skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or if you're lazy, just check the latest version of my n-back meta-analysis (http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20meta-analysis#control-groups): looks like the current point estimate for n-back's increase of IQ is 0.15 (so, 2 IQ points), and is not statistically-significant (p=0.14).

A few of the researchers in the area have encouraged me to clean this up for publication, which would be nice.

(Not that the rest of OP is much better than the n-back material. 'I worked with autistic kids and I can cherrypick a few examples of improvement!' As if he had never heard of regression to the mean or selection effects.)
You would be wrong. I have worked at a company that is seen as a hip, smart, software company and so many of the reports are people going to the company DBA and just asking for a one-off report. The same "one-off" reports are often gathered monthly, quarterly, etc. and could be automated but aren't.

It is far more common than you think.
Can I find other people there to make songs together?
And now read the article, not only the headline.
Lol, no one really. Just a few obscure organizations like NASA, Apple, Pud's DistroKid/Fandalism, Intel, AT&T, and tons of others. Oh and railo is a java framework, who uses java!? Its 2013!
Check out http://awesomebox.co/vision to see what it's all about.

Sorry about that! We'll add a link to the page from the landing page so it's easier to find.
I doubt the "lowly" developers have gotten rich off of it...
It depends who the audience is. Most individuals I've known who hold these misconceptions wouldn't have bothered going to that page in the first place. So they're not the audience.

I am at least part of the audience by definition. I'll admit that I started with a skim of the list of headlines. I then read in detail on the misconceptions I hadn't heard before. I'm now familiar with these misconceptions and can more clearly articulate a response when I encounter them.
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This is exactly what I said in a previous thread - that they were demanding development time from him for free. Levison comes across as a very reasonably guy who made every reasonable effort to comply.
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yes, you can browse "community songs" other people have posted and add your parts to them

or you can create a new song, record 1 or many tracks and select available musicians you'd like to record in it - or post it back to the community for anyone to chime in

the end result is an awesome YouTube music video

EDIT: here is an example of an end-result YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUjxFWQSn9Q
Right, that's what I meant when I said "This can probably be circumvented by allowing the defendant to enter their password privately."
I am neutral.

In design school there was a common notion that proper design is not beholden to any tools.

A piece of software does not make someone a great designer just as a pencil does not make someone a great illustrator.

Fads, trends, styles, movements, etc. are merely tools. Knowing when to use those tools is what separates the good from great.
Upvoted because this sounded interesting: "Our idea is simple - that anyone on your team should be able to use any iteration of your app or website with zero configuration. Awesomebox lets you create and collaborate like you would in the physical world, where it's easy to show people the real thing without having to ask someone to run code locally, install dependencies, or configure a staging server. What Heroku is to back-end development, Awesomebox is to front-end development - a platform that lets you focus on what you do best."

I couldn't find that on mobile without signing up, you might want to add that to an about or FAQ page.
Thats the correct debate, although you are probably better off just reading their books and deciding for yourself. I think that particular debate session got hung up on a lot of minutiae.

As for the direction of your project, I think as opposed to solving all the problems at once, you may want to construct things piecemeal, while laying out the factual pros and cons of each political "module". For example, using Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, there is no way to create a perfect voting mechanism, so any voting mechanism you put in place will be a traeoff. At one extreme, is unanimous consent, this guarantees everyone is signing off and thus reasonably happy. However, unanimous consent creates a new problem of the holdout position. To balance, voting systems like majority rules limit the holdout problem, but also introduce consent issues like swings in opinion from mob rule and the tyranny of the majority. On the opposite end of the spectrum, you could create an elected dictator that could decide. This would be a trustee style system and while it would limit the above issues, it would introduce principal agent problems. By building these individual modules, you could allow your system to be adapted to many situations and allow for the actors themselves to police the less desirable behaviors (IE they know to watch out for holdouts before the process begins), which would be listed in the cons. A similar decision process could apply to the bonus systems (should education enter into it?), systems for evaluating relevant info in the debate section (types of source material, reputation voting) and so on.

In sum, allow the users to determine how they want to decide and mediate each decision before they enter into the process. A module setup may also help you make more progress on your own and get contributions.
GTA 5 is technically impressive, but after playing State of Decay, I've come to realize how much I need to fill the negative space inside all those black-box buildings.

The world of GTA V feels hollow when 1% of the buildings can be entered. When I drive to what I recognize as the "Commerce Casino" in the real world, I want to go inside!
Do you know of any specific applications? "many" seems like an extraordinary claim. I'm under the impression that quad precision is fringe. Double precision support on GPUs is fairly recent.
If xmpp would be more secure, it would be a good replacement for email. Using multiple xmpp servers would give a comparable advantage to p2p email.
Each track of the song is recorded separately? It would be nice to change mix settings and replace people
If I remember correctly, F#&@ed Company, pud's old wonder box of startup gossip was also done in ColdFusion (though in those days it was quite a good platform to do web stuff).
"[Flat] is the worst form of [design], except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

Given a choice between Skeuomorphism overload and the look of bundled software with a new Motherboard I'd opt for Flat any day.
Maybe that's true for biological compounds, but for the rest of the periodic table new potentials are constantly being developed (and some may even be improvements). Semiconductors, transition metals, heavy elements, ferromagnetics, you name it... its being worked on.

Actually even for biological molecules there are still advances being made. Water is an excellent example seeing how there is a new potential released once every 6 months or so. Its difficult to say whether these actually show a quantifiable improvement over old potentials, but its still an area of constant effort and progress.
My bad. Thanks for the comments.
Thanks Tyler! Just pushed and added it to the homepage. Here's the link:

http://awesomebox.co/vision
I am not familiar with this, but an implementation flaw or bug could be an intentional backdoor. Can we automate checking process? That probably requires humans to audit the source code.

How big is TrueCrypt and how many contributions does it get? Certainly Linux kernel is so big and gets so many patches a day that even changeset analysis can be hard.
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The feds do routinely pay service providers to cover their compliance costs, but I guess the price was just too high in this case.
Wow. Even for The Guardian, that's an amazingly misleading lede (can I trademark 'mislede'?) What he did was propose a way that he could comply with the legal order that he was given in a way that would minimize the exposure of his clients, rather than the absurdly broad fishing expedition that was demanded. He also noted that in order to comply with the order, he would need to do extra work and that he should be compensated for that work (and $3500 for a custom coding job is hardly extravagant).

The Guardian (quite consciously) implies that he was instead selling his clients' secrets on the open market, which is pretty much exactly the opposite of what really happened.
It is trivially simple to show that your objection is worthless. 'A thermometer measures temperature when placed in your armpit. But I can take a thermometer and put it in hot water and the temperature goes up! There is no reliable way to measure temperature, therefore, it's not clear the temperature is measuring anything reliably. What, exactly, are you talking about then?'
Yeah, I read that and I still have no idea what it's about...
My graduate advisor is Spanish, but is faculty at a university in the States. In his first year of teaching, he penalized for incorrect answers (as is apparently the Spanish custom). But his students threw fits during office hours, so he caved in the face of potentially terrible teaching evaluations.

After tenure, he said, things will be going right back to the way they were in the old country.
neither of which is a programing language.
What are your Goals?
Is this kind of thing common? When the police ask for physical files, can you charge them for the time taken to gather and photocopy them?
That's not the goal of the project. The bar isn't "spend this money and we can assure Truecrypt is strong in perpetuity". It is instead "Truecrypt is very popular and nobody knows the provenance or trustworthiness of any of its low-level crypto design, and that needs to be fixed".

The project makes more sense when you realize how untrustworthy that code might be today.
Naps usually leave me feeling like crap with a headache; especially on hot, dry days or if I had just eaten.
The other thing with optimising as a strategy is while it likes small changes, it really hates structural ones as they make it very hard to compare what you have now with what went before, so anything that is hard to measure is resisted. But usefulness and ease of measurement are not always particularly aligned.
Yeah. I am not shooting down. I agree if this is a good software and people like it people will probably contribute. Just thought the process can't be stopped after its initial.
If he was a manipulative black hat, we would never have heard of him.
Agreed, I should just start. Next year, I'm going to attend a few conferences, just to learn more about the industry, chat with people etc.

The cost do need to dramatically drop, for say, large scale mining operations to happen.

I think we'll ultimately need a space elevator or something extreme. Maybe that's possible with LOTS of advances in carbon nanotube tech... If so, I think several governments could be persuaded to put up funding in the future. Just like we did with the International Space Station.
Reminds me of the surefire way to totally cheat on your tests and always get a great score and never, ever get caught. All you have to do is spend a bunch of time beforehand going over all the material until you understand it.
My understanding is that fast implementations in software require look up tables which are susceptible to timing attacks.
I would point anyone who subscribes to any of the several current fad diets to this one: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_faq....
I’m not sure what you mean by that. Central Europe (or Middle Europe) doesn’t include the Netherlands or Belgium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe
Move the apostrophe in the title one character to the left.

He would have cooperated (as he had in the past) with a lawful request to log a particular user's metadata in an auditable manner.

Which isn't itself good; a better system would be one that makes it impossible for the service provider to fulfill such requests.
Actually the problem goes beyond this. The adversary (Hezbollah in this case) correlated anomalous data (the weird mobile phone behavior) with information about people inside their organisation who had access to sensitive information. They could say "this apartment complex has a static mobile phone" and also "this same apartment complex is where the regional director of operations lives". This correlation is what allowed them to then place surveillance on the suspect and eventually they were able to unravel the whole spy ring (due to other tradecraft errors).

To be anonymous online is extremely difficult. It requires a huge change in lifestyle. Here is one example of a CIA operative explaining how difficult it would be: http://blogsofwar.com/2013/08/06/tor-and-the-illusion-of-ano...

Here is some technology that I put together to make it easier to avoid mistakes: http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/10/05/thru-a-portal-darkly/

Here is why you are probably wrong about your techniques for avoiding detection. Essentially, we don't know what the capabilities of the adversary are, and therefore we can't develop effective countermeasures. We can postulate, and guess, but we can't know if our countermeasures are successful until they fail catastrophically. http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/06/14/you-cant-get-there-fr...

Here is how one can begin to unlink and operate anonymously, however it is not a viable long term proposition and few people can maintain the discipline to do this for extended periods of time. http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/06/13/ignorance-is-strength...

The article does not talk about steganography. It talks about how in the real world real adversaries use real data to find real people who made real mistakes and really kill them. The problem was that the CIA case officer was lazy (or incompetent) and reused the same meeting places; the agents inside Hezbollah were contacted in a way that attracted attention, although it likely seemed very low profile at the time it was adopted; and, Hezbollah was able to use this signal "something weird is happening at this location" to narrow the list of suspects that they had to surveil for counterespionage.
The response that your second reading of my comment generated seems to be "you didn't fully consider the impact of reporting someone to law enforcement, and, by implication, could be incorrect in your weighting of whether it might be justifiable to have someone killed to prevent them from doing that."
Yes, each track is recorded async/separately. When you record, you do it on top of what's already been recorded.

You can change the mix, but only the original song "creator" can persist that change permanently.

If you want to create your own mix, you can copy the song into a new one that you control fully (mix, remove people, etc.). BTW you can do that with any song already there.
> My layman's prediction is we will be able to measure IQ in the future by some means of scanning the brain's process of building connections and nerves.

There's some interesting imaging research over the past decade or two suggesting that if you want to reify IQ as something physical, it might wind up being something along the lines of global connectivity - how well and efficiently distant brain regions can communicate and coordinate activities.
Does anyone have any thoughts/info as to why online play like this is always so hard to do right/scale? Many of these bugs and woes don't seem to be simply due to emergent gameplay and bugs that emerge from state issues.

It seems largely that they just need more servers. With the type of income (and expenses) that they've already incurred, setting up a few hundred more servers (a few clicks on EC2 if they have their Chef scripts done right) should do it largely right?
It implies I am less sympathetic to his plight. Put yourself in a hard place, expect to make hard decisions.

In the case of mercenaries or bodyguards or whatever, that is exactly the kind of precaution one can take to avoid being in a truly nasty pickle.
People do not go to the gym to increase their height.They are focused on things like increasing the size of their bicep,so the weak/strong analogy holds better.
> It seems possible to dismiss this entire article with another less wrong catechism: "life isn't fair."

I don't see how that's remotely relevant.
Only half? I never found another logical explanation for how it's sustained. But, as we know from the news, FBI does not have the keys to it's back door for even high profile cases. So it's probably really for national security level-stuff... Or held by some other nation.
This is a comment that says that trying to have someone killed might not be "that bad of a a choice" if they are trying to report people to law enforcement.
Couldn't your organization participate in some capacity (i.e. $ or talent) in order to attract more customers and/or talent?
If bench presses are trainable, what are they actually measuring?
Those weren't scare quotes. We're discussing the meaning of a word, and he's simply calling out the word itself as the subject of his sentence.
They are asking for money, not grandstanding. I believe in what they're trying to do and have a lot of confidence in them as professionals, so I have no trouble doing what they asked instead of what I might rather do.
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He means ab initio from the electrons and nuclei, not from heats of reaction and elemental entropies.
Indeed it raises suspicion, because it's anomalous. That's fine. Anything anomalous deserves additional attention.

The problem is, the search is simply an invasive powertrip—and not thorough. It's as if they're searching me just to let me know they can. They asked me "what've you got in HERE?" bunches of times while going through the various zippered pockets of my bags, but missed several. It wasn't a very good search.

Then, there's the threats of holding me in a cell for 72 hours, the threats of prosecution, the yelling, the physical intimidation, the verbal abuse ("you're only causing this trouble for yourself"), the massive delays (they sent the bus without me, stranding me several hours from the nearest airport). It's a fundamental disrespect that stems from their contempt for my unwillingness to follow their orders. They honestly wouldn't even tell me what city I was standing in, and kicked me out of the building onto a highway in a snowstorm in February in northern Vermont. I had no cell service and had to hitchhike to avoid getting frostbite.

I'm not complaining about receiving additional scrutiny, though I do personally believe that the 4th amendment protections should be intact even at the border. I'm complaining about straight up harassment and abuse.
Am I misunderstanding, or are the lower goals basically just a bounty? $200k to "polish" the code they already have? Sounds to me more like they are asking $200k to open-source code they already have.
Putting forth a good-faith effort, towards an admirable goal, is not grandstanding, the way I see it.
Wait, exactly who is accepting that there might be circumstances where it's less harmful to kill someone than to have them report others to law enforcement? I'm not within a million miles of accepting that premise. Are you?
Yes, it's been known for a while that IQ works in a "good enough" fashion -- once it's good enough there are so many other things more important. A good example is of course Einstein, which was tested and had a normal IQ.
For what it's worth, my 'worst solutions' always involve a guy with a van driving around hassling people in person. Somehow people never accept my proposed solution, so I haven't been able to test it.
I think this is what you are looking for. http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/06/13/ignorance-is-strength...

As for how to use the phone to avoid attracting attention, the typical technique is to use payphones on one end and the regular phone on the other. There are details here: http://grugq.tumblr.com/post/61946725012/hizb-allah-resurrec...

The open codes that get used to avoid detection, at least historically (modern usage seems to be even more restricted) are examined here: http://grugq.tumblr.com/post/60890158036/al-qaedas-codes

And here is an analysis of a modern clandestine organisation that used mobile phones for communication: http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/10/07/drug-delivery-service...
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To be fair, the Pande Lab's data has involved a degree of human intervention during the generation of the multi-state trajectories upon which they're based. And that's a failing that has only recently been addressed. IMO it's indeterminate whether that human intervention could have unwittingly influenced those trajectories.

Similarly, a lot of the folded proteins were used to develop the same force fields now used to simulate their folding. I'm not dismissing this data, but I am saying I think the jury is still out on the models until we have a true test set/training set dichotomy, a separation that was an absolute revelation for ab initio structure prediction algorithms in the 1990s.

That said, I think we both agree that undersampling is the biggest offender. And it only gets worse with results published for larger systems simulated at the same timescale as much smaller ones.
If you want to offer talent, I won't accuse you of grandstanding. For my part, saying "we could help do the assessment" feels like grandstanding. They asked for money, and this seems like a worthwhile cause to donate to.
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Yes, this is definitely needed. There are two angles to investigate: checking the cryptography itself for mistakes, assuming good faith; and checking the packages for backdoors, if this is questioned. Given that the TrueCrypt developers are anonymous, both are required. I won't get much into the former - but I've thought a bit about the TrueCrypt foundation, and when I looked into it (not in great depth), it looked odd to me, so I gave some thought to where back doors would be located, if there were any.

If TrueCrypt is back-doored, the backdoors are likely only present in the binaries offered for download on truecrypt.org, not in the source code, where they would be more easily found. A cross-check of important routines might be informative. A back door would take one of two forms: either it'd smuggle a copy of the key somewhere, or it'd lower the key's entropy enough to be crackable. The former would be discovered by simple disk-space accounting, so it is probably not the strategy used. Reducing the key entropy would make any volume decryptable if it was first initialized by a backdoored copy of Truecrypt, while retaining compatibility with non-backdoored copies; so likely places are in the key-generation, or in the random number generator that feeds it.

Also noteworthy: the download links all work by POSTing to /dl, then being redirected. The Windows download link for me went to http://www.truecrypt.org/download/transient/e2ec88b9b7dfb3a8..., and it's not clear what that big hash is doing there - other operating systems use a different URL scheme (without the /transient/10bytes component). Their web server might occasionally give different binaries to people it doesn't like. All the downloads are over http, not https (except for signatures); and their site responds to https in a very odd way, responding with a valid certificate but always redirecting to non-https.
I don't really understand what you do. I will freely admit that I may be dumb, or not the target market, but I don't get it.

I don't mean to say this to be discouraging, I am interested enough to wonder what y'all are up to so at least you've piqued my interest (admittedly not a huge prize, but I'm not trying to be a turd).
That's really misleading. He offered to write the monitoring code so he'd be able to trust it not to be doing more than required, and asked to be paid $3,500 for the effort.