going.
I was amused by "A Bosch Start-Up" on the side of the machine. Now everything is a start-up.
Mollusks with Eye-Covered Shells Could Help Scientists Create Armor That Can See
It's a neat tool however please keep in mind that Spain is actually a very big importer of energy.

Earlier this year a major construction project has ended: a double 65km tunnel below the pyrenean of 1000MW capacity. It doubled the previous existing capacity.[1]

Spain is a very large importer of energy, ENTSOE data for October is 525GWh FR->ES [2] Since the energy mix of France is roughly 75% Nuclear, in reality Spain relies much heavily on nuclear than what is displayed.

Based on ENTSOE data, Fraunhoffer built another very nice data visualisation of import/export of electricity between Germany and its neighbours [3]

European electricity networks are very tightly interconnected, and although I don't have a source at hand, I remember being told that preventing a domino effect between countries has been a massive feat of engineering. Basically, the fear of every energy provider/network is something similar to the blackout that happenned in northern america in 2003[4]

As a side note does anyone know what "balearic exchange" refers to? I guess something the Baleares islands, but my google-fu failed me

[1] http://www.inelfe.eu/?Liaison-electrique-souterraine&lang=fr

[2] https://www.entsoe.eu/db-query/exchange/detailed-electricity...

[3] https://www.energy-charts.de/exchange.htm

[4] http://www.nature.com/news/is-the-us-grid-better-prepared-to...
Given your tweets I had expected a screenshot in a browser ;)
>>Cold calling is great! Well, because it's never absolutely cold--you do know that the person you're calling is at least a little interested in what you're selling. It's not random.

No, that's not cold-calling. Cold-calling refers to picking up the phone and calling people you have never spoken to before and will most likely not be interested -- at least initially -- in what you are selling. But if it's people you have spoken to briefly at a trade show, then you aren't cold-calling. You're following up.

Note that cold-calling doesn't have to be "random". In fact, calling companies and people randomly almost never works. You need to have a strategy in place and need to have done what's called "prospecting". For instance, if a construction company just became your client, then calling other construction companies and talking about how that company is using your product or service has a much higher chance of getting you at least one in-person meeting.
Australian review finds no benefit to 17 natural therapies
Great article. I think we can actually talk about flash being replaced now that we have a real solution for HTML5 live streaming. Flash was never going to go away until there was something that could handle the DRM across all browsers.

I've worked a lot with Ooyala's live streams and was just looking at moving a client over to their HTML5 offering. They claim to offer it in all browsers but that is probably with a flash fallback, they haven't open sourced their JS (or at least I can't see it on their GitHub page).

We also use StreamUK on a lot of sites (but I've never used it directly) and from what I have heard they have great support for HLS. They have no GitHub presence so not quite sure if they're using the same libs the article mentioned or something proprietary.

Obviously DRM would still be an issue unless the browser natively supports EME.
I imagine if the robot is the one who planted the original crops it would know exactly where they should be. Any other growth is defined as a weed.
I wonder if he setup the randomaccess parameter un postres.conf to fully take advantage of the SSD
So give people a one-time option when the program is introduced to choose either social security or the basic income. And of course for anyone more than a few years from retirement age, the basic income will be the obvious choice because it begins paying immediately, so social security will de facto phase itself out over time. But then you can trivially sell it as "no changes to social security."
Were you involved in building it? Nice.

Does the percentage of renewable generated (wind) go up a lot during the night?
Fossilized Tropical Forest Found – In Arctic Norway
Great advice from one of the researchers at Google DeepMind.
Three hours of training? Either celestial navigation is much easier than i think it is or this is exactly the sort of compromise mothers should warn their children about. I'd rather sail into a GPS outage with a one in ten chance of having a navigator trained 30 hours on board than with a 100% chance of having one trained three. And it gets better when you consider crews larger than one. Sure, we all know that decision making isn't easy, but that should not be an excuse to get away with a compromise like that.
I think the demand for real chicken/beef will go down but there always will be people who buy "organic", "real", etc.
"the way startups spew forth their good intentions without recognizing the underlying goal of making money makes the whole industry feel unnecessarily slimy."

I'm not sure I understand this. I find it hard to believe that a large portion of startups don't internally recognize the importance of making money. Sure, their public rhetoric might not be centered around the their profit goals for this quarter, but how does that make the industry slimy?
Thanks for the link! Yeah, the custom google map tiles on the OP could be great but it takes 10sec to load whenever scrolling around. Hopefully they can get some CDN image hosting.
Do you have any information about ongoing prosecutions of HSBC?
Management mistakes can be found across all companies big and small. What you're seeing in particular is that a senior dev has been promoted to be the CTO or equivalent and has little prior management experience. This is pretty common. In a corporate job, that person might have a training program or someone to mentor him/her but in a startup they just have to learn from their mistakes. So what can you do? Be proactive. Talk to management, set up 1-on-1s. Depending on the problem, it might be something they haven't thought about or it might be something they're aware of but haven't had the time to do something about. And of course you could always aim to get into management to do something about it.
> people seem to have this analogue of "you can configure away the bad bits"

Where in my comment did I imply that the journal was "bad"? The journal is awesome. But if you have some workflow designed around syslog, such as a log analyzer or statistics package that you don't want to tweak, text logging still works just fine.
>Pre-automation surveillance states were people and paper-intensive. They didn't scale.

Tell that to people who lived in eastern block countries.

I agree that this technology, like all communication technology, makes it easier for governments to repress their people. However, I don't think there's any reason to believe this is the straw that finally subjugates all mankind under tyrannical government or that this technology will be any different than previous advances. As I said before, this is only one of many technologies that are necessary to run the theoretical nightmare scenario you've outlined.

The main difference, from my point of view, is that that other technologies are older and the doomsday scenarios predicted with the rise of telephones, computers and other advances have not come to pass. At the same time, we've had plenty of time to appreciate the advantages of older technology and balance its use in society.

For the recent Paris terror attacks, at least some of the planning was done over text messages. The text messaging system is a better fit for the kind of dystopic observation you're describing: the infrastructure is more centralized, there is lots of legal precedent for observation, there are weak safeguards and no fancy voice recognition is necessary. Of course, the only way we know about the text messages is that they found a physical phone - because despite 20 years of commercial availability - such monitoring is not in place for text messages.
That was our experience in first grade as well.

It gets better in second grade. Our daughter has two timed tests a week that are just cranking through addition and subtraction. It's most likely in preparation for the first MCAS math tests they'll take next year in third grade, but I like them practicing straight up math problems.

There is still the focus on doing the problem just like they were taught, and taking points off for not drawing counters. There is still the work involved in figuring out how the concepts are described so I can help her do the homework.

But it did get a little better, at least for us.
FOSS is from another era. Back then Microsoft were the bad guys and FOSS was largely a response to their hegemony. Ubuntu bug #1 was "Microsoft has a majority market share" and it is kind of resolved now but increasingly irrelevant. Now it is a different kind of challenge.

True, if you are a geek, you can use open-source software to cobble together some resemblance of popular cloud services but under your own control. There are even detailed guides on how to do it (see also: https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign). But that's a lot of nuisance and in the end what you get is an inferior version.
Good catch on the dates! We added 2011.
Show HN: Python CLI script to generate folder structures from JSON template
I agree, but to be fair, you could even skip that and just have a remote pilot looking at the rolling video feed and clicking on targets. It still beats having people actually walking under the sun and ruining their backs to pull out weed, or blanketing with herbicide.

I'm not so sure punching is a great solution though. Weed is incredibly good at reforming from very very small bits left standing.
Looking at the video, they seem to be using a Microsoft Kinect sensor.
systemd only has extensive documentation if you count the source code itself. otherwise, most people are left guessing for things above a "systemctl restart"
I prefer, and suggest, Sphinx over Elasticsearch. It has better performance, easier ETL and handles large datasets better.
It's a good point that prices in many countries are driven domestically (Australia!), however, I'd add/counter two arguments:

- there's a few papers out there (alas, I don't have them) that show that you can go as low as 4% active investors and still have an efficient market (although I'm not sure to what extent this extends to real estate purchases);

- even if the Chinese were not to touch real estate and stuck to treasuries, massive demand for treasuries would lower the cost of capital for everything else and therefore drive all asset prices (including and especially real estate) through the roof.

FWIW we recently went to visit some houses in Sydney, and 90% of those doing the tours were non-English-speaking Chinese. About half the agents were also Chinese, some with limited English skills. Anecdotes, not data, etc.
"unnecessarily" -> it is already unnecessary to eat meat, thus unnecessary to kill animals. Anyone can live a perfectly healthy life being a vegetarian, it's even cheaper depending where you live. Thus, by your logic the question "is eating meat nowadays ethically wrong?" should have "a very clear answer no matter who you're talking with". Which obviously is not true.

You mention "healthy, satisfying alternative". You accept people eating meat nowadays because according to you it is more satisfying than eating the current alternatives (even though it's not necessary!), so you should always accept the eating of meat (or hunting of animals) as long as people want it over whatever alternative exists.

Furthermore, people will always think differently. What is ethically wrong to you is not to me and vice-versa.
Bitwalking
Gentoo only took me 2 installs vs. 8 for Slack
In Switzerland, there is a service called "Mobility" where you can basically rent a car by the hour. You have to set up an account and provide them with a copy of your drivers license once, but after that, a car can easily and instantly be booked on their website or by using their mobile app. In larger cities, there's always a few cars nearby, ready to roll. They take care of all the maintenance stuff, repairs and insurance; you just pay a fixed amount per km you drive and for the duration of your use.

It's remarkably convenient and cheaper than owning a car if you don't drive that much. I can totally see this as the future – especially with self-driving vehicles.
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I'd be totally cool with a paywall instead of slow and distracting ads.

Here's an idea - why don't a bunch of publishers (or a third party) get together and build a subscription service for a reasonable monthly fee that automatically gets me through their paywall when I visit their sites. In theory it would be open for any publisher to join, and they get to split my monthly fee based on pageviews.
I get excited whenever we can improve performance with manipulations to the training sets such as data transformation tricks (inducing variances like rotations, translations, whitening [1] etc), labeling tricks (such as those like LeCun or [2]), or including information/learnings/regularizations from external corpus like doc2vec.

It feels like getting something for free :) Of course there is a limit to how much signal you can extract from a noisy dataset, but the amount of time and human energy invested into creating and improving datasets can be quite large relative to finding another cool trick that can improve performance.

However, I wonder which will come first to make these systems "robust" for the average joe's real world uses for these perceptual systems; a large, well labeled dataset or more transformations and semi-supervised learning approaches?

[1] http://www.cs.stanford.edu/~acoates/papers/coatesleeng_aista...
[2] http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~elkan/posonly.pdf
Trying to preview 3D Pipes on win95.ajf.me causes a timeout, alas.
This won't have the push as ad-blockers, it doesn't have explicit benefits on the user side while sabotage the publishers. So it will be very hard to sell.
What happens is first you get "relevant ads". Then you get a different price of the book on Amazon than I do, because you discussed buying it in a "private" chat on FB with a friend.

Next you visit an airline website and you get a higher fare becuase of the knowledge that you have already booked a hotel in that city so they know what day you have to travel. What part of that do you believe is already here, and what part is dystopian future?

I'm against the whole idea of information as a commodity, and the ad business today is just that: it's customer information as a bulk commodity. I don't mind being shown ads I just don't want my information collected and used.
You could argue that website owners actually give me something (the content) and want something in return (a payment or an ad impression), but I disagree with how the transaction takes place without my knowledge.
Just use static image ads served from your domain, then my browser can't know it's an ad. It will be a "dumb" ad, but those have worked in magazines and bus stops since forever.
No, we built a simple traffic light on top of it. [Red/Amber/Green] to indicate how much electricity is wind generated, and so if its a good time to charge your electric car, etc..
It's impractical with kids any more than you can ask them if they want to be born.
Agreed. Elastic search is fantastic, but for simple search that needs to be fast Sphinx is hard to beat. I have been using it for years on searchcode.com and have never hit an issue with it that was not due to my own mistakes.

A fantastic piece of software.
Paris attacks: Security around city's water system upgraded following atrocities
Iran says Washington Post reporter Rezaian sentenced to prison
> what's to salvage from the brain of a terminal brain cancer child?

Her personality and memories, of course. Most of the brain is back-office, keeping the body alive and doing low level processing. The parts containing "her" could easily be untouched by cancer. Keeping just her brain frozen is a bit of a stretch, but all the hurdles are strictly technological in nature. Make a clone (or a partial clone, if you have ethical concerns), cut and paste the good parts into the clone and you've healed her completely.

It may seem a lot right now, to fuse brain parts together or to do head transplants, but they aren't really that far-fetched. Barely 100 years ago we were still arguing whether heavier-than-air flight is possible, and weren't even dreaming concepts like radiation or turing computability. Compared to that making nerves grow back together is just elbow grease.
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