skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> "one should assume the trial was flawed."

> Only to the extent that similar, pre-replication studies are typically flawed. I don't actually know what extent that is.

There's a logical error in this approach. If one study has some probability p to be systematically flawed, can an evaluation of that study's outcome be modified by the knowledge that ten other studies, each with the same probability of flaw, exist? Well, no, not really -- they must all be assumed to be flawed, regardless of how many studies exist. If this were not the case, we could cancel out the effect of the systematic flaws in each study by performing a lot of flawed studies. (When this idea is put in practice, often it results in the round-filing of all the studies that failed to meet the researchers' expectations.)

Notice that I'm addressing the question of how we might evaluate the outcome of one study, given the existence of other similar studies. A meta-analysis of all the studies at once uses different rules.
I can see both sides of the coin though - for a company that is as heavily cloud-invested as Netflix is - it might make less sense to maintain a cage for internal IT in a few datacenters. That said, I do get worried about sensitive data in the cloud.

I didn't get that he was talking about moving to cloud/SaaS vendors as a whole, but more the IaaS/PaaS space - the "Hey, this app runs RoR, can I just run it from a Heroku dyno rather than a VMWare box in a cage" type of move. Granted, there's still a cost associated with that, and a need to plan the move, but it's less of an issue. They are making heavy use of SAML SSO it appears, so the account/vendor thing probably wouldn't be as much of an issue.
According to RyanAir, "Don't Insure Me" is a country
Those "catastrophic" events represent a tiny percentage of flight crashes, and a black-box wouldn't help to properly diagnose them either. Your argument still doesn't make sense.
Mock execution, apparently.
You have a point, but having services on-premise can still achieve the disfunction, mishmash and overall goods times you're describing with a SaaS service.

You might get better response times knowing it's a local problem vs let's say an office in NYC hosting your ticketing system. Regardless, I'm sure they have put a lot of thought into this set up and to me sounds amazing. No ties to a physical location = win.
This is possibly one of the darkest of dark patterns I've seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMK1WZjP7g

Frontal offset crash test between a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs 2009 Chevrolet Malibu. I know which car I would rather ride in.
I drink protein shakes in the morning about once or twice a week (usually the morning after a workout). Soylent appeals to me because it seem like a more "complete" protein shake.

I haven't purchased other meal replacement drinks because I frankly wasn't aware that they existed until I started following all of this.
Reddit has been hacked
It appears someone is able to change the custom CSS at will for multiple subreddits. He also claims he has access to all reddit accounts and he's selling the 0-day for BTC.

Gaming, AdviceAnimals, fffffuuuu and iama are affected.

For example, try accessing http://reddit.com/r/gaming and you'll see a black screen with the words "Half Life 3 confirmed". Nearly gave me a heart attack.

Code for the full-screen overlay:
<form action="#" class="usertext" onsubmit="return post_form(this, 'editusertext')" id="form-t5_2qh03d4n"><input type="hidden" name="thing_id" value="t5_2qh03"><div class="usertext-body"><div class="md"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/officialnea">Half Life 3 confirmed.</a></p>
</div>
</div></form>

Disabling custom CSS styles in your user settings will do nothing to prevent it.

EDIT: This has been posted by alienth a few days ago:
http://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/205tik/mods_are_being_targeted_for_account_breakins_part/
He also points out a plot hole. Who controls the failures?

It's like there's an invisible control just after yours that never misses.
Well the best in class of developed countries. The US does have the largest military, political hegemony, economic hegemony, and a huge amount of cultural influence compared to other sovereigns.

With that in mind the standard I have is high (top in class of developed countries for certain statistical measures) when you think about these social, cultural and economic dominances reverberate throughout the entire world.
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We should all sit down sometime and compare notes, the core group of people simultaneously sane enough to write comments like this over and over yet insane enough to keep writing comments like this over and over again.

You can give us the script for explaining rights and the state of nature. I'll tell you guys which of urandom, random, and arc4random to use. 'gruseom can give us a cheat sheet on what Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso did and didn't say. Patrick can give us each a laptop sticker that says "raise your rates and never work for free". 'tzs will explain the secret trick for rolling the score over on the 1982 stand-up Galaga, and also the difference between first-to-invent and first-to-file.

Then we can all sub for each other. Maybe we can use a single account: 'tptzseominer11.
I don't speed read, but I've learned to read faster and faster by just keep doing it. When I was a little kid I used to read a lot faster because I was reading more books back then.

One trick my teacher taught me that's not really speed reading but to get an idea of an essay or an article is to read the first and last sentence of each paragraph.
These tech intros are pretty cool, yet can I ask how does the team acquire users? That seems to be harder than the tech challenges for Trello IMHO.
Ok, but if you take a bus and do all of the things I mentioned to it, you end up with a "rubber tire metro", which does exist, and is used in Paris and Mexico city, at least. These are basically indistinguishable from a passenger perspective to a train. The smoothness of trains is really out of necessity. If the tracks weren't smooth, the train would derail.
I use a portable resistance training method my friend invented to maximize quick workouts like the 7 minute one. you can check it out at www.rhinoboss.com if you want.
Everyone has spent time arguing which service will exist in five years. If you like Google's offering now (and I do as it's cheaper and more integrated with my workflow), then use it. Even if Google shutters it and Dropbox prevails, I'm positive they would give advanced notice. At that point, switch to Dropbox. We're acting like this is some kind of lifelong decision, but it's more importantly about what is best right now.
tl;dr

Instead of increasing bandwidth (since human CPU's aren't following Moore's law), burden writers with improving value per word. Please read faster so I can be less elegant?? How about you stop with 1000 word pieces that can be summarized in 100. Oh, you can't slot enough ads in?
Twitter of person/group claiming the hack: https://twitter.com/OfficialNEA
Sure, lets do all of that. But there is plenty of low-hanging fruit. Maximum of 20 mph everywhere you have pedestrians, certainly in any city or city center - the simple reasoning being that higher speed only reduces time to travel some distance linearly, but the forces at work in a potential collision increase quadratically. So this is a complete no-brainer tradeoff that is directly reflected in survival rates for pedestrians in ped-car crashes:

http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11_10/Fat...

(There need to be legal repercussions regardless. If you are involved in a collision as a car driver, you can not be allowed to be driving again the very next day, regardless of fault. People that operate multi-ton machinery producing enough kW to provide power for a whole block take on a massive gamble at the cost of other people, and so that in and of itself needs to be remedied legally.)
Yes these are perfectly well economical if you grow pot. you can also get some good wattage/$ on aliexpress, but i dont know how these panels perform.
No mention of present and future automation options that increase the safety of cars? On hacker news?

Reversing sensors
Automatic braking at low speed to prevent collisions
Driverless cars.

For me, these features can't come fast enough. They should be phased into being mandatory too.
Yeah I kind of agree. Which is why I'm more interested in it because it's "right" rather than because it's trendy.
I like it! The quality of the content would come, of course, from the ability of users to debate well. Constructing a well-formed argument is very much a learned skill.

My only criticism concerns the color scheme - it might be my monitor calibration, but there's just not enough contrast on the screen for me to easily follow the text. Everything's too light.
The Django ORM is developed as part of the framework. As such, it benefits from the integration of other Django features. The Django pitch is: Django: The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. Meaning that everything is designed to get you up and running quickly. In the case of SQLAlchemy, that level of integration is not available as a result. Even though SQLAlchemy is much powerful, the benefits of the Django ORM outweigh any additional features provided by the former. Plus most web apps are simple cruds that will not require the level of fine tuning that SQLAlchemy provides.

Now, in case of APIs, I prefer Flask (if using Python) with SQLAlchemy (if not flat SQL). It is the inverse of Django. No additional features than the ones you need as a base. Build on top of it rather than build with.
It could just go to a 5x5 grid for 8192
I learned about it first from the Haxe/Openfl mailing lists. They're usually where the language users go to promote some of their games and pet projects like this. However, even on that group there was very little in the way of information on the game. It really did feel like this grew entirely by word of mouth.
First world problems. Get an aeropress or french press for coffee. Get rid of your TV (that will take out another 3-4 devices most likely). Get rid of your watch.

There... now you are UI-defragged and you make better coffee.
There's one counter-argument that I thought of right away, that kinda dispels this whole scenario:

What if there's one hacker in the 99% who is smart enough to re-program the killer robots to kill the controlling part of the 1%? There's a good chance at least one will be found...
An international first class ticket is often 15-20x that of an economy ticket. So give your 30%, then 20-25x is spot on.
Regular expressions in DNS records? That sounds like it would be an easy possibility of exponential resource consumption: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReDoS

After a quick Google, it turns out some versions of ISC BIND were vulnerable to this... but I'm almost willing to bet a lot of other software that handles NAPTR could be as well.
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If it were so simple. Historians know about even older questionable decisions, even the U.S. generals claimed that in 1945 Japan would have surrendered very soon even without the nuclear bombardments:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombings...
You should definitely work on the Kinect-to-deploy integration, then everyone would want to learn how to do it ;)
I don't know. I'd say I read your comment, even though I skipped some parts since you were being repetitive.

For example, one follow-up quoted "Taking a sample and taking a census are two different things", which was from a part of your text I explicitly skipped. (I kept track of what parts I was ignoring).

I would still say I read your comment even though I explicitly skipped that part, did not even alight over the area. I literally 'missed it'.

Likewise, if you look through my posting history I've written plenty that is a bit rambling. I don't expect my readers to read every word. Hell, you probably only need to alight on 20% of the words in this comment to get what I'm talking about...
Because links are hard.

LimeChat: http://limechat.net/mac/

Textual: http://www.codeux.com/textual/

Colloquy: http://colloquy.info/

WeeChat: http://weechat.org/

IRCCloud: https://irccloud.com (web-based, invite/beta)

I've been using Colloquy, but I'm open to trying other apps.
I would argue drive is better. Not only does it have device syncing like dropbox but it seamlessly integrates with the google ecosystem. And now its much much cheaper.
The law, that created internet block list in Russia, was promoted as a measure to stop child pornography:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Restriction_Bill
Then you aren't marking $150,000+.
De Blasio announced an initiative[0] a couple of weeks ago inspired by the Swedish "vision zero"[1:].

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/19/nyregion/de-blasio-unveils...

[1] http://www.minnesotatzd.org/events/2013/strategicvisioning/d...

[2] http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/roadsafe/unda/Swede...

[3] http://www.visionzeroinitiative.com/
I'd like to see government step up in their bureaucratic process more. I am not saying we should approve everything at the speed of light.

I feel bad when I read this article yesterday: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/in-9-years-of-w...

Only 3 public toilets go live in nine years. I hope we can break ISP franchise and monopoly too so I don't have to move a few blocks down just to get another ISP.
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could wish for. But, only now is
Diane starting to catch on. Once
she does, she and her committee can
be as powerful as anyone could wish.
You seem to be attacking the notion of replication here, rather than anything I said. I was explicitly not talking about studies looking at the same question in the same way (we were talking pre-replication vs. post-replication). By "similar studies" I mean studies that have similar attributes, in terms of the information available to us. Random preprint on arXiv.org is going to be different than a study from a reputable researcher that's been peer reviewed. It's not going to be 100% in any event, of course, or even as likely as the purported p-value would suggest (since that necessarily can't take into account odds that the study methodology is flawed). That doesn't mean "assume it's flawed" is correct advice.
This really wasn't an issue in the 1990s and even into the early 2000s. Back then, most applications running on Windows, Mac OS and even the various commercial Unixes followed rather clear and uniform UI conventions.

There were differences between applications running within the same ecosystem, of course, and not as wide of a range of device types. But because of the greater consistency, it was generally much easier to learn how to use new applications. A lot of existing knowledge carried over, and was immediately applicable when using a new application.

This uniformity has unfortunately never really developed well on the various mobile platforms used today. It has deteriorated quite badly under Windows, with Microsoft themselves being somewhat responsible for this. The situation is perhaps the best under OS X. But even here we've still seen applications like Chrome and Firefox use non-standard UIs.
In 9 Years of Work, Just 3 Public Toilets Go Live in NYC
Don't worry, scrote. There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now.
Sure. But there's absolutely no reason your entire emergency fund has to be in cash. Sure, keep the first month or two in cash but anything beyond that could easily be kept in an investment and liquidated when necessary.
Ask HN: Attracting leads for custom web and app development
In a general sense, I'm asking how small firms that specialise in custom web development for complex apps and sites market themselves successfully when customers often just think they need a 'web design' company.

I work for a small firm with about 15 people and the company is split between doing Software/Database Development (proprietary piece of software we specialise in) and custom web development (based on CodeIgniter/MySQL, some Ruby).

The custom web development started out as websites for customers that already had database development going on with us so it was a lot about integration. Now, almost 10 years later, it stands on its own and I believe we're building quality solutions and have a really good team of people here.

The problem is we compete against companies that build on top of things like Joomla etc where the design details are lost, the functionality is often fudged and the customer never has complete ownership of the system.

But when that is $20k and we are $40k, the customer often doesn't see the value up front. We have however had a number of customers come to us after being stuck with horrible CMS systems that promised all the functionality they wanted but were impossible to use easily and clunky.

In my opinion, we should be emphasising quality, attention to detail, openness (in that we build on open platforms and the customer has the code/database at the end of the day) and technical know-how.

I also wondered whether it'd work better to split off a company just for the web because the a split message is always going to make marketing harder when you're using a single website?

Sorry this is a bit messy, I was basically hoping to hear from people in similar markets about what has worked and what hasn't.
Who said anything about violence? I think it's a pretty absurd leap to go from me expressing a negative opinion on homeschooling directly to me seemingly dispatching SWAT teams to round up homeschoolers.
Making them mandatory also has the effect of making sure they never again improve.
We're not talking about beliefs here, we're talking about utterly failing to prepare their children for high school exit exams and college and adult life, which is what many of those parents did.

You seem to think teaching is easy, which makes me wonder if you've ever even tried to do it. My time tutoring students in college definitely makes me skeptical of anyone who says teaching is easy, and none of the schoolteachers/college instructors I know say teaching is easy. It is hard work.
"Won't you think of the children" indeed.
In interpreting an article about Marxism, we shouldn't "interpret it in some explicitly Marxian [sic] context?"

I have been giving you way too much credit.
Sounds a bit like Jetset - a satirical game by Ian Bogost of Cow Clicker fame. You're a TSA agent who must comply with the ever-changing set of passenger screening rules. From what I gather, it was a game designed explicitly to infuriate the player.
How good is the quality on the coasters? The rest of the chair looks good, but those coasters look like cheap plastic ones that probably wouldn't last too long.
Ahhh that makes sense.
You can bust out lazy indirect ad-hominems all you like, but we're not talking about me here, we're talking about parents failing to educate their children, which is kind of a big deal. Your hurt feelings or personal religious faith can't really justify ruining other people's futures.

We're not talking about perfection here either; if someone decides to apply a different teaching style, or is okay with being relaxed and letting their kids take a slow approach to education, that's totally fine! I'm talking about parents utterly failing to prepare their children for college and for adult life, and I've watched that happen dozens of times. It inflicts tremendous emotional and mental harm on the kids and can destroy a decade or more of their life as they struggle to make up for it.
Ok, if you're sure your argument doesn't apply to high-level languages in general, I'll take your word for it. In that case I'm not following it very well.

I don't think there's any "statistical significance" (using the term loosely) in the failure of Lisp, Smalltalk, or any other language to become a big success. There are too many non-technical and historical factors that can easily explain all these outcomes. Meanwhile the sample sizes are so small—consider how short the list would be of all programming languages that ever had a major turn at bat—that we have no way of drawing true conclusions about this.

For example, it's easy to make a case that Smalltalk lost to Java because (a) the Smalltalk vendors were short-sighted and (b) Java was magically "the internet language" just when the internet was everything new and important. Those are historical accidents that had nothing to do with abstractive power.

A word about the 'antisocial' argument, which I think is deeply wrong about both Lisp and Smalltalk.

It's true that Lisp and Smalltalk let you define "if". That's a measure of their power. But anyone who thinks that Lisp and Smalltalk programmers willy-nilly define "ifs" all over the place (or do anything at that level very often) does not understand the culture of these languages. There are many examples of such willy-nillyness, but that's because it's a phase most programmers seem to go through with this stuff. (I did.) Experience teaches you to be more discerning, and culture, when you're lucky enough to be exposed to it, accelerates experience.

Thus the solution to the misuse of abstractive super-power is culture and community, which work perfectly well in both Lisp's and Smalltalk's case, as their long historical records amply show. A friend of mine was part of the later wave of Smalltalkers in the pre-Java days, and he talks fondly both of how much he learned from the older Smalltalkers (over BBS mostly, since he grew up in a small town) and also how the community as a whole gradually learned to use the power of extending the language well—as well as what to avoid. So it's wrong to attribute some weird anti-social property to these languages. There's even a vibrant counterexample going on right now in Clojure.
This is breaking news, so a lot of people who might be expected to comment about this in other press sources have had no opportunity to do so, I suppose. I personally would like to hear what Edward Snowden has to say about this, and I hope the Russian authorities will provide the opportunity for him to comment on Internet freedom in Russia in light of recent events.
Single blind doesn't mean there is no control group!
My thoughts exactly.
Little by little, we're getting closer to that future...
UK is next. There's no doubt in my mind they will start blocking news sites, blogs and social media in the next mass protest (if there will be one anytime soon, since UK population seems almost as complacent and docile as the American one, which is just perfect for authoritarians).
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> I find it really interesting and awesome that Rails and PHP are both (at the same time) in the process of (re)discovering the architecture described in Evan's DDD and Fowler's PEAA.

uh? It has nothing to do with PHP or Rails. everything to do with mediocre developers,you must be born yesterday. And you can even do that in JS...
Cheers! If this were a "Show HN" I'd be happy to upvote! Edit: I see now that it kinda/sorta was, and I missed the opportunity.
I didn't have to do any of that. Xcode creates provisioning profiles for you, and appcode created the schemes I needed. I think Xcode does a decent job as well.

And you only need a tax ID if you're trying to imminently release a paid application or an app with IAP. But we're discussing development, not release.
If you skip stuff, then you aren't reading at 1600WPM.
"Microsoft has SkyDrive, integrated with Windows and WinPhone. Apple has iCloud, integrated with OS X and with iOS. Clearly you can see a pattern."

This is exactly the case for staying with Dropbox. Otherwise, your cloud provider has more leverage to lock you into their products. Dropbox is motivated to support multiple platforms.
Are you trying to insinuate that Snowden remained in Russia by choice?