skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are so many examples of people who have learned a Lisp-family language in school and gone on to learn an industrial language later. This is a Lisp-family language with some syntactic sugar to make it look more Pythonic, basically.
> none of the "top tier" biomedical journals are open access

Is this solely a product of network effects? Or could there be some truth to the top journals' ability to organise the review process?
There are some legal and political difficulties around the topic.

But the Police are very aware of who is up to what.

Cops in Toronto work with various groups all day, every day, they know what is going on. They know when it's 'Asian gang' vs. 'Bikers' vs. 'Somalis' vs. 'Mafia' etc..

Somalis have formed an ad-hoc kind of organized crime syndicate, maybe somewhat similar to the Sicilian folks, but with totally different attitude towards violence, different operating methods. I don't think they control a lot of turf directly, but they coordinate across the country.

These things are evident even to many local residents. My folks live (lived) in Woodbridge, Ontario, which is the Italian area of Toronto, the cafe I used to go to was obviously a hangout and probably money laundering front for the Mafia. Networks are small you only have to know a few people and you get the notion pretty quick. I never felt afraid. Nor would if I were in in a similar situation owned by an Asian gang. But Somalis - I wouldn't go near a place like that.

Different cultures = different behaviour. That's actually what 'diversity' is :)

Finally ... I'm ashamed to say my 'source' on much of this is a 'distant relative', who is currently in jail, and 'very close' to organized crime.
That's not really accurate. Freedom of assembly is interpreted pretty generously. It's fine to disqualify on not knowing how to drive safely, but any other unrelated qualifier would be struck down as unconstitutional.
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I'm distressed at the amount of fatalism and hopelessness in this thread. Every professional has agency and the ability to act ethically. They can choose to stand up for people's rights or not; the best guess is that these ethics will be tested by the next administration. Large scale human rights violations require the complicity of a lot of people who may be uncertain about how to act in the face of moral ambiguity, and a public pledge to not be complicit can help a lot.

People are making a public pledge. Other people who haven't signed the pledge might read it and get encouraged by it, or see a name on there of someone they look up to, and decide that everything isn't hopeless, or decide to act ethically in the face of questionable decisions.
If I understand the author's intent correctly—and I'm not sure that I do—I think the idea is that diversity in the market is dying off, and Apple is on its way to becoming the 800 pound gorilla.
Although I'm a fan of 'Google it yourself' here is the first result from Google

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

I'm sure with a little effort you can find better ones should you be interested in that topic.
> How is zero mathematically any different then +1000 or -1000 that justifies making it a special case?

Zero is actually always a special case in math, specially in algebra, the only number where division by it is not defined.

> Nope, what leads to problems is that people don't understand the difference between cardinal and ordinal numbers.

Actually, by Von Neumann definition of ordinals, ordinal 0 represents an empty set, thus it's equivalent of null, not single element set. So strictly mathematically speaking for non-empty sets we should use ordinals starting at 1.

But using zero-based indices is just a matter of convention, so lets not make a big philosophy out of it...
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It sounds like you don't have any proper roads [1] close by.

[1] https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ca/e2/45/cae2...
I'm talking general English. What happens when you assembly a group of people? You have an assembly. The same can be said for other objects.
The sad thing is, most people who share fake news will just claim that Facebook is now part of the Soros-Clinton conspiracy to support the MSM and hide the truth from the public. I like that they have a specific set of guidelines for determining the veracity of a news story, and I'm sure this will go a long way towards removing the financial incentive, but I'm guessing it won't sway many minds.
I understand your point. This was just a quick example to show that the data is there. I'm not saying that the FBI is going to start a campaign of Facebook ads.

Facebook data is there, and it could be mined in more advanced ways to extract a database of its Muslim users. This data can extend beyond the "religion" entry in a profile, to analyze posts on religious holidays, vocabulary and idiomatic expressions, images shared, etc..
That indeed is a very good way to phrase the core of the problem for non-mathematicians, thanks :-)
I expect some underhanded entries to exploit some type-level recursion. When combined with traits, that could yield some nice surprises, particularly when overloading specific instances.
It's de-facto a M/E country. The North African countries are Arabic, Muslim, and are geopolitically part of the Arabic sphere of influence which is de-facto the same thing as middle east.

'North Africa' I find to be not descriptive.

The best term would be 'Maghreb' - but nobody knows what that means.

M/E is an appropriate geopolitical designation.
Given that actual professors of ethics, professional ethicists, are no more moral than other professors this would be nothing but a waste of time.

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/PowerReas...

The Moral Behavior of Ethicists and the Power of Reason, Joshua Rust, Eric Schwitzgebel

Professional ethicists behave no morally better, on average, than do other professors. At least that’s what we have found in a series of empirical studies that we will summarize below.
There's plenty wrong with asking people to register their serial numbers, especially when you combine these two statements:

> asking owners to register their serial numbers
> deadly weapon, bearing a serial number that might be especially useful if found at a crime scene
Genuinely curious, and hopefully this doesn't come across as inflammatory. When you say you can't focus, and they say "lots of other people can't focus" - you mean that they don't know what it's like for you - but how do you know what it's like for them?
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what do you mean by modern friendly?
Egypt and it's 100 million (possibly other muslim majority countries?) consider thursday-friday the weekend.
An interesting, but somewhat depressing argument can be made that subscribing to a specific religion, along with one or two other "flags" is actually far more dangerous than legally purchasing a firearm.

Most reports put between 80%-94% of crimes involving a gun as being committed with an illegally obtained weapon. Which means of the 300k firearm related crimes in 2013 perhaps less than 20k were due to legal gun ownership.

I'm not bringing all this up because I actually believe Muslims are more dangerous than guns, or that Trump was right, or anything along those lines. I'm just trying to highlight how your bias might be more unfounded than you'd imagine.
There have been bombings, gun battles and other mass murders in the streets of Paris, Marseille and elsewhere in Europe, and no sign of dictatorships.
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As much as I respect Dijkstra, I never accepted this as something that makes sense, it is ugly remnant from older times where calculations were precious and it was considered smart to put number that you would add to base address, to calculate array address.

This is not commonly held belief. I am in minority but this is what makes sense and I always believed that computers should serve us, not the other way around.
I signed, I'm a fan. If in spite of all this, it or something like it does get created, I think a complimentary strategy would be to overwhelm the database and make it useless. For example, if there was a public registry, everyone should register, making swamping the intended signal with noise. Make it impossible to use the thing.

I hope we never get to that stage.
Picketty's book does at least attempt to address this. He proposes a switch from income tax to wealth tax. He shows that most inequality is a result of the growth of existing wealth (most of which was inherited). Taxing wealth instead of income can help reverse, or at least stop the increasing levels of inequality. A very small percentage of wealth would need to be taxed to accomplish this.
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I gave up on G Suite after the second time somebody blew away all our documents by moving their Google drive folder. You think they could put a safety check in there when G Drive starts up and the folder is empty, "Do you want to delete everything? or do you want to download again?" And there doesn't seem to be a good way to backup Google Documents since they aren't actually documents but just a link to the document.
Oh I didn't know they were different people! Then I am wrong and apologize for any misinformation
If you're already using a version of Node that supports debugging, is this any different or better?
I'm interested in watching this develop.

As a nerdy guy, I love signaling my nerdiness with gadgets -- tablets, notebooks, cars, etc.

But watches? When I wear a watch I want something analog with a lot of gears and complexity, not a stupid cell phone OS crammed on my wrist. Have you seen folks in airports and such poking at their watch, trying to open apps? Talking to their wrist? It does not leave one with a positive impression.
I thought the same thing. I thought the "elephant in the room" was going to be something like: "smartwatches will never have feature parity with normal watches". For example, they will never have a battery life of 3 years.
Same for us (VoxFeed)
A bit I think that's the point.

He mentioned several times that the legal aid lawyers were worse than useless.
A comic can go a lot farther if it actually tries to explain things instead of joking. For example, interference can be easily explained in comic with waves drawn upon one another.

However, I'm very glad that SMBC sticks to the wonderful humour and I certainly don't want the author to change the comic. Just take it for what it is: a humour for those who already know about the topic, and don't pretend it's educational.
If you find an OA journal with cachet matching Nature or Science, I would be happy to submit stuff there. As far as I know, there's nothing even particularly close.

In other words, I doubt anyone is explicitly penalized for submitting to PLoS Biology instead of Journal of Neuroscience. However, there is an implicit penalty for not submitting to Nature/Science/Cell.

[As an aside, I really hate the obsession with IF and all these other "quantitative" measures of research quality. They're all incredibly ad-hoc, someone easily game-able, and yet otherwise-smart people take them so seriously.]
Much more interesting to me is the impact of smart watches on the high end regular watch category. I have a feeling that category has been rejuvenated by the Apple watch. I would love some actual numbers on that though.
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It's not an assumption, my experience confirms that (of course there are exceptions). I think it's the result of not paying too much attention to theory/math in undergrad education.
Other sources [1] estimate the impact on Yahoo's core business, after subtracting out Alibaba's stock movements, at about $1.3B. On a $4.8B deal, that's about 27%.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-12-15/yahoo-s...
I can try to explain it to employers or hide it from them. I've tried both, and it seems like neither works.

How does this come up? If you're bringing it up, I would stop.

My other advice is people looking for new technologies are more comfortable hiring people with little experience. There are lots of guys with 20 years of C++ and perl, but there's very little if any with 3 years of React, or Node. So pick a cool hip new technology and start building cool projects. Then show people your projects through hacker news Show HN.

You'll have a job fairly soon(I would be surprised if it took 6 month).

Also many people are mentioning go back to school. How close are you to finishing and how well did you do in school when you didn't have depression?
I started looking into Schelling after seeing this post, and had some difficulty locating a sample of his work (broken links all over for some reason). Eventually I came across his Tanner lecture "Ethics, Law, and the Exercise of Self-Command"—which is very interesting and amusing: http://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/s/schelling...
JFYI, there is a typo in the linked to text, Benedetto Portinari, it's the same Florentine family of Beatrice Portinari, he was the nephew of the more famous Tommaso Portinari:

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

The "graphical rendition" on the original site has it correct:

http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/11/18/142467882/le...

BTW - still to be picky - the linked article is 2014, whilst the original article by NPR's Robert Krulwich is 2011.

The whole Leonardo's Notebooks are available here (in a different edition/translation by Jean Paul Richter):

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Leonardo_Da_...

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Notebooks_of_Leonardo_Da_...
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13177971

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13183490
Suicide rates are up, which is perhaps the best measure of the quality of mental health care people are receiving. However, there are at least few plausible explanations not mentioned in the article:

1. We have an older population -- suicide rates increase with age. [1]

2. We have a less religious population -- Christians, Buddhists and Muslims all have lower suicide rates than Atheists. [1]

3. We have a lower worker participation rate -- Unemployment is associated with higher suicide rates. Although most of the decrease in work in the US is voluntary, there is still a plausible link. [2]

[1] https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/suicidologi/article/do...
[2] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medici...
How many are willing to get arrested over this? How many CEOs are willing to get their company shut down over this?

I suspect that this is largely posturing, and when push comes to shove people will comply.
I lived in Germany. They asked my religion and made me pay religion tax (Kirchensteuer). So they already have such a database.
Impact factors and similar metrics are part of the problem. These are metrics that support flashy research, not good research. If anything the Impact Factor is a sign of sloppy research (there's a lot of evidence for that, e.g. the higher the IF the more likely there's a retraction).
Sometimes, those stories do get some small attention, but there is a serious diversity issue on many discussion boards in terms of what kinds of topics get attention, if that makes sense.

Well, it is called "Hacker News," after all. Perhaps this just isn't the right venue for discussion of that particular story. If so, that's OK. There are plenty of others.
> Well, nor is there a natural "element one" that exists "at one".

Right. I'm on the "no natural mapping" side as well, here, not with the "first = 1" people.

Actually, consider for a moment, a programming language that tried to avoid both of these mappings, at least in its programmer-facing syntax (it might compile down to one or the other mapping, but that's an implementation detail.) It might not be so bad!

Of course, you wouldn't be able to index arrays by a single ordinal number at all, instead being forced to do speak in terms of intervals:

letters = char{'A', 'B', 'C'}

letters[0ch .. 1ch] # => ['A']
letters[1ch .. 2ch] # => ['B']

pairs = short{'AB', 'CD', 'EF'}

pairs.slice(0sh .. 1sh) # => ['AB']
pairs[0sh .. 1sh] # => 'AB'
pairs[0ch .. 1ch] # => ['A'] or a type error, as the language author pleases
pairs[0sh .. 2sh] # => argument error
pairs.slice(0sh .. 2sh) # => ['AB', 'CD']

Effectively, the single-element index operation would just be a specialization of a slice operation. Both operations would take a mantissa indicating where the "left edge" and "right edge" containing the value you want is in the array's memory space. And you'd be forced to specify explicit units for the "addresses" of the mantissa, even though the language might reject a mantissa of the wrong type.

This seems kind of annoying to write. But, I swear, it feels so pleasant to read. Much moreso than any language I've used. It's not hard at all to "keep the logic in my head" when I read the above back.
You don't have to have the goal of completely eliminating inequality to take a step back and examine the results of current policies.

The idea is to assess the status quo as one possible outcome rather than as an inevitability.
Business features vs. technical features
Agreed, but we need to start somewhere. Some of those pledges that doctors take ended up being part of a law so there is at least some hope. Also, this sort of helps people on the fence some clarity about whether what they are doing is immoral. Even if it affects 1% of them, that's still something.
Nested Intervals Tree Encoding with Continued Fractions [pdf]
The problem is that you only need say 10 people or less out of one million to make it happen.

I respect people giving that pledge, would give it myself, but the practical impact is 0.

Each day I walk by a large Bayer building who bought Monsanto who do ethical questionable things. Still each day hundreds of people enter that building. There is never a shortage of people who will do whatever they are questioned to do if only they can feed their family. There will always be someone who builds that Muslim database. There is always someone who can rationalize their doings.
Is signing up for an Amazon service any different to opting into something like DoorDash or Seamless? Amazon is big/established and probably has the data necessary to understand exactly when they can screw you. They also have a large enough customer base that they will take steps to automate a large percentage of day-to-day operational decision making which will occasionally go wrong such as detecting and shutting down fraudulent seller accounts as exemplified by your reddit link.

A funded startup on the other hand could go under at moment when their next round of funding doesn't come in. It's also a sure bet that any success you're seeing from them early on will diminish over as they attempt to actually make a profit.
> as long as it does not intimidate, discriminate, inconvenience, or harass citizens

Historically, this is exactly what voter registration has been used for. You put it somewhere perpetually underfunded (especially in urban areas) like the DMV, and watch the results come in.

I don't disagree with the principle, but the current state of affairs makes it impossible to trust that voter registration laws are passed in good faith.
Should you be able to vote without registering?

Correct.

The US Govt and many others already maintain a complete list of all persons, living and dead, including useful attributes like citizenship, current address, age (aka eligibility to vote), in real-time.

Maintaining separate, duplicate, opt-in, haphazardly maintained, patchwork voter registration databases is wasteful, error-prone, and only serves the purpose of disenfranchising undesirables.
If anyone is wondering "how much do points 1 and 2 cost?!" the financial overview of notorious not-for-profit publisher PLOS is a good starting point: https://www.plos.org/financial-overview

Article Processing Fees for their journals range from $1500 to $3000 per article: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/publication-fees
> The message passing makes things impure, even though every individual component of the system is immutable-functional.

That's how you think about it, but allowing mutation and allowing blocking interaction with processes are exactly the same, as blocking interaction with processes is the same having as continuations, and continuations alone are all you need for mutation, even if you imagine things to be immutable. Like monads, continuations are a universal effect. An otherwise pure language with continuations is indistinguishable from an imperative language, i.e., it is imperative.

Both Clojure and Erlang are functional-imperative languages, but unlike other imperative-functional languages (like ML), they have been designed with concurrency in mind, and the mutations they support are transactional (or at least atomic(.
The stock price is a paper loss, it means nothing if Yahoo is acquired for the full purchase price Verizon asked for. So it remains to be seen if there's any meaningful punishment by the market for these kinds of breaches. Even if 6.5% stands, it's basically saying the per user value/cost of the breach is about a quarter (as in the coin).
> proposed banning Muslims from entry to the US

I was actually at the rally when he announced this. Trump wants a freeze on immigration from countries that are actively producing a large number of jihadis which, surprise, happens to be predominantly Muslim countries. The premise being, they need more scrutiny and we need time to implement such. Of course I'm sure this whole time he's just been pulling from George W's playbook, acting like an "every guy" who doesn't use big words and wants to appeal to populism.
> It's funny, but people never seem to question if modern American life actually, you know, is good for mental health. Maybe people are mentally ill because the world is super effing weird and hard to adjust to?

To me this is self-evident.

Our lives have become more and more comfortable physically, less challenging, less stressful.

But from a mental perspective, we are doing FAR more deliberate, conscious effort than any of our ancestors. Emphasis on conscious. Being a hunter-gatherer surely required a lot of processing power, but over time we've adapted so that a lot of that effort is not conscious. And we don't seem to have a problem processing a heck of a lot of data unconsciously.

It's this newfangled, forced-conscious processing that we are not adapted for, and is very stressful.
I'd note that both of those arguments boil down to "Microsoft will make your life worse unless you comply". But years in tech support and mail server stuff mean that I loathe Office, and particularly Outlook.
All it takes is a tiny team of people who "need that job".
"We need better languages for introductory computing. A good introductory language makes good compromises between expressiveness and performance, and between simplicity and feature-richness. Pyret is our evolving experiment in this space."

Object Pascal is the best language I know for education.

Programming education first must be about understansing algorithms I think.

However, learning something old or not useful in real world can be harmful. The best I think is to learn modern tech. The development world evolves too and other skills become more relevant.
>>Interest in Islam ≠ being a Muslim.

Sure, but it would be trivial for a nefarious party to pair up "interest in Islam" with actions such as "checked in at local mosque" and other such signals.
And AFAIK distro builds of Firefox do not send telemetry to Mozilla. Thus Mozilla has limited insight into the Firefox Linux population, such as how many are running 32- vs 64-bit builds.