skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is amazing how much junk gets published in academia and how many shady practices there are. One professor in my old department used to make slight changes to a paper and methodologies and publish to another journal. He had dozens of publications this way.

Another professor that was a friend of my professor asked us to cite his paper. I was never able to replicate his results, but we still sited it anyways.

One professor used to hunt around for different statistical tests until she found one which gave her the desired p values so she could publish.

One of the PhD students I worked with would draw absurd conclusions from the data. He would see an effect when there wasn't one. He was regularly shown to be wrong when we did statistical analysis, but he never changed his ways. He is currently doing his postdoc at a very well known institution.

The worst part though is that I have also come across many genuine and hard working professors and labs who take time to scrutinize their work and produce good results. They end up losing the tenure battle.
It is sickening that a talented guy can't get a job just because he needs to work part time to manage a disease.
Perhaps he means that religions have played an important role over many centuries across many cultures and billions of people. You can argue that religion has been used in good and bad ways but one thing I think is hard to deny is that peoples spiritual beleifs have shaped societies and what social norms prevail.

The pro religion group could argue religion has had a civilizing effect on a species (homo-sapiens) that has compelled us collectivly to higher levels then our instinctual animal predecessors. The collective beleif in a set of shared moral values holds communities and societies together.

The anti religion group could argue that great atrocities have been justified in the name of religion. This group often argues that we should be basing our collective beleifs on science rather then religions. (Edit: I don't beleive there are any examples yet of a large society being held together by a common beleif in science. The efforts to come up with a set of policies around global warming might be the closest thing I can think of and we all know how well that is going, not very well unfortunatly.)

By my estimation the human condition and the struggles we all face leave lots of room for different view points.
The Jetson TK1 uses the 32-bit Tegra K1. As far as I know, the Nexus 9 is probably the cheapest ARMv8 device that you're allowed to run your own kernel-mode programs on.
As of just now:

* tag [internet-explorer]: 27,934 questions

* tag [google-chrome]: 28,153 questions

Since the number of questions is your metric for attributing shame, that surely imply that chrome is much worse than IE, especially considering the long legaccy and larger install base of IE vs Chrome...

Or, I don't know, could it be possible that the number of questions reflects more than just how bad a piece of software is?
The ocaml standard library is minimal to a fault. It's just enough to implement the compiler itself. For higher level operations like starts_with, you use libraries. The Batteries library for example provides what you want:

String.starts_with line "+++"
Doctor's pretty much dismiss flouroquinolones as potential causes for these kinds of problems, which is part of why I asked. I also asked because I've been suffering similar symptoms, and have been in the ER multiple times in the last couple weeks. The only thing I could possibly think of that spurred this on was getting a nosocomial infection 3 months ago and taking Ciprofloxacin for it. I had bad tendon pain and nerve pain while on the drug but it sorta went away after a week. 2 1/2 months later, it's back full force and I'm getting very physically weak.
I'm now on waitlist. Reminded me to check in on another idea: content liberation. Consider the success story of the Debian Administrators Handbook. Brilliant! http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/
The entire academic publishing industry is messed up. There's just as much of a cost issue with arts and humanities journals.

After health care, journal publishing fees are one of the biggest and most regressive 'free market' choke-point costs ever levied on human civilisation.
> there was a massive campaign of neighborhood destruction

... driven by the fact most people who lived in cities, pre-WWII, didn't live in nice gentrified neighborhoods with fixed-up brownstones and Local Character. They lived in slums with crappy, run-down tenements and whatever you call what happens when you shove as many people as possible into as little room as you can bribe someone to let you get away with. Crime and disease, that's it.

Having a GI Bill education, a car which let you move even if the trolley schedule said you stayed put, and a house with a yard where your kids don't end up in roving gangs sounded pretty damn good. It sounded like the American Dream.

> There is a robust hypothesis that city living is at the root of civic engagment and that, eg, the Great Migrations explain the timing of the civil rights movement.

To be clear, I agree with all this. My point is that it's important to maintain historical perspective, lest we fall into the trap of imagining that people from the past weren't reacting to comprehensible forces. Yes, some of those forces came down to frank racism, but others were as I mentioned above, and ignoring the good reasons while emphasizing the bad ones is not only an insult to history, it's a stumbling block to understanding the present.

> major institutions have lost their ability to be as exclusionist as they historically felt necessary to prevent entryism that fundamentally changes the nature of the institution.

So... social clubs have to let in blacks, now? Is that what you're saying?

> relentless focus on vacant aggregation-friendly metrics amongst our elite. You can put "volunteer hours" on a spreadsheet, thus, you get the optimal number of "volunteer hours", rather than civic engagment per se.

If you don't have rules, you have favoritism.

If you do have rules, you have rules lawyering.

If you have rules which are up to interpretation, you don't have rules.
If this were the case it would be no better than laser propulsion. You could theoretically propel a spacecraft with a beam of photons, but you'd need to borrow God's laser pointer and a power plant that pumps out a couple exawatts to get any meaningful thrust. But only a massless drive could beat the specific impulse... with an iSP of infinity. :)

My reading is that this thing, assuming it worked, would have the same problem as ion drives in that it would require a massive power plant. It solves about 1/3 the technical problem of a star drive: where to get the mass. But about 2/3 of the problem of star travel is where to get the energy. High-power-density fusion and antimatter-matter annihilation are the only sources I know of that make star travel thinkable on anything like a human time scale.
Charles Petzold in "Annotated Turing" gives a good explanation of this and related subjects.
It isn't proprietary, it is open source php. Not wonderful, but the cli works well and hits all of the phabricator bits you need. I've been using it for ~6 months and like it quite a bit.
After trying to outcompete Apple with similarly closed but way crappier controlled and closed environments (Windows 8 store and metro UI), they finally understood they had to push their own strength, that is: "developers developers developers developers".
Do I care about some bytes?
I think there is some confusion here.

Some open access journals charge authors. But these open access journals are not the publishers we hear about (such as Elsevier). In some ways, it's accurate to say that the old model with publishers is "reader pays", and the open access model is "author pays".

The good thing about open access journals is that they are typically not a for-profit endeavor. This means that what they will charge to the authors is, hopefully, reasonable.
BMW in partnership talks with Tesla
Why does Phabricator's own site (phabricator.org) link to their own source on GitHub? If Phabricator is great for code hosting, shouldn't they be hosting their own code with it?
When I saw OCaml the first time I saw a much different syntax than this: lots of double semicolons (and lots more single semicolons than were present here). This looks much like Standard ML instead. What's up with that?
Hi, I'm on the team at Medium that launched Charted today. No, Charted wasn't built to be used in blog posts. It was built as an internal tool to, among other things, share simple data query results and create ad-hoc dashboards (as part of the general data analysis our Product Science team does).
On that same page, you'll see an inflation adjusted chart of postage prices since the postage service started:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_postag...

The light purple is the inflation adjusted price (2008 prices); and the dark purple is the nominal price.

That is remarkably flat (inflation adjusted).

Fact is, it's been roughly 45 cents to mail a letter since the postal service began.

Sure, there were times when it was cheaper.. but it was ~43 cents in 1890; 40 cents in 1975 (2008 prices); and 45 cents today (49 cents is 45 cents in 2008 prices.. which is what the chart uses).
I can see my belt, but that doesn't mean the purpose of my belt is to be seen. You're twisting my original comment to say something it didn't say.
Really enjoyed the talk. The website he mentioned, visual6502.org, has a bunch of interesting resources. The visual sims are fun to explore.
More like engaged developers and large user base.
It sounds like you actually have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - everything you say is very typical of CFS. I actually suffered from CFS myself, but have now fully recovered - I run my own business, and I'm a private pilot as well.

CFS is very treatable and you can recover from it. Unfortunately there is a lot of BS and quackery out there, making it difficult for patients to get the right information. Feel free to email me at cpncrunchhn@gmail.com.
I believe that the prestige of a journal is mainly defined by the members of the editorial board. So if you can convince members of the editorial board of prestigious journals to resign and join your new open access journal, it can very rapidly become very prestigious.

That is what happened in machine learning in 2001, when forty editors of the journal 'Machine Learning', published by Springer, resigned to join the open access 'Journal of Machine Learning Research', which was created in 2000. Today, JMLR is much more prestigious than Machine Learning (impact factor of 3.42 v.s. 1.46 in 2012).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Machine_Learning_Res...
FWIW, I found a better (it isn't the default) workflow with phabricator. If you set:

"immutable_history": true

In your repo's .arcconfig, it will work this way:

When creating a topic branch and you "arc land", it will only put that nasty phabricator formatted commit message in the merge commit that merged the topic branch into the master/develop branch. When you just submit a review against the branch you want to land to, you simply git push, and the review message doesn't go to the repo.

This gives us the best of both in that phabricator doesn't overwrite our commit messages, or rebase squash things, but we get the phabricator metadata in the repo when we want it.
Isn't Jeff Atwoods working on Discourse right now?
People may be blowing this out of proportion.

No they're not.

While I don't care about this change (I'm not based in the US, so we were never going to be in a position to take slack to court), changing TOS to suit the drafter and offering no options, no ability to get to your data and no time for your customers to properly review the changes is a bullsh*t move and they deserve to be called on it.
Yes, but it uses that nasty trojan which doesn't work on Linux. So only limited Java WebVPN (not full client) works in my case.
Central de Abasto – World's Largest Food Market (2010)
This sounds like a great example of well meaning donors not really understanding the people they are trying to help.

It would also be exciting to see some of these re-configurations reducing costs in developed countries.
I made a more detailed comment downthread, but in the pediatric rare disease world, ten years is generally considered a fairly typical amount of time before one can finally get a diagnosis, and that's for diagnoses that are actually known/identifiable/understood.

The easiest way to explain this is that doctors typically don't want to diagnose life-long conditions if they've never seen them before. So your family doctor will send you to an internist, who will send you to an internist at the local academic medical center, who sends you to three specialists at the same medical center, who don't know what it is. Then you get a referral to someone in another city who specializes in something someone thinks it might be – that guy has diagnosed 10 people with this rare disease. You fly out, and he says "nope, you're not it."

Wash, rinse, cry, repeat.
The PSP's calling convention ("MIPS EABI", not to be confused with ARM EABI) is simple, the executable format ("PRX" - basically ELF with some extra sections) is converted from ELFs by a PSPSDK tool, and the dynamic linker uses a funny table of 32-bit virtual pointers ("NIBs") correlating with the first 32 bits of the SHA-1 of a method name, which, once the method name is known, makes things pretty straightforward to set up.

Basically any compiler supporting MIPS-EABI-ELF can be made to generate PSP executables with the use of the ELF-to-PRX tools from the open-source PSP toolchain.

The PSP does support some special instructions (a VFPU and some "allegrex extensions") but they aren't necessary to make working binaries - just for performance.
OK! You could also look at the 15.6in HP Envy range. They look rather like Mac laptops (and have very similar keyboards), feel solid, and are cheap.
Pure FP is very different from imperative languages because it has no notion of temporal order. You can (in truly pure FP) evaluate things in whatever order you choose and stop as soon as you're satisfied. The language cannot care at all [0].

That said, FP often involves the introduction of monads which restore sequencing (along with many other beneficial effects). A monadic FP computation is very similar to a plain imperative computation... just with all of the arbitrary details automatically selected to be coherent and optimal.

You can even pretty easily embed OO in FP languages (though it gets a little hairy sometimes) since as soon as you can simulate open recursion somehow you can get late-binding as you like. See Oleg's O'Haskell papers for this kind of nonsense.

[0] In this regard, even Haskell is impure since it allows for non-terminating computation which can be seen as an impurity since you cannot expect to just evaluate `let x = x in x` repeatedly and get anywhere meaningful. Other languages like Coq, Agda, Idris are terminating (thus not Turing Complete) and therefore truly pure.
Google: Stop Using PageRank as a Metric, We Won't Be Updating It in the Future
OK i misunderstood you, but I don't see how you can avoid learning new tools when solving problems.

You must often hit the point where you think "surely there is a better way to do this, lets research it" - then find new tools, spike them and then use them? No?

However what I think you are getting at maybe is people who think stuff like "Node.js - that sounds funky, oh.. Hadoop - thats hip at the moment how can we use that?" perhaps for fun, or to enhance their CV. That is dangerous. You end up with completely the wrong tool for the job!
It has code review that doesn't suck. Redmine is wonderful for issues, but it has no sane code review bits. Also, the gitolite plugin is horrible (I've had to hack several bits of it to work), and there is no really good way to do fine grained access control for your repos.

This is all out of the box stuff you get with phabricator. It does those bits exceptionally well. The niceties you get with redmine, such as referencing commits or issues and autoclosing them on code push also exists with phabricator.

Think of phabricator as a more meme friendly superset of redmine.
Chrome has by far the larger install base. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
That's actually pretty common in larger systems. You don't want your big, expensive machine bogged down with all the simple, stupid housekeeping stuff, so most big iron machines have a frontend processor of some sort to handle that. The DECs used a PDP/11 or an Intel 8080, depending on model, IBM tended to use PCs or Thinkpads running special versions of OS/2, etc.
Phabricator isn't code hosting, it's repository viewing. The code is still hosted in whatever existing SCM tool is being used.
It does have a lot of features that overlap with github which is why it is a bit confusing.
1. Anyone who can see your traffic can see where the service is.

Dude, right there you lost me. 99.99999999% of the internet can't see your traffic. The NSA can. Your ISP can. Random threats on the 'net at large cannot see your traffic.
No, but if the maintainers added the ability to play MP3s and file my taxes, that is a cause for concern.
This is a neat idea, but I think it's a bit too minimal. What I like about it is it tries to just Do The Right Thing for your chart setup. Unfortunately, a lot of that assumes that the data is already prepared in The Right Way. Therein lies the crux.

Playing around with it briefly, it looks like your data already needs to be filtered to only the columns you want displayed and presumably pre-aggregated. The question is should your tool help you do that. That's where BI comes in, but the tradeoff is you lose the simplicity with all the BI tools out there (eg can you explain a join to your marketing manager? How about the difference between a measure and dimension?)

At DataHero.com we're building the best of both worlds -- both a tool that can automatically do The Right Thing in terms of your chart setup, but also have enough intelligence under the hood to prepare it The Right Way without having any technical background. BI and visualization are still a technical person's playground... once a tool can automatically understand what's in your data AND automatically understand the best way of putting it all together, that's how you make "Data" accessible to the larger market.

This is a great tool in making Data as accessible as possible, but it's missing the step on going from the raw data to the prepared data (and making it easy/intelligent/automatic enough that you don't need to understand a join to do it).
Low Carb Diet: Fat or Fiction
Even though USPS isn't "managed" by the government, the government still meddles in its affairs: http://www.cnbc.com/id/45018432
List of Salaries for Interns Who Can Code Will Burn Your Eyeballs
Why your kids should start to learn coding now?
It may be getting worse. Not sure. There are definitely a lot of questions that have been marked "closed" or "off topic" that I would genuinely like to have seen more answers to.

The bottom line is that it's still a really important archive of software coding. I'd say 80+ percent of the issues I face in coding, someone has seen before - and therefore, a place like SO could have solved my issue with almost zero time wasted.
What Do Linux Developers Say in Commit Messages?
That is one smart move by Microsoft. Microsoft definitely seems like it is heading in the right direction. I'm quite excited to see what Microsoft have under their sleeves. Faster release cycles for Internet Explorer (like any other popular browsers) would be a killer move by them, IMO.
A Memristor True Random-Number Generator (2012)
Has the good professor considered the fact that the sneering condescension of his hard no texting/no e-mailing rules encourages the very breakdown in civility that he's studying? At one point the landline telephone was the cause of the very same moral panic that people are having about texting and cell phones. It was thought that having instantaneous voice communication would erode the "civility" of letter writing.

Social rules change as the means of communication change. Attempting to preserve social rules at one period of time, whether it's 1890 or 1990 is foolhardy.
Bloodsucking video game peripheral suspended by Kickstarter
> we know that the function `start`returns nothing

Which is cool, but start is a (recursive) helper function for the go function (and if you look at the source file, there are a number more that are defined along with it, this is kind of a weird excerpt to just show the main go function and the first of several helpers), which is be the main public interface being defined in the code presented. I wasn't trying to describe what it looked like start did when called, but what it seemed like go was trying to do.

(And, I was doing so looking just at the excerpt and going a bit off the cuff; its clearly, looking at the source file, doing a lot more.)
Note, that the original code reads:

when String.length line > 4 && String.sub line 0 3 = "+++"

And the Batteries library is not being used in the original code. If that doesn't tell you anything, I'm sorry. And good luck.
That's perfect! .. Insta-bookmark!

Although I did find Chromium 38 did work to get me back online, this uptodown site will prove useful for other tests requiring full Chrome.

Thanks!
>when a young adult woman with no prior programming experience wants to take up computer science in college, no one says, "Really?"

Don't you think that a young adult deciding to take further study in a subject they have no experience in - which suggests they have no real desire towards - should at least be asked by educators/parents "Are you sure that's what you want? Really?". If I'd never baked a thing in my life and said "I want to go to catering college" I'd pretty much expect teachers to say "Really?"; why is this different?

I'm not at all suggesting you need experience in a domain to begin studying it at a higher education institute - but I'd want someone to double check that I'd at least considered [considering] the possible consequences of that route of study. I wouldn't want to stop someone following an impulse, just that I'd want to try and get them to do it with at least some thought.
The company I work for makes a living off Enrollment software and Demographic software for Windows. A lot of our clients do not wish to have their systems connected/cloud.

I do not see a change anytime soon.
And yet, isn't one of the premiere goals of science, at least of the sort aiming at ontology, i.e. physics, to formulate a "Theory of Everything"? In other words, one idea to rule them all? Of course such an idea probably won't explain "higher level" structures in the Universe without some additional "subroutines"—just like understanding the periodic table does not result in instantaneous explanation of biochemistry, the brain, or human society (funny, maybe natural selection does something of the sort...). Though I do not fully agree with everything here, and I'm not sure that the author is wholly maligning the state of affairs in his thesis, we should remember there is a degree of immunity to ultra-logical semiotics in literature and (continental) philosophy that imparts subjective states that reinforce one's humanity (and maybe even intangibly touches holy-grail-ontology), and that is by no means an endorsement of at best childish, at worst deleterious, obfuscation.