skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surveys don't cut it. There's clinical costs associated with each subject - getting accurate clinical data, biomarkers, needing the infrastructure to store biological specimens for decades. There's methodological issues, planning that needs to get figured out, and the people who do that are not cheap.

The NCS was planned and known to be a massive undertaking, to try to ask some very serious questions about health that are hard to get out without long-term cohort studies.
He didn't use the word lean. NASA has gone to the moon. It is as of yet unclear whether the likes of Musk can pull that off. It seems intuitively likely that some things are best done by/funded through the government.
When I mention survivorship bias, I do so in order to highlight that people are being selective when talking about those buildings which have survived and ignoring the vast multitudes of Roman and other buildings which have not.

As for climate? Yes, the climate where I live (Ontario, Canada) is vastly more harsh than Rome (ancient or modern). Why do I bring this up? Because generally the people making these sorts of survivorship biased observations are also neglecting to control for other significant variables such as location.

You also didn't mention cost. Many of the great Roman structures which have survived to this day would have astronomical costs should we attempt to build them in the modern day using ancient building techniques and materials.
Why do you think those USB devices are "pretty likely"?

In this case, I would bet on a firmware compromise, similar to DIETYBOUNCE: https://www.eff.org/files/2014/01/06/20131230-appelbaum-nsa_...

As a countermeasure, I would not fully trust TXT in this particular case. It's likely a state actor who could spoof measurements over the the LPC bus.
While I applaud the focus on diversity and think that it is important that organizations do not discriminate based on nationality/gender/whatever, I hardly think this is a serious concern for smaller companies looking to grow. While I don't believe that discrimination never happens, to me identifying a pattern of discrimination is something that is substantively more achievable with a larger organization than it is in a company with a size under 25.

Ultimately, what I'm getting at is that your question is approaching things from the wrong angle in my opinion. Companies should be choosing whomever best fits the role while ensuring they are not discriminating against minorities (either consciously or subconsciously). Setting out from the start to focus on diversity hires sounds a little too much like trying to fill quotas for my comfort.
Why can't steel reinforcing be added to Roman concrete?
For those of you who can speak Spanish, this guy replicated Clavijo's route by motorbike and he recorded some pretty cool videos of the adventure: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQS7oakJitCbDcGFtHRgg...
And how far along would Elon Musk and SpaceX be without the decades of research, development, testing, and real-world experimentation done previously by NASA and other government R&D efforts?

Your argument presupposes SpaceX hasn't benefited from the previous work done before. Which they have, immensely. Stop reducing complex systems into simple certainties. It's insulting to the entire community of scientists that have been dedicated to rocket and space research over the past 70 years.
I don't produce electronics that much anymore, but I very fondly remember working with EAGLE. I hope they have fixed the issues with redrawing that we had.
Distracted Driving and the Risks of Ride-Hailing Services Like Uber
Why not tell them to install something like MalwareBytes, that automatically scans their machine? A lot of what they are looking for is peace of mind. I usually give family and friends the basic tips (don't open attachments you aren't expecting, be careful of the "seedier" sites you travel to, and so on) while also having them install a scanner that can catch most of the things that they'll end up contracting.
Fortunately in this modern version of war you can "kick the soldiers out" of your server by bringing it down and re-imaging it. And they won't turn around and shoot you, but that is not all that comforting somehow.

Until "DeathRay3000" becomes a standard peripheral it is slightly comforting...

Overall, I worry more about the hacks I haven't detected than those I have. Re-imaging is a pain, but not as much as not knowing your server is secure.
No, simply no.

ICs are made of monocrystalline silicon, not polysilicon. There have been massive efforts to understand how to make it cleaner (internal gettering) and how to get wafer mechanics under control (Nitrogen doping). That does not even touch the changes in production technology to go from 10 mm Wafers to 300 mm Wafers. (You just make them larger, right...)

A lot of new concepts and materials have been introduced to ICs during the last decades. Especially since the 130 nm ground rule, lithography has not been the main limiter. Examples: Copper, Tungsten, Diffusion barriers, Silicide, Strained Silicon, High-k, metal gates, finfet, 3d integration etc...
It's very comforting to see commit messages like https://github.com/mit-athena/discuss/commit/6359a0ae817ddda...
and
https://github.com/mit-athena/discuss/commit/911e5877bf2e9cc..., even from as far back as '86. Developers have occasionally felt stupid and unmotivated for a loooong time :)
These guys are still going - http://tudorice.com/

Friends with one of the main dudes there. Its cool to see how the business can still exist, even today. (albeit with a slightly different business model :)
What happens after the survival stage when there is sizable profit? At that point the company culture might have settled and you ended up with egomaniacs who put profit over everything else in life.
Excellent information here, and it can be a fantastic resource for people learning AngularJS, but to be perfectly honest you really need to do some proofreading on your material. While I suspect that English may not be your first language, your target audience may not realize that. While we like to think that ideas should stand on their own regardless of packaging, the reality is that if your message can't be understood then it will never come through.
> You also didn't mention cost. Many of the great Roman structures which have survived to this day would have astronomical costs should we attempt to build them in the modern day using ancient building techniques and materials.

I'm not so convinced as far as materials are concerned. Techniques have improved and modern ones could be used (cranes etc.). The main issue I see here is that materials aren't even available anymore, nor are they legal w.r.t. building codes. So even if cost wasn't a factor, I don't see how anyone could build a modern building with Roman concrete, marble etc.
Can you tell me the thickness of a U.S. Postage stamp with the glue on it? Answer: We couldn't tell you that answer quickly. Why don't you try the Post Office? Response: This is the Post Office. (1963)

This has a strong odor of trolling to it - one wonders how many questions directed at librarians were genuine vs. mischievous. I'm also struck by the failure to provide an answer rather than suggest a method, eg 'use a calipers to make precise measures of physical objects. If it is too difficult to measure a single stamp, measure a block of multiple sheets and divide your result by the number of sheets.'
The fact that such serious mistakes were committed in the first place makes it highly unlikely that they'll properly fix the system.
> Why another from-scratch rewrote,

And why oh why in C with so many safer options available today ..
I too am having trouble finding "Spent" vs. "Allocated".

Edit: I'm not anymore. http://www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/about/funding/Pages/in... appears to be decent for at least the recent past.
Given PHK's interest in timekeeping I would guess it's going to be more accurate and precise than both ntp.org ntpd and OpenNTPD.

However beyond that speculation, I don't know. It would be interesting to know.
There are on only two paragraphs about this in the Wikipedia link you gave, and the second one ends:

Elvik writes "When the risk of injury to head, face or neck is viewed as a whole, bicycle helmets do provide a small protective effect. This effect is evident only in older studies. New studies, summarised by a random-effects model of analysis, indicate no net protective effect".

I'm guessing you didn't read it and assumed it supported your preconceptions?
Corporation Inc [2010]
Well, he answered why in the first ntpd thread:

"The main reason I didn't start from OpenBSD's NTP implementation is that it is not aimed at being part of a larger family of time-keeping programs, like I intend to deliver, so it wouldn't save me any time in the end."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8776155
... I'm not going to touch that, but perhaps you should spend a bit more time reflecting on that thought before you open yourself up to conversation on the issue.
Ha, I came to the same conclusion about it being a prank before spotting your comment.
The Tribler homepage boasts:

Anonymity using our dedicated Tor-like network
Search and download torrents without worries or censorship

Anonymous downloads with strong encryption

The disclaimer is only if you click through to details on anonymity. To pretend that you just didn't put enough disclaimers on is disingenuous. Your site is actively encouraging users to use the software and not worry.

Can you comment on how y'all managed to ship such massive mistakes? And after 10 years? Even a quick read through "Practical Cryptography" would cover those errors.
Just a slight recommendation for those interested in a good OSX-y looking GNU/Linux distribution: check out Elementary OS [1]. It is heavily inspired by OSX and overall it is very responsive and attractive.

[1] http://elementaryos.org/
For Cython's intended audience, mostly scientific programming, distribution is just not a primary concern, but rather efficiency and productivity. I think the issues you cite are mostly the fault of the mobile targets themselves; e.g., their app stores put up artificial barriers of which languages may be used. On the server side or on a compute cluster having to pull in a bunch of dependencies is absolutely no problem, and is the very reason the ecosystem of Python provides productivity gains.
I think you need to consider more specifically what you want. Another possible regex would be
/name2?@(?:som)?e(mail|thing)\.com/ or even /(name@email\.com|name2@something.com)/

I was able to find this: https://github.com/noprompt/frak
Yeah, I've uninstalled some apps because I couldn't use them without signing up, when signing up didn't provide any benefit at all. Just more spam.
(Going to politely revoke my snarky response to your snark)

I specifically mentioned head injuries (TBIs) - there are two meta analyses listed, the point you listed went beyond that (to include neck and face injuries). The other meta analysis also supported its TBI-reducing benefits.

Edit: If you're looking for the pertinent line from the analysis:

"With respect to head injury, the answer is clearly yes, and the re-analysis of the meta-analysis reported by Attewell et al. (2001) in this paper has not changed this answer."
Japanese activist challenges secrets law with whistleblower tool
The "small pilot" was a 40 center study enrolling 1,750 pregnant women. There are some fixed costs to a study like that, especially if they're supposed to also apply to the larger study, and there has been a lot of work done in developing the appropriate methods for the NCS - over 100 research papers worth of it.

Also, as has been said, it's not clear if all the allocated money has actually been spent.
A useful link for people actually interested in reading about the study: https://www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov

Includes protocols, publications that have come out, etc.
Would you also compare a horse carriage to a Tesla?

I think it would be closer to a comparison between a car engine in the 1900s and one today. Lots of differences, but the basic principles remain the same and if you were to give someone from one time period a part from the other, they'd easily be able to see what it was.
You can reduce it to a simplistic men vs. women argument if you want, but I don't think that's what the author is trying to communicate. The issue being addressed is one of balance...

The real question being asked by that statement is whether people from a similar background end up thinking in similar ways. Experience is ultimately tied to the individual, but do you feel more kinship to those from a similar background? Even if you don't, can you see why there are social tendencies in this direction?

The author is arguing that the group of people taking leadership on geoengineering decisions may not have the diversity of opinion needed to have a proper debate on how best to proceed. She's making more than just the 'overwhelmingly male' point, the 'very overconfident' point is equally telling. Surely with complex topics you'll have people who have strong doubts about what is being done, the lack of these voices may indicate it's hubris talking rather than a questioning-style reflection.

A counter argument is that the confidence exists because it's not a complex topic. Perhaps you can think of others.
> Would you recommend using a logarithmic graph because you expect Bitcoin use to increase exponentially? In that case, wouldn't the use of a logarithmic scale at this point imply a direct belief in the future of Bitcoin use?

This is pretty much it exactly, and why the whole "OMG log graphs!!!" thing pops up in finance only when you're talking about Bitcoin and its alts.

Though even then I can't figure out why, you only would want log graphs for exponential growth or decay, which isn't something we're seeing out of Bitcoin except for a brief period of tulipmania.
I personally use a "dummy" email for whenever I sign up to something that looks interesting. Only after I might use my real e-mail. But to answer your question I prefer e-mail.
The author's term "anti-sloppy programming" immediately brought to mind a former colleague's paper, aptly-titled "Sloppy Programming" [1]. Interestingly, Rust is a programming language, while this paper describes an editor/IDE enhancement to turn natural language style input into ASTs.

This suggests to me that the most anti-sloppy languages like Rust would benefit the most from sloppy input inference techniques. Has anyone been working on developer tools to make writing Rust code easier? (Lifetime management is the obvious new language feature to target.)

[1] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/other-pubs/sloppy-programmin... (pdf), or less-detailed: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/keyword-commands/in...
What safer options are there with equal size, overhead (read: none) and not full of layers upon layers of abstractions?
Show HN: Vim SuperMan
So I'm counting 832 concurrent users in the shared screen session running the news reader on the front page there. I expect that might be getting a little slow. I've spun up a few more instances to spead the load around.
Although dated, http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/pdf/foci2012.pdf is an interesting read.
> Isn't one supposed to select a scale which allows the compiled data to be clearly and informatively expressed? And doesn't the data compiled so far fit comfortably on a linear scale?

It has nothing to do with scale. It has to do with change. The change in value for bitcoin is what we care about, we want to see how it changes over time.

> Would you recommend using a logarithmic graph because you expect Bitcoin use to increase exponentially

No, that's not why at all.

It's because if the value goes from $10 to $20 - that's exactly the same as from $20 to $40. A logarithmic graph shows that correctly, a linear graph makes it looks like 20 to 40 is twice as large as 10 to 20, but it's not.
Metaphor is a type of analogy.
Same old debates, it seems. LGBT rights in that one, gun ownership in this one:

http://article.olduse.net/2447@tekig.UUCP
Perhaps you'd like to discuss with us some of the doubtlessly myriad inexpensive long term cohort studies run entirely by private industry?

Or outline the clear problems being suffered by those poor Government fools in Scandinavia running birth cohort studies? Where, perish the thought, Government is not only in charge of research but healthcare.
I don't see what the problem could be. "pip install foo" would store somewhere that foo wants bar=2.0. The python interpreter will then upon importing foo specifically load /usr/bin/python.../foo-2.0. Not sure if it would be worth it though.
How often are less than 55% of the results of a Google search relevant? Count ads.
One of my favorite examples of this: http://articles.latimes.com/1989-06-07/news/mn-1711_1_rocky-...
Because the GUI on OS X is actually useable, and upgrades don't automatically cause audio to stop working.
> (Lifetime management is the obvious new language feature to target.)

If you haven't toyed with Rust since late summer when Lifetime elision[1] landed, it's very worth revisiting. That feature made writing out lifetime notations unnecessary in 87% of the standard library. It's made things a lot more pleasant. There's still plenty of room for IDEs and editors to help out, of course, but the language itself is making great strides in usability as it matures.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/704f0060176418659698e...
The problem is many people don't understand what "open source" means.
that's a poor excuse to not wear a helmet. I guess if you are in a city and the only thing that you worry about are cars then it's reasonable.

Where I am, there are more things than cars that will take me out, and a helmet is one thing that protects me.

Low hanging or falling branches, massive potholes that can kill your tires and bike wheel, people carrying large objects out of the trunk of their car - so even if they are driving safely, it only takes one snapped bungie cord to have a piece of furniture come at you...

Always wear a helmet regardless of how safe you think cars are being!
No, that's not correct in the slightest.

> pops up in finance only when you're talking about Bitcoin

If you are looking at linear stock value graphs you are being mislead. If you want to make correct decisions based on graphs they must be logarithmic (except percent graphs). Any stock trader that uses linear graphs will lose his shirt. (And I am well aware that the default stock graphs are all linear.)

> you only would want log graphs for exponential growth or decay

No, that's not correct (for the common meaning of exponential meaning "huge"). You want a logarithmic graph anytime the future value of something depends on the present value (i.e. the mathematical meaning). Which is most of the time. Most things in the world, the amount you have today influences how much you will have tomorrow.

It's actually rare to want a linear graph. You only want that when how much you have tomorrow has nothing to do with today.

So population should be logarithmic (the more people you have the more will be born), but infant mortality per capita should be linear (future levels of infant mortality do not depend on how many died in the past).
Ah, great; thanks for pointing out that it has changed. The last time I looked at Rust in detail was mid-April, so I hadn't seen that.
Real debt doesn't have to be paid down though. Eventually it compounds too far and the person/entity can't even meet the interest payments and goes bankrupt. There's plenty of analogies that can be made with technical debt.

To really stretch the analogy, those same people often then end up in (technical) debt again a few years later when they repeat the same mistakes.
I haven't touched C or C++ in over 10 years as I've been living like a free spirit in the Perl world. I've always wanted to go closer to the metal, but Perl did everything I ever wanted. But I slowly started to feel that dynamic languages had kind of boxed me in, almost making me timid of memory management and handling resource allocation.

So I wanted to go deeper. I played with Go for a while, but kept an eye on Rust. However over the past couple of months, Rust just felt like they got it right. It made me care free about resources just like how Perl took care of everything, while being a strongly typed, static language with generics, and without the problems that might get in my way that Go has (GC and a heavy runtime).

If you still haven't had a look but are interested, take a look at the Rust Guide:

http://doc.rust-lang.org/guide.html
Roughly 10 to 15 scientists and engineers work on it full-time.

They have carefully evaded the point of what exactly those "scientists and engineers" are qualified in. Apparently not cryptography.
Most people live in cities, so your anecdote does not help.
If these get popular, I wonder if they will be a target for theft, and then what can be done to fix that.
Greg Little's work is usually in PL HCI, which is concerned primarily with languages that improve on usability, accessibility, lowering barriers for the common folk, and such. The other approach is to force one to eat their vegetables (because they are good for you), so to speak; we also call these bondage and discipline languages. Generally, languages of the latter style don't focus on tooling so much, since the accompanying culture is more of the style of "think heavily before you write anything" rather than "fool around in your IDE for awhile to find something that works." They often don't consider the IDE or IDE-related issues as an integral part of the language design.

I'm not sure if anyone has done much work to narrow this divide. There are some COQ IDEs out there now, but I'm not sure how effective they are in relieving cognitive burdens while programming.
This document isn't intended for field operatives.
You do realize that the CIA employees people in 1000's of positions ranging from secretaries to architects and doctors?
This is a simple guide for people who are not trained for wet work or intended to be deployed as field assets but rather just for office staff who travel to countries for official or non official CIA business. Many countries including US allies would like to pinch a CIA employee even if it's the guy who makes changes the toner..
So yeah if you are some low level analyst who worked for the US diplomatic mission in Egypt, Yemen and Pakistan traveling to Thailand for a vacation following some guidelines in the brochure might prevent you from being halted and be put into a bad situation.
So yeah this isn't the instruction manual for an operative who just assassinated the vice president of kirgistan traveling with stolen Romanian passport trough a soviet era checkpoint... ;)
I'd wager that the lower level nature would be useful for something like accurate timekeeping, which is actually an intricate task if you intend on doing it fully.
You would think so, but it's surprising how consistent paper is! For instance, I've measured various papers with a caliper (pages of a book, samples of laser printer paper, ...) and it's amazing how consistent it is.
I totally agree with you that this is a complex project with a lot of costs. Still, it's hard for me to fathom where so much money could go. I mean, if you give 100k people 5 top-of-the-line wearables over 7 years (maybe $1500/person); hire 250 experts, each of whom charges $250k/year; and allocate $15m/year on AWS hosting bills... you still wind up at "only" about $700m.

I'm sure the money went somewhere. I'd be really curious to see a breakdown of where.
https://antizapret.info/

See bunch of sites banned by Генпрокуратура since 21st of December? This is mostly personal blogs with posts about planned 15.01.2015 protests.
Terminal emulator security issues (2003)
Let the app register each set to an account, and don't let the grips work with any device not authenticated with that account.