skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok I agree with your point but bad example: America did not storm the embassy but did forcibly intern thousands of Japanese Americans in concentration camps. Also- its important to note a few things: 1) the embassy storming was carried out on a whim by one group of over eager revolutionaries, it was not officially sanctioned until it was a fait accomplie, 2) saying the 1979 revolution was a direct result of the 1953 coup is bumbling self centrism at best - a lot happened in the country over that period that culminated in the revolution. Which leads to 3) Khomeini was not the stated aim of the revolution- a democracy was. Khomeini and the Islamists hijacked the revolution and killed, imprisoned, or exiled all other parties involved until that point. They have maintained control since then with history's most sophisticated religio-political machinery combining censorship and xenophobia, police state security infrastructure, and a unique brand of divine mysticism. Fascinating and tragic.
Jung did his thesis in 1903. In 1903, regression had been invented, but was in England and may not have spread very far from there. Fisher was 13, and had not yet invented maximum likelihood and the application of statistics to experimental design that we all benefit from today. Karl Pearson was working on statistics, and had invented the chi squared three years previously. He was in the process of generalising regression analysis in 1903.

Multiple regression (OLS) had not yet been invented. I'm not sure how you expect Jung to have used an apparatus of statistics which really wasn't developed (till Fisher) into a coherent whole when Jung would have been in his forties, having already written a number of books.

Statistics in the sense of looking at populations did exist, but the whole apparatus of modern statistics was developed in the early part of the 20th century, concurrent with Jung.

I agree with your definition of science. Incidnetally, Hans Eysenck developed a physiological test for extraversion/ introversion in the 1950's involving the amount of stimulus required to become noticeable to a person. This has been comfirmed by further research.

Speaking as a (soon to be) psychology PhD (all going well...) I would argue that the "soft" sciences have the exact opposite problem, in that, jealous of all the cool theories of the physicists they have attempted to jump straight to the theory building without the benefits of hundreds of years of observation.

I agree that models in the soft sciences are somewhat simplistic, but I actually think that they're not simplistic enough. We (as a species) need to figure out some invariants if we're ever going to do successful science on people and the systems we create.

Back to Jung, while he didnt use the statistics that we would today, he did spend an awful lot of time attempting to figure out why we are the way we are, without resorting to sex sex sex (like the inimitable Freud). Personally, at this point he's probably better read as a philosopher and student of human nature, but he is well worth reading in that capacity.

That being said, he's an awful writer so it is a bit of struggle. Well worth it though, in my opinion.
> useless care which ultimately resulted in the patient death.

Don't state it as if the hospital care caused the death, it was the cancer. This was a worst case scenario. In many cases that care could have bought the patient months or years to live, which most would agree is worth $100k to $200k when facing death.
Education in other areas does suck. Read Loewen, "Lies my Teacher Told Me."
Less work than installing Discuss, and I'd rather keep the conversation in a single thread.
No. That was a terrible design. They screwed up the implementation --- developers, no matter how competent, can be relied upon to screw something up in every system --- and as a result Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo managed to write a CBC padding oracle exploit that worked against huge numbers of real-world ASP.NET systems.

ASP.NET Forms are a pretty good textbook case study of why you should never build unnecessary crypto into your system. Microsoft spends millions every year on external security validation and also keeps a highly regarded team of crypto designers on staff. Still missed the most blatant web crypto flaw of 2010.
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Leaving the model specifics out works fairly well. E.g. 'MacBook Pro 13-inch Early 2011' becomes just 'MBP 13"'.
He described her as a "previously healthy 50 year-old daughter" and then she went from feeling weird to death in a month? I had no idea cancer could be so aggressive, is it 1 in a million that it can be this aggressive (from showing symptoms to death) or is this something common? This would explain why early diagnosis is so emphasised, I still didn't understand how much it could matter.
Reminds of Dan's review (at that time, his site was 90% about hardware & gadgets): http://www.dansdata.com/kitten.htm
You end up with similar problems when you try to use CTR with 64 bit block ciphers, like Blowfish and DES-EDE --- both of which are very common.
For whole disk encryption (WDE) or any sort of password protected service where you cannot execute software (primary authentication), I encourage the use of pass phrases. Dice ware is nice. Something such as this:

"lua ham purple day girl"

The challenge with primary authentication passwords is that users typically cannot use a password manager or generator to recall the password and thus must be able to recall something that they can easily type and end-up selecting weak passwords. There are some exceptions to this (yubikey, etc) but most normal users don't or cannot use them for various reasons, so go with a nice pass phrase like the one above.
Insecurity and legitimacy is all I could come up with in my first pass. Anyone else have ideas on why everyone wants to call themselves entrepreneurs these days?

Maybe there's nothing wrong with it, but it seems like an annoying misappropriation.
> Algebra (the art of rearranging equations) is not necessary anymore ...

False, and false.

* As to the first, in common use, algebra is the abstraction of mathematical values and operations. If we can abstract a value to a symbol, we then can operate on the symbol rather than the value, greatly increasing the generality of mathematical ideas. Which operation is more useful: sqrt(2) or sqrt(x)? Another example -- which is more useful: D(7^n) = 7^n * log(7) or D(x^n) = n * x^(n-1)? (The first can only be applied to 7, the second can be applied to any values of x and/or n.)

* As to the second, algebra is much more useful now than it was 100 years ago. Those who don't learn algebra are inviting politicians to lie to them, which they will certainly do if given a chance.

> Maths as traditionally taught is the leading cause of high school dropouts rates ...

This confuses cause and effect. If we drop math education to prevent dropouts, we will have implicit dropouts (people who drop out but without physically leaving) instead of explicit ones.

> ... people who might have been scientists turning to arts instead ...

One's preference for art over science has deeper roots than a lack of comprehension of mathematics. And again, it confuses cause and effect.
I think formal logic and statistics should be subjects you can't get out of middle school without.
Not always. I know a guy who has been living with stage four colon cancer for four years who, recently, has seen his tumors contracting for the first time ever.

So while I agree that you need to identify a point where you say, "Let me die in peace", I don't think that point is always the day you've been told you have stage 4 cancer. I'm not sure that the 20 days reference in the article is really time to come to terms with that.
Great thoughts. Very happy for your family that you came through this successfully. Lots to be thankful for there.

So, I've seen a couple of your comments on HN in the past, and just wanted to mention it would be helpful if you had some contact information (e.g. Twitter, URL, etc.) in your HN profile so people can follow-up one-on-one when it makes sense to do so. Unless, of course, you're trying to avoid people. :-)
That's great. Good luck with the project!
The other way around, I'm going to assume he meant "get the home addresses of file sharers from their IP addresses"
In thought the popular Google version allowed you to use secondary storage, and the challenge was to be efficient in how often you swapped.
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Cats make great bosses. They don't know what exactly you're doing but they just love to supervise.
As a general rule, your approach (ignorance) is flawed. Have you looked at the HTML? It's minimal; some of the simplest you will see. No Javascript. All CSS is in the page, at the top. There isn't even a DOCTYPE. You can easily read it raw, without a "browser".

Withe the sort of ignorance (lack of curiosity) you display with your "general rule", the truth is he doesn't have to work very hard. Ignorance makes it easy.
Why did you open with an ad hominem and ad datum reference?
Can you elaborate? I'm not sure what the point of such a law would be.
This is the first thing I thought when I read it.
This isn't a "Human rights"-report on Iran. It's the Human Rights Watch report on Iran. HRW has been critical of the US as well.

Any claim that HRW is part of a propaganda machine working against Iran is an extraordinary claim, and the onus is on you to back it up with evidence.

It's particularly difficult to have that claim stand on its own when it's so easy to get firsthand narratives of the brutality of the Iranian regime from other sources. It doesn't take MEK spies to reveal the stories of people tortured hung from construction cranes for writing subversive blog posts.
As far as I (IANAD) understand, there is no such thing as an universal cure for cancer. If and when we beat cancer, the solution will not present itself as a magic pill.

Therefore for any instance of magic pills (glyconutrients included) we can infer that it won't cure cancer with any reliability. You can have a narrow tool that strikes one kind of cancer and does nothing (or even harms a little) on all others, or we can have something that comforts you a bit but without much statistical outcome.

If you have malignant cells dividing inside you, they would not be easily stopped.

Trying to self-medicate a random cancer with a random magic pill will likely yield no result at all - or maybe only from Placebo effect.

Therefore if you're at earlier stage, your best bet is conventional treatment, and if you're at late stage, it might be better to spend the remaining time wisely.
Some of you may recall Sleepycat Software, which was in business to support the open-source Berkeley DB until it was bought by Oracle in 2006. Some years ago I had occasion to email them about something, and thinking that a company called Sleepycat Software would still be a one- or two-person enterprise, I added in the email that I liked their name and, as it happened, I had a kitty on my lap at that moment.

The reply gave me a chuckle, as it made clear that the company had grown significantly and that some of the new employees found the name a bit embarrassing.

Anyway -- one thing I've learned about Purr Programming -- don't let the cat have the keyboard. Their code never works :-)
"What is the cost-benefit ratio for a routine MRI scan every six months?"

Should I Be Tested for Cancer?: Maybe Not and Here's Why:

http://www.amazon.com/Should-Be-Tested-Cancer-Maybe/dp/05202...

(I haven't personally read this yet, but it's an entire book about exactly this question, and it's very highly reviewed.)
There's a certain mindset under which a) most contests are boring, b) there exists a metagame over all contests, and c) that metagame so fascinating that success in it is interesting irrespective of the details of the underlying contests.

I don't necessarily subscribe to that values system, but part of me understands the attraction.
The average person is neither inventing GPS nor navigator on a sailing vessel.
Compressed bucket-ranges works fine for random date, but if the data are skewed in some way (e.g. normal-curve shaped), the bucket-sizes must be adjustable.

An alternative method is to use one bucket into which all values below a limit (e.g. 20,000,000) are sorted as they arrive, and compress all the rest. When 10^6 values have arrived, transmit the bucket and then reuse the empty bucket repeatedly to sort the compressed values.
FWI, I do not believe in IQ. The evolution of scores alone makes me think there is a confounding variable. Students should just study what they can get money from and they are interested in.

In France, there are 4 curriculum of approximately similar sizes - at least when I did my studies. There is no IQ selection.

There is no selection either based on being "gifted" or not - you just get a curriculum matching the job you said you were the most interested in, if you basic grades are enough (i.e. if you persistently had below average grades in math, you might not be enrolled in a scientific curriculum)

"scientific" students makes 25% of the students - I'm not sure it can be compared to the situation in the US unless 25% of the students go in AP classes.

[The other curricumulum also have decent math, only slightly less theoretical or more into specific domains, such as arithmetic or geometric progression mathematics (for economy and some BTS vocational studies)]

Edit : Enrollment trends are shown in http://quanti.hypotheses.org/631/

red is humanities

blue is economics

green is scientific

[apparently vocational studies are gaining ground, and humanities are declining, a good thing considering the job market]
> enacted the America Invents Act, which gives patents to the first-to-file

That was not hostile to the tech sector. First to file vs. first to invent is neither favorable to nor unfavorable to the tech sector, and the AIA contains some strong anti-troll provisions which are quite favorable to the tech sector.
Austin dweller here -- I assure you the traffic is NOT better here. Ranked 8th worst in the nation.

> If you are not aligned with one of the fashionable templates, your mojo in the Valley can quickly whither.

I observed this at SXSW last year. It was Elevator Pitch Bingo, with every presentation being some combination of Social, Mobile, Coupon, Local, and "your friends". Very few of the pitches strayed outside that subset.
(author here) I haven't tried to build on a mac in a while, bison there seems to support fewer options (must be an older version).

For now, I've just checked in the autogenerated parser, so that bison won't have to run when you build master. git-pull and try again :)
Console interfaces to console systems aren't "skeuomorphic".
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For those on Windows without access to a *nix machine you can grab a Windows binary of dd at http://www.chrysocome.net/dd the command arguments are the same as on the site.
No, when the system you're interfacing to is itself a console, it is not "skeuomorphism" to present the user with a console interface.

Skeuomorphism is an aesthetic strategy for making software appear familiar or comfortable (or "retro" and stylish) by evoking parallel hardware/real-world solutions to the same problem. A console, on the other hand, is a way of interacting with software using typed commands.

An overlay for HN that presented it as a Renegade BBS instead of a series of web pages and web forms might be skeuomorphic, because that Renegade BBS interface would exist for aesthetic reasons only. But aesthetics aren't the reason you make a web SSH prompt look like a console.
Wanted to bring article up now, especially since we are suffering talent shortage in so many of the functional areas and really need to get women back into SMAT and entrepreneurship. CS used to be 40%+ female, but now we are down to 14%. That is going to hurt us bad even worse that it is already.
Do alumni count as legal in the race? I definitely used my old @mit address to get in on the winnings.

If so, that expands the pool significantly :)
They do say, though, that the job is to "Design and implement major pieces of the salesforce.com core database infrastructure". That doesn't sound like they're talking about Heroku, at least not as the main reason for their hiring spree.
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I'm a bit confused, someone was suspended or banned from using the MIT network for doing this?
The link between NSA's past work and NIST's tendencies today is weak, certainly. It's at best a rough guess on my part although, with the NSA, a rough guess is as good as we ever get :)

But I am claiming that there's a hardware orientated bias in the major recommendations that I see NIST making in the crypto space. I'm taking a flying guess at the reason, and perhaps I should simply have skipped any speculation. But the seeming bias is still worth highlighting I think.
If you're sick of seeing that message, MariaDB is a non-Oracle fork of MySQL, and I hear good things about it.

http://mariadb.org/
You seem to be unaware of how curriculum has been designed in recent decades. The current "Where's the Math" protest movement is complaining that the curriculum is devoid of calculation.
You say that parents should take a role in their children's intellectual development? Then what am I paying property taxes for?
From reading your HN comments, you seem like the kind of person who has a small axiomatic set of principles, and then attempts to fit the world to those principles. Without going into the merits/demerits of that approach, I'd at least like to point out that it occasionally leads to absurd conclusions - such as replacing language courses with Google translate. Do you really think that Google translate is a feasible way to converse with someone in a foreign language? Or, for translating literature? Here is the opening paragraph of War and Peace, computer translation vs human. Note that Google translate assumed the whole thing was French, and left the Russian parts untranslated, so I had to manually translate the Russian words. Italics represent words originally in Russian.

Google translate:

Еh, my prince. Genoa and Lucca are only appendages of, the manor, Buonaparte family. No, I warn you that if you do not tell me that we have war, even if you allow yourself to overcome all infamies, all the atrocities of this Antichrist (my word, I think) - I do you know more, you are no longer my friend, you are no longer my faithful servant, as you say. Ну, hello, hello. I see that I frighten you, sit down and talk.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translation:

Well, my prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than possessions, estates, of the Buonaparte family. No, I warn you, if you do not tell me we are at war, if you still allow yourself to palliate all the infamies, all the atrocities of that Antichrist (upon my word, I believe it) - I no longer know you, you are no longer my friend, you are no longer my faithful slave, as you say. Well, good evening, good evening. I see that I'm frightening you, sit down and tell me about it
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What qualifies as a crackable password for this tool? What is the maximum length and complexity you can handle?
Just so we are clear: You're against universal health care?
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Because we don't zap people with lots of radiation to treat it anymore.
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"MIT students aren’t ones to brag" pretty good one :)
For disk encryption and keepass databases I like to go with full sentence but odd passphrases.

Like:

Cats and cows eat 200 tables a day.

The grape is 14 shades of orange.
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The site is welcome to have a login system with a terms of use agreement, or to use quizzes to verify ad exposures, etc, if they so chose.
Well, the official YouTube ads are rather invasive and awful as well...
(author here) That bug was fixed a while ago, but I forgot to upload new binaries. Try again, they should be working now.
Looks like I haven't been keeping up to date even with my own colleagues' work! Thanks, I'll update the post.
I don't want to de-rail the conversation too much but this line brought home to me one of the most sickening injustices of the civilised world - “When the chemotherapy does not work, you will have to finish the job.”

No one should have to plead with their father to end their life early, this should be a choice that anyone can make without fear of consequence to their loved ones. This should be a well established and regulated part of terminal illness.
I think this is the real issue. A small fraction of people are fascinated by mathematics and enjoy it. The idea that there is some specific way to teach mathematics that will ignite some spark in a person who doesn't inherently have it I believe is false.
I'm not confused I use newsblur like an app but it is behind a landing page when not logged in (https://newsblur.com/). There are plenty of other examples, otherwise it would be quite hard to get new users to your service as they can't find what your app is about.
Airbnb is pretty much the standard: https://www.airbnb.com/safety#features
I agree it is a scam, but I disagree that NYT is good journalism. Good journalism is meassured in impact and NYT haven't gotten anybody kicked out of office in years.

It is a rag.
You have a chicken-and-egg problem.

Also, each renter now must do fulfillment themselves. If I'm renting my bike for $5/day, it's a huge pain if the person that is renting from me is twenty minutes late to pick up and return it.

What I want to see is someone who focuses on have all the household essentials for rent, and does fulfillment themselves. I think electric drills are typically used for 5 minutes total by most owners. Could I please rent hardware and one-off supplies from one place? Pretty please?
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Thanks for the update, and for writing such articles in the first place!
I think, for a start, 2Checkout would do the job. I've used them and they are pretty good. They can also give you better rates. There are some discount codes floating around using which you can sign up without the $49 fee.

The folks at http://spreedly.com also seem to be pretty good but I've not used them so can't say anything.
Interestingly, MakerBot basically came out of one such collective (NYC Resistor).

I know several guys with CNC mills/lathes, so they're out there (not often in the city). Car clubs usually have one or two guys that have the requisite tools.
Where's the glory in cheating if you don't win?
I get frustrated when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" but have taken limited risks or made limited sacrifices. Come to me when you have literally had to make the moral decision between paying yourself more vs. hiring someone else, giving an employee a bonus vs. buying yourself some shiny things (your right to do so, but there's a societal impact for boh during a recession with people out of work) - the list goes on. In particular there's also the kind of strength of a character that "real" entrepreneurs have to have when dealing with the isolation of living in a world filled with blue pill poppers when entrepreneurs have swallowed on the jagged red pill of reality probably from the time they could walk.

I also get frustrated with people who spend VC money in a wanton fashion yet don't risk a dime of their own yet call themselves "entrepreneurs". Nej, you are a "wantrepreneur"...