skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see what you are aiming at, but the conclusion of clinical trials is almost never that simple. Drug A works better than B is a matter of statistical significance, of patient selection (history, previous treatments, genetics), and you can still register, nowadays, drugs versus placebo as comparators. So the issue of comparing two drugs together remain where no clinical trial to compare them in parallel exists. So you'll end up in these situations with : "Drug A works better than Placebo on X population" and "Drug B works better than Placebo on Y population", and the poor layman will be left on his own to understand how the X population is different from the Y one, and what to make of the results when it comes to comparing A and B.

In other words, it won't help laymen in the end.

At one point, if you really want to understand the clinical trial results, you need to go in details, and laymen won't be able to do that. So I'm not sure what they are trying to accomplish here.

Plus, you don't need that laymen language in the first place. Isn't that the job of journalists who cover scientific discoveries ? I'm afraid we hit another hurdle here, with the deplorable state of clinical trials results reporting in the general public by the media. That says a lot about what you can expect from laymen in terms of scientific comprehension.
http://www.proofofexistence.com/about -- blockchain version.

Do banks have to maintain the "Comments" by law?
>though you could argue my opportunity costs were greater than the roughly $27,000 per year I got paid

Could be...

With the job market the way it is and stagnant wages and rising cost of living, I know quite a few people who would love to make $27,000 a year and would consider that a good income.

Some college graduates....
The future? What about the past?

Washing your butt so it's clean = yeah, that's pretty cool.

Eating the right food (and being lucky to have good digestion) so that normally the paper you wipe with comes up white = priceless.

Of course you'll have to wash your hands, but still, we're not hardwired to make a mess every time we defecate. Maybe you could say that's excessive smoke indicating the engine isn't running right. Japanese toilets aren't a fix, they're a workaround.
IOS versions and Stability of Fast Lists
We're tolerant as long as we share the same views. The irony in tolerance in this case is unreal.
David "Debt" Graeber evicted, claims revenge-harassment for OWS participation
RiftCycles Project - Tron Light Cycle Battle with Oculus Rift
Please don't include me in that "we".
Government workers are an expenditure. Indie game developers are business that generates money for the country. Minecraft's Notch paid quite a lot of tax by the way.
Some opinions are very difficult to separate from behaviour. When you hold the view that someone is less entitled because of their sexual orientation, it is probably difficult to prevent that from affecting your relationships with some members of your workforce, however well-intentioned you may be, however hard you might strive.

What about if Eich had donated money to an organisation trying to stop black people getting married? Would you still think him entitled to be the CEO of a commercial organisation, without dissent?
great point!!
Has anyone else seen a reduction in unexplained (or clearly iOS bug) Crash Reports?
I love the chooes-your-own-adventure approach. I abandoned the process when I got to something about Facebook. I think you'd benefit from a bit more explanation up front, altho the link above did take me to the i-need-a-video page to start.
Isn't that kind of selfish though? Hiding your light under a bushel and all that. If the guy could be making many more people happy by having them enjoy his great food, but keeps it as a secret only for those in the know... it's his right, but I don't think it's very admirable.
I am seeing this.being.thrown.aromasso much, not.only in US but here in Brazil.too,.that when someone try to.insult me.calling me homophobic, I will reply: "yes, with pride"

Seriously, homophobia was supposed to mean "strong fear or.aversion to homosexuals" not "opinion that homosexuals dislike"
Look at it this way. If he'd been funding a campaign to make a constitutional amendment to ban interracial marriage, do you think he'd have been able to keep the job?

Like it or not, in the West, gay people are increasingly in the category of people who most people assume should have equal rights.
Writing C extensions is a great optimization, but it is often a pain to have that platform specific code ported to another platforma (Windows/Linux/x86/x64..)
However, speeding up Python itself might lessen the need for 'monolithic' and platform specific extensions... Which is a very good thing.
Pay for your print newspaper subscription with Bitcoin, for some reason
Flaming a company is a vastly different from death threats and hate mobs against a person.
You sound quite intolerant.
I do not understand why you don't like REST ? It's been designed with the HTTP protocol simultaneously and it's how you should develop things for an API : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer...

You are not limited to 4 methods, there are only 4 methods of altering data (eg. CRUD (create, read, update and delete))? Recently, they introduced batch support (i could have used that 3 months ago though :P)

Errors? Return a standard HTTP Code :)

Knockout is optional, it's a template to start with. Want to do it yourself? Create an empty project, use one on Github/Codeplex, import an extensions with custom scaffolders (mvc scaffold) or go and create your own with T4 templates, i have done it myselve thanks to some info on Scott Hanselman's blog: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ModifyingTheDefaultCodeGenerat...

PS. Kinda curious which API's you are referring to?
He tries to answer the question, why startup doesn't bring economic growth.

The apparent answer is globalization and the downstream production being offshored.

The real reason is far more than national policy but much simpler that he alluded to. It is the natural drive of capital. Where it bleeds it leads, capital flows to where ever it can generate the profit with the most efficiency, which has driven the production system globalization, as the labor in developed countries no longer produce the best ROI, except for startup.
It's a sad day when homophobia is not a valid reason for so much people to fire a representative of your company.
Crazy monkey attack a lion and get killed in the end(epic)
Lion: Oh shit this nigga crazy!
Monkey: You messed with the wrong monkey motha fucka!!﻿
Other Lions: kill this motha fucka nigga for our honor
Monkey: pussy ass lions 1vs1 me faggets ill wreck u Oooooooooh fuck im fuckd up ...... dead﻿
I don't have the greatest grasp of licences but once they go open and take pull requests they can't go back can they? Are they even allowed?

It would mean binning the project and starting from scratch privately right? At the risk of being accused of stealing the open contributed code.
I think the bigger issue is that many see unions as institutionalized mediocrity.

I've been in union factories where guys literally sleep at their machines after they've hit their quota. I've watched inferior employees linger at jobs for years simply because making a case for firing them is more trouble than it's worth.

People in our industry tend to be self-reliant autodidacts. I suspect this is because the information technology landscape changes so rapidly that the traits are required to be successful. A lot of us therefore appreciate the meritocracy of tech. We like the fact that better skills mean higher pay, regardless of seniority. The last thing we want is to have "tenured" engineers that don't contribute and can't be fired.
> He was being denied access to a particular leadership position.

He wasn't denied access to the position, he had it. Others made it clear they were not interested in being lead by him. A decision had to be made to either let those people leave or he had to choose to leave.
I would agree, like all code this author definitely has a few quirks about how they write their C code, and I think all of your criticisms are valid. Their readline implementation is definitely sloppy, but they also just throw it in there without really talking about it. Adding to the readline issue, they definitely should have const'd the strings for readline and add_history. It's not just good practice, in this case it'd be required to conform to how readline's declaration is. I'm surprised they don't get warnings about passing a const char * into a char . Also, talking about the strcpy() and strlen(), the catch there is that it's actually removing the '\n' from fgets, it's not actually trying to terminate the string. That said, they should have just saved the strlen(buffer) result in a size_t and then used it later. The real function should look something like this:

/* Fake readline function */
char* readline(const char* prompt) {
fputs(prompt, stdout);
fgets(buffer, sizeof buffer, stdin);

size_t bufsiz = strlen(buffer);
char* cpy = malloc(bufsiz + 1);
strcpy(cpy, buffer);
cpy[bufsiz - 1] = '\0';
return cpy;
}
When you find somebody holds an opinion you disagree with you have a choice of either ignoring them, pushing them away or engaging them in discussion (which requires a reciprocal action on their part).

It seems the latter option wasn't even considered, everybody just wanted rid.

That's:

a) Not very mature
b) Worse, a missed opportunity to convince somebody of an alternative view

Well done everybody, you've turned somebody you disagree with into an entrenched and victimised somebody you disagree with who hates you. clap clap clap
Jesus, this is the epitome of naive techie blabbering. Does OP really think that the CEO position is based on "merit" alone? That football teams are all coached by former Heisman Winners? That all generals have Medals of Honor? It's not even worth debating Eich specifically with the OP; his view of the world is astonishingly naive.
I guess the bit of a union that's not wanted is the collective bargaining bit, which probably seems unappealing or pointless while web developers are generally in demand.

Sorry, but collective bargaining is a real need, even if wages are high.

As programmers, we should have:

* readily available legal support when faced with non-paying clients.
* recourse against clients and employers who use reputation threats to justify
nonpayment or bad behavior (i.e. "if you don't accept our unfunded scope creep,
we'll call other clients.")
* (for employees) representation when in trouble with management. The right to
have a representative *in the room* (mostly, because if you negotiate on your
own behalf, you're at risk of getting emotional and saying something
stupid) when dealing with management or HR.
* defense against negative references and back-channel reference checks in
general.
* transparency in compensation.
* negotiation of terms that are embarrassing for an individual to
formally address, such as severance, health accommodations
and workplace privacy.

These are things that "collective bargaining" can get. Hollywood actors have a union, even though they're clearly in high demand. In a celebrity economy, you need unions and agents just to deal with the reputation-management issues that quickly become a full-time job in their own right (and that are typically ill-handled by creative specialists like actors or computer programmers). As white-collar employment becomes increasingly reputation-driven, we need this infrastructure yesterday.

Let's say that you find out that an ex-boss from 4 years ago is bad-mouthing you and costing you gigs. If you hire a nasty fucker like me, I can make him shut the fuck up. I'd find a plausible health problem, either one you have and don't mind sharing, or one that would work. Then I'd ask you to communicate to him that you had disclosed that health problem during your employment, his error if he forgot, and that negative communication about you or your performance will be judged discriminatory, so it's best not to say anything at all. Then I'd call that reference for you, about a month later, getting everything on tape and if he was still giving you problems, I'd refer you to a lawyer (but, unlike a union, I can't afford to pay for that). Chances are, you wouldn't know how to handle that. Most people don't. A competent union will.
But what's the point of tolerance if you just blindly accept any view, no matter how controversial or offensive, without challenging it? I see nothing wrong with the position of "everyone is entitled to air any opinion whatsoever, so long as anyone else is entitled to challenge them". No-one, as far as I know, has attacked Eich, threatened him, etc. they've just expressed concern about his views, which everyone is perfectly entitled to do.
>if he put money on an association like the kkk?

Great comparison, it's not like the KKK murdered thousands of people or anything.
This is sickening.

Denying gays the right to marriage is not a free speech issue, it's a human rights issue. Replace gay marriage with interracial marriage and see if the idea of "we failed you because we didn't support your right to believe that interracial marriage is wrong" still stands up.

Trying to equate this to a free speech issue is just another way of discriminating against gays. Eich actively supported the discrimination against gays and there's no way that he has the moral right to lead a company like Mozilla. I for one am glad that he was put through the wringer and hope anyone else that believes in any form of discrimination and wants to lead a company gets the same treatment or worse.

EDIT: someone rightfully pointed out I overstepped my description. I changed "Eich discriminated against gays" to "Eich actively supported the discrimination of gays"
"I don't see your point." ~ anon1385

Naturally.

What if people decided they're not cool with people who engage in witch hunts having jobs anymore? Doesn't matter because it won't happen? That's not morality though.
As an aside, one of the most inspiring accounts of time at University that I have read was by Stephen Fry describing his time at Cambridge. He worked fantastically hard, achieved a huge amount but the classes and exams were almost an irrelevance and he had a rather nifty hack for passing his exams with flying colours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fry_Chronicles:_An_Autobiog...

There can be a lot more to University than classes and exams.
PL101[1], from Nathan's University, is also a pretty good way to learn the basics of programming language compilers.

[1] http://nathansuniversity.com/
To not be tolerant of intolerance is to be more intolerant than any religious fundamentalist or extremist.
A lot of quality and a bit of innovation for indies - craft is not agile. Personal brand helps. Marketing for those with money.
Much of this stuff is coming from the Azure people working with the Puppet and Chef people to get the tools needed into windows via powershell I guess.
Data Architecture Lessons from LinkedIn
"but in Microsoft fashion" ...

Show me where I can directly contribute to random Apple products or where I'd send my upstream Android improvements.

Worse, the Linux kernel is open source, but getting my own changes into the main distribution is probably taking some work and the chance that they won't be accepted is rather good.

No offense, but I'm really unhappy about the continued MS bashing. Yes, right now (due to the BUILD conference) there are a good number of Microsoft related posts on this site. Yes, Microsoft wasn't the corporate citizen most of us wanted them to be in the past. But these news are _nice_ and the slights are really misplaced.
Exactly. But those "extra books" have been know about for centuries. It's not like there are new "extra books"
This is literally how the free market and competition work.
Scott, while you here, can i get your opinion on OData and the future? You probably have some insights i'm not aware of.

(noticed some changes on their website recently)

I wanted to use it to implement my API, but i got kinda "scared" knowing that Netflix changed from OData to something else. Any examples of popular API's using OData for example?
In a way we did..

If we carry it to its logical conclusion that the Marriage License is free from religion than by that concept a Muslim living in the US should be able to Marry multiple wives and so should Mormons..
we have something similar to the guild system in France : the 'Compagnons du Tour de France'[0]. It is for artisans such as bakers, builders, etc).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnons_du_Tour_de_France
A majority voted the same way as him. The president held the same views. But you're singling him out as homophobic??
The brain is an bodily system, just like any other. Disease can strike its workings and doctors can help with modern science.

That said, we're still understanding how the brain works. One recent study showed that depression often has an associated and underlying, undiagnosed, sleep disorder [1]. Treat the depression without treating the sleep disorder and the depression comes back. FYI: This work has not been published yet.

Given that scientists have just figured out that sleep clears the brain of toxins [2], similar to the lymphatic system clearing the rest of the body of waste, these results shouldn't be surprising. We don't know the exactly reasons why people get depressed, but the evidence is clear. Depression has a root physical cause just like any other illness.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/health/treating-insomnia-t...

[2] http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2013/10/sleep-ulti...
I don't think you know more when you are older. Knowledge comes with experience and if you never found a startup in your life, you won't have much more experience no matter what age. You become only more risk averse.
So The Guardian offered him an opportunity for dialogue [1], to have that debate. He had a chance to explain why he held the views that he did. He refused.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/01/mozilla-ce...
The Veil of Ignorance concept might suggest you feel guilty if you don't take actions that would have helped the many alternate yous that didn't get those breaks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
WMF 4.0 with PS 4.0 and DSC etc are available down to windows 7 I imagine this will be the same.
Presumably that part was written in JavaScript.
Probably easier to write for Android with Xtend than Scala.
I disagree - that sounds like you want to regulate the industry. I just want us to look out for each other.
Because Mozilla relies on donations of time and labour and open source contributions. If you can't get people to contribute, Mozilla is in trouble.
I agree with Sullivan's take[1] posted yesterday. If this is the gay-rights movement today, a bunch of extremist Social Justice Warriors, I want no part of it.

Not only that, but Catlin's reaction to it[2] is also shameful: 'oops, we thought he would evolve like President Obama did, our bad. but hey, we're putting our apps back on the marketplace!'

[1] http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-br...

[2] http://www.teamrarebit.com/blog/2014/04/03/a-sad-victory/
They also continued to use JavaScript on their site, regardless of browser. Since Eich invented JavaScript, shouldn't they stop using it?
Very very intolerant and hypocritical of everybody that basically bullied him away. There's finally a self made rock star in a position of power and somehow people have played in such a way that he's the boogie man. Over a fricking PERSONAL point of view.

I can make many many analogies to other businesses and some religious institutions, but this would have happened nowhere but Mozilla.

Stop using #mozilla for your anti-gay/pro-gay/liberal/conservative/libertarian platforms. Read the manifesto: http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto/
Andrew Sullivan (who can hardly be accused of being a gay basher) put it quite succinctly and very eloquent:

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-br...

I have to agree.
And thousands of people have been murdered in the name of homophobia. But this isn't really a numbers game; if, in the TWENTY-FIRST century, anyone is murdered, attacked, insulted, or treated in any way differently because of their sexual orientation, that is an outrage.
He just didn't have the right culture fit for Mozilla.

(Shamelessly stolen from elsewhere.)

Essentially, it's really hard to lead people who don't respect you.

We can all have a civil disagreement about whether vi or emacs is superior, or if Political Party X is better than Y. But when you specifically attack the fundamental rights of your employees and their friends / family, then refuse to apologise for it, you're simply not going to be a credible leader.

Here's the other thing - in capitalism, you have to listen to your customers. If the "Moral Majority" wants to boycott your shop/browser/TV show because your CEO isn't sufficiently deferential to their god - they can go for it.

If the business wants to succeed, it has decide whether it will be more profitable to capitulate or not.

In Mozilla's case, they have (belatedly) seen the way the world is turning. Good for them.
I had been on medication for a full year and it really helped me become more stable and content with life. I asked my doctor to increase my dosage because some days it just did not seem to be enough. He did, however it did not have the benefits I had hoped and it became harder to do things. So I started to ween myself off and now I am not dele dent on it.

However, like Wil, I seem to be getting angry at the most trivial things. I am considering starting again, but I am about to graduate and take my last finals in a week or two.

I have been scared of taking medication because of what ADHD meds did to me in my youth. Though now, knowing everybody on my mothers side and my sisters needed help for depression at some time or another, I highly support getting help in this domain.
>I think we just need to break that expectation of going to college right after high school.

Absolutely! But middle/upper class families aren't helping the situation. We have people who start saving for college for fetuses. When you are 18 and you know you've got some hunk of change for college and people are telling you "college," than it doesn't seem like you'd be likely to go to trade school. It seems like you'd be betraying your family's expectations of you. There's also a cultural expectation that if you don't go to college you're nothing or stupid.

See Mike Rowe (of the show Dirty Jobs) for his opinion on the matter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzKzu86Agg0
Thank you for openly sharing here. The biggest concern I have about self-medication is a doctor isn't involved to know when helpful uses turn problematic (consider more challenging drugs shown to help brain health). In the case of marijuana the ridiculous regulations mean that the pharmaceutical companies have had a monopoly on validation studies for over 50 years. That looks to be changing and hopefully soon.
A witch hunt? Is he dead? Has he been beaten to death like man LGBT people?
Are you looking for a good, solid investment plan, or are you taking a punt that you could hit it big? Or, are you more motivated by helping someone get a start that otherwise might not be so forthcoming?
Nest has stopped selling its smart smoke alarms after it discovered a flaw
which could prevent the timely detection of fire.

the company is not aware of any customers who have experienced it

this is disingenuous. you would expect this feature (detect fire and save your life) to be used by a tiny, tiny percentage of customers. the fact that nobody's experienced the failure does not make this situation any better.

it's like selling a car with a broken airbag. "well, it's not caused me a problem, I don't see the issue ..."

(I'm not criticising Nest, they're doing the right thing. I'm saying it's bad journalism to throw that in the article as if that mitigates things)