skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is probably not much evidence because that which would constitute evidence is held effectively in secret. There is no way for the scientific community to look for flaws in methodology. Flaws in research methodologies are often found, sometimes years later, so it's to be expected that at least some placebos are making studies inaccurate perhaps dangerously so, and it's also to be expected that we will never know which studies are compromised since the data is not published publicly.

Yes, placebo design is extremely complicated and often involves active ingredients intended to simulate side effects and treatment experience without treatment effects.

There is quite a bit written in the comments here.

For instance, it would be quite easy for a company to fake efficacy accidentally or intentionally by using a placebo that inhibited natural healing or even made the treated condition worse. The control group would fare worse than the treated group, and the drug could advance toward the market. There is a massive economic incentive for this sort of cheating, and I don't think we can presume pharmaceutical companies are above economic incentives.
Well, it should be a self-hosting compiler, and to do it alone you have to use it right.
Just another name for Murphy's Law :)
Because Google chrome is snake oil. Last I heard they still give regular bounties to people who submit major security bugs.
Which makes it a criticism of the community rather than some curator. It's a valid, if not entirely productive, criticism.
Again with the disinformation.

First, the law doesn't force websites to display popups, the law forces informed consent.

The pop-ups are hack on top of existing sites which I agree quite clearly doesn't work. Also, there has been a clear failure by those enforcing the law in constructively thinking about the way in which such consent should be given.

Second, the law is very explicitly not about cookies nor any kind of specific form of technology. It's about invasive tracking, and other applications of cookies are in no way affected by the law. If Facebook finds a way to track people without cookies, it will still be covered by the law. The misleading name "cookie-law" is product of the anti-privacy lobby.

The law in it's current form may not have the desired result, but please stop pretending it's law created by ignorant politicians that don't understand cookies, because that is simply untrue, and it poisons any constructive debate just as much as my admittedly over the top comparison.
Do note that cocaine was banned all around the world at the same time. The <a href = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Opium_Convention&... Opium Convention</a> in Hague in 1912 was the first drug control treaty which lead to anti-drug laws in many Western countries. There were many more conventions following that one that caused outlawing of many more narcotic substances. Even if Americans were very racist at the time, maybe they were at the same time sane enough to realize that putting cocaine in soft drinks wasn't a good idea?
Depending on how he's defined industry, I suppose the only things left are post-doc and non-tenured lecturer.
look at HackRF, it may be better, if it gets released
Kim Schmitz is known for screwing people alot of Times, so if you try your luck with this keep that in mind.

Endeavors where he took others peoples Money in Return for nothing or didnt Pay Prize money:

Ultimate Rally

Kimvestor (letsbuyit.com)

Osama bin Laden bounty

Trendax AI trading company

Liga.net Gaming League (around 1999)
Which sorting algorithm Array.sort use?
I refuse to read this link bait. Flagged.

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Having read the article on recommendation that it was satire, I found it humorous. I still disagree with the title.
Discussion from 2011 on signing RubyGems with GPG
Should people be off on Fridays?
If you can, grab an HTC One S while they're still available - it's got decent specs and premium build quality with a 4.3" screen. It's also very thin, so handling is pretty much the same as my old 3.7" Desire.
Please recommend a better option for running code in a web browser.

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There is no php, or rails, or asp alternative here as there is with perl. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the closest thing I've found is 1. NaCl 2...?
There is a reason why Amazon is one of the most "overpriced" companies out there as according to the stock market. Every decision is made for the user. And I just LOVE Amazon!
Context: This came up in discussion in #rubygems-trust on IRC tonight. We were talking about the pros and cons of X509 vs. GPG for gem signing and verification.
The problem in Oakland is gang activity. So your chances of getting randomly killed there are a lot less than the numbers might suggest. However, it does happen that people get caught in the crossfire. Oakland also covers a pretty wide area and there are some better and worse parts.

I have never been to Stockton, but you are right that the crime rate there seems surprisingly high. The cops blame it on the drug cartels. The city is fairly poor (median income 35k) and filed for bankruptcy last year. I'm not sure what the problems are there, but I'm fairly sure bored kids are not near the top of the list.

Incidentally, there is something distasteful about criticizing a city you've never even visited. Especially when you live in a much whiter and richer area. I grew up in a poor area that I'm sure many here would have looked down on. You can have pride in where you live without tearing other people down.
Do these price drops ever trickle down to, say, users of heroku? I've not used heroku for very long, but this is the 2nd time since I started that AWS has dropped their prices, however I've heard nary a tale from heroku.
Good call. Much like a Ubuntu LTE, having stable freezes of the GATK (now that it's relatively mature) that only get bug-fixes but no new (possibly bug-prone) features is a great idea.
It is actually worth reading.
Um what? If your hashing library hasn't been tested with a arbitrary sequences of bytes you have bigger problems than limiting user input to 12 characters.
So cancellations made immediately before e.g. a goal are rolled back? Otherwise that sounds exploitable, as the probability of a goal increases dramatically before the goal takes place.
No, as I said, this doesn't help. You would need to sign the most popular gems and all their dependencies and the dependencies dependencies. Given that a pretty much standard rails app can easily pull in hundred or more gems that's quite a bit of work. It's doable, but I only see that coming if for example rubygems requires a key and gem signatures.

Then there's still the unsolved problem of providing key trust - the current implementation relies on self-signed certificates.
GIF-like transparency in PNG works in IE4 and later.

Only the full alpha that GIF doesn't support at all isn't working properly (but can be made to work since IE5.5).

http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2010/png-that-works/#paletted
so much hate in the developer culture. i rather get shit done.
If you visit a website and fail to follow it's terms you are committing a federal crime? Really?

What's to stop somebody building a webpage where the terms of service just says "you must never visit this webpage for any reason"
> JavaScript just waiting for the next technology to come around and make it look like Perl does today: pervasive, but lacking enterprise adoption on large applications.

How about CoffeeScript?

Also, I worked on some pretty "big" JS projects (in terms of scale, not popularity) and I found Javascript really easy to maintain, you just have to plan ahead a little, but I do agree that the syntax is a slightly bit not to my liking, but it is not horrible.

Also, what type inconstancy is he referring to?
Flagged for what? Illustrating an important point with imagery rather than a wall of text?
TechCrunch disrupt had a few solving this problem.

I'm sure they could use your support :-)
We do have lossy RGBA that works in all browsers since IE7 (and degrades well in IE4+):

http://pngquant.org http://tinypng.org

And while it's not as good as WebP, it's 20% of the filesize you get from Photoshop.

http://pngmini.com/vs-webp/
There's one obvious way to write good Perl code: read the documentation. Perl has tonnes of it. There are bugs in there of course, but most of it is very good. Also try to visit perlmonks.org once in a while - they're good there. Everything else is just a reason to be lazy and not care about the code you write.
Infix operators can be emulated thanks to a built-in reader macro. Example:

(i . <= . (length lst))

Which moves the stuff between . to the head of the sexpr.
Do they have the reasons for the decisions anywhere? For the "Biggest Social Impact" category it's definitely the case that reddit has had a quantifiable social impact, but more so than Kiva, or Kickstarter? Also, why was Indiegogo a runner up and not Kickstarter? isn't indiegogo just kickstarter but less stringent on the project approval, kickstarter has become synonymous with crowdfunding.
Más orgasmos, menos estornudos – RT
It's cheap advertisements for non-hackers. "It is so secure they een ran a contest to crack it!"
That talks about using progressive enhancement as the primary approach to building websites.
As far as I know, Walter Bright is the only person on this planet who could maybe claim to have written a C++ compiler all by himself [0], though I cannot find an original quote from him.

[0] http://www8.cs.umu.se/~isak/snippets/mem.txt
We currently use a WordPress plugin [0] that makes it save passwords using bcrypt. It looks like there's plans to make this the default in a future version of WordPress [1].

[0] https://github.com/dxw/wp_bcrypt

[1] http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21022
It seems like the Ruby guys should spend a little more time learning the basics of CS in between two self promotion ("rockstar developers", anyone?).
I much prefer to use the <i> tag because I don't use it for anything else and it's short for <i>con :)
I love Perl because it is really easy to structure your code to match your way of thinking. And it is so fast to get the job done.

I am a javascript beginner. For me, it is a lot more difficult to read than Perl. I very much agree with the article, but I think that javascript is more than a new Perl, it is also a new BASIC. Like BASIC 30 year ago, it is present on every computer, almost every developer will encounter the need to learn javascript and almost anything can be coded in javascript.
Have you tryed LyX?

from http://www.lyx.org/Features:

Document management
Change tracking
Support for external version control systems (RCS, CVS, SVN)
Comparison of different versions of the document
Branches for having different versions of the same document
Yellow sticky notes
Perl never had a monopoly on a runtime environment with an install base of pretty much everyone who owns a computer, tablet, or smartphone. Sometimes it's not about engineering principles.

If native mobile apps end up de facto replacing the open internet, that could change, of course. But I hope the internet remains, warts and all. And as ARM chips improve, and DOM APIs are expanded, and JS engines become more efficient, and the HTTP spec is ever more optimized for web applications, I think in the end the browser will survive.
Except when you work on embedded systems (I'm talking about the type where you have a few hundred kilobytes of ram and flash, no OS under your ass and crap libraries). I've used a recursive descent parsing technique that's described in a paper of about 5 pages by David Hanson to great effect [1]. Depends on the situation you find yourself in, sometimes it's unavoidable to re-invent the wheel.

[1] http://drhanson.s3.amazonaws.com/storage/documents/compact.p...
I was genuinely unaware of the connection here. Thanks for posting that.
Ah, yeah, I can understand your reaction. The link is satire; out of context I suppose this quote sounds pretty over-the-top.
This isn't about running code in the web browser. This is a greater problem of offloading what is better off as being server-side processing on the browser.
There's another obvious way to write good Perl thanks to the CPAN: don't write it because others already made the work better than you. @mutation: i agree with doc quality.
Agreed. What's your point, exactly? So you agree that in either case it is not innovation? Didn't you just claim it was two posts up?
Heroku is a big enough user to negotiate their own prices with Amazon, so I'd guess not.
The source material is pretty accessible - mostly just tables of data: http://cra.org/uploads/documents/resources/taulbee/CRA_Taulb...

So 23.9% are in other parts of academic computer science, mostly Postdocs. another 3.6% go to positions (unspecified) in other academic departments.

His 47% is "North American, Non-Academic, Industry". It doesn't break down research vs. development jobs, which is probably smart.

Another interesting thing is that it's broken down (Table D4) by specialty - so for instance, two PhDs in HCI left the US from the 2010-2011 class, and the specialties with the highest percentage leaving the country after graduating were "Information Systems" and "Networks".
>As a generality I'd say that's false. Why buy in to a system

Because it gives you a better price. There are two sides to any trade; people go to the HFTs because their prices are better than anyone else's. If they weren't providing value, no-one else would trade with them.

> that makes a tiny proportion of the populous vastly wealthy only because those people already are wealthy.

HFT has greatly democratized market-making; in the old days stockbroking was an old-boy's network, virtually impossible for new participants to enter. Nowadays, three or four blokes with computers and one investor can start a new trading firm, and many of the biggest HFT players started that way.

>OK, can you give a reason why that happens and why it leaves more with middlemen

Because there's a higher risk. If I offer to buy microsoft for $50 but that offer has to stay out there for an hour, and news of a lawsuit comes out 20 minutes later, I'm going to lose lots of money. So the middlemen need to be able to bear that risk, they need much bigger capital reserves, and they can't afford to offer the penny spreads we see nowadays (because they need to make a greater profit to offer the same return on their bigger capital reserve).

> At the moment a change in price so transient as to pass in milliseconds gets exploited to extract value from the system.

Where's the value being "extracted" from? Certainly not from a fundamentals trader, who's getting the best possible price with the smallest possible spread (sadly, regulations require shares to be sold in increments of $0.01 and no smaller, so there's always $0.005/share to be made on every trade, which by modern standards is absolutely huge - and is why the HFT guys are willing to spend so much on low latency to maximize their chances of getting that $0.005/share. But the fundamentals trader always pays exactly $0.005/share; the HFTs are just fighting among themselves for who gets it).
A lot has changed in the last few years-- with modern tools (Skype, Google Hangouts, IRC, GotoMeeting), it is possible to not only almost entirely replicate being co-located, but to even enhance productivity by spinning out ad-hoc co-located teams to solve individual problems.

The evidence from folk who study this seems to differ from this.

The world is full of anecdotes about how much better things are with the newer technologies - yet I can very little evidence that this is true. I know I'm really good at fooling myself about my own productivity. I don't imagine I'm unique there ;-)

And my personal anecdotal experiences over the years (including recent ones ;-) is that you can really ramp up productivity by getting everybody on a distributed team in one place. Even when everybody is normally skyping / IMing / whatever.
Flagged for a link bait title.
The Real Cost of Software Development
Show HN: filter "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" jobs by city
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No it has been tested. It's only placebo.
I'd suggest the course reader from Stanford's CS 106L, authored by Keith Schwarz. It brought me upto speed on major parts of STL, the C++ object model, operator overloading,
functors, etc. within a week. (Of course that's assuming you
have a prior programming background).
After all, traditional interviews bias for those who are good at face-to-face communication. There is basically no filter for those who suck at remote communication.

That's a really nice point that I'd not considered before.

It's exacerbated by the fact that it takes more than one to communicate. If you work remotely, it's not sufficient that you are capable of writing an intelligible email. Everyone you interact with also needs this ability, which tends to be rare in companies that are not purely remote workers.

The problem is that, from what I've read, the productivity advantage that folk get isn't through the sort of good communication you get from writing effective emails. It's the more ambient communication you get from noticing your coworker has been staring at the screen without typing for a few minutes, or from hearing and correcting a mistake automatically.
Well I think thats a shame. I won't say "it seems you are a product of the media process whereby an affinity towards denigration is contagious" .. but its certainly something I wonder about as a cultural effect. "Can't stand positive things" is a bit of a loose nail ..
I have written an action plan for myself to read if I get depressed or anxious. I will share it with everyone and hope that some of you will find it helpful.

ACTION PLAN:

First, please consider taking a three minutes breathing space. Pay attention to your breathing and focus on your body sensation. Just pay attention.

Second, read this letter:

To the depressed self,

You worked so hard in every aspect of your life. You have always tried hard in school, tried hard to be a good girlfriend and to be a good friend. You are always very grateful of the support and encouragement your friends have given you. I understand that life can be tough sometimes. You may not always be successful in school and in your relationship. But you really have tried. That is really all it matters. You should not always blame yourself.

Remember your high school teacher, all your friends and family, they really don't want see you being sad like this.

Remember your high school teacher said "Guys come and go. You really don't need to worry about it." "You are a special young lady. You are brilliant and, more importantly, a truly kind person. I will miss you but know you will onto great things at UBC. Don’t ever doubt that you are a capable student and a wonderful person."

Friends said: 1) "How you feel don't count. What you do matters." 2) "Focus on the present. Don't put too much expectations for the future." 3) "Everything will be alright. You will be fine."

Please remember to be a kind, encouraging, understanding person. Please don't say things that will hurt others feelings. Please tolerate others' differences. Please look at things from other people's perspectives. Please do not give up when you just fail once. As long as you do all those, you should not have any regret. You are a strong person who has already overcome many difficulties. Please don't doubt yourself and don't give up.

From the undepressed self.

Third, do a sitting/body scan (AKA MINDFULLNESS MEDITATION).

FOURTH, MOST IMPORTANTLY! IF YOU HAVE TIME, CONSIDER TO GO FOR A RUN!
Not really - no. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that I couldn't do six years ago.

There are a few more options maybe - but nothing fundamentally different.
And I thought they had real time satellite monitoring with command & conquer like interfaces. I'm so disappointed.
I've always been shocked at how wealthy people fly around in small private planes. At least once a year, I hear of a tragedy involving such a person, often wiping out all or most of their family.

While large aircraft are extremely safe, small ones have a significant chance of catastrophic crashes, particularly in inclement weather. While I'll fly in small aircraft, I will never make a habit of it - eventually the number will catch up with you.

Same goes for motorcycles. How many motorcyclists have driven for 30 years without a serious accident? None I know.
One Way Trigger by frans schuman
WHOIS records are of DomainsByProxy. I use a similar service for my private (not work) domains, but take what you will from it.
Agree with the opinion that modern Perl5 is much more simplier to read than JS. Especially with stuff like jQuery.
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Looks like it's done with sphinx, which is wonderful for this sort of thing.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs/
Your comment makes no sense, of course.

You point at a specific item only to say that this item doesn't apply as is. Why pointing at it then? Mega's security effort may very well be disingenuous, but what you wrote comes across as a snobbery.
His life expectancy was 90, but they never say that this number is also accounting for people that fall in the shower.. Right?

So everyones risk goes down slightly too.
You're giving the guy a lot more credit than he deserves. Beyond the fact you don't have to use the TOR browser to access TOR, it's fairly easy to change the settings to remember passwords. Maybe he was forgetful? Maybe along with his guilty plea he gave them his credentials? Maybe he used the same username and password for everything?

If they'd set up a sting involving a fake seller, it would be in their interest to publicise it. Our drug enforcement process is built around throwing the book at a few people to attempt to discourage many. If people thought that the seller they were buying off was likely to be a cop, that would significantly discourage SR buying.
At the very least, IRC let use encrypted SSL connection. Then, they may have their own IRC server implementation with special security requirements. I'm more concerned they use windows and mIRC, actually.
RubyGems: data verification complete, no tempered gems
I keep notes in Vim+Dropbox on my laptop and Byword+Dropbox on my phone for easy syncing and simple, distraction-free editing. A webapp would be a great alternative if it's also usable from a phone. A single interface for everything, always kept up to date, with no distractions. If it could export to a local file for backups (or running notes through Markdown, if they become coherent enough), even better.

Congrats so far: it looks beautiful. And I have a few writer friends who would probably find something like this useful, especially the collaborative editing parts.
Yup, correct. But ~~ is faster in 90% of tests (not all)
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It doesn't really work that way in practice. I believe bounty programs are good, but they aren't a replacement for an actual security team.

Its one of those things that doesn't scale all that well, one really talented tester can gain a deep understanding of an app and find loads and loads of opportunities for attack. Most bounty bug hunters on the other hand are hard to distinguish from usual internet background noise.

Veracode recently put up an infograpic on bounty programs that was kind of interesting, http://www.veracode.com/blog/2013/01/can-bug-hunters-keep-th...
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