skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it could easily be called, "doesn't pay attention when the teacher wants syndrome," or "is not interested in your boring trivia syndrome".

"Doesn't fit into modern modes of domination and unquestionable authority" syndrome.

How many diseases are "isn't productive under capitalism and is therefore less useful to society" syndrome?

There is a presumption that we treat people the way we should treat people (we being society in the abstract, of course). Well yeah, if you take that as a premise then the only conclusion you can make is that people who cannot participate in society effectively for their own benefit and the benefit of others are sick!

How many diseases are culturally specific, both geographically and historically? Depression is on the rise in many countries. Are people getting sicker, or is society becoming more inhospitable?

If drug addiction is perceived as a symptom of a sick society, suddenly the logic of treating it is completely different.
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Anita Sarkeesian interview: 'The word “troll” feels too childish. This is abuse'
Another step towards _Ringworld_!
I'm a big fan of the economist theme from ggthemes
Uber can now effortlessly hack its rivals six ways to Sunday
Velocity = all about performance http://velocityconf.com/velocity2014/public/schedule/grid/pu...

http://www.apachecon.com/ which is 50% about search (Lucene, Solr etc) and big data these days

I'm keeping an eye on QCon (http://qconlondon.com/schedule) but found it kind of expensive.
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Chattanooga, TN checks the boxes. Fiber internet, affordable, tons of outdoor activities. Outside magazine rated it best place to live in the US 2015 [0]. You can live just outside the city and be surrounded by nature, and the tech scene is growing.

[0] http://www.outsideonline.com/2006426/americas-best-towns-201...
Yet another businessman who thinks that the goal of academia is to churn out app developers. It's not.

The goal of academic science is to advance research, in this case on fields such as machine learning, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, data mining, natural language processing, cryptography, quantum computation, signal processing, artificial intelligence, information theory, network/graph theory, optimization algorithms and so on.

If you just want to code and make apps and you're not interested on applied mathematics, algorithms and research then I would argue computer science is not for you, but maybe in the US the curriculum is different?
No. P-values don't work that way and don't mean what you think they mean. Read OP or heck, any of the classics like "Why most published research findings are false" http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

(36% may or may not be bad, but you can't know without additional stuff like power or prior probability of hypotheses being true; p-values have no intuitive meaning and aren't an answer to any question that people are asking, which is a major reason why Bayesian approaches can be useful. And from a Bayesian perspective, I find 36% totally unsurprising - if anything, substantially better than I had expected given the gross underpowering of most psych studies, the statistical-significance publication filter, and the dubiousness of most hypotheses.)
Would love to see drive-ins providing a 120 outlet at the speaker box for EVs to plug in at, for using AC, radio, etc while at the movie.
As an example: when I was an addict, and was in severe withdrawals, I would go through the motions and inject saline solution. This would, despite me knowing it's not actually a drug, get rid of my withdrawals for a while; the placebo effect coupled with the "ritual" is very powerful. After I got clean, and the cravings went away, I would still have dreams of injecting drugs; not heroin, but anything. The behaviour was an addiction in and of itself.
Dropbox seems down for a lot of people, including myself
Ask HN: How to Find the Best Info on Cancer Treatments?
Hi Everyone, one of my close relatives has been diagnosed with Stage IV Glioblastoma (GBM), and while there's literally tons of information online about treatments and procedures, how would one go about digesting it all ? For example there's 75 publications from the recent ASCO 2015 congress about GBM treatments, is there any tool out there to compare what works vs what does not work as well? Another question would be, how to find the best specialists in my Area for this kind of cancer?

Any help/advice is very much appreciated!
http://www.voltstats.net/

Out of ~1300 Volts tracked, 70% of the miles traveled were EV only. Keep your snark out of facts.
The media, whether Western or Russian, exists in order to rally support for the actions of the elite, usually by misrepresentation, oversimplification, and blatant lies. When Euromaidan was in progress, it was impossible to even hint that there was a presence of political groups with Nazi sympathies. You were immediately discredited as a pawn of Russian media. I have no idea why the emotional zeal. Of course, it was true, but the West needed support from the demos and downplayed anything that would hurt the geopolitical sparring match with Russia.

Ukraine in general has a history that has been unaddressed. Ukrainian collaboration with Nazis during WWII, genocide against Poles (which many continue to deny, downplay, or rationalize), and Western Ukrainian reverence for national heroes and militant groups entangled in these events (e.g., Stepan Bandera and UPA) remain taboo subjects. They're topics that will likely remain untouched as long as Ukraine is being bought over by Russia and the US.
This is also covered at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10141715 .
There's an invitation to solve a puzzle hidden in this text. Has it been solved yet?
There is no hydrogen fueling infrastructure, and there never will be. Electric outlets are everywhere, and where there aren't, there are Superchargers.
I am sad he died but I am so glad he'd lived.
> It's fair to say the author's methodology is interesting.
> Only 50 deaths from Chernobyl count...

Not sure why quoting the WHO is "interesting", unless you mean "interesting" as in "a good way to proceed".

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/

They say the death toll could reach 4000 (from the pool of emergency workers), but so far only 50 have been confirmed.

' [..] the radiation-induced increase of about 3% will be difficult to observe.'

'Poverty, “lifestyle” diseases now rampant in the former Soviet Union and mental health problems pose a far greater threat to local communities than does radiation exposure.'

'Persistent myths and misperceptions about the threat of radiation have resulted in “paralyzing fatalism” among residents of affected areas'

'Notes Vinton, “The most important need is for accurate information on healthy lifestyles, together with better regulations to promote small, rural businesses. Poverty is the real danger. We need to take steps to empower people.”'
I take exception to the use of the word 'invention' here because that most likely implies that patents are at stake. Tech such as this has been tried on-and-off by various parties since the 80's, with many variations on geometry, working fluid, actuation and tracking.

Parabolic segments are a pretty expensive way to do this because it requires moving the collector around. Much simpler and easier to have a stationary reflector harness and actuate the individual mirrors instead, then you can keep the collector on the ground where it is much easier to tie it into something that makes use of the collected energy.
This seems to agree with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy
This is great. Thanks for the link.
github should give a warning automatically if someone commit something which may contain a password
A proper rebuttal would show what a p-value actually is and how it differs from what I claimed. Now, since a p-value is exactly what I previously claimed, you obviously can't do that. I'm not even sure what you are arguing against me here.
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> With coal-burning power, EVs aren't cleaner than gas vehicles.

Incorrect. Even if you run a car off coal, its cleaner than gasoline. That coal fired plant has better emissions controls, and is more efficient than the powerplant in your vehicle. And the grid will continue to become "cleaner"; a gas-powered vehicle will never reduce its emissions over the life of the vehicle.
> give up the speed and power

Electircs are faster and way more powerful (torque) than almost all ICEs until you get over the speed limit(s) or an S curve.
In Germany you can buy fountain pens for left handers. (Faber-Castell and Lamy I know of)
HN is awesome in that way, allowing browsing the web without too many clickbait articles. I didn't even notice the blob post's headline cuz I came from HN.
That may be. But smegel's claim was that Tokyo does not appear on any rankings list. And the evidence presented for this was a page which in fact had Tokyo first on a rankings list.
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Cycling with children is slow and tedious, so it's a perfect fit. And yes, I was talking about changing the law. Here in Germany we are half way there, it's mandatory for children, but forbidden for their supervisors who are also not allowed to let younger children ride three unsupervised. Perfect catch 22.
http:www.fidelize.info
Getting an Internal Server Error at https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/polyfills/polyfill.js
Do you have a better article to point to? I'm eager to read about it!
Numberphile shows how to sign up to a trillion in one video. (Sign , not count --- you don't have time to count that high!)
In the time before Mathematica, mathermatics was non-proprietary and open source.
I do the same so I aliased it to just "chrome", "firefox", etc.
>If you think that this does not apply to human efforts at rationality, I would like you to explain why.

Human beings aren't proof systems. We don't operate under conditions of certainty via deductive reasoning. We're inductive (or rather, abductive) reasoners from the get-go.
>How many diseases are "isn't productive under capitalism and is therefore less useful to society" syndrome?"

We tend to call those "crimes".
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/caffeine/id411246225?mt=12

I use this all the time, it's the GUI version presumably.
The corner cases are extremely important and are only "rare" relative to the overall number of people driving. When you have 100MM cars (not a researched number) on the road, that one in a million chance happens 100 times every day!

I've had this same argument at work a few times and although I fully admit the idea of a self driving car may be safer in the future, you will not be seeing me in the first few generations of these cars. I generally don't consider myself a luddite, but this is one area where I will prefer manual control for quite a while.
Animal models only show compulsive behavior in bad circumstances. Put a rat in an empty cage, it will misuse drugs. Put it in a cage full of other rats and things to dig in and climb on, and it will not misuse drugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

So if this model is valid for humans, then it means that addicts are unhappy about their circumstances. Modern society is making some people so unhappy that they turn to drug misuse. Modern society is sick. It is making people feel lonely and isolated. We need to heal our society collectively. Spread the love.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-...
As a longtime Mac user (as early as System 7) and aficionado of UNIX, I love OS X's CLI and its affordances. The linked article provides several well-packaged tidbits that might encourage users of other CLI-replete OS's to check out OS X.

More power.

However, I'm not a fan of the soft recommendation for Homebrew. I understand Homebrew places everything in `/usr/local` but software installs on Mac should generally conform to dragging and dropping bundles inside `/Applications`.

In my experience, requirements to install packages using Homebrew could be circumvented by searching for .dmg or .pkg equivalents. The benefit is that software so installed is much easier for intermediate users to track and maintain.
Except that that is in all likelihood not a nuclear issue at all. If you read that article you quoted, you will see that the only study to actually look at other such clusters found that the main correlation were not geographical factors (such as proximity to nuclear facilities or air bases), but rather demographic factors.

"Im Zuge der Auswertung der Studie zeigte sich, dass nicht Umweltfaktoren, wie die Nähe zu Kernkraftwerken, zu Militärflugplätzen oder anderen häufig als Verursacher in Rede stehender Anlagen mit dem Auftreten der Leukämiefälle korrelieren, sondern dass demografische Faktoren die signifikantesten Merkmale darstellen, in denen die untersuchten Cluster übereinstimmen."
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Except these weren't sited directly on a Tsunami-prone coast with their emergency backup generators below the line of the floodwaters.

But yes, more modern reactors would be better, but these aren't being built.
MI6 spy found dead in sports bag had illegally hacked into data on Bill Clinton
>If you can avoid people that use drugs or have a liberal attitude towards drugs, you can avoid addiction.

Almost everyone I know has a "liberal" attitude towards drugs. And they're all great, functional, non-addicted people.

>Just stay away from people that do drugs

You're going to live a pretty solemn existence in modern society, where the majority of Westerners require morning caffeine.
"If drug addiction is perceived as a symptom of a sick society, suddenly the logic of treating it is completely different."

Couldn't agree more (see my post elsewhere in this thread). I think the campaign against addicts (drug war) was indeed started from the 'isn't useful to capitalist society' angle, but now addicts, at least in the US but I'm sure pretty much everywhere else, are actually what bring massive profits to capitalist society through our government's prosecution and persecution of them. While it probably was not the intended result for most prohibitioners when they started the drug war, the war itself has created a whole new multi-billion dollar industry and front for many capitalists, especially the manufacturers of weapons, law enforcement, etc.

Society, at least in the US, refuses to look at itself as the source of the problem because it enjoys the problem. Much of society has benefitted from persecuting and prosecuting drug addicts and the inevitable supply lines that are caused by the existence of a black market. Police, military, politicians, and other beneficiaries of all these billions (trillions over time) refuse to ever acknowledge there is a problem because that would mean the end of their nice perks, the end of the pina colada machines in the police station, the end of the fun SWAT raids, the end of selling so many assault rifles, tanks, and other death equipment that doesn't belong in civilian police hands.

Damn straight addiction would be treated differently if it was seen as what it really is: a symptom of an incredibly sick society that no longer cares about its members and values profits above all else, including all human life, even that of its own citizens.
One just went live in Grand Rapids.
I'm the author of that article and if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask me. I'm building up the wiki of well-discussed but rarely documented nuances to testing that I think are worth capturing. A lot of these little articles are things I've discussed a dozen times over six years with people close to the "movement", but still aren't even google-able.

The reason I think this is important is that ideas about TDD people had from 2000-2007 still has a profound impact on testing tools and practices more broadly. For example, very very few developers I meet know how to apply test doubles rigorously and what their purpose is. This might help that.
>That said, I think it's fair to assume that values, goals and preferences such as "not being poor" and "staying alive" are parameters that are on average not that free. By your definition this is "rationality" and I don't think it's controversial to say your average human is "rational" in this sense.

Well certainly. But by that standard, we really have no need for "divine irrationality", nor any need to insult the everyday rationality of real people.
> To include polyfills, use a -, otherwise, use a +.

That should say 'exclude', right? To avoid confusion, probably avoid "otherwise" too, spell it out "to exclude polyfills use a `-`; to include only listed polyfills use a `+`"
> If you were to take every single car on the road today and replace it with an electric car overnight there would be massive, massive blackouts, everywhere.

Half-credit. The DOE has shown that 77% of light vehicles could move over to overnight electric charging without adding any additional grid capacity.

If we need more capacity, we add additional renewables to the grid.
I am quite neurotic. But if this is indeed true (and there are some indications that I am more creative than other people), then I think I would rationally prefer to stay more creative even if neurotic.

Some people think high intelligence is a burden (together with the above, it may also be the realism of skeptical thinking that makes people a little depressed). But I believe, even assuming it carries this burden, it is still a wonderful gift worth accepting.
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I started cycling at a similar age ("or younger"), but my radius of operation was not very large at the time. No amount of cycling infrastructure could have changed that. Designing for children can't be free from tradeoffs and it's counterproductive to follow that goal in places where children would not go anyway.

Flipping lanes around is all fun and games until you need to have some kind of intersection (or, even worse: tiny access roads to private properties. This is where wrong-sided bike lanes kill)
Does anybody know of a good alternative to "at" on OS X? I know it's there but not enabled by default, I went through the paces required to activate it long ago but it something in Yosemite seems to have broken atrun and I can't find anything about it anywhere online.
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Ron Dennis has always wanted to diversify, to use the Mclarent know-how and brand elsewhere, and that was good when they were winning races. The embarrassing spectacle of both Mclaren cars at the back of the grid, being lapped, has to make one wonder if all group energy and bandwidth should be spent on the F1 operation rather than potential distractions. The brand is currently being damaged.
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Also in the news today: "One of Britain’s most mysterious unsolved cases"

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/6613428/Secret...

> His sister Ceri Subbe also told the inquest he did not enjoy the “flash car competition and post-work drinking culture” of MI6. He had applied to return to GCHQ, in Cheltenham, but bosses were slow in approving this. Mr Williams, a keen cyclist originally from Anglesey, North Wales, died shortly after returning from a hacking conference in America. He had been to see a drag queen show by himself two days before he was last seen alive, on August 15, 2010. Eight days later his naked body was found folded into the 32in by 19in bag placed in the bath of his flat in Pimlico, central London. His mobile phone and sim cards were laid out on a table. The last computer evidence of him being alive showed him looking at a cycling website. Detectives are still baffled as to how the maths genius and expert cryptographer died.

EDIT: Two weeks ago, there was another "source" with new information. Somebody wants to keep the investigation alive?

> Now a source at the heart of the investigation has told The Mail on Sunday that Scotland Yard detectives believe an agent from an unknown secret service broke into the victim’s flat to destroy or remove evidence.
The new claim centres on the revelation that part of the forensic equipment placed in the flat after the body was found was moved – despite the fact the building was under armed police guard.
Special footplates, which allow officers to walk across a crime scene without contaminating it, were moved after the first day of the investigation. This led Scotland Yard to conclude that someone must have scaled the building’s walls and broken in through the skylight to cover their tracks. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3199587/Agents-kille...
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Just like drug possession and use? :3

Every institution of power has its own designator of "bad" that justifies dehumanization. Police: Crime. Medicine: Disease. Military: Terrorism (nowadays). Religion: Heresy. etc. We should not be surprised when they overlap.
pbpaste and pbcopy never really occur in ambiguous situations, so I wrote the following shell script:

function clip { [ -t 0 ] && pbpaste || pbcopy }

This is easier to type and allows for the following:

% echo hello | clip
% clip
hello
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A nice complement to the command line "open" command is adding a shell launcher to OSX finder. I have some instructions how to do this here: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2012/05/enhance-osx-finder/
I am curious how the hipster cereal bar in London is doing after the novelty has worn off.
Laws of physics in the real world
The /applications folder is for .app bundles; Homebrew mostly installs Unix binaries which are appropriately placed in /usr/local , just like many Apple-supplied binaries are in /usr. The two conventions work well side-by-side.

The vast majority of Homebrew packages are not available as .dmg or .pkg ; installing that way also is a huge PITA when dealing with a myriad of small developer tools that require dependencies, whereas brew manages all of that for you, including upgrades.
Ty! I actually came to the discussion page explicitly for this tidbit. Worked.
I hope that ssh'ing into anyone's laptop using your sysadmin credentials in order to play a prank is a fireable offense at your company.
It's sort of a microcosm of the problem of upgrading the grid to handle the additional load from charging EVs. Like the grid, I think it will happen so gradually that it will barely be noticeable, and the upgrades will just be a part of regular electrical work.

Note that you'd only need to size for average use, not peak use. With a bit of cleverness (and expense) you could set a power limit for the whole garage and distribute it between the charging cars, rather than letting everyone charge full blast. Most people will drive under 50 miles per day on average and will charge overnight, so you really only need to deliver about 1.5kW per car. (50 miles at 300Wh/mile is 15kWh, assume "overnight" is ten hours of charging.) You'd want to be able to provide more for those who need it, but that's probably a reasonable number for an average.

I have 10kW charging at home for my Model S and it's major overkill for local driving. Most public chargers are about 6kW, which would still be plenty for daily charging.
Cool. What are the prerequisites for software to appear here? In Borland/DOS there is only Turbo Basic and Turbo Lightning but Borland did release early versions of Turbo C and Turbo Pascal as a museum like release. There's also the Borland C++ 5.5 command line tools that I believe were also released freely
AFAIK, bytecode compiled on one Erlang system runs on any other. Bytecode is stored in .beam files, and -AIUI- .beam files are always forward compatible.

However, I'm not sure if bytecode compiled with an Erlang version >=17.0 will run on earlier versions of Erlang if it makes use of maps. (Maps are a new type that was introduced in Erlang 17.0.) I should really test this.