skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqVVtaWd8Pw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJfjRoxCbk
(Or as gnaritas said.) (Also useful: http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/default.html)
That's a false dichotomy. The only difference between the Milgram experiment and the Lord of the Flies scenario is that in the former the deck was stacked beforehand by putting people with no prior experience in a position of absolute power.

Other than that they are the same, and not opposites.

The opposite would be clear structure and responsibilities, with just enough power assigned to carefully selected individuals.

A good balance is what most organizations already have, no need to reinvent the wheel. Other than maybe improve the criteria for selecting and monitoring managers.
He isn't denying that ADHD doesn't exist but instead he is saying that it exists as a symptom of other ailments. His title is a bit inflammatory, but that doesn't disprove his argument. The article is much better than you are giving it credit for.
This is really cool and it got even better when I found the documentation. I was hoping there would be a way to access rounds and seeds to try and put some more coding effort into a No.12 vs No.5 first round game.
I'm excited for PureScript for the property that it compiles to sane javascript.

http://purescript.readthedocs.org/en/latest/intro.html#hello...
They are using a different method. In their own words: "The presence of a water wave can be detected by feeling its up-and-down motion or by taking a picture of it. We are doing the latter." LIGO is doing the former.

http://bicepkeck.org/faq.html
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Exactly.

A second facet of that is that Catherine seems to be arguing[0] that organizations with no hierarchy give the false impression of power for employees and society at large. Doesn't a similar situation happen with democracy: people can vote Obama, Romney or Absolutely Not Viable Other Candidate and get the false impression of being represented[1]. In the same vein, wouldn't democracy be bullshit?

[0]: Both in this reply and the previous one, I'm speculating entirely — the post seems like an intro to a future more detailed explanation of why holacracy does the things this intro mentions it does.

[1]: Many times people will get most of what they want (as happens in a company, holocratic or not). Both my argument and the author's argument concern the exceptions to the rule: the times when people don't get what they want, or are completely run over.
Don't get me wrong, a is reprehensible, but you're conflating b which honestly is a good thing, with "organize an event that implies inundating people"

from the site:
"We can’t force developers to change their code - but eight hours of pull requests from ethical coders the world over might just make people stop, think, and change their ways."

In context this sounds like a bully tactic, regardless of how good of a cause it is.

Edit: it looks like they've addressed the idea of spamming developers in their FAQ now, so this is basically all moot.
There are some cases in quantum mechanics where you just have to accept that a value can be two different things at once, not that is was really one thing. Like it or not, superposition is a real thing, so it is inarguable that assuming something has to have one value at any one time is wrong.

Wave-particle duality is a lot like that as well, where it is tough to come up with some distinct thing that could possibly act like a particle, but still diffract like a wave.
It sells.

Do you have an alternative? Do we regulate what the news is allowed to say? How do we prevent such poor quality journalism?

News is entertainment (sadly, and mostly worthless), expecting it to be anything else these days is foolish.
Draw a sun map – on faces of a cube
Tangential observation: most implementations of quickselect to find the median I've seen use 6N comparisons in the average case; for an even length list they select the middle values using two independent quickselects. The code to do it in a single quickselect gets hairy quite quickly.
For archival purposes, I strongly recommend saving extra versions of documents in PDF format. Those should be readable forever.
Saying that a certain medical condition doesn't exist isn't a denial of the suffering of people who suffer, it's a denial of the label that's been placed on that suffering.

As long as an attack on bad science continues to be interpreted by a segment of sufferers as a personal attack, sufferers groups will never exist as anything other than tools for drug companies to subvert the scientific process.
Well that just made my day.
Just the slides in the two big announcement presentations. I don't have links but I imagine they're up on a CERN webpage somewhere.

ML is used pervasively. At the top level they use monte-carlo to simulate the device as well as to train ML classifiers (boosted decision trees of some flavor) that select what data from the detectors can be safely ignored.
Though it has some issues, it's an interesting concept. Essentially, not having to worry about other people screwing you over let's you focus on other things.

That'd be similar to how those with financial troubles (i.e. the poor) seem to show less effective IQ in some studies. Worrying about money, how to make the rent, how to pay for X or Y, sucks brainpower from other activities. This is interesting, particularly in our community because some startups attribute their success to financial pressure. Maybe the effects are different depending on duration. Or maybe it's because the startups believe their situation is a matter of choice (they joined a startup) and they have the power to change while those who are in a perpetual state of poverty have fallen into some state of learned helplessness and thus feel powerless in changing their situation.

Though not completely accurate, a simple way to think about is in the context of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

At the very least, it's fun to think about.
This could easily be a useful service. It sounds like a good transition from a phone call with technical questions asked by someone who is not themselves technical, and a full interview. Some questions:

1. Could a non-technical person conduct this interview?
2. Could a technical person who is not familiar with the challenges pick them up quickly enough that they could proctor them for many companies who supply their own questions?
Waaaaay too soon to be writing off holacracy. Fad or not, it's at the crawl stage (crawl-walk-run). And to compare it to business-as-usual running-- when it's as broken as it is-- is premature.
This is awesome! Is there a way to go full screen on the editor? I couldn't seem to find one.
Pretty funny. Just yesterday I was at Barnes and Noble checking out some Malcolm Gladwell books in the psychology section and right next to them was a book with the title ADHD Does Not Exist. I didn't get a chance to take a peek at it because I was too occupied reading the first couple of pages from Gladwell's Blink which was pretty captivating.
I think LibreOffice 4.0 abandoned support for the old StarOffice binary format for example.
The protocol and the currency are actually inseparable: http://timothyblee.com/2014/03/01/heres-why-bitcoin-the-netw...
Looks like they still rely on the buyer "confirming" that the exchange happened, which seems like a red flag to me.
They just said the cargo was 3-4 tons of mangosteen:

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/no-hazar...
Github is the nerds version of MH370.

People who weren't there arguing about how something they know nothing about actually happened and what can be done to prevent it.

I think to prevent something like this happening again we need to ensure employees can't disable their transponders, either that or make sure we have more power structures in the cockpit.
> E.g. who sets the "strategic direction" for the company?

The circle whose focus is strategic direction.

> Who guides the unending governance meetings to decide who the managers will be that day?

Unending governance meetings and "decide who the managers will be that day" both seem like signs of a circle with a poor governance process (probably, one that is trying to force things into a non-holarchic structure.)
What about the one where ISP's can unilaterally censor stuff?
You are right, I can get all the necessary hardware for that. That is not a problem, problem is that I can't have that when I need it. Imagine you go to a meetup and would like to show some older presentations and you are not aware of the issue. Well, bad luck - nothing to show, no quick fix by downloading a conversion tool or older version of the software.

I'm not saying that it is permanent problem, there is solution for it for sure. It is just unnecessarily cumbersome and mostly unexpected: I can imagine dropping support for files from 1995 not for files from 2008.
I've found it interesting that OCaml hasn't had more interest given the amount of recent momentum in Haskell.

Haskell is an Ivory Tower. The features that generally draw one to the language also tend to be the things that eventually push one away. Haskell has grown a lot over the years however as the language evolves to allow general programming within a pure framework.

OCaml on the other hand tends to make a compromise, acknowledging that the programmer occasionally needs a different tool for the job. OCaml allows the programmer to opt into things like mutability and objected oriented code when the need arises. These compromises can also be seen as the languages downside however.

I find it interesting that the driver for the author into OCaml is JavsScript... but it's nice to see OCaml come up a bit more often. :)
> but that doesn't disprove his argument

His argument is ridiculous. ADHD is defined as symptoms and we don't have a full understanding of the underlying cause. Everyone knows that the drug treatment only treats the symptoms. If his argument is that we are only treating the symptoms then he hasn't added any knowledge. If he knows the "cure" why doesn't he make the claim: "I know how to cure ADHD?"
Jan Kaum tells an interesting story. Unfortunately, those are all empty words.

This is the exact difference between privacy-by-policy as opposed to privacy-by-design. If WhatsApp truly wants to make good on its promise, it must deploy real end-to-end encryption such that it can never be in a position to be strong-armed into disclosing personal data, neither by stockholders nor by the government.

It's a shame that they are under the thumb of StaziBook, which will never actually deploy privacy respecting features, since that kind of goes against their business of mining and controlling the data of every single human on this planet.
Armchair speculation is perhaps the most common, most universal game humans play. It really shouldn't be a surprise.
Feigned incomprehension?
Two cloud backup and sync programs you can't live without
Trust me, you can get an aircraft with enough range to get anywhere in the world in a couple of hops for much less than the cost of organizing a highly sophisticated hijacking operation. And your range is much longer when your aircraft is operated by an apparently legitimate charter service that has permission to fly into most countries and don't have to worry about hiding from radar.

By contrast, the effective range of a suspicious phantom plane against fighter jets on high alert is zero.
This is awesome. Where are the data sources coming from for this? For free throw percentage, etc. I'm assuming this wasn't manually gathered as the teams were just announced yesterday and it'd be a hassle to do it so quickly.
markdown forever. ive seen institutions that use onenote for everything and i find it gives me a headache dealing with everyones own structuring model. it's like myspace all over again.
Modified to also record the elapsed times:

# from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7411120
export NOW_FORMAT='%F %T'
export NOW_FORMAT2='+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
export NOW_FILE="$HOME/.now"
now() {
if [ -e $NOW_FILE ] &&
last_line=$(tail -n1 $NOW_FILE | cut -d " " -f 1,2) &&
time0=$(date -j -f "$NOW_FORMAT" "$(tail -n1 $NOW_FILE)" "+%s") &&
time1=$(date -j "+%s")
then echo "ET $(( $time1 - $time0 ))" >> $NOW_FILE
fi
echo $(date +"$NOW_FORMAT") - "$@" >> $NOW_FILE
tail $HOME/.now # show the last few lines
}
On the whole of it, your friend is probably more correct than you are:

http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm
GitHub puts founder on leave, kicks wife out of office after harassment claim
Oh cool! I didn't know that. Off topic, but I learned something. Thanks.
Nearly half of your "theory" (which isn't based off of any sort of clinically proven fact, btw) is incorrect.

First, the 777 is not an "old" plane. It's a very reliable and advanced aircraft with tons of redundancy; things don't just fail nowadays like they used to. Despite its age, there is absolutely zero reason why there should be a structural or mechanical failure. These aircraft aren't Chevrolets, they're built to stand up to daily abuse that they will likely never experience during their lifetime. Tell that to UPS and FedEx, which are still using 727s from the 70s.

Explosive decompression, even if it did happen, does not kill instantly. See also: Aloha Flight 243. Again, the 777 has very advanced pressurization systems. No reason that it should have killed everyone immediately.

Disintegration should have left debris. There was none.

Also, your statement about the 787 is irrelevant and misleading. The cracks found in the wings are hairline, and are caused by its composite construction. Things like this occur during the birth of an aircraft and get ironed out over the years, just like software. The 787 has nothing to do with the 777, which is a tried-and-true metal aircraft, and as I've reiterated before, age is irrelevant in these types of things. There has not been a single 777 fatality to date except the SFO Asiana disaster last year, which was caused by pilot error. The 777 seems to be a fairly bulletproof aircraft.

Conspiracy theories aren't really the best approach to anything. Boeing has proven itself with the 777, and the 787 is a revolutionary design that will have some problems, just like the first jet engines did in the 50s.

Let's leave the speculation to the NTSB and just tell who we love we love them. It's no use twisting around old evidence or constructing conspiracy theories at this point.
What I'm saying is most proprietary software does offer document upgrades. You can open very old versions of Word, Excel, etc. My company supports opening backed up files up to about 8-9 years ago. The only reason we don't go further is that older versions don't work on modern OS'es and hence no one uses them. But even then it's still possible to upgrade if you really wanted to.
I never said my view was the correct one, I just said I had a different opinion on the matter.

The parent is the one who said that it made it "all worthwhile". That sounded like a general truth to me, I felt the need to point out that it was still up for debate.

And my 2nd point was about the feasibility, I still have to hear from the bitcoin crowd what's the solution for day-to-day use of the currency that does not involve a bank-but-we-don't-call-it-a-bank-seriously-it's-not-a-bank.
What value does Whatsapp have for Facebook if FB cannot mine the users for data?

What's the point of buying whatsapp? How does FB make money from those users?
"Nov 11, 2056"
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The EU has been great for Europe, especially in terms of keeping the peace. I agree the Commission is very corruptible, though, and the EU Parliament probably needs a few more checks against the Commission's power other than completely dissolving it. With the EU Parliament I've been quite happy so far. It's the Commission that sucks. Hopefully we get a new and better one soon.
This article is so potentially harmful, even if it's more nuanced than the hyperbolic "ADHD Doesn't Exist" title would suggest.

The reality is that -- whatever the underlying cause -- a lot of people struggle with attention span issues, and that these issues cause a lot of pain and unfulfilled potential.

Even if ADHD medications are overprescribed Band-Aids, people benefit from them. We should try and find better diagnoses and treatments, but it makes no sense to blast people by telling them their condition "doesn't exist."

If I have one complaint about the way we treat ADHD it's a lack of education for patients. The medication is only one part of the solution and in my personal experience it's nowhere near the biggest piece. Diet, environment, sleep, and exercise are just as crucial... but these are things I figured out on my own, not anything my doctors mentioned.

Firstly, addiction to stimulant medication is not
rare; it is common. The drugs’ addictive qualities
are obvious. We only need to observe the many patients
who are forced to periodically increase their dosage if
they want to concentrate.

This true but disingenuous at best because it omits perspective in a way that borders on maliciousness. Adderall causes only a very mild dependence according to all studies I've ever read. The FDA and my personal experiences agree. I've discontinued my Adderall on a number of occasions (by responsibly tapering it down to 0mg over several days) and it was no problem.

To compare it to something most of us are familiar with: I found Adderall much easier to discontinue than caffeine, a thing I've never been able to quit. (I've never smoked, so I can't compare with nicotine)

And to all those who say ADHD is a matter of "willpower..."

Maybe. For some.

I always told myself that too. I was born in 1976 so I went through school here in the USA right before they started diagnosing ADHD left and right and I was labeled a procrastinator instead. I never even really heard of ADHD until I was out of school.

After four years in college, which were a mix of promise and opportunities torpedoed by procrastination, I worked 10, 12, 14-hour days to finish work that I was more than talented enough to finish in 5 or 6 hours. My happiness suffered, health suffered, and relationships died.

Then I finally admitted that maybe it was a little more than a willpower issue. If it a matter of lacking willpower, why was I at the damn office trying to work long after everybody else had left? Whatever the hell my problem was, it wasn't work ethic.

So I sought treatment... at the age of 32. And while medication was only an imperfect yet valuable part of the solution, my life has been on track again for a number of years.
NSA and such are really the exception (big one though). There are countless extortion attacks every day.
I'm not an economist or an expert on monetary policy, but I don't think a currency necessarily needs to be inflationary. Humans have used currencies such as gold which has a relatively fixed number of units in the past, which may have been less flexible but still worked. A currency does need to have some broad base of customary use and pricing, whether that be through social agreement or government fiat. People need JPY because their suppliers need JPY to pay their employees who have contracts in JPY or who need it to pay taxes to the government. They won't take any other currency outright, and if they do, they will peg their prices such that they'll be able to meet their obligations in JPY. This drives demand for the specific currency which helps set its value in the market.

For Silk Road type uses, people need a cryptocurrency or other pseudonymous way to transfer value, but do not need BTC specifically. Any sufficiently liquid crypto currency would work as a short-term transient store of value. I think that is an interesting use case and something neat about these protocols, but it doesn't explain why BTC is worth more than LTC, for example.
It's safer to buy Bitcoin on coinbase and use those to make online payments than buying online by submitting your credit card information.
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More evidence for my pet theory that given enough time in power political leaders lose the ability to see anything except from their own perspective. And since that perspective is so atypical their judgments are wrong for most people.
Google Apps Status Dashboard: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=3&iid=9c...
Really cool. A killer feature would be the ability to test against past years tourney's actual results.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_OneNote#File_format
Hi debaserab2 - you can Expand Editor under Help right now, but we don't have full-screen editor. Great idea though!
This is awesome! I went to UConn, so I'll obviously hard-code a UConn win there. But I heard on NPR today that, historically, a 12 seed has a 50% chance of upsetting a 5 seed in the first round. If I'm biasing towards the higher seeds everywhere else, that means my code looks like this:

function (game, team1, team2) {

var winner_team = "Connecticut";

if (team1.name == winner_team) {
team1.winsGame();
} else if (team2.name == winner_team) {
team2.winsGame();
} else if (team1.seed > team2.seed) {
team2.winsGame();
} else if (team2.seed == "12") {
team2.winsGame();
} else {
team1.winsGame();
}

}
Translation: Please do not move to the next WhatsApp clone to become popular. It would be really bad for Facebook and WhatsApp if the 450 million users switched to a new app overnight.
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This is a nice sentiment but how meaningful is it now that whatsapp is owned by facebook? Jan Koum may use the word "Partnership" to describe the Facebook/Whatsapp relationship but they didn't start a foundation or go in on an open source project together - Facebook bought Whatsapp.
I would be very surprised if Keynote '09' would even run in Mavericks. When I upgraded to Lion a couple years back I couldn't use any of the iWork suite that came with the computer. Fortunately I had only made a couple throwaway presentations and documents at that point, but it taught me a lesson about Apple's approach to planned obsolescence.
> Writing GUI app? GUI bindings for Haskell are pretty awful and unnatural.

I've never had a problem with GUI coding in Haskell... Here's a few lines of some WX code I wrote:

p <- panel f []
startButton <- button p [text := "start"]
stopButton <- button p [text := "stop"]

set p [layout := row 5 [widget startButton, widget stopButton]

Seems pretty much like every other GUI stuff I used...

> Real time?

what.

> Sorry, optimizing Haskell is so unintuitive that I can't consider it.

I agree that space leaks are hard to fix / prevent, but meh, other mainstream languages have other problems that sum up to the same amount of pain.

> Plus it has big runtime and is lazy.

Big runtime? I'm not sure what you mean by this... In contrast, my web browser usually occupies a few hundred megabytes for trivial tasks.

> Something hightly concurrent? Not better than Erlang.

I'm not sure about that. Erlang has some very weird stuff going on (http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A2213023+[erlang]), and in Haskell you can program actor style pretty easily with channels/pattern matching, and then there's CSP, STM, Data Parallel Haskell, etc.
I think that's the key most people are forgetting here. You're talkng maybe 5 years ago, even more recent. When you go back 10+ years it's not unreasonable to expect some drop in support. But 2 versions is way way too quick!!
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So here's something interesting: http://i.imgur.com/5ek8L9X.png

When I send or receive an email, it's exactly 1 hour behind. Wonder if it's related.
OSS Project ElasticLINQ Released
v1 of this OSS library for .NET devs who use ElasticSearch.
We've scraped the data from various sources - when Selection Sunday was announced we basically edited up a big JSON object to get it ready.