skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For any drug trial, if a patient switches from drug X to placebo, compared to patients who switch from drug X to drug Y, that could cause the placebo to seem worse than it actually is, due to withdrawal.

All the drug research I read regarding psychiatric drugs had a 3-6 month timeframe max.

Another flaw is that "Is the patient doing well?" was based on the subjective opinion of the doctor. (Even if the doctor does not know which patients are taking placebo, a competent psychiatrist should be able to tell. "Compliance with medication" is one thing doctors are trained to look for.) I would have liked to see other objective metrics, such as "How high can the patient score at Tetris?"

A multiyear psychiatric study is very hard, because many patients will struggle to follow any treatment plan. Also, placebos might cause the patient to initially get worse before they get better, whereas a drug might cover up symptoms while hurting long-term recovery. It's hard to find patients who would follow through for years.
Sounds like a job for a temp.
Yes. They do violate tenant laws. However, they violate common decency much more egregiously.
A lot of these changes are very small, but they are meant to work on a subconscious level. A good example for me is fixed width font. When programming, I find some fonts to be pleasant to work with, and other unpleasant. It's not a extreme reaction, just some font's "feel" better.
Easy: don't have a facebook account, don't let friends take your picture, don't have friends.
> It is not actually true that good outcomes from Snowden's actions eliminates all his culpability.

Well, the government and the military uses very often this "good outcomes" concept when they pardon individuals who committed "collateral damage" (aka civilian casualties).

I would like to know how one could be a whistleblower without being "culpable" of "aiding the enemy" (not quoting you here). If some very powerful agency is doing something that doesn't respect the constitution, after reporting that internally and being completely ignored, I believe it would be a crime to not disclose these actions. It seems to me that there is no escape in this culpability game...
I asked a friend who is a preschool teacher (and became friends when my kid was in her class for 2 years, 4-5 year olds) if she thought that all children were creative (regardless of talent), or if she thought that only some kids were creative and other kids were not really - just doing what they were told. Her answer was unequivocal - "all kids are creative. Not all are talented, but they all create"

I love sci-fi, and I was asking her the question because the future utopian dream is that the 3-D Printing cornucopia machines deliver to humanity all they want, and the only task left to do is to create. So to me it seems settled. All people are creative as children and somehow that goes away as they become adults. I suspect people just adapt to the best way for them to get by, creative or drudgery, whatever it takes. The modern school system can probably take some credit, as well as human's normal tendency to adapt to whatever the herd is doing - ie if all your adult friends stop playing with LEGO maybe you would too. (I did not stop playing with LEGO)

So I hope all humans are once more makers, and we can stop with silly labels. I have been making stuff for 40 years+ and it seems odd that the world now has a word to describe what I was always doing.
I looked at the Wikipedia article for the Wright flyer in 1903, to contrast and compare:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Flyer

What's interesting is that the Wright brothers couldn't reproduce the flight:

"The landing broke the front elevator supports, which the Wrights hoped to repair for a possible four-mile (6 km) flight to Kitty Hawk village. Soon after, a heavy gust picked up the Flyer and tumbled it end over end, damaging it beyond any hope of quick repair. It was never flown again. [...]After a single statement to the press in January 1904 and a failed public demonstration in May, the Wright Brothers did not publicize their efforts, and other aviators who were working on the problem of flight (notably Alberto Santos-Dumont) were thought by the press to have preceded them by many years."

They did however develop the Flyer II in 1904, and their Flyer III in 1905 flew a "39-minute, 24-mile (39 km) nonstop circling flight on October 5." Arguably, controlled directional flight is a much more important feature.

But most interesting is this part of the story:

"The issue of control was correctly seen as critical by the Wrights, and they acquired a wide American patent intended to give them ownership of basic aerodynamic control, despite the brothers' (and others in pioneer aviation circles) likely complete lack of knowledge of the 1868 British patent regarding roll control for aircraft. This was fought in both American and European courts. European designers, however, were little affected by the litigation and continued their own development. The legal fight in the U.S., however, had a crushing effect on the nascent American aircraft industry, and by the time of World War I, the U.S. had no suitable military aircraft and had to purchase French and British models."
I believe his point was that there's often a difference between finishing the task and actually fixing the issue.
"What do you mean it took you a week to fix that bug? I checked the commit log, and all you did was change a < into a >. That should not have taken you more than 10 seconds."
People can call these things whatever they like: there is a difference between passion and indifference that cannot be overcome by any process.
Is it just me, or did anyone else have to double-check to see that this was an ANTI-spying bill and not a PRO-spying bill? I wish bills were required to have descriptive names.

TL;DR: It's a good one, but EFF and others feel it doesn't go nearly far enough to curb spying.
oops that's a typo. Am screen scraping some of the Host's basic information and then looking into other sites to find a pattern that identifies them. From there I look up their address.
Hackers target Starbucks mobile users, steal from linked credit cards
Snowden is a hero, but a hero that committed a crime, he should pay a punishment. The question to me is not if there should be a penalty, its what form should the penalty take (I feel much the same about Chelsea Manning)

I think some misdemeanor (misuse of government documents or somesuch) and a nominal fine would be a suitable punishment, I am merely one citizen of millions however.

The issue that I have right now, is our existing laws for the kind of crime to me are blatantly unjust, and used so selectively as to create the impression of selective persecution of unwanted and unpopular views.
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1) If you have all the toys everybody else wants, you're going to become everyone's favorite target. 2) We (the US, and the West in general) do not punish spies like some other places punish spies. Your life is not going to be pleasant, but you'll have your life. The same cannot be said of many other countries on the planet.
When we were about to have our first we went to Babies R Us, and had to sit through some "new parent" training nonsense with a few other couples for a 25% off coupon. I thought at the time "25% off, okay I can endure 15 minutes." It wasn't worth the time. What I learned from that experience was that they were desperately trying to sell us a bunch of expensive crap we didn't need.

I think if they didn't try so hard its likely we would've bought a lot of baby stuff from them. Because of that experience we went to second hand stores where the employees left us alone and answered questions when we had them.
Steve Pavlina did an experiment with polyphasic sleep when he was 34. It worked great for him. But he quit because that sleep schedule is unsociable. He is a personal development guy, though, so he isn't that keen on chanting the old "everything is hard or impossible after 40" which people on HN seem so keen on. "You did what? Oh, but you're probably young so it doesn't count. I could do anything too when I was your age."

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
I was responding to somebody who made the claim that installing software leaves things "scattered all over the system". I simply pointed out that that is not true if you plan carefully. Additionally you can ensure that all users on a system have a basic set of paths enabeled in their profile (is the default PATH any more invasive than a default path + "/opt/bin"? These things are not insurmountable if you actually know what you are talking about and know the scope of your problem. These complaints are coming from people who are not actually interested in managing a system, but would rather be able to click a button in a gui and not have to understand anything of what is actually going on.

That being said compiling your own stuff in and of itself is not guaranteed to be a simple or "fun" task. It takes work and can lead to unexpected results: you immediately own anything that is custom on your system and become your own testing, debugging, and troubleshooting team. It isn't ideal.
Sure, though in the grand scheme of things that penalty is pretty small when compared to the DOM operation itself. Eg. doing an appendChild() on an attached element and causing a reflow.
I visited Noisebridge back in 2013, and I thought it was nasty and dirty (maybe to get that authentic urban vibe?).

I'd much prefer HackerDojo, at least there you can go pee and not have to worry about leaving your stuff.

Also, I read enough about their problems with drug use and the homeless who lived there, that I'd rather just not go back.
so... only phone data collection then. what about everything else?
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My biggest takeaway is not the small visual tweaks to the typeface, but the thought that goes into how each team or sector of the company needs to consume and produce downstream assets based on this redesign work.

The guidelines/communication about this change is the main outcome of this work. For example, the discussion on the flexibility for various radii, reversibility and styling to match a platform's style means that downstream designers or developers don't have any ambiguity on how to adapt the favicon to their needs. Flexibility and freedom to customize are first-class, not afterthoughts.
I don't understand why grad exams are graded on a normalized scale. Why do they want some people to fail every semester? (That grading structure sounds set up to fail some students.)
At FB scale, a very small percentage change in user engagement/behavior/etc is very meaningful.

So guessing it does--but wouldn't necessarily extrapolate it to what small startups should do.
I don't see how a lack of sandboxing would decrease your attack surface, since you need to communicate with the OS somehow. A sandbox just moderates that communication.

I also don't understand "If the project is sufficiently secure without multi-process, adding layers only increases the surface area". The point of layers is that each one needs to be breached in order to craft a full exploit. If one layer is sufficiently secure without multi-process then in the worst case your defense-in-depth is merely redundant, regardless of the attack surface of the remaining layers (though obviously "sufficiently secure" is fairly impossible to prove).
My friend Felipe is currently finishing up a PhD dissertation that features this guy (the overarching topic is the impact of aviation technology on modern Brazil). Here's an article he wrote specifically about Santos-Dumont:

http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/the-aviators-heart

Edit: it's a long article so here are a few highlights:

"His countenance appeared on cigar boxes and dinner plates. Toy replicas of his airships moved off the shelves at a brisk pace. Even bakers joined in, selling airship-shaped cakes with the colors of the Brazilian flag. Fashionable boutiques sold clothing and accessories inspired by his meticulous and impeccable style. Louis Cartier, a friend of his, even made a special wristwatch to use during flight, so he would not have to pull out his pocket watch while handling the controls. In fact, Santos-Dumont was responsible for making the wristwatch a fashionable accessory among men...

His showmanship and desire to share the feeling of flight led him to be part of many “firsts” in aviation history. In 1903, Aida de Acosta, a wealthy Cuban-American woman of nineteen years was visiting Paris, where she met Santos-Dumont. Fascinated with flying machines, she expressed her desire to pilot the airship herself. Surprisingly, he agreed—and after a few lessons, allowed her to fly it around Paris while he followed her on a bicycle shouting instructions from below (airship no. 9 only had a 3 horsepower engine and could barely conquer a light breeze). This made Acosta the first woman in history to fly a powered aircraft of any sort, some six months before the Wright Brothers first took flight in the United States."
Let's be clear about what the "FREEDOM Act" does. It does not make NSA Bulk Collection of phone data illegal. What it does is rearrange the laws and request process and more carefully enumerate and define procedures by which the NSA may acquire and query phone records that are stored in bulk.

It also focuses primarily on phone records and one phone record program. There are dozens of phone record programs and hundreds of different types of signals that are collected that are not subjects of the "FREEDOM Act".

Now (like it presumably was before) the NSA will not have full takes of all American phone records. They will force companies to keep these records for them though, and they will continue to have the ability to query them.

It doesn't matter if nobody is watching 99.5% of CCTV footage. If CCTVs watch every square inch of a city and record it for later possible inspection, that's surveillance. It does not matter if human analysts do not inspect 99.5% of the bulk data. It is still surveillance.

It was also surveillance when the KGB forced private citizens to keep tabs on one another. It does not matter whether it is Google, Yahoo, Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, Facebook, and Comcast doing the surveillance on compulsion of the Fed. All of our data and communications are being stored and processed.

It is still, categorically, surveillance.
If the "thousands of copies raining down into a hellscape" bit is in a level, then this TAS suggests that it does keep track, as I don't see that happening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JHPrmQS29k

If it's in one of the cutscenes I have no idea, as those always get skipped in a TAS.
It's easy to look down your nose at them if you didn't have it "as good" but if you turned out more well adjusted maybe you are the one with a childhood to be envied.
Very true, and actually you touched on something really interesting--when a government attempts to regulate social behavior that cannot be regulated (e.g. drugs, morals, thought, etc.) you see this dynamic take over.

In the case of black markets, yes, there is a great deal of obfuscation, however on a civil level and in business with the tax code it essentially creates an "arms race of precedent" in the courts, wherein those with capital exploit loopholes in the legal system to establish new precedents that can circumvent any spirit of the law for decades to come. In most cases I see this as a positive thing, but when state and federal prosecutors use this against civilians, it can have some truly ridiculous outcomes.

Speaking to your comment about the black market specifically, though, I raised this concern when Obama signed that executive notice last month pertaining to individuals on the SDN list--as a hypothetical, if someone on that list were to have a criminal enterprise, and if that criminal enterprise was using a legitimate merchant processing account to obfuscate funds (as per your "ways of hiding money"), then ANYONE who had ever processed a credit-card transaction with that account would be liable to have their assets frozen indefinitely and with impunity by the US government.

Dangerous precedent indeed.
There's one I can think of off the top of my head: https://www.canva.com/
I've been hunting this for weeks now, it locks down JVMs, but everything seems to indicate it's either glibc or kernel.
I think that only makes sense if you have a completely dead-end product. AOL, for example, had a fair bit of experience in content. They had a lot of strength in networking. They had a zillion users, giving them low marketing costs for new products. They had a strong marketing org and a well-known brand.

Reducing expenses to the minimum would basically value all of that at zero, which I think is rarely the right case. Look at the examples in Innovator's Dilemma, for example. The successful companies kept making technology/market transitions, one after the other.

As an investor you are capable of taking the cash and investing elsewhere. But you are also capable of selling the stock if you really think they have no hope of innovating.
bear bile is used to treat primary biliary cirrhosis. it can be synthesized, but if you don't have the equipment, bears will do.
Also consider that the bad guys (insert: terrorism, Russia etc) probably had some functional understanding of what the spying capabilities were, and those doing the spying probably knew they knew. So what's left is the public being the only party who didn't know, was least prepared and least deserved it. It leaves you wondering.

Now here we are, and I think that while it's nice that we're trying to fight these invasive practices in courts and through policy, security by design is what's needed most. The invasive practices were either completely unlawful or stretched the definition of what is lawful anyway, so the policy side of things should focus on protecting the legality of encryption, not making it illegal to spy.

Everyone needs to understand that everyone is spying on everyone, and every time a system is implemented to protect someone from spying, the spy will test the topology of that system and find a new way in. So begins a Cold War in the protection of privacy - unending, but honest at least.
Interesting. Tried out a few pics from my desktop and it got some right and a couple wrong but I could see why in one case (ottoman cushions identified as "containers", probably based on shape).

It would be really cool to see a refined use case for artifacts, i.e. detailed scanning and identification of sculpture by style and origin.
50000 concurrent users? That's small enough to do with a single thread on a modern server.... What are they scaling?
Extracurriculars should be radically optional, especially
if the kids are actually doing homework until midnight. that's just not enough zone out time.

With my own kids, if they didn't absolutely love something, I always recommended them to drop it. They both found one, maybe two things that they loved and added value, and that seems to have worked out.

One of them made a living for a span of time talking college student who grew up that way off the proverbial ledge when it all melted down. But she'd also had enough freedom to e-publish a book by the time she was 12.

Growing up, the people that over-regimented their children's live were called "Colonel von Trapp" by my parents, in my presence, possibly to their face.
All investment is essentially rent-seeking. Are you advocating communism?
Step 1) Take investor's money
Step 2) Take $3MM off the table
Step 3) Profit
Step 4) Shut down
There's a lot of UV in sunlight too. Hence sunscreen. Many birds can see it. Some birds have patterns on them that are only visible in UV. Fun facts.
Not as strange as you think, perhaps. The KDE stack includes a component model called KParts, and embedding KHTML was always done via a KPart; this later allowed a WebKit KPart to co-exist. And in fact, there once was a working KPart to embed Gecko. It didn't really see widespread use, since Gecko wasn't all that attractive in the time frame.

If Servo continues to thrive, I'd be more surprised if no one attempts this.

The current state of browser engine embedding in Qt/KDE also isn't too rosy. Qt switched from wrapping WebKit to wrapping Blink, and the new wrapper is currently very skimpy on extension points, making it hard or impossible to put e.g. KDE's I/O stack (HTTP, SSL, cookies, etc.) between the renderer and the web. That's a level of integration both KHTML and the WebKit KPart did allow, so things have currently regressed a fair bit. I'm not familiar with the CEF API, but it might actually allow more than Qt WebEngine (currently) does.
Definitely. I hate the common confusion between "I am smart and don't understand why X exists" with "it is stupid that X exists".
Do we stop caring about popular music in our 30s?
I run a small SaaS business formatting images for responsive websites and are building a console which aggregates all my data in one place and correlates it to each of my customers.

For example, I use Stripe for payments, Desk.com for support, Mandrill for transaction email, MailChimp for campaigns and Gmail for email...I want to see any interaction I've had regardless of API for each of my customers.

I hope I'll can get better at spotting issues as they happen and address them faster.
There is zero evidence that the data was stolen from these journalists and sold to the highest bidder. Since there is zero evidence, you have to cinsider yourself wrong for now.
It seems every Rubyist is looking into a variant of Ruby these days, expecially those which compile down to machine code, usually.

I don't see it as a bad thing... it can only improve the Ruby environment in the long run..
No, it's not autorotation. Here's a lovely demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek0FrCaogcs&feature=youtu.be
The document is unavailable from my current location, but if you're asking that question, I wonder if there's even a specification of requirements for approved providers, a certification process, an auditing process... et cetera, et cetera.

I'm assuming that by "Army-unique systems and applications" they mean "Army-unique systems and applications that we can make do without (if we have to) for 100-200 days during warfare or possibly immediately and without prior notice."

Because otherwise this is just bullshit.
I work with a USAF organization, helping them to gain a footing in cloud computing. It's not going so well, held up in large part by the Department of Information Systems (DISA). They have a "cloud" environment that they want any DoD entity to migrate to if that entity is thinking about going to the cloud.

Amazon has authority to host Level 1 and 2 data, which is a fancy term the DoD uses for "Public, Releasable information." They have PROVISIONAL authority to host Levels 3-5 data, which refers to For Official Use Only (FOUO) data.

Amazon has spent untold amounts of money passing various DoD-level certification packages like FedRAMP which looks at everything from physical security to how they prepare their invoices. AFAIK they are the only company to do such a thing.

As of now, unless you have a waiver from a General, you can't host your DoD system on AWS. We tried to enroll in DoD's pilot program for cloud computing, but were rejected because we didn't have a Colonel backing us.
What would be a good reference for getting back up to speed, but in an environment of C++ from about 2000 to 2005? Maybe a particular version of the ARM on Abe Books? One of the original Ways books? Something else?
Do you even understand how the situation came about in the first place?