skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other extreme, there was the Unlimited Register Machine (URM) [1] specified on Nigel J. Cutland's book: Computability, An introduction to recursive function theory.

[1] http://faculty.oxy.edu/rnaimi/home/URMsim.htm
I'm not sure I follow. Say you have

P(gene|healthy) = 0.010 and P(no_gene|healthy) = 0.99
P(gene|sick) = 0.011 and P(no_gene|sick) = 0.989

Then you do large population studies (testing for sick vs healthy is cheaper than testing for genes). You get

P(healthy) = 0.90 and P(sick) = 0.10.

From the small sample you get the average of the gene's expression frequency:

P(gene) = 0.0101 and P(no_gene) = 0.9899.

You are interested in what is the probability of a person being sick when they have the gene

P(sick|gene) =
P(sick,gene) / P(gene) =
P(gene|sick) * P(sick) / P(gene) =
0.011 * 0.10 / 0.0101 =
0.109

And conversely, odds of being sick without the gene:

P(sick|no_gene) =
P(no_gene|sick) * P(sick) / P(no_gene) =
0.989 * 0.10 / 0.9899 =
0.0979

So, based on this data, having the gene increases your probability of having the disease some 11% (0.109/0.0979) or 1.1 percentage points (0,109-0,0979).

Or you might want to calculate some other figures from these. If you just want the ratio, then P(sick) does not have a bearing on it. You could perform some sensitivity analysis etc...

(I am not a statistician by far)
Someone explained "blandly practical" to me in terms of Python being very Dutch, pragmatic yet conservative.

I am not versed in Dutch culture, but considering Van Rossum's background, I thought it was an interesting statement.
I'd love this as a plugin for emacs or notepad++.
This story is a vomit full of lies. TIMOTHY SNYDER is a disgrace to Yale. Even the beginning of the article where he says "Soviets and Germans" were allies - he probably means "Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact". And then "Munich agreement" puts France and UK to the list of German allies too. Was it his intention? No. This is one big disgusting piece of propaganda that is probably ok for a CNN internetf-fact journalist (no one expects much from her), but not ok for a "professor of history".
This seem to be commercial software as well. https://github.com/bastianallgeier/kirbycms/blob/master/lice...

Semantics aside about the source being available to read but not effectively use, that is...
While it's a tragic loss, it's purpose is moot because many people read the entire thing and still don't know what his symptoms were. If you want to desensitize the discussion about mental illness, you need to expose the underlying conditions and make people aware.
wow

so app

such writing

better than mcirosoft word
JET (Joint European Torus) achieved a Q of 0.7 - with break-even being defined as a Q of 1:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_European_Torus

ITER is aiming for a Q of 5 for 480 seconds:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
Apparently it actually is news though. "NSA spies overseas on whatever they can grab. Develops advanced capabilities to complete its assigned SIGINT mission. Also tries to semantically understand data." has taken over 2013 after all.
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"a candidate has to demonstrate outrage with him to gain cred with the base."

This is for publicity purposes nothing more than that. (Of course he also believes in what he is doing but the main driver is to give him even more household recognition).

After all Paul represents Kentucky. So why fight a battle for all of us. I hate when politicians do things like this (In NY Spitzer did this and Schumer does the same). They take on issues that garner much press mention which is not to say they don't have benefits to those in their state.)

See "grandstanding"

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/american-engli...
I don't believe that's true. There are plenty of mentally ill people (depression, anxiety, bi-polar) that act completely normal like Stephen. They often suffer in silence.
I can remember playing what is essentially the same game on an acorn computer in 80s, pretty sure a helicopter. All this talk is just a witch hunt by jealous people, ignoring how rare original ideas actually are.
I'm sorry for your loss. I lost my son to suicide in 2009. He was brilliant, very sociable, very mature and he too struggled with mental illness. Today I know a lot more about the subject and I'm trying to help preventing more suicides from happening and mental health from being poorly diagnosed and treated. Right now I'm working on a project to develop apps for smart devices that can help people at risk of suicide. If anyone wants to help, please, contact me.
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How does it affect basic human rights, exactly? Some examples:

People labelled mentally ill can be imprisoned without a trial.

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

People labelled mentally ill can be drugged by force.

This is bad for basic human rights, isn't it?
I was going to suggest I do the same thing. Well, just upload it somewhere for someone else to find...accidentally, you know.
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I miss my Apple II days. I miss Applesoft BASIC, GPLE and Take-1 Programmers Toolkit. I am glad I'll never need to program with those again unless I want to.
they use OrientDB, I have used it in my past GUI Swing project: https://github.com/jjk3/scrape-it-screen-scraper

OrientDB was a clear win for me because it was open source and free while other Java Object databases had license fees attached in tiny letters.

The author of OrientDB was very helpful too on the google discuss groups. OrientDB included everything I wanted, SQL for POJO storage, server or file storage DB.
I hope one day coming out as mentally ill will have no more stigma than announcing you have cancer.
I think they deserve it
That's one use case I can definitely see being for DO but doesn't make as much sense for me. I've just got the linode for handling random services (VPN, IMAP, WWW, and a few others) and need it up constantly. For dev work I've always got a local machine that has enough ram and storage to do that instantly right next to me and not have to deal payment for it.
The lawsuit is against Obama because the actions were taken by the executive branch, Obama is the President, and the President is the executive branch.
I disagree, that was a very effective use of a pie chart. By looking at it for a couple of seconds you can tell that the last 4 years take up over half of the total.
>>> import json
>>> json.dumps(set())
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 231, in dumps
return _default_encoder.encode(obj)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 201, in encode
chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 264, in iterencode
return _iterencode(o, 0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 178, in default
raise TypeError(repr(o) + " is not JSON serializable")
TypeError: set([]) is not JSON serializable
>>> from decimal import Decimal
>>> json.dumps(Decimal(1))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 231, in dumps
return _default_encoder.encode(obj)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 201, in encode
chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 264, in iterencode
return _iterencode(o, 0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 178, in default
raise TypeError(repr(o) + " is not JSON serializable")
TypeError: Decimal('1') is not JSON serializable
Python and Go languages are super easy to learn. It might take you years to learn the standard library of either in-depth however.
I don't think OP is talking about absolute neutrality. It is more about maintaining a perspective. (Which usually includes understanding/acknowledging the good and bad parts)
> You need a higher bar than 'learned something' if that something is a negative.

Not really. The point of big scientific research is that at the moment a project is being conceived, no one has any idea where it will go and whether it will bring anything useful. Yet in time, it always brings breakthroughs.

I'll put it bluntly: we need more trust. The right way to do science is to keep throwing money at it, no questions asked[0]. IMO the reason we've seen so much progress during last two wars was not because war per se stimulates research, but because during a conflict the military has infinite budget and it starts throwing more money at research that can be used, so scientists can do whatever they want without justifying it for general public[1]. Free of money&management issues, creative minds could focus on doing fundamental research in whatever they felt like doing[2].

Come to think of it, science is best done in the same conditions the programming (or any creative endeavour) is - when you're free to think, don't feel the pressure of looming deadlines, don't have to deal with managerial bullshit, and when you have enough money to not have to think about it (both in life and in cost of work materials).

So yes, I advocate some kind of almost blind trust. Just throw some part of taxpayer money at R&D, no questions asked. It's a long-time investment.

[0] - Of course there's a need to build in a system to limit the amount of parasites who will feed on free money; but they ultimately cannot be avoided, we can only try to limit their numbers.

[1] - I think it was Feynman who pointed out that the problem with science in the 90's was that scientists suddenly found themselves accountable to general public and struggled with explaining why their research was useful.

[2] - If that last paragraph rings bad to you, please note that I'm skipping over a lot of points related to creativity needing to be free of trivial bullshit, intrinsic motivation beating monetary rewards/prestige in performance, etc.
Why not let the mods say what should or shouldn't be on HN? No need to speak for them.
This is the first I've heard of Tidbit and I have to say that it is absolutely ingenious!!!

If they do open source the code, I strongly hope that webmasters would actually replace obtrusive ads with the mining protocol and not just add it in addition to ad revenue.
This is amazing. I think the BootInquirer class is going to solve all my problems. I have a large application that is broken into 5 different rails app's and two shared lib gems. I have been looking into using engines but figured I would loose the leanness I got from separating the application.

One very large advantage of multiple apps is they can run on different hardware with separate databases. For example my attachment service runs on a server with libreoffice and x11 installed.

So in theory using the BootInquirer I should be able to boot multiple variations of the application.

For instance I could boot all engines when in development mode but deploy them as separate services with separate databases in production.

Thanks taskrabbit I now know how I am going to spend the rest of my week.
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so my question is why don't most mobile app developers use something like Baasbox, or spin up any REST api on their servers?

What is the benefit of using proprietary platforms like Parse and Stackmob?
How could he possibly have been, "in a highly-respected treatment program", or labelled mentally ill, if he acted completely normal and suffered in silence?
> The national debt is one of the biggest issues in the country right now

I disagree with this claim. Unfortunately, it is also the claim upon which the rest of your claims are founded, so I'll have to disagree with everything else you said, too.
Whenever there's an article about racism or sexism it's very important to jump in and start posting your opinions without reading any more than the headline.
I get the impression that this is a long, polite way of saying Steve committed suicide.

The last time I was on HN and the topic of suicide came up, I wrote kind of a ranty piece that I am not up to editing it (to remove the rantiness) and reposting. The short version: If you know someone who is suicidal and you care about them, spend time with them. In person. Suicide is almost always committed when one is alone.

My credentials: I attempted suicide at 17 and have been hospitalized once or twice for being suicidal in my teens/twenties. In recent years, when medical issues make me mentally and emotionally unstable, my adult sons "babysit" me (in other words, I am not left alone when I might be genuinely suicidal and not just grumpy about life's stressors). I am 48 and I am okay these days in spite of serious medical problems which have somatopsychic impacts (it's a real word -- look it up). So I know it is a method that works.
Minor nitpick, a president can be sued, however they have the right to refuse to be sued.
Go to Gumroad, find authors selling their books there, and email them, one by one!
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Whenever the data to be displayed is most easily conceived of as a proportion of a whole. If all of your data points added together equals the population you're sampling, then a pie chart might be appropriate.
I think the CSS for bonsai.io is not loading.
Contempt of court faces up to 5yrs in jail.
This is exactly the problem. We could be having deep, analytical discussions about the principles and philosophies that form the basis of our political convictions. Instead, our conversations are tainted by partisanship.
The article explains the case pretty well:

> ...the language in the subpoena reads much like the state’s computer fraud act, which carries some stiff penalties. Last year, New Jersey alleged that E-Sports Entertainment (ESEA) hijacked their [subscribers'] computing power to mine Bitcoins... the state believes Tidbit may similarly violate consumers’ rights.

According to the EFF:

> the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs issued a subpoena to Rubin, requesting he turn over Tidbit's past and current source code, as well as other documents and agreements with any third parties. It also issued 27 interrogatories -- formal written questions -- requesting additional documents and ordering Rubin to turn over information like the names and identities of all Bitcoin wallet addresses associated with Tidbit, a list of all websites running Tidbit's code and the name of anybody whose computer mined for Bitcoins through the use of Tidbit, although Tidbit's code was not configured to mine for Bitcoins.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/eff-challenges-new-jer...
Not all IP laws are equivalent. Also, civil disobedience has been known to work in the past.
http://crbug.com/ is the place to file tickets for us. File something and we can take a look!
An old article on exactly that which I found interesting http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e...

To sum it up "Free energy" buys us about 300-400 years of growth before thermodynamics kicks our ass.
Thank you for doing that.

Mirroring: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/216352/bigscarylaser.pdf.
Ironically, a year after this document was made, this was built: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Arch

May these gates never be closed
Perhaps you could do remote freelancing while living in Europe? You could work for American companies (or European, or anywhere else).
Government funded science is winding up behind a private paywall?
It might be, but sadly and more realistically, the costs of a completely fair and honest dispute would still be incredibly inhibiting.
Indeed, Google is the one who came up with the idea that surveillance-by-computer was somehow more innocuous than surveillance-by-person. With GMail they tell you straight to your face that they will store all this personal data about you (i.e. your email, login history, etc.) but that it's OK, "a human never looks at it". Well, great.
Thanks for responding - that's my understanding too. Though if there's something I'm not aware of, I'd love to know!

Thanks for raising the trash data issue. The framework does a pretty good job of set up and tear down before and after each test is run, so I'm not too concerned about the trash data as it's destroyed once the test has completed. (If I'm understanding your point correctly?)
Have you read Szasz? Have you refuted his arguments? If you have not considered arguments which say what you're doing is actively bad, but you're going ahead anyway, isn't that irresponsible? If you have considered them, could you tell or link me the answer?
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Python's scientific ecosystem is really exciting, that's where I want to spend more time. Pandas,numpy,scikit-learn...

Just anecdotal/personal opinion on JS and Python communities.
I went to Python and JS meetups. Python meetups are usually people talking about different real-life projects they are building with Python with maybe 10% of talks about new frameworks/language.
the one JS meetup I went was people comparing and arguing which frameworks/library is better and should we stop using this one or that one, which one is messy .. etc, talking about things that were solved long time ago in AS/Flash/Flex

With JS I'm afraid to spend on a hyped framework that will be obsolete in 6 months.
There is already a law that makes it illegal: the fourth amendment, further backed by extensive case law.

And the Fourth Amendment was intended for exactly this case. One of the last actions of the English which precipitated the American revolution was a general warrant issued in a secret court in England which gave English soldiers authority to search any American's home at any time without any reason for suspicion.
I suspect that many people will need to be told that. So the graph is a useful demonstration, but not useful to discover that information.
If you want a reference point on creating change through the courts, you should look into the civil rights movement. The general idea is that you make cases that you have a good chance of winning, and slowly build up legal precedent. If we tried to protect all internet communications (through the courts), and loose, then that precedent will take a long time to overturn.
"I don't care if Bell Labs didn't cash out"

Yeah, well that's nice that you don't care - but Apple's shareholders do. The point is that this kind of R&D doesn't pay-off. Companies have tried it in the past and it didn't work.

If you want R&D then I completely sympathize, but you'll have to go get your government to fund it - don't expect Apple do it as a charitable donation to society.

PS: Examples like Leap Motion come to mind.
Thanks. I screwed up our CDN settings while trying to push out some changes. Working on that :-)
Honestly y'all were better off not releasing the versions that are out right now.

Yes it's good to "fail fast" and all that feel good stuff, but when you KNOW something is terribad, it's better to just wait and release than to put out something so awful.

Take charge of the experience your users are exposed to.
A. I really wish it was up for me to play it.
B. I really wish they'd at least match the original's flap rate a little closer.
He did. Thank you for sharing your story. I wish I had been there for him when he needed me like your sons can be there for you.
I don't think fusion power plants are going to be that much cheaper to run than current nuclear power plants. Fuel costs are a small part of the operating costs of a nuclear plant (16% to 28%) and the capex costs probably won't be that different (e.g. they will still be based on heating water to create steam to power turbines to turn generators).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_plan...
The parent comment was merely questioning the validity of your weird assertion that "People are labelled mentally ill IFF they do things that have a stigma attached". Perhaps you meant "people who do not self-identify as mentally ill but have that designation imposed on them." Maybe you'd have a case there. But the fact remains that many people suffer from mental illness, and it isn't always just a case of society rejecting them for being "different."
That study is a classic that belongs alongside Milgram (obedience to authority) and Zimbardo (Stanford prison experiment). I'm not sure why it isn't better known. The three go together perfectly.
((HUGS))
I've switched from Python to Go for about a year and so far have no regrets. Still write some Python here and there, but nothing serious anymore. The whole debate about Python 2 and 3, performance issues, GIL, etc made me give up.
This is an interesting idea, and kudos to the founders for the start, enmity to passive voice notwithstanding. Good writing is hard. Things that help are welcome. And good for them for trying. It does seem a bit rough, still, though . . .

I wrote a book chapter recently -- as a last minute favor for a friend, and gratis. I did my best to make the words sing -- the subject's a yawner for most people, and I had to entertain myself while writing the thing. In addition to sly references to whatever caught my fancy that day, I quite deliberately used contractions all through. More music in 'em I reckoned and they scanned better. Some genius editor sent a markup back all de-contracted and I had to spend a day adding them back in. Cursing.

It is really, really hard to write well precisely because so much depends on context. It's true in professional writing too -- you have to keep your audience in mind. True that adjectives are less persuasive, usually, than facts stated slyly, but see how those sibilants sounds aloud? Maybe it's my taste and not yours, but maybe that's the point of a hemmingwayapp -- you could always joyceify it or send it throughout iambify.com and set it to my wild irish rose.

I'm sure Stanislaw Lem's great piece the Electronic Bard has been posted in the past but for those who don't know it and want the last word on wordsmithing machina, check it -- goo.gl/zZD0pX . Warning -- don't read this while drinking anything or you will risk snorting soda pop out your nose.
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I would venture to guess that their are a lot of people in United States who believe in cutting government spending and fiscal responsibility but at the same time are socially liberal, and believe that people should be given opportunities and left alone to do what they will with their life and have sex and marry who ever they want (assuming consent and free will). Basically, something tells me that there are a lot of people who understand that the problems we are facing are more complex than the sound bite solutions which our politicians provide. Why isn't there a 3rd party. I am not talking about libertarians, or anarchists, or the Green Party. I want to vote for the party of "reasonable" people who will use logic, science, and well documented facts to get my vote, not rhetoric and scare tactics. The "balance" party perhaps.
I rode the Java wave early on also. A good ride.

Smalltalk is still used, as is Common Lisp, Scheme, etc. Just because languages are only used for < 1% of commercial projects does not mean that people skilled in their use shouldn't use them. My go-to languages right now are Clojure, Java, and JavaScript, but, I still like to code occasionally in Pharo Smalltalk (good online tutorials, BTW, if you want to play with Pharo).
So your credentials consist of personal anecdotes? Maybe it's time to start taking the issue more seriously. I think it's a serious issue deserving a more serious approach.

For example, you might try reading literature with multiple different perspectives on the issue. Then try to figure out which ideas are right and why. (If you've already done this, forgive me, and please please inform me why Szasz is mistaken, I would love to learn something.)