skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's more going for Summit County than clean air and wealth.

http://www.businessinsider.com/summit-county-is-the-healthie...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-healthiest-state-in...

https://www.aspentimes.com/news/regional/study-summit-county...

https://www.summitdaily.com/news/2017-year-in-review-great-h...
Blog post author here. Nice find.

I just updated to 3.x (my screenshots were based on 2.x) and 3.x's UI is a pretty substantial improvement. Reports generate faster, fonts look better and the app itself doesn't look like it was made in 2003. This is coming from a Windows 10 perspective.
> On the meta-level, you’re studying some phenomenon and you get some positive findings. That doesn’t tell you much until you take some other researchers who are studying a phenomenon you know doesn’t exist – but which they themselves believe in – and see how many of them get positive findings. That number tells you how many studies will discover positive results whether the phenomenon is real or not. Unless studies of the real phenomenon do significantly better than studies of the placebo phenomenon, you haven’t found anything.

This is such an astute observation that reproduction studies can be used to find a placebo control group for bad scuence. Parapsychology was one such group, but now we can find many others. Brilliant.
I think lot of media seems to misunderstand the idea of algorithms - They are not there to do the job for you, they are there to help you.

Taking the dating example from the article - it speaks less about intimacy and more about people's expectation. Does matching means a sure shot chance of intimacy? Not really. Algo thinks that two particular people might go well together. A role previously played by a mutual friend.

Similarly, there are tons of people who want to wear better clothes but given lack of knowledge turn to YT or a personal stylist. So, the app might help them make better choices. Surely, people who are stylish might never use the app.

That said, technology companies do have a habit of overselling features sending media into a tizzy.
Oh look a libertarian butterfly shedding its democratic cocoon. Never has a post convinced me more to vote pro state.. No matter how extreme
A Practical Guide to Design Visioning – Part 2
Here's the real scary quote:

> According to the report, China and India were found to be jointly responsible for over 50% of global deaths attributable to pollution.
Microsoft releases its first Linux product
Ask HN: Which text editor do you use for writing code?
https://github.com/captin411/ofxclient is a good place to start, if your bank supports it. Some banks (like Bank of America) charge you a monthly fee for OFX downloads. In those cases, you can write up a selenium script or something similar to login for you and scrape transactions once a day/week/whatever. That's obviously a fragile solution, however.
Football-field size, surely
> It is depressing to think this is the best place for STEM careers in the world.

It might be the best place to make money in software. It's not the best place for “STEM careers” (which is a thing that doesn't exist: STEM is to diverse to have a meaningful best place; the best place for agricultural biotechnology careers isn't the best place for civil engineering which isn't the best place for high energy physics which isn't the best place for computational finance.)
We need a journal that exclusively publishes papers with results that were totally contrary to the hypothesis.

So long as the researchers aren't outright inept or fraudulent, what's there to be ashamed about? Those would be some of the more interesting papers to read, in my opinion.
Hollywood treats falling buildings like falling trees [1]. The building basically gets cut off at the base, then stays together as it falls to the side until it hits the ground. I'm no expert, but IRL I think any significant amount of lean would lead to massive structural failure in your average skyscraper. Once the structure starts to fail gravity is going pull the pieces straight down since nothing is pushing them to the side. It's certainly a danger to surrounding buildings (see the WTC) but vastly different from buildings falling over on their sides to crush their neighbors.

1: https://youtu.be/r0tgEYiTNd4 (0:35 and 0:45)
>Signal actually doesn't know all your contacts - you can check the source code to confirm that it doesn't know about any contacts that you don't message using Signal, for example.

I get a message in the app when a contact starts using Signal, so it has to know them server-side.

The other part of the comment was reffering to what the server could know (in the gov. case - will know), and that IS quite a lot (assuming Signal style service).

And I do trust Moxie nominally, but I also believe that he will obey US courts.
Can you recommend a piece of software that does all of the above?

Can't be 15 years behind the times when there is no better alternative.
.ca domains don't need to be protected - they get it for free. I only need to sign up for the extra protection when I register domains on other TLDs.
This is also the reason why online discourse sucks; online forums are shaped like troll incubators or echo chambers, not like fora.
Microsoft ships a product based on linux kernel
The article may be good, but the source has a definite bias.
See https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Association_o... to see what that bias is.

That said, they should be well-informed on the subject. So it probably does contain a lot of good information.
Greetings, I develop Stealthy with the OP. After reading a lot of the HN dApp posts, I want to address two frequently occurring topics from the comments:

1. How decentralized is this dAPP?
Stealthy is decentralized in two main ways. The first is that it does not require a centralized signaling server to establish connections, when two people have added each other as contacts. That of course requires that they initially co-ordinate outside of stealthy (though we do however have a convenience mode that does a one-time centralized introduction / discovery service if both users have that enabled). The second is our storage, which is built atop Blockstack's GAIA storage system (more info here: https://github.com/blockstack/gaia).

2. How secure is Clientside javascript crypto?
In other HN posts, I've seen quotes like: 'Nobody who's serious about security is going to use an app that does crypto in javascript. Why not make browser plugins to avoid this complication?' and posted the classic Javascript cryptography being considered harmful article. Blockstack gets around this in a way similar to being a plug-in with their one-time browser download (which is essentially a node process that also has your crypto keys/generation capabilities so you're not transmitting those back and forth for acquisition purposes). You can find more information on that subject in this forum post: https://forum.blockstack.org/t/blockstack-vs-clientside-js-e...
No, it guarantees a physical backup not connected to any system. Tape is very reliable.
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>Does anyone here believe that the IRS is a good thing?

I do.

>The tax code could be greatly simplified helping business owners to boost the economy.

How? What exact, concrete steps would you take to simplify the tax code that would not be extremely regressive, would not be easily game-able, and would bring in close to the same amount of revenue?
I'll add Debuggex to the list that does a visual representation of a Regex and can be a god-send. https://www.debuggex.com
Give us some more counter-examples? Where will SEO definitely not help?
Everyone already does it. It is the optimal strategy.
But there isn't actually a risk associated with an Adolf. Its an inefficiency born out of an incorrect belief by the whole of (or at least most of) society. The correct solution is not to price in the incorrect assumption, but to not make the incorrect assumption.

In other words, by offering Adolf's below-market rates, you're exploiting a market inefficiency at no additional risk. This is an ideal world as you describe it. It's capitalism at it's finest!
That depends on the species of wood. White oak will survive a lot longer than Red Oak outdoors as an example. There are many others.
Selling full autonomy before it's ready could backfire for Tesla
Also, as soon as I saw '90x increase', I google'd the stock price, amazed it went up 90 times as high: https://www.google.com/search?q=NYSE:DPZ&e=4112296&tbm=fin&b...

What a disappointment. No more articles like these in HN in the future please.
I'm not sure I see how low taxes inherently cause the misallocation of talent or more broadly, the underspending on R&D.

I do suspect that profit motive isn't enough to drive effective R&D, though, I just don't know exactly how to articulate a model for why except at the basic level that that truly searching R&D has a higher risk profile than other opportunities for profit.

I support the idea of more tax-supported public funding for a variety of things. I'd also support reshaping the tax code to incentivize R&D. But I'm also not sure that's a going to give everybody their opportunity -- I'd imagine there'd still be lucky ones there too. And we'd still have a lot of work to do to address incentives that drive reproducibility issues.
>For example, celestial events are almost never reproducible. Our understanding of celestial mechanics nonetheless rests on solid science.

I am not sure this is correct. The rules that govern celestial bodies is same as the ones that govern objects on earth. So why are they not reproducible? It does not require to measure forces between celestial bodies to measure the value of G. Measuring the forces between two masses on earth is enough.
I doubt a lack of "new computers" is the problem, but https://directpay.irs.gov/directpay/payment currently reads:

Direct Pay

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Note that your tax payment is due although IRS Direct Pay may not be available.
"Speed of your thrusts?"

Somebody's gonna get injured.
I wish I'd done that with a lot of the indie music and otherwise unpopular things I was interested in years ago. There's a particular album I wish I could find and listen to, but I've only ever been able to find one article talking about it, all links dead, and that itself was long enough ago that I've forgotten the name of the album and band.

I had a lot of things saved through Instapaper right from its inception, but I stopped using it regularly and one day when I went back I didn't appear to have anything saved anymore.

Since then, I've been much quicker to download things I might want in the future. Storage is cheap, archaeological effort is not.
Why Math Education in the U.S. Doesn't Add Up (2016)
Preferably vim but sometimes Geany, and maybe notepad++ in a pinch.
The original's reference to "poppies" was likely referring to dried and preserved poppy pods, not the fresh flower. So although poppy seeds are not quite right, it's the closest you can get without moving into a legal (and medical) gray area, since poppy pods can potentially contain a pretty significant amount of residual morphine and thebaine alkaloids.
> You mean that papers are published with P<0.05?

I'm guessing you meant to say that no papers are published with P<0.05. And of course they are, but that's irrelevant. What matters it that many journals, especially in "softer" sciences (i.e. not physics) use p<0.05 as their threshold, which guarantees that at least one paper in 20 will be "wrong". Then add self-suppression of negative results and the actual percentage of "wrong" papers becomes higher, potentially much higher if real positive results are rare.

> When did this become a "standard"?

I have no idea. You'll have a ask a historian.
Makes you wonder if the vendor is still making money on the deal.
There is self-hosted PHP app named Firefly III [1] that supports double-entry bookkeeping system. If by "sharing" you mean "logging on your account at different computer/phone" then it should work. There are user accounts, but only to use same installation without sharing data.

[1] https://firefly-iii.org/

Disclaimer: I'm just a happy user, who reported some issues and pull-requests.
Just curious: Can you state a range of possible discounts against list price? The stuff I deal with is small fry but I always wonder how much cheaper the big guys get their cloud services compared to us.
Have a look at QGIS if you can. For me they really achieved the perfect balance. Some task are a hundred time easier with GUI like refining layout and trying out graphical style. But you can use variable and formulaes pretty much everywhere to override manual control using data defined attributes.

And when you need to you can run the application without GUI for heavy scripting. But still the two approach are fully compatible so you can easily define a layout with the GUI and reuse it via CLI for instance.

Maybe it’s common and I’m just a goof but this software workflow really impress me.
Usually it's in the past year, over some threshold, more than X times.

Even the worst locations for air quality have many good days, and some locations with normally good air have terrible inversions.

If you're in an ozone non-attainment zone, I'm guessing you might be in the Front Range. Yes, we need to get it fixed.
That may be so, but did he intend to damage their privacy? Probably not.

He can't be faulted for accidentally downloading some private information that was improperly mixed in with a bunch of public information that he was trying to download. He had no indication that the information he was retrieving was not supposed to be public.
North Korea is directly part of the topic at hand, and yet you single out Western regimes as being authoritarian and psychopathic? That's quite a moral inversion.
That will have a huge effect on repeat business and local marketing and advertising, but successful pizza chains live by the fact that they take the human out of the equation as much as possible.

But your point is valid in that a bad manager will likely be able to screw it up completely no matter what HQ comes up with in terms of quality control and process.
Yes, at least for Japanese.

Currently, most Japanese Google search results are garbages. It's all boilarplate texts(but produced by very cheap human labor writers so you can't easily filter it out) with keywords in it.

SEO won, Google lost.
p>0.05 has been a mainstay in entire fields of study for quite some time. Most notably, the psychological and biological science journals have unofficially endorsed 0.05 as a cutoff for "significant" results.

While not everyone in a particular field has been a party to this myopic view of statistical significance, enough have been that the American Statistical Association released a statement on the topic not long ago. That may not seem like a big deal but, given the organization's historical reticence to officially weigh in on such issues, it really is.

ASA statement on p-Values:
https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/P-ValueStatement.pdf
I am not in this field and I believe some guys here already explained it much clearly than me.

1. Checking Open houses: Many apps are authorized by most users to access their location. Ads space providers qualify their data, that is the way they earn their life. Then if one Ad client works in real estate, the Ads space, sorry your girlfriend phone screen, is a nice target for real estate Ads.

2. Kung fu ads: A Ads space provider for some of the ads may have noticed that several different user agents come from the same IP adress, so it inferred incorrectly that they belong to the same person.
No http2 support is increasingly limiting
See the reply by tomkinstinch. It is likely that the combination of gases produced by your skin's microbiome are more attractive to mosquitoes than that of your wife's.

This seems more probable than increased amounts of CO2 floating around your feet and ankles, especially if you are laying next to you wife where the aggregate CO2 from both of you breathing will be distributed fairly evenly between you.

A quote from tomkinistinch's linked article: "...washing the feet with a bactericidal soap significantly alters the selection of biting sites...".

I wish we were at a point technologically where it would be simple(and cheap) for a person to detect and catalog things like VOCs that skin bacteria produce, or quantities of bacteria on the skin to determine how they correlate with something like mosquito attraction.

It would be pretty great to be able to say definitively that x bacteria concentrations on your skin are attracting mosquitoes to you, rather than simply conceding "mosquitoes love to bite me".
> The statistical tests currently in widespread use as a criterion for publication in peer-reviewed journals guarantee that at least one result in 20 will be due to chance and not because the hypothesis being tested is actually true.

I have a pedantic correction, but a relevant one. If a journal makes a rule that results must have p < .05, and then scientists go off and do a bunch of well-managed science they will get results with a range of p-values. .05 will be a ceiling, not a floor, on the possible p-values. More papers have a p-values right around .05 than they would if results were being produced fairly, so that's actually evidence of bad practices.
I agree that for the vast majority of kids out there, study technology interferes with learning. I originally thought we were talking about college education rather than primary/secondary education, which was my mistake.

I'm talking about all of it. Learning traditional mathematic analysis techniques creates a far deeper understanding than just plonking a formula into a program to look at a graph.

"Smart boards" don't do anything, except perhaps allow distribution of what's drawn on the whiteboard. I worked for a "smart board" company. They're neat for managerial presentations and a complete boondoggle for education.

Technology is pushed into education because it makes deans, principals, and superintendents look good on their resume. But the actual outcomes are worse for everyone else.
Everything tastes better with garlic, even McDonalds fries
Cold and rain seem like they don’t belong on that list unless you’re homeless.
How to Work with Python Modules and Packages
Hardwoods are too valuable to waste on outdoor projects, though.
>The data was bad, the processes were bad, there was no replication.

People are really quick to say this, but how many people have actually studied the 'racial science' literature of the 20s and 30s and figured out to what extent it meets the methodological standards of today? Yes, we know that they drew incorrect (and reprehensible) conclusions. It doesn't necessarily follow that their methods were any worse (epistemically speaking) than methods that currently pass muster.
I think this is pretty self evident, but the issue is that let's say you have some system where economic forces are removed. Essentially a researcher basic income in one scenario. This would suddenly massively incentivize people towards this direction since it's basically a career path that guarantees a stable livelihood, which is something that's extremely rare today. Well you need to ensure there's nobody just completely gaming the system and so inextricably you'll end up with some sort of qualifier for results. And now suddenly you've done nothing but kick the can since this new qualifier is what's going to be gamed.

Maybe the biggest problem is what you mention, but in another direction. For whatever reason there seems to be extremely little interest in the private direct funding of science. In times past the aristocracy would often fund scientific research on all sorts of topics. Today the practice seems to have all but disappeared, certainly if we measure relative ratios of the practice.
Others are saying: "SEO Works" but Google is steadily moving towards a pay for placement model.
if you are willing to do some manual work (putting every transaction by yourself)

So it won't track your bank transactions automatically? If I have to enter transactions manually what's the point of the software? I could do this on paper..
Without prior consent, Pearson tested social-psychological messages on students
After I wrote the above comment I remembered that just because there are few lines of code doesn't mean it's trivial to compose those actual lines.

Some of the most elegant code is terse, but it takes years of education, experience, and intelligence to be able to produce that logic.
Really interesting article. Weird thing is that in the social media era, humans ourselves seem behave in algorithmic ways. My Twitter feed is full of Beyonce worship every few months even though I've been mostly-indifferent to her music for 20 years. But when people come together like a hive and retweet how they excited they are about some shared interest, there doesn't need to be a recommendation engine pushing a specific artist—it's just people using tools to amplify their voices, creating the same algorithmic-bias effect. To paraphrase the Soylent Green line, "Algorithms—it's people!"
I know someone who quit her PhD in part because she couldn't replicate someone else's experimental work on rat behaviour.

If the replication crisis had been as well-known back then, she might have fared better.
If the same level of effort were applied to educating the population about Google and Facebook abuses as would be needed to successfully end NSA spying via elections, they both would be out of business. Political activism is incredible expensive and moves at a much slower pace than the free market.
What is wrong if your debugging of experimental branch is pushed to the repository? Someone can find this code useful for something else later. And after all, all the experiments are part of the project history, that fossil strive to keep unchanged and as it actually happened.

The same is about the rebase - the difference is that while git keeps the history "as the developers want it to be", fossil keeps it "as it actually happened".
SEO is more interesting now that search engines are seeking greater engagement and insight on user preferences. I maintain a small application at http://prettydiff.com/ and both Google and DuckDuckGo have widgets or features available that come up in the search results depending upon the search terms.

This saves the user time because they may get what they need directly from the intelligent search engine result data so that they don't have to enter my site. On the other hand Google makes deep links into the site immediately available as "sub-results" so that a user can enter the site more directly without wasting time on an entry point.
Yes, definitely. But not in the traditional "hacks" sense.

I get a lot of search engine traffic to my blog, with the following strategy:

Stage 1: Technical - Clean up your act.

If you structure your site properly and make it accessible, search engines will crawl and index it properly. Make your content accessible from a technical standpoint.

Clean up your HTML

Make your URLs reflect your content, cleanly

Build and submit sitemaps

Make the navigation on your website simple and effective

Make your website load quickly

Stage 2: Content - Make great stuff.

If you build great content, people will share it. They will link to you.

Build great content

Make things that help people

Stay within a niche if you can

Create content that helps people, even if you're giving a little of your service away. (For example, a roofing company featuring an article about how to choose a roof, even if it sends them to your competitor, or some DIY stuff)

If you do these things, you'll do well in search engines. I'm oversimplifying a bit, but this is way more effective than keyword stuffing, link purchasing, etc.

Just keep it honest.
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