skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>scientists criticizing how the scientific process is currently conducted for the purposes of improving the scientific endeavor.

I think what happening here is a bit more serious. They are showing a widespread crisis. It is not just some minor feedback to improve the process.

>It does not in itself show that science is inherently untrustworthy.

I think when statistics is involved, the results are inherently untrustworthy. This is not really surprising because there is a whole bunch of ways these studies that involve statistics could go wrong. And we are still finding new ways on how this could go wrong.

Then there are things like publication bias, that takes this to a whole new level. Things like that means that a biased body of journals can project any consensus that it favors just by selecting studies that fit its narrative. The inherent issues with statistics means that you can find studies that shows any possible outcome.
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The status quo is screening at the eye doctor. This enables screening at primary care visits. People mostly go to primary care more often than the eye doctor.

The medical risk is that people will forgo other screening for 12 months when given a negative result. The cost of additional screening for false positives is the other big downside (this is all the machine does, recommend a specialist visit or to rescreen in a year).
This is a really thought provoking article. I especially like the reference to the movie The Devil Wears Prada, because in essence, what is being described is a very complex algorithm embedded in a large group of people observing a lot of things (fashion trends).

The question raised in my mind is this: where is the tipping point at which the answers / predictions in that algorithm become stale or shift rapidly and require an answer that is orthogonal to previews answers (!) but still "correct". This tipping point seems to be what taste is about to some degree.
..so now we need an algorithm to predict the tipping point; its algorithms all the way down.
I've built a payment system before, I didn't make it distributed and if I was to build one again. I won't make it distributed. I like my payment system old school batch style. Correctness is very important to me and ability to rollback and replay things if things went wrong are very important.
it's not just about it going down.. if you rely only on us-east they have had multiple times when you couldn't autoscale because there was no more capacity... if you rely on running lean and scale/up/scale down events us-east would have bitten your ass a lot the past year... Just for comparison sake even our private colo has had 0 issues the past decade that caused any interruptions to service
1. Hire more support

2. Provide clearly defined guidelines as they relate to the algo and be equitable with enforcement

3. Be politically neutral

This will not guarantee safety from violence, but it could increase it.
After this most recent presidential election, I believe that racism is ingrained in our DNA.

I couldnt believe what I was seeing in the 21st century.

Politicians will use this tool until humanity goes extinct.
I think he's saying, in an earthquake, stay inside.

A lot of people think running into the street is what you wanna do. It is, in like, Mountain View maybe. Realistically you want to just jump under the nearest thing you can and hope for the best. If you're in the Financial District in the middle of the street... well your friends apparently have seen what that'll look like.
I agree, but for me, the benefit of anonymity outweighs the detriment of it.
W3fools used to have more detail:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110117085131/http://w3fools.co...

Even if w3schools have fixed all these instances since then, that all those errors were ever produced is a bad sign, especially when there were better alternatives even then.
Ask HN: Girlfriend is being shown ads depending on what we do together. How?
My girlfriend came to check out some open houses with me yesterday after work. By 10 PM, she was seeing ads on Instagram for new houses. She hasn't shopped for a house before, or even done any searches on Google on that topic. I simply invited her to come with me and she did.

Similarly, we were at her place the other day and watched a kung fu movie on my laptop (connected to her wifi), and then went to bed. The next morning she started seeing ads for martial arts schools in the area.

What is happening?

She doesn't have an Amazon Echo or anything else that might be listening, although she does have an Android phone. She most likely has the default (stock) settings and apps. Regardless, I want to help her improve her privacy. What steps should I take (other than installing ad-blockers on her phone)?

Corollary: Is this what the Internet is like for "regular" people? If so, holy shit. I'm glad I use uBlock Origin on my computers and an iPhone.
The Sales Funnel Series- No1. Acquisition
At it's core SEO boils down to a protocol for helping search engines make sense of your website/content. If you look at it that way, then yes SEO still works in 2018.

But more often than not, SEO is an umbrella term which encapsulates both the good and the bad practices. Given the work Google and others have done on weeding out the latter using ML/AI as well as human intervention [0] I would say you can't be sure whether those would work. It's contingent on Search Engines being aware of the practice and penalizing that behavior. So it may work today but not guaranteed to work tomorrow.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6956658
More likely as in Rhodesian Ridgeback hunting dogs.
The maximum pay rate for a GS-15 (top civilian grade) in the DC area is around $158K.

Special hiring authorities are great ways for government to get what they need in a hurry, but can be abused, and should (in my opinion) only be used to experiment (read: test hypotheses) about hiring in the federal government, rather than as a band-aid fix.
I got a book on TF last year and saw all the examples were fairly short and was impressed with the power. However it took me a good three months before I could reason about why reach line was there. It's pretty complex stuff that takes a while to even understand, let alone actually write.
Haha I work during coffee, conference call during hiking, and then work during my first two beers :)
Imterstingly there’s a pretty much 1:1 correlation between air quality and longetivity, much stronger than just wealth disparity. The longest lived areas in the US are Hawaii (constant supply of clean air via tradewinds, total lack of heavy industry) and the high mountain valleys of Colorado/Montana.
I will let clang's amazingly detailed error messages speak for themselves:

ben@burnination ~ $ cat test.c
int main() {
int a = 3;
int b = 2;
if (a=b) {
return 1;
} else {
return 0;
}
}

ben@burnination ~ $ clang -Wall test.c
test.c:4:10: warning: using the result of an assignment as a condition without parentheses [-Wparentheses]
if (a=b) {
~^~
test.c:4:10: note: place parentheses around the assignment to silence this warning
if (a=b) {
^
( )
test.c:4:10: note: use '==' to turn this assignment into an equality comparison
if (a=b) {
^
==
1 warning generated.
Another strong reason to implement the concept of a simple flat tax, without the pages and pages of magic accounting trickery.

It really shouldn’t be that complicated:

Salary wages * tax rate

Investment delta * tax rate

Why does that take thousands of lines on a tax return ?
> Apple phones can not be cracked even by law enforcement

Not true: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbxxxd/unlock-iph...
You might be interest in the Podlove project: https://podlove.org/

Here is an example that shows their player in action: http://omegataupodcast.net/279-microgravity-research-at-zarm...
Be nice, but lose the client in some fashion.

Concentrate your limited resources on your core business.
A college professor gives her students extra credit for going on dates
As bad as Trump is, as bad as the potential foreign propaganda affecting election outcomes is, I'm worried the solution will be worse than the problem. I suspect the two incumbent parties will use this as an opportunity to further cement the two-party system, making it more difficult for third parties or political "outsiders" to have successful campaigns.

Russian spending on FB ads was a drop in the ocean compared to the total spend. Congress clearly doesn't care about our privacy as evidenced by the domestic spying programs. Without trying to go too far down the conspiracy rabbit hole, we need to figure out what their real motivation is here. My personal opinion is that they will make it harder for outsiders, including other political parties, to gain any traction.
The idea that the internet should be left to its own devices made sense as long as the internet didn't actually matter, i. e. had no influence on the offline world.

Those were easier times, but they also limited the usefulness of the medium. If it can't affect peoples' lives, it cannot be beneficial for them. Conversely, if it can be beneficial, it can also hurt them.

E-Commerce is the most obvious example: it's incredibly useful to do business online. But it's obvious that such economic activity will invariably lead to scams and frauds.

Having established that real things now happen online, the question becomes what to do about it. "Leaving the internet alone" in that context cedes all power to those with the most technical ability. That's a rather arbitrary distribution of power, and I'm not sure people would enjoy the outcome, long-term.

For better or worse, democracy and governments have long been the tool to decide and enforce the rules of societies. It's not entirely clear why that model should change just because is "..., but online!". And for all the faults of the US' democracy specifically, it's still far more legitimate than the CXOs of Google, Facebook, Netflix, and Comcast.
Facebook facial recognition faces class-action suit
Really? Sites like that really set off alarm bells for me.
To each their own. It's often brought up in discussions as people's favorite fantasy series, or an example of a good series. I don't fault anyone for thinking the former, but I think the latter requires a bit of justification if not presented in purely subjective manner.
It gathers a lot of info and transfers it to vast number of domains under Microsoft control:

http://www.pcministry.com/win10_telemetry/summary_stats_and_...
There were definitely specific things that they asked us not to talk about. One example: Angela Ahrendts (SVP Retail) talked to us about the new Chicago Apple Store [0] and asked us not to discuss it until its public announcement.

I don't think the town hall events were confidential. My understanding was that they asked us not to take notes or use electronic devices to be polite to the speakers. They explicitly told us when certain information was meant to be kept secret.

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/10/apple-michigan-avenue...
I've successfully bought a domain on auctions.godaddy.com before. That being said, I am pretty skeptical about the entire "premium domain" market.

Like eBay, there's a good chance you'll need to game the system a bit: Don't bid until seconds before it ends, and be prepared for other parties (including domain resellers) to bid it up right before the end.

I had a .net address and the .com became available at GoDaddy's auction site, presumably because it was left to lapse by the previous owner. In the seconds before the end of the auction, it got bid up an extra $100 or so, but I managed to snap it up for, I believe, $112, which wasn't that bad.

A site I have control of lost it's .com when a friend passed away and we were unable to secure access to the domain before it's subscription lapsed. It's marked as a premium domain (presumably because it got a lot of traffic back in the day) for the sale of a couple thousand dollars now, and has been that way for a while.
Does this mean 95% breathing unhealthy air today? Or breathed unhealthy air in the past year? Sometimes the air here is healthy, sometimes there's too much ozone. Am I in the 95%?
"It is depressing to think this is the best place for STEM careers in the world."

There are many amazing places well beyond Silicon Valley for STEM careers. And in startups if that is the route you want to go. I'm in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. We have a vibrant startup community and the unemployment rate is near 0. No matter if you want to go startup, small company, or large, you can find it here with great pay and benefits.

The people here are fantastic. You can live in the city or suburbs for an affordable amount of money and escape the city in 30 minutes if you want to get away. Great place.

Not to mention Austin, Chicago, and so many more. Don't limit your looking to just the valley. There is much more out there.
> "nub" - I think you might mean "point" or "crux"?

"This is the nub of what I want to say" is a direct quote from the paper/talk.
Currently we have five people on our team. If our team lead left, we'd be in a big spot of trouble. He has the social cachet and the technical chops to lead a project, while also being a pretty decent motivator when bureaucracy gets tough. Losing that person would be a blow. I imagine it's much the same situation here.
Sure.

It's a bit of a hack and I can't recommend anyone to actually use it. It probably contains a number of assumptions that only holds true for the SIE-files I've had to handle.

https://erq.se/sie/import_sie.py
https://erq.se/sie/sie.py
https://erq.se/sie/export_sie.py
My prediction is that by 2020 Netflix will move a significant portion of their IT to Google Cloud.

Why? Most of their architecture is microservices / linux containers / serverless, and Google is simply way better positioned there (with Kubernetes as their crown jewel). They will eventually win.

Source: no source, just my "expert" opinion (6 years at AWS, 2 at VMware's cloud, currently CEO at a startup).
I've love to see some open source tools that manage this automagically for me. :-)

It would also require an architecture that supports multiple interfaces. Totally doable (the facade pattern comes to mind) but you'd want to calculate the TCO to see it works out financially.
Of course science flies in the face of democracy. Democracy gives all the power to individual subjective opinion. Hence the battle against emotional bias, fake news, and propaganda tactics which all work wonders in a democracy. This battle is fought with objective facts, which are only attainable by science.

Science is the only tool specifically designed to weed out falsehoods and reach an objective consensus based on how nature works.

How is this "subject to falsehoods just like any other human endeavor"?

There is no substitute for science.

We all seem to agree that democracy only works when the population is informed. Well, are we going to inform ourselves with the beliefs and tweets of those which we grant moral authority? Or science?
Regarding Japan: Nara has the Okumura Commemorative Museum [1] that has a bunch of little exhibits demonstrating how Japanese builders have been adapting to earthquakes. You can even look under the building at the foundation to see two of the methods in action - a crazy sort of "rubberized" slide pillar, as well as pillars just plonked on top of plates of teflon.

[1] https://www.okumuragumi.co.jp/en/commemorative/index.html
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> Bored subways are imperceptible from above ground.

Not entirely true - the Crossrail in London goes under the Barbican arts centre, and that section of the track has special floating tracks to reduce noise and vibrations:

http://www.crossrail.co.uk/construction/railway-systems/
Yes, I have a Series 2 so I need to have my phone nearby (or on the same WiFi) for the Watch to be useful.

The difference is that now I can dismiss notifications from my wrist and I am less tempted to actually unlock my phone directly, which is what was causing me to get distracted before.
A diverse, pop-up security conference challenges the industry status quo
David Brooks is the worst.
Don't just listen to Krugman, read how monetary policy for the better part of a decade was based on a paper that wasn't peer reviewed, but was held up as irrefutable 'science'. Politicians latched on to it because it told them what they wanted to hear.
Do you think MBAs should tell software engineers how to write code? Do you consider people who specialize in software development "wonks" or just experts?
GnuCash seems to be about 15 years behind the times when it comes to accounting software...

It should hook up to my bank account. It should take photos of my receipts, credit card statements and bank statements and automatically OCR them to add data. It should automatically calculate my taxes for a specific country, and file tax reports with local, state and federal government agencies online, and it should highlight things I might have missed to reduce my tax burden given my specific situation. It should compare my expenses with a typical person to highlight areas I might be able to make savings. It should have a mobile app which works even when offline and syncs later. It should have auto backups to the cloud or remote storage.

If I just wanted a way to add up my expenses by category, I would have used a spreadsheet.
At my bank, the best way is to run a cronjob to download a CSV formatted report. Probably needs phantomjs or similar. I think this is the general situation. Banks don't have (open) APIs and I don't think they have any intention of changing that. There's a few startups trying to but none of them are based in the US.
recently, it has been trying to implement GTD with an app. having all your tasks setup in a project context has helped to weed out the stuff that should not be a focus.
Uh, no. The IRS's lack of budget to actually accomplish its goal has been a problem for quite a while now. They can't even afford office supplies, and they surely cannot afford to hire the people they need to accomplish their goal.
Right, cool. Still find it interesting.
Next up, Massive Multiplayer Solitaire.
You have to also take into consideration management - the importance of proper staffing, hiring, and training can't be understated.
I see now: /r9k/ posters were internet hipsters, creating reality-distorting bubbles of isolation and despair around themselves before it was cool.
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Is it time to abandon the Nobel Prize?
In that case, shouldn't the training data be open source? Seems like somebody got an unfair advantage here.
I share some of your concerns. However re Russian spending, I think that that the current spending estimates are on the lower end. Also the money was spent less wastefully so it might have ended up having larger effect than assumed.
Trespassing is generally not a crime unless there is a clear indication that the person committing it should not go there, such as a fence or a sign or some form of explicit communication from the property owner. The fence or sign doesn't have to make it impossible for the person to access the property, but it does have to be there so that it is clear that they shouldn't enter the property.

The Internet should be treated the same. Anything put on the Internet should be presumed to be public unless there is some indication to the contrary.

In this case, most of the information he accessed was clearly intended to be public, so there was no reasonable way for him to know that there was some private information improperly co-mingled with the public information, so he can't be faulted for not realizing that he shouldn't have accessed some of the information.
These are probably to prevent action from the FTC.
Even in 1989 they couldn't get water, they had to suck it out of the bay.
Batch vs realtime, correctness, rollback & reply have nothing to do with whether or not you build your system distributed or not.

In fact a distributed system can have some advantages over a monolith in an application like that if done properly, for instance you could set up a central message log that keeps data for an x period allowing you to 'rollback and replay' to your hearts content.
That's what the Brave browser is doing: "Set up automatic micro-donations. Brave will automatically divide a monthly donation among the top sites you visit." (brave.com)

The downside is the high entry bar of installing a new browser and setting up a cryptocurrency wallet (payments are made with Basic Attention Tokens).
This is because the two subjects were largely indistinguishable until fairly recently. Most of the theory for language parsing came from efforts to describe natural languages in terms of formal grammars, and until ALGOL, most programming languages didn't have especially complex grammars. So until recently, the study of formal languages was a linguistics thing - it's since become much more popular in the CS world.
Oh goodie, another technology promising to connect us better than ever. I can’t wait to see how this one backfires horribly.
I think they are talking about when Dell made serious profits in PCs.
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Honestly wasn't that egregious. Definitely not at the bottom of the barrel. No references to Elon Musk or Ja Rule's predictions for the AI singularity.
And they don't even have to tag a face. Facebook does facial recognition on every face in a photograph. So you could be in the background of a picture taken in a restaurant by someone else and now suddenly you have a profile.

Appear in the background of enough photos and Facebook can use other data to eventually figure out who you are, even if don't have a computer or smartphone.
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In the US: "Hand me that lego piece"
Elsewhere: "Hand me that piece of lego"
In only responding to the claim that the stats are wrong because of police oversampling blacks. With homicide, no one can make that case.

If lack of money causes homicides, we should expect to see all poor rural areas have high homicide rates, too. Maybe that's true.

Another factor seems to be sex. Males commit so much more violence, so perhaps that's the only thing to focus on.
Twilio launches programmable wireless (with sim's) for IoT using T-Mobile.
Not with faces, but names and important or useful info (what they do, kids, interests).

The difficulty is remembering until I would get a chance to do it.
Again, the core "meat and potatoes" of this article is that neural networks that do the thinking are black boxes. We know not how they are trained, know not their biases, and know not how they come to a specific decision.

But we are supposed to trust the NN in my life? I think not!
So how, exactly, would you simplify the tax code? And make sure it brings in the same amount of revenue, and isn't extremely regressive? And make sure it isn't trivially game-able?
Show HN: Parsecat – a parser monad transformer and combinator library
Don't live in Houston because hurricanes and flooding.

Don't live in New York or Chicago because cold.

Don't live in Seattle because rain.

Don't live in Taipei because earthquakes and a bunch of cruise missiles pointed at it.

Don't live in Seoul because artillery and a dictator across the street.

Don't live in Miami because hurricanes.

Don't live in Madison, WI because tornadoes.

Don't live in Hill Country because ambulance will take 20 minutes to get to you when you step on a rusty barn nail.
That's nice, it probably won't handle the volume of a service like Uber though. People don't make distributed systems because they love complexity. At least, the sane ones don't.
I was really surprised to see the butter pies from A Tale of Time City as the first example here. I don't know anyone else besides my mom who has read that one, but I distinctly remember being envious of the children from the future who had such tasty snacks.