skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is part and parcel of Scientific method. I'd be suspicious if all experiments were successful all the time. eyes pharma
You're probably thinking of the Dockland's Light Railway.

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

It's not part of the Underground, but it's also managed by Transport for London as part of its integrated network of public transport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_for_London
They are marketing the device strictly to make referrals to specialists. The FDA press release says as much anyway:

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/u...

If the images are of sufficient quality, the software provides the doctor with one of two results: (1) “more than mild diabetic retinopathy detected: refer to an eye care professional” or (2) “negative for more than mild diabetic retinopathy; rescreen in 12 months.” If a positive result is detected, patients should see an eye care provider for further diagnostic evaluation and possible treatment as soon as possible.

Are you interpreting the Verge or talking about some other statement?
If anyone has feedback, don't hesitate !
It’s not either/or. You want to be in a position where your own racks and public cloud providers are all running instances of the same distributed scheduler. Then you can buy capacity wherever it makes the most economic sense at the moment. Just proving that you have the capability to run your own hardware cost-effectively can negotiate Amazon/Google down to that price or lower.
Whois isn't DNS.
> Washington, DC is absolutely not an ideologically diverse place, by basically any measure.

Perhaps, but...

> 93% (!) of the city voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

...is irrelevant to the thesis. The partisan divide in the US generally conceals significant ideological diversity within each major party, and those voting for a particular major party candidate are generslly more ideologically-diverse than those who identify with the major party they are from (as they tend to include people who ideologically identify as independents or wihlth minor parties who vote tactically, and a smaller number who vote that way but ideologically-motivated identify with the opposing major party.)
This can be improved a bit:

Step 1: sudo vim /etc/hosts

Step 2: Go

127.0.0.1 facebook.com

127.0.0.1 youtube.com

127.0.0.1 twitter.com

127.0.0.1 instagram.com

Step 3: ZZ
Lets take a page from Marx. Science is many things, in particular a relationship between capital and labor. The scientific method is a wonderful idea, but it is subordinate to the economic forces that underlie scientific activity. Look at the conflicts and contradictions between those doing science (labor) and those deciding the science to be done (capital), and that is the ultimate source of these crises.

The executive summary lists 40 points on how to improve the reproducibility of science. A bit over half of them are addressed to the sources of capital such as private organizations, universities, and governments. I think many of those points are good. However, I don't think the other points, the ones that recommend doing science in different ways, have a good punch. Even if you fix the problems there are today, so long as science is a rat race of trying to get grant money to stay afloat while burning out grad student after grad student, I think other pathological practices will creep in as a completely rational response on the parts of scientists to a hostile ecosystem. There's just a very big gap between how science should be done and what capital owners want from science.
It is absolutely relevant to consider the political motivations of publishers of reports like this, when the publisher is a politically active organization as opposed to an independent research group.

While the report itself may not push an obvious partisan agenda, a critical reader should consider the conservative agenda of the NAS in relation to why they might publish such a report. In the conservative wing's long-standing opposition to science, it's not far-fetched to view this report as being published tactically -- even if all of its points are well-founded -- as something to point to when future efforts attempt to undermine science-based policy on issues like climate change, stem-cell research, abortion, etc.

Especially when the President of the NAS is a public "climate skeptic".

https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/bottling-up-glob...
So block Europe from all DNS. Simple.
I've seen upwards of 50% for some particularly large customers. To the point of "if we lose our discount, our company goes under".
:) Browser permissions are also ahead of mobile on this one.

What they're starting to do is force some permission prompts to be behind user actions - so, you can request a permission as a response to a user clicking on a specific type of button, but you can't just request it anywhere.

A big reason notifications are spammy is because they don't have those restrictions, I suspect because <tinfoil_hat>Google was heavily involved in their design.</tinfoil_hat>

I suspect that browsers will start to move in the direction of "let the user turn this on via a button someplace" as notification prompts become more common. And I suspect that, like with everything else, those controls will get implemented on the web before mobile.

You're upset that every website can ask you to display notifications. With native apps on Android, they don't even need to ask. Apps I install are by default allowed to spam me with notifications, and I have to opt-out after the fact.

If we're comparing permission models between native and the web, the web is definitely giving users more control right now. I don't understand the perspective of someone who feels safer downloading an app than they do visiting a website.
What would you like me to prove?

That Telegram has handed their keys to the Russian government? Difficult, but unnecessary.

That Telegram was deliberately designed in a manner which enables its owners to easily hand over the keys to the government? Easy to prove, Signal and Whatsapp do not share the same surveillance features.
A position paper aims to make a political position appealing, a study about the sociology of science on the other hand would seek explanations for a position. Pointing out the purpose of something isn't a character attack.
4.)

You mean that papers are published with P<0.05?

When did this become a "standard"? Most papers I have seen in respectable journals and other sources would not strive for such a high Pvalue, it would be much lower like 0.001.
Using iPad as a 2nd monitor on Linux
I agree with your overall point, but technically speaking it is logically valid to prove a hypothesis false by first assuming it and then deriving a contradiction, even when the contradiction is the negation of the original hypothesis (as it is in your example).

What you should have said is that some critics start with the premise "the scientific method does not arrive at truth", and then use other people's arguments that depend on the premise "the scientific method arrives at truth" to support their claim, which is indeed logically invalid.
Governments aren't companies. In the case of the USA, their root authority comes from consent of the governed, who do that in order to maximize their own personal freedom and opportunity.

More. But I got a dead device..

Back.

Business operates under license, and that comes with terms, the rules, law. It serves us, as do markets, and when that doesn't happen, the license can be revoked, or new terms come into play so it all does.

Government is about the general welfare too. Very different purpose from a corporation, and a necessary one.

Under all of that lies the basic idea of citizens defining their society, for their own welfare.

When we set those basic ideas aside, we get the sort of mess we have today.

Zuck has this backward, and favors lords and fiefdoms over a just society. His ideas are old world, old money ideas more closely aligned with ideas of leadership, how a society runs more in line with kings, divine right, wealth, purity, and other obviously unjust ways to define and manage power.

This nation was formed on the idea of rejecting all of that. Thomas Paine derives most of this in "Rights of Man" and "Age of reason", where the first reference speaks to self governance and what free people means, and the second speaks to why the church is not a center of power either, both straight up rejections of both forms of old world governance.
Ha ha, “generally lie below $400k”. Usually way below 400k.
There are lots of open source products that offer programmatic/desired state/idempotent config & apis for provisioning and hardware lifecycle management in private dc.
Facebook admits it does track non-users, for their own good
> with new features like a virtual Pizza Builder that brought pizza toppings to life on users’ screens.

Ha! I worked on the first version of that! It was actually launched in 2002, not the 2007 indicated on the timeline.

To be fair, their designer gave us a flash file of what they wanted, so my part was implementing it along with their new CMS when it that launched, and writing a vanilla JS version to go alongside the flash version... but it still holds up today as the most visible of all my projects, even though the builder itself was mostly a one-day job.
There was a lot of understandable disdain for Telegram when it got popular because they roll their own crypto, MTProto. However, it looks to me like Russia's recent pants-on-head move (banning 2M IP addresses because Telegram won't give up their keys) indicates that MTProto, if not a very wise development to begin with, doesn't have any obvious cracks that the FSB could just quietly pry open.
> We can all opt out of Facebook

Care to explain how non-users who have been having their data harvested via back channels such as their friends/family, data brokers like Acxiom, and trackers on non-FB sites, can "opt out of Facebook"? Sure, technically skilled people can "opt out" of portions of this in a sense, but that leaves billions of people still powerless in this regard.

I'd also love to know how to opt out of the wider societal damage Facebook has encouraged and enabled.. and no, "Move to a shack in the woods if you don't like it" is not a valid answer here.
It's important to make the distinction between Pure Science and anything on the sliding scale from technical description to ELI5. There are levels to it, you and I know.
It seems like it's somewhat routine to set up relationships with foreign intelligence services for that reason.
My legal two cents:

1.) What 18 U.S.C. §2701 et seq. actually now says is that if you are a service provider in the US, you must have a backup of any record of your customers in the US. So if you use a cloud service that is situated outside the US, you still need to produce a backup in the US.

2.) The case is to be dismissed as mooted, because the government applied for a new warrant that replaced the original one. So the case has new grounds.
There are several comments about the accuracy of the algorithm, but Doctors also struggle with diagnosis. In the Deep Mind study on DR they found that for about 20% of referable cases doctors disagreed on the diagnosis about 40-50% of the time. In order to combat this they had at least 3 and up to 7 opthamologists grade each image.

Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2588763
I love the command line, and really wanted to love Ledger, but found that manual transaction entry for it (even using Emacs) was far inferior to Gnucash, which does far more powerful autocompletion on previous entries. This makes Ledger impractical for manually entering thousands of transactions, which I had to do.

I also tried some GUI interface to Ledger that was supposed to be better in this respect, but couldn't get it to work.
The exact point I am making is that at a certain point, you are able to do things as efficiently as they are. Netflix certainly qualifies at that scale.
"I was really struck by this last week, when Mark Zuckerberg came through Washington. Most of the questions he faced at the congressional hearings and most of the analysis in the press were about Facebook’s failure to protect privacy. That’s the sort of thing that may be uppermost on your mind if you are socially wealthy, if, like most successful politicians and analysts, you live within a thick web of connection and feel as if your social schedule is too full."

Or you know, because they were there to discuss privacy and not try to regulate away loneliness, which obviously isn't the role of the government anyway.
Secret of Good Meditation
Maybe part of fast delivery is that they're selective who they deliver to. I'm about 4 miles from the nearest Domino's but I'm across the border in the next town and can't get delivery.
Those of you actually living / working in the Bay Area, I highly recommend looking into "NERT" - Neighborhood Emergency Response Team[1].

It's about 18 hours of training on disaster preparedness, earthquake safety, triage, and search and rescue. The idea is twofold - the more citizens that can handle themselves and their families for the first 72 hours of a disaster, the more people that have a 72 hour timeline to death (trapped, injured) the professionals can find and rescue.

The second is that there is literally no city in the world that has the fire department resources to handle a catastrophic disaster (>8 earthquake, tsunami) without "significant loss," and so trained volunteers can do a great deal to "fill the gap."

In the 1989 earthquake untrained volunteers were critical in helping the SFFD get water into hoses [2] when the mains went down. Last count I heard is that there's about 2,000 NERTs now trained in the city. Imagine having 2,000 basic-trained volunteers helping out in a disaster. Incredible. To put it in perspective, there's only about 1,500 employees of the SFFD.

There's a city-wide drill this weekend, actually, and they need victim volunteers. If you want to get painted with gruesome injuries and scream at people in green hardhats, it could make for a great time! [4]

If you aren't in the bay area, check out the FEMA equivalent, "CERT." [3]

[1] http://sf-fire.org/neighborhood-emergency-response-team-nert

[2] http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/content/kgo/images/cms/349779_128...

[3] https://www.ready.gov/community-emergency-response-team

[4] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/victims-needed-volunteer-for-th...

edit- by the way, this training is free, and comes at no obligation to actually run into burning buildings should a disaster happen (they want you to take care of your home, family, and neighbors before anything else)
A Huge Asteroid Missed Earth on Sunday and No One Saw It Coming – VICE
I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. I (and others) have noticed that the effect I reported is true: wearing the Watch prevents distraction more than it enables it. I spend less time on my phone doing unimportant things than I used to, and I don't get as distracted while attempting to work on other things because the Watch actually makes it easier to ignore notifications.

I understand if you're not sold on it, and maybe phone distraction isn't a problem that you have anyway, but I think that there is certainly anecdotal evidence that the Apple Watch can be more helpful than harmful in these situations.
TFL control two heavy rail networks - the Overground and TfL Rail - although the latter will become part of the Elizabeth Line when it opens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TfL_Rail
The sheer vastness of possibilities it creates. It's fascinating how literally incomprehensible degrees of complexity can be derived from NAND gates.

I imagine it is not distinct from the way a biologist, or even anyone considering a flower or bug or life in any form, might marvel at how simple cells (not that they are as simple as a NAND gate) can generate such diverse functionality.

I've never formally studied computer science so my knowledge is fairly simplistic as of yet, but currently I am fascinated by the way computation can aid the expression of geometric patterns. I recently learned about the epicycloid and have enjoyed exploring various algorithms for generating patterns with them.
I'm not sure this captures the whole problem. Sure, huge sample sizes are great, but look at the current top comment by lisper - we have gained a boatload (that's a scientific term) of insight from single events. LIGO is currently rocking a sample size of 7 but I doubt you ignored it.
Does anyone have any recommendations on ways to automatically download data from bank accounts / brokerages etc onto disk for easy / scripted importing into GnuCash / Spreadsheets etc (instead of having to click around on the websites and download csvs or whatever daily?).

I have seen some products aimed at developers that will bucket various banks into APIs but not anything aimed at individuals. I have experimented with automating it with puppeteer, but surely there has to be a better way?

Maybe it's a matter of finding and using a modern set of financial insitutions with decent APIs. Does that even exist (in the US)?
Why the real promise of virtual reality is to change human connection
Plastic bags form nice little water keeping biomes.
games are a domain where creativity and programming move side-by-side. i don't know if this is true for companies
The only reason why local hosters are making money is local personal data law which restricts that PD of russian citizen should be stored inside Russia, because their prices and level of service is non-competitive to i.e. DO or OVH.
Frankly, if such a important project depended so much on a single person it was already in serious trouble.

The other 7 people in the project are unable to finish the code on their own? Hard to believe.

Likely that article was overblown.
There are a lot of comments saying that Netflix should run its own datacenter.

Adrian Cockcraft helped lead Netflix's effort to move to AWS and now is a VP at AWS

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriancockcroft/

He did an interview with Software Engineering Radio back in 2014 explaining their motivation.

http://www.se-radio.net/2014/12/episode-216-adrian-cockcroft...
There's a quote in a book that I like that says:

"In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice."

I think about that a lot when I notice things like what you mention, where everybody is distracted and cell phones are ruling our lives.
No. per your own quote, it "just" extends discovery protections to data held outside the US. So you can't deny the US government access just based on the data being offshore. It's captured in the first paragraph of the decision:

> a U. S. provider of e-mail services
must disclose to the Government electronic communications
within its control even if the provider stores the
communications abroad.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4943...

The requirement to backup, preserve or disclose is exactly the current requirement for data in the US, and only applies at the provider is given notice to produce evidence. It means the provider cannot destroy evidence once compelled to produce it. It doesn't mean you are required to preserve data "just because".

It also only applies to data > 180 days old.
This paper is fresh in my mind since I recently read it. I liked it: https://www.eecs.harvard.edu/shieber/Biblio/Papers/infer.pdf

We present a system for generating parsers based directly on the metaphor of parsing as deduction. Parsing algorithms can be represented directly as deduction systems, and a single deduction engine can interpret such deduction systems so as to implement the corresponding parser. The method generalizes easily to parsers for augmented phrase structure formalisms, such as definite-clause grammars and other logic grammar formalisms, and has been used for rapid prototyping of parsing algorithms for a variety of formalisms including variants of tree-adjoining grammars, categorial grammars, and lexicalized context-free grammars.
Intelligence is such a spectrum that if you select individuals on traits you rot through lack of diversity. A breakthrough will generally come from someone with feet in utterly different fields.

Concentrating on grades in STEM poisons the well of raw thinking that science needs to look at everything in unique ways.

The only way that we can move forward is that everyone moves forward.
I’m sure you are aware but AWS has a newish loaf balancer now: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/appl...
If you have industry knowledge (outside of tech) you can rank very well for expert content because the stuff you need to beat is often written purely for SEO benefit by someone who's done 30 minutes of research and then bluffed their way through it.

From what I see, in the UK at least, small businesses aren't doing this. Either they can't be bothered or are afraid of giving away knowledge they think they could be charging for?
The Twin Towers took out the blocks surrounding them. Literally they fell on top of other buildings, even though they "collapsed into themselves."

I am very skeptical of anybody, no matter how experienced, that gets on the news and says "that'll never happen," regardless of what the "that" is.

Has he considered a skilled terrorist cell lacing only the east side of Salesforce Tower with explosives?
[macOS] TeaCode Beta 4 introduces new expander editor
Not really, only the definition of context free grammar.
I wonder if this is something dogs could be trained to detect.

I used to live near a creek where there were lots of mosquitoes, and when my roommates and I could go from the car to the house on a bad day, most of us would get bitten 0-1 times, and one would get bitten 3+
I'd add a last point that a scientific paper (or a particular experimental result) is not sufficient for 'science'. Citing a paper as either a truth or discovery is a disingenuous. The endeavour of science gets at a kind of consensus by having lots of papers, lots of experiments, lots of additional layers of experiments build on each other. And yes it's annoying to realize a given paper is misleading, has errors, or is even wrong - but that annoyance and workarounds are part of the scientific process. It's actually fairly rare for an experiment or paper to be strong enough to stand completely on its own as a singular, thorough, and completed discovery. If you've been part of the scientific field you know that it yet takes years after even a good publication for the knowledge to accrete to the greater scientific body.

Some of the best advice I got was to spend a lot more time than one might want to really come up with an experimental design that avoided a statistical outcome and instead probed at an either/or mechanism. It's not always possible, but when it is, it can be a powerful reply to fighting statistical battles (see the Michelson-Morely experiment for a classic example).

Further careers, families, reputations, humans are also part of that scientific process, which together with the above require and admit some deviation from perfect efficiency. Which we as a society should demand be okay.
Hasn't Dell offered AMD chips for a long time? Dell currently sells AMD-based laptops, and was doing so back in 2008 as well.

For example, this Ryzen laptop: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-inspiron-15-...
Bay area have one of the healthiest people in the world. It’s an insult they can’t step over or move a 10 pound scooter.
That you're being voted down shows that HN has really changed.

(I blame all the overtly political articles that I believe have changed the tenor of the site, and politics has infected every article now. Thanks @dang!)
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