skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Michael Eisen is a professor at Berkeley, founder of the Public Library of Science and pioneered the use of microarrays for studying gene expression. This blog post is in response to the recent controversy about CRISPR, in particular Eric Lander's article called "The Heroes of CRISPR."
This looks interesting, but it'll take some time to read through.
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I understood that some aboriginal American speakers had 'conversational timers' that were in the minutes. That is, when somebody (an elder?) stopped talking, you waited for 5 minutes of silence before you could be sure they were done talking. Navaho perhaps?
It's completely clear to me that universities using adjuncts as consultants are violating federal laws and likely many state laws as well. Like most other such problems, the only solution is a major class action lawsuit like the one against Uber. I have no doubt whatsoever that given a fair trial, any competent judge or jury would see abuse here, if for no other reason than they are forced to work at specific times in a specific place. There is just absolutely no way you can justify this as consulting work when they cannot decide either the time or location of the work being done. There are other obvious violations but these are so egregious, it's revolting. Of course, you have to see the lawsuit to its conclusion because the Labor department doesn't give a shit about labor laws being broken and will tell you as much when you try to bring that up.
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"It is specified - a struct tag is just a string literal after a struct field."

I meant the internals of a struct tag, not the grammar. The standard library implies some structure with things like `json:"name,omit_empty"` but that structure is not actually specified AFAIK. And I seem to recall finding a github issue where the core team said they don't intend to specify one, basically for the reason that they don't want struct tags to be used for things like this systematically, but I couldn't google it up. If they fully "specify" struct tags I think they fear massive metadata additions, instead of little annotations here and there. I'm not quite sure enough of this to state it without qualification, but I am pretty sure it is accurate.
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I'm with you. I'd call a thing 'a thing' if you could haul it out to the rubbish in one go.
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I see them in downtown and rockcliffe park.
I've taken a crack at something similar, I'd love to see what you came up with. I ended up with this super-meh solution: https://github.com/zmap/ztag/blob/master/ztag/transform.py#L...
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A well-written, thought out response. Thanks!
This is specifically a port of MAME4ALL-pi[1] which I'm guessing is because it's been specifically optimized for somewhat under powered ARM devices.

[1] https://github.com/RetroPie/mame4all-pi
First-world problems. tl;dr. Author runs some projects on Github and freaks out because people reach back with issues.

"I simply took everything and got rid of it. I couldn’t face the guilt of people expecting me to dedicate time to their specific issues."

Then goes on to write a blog post to tell the world of the awful experience of being notified and expected to help.
They claimed to be "the only public toolkit that can scale beyond single machine". Well, mxnet (https://github.com/dmlc/mxnet) can scale across multiple CPUs and GPUs.
> Michael Eisen is a professor at Berkeley

and friend and colleague of Jennifer Doudna.

What’s the path forward? Is labeling Lander a “villain” useful?
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I also read (well, skimmed through) both of her books, and found them to be so vague as to be useless. Would have greatly benefited from having a lot of diagrams and photos to illustrate her points (new book does have a few, though).
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Which is, incidentally, one of the points this case will hinge on. Being able to set your own rates is one of the key differentiators between contract and employee labour, and Uber drivers clearly do not have that ability.
Thanks. CImg seems to be whole in one 2 MB header file? Wow.
Speech recognition could help. In fact some doctors already make (very quick) voice-recording notes and have an assistant transcribe them.

But... we already have much more advanced technology than we had 30, 20, or even 15 years ago. And the problem has only gotten worse.

> “Our notes could be shorter back then,” was his reply. (Insurance, regulations and electronic health records weren’t issues back then.)

This quote in passing just assumes everyone is familiar with the fact that "electronic health records" are something that makes things harder. That doesn't make sense, does it? Shouldn't electronic records make things easier? They should. But they don't, due to adverse incentives in the medical system, and in the political organizations which constitute it.

My point is, the pressing need is not for more advanced technology. We have the technology, we have had it for years. We just need to somehow reduce the crazyness. Medical software is like enterprise software but worse - it's the crappiest, most expensive software you've ever seen in your life. There are all sorts of reasons for this. It's not chosen by the people who use it, checkbox feature lists are more important than what works, regulations, political deals, "high touch" sales, etc. The result is often "I have to sign in three times, then wait 5 minutes for it to load the patient, and hope it doesn't crash in the middle". It has to be seen to be believed.
Ask HN: How much paper do you have laying around you wish could be scanned?
How much paper do you have laying around you wish could be scanned and organized? How much would you pay to solve the problem? how often would you need stuff scanned?
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That's good, it's more obviously a joke. Your original could almost be confused with a legitimate cry for help!
Wow! No excuses now. With pairNIC you can call up and talk to a technical person during business hours in Pittsburgh, PA.
Look at Trump and Palin. They talk gibberish with confidence and a certain type of charisma and people lap them up.
What would the total maintenance cost be over that 300k-500k period?
An SClass drivetrain costs a small fortune to maintain. In general, people who purchase a used S class are wanting the status at steep depreciation prices, and as a rule arent willing to pay the price of routine maintenance.

I see both sides of the argument. Buying a good used car for cash is probably a better investment financially. I personally don't trust the secondary car market to be honest with me that a car has been taken care of properly. Maintenance records can be and are faked. I generally don't mind paying more to have a newer and usually more reliable car with a warranty. I do usually drive them until they're paid off plus some time span, but in general its not very long, 1-2 years max.
There is also option 3: Reduce the amount of paperwork doctors need to do.
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Non sequitur objection to the whole 'potsmoker == lazy, unproductive' bit. When will we get over that one? Half of Silicon Valley is likely stoned at work right now, busily hacking away.
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Yes, it's one of things in ReactJS I don't like (inheritance is the second), but people like it. People tend to like what is easier to do, until they know bad consequences.
3) Push back and let supervisors/managers know that treating a patient takes X + Y time, where X is the time with the patient, and Y is the time for admin/non-billable duties for that patient.

Admittedly, doing so isn't as easy as it sounds, but this isn't all that much different than developers being told to push back on schedules that don't leave time for (testing, documentation, technical debt payoff, etc)
The requirement for high levels of documentation is largely an attempt by payers (insurers) to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse. In the US most healthcare providers are still paid on a fee for service basis so the more patients they treat in a day the more money they make. There have been many incidents of providers submitting claims for patients who didn't need treatment, or with the wrong billing codes. (Obviously the vast majority of doctors don't do anything unethical or illegal, but still fraud is fairly common.) So payers want to see the notes in order to verify that treatment actually occurred, was medically necessary, and consistent with the terms of the patient's insurance policy.

The new Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model has the potential to reduce the documentation requirement. Under that model the insurer shifts the risk to a provider organization which is receives a flat fee per year to care for the patient. So the providers no longer need to submit detailed insurance claims.

The secondary reason for requiring detailed clinical documentation is coordinating between all members of a patient's care team. Obviously your primary care physician would like to know what your psychiatrist did and why.
> What happens when a bunch of states and
> municipalities alter their minimum wage policies

What kind of sizes to you need to be statistically significant?

How can you be confident that there are not network effects in play that you don't know about. Immigration patterns, organised crime networks, political corruption, the subtleties of quality in supply chain companies, measurement variation, the culture of particular trade unions. What if someone else is running other economic experiments in parallel to you?

What if there's network effects created by the contrast between the areas you're changing? In municipality A you raise wages and not in muni B. Labour will feel pull to flow from one to the other while you're running the experiment.

You'll never come close to modeling all this.

Worse yet - these are fundamentally political issues that relate to practice of power and allocation of resources. Everyone has an agenda in how they play out, and this further muddies the water of the experiment and the analysis.

> I'm not sure if the response to difficulties in
> measurement is to build a system out of faith and
> assumptions.

I have these concern also. As I look at it - everyone is operating on faith and assumptions. The Austrian position is strange in that it's honest about it.
There's some interesting things in this article, other than the "universal" gap. Tidbits like this:

> "The brevity of these silences is doubly astonishing when you consider that it takes at least 600 milliseconds for us to retrieve a single word from memory and get ready to actually say it. For a short clause, that processing time rises to 1500 milliseconds. This means that we have to start planning our responses in the middle of a partner’s turn, using everything from grammatical cues to changes in pitch. We continuously predict what the rest of a sentence will contain, while similarly building our hypothetical rejoinder, all using largely overlapping neural circuits."

Makes sense. I (and I'm assuming everyone) will have stories/anecdotes/arguments at the ready during a conversation, and they'll vary and change based on what the other parties are saying. I just didn't realize that this was a necessary thing.
Which is why when the reissue was pressed in 2012, I snapped the black vinyl copy as soon as time allowed.
To be fair, the book isn't complete yet and it hasn't nearly reached 1.0 yet. Some other listed languages are at similar stages of development, like Nim, Crystal, Ceylon, Elm, and Julia (in fact, a few of these seem closer to a production-ready product than Idris does). I assume most of these will be removed after an official 1.0 launch.
My SO is a family medicine MD and works at an inner city clinic. When we first started dating she'd mention the need to spend time during the evenings to write notes. As someone that a) wanted more of her time b) wrote software for a living, it surprised me that such a system doesn't already exist. It seems like it could aid in catching errors and also being a helpful assistant of sorts to ensure good notes are being captured and all possibilities are being addressed.

From what I've seen, even with newer EHR systems (Epic, Athena), medical technology is about 15 years behind current technology.
Here are some references to skin problems:

https://franceshunter.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/scurvy-and-th...
I found the story about collecting the data intellectually interesting. [1] That there isn't some earth shattering pseudo-analysis for the sake of link bait is okbyme. Maybe something will pop out of the data or maybe I can simply use it to confirm my own beliefs. Anyway, it reminds me of hacking for the sake of hacking [1] and I appreciate the attention given to the write up: line drawings of helicopters rather than Medium style meme GIF's.

YMMV [1]

[1]: Admittedly, that may be a greater reflection of the low quality of my intellect than the high quality of the article.
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more like: paid someone to develop an app
It looks like Professor Eisen's blog is down at the moment. Here's a link to the Google cache of that page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Same here, though I find that it still helps a lot with procrastination. Separating the process of discovering content and actually consuming it means I'll only lose 10 minutes instead of getting sucked in for an hour because I'm too afraid to close the tab.

I actually got through a nice chunk of my read offline folder during a long car trip recently, but that only justified this hoarding tendency!
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I'm not super interested in the thoughts of those I "know and trust" as I'm reading (since a circle of real friends would be too small and too unlikely to have all read the same things for this to be effective, I'm assuming this is the social-network definition of "know and trust", which is to say "follow on Twitter", so that's an even stronger no) but high-quality, extensive commentary and annotation by multiple experts would be great. Many books have some of this in the form of an introduction and some footnotes/endnotes, but I'd love the ability to turn on much higher levels of this for, say, second readings.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem like ebooks are good at handling even basic annotations—certainly no better than dead-tree books—so I'm not seeing that happening any time soon. Plus if it ever happens it'll probably be some stupid online service, which I don't want. I want it to be part of the book, like DVD commentary tracks, or at least a downloadable add-on file of some kind that sticks around as long as I want it and can be backed up.
See "What Colour are your bits?": http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Out of curiosity does anyone know the default for Xcode? Looking at my settings it has indent using 4 spaces and I don't remember ever setting it.
The irony is in the comments here. Most people are bad at recognizing the irony in their own responses.

Personally, since personal space is known to be very culturally specific, I'd like to see if the physiological responses they measured similarly differ by culture. (They may not be measuring personal space phenomena at all.)
He is also a firebrand who does not care who he upsets, which works for both good and ill. (I have worked with Mike before, although in a distant capacity.)
This explains why he can sometimes appear highly quixotic.
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Yes, 100%. They're playing with Bongripper who are also amazing and you'll be happy you went.
I think the Atlantic article conveyed the wrong conclusion. The full text of the article is here: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/26/10587.full

The abstract has their conclusions:

"Informal verbal interaction is the core matrix for human social life. A mechanism for coordinating this basic mode of interaction is a system of turn-taking that regulates who is to speak and when. Yet relatively little is known about how this system varies across cultures. The anthropological literature reports significant cultural differences in the timing of turn-taking in ordinary conversation. We test these claims and show that in fact there are striking universals in the underlying pattern of response latency in conversation. Using a worldwide sample of 10 languages drawn from traditional indigenous communities to major world languages, we show that all of the languages tested provide clear evidence for a general avoidance of overlapping talk and a minimization of silence between conversational turns. In addition, all of the languages show the same factors explaining within-language variation in speed of response. We do, however, find differences across the languages in the average gap between turns, within a range of 250 ms from the cross-language mean. We believe that a natural sensitivity to these tempo differences leads to a subjective perception of dramatic or even fundamental differences as offered in ethnographic reports of conversational style. Our empirical evidence suggests robust human universals in this domain, where local variations are quantitative only, pointing to a single shared infrastructure for language use with likely ethological foundations."

The research article claims that all languages have this gap, and that within a culture, the gap is quite consistent. Across cultures and languages, however, the gap has a decent spread, as you observed. In the discussion, the research article authors say,

"Amid a strong universal pattern, we do see measurable cultural differences. However, the range that we show, mean offset of next turn in each language departing no more than a quarter-second from the overall mean, is not of the kind that would imply fundamentally different types of turn-taking systems in the different languages, as the cultural variability hypothesis would suggest."

Honestly, I'm still trying to reason through how their data and conclusions line up, but their conclusions are more subtle than what the Atlantic article explains. (Which is not surprising to me.)

edit: Looking at the distribution graphs, it is true that these means are close compared to the tails of the distributions: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/26/10587/F1.large.jpg
Checkout the source code (over HTTPS) and compile it yourself then?
Could you please mention good filters, both free and commercial, that you think "aesthetically pleasant to boot"?
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> I also like the immutable variables aspect.

Elixir has the same immutable variables. I don't know why this is such a misconception. Erlang conflates rebinding and reassignment, Elixir does not, and the tradeoffs seem to (overall) be better in Elixir's case. Here, read the language creators' explanation as to why that is, it's the best:

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/01/comparing-elixir-an...

Very succinct and (hopefully) puts this misconception to bed.
It's useful when you are pushing an agenda.
The general form of this joke apparently goes back to at least the 1950s:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=264228
They exist to maintain a status quo.
My buddy Tom has a popular game (in a fairly small community) that they're always pressing him to make open (put on GitHub). He tells them "Its my hobby. Why would I give my hobby away? How would it help me to let you take my hobby away?"

This article adds a new reason to keep stuff private: you can go crazy with all the clamoring to improve or 'fix' things.
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Saw them in 2010. Smoked dope during Dopesmoker. Highly recommended, no pun intended.
You could download the Soundcloud tracks into a directory and add the directory to Spotify.
> CRISPR, for those of you who do not know, is an anti-viral immune system found in archaea and bacteria, that until a few years ago, was all but unknown outside the small group of scientists have been studying it since its discovery a quarter century ago. This all changed in 2012, when a paper from colleagues of mine at Berkeley and their collaborators in Europe described a simple way to repurpose components of the CRISPR system of the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes to cut DNA in a easily programmable manner.
I do have a problem with them, and still mostly agree with gp.
To me, it's more of a safety issue. I move erratically.
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Wow, my heart sank when I read this comment.

The frustrating reality of life...
The rich and powerful.
Classic media is easily organizable in a few bookcases.

A few hundred handbags and coats? That is an incredibly large number. Could that not be reduced by an order of magnitude?
What exactly is that status quo? Things are constantly changing and the NSA has itself greatly evolved from where it originally started.
Kind of curious how you managed to attract a wife with that lifestyle.
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To give people an idea of what someone else found most interesting or novel in the book:

-- The "spark of joy" test (hold the object in your hand and ask yourself, does this thing give me a spark of joy? if not, get rid of it)

-- The consistent idea of respect for your things. This reminds me of older generations that more consistently mended clothing and fixed small home appliances. They understood that value of treating their possessions nicely (folding them well, storing them correctly) because it saved them time and money in later care. Many of us don't understand how to maintain our stuff -- we just get new socks when there's a little hole in the old one or wear the sock until the little hole is too big to fix. Kondo's book doesn't address fixing things, but it does address proper storage so that clothing lasts and performs better.

-- Honestly, I love her folding methods and my sock and underwear space went from 2 drawers to 1. All my shirts now fit on one shelf as well. As someone who needs to see everything in order to process that totality, I was always accused of being messy before, because I'd rather keep all things things in view instead of in some stupid "storage solution." Now I can keep it all visible and look neat. Now how could I do this in my office?!
It's a squick factor issue. When you're trying to break down templates as small as possible, everything tends to become a bit icky in templating systems anyway. Consider -

[% BLOCK foo %]
<td>[% payload %]</td>
[% END %]
...
[% INCLUDE foo payload=something %]

in TT (perl's Template Toolkit, which I'm about 98% sure pkrumins is familiar with already), and then

function foo ({ payload }) {
<td>{ payload }</td>
}
...
<Foo payload={something}/>

Once you've got a bunch of them in the same file, I don't honestly find the JSX much different. The trick for me is to have the HTML in .js files that contain only pure functional rendering components - so when I'm editing those, I can think in HTML and just treat the JS as a slightly weird template syntax - at which point the squick factor mostly recedes.
This.

After working quite a bit with AngularJS, trying to read HTML with a ton of AngularJs is nearly impossible at times.

React is way easier to read and makes a lot more sense to my modular thinking about code. It also works naturally better for SEO compared to AngularJS.