skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having experienced bias against publishing truly novel findings, I can testify this form of bias is a potential hazard re: scientific progress.

Back in the early 2000's, in the course of clinical practice I encountered some unexpected outcomes of treatment which correlated to a particular, if unexpected diagnosis. I tried to find info about this, but to my surprise a thorough search of the literature came up empty.

I felt a duty to report my observations. Putting it into a formal paper was difficult for me to accomplish, but did get it organized. Believing in the idea of open access, I decided to submit to a newly established open-access publisher.

Peer review did not go smoothly. Because the subject had never been reported before, at least in a peer-reviewed journal, the reviewers expressed doubt about the reality of the data. One "peer" was determined to disparage the report to the extent of making glaringly inaccurate, distorted comments about the nature of the condition in the subjects of my report. After a rigorous defense of data and procedure the editors decided to ignore the negative review and the report was published.

Novelty is not only apparent in terms of methodology or cross-discipline application of ideas, but also arises when attempting to share previously unreported observations. The closed-mindedness of many in the academic community (who are the predominant peer reviewers) is apparently a pervasive problem in the sciences, and possibly endemic in academic culture in general.
That's a good point. Do you feel this is becoming more of the norm in certain realms of scientific research? what is your view?
$.20 cost of vaccination per $5.00 chicken is 4 percent cost. You're quoting 20 percent cost comparison. Am I missing something?
Web does not and will never have the same quality of experience as a native application.
Perhaps list all new packages to the community and require/request validation or flagging by the community, along with listing similar package names.
The police will keep encroaching until they meet some kind of resistance, which will not easily materialize because people here would be the first ones to utterly condemn respect-instilling reprisals.

If everybody else around you accepts to get arbitrarily molested in the butt, you either accept it too, or else you move out.

I have personally chosen to move out. Unfortunately, you can see the United Nations, USAID, international NGOs and similar organizations coming over here to convince the locals to accept similar abuse from their own government, by advocating "the rule of law". Of course, there are also the Christian organizations advocating to the locals to offer their other cheek to such thefting police.

Since I cannot keep "moving away", at some point I will have no other option than to finally make a stand.

The Art of War says that the secret of success consists in never letting the enemy choose the time and the place. You must always choose the time and the place by yourself. Therefore, it suggests that it is us who must schedule forceful attacks against the police. Seriously, I am all for it.
Neurotransmitters as a Service
I've gotten components I ordered on TaoBao delivered same day. 12 hours is pretty common.
Human Longevity Launches “Physical on Steroids” for $25,000
This sounds like great advice that I never would've heeded when I was younger. I've just found a job but I'll keep this in mind for the next time.
This is fantastic. The statements they're making about multiple networks providing superior coverage have rung true for me, personally. I've been a Project Fi user in Michigan since shortly after they announced its availability (I was in a well covered area for T-Mobile and Sprint and got in early on the invite list, I guess).

My parents have a home "up north" (the thumb area of Michigan) and I've had service with both T-Mo and Verizon since I've been spending a lot of time up there. Coverage from VZW/T-Mo, despite being vastly different networks, suffered from a large dead spot in Fort Gratiot and coverage on the property was also terrible (low lying, beach front property results in a very obstructed situation). I switched to T-Mo because I'd pick up Canadian towers on the property with Verizon which would cause me billing problems[1].

The statements they're making about choosing the best provider from multiple providers is not marketing. I get 4G coverage all the way up to through the most rural areas and can pull a signal on the property (2G, sometimes Canada, but it's there if I need it). T-Mobile and Sprint's network is different enough that no other MVNOs that I know of support both. Because Project Fi does, I get excellent coverage -- where T-Mo lacked, at least in the areas I travel, Sprint has a great signal and my 4G performance is so consistent that I haven't had occasion to even look to see if I'm in LTE or not (that would only happen when the music would stop or a browsing session would die -- "oh, I'm 2G/3G, no wonder!").

Nobody in my family has reliable service except for my wife and I (she's on Fi, now, too). The Wi-Fi features work seamlessly and are much more intelligent than I experienced on T-Mo. Due to one of my APs being wonky at home, Project Fi automatically uses 4G for calls when I'm attached to it. When I'm connected to my properly functioning AP, it uses WiFi (internet works on both, but no VoIP service from mobile phones has ever worked on the one). With T-Mo, I had to turn WiFi calling off because I'd just stop being able to make/take calls when connected to the broken router. It hands off calls without issue, as well (there's a brief period where audio is dead when this happens but I usually don't notice it).

It's a well thought out service and the pricing was perfect for me. I'm on WiFi 99% of the time and my mobile data is often below 1G/mo, however, with the work I do I can have a month or two a year where my data goes well beyond 6GB, so I always kept my plan at that level and just donated that money to T-Mo/Verizon. The prices aren't the lowest in the area when pre-paid offerings are included, but with the service being what it is, I'd pay more for this kind of reliability.

[1] T-Mo doesn't charge for Canadian data or texts and allowed WiFi calling (I'm not sure if Verizon does, yet, or not) so this resolved the problem for me. Coverage wasn't as good, especially a few years ago with 4G, but it was good enough.
I think part of the problem is that most of the people come to accept it as normal.
Do you mean if you do this you will have to do the manual switch every time?

And may I ask which iPhone you have? I have an iPhone 5.
Amazon is great at A|B testing their way to a great user experience. You may not agree just by looking at the UI but the metrics don't lie. Ok sometimes they are misinterpreted or gamed. But an honest look at feedback will work every time.
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I found this recent video where Craig Venter gives more details:

https://youtu.be/iUqgTYbkHP8
EURGBP Sets Up to Build on Recovery
++ large laptops.
Unfortunately, language is a social construct and relies entirely on popular consensus of words. Words like "literally" and "inflammable" have grown to take on their opposite meanings. One could argue that "though" is an inefficient way to spell that word and too easily confused with the spelling of "thought".

I share a similar peeve as you with the use of "women" as an adjective. All through grade school and high school, the use of "women" as a noun was pummeled into my head. Now, I routinely see presumably college-educated journalists use it as an adjective ("women scientists", "women engineers", etc.)
> Right now you can buy a whitebox 'switch' with 40gbps interfaces and load various operating systems that enable different management styles (e.g. OpenFlow control like Google http://opennetsummit.org/archives/apr12/hoelzle-tue-openflow...).

This is all very useful for in-building traffic until you get the traffic to the edge of your datacenter/colo/hosting environment network and need to exchange traffic with other ISPs... At which point you need a serious chassis based router with redundancy and full layer 3 capabilities (example: Juniper MX960, Cisco ASR9006 or 9010).

whitebox datacenter switches are a great way to get a lot of 10, 40 and 100 Gbps layer 2 ethernet switch capacity within a datacenter cheaply, they're NOT routers and should not be mistaken with them. They are things that you connect your hypervisor hardware platforms to (example: a whole shitload of 1U servers or facebook/OCP type servers each with dual socket, 16-core xeons in them), is a switch.
I will add these features to my site. Any other features on your wishlist?
R Passes SAS in Scholarly Use
Here's a nice graphical comparison of syscalls between Linux and Windows

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=392

Are you saying the Windows flow looks like spaghetti only because the software tested software (Apache) wasn't designed for Windows?
How else are you going to land the drone safely? I think the idea is jam the encrypted data, spoof the unencrypted part to point to your location.
Theyre talking about a gov tied internet id, basically chinese style censorship for the west. Infowars.com will have great coverage on Bilderberg this year.
Stream to Apple TV with Azure Media Services
Frequently changing pk enc key to setup tls connections with different certs can have a performance impact too. Let alone security implications of managing someone else's private keys.
Actually the government here pretty regularly tries to dick over journalists too. In any case, your false dichotomy is neither accurate, nor compelling.
And the answer, of course, is "Justice."

It's like being charged solely with resisting arrest.
Apache Spark for Azure HDInsight
IANAL but I'd setup the corporate entity outside the US and hire a mail forwarding service of some kind to redirect all the mail to your home.
Speaking of obscurity as a security layer
That I agree with. Something like that I probably wouldn't agree to subscribing to.
IUPAC naming four new elements: nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson
Custom domains would be huge for me, but I totally understand. How would they ever manage to do it? They'd either need a zillion separate entries, or the broadest wildcard cert ever.
Yeah ancient Rome did this and they still can't get rid of the Camorra (mafia)
I was comparing against the farmers' current income estimated at $2/day, not the income post-chickens. Though presumably their income is substantially less than $5/chicken.
Speaking of app stores for Android, there’s also F-Droid¹, although admittedly, it’s not much of a 'store' considering it only lists FOSS (Free and Open Source Software).

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¹ — https://f-droid.org/
"Watch the video to get +100 Pts"

What is this, some sort of gamification to get people to read and watch more content on the gates website?
They're reasonably evocative (both of the pieces' actual nature and of the traditional shapes used for them), I think.

The rook/castle, which moves orthogonally, is represented by a square made out of orthogonal lines.

The bishop, which moves diagonally and traditionally has a kinda-triangular mitre on its head, is represented by a triangle with diagonal lines for sides.

The knight, which moves in a funny way and is traditionally shown as a sort of horse's head, is represented by a quarter-circle which is unlike all the other shapes (less symmetrical, mix of straight and curved lines) and actually quite similar in outline to the traditional horse's head.

The king, which is usually shown with a cross on its head, is represented by a cross.

The queen, which moves like a king but more so and which is usually shown with a many-pointed crown on its head, is represented by a many-pointed star (a bit like that crown, and also a bit like the king only more so).

And the pawns, which are weaker than all the other pieces and traditionally smaller than the others, are represented by little circles, smaller than the other pieces.
the helium atom IS its molecule..
Have you (or anyone reading this) considered selling your services as a contractor / consultant?

In particular, I imagine a web forum where you can discuss what's going on in Shenzhen with interested people from the US, in English.

You can develop jobs and even sub-contract work all using this forum.

Of course, that's just an idea. How would you do it?

I would be very interested in such a thing.
OP said "...in parallel with filing of a patent application you can just publish it...".

I think he means that upon filing the patent application, one publishes what one has filed to mitigate the return to the government from classifying the invention as secret.

This would not impair the patentability of the invention. Patent applications (in the US) are published 18 months after their earliest filing date [1] unless the applicant requests earlier publication.

The applicant's chances of receiving a patent are unchanged by publishing the invention after the application is filed.

A downside could be that should the patent application fail, or be withdrawn by the applicant, the invention falls in the public domain because it's been published and no patent protection issued.

[1] http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s1120.html
To clarify, you mean you can if you add the output to your git repo right? Currently I have gh pages set to automatically build my site with jekyll, but I believe they limit plugins to only safe ones.
> If you're EVER going to read the data back and do anything with it, it has a schema.

You are giving the NoSQL crowd too much credit. Some abominations have no recognizable schema at all. The data store will just contain arbitrary dump of data which different developers decided their "schema" should be. The number of "columns" will vary, the "columns" will have arbitrary formats, so on and so forth.

If one developer decided to separate name into "first: John", "last: Doe", you will have that. If another decided to have "name: John Doe". That's what will be there. If one developer decided social security should be "SSN: 123-45-6789" and another decided it should "SSN: 123456780", well you are going to have fun cleaning up the data at the business or even application layer.

But that's not even the big issue with MongoDB. It's their lack of ACID compliance!
You're just making this up. It's completely wrong.
DeepMind's “Safely Interruptible Agents” [pdf]
I don't know that it works any differently than the others in the handling of calls. I'm not aware that they're doing VoLTE (I suspect not because my phone behaves like my Verizon phone did -- dropping LTE data when I'm on a call -- on the occasion that I've had to look).

It differs in handling of WiFi calling in that "it actually works really well"[1]. Calls started on WiFi switch (mostly) seamlessly to cellular when you go out of range or the call quality dives. It attaches to some public access points automatically (with a little "key" icon at the top when it does so).

On the cellular front, it uses T-Mo and Sprint (and, now US Cellular). Their networks are quite different[2] and it is able to bounce between them and does so in a manner that maximizes 4G and overall coverage. There were dead zones for me on T-Mo that have perfect coverage on Project Fi.

[1] I had T-Mo with WiFi calling previously and even at the time that I left it barely worked. I'd not receive calls when attached to one of my access points (or drop them if my phone jumped over to it) and call hand-off to cellular never worked for me. It always works on Fi and my phone won't even try to use the other AP for calling (which it figured out on its own).

[2] I believe their 4G technology is similar enough, but below that its CDMA for Sprint and GSM for T-Mobile, I believe. My information may be out of date, though. When I signed up there weren't any MVNOs that used those two networks.
I'm fairly certain this program is not targeted at poor urban families.
That's what happens with "real" debuggers, in my experience! Though Codebug (for XDebug in PHP) is what did it for me, but now I'm using interactive debugging wherever I can. Beats the hell out of trying to print out variables.
What are you working on in Shenzhen? And how would I go about finding a company to produce a custom shape/size lithium polymer battery for a prototype?
The same people who would have problems with "some random country" would have even more problems with the UN.

I'm generally less critical of the UN, but I would agree that the UN is pretty much the last body that should be invested with any sorts of power.
Then why is your catchphrase "Blogging like it's 1999"?
What makes your site anything like 1999?
Yes, of course that's what needs to happen. And that's what I do when I'm the one doing the implementation.

But a junior dev just out of code school doesn't necessarily think of this. So when I ask one to build the basic scaffold and db schema I say "make sure you use UUID," then later I show them how security holes like this can manifest.

I've seen this security hole so many times in other sites that I feel like it's a good first principle to limit "guess-ability" in the schema wherever possible.
Actuarial Science is also a mechanism, not something that indicates right or wrong. It gives you answers to questions. But questions themselves can be biased.
What does Experiment do? It’s a jelly delivery system
Show HN: Pure fun(ction) HTTP server in Node.js, written in TypeScript
Have you read Nick Corcodilos's Reinventing the Interview? There is a lot of overlap with your advice (understand the employer's problems, explain your value, etc.) Related to "Do free work", something I always liked, he recommends you actually do the work you're being hired for in the interview. How better to demonstrate how capable you are?
Yes, that was it. When I talked to one of the guys about the service, it was filled with a lot of "well, it doesn't do that, yet"'s. But they all seemed to think that this product would replace all other existing collaboration platforms, including WebEx/Skype for Business. Maybe if Cisco wasn't running it, perhaps.
So let's keep it in the hands of the government with the strongest free speech protections in the world.
Even if you could, you'd want to keep that blobby PoS away from your PCIe bus. AFAIK, DSL chipsets suffer from the same insecurities as cellphone basebands, from similar desires for secrecy.

You're better off just getting a modem that speaks ethernet or using your current router in bridge mode. Consider the ethernet your demarc point. This will get you some additional galvanic isolation as well.
I see that, as usually happens, the politics of website redesigns have prevented the simple, user-centric fix of "go back to the old site which worked fine." Like any other deployment, redesigns should have a rollback plan. If you installed a major system update and suddenly production throughput drops in half, you'd roll back to the old version. If you deploy a new design and your traffic falls in half.. why is there so much resistance to just rolling back to the old version?

I understand in cases where it's a big switchover and basically a redesign riding the coattails of a huge middleware/backend rewrite. I don't understand in a case like this when it wouldn't break major back office processes to just put the old site back.
From the conclusion:

The router, and the dynamic control-plane, as basic forwarding paradigm of the Internet, remains undisputed. However, it gets challenged using new concepts like SDN and NFV, which promise much faster network adoption, automated control, reduced time-to-revenue, which all are good business solutions. In order for router designs to be competitive to those challenges, requires to re-imagine how router hardware and software get engineered.

So, "Re-imagining the future of routers"
Probably made a ton of money by ruining people's lives.
PuDB: the IDE debugger without an IDE (2015) [video]
Do you have any local manufacturer sources for things like fiber optic cables (fully assembled with connectors), patch panels, splice enclosures and other fiber-related stuff for physical infrastructure at OSI layer 1? My coworkers and I (an ISP) have found a number of English speaking websites/vendor sources that ship direct from China to the US, but are interested in exploring what is the price delta between the actual manufacturers and our current vendors, the people who have become dealers/distributors of the gear.
Issuing a veto makes it front page news. I'm not sure the democrats want to be seen as handing over the internet to dictators and theocrats, over the objections of Congress, in an election year. The White House has only gotten so far on this because it hasn't broken into the political consciousness yet.
Yes it is a basic security tenant.

But sometimes you're working with a legacy API and/or a bad auth mechanism.

Not every project is greenfield or is maintained by senior devs.
CloudFlare is what serves your custom domain.

On the backend you point CloudFlare to https://username.github.io and CF will receive the wildcard certificate for *.github.io
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It goes to the state after due process.

That's not what's being described here.
For anyone who might not have been following Dave Winer's work, or thought streams in the recent past, the reference to blogging like it's 1999 isn't about the tech. It's primary concept is about it going back to the roots of being about openness. Instead of blogging on all the closed platforms, Dave has always advocated for blogging on your own terms. Whether from wordpress, ghost, or his new tool, it's all the same level of importance in keeping the open web alive.

A lot of his focus in this product is likely to be around the ease of editing and ease of getting your content out there. For example, it comes with support for instant articles built in. I imagine things like Amp page support will also get built in.

Re the twitter login. It's not something I personally believe in, but I know that Dave has a strong belief in Twitter having potential to be much better as a dev platform of sorts. From identity management, to message delivery. Debatable, but for another time. Just thought I could help provide some context here.

Whether this platform is better than WP, Drupal, or Ghost is all a matter of personal preference honestly. I'm not sure Dave really cares about it that way either. He just wants to keep making the open web more appealing than the closed.

Of everything in this announcement so far, the most intriguing part is his idea of interop with WP and Drupal and other platforms. One thing I can connect it with, is how his posts cross post to FB, and Medium. And he's talked about live editing a bit over there. If I recall right, Dave kind of imagines a future where the editor and the server are different. So I might edit things on my 1999.io server while the updates are all served on a WP or Drupal site. A bit more context to this. In the past Dave also wrote about wishing the Medium.com experience was more like that. Where I could use their incredible editor and publish to anywhere I wanted instead of just medium.com.

The one thing and "maybe" criticism I have of Dave's stuff, is that it is very high level/abstract at times. I've followed his work for years, and it's always taken me a while to digest any of his ideas because there's a lot of imagination that goes unsaid there. In many ways this is like the wonderful work he's done in creating RSS too. RSS alone is simply a germ of an idea which can then be used in so many creative ways. Dave's ideas are very similar. A germ of an idea that he hopes others will pick up on and push forward. New frontiers!
Now I'm curious; have you played with reactOS at all? Do they implement the same VMS paradigm? That is, if given decent hw drivers for io on ReactOS, could one expect performance on the same order of magnitude as with a new nt-derived kernel?