skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to replace a term, it might be a good idea to pick a new one which is precise and descriptive, given the opportunity to do so.

"Senior" and "junior" might work, or "primary" and "secondary". It might be important to capture not just the fact that authority resides with one server and not the other, but that the secondary server is effectively forced to obey via configuration, to distinguish from clusters whereby leaders may be elected, and so on.

Using any anthropomorphic terms at all may end up being misleading - Dijkstra was pretty down on anthropomorphism[1] because he believed that it was a cause of confusion and error. However, if we're going to use anthropomorphic terms then I think it's unwise to choose them based on whether or not those terms, in entirely different circumstances, may have been related to unfairness and harm. The whole point about why slavery is bad is that it involves treating a person like a machine, but this clearly implies that treating machines in such a way is obviously not wrong. Words generally aren't fnords[2] that cause us to become irrationally upset at merely seeing the word itself in print.

[1] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/264
[2] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fnord
Additionally the statement:

Our healing comes in two forms: Culture, and Tools.

Speaks to the second half of those bullet points above. Learning more tools isn't going to "heal" anything. Tools (often) obfuscate process in order to make said process executable by an "operator" not an "admin."
Not really. When one thinks about ethics, one should take into account the existence of teleological ethics or consequentialism where "right" and "wrong" depends on the outcomes of the action.

As far as a person isn't aware of the outcomes of the action, he or she can't really judge if the action was "right" or "wrong".

Also due to the butterfly effects,in most cases a person is theoretically unable to produce objective judgement, thus leaving the judgement of the action in the "undefined" state.
Specifically, American people.
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> I can appreciate RG's leadership having the self-awareness to see the need to make an Adult Decision in this case, but I think it's probably a mistake for them to continue hosting the Rodgers diary.

Rap Genius is in still somewhat in that growth phase of its life where it wants to attain and secure as many users as it can. The Rogers story is something a lot of young people are curious to see, and if RG can be a place where they can see it, that means they're doing well. Purely as a business decision, they should and probably will keep hosting it.

You won't believe the amount of essays I had to read (whenever we would peer-review essays in middle and high school) that had to do with serial killers, massacres, etc. This is simply a subject a lot of people are fascinated by -- most importantly, people in the right age group that Rap Genius is interested in.

I should note that if you disagree, you should be voicing your outrage at the mass media, Scribd (for continuing to host the unabridged Rogers documents), WashPo, etc. etc., not just Rap Genius.
You could show the same thing by relaxing those assumptions. It would just require a lot more algebra. The key insight is that, holding everything else constant (which is done in the lecture), weakening your accuracy to one side increases the probability you target that side.
"Scrivere" is Latin (I think) for "to write," as in "scrivener."
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/162743?hl=en

I thought it worth noting that Google does strip personal identifiers after 18 months which is in line with one of his proposed fixes.
I was thinking parent/child would be a better fit, but upon further thinking about it, leader/follower is pretty good. It is also a bit more distributed friendly, in that you can follow a new leader or switch. Where parent/child, master/slave are more locked. It is a bit silly though to change, in that human history has had slavery throughout history and to this day. Better to know about the problems than to overlook them. Also, throughout history, slavery wasn't always on racial lines, it was usually class based or wealth/monarchy based.
...it seems odd that a foreign company has been able to come in and dictate through the courts that the whole industry should work on a completely different model.

Remove the word "foreign" and that statement still makes sense and it still describes an objectionable state of affairs. No jingoism required.
[I have used VA healthcare, I have several friends who work for the VA Health Administration, and I have many friends who use VA healthcare.]

When the VA system works it treats the whole person. For example, if you have PTSD it may exacerbate conditions that may appear unrelated. In theory, all care-givers (MDs, therapists, etc) meet about an individual vet's conditions on a regular basis (every 2 weeks if memory serves correctly) to identify and develop longer term treatments for co-morbid conditions (I can only confirm this for one VA hospital).

Even if there weren't an attempt to treat co-morbid conditions, there are so many combat specific injuries that it might be a moot point. For example, I have a friend who is a Vietnam Vet that suffers from agent orange related illnesses; these illnesses exasperate more common conditions, namely diabetes. Throw in PTSD and anxiety, and now you have someone dealing with such a plethora of different symptoms - symptoms that are common in the veteran community but not in other communities. Would a typical GP have the expertise to handle this? Most likely not.
> I can quite easily imagine a RapGenius like service being created by someone

I can imagine quite a few things too, but reality has a different take on things. At the end of the day, he did ... and nobody else stepped up.

Is he immature? Yeah. Rather than firing such individuals, I think a bit of social pressure can make them behave like civilized people. Firing them is a bit overkill.

I don't want to live in a society were people lose their livelihood over saying something stupid, even if saying intelligent things is part of their job description.

Frankly, if I had to guess, I think they wanted him gone and used this as an excuse to get rid of him.
Then 95% of the people on Reddit have had their lives destroyed.
You're missing the point. The RG founders (especially Moghadam) clearly have many issues. But the actual song lyric database and associated annotations is the best on the internet by far.

The comment you replied to was lamenting the fact that there are no quality alternatives with more respectable people behind them.

Also FWIW, a huge number of news organizations have attempted "to profit, through pageviews and ad revenue" by posting stories or otherwise commenting on the murders in Isla Vista. Should we also be complaining about CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC and just about every other news organization in the United States?
If it was deleted, resubmitting it is not a valid action.

It was most likely deleted (IMO) because you ask for an email upfront for an invite without showing the service.
> When you have several Python programs, where does /usr/bin/python point to?

/usr/bin/python should always point to python 2 (or nothing)
/usr/bin/python2 should always point to python 2 (or nothing)
/usr/bin/python3 should always point to python 3 (or nothing)

scripts using a shebang line should not, however, rely on /usr/bin/python pointing to python2, and should only use it when they are source-compatible with both python2 and python3.

http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/
Yes, "Integral Images" would seem to be the two-dimensional extension of the concept discussed in the OP (but the OP does not go there).

People who studied probability are familiar with the 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional, and the general cases, because they are just cumulative distribution functions and the inclusion-exclusion principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion-exclusion_principle) applied to half-spaces.
In that case you're mistaken for taking an industry that is far from normal and expecting "normal standard of professional behavior."
I have Ph.D. in philosophy and assert, with all the authority that grants me, that Graham's essay is extremely ignorant and arrogant; this should, I suppose, surprise no one intelligent.
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That is required since it runs through slack, though.
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366 people are now in the team, and they could comment this post telling it's awesome chatting people with common interests :)
Reminds me of poe's law... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
It could be a parody or not, but until the writer states so, you cant be sure.

From my point of view, its a pretty bad idea.
Master / Slave is used in nearly every system ranging from basic integrated circuits using a bus (SPI, I2C, ...) up to multi cluster database systems.
It has a clearly defined function and and everyone in tech knows what it means. It doesnt matter if youre from USA, England, Germany oder Iran. A master/slave system has a clearly defined behavior.

Trying to bring feelings into the clean technical world it one of the most stupid things i can think of.
In this case, it only affects the documentation of a project, but in other cases, trying to be politically correct has destroyed lifes of people.
http://www.wired.com/2013/03/richards-affair-and-misogyny-in...
That's when you use Bayesian Nash equilibrium or perfect Bayesian equilibrium. No big deal.
atwood's law
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I always thought the use of master/slave terminology on ide hard drives was amusing because of the s&m connotations, but then I was a bit of a weird kid. I guess that is one of the few instances where thinking about s&m is the more innocent option. Leader/follower is not a bad change, it is perfectly understandable for people used to the existing terminology and has less distracting connotations.
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He has had a pattern of this stuff and I can;t really think of another way they could have done it, but all of these stories are starting to read like TMZ.
Yeah, definitely a on going project. Will be adding lots more features :) Thanks for checking it out.
even in apology ... "especially since Elliot is talking about my neighborhood growing up" ... it has a bad tone, particularly when you consider the bullying the kid faced. was mahboob the kind of guy to be part of the problem, or part of the solution?
I should probably just have written a blog post about this, but busy getting ready to move to SF ;)

I met the author of this software over the weekend -- she runs a single-breed sheep farm in the North Fork valley in Colorado, and gathers data for the USDA, tracks the genetic lines of all their sheep, and so on. She was telling me that the commercial alternatives for the electronic tag-reading hardware can cost $1000+, but they were able to build a reader that communicates via Bluetooth with an Android device for less than $100: https://github.com/OogieM/sheep_eid_hw

Apparently a similar situation with the software to absorb and process that data, which is why she's writing LambTracker. Cool to see an entire market I didn't realize existed getting renovated from the inside.
Here is where (a PhD economist) "explicitly pointed out" references to you after you derisively made the exact same demand you do now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7658808#up_7661247
Section 5 of HID especially.

As that economist said models and equations are not included in the book presumably because it would make it inaccessible to many people. On the other hand I don't know how someone so interested in those aspects not only spent essentially no effort in finding them but ignored references they themselves requested and were provided with.

As for the blog post what I disagree with is that it represents Piketty's claim, whether that claim is true or not. It doesn't.

Your tirade against Piketty is completely unfounded, bizarrely rabid and seemingly prejudiced.
They are tax payer subsidized.
Our way of life determines it.

I grew up in an Island in Greece, far away from polution and no way near fast food. I was eating things coming straight from the nature. Even when I needed meat it would be slaughtered the same day...

I moved to a big city. I can see how my fitness has changed a bit with the heavier breathing and the different hours plus the way that the eye cannot see beyond a certain block.
Although I haven't adopted fast food life I can say that the things I prementioned have changed my fitness and peace of mind as well.

I wouldn't like my kids to grow up here.
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MS has all the components, but still lot's of developers view the ms stack as boring corporate stuff. Azure has the potential to generate more revenue than the windows line in a few years. For that to happen they need a lot of developers on Azure, and making visual studio + .net super awesome seems like a good way to do it.
How are people too sensitive in this case? The things he said were absolutely horrific. Making flippant comments about a disturbed kid who went on a murderous rampage within the last week is absurd for someone in this guys position. If I had vested interest in the company I would want him fired just because this incident proves he has terrible judgement.

Also, what is the deal with people's obsession with rapgenius? Its a lyrics site. I don't understand how they got all of this funding for a lyrics site. There are like hundreds of them that work fine. In face, songmeanings.com is particularly good. People can say rapgenius is the best designed site blah blah blah til they are blue in the face, but I bet it doesn't matter for 99% of the people who use these sites. I would guess most people who look up lyrics do what I do and just Google the song/lyrics and click the first link. I have literally never used a lyrics site's interface, and I have never thought, oh man I wish there was a better lyrics site out there for me to use. The valley is crazy.
Gangsta rap has been dying out, but other genres are ebbing and flowing all the time.

Drill [1] for instance, is without a doubt more violent, misogynistic, and 'real' than any gangsta rap ever before.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_(music_genre)
A string encoded in some non-unicode encoding.

Not everything in the world is unicode (or unicode compatible the way, say, US-ASCII is.)
How do you know he's rich?
How is this possible?

To take a random example I'm familiar with, making small modifications outside certain small bounds requires a lot of paperwork and approval. This can be something as simple as adding a tow hook to an airplane known to be good for towing. If you're lucky and the modification has been done before and somebody went through the trouble of getting the modification certified, you can take advantage of the work they've already done, greatly reducing the trouble involved as long as you can get permission from whoever got it certified. If you're doing something totally new (or something other people have done, but nobody got it certified for general use) then you have to file a form describing what you're going to do, get it approved, do the work, get the result inspected....

All this even for small aircraft where you'd be very hard-pressed to use them to kill more than two people (including the pilot) even if for some reason you had a goal of maximizing deaths.

Yet, when handling nuclear waste, apparently people can just randomly decide to completely change an important component used in the process?

Or was the change studied and approved by an engineer, but the problem was missed? The article certainly doesn't make it sound like this happened, but it could be an omission.
Can someone tell me why this isn't a bigger part of the story? Brain tumor and brain surgery can both severely alter behavior. He could be a totally different person if it wasn't for his fucking brain cancer.

I have nothing but pity and compassion for him after learning that, if it is in fact true.
Apple has a pretty good history of working with a hardware ecosystem--think of the iPod.

Perhaps ironically, Google is the one doing automation with a first party (Nest), and Apple seems to be working with others.
It also wouldnt be a good fit.

- Master / Slave systems are typically locked in. One slave if a database system can only be a copy of one master and cant just switch freely between masters.

- Leader / Follower is coupled to loosely in my opinion. When i hear leader / follower i'm more thinking of a system where the followers follow the state of the leader (e.g. if the database goes down, the web frontend is shutting down / displaying an static error / ...)

[sarcasm]
- Parent/child could be offensive to people who cannot have kids or whose kids have died! Have you thought about THEIR feelings aswell?
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In my (granted, subjective) view there are plenty of worthwhile activities that proceed largely without data, such as music and literature. So I wouldn't personally dismiss philosophy solely on that ground.
about processed foods: what is that? does processing begin with soil treatment? with how we cultivate plants? treat animals? isnt that also part of the process? i think we could design great processes for even greater processed foods, but our current food processing processes suck, since they are optimised for fast profit and nothing else. so i agree to better avoid it. even genetic technology could be used for great benefit, but its currently used mostly for short term cash and farmer enslavement. in general food production and processing need to be a lot more localised and be freed of any market pressure, like tap water is.
Your argument seems to be twofold:

1. Because there is already a lot of monitoring, there is no need to be concerned about adding more, even of people who have no power to opt out of it.

2. Effectiveness at achieving the stated goals is everything, regardless of the side effects.
If the VA didn't exist hospitals would have the appropriate resources, especially those near bases.
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Python list comprehensions: give me with or give me death
Philosophy touches many different fields and it seems quite natural to me that interested people explore the border regions. If you are a physicist or even if you are only interested in physics it is quite easy to recognize that there is a problem with the idea of free will. Or if you are a neurobiologist. Mathematicians naturally get into contact with logic, proofs, knowledge and the like. Or think of linguists. Not that any of them would be a full-fledged philosopher but there are for sure areas of philosophy where people from other professions naturally have something to say.
Thanks - that looks like it was an autocorrect typo and the edit window has closed.
There's pretty clearly an implicit "before something exploded" on that question.
> Quite on the contrary. 1.9-compat was very quickly expected of all libs and all important core libs run better on >1.9.

That's quite some historical revisionism -- there was quite a while when quite a lot of libraries weren't running on 1.9. It wasn't as bad as with Python, probably because Ruby wasn't popular for as long as Python was, so there weren't as many big libraries that were hard to update. But it was a huge deal.

> 1.9 was the cleanup release after the language became popular and very necessary.

It was necessary for much the same kind of reasons (and, sometimes, the exact same specific reasons) as Python 3 -- particularly, the string encoding problem.
> He will manage, no doubt. He will not die poor. Maybe not a billionaire, but no one’s entitled to that. What’s with all the unending sympathy for rich people in public positions with lots of power making stupid mistakes and having to face the consequences for those?

Because he was judged in the court of public opinion. You may point and say "What this man did was obviously wrong! He deserves everything he gets!" And then someday, maybe you make one small, innocuous mistake. One off-the-cuff comment taken out of context. And the internet lynch mob will come for you.

(Please understand that I'm not saying what he did was said out of context or could be misinterpreted. It was pretty obviously a dumb thing to do. People have been "executed" in the court of public opinion for infinitesimally smaller gaffes, and it is this we must work to stop.)
To elaborate, slavery has existed in many times and places and still exists in some places today. Many people have to live with the fear of slavery even now.
No way around that...
The problem with RFID for pallets is that the logistics space is still too decentralized. I work for a company which does a lot of custom RFID integration (we have worked with the companies in the article for tracking pallets.)

First, the RF properties of inserting RFID tags into wooden pallets just doesn't work well; it is far better to stick a label on the outside of the pallet. But then you get into durability issues, etc. So iGPS really had the right idea here, with molding the tags into the actual plastic pallet itself. Great read range.

The other problem is the hugely distributed nature of the supply chain. Pallet poolers like CHEP just don't have the resources to stick an RFID reader at every location that can possibly accept pallets, and distributors / store locations have no incentive to help CHEP out with returning accidentally-delivered CHEP pallets. RFID readers are unfortunately not cheap enough for CHEP to start parking readers everywhere to see where their pallets go.

Trust me, as a manufacturer of RFID readers, our company would absolutely love a scenario where RFID readers start being embedded in every trailer and on every forklift, however realistically that solution is still at least a few years out, and the cost needs to come down probably another order of magnitude to be practical for use in the pallet industry. iGPS was just too early to the game.
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> We're at Ruby 2.1.x and every single gem I used in the past six months has been ported to it.

Yeah, but 2.x didn't have major breaking changes. The big breaking change from 1.8.x that parallels the Python 2->3 change was 1.9, which has been out for two years longer than Python 3.
What would you expect from something rap related? When over half of all rap songs contain inappropriate comments and defamation of women? Why is anyone surprised here? do you think that people who write and analyze these rap lyrics should be admired?
Ok, we'll weight this one off the front page, but not bury it as a dupe completely.

The other discussion seems a little more substantive. (Edit: now having scrolled through both, I don't know about that.)
He has said a lot of disgusting things, but is still young and can do whatever he wants going forward (he's got enough shares to live many lives). Of ways to have your life ruined, this sounds like a great way to go.

It appears that the whole team needs to grow up. They come off as something right out of HBO's Silicon Valley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAzQPll7Lo