skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's good and helpful, but I don't know why it would suggest me to replace "All of" to "All" in this simple sentence below:
"All of you please stand up. "

Any answers by English experts?
One of the problems with emulating a PIPA/SOPA protest was each website risked portraying itself as some sort of political advocacy tool. A lot of Wikipedia editors were supporting the day but some also made the point to remain apolitical(as they also suggested for SOPA/PIPA). Which is a fair point because a political/religious stance would discourage editors and readers alike.

Drupal also had the same discussion and through informal consensus decided to run the banner.[1]

I was one of the developers on TDWFB and still wasn't 100% sold to run political movements on cdnjs.com.

The article in question is pretty misleading. There was significant discussion on Reddit[2] and with the help of the admins there was a pretty positive sentiment floating around too(No statistics but I'm guessing they were a huge source of calls, given all the reports on the thread).

The ending quote unintentionally gives credit to the protest I think . Of course everyone knows on-line petitions are a weak form of protest, which is why TDWFB focused very hard on phone calls and did quite well in that regard.

"“Online petitions,” one Reddit user wrote of the protest. “The very least you can do, without doing nothing.”"

So we drove 88k+ completed phone calls, this number does not include the 6k+ phone calls that we couldn't connect because some senators turned off their voice mail(Reddit comments suggest Feinstein was one of them). This would bring the attempted phone calls to just shy of 95k but the tool is still be used today so we hope to hit 100k attempted phone calls. Plus there were a tonne of untracked calls and we hope to get a full number soon.

Our figure on the homepage for emails is semi-misleading. We are actually delivering those emails to 3 reps per zipcode which brings the email count 183k to 549k.

244k international people signed the petition.

Including the day before and the day after, our traffic to the homepage is sitting somewhere over 1 million visitors.

We gained about 350k fb likes and 60k tweets(of the domain) on the 11th.

And according to Cloudfront and my credit card, we served about 1 billion requests. I don't have the numbers on how many times the banner was displayed just yet.

Edit: As pointed out by ronaldx, the article states that DuckDuckGo did not participate, their logo did change and remains so.

Also major thank you to Twilio for sponsoring the calls.

[1] https://groups.drupal.org/node/398548
[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/1xm3qu/today_we_fight_...
they also say this isn't possible with their current techniques.

That's fine by me, it was not very long ago that we were unable to get more out of the fuel than we put into the fuel. That's step one to fusion ignition, and was done for the very first time last fall, so as far as I'm concerned they are still fleshing out step one.
It should say "aim for two or fewer", since it's better style to spell out any number < 10.
The party named in the lawsuit corresponds to the conventions of the court where the complaint is filed. If you would like to see a good example of this, I would refer you to the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act (A.K.A. Obamacare) lawsuit, where the parties named in the suit varied by the jurisdiction where the law was challenged.
He was what doctors call 'high functioning.' He was able to operate in society and shroud his pain though it was incredibly painful to do so for him. He wasn't 'completely normal'. He was in a very well respected program in Boston and working through his issues to have the life he wanted.
You're informing me of a "fact" without a citation. You have not succeeded at persuading me.

If you wish to change my mind, tell me where Szasz was mistaken. If you are not familiar with Szasz, perhaps you should try reading both sides of the issue before passing judgment.
I'll admit in the corporate world it's a slow process to weed out any bad apples (pun not intended), but it does happen. There's accountability on every level.

I knew of a manager who wasn't very good, and once his directs escalated the issue, it was only a month or so until he was out the door.

There's also a sort of probation bad employees can be placed under, but I hear once you're in that boat, it's nearly impossible to get out from it.
Do you mean "no more stigma"?
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That's my hope too. Make going to therapy no more of a big deal than having a cast after a broken bone.
Like Thorium this does not prove that it will ever be commercially viable source of energy.
Szasz thinks mental illness has no biological basis, which flies in the face of the empirical fact that twin/adoption studies have shown a clear hereditary basis for a variety of conditions like bipolar, schizophrenia, etc.

Arguing that someone dying despite psychiatry invalidates psychiatry is like arguing cancer treatment is useless because some people die of cancer.
Per your logic, we should abandon heart transplant surgeries as soon as one doesn't go as planned.

Anecdotal evidence against the efficacy of any medical treatment is not reason enough to abandon it.
http://96.126.121.68/ works for me.
Maybe in the future but the reality is that the last 10 years have been focused on distribution of content as the primary goal. We're focused on monetization, and helping creators make more money and delivering more value for readers who support them.
There isn't really a stigma on anxiety disorder or being bipolar, that I know of. There is a stigma on some of the things people with those disorders sometimes do, but that seems reasonable.

If you're bipolar and I don't like you, it's probably because of manic-depressive behavior. Not because I heard you say you were bipolar. It's not a stigma, I just can't handle people with wild mood swings.
It's a risk we need to take (or mitigate) if we want to have a steady flow of new breakthroughs. Science, just as programming or any other creative discipline, is best done when you have more money than you need and nobody is looking at your hands.
Yes. You are correct, IF those actions are part of your duties while being on call. Just like Workers Comp insurance pays out if you injure yourself driving to a colo facility as part of being on-call.
This isn't protesting the law with civil disobedience, it is breaking the law because the direct expected value of breaking the law (people having access to this specific paper) is greater then the expected cost of breaking the law (~0).
there's a bunch of smart under-appreciated observations in there.
That's ham.
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Maybe its boringness might be of value to some, as it has reached steady state, but I believe that if you are going to be where the puck is going to be, you need to consider languages other than Python. I am betting on JS and Clojure.

I remember reading the announcements on Usenet for early versions of Python over two decades ago. I wasn't excited about it then because I was so tied up in learning The Next Big Thing and Python, even when it was brand spanking new, never screamed sexy.

At some point though, I stopped chasing The Next Big Thing because I needed to actually get stuff done in such a way that didn't involve me or another senior engineer maintaining it forever. Nearly 15 years after I read the first announcement of Python, I actually started to use it in earnest and I liked it. At some point in one's programming career, one starts to become practical and Python, if anything, is a practical language.

I sometimes think the reason Python doesn't have the zealotry in its community like other languages is because it attracts such practical people that when faced with a problem that would be easier solved in another language, will simply use the other language.
I'm talking about language design. Clang and LLVM are not languages (well, not user-written languages).
> I disagree with this claim.

Unsupported opinions are pretty meaningless. How is it not one of the biggest issues?

The national debt story has been making constant front-page of news for 3+ years now. Anyone who doesn't see the huge long-term significance of the massive debt is exhibiting significant ignorance to economics. The USA is making a serious gamble that the economy will be strong and fast-growing for the next 5-10 years. If not, it's going to get nasty.
Do you want to discuss this seriously? If so, cite an actual study and say specifically what conclusion it reaches and specifically how that contradicts Szasz.

You seem to be implying that Szasz and I hold our positions due to scientific ignorance, which is demonstrably false, and insulting. But maybe you didn't mean it that way.
> People labelled mentally ill can be imprisoned without a trial.

So can people not labelled mentally ill, and involuntary confinement happens well within the confines of our legal and justice systems.

> People labelled mentally ill can avoid prison when another person who did the same actions would go to jail.

People found not guilty by reason of insanity are typically kept in a forensic unit with similar levels of freedom as a prison, and typically are detained longer. It's not as if they're turned loose.

> People labelled mentally ill can be drugged by force.

So can people not labelled mentally ill.
The key bit in the lawsuit is that Uber's business model depends on availability of drivers in a certain area. Those drivers are required to look at their cell phone while driving.
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You don't see airline pilots or doctors yelling at each other for making the occaional honest mistake

You're right, you don't. But my point was that you also don't see Linus yelling at other kernel hackers for making honest mistakes. The mistake he yelled at someone for in the case under discussion was not honest; it was a mistake nobody qualified to hack on the kernel should have made in the first place.
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Take Twitter for example. It didn't take me long to realise just how fluffy and useless my writing was...
This article/memoir is not about someone interested in computer science (or if they are, it's not about that interest), it's about someone interested in software development and building things.
Those PDFs are normally watermarked with a unique identifier for your account. It's not worth it.
I'm doing the same thing. Going to be writing a social SOS app for iphone/android using Ionic Framework. Coding helps ease the pain. Shoot me an email. evanmrose at gmail dot com
Disclaimer: I'm a CS PhD student that did pure math in undergrad, so I probably have a different perspective on these things than someone who did CS only.

CS, at a graduate level, is a much more varied field than most people, even CS undergrads, realize. In fact, a lot of the main research groups in my department (graphics, vision, image analysis, robotics, VR, visualization) are things most CS undergrads don't even get exposed to.

In math or physics, a lot of the undergrad courses are kind of basic, entry-level things that give you a feel for some of the different fields of research without going too far in depth. This isn't really the case with CS, because CS departments have to cater to several different audiences who tend to fall into one degree. They have to come up with a curriculum that balances programming/development concepts for people who want to be developers, networking/administration stuff for people who want to be IT (although this is more and more being moved into a separate program), and theory for people who actually want to be computer scientists. Even then, this theory is mostly relegated to computation theory, which is only a small part of what research computer scientists do.

Personally, I'm in medical image analysis, which is a field which is a collision between a ton of different areas, including physics, statistics, operations research[1], numerical analysis, image processing, differential geometry, and medicine. I don't know that I would consider any of those fields to be the "easiest branch of mathematics" (what does that even mean, anyway?)

This post has kind of gotten off the rails a little bit, so I'll end with this: I think, if you just look at a CS undergrad program and try to project that to what actual CS research is like, you end up getting a much narrower and incomplete picture than if you do the same thing to a math or physics department, partly because CS research tends to be much more interdisciplinary than others (I have many more collaborators in many more areas than some friends of mine in math/physics/biology do).

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research
Well I can think of at least one counterexample: myself. I suffer from a moderate case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. I have paced back and forth, obsessively checking that the sink in my bathroom is truly off, feeling my anxiety continuing to rise despite obvious visual confirmation. I once ripped the door handle off the front door of my parents' house because I had been strenuously pulling on it, neurotically ruminating on the idea that maybe, just maybe, the door wasn't completely closed.

I suffer from mental illness, and it isn't because my behaviors have a "stigma." It's because my behaviors are illogical and cause me a non-trivial amount of distress. So if you're going to rant on this forum about how mental illness is some socially-constructed tool of oppression, how about you go fuck yourself?

Thanks.
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So there's other bad things in the world, too. What's your point?

Sometimes people who escape criminal justice via psychiatry get similar levels of freedom. Sometimes significantly less freedom! It can be a way to imprison people for an indeterminate sentence which may last longer than the maximum prison term for their offense. And, sometimes it's quite a lot like they are turned loose. All of these happen.
This is pretty much the only thing we can do, give Candy crush a bad review, candy swipe a good review, and tell all our friends.
I didn't log in. For almost all of these they detect that I'm connecting from my campus IP block and unlock everything.
This is something about you and what you hear as having buzz, not about Python
http://www.szasz.com/manifesto.html

> Mental illness is a metaphor (metaphorical disease). The word "disease" denotes a demonstrable biological process that affects the bodies of living organisms (plants, animals, and humans). The term "mental illness" refers to the undesirable thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of persons. Classifying thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying the whale as a fish. As the whale is not a fish, mental illness is not a disease. Individuals with brain diseases (bad brains) or kidney diseases (bad kidneys) are literally sick. Individuals with mental diseases (bad behaviors), like societies with economic diseases (bad fiscal policies), are metaphorically sick. The classification of (mis)behavior as illness provides an ideological justification for state-sponsored social control as medical treatment.

Again, this is refuted by twin/adoption studies, which allow for control of environmental causes. One example: http://www.massgeneral.org/psychiatry/assets/Smoller2003_Fam...
The PR guys often work on a different schedule than the actual science, but those times do usually correlate well with the funding deadlines for some strange reason... It's probably work as usual at the NIF because everyone is working on a big, long, grinding project that's slowly making progress rather than bashing out stunning Eureka moments complete with Dom Perignon showers like you see in a Hollywood flick.
Climbing on second tallest building in the world (Shanghai Tower, China)
Presumably in the event that the opposition establishes a foothold in some part of the country.
Possible. However, I recommended AirBnB to several Asian and Caucasian friends who never heard of it before (I'm from GA). Few just showed up in SF and booked same day with no problems. Not one bad experience, except this time. Fully acknowledge it's a limited sample. I'd like to see someone take the same challenge. I'd also like AirBnB data scientists to take a tough look.
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I am not a nutritionist or a biochemist, but as a guy with an old BS Chem and a general knowledge, it does not surprise me to hear (again) that we are not all bomb calorimeters. We have long known that our metabolic pathways are neither uniform nor universal. There is no surprise there. When you eat fat, carbohydrate, or cellulose, different things happen.

Thus, I think the extreme "calories is calories" argument is anti-scientific.

Given the real complexity, I personally favor a varied and omnivorous diet, avoiding things both unnatural in their manufacture but also unnatural in their availability. A diet high in sugar is not natural. It would be very surprising if evolution and the evolution of our accompanying microbiome prepared us for it.
FYI: I have done lots of reading. I spent time in therapy. Etc. And, for a time, I essentially had an unpaid "consultancy" where parents who had super difficult kids who had been failed by all the experts would get given my email address and talk with me a bit and a year or so later I would hear back that their "impossible" kid was getting their act together. So I strongly suspect that I know what I am talking about, better than most so-called experts.
Actually, as Rand Paul himself said, defaulting on our debt is the last thing we should do, and by bringing it up, Obama was playing a very cynical card.

The feds have no problem paying the debt service (though of course the growing debt is a problem); it's everything else they can't afford.

Ultimately, it's Congress' problem, not Obama's. He doesn't pass budget bills. But there are almost zero folks in Congress with enough backbone to do anything about it.
This was a response to another post which appears to be deleted.
I agree, and I think this decoupling of individual political decisions from party lines is one of the main benefits of direct democracy. You don't have to vote red or blue every four years and then live with the consequences.

In Switzerland, where this is the way the government and lawmaking works, many things are dealt with in parliament to keep the process economic, but they can fairly easily escalated to a plebiscite.

At the same time, the government as far less partisan and generally constituted by member of all mainstream parties.
Video of interview/talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQZ-0mXFmk8
Fortunately, if we had a lot more cheap energy we could probably get to space pretty easily too. So a lot of the growth wouldn't be happening on this planet.
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> "will only cause discomfort if they think they're in mixed company, not because they think it's wrong"

Yes, and that's a crucial difference. It will give them pause, or cause discomfort, because they know what they've just said is controversial. They know what they've just said is considered inflammatory, even if they themselves don't believe so.

This is, sadly, still a pretty leap beyond racially homogenous countries where all of the above is said without any awareness, because they're not even aware that disagreement exists on their point.

Your father in law no longer says these things to you because he knows you're on the other side. In many countries there is no other side, or the "other side" is so infinitesimally small that it's not in anyone train of thought while they spew their racist crap.

The mere presence of the "other side" gives hope that we might one day be further along than we are now.
> In all honestly, I would say the U.S. is just about the least racist country on earth.

Based on what?
Seriously switch to something else.

They have been doing this for years and clearly they still haven't learn.
Illogical behavior is stigmatized (a lot of it, not all).

> how about you go fuck yourself?

Who is the one ranting?
EMRo - I'm very sorry for your loss.

I am going through something similar right now with my father who has psychotic depression. It is really hard.

Thank you for your post, and for helping to raise awareness about this. I will try to help.
The prosecutor's would have to...

1. prove they have the evidence.

or

2. prove they destroyed or concealed it.

Greatest quote I've ever heard: "it's not what they know, it's what they can prove in court"
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I suspect all those employees at paypal who aren't using the paypal mobile app already know their product sucks and/or is useless, they don't need to be educated to know that.

I suspect it's the CEO who doesn't actually realize it, but maybe he does.

Still, I suppose the theory could be that if they are forced to use the shitty product, then they will be more motivated to fix it, that they currently lack motivation to fix it because they are not using it.

I doubt it will work that way, but it's a theory.
I'm sorry. We're busy training the next generation of knowledge workers. Things like "how to construct a cogent argument based upon a reasoned moral framework" or "how to distill essential points and deduce the original line of reasoning from a long-form essay" are artsy fartsy humanities unnecessary to getting a paycheck in the real world.
I must admit that I just skimmed that paper - I did see that and thought it looked a bit odd but assumed it was just me!
Please. There is nothing good about Rand.

He is just cynically trying to stoke the libertarian base.
I like Szasz too, as well as his hippie counterpart R.D. Laing (whom you might check out if you're interested), but please, don't play intellectual hardball in this thread. The OP just lost his brother.
"What prosecutors?"? What do you imagine the difference is between saying "prosecutors need to lose their immunity" and "we need to lose prosecutorial immunity"?

All prosecutors, obviously.
I don't think it's subverting the intent to move the BTC out. The point of subpoenas is to get information, not resources; if you want resources the correct mechanism is a seizure. The court is probably just asking for everything it can just in case.
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There's no jail limit for contempt of court.

14 years: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/07/14/man-jailed-on-civil-cont...

7 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Armstrong
They are working towards ignition as measured by total neutron output. As soon as they detect significant enough jump to warrant ignition claim there will be Eureka moment with Dom Perignon.

Right now they are 3 orders of magnitude off (10^15 they get, 10^18 or better 10^19 they want).
Happy to know about Bee. Trying it right now.

However, Jira fundamentally is about managers tracking work, and not about workers actually getting stuff done. There's no way I can track all my tasks in Jira even if I have a nicer GUI for it.

I'm actually part of the way towards writing a program to sync tasks between Asana and Jira using their APIs. I'm hoping that that'll let me continue working in Asana while it handles Jira (which I've always found incomprehensible) for me.
What, precisely, is your point? The article points out JSON's limitations.
I recall reading somewhere the phrase "nine or 10". Clearly the writer (or editor) was adhering rather mindlessly to the house rule.