skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Second, setting a functional level on measure you're talking about is arbitrary

Yes, and the PACE recovery paper does say this.

>But the the PACE authors picked a very lo value for "recovery."

How exactly is 1sd below the mean of the general population "lo"?

>At the end, they defined "recovery" below the physical functioning level for most heart failure patients

Again, it's 1sd below the mean of the general population. Congestive heart failure has a mean value of physical functioning around 1sd below the mean for the general population. The person who first threw out this "congestive heart failure" meme probably didn't understand statistics.

>That is, a CFS patient could enter the trial, get worse, and get called recovered

The point is that the entry criteria was an upper limit and the recovery criteria was a lower limit, so it makes sense that they're different. I don't think you can have patients who didn't improve being classed as "recovered" as recovery also included various other measures (e.g. not meeting Oxford criteria). The main point of the study was to show the differences in recovery between the treatment groups.

The other point is that the recovery results weren't even in the PACE trial, they was in a second paper. The paper does mention that there is no agreed definition of recovery, and they were just trying to get a handle on it using various measures.

Overall, apart from the recovery results (which are somewhat arbitrary) the PACE trial results are in line with all the other CBT trials.

There are certainly problems with the PACE trial (the main one being that CBT and GET are based on dubious etiologies), so I think CFS advocates would be better off actually delving into the real problems with the treatments, rather than putting up these strawmen.
Hey Gruez, Regular insurance companies have an expense ratio of 40%.
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Is this available in keras as well?
Related: has videos with bacteria gradually developing resistance to increasing concentrations of antibiotic.

http://www.vox.com/2016/9/8/12852924/evolution-bacteria-time...
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And why should you need that kind of machine to do text-editing?

If a text editor can't open a big file unless you are on a beast of a machine, it isn't a very good text editor.
I wish more HN comments were comedy oriented.
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@d2xdy2 great feedback. Thanks! And, added you to the queue ;)
Thus the democracy problem. So long as people feel they benefit more than they suffer from over-exploitation of the common resource (in this case, the atmosphere, which we use as a dump for our emissions), they will vote against any such tax. Of course, it's kind of a prisoners' dilemma problem, since country A passing a carbon tax (and reducing consumption accordingly) makes fossil fuels cheaper for country B.

There are ways to address this, like adding import duties on products from countries who dump their garbage in the atmosphere, but those are fairly unpopular too since people like being able to buy cheap stuff from China.
Yes, she does generally seem to be an objective science writer, but I think with CFS she has let her objectivity go by the wayside.

The science of PACE isn't quite as bad as the haters are making out. In fact some of them are guilty of pretty shocking misunderstandings of basic statistics. See my reply to
sirmarglar.
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I've done those verticals, too. We always had Firefox. I don't know what it's like now. That was 10 years ago.

(AKA sit down and shut up with your bullshit "sit down and shut up"s)
Amazing, so this is essentially a high performance alternative to Go scripting. One can already include the go build toolchain in a binary, right? Having JIT is only small steps away.

Disagree with the problem of unloading plugins. From the sizes of Go binaries and memory sizes, one could easily load 10k+ plugins before the process needed a restart. Would be nice to have GC, but having plugins is such an increased benefit. To me this sounds like, Git is crap because you can't unload stored objects.
So...? Don't do this at work.

Who actually takes software licenses seriously in their own home?
Short answer: unlikely to end anytime soon, but likely that we start to focus on higher level bugs more than lower level issues.

Long answer: If Unix and C hadn't won the fight in the 1980s like VHS did, we wouldn't deal with such low-level bugs. It took 30 years, but we're finally getting CPUs (like lowRISC) that were inspired by BS5000 or i960 and the languages to go with it are getting mainstream. To be fair, had we as an industry taken security more seriously decades ago, we would have written critical pieces of the stack in a high-assurance Ada profile, and put microkernel design capability kernels into production. We can extend 1960s kernel designs with all kinds of features, but without a coherent design it's impossible to provide the same assurance. This is why it's great that we have L4 descendants that incorporate a capability scheme and also support a multikernel scheme (ala Barrelfish) for making better use of a cluster of cpu cores.
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Sure, you can follow behind us with your training wheels if you'd like. There's no way you'll feel alienated.
The main reason is user expectations. People expect applications to be portable between web, desktop OS, tablet/phone OS. Developers only have so much time and budget so currently HTML provides the best option to port interfaces between all platforms in the shortest period of time.

It's not ideal, but everything generally comes down to cost benefit analysis with time being a major contributor to cost. That's the entire reason that so many startups have been using Ruby despite it's non-ideal performance. Soon as you get a steady revenue stream from users taking the time to optimize to something else makes sense.

Granted, Elixir is shifting that formula quite a bit now since you can get those Ruby-like levels of productivity and time savings without the long term expectation of refactoring headaches.
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you mean how it loaded instantaneously?
If you're using React but not LESS or SASS then you have a strange attitude to "tool of the month" but it does explain antipathy towards DRY.
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Easy is not the same as necessary. At least high-security projects like OpenSSL could enforce a policy of not using unsafe code, and it's easy to validate that there's no unsafe code or that the few known instances are very well vetted.
It depends if you are willing to give up luxuries or not. My girlfriend and I rent a cosy, but modern studio apartment in East London for about ~£800 p/m. Obviously that money would get you a lot more in most other places in the world, but if you are in finance (or a similarly-paying job) then it's really not a push. It takes me about 50 minutes to cycle to my job in central London - it keeps me fit, and saves an awful lot of money that would otherwise be spent being packed into the tube like sardines for a similarly long, but significantly less pleasant journey.
This is pretty radical. What happened to poll watchers? To showing up in person? To validating that somebody is actually there? So many ways to abuse this, I can hardly count.

{edit: Hey, disregard my ignorance. This is a low-friction registration app which is a good thing}
Video chews up data REALLY quick. Video views on FB and IG are up, probably up on TW as well. So when people say, "My habits haven't really changed..." they probably don't realize what a difference video makes. It's not like the adverts promote this.

Even using say just IG and scrolling a lot is gonna crew up data. Not as much as video, obviously, but if you're drifting from TW or FB to more IG then I could see more data being used.

As for usage while sleeping, usage while off, etc. Well, obviously that's a BIG problem. I'm not making excuses but probably no surprise. Computers aren't perfect, are they?
And you can't easily switch between several virtualized machines like that. Windows will bluescreen if you remove a graphics card while in use, and I'm not sure OSX/Linux guests will fare better.

Passthrough only really works reliably if you only have one guest active at a time and never try to use the graphics card from the host.
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A more political way to state this is to say that those of us who were trained in biology and medicine find it frustrating when people who are successful in Silicon Valley making a product that makes money, but isn't particularly valuable in a social sense, suddenly think they can transform all of healthcare in a rapid way, simply because "it's easy", only to learn "it's actually really hard! there are structural problems in addition to engineering and research problems that require decades of work!"

That said I've read what Zuckerberg said, https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/can-we-cure-a..., and his thesis is not completely lunatic. It's more nuanced, and actually hits most of the critical points:

1) he's talking about disease amelioration, not true cures for all diseases.
2) he's got a more realistic timeframe (not "solve cancer in 10 years")
3) he's focusing on tool building, and addressing some key structural deficiencies around how research is conducted
4) he's got a great collection of leaders to run the institute
5) it's tightly integrated with the existing research system, so it's likely the results of the research will be published in prominent journals

This places Zuckerberg and Chan in the "likely to show impact over time" category.

That said I still have to deal with lots of short-sighted people in Silicon Valley who believe that machine learning is going to cure cancer tomorrow, and that is myopic, naive, and, well, isolated from reality.
Okay...but that doesn't help the case at hand.
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This seems like a pretty niche problem. Maybe in your ecosystem this is common, but I work in OSS and haven't seen this yet.

In all cases with more "complex licensing," you need to see the project's own license file. GitHub's little UI icon isn't legally-binding in any way. It's just a simple UI addition that works in the vast majority of cases.

In a Google search for "git branch different license," I don't see anyone else discussing licensing their projects this way. I'm not saying it isn't valid, it just seems really rare.

Your proposed solution wouldn't necessarily work for the (much more common, in my experience) situation where some branches, like deployment branches, omit the license all together. In those situations, those branches are typically under the same license as the main project. (As always, though, the final word should be in the project's license file.)
At that point you might just go full css-in-js and embrace inline styles.

I'm not sure which is worse:

A) having twenty classes on each element, each doing only one or two things

B) having twenty classes overlapping on the same one or two things
I think you're confusing concurrency with parallelism. Indeed, when these two are combined in the same process with multiple threads sharing memory or other resources, you're effectively juggling with knives.

But in fact concurrency is inevitable in absence of OS threads that can be blocked (another potential clusterfuck) or of some form of continuations support, because it is a direct consequence of asynchrony.

And asynchrony isn't avoidable, all you can do is to find abstractions that make it more deterministic.
I mean, it's a non-diet soda. What did you expect?
Same here, quantitiy over quality is way more preferred. Trying to improve some research that has no value just to increase publication count.
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How do you define what a society wants? There is not an implicit goal when a society exists, there is just a collective of individuals who happen to have some interaction. So essentially, this is the function of politicians in a democracy: to reconcile the irreconcilable views of individuals. However, as with all compromises, often no one is left happy...

I'm not explaining things well I think, hope you can make sense of that!
Oh man. I remember trolling Linux forums back then about how shitty the Linux desktop was compared to BeOS. Surprisingly still true.
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All banks in the EU will have to offer APIs in 2017 because of PSD2: http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2015/january/key-features...

The alternative to open APIs is that third parties ask customers for online banking passwords. This practice is significantly less secure than, say, OAuth2 or similar and is generally against a bank's TOS, which makes the customer liable.
> Makes sense. Each news outlet is a platform in itself (if they choose to be one). They should "own" their own platform, instead of relying on others. It is one thing to not set the stage for the world to interact on your platform, but it is another to not own your own thing.

Then they scream bloody murder when Facebook acts in its own interests and demotes their stories in the feed, as though that weren't totally predictable.
Avoiding !important is generally very good advice, although the ZOMG NEVAH! approach is a bit overzealous IMHO.

One good example would be overriding random external styling (e.g. an included CSS file some plugin you use). If their stylesheet has very long and specific selectors, you can either repeat them entirely (#plugin .container .subcontainer .input-wrapper.input-wrapper-blue input[type=text]:first-child) or stay within your general selector-writing practices and use !important instead. I'd argue the latter is a better practice.
I am curious to know what happened in 2012 that all these breaches occurred. I assume they are holding the data, and trying to squeeze what they can out of it all the way through. However this year there seems to have been a lot of massive breaches that year. does it all stem from one hack? 200m Yahoo accounts could lead to at least a few million LinkedIn accounts I would assume, maybe not as many as was actually compromised in the LinkedIn breach, but still.

I just want to know if the same exploits were used in all of these instances. Or maybe they have just found backups for all these companies this year from 2012 and are using those. I don't even how that would happen.
I hope I don't come across too harsh.

Is HN still really up for that argument? Yes, we know the downsides of C. But the upside is that _we know the downsides of C_.

Constantly complaining about C isn't going to get anyone anywhere. It's been shown over and over again that secure C coding is possible and doable and feasible and exists in the real world. Some of the most secure software is written in C, and that's not attributed to enough fingers banging at a keyboard over a C program, but because C forces the programmer that _wants_ to write a secure program think about all the issues, the universe and everything.

So please, pave the road and show us the safer OpenSSL-rust you have. Until then good luck and thank you for your feedback.
So the author brings up the point that we have a lot of unclassified data which we need to learn how to leverage. Is this what we could use unsupervised learning for? The algorithm would look at a million faces and pick up features, then we could name features like "this category is happy" and "this category is sweating."
That's rich considering Gitlab is basically a Github clone.
Massachusetts you can be. That's the only one I know of off the top of my head.
I don't see this behaviour in Safari 10 either but I am but one of many users.
Instead of being delusional about people forgetting our past mistakes, why dont we become a more open society that is less judgemental about past mistakes but conscious in this reality.
Actually I think amazon does put customer service high on their list.... I wrote about it here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/day-31-write-every-carphone-w...
It's called "inheritance". It's an OOP concept, you functional kids won't understand.
Hey Joe, the registration process is actually totally distinct from voting, which is all done in-person. Poll watchers are still very necessary to ensure the integrity of everyone's ballot.

I've worked on voter registration tech for the last four years, in the US and in new democracies like Libya. I think SMS is the best way to reach people who don't necessarily have a home computer and printer or a smartphone.
Does this mean Verizon would assume liability if the purchase closes before a lawsuit/fine is brought?
Except that "greed in the industry is killing people" is true even if it's rare. "Greed in the medical industry doesn't 'kill people.'" is false if there's just one instance to the contrary. So trying to reverse my argument, while witty, doesn't really work.
i don't buy it. you're telling me a draw bridge, or a lifting door, does no work? get out of here.
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Moving email addresses out from one provider and creating another one is more difficult than moving phone numbers (in the latter case, number portability could help, if available).

What exactly can an average/common end user do for such incidents, even if it is to avoid them in the future? I use different passwords across accounts, with all of them being somewhat complex or very complex.

I have looked at a few different paid service providers before, but they're all very expensive. Expensive for me is anything that charges more than $20 per year, or worse, charges that amount or higher for every single email address/alias on a domain. My use of email for personal purposes is writing about a handful of emails in an entire year, but on the receiving side, I get a lot of emails - most of them somewhat commercial in nature (like online orders, bank statement notifications, marketing newsletters I've explicitly signed up for, etc.). I also have several email addresses, each one used for a different purpose and with some overlap across them.

It seems like web hosting has become extremely cheap over time whereas email hosting has stagnated on the price front for a long time.
If this issue with the SublimeREPL package could be resolved, it would be perfect:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27083505/sublime-text-3-...

Anyone have a guess as to why this happens? It causes me headaches using R as well.
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Keep in mind that if you're using the boot.sh method, the NIC's MAC seems to be hardcoded in the script [1]. You might want to change that.

[1] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/476ae8b082088049f2f8c...
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I do. I mean... seems pretty hypocritical for a coder who's made most of their income from software NOT to.
Pretty neat indeed.

It's sad though that one has to virtualize an entire OS just because a messaging system doesn't offer an open API.
It's not without a few (non-dealbreaker, at least for me) bugs but Signal-desktop works well.
Check out what evan you is doing with Vue js

https://www.patreon.com/evanyou

And Taylor Otwell with Laravel. He makes money off Laravel Forge, Envoyer which are SaaS and a Paid Package Spark.

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These are frameworks which sounds a little different from what you are working on.

You mentioned your company, be careful about who owns the IP/Code. Are you working on this at work, review your contract.

You're talking about answering customer questions. If this is a web app providing value and you are providing support you should be charging for this. Even if the code is MIT, keep in mind a competitor can take your code and create their own SaaS.

You could keep the basics of the app open source and keep the billing, admin etc closed source that you are running with the app, so if people want to setup their own or contribute to the base code they can but you have a larger barrier to entry to someone just duplicating your app and competing with you.

Good luck with your open source app.
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So it's just Go with Python syntax: "Have syntax is inspired by Go and Python, but semantics is usually the same as in Go."
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> I still think KDE 3.5 was awesome and we really didn't need KDE 4.

http://trinitydesktop.org/ does kde-3.5, and it is not too bad.
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How do you find out unusual option activity that the author refers to? Any references?
I write software for free and as a living, so I surely take it seriously. How can a software developer justify stealing software, unless they're trapped in a poor or technologically restricted situation (Cuba)?

EDIT: There's some confusion as to what I replied to:

My reply is to this

Who actually takes software licenses seriously in their own home?

If this doesn't imply one's okay with stealing, then I take my comment back.
They're quite rationally looking for assignments that increase their own market value.
> However great Atom is though, it's unbelievably slow and nearly unusable because of that. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a better alternative since.

Have you given emacs a shot? While once upon a time it was derided as eight megabytes and constantly swapping, it's extremely fast after forty years of Moore's Law.

It's cross-platform: if you run an OS, odds are emacs runs on it. It runs in both the terminal (convenient for remote sessions) and in the X/Cocoa/Windows GUIs.

It has modes for just about every programming language in use, and then some.

It has a plethora of keybindings for dealing with code semantically, e.g. navigation by expressions or blocks. If you prefer, it also has vi keybindings.

It's extraordinarily extensible, so much so that web browsers (three that I can think of), mail readers, news readers, process browsers and shells have been implemented in it.

Indeed, for many people emacs can become more of an OS than their OS.

It's pretty awesome.
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> then we could name features

This is much harder and more time-consuming than it sounds, especially when you go from a small(ish) number of features to more general knowledge. Worse, it doesn't scale to arbitrary domains - you'll always need a human there to give meaning to the models and effectively train them.

Reinforcement learning is designed to get around this by letting an agent "learn" meaning on its own by interacting with the world and getting feedback from its current state and actions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning
I was thinking something more like GTK and GLADE, or Qt and Qt Creator. Qt Quick looks like it's kind of halfway between what I'd consider a GUI toolkit and a drawing library.
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This hack involves 2012 passwords, according to the Re/code coverage. If you've still got the same password, that's a problem. If you're changing passwords every year or so, your vulnerability drops.

Two-factor identification on any account that involves your money is a good idea, too.