skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those kinds of social issues are relevant for two reasons.

1) If the candidate has to work on a team with others, then he has to get along with the team - or at the very least, the chemistry shouldn't be bad enough to affect performance.

2)I think it's perfectly acceptable to reject someone because you don't consider him to be morally upstanding. The second statement about correlating race and IQ is a bit ambiguous and subjective, but if, say the candidate was philosophically in favor of lynching and ethnic genocide, then I wouldn't care how good a hacker he is, I wouldn't feel right hiring him.

Posting race\IQ issue wouldn't, in my opinion, reflect poorly on the candidate even though I don't necessarily agree with it.
On the other hand, posting anti-semitic remarks probably would reflect poorly, depending on how they were phrased and the context (is it just pure hate or mere opposition to certain political stances...)
Nice. So, if I have a house, and I start a company, and something goes wrong, and you lose your job, you think coming after my house is reasonable. Because after all, we shouldn't hire people unless we're sure we'll always be able to pay them. Because that's how business works.

Thankfully, all this really means is that people will incorporate somewhere else where crazy rules like this don't apply.
Twitter succeeded in adoption because it required less time investment than a proper blog post; Therefore, if we reduce the time investment for video... ??? Profit?
I agree with your comment, and I want to clarify that Dr. T. Colin Campbell, author of "The China Study", is a Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, not MIT.

He is likely the foremost nutritional researcher, not only of our time, but of history. The work he and his team did in the decades-long China Study research has not been paralleled.

Some of the notable discoveries they made was that a particular protein found in dairy products, casein, enabled tumor growth. When removed from the diet, the tumors stopped.

A similar tumor on/off mechanism was found with regards to the percentage of calories from protein in the diet. When the protein went over a certain threshold, tumor growth was enabled, but not at the lower levels.
Oh, it could be made general, just add the name of the actual datetime field as a parameter of the hash. Then you could drop the method into ActiveRecord. Anyway, the second solution is okay, because it is explicit enough. However it it still builds a dependency on define_attribute_methods.
corrected the University name, thanks... :)

Excellent summary of his work, btw. I cannot imagine how difficult it must be for him professionally to have exhibited all the courage he did in going against the status quo only to remain in relative obscurity.

I guess great insights sometimes don't catch on right away.
God this is a perfect post for techcrunch. complaining and Twitter.
Are low-GI carbohydrate really "good" for you? Or are they not as bad for you as high-GI carbohydrate? Is chronically elevated sugar the problem or chronically elevated insulin? There's good evidence that both are very bad for you. And in that case, GI simply isn't enough.
Everyone has the means to fight this.

Let's see, I was in 7th grade or so (6 years ago?) and Comcast came to install their service as we followed their wish to ditch the dish. The man that came did some damage to the house before he finished. Dad refused to pay, he refused to finish the job. We had no TV, a large hole in a ceiling, and more...

Dad was pissed but apparently I was even more angry after I was told someone would come by only in a week or so. So what did I do?

I went on Google and found the email of the head of the south east region of Comcast. I sent him a long email expressing my unhappiness and I told him I was going to post my story on my blog. I didn't think it would lead to anything, I did this without my family's knowledge.

Next morning I awoke as my dad shook me asking me what I did. We had 3-5 Comcast vans parked outside our house in addition to an insurance repair firm fixing the hole. I had a blog for the purpose of learning what a blog was, messing around with HTML/CSS, no viewers. I didn't say that of course. The threat was enough.

With twitter/facebook, it's even easier. Managers know that company reputation is in the grips of one unhappy customer.
Some excellent resources:

http://drmcdougall.com Dr. John McDougall's site

An excellent presentation that he gave is available here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2348910096409126100
John McDougall MD on the perils of dairy products

He has advocated a low fat, whole foods, plant based site for decades,
and this type of diet has been clinically shown to prevent
and even reverse heart disease (see studies by Dr. Dean Ornish, probably others).

The diet consists of fruits and vegetables, with starches
such as potatoes, yams, beans, and oats featuring as the staple calorie source.

The pre-1950s Okinawan diet was like this, with the staple being sweet potato. Their percentage of calories from fat was in the single digits, with carbohydrates being over 80% of calories. Okinawa has been known as having one of the highest number of centenarians, not to mention healthy long-lived people overall. Sure there are more factors than diet, but it is worth considering what they ate.

The "Star McDougallers" area of the site has many
testimonials of people helped with their health problems
far beyond weight loss, such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.

Taking it to the next level:

The 80/10/10 diet

also low fat and plant based, but all raw (fruits instead of starches, basically)

http://vegsource.com/talk/raw Message board for the 80/10/10 diet, by Doug Graham

http://foodnsport.com Doug Graham's site

http://30bananasaday.com 80/10/10 enthusiast forum & social network
Ask HN: Making Wireless Work With Linux Mint/Ubuntu?
A few weeks ago, I asked the community which operating system I should install on an old Thinkpad T40 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=655621). I decided to try Linux Mint and am loving it thus far. One catch: I can't get wireless to work with IBM's internal wireless card - Intel PRO/Wireless 2100.

I've dug around on the Ubuntu help forums and didn't really find an answer I could implement. Funny enough, fellow hackers and founders at our meetup here in NYC wished me good luck - as this tends to be a common problem with Linux. Ethernet isn't working as well.

So, HN, I turn to you. Can you help me make wireless work on my laptop?
Far more tragic I'd have to say is that Jefferson seemed to believe deeply in a smaller, weaker executive branch and then presided over vast expansion of the Executive.
The list is not accurate.
But lucky for us, they were on the same side. When Jefferson was serving as Ambassador to France during the constitutional convention Jefferson and Franklin exchanged brilliant letters.
Furthermore, the speculative nature of parents should not be underestimated when they allow a weird, rich person to be friends with their child. So yeah, either he was very weird (definite) or he was a child molester (possible).
The biggest problem is that if passwords are put in text boxes, I can just hammer the back button after another user has been using the browser until I get to a login form and see the password.
But I wonder whether the effect of an unknown dataset slowly seeps into the algorithms as they are tweaked, especially when 100s of algorithms are competing to fit that data.

It might be akin to the fact that if you correlate more than 25-30 sets of 25-30 random numbers, you would find at least one statistifcally significant correlation.
Yes, it seems he really went against the establishment thinking in those early years of his work, and even his own assumptions, as he grew up on a dairy farm. He and his team initially set out to "save the third world" by providing high quality animal protein. He was working in the Phillipines during this time, and as his work progressed, he started noticing that his initial assumptions about animal protein did not seem to be true.

This was before the China Study research, and I do not know if it was covered in the book, but he talks about this in at least one talk that is available online.

I think this is the talk here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1308977765978236346...

In addition to being sincere and extremely knowledgable about his subject matter, a characteristic of T. Colin Campbell is that, despite the respect and acclaim (more so in recent years) he has garnered, he comes across as quite humble.
I guessed at the time of the event that he was on drugs. He lost everything and was in more debt than some may think is possible for an individual. Turns out that is likely the cause, but I'm sure we will be hearing about this for a long time to come.
Why not just six minutes/week?

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/can-you-get-fit-in-...
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If you're looking for something like this for Python, check out the greenlet library: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/greenlet
I'm assuming you tried this: http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/

The other thought I had is to save yourself some pain and find a usb wireless adapter that linux supports since, I believe, the T40 doesn't have a pcmcia slot.
It's more likely a joke. The guy has a mathematics degree from Harvard. http://www.okcupid.com/about-us/
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Nobody will escape death, but death does not have to be prolonged, painful, and miserable.

Everybody has to die of something, but if people were able to pick, nobody would pick the most common causes: heart disease, cancer, and stroke.

If diet can play a part in avoiding these, and evidence suggests that the role is significant, we probably should eat what we like, as long as we learn to like that which is good for us.
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So does that mean you can't program these HP emulators? I see the [R/S] key right there in the screenshots.
The semantics of a password input say nothing of its presentation. It is up to the browser to render the password field with clear text, stars, or whatever style it is configured to use.
How to gain respect through body language
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124...

Plug and play on Ubuntu. Has a built-in wireless finder. $75 bucks. At minimum wage, you've probably burnt enough hours on this to pay for it. :)
You'd be surprised. NYtimes actually has a pretty forward looking IT dept. They've even released an API

http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/article_search_api?authChe...
Did Franklin give Jeffson pointers on French babes? (Franklin went to France before the American Revolution to get French support. Talk about an old coot in a candy store....)

One can make a reasonable argument that the American Revolution was (in part) Franklin's response to being insulted by the English.

Jefferson wasn't a slouch, but Franklin ....
I don't necessarily disagree with you that the language of the academy is esoteric (and it is sometimes used to obscure), on the other hand, you presumably think the phrase "implementing a multi-tier caching architecture backed solely by distributed in-memory red-black trees" means something. I'll guarantee you anybody with a PhD in cultural studies knows every word in that sentence and doesn't have a flipping clue what it actually means.

Discourse is a device in that talking about something is an action, which is one of the fundamental (useful) insights of all the pomo stuff. For example, talking about what type of content is suitable for HN is not just neutral, it actually moves the perception of what is suitable for HN, and thus influences what HN is. Similarly, talking about cultural imperialism influences policymakers to avoid policies which would materially improve the lives of pick-your-favorite-poor-people.

Reifying subjugation means that your discourse says that it is both the natural order of things, and morally praiseworthy, that pick-your-favorite-poor-people are trapped in a premodern nasty, brutish, and short existence. For example, their culture has medicine men instead of Western medicine. If you say "their traditional holistic understanding of the human body as being one with nature and the spirits of all living things" is more important than giving their sick children effective pills so that they'll live to the age of five, you're reifying subjugation.

Part of the reason we talk in jargon in our field and in my ex-field is that everyone is on the same page and it makes things very efficient. If you had been in the field, you wouldn't have needed a multi-paragraph explanation of the sentence, you would have gone straight to pissed. :)
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Here's the article on one page: http://jottit.com/hs46s/
There was a big stink a few years about about the same 0.015 "cents" with Verizon. The guy recorded his phone call, and wrote a series of blog posts about it. http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-...
The Climate Change Climate Change: The number of skeptics is swelling
Thanks for the book reference!

Actually the main reason I'm doing dumbbells-only is because I can do it at home and for "free" (apart from the $100 initial investment).
It's an interesting idea. Clickable link: http://publicitweet.com

I think you should create a free launch on my new site, http://www.launchly.com!
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50 years from now, programmers will probably be using people like _why as examples of people who are truly passionate about their craft and don't care about the personal "fame" that comes with their achievements...evidenced by the fact that no one knows his real name.
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This is why, for the one credit card I regularly use for its cash back bonus, I have automatic weekly payments set up, each of which is far larger than the minimum would ever be. This helps guard against cases where the credit card company moves the due date around to purposefully screw a scheduled monthly payment. One has to be incredibly vigilant these days it seems.
The underlying technology to Kazza, Skype & joost are similar with an exclusive license granted to these companies -- a smart move actually from the founders perspective.
I think JWZ's talking about unnecessary abstraction layers, and re-written wheels created by technology fetishists and bad designers, rather than lamenting the lack of knowledge required to make useful things in modern OSs.
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You're seriously missing the point. Lean startup is not about selling X to Y, it's about figuring who is Y and what kind product they might need, using X as a starting point.
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That's true, though I'd be even less inclined to buy into their company now.
i don't know that any news corp outlet has reported anything to support the notion of climate change.

and to be clear, i'm not commenting on the issue itself, just the unbalanced coverage from this specific source.
High protein diets usually have high purine which can cause high uric acid levels in blood for some people [like me]. Can cause gout :(
This article is useless and skewed.
Im from Australia and the senator in question is a known skeptic who benefits from promoting those interests who would have most to loose in a carbon constrained economy.
"Skeptics" continue to benefit from saying oh its not happening. A senator taking a (likley) free trip to the US for a conference against climate change, big news!

You might find this more informative:
http://wakeupfreakout.org/film/tipping.html

At least you have some facts to check. The wsj article is
mere hyperbole.

For less bias in the news you read check out newscred.com (no affiliation).
Finance is really not that complicated. Don't borrow at even 0.001 percent unless you can invest at 0.002 percent. If you can't understand that grade of math, you're eternally doomed anyway...
North Korea and Iran maybe but China? China may not have the best records for human rights but I wouldn't put it in the same league as North Korea or Saudi Arabia.
Try this on Firefox. Go to http://news.ycombinator.com

1.Right click
2.View Page Info
3.Click on Security Tab
4.Click on View Saved Passwords
MJ was also a very crafty viral marketer. He could hack the media easily. He invented most of the stories or did them for shock (Bubbles, Oxygen tube bed, Elephant man bones), after a while the media started making up their own.
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I've been writing Clojure full time for the last few weeks, I didn't even slow down to parse that sentence. :-)
Broadband Cowboy (2002)
An extended life (perhaps - modulo advances in medicine) but at what cost?

I'd rather live well on delicious foods and most likely die in my 70s, than worry about this and derive satisfaction from pride in piety and devotion to some food religion.

And for the record, I'm not obese, nor am I overweight (BMI of 21). But I'll be damned if I'm going to give up one of the greatest sources of pleasure I have ever known just to eke out a few more years on this planet.
In gold we trust (2002)
You need to set the cache control for the file to some far off date in future. Doing this will make sure the browser doesn't download the file each and every time the users visits your website. If you are using Apache you add this to your conf file.

<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css)$">
Header set Cache-Control "public"
Header set Expires "26 June 2210 20:00:00 GMT"
</FilesMatch>
Get NDISwrapper: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/

It will allows you to use the Windows driver for that wireless card.
Not only is this a dupe, it's a dupe from this morning.

Today the house passed the most important environmental bill in the nation's history, and that gets zero upvotes in favor of this. Really?
Why do these global warming skeptic articles keep popping up here? Global warming is certainly OT, and skeptics' theories are not really any more interesting than any other conspiracy theories.
Some would argue that "facts" should be argued on their own merits, regardless of source. But spin and interpretation are incredibly important, and a partial source cannot be taken as a provider of impartial facts.
Well, we get a reminder for every holiday. So if we're going to make the site a calendar, we might as well make it an obituary too. Next up: classifieds.
I don't think either one is psychotic; maybe the term you're looking for is "psychopathic", which has mostly been replaced with "sociopathic".
Yes, you can certainly call it "psycho", and I don't know if it's actually true in general (I doubt it!) [edit: true that New York corporation shareholders have no limitation of liability for wage claims] but doing so does not succeed in making a case that some other policy is better.
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First, we're probably talking about 20 more years. If you believe Ray Kurzweil (I'm a skeptic) it could be a lot more...

We're also not talking about being old and immobile... you could feasibly enjoy an excellent quality of life in your 90s and beyond. Think of it... you could get a Ph.D at 80 if you wanted to, while your contemporaries had been dead for around a decade.

You also may not realize this, but eating optimally offers immediate, pleasurable benefits. How would you like 25% more energy, vitality, and endurance? How would you like a more sharply focused mind?

Mind and body are one... you can't expect to experience true pleasure if you neglect either one.
Intellectually dishonest conspiracy theories at that. As much as some people here hate the 9-11 truthers, at least the mainstream ones aren't making up facts or using quotes out of context.
You "win the Internets." This is the first intelligent reply I've seen today.
The genius of the Lisp machines is in their extensibility and consistency all the way down.

This is also the genius of the Smalltalk systems.
Freeman Dyson is a skeptic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTSxubKfTBU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k69HUuyI5Mk

Do you have the audacity to call him a conspiracy theorist? He's only one of the greatest scientists of the 20th Century. What kind of track record do you have to belittle Dyson? Seriously.

The point I am trying to make: not at skeptics are born equal. Some are ignorant fools. But others are well-educated and well-trained in the Natural Sciences. Your simplistic view that all skeptics are conspiracy theorists is ideology. You looked at no data. You did not check the assumptions. You did not create any of the climate computer models. You probably did not read any papers on the topic. So, your beliefs stem from where exactly!? This is not an attack. It is an honest question.

BTW, they don't call it Global Warming anymore. It's now called Climate Change. You see, since the climate is a dynamical system that is continuously changing, the name "Climate Change" per se has absolutely zero information.
"Conspiracy theory" is an interesting phrase. It doesn't have a meaning so much as a purpose: to shut someone up by ostracizing them and/or to shut the minds of third parties (a signal that most people reflexively obey). It's a conformist move that has a tinge of violence about it, if a phrase can be called violent.

Personally, as soon as I hear someone labeled a "conspiracy theorist" I immediately sympathize with them, though of course that doesn't make their views true.

Edit: replaced "belittling" with "ostracizing" as explained below.
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Speculation: Wii games are linked against headers and libraries in Nintendo's SDK which the third party is not allowed to redistribute publicly. The GPL is incompatible with linking against libraries that you can't redistribute.

Also, the source code would contain details of Nintendo's API's which they'd rather keep secret.
Selection bias doesn't explain the inter-state difference, which is what the visualizations are attempting to display.

For that to be an issue here, you'd have to argue that there's something about living in Nevada as opposed to New York, independent of your attitude towards sex, that would affect whether or not after seeing this question, you chose to answer or pass.
I'm surprised that you are asserting that it's possible to remain ignorant of whether your coworkers are unusually racist, but I guess you probably know a lot more about that than I do.
Nice article. I sometimes feel like the youth focus in tech really robs us of getting the perspective that grizzled old timers who've seen it all and done it all have. Bonus points if they still cut code more than they attend meetings.
"Conspiracy theory" has a very simple meaning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory) and no derision at all. You might take it as belittling but it's not. The term "conformist" on the other hand fits your description perfectly.