skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no reproducibility crisis in science.

1. Reproducing work is a waste of resources. Use the money and researcher hours to develop tools that are more reliable, cheaper, and easier to use. A major reason why no one reproduces experiments is that the initial work was very difficult. Let's invest in technologies that make science easier. Reproduction (of experiments) should be done in high school biology classes.

2. Technical reproduction is rarely done, but conceptual reproduction is common. Findings in the literature become incorporated into disparate subsequent hypotheses tested by many other labs. If something doesn't add up, this will often increase the impact of the paper and eventually be addressed through experiments to resolve different models of the phenomenon.

3. There is no widespread fraud in science. Your academic career rests on your integrity. When I publish a paper, I do my damn best to make sure it is accurate. My reputation relies on it. When scientists continue to publish results that are false or fraudulent, they become discredited within the community. All graduate students in the life sciences are required to take a class on the ethics of science.

4. Publishing is a bitch and a source of real rot within the community. Fortunately, many researchers and academics recognize this problem and are addressing it. Look at the new journal eLife, or open access journals, or the increasing interest in arXiv.org (moving to a publishing model closer to that found in math and physics, which appear to be healthier research communities than life sciences). As experiments become more technically advanced, the expectation for methods sections have increased, not decreased.

5. People want to commercialize scientific findings that are relatively new - it's obvious that is risky! Why put the burden back on (under-funded) scientists? Drug companies are the ones that would benefit financially. Or wait until the phenomenon is better understood. Notice they're talking about drugs for complex diseases like cancer, metabolic disorder, etc., not Mendelian diseases. It's as if people complained that they couldn't get their lasers to work using a 1917 understanding of the physics of light. But Einstein demonstrated the fundamentals! Why did it take 40 years to make it work in practice?
Doesn't the article state that 34% don't make it? That's a pretty high failure rate for a trial period where both parties were already set on making it work.

In Netherland, there's a legal 1 month trial period for any new job, but it's extremely rare that someone will be fired in that month.
Qualified in Their Own Minds
At this rate, the kids will ask "what's a Bitcoin?" and you'll respond "shut up and eat your rat...it's almost time for Two Minutes Hate."
...am I alone or am I crazy? I am just not all that enthusiastic about a smart watch or glasses. Until it puts me behind in information processing I just don't care much.
Sorry for the late reply. I was traveling for the past week or so.

In any case, EWAH is designed to avoid the WAH patent. According to the author, the Apache people checked things out when they adopted it for Apache Hive and they were apparently satisfied.

If Apache is satisfied, I think we are safe. :)
Well, in that case, you can easily put (or link to) the full download, can't you?

Or am I missing something?
Direct link to the game is http://labs.gooengine.com/mozlod/.

The song the band is playing is actually sort of nice background programming music.
Mainstream people don't seem to have much of an issue walking around with a hearing aid, I mean blue tooth device on their heads.

As for the watch, make it work like science fiction where you can raise your wrist and talk and I bet a lot would join in. I would not mind having a wrist device, even if it only queried my phone in my pocket, which I give simple voice commands. Bonus points to being a real phone.

"How soon before it rains" "Call boss" "Time to next bus"
I spent the last year of my bachelors mining, earned something like £6 worth of Bitcoins and decided I would never spend them and donated to archive.org.

Shortly after the price skyrocketed... safe to say the biggest donation I've made to date. Oh well, can only hope it is helping them out!
That really depends on the country you live in.
Overview which links to the original post can be found here: http://threatpost.com/facebook-android-flaws-enable-any-app-...
Raise demand for young cats, surely it will not impact more young cats being produced (and killed when they get older). Want a pet? Get and keep one.
Is it really faster than Javascript though?

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...
We love contributors :)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/introduction
Money can only be used to exchange stuff when it has value. And it has value only when people are willing to hold it. If no one wants to invest in money long-term, then it has no value and thus cannot be used in "exchange".

After all, money does not "move", it is always stored in someone's pockets and switches owners instantly. It's just everyone has different time preferences and stores different amounts of cash for different amount of time.
> patio11 made an understatement to get his point across -
> that design doesn't matter as much as people think

That may very well be true (and I think it is true in a sense). But I can also argue that without testing with truly polished design you only know that one "not-quite-there-yet" design has no advantage over other of the same kind.
No comment on the actual announcement.

However, this is a good opportunity to point out that if you're building an iOS or Android app, you should not only use TLS for all your connections, but also pin your certificates and only confirm a connection after validating that certificate.

There aren't many good reasons why a mobile app should need to depend on the CA system for security. In fact, in a mobile setting, if you're willing to create a separate API endpoint for your app, you can replace the CA system entirely; just create your own CA, sign your own certs, and ship your app with your own root certificate.
When there's no sanity left I guess.
Or maybe when some blood has been spilled (but it'll start over again soon).
US only it seems. Unless none of my purchases through the UK site are eligible.
This link does a more in-depth explanation: http://www.docker.io/the_whole_story/#Background

In general, Docker encapsulates and runs your processes and file systems in an exactly repeatable way, and in a format that you can replicate across a wide variety of machines.
Funny how it works perfectly fine for "I am a Frankfurter," but I can't see it working for "I am a Wiener."
Worth $886K to whom? It's worth nothing if you can't find a buyer (a la what happened temporarily in the housing markets).
Just wanted to pop in and say thanks for this project. I'm a longtime user of awesomewm and love having my windows automatically laid out. Using ShiftIt or Slate just isn't the same - I very rarely care to micromanage sizes and layouts.

Any plans to designate "always floating" apps like in awesomewm?
Your wife can mandate health care when you are otherwise incapable. You have 7 wives. Who has final say.

You get a divorce from one wife. What does she get?

These are just two things off the top of my head that throw a monkey wrench in things making the 'just abolish it' not quite as simple.

As for 'state-sponsored discrimination and harassment' just no. That is people and their attitudes, legality has nothing to do with it. Blacks weren't seen as equals and without harassment just because slavery became illegal and they could vote. Homosexuality is legal, but again, individuals don't harass based on legal status.

You are conflating legal issues with personal views of morality, they are not the same thing and have very little to do with each other.
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>> To make lots of money ($886k) you have to really push hard: Have a high-end job (at Google or a Big.Co.), have a university degree (better with a phD) and spend 20 years or more of your life to make that amount.

To be fair, you'd make this much in ~6 years as an engineer at Google. The problem with accumulation is that most people also will spend nearly as much over that time period and not have $800k in the bank.
Google's implementation of IMAP is very weird. You may want to read this http://tidbits.com/article/14219
My available books are primarily Neal Stephenson and Terry Pratchett.

Interesting that they count Amazon "Bargain Books" as purchases. These are generally remaindered hardcovers.
I don't understand how you can be unhappy about the performance of the few last versions of Firefox. It is now quite savy in memory (especially in comparison with Chrome) and handles everything I throw at it without noticeable janks.
Dog-Fooding. As long as you have an in-house product that uses the infrastructure you build, you'll immediately notice when things go wrong.
Well they do offer the services of replacing your battery. It is not they force you to buy a new Phone.

And the swappable batteries, They have their own set of trade off and problems.
Agreed.

EHRs should be centralized, but with extremely tight controls, either managed by a non-profit GSE or a government agency with an extremely high level of accountability.

If you go to any healthcare provider, they can request access using your government ID number (driver's license, etc). If you're conscious, you can approve this request using a two-factor auth notification on your phone (SMS, push, whatever). If you're at the ER and unable to approve the request, they can override the request, but its flagged and its going to need to be justified.

The answer, as always, is complete transparency and accountability.
I know it's fun, but I honestly think they're testing the waters with this sort of thing - same goes with the "Call an Ice Cream Truck" campaign from this summer.

Uber = On-Demand... anything?
thanks, we're fixing it ASAP.
How do you feel about CoffeeCup + (CCSS or AbsurdJS)? Not unified enough?
Your doctor could always get http://drchrono.com. Its practice management/EHRs for ~$100-500/month.

Not affiliated, just a huge fan.
Each of the 3 systems you mention have reliable update mechanisms and a track record of not really breaking things on updates.

Especially for consumer PCs, there doesn't need to be anything to keep up with.
Or: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
I know. I know. Believe me, I know. That detail is not lost on me.

My complaint is simply that it's hard to find, and for those who want it, there's no real road map or sign postings for where to get it.
If I have a contract with John Doe, I need to be aware of any name changes of him. How do you identify someone who changes names constantly?
Yup. But the reason this is such a big problem for Bitcoin is that Bitcoin has greater aspirations than just being the next tulip or Beanie Baby. It wants to be a real currency.

And as long as its price is fluctuating like this, you've got to be kind of crazy to be using it as anything but a novel currency.

Buyers have every reason to be hesitant to buy things using Bitcoins because of the possibility that the pizza's worth of BTC they could spend today might be worth enough to buy a house in another couple years. If you had a lottery ticket that you had good reason to believe might be a winner, would you trade it for a pizza? I sure wouldn't.

On the other side of things, sellers have rational reasons to not accept BTC out of fear that the company's bank account might rapidly diminish in value.

The (non-speculative) Bitcoin community is this fascinating caricature of currency situation in old Soviet bloc countries. Practically speaking, dollars are more valuable because of their greater stability. But people go on using the other currency anyway because of politics.
If the founder there is still reading this I highly recommend you ask your attorney to draft a formal legal opinion letter.

The more I think about it, the more I become convinced that this practice can open you up to a tortious interference lawsuit from a former employer of one of your hires.
This just in: media hypes influence of media, turns out to be full of itself, film at 11.

EDIT: Downvoted, really? Why are we pretending that the media doesn't love to cover itself?
More big names for Masters
Scientists create new, better flame from pure water
I'm amazed that people can live with only 2 weeks vacation. In Netherland, 5 weeks is the minimum (though it's rare for companies to go above that minimum), and personally I still don't think that's enough.

As a freelancer I'm glad I can take as much vacation as I like.
My first instinct was that this was some sort of parody of beta launch sites. If I was previously familiar with the idea of a CRM it probably would have made more sense, however.
1 day, they're shelter cats, and the proceeds go to shelters.
Although I agree that EHRs largely suck, it is not the elephant in the room. From a technology perspective, if you really want to fundamentally change healthcare then you have to tackle diagnosis. For the majority of illness and disease, we still do not have a good set of technologies that diagnose accurately, quickly, and cheaply. Instead a physician makes an educated guess based on symptoms and sometimes on tests. Tests which give clues but rarely a definitive answer.

I don't know what the answer is, but I know that the sooner we take the "art" out of medicine, the sooner healthcare will get a lot better.
Falcon Guides (for hiking and outdoorsy stuff) are on there.

Also mainstream non-fiction, like Super Freakonomics and Simon Winchester books (Krakatoa, Professor and Mad Man)
Totally wrong. The reason the US healthcare system sucks is that it's an oligopoly. Medical schools limit enrollment to limit the supply of doctors thus keeping salaries higher than they otherwise would be. Nurses unionize to drive up their own wages. Insurance companies pile on the paperwork because they can charge you for it. Doctors are incentivized to push more expensive drugs and procedures because they make more money. Drug companies develop drugs that will make them the most money and wine and dine pharmacists and doctors to ply their drugs. Thus those that can pay end up paying more and more. Those that cannot get no coverage at all. Oligopolistic capitalism at its finest. Everyone in the system gets paid off a bit to not rock the boat.
Interestingly enough, the picture you showed is of VISTA used in the VA hospitals, which is generally considered to be the most usable EHR by clinicians. An ignominious honor, perhaps, but it's worth consideration. 60% of doctors know how to use it, since most doctors do some type of rounds through a VA hospital since it's the largest medical system in the United States.

You're right, most EHR UI is bad and it's built upon old technology. It entirely pre-dates the "design era". But, part of the reason for this is that healthcare was one of the first major industries to use IT heavily. What these systems lack in modern design principles, they often make up for in stability and ability to support system flows for larger organizations.

I admire your spirit and I hope that you do make an impact on healthcare. But, it might be wise to try and glean some lessons from the past vs. writing everything off as something that "fucking sucks". You might learn something along the way on your path to making health delivery better.
FYI, there's only one Norwegian country. It's Norway.
Haters gotta hate...

This is an opinion post, not a statement of fact. There's also no byline on that very hyperbolic and negative opinion post. I don't need to defend JavaScript's Schemeness or Douglas Crockford. (I'm sure Douglas is perfectly capable of doing that by himself.)

The obvious authority argument: Given random dude on the internet (heretofore to be known as "Stuff" in reference to his web site), and the guy who wrote jslint and is currently fixing JavaScript, on the topic of what other languages JavaScript is most like, I will defer to Douglas for now.

First and foremost in the actual reasons "Stuff" is wrong is this claim:

[saying javascript is scheme is] "...a thought-terminating cliché. It carries negative informational content and makes people actually know less about languages than they did before."

I am walking talking evidence that "Stuff" is dead wrong on this point. The idea that JavaScript has the functional language parts that I like in Python and Scheme made me curious about the language, allowed me to drop by preconceptions, and I investigated further and learned more about the language. That may well be the exact intention of Douglas saying JavaScript is Scheme-y, which it turns out, "Stuff" admits to before he gets started. This completely undermines the point that "Stuff" was trying to make here, before he makes it.

Second, "Stuff" capitulates to 1/3 similarity on the number of core Scheme features. Except, as he notes, another several are reasonably there but not up to his snuff. That puts us at more like 1/2 to 2/3. The other third is crap nobody wants in a modern language. "Stuff" is being (admittedly) biased about where he draws the line.

The most telling is that he points right at the things that we all want in a language: minimalism, first class functions, and closures. He comes right out and names all the languages we like and hold up as being "better" than JavaScript. :O There's no better reason to call JavaScript Scheme-y.
You see, it is fine people dont like Apple. I mean no one is forcing everyone to like them. I suppose people have different value and we have to learn to agree to disagree.

But the world has turned to attack Apple for the sake of Attacking Apple. To gain headlines or pageviews. And most of these attack are utter nonsense with zero facts and all imagination of thoughts.

Just what the F has happen to Journalism.
Think about it as a very lightweight VM. You can do everything you can in a VM (which, in turn, can do everything you can in your regular system). Only thing is, it is a wrapper over lxc (Linux Containers) which means that you can only run Linux flavors and the host needs to have an advanced kernel (~3.8). Advantage is that if a VM needs ~80s to boot, a docker container can boot in <2s. And that's possible because a docker container shares the kernel of the host, (unlike VMs, which are all isolated)
Well, there's no particular reason that part couldn't be swapped too, sort of like swapping the motherboard in a PC and then connecting everything else you already had. Yes, that would be essentially upgrading to a "new" phone but if the standard held you could still use the screen, camera, memory and so forth which isn't possible now (potentially later upgrading those bit by bit as need be).
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I have a similar Amazon history as yours it seems, but both books it found eligible for me were very new (2009 and 2011 publication dates).
Yeah, we're working on that. At the moment it's still private to selected users for testing etc... I've got to update the site and make it more informative. Thanks for the heads up, I'll get onto that asap.

We don't provide a virtual credit card, we connect your coinbase account to our service and allow you to buy things on all websites, your coinbase account is then debited for the amount of your purchase. We then process the amount and transaction on our server to the merchant site.
I can confirm that this happened to a friend when accesin facebook from another country.

Also I remember reading an article (from HN) where some guy hacked a facebook account (if I recall correctly) and that was one of the steps (he and the hacked one where friends and coworkers so they had lots of friends in commmon)
Have you seen Wisp? [1] It's a minimalist approach with Clojure syntax. For me it may be the next step after CoffeeScript, which I believe has subtly brainwashed me into loving the lambda.

[1] https://github.com/Gozala/wisp
I have 24 books eligible for the program, which seems like a high number based on the comments here.

I've probably ordered 600-700 books since 1999.

Most of the Matchbook matches are at the $2.99 price point. None are listed for free. Most are fiction. Most are from my 1999-2004 purchases.

Incidentally, four (out of six) books from my first Amazon order were eligible.

I suspect (hope) that more publishers sign up in the near future.
"In the US, that same official would make $5000/month"

This is an important aspect of the US system, .gov salaries and staffing have remained relatively constant over the past couple decades as the overall standard of living of the population has dramatically declined. Public school teacher has gone from a pretty blah job for 2nd class citizens (just speaking the truth of how they felt about them at the time) to one of the few remaining decent middle class jobs in many areas. Its not the .gov jobs have gone up in pay or status or quality, its that all the .com jobs have descended deeply. So a DMV clerk knows darn well that a .com clerk doing the same job can now only hope to earn a hair over minimum wage... That keeps him honest. He's already the highest paid counter-person in the entire county, what exactly are you supposed to offer him to top that?

Another example, the old "those who can, do, those who can't, teach" Well a shop instructor in the old days might have made only half what a tool and die worker in the industry would make. But, the hours are better, working conditions are way better, arguably safer, some just like to teach... Fast forward from 1970 to 2010 and the shop instructor is still making the same pay, its just that most of the industry has left so frankly the comparative real world pay for the same guy with the same skills in .com world would be whatever gas station attendants get, or most likely whatever SS disability pays. Good luck bribing him for a better grade.

That's the problem I see with recent calls to massively drop .gov pay scales to keep them in line with the imploding standard of living in the USA.... You start paying the DMV clerk only as much as the counter lady at the supermarket, which is probably $7.25 part time no benefits no health insurance, in the short term you clean up financially, in the long term that DMV clerk is going to flood the market with fake IDs and such. I mean, why not? This job used to pay a living wage, well I'm going to get a living wage one way or another, unless that clerk is suicidal.

Its the same deal with cops. I had some friends who did the mall rentacop type jobs; literally minimum wage no benefits no health insurance often 1099 psuedo-contractors. You can bribe a mall cop, or so I'm told. The same guy with the same skills and education who makes it onto the force and starts pulling down $75K/yr instead of $7.50/hr is simply un bribe able.

You can't bribe royalty or the elite, or at least not as well as you can bribe poor people.
> Bitcoins are reaching lottery-level payoffs. In 5 years, will be see a lot more of these stories?

I suspect not. Whatever the long term shape of the price curve is, I think that in the moderate term its probably something like a logistic curve, and this year saw most of the steep portion of the logistic curve and is already bending into the high-end slow-growth portion of the curve.
Responsible budgets, limited government, pure evil.
I like they are trying to shake things up here. I don't buy books anymore because it's no longer useful to have a shelf dedicated to books I will never read again but I appreciate that there a ton of people who are weary about the digital medium who may need coaxing - this is a perfect segue into the Kindle for Amazon. Huge step towards adoption once they get more publishers on board.

As a side note I love how 80% of the comments here are about the number of books available as a pissing contest versus any real discussion for the merits of the idea. For shame.
Edited, I actually meant to "save" this money. I think any average person will have considerable expenses especially when he has a family.