skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I'm not saying that thoughts and experiences aren't physical things -- I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

The question I was responding to was: "Show me something that's not science that we know". My response is that there are lots of things that we, as people, actually know but can't study scientifically.
Stephen Wolfram
Except that it's not that easy. Your body will conserve energy if you're hungry, making you feel colder and more lethargic. If you go without a sweater, you'll burn more calories and end up eating more.
I don't think they are using browser uniqueness. I mean where would they get the fingerprint/email pairs from?

Everyone should use Firefox and install/do these:

- BetterPrivacy (removes supercookies)

- RefControl (to stop sending http referrers)

- User Agent Switcher (just in case)

- HTTPS-Everywhere

- Disable third party cookies in Preferences > Privacy

- Use a VPN

- Change Google for StartPage

- Use fake accounts (eg: youtube) and emails (dispostable.com) whenever possible. This is very easy if you have a password manager like LastPass, you don't have to remember many passwords.

With all this, you can surf the web quite safely, unless someone with your ID is creating a shared database of fingerprint/ID pairs. In that case you will also have to remove all your other plugins or use NoScript.
That begs the question: if you weren't sure what was meant by the terms, why did you assert that they were "all part of science"?
Thanks for the follow up. Madrid likely to be one of the next cities we expand to (although latency to Paris is <30ms). Stay tuned.
> One is the one you gave, which is based on Japanese, and the other got imported along with kanji from China.

Wrong. "hachi", "ni", "roku", "shichi", "go", and "ichi" are Chinese-origin (on'yomi), not Japanese-origin (kun'yomi). The only number in my example that is Japanese-origin is "yon"[0], which is interchangeable with "shi" (the on'yomi equivalent) in many contexts.

> Using the shortest forms of the kun readings, it would be "ya, fu, yo, mu, na, i, hito".

Those readings are not used to count by native Japanese speakers (I speak Japanese and have lived in Japan), and I can't think of any examples off the top of my head where they would be used on their own.

> I don't know if a typical Japanese speaker would memorize them that way, but since those forms are ingrained in the language, they should be able to do so without significant effort.

They do not.

0: http://www.syvum.com/cgi/online/serve.cgi/squizzes/japanese/...
It seems we're defending apples and oranges.

I briefly read some parts of Pearl's text you provided. Apart from my having an issue with his approach/tactics to explaining his thoughts, it reminded me of Mill's Methods (1843), which were 'influenced' by Avicenna's Book of Healing (1020).

And why should it 'supersede' (do you mean replace or 'is better than'?) previous philosophical thought?

What of Al-Ghazali's Deliverance from Error, which 'influenced' Descartes' Meditations?

There is no need for a 'replacement'. If Judea Pearl specialises in cognitive science and artificial intelligence and wants to write on cause/effect in relation to them, that should be its own branch, not replace an epistemology class.
I'd have to agree with @zdgman. The only health topics I think are relevant here are work-related or cognitive.

Regardless, many people on reddit have said that using a clean towel on your pillow for sleeping can make acne go away. I assume regular washing of the bed sheets might work as well. And some people find that they are actually slightly allergic to their fabric softener or detergent.

Personally, accutane completely changed my skin chemistry. I rarely have any acne anymore, and if I do it goes away quickly. However, my skin is often quite dry now, and the drug can also do a lot of harmful side effects.
I haven't read it. However, if the work is that good, then the blurb is doing a terrible disservice to it.

"The processes of nature can make an infinite number of human faces, each one unique, [...]"

Starting off with something that's clearly untrue is not the best way to convince me that this book has deep insights. Maybe it's merely meant poetically.
"Not yet" - really? Reversed entropy or invented time travel lately?

It sounds like you're assigning omniscient characteristics to science.
Proactiv is pretty good stuff. Some important points to understand about acne:

- Acne is basically the result of your sebaceous glands (pores) becoming clogged. These pores secrete waxy oil onto your skin, but when they get clogged (from too much oil, or dirt), the pore fills up with bacteria. This is a whitehead. Blackheads are just oil + dirt and no bacteria.

- By time you get a whitehead...you're too late. Most people think whiteheads are the problem. They are actually just the symptom. The whitehead has been "brewing" for a couple of days to a week.

- What this means is that acne control isn't about treating your whiteheads, but being proactive (heh) about preventative treatment. Clean your face with gentle soap designed for sensitive facial skin, use toner to tighten pores, apply benzyl peroxide to help prevent bacterial colonization.

- At least for me, diet had a HUGE effect on my acne. Eating crappy food and not drinking enough water almost always resulted in an outbreak of acne a week later. Even in college, all-nighters and fast food would lead to some acne in a few days.

- A lot of people think "Acne! Must scrub my face to pieces!" Not true. Acne can be caused by an abundance of oil...but can also be caused by dry skin. As you dry your skin out scrubbing, your face increases oil production and you get more acne.

- Some people have more sensitive skin than others. What works for me may not work for you. Try a variety of products and routines to see what works the best. I had good luck with morning applications of benzyl peroxide, and salicylic wash at night to help cut through the day's oil.
The script is just an adaptation of this twitter account: https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says
I want entrence-music when I come home - How?
I want my computer to automatically play entrence-music, whenever I come home :D How would you do it?

Perhaps it can be done using WiFi, so whenever I join the WiFi-network (which means I just got home), it plays a song from Spotify :)?
Avoid two things - dairy products and sugar for a month. i.e., ZERO dairy and sugar. The relationship is well researched. See, for ex: http://www.societavegetariana.org/site/uploads/5d20f3f1-7a2f...
Clickable:
http://lamakerspace.com/
What caused the reduction in your hosting bill? Was it Amazon's supposedly-poor cache hit ratio, or a CloudFlare-specific feature? Have you tried negotiating with a larger CDN?
frans de waal is another along the same lines.

check out the two sides of evolutionary psychology - the bonobos and the chimpanezee. the bonobos are the feminine, nice, friendly monkeys that are dying out. the chimpanzees are warlike and aggressive and are quite strong. both are closely related to humans.

researchers will generally take one side or another depending on whether their views skew more to the left or the right
I'm sorry if I annoyed you, but there's really no need to be rude. It's a subject I never claimed to know a lot about, but it's also false to say that I don't know "anything" about it. I'm here to learn more, not to show off what I already know.

If you were actually here to contribute, you might give a concrete example of why Python is more cross-platform compatible than other interpreted languages (because someone built a better Windows GUI toolkit for it?), but if you just want to put down and feel smarter than someone you don't know, you're wasting your time and keystrokes.

The fact that you actually bothered to count how many characters I typed strongly suggests the latter.
UI nit: You should add placeholder text for the signup text input. The fact that it's intended to field email addresses may not be obvious to everyone.
I must be misinterpreting your question, because I'm pretty sure Google has already begun its fiber rollout, and that they have already hooked up users into their system. I thought this was pretty well known knowledge in this community, so I must be misunderstanding your question.
I agree. Often the benefits of these kind of things outweigh the risks of abuse. Law-abiding citizens rarely have what to fear from normal "surveillance".
Perhaps, but to be honest until Apple does something entirely crazy I think the worry is premature. Microsoft had more than the "do what you want with it" mantra, their lockin to any pc hardware was more valuable. Additionally 80's Apple isn't much of a parallel to today, the company is not at all the same.

The signed binary stuff has been in OSX since around 10.4, so to think this is a recent action by Apple is somewhat wrong.
I don't know if they will become scientific or not. I wasn't trying to speculate about the future, just to point out that there are lots of things that people know but can't prove in a scientific sense.

As a matter of fact, there is an interesting book about it: [What We Believe but Cannot Prove](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Believe_But_Cannot_Prov...).

Just off the top of my head, I'd say the most obvious thing that people know that isn't scientific is to make creative leaps and discover/invent new ideas. Science can tell us a lot about how it happens, but there is no scientific formula for creating new, true, useful, or provocative ideas. When people make a creative leap, do they know it's true, in the scientific sense?

Or how about humor? Can you scientifically prove a joke to be funny? I know what I find funny, but humor is not provable, or created following the scientific method.
I tried to use node.js instead of scapy, dropping down to a C++ addon that we wrote in order to do ioctl calls and send raw packets.

We ended up keeping the addon for the ioctl calls, but the addon for sending raw packets didn't make it: we didn't want to reconstruct the javascript object versions of packets sniffed by node_pcap in order to send them on the raw socket (didn't want to make a small mistake and break the whole project for ourselves).

So we used scapy that part of the tethering project; worked well for us though it could have used more docs.
Observe that Coyne's criticism centers on words like "truth" and "answer".

"Science works, bitches" -- to answer particular types of questions which have certain properties. Questions about ethics (that is, what one "should" do) can be informed by science, but there is no such thing as a falsifiable ethical framework; an ethical framework must by its nature involve assumptions which are not determined by science.

Thus, an "answer" or "truth" within ethics is a different type of thing than an "answer" or "truth" within, say, chemistry. Coyne glosses over this by assuming the only type of "answer" or "truth" that matters is the type that comes from science or can be verified by science. This is not an isolated misstatement; he has previously said that "Only science has the ability to answer questions" [0]. Rather amusingly, this is a philosophical and non-scientific assumption.

This is why Coyne's response is essentially useless. Science is an awesome tool, but there are questions it can only address within a framework dependent on non-scientific assumptions.

[0] http://vimeo.com/31505142 around the 34:20 mark
The reason there is no "miracle cure" is that acne is a symptom of many different imbalances.

Sometimes the simplest solutions are best:
Adjust your diet. Reduce sugar and carbs. Consider trying gluten free to see if it has an impact. Rule out allergies with an elimination diet. Use sea salt water on your face 2x a day. It has a natural drying effect that reduces bacterial growth.
I agree. Often the benefits of these kind of things outweigh the risks of abuse. Law-abiding citizens rarely have what to fear from normal "surveillance".

Do you live in the US? If so, you're not almost certainly not a "law-abiding citizen." The only question is, which laws count?
Please explain how it is a problem, let alone a hard one. Karma is a game played by whatever rules the players want. Reddit content is decently well correlated between how close a post appears on the top of the page, and how worthwhile that post is to read.
I'm just keeping it real. IMO Android and the Dalvik VM are very inefficient. I wish someone would do put Lua and IUP with Cairo on top on Linux in a tablet. Android is a cheap option that remains popular though and no matter what Apple does its devices will only be bought by a minority of rich people worldwide. Android will remain on top until there's a DIY tablet kit for a more powerful iteration of the Raspberry Pi.
A promissing project by a multi-billion dollar TV & media group from Brazil. They're huge on using and developing open-source projects.
In the midst of beating so mercilessly on that drum, you're missing the more interesting question being asked here: will science ever include emotions and intuition (and other neurologically explainable phenomena such as dreams) as a means to collect valid and objectively true experimental data? For the longest time we've had only our five primary senses, with an overwhelming focus on our sense of sight.
This is a pretty strong argument for using TOR. These guys may not be seriously malicious but they are definitely seriously creepy.
CloudFlare typically reduces bandwidth usage and load by about 70%. That can translate into cost savings if your host (e.g., AWS) charges you for bandwidth.
There are many reasons not to use shorteners. There is also the matter of tracking where anyone can do everything to protect people's privacy, but if they got there through an URL-shortener, they're SOL.

I often think about the implications of using Google Analytics on my sites (I use the less unsafe anonymity IP detection"), but those concerns all go out the window, if they got there by shorturl.
Oxygen nucleus with twice as many neutrons shown to be stable
"following tens of thousands of people over 30 years"

That's called a cohort, it's a well studied method in statistics and depending on the size of the sample and the number of studies you can build correlations out of these.

As your sample gets larger the population for the proportion of heavy meat eaters and the rest of your sample tend to normalize in almost every variable[1], that means the median of every other observable variable will be close to the general population's value for both groups, and you can assume that the quantity of meat is the sole variable worthy of analysis.

Mind you that the use of statistics in health and social sciences is because these fields are not physics, we can't find general solutions based on the present state of affairs putting some number on a equation. How many people will get cancer or whatever.

I doubt this was the type of study that are used in this case because a cohort study is really expensive to conduct, generally this type of study is conducted more using the Case-control method which makes than more affordable.

The fact that if you conduct such a study and find that heavy meat eaters get more cancer or heavy coffee drinkers live more doesn't mean that every coffee drinker will live more or that there will be much more heavy meat eaters with cancer than the rest of the population, it will only means that some epidemiological indices are higher in a group than in the other.

If you really wish to test both hypothesis you must do the same study as many times as you can and try to use the median of these indices obtained in the same study for both populations, the median is a robust measure and see if they are too distant numerically one from the other.

Of course, this can still proves nothing and only find that correlations are in fact established. It can simply be that rich people live longer and get more cancer than the rest and both drinking coffee and eating too much meat be associated with income.

[1]: That's not exactly true you can have confounding variables in your data, which sadly sometimes are not included in the data, when they are you could read the methods of controlling this developed by Mantel and Haenszel.
Sorry if I'm missing something but... how do you scroll down that page? The scroll bar seems to have been disabled for goodness-knows-what-reason. I'm having to just scroll down by scrolling all the text and maneuvering my way down... but that hardly seems like an elegant and proper way to scroll down.
Well, science is based on the rational interpretation of our five senses.

Five senses?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense
I apologize, I've been deployed for the last 9 months, so this was all news to me, if it was discussed before 9 months, then I'm really sorry for being out of the loop for so long lol.
In Belgium, that redirects me to http://baiedespirates.be/, which in turn is a "StopPage"

> You have been redirected to this stop page because the website you are trying to visit offers content that is considered illegal according to Belgian legislation.
If you are the owner or administrator of this website and you consider to be wrongly redirected, you can report this by fax at +32(0)2/733.56.16.
Can that be the mark of a programmer too? /j
> The curve maxed out way faster than modern MMOs. Getting all GM (grandmaster) levels in your main skills took way shorter than, say, what ever absurd level you can get to on WOW after the 10th expansion.

I would have player character "skills" be a significant but not a dominating factor. Basically, PC "skills" would be automatically learned over time and would be a way to reward players for sticking around. Instead, I would base things more on economic power and kill record. A player can gain more power economically by exploiting a large sector of space, establishing bases, designing/licensing mining/security drones, and building products for players. However, this means they would be mainly playing in the RTS/4X part of the game. The action oriented part would be based on kill record, which would be the ratio of total PC ship value you help destroy over the value of the ships you are destroyed in. Having a high kill record gains "fame" which results in direct monetary rewards and access to (expensive) special items. Something along the lines of players 1 standard deviation above the average kill ratio would randomly receive money for "sponsorships" or be given prototype items to test whenever they are in a winning battle. I would also have another metric of "reputation" which is more based on participation, but which results in lesser rewards.

Another thing I would try out would be to simply grant NPC "followers" to players with a certain level of fame who have stuck around long enough.
That's what Reddit would be for :)

http://www.reddit.com/r/acne/

Other people here must share your interest.
1) Should the US sterilize the mentally retarded? [...]
2) Should the US develop and use Orion-style nuclear propulsion?

These are policy questions, not a scientific questions.

Also, you seem to be confused between the differences between science and technology. Can you not differentiate between basic and applied research?
We are probably more similar than we can imagine.
Bizarre Creature Found in 200-Million-Year-Old Cocoon
Birds are often cantankerous and mischievous. I wonder what would happen if there was an airsoft gun on that thing with a trigger button.
I think Google announced it before that, but it only began the roll-out this summer and that's also when it gave the full details of their fiber network.
Really? Everything he has ever said or done in public has lead me to the opposite conclusion.

His financial advisers and PR people seem exceptionally talented, he has, so far, hidden any ounce of talent from the public.
Source for this? This has to be the most out there one I have heard.
The bits need to come from somewhere, and your player will need to decode / un-obfuscate that. If it gets used enough, some enterprising person will open it up their debugging tools and figure out the way that you obfuscate the source URL. This is the same issue that DRM has: trying to prevent your user from using the info you're sending them is only winnable in the short term, and impossible to win in the long term.

You might be better off having the content gated with authentication: here's your random token, good luck downloading someone else's stuff. Past that, why do you care whether the source of the content is hidden? Does it matter whether someone uses your player or wget to get the same bits?
It sounds goofy, but wash your pillowcase or put something clean over it. Even for people with really bad acne, washing your pillowcase can make it so much better. This discussion[0] on reddit goes into it more; that's where I learned the trick. It's worked well for me.

[0]: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/9p2f8/i_am_a_sev...
I will never forget super-bouncing in Halo 2. Ever.
Ask HN: How to limit duplicate accounts with social sign-in options?
I was wondering what the best practice is when allowing users to sign up with multiple different services and email.

On our product, you can sign-up with email, Twitter, Facebook, Google and LinkedIn.

LinkedIn and Twitter do not provide an email so if you don't connect them to your original account, attempting to sign-in with them creates a new account.

With Google and Facebook, although they provide emails, it's often different than what the user connects to their original account.

Was looking for resources/best-practice feedback on this. Thanks!
I was just thinking earlier today, "I should turn on the Do Not Track header in Chrome." Then I thought, "...and become one of a very tiny group of people with that characteristic."

I'm going to do it anyway, though on principle. And I encourage all of you to do the same. ;)
I appreciate that. I apologize for being ignorant. I hope so!
Wow. That's great. There is a Santa. :) Can't wait.
Hmm, I don't think so. We can limit our examination to the tech sector:

In Idiocracy, medical care, among other decisions, are issued through simple touch-screen devices.

Currently, the popular idealized interface is finger-touch, such that even a toddler can figure it out. Styluses and keyboards and other peripherals are ostracized as laughably archaic/geeky ways to do input, and are probably not far from being seen, as Idiocracy's citizens would put it, "faggy".

Bret Victor has a good rant on this:
http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...

In Idiocracy, despite decent progression in technology, the result has been more passive consumerism than active creation of media

From the Times: Wasting Time Is New Divide in Digital Era
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/us/new-digital-divide-seen...

(To underscore that point, I think it's not a stretch to say that the iPad is geared much more towards media consumption than creation)

Ow My Balls

Actually, Ow My Balls was pretty good for an early iOS game. I'm thinking of the popularity of "Fart Sounds" and every freemium social game that dominates the top-grossing list. I'm not as big into the gaming scene anymore, but from my distant perspective, it seems that the future of gaming (despite Zynga's current troubles), is moving more towards Angry Birds or worse...Nintendo is floundering. It'll be nearly 7 years since the PS3 was released (the PS3 was released 6 years after the PS2) and no release date yet for the PS4...I love Angry Birds, but in terms of gaming, I'd consider it more "Idiocracy" endpoint than "non-Idiocracy"
IFTTT Produces A Way To Bypass Instagram Turning Off Twitter Cards
Actually, to the best of my knowledge, that particular stricture regarding body hair only applies to Muslims while on hajj (the trip to Mecca). This particular standard is probably more related to Pashtun culture, or to their particular interpretation of Islam.