skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The women who ate no product at all, on the other hand, showed greater connectivity of the periaqueductal grey to emotion- and sensation-related regions, while the group consuming the non-probiotic dairy product showed results in between.

So basically the probiotics had nothing to do with it, and it was actually the dairy product? Or something else entirely? Lactic acid? Who knows.

If it was the probiotics why would consuming the non-probiotic have any effect whatsoever? The fact that it did shows that this study is not studying what it thinks it is studying.

Props for including a good set of control groups, but un-props for the interpretation.
As an ex-Jehovah's Witness, I agree this article gets a lot of things wrong. But they also are a crazy cult. I suggest the book "Crisis of Conscience" from an ex-governing body member if you're interested in JW's seedy history[1]. They started as a numerology-obsessed doomsday cult and evolved from there - the last time JWs sold off their possessions in anticipation of the end of the world was 1974, but it wasn't the first time. Today things aren't quite as bad, but they're still bad:

1) I wasn't allowed to have non-Jehovah's Witness friends or participate in after-school activities

2) Higher education was discouraged (I understood that it had been prohibited in earlier years, but they liberalized with the times). The idea is that you should spend your life serving the lord and not seeking material gain.

3) Reading non-Jehovah's Witness books on religious topics is prohibited. Some of the Church Services ("meetings") consist of reading verbatim word-for-word material handed down from the central organization ("the society"). Sermons ("talks") are written by cobbling together recent material put out by the society.

4) They practice shunning of ex-members (JWs will not talk to an ex-JW. I have no friends from childhood that will speak to me)

5) They do require a huge time commitment - door-to-door ("field service") at least once a week and three meetings per week.

6) They believe all other religions are products of the devil, sent to deceive mankind. Theirs is the only correct one.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/CRISIS-OF-CONSCIENCE-Raymond-Edition/d...
Concours et test du stylo Wacom Inkling
If Justin Schuh is lying about anything that's happening at Google, I'll videotape myself eating a dirty sock.
I don't see why that would be a real-estate issue, wouldn't the other stages of the lifts take up just as much space?
It can be both AND and XOR because it has two outputs. You could add a 3rd output for NOR in theory. You would probably add a 3rd always-on stream that drains into the NOR output by default but is deflected away when either or both of the other streams comes through.
My god, when you are older, you will look back and wish that you pursued the "shallow" things in high school. Some of those experiences are not going to be available at any other time in your life. Being an intellectual is overrated; don't be so quick to judge your peers, many of them are wise in ways that you cannot see.
Congresspeople have immunity for anything they say on the House floor barring treason. Mike Gravel read Ellsburg's Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record in the '70s.
With friends like these...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pen3isZj4cM
Personally i find all OTR 'apps' inconvenient.
Keys always change. Clients aren't compatible across platforms.
You end up just clicking "ok" all the time to untrusted conversations because else you just can't talk to the other party.

I like gpg based chats better for that reason, people tend to keep the same key.. it works more or less everywhere (except phones somehow) AND.. if you trust their keys you don't have anything to do it just works, regardless of being IM, email, or whatever else. One trust db. Not 100.
I would leave your overall GPA from Auburn, 3.4 is pretty good. There is no need to include the community college. No need to include transcript unless requested. Projects/things you have shipped/winning hackathons will probably help make you stand out the most.
This would be awesome as an Emacs minor mode...
How much do you think Barack Obama trusts Scott Wensing?

Barack Obama cited Matt Wensing by name as an American innovator solving American problems in a public speech, but to your point, several years ago the decision to use StormPulse in the White House was made by a GS-whatever with a nondescript .gov email address, and it was certainly not made due to StormPulse's superior access to the Valley in-crowd. (Disclaimer: I invested in them.)
Tax already has an effect on demand - it reduces income, which reduces available money. This just makes it more obvious.

Corporations are owned by people (consumers as you call them), tax the person, not the intermediary.

And in any case the corporation would also have to pay the tax on everything they buy.
This is just innuendo.
I think GDP was shown to grow almost quadratically with density. It wasn't so much about efficiences, as omnipresent services. If you can walk past 10 hotdog vendors on the way to work, you'll probably buy one.
The interface is a little confusing when you write a "perfect" text. I just wrote a few sentences, pressed "Analyze" and nothing at all happened. Pressed it again, nothing again. Maybe include a message like "Sorry, found nothing to nitpick about."
Kawasaki's Social Network Posting strategy
How do we fix it :-/ I think a proportional voting system would open it up, but that conversation is so far from the one we have on the national stage that it seems ludicrous.
> Want to cheat the IRS? Just don't tell them about it.

This might help your customers, but it doesn't help you (unless you charge the sales tax and don't forward it). So the cheating incentives are much lower.
Interesting stat. Got a source?

Good for health? No. Good for the environment? No. Good for corporate profits, ease of taxation, and established measures of economic trajectory including GDP? Yes. This is the story of the city, and its inhabitant is you.
>There's no two ways about it, China's bubble is about to burst.

Honestly, I have been reading about this for the last 5-6 years. Trust me, I have read about the empty cities, malls, streets and office building. I have read about construction for the sake of construction, poor quality of construction. The civil unrest that is about to happen for the last 10 years.

While I am no economics guru, but my limited observation and understanding tells me that nothing is about to go nuclear in China. China is sitting on a huge pile of cash and its diversifying and expanding its business interest all over the place. Not only poor and third world countries, chinese companies are also investing on developed nations and buying up or merging with local companies (though they are facing some restriction on that). Companies are no longer moving their factories to China because of cheap production cost, they are moving their also because of rising local demand.

I think China has a lot of problem (just like any other country), but I feel that it often over inflated.

Personally I am in support of a powerful China (economically and militarily) to counteract the current monopoly. Ideally I would prefer 3-4 equally powerful nation competing for dominance, but I will take 2 for now.

Human rights and living condition will only improve with time. The present China is much better in these regards (but not enough) than how things were 10 years ago. I think things will get even better 10 years from now. Big changes takes time and China have come a long way in a very short period of time (relatively speaking).
That's what I figured, probably include the GPA and have transcripts ready. The advisers at the University seem so adamant about sending out my transcripts whenever I can. I am attempting to get all projects that I haven't lost over the years together and online. I am hoping to have a very short formal resume which points online for example projects and a less formal description of my interests, studies, etc.
Some excellent points here. The inflexibility of the auth page and the anti-"magic" stuff really hit home.
So have we identified all of the intelligence tools helpfully listed in his profile? I wonder what WEBCANDID means.
As long as it's called Tristero, and the mail transfer boxes are cleverly labeled 'W.A.S.T.E.', I'm all for it.
And that the actual slide "collection directly from the servers" came from supports Google's version https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5887627 .
Why are we only hearing about this now? From the House Judiciary Committee meeting on THURSDAY where Nadler questions FBI Director Mueller:

NADLER: You wanted to listen to the phone?

MUELLER: Then you have to get a special — a particularized order from...

NADLER: Particularized...

MUELLER: ... the FISA court directed at that particular phone of that particular individual.

NADLER: Now is the answer you just gave me classified...

MUELLER: Is what?

NADLER: The answer you just gave me classified in any way?

MUELLER: I don't think so.

NADLER: OK, then I can ask the — then I can say the following: We heard precisely the opposite at the briefing the other day. We heard precisely that you could get the specific information from that telephone simply based on an analyst deciding that, and you didn't need a new warrant. In other words, what you just said is incorrect. So there's a conflict...

MUELLER: I'm not certain that it's the same answer to the same question. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to...

NADLER: Well, I asked the question both times, and I think it's the same question. So maybe you'd better go back and check, because someone was incorrect.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4456141
Does discovering the mechanism through which diabetes is caused in animals directly correlate to the process that causes diabetes in humans? I would assume it is a good indicator given the number of studies that use animals, but can they really claim they have definitely identified the root cause?
There's lots of evidence there's way deeper unrevealed stuff: hints from earlier NSA-careerist whistleblowers and Snowden. ~40 more slides in the PRISM deck that Greenwald has seen. Possibly thousands more documents Snowden has provided to Greenwald and perhaps other journalists. Representative Sanchez (D-CA) describing what's public so far as "the tip of the iceberg". Representative Nadler (D-NY) essentially acknowledging warrantless domestic wiretaps, at analyst discretion, in apparent contradiction to sworn testimony of General Alexander a few days ago, and President Obama's comments a week ago.

So while of course, we can't assume every covert acquisition method darkly imaginable is happening, it would also be foolish to assume that exactly what has been clearly documented so far is the full story.

Why the trouble of extra legal orders and a paper trail if the NSA already had deeper covert access? Well, the government isn't efficient and different levels can't always work together. For example, why did the DoJ use more normal procedures to get AP phone records, when the NSA already had all that data? Also, when you have a treasure trove of info obtained in illegal ways, or in ways you don't want to admit, and you want to act in ways revealing that you have that info, you can try to get it again in a second, redundant way: one that you can explain, and maybe legally rationalize.

And when nobody inside or outside your organization has the whole picture, the fact that there's some legal process for getting some info from, for example, Google, might serve as plausible cover deflecting questions about how exactly so much more info winds up in the system.

In fact, that's one possible mechanism for the PRISM slides' author thinking that the access to Google et al is so much more powerful and 'direct' than the companies' own measured response process can explain. They're each blind men feeling different parts of the elephant.
This is true, although the MP availability is even less ensured than that of the new games. MP servers are routinely taken down on all platforms. And for the same reason the Other OS had been taken down - not enough people used it to justify the maintenance cost.
As I've worked for 15+ years in various consulting firms, I have a CV in 2 sections. A brief one with a simple outline of personal information, formal education and a 1-line summary of positions held, then a much more verbose section detailing the projects I've worked on. The first section is maybe 1.5 pages these days. The second section is easily 7 or 8 pages and is not always sent, only when a customer asks for more detailed information.

In your case, I would suggest to emphasise your programming projects. See it as some kind of portfolio.
Nobody will be reading the transcripts so don't include them. Include your GPA score if you think the rest of the CV is not entirely convincing. These are the kind of indicators that people will look at for people that are straight out of school and are not expected to have a lot of practical experience.

When I'm on the other side of the table and reviewing a CV for (junior) positions I'm basically looking for a few indicators:
1. The person has the ability to think at a certain level that is right for the job
2. They have some relevant experience or have shown an interest in the topic
3. I'm not starting from zero with this person.
4. Can they pick up new skills reasonably quickly and are they willing to do so

Good luck with the job hunt !
Sounds doable! Created https://github.com/tmcw/simple-statistics/issues/33 - I'll implement tomorrow.
It's annoying when the specialized versions release before the IDEA plugins are tested and released. Reading about the cool new features and not being able to find them in IDEA sucks. :-)
You seem to extrapolate something from his words and then make a judgement. Can you give an example of one "shallow" thing that shouldn't be replaced by "being intellectual" and makes peers "wise in ways"?
His profile looks a lot like he copied/pasted his OPR/EPR (performance report) bullets. The big thing to remember here is that OPR/EPR bullets have to make even small things sound like big things so everything is punched up to make it look good. This is what happens when promotions in a bureaucracy are decided by a few pieces of paper in a file. He's not really a super spy- probably just a regular dude doing his job.
With their records, if they didn't make it, they should at least know who did (who posted the paper, who was mining during the early days, etc...).
Yeah, but that's not the claim that the post you responded to was about. If you want to talk about that, respond to someone who is debating you about that.

Just because you have a drum you want to beat doesn't make it sensible to keep beating it when its not relevant.
Ping me when it's broken
Citation? (preferably showing how widespread they are as well).

(While I agree with your point, alarm bells go off when I read lists of 'events' with no references)
I suggest you read this essay from pg [1]. Getting a link to HN front page is very similar to most things in life. Luck plays a big role. I recommend that essay and urge you to realize, your (and my) inputs to HN are like that 20th best player for the 20 person team.

It is not important for HN to pick up (reward) every great link posted; it is only important that all links that make front page are quality.

1: http://www.paulgraham.com/judgement.html
CSIS isn't really like the CIA at all. It's a civilian agency responsible for intelligence gathering and sharing that information with the RCMP to make arrests. Their officers do not carry weapons (only police and RCMP have that right) and their oversight is done by the SIRC (Security Intelligence Review Committee). This model is quite different from the CIA. So while it may sound cool to compare them to the CIA, they're not like them at all.
Category theory for JavaScript programmers
The documentation for the classifier says:

"Create a bayesian classifier."

I think it should say

"Create a naive bayes classifier."

A "bayesian" classifier is a class of classifiers, not a particular algorithm. Naive bayes isn't (in most implementations) Bayesian! Finally you should specify what smoothing, if any, you use.

Hope that helps!
Most of Founding Fathers were also slave owners. Could we stop bringing people of the past with their dubious morale into the modern times when we all are more educated? Otherwise, we could equally use What Would Jesus Do principle.

http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1269536/The-Fou...
I think the correct terminology here is "anti-fragile" inlight of Nasim Talib's new book.

Fragile = something that can't withstand randomness

Robust = something that can withstand randomness to a point

Anti-fragile = something which gets better when exposed to randomness

OP's plan here demonstrates anti-fragility, not just robustness. Overall great article about how to crowdsource pool of knowledge and turning it in to a business.
There is a skeptoid episode[0] from 2011 that overviews the different types and some of the science behind it. And, it even mentions the difference between a voting system and a ranking system.

[0] http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4281
Having worked at a startup aimed at providing efficient diabetes management, it's exciting to see research that might instead lead to a cure. I also sincerely hope this research leads to such developments.
You only need a small percentage of your companies to succeed, and even then, you only need them to succeed within the constraints of delivering a great exit, not actually standing alone as a viable, well-managed company.

The other N% of your mini-startups can fall on their face, and you're still doing fine.

This is not evidence for anything other than what works best for you; throwing kids in the deep end and having enough of them survive that you can ignore N% that drown.

Your position is not great advice for the majority that will drown.
Virtual Hunger in Los Angeles
I like it, it does exactly the kind of "thinking" my brain doesn't want to.
> I'm not seeing how we get from there to the contents of email. To have the email of arbitrary Americans without a warrant, the NSA would need direct access to the servers that run Google Mail.

Couldn't the NSA sniff packets the major internet hubs like MAE-West and MAE-East? I assume most email is sent as cleartext after it leaves Google's servers. Even if intermediate hops were encrypted, the NSA could easily man-in-the-middle any servers they wanted. I'm sure CAs like VeriSign would be happy to do their patriotic duty issuing forged certificates.
The Burj received some pretty unflattering coverage a year or two ago for their "poop trucks", which were necessary for moving however many tons of feces 30,000+ people produce per day. However in many cases the building "cheats", i.e. the floor area shrinks rapidly the higher you go up and so the strain is better distributed throughout the system. I say cheat only because it's much more challenging to manage a uniform (or close to it) floor area from base to top such as the old WTC. The GE Building at 30 Rock is a good example of a building that used the building code (NYC setbacks, a good topic in itself if you're interested) to its advantage in planning the elevators and ventilation. It was mentioned in another comment above I think but in reality the economics are a much more controlling factor than hard engineering, and most of the engineering problems are about doing X for $YYY rather than XYZ for glory and innovation.

Edit: This link might be of interest... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-02/double-deck-elevato...
Dammit. Matt. Not Scott. Sorry.
Given the financial resources of CSEC, DND, and Canada vs. the NSA, I very much doubt we are so "surveillance crazy" as you may suggest. While I agree that we definitely should be worried about the potential for abuse by CSEC and the potential lack of oversight by the Canadian government, I'm personally more worried about the fact that the Americans have access to our data and that we, as Canadians, have no right to privacy to our own data as non-Americans.

For instance, if you look at www.ixmaps.ca, you can see that traceroutes of URLs destined for Canadian addresses from within Canada are still routed through the United States. Which potentially means that our own traffic is being monitored by the NSA since they are routed and bounced through the US before returning back into the country. I find this notion rather appalling that visiting a Canadian government website would require a request to an American server instead of going directly to the Canadian destination.

This level of intrusion into the Canadian system is more shocking and should be looked as opposed to trying to think our own government system is somehow a parallel of what the Americans are doing.

TLDR; I'm more worried about Americans (i.e. the NSA) invading our privacy where we have no rights, as opposed to a Canadian agency violating them when we have courts to fight for our rights. Yes, it would be horrible if the government/justice system was in bed with CSEC, but if the Americans are ultimately in control of our system, I'm very much more afraid of that than our own government.
I don't follow your "of course, false". Maybe Snowden really could obtain wiretaps of federal judges and the President, either because he was given the discretionary permission to do so in the course of an investigation, or they were available to him with a little trivial privilege-escalation.

Alexander might have meant Snowden wasn't supposed to have that capability. Or that Snowden had it but wasn't supposed to use it that way, so he "couldn't" do it under the law (but could in practice).

It's hard to say; the testimony has often used obfuscatory weasel words and conveniently shifting definitions, and the avuncular grandparents in the Senate aren't exactly vigorous in their cross-examination.
I don't really disagree with the principle, but it seems to more or less be a statement of the idea of "whistleblowing". Snowden is a high-profile current example of a whistleblower, but it might be going a bit too far to credit him with the principle itself!

An example (in a different domain) of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy
This makes no sense. Who's more capable of keeping a solution for this developed, tested, and up-to-date, the core developers of the database or a third party that's probably hoping to achieve something other than a migration tool?

It's worth noting that it's not like rewriting the whole table is a solution to this that's unique to SQLite. MySQL's two main table types also do this in order to alter a table in certain (very common) ways. But they don't make you do it yourself, because it's deceptively difficult to do it right.
Returning to Free Software: A Guide
Assuming that the weights of the lift car and the passenger load
remain about the same, moving the motor to the car saves the weight
of the cable, but adds the motor, power contacts, and whatever
traction device (cog?) moves the car.

edit: completely overlooked counter-weight balance, see:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5887522

Adding regenerative braking adds some form of energy storage -
batteries, flywheel, compressed air, or whatever. A flywheel might
be lighter than batteries, but torque I/O might affect passenger comfort.

It would be interesting to see how CF holds up over time. ISTR that
Kevlar rope is very strong, but turned out to have unexpected issues
with repeated jerky load/unload cycles. Presumably the CF elevator
cable would have adequate testing before commercial use.
This reminds me of a book back from the nineties called "Faster" by James Gleick. There was a chapter on lifts being the limit to building height, although I seem to recall it was more down to shaft space rather than cable strength.