skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Is one of your customers looking for more DevOps help? I have a teammate looking for an opportunity.
I've heard you can get medication that makes your body reject the alcohol? A more elaborate self-registered anti-alcohol measure.
I suspect that the proper ethical thing to do depends on the risks to the patients, and the benefits to the subjects and overall population.

In my own opinion the author is quite correct in classifying the medical benefits to the subjects (practically speaking, zero; equivalent to talking with any random untrained individual), and to future patients (potentially great benefits).

The risks seem to be much more closely associated with accidentally exposing patient information. This is the section that their study protocols (at least what was described in overview) need review and revision.

The unblinding documentation should be kept in a secured, designated area. A safe with a very limited ACL would be ideal. Unblinding information could be either the consent forms with the unique non-PII ID information on them or a list for matching unique non-PII IDs to (hard copies of) existing patient record stubs attached to the consent forms.

If possible the study should have actually been designed to use as much of the already collected data as possible, and possibly ask the small additional information of all, but not record the answers (or destroy the collected information if they do not consent). Hypothetically they could be asked if they consent anonymously providing some of the questions they were already asked to an informational medical research study. If you ask them for consent AFTER having asked (and gotten answers on) the questions, then you're even actually safe to tell them which data are being collected (what their answers were as well) and what you're attempting to study.

I believe that the above is the most ethical way of designing this type of study, and that it sounds similar to a term I've heard professionals in this field use 'retrospective study' (collecting study data based on previously collected medical data).
Could you then have the same kind of structures for flood insurance policies? I had to pay every year to renew my renter's insurance policy, it only covered losses during the course of that year, and the insurance carrier had discretion to adjust the premiums or not to renew it.
Probably compressing the living daylights out of it. By squashing it down, they flatten the amplitude in the music and things with a lot of transients (by definition, drums) suffer. It results in a lot of fatigue, because the higher the compression the more it turns into white noise, essentially.

Sirius XM might be one of the last to standardize on a reasonable LUFS setting of 12 to 16.
It's also great if you you're doing a bunch of time/pitch mangling.
I had to go through a Babylonian secant table and find the error as an exercise. The actual point of the exercise was in determining how the error in calcuation was made.

Figuring out how science was done is still science, even if all you're doing is figuring out how to do the exact same thing but in a different way.
IRB review procedures are flawed, I agree. But ethical review by a third party is enormously important for research with human subjects. I'm alarmed by the notion of researchers deciding unilaterally that a study has only "nonexistent risks" -- that's a recipe for disastrously unethical scientific conduct.
Their previous product supports 25 languages. I curiously expect this list will expand.
What you're sort of describing - having more of the higher frequencies resonate together - can actually cause intermodulation distortion (which itself can be in the audible range), which can make it sound worse...

I haven't had time to check the linked article but if it's the one I'm thinking of I'm pretty sure it goes into this.

In the end though, double blind testing (again, I think mentioned in the article) shows that there's a threshold (a bit below 48kHz, probably why 44.1kHz was chosen for CD audio) after which people cant distinguish between higher sample rates at any more accuracy than randomly guessing.
Contributing to Swift
Why should study data subject to higher security standards than information that is collected on the patient during the process of providing care that is much more sensitive?
I notice it too, and it's because the music is extremely low bitrate - usually 48kbps, but sometimes as low as 32. It's HE-AACv2 - not as good as Opus, but close. Its characteristic artifacts include destroying transients, like your hi-hats.
Higher frequencies aren't even in most recordings, so we wouldn't have to re-record them for that reason.

And if they were (such as in 96 kHz hi-res audio), you could just run it through a low-pass filter to strip off the higher frequencies.
That's one of those things that sounds true without putting thought into it but is ultimately false. A 44.1kHz sampled sounds can encode phases with offsets smaller than 22µs (1/44.1k). How much smaller? I'm not exactly sure, but I believe it's dependent on your sample size. My guess is 1/2^16 (assuming sample resolution of 16 bits), but I might be off by a factor of 2 (or indeed 100% wrong) there. Caveat emptor. If I'm right then that's 346 pico-seconds, which I'm betting is smaller than your brain can differentiate.
> which felt super-odd because journalists wouldn't need any ethical review at all in order to carry out exactly the same interview in exactly the same way.

Journalists don't have a history of injecting you with syphilis just to see what happens, though.
And then of course there's accessibility. If your app is already designed to handle different screen sizes then it's easier to resize various elements because you want to bigger or smaller text.
Sounds like an effective, cheap solution would be water butts on every gutter.
I don't think the author was proposing getting rid of oversight completely, just that said oversight should, you know, make sense.
>> "a vulnerability in the gem installer that allowed a malicious gem to overwrite arbitrary files"

Yeeks. Not good.

(sudo) gem update --system ASAP
Coffee's Health Perks May Be Strongest for People Over 45
In the US, flood insurance is provided by the government. And the premiums still jump insanely sometimes.

It gets handled this way for the same reason our government provides welfare et al: it makes no sense as a business, but the cost to the nation to do nothing is a bigger problem.
Ask HN: Is there a way to stop Alexa/Similarweb from tracking my site?
> It's still illegal to sell it

No, under the actual measure proposed, as stated in the source article, it would no longer be illegal under state law for adults 21+ to sell it.
"The author doesn't seem to take the history of medical research ethics (e.g. the Tuskegee syphilis experiments [1]) seriously."

This is the same dynamic that happened in, say, the 1950s with Communism. At that time, the Soviet Union was legitimately scary. They had the world's largest army, an arsenal of nuclear weapons, and were led by a power-mad dictator. It was certainly a wise move to defend against them. But eventually, Communism became a catch-all justification that could be used for any rule or policy, no matter how silly it was. Why, for example, did we need the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance? Because of communism, even though it didn't help the Western military position at all. Likewise, any challenge to these policies could be dismissed as "naive", "uninformed", or "not taking the threat seriously".
Apollo 11 and its computers
No, not "really hard if not impossible", it is impossible. The article itself cites that no one has ever been observed to be able to do so.
> Gold is often used as a comparison, but gold doesn't generate anything either. And gold will generally lose value compared to an investment in a productive asset.

And I don’t understand why we have this gold comparison. Compared to a productive asset, gold won’t be generating any value. But gold’s value in the first world is at least somewhat in lockstep with inflation, where Bitcoin is all over the place and can’t be used as a hedge like gold can.
The first one is good too: https://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml

Check out also the making of:

* https://wiki.xiph.org/Videos/A_Digital_Media_Primer_For_Geek...

* https://wiki.xiph.org/Videos/Digital_Show_and_Tell
I think this is a problem, but I also think it may be less of a problem than it seems to be. There exist VC models like SignalFire or Sequoia's talent-scout program that pro-actively go out and try to find entrepreneurs who are focused on their customers & their business rather than ones that pitch them. However, since these scouts are too busy working to be dominating the press cycles, and since they go out and find entrepreneurs instead of hoping the entrepreneurs come to them, there is little incentive for them to have a big public presence.
IIRC I read recently that unions organized this, and the level of education amongst some factory workers was actually extremely high.
Can someone explain this "Purism" thing?
I understand that they are trying to build laptops with secure components.

But they are using Intel processors. What about Intel ME? There is some workaround or they just let it be?
Exactly. Especially since the linked interview was conducted as a series of _text messages_ -- it seems like that was the 'hook' of the interview, with all the emojis/text abbreviations used. Looking at the other interviews in the series, the two women entrepreneurs didn't stand out as being particularly 'effervescent'.
(Relative) Clojure noob here: what stops someone from developing a similar library to honeysql, but instead of passing in vectors/maps, one created the data structure in a plain quoted form and passed it in?

e.g. the first example in the README could be turned into:

(def sqlmap
'(where (= :f.a "baz")
(from :foo (select [:a :b: :c])))

I understand that hiccup syntax can be awesome, but it seems like Clojure loses a bit of the magic of LISP when everything has to be written in terms of vectors/maps - what's wrong with a plain ol' list?

I imagine I'm probably missing something obvious or important, since I've only dabbled in Clojure (and loved it!)
Something is not right about asana. This article is so filled with buzzwords and meaningless "values", "principles" that I want to puke. Even in this industry, I've never heard anyone talk like this, except when I attended an asana hiring info session a few months ago.
Not all of them. I was lucky because I ported my carrier number to Google Voice, so telecoms still think it's a cell phone number. However, you have to try a number of GV numbers before one sticks now. This is something they've changed recently.

Twilio numbers do not work, since they are now sending the verification code from a 6 digit short number, which Twilio does not support.

WhatsApp has also cracked down on a number of temporary phone number services including Burner.
Neither do anthropologists or computer scientists, who are both now subject to IRB review in universities.
"Friend-or-foe identification can boil down to "only targets shooting at me are hostile"."

That reminds me of a classic scene from the original Robocop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzlt7IbTp6M
Fact check,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman

Was convicted of perjury. We're supposed to believe what he says?

https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/

Wait, it's not what he said. It's what Dan Baum said he said, 22 years after he supposedly said it, 17 years after Ehrlichman died. Since John isn't around to corroborate the story, I guess we just have to take Dan's word on it?

Not impressed.
You can see in graph that floods are occurring more often and that clouds are able to absorb more water as temperatures rise. This hurricane would have happened. But this flooding is worsening because of climate change that is irrefutable.
Is there a more detailed description of the vulnerabilities somewhere?
One of the challenges with Wes book is that it is quite old (2014). A lot of commands/functions/code mentioned in the book are obsolete and removed so code fails.

The OP book is relatively recent (2016). The majority of code still runs as mentioned. Only a few commands/functions mentioned generate deprecation warning. This book is also covers packages and ML exhaustively. I have gone through this book cover to cover and enjoyed it. This is the first and only book that I found that covers data analysis with Python comprehensively. I wish author had covered data cleaning aspects little bit more.
I felt that the presenter is a very rare example of a engineer who felt that his expression and purpose was attractive to his imagined audience.

Without diversion via the questions embedded in the profession and the perception and self perception of the male geek working and academic world, I so rarely see a presenter reacting to a sense of apparent human warmth in the room, and beyond the lens, which even with the most encouraging assistance behind the lens, is genuinely hard to do. Hard enough that I think it is a classic contribution to the stereotypes of inflated ego newsreel presenters, which Hollywood loves to satirise, in my opinion because Hollywood is mocking, to their narrow and insecure view, a subspecies of acting which when done well, can so massively capture the greater audience than ever some most serious actors may manage to capture.

This is a bit more than a little bit of geek knowhow and applied thought, but I think many geeks by virtue of sheer analysis without a obstruction of a ego, could be handily outperforming the supposedly inherent talent they are "meant" to possess. It may be reaching well into "real serious" acting, very easily. I don't pretend to be a judge of that, but if acting abilities are "I know it when I see it", this is excellent acting indeed.

Edit, is not was, first line. A comma for clarity but later on.
No, the hippies aren't all white, aren't all married, and are mostly elderly (children born at the height of the movement are on the late end of middle age.)
> Psilocybin is considered a Schedule I drug by the California Controlled Substances Act and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

> These drugs have no accepted medical use and a high potential for dependence and abuse, according to the DEA. Heroin, LSD, and marijuana are in the same category.

Well, if you do psilocybin as recreation, I suppose that's "abuse". Because all good Puritans know that it's sinful to have any fun ;) But seriously, there's a risk for dependence with psilocybin? There is tolerance, in the sense that using too frequently increases the required dose. As with LSD. But, other than coming to like the experience, I can't imagine how there's a risk for dependence.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

I wouldn't use the form, but that page also has download links of password hashes for you to check locally.
This will work great in Mexico. Almost all businesses here allow you to order stuff over WhatsApp. I've bought everything from car insurance to street tacos on WhatsApp.

Businesses have both FB and WA icons painted on the outside, with the FB page name and the WA number.

Partially due to the heavy cash economy, all businesses' calls to action on social media (FB/Instagram) focus on getting people to message and then place orders via WA or Messenger (instead of clicking Buy links to CC forms online). The response rates are really good, within minutes for most places. It feels like a perfected version of "chatbot AI" sometimes.
Every large group will have some people who commit horrible acts, including the media. "Hate radio", for example, was a major contributor to the Rwandan genocide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Lib...
Computer scientists will do stuff like expose people in repressive regimes to internet censors (http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/pdf/papers/p653....) or hack your Facebook account and slurp all your data (http://www2013.wwwconference.org/companion/p751.pdf)

Though ENCORE was done with IRB approval, the community is mostly unsure how that was possible...
You can easily distinguish what is clearly an illusion or lie that is not going to work.

But you're right that recognizing which platform will actually work is very hard.
All PHI is subject to the same data security standards, regardless of if it is from research or clinical sources.
APFS conversion is mandatory for SSD-equipped Macs
I was a bit imprecise, but the "high-quality releases aimed at audiophiles" is essentially what I was referring to. The record stores are full of remastered vinyl editions.
Key quote:

"When you upgrade to macOS High Sierra, systems with all flash storage configurations are converted automatically. Systems with hard disk drives (HDD) and Fusion drives won’t be converted to APFS. You can’t opt-out of the transition to APFS."

I personally suspect there will be a hidden option to skip the automatic conversion (which I plan to use), but still--this is an aggressive rollout. Very impressive, but also a bit scary.
Interesting question. They have a page about it here: https://puri.sm/learn/intel-me/

I think the summary is: it's hard but they're working on it, and they think they can disable it.
I think these are the commits, but not all of them contain a detailed description.

https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/8d91516fb7037ecf...
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/8a38a4fc24c6591e...
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/44cc27cd6123b8ea...
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/ad5c0a53a86ca5b2...
The History of Chinese Tea – Chagardens.com
Is there any research to support this?
But there are better chat solutions out there. Discord is pretty awful, terrible audio quality, limited room sizes, the aforementioned privacy concerns stemming from no self hosting and lack of interoperability with other chat protocols.

When technologies like Matrix [matrix.org] exist and we've had superior dedicated voip programs (mumble et al) for decades there's nothing appealing about discord is the AoL mail of chat clients; great for people with 0 interest in technology, but, why.
Sure, there are some.

SiriusXM (27 years old) is financially the only music subscription service that is thriving in terms of printing cash. Not only did they not take it in the pants due to to the rise of the Internet, their fortunes have radically improved over the last 15 years and they've perpetually added to their subscriber base. While Pandora and Spotify bleed red ink by the barrel, Sirius earned $800m in the last four quarters (with $1.5b in operating income).

Fox and its various properties transitioned just fine and have had several record profit years in the last five years. The stock of Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. has been hovering near all-time highs (its stock history going back to 1989) the last three years, and that's after spinning off the smaller Newscorp.

Disney has thrived big time in the Internet era. They're far larger than they used to be. Their market cap is five times larger than it was in 1995 (and that's with a modest 17 PE ratio).

CBS Corp's stock is near an all-time high (spun off in 2005) and their sales are as well.

Thomson Reuters is doing just fine in the Internet era. They didn't take it in the pants at all. They're a century old media company (156 years for Reuters, 83 for Thomson), whose stock is at all-time highs, and their operational condition is strong. They're presently worth 10x what the New York Times is.
I agree it's absurd just say that the rational trig system is "more accurate" and leave it at that. The idea that we have, for thousands of years, been ignoring mathematical wisdom of the ancient Babylonians is pure click-bait. But the issue goes beyond the maths itself and into what humans want to do with it.

Let's start with an apparent nitpick. You say "rather than, as modern
trig tables do, giving it for all angles". But no table gives all angles,
it's always sample. For modern tables, the samples tend to be regularly spaced, while the Babylonians apparently chose to sample the rational points. Which
is better likely depends on the use case.

It's not obvious that "normal trig" is better from an engineering point of view. At least not for all engineers. If you are designing a Babylonian temple then
you have the freedom to make your rooms so-many-cubits by so-many. That is, it's
fairly easy to make rational ratios between the opposite. It's then handy to
know what mathematical properties the resulting angle has. Or else to be able
to look at your table and pick ratios that have some useful property. You could
not do this with a "normal" trig table, or even a modern a hand calculator.
Thanks for sharing that! I was convinced to watch it from all the other recommendations and can concur (FWIW at this point) that it was well worth it.

The camerawork was excellent and the demonstration integration/trinket-wielding was seamlessly done. I get the impression the people who made this had a case of "let's use the ThinkPad for this, and let's do it this and that way," and they pulled it off so perfectly, exactly how engineers wish would happen.

If you ever need a reference demo for "open-source software can make good looking presentations," this would be on the shortlist, I think. (The credits say it was made using Cinerella, for reference.)
Our Left-Right Media Divide Told Through Charlottesville
I disagree. People want to live in cities for the jobs and opportunities they offer. It is very difficult to increase the housing stock within cities even with the measures you list, this scarcity of housing is made worse because landlords buy up flats turning them into AirBnb properties, preventing people from living in them. This results in the hollowing out of cities so they become tourist resorts. Barcelona has had a particularly hard time with this.
I'm building a business in the VR space -- a VR real estate aggregator that's beginning as a VR centered brokerage in NYC. We recently had our beta launch, but I've been working on it, off and on, since late 2015. So, obviously, I think VR has something special to offer. What VR does is incredible, and incredibly valuable. But it has a very limited scope.

I've been bearish about VR since the beginning. Even when it's approaching perfection, it's too socially isolating. Lots of things are as socially isolating, but few FEEL so overtly isolating. Moreover, we're accustomed to viewing things from a narrative distance -- a sort of 3rd person impersonal viewpoint. VR is intransigently stuck in 1st person. That's great for certain kinds of video games, and can be great for video once software allows for truly interactive video experiences. But it's still a deeply limited perspective. Think of all the forms of entertainment you've ever used. Now eliminate all those that aren't 1st person. That's what's left for VR.

AR will end up covering everything. We love computers, information, virtual socialization, but we also want to feel like we're engaging in those things as an extension of the world we live in on a day to day basis. AR allows an increasingly rich interpenetration of the virtual and the real. It's going to take over completely.

But I'm confident that VR will always have a place. It's like a motorcycle to AR's car. For example, VR is unquestionably the future of the home search. Being able to tour through many homes, walk neighborhoods, check out the local bars and restaurants, all without having to travel. That's invaluable. AR just won't cut it for these purposes. And VR will eventually be used extensively for 1st person gaming, a relatively small range of focused media, some art, training, and probably for home-movies (think of going back, 20 years later, to be in the room during your kid's 5th birthday!).

So I remove all the magical talk. Then look at the functionality, and I think you'll see that VR's value is tremendous, within a limited domain.
You can't delete certain apps on an iPhone and they remain on the first page of your phone. This means for it to be worth it to download a competitor it has to be a big advantage. I see it as the same thing.