skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://law.jrank.org/pages/1136/Excuse-Insanity-Empirical-da...

"Defendants who asserted an insanity defense at trial, and who were ultimately found guilty of their charges, served significantly longer sentences than defendants tried on similar charges who did not assert the insanity defense. Unsuccessful NGRI pleaders are incarcerated for a 22 percent longer time than individuals who never raise the plea."

Citations included there, by the way. For someone demanding citations, you're mainly throwing out "read Szalz!" and citing nothing.
> It's hardly in doubt that we need a large source of clean energy.

From one of my nuke profs, depending on how fusion is achieved its not all together clear that it would be any cleaner than fission. Something like 16MEV neutrons are going to cause neutron activation in tons of shielding. So all we do is swap tons of spent fuel from fission plants for tons of activated material from fusion plants, assuming we can even get there.
If you owe your bank 10000 dollars and cant pay you have a problem if you owe your bank 1 million (or in our case 17 trillion)and cant pay they have a problem.
That was a wonderful read, thank you for sharing.
It's like the Gangnam Style of games.
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> Why isn't there a 3rd party?

http://www.gametheory.net/News/Items/120.html
Same way you find a job in any field you are interested in. Find some companies that are using it[1], find their job page, apply.

To pick out a few companies hiring, where I use their services so want them to succeed:

https://www.docker.io/jobs/

http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/listings/

http://www.cloudflare.com/join-our-team

[1] https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoUsers (Note that Google isn't on that list. Pretty sure they use it a bit, and are hiring..)
So then I think we're on the same page: Apple's putting their money into just tooling rather than language design plus tooling.
Ah, in Canada it's 5 years. "Punishment can range from the person being imprisoned for a period of less than five years or until the person complies with the order or fine."
Most of the action around JavaScript isn't particularly innovative. Much of the library development we see is solely due to JavaScript lacking a useful default standard library, for example. Many of the recent and proposed language changes are just fixing basic functionality that was really broken to being with, if not completely missing.

It's very similar for Clojure. It's based on ideas that go back many decades now. Its main selling point is that it's somewhat more practical than previous Lisp or Lisp-like language implementations. Other than that, there's nothing particularly innovative about it.

Python never really suffered from those kinds of problems. It has had a very sensible set of language features since its inception. It has had a very practical standard library since its inception.

Due to a general lack of past mistakes or omissions, there just isn't the need for significant and ongoing repairs that can be misinterpreted as "innovation". This is part of why Python 3's adoption hasn't been that rapid. There really wasn't much to fix, and the problems that did exist were generally quite minor and easy to work around.
It's not quite that clearcut. Since the 1970s a lot of fusion scientists have been keenly interested in laser fusion for power production. It's just that they had to give the program a military justification in order to get funding.

Source: Search for the Ultimate Energy Source: A History of the U.S. Fusion Energy Program, by Stephen O. Dean, who was a major figure in the U.S. fusion program.
Distinguished editors strap Finster into vacuum target chamber...

"Come now, editorial board of Nature. Do you expect me to pay for a subscription?"

"No, Mr. Finster -- we expect you to fuse!"
Can I plug this into gmail?
Does The Internet Help Reward Hard Work, Or Just Being Good At Social Networks?
So thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are outside of biology? How does that work?

I realize that you are simply quoting a passage and not necessarily personally espousing what you wrote.
Except those companies didn't use publicly-funded researchers to both write and review the papers they put in their blogs (seriously, who buys printed copies anymore).
Ask HN: What percentage of a software company's profit should go to salaries?
Are you a psychopath? In what world does personal expected value versus expected cost of breaking the law ever become a good way to make moral decisions? If you have the chance to get a promotion by killing your boss but have near zero chance of being caught due to some circumstance, would you kill your boss? What the fuck.
I agree, that's a strange suggestion.

Clearly this program cannot be trusted absolutely.
Why can't it be both? Saying that the law is imposing costs (equal to the value of breaking it here), and that you're against it enough to flout it, is a protest. Protests don't need to be accompanied by a manifesto.
Normalize to show percent of revenue and then we'll talk.

A time series of $$$ allocated to R&D is basically going to show when the company's growing and when it's shrinking, the same way a heat map of who clicks on furry porn is basically going to show population density.

I realize there's a chart of $$$ allocated to R&D as a percentage of sales but that's not quite right either.
How would you get one?

ASIC owners are paranoid about their earnings. They would notice they are getting less than they usually do the next day after the infection.
That's an unsupportable blanket claim. Such research approaches have paid off in the past. Take IBM:

Invented:
* DES
* Hard Disks
* DRAM
* RISC
* Relational Database
* Laser Eye Surgery
* Barcodes
* PC

Apple shareholders apparently care, because the company is currently being valued as if there are no more disruptive breakthroughs that will produce significant growth in its bottom line.

Also, to say Bell Labs didn't cash out is to be charitable. Ma Bell dominated for decades before the government broke them up. Did they fail because of failure to cash out on inventions, or because Bell Labs was split off from the parent company that was funding them.

Also, if you suggest the government fund it, then maybe the government tax Apple's cash, I wonder how their shareholders will like that?
Sometimes we just have to slow down in order to let life catch up for us.

I think anyone with two or more kids that are still young (let's say less than 7-8 years old) its just too much effort to get stuff going on the side that don't involve your 8 hour work day. Something's got to give if we want to be more than superficially involved with our kids lives when they are young.

The flexibility you have right now is really not to be taken lightly. You have no commute and you can control your schedule somewhat.

My recommendation would be to beef up your RoR skills and start applying for remote work that you could do alongside your day job. At some point, with enough experience you should be able to get a full time remote job making what you are now.

The only way to do that is ruthless time management. This starts with waking up early in the morning - 5 or 5:30 AM and going from there. Weekends would also include waking up this early and getting work done. Your "free" time would essentially be the time with your family. Any other time would involve pursing your goals. So, no TV, no hanging out with buddies unnecessarily.

All this is hard but that's what we get for wanting to raise a family and make something of ourselves. The light at the end of the tunnel for this is that once your kids are older and much more self sufficient, you can basically be a rocket with your habits and accelerate fast.
The one that the creator yanked after it got popular...
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/09/tech/flappy-bird-removed-from-...
This is true. I was an advocate of complete openness. My mother is understandably very sensitive about the wording used so I wanted to respect her wishes.
I totally agree with you, but now I'm wondering what the upside to fusion is over fission, besides being a great science landmark. No radioactive inputs or outputs?
Just a note, I'm quoting that passage because I (and scientific evidence) disagree with it.

Thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and mental illness most certainly have biological bases, which makes Szalz's theories pretty loony.
This seems to keep resetting me before I hit anything.
going to meetups is what works for me, but I don't think that's a general solution

Personally I think it's a pretty good solution.
You could start by countering Kendell, Shorter, and Clarke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz#Criticism
I don't understand what argument you are making here.
I didn't get the sense that he intended "10,000 hours" as a pseudo-scientific assertion of fact.

It's a useful poetic phrase to express the observation that mastery takes time. Sure you could call that a Captain Obvious observation. However he used it in opposition to the idea that great programmers can master a new language in a few weeks. Since that idea is so popular, its opposite apparently is not so obvious.
a collection of links to other news stories

You seem to be focused a lot on just the links and not the sensational language used as anchor text. Some of those stories are tragic. Others not so much. But if the point of that article was to list 21 times a black person was done wrong, they just as well could have given the actual article headline and not editorialized them. (If MotherJones was HN, those titles would have been moderated back to the original.) But that wasn't the point of the article. The list isn't quite as emotional without things like "can't wear a hoodie" and "can't play music at a gas station"
By terrorists you mean those illusionary guys that the politicians use as the boogie man, to beat down the rationality of ordinary people by provoking fear, so they are legally allowed to do virtually anything without nobody to stop them?
National Ignition Facility Announces Record Amount Of Fusion Energy
> one of the most-loved in the English cannon

You mean "canon" -- the root of "canonical".
Trick question.

Profits are calculated after salaries are paid.
Ask HN: Was The Day We Fight Back Really a Failure?
Several popular HN articles are painting 2/11's Fight Back as a "failure". However, between yesterday and today there were about 90k telephone calls and 180k emails to our states' representatives.

This seems like a lot to me.

Stop SOPA was labeled a "success" at 7 million emails, and Fight Back was a failure at 180k--

The question is this: Does anyone here know the lower limit threshold response necessary to achieve legislative "success"? Is there no effect on the legislative process with 90k phone calls?
Your first sentence is a subjective value statement (that I probably don't agree with). Both your first and second sentence are irrelevant to my argument.
The F-35 is not exactly a resounding success: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-22/flawed-f-35-fighter...
He did ... insults, extreme micromanaging, etc.
I'll work on the animation then.

Thanks for the feedback!
I see you mention bonuses on the writer section of the site. How does the distribution work?
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Obesity is an effect. Not a cause. Seriously. Do you blame fire?. The problem here is that sugar is addicting. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23719144
Don't need to take God's name in vain jerk. Just to get your point across.
> This feels like a cheap shot. What flexibility, general appeal, or philosophy?

Right, somewhat a cheap shot, that was partly a rant, as I don't have the motivation to explain it fully in a comment.

> Flexibility: Python is very flexible (I'll say dynamic), but not at the expense of clarity. This is a (IMO, correct) decision made by the Python community.

I would argue that it is not as flexible as Ruby or Clojure for building DSLs. I believe this is not only a decision, but the result of constraints of the language, like significant whitespace or lack of macros.

> General appeal: What does this even mean? The only reason JS has a general appeal is that it ships with every modern browser.

Exactly, but also due to significance of web, it is drawing lots of talent and there is a cambrian explosion in JS. There is so much energy and experimentation going on right now in JS world.

> Philosophy: What philosophy? Purity? Simplicity? Python is a pragmatic language ("get stuff done") while keeping simplicity in mind (although I definitely wouldn't argue that Python is as "simple" as some languages, it's simple enough)

Exactly, purity and simplicity. Lack of functional programming ideas in Python, broken lambdas, mutable state etc. Clojure tackles one of the major source of complexity, state, head on, while maintaining pragmatism.

Python is pragmatic too, I concur, but it is not a language that transforms the way one thinks about programming, it gets the job done, without giving you that much leverage.
EMRo, I'm so so sorry about your loss and your family's loss. Thank you for writing about it. Please take care of yourself as well—and let others take care of you. Grief lasts a lifetime, but it won't always hurt as acutely as it does now. Along the way, you might find some of this helpful; I know I do. http://quinnnorton.com/revived/tips.html
Excellent. Apple needs to lose more people to get the message.
Thank you for your feedback. I'll take a look on these issues you reported ;)
I think it's interesting that this is hosted on a TypePad blog (You can tell from the favicon).
There's a number of tutorials scattered throughout the International Journal of Epidemiology, Epidemiology and the American Journal of Epidemiology, as well as good "exemplar" articles either using Bayesian methods, or using both approaches.
I've just spent 20 minutes (all I can spare right now) reading up on Thomas Szasz, both at your link and on Wikipedia. He certainly had some good ideas (he's against homophobia and the drug war), but his position on mental illness seems to be that it doesn't exist, that people with debilitating mental conditions are faking it for attention or to get out of responsibilities, and that the correct response to someone considering suicide is to hand them a noose and say "have at it."

If you want me to take you or Szasz seriously, please demonstrate that all three of my assertions are incorrect, with citations.
More of the modern feminism insanity.

None of the women were forced to take these pictures.
Well you'd be surprised. I've also tried to solve this problem.

You can create your own lists inside of Bee which filter issues based on your own rules (http://neat.io/bee/docs/smart-lists.html). It's helpful because you just define the rules one-time and then flick to it whenever you need to.

Bee also has a menubar helper which tracks your short-term tasks and queues up your next issue so you always know what you're working on (http://neat.io/bee/docs/the-short-list.html).

Also you can add your own Notes list which is just a series of text files (easily synced via Dropbox) if you want to track your own local tasks.

I'm constantly iterating based on user feedback so if you have time, please let me know how it works out for you :)
Funny, I've been thinking about a 100 character Wikipedia (small enough you can fit the entry plus a link into Twitter)
I want to downvote this. I really do. And I think when I feel justified in doing so that things will have improved.
As an Epidemiologist, some of the most appalling uses of statistics I've ever seen have been in electrical engineering and CS.
Video and image are definitely on the roadmap. As soon as I get the issues related to the standard editor features out of the way I'll begin to implement image and video.
This was my use case also until recently. Unfortunately, the dev box is behind a dynamic ip. I use a following service (dnsdynamic.org), but it's not 100% reliable, so when it became time to make things available to other players I went DO for a $5 box.
why bother? It was clear that the boss was considered excellent by the company.

I would have not bothered to send the email that is my only feedback.
Am I the only one who reads 'wrapped inside a jQuery plugin' and thinks 'great, yet another awesome-looking library rendered completely useless'?
> That is the main problem I see with modern politics.

I'd have to disagree. The main problem I see with politics these days is that it fundamentally disagrees with the way that the world works best, and it puts this incorrect view into action. That's quite contrary to what it should do, and it's a source of frustration. Ideally, politics should change its stance on core issues to be more inline with what it should be, and legislate accordingly.
A significant portion of the debt is held by Americans. I don't get your point.
National Ignition Facility Achieves Record Energies
ES is one of the few techs that I seriously love.

The rails support for it is amazing too. The guy creating the rails integration lib is really talented and active.
I've more or less reached the opposite conclusion for similar reasons. That is, yeah, when I'm programming in Python, I don't really notice the language at all. There's a definite flavor to the experience of programming in C++ and another to the experience of programming in Java and another to Haskell, the particular kinds of things I have to do in each case to get the language to do my bidding, but when I'm programming in Python, the language is almost transparent; the experience is almost entirely about the program I'm trying to write, the problem I'm trying to solve.

And that's exactly what I want, these days.
Haha if that's the case, then we're all going to end up like drones. We'll only be able to do what we're told and we won't be able to think for ourselves. We'll never be able to think deeply about issues, because hey -- that's useless! That won't get me a paycheck!

Innovation is inherently interdisciplinary. If we aren't exposed to different ways of thought, we won't be able to approach problems from the variety of different perspectives that are both necessary and key to creative problem solving.
Whether illusionary or real, their goals are the same, and they're winning because people exchange their rational thinking for illusions of safety.
Super productive coders can't master languages within a few weeks.

They probably learn some of the syntaxes but they don't learn the idioms and proper ways of using the languages.

I've never met a developer who can pick up a book and be a master in relatively quick. They can hack something up but by no means the code is acceptable.

The only reason we believe someone can jump between languages quickly is because we _NEVER_ see their work and we _NEVER_ put them under microscope. We just believe the hype.

By acceptable I refer to the following criteria:

- Proper test automation

- Proper documentation (in-language doc)

- Proper idiom (that means logging properly, proper design pattern suitable for that language, using proper libraries/standard-lib correctly)

- Proper SCM (that means build, dependency management, folder structure, code style, code analysis tool in-place, etc)

Anything less than that is a sign of either the language ecosystem is not mature enough or the developer has yet reached the mastery level (or simply not enough data to measure the level accurately).
Thanks for sending that along. Trying to keep my head up and surrounding myself with family and friends.
The fact that talking about mental health issues is beyond "the fringe of acceptable conversation" is harmful. I wholeheartedly agree that something needs to change on this front in order to prevent more tragedies. One small step would be to stop saying "lost the battle and passed from this world" and say "committed suicide."

We will not be able to engage in thoughtful, constructive and mature conversations if one of the unfortunate outcomes of mental illness is so taboo that we can not speak its name in public. Can you imagine a sexual education class where the teacher used terms like "thingies," "who-hahs" or "that other kind of sex"?
Effect measures. Don't just report your p-value, report the actual effect measure, and a measure of uncertainty around it, be it a frequentist confidence interval, Bayesian posterior distribution, etc.

More information is better.
I mean something like you call a REST API where you create fake data which is then visible on the production site.
To avoid this, you should mock AJAX calls.
I took a look at this project when deciding if I should implement my own. I think both my project and pen editor are going to make each other better with a little competition ;)
Not playing is not playing, it's not a winning move, it's no move. Nor did he say anything about life being partisan politics; he said issues, i.e. political issues are all partisan.

> It is indeed possible to change the world without using the government and partisan politics.

For 99.999% of people, no, it's really not. Voting is the most powerful thing you can do to change things in any meaningful way. Those who show up run the show; those who don't show up follow the laws passed by those who do.
Mz,

I continue to appreciate your honest and forthright approach to addressing issues such as this.
Covered by the linked article to an extent and Asimov IIRC. Exponential growth requires FTL travel within a period shorter than recorded history even with free energy + space travel.
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Also, most critically, JSON doesn't allow circular references.
People are spreading very bad, destructive ideas that will result in more dead brothers. I think that's more important than being "nice".

Also, Szasz and Laing are closer to opposites than counterparts. See for example:

http://www.amazon.com/Antipsychiatry-Quackery-Squared-Thomas...

Quote from the book, by Szasz:

> In the late 1960s, a group of psychiatrists, led by David Cooper (1931-86) and Ronald D. Laing (1927-89), began to criticize conventional psychiatry, especially so-called somatic treatments. But instead of advocating the abolition of Institutional Psychiatry, they sought to replace it with their own brand, which they called "Anti-psychiatry." By means of this dramatic misnomer, they attracted attention to themselves and deflected attention from what they did, which continued to include coercions and excuses based on psychiatric authority and power. Thus, antipsychiatry is a type of psychiatry. The psychiatrist qua health-care professional is a fraud, and so too is the antipsychiatrist. In Psychiatry.The Science of Lies, I showed that psychiatry-an imitation of medicine-is a form of quackery. In this volume, I show that antipsychiatry-a form of alternative psychiatry-is quackery squared.
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> For more than a half century, I have consistently asserted two simple but fundamental propositions: mental illnesses do not exist, and coercions justified by them are wrong. Anyone who seeks to help others must eschew the use of force. Not a single antipsychiatrist has ever agreed with these principles or abided by these practices. Subsuming my work under the rubric of antipsychiatry betrays and negates it just as effectively and surely as subsuming it under the rubric of psychiatry. My writings form no part of either psychiatry or antipsychiatry and belong to neither. They belong to conceptual analysis, social-political criticism, and common sense. This is why I rejected, and continue to reject, psychiatry and antipsychiatry with equal vigor.
Why I Just Quit My Job at Apple
>Moving from the UK to the US I was shocked by the pernicious levels of institutionalized racism and the undercurrent of subtle racism. It's everywhere.

Would you please provide some examples?
> The cost of the B-2 Bomber program has cost as much as ~5 Large Hadron Colliders.

This is the kind of thing that makes me really wanna ragequit on human nature.