skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what the blog post linked here says.
Just because something does social harm doesn't mean it should be illegal.

I think alcohol is a great example of this because we made it illegal and saw that the consequences of it being illegal were far worst than the consequences of it being legal.
Inside Uber’s Choice of a New C.E.O
I can't agree. The authors wounds at every stage in the narrative were self inflicted.

(1) The study title doesn't work at the top of the form? Change it! Surely there is some other arrangement of English words that would satisfy both the author and IRB.

(2) They leave the risk section blank because minimal risk, and then complain about the requirement for pens because the patients might stab themselves if given pens. Looks to me like they didn't spend much effort thinking about risks to the patient. If they had just mentioned the pen stabby thing as a risk factor, and given "don't use pens" as a risk minimization plan, they wouldn't have had a problem.

(3) They poopoo the training because Hitler, and then get upset when they unknowingly violate a personnel rule that is most definitely covered in any decent IRB/GCP training.

I could go on, but every new thing I enumerate makes me angrier. Life is too short. Look. IRB applications suck, but human experimentation is serious business.

The rules aren't there to make the study easy, the are there to (a) look out for the patient (respect), (b) evaluate risk and benefits of the study (beneficence), and (c) ensure that the benefits are distributed to the group bearing the risk (justice).
I'd say Reagent would be a better example of a data-centric API than Rum. Both are great libraries though.
I agree that IRBs are not great -- the book cited above does a great job of unpacking how IRBs fail to live up to their promises, and this covers some good additional examples. I also agree that the author isn't necessarily advocating against ethical review as such.

I'm more concerned with the author's insistence that he knew the right way to conduct his study ethically. Peer review is a core scientific principle-- we don't allow researchers to make autonomous judgments about the quality of their work.
Ah, good point.

And... heh, using a filter to strip out the audio we used all that extra filesize to deliberately store. Haha. :)
Pour me a glass containing exactly 1/6 of a gallon of milk. Now pour me a glass containing exactly 1/6 of a gallon of milk, but using base 60. How does that help?

(Yes, what helps is having a measuring device calibrated with markings for the amount you're trying to pour. But I have several measuring cups that have markings for 1/3 cup, even though there is no exact base-10 representation of that fraction.)
Well Terence would've loved this! Anyway... Besides his stoned ape theory he might've mentioned little green elves and perhaps twenty or thirty hours of other things, all of it erudite, fractalizing, novel, and utterly fascinating. Be a lot more Terence in the world if this passed, leading mushie workshops, spinning mind-blowing yarns, experimenting with consciousness...
Just as a heads up for people supporting Safari and all iOS users, there's some sort of a leak in Safari which causes Mapbox-gl type apps to crash with the famous "A problem occurred with this webpage so it was reloaded" problem on iOS

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172790
I don't particularly care if more people use it: Their loss, not mine.

If you don't want your kids using it, education rather than (attempts to bring about) eradication.

Do you mean legal/prescription opioids (Access is hardly unrestrained for (say) heroin). Psilocybin is rated "low" for dependance liability, heroin is ranked "very high".

Are they (perhaps psychedelics in general) even that dangerous. In the UK, LSD is a Class A drug despite it being responsible for (at a glance) 3 deaths in about 20 years.

That's my 2cents.
That's a good point. Big countries can afford to fab their own chips; small countries cannot. This has geopolitical considerations: The best option for a small country may be to decide which of the big countries it wants to be an ally or puppet of.

Incidentally this is one reason I think the UK is daft to leave the EU.
I occasionally read choice excerpts of whatever I'm reading to my wife. But what I've been reading lately is mostly Joe Abercrombie and Richard Morgan, so she typically cringes ;) However, I have managed to interest her in Neal Stephenson (Diamond Age, and maybe D.O.D.O.) and Hannu Rajaniemi (Fractal Prince trilogy).
Someone has to be the first-mover. I'm happy to outsource that responsibility to a bunch of 'kids' in the Valley, because I certainly don't have the guts.
I did a little digging in curiosity about the Plimpton 322 story, and discovered that essentially Wildberger was already a proponent of rational trigonometry and then figured out that this tablet was based on it, which is the opposite order the news stories led me to believe.

But anyway the aspect of it that has me curious is whether it benefits 3D graphics or anything else that depends on lots of triangle computations. I found a paper that concludes it's more easily computed, but it seems to make some pretty simplistic assumptions (cost of sqrt = cost of sin, all algebraic costs = 0).
Does postgres' plan caching detect that these filters are useless, if they're sometimes filled in and other times not? Or do you end up with one bad plan?
> Slowly but surely I am defeating all news websites auto-play videos.

Firefox has an about:config setting that kills them all.
The best thing about this is that we recreated this mentality when dealing with terrorism. The current brown scare that we are living through is almost exactly the same as the red scare of the 1950s.
So, to recap: you tried to do a human subjects study without a) getting help from someone with prior research experience and b) understanding all the details required to do such a study. The IRB's responsibility (and yours, as the PI) is protection of human subjects. That you're so cavalier about this responsibility and the history behind these requirements suggests you should probably have paid more attention to that course you berate.
Unfortunately this video doesn't work on iOS. I'll try to remember to watch this next time I'm at a computer.
From reading the post it's not at all clear to me that 2 of the 3 goals you list were accomplished by the rules.

A) Instead of actually looking out of the patient a list of arbitrary rules were imposed.

B) The risk (minimal) was not properly evaluated but instead massively overstated.

Given this failure of the process to meet said goals it seems perfectly reasonable to question the process.
The hardware is identical to pixel.
That's the exact same way that racists treat minorities. You should probably care about the details when you're damning people.
Thanks for the examples. I'd agree that they show that computer science research is capable of harming people.

Edit: although I don't think they change my intuition that it's strange that high-risk invasive procedures that people expected to cause grave injury are dealt with by the same oversight mechanism as interviews (even though I'm very convinced of the ethical importance of strong confidentiality protections for interviews).

Second edit: I'm also aware that IRBs aren't only inspired by Tuskegee and Nazi experiments, but also by stuff like the Milgram and Zimbardo experiments which didn't involve invasive interventions.
would you have to go out of your way to find a malicious gem though? Its not like any of the popular gems would try to overwrite files, right?
Someone's trying to sell their code bootcamp project :^)
I think is probably an RTFS sort of topic, as there may not be a manual.
You're right.

But he's going off of what is established, whether that is faulty or not.

So his claim is based on something faulty, but it is based on something.

Your qualm is not with him or his statements, rather with the standards for current 10 year/100 year/500 year estimates.
>I knew exactly how to handle this: one by one, I sought out the laziest attendings in the hospital and asked “Hey, would you like to have your name on a study as Principal Investigator for free while I do all the actual work?” Yet one by one, all of the doctors refused, as if I was offering them some kind of plague basket full of vermin.

when you find yourself in the situation of being the only smart guy surrounded by stupid morons (nevermind the fact that these morons are more highly trained and experienced) ...

A related Russian joke. While driving, the husband calls his wife and she tells him that it is on the news right now that some moron is driving in the wrong direction on the highway. The husband exclaims in response "A moron?! There are hundreds of such morons driving in the wrong direction here!"
I'm not quite sure what your point is. Parts of your little tantrum seem to be an attempt to deny that any problem exists ("without questing any of it" / "relentless bashing sells clicks" (a conspiracy against Uber!). Other parts come straight from the 'alt-right' playbook, such as the completely hypothetical idea that "OP [didn't[ care anyway". I guess you just didn't remember the usual buzzword, i.e. "virtue signalling"?

And although I do deserve all your scorn, because I am fundamentally certain that current Uber employees are by now co-conspiritors in Kalanick's little frathouse, I am somewhat surprised. Because the comment you're replying to was actually pretty light on accusations of that nature, and was making what I consider a pretty solid case that Uber is simply fucked financially (kinda like the cheap hookers their CXOs frequent when on business in Asia).

Uber's long history of never finding any human too weak to casually stomp into the curb is mostly just contributing to the enjoyment of watching their slow demise.

The first highlight was certainly how the Uber-Randians got the disruption kicked out of them by governments around the world showing them what "monopoly on violence" actually means. Now, we can watch as the paralysed corpse of Uber's upper management watches, helplessly, as Google slowly devours the entrails.

And yes: considering that most any technical employee at this bro-themed sweatshop is (well: "was") employable almost anywhere makes them complicit in everything that went on. It's certainly possible that some Uberdonks didn't notice what was happening around them. But staying with the company is obviously tacit endorsement of everything that has come to light.

I hope they have another two or three years of runway to suffer, at which point it'll be something like a Game of Thrones finale to see all those precious stock options go up in smoke when Uber goes Under. It used to be that people selling their soul to the devil at least were competent enough to make sure their partner was solvent.
> What specific ICANN policy has been violated?

I'm not going to dig through their books, I don't have the time and that's a job for lawyers. But I was around when ICANN was created and I know what their job is, and preventing these kinds of abuses by registrars is right at the top of their priority list.

> They are obligated to process a transfer at the request of the owner and new registrar, subject to certain timing and other rules. They are not, AFAICT, required to arrange such a transfer proactively.

That isn't what I meant. I only meant that if they were going to refuse to perform their duties as a registrar for one particular customer then they should provide that customer a means to switch registrars.

What they did instead is a kind of theft, regardless of how you feel about that particular customer. (not a fan, myself, as I've stated).
China Internet Trends Report 2017
One of the things that is expected with global warming is heavier rain as the seas get warmer. This 500 year rain calculation is looking at the past for prediction but the future is different.
When Disaster Strikes, Flying Cell Towers Could Aid Search and Rescue
Here's a story about sidestepping IRB processes by going offshore

http://khn.org/news/offshore-rush-for-herpes-vaccine-roils-d...

"Neither the Food and Drug Administration nor a safety panel known as an institutional review board, or an IRB, monitored the testing of a vaccine its creators say prevents herpes outbreaks. Most of the 20 participants were Americans with herpes who were flown to the island several times to be vaccinated, according to Rational Vaccines, the company that oversaw the trial."
They wouldn't have to change the timeline much at all, except to add some kind of 'expand' feature.
Most instruments generate harmonics that are integer multiples of the fundamental frequency, and some go a lot higher than human hearing. As you go up the harmonic series, the harmonics get (logarithmically) closer together. Our brains interpret close-together notes as dissonant, so higher harmonics could be kind of obnoxious to hear together. They might be "in-tune", but just too close to be enjoyable. (Imagine an extremely bright harpsichord.)

There's another effect that comes into play, though. There's a minimum pitch separation between simultaneous notes that we expect, and when notes are closer than that, they clash. That separation is usually around a minor third (~300 cents) in most of the human hearing range, but in the bass it's a lot wider, and in the high treble it's smaller. That's why you can play two notes a major second apart (~200 cents) on a piano in the high treble and it sounds okay, but down in the low bass it sounds muddy if they're closer than about a major third or perfect fourth (~400-500 cents). So, if we extrapolate into higher frequency ranges, then it's not unreasonable to expect that we would be able to interpret musical intervals that are a lot closer than 200 cents as consonant.

It's also possible that the minimum note separation thing is just an artifact of how our ears physically work, and that an artificial ear would have no such limitation. Which could open the possibility of enjoying kinds of music that we can't currently imagine as pleasant with our normal ears.
wow, 3 downvotes on a compliment. the negativity around here...
It's quite possible. Look at Texas housing affordability. Then look at the growth in population. Texas has lots of jobs and affordable housing.

The Demographia Survey makes it clear. High restrictions to building. High cost.

http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
This seems to be a strange one to be on the list of illegal substances. Of all the drugs which were listed in my textbook in my health class in high school, this is the only drug which I could pick in the wild. Marijuana might have grown in those areas, but someone had to go through the effort of growing the plants. There are places in the US where marijuana grows in the wild, but I don't think you can get high from it (though you still might get busted for carrying it).
Mostly in preparation for sharing the study data with others (E.G. Publishing, outside data processing).

It's just good hygiene to have the non-sensitive data isolated from the sensitive stuff.

Identifying information belongs under lock and key, or at least forcing a user to authenticate again (even if by literal physical key-fob/ID card) (and should for the hospital too).

Answers to questions which can't be classified as the above can be associated with a fully synthetic ID that works as a pointer to the above. That makes them less sensitive (but still important to keep secure: E.G. they could be in the office which is always locked when un-occupied and don't have to be stored in the safe).

Practicing this discipline also makes it less likely for researchers and writers to inadvertently leak patient data. I'm actually shocked at how often hospitals / clinics / etc don't practice similar division of data by storage requirement.
Or collaborated with someone who cares enough.
yes, it's almost as if the climate is changing
Yes, I don't know why you seem to think I would disagree.

A lot of people needed to know how to ride a horse back in the day to get from place to place. Now, in the west, you may just learn to ride a horse for pleasure and nothing else. It doesn't mean you should take offense to someone stating that fact though. Really, one just comes off as insecure when doing that.
Do you mean F* and some of the work by Phil Wadler et al eg. http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/qdsl/curryon.pdf
> Climatologists say the mechanism by which this is happening is fairly straightforward. “Warmer air can contain more water vapor than cooler air,” according to the 2014 Climate Assessment produced by the U.S. government. “Global analyses show that the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere has in fact increased due to human-caused warming. This extra moisture is available to storm systems, resulting in heavier rainfalls.”

This is just so totally obvious. But I've rarely seen anything in news coverage about increased mean atmospheric water concentration. Also, increased water content is (of course) the expected multiplier for increasing CO2.

Edit: spelling
> What do you mean, "it was always intended?"

I mean the internet is a new world which is only about 40 years old. It was created by a lot of really smart guys who mostly don't care about the "traditional market rules" and it was created a specific way to follow specific philosophies one of which is when a domain name is no longer being used it should be available for other people to purchase.

It's not exactly counter-culture, but it's completely different. The distributed infastructure, the emphasis on putting equal power in the hands of the smallest operators rather than focusing it on the largest corporations, none of these things mesh with how the offline world has been operating for centuries.

People who were aware of the internet before it was cool remember these details.

I don't know how to make it more clear for you than that.
It's not Tango at all.
It's kinda surprising how frequently rewrites occur across tech companies; considering rewrites can essentially stop the development of any new features in the product. I was recently part of one such huge rewrite, albeit it was truly necessary since we were porting from a 1970s COBOL based Mainframe to a Java based Middleware solution. This rewrite itself caused blocked any other development projects for the last 6 months and sucked in a lot of resources.

Isn't sticking to a stable tech stack that helps run production smoothly and let the developers have their peace of mind better? Rewrites might be essential, but only in the cases where your technology is seriously ancient.

Is this only due to the crazy front-end and JS frameworks world or am I missing something else here?
I think this is an interesting topic, really.

Credentials are all about signaling. But what is it exactly credentials communicate? Is it, "person X learned about topic Y"? I'd argue it's a lot more than that. If you have a degree from Stanford, then the information "this is a person who was admitted to Stanford" has a lot of value in addition to just "this is a person who took Stanford classes". (How much would you care if someone told you they'd sat in on Stanford classes without enrolling? Not very much, right?)

There was an Econtalk episode on this:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/04/bryan_caplan_on.htm...

I think MOOCs are not particularly good as credentials in their own, but the projects you do in them can be very useful in getting a job. (This is kind of the "human capital" model discussed in the podcast.) Maybe their lack of exclusivity is part of the reason they're not more positive signals on their own.

Think about the projects you'll do and what you'll be able to say you did after the course is done.

Don't count on the credential itself to say too much.
The human has trained hard for years to master an instrument that has been perfected over centuries.

Both those huge efforts has gone into controlling the humanly audible part of the sound. Whatever sound is accidentally produced in other frequencies is probably at best aesthetically neutral, but more likely distracting.

Though my guess trumpeting is just noise to dogs either way.
Agreed. I was stuck as a tourist evacuating out of the South Carolina lowcountry, which has dramatically fewer people during the general evacuation for Matthew.

It was a a nightmare experience that should always be avoided.
https://github.com/facebook/yoga/blob/master/PATENTS

That's a pretty big price they charge.
I think you're thinking about Antabuse, which does make you sick after drinking.

There's also Naltrexone which supposedly blocks the receptors that alcohol reacts to so you don't get the "good" feeling of alcohol.

I think it's more important for people to understand WHY they're drinking though, instead of masking it or using drugs to fix it. This is probably a conversation for another thread though.
Application developer at a hedge fund. Mostly front-end design/dev work on a web-based platform used to run all aspects of their business.
That's not the problem. Private insurance does not offer flood insurance because A) it tends to all be due at the same time requiring a very large fund. B) It also promotes people living in flood prone areas. C) It's very hard to asses risks. Combined and you end up with bankrupt insurance companies.

The industry also feels B makes selling flood insurance a bad idea. That said, there are Private policies you can buy in some areas.

PS: Insurance companies like frequent small scale random events like car accidents, because they are easy to plan for.
Medium is not, by a long stretch, the worst reading experience out there.

But it is intentionally bad. Which is actually even more annoying.

Medium took a format which was actually quite good and then deliberately, with full awareness, and malice aforethought, went and made it worse.

That ... is pretty annoying, and tells you about the site's priorities.
Yes, which suggests that the "serious problems" mentioned by the grandparent aren't serious (or problems) at all.
In IRB's that I've participated in, low-risk interviews can go through expedited review, and though it's still happening under the IRB, it's far from the same process as something involving say, injections, imaging, gathering information about potential criminal involvement, or deception.

Though, every IRB is different. Which is another problem!
If the only thing you do with your music is listen, then yes, 24/192 delivers questionable value compared to the more popular 16/44.1 or 16/48 formats.

However, all musicians I know use these high-rez formats internally. The reason for that, when you apply audio effects, especially complex VST ones, these discretization artifacts noticeably decrease the result quality.

Maybe, the musicians who distribute their music in 24/192 format expect their music to be mixed and otherwise processed.
Female founders invent male co-founder to skirt sexism
We are all Homo Œconomicus tending to our self capital.
My short list would be a self-hosted blog (static site), Reddit (what I'm actually using), Wordpress.

Github has some blogging options that I've been meaning to look at, and might also be an option.

I've been looking for a better solution, and Medium have pretty much elected themselves out of consideration with their recent directions, styling and otherwise. No confidence.
I do see your perspective, as my solution would lead to sprawl, long commute times, and increasing difficulty to find work outside of the city center.

Unfortunately, while it is a solution to put more people into the city center, it becomes difficult to make sure that people who are purchasing property aren't doing it for rent-seeking.

I think this problem will be tough to enforce/fix.

I guess the only real solution is busting up office/industry centralization somehow!
Highly compressed AAC. Answers on Quora say about 48kb/s of bandwidth, so equivalent to about a 96kb/s MP3, which sounds about right.

Bandwidth allocation is per channel, talk only channels are even worse and some words are barely comprehensible.