skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um, you're talking about patenting the Higgs boson, the structure of DNA, the speed of light.

There is academic merit in being a reviewer. Being a reviewer for the New England Journal of Medicine would surely favor any tenure committee or grant application. Perhaps one could argue that's hard to perceive, but I think it's safe to say any PhD sees the value.

The journals, on the other hand, have abided by very loose business practices with exorbatant margins enabled to a great degree by the perception of the academic honor system, for a long time. Their business models and methods are thankfully coming under much deserved scrutiny.

Should researchers be honorable people? Yes. Will you always find dishonorable behavior in a set of 100 people, over a lifetime? Yes.
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After all, Ekeland argues, Salinas has already been pilloried in the local and national press, which touted the early charges against him, but ignored the fact that they were dropped.

This is what incentivizes the prosecutors to a large extent. It's a political office (even in the case of US attorneys who are appointees, they're appointed by the administration, and that job is often a stepping stone towards running for a state AG job or some other political office) and the sad fact is that in many parts of the country there are more people who want to throw the book at people they perceive criminals than there are people concerned with proportionality or preserving the rights of defendants. In fact, most people are complete hypocrites about legal process and will cheerfully make completely opposite arguments depending who is int he hot seat and why.

So there's a clear incentive for prosecutors to paint anyone they catch as some Moriarty-like crime lord and of course that makes great news copy - big number, cooperative prosecutor, astonished neighbors saying they never realized they were living next to a crime lord, all heavily edited for maximum emotional impact within the tight constraints of the 'Action News' format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_News - the reason local TV news in the US is so awful is because it's manufactured on a template rather than crafted in response to the facts of the story).

And of course, there's no requirement to report the much less interesting (to most people) outcome of someone having their charges downgraded to a few months in jail and a fine. Because of the first amendment it's difficult for defendants to keep their name out of the media pending the outcome of a trial (whenever courts put anything under seal news organizations tend to file suit to gain access while mouthing platitudes about 'the public's right to know') and there's no way to compel the media to give equally prominent coverage to defendants whoa re acquitted, exonerated, have charges downgraded and so on.
Good call. It seems a lot of the reactive examples I saw with React involved either RxJS or BaconJS. It's confusing naming for sure!
Commentary on style aside, I believe you're incorrect in your presumption. While the parent comment suggests that termites can reproduce fully asexually, the article is unclear about whether or not this is the sole way for new queens to be produced. I believe that even if a queen can ensure all future queens are clones, sexually produced alates can go on to found new colonies.
For me there is a set of calculations I can do without thinking and there is a set where it takes several seconds to figure the solution out. No smooth transition. Is it the same for you? If yes, this would make tuning this game pretty hard because it is either to easy or to hard.
Good, now let's rebuild Cmdr. Shepard
For a moment I had the idea it was speeding up, but later on I felt like it was just an illusion. Got to 5661 before stopping.
Just for anyone who feels pleased with their mental maths and thinks they might be able to take on their calculator head-to-head:

window.setInterval(function(){$('#question-answer').val(eval($('#question').html().replace("×","").replace("÷","/").replace(/(.)²/,"Math.pow($1,2)").replace(/√(.*)/,"Math.sqrt($1)"))).trigger("keyup")},10)
Who Makes the Best Laptop in the World? Who Makes the Cheapest?
Is John Nash Satoshi Nakamoto?
It used to be hilarious. I'm talking Bill Murry era. Maybe
I was young and usually stoned, but if the Saturday night was unfruitful(meaning no women); I'd rush home and watch
SNL and really got a kick out of it. Just thinking about
that "Miss Loupner" thing has me smiling.
UK music industry pushes for a new tax on CD copying
I think messaging on Facebook could be an excellent ecosystem for a lot of things. A spam score would work or allowing people who make shitty requests to be blocked from doing so on the request.

Users know exactly how annoying it is to receive such invitations having received them themselves.
That's because you used React alone, which works as a top-down view engine. If you want to modify something in the view, you have to go back to the top and modify the model. Instead of doing it manually, Facebook has created the Flux architecture to help you scale this process efficiently.
Add to that list "Business Intelligence" developer/analyst, although that term is gradually changing into something about analytics and data science, which are demanding degrees in statistics.

The reality is that a lot of "Business Intelligence" work is writing SQL & reports for business types that don't know how to write SQL or don't want to learn.

It means writing a lot of reports, but its a good way to get exposed to a business and yet still be involved with light development. There's room to grow too if you want to learn more about data warehouse design, ETL processes, OLAP cubes, etc etc.
The Monty Hall problem is a real classic, I remember puzzling over it for hours and discussing it with family and friends for days after hearing of it.

It amazes me how many people believe that human beings are primarily logical beings.

The best way I've come up to explain the Monty Hall problem is that in the first place you have a 2/3 chance of choosing a Goat and in that case switching guarantees you will win the car. Alternatively you have a 1/3 chance you chose the car to start with and switching guarantees you will win a goat. Therefore a strategy of always switching gives you a 2/3 chance of winning the car.
Hunh? Try the staging: unisys: fix formatting in timskmod.h patch - e5700df52 [1]

diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/include/timskmod.h b/drivers/staging/unisys/include/timskmod.h
index b20fc9d..59144ba 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/unisys/include/timskmod.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/include/timskmod.h
@@ -293,6 +293,7 @@ static inline struct cdev *cdev_alloc_init(struct module *owner,
const struct file_operations *fops)
{
struct cdev *cdev = NULL;
+
cdev = cdev_alloc();
if (!cdev)
return NULL;

(This commit just happened to be the only one I peeked at from the link above - and is particularly apropos)

1. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
American Red Cross Accepting Bitcoin Donations
Smartparens will work with xml tags and more.

(I still use paredit for lisp languages though, and I can't remember if there was a reason for that or it's just inertia/conservatism).
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There's this cool trade off between how much you can charge for commercials, and for how long you can take up an audiences interest. The cable shows have longer intros. I think this is because of how expensive it is to shoot the footage, but they know they can capture the audience for a full hour, so they'll grab any way to get to that full hour cheaper.

Cartoons are an extreme example, being very very expensive to animate, many cartoons in Japan have an intro of almost 15 minutes, then ~25 show, then 5 minutes outro! (these are cartoons targeted at teens/adults)
> - Politicians, public figures, celebrities and any kind of information that is the public or historic interest does not fall under the right to be forgotten.

I have read those claims some times, can you please direct me to were in the law is said this?
Got same result 16 min later, needs floating points :)
Why I'm Renaming a Gem
OT: I ended up being mostly fascinated with the FB and Twitter share buttons
Western Union on Twitter: “What you are most thankful for?”
Bitcoin Wikipedia Article Views
Please pardon my ignorance, but I am building a REST API using ASP.Net MVC 5 and Web API 2.0. I am not very clear on the following, can someone please help me with these recommendations in the Guide.

1) "Require TLS": How do I implement this for my Web API Project? Also what exactly does the author mean by saying "Require TLS". Is it achieved by using some kind of API Key+Token, or by using SSL for all communication, or is it something else?

2) "Responses - Provide resource (UU)IDs.". I have AutoIDs in all my tables for all the resources that are exposed as endpoints over HTTP. Is it ok to use this internal AutoID PK (PrimaryKey) value as id for the endpoints (ex: Updating a Resource by ID etc) or should I use a different ID field? Reason for asking is, I've been told by many people that "It's not good practice to expose your internal PK IDs anywhere to the outside world.".

3) "Keep JSON minified in all responses" - How can I do this in .Net / Web API? Are there libraries that already do this, or do I need to roll one from scratch.

Thank you!!!
A little offtopic, has any of the major Bitcoin heists been traced to spending yet? Would be funny to see a portion contribute to a project like this. Especially in the case of Silk Road where no one can really come forward and claim their bitcoin..
A personal favorite: the motion graphics in this "making-of" video for a 1983 HBO intro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqzihgR_-SI#t=309

This is the pre-Tron era, where the easiest way to get a picture of a chrome logo is to build one out of brass. The starburst and light ribbon effects later in the video are similarly brilliant examples of pre-CG CG.
Anyone have more insight on why TJ Holowaychuk left Node?

https://medium.com/code-adventures/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3...

Anyone experience the same?
This is pretty cool but, is it a game? I can't see how solving math problems under a time limit can be useful for anything besides a math exam or some other academic test.
Your use of the word "unleashed" shows your deep hatred for him. Will you say the governor of Missouri unleashed the shooting incident and subsequent riots? Should we sentence him for life?.it was exactly the same situation back then. I agree that modi did not do a good job in controlling the mob as the head of the state but those riots were an immediate reaction to the actions of one religious group that put arsenal in a railway coach and burnt 200 people alive. 3 separate investigative committees headed by supreme court of India couldn't find any evidence that modi instigated these riots.
NASA's Van Allen Probes Spot an Impenetrable Barrier in Space
The title is a bit hyperbolic. The article shows how the Van Allen belts constitute a "nearly impenetrable" barrier preventing "ultra-fast electrons" from approaching the earth.
is anyone else seeing a broken image in the middle where I assume what should be the "pay with bitcoin" button is?

https://i.imgur.com/9oAmKDl.png
I'm not sure why you consider the JavaScript ecosystem unstable ?
JS has:

- awesome dependency management systems like NPM and Bower

- awesome task runners like Grunt and Gulp

- NPM has thousands of plugins, more than Java's Maven and Ruby Gems [1]

- Github badge support for builds, test coverage, dependency versions and NPM

- Close second best StackOverflow support behind Java (without taking into account Node.js) [2]

Imo it's probably the most modern, stable and evolved ecosystem out there currently.

[1] http://www.modulecounts.com/

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/tags
Oh wow you actually implemented transaction and protocols IDs? Most libraries don't bother. I know the few I use in production don't. They /should/ be used for language extensions, but generally they aren't.

Also not to be a bit pedantic but MODbus/TCP is a super set of MODbus/RTU. The distraction between ASCII and RTU is large, but existent because the size of a "byte" is variable in serial communication. I.E.: You can't use MODbus/RTU with a 7 DataBit serial connection.

Also if you get bored point your library at a good data center cisco router, the results are fun ;)
Not 100% sure, but I think the facebook App does something similar.
Obligatory link to The Onion article "Even CEO Can't Figure Out How RadioShack Still In Business":

http://www.theonion.com/articles/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-ho...

That's from 2007, making the continued existence today even more perplexing.
Copy that. Thank you.
This is super interesting! Thanks for sharing.

I believe this is a good illustration of how most net neutrality advocacy is misguided. The (very real) problem net neutrality advocates are trying to solve isn't paid prioritization; rather, it's a lack of meaningful competition in the "last-mile" broadband market, and this market failure produces aberrant scenarios like NBC Comcast shaking down its competitors (eg Netflix). I'm hesitant to strongly support most mainstream net neutrality proposals because of situations like this, where network discrimination is net positive.

Anyway, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts.
As an European, I find this "right" to be forgotten completely ridiculous.
Regin virus
Automakers trying to drive away car computer hackers
and its not even good. i see ad's for apps i have installed all the time.
Yes -- 404 from coinbase

https://coinbase.com/assets/buttons/donation_large-36ee93618...
Seeing the same here, links to an asset on CoinBase.

https://coinbase.com/assets/buttons/donation_large-36ee93618...
I think if you need to pass callbacks several levels down you should consider some form of event system so that you may decouple your components from the hierarchy.
That was a great blog post, one that I don't remember having seen. That's exactly what I'd hope for.

It kind of throws into contrast Joyent's. http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun
Is 'gpg' Gnu Privacy Guard specifically, or is it a method different keychain applications use?
If you have callback hell, it is an expression of muddled thought.

If you have broken your code up into small enough modules and functions, and you know which tasks depend on other tasks, you will not have callback hell.

If you are unclear on the logic of your code, you can often make it work in a messy way with the "laundry list approach". This involves formulating a sequence of tasks that happens to work, without needing to understand the actual dependencies. Many synchronous languages facilitate a laundry list approach, as their inefficient blocking paradigm removes the need to formulate the laundry list as a sequence of nested callbacks. It's still messy code.
your paste lost an asterisk * in the first replace statement
well i stand corrected it seems. although if that is from staging, then it will likely get squashed before merged into mainline (meaning this commit won't actually stay in the history).
> Not 100% sure, but I think the facebook App does something similar.

from the article: "A Facebook spokesperson said it also collects that data to help it tailor and target its ads. For example, the company might use it to help an app developer target ads to users that have already downloaded that developer’s other apps."
Yeah debuggex's output looks slightly better, on top of having a lot more options. Regulex however is open-source with nicely written javascript: https://github.com/JexCheng/regulex

Here's a side by side comparison with the regexp I wrote to parse URLs [0]

Debuggex: https://www.debuggex.com/r/yPBRv77Rxl0Ji3Pi

Regulex: http://jex.im/regulex/#!embed=true&re=^%28https%3F\%3A%29\%2...

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/a/21553982/542156
Cool and he actually got "ken" as his username. Github must have been saving that username, unfortunately "https://github.com/rob/" is already taken.
Joke's on their advertisers, since I can hardly be the only person who routinely blocks promoted tweets.
When you hit the "Donate" link, it asks you for your email addy. IANAL, but why not accept anonymous donations?
"In my twenties I was thrashing around in the water, trying to keep my head above it. In my thirties, I realized it was only three feet deep and I stood up." This is hella useful (however old you are).
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> I thought Linux drivers are all under GPL.

Nope, in fact some of Linux's drivers are licensed with the old-style BSD license with the advertising clause: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=%22advertising+ma...
Space Mountaineering: The Lean Startup vs. Zero to One
The Monty Hall problem is actually a bit more subtle than this article makes out. The exact wording of the problem can change the answer. For example, in this version

> There are two doors with goats and one with a car. You choose one door from the three. The host selects one of the doors with a goat from the remaining two doors, and opens it. Should you switch doors if given the chance?

has a different answer than this one

> There are two doors with goats and one with a car. You choose one door from the three. The host chooses one of the remaining two doors at random and opens it, showing a goat. Should you switch doors if given the chance?

In the first example the hosts choice is either forced (if you chose a goat initially) or doesn't make a difference (if you chose a car).

In the second example, the host could have opened a door with a car because he was choosing the doors at random. Given that he didn't, your estimate of the probability that you have chosen the car should increase - in fact, it should increase to 1/2, and switching doesn't make any difference.

To me, this is the really interesting thing about the Monty Hall problem - the knowledge and intentions of the host are important in the correct solution to the problem! So there are two ways to come up with the answer "it doesn't matter if you switch" -

1. You understand the problem in the first sense above, and your intuition leads you to an incorrect answer.

2. You understand the problem in the second sense above, and you are correct that it doesn't matter whether you switch or not.
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When Coinbase gives the option to donate directly to a Bitcoin address, "1GnkMmEjTHHrw8BaWzBxEzuNweUwhmwGrg" in this case, is that a wallet Mozilla owns?
The current academic peer review system is an example of a process that worked fine when number of participants was small but fails at scale. I'd like to see something like hacker news or reddit's social version of vetting papers in addition to any formal review process, perhaps with additional moderation from known experts. There is currently no site for community review of articles or papers and I think it would be a great resource for scientists of all kinds.
My criticism of the problem is that the presentation is usually poor, and it isn't always noted that the host knows what door the prize is behind, and always opens a goat door. I wonder what the responses would be like if it was presented as examples, in the same manner as was presented to the pigeons.
Net Neutrality is really a fight between two industries about shifting their costs onto one another, with really good PR from the tech industry that has enlisted normal people onto their side.

T-Mobile's zero-rating of data from certain music services supposedly violates "net neutrality", but customers like it and it allows them to compete with ATT and Verizon. It may be unfair to some other music service start up, but who cares? It's unfair in the same way that an incumbent has more resources to advertise their product than a start up.
A call to action: mobile technology for the elderly
How Twilio manages API changes
MIT 8.04 Quantum Physics I, Lecture 1: Introduction to Superposition
Choosing responsive web design vs. a separate mobile site
I think Radio Shack could be reborn if it did a few things.
Get rid of the cheap toys. Go back to just electronic parts, and today's technology--like having the Ardino and
Rasberry always in stock--along with all the less know electronic kits. Try to keep the prices down. Keep all
radios and cell phone stuff, but get rid of the advertisements(I don't like to walk into loud stores). I would also devote a small section of each store to used/recycled/surplus stuff. The workers shouldn't be required to wear ties.
I thought about using it to write a Secret.ly post deanonimizer.
True Blood is something like 1:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjooosDIFgQ

Dexter is even longer with ~1:47

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIqBQWB7IUM
Wow - I think that's the most straightforward explanation I've ever heard. I think, to rephrase it, you're saying:

a) because a goat is revealed, swapping will always give you the opposite of what you had

b) you're more likely to pick a goat in the first place, so you're more likely to switch to a car
Nice! I'd like to know too how was possible that "ken" was not taken.
You develop a language that is sent to the client in plain text. Then you write a lot of code in it. Then you realize that with so much code, file transfers take too long. You write a utility to strip out spaces and comments, as well as change variable names so files are smaller. Okay, so now you have unreadable plaintext files. After juggling minified and unminified version of the same code for some years you realize that debugging like that sucks. You develop a new format that allows you to map minified and unminified files. This format requires support on the browser side, as well as in the minification utility, and it also requires the author of the minified library to provide you with two additional files. You declare victory and pat yourself on the back. The whole process only takes a few years.

Meanwhile, people debugged binaries for several decades before your language even been developed.

Do you see anything wrong with this picture?
Glad you like it and thanks for the suggestion! FWIW, I know a lot of apps have that feature but I personally never found it very useful, which is why I did not include it, but I'll definitely add it in a future update.
Some species of rotifers have asexual reproduction: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bdelloidea#Reprodu... . From the article:

> Despite having been asexual for millions of years, they have diversified into more than 450 species and are fairly similar to other sexually reproducing rotifer species.

(More about asexual reproduction in rotifers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotifer#Loss_of_sexual_reproduc... )
At this point, I don't believe it's possible to be in favor of civil liberties and work with contextual advertising.
I thought one of the main points of academia was that it isn't centered around making money.
It's awful to read that and compare it with what Radio Shack was for us geeklings in the 1980s. For those of us living far from big cities, Radio Shack was the source of electric parts, IC chips, LEDs, not to mention hands-on access to actual computers.
People keep saying that, but do bugs like that really happen? In my entire career as a professional software developer I've never seen it happening. Not once.
There is, or should be, more to academia than just the pursuit of money.
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I can understand Android lets the app do that, because well, Android is Android, but... iOS too?!