skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unsurprisingly, the FDA thought of this. They have concluded so far that drug ads are a net benefit for consumers.

> Other highlights of the surveys include:

> Most physicians agreed that because their patient saw a DTC ad, he or she asked thoughtful questions during the visit. About the same percentage of physicians thought the ad made their patients more aware of possible treatments.

> Many physicians thought that DTC ads made their patients more involved in their health care.

> Physicians thought the ads did not convey information about risks and benefits equally well. Seventy-eight percent of physicians believe their patients understand the possible benefits of the drug very well or somewhat, compared to 40 percent who believe their patients understand the possible risks, and 65 percent believe DTC ads confuse patients about the relative risks and benefits of prescription drugs. In addition, about 75 percent of physicians surveyed believed that DTC ads cause patients to think that the drug works better than it does, and many physicians felt some pressure to prescribe something when patients mentioned DTC ads.

> Eight percent of physicians said they felt very pressured to prescribe the specific brand-name drug when asked.

> DTC ads help patients have better discussions with their physicians and provide greater awareness of treatments. The study demonstrated that when a patient asked about a specific drug, 88 percent of the time they had the condition that the drug treated. And 80 percent of physicians believed their patients understood what condition the advertised drug treats.

> Doctors believe that patients understand that they need to consult a health care professional about appropriate treatment. Eighty-two percent responded either "very well" or "somewhat" when asked whether they believe that their patients understand that only a doctor can decide whether a drug is right for them.

https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm14356...

Folks can argue that the FDA is biased in favor of drug companies at the expense of consumers, but then this would be a huge problem with the central mission of the FDA. It's not clear why we would trust it for approving drugs/treatment, but not trust it for considering the affects of adverisements.
Do you need a scientist to flush toilet? Basically, it's same, but for your body.
Non sequitur.

If you work for a company selling ads, do you derive meaning from how the company invests its profits? Or from the direct effects your actions have on the world?

The rationalizations some people will accept to avoid taking responsibility for how they spend their own lives...

Edit: clarity
Thanks for sharing the article. Layman's perspective, but it seems like the problem in the USA is not the FDA regulation process, but the drug prescription process. If I, a functional adult, have done the research and weighed the risks and decided I want to purchase a specific drug or treatment, why should I need a doctor to "co-sign the loan" for me? We're coupling doctors' financial risks to patients' health risks when the decision making factors are significantly different.
I can't see how you'd do it for a case like this.

The script is just checking that the spender knows 2 pieces of data that are different but have the same SHA1 hash. I can't see a way to do that that can't be easily replayed by somebody else spending to a different address.

As soon as the transaction is broadcast, you reveal your 2 pieces of data that are different but have the same SHA1 hash.
Typing is now available in recent versions of the language.
I don't think this feedback loop is working well for everybody. I know many people, including myself, who don't get the urge to drink until they're severely dehydrated, so they have to force themselfs to drink even in the absence of thirst.

It is also well known that it gets worse with age - fainting due to dehydration is a common occurence with the elderly.
A more common chunk size would be 256 kb - 2 MiB. Yeah, very doable.
Or require the author to only communicate to the technicians via the same means that will be published with the paper -- i.e. Make sure anyone reading the paper has the same spec for the experiment as those who performed the original. [1]

That would help prevent such "hidden specs" from entering the experiment.

[1] Note: this implies that authors cannot be part of the experiment or conduct it themselves, because they can't "pass on their identity" in a research paper, as would be necessary to put readers on par with the technicians.
I'd love some more info on Hydrogen storage, in theory and in real projects. If you have sources I'd much appreciate them.
I work with a lot of ex-Facebook folks. In general, they speak highly of it.

Positives: Teams are fairly autonomous, platforms are stable and support experimentation pretty freely. Great for product/growth oriented hackers. Titles are hidden so you can walk into a room and be talking to a Director and have no idea.

Negatives: The backend is pretty abstracted away so as an engineer, you aren't encouraged to dive deep into the stack and see how it works. I've seen eng leads and managers operate with surface level knowledge of the backends that they work on. Going to startups or less mature companies will require a lot of learning to go deeper down the stack.
I think length limits cause problems.

In the software world, Bioinformatics has 2 page application notes[1]. That is nowhere near enough room to have a figure, describe an algorithm, and describe results. In cases where the source code is available, I've found the actual implementation often has steps not described at all in the algorithm. And these differences make a clean room implementation difficult to impossible if you want to avoid certain license restrictions.

Since it has been a decade since I worked in a wet lab, I'm less familiar with examples in that world, but I know not offending chemical vendors is a concern for some people in the synthetic chemistry world. At a poster session, they'll tell you that you shouldn't buy a reagent from a particular vendor because impurities in their formulation kill the described reaction. They won't put that in a paper though.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/pages/instructions_f...
This answers my question well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13714797
Flame-Throwing Drone Removes Net Entangled in China Power Line
Its not the infrastructure, its the price. If you let the price float more, then customers will naturally avoid buying electric energy when it is expensive, and will shift some of their demand to the less expensive times automatically. Energy storage naturally becomes an economically decentralized business that follows any other arbitrage pattern.
It would still be nice to hear Facebookers thoughts on this though.
There is a really great Slack team for SEO & Marketing called Online Geniuses (https://onlinegeniuses.com/). It's not really "HN like" but it's a really great community.
Currently using docker with a Norwegian government organisation. We are very happy with it. Been running production since December. And yes, they run on Ubuntu.
Yes and that is how I stay sane. However I really like to see how I rank.. like "Last year I ran in the 50th percentile, this year I ran in the 90th". 1 cheater, meh. 100 cheaters? Meh messed up my math ;)
Well... most studies are conducted by a lab run by someone with tenure. Most people doing the experimental design and research do not have tenure, but are trying to get there. Most people doing the actual grunt work of running tests, drawing blood, dissecting mice, wrangling data, and so on, are grad students or undergrads there to learn. And if that's a problem, it could only be solved by a serious overhaul of the funding model for research.
Were you complying with the licenses?
Absolutely, I wasn't suggesting that you should change the naming. In fact I agree that nonce is likely not the best term for this.

But the concept as it applies to HTTP APIs is a great one that I think could have a broadly recognized implementation. Whether folks start adopting the "Idempotency-Key" header or some other approach, having awareness and maybe even a standard could be great.
This is an especially troubling problem in the soft-sciences. I recently learned about [post-treatment bias](http://gking.harvard.edu/files/bigprobP.pdf) which is one of the bigger problems plaguing the social sciences. Avoiding biasing an experiment when choosing the variables you control for is insanely difficult to the point where I wonder if it's even possible.

The scary thing is that people will regularly cite soft-science publications that align with whatever political agenda they may have, and anyone who dares contradict the authority of those studies are shouted down as "anti-intellectual" or other such nonsense.

I used to abhor people for leaning on their bibles to push their agendas but I'm starting to see how secular people are basically doing the same thing.
While the wording may be vague, they aren't talking about the experiences of a subset of researchers -- they are saying that of the experiments they tried to replicate, 2/3rds weren't reproduceable. That is terrible, and has absolutely nothing to do with finding bugs.
Security researchers announce “first practical” SHA-1 collision attack
These are the problems when arts and crafts with scientific elements are confused in the popular and professional imagination with science.
linky?
With fake news, fake comments, and state sponsored reputation campaigns, what is real any more? It seems like the best strategy is to practice and preach "Think for yourself and make your own judgements about the world", now more than ever.
No, there is no difference. You cannot judge what is meaningful to someone else.

Also you're comparing a single company to an entire industry. Advertising is one of the reasons why SpaceX is successful in the first place, along with thousands of other cutting edge companies. SpaceX is exciting, but advertising has far greater impact collectively than you might think.
MIT Develops Fiber with Electro, Chemical and Genetic I/O
That's what I do.

You said the other way around.

I don't sync Google Photos via iCloud, but I do sync iCloud via Google Photos.
Gamer died during live-streamed attempt to play ‘World of Tanks’ for 24 hours
That is not correct and also not supported by your link. A git commit does not contain any changes. It is always a full sapshot of the repo state.

To have any kind of concept of "change", you need two gït commits. Just like a simple text file.
The 5th amendment says you can't be forced to testify against yourself at a trial. It says nothing about things you say outside of a trial being used against you. It definitely doesn't apply here.
> Companies who derive the vast majority of their revenue from advertising will have their culture and technological choices shaped by the underlying business needs.

I worked at Google, on Search. My work (and my team and org's work) was never affected by Ads and how Ads worked. We just focused on making Search better. So I object to your imagination of how Google culture and choices are shaped.
> 1) Compile time. In a tight dev loop, you can run Unit tests in say 2 seconds in Python, vs 15, 30, 60, 90 seconds in Scala (depending on code base size)

True, but 95%+ of the issues you'd catch with unit testing in Python you catch during compilation in Scala, and that can be an incremental compile rather than a full compile. So once you have a properly set up dev environment the feedback loop takes less than 2 seconds in practice, though the one-off setup to reach that point is a lot fiddlier than for Python.

> 2) Django. Play is ok, but for web stuff I think Django does a little better job.

Heh, I don't like either, I'm a huge fan of Wicket (the one time I had to use Django I wrapped it in a Wicket-like layer I called smoff, which I think might even still be out there). Django is too page/request-oriented for my liking, I think a component-oriented library leads to much better design when you're making actual UIs. For REST endpoints spray is the best thing I've ever used, in any language: having your route definition look more-or-less like a route definition but being regular code that you can refactor in all the regular ways is amazing, especially when you get to the point of wanting to use e.g. custom directives and you can just click through to the standard directives and they're just ordinary code that you can adapt the same way as any other code.

> 4) Easier to metaprogram. Sometimes, metaprogramming is awesome. Don't do it nonstop, but sometimes it is amazing. Reflection and macros and all of that exists, but it gets seriously awful to deal with.

I think if you can't do it with Shapeless it's probably not worth doing. The typeclass-derivation stuff is more boilerplate than it should be, but it does work well apart from that, and always leaves you with something more-or-less understandable. Whereas some of the Python metaclass tricks I've seen have just been completely crazy.

> 5) Code readability. I read scala fine, but it can still take a while to parse a file to know what is going on. Trying to think through crazy scalaz or something can hurt your head, even if you get it.

I think you have to remember to compare code that does the same amount, not code that's the same length. Like, sometimes there will be a 1-liner in Scala that I'll have to mentally expand out to 6 lines to understand - but in Python the same code would have been 6 lines in the first place. And I think there's a huge benefit to being able to see a whole class definition on a single page, so I'd rather have the "compressed" single-line version even if it takes slightly longer to read in isolation than the "expanded" six-line version.

> 6) No SBT

Agreed. Can't stand it, have no idea why it's popular. I just use maven.
I think he assumes you're an orangutuan
The closest thing to that that I'm aware of is barnacl.es

That site is aimed at entrepreneurs, with a particular focus on people who are bootstrapping instead of pursuing VC money. A lot of the discussion there tends to involve marketing, although the site isn't necessarily aimed at marketers per-se.
Why? It seems like Wordpress still offers the perfect balance between usability and flexibility. At least that was my conclusion after doing research for an association that was looking to host their own website. Wix options seemed to be very static while Wordpress has a plugin for everything. And it's free while you had to pay for "social media plugins" in Wix.
Two things:

> got her salary adjusted to median position salary because she was a woman

Really?

Do you ever consider that when non-women who are given more opportunities it is because they are men? White? Tall? Are not bald? Have good teeth?

If that doesn't run through your mind, please don't suggest that anyone not a cis-male only gets there to meet the criteria of a diversity program.

> meanwhile I am below company median

The thing with medians is that half of the company will be below that point.

If everyone were on the median, then everyone is receiving precisely the same salary.
It's more like if a guy went to Vegas and came back with thousands of dollars, and decided to tell his friends he's a master poker player, not that he got lucky. Interesting findings happen in scientific experiments, and it's hard to say why, but we should stop acting as if they're always true (and stop just funding quests for even more interesting findings.)
I think it will be multiple things, that would slowly converge to one or two solutions.

Already you can see that Tesla's power wall works really well. Then you have other technologies that would allow cities to store energy. I think we are slowly getting there.
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It's possible in Ethereum. You set a two-step process, in the first step you claim the solution - providing a hash of it, and your address. In the second step (in the next block), you provide the solution, and a smart contract can only send money to the address you provided in the first step.
I haven't used SES in over 2 years now so things may have changed but lots of ISP's blocked the emails. Even basic transaction type emails.

Also, if you send over 10k too soon, you may be throttled or shut down. Lastly, they also throttle you if your bounce rate is higher than 2%. To get around that, you must make sure your list is super clean or send emails slowly to make sure your bounce rate is not over 2% in any given month. Not ideal for newsletters or large customer lists imo.

Again, some of this may have changed since I used them 2+ years ago.
Interesting. Well, for what it's worth, the management chain in the data org definitely seems to think team health is a priority.
Is it really news that physical access is king?
Why are you talking about privilege points? Who said anything about that? Why are you introducing things like privilege into this conversation? Perhaps you want to dodge the rest of the argument because you know you aren't correct and talk about your feelings about privilege instead, because feelings can't be wrong? I've seen the tactic before and nobody really falls for it outside of /r/the_donald. Certainly not on HN.

You don't have a majority of American citizens. You don't have a majority of people living in America. You don't have a majority of American voters. You don't have a majority of people who voted in the 2016 presidential election. You have a majority of electors in the electoral college, but they are the opposite of silent. Their votes are published online for the world to see. They make public protest votes. Their lack of silence is how we know who won the election. 'Silent majority' could not be more wrong as a description of what is going on here.
Even worse example: by this logic, working as a journalist at NYT is not meaningful either.
It's a classic point in most, if not all, social websites or where the content is generated by the user.

And it's usually there to protect the website for altering storing and advertising with user generated content.

It always has had the potential to be used for bad, we will see if this time actually happens.
I still think that Solaris zones are / were a superior technology. Sadly it died with the demise of Solaris as an operating system. Still in use in some "must have enterprise" types of companies.
I would not run anything serious on docker (definitely not yet) if I would not be heavily invested in understanding and contributing to the technology (docker codebase + related).
Docker is a nice to have but absolutely abstracts too much and takes control from you. I am wondering what people like Brendand Gregg think about docker.
What are some other art communities? I've been looking for a decent alternative for a while
Discussed in https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1mavh9/trustless_b...

You'd need a system supporting zero knowledge proofs.
I tried this out last night on my cluster (https://github.com/helm/monocular)

While nice looking I was hoping it provided a way to easily install and configure the variables from the ui.
thanks kindly, i have chronic kidney stones and also do not have a good sense of thirst. i'll certainly be using this.
Wouldn't a cron job work better for this?
Creating Powerful Command Line Tools in Ruby
It works most of the time, but it doesn't work if you are drinking alcohol... your body has to 'waste' water to flush it out of your system. There are probably other drugs and medications that have the same effect (and no, caffein is not one of them, at least to my knowledge).
I don't think so. You need a Facebook account to apply online.
Just a quick note to my comment.

There are a lot of good entrepreneurial teams as well, but a lot of them have one time fees to join (part of a vetting process).

The one I mentioned above is free which is somewhat unusual for such an active community.
New JavaScript library invites coders to play with Canvas
Trouble Makerv2: overload/kill services to test stability on-demand
We used to use rambling for a gentle country walk through fields etc. We'd say we were fell walking if we went out for a day up the mountains in the Lake District, we'd wear walking boots. If it was for a night or more it would either be camping or an expedition - as in DofE.

Tabbing tends to be a military term as far as I'm aware. I don't remember using the term hiking until recently.
> My first thought was how easy my wife could get this on my phone (or vice versa)

That was your first thought? I guess it's time get a divorce lawyer. Regardless, it's really that easy? Why don't you have your phone locked?
If you all are interested in the 'deregulated' energy markets in the US, you may want to check out PJM. Via PJM (and similar regional transmission organizations), you can trade energy and even hook in your own generators and storage.

Interestingly, renewables still comprise a tiny fraction of generation. I'm not sure if this is because of regulatory requirements, lack of reliable storage, or because of cost (nuclear and fossils are pretty cheap and reliable producers).

Generally, in the US, distribution companies (i.e. electric utilities) purchase energy from the transmission companies. Many don't generate electricity themselves. Actually, most distribution companies are co-ops. There are still regulation via FERC, and they stay active because of high-impact capacity transmission failures in the past.

But, it's all cool stuff. And, for those interested in machine learning, you can download a lot (or all) of the data and make a lot of money (I used to work in a pseudo-quant like capacity in that space).

http://www.pjm.com/markets-and-operations.aspx

https://learn.pjm.com/three-priorities/buying-and-selling-en...

http://pjm.com/markets-and-operations/energy/real-time/histo...
> The other one was that we started out on hardware servers. This was right at the early stage of cloud VPS services catching on and becoming mainstream, and we were just behind the curve. It was an expensive mistake.

I wouldn't think 2013 was early stage of cloud VPS services - but maybe I don't have a good enough memory of the time.
> Unfortunately, the fact that this is occurring so rampantly will bolster anti-intellectuals and give them a very potent argument to point to when presented with facts.

I agree with your point, but I suspect your choice of wording tells a little more of the story.

You said "facts", but given your skepticism of their veracity, I think "claims" or "propositions" is more apropos.

Consider the rhetorical difference of these two statements:

"Anti-intellectuals don't accept the facts."

vs.

"Anti-intellectuals don't accept the claims."

I would also question your use of the term "anti-intellectuals". I wonder if, at least for some of the persons to whom you apply that label, a better term is "skeptic".
The Billable Hour
This has already happened: http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/7/14200210/amazon-alexa-tech-...
Most studies are done by people who need high impact publications to secure funding to do more studies to produce high impact publications to secure funding to do more studies...

Not having a permanent job just serves as additional motivation to get high impact publications to secure a job.
What is "cis-male"?
You can add to this that if you are in a facility with both rats and mice, you should never house them in the same room, and you should probably not enter a mouse room after being in a rat room. In the wild, rats are predators of mice.
> Whether folks start adopting the "Idempotency-Key" header or some other approach, having awareness and maybe even a standard could be great.

Oh yes, hugely agree there! Part of the reason that I wrote this is that I couldn't find much prior art around idempotency keys (there is some, but not much). I am at least partially hoping that people will remember this article (or that it'll show up in a Google search) as they're implementing their own similar concept, and re-use the naming.
I pointed to official site with same number, but I downvoted. :-/

Why?