skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the report:

The link between violent video game exposure and aggressive
behavior is one of the most studied and best established.
Of the 31 studies reviewed, 14 investigated the relation
between violent video game use and aggressive behaviors.
Aggressive behavior measures included experimental proxy
paradigms, such as the administration of hot sauce or
a noise blast to a confederate, self-report questionnaires,
peer nomination and teacher rating of aggressiveness.

If this is indeed the case, then there is cause for concern with these techniques, especially depending on the age group. [1] We further see self-reports mentioned as evidence for later factors, so as a whole I'm not sure what to think of this.

Moreover, the actually interesting question (does this aggressive behavior lead to real-world violence) is openly admitted to be unanswered. I'd wager that to a large extent basic measurements of "aggression" will be positive simply due to the player being engrossed by the game in question. The methods listed above in general are hardly that rigorous.

Furthermore:

The research has also not adequately included samples
representative of the current population demographics,
nor has it sufficiently examined the potential differences
in effects when participant samples have been diverse;
no conclusions about differences in effects related to
ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or culture can be
drawn from the currently available research.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2812902/
The flip side to this (triathlon gear) is ITU draft legal racing, where it's basically like a criterion and requires the same UCI compliant bike setups as a road race would. This solves the problem in one way but creates a new one. Take a look at the world standings (for women, especially). Gwen Jorgensen is a beast, for sure, but she wins because she's a ridiculously strong runner who managed to get her swim good enough so she could hang with the leaders. On the bike she just has to ride with the pack. ... then, like Mirinda Carfrae in Ironman, leaves everyone in her dust on the run. I'm not sure this is fairer or not.
I feel like something is missing. Aggressive/violent people might have a preference and tendency for violent games (seems obvious, but I don't want to jump to conclusions) over, for example, puzzle, casual sports, adventure, or any other non-violent games.

I grew up on all sorts of violent games and violent anime, and I'd never hurt a fly. I don't even enjoy them that much, but I still enjoy them and play them.

You'll also find various types of players (profiles?) when playing. If you ever see me on the top 3 in the scoreboard, it's probably because I've captured flags rather than because of my Kill/Death ratio. I guess our existing personalities become part of the way we play the game, and not the other way round.

Sounds like a load of rubbish.
Fist of, this looks like a fun project. I haven't seen the implementation but it looks they built the new database using the current state of the art from db / data structure literature (distributed b+ trees).

On a semi-unrelated rant... I do have to say that Sql/NoSql/MoarSql nomenclature is getting old. The databases we're talking about are relational databases. The fundamental properties of these databases (selection, projection, aggregation, joins, et al) are properties of relational model (databases) and stem from relation algebra and calculus.

It just happens that the most common way of interfacing with these relational databases is the SQL language.

And, as far as languages SQL is kind of meh. It's really not that easy to work with / write (non-trivial queries). And, more importantly it's kind of a pain to generate via code.

END RANT
People will go along with things for a lot of reasons. Threats, bribery, the "I do what I'm told" mentality etc.
according to the last CONCORD study, this seems to be not true.

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...

numbers in the US are good, but not significantly better than, say, germany.
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Yet people are still quick to say "...but what about Big Pharma?" when there's a discussion about abolishing patents.

I don't know if patents should be abolished completely, but if there's a discussion about a serious patent reform, we should stop considering pharmaceuticals as some kind of exception, and apply the new reform equally to everyone, instead of allowing exceptions for Big Pharma, or worse, watering down reforms to protect Big Pharma.
How can professional builders be less efficient than DIY builders?

Perhaps you're missing the point: it is demand that drives prices up, not supply.
I've heard something similar for freezers or some other kitchen equipment but can't find it right now.

Since it can be done through software and those red to green sheets are all over cars and electrical equipment inventing new levels of A+++++...well, I'd guess: very likely.
The blue on blue in Afghanistan mentioned in the first para was caused by the GPS resetting its self (to the current location) when the batteries where changed.

Which is why the SF team unfortunately called the strike on them selves - this happened a couple of times I belive.
I don't think you quite understand what's controversial about the current concern over ad-blocking. You miss the point that Apple is using ad-blocking as a business decision to make traditional ad-supported monetization harder for Google et al., forcing the publications and websites who use traditional advertising platforms away from the internet, and onto app stores, where ad-blocking is more difficult.

To write off the entire controversy as "foolish" is irritating because this article is completely ignorant to any nuance beyond "ad blockers let you disable ads." Yes, but who is doing the ad-blocking? Which ads are being blocked? Are all ads treated equal? Is ad-blocking being done as an imperative, or as a means of control?
One of the most significant parts of this rebuttal is this team's commitment to open scientific data. They've made 3d shape files available on http://morphosource.org/ and encourage critics and reviewers to print out the bones and compare them.

Imagine the kind of access this gives laypeople! Everyone from poor institutions in developing nations to high schools in farm towns can now duplicate these bones for research or to simply inspire wonder about human history because of new technology and one team's belief in free information.
Yes. Another angle...

Just looking around me there are 45 wireless SSIDs, crazy interference and nothing but crap flying around my airspace. Half the time I can see people's bluetooth devices wide open in nearby houses as well.

Add to that the impending 9000 useless little devices that will be broken and this is the RF equivalent of space debris. It's got to the point I can barely keep a WiFi connection up for more than a few minutes already. Even on my 4G connection I'm lucky to get 4mbits due to the contention locally. I can upload at 40mbits though which is crazy

So literally last weekend I cabled my house with 5 runs of 100 meg ethernet and a couple of long patch leads in the living room and stuffed in a cheap 8 port netgear switch from ebay. Plugged the whole thing into my router and turned off the WiFi entirely just using it as a switch + NAT combo.

I can now transfer files between my desktop and laptop at 10Mbytes/second rather than 500k/second with dropouts. It is simply bliss. Even my wife is no longer annoyed about the prospect of dangling wires because stuff is working again.

It has got to the point that I'd rather have a broken CAT5 plug that falls out every 5 minutes than WiFi. I really don't know how all this tech is going to work when there is so much contention and noise already. I think it will just contribute to the pain.
Is that true? Because when you combine that with the amount that US citizens spend on private insurance and other self-funded health care expenses, wow.
You can store a Trie or a DAFSA in a single chunk of memory and still have blazingly fast lookups - see double-array tries. The disadvantage is that inserting/removing values is more costly, but DAFSA doesn't support it anyways.

https://code.google.com/p/dawgdic/ library works this way; I'm not sure, but it seems https://github.com/chalup/dawggenerator also works this way.

For mutable tries there are HAT-Tries which are designed to be cache-friendly; see e.g. an implementation at https://github.com/dcjones/hat-trie and a Python wrapper at https://github.com/kmike/hat-trie.
I think it would be a better way to know if time travel to the past is possible. A physical meeting is too dangerous for them.
Modularity has advantages (repairability, upgradability, switching out manufacturers) and also disadvantages (cost, design constraints).

The way I'm seeing it technological advance is changing how big those are. I still remember how soldered on cpus were seen as a problem with laptops. I don't know anyone who ever upgraded their cpu (might be that it was more common earlier). Laptop batteries today are way better than what they used to be. They used to hold maybe 2 or 3 years before having unusable usage times. The development in RAM is stagnating.

And of course Apple now is so big that they can just dictate proprietary connectors.
The cost to setup a process and maintain it according to FDA requirements.

The market size is likely just under the cost to establish the manufacturing capacity for the US market.
"Banks are optimally opaque institutions.
They produce debt for use as a transaction medium (bank money),
which requires that information about the backing assets – loans – not be revealed,
so that bank money does not fluctuate in value, reducing the efficiency of trade."

-Banks As Secret Keepers: https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2015conference/program/retrieve.p...

There's a recent but very influential paper that shows that banks need to keep their assets secret to function well.
I wonder how its possible to enforce these regulations? I guess one way would be simply not allowing drones to be sold in the open markets.
Their PR dept could very well have floated this story all over the place and Vice is the one that took the bait.
Loads of things have been handed over from the government to companies within The Netherlands. Your general statement that governments are not good I highly doubt. Especially for basic services, governments seem to run them cheaper and more reliably.
What does it do beyond what tex4ht does? If there is some way tex4ht could be improved, perhaps it would be best to contribute to that project? https://www.tug.org/applications/tex4ht/mn.html
I didn't thought about it yet, but right now when you put =SUM(A1:A10) into cell, and GET (or POST) it via API, you will get the result (sum of the column 1-10). So, it'll be working with sheets the same way.

ex. when you put =Sheet2!A1 and get that via API, you will get the value of A1 cell in Sheet2.
I did run the example from the README, with "%timeit range(0, 1000)" in ipython:

10000 loops, best of 3: 72.9 µs per loop @ CPython 2.7.10 with NOP

10000 loops, best of 3: 77.2 µs per loop @ CPython 2.7.10 with JUMP_FORWARD

10000 loops, best of 3: 106 µs per loop @ CPython 3.5.0 with NOP

10000 loops, best of 3: 106 µs per loop @ CPython 3.5.0 with JUMP_FORWARD

100000 loops, best of 3: 8.6 µs per loop @ PyPy 2.4.0 with NOP

100000 loops, best of 3: 8.7 µs per loop @ PyPy 2.4.0 with JUMP_FORWARD

To my surprise, in fact, JUMP_FORWARD isn't any faster than 7 NOPs. In Python 2.7, JUMP_FORWARD is even slower. So reverted:

https://github.com/snoack/python-goto/commit/d19d244a9e5efdf...

Thanks for the pointer!
This sounds like a guy making idle threats. "I have an offer for $X !!!!!!" - but it doesn't really seem he's interested in leaving.

Honestly, for 5 years of raises, he didn't negotiate well. If he negotiated more aggressively, he probably could've gotten up to 200k at this point, since he was promoted to be one of the key technical people.

One key thing he didn't do was negotiate the new job offer well. If they offer you $75k at a new job, you need to push them up to 85k-90k. Once you have that, you go to your current boss and negotiate it up to $100-115k. By not countering, he lost one of the major advantages of finding a secondary offer.

Yes, it's better than not having something to fall back on, but he left 50% (or more) on the table.

It's like asking for a discount, and getting 2%. That's ridiculous. If they're willing to give you 2%, they can give you 10-20% as well.
I actually think the industrial side of the story is where real value will be created. I'm also working on an industrial iot application, and would really like to chat! Is this your company?

http://www.zeefaxcms.com/images/data_sheets/zeefax_data_shee...
Maybe you could trick the car to run in low emissions mode by having a scarecrow in an expensive suit and a pillow under the shirt. You would have to place these every hundred meters in a neighborhood.
But do you feel aggressively guilty?
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They'll be allowed back on the road; but you can bet that there will be backlash about them losing performance because of it.
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'Totally honest', as in, lie through your teeth, repeatedly?
Awesome work! Would be great to also auto-complete load balancers.
This may sound crazy, but this reminds me the behavior of a self-optimizing system.

Too many people work on little parts of it, nobody sees the big picture. Everybody applies the 'spec' blindly. At the end you get something that becomes very good at explotiing loopholes by 'itself'. It's a side effect.

I mean, your sunday-afternoon genetic algorithm would do the same kind of things :)
We put a food processor who knowingly shipped tainted food in prison?
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Well, it's not R&D I work with. And it is possible, that this "feature" was not even developed by VW itself, but by a supplier. However, someone must have known this within the company. And since the CEO is also head of the R&D department.....
True, but to reach that level you need to practice a lot.

You gain that comprehension through practice first and then you polish it by trying to explain it to someone else.

I know I'll write tons of toy programs to teach myself a concept before I try to explain it to someone, just like I'll try every position of a scale until I can effortlessly play it before I try to show it off.
Windows: easy things are easy, normal things require some googling, hard things are impossible.

Linux: easy things are easy, normal things require some googling, hard things are hard.
I don't understand this "defeat device". What's the incentive for VW to do this? If the car can emit in the target range during a test, why not do it all time?
It really isn't comparable.

Computers are tools. Drugs are health. They are a public good and a natural human right. Holding people's health hostage is unacceptable whether you do it with a knife in an alley, or a capitalist health system.

Mixing them up like the USA system does is a category error.
true REST != JSON :D

yes json it's convenient. no json isn't stateful, unless you transmit operations and allow API discovery, not just data.
There's also a confirmed link (in western societies) between being poor and being overweight. Though I'm pretty certain we all realise not having money does not cause your body to accumulate fat. Correlation != causation [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...
Oh my wife isn't like that and her meat consumption is totally reasonable. Our standard meal is basically what you describe: about 250g of beef with a bunch of veggies and maybe rice or bread. I've only been having soylent for breakfasts during the weekday, where I'm trying to get out the door and get to work quickly so I keep my post-workout momentum.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone consume 1kg+ of meat. Maybe at a Brazilian steakhouse, but that is a rare and expensive luxury I've only been to once for a friend's party that they called "the meat faucet".
When I saw the headline I had a feeling it would be Turing. I was contacted by a recruiter last year and had a couple conversations about joining them as they were looking for an IT guy - the CIO was doing all of that work and they wanted someone else to be hands-on and eventually build a team. Sounded like a great opportunity and things were progressing. Then I bothered to Google them...

Once I read up on Martin Shkreli I told them that I did not think it was the kind of place for me and withdrew. I have no idea if they would have hired me or anything, but just reading about him gave me a sick feeling in my stomach.
Screen backlights are LEDs today and last significantly longer.
Or just don't buy phones with an OS that the OS developer can't actually patch. Buying Android is buying poor security.
Along the same lines, can we also stop talking about how the Great Recession has ended? It hasn't ended for something like 99% of people.
> I built value in myself and in the work I was doing

More details of how you built value in yourself would be great.
Probably lowers efficiency
Could it be because your camera is now pretty much a whole photography studio in a compact package, and to make it as sturdy as those old cameras that had three moving parts it will need to cost twice as much?
Yeah, I hear where you're coming from, but all of those parts are still serviceable. If your starter goes on your Ford car, you might have to buy a Ford starter (or a third party starter for a Ford car), but it can still be fixed with a commonly accessible set of relatively inexpensive tools.

If the RAM in my Macbook gets cooked, either I can buy an entire new motherboard, or a new laptop. It's throwing the baby out with the bath water, and the truck/lawnmower example you've mentioned doesn't extend to that.
Emergency call is one of the features that must work for a device to pass certification (numbers: 911, 112, and, a third one I cannot remember). In that sense, this is not an unimportant feature.

However, AFAIK, not being able to make regular calls without using a password isn't part of certification testing.
Note: if you changed the first row to show the type of data that will follow, that API will be tons nicer to use.
Ah man, this is perfect! finally a way to get simple servers running with very little hassle.

One major feature I would like is the ability to specify cells for I/O. Eg in some sort of "my api" console I could say "/custom_api, {stuff:A5, things:A6}, B2". Then requests to GET /custom_api would plug in the key-value of "stuff" into A5 and "things" into A6 and then respond with whatever is in B2.

Once more useful features are up, the ability to disable parts of the API (eg dump the whole spreadsheet) would be necessary.

Obviously you wouldn't build a large app with this, but I could see many traditional businesses using it for more than just prototyping.
There are many rankings that put the US healthcare system as a whole behind its economic peer countries whilst spending far more per capita. Example:

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/20...

Excluding 15% of the population from all but emergency care pretty much guarantees this outcome.
well, if the original idea is that it would only be for this year's model, someone could have enough suspension of disbelief to feel it's safe

Humans are notoriously bad at risk judgement for this kind of thing. Basically the adult equivalent of "If I can't see you, you can't see me"
Right now every solar hydrogen production technology is an order of magnitude more expensive than steam reforming with little opportunity of ever becoming competitive.
Then what does it include?
1. How to get columns?

2. Your docs say: http://sheetsu.com/apis/12345/column/:column_name

Is ':' a documentation convention somewhere that I've not come across? I tried:

http://sheetsu.com/apis/12345/column/:Email

http://sheetsu.com/apis/12345/column/:email

until I realised it was just:

http://sheetsu.com/apis/12345/column/Email
What about VW going after the US through the TPP ?

From http://www.dailydot.com/politics/tpp-leaked-investment-chapt...

> Corporations may be granted through “Investor-State Dispute Settlement” (ISDS) tribunals the authority to demand taxpayer compensation for domestic energy, health, environment, land use, and other policies. With the exception of Australia, all of the countries involved in the TPP talks have agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of ISDS tribunals.

*edited to format the quote. Giving up.
Careful. If you don't source your candles properly you might end up with lead wicks, even though they've (shockingly recently) been outlawed in the US.

I've also got concerns about the material used to make the candles themselves. I started burning beeswax candles, and now when I'm around the more common sort it smells like factory waste, or like someone took all the chemicals under a sink and mixed them together. Unpleasant and disquieting.
Interesting. I guess we don't want to bring back the Rocky Mountain locust. On the other hand, according to that Wiki article, they may not actually be extinct, just morphed into some other form of grasshopper.

Presumably there'd be predators (hawks, falcons, owls, eagles, snakes and other nest invaders, humans with shotguns) that would keep down the pigeon population. But, maybe not. Still, we need to try :)
That might be a lot more palatable to people if it came with strings attached. Maybe if you're not allowed to marry and have children if you're on basic income? After a few generations, the problem should disappear then.
Clickbaits suck, but they work. Up to mods to filter them
I just don't understand this wireless craze. I get that normal consumers buy into it, but for anyone mildly technically inclined, nobody should be using wireless anywhere they can avoid it. Wireless is just a messy solution. The only wireless devices I use at home are my phones.
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I suspect you're correct. Issue is, from what I read, it would perhaps be better if most of those sorties were never flown. It seems that use of air power will tend to prioritise the lives of soldiers over civilians. ('Blue on blue' not withstanding, but then my point above was not really about that, but about the anecdotal nature of much of the conversation.)
I find that Pandoc fulfills all of my needs.
Yes, it's just /column/Email.
Firefox has no problem with %00 links
Two thoughts:

1. Look at places like Stack Exchange to see which sub-fields are getting a lot of questions.

2. Look at tech jobs listing sites and see what they're including on their nice to have / must have lists in their listings.
Pretty much all these distributed databases at their core somehow handle the partitioning of data. Even if sometimes it's just throwing up your hands and saying there's a user has to provide us a partitioning function. That's true in non-relational databases (Hbase, Casandra, Mongo) and in relational ones (Volt, Vetica, this db).

It looks like here the data structure enabling partitioning is based on prior art distributed B+ Tree.

From the paper it looks like it allows for full ACID transactions. At least to the physical extents that ACID is possible.
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