skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, why should the average Joe not be enabled to say "hey, I'd like to take some of my money and put it towards a research project that interests me"?

No problems, like i said in another reply, give your money to whoever you want. What bothers me is them asking.

> >and as i shouldn't have to explain, research outcomes aren't as cut and dry as when you fund a video game or movie.
I'm not sure what the criticism is here.

I do not look forward to the day where students are required (as in to be competitive) to build an a product/hand out t-shirts/etc for the 'Average Joe' in order to get the tools they need to complete their degree.

> All it does is act as a pre-filter. It's not like funding guarantees publication in a peer-reviewed journal. And that filter also blocks out a lot of potentially useful research.

Well, yea, of course. The process has it's own problems (promising too much and not delivering, using buzz-words to be trendy, etc) because it's competitive, and competition breeds all kinds of tricks to gain an edge. I'm worried/uneasy that the same tricks/edge will be used in crowdfunding with larger results.

How many failed crowdsourcing articles are there despite successful funding (e.g. Clang)? Research often fails, but for different reasons (method is currently impractical, no longer necessary, and/or didn't live up to the hype), and putting a spotlight on what didn't deliver doesn't mean the approach should no longer be funded/trusted/used.

In addition, a long term fear is that if the public sees research getting a lot of money outside of traditional channels maybe there'll be a debate as to whether to continue funding through traditional channels. Which brings me back to printing t-shirts so we can advance the state of the art.
> Women have intrinsic value

That, in a word, is bullshit. I will accept "all humans have intrinsic value" as one way of stating a basic human-rights assumption. But otherwise, value is always rooted in whom the object is valuable to. This is just a fancy way of saying "men value women as property". Even you could tell that sounds wrong, so you erase the maleness of the view and pretend it's some sort of objective thing.

> So women being excluded from such jobs might not have been active discrimination

This is so distinct from recorded historical reality that you are just embarrassing yourself. Please go take a women's studies class. MIT has a bunch: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/womens-and-gender-studies/

Half-assed speculation is occasionally useful in the absence of fact (although only occasionally). But you just making shit up as reasons why we can ignore the long history of the systemic oppression of women? That says very little about the reality, and a lot about what you'd like to be true.
Is there a current goto standard to get this functionality in the web browser? A javascript framework that supports ligatures, river elimination, dynamic hyphenation and so on?
And the same thing in D:

struct Square
{
int sideLength;
}

struct Rectangle {
int length;
int width;
}

import std.variant;
alias Shape = Algebraic!(Square, Rectangle);

import std.typecons;
auto to_shape(Tuple!(int, int) shape) pure nothrow
{
if (shape[0] == shape[1]) return Shape(Square(shape[0]));
else return Shape(Rectangle(shape.expand));
}

void main() {
auto unknowns = [
tuple(5, 4),
tuple(3, 2),
tuple(4, 4)
];

import std.stdio;
import std.algorithm;
writeln(unknowns.map!(to_shape));
}

[Rectangle(5, 4), Rectangle(3, 2), Square(4)]
The silly aircraft engineers and their obvious physics. /s
This is a very common idea. It is so common, in fact, that the only real way to not know why it is wrong is if you've never heard of entanglement or relativity before.

I personally find it a bit insulting to propose something like this, as it assumes all those physicists working on quantum physics and relativity over the last hundred years were too dumb to think of this. Yet they all go around saying FTL communication is impossible? To suggest such a thing, you'd have to think they were all very stupid or you'd have to not be thinking at all.
Not an aeronautical engineer, but understand that the cylindrical shape used in today's aircraft design is very good at containing the stresses of a pressurised cabin.

However, the design does mean significant pressure stress on the front and rear of the cylinder. This must be managed with extensive (heavy) structures.

A doughnut design, in theory at least, solves for this by removing "the ends" of the cylinder.
This is so wrong. An ISP is not meant to interject information into a client's request, build profiles of their subscribers, help "provide targeted content," or any such activity. Apparently ISPs are making so little money by providing services they were originally born to provide, they need to go and do totally unwanted activity like this. They're internet service providers, not customer profiling service providers.

It's clear that these companies do not have their customer's best interests at heart, though I'm not sure that they ever have.
The statement is being downvoted for glossing over 2 huge technologies in a sentence. What, for example, is the "obsolete" things you are speaking about? (not that I want to argue that there are none, but give us something to talk about)
It exists: first and business class.

In fact, domestic first class fares in the US have been really cheap lately, often just a $100-200 premium over coach.
> I mention programmers because of the forum. And no, programmers tend to nitpick more.

There are users here besides programmers. Just because it's called "Hacker News" and run on YCombinator's site doesn't immediately mean it's exclusive.

Programmers may be trained to nit pick, but you could argue that about any technical profession. Engineers? Better make sure we accounted for every possible detail. Doctors? If we don't check each scenario the patient may worsen. Research scientists? Better be sure the study is conducted appropriately to the scientific method and that our data is statistically significant.

> One does not have to put every possible caveat into one's initial statement

Of course not, that would be absurd. However, you contradict yourself from the parent:

"This is an interesting theory of law, but I could go quite a way naming crimes that don't result in physical harm"

To the following child comment of:

"But the point of that list is not to say that none of them ever cause physical harm, but that in the cases where those things don't cause measurable physical harm"

I have no issue with the point you are making, but I do have issue that you say one thing but defend yourself with a position claiming it was the one you originally made. Which evidently was not the case due to the way you worded it. You may argue that you just thought someone would be smart enough to read it the way you liked, but that shouldn't be the case with arguments. To illustrate this, I have quoted another section of your comment below.

> I trust that they will find the most useful one. If all that fails, I hope they will say, "Hey, did you really mean X?" Which in this case happened.

Assumptions are bad! In any case a reader could just have easily not done so.
Layman here. Looks to me like the outside of the aircraft would remain solid, while these 'doughnut walls' would be strictly internal to help with airframe strength.
This looks neat. I'm curious to hear about the reasons for "competing" with Graphite / Statsd. What's the main motivation? and what makes fonrdmetric better than those alternatives?

(I personally find the composable graphite functions quite powerful and in some ways more accessible than SQL, but perhaps it's just because I'm used to it by now).
That's pretty presumptuous to assume all research papers are like those in social sciences...
Yes, definitely. From personal experience, not with harassment but with other crimes, if you go to the FBI with some sort of computer-mediated, cross-boundary crime, their first question is "can you demonstrate at least $25,000 worth of damages?"

Even getting harassment handled in a purely local case is challenging. Talk to any woman who has been stalked and I'm sure you'll here a catalog of ways police can be inadequate. But once it starts crossing state lines and requires a lot of computer forensics to run down, it gets orders of magnitude harder.
I've been tracking this for awhile, the design potential is fantastic. I'm really excited for when it can be used to quickly create dashboards with streaming updated data.
Namespaces are the least of my worries.

TeX is not a programming language, it's two programming languages. These languages have a self modifying syntax and is parsed with state machines that can be changed. Changing the syntax into something meaningful other is yet quite impossible. It's meant not meant to be able to read markdown or xml.

These Languages are so odd even division of two variables is non-trivial, yet both are truing complete and servly limited, a classic turing tar pit, even division of two variables is nontrivial.

The hole TeX thing is a huge state machine, and uses imperative paradigms, while declaratives would have been much nicer.

All that leads to a horrible, monkey patching coding style.

On the internals there are other horrible things: Unicode was known when it was invented, font formats are a mess (even with XeTeX; I think I can't have another mapping for my the cursive style of a font then for regular. Good thing is the very verbose documentation for fontspec does mention "mapping" twice)
Another place to learn more about Red and Rebol is over at the stackoverflow chat room.
http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/291/rebol-and-red
It's not "layout of an airplane interior" but "a way to strengthen aircraft of a certain shape." Something like this is patentable because it apparently wasn't obvious and seems to be a good improvement.
http://patoline.org/ tries to be better and it seems like the authors have a good grasp of typesetting.
I think there are compiler flags available that will do this (at least the bounds checking).

When talking about C it's important to understand why the standard is the way it is. C was designed to be a portable language. Not in the sense that code is easily portable, but that the language itself is easily portable by writing a new compiler for it on whatever OS you're using. As such, the C standard is written to make C an easy language to write a compiler for, which is why it has so much undefined behavior.
That's still ~500x faster than any man-made object has ever moved.
If this worked you could cut down the travel time by doing this multiple times with the same distance between each node.

However because when you observe the photon it collapses randomly and there is no way to tell if the photon has collapsed before you observed it or for the first time as you are observing it you don't actually have any information on if the other side observed it or not.
Much more interesting thread (26 comments at the moment) is "Higgs JavaScript Virtual Machine" and also one day old:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8611492
I too am biased towards PG. At one of my previous gigs, I had to develop a HTML5 mobile app around a MS SQL database (though eventually we migrated to PostgreSQL). Among the problems we ran into:

A) Indexes disappeared without rhyme or reason. (This might have been a "too many cooks in the kitchen" thing, where someone restored from a backup and didn't tell anyone.)

B) In the default configuration provided by the php5-mssql package in Ubuntu, text fields were chopped at 255 characters.

C) Our Windows Server did updates, then came back up with a "you need to renew your license" lock that prevented any I/O and cost us half a day of productivity (on top of the licensing costs).

And of course, D) it screwed up the file encoding when we did the final export during the "migrate to PostgreSQL" step.

Incidentally, migrating our platform to PostgreSQL and kicking the tires was one of the last projects I completed at that job, and everyone was much happier for it.
You fall into a simple trap: TeX is not a programming language. At all. It's a typesetting DSL. Whether it's a good one is another thing.
> APIs are something a service offers when it needs help to grow. Once the service gets big, the API goes away, or becomes a pay service.

I wouldn't phrase it exactly that way. All the examples are of something much more specific: APIs go away when a company embraces an advertising-driven revenue model.

Google offered a SOAP API because back then they weren't an ad company. When they became an ad company the API went away, because you could use it to get Google search results without the ads. Twitter supported third-party clients because back then they weren't an ad company. When they became an ad company the API went away, because you could use it to read tweets without seeing the ads.

Once you decide your company is going to make its money via ads, the strangulation of any channel people can use to get to your service without seeing the ads inevitably follows.
The Lives-At-Risk score aims to estimate the number of lives that would have been lost since the opening of a mine, in the absence of any inspections.

We decompose this into 2 parts:
1) The number of lives that have been lost, and
2) the number of lives that could have been lost.

We measure 1) using past accidents, and 2) using safety violations. We normalize safety violations according to their likelihood of occurrence, severity relative to fatality and number of people affected, as assessed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration inspectors.

Lives-At-Risk is then the sum of 1) and 2).
I believe OP was thinking that there was a way to tell if the photon had already collapsed it's state once before you collapse it by observing it. If that was the case you could convey information by collapsing the state or not. However as far as I know there is no information about if the photo is in a superposition just prior to observing or not.
There are a few ways.

First, join a project with a technical coach. I've been lucky enough to be on two and grown tenfold. I credit my time pair programming with some great programmers on industry code as vital to my current skill level.

If that isn't in the cards, I'd suggest airpair and code katas. http://www.airpair.com/agile-software/coach-and-trainer-ron-... is a giant name that's probably a bit expensive, but there might be other experts on there.

Unfortunately, it's not likely to be cheap. I'm hoping to start an organized curriculum at some point, but I don't know that I'm at the level to proclaim myself an expert at this point. :)
I tried finding a link. The best I could find was a cocoa shortage in 2009 leading to a price surge, little talk of the cause.

I remember the article clearly. The cocoa was for delivery and the trades were done anonymously (as anonymously as possible) and that"s what made the article stand out. Then a few weeks or months later the talk of the kraft purchase.

Of course, 90% of the worlds chocolate was most likely for contracts that month and not the full year, which I guess is what's making the article so hard to find!
In hard sciences LaTeX is pretty much the de facto standard. So much that most people in those fields automatically assume papers that don't have the LaTeX look to be subpar science. Of course, one of the reasons for its prevalence is the math support that's lightyears beyond anything Word can offer.
Could you give examples for such developments on OSX? I'd consider myself a power user, but the issues I have with OSX are not related to features, rather to its stability and complexity (resulting in more bugs). I liked it best back at version 10.4, but today we have way more features, lots of them directed at power users.
I want to belive, but i have seen serveral TeX alternatives (Such as ANT [1][2] and Rhinotype[3]), but they all die very quickly.

Esp. ANT would have been a fantastic improvement.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090310012257/http://ant.berlio...
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/ant.berlios/
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6668551
It is a possibility that might have made the situation worse, but there really was a flood and many HDD factories were flooded and closed.
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Because Escape Meta Alt Control Shift of course :-)
TFA addresses this point directly so one can assume the parent didn't read the article before posting.
The problem is one size company fits all pricing. Small business who can benefit the most from SAAS (and have the least regulatory/bureaucratic resistance) can't justify enterprise or middle-market pricing. And the valuation/exit strategy for most SAAS offerings is quantity of users, not profitability - like it or not. I predict either Chart.io changes pricing or its market share is eroded by FOSS and cheaper alternatives like: http://idl.cs.washington.edu/projects/lyra/
I'm usually fairly cognizant of ligatures when I'm reading, but obviously I can only comment on the things I have read with my imperfect memory. The book I'm reading now (Harmonic Experience by Mathieu) is certainly what I would consider to be professionally typeset, and it does not use the "fi" ligature. Godel, Escher, Bach, on the other hand, does use it from what I remember. The Lifebox, The Sheashell, and the Soul does not use it (I just checked). From my memory, few of the physical novels I've read used it, but I'm not too confident in that memory because all of my novel reading has been done on a Kindle for several years (the portability and convenience won out over typography). I've read almost no physical newspapers or magazines since I was quite young, so you might be very correct about that.

It really comes down to who your audience is, and perhaps it's true that most things you would even consider using LaTeX for are intended for an audience savvy enough to not be distracted by ligatures.
> My mindset is that of a scientist I guess. I don't trust people's own accounts, especially in such a heated debate. I want numbers, research and objectivity.

See http://www.derailingfordummies.com/ , and in particular http://www.derailingfordummies.com/derail-using-education/ and http://www.derailingfordummies.com/derail-using-intellectual... . (Note that that site is education combined with intentional tongue-in-cheek parody.)

Your anecdotes do not trump others anecdotes. And when you see enough of them, you start to draw conclusions about a pattern; the plural of "anecdote" sometimes is "evidence".

When you say you don't trust people's own accounts about their own experiences, you are in effect calling them a liar. Think carefully before doing so.

>> However, sadly, often the motivation is "she's successful" or "people are listening to her".

> Sources please!

For the original source, read "Trouble at the Kool-Aid Point".

I'd also suggest reading and considering the other specific points I reiterated in my response to you, rather than ignoring them.

> The wikis you linked seems highly loaded and written with agenda. The writing is purely self-serving(?), without criticism of itself. I am sure whoever wrote that feels it is the right way, but I don't see much value in that myself.

It is entirely unsurprising that the set of people who have done the most research and put the most effort into understanding these issues are those who are affected by them. If you dismiss any such sources, you will find yourself quite lacking in material to read, other than material that confirms your own pre-existing conclusions. All sources are biased; read them all and think for yourself rather than exclusively seeking those that claim lack of bias.

If you're looking exclusively for peer-reviewed scientific papers, there are no shortage of those as well. (You might also consider whether you're applying the same standards to evidence that supports your existing opinions as to evidence that contradicts your existing opinions.) Most of them are far less approachable and newcomer-friendly; you'd be hard-pressed to find a better introduction to this entire family of interrelated issues than geekfeminism.wikia.com . If you need to first confirm for yourself that such incidents exist, go read http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents .
I would add here that the current compression of wealth into top tiers has exacerbated the situation. The top 1% currently own approximately 70% of assets in America (Piketty); the Walton family's brood will be inheriting wealth that amounts to the combined holdings of the bottom three quarters of black households.

The steeper the gini curve (or better metric), the fewer families compose the elite. The last time America was squeezed this tightly we found ourselves in a Great Depression and tens of millions of people marched the streets. This resulted in a 94% tax on the rich (among other things).

We're finding ourselves there again - slowly. Our Great Recession isn't the final expression of these systematic pressures - Keynesianism can only do so much when macroeconomic failures are but a symptom of societal issues.

The other day I spoke on a bus with a very well-spoken yet disillusioned man who had internalized that no matter how hard he worked he would never be able to join the class of people around him, who were mostly amusing themselves with smart phones. He was antagonistic - a little of it misplaced toward those who had inherited rather than designed class separation - and he was agitated. He struggled to understand how the "land of the free" TM could fix him into a modern equivalent of indentured servitude and who he should be angry at that this condition was his at birth.

The point is well taken that America's roots in Jeffersonian Democracy blesses those who are fortunate enough to arise from the correct vagina or who are given a leg up or are married to such a person. In context of the past four and a half decades there are fewer and fewer blessed vaginas to be born from and more for us chumps.