skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is it reproducible if the same scientist repeats the >experiment in the same lab and gets the same results? >Because that's the current bar of reproducibility, and that
>89% that is not "reproducible" certainly passed that bar.

I don't follow you here. The above does not seem to be the current meaning of "reproducible":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility

The same person doing the same experiment is repeatable, not reproducible. And I don't believe even the repeatable bar has been met, as very few projects have funding to do the same experiment twice.

The fact that a given investigator can "repeat" his experiment have very low weight among professional scientists, because we are all human. Irving Langmuir's famous talk about Pathological Science, and especially the sad story of N-rays, is a warning to every scientist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_science

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/Langmuir/langB.htm#Nrays
Really found this quick and useful. Easy to achieve what I often have to agonize with in Gimp or Photoshop.
> The DMCA takedown procedure still gives too much power to the accuser, without sufficient penalties for improper notices. Since it implements a "guilty until proven innocent" system

The takedown procedure is not, stricly speaking, "a guilty until proven innocent" system. Its a system that provides immunity from liability for illegally distributing copyright protected content provided that it was originally submitted by someone other than the distributor, and the distributor stopped when notified by the owner of the copyright. (It, likewise, provides immunity to the distributor for claims by the submitter for stopping distribution provided that the distributor restores the distribution once the submitter provides a counternotice.)

But the takedown procedure itself doesn't create new penalties or presumptions of guilt, it just provides conditional protections from any existing penalties for certain acts provided that those acts are discontinued on specified forms of notice.
Having a pacemaker, I've been quietly paranoid about any magnets coming anywhere close to it. That includes keeping the iPad away from the area, both because of magnets and the radio transmitter.

One of the first warnings I got about having one was to not dangle earbuds around my neck where they would hang in front of my left shoulder. Other warnings about keeping distance from generators, magnets, shoulder-pressed cell phones, store theft-deterrent sensors, and even chainsaws (cardiologist & I got a kick out of wondering which would kill me first: the alternator's fields knocking out the pacer, or my passed-out fall into the still-spinning blade). MRIs...just don't even go there.

The problem with magnets is more complex than perhaps obvious. There's bad input, and then there's damage. What the girl is referring to is quite legitimate: defibrillators and pacemakers typically allow proximity of a magnet as a "master override" function. When I suffered an unrelated instance of atrial flutter (heart decided to run at 350bpm, pacemaker hit the brakes at 150...for 12 hours), the ER doc not having a diagnostic system handy forced the pacemaker to reduce to a much more humane rate by placing a good-sized magnet over the pacemaker; this allowed a more relaxed 2-hour wait for a technician to arrive and better diagnose & manage the problem (the subsequent drive-thru heart surgery is another story). She's raising awareness that sometimes this "master override" function can be induced improperly and even unknowingly, leaving the patient in a high-risk condition without knowing until periodic diagnostics or medical failure. A related issue she may tangentially raise awareness of is outright damage, with induced currents overstimulating the patient or frying the electronics (see aforementioned chainsaw issue).

She's raising a good issue. With the proliferation of tiny super-magnets, an enduring technical problem must be revisited: how to provide a low/no-impact way to essentially "hit the reset button" on an implanted medical device when there is no visible/external contacts? Not long ago, using a strong magnet to activate a magnetic switch was a sensible solution. Today, stronger magnetic fields are coming closer more often, risking activating a "safe/master mode", and there's not much way to alert anyone to the condition.

To address a few other points: Yes, any small but strong magnets like the magsafe plug are a possible problem. It's not an EMI problem so much as false input to a magnetic sensor. Defibrillators and pacemakers face the same basic problem, but the former moreso because the "master override" function needed is a function shutdown (need a way to turn it off and keep it off), while the latter responds in a more benign manner.

Glad to hear someone raising awareness of the issue. Amused that it's a child figuring it out and publicizing it. Thanks, kid!
Also, one of our usability headaches is that people draw OUTSIDE of the lines - any pixel marked green WILL BE IN THE RESULT.

Now, that's not how people actually use it at first - they "just scribble" (which our example might exacerbate), and then accidentally go outside the actual lines => not good.

Will need to figure out a way to make that more clear.
It's amazing the things some people would rather have than money.
Certainly do!
Yeah. Can you? Considering CPython already generates .pyc and checks timestamps, keeping some kind of JIT cache around wouldn't be a stretch.
They're expressing the average 15yo worldview which is that social acceptance is everything and embarassment by your peers is literally a fate worse than death. It's pretty fucked up, but also I think an inevitable part of growing up for most except for maybe a few hard-core geeks whose passions supercede whatever social narcotics their peers subject them to.
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A post criticizing a company was delete from a forum owned by that company?
back from before the web was "serious business"

I do need to remember the exact number of that for the next time an interviewer asks me to name as many status codes as I can.
Yes, you are right, most doctors can also use their commonsense but in my dad's case they didn't! i hesitate to say this as my best buddy is a neurologist but i agree with vinod khosla, in a few years doctors as we know them today will be replaced by technology (http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/02/vinod-khosla-says-technolo...)!

they should be able to work on a higher level, just as we moved up the chain from punch cards and assembly code on 8080s doctors need to move up the chain as well, otherwise we will have many near and dear ones dying due to single point failure (PCP)!

to answer your question, i am working on an app (will post a link to it in the next 2-3 weeks) that brings the patient closer to more physicians, hopefully someone relevant, in my dad's case, a neurologist (at least it takes the risk of seeing one doctor out of the equation).
Agreed. Endorsements are largely a popularity contest. Sure, it is great that your connect [name] endorsed you for [skill]... That is helpful to know in some ways, but it is no way definitive on your ability.

We're working on a system we think is slight better, based on getting credit for what you read, and hopefully one day what you know.
Do you have any insight as to how often the congressperson has already made up their mind on an issue, seemingly for political/lobbying/cronyism reasons, versus how many are on the fence and actually swayed by the calls they receive?
You hate X because of a completely-unrelated-thing-Y? Try acting like an adult.
Her daughter is on very good terms with her, and points out a lot of sentences in her mother's book were intended as dry sarcasm

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/why_love_my_strict_chi...
It drives me up the wall I tell you!!! The worst are the non-tech types who think they're the next Zuck — you sign the silly NDA and their "idea" is always some vague parody of something that's out there. It's like being a character in a sitcom except it's wasting your time.

I think the only solution is to charge a consulting fee to "look at the idea" which scares away the amateurs. After all if you aren't willing to spend $1k for me to evaluate your "idea" then you aren't serious any way.
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The issue is that liability is in practice equivalent to a large monetary penalty because of the ease of rapid and continuous litigation.

So in practice the DMCA takedown procedure provides a method of immediately (and sometimes permanently) removing content (not necessarily infringing) from any major provider.

As an example, the method of removing allegedly infringing content from YouTube is not a DMCA takedown but it is a result of that mechanism.
Ask HN: How do you inspire programmers to work with older tech?
My company has been building a system to manage clinical trial health research for the past 5 years.

It's a really cool, useful application that helps people in the real world do really important stuff.

However -- it's not build with the latest, "coolest" technology.

I find a lot of programmers turn up their nose when asked to work on something that's not using the latest beta buzzy framework or language.

Instead, it seems like they'd rather work on the latest doomed social network craplication as long as they can program only using libraries with version numbers < 1.0.

So how do you present an opportunity working with a really cool, useful application, when it doesn't use the latest tech?
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Most of that knowledge is likely due to people importing their address books. From there they can link you to other email addresses and combine the identities. Creepy yes, but relatively easy to explain.
There's a difference between an observation and an experiment. Lab experiments should be reproducible. The fact that astronomical events are not reproducible does not make the study of them unscientific, but it also doesn't imply that lab experiments should be one time events.
Tried removing a background from a stock car photo. It involved quite a bit of precise mouse wiggling and the end result was still pretty sloppy looking. I assume there are cases where this works well, but it would probably help clarifying what those are before inviting people to try the tool out.
>embarassment by your peers is literally a fate worse than death

I hadn't considered that specific viewpoint, yet it makes so much sense.
This reminds me of Hong Kong apartments shots:

http://petapixel.com/2013/02/19/cramped-apartments-in-hong-k...
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does it use GraphCuts?
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The staggering growth in tech firms and demand for talent. Jobs like it's 1999!
Great point. This is, in business, is much the same principle as avoiding premature optimization, in coding.
Re: the Type 2 comments, it's not just that Thiel has two degrees. It's that the first 11 (18-29) years of his career was a meticulous exercise in credentialing and path-following. He got a BA and a JD at a top school. He worked as a law clerk for a federal appellate judge. He worked at an "establishment" Wall Street law firm, followed by an "establishment" Wall Street bank. This is a path that is defined at every level by artificial hurdles (mostly test-taking), and some of the most obnoxious striverism you'll ever see. At the same time it's a path that's also relatively low risk (as long as you can put up the right numbers, your risk of failure is fairly low).

Here is the punchline: His subsequent success was the direct result of his original path-following. He didn't go off the beaten path and make his own. He "won" the path-following game he and his classmates were all playing. He founded Thiel Capital Management using money and connections he made working at Credit Suisse, and it was that money that put him in a position to invest in PayPal in 1998. He wouldn't have had that capital without working on Wall Street, and he wouldn't have gotten in the door in Wall Street without those credentials.

To be fair to Thiel, he's not really saying that everyone should do a Thiel fellowship. He's saying that "maybe it's the right thing for some people." Which is by itself undoubtedly true. Where it goes off the rails for me is when people take the message beyond that, which I think Thiel himself sometimes does.

If you just want to start a company, take a Thiel fellowship. If you want to be Peter Thiel, take that Stanford acceptance and go work on Wall Street.
Not fair.

It was her idea, she concocted the theory, investigation and reported the results. Insofar as she didn't do part of the full experiment, no teenager should be allowed to carry out casual experiments involving shutting off life-support equipment on heart patients - duh, let an adult handle that bit. That she didn't win doesn't mean anything more than the winners were better projects, drama aside.

People DID learn something. Awareness is spreading about the issues of proliferation of magnets strong enough to cause false inputs to implanted medical devices.

The only thing the news got wrong was the subtle jab at Apple, rather than a more neutral reference to the many magnet-containing products which have similar odds of the same problem.
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Why don't you try acting like a human.
I'm thinking of making the switch. Are you able to port your vim plugins to emacs in evil mode?
Or if you're on Rails, there's a little-known helper as part of the asset pipeline that will do this for you:

#logo { background: url(<%= asset_data_uri 'logo.png' %>) }
Investors don't work that way. They only care about making money(I know I don't care if tesla succeeds or not, but I'm certainly bearish on it). People are shorting it because it's an impractical car from an ROI perspective. Albeit a very sexy and cool one. Like others have said, you can get a BMW with more features and all the gas you want for less than a tesla(minus the wizbang PC interface) It's yet to be seen if a tesla for the masses will catch on. Maybe it will, but a lot of investors still think this is a fad due to the impracticality.

Remember, sometimes the market does funny things and it takes a long time for fads to die(nintento wii). That doesn't mean that the investors were wrong. It just means the public reacted in irrational ways, which happens with fads.
I am not a lawyer, but-

> If someone has information that they only want certain people to see, would circumventing a technological measure that controls access to that information be allowed under this bill? For example, internal documents, trade secrets and documents under NDAs?

Among other things, this would generally be a violation of the CFAA.

> If someone has information they only want licensed people to see, would circumventing a technological measure that controls access to that information be allowed under this bill? For example, publishers of stock market analysis which is released only to licensed subscribers.

Depends what you mean. If an unlicensed subscriber tried to gain access from scratch, then the CFAA would be applicable; if a licensed subscriber leaked large portions of the document to an unlicensed subscriber, then it would at least be a (standard) copyright violation. (If they only leaked specific bits of information, it probably wouldn't involve circumventing a technological measure, but contract law would be applicable.)
Yeah, I think Harvard is definitely an outlier. Sounds a lot like Oxbridge. I studied at two very good, but still 'second-tier' universities (Warwick and HKUST) and it wasn't much like you describe (both those universities are known for being very over-populated, which might be a factor). At those kinds of places, maybe if you have the confidence and training to push yourself forwards, you could probably build interesting relationships with professors. Most 18-year-olds don't, though.

Median universities (in the UK, former polytechnics, in the US, community colleges) are even worse. Students there seem to be respected about as much as companies respect their minimum-wage employees. Very low tolerance for infractions (like late assignment submissions) that would be forgiven in higher-ranked places, for example. And I know some very smart people who studied at such places.
FWIW, Git Real 2 is working nicely at my place. I'm at level 2 now, looks great so far!
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The value I get from it is mostly gathering intelligence about companies (e.g. size, new hires/leaves, key people in similar roles, etc), much less about actual "socializing". I very rarely initiate a connection, most of my (double digit only) contacts are by accepting invitations.
>> I recently started work on an attempt to improve the classification of English vocabulary by grade level.

I would be interested in this. Let me know if you plan to open this. What data sources are you using?
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> So in practice the DMCA takedown procedure provides a method of immediately (and often permanently) removing content (not necessarily infringing) from any major provider.

I don't think the DMCA takedown procedure is much involved. The actual problem that causes that is the resource imbalance between content owners and individual users. Without the DMCA takedown procedure and its associated liability shields, instead you'd have content owners sending threats to sue to the content hosts, who would have to choose whether they'd like to fight the content owner or keep the affected client.

With the DMCA takedown procedure, really, its exactly the same thing, except that the host has more security that they will have no liability to the purported content owner for any past distribution if they comply with the request.

We know this to be true, becuase this was the situation that was occurring before the DMCA which led to the pressure from content hosts that resulted in the inclusion of the safe harbor provisions that include the "takedown procedure" and the related counter-notice restoration procedure.
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LI employee here. That's actually not correct. Premium accounts do not still see anonymous viewers.
Anyone knows of a Chrome extension for the same thing? I searched, but couldn't find anything.
I like your division into Type 1 and Type 2 criticisms. I think you're right about the fellowship demonstrating that university is another option (at least for some people).

When I asked Peter about his 20 under 20 program, here's what he told me:

"It was 20 people. It was just 20 people. You have something on the order of 6 million people a year in the U.S. who graduate from high school. If you're saying that of the top 60,000, the top 1 percent let's say, are there 20 of those 60,000 who should perhaps not go to college--that does not seem like a terribly controversial statement. That the more talented you are, the more narrow the set of choices you should make? And that if you're a really smart person, the only thing in the world you can do is to go to Harvard? That certainly is an odd state for the world to be in, even though it's surprisingly close to the state we find ourselves in today."
This would be better suited to a blog post, and more compelling if there were supporting facts for the claims.
Thanks for posting. Would love to get some discussion on this. I wrote this article and would love to answer any questions, and/or get more thoughts.
A few of those, for the prices that they are, would be great with the current furnishings removed / decent furnishings brought in. There is a time in my life where I would have jumped through hoops to rent some of those.

For example that 300/mo "Breakfast Nook" one looks like it would be perfectly fine with the other person's shit removed.

(I am not a resident of NYC)
> Raza, now a law-school graduate from McGill

I wonder if the person who posted the video is doing as well?
I think this is the title (I had to web-search) https://www.usc.edu/CSSF/Current/Projects/33084.pdf

"EMIT: Does iPad Use in Patients with Implantable Cardiac Rhythm Devices Cause Electromagnetic Interference?"

(EMIT looks intended to be an acronym, but what do the letters stand for?)
As a general proposition, someone being asked to sign an NDA in a situation like this will want to look for provisions such as:

1. a requirement that all confidential information be reduced to writing and marked as confidential (to reduce the chance of the discloser later claiming "but I told you that, and I told you it was confidential!");

2. explicit exclusions from confidentiality, e.g., things published, things independently developed or received from others, etc.;

3. a time limit on the confidentiality obligation.

Self-cite here: For a detailed discussion of various types of clauses in NDAS, see http://www.oncontracts.com/confidential-information/. It needs some stylistic editing (I was experimenting), but it includes:

* colored-symbol "ratings" indicating my personal view of how acceptable-versus-dangerous various clauses usually are;

* extensive commentary in a MAN-style format;

* links to actual contracts in the wild that contain similar language.
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Looks like those Mac Minis are getting smoked right now, poor little guys. I can't load the page unfortunately to see myself, but could you use GNUStep to compile the examples on any flavour of box?
OH OH OH OH OH.

I'm stealing that idea because it's GENIUS.
Was going to look up 501 but decided to go home.
Isn't calling slightly scalable, now that we have Twilio? ;)
Yep. Someone's even hacked the API:
http://docs.timdorr.apiary.io/
The label is a bit weird, I agree, but personhood is an established legal concept with clear interpretations and case law so I just think of it as lawyer speak. Extremely disabled people may lack clear communication and yet a person who makes decisions on their behalf is guided by similar principles. The argument in favour of personhood is that the benefits of that legal history outweigh the superficial qualms by using a slightly wrong title.

While other animals have sentience too this is about the thin edge of the wedge, and what's achievable in politics. You go for the creatures that are nearest to human and then increase it as is appropriate. It's important to establish precedent and not to go too far at once or else the first step will fail and politicians won't touch it again for a long time. I see it more as practical political expediency rather than a lack of understanding of how non-apes may be sentient too.
Does it support .doc, .docx, .ppt, etc?
Has anyone else noticed a recent decline in inappropriate Youtube comments now that they pushed for real name accounts?
It's running on Mac Minis dude, and they're getting hammered. Bookmark it and visit again later. That's what I'm doing. :)
I was thinking 2009, which is when "app" - as a word with a widely yet precisely understood meaning - began taking off in the common vernacular.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=app

Using language as proxy, this looks like the point when the smartphones began turning into the most personal of personal computers in a really big way.
We need a way to find fellow hackers in real time and in real life by location
It's easy to find/work with fellow hackers asynchronously through sites like github. However, what if I am bored and I post up at a coffee shop to hack on things, wouldn't it be cool if I could set a flag somewhere to say "hey, I'm here, come hack with me". I'm sure it's not an issue in San Fran, however in places like Hollywood (where I am currently posted up at a popular coffee shop), I am surrounded by film industry folks (writers, producers, etc) but I rarely see any hackers. I know there are lots of hackers around here, I have meet some of them, but there is just no easy way for us to assemble ourselves spur of the moment in real life. Someone should fix this...