skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great book RTCs is Ben Goldacre's Bad Science (http://www.badscience.net/)

He points out that some of the first clinical trials recorded were in the bible. I couldn't find his quote, but I found an NEJM piece that references the same thing, although I think its in a nutrition debate.

"The first published report of a clinical trial has biblical origins. In the Book of Daniel,5 reference is made to the unwillingness of the Israelite Daniel to accept the diet offered by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar. The king's official had put a steward in charge of Daniel and his three friends (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego):"

"Daniel said to the steward . . . “Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king's rich food be observed by you, and according to what you see deal with your servants.” So he hearkened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days. At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's rich food. So the steward took away their rich food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables."

(http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200301023480120)
> If we accept that there's such a thing as feminism, it would make sense that it would have a current status quo.

This doesn't make sense. Most movements that are composed of many different groups with different interests never reach a status quo. Mass movements are rare and usually are not as mass as they are made out to be. Acting like feminism is a monolith and that all feminists act or think a certain way is one of the most common stereotype out there.
Institutions do not form spontaneously, and the "systems" you refer to were also created by humans. The notion that men created systems and institutions which oppress women, but it is totally not a conspiracy because they did it by accident is not well represented in feminist academia.

>totally provable has statistical and philosophical evidence that shows it exists.

Except that alternative explanations are dismissed. If the "evidence" supports many possible conclusions, then it is not proof of a single specific conclusion like "patriarchy".
While you may be right about VTVL not being new, this is disingenuous at best:

> Hell, the Apollo Lunar Module technically landed and took off afterwards, as well!

It landed and launched in a relatively airless (windless) environment at 1/6th Earth's gravity ... and when it launched it left half of itself behind!

"Technically" indeed.
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Seriously your analogy is absurd. JS has a few rough edges that any decent editor will warn you about and that you automatically know to avoid after doing a lot of it for even a couple months.

This complaining that JS is unusable is just BS and whining by people who are simply shying away from something they don't know.

There are bigger things that can bite even experienced developers like memory leaks and bloat but that has little to do with JS since you can fall into those pitfalls in any language.

I'm not attached to JS and have pretty much switched to CoffeeScript. I like CS better but that doesn't mean JS is anywhere near as bad as you make it out to be.
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A friend of mine set their Dad up on Spotify instead of listening to music through YouTube.

She said to him that he could listen to anything he wanted using Spotify. The first thing he searched for was The Beatles, one of a number of popular groups that aren't on Spotify, and probably will never be.

I had a similar issue when looking for Jimmy Eat World's cover of Take 'Em As They Come, by Bruce Springsteen. It was released as a bonus track for those that bought their album through iTunes. However, that album is no longer on iTunes, and the track itself cannot be bought anywhere else. My only choice was to find an mp3.

It's these gaps that bring people back to piracy. Anything that someone cannot find on Spotify will be torrented or ripped from elsewhere.
How is this different from http://rescuetime.com (other than only tracking the text editor)?
For the US, IRS publications 515 and 519 clarify all that stuff. The IRS wants to tax "US Source Income", there are various criteria that define it.

Are we back to talking about sales or other revenue-based tax here? The major dispute we were originally talking about in this HN discussion was to do with where profits are declared and corporation tax or the equivalent is paid; I only mentioned the sales/VAT angle as an example of how easily tax rules can get complicated when you have to decide where some intangible thing happened.
Editable (label) on click for Twitter Bootstrap
Example of how to make labels editable when click on. Clicking out of edit box or pressing enter will change back to label with new value.
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It works well. It takes advantage of Portable Class Libraries (PCLs) in .NET which can target just about any platform including Xbox's.

Basically all your UI logic sits within these PCLs. And the only stuff you have to write/design for each platform is the actual screen layouts. Then you just setup the data bindings back to your models.

It's a shame this is news to people on here. It seems like the real innovation that goes on in .NET and Mono land is largely ignored or just swept under the carpet by the hipster community.

The larger executables is because it has to embed the Mono VM, and some base class libraries. I've not really looked into performance versus Davlik; probably because I've not yet encountered any show-stopping performance issues.
Disassemblers produce assembly code, not the HLL code, so they are many orders of magnitude easier to write from the scratch than modern compilers. They typically expect human involvement as soon as there's non-trivial assembly-level engineered self-modifying code. Hopefully there's no much of such code in the results of the compilers we use.

Also if you check the whole discussion you'll see I already discussed Ken's work.
I honestly don't know, but I don't think that's a very good excuse.

I don't think I'd ever risk stealing documents that could genuinely bring harm to America.

I hope for everyone's sake that this is either a bluff or a misquote.
> There's a lot of things in that blogpost that would make most linguists facepalm (especially the part about Sanskrit being "more expressive" and "more systematic"). The idea that Sanskrit is an ancestor language for other languages (far away from the Indo-Aryan group) goes quite hand in hand with these ridiculous notions.

There is a reason I have not addressed the other points you raised.

> It's quite common for Indians, and even Indian linguists to spread ridiculous ideas about Sanskrit, including it being "perfect", "better than other languages", "holy", and quite commonly "all other languages descending from it" as well as the claim of Sanskrit being "the first language".

You'll have to back up those claims. Southern Indians (> 25% of Indian population) would have a HUGE problem with anyone saying that. Just because a few quacks are saying it does not mean many Indian believe it.
I've often thought touchscreen devices would be complemented well by a set of arrow keys. (On a desktop, you can flip through the slides with the left and right arrow keys.)
This seems like splitting hairs. There is wage disparity between men and women in general and there are reasons for that difference. Ultimately those reasons need to be discussed and addressed as it doesn't serve society to have so many of its members pigeonholed into low wage work (this extends beyond gender, of course)
"other than only tracking the text editor" is the key part there.

It's interested in the files and projects you're working in, I think, so it's a bit more specific to programming.
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Good question. WakaTi.me knows what project your working under while rescuetime.com only knows that your inside your text editor.
But that is just an assumption, and a rather bold one at that. If there were evidence that there is a prevailing assumption that women are 18% less capable then you would have a point. But just making a baseless assertion like that doesn't work.
Isn't it wonderful how easy it is to ignore that college education is biased towards women and women's needs

What do you mean by that? (honestly curious)
This was pretty common behaviour in Rome.
It's rare that the creative types end up being billionaires. Note that even Steve Jobs was kicked out of his own company, and then later only barely squeaked into the CEO slot, and only because the company was about dead anyway. He'd never have gotten the job if Skulley hadn't screwed things up quite so bad.
I believe the interpretation is wrong here.

The hard data:

Employee Wages
F M
Has firstborn sons: +0.8% -0.5%
Has firstborn daughters: +1.1% +0.6%

The story here is that when men have children, in general, female employees wages go up, by pretty much the same amount. However, when the firstborn is a boy, they are harder on men, and a little more respectful of women.

I'd personally interpret this as men becoming more respectful of women when they witness their wives undergoing childbirth. However, the more drastic effect of child gender can be seen on male employee wages. I suppose the CEO might be channeling frustration in child-rearing a boy on his male employees.
As a member of LFGSS and HN, yes!
I don't know if I should laugh or cry: I had to temporarily disable NoScript for both slideshare.net and slidesharecdn.net to read these slides.
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How to secure an Ubuntu
Looking at the spectacular flop of the Fisker, packaging is far too often understated. Most people don't understand how complicated automotive systems are and how difficult it is to integrate them all together without numerous bugs and annoyances. Most big name automakers use off the shelf systems from third parties. Tesla did not.

Tesla won the highest score ever achieved from Consumer Reports while Fisker perished with a similar formula. That isn't simply luck.
This study was just Denmark, no?

It would be interesting to see if the data holds elsewhere.
I can't find a reference right now, but didn't Warren Buffet do this when he was starting out? I could be wrong, but i feel like he realized that women could be hired at a much lower salary way back when they were be blatantly discriminated against.
Not at all. We have constant, deliberate deception being used to influence policy and law. People overwhelmingly believe the lie that women get paid less for the same work, that would be a wage gap. Policy decisions are made based on that lie. Politicians now repeat that lie. This is a problem, and needs to be addressed. Pointing out the reality is how I am doing my part to try to address this problem. It is not splitting hairs.
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You speak very confidently about a language you already admitted you refuse to use. And your heuristic of "the more abusable a language is, the more defective it is" is completely nonsensical.
The article does mention "selective laser melting manufacturing technology".
Really, because they have a better way?

Either they are just dumb and designed Dual_EC_DRBG by accident, or they design systems like that for a purpose. Your assessment of what they need is an assertion, based on what exactly? Security is designed not around what one thinks an attacker needs, or why they would want do do something. It's about preventing an attacker from getting access to things a person wishes to keep secure regardless of why they would want to. In that light weaknesses in random number generators is a relevant field of inquiry. Otherwise simply ignore cryptography altogether, trow up your ands and say why bother.
NES game development is alive and well over at http://www.nesdev.com/
"That sounds like an easy class to test out of."

I would support that idea for quite a lot of the curriculum.
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ViaCycle (YC S12) ditches GMU as customer due to "transition process"
It seems it was too good to last. viaCycle, which wanted to do to the bicycle what zipcar did with automobiles, has seemingly and without notice, dropped George Mason University as a customer. Not sure what their reasons are, since I can't find any notice on viaCycle's site, but seeing as GMU was their second customer and it was becoming more and more popular here at GMU, I'm not sure what happened to cause them to do this.

Here is the text from the email sent by GMU to viaCycle users at the campus:

"Hello Patriot Bikeshare User,

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Patriot Bikeshare will be postponing operations until further notice. It was a great first year for the program, but unfortunately the operator of the program, viaCycle, is going through a transition process and will not be able to serve us any longer. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes. We are working towards providing you with the ability to rent out the bikes on campus for no cost and finding another comparable operator to take over the program in 2014.

Although this is a blow to a program that was rapidly growing at Mason, we’re sure that when it returns, it will be better than ever. With over 800 rides and almost 200 different users, we can see that the Mason community values this program and we intend on continuing it as soon as possible. In the meantime, expect an update on a potential bike rental program and please continue to use sustainable transportation.

Please contact us with any questions. Thank you for participating in the program and for making Mason greener.

The Patriot Bikeshare Team."
I think we might have some bad UX here, you can actually propose multiple times in the wizard (as a creator). We allow other people to propose a time in case none of the original times work for them. We just deployed some stuff that will hopefully make this more clear.
Is 'athlete' really the appropriate term? 'Pro' yes. A pro LoL player is probably less athletic than pro pool player.
Pretty illustrations, but the pages are too wide even in fullscreen mode on Firefox 22.0 on 1920x1080. There are ugly scrollbars.
Did you read the Good Parts? If so, read it again.
If I had time to get something up and running where the html could be rendered on both client and server using the same code base in the early stages of a project then I would.

It all depends on the project of course but currently here is the order in which I tend to do things:

1 Write an api

2 Write web/mobile apps to consume it

3 Optimize by pre-rendering the html when needed if the project becomes popular enough or if it really needs to be crawled.
Also, what's 4 x zero
Thanks for the feedback, we definitely want to make calendar integration a feature.
I have to respect Thom Yorke's decision. These services only have their own profit in mind and do not come even close to fairly compensating artists. Thom's work is pretty niche to begin with and he probably doesn't see more than a few hundred dollars a month from streaming. For the number of plays he gets, this is probably not worth his time. Plus, hipsters love it when their bands turn down mainstream services. Makes them edgy and exclusive. This is a good business move for them
Sigh. Is it really hard to try to see the point, instead of just arguing from the default position? This makes for a really boring discussion forum...

Let's try again. The argument here is, basically: if it's true that men and women are interchangeable as resources of labor, then the wage gap can be seen as an opportunity for arbitrage. Any capitalist would just hire women (because the information the market has is based on the assumption that a woman can provide the same work as a man for a lesser cost), market forces would bring women's pay up, the wage gap would diminish until we reached an equilibrium.

The argument is far from perfect (it ignores social and cultural aspects), but it is pretty reasonable as a way to see that if there is a difference in pay, there is a difference in aggregate output. What are the causes of this difference in output is subject to another topic, one I can't say I have an explanation or consolidated opinion.

About the ethics of it: there is nothing unethical about choosing who to hire based on cost, if the quality of the final product is the same (and if the contracted parties are not doing anything unethical themselves). Let's remove the sex factor out of the equation... if a woman living in NY asks for $100k for some work, and another woman with "comparable education and experience" living in Poland asks for $30k, is it unethical to hire the Polish one?
Things like this are what happen when you get someone who knows how to make things happen, but also has the intelligence training and experience of a senior engineer.
There's no room for doubt, really. It does suggest that. It does not prove, so you can certainly doubt the conclusion, of course.

There really doesn't seem to be any alternative besides these three:

- Women are not underpaid or more efficient.

- There is not a noticeable number of unethical people seeking to get rich.

- People are getting rich by hiring lots of women and outcompeting everybody else who prefers men.

The last two don't look true to me, which suggests that the first one is true. I certainly could be wrong about the assumptions or conclusion, but it does suggest that.
It doesn't matter if it's technically possible, because the legal framework can still punish you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
The FBI still uses the polygraph? I would hope the FBI would be looking for the kind of people that know a polygraph is near worthless.
is this the company you are referring to?
http://www.et3.com/
As the article notes, this is a pretty standard immigration classification for people who travel to participate in competitive tournaments; chess players are classified similarly. It's not really about the U.S. immigration service "validating" anything as a cultural category, just classifying what kind of business travel the people in question are engaged in, from the perspective of immigration law.
I don't think it is wise to trust any system, open or not, so I agree with your thesis.

However, the fact that Linux source is available for review does make it more secure on a relative basis. Sure, it is naive to think a zero day couldn't be buried in there, but at least there is the opportunity for review. With a closed-source OS, we don't even have the luxury of a false sense of security.

Not to get all tin foily, but I'd be more concerned about hardware exploits if you're thinking in terms of "man on the moon" resources... where are all those chips made again?
Modern western feminism certainly has widely accepted dogma, but there are exist bitter battles between competing factions.

That being said, the largest factions don't exactly cover all sides of an issue, to put it mildly, so the existence of factions doesn't make anything better.

For example, the argument over transsexuals (mentioned by @rmc) has two main factions within modern western feminism:

1. "Transsexual women aren't real women; they're just men who are co-opting the brutal oppression real western women face, drowning out real women's voices."

2. "If you feel that you are a woman, then you are a woman. You do not need to present yourself as a woman, you do not need to be a woman every day, and you do not need to chose between being a man and being a woman at any given moment—you can be both. Anyone who questions your womanhood is a misogynist, because they are oppressively forcing their definition of womanhood onto a woman."
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It's actually pretty common for top execs with companies that do lots of government business to have clearances, even if they don't touch the programs or projects directly. Any kind of managed infrastructure or PaaS deployed on a private basis for a government customer could fall into this category.
The problem is that if the performance gap is imaginary while the pay gap is real, then someone could take advantage of the situation for enormous profit. If other employers falsely believe that some much more expensive hammers will be better at driving nails, that's great news for anyone who recognizes that the cheap hammers perform just as well--when 99% of my competitors are wildly deluded, there is the potential for profit.

Thus, we have two possibilities: either nobody in the world is both aware of the potential for arbitrage and unethical enough to exploit the situation, or the wage gap is smaller than these estimates suggest.
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Stimson got over it pretty quickly.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/06/10/building-am...
At the same time, Germany's interior minister Friedrich visited the US allegedly to complain or inquire about the NSA spying, but in reality he discussed broader cooperation around PRISM and possibly more extensive access for the BND (in German: http://www.golem.de/news/bundesinnenminister-beim-us-besuch-...).
You mean like Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Ahyan:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2016841/Al-Futaysi-i...
> Institutions do not form spontaneously, and the "systems" you refer to were also created by humans. The notion that men created systems and institutions which oppress women, but it is totally not a conspiracy because they did it by accident is not well represented in feminist academia.

It seems like you are saying that is there is indeed a real conspiracy of institutions created and/or controlled by men, in which case I totally agree. We have well documented cases, historically and in the present, of institutions and systems that are dominated by men.

> Except that alternative explanations are dismissed. If the "evidence" supports many possible conclusions, then it is not proof of a single specific conclusion like "patriarchy".

I've yet to see convincing alternative explanations. All of the evidence points to existence of patriarchy as a social institution.
I love that you just made up all the details to his idea, and then discredited it... and then said you know a better way, but assumed no one would listen.
CodaFS was also an interesting effort. But it was too difficult to get working.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coda_(file_system)
I don't know whether to upvote this or not. On one hand I want tougher data protection laws, on the other hand I'm pretty sure Merkel is just "pretending" to want this to win the election (much like Obama did).
I think the blog post missed the most important point of the NYT piece: Too often, he says, trials are against “a straw-man comparator” like a placebo rather than a competing drug. So the studies don’t really help us understand which treatments for a disease work best.

The standard is usually a placebo. This is done when you are not even sure the drug will have an effect.

The standard should be a competing drugs, otherwise you have no measure of whether the drug under trial is better than current drugs.

The financial incentives are not present for any of the parties (including the regulators) to use the higher bar.
There are certainly less round-about ways of doing that than getting HN excited by dropping vague hints about a future project every few months.
Just some somewhat-constructive feedback: It's always a pet peeve of mine to see the default bootstrap theme on new web apps. It doesn't take a lot of effort to customize it and doing so goes a long way to provide a sense of authority about your application.

I know it doesn't seem like that big of a deal (and for all I know, I could be alone with this sentiment) but it makes a world of difference for me.

That being said -- this looks awesome and I look forward to getting some consulting work to try it out.
PouchDB is part of the Sync Gateway test suite. So it should "just work"