skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I initially thought he was partially justified in claiming the number with the 'mild-to-medium patients' qualification if there was a real benefit in the drug that the study had not been designed to detect. Except that a follow up study focusing on the mild-to-medium subgroup failed to show statistically significant benefits.
Oh please. Designers are not makers. Vast majority of developers I know use Linux.
Your profile made me laugh; thanks.
According to this Shumway was based on Gordon. http://www.geek.com/news/mozillas-shumway-project-replaces-f...

And you remember who Gordon Shumway is right? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALF_(TV_series) )
That's a reasonable defense of std::shared_ptr, but I was not discussing C++ code (I was careful to mention "allocation heavy languages" in my post).
We're finally protected from the evils of cheap pills and acid, anonymously purchased over the internet and delivered to our doors... HANG ON A SECOND!!
> As weird as it sound some people might actually not like OSX.

Oh yes. I wouldn't take a job if they offer Apple only choices.
Did Cue every receive any buyout / exit options?
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But Flash DRM is, like all DRM in the face of a hostile end-user, ineffective. Nobody has any problems using the plethora of tools that strip DRM from Flash video, right?
Your post comes across (to me) as self-serving and somewhat socially awkward. The "PS" and "PPS", in particular, are quite crass and not the way to promote a company. You seem like someone who meets me at a keg party and jumps right into a pitch as soon as I tell you my name.

No offense; I just prefer HN comments to be less blatantly promotional.
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Basically, by spending so much time doing work for peanuts to make ends meet or as a primary source of income, they become reliant on that income and will not find opportunities elsewhere. The argument is that mTurk perpetuates and thrives on cheap labour.

The solution is obvious, make the decision for them and deprive them of that source of income or legislate minimum wage rates... This in my opinion would be very shortsighted and harmful.
> Again, the Fellowship is not an accelerator, so judging it based off successful exits is a terrible criteria.

I understand that it isn't solely for startups, but the Wikipedia article mentions that as one of the types of work Thiel Fellows pursue (along with "scientific research" and "working on a social movement"). And since we're on Hacker News, which caters to the entrepreneurial crowd, it made sense to ask whether there were any successful startups or exits from the program. If we were on a site for scientific research or social movements, I would have asked for more details on any successes in those areas.
In his defense, that was actually the government's idea in a way. The documents in the wired article ordered him to physically bring the keys to the court, and only if he was unable to, he could provide it as an electronic copy. He gave them something as stupid as what they asked for.
Their initial product was impressive and useful. Hope we get more information about what went wrong, and that the team lands somewhere good.
> There is no evidence that this person who was allegedly killed ever existed in the first place.

Conspiracy to commit murder doesn't require an actual murder to be committed, so, no, this isn't really all that relevant to the charge.
Yup, fruit of a poisonous tree can be worked around if the DA wants busts enough.
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Are you sure? I think the complaint mentioned the code on the Silk Road server exactly matching code in the question.
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What is likely, although we cannot of course know for sure, is that the doctor looked at more than disease severity (the "existing clinical trait") as a separate classifier, hunting for subgroups for which the p-value indicated a promising trend.

The principle behind the proscription against multiple comparisons is well-known to statisticians. If we consider a 1 chance in 20 result to be statistically significant, then, randomly, on average 20 "trials" will yield one statistically significant result.

By dividing the patients into disease severity subgroups, Dr. Harkonen increased the number of "trials" from 1 to 4, thereby elevating the likelihood of yielding an effect that appeared to be statistically significant. If he also examined other subgroups in his quest to find a positive result, then he elevated the likelihood of finding a positive result toward certainty.

Our desire to find patterns and see cause and effect make us prone to confirmation bias. We can guard against this bias with care, including the use of statistics. It was not a surprise that a subsequent study looking only at the "mild-to-moderate" group did not demonstrate any benefit of the treatment. The belief that the treatment would benefit "mild-to-moderate" patients was speciously derived.
I know you're just trying to promote your company, but it feels a little like handing out business cards at a funeral. Sure, you can do it, but it seems little tacky. This post is still in the mourning phase. It will probably move on to the post-mortem, what is a replacement for it phase tomorrow or Friday.
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One of the pieces of code that has a more general purpose:

https://github.com/google/lmctfy/blob/master/util/task/codes...

One thing I really like about working with Google software is that you can count on the same namespace of error codes being used pretty much everywhere. Generally speaking, the software I write and work with can't differentiate between errors finer than these. The machine readable errors are the ones you can respond to differently, and you put detailed messages in the status message. This is how it should be, according to this semi-humble engineer!
Participating in a drug deal to convict someone of the crime is certainly one example of them breaking the law. IMHO, they should only be allowed to arrest someone in a drug deal between two bona-fide drug dealers. Participating as one of the two parties in a transaction should be illegal.
Sorry! Wasn't trying to say it wasn't a good question, just wanted to stress a point which isn't always clear.
Maybe they got an NSL - sudden shutdown, all data deleted...
My initial comment was in no way intended to to imply that "a military dictatorship is better than a democracy." That was a construct of your imagination.
Many of those whom I referred to as being in uniform are civilians, such as police officers, and I hope that any subsequent government imposed by such action would be a Constitutional Republic in nature since I favor the precepts set forth by the aforementioned Constitution.

As for your failed interpretations of my intent and arguing such points, by your continued comments on this matter you are displaying your own willingness to argue this point.
I'd be very interested in learning why Cue is calling it quits -- I really loved the concept behind their service. Has anyone managed to find their contact information?
How did you inherit that much money?

I hope nobody died, but in that case you have my heartfelt sympathy! Do not think about the money now. Stay with your family and ignore that you have a little more cash in your bank account for a while. Take care!

I agree with @mattgerboth, but I'd invest things first in order to raise the health and living quality of myself and my family to normal (no luxury).

This part is up to you, but I'd save 40-50% in order to buy the stuff required that you need after you've bought that 0.5-1mm$ company for half of it's price (everything is possible with hard work, don't just accept the first offer blindly). When you know that the company is making profit, just help the company manage itself, because too much management is what usually makes things worse. You could also hire somebody who is knowledgeable in that area unlike those SAP Business Analytics bullshitters...

Regarding family. You've not told anything about it or yourself. Don't you care to let us know about it, or do you want to remain as incognito as possible?
FriendlyChemist was a vendor who somehow had a falling out, and decided to try and extort DPR who probably yanked his account. He said he would release all the information he kept on people he shipped drugs to, for the sole purpose of creating instability and FUD in the market by dropping identities all over the forums.

What DPR should have done is had his team of admins hellban the guy everytime he tried to spam the forums with names so he could waste his time however DPR never seemed to give a shit about the forum even though it was his brand being represented there.

This is why Max Vision spied on all his buyers/users because if they ever tried to extort him in the same manner he would promptly reveal that he's been inside their systems for months and knew exactly who they were.
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I can't reply to Chris' comment for some reason, so posting the reply here:

I'm sorry that I came across as crass and socially awkward - I hope I can prove to you that I'm not so bad in person one day.

The PS and PPS are edits because I got excited about what this meant for us and realized I was being too self promotional esp. to people that knew nothing about us, so thought I'd give some background and clarify my feelings.

PS. No offence taken :)
Well, SequelPro at least started adding support for Postgres[0], but it's hard to tell how far along it is. Most of the commits in that tree seem to be from last September, with a smattering from January and May of this year.

[0]: https://code.google.com/p/sequel-pro/source/browse/#svn%2Ftr...
So it did come across as dancing one Greplin's grave - thank you for clarifying that.

I'm sorry. Next time I'll refrain from posting comments when I've only had two hours of sleep the night before.
Because they are legally obligated to 'show their hand' when the defendant's legal representative asks for it?
Agree, would love to see a post-mortem blog post. I would also be interesting in finding out what they will do with the technology they created, it would be great if they open sourced it!
Quite a few:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Community_Guide_to_PostgreSQ...

http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/index.php?/archives/13...

Navicat is a good one if you don't mind paying $80-$250 for the personal version. http://www.navicat.com/
> useful values for the container spec

Are you referring to the container spec in the proto file? https://github.com/google/lmctfy/blob/master/include/lmctfy.... Which attributes are you having trouble setting a useful value for?
They shouldn't be allowed to go harder. It should have ended with contempt of court. Coming at him asking him for the SSL keys protecting 400,000 people should be illegal. Under what grounds can they arbitrarily increase the scope several order of magnitude with the intent to intimidate? It should have ended with fines, which eventually lead him to shut down the business because it was no longer possible. Fines are a cost of doing business that previously had not factored in. Trying to force his hand by compromising the entire service when none of the other 399,000 other people had anything to do with the crime of 1 is wrong and shouldn't even be an option on the table.

Furthermore, contempt of court should come with the ability to renounce your citizenship and be deported as a political refugee. In fact, that should be the punishment if fines don't work, not jail. Contempt of court is simply a statement that "Previously I lived in this country and supported its laws, but I've committed no crime and am now asked to support some aspect of this nation's laws that I don't agree with. I am now choosing to reject those laws as my own, even if that means that I will be deprived of the right to live in this nation." I really don't understand how jail time eventually become the punishment for rejecting laws but having committed no crime.

That being said, anyone who is in jeopardy of having to give up their citizenship should have due process in a court of law before being forced to do so.
I wouldn't get super excited about this... there's very little that's new here (it's almost like a LMRTFY: let me reimplement that for you!). As a layer on top of kernel functionality, this code really seems very thin, basically doing the same thing but far less of it than the existing LXC userspace tools. It is targeted at process CPU and memory isolation, rather than entire system image virtualization.

Key quotes:

(1) Currently only provides robust CPU and memory isolation

(2) In our roadmap... Disk IO Isolation ... Network Isolation ... Support for Namespaces ... Support for Root File Systems ... Disk Images ... Support for Pause/Resume ... Checkpoint Restore
If the company is formed purely as a shell, then the courts can target the underlying shareholders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
So you can talk over wifi.

Let's see how that goes over when 50+ people in a small space start yammering.
The world is so full of data which updates in real-time. I hope Firebase focuses on publishing more data representing things in the real world that people can build on (using their API's, of course).
There is also warden, but it doesn't get much press.

https://github.com/cloudfoundry/warden/tree/master/warden
You should be familiar with Mark "Chopper" Read who these days makes his money on the speaking circuit.

http://www.chopperread.com
Thanks for this - I has no idea it was the same team. It's a shame, but that smart of a team is probably doing it for the right reasons.
Right... multiple testing correction, false-discovery rates, etc... I'm quite familiar.

(Even if they did correct for multiple tests, I think the sub-group would have potentially been significant. An uncorrected p-value of 0.004 is what is sticking in my head).

But the point is, just because he's bad at statistics does that make it fraud? Based on what we know from the article, I'd argue no. People are allowed to be wrong and make mistakes in their analysis. They just aren't allowed to knowingly make those mistakes. And this is what we don't know... what he knew and what he thought at the time.
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> Redline is just Smalltalk skin on a Java pig.

This is a seriously weird mixed metaphor. Normally the phrase is "lipstick on the pig," which makes a reasonable amount of sense: ostensibly women wear lipstick to look prettier. Pigs are ugly and won't look prettier even when they're wearing a prettying agent.

Meanwhile, there's the term 'pigskin,' which is a term for an American football.

Finally, pigs already have skins.

This phrase conjures up some sort of horrible notions of the serial killer Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs for me. Very upsetting.
People are comparing this to Docker, but lmctfy seems to be much more limited -- it doesn't even try to isolate the filesystem, for instance.

In fact, based on the documentation, I don't see how this is anything different from the "cgroup-bin" scripts that have shipped with Ubuntu for years: http://linuxaria.com/article/introduction-to-cgroups-the-lin...
I like Zoho's email, and to be completely honest, I just have it setup so that it forwards to my own gmail account (their UI is way better IMHO), so that I still don't have to use the Zoho email unless I need to reply.
Heard that from 19 yos huh

Just kidding... but not really
But presumably it requires there to be an actual person who was conspired against.
i did an eyetracking project some time back with a standard webcam (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcEsDJA0CWE), nothing too complex, but we stopped working on it afterward as there wasn't any evidence of it going anywhere - it's definitely nice to see that there is some monetization coming from somewhere on this type of tech
Agreed. It'd almost be a good problem to have, since it means that the OP's game/app is making him good money. Doesn't make sense to stress about it.
You don't have to run this on your web or db or any other prod server.

Run it on a separate server or vm and point it at your db server.

http://www.postgresqlstudio.org/support/documentation/suppor...
You could try, but the latency with the satellite or terrestrial towers is going to be significant. Unless you mean talking from one seat to another... in which case, yes, that would be annoying. :)
If you cannot reach your co-founder by call, he should not be your co-founder.
I have made the experience that people who once prove that they are unreliable, remain unreliable. I also made the experience that people who you really believe are your friends, may see you as a riding horse or tool. When the time comes that you realize that by getting fooled heartlessly, this will shock you, because loosing trust in a friend is one of the most shocking experiences in live. When you've read this far, you should definitely NOT hesitate and do an overly early reaction, my experience is also that things often change the complete meaning, when you don't share positions and feelings. I'm fair but hard, you can be whatever you want, but do not be naive or a tool. Stay smart and sweet-tempered =)
In poster form: http://www.flickr.com/photos/craftydogma/6657220791/
It's somewhat related to compete with docker but in no way to complement docker. In fact it has been recommended not to run lmctfy alongside LXC (which docker user in its core).
That is just bad. And will accessing a web site with non compliant DRM ignoring browser will be violation of CFAA and DMCA?
This wasn't strong encryption and had no privacy features whatsoever. Lavabit had the ability to track its users and decrypt their mail.
You don't run it on a production server, you can configure it to point at any db server in your network. They use localhost as an example only.

http://www.postgresqlstudio.org/support/documentation/suppor...
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Recent documents, indicating DEA/IRS agents were trained to hide the original surveillance evidence, suggest even the prosecutor might not know the true genesis of a particular bust.
Sure, but by the same token you can't claim the lack of a guilty conviction is evidence he's innocent, when he will not stand trial.
the subreddit has been closed.. are you mirroring it on your site or anywhere else?
The money has to come from somewhere, and its either tax breaks or direct subsidies (ie. cash payments).
Maximum packet maths came from the wikipedia entry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking . First two paragraphs under the "Benefits" section.
Yes, I understand this. This is correct if the result of the test on that said subpopulation is only interpreted by the public and/or scientific community as applying to the subpopulation.

However, if the results of the original test are hidden, the results of the second test could well be taken as evidence for a wider or stronger effect, yes? If this isn't the case, then I wouldn't see a problem with that behavior - but from the reading I've done, I suspect it is in fact the case and is common practice.

edit: I may be completely wrong on this - if, indeed, that's not a significant problem.
In principle I agree with what you're saying, but I think it's harder than you realize to maintain basic common sense all the time. People do irrational things, all the time. Even the normal ones.
Okay, but playback problems don't negate the ability to record or stream input devices.
Exactly! Unfortunately - the ACA "format" is still legalese... like this (government mandated form) http://www.seechangehealth.com/SitePages/PDFLoader.aspx?Titl...

We've built software to normalize despite that - check us out!
No. A warrant means you can do extra special stuff, like search someone's house. With a warrant, you can search for whatever you like, however you like.
Cuedown.com you mean ?
When was the last time somebody was shipped off to Guantanamo Bay? And seriously, dead? The first warrant the FBI requested was dated June 28th. Snowden was already in Moscow. How would Lavabit cooperating with the warrant have resulted in dead?
You have to consider the agency and their mandates. What is it that is the FAA's number one priority: to make air travel safe. This means all of their policies are made from that perspective. They are a technical/regulatory agency, they don't really interact with the public. They interact with the airplane industry. As such, it's not really helpful to paint them with the same brush as the TSA or NSA. The FAA maybe slow to adjust their rules, but that doesn't mean it's with malice.

The TSA, on the other hand, is all about interacting with the public to try and make us feel safer about travel in general. Generally, interacting with the public is rarely a strong point for any government agency.
I live in Schaumburg, a suburb of Chicago. Recently, ballot measures were passed by local communities across Illinois that allow the communities to collectively negotiate with power providers for their citizens. I used to pay ComEd (incumbent generation/transmission provider) 7-8 cents/KwH for power (nuclear-generated by their Byron, IL facility). I know pay a provide 5.5 cents/KwH for "green" (wind-generated) power. The cost for non-renewable power was only 0.5 cents cheaper per KwH.
Medicare is only for 65yo+.

Of course it's going to be more expensive, with worse health outcomes, than a general population pool. That's how aging works.
I get the idea that entrepreneurship training likely happens better outside of a formal academic setting (YC is best example), but seems less likely that science training will. PhD programs are a solid road for training serious scientists. I'd be surprised if Thiel Fellowship was better, curious what is driving the science-focused folks to try it.