skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very split on this topic. I read this on The Verge[1] and I know they're pretty left-leaning. But to my experience they rarely lie and they made many criticisms I find valid. On the other hand, marginalization is another big problem of our age. Let me elaborate.

First of all, him stealing research from Rosalind Franklin comment is a bit of a hyperbole. Sure, not asking for her permission before using data and not crediting her at all are major dick moves, but I'm pretty sure he was a brilliant scientist. The quotes from his book The Double Helix don't really help here, they are extremely misogynistic. But The Verge does not mention that in the epilogue of the same book, he said he was usually wrong about Franklin and he acknowledges the hardships she endured as a woman in science.[2] This is just the part about Franklin.

The rest of The Verge article mentions about him being a generally horrible person and does not even quote the parts about obese people and genetic screening, so bonus points for them. But one thing we need to consider is that he is old. Really, he is 86. Of course this shouldn't shield him from criticism, but he was born and lived in a different world than ours. Bad behavior should be called out and shunned, but there's a fine line between this and marginalization. We should all be responsible about it.

The last thing I want to add is how everyone thinks if you made one great achievement you win all the points. This reminds me a lot about what's going on with Linus Pauling.[3] He did awesome things, yes, but at some point he stopped being a pioneer in science and bullishly promoted benefits of vitamin C even though scientific community was mostly united against it. People want to see them as authority figures even after they age and lose their touch. This is sad, really. But continuing taking them seriously is usually more harm than silently ignoring them.

I'm sorry no one takes him seriously anymore. But I understand universities not considering working with him anymore. I understand press not caring about what he says anymore. They all have good reasons. But that's where my pity ends. Him deciding to sell his Nobel medal makes him look like a victim, but as far as I know he didn't do it because he was poor or anything. He wanted to buy a painting, which I'm perfectly fine with. And maybe he wanted a little attention? People get old and sad, which is depressing, but there's not much we can do about it.

Sorry for the long comment.

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/9/7363969/dna-pioneer-james-...
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson#Use_of_King.27s_Co...
[3]: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/07/the-vitami...
I'll take "fighting with syntax" over fighting with a GUI any day.
My favourite quote: "I listen to music on the Internet, but don't download any songs. It's all totally legal. Many people may find that boring, but I think it is important."
Even if you ignore JFK, a good case can be made that the security agencies (probably FVEY?) currently seem to have at least de facto control basically anywhere they want. Exercising that control got a lot easier - and less obvious - as technology became available. Traditional informants and enforcers sometimes get noticed, but JOIN...WHERE user.id=foo across phone location data is very hard to discover.

The key part, I think, is that COINTELPRO ended in name only. Worse, as the use of the internet increased, the number of times I've had to consider "JTRIG-style disruption, paid corporate shill, or useful idiot" has increased dramatically.

While a "silent coup" is one possibility, I have been liking how Dan Geer's described[1] the high-level picture of our situation as a Cold Civil War. Cold wars are fought by proxy, and there has been a lot of pointer-chasing to trace in the modern political situation.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI ( http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt )
What does not follow at all is that Ketamine should be banned, or that medical researchers should have to jump through D.E.A hoops to do research.

Ketamine isn't banned. And it's not all that controlled compared to other drugs (Schedule III). You'd have a harder time running a trial for morphine than you would for ketamine.
Even if it's out of print, the original game is still easy to find used and quite playable.

And it is loads of fun. One detail the author doesn't mention (as it's not really relevant to the article) is that everyone starts the game with a six-pack of clones, which basically function like lives in a video game. When you are inevitably outed as a Commie Mutant Traitor and executed, Friend Computer assumes that whatever tragic mutation or insanity afflicted you was a one-off and hasn't affected your next clone, which is promptly delivered by pneumatic tube. That means you can all play Circular Firing Squad and massacre each other and then keep playing. It's a blast. Great for cons and pick-up games.
When you the dev seems be only releasing a version every 6 months or so, what else can you do?
Oh, interesting. I didn't know it was actually in response to ARP issues. By the time I showed up it was just how bits were wired. Apparently I should've gone to the source :)
As a male, I found this horrifying to read.

I'm planning to be CEO of a company, and I'm planning to have a child with my wife in the next two years or so. I intend to take a month or 2 off with her to tend to her and my future newborn's needs. I have 2 years to plan for that, so I will build the company to ensure that I'm covered to take that time off.

By virtue of circumstance, I will never understand what a mother has to deal with in these circumstances, trying to balance work with family. I also don't need to take extended time off to recover. But it's scary to me to think that women feel the need to make these types of sacrifices, and not take care of their family.

If the author feels her company is more valuable than her child, that's her choice. But I intend to build my company so that every employee, including my co-founders (one of whom happens to be female) can expect full maternity leave, without pressure from our company. You should be able to take care of yourself and your family, without having to worry if your company is ok, or if your job is still there.

Truly astounding that people are ok with this practice. I get that it's more difficult being CEO of your own company, but it's still horrifying to me.
What are your original TOS for refunds?

Maybe offer them a month's refund to get rid of them. Hard to say when dealing with extreme cases.
Words mean things. Look at page 12 here: http://www.ncsu.edu/cqsb/presentations/Hu.pdf
Did they pay for a year up front? I feel more information is needed.

Is this a renewal and they pay for a year at a time? If so how long past the renewal are they?

Or has a year gone by and they owe for the past year?
Have you tried appealing to your insurance company about coverage?

Insurance companies won't cover most drugs when used "off label". However, the doctor is allowed to appeal by providing peer-reviewed article supporting the use.

It's a hell of a lot of paper work, but most of the folks at insurance companies (I work with them a lot) are pretty reasonable people. Their default is to deny, but if you can build a strong enough case they will often cover it.

It's not like ketamine is all that expensive. Hell, I've seen people get covered for "off-label" use of oncology drugs that are $100K+/yr.
Apropos of the "your DNA was found on a gun" thing, what are the standards of evidence for charges that don't go to trial and plea deals? Can the DA/police essentially make something up, offer you a plea deal, and then -- if you confess and take the plea -- never follow it up with any real proof?

I'm curious because -- knowing nothing about forensic science -- that statement sounds really weird, and regardless of whether it's a sensible statement or whether it's true in this individual case, I'm curious if there's a loophole that lets the police badger suspects with non-existent evidence.
I don't get their stance ... peer-review is already "anonymous". There are also a lot of issues with truly anonymous user forums (see 2chan and 4chan). For me it always seems as if the social aspects of communication disappear when one is truly anonymous, e.g. hate speech. The problem is not lack of anonymity but lack of incentives for reviews (I don't get anything from doing a thorough review of a paper and often it's hard to impossible to judge the contribution without dataset and code). It seems peerpub and similar systems will attract people who have the incentive to attack specific authors (as it happened in this case).
Terafyle allows you to fetch any of your computer's files
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That sounds like a great experience, good luck!
> > whereas all the testing says not really.

> sounds like his statement is based on facts known to him

Really? He follows it up by saying "people who have to deal with black employees" will "know" that it's true.

My understanding is that IQ correlates to socio-economic background, but once that's adjusted for, all race considerations fall away. If you've got a credible source that says something else, I'm sure we'd find it interesting.
Yes, I think anonymity in reviews is largely a myth, even in "double blind" reviews. For many topics, there are only a few research groups actively pursuing them, and you can often tell from what other work they cite, what datasets they use, etc., which lab it is. So identifying at least some of the authors is relatively easy. You might not get the exact grad student right, but you probably know their advisor.

Identifying reviewers is a little harder, but it's usually not difficult to make educated guesses unless they are, as you put it intentionally vague. Otherwise the other comments on this article about bad reviews from 'people from "a different camp" simply disliking a given approach' and the like would be impossible to justify.
> 1. Diffs: There is no easy way to diff two versions.

Any visual programming language can be serialized to and deserialized from a linear format, which can easily be subject to diff.

It should be fairly straightforward from that to also build a visual interpretation of the diff of the serialized forms (e.g., an animation of the transformation from the original to the new form.)

Visual vs. semantic changes is only an issue if the language admits multiple visual representations that are structurally equivalent rather than (e.g.) accepting different inputs and reducing them to a canonical representation. But even if you allow that, you should be able to use canonicalization of that type "behind the scenes" to generate diffs which are comprehensive or which only identify semantically-significant changes.

> 2. Spaghetti code: Read the Dijkstra's paper on Goto, and mentally replace 'goto' with 'line'.

As in text language, using block structure rather than arbitrary gotos addresses this. There is no reason a visual language can't be block structured. (If you are concerned about procedure/function-calls-as-lines rather than gotos-as-lines, there's no reason that calls need to be lines; callables can be shapes, and calls can simply be inclusion of the shape in the procedure being drawn.)

> 4. Limits: There is a human visual limit of about 50 items in a graphical picture, unless there is a underlying graphical semantic context such as geography or time series.

There are similar limits in other domains, which is one of the reasons for structured decomposition of code in general. I don't see why this would apply less to visual code.

> 6. Graphical API: Not clear what is the graphical equivalent to modules, namespaces, packages, etc. How would you package reusable code and make an API available?

In general, names are shapes -- I don't see why that would be any different for names of namespaces vs. names of individual items within a namespace. Sure, how you depict either "opening" a namespace or accessing a name from it in a qualified way would be something a graphical language with namespaces would have to decide.
The WHO lists ketamine as a "essential medication" since it is an ideal anesthetic for countries with limited resources. It's quite safe (doesn't depress breathing) and effective.

However, as you noticed, many folks who are treated with ketamine find the experience very unpleasant. Unless there is a good reason for using it as an anesthetic, doctors typically go with other drugs.
OK, schedule III isn't so bad, but afaiac, if I can't buy it at Walmart, it's banned.
Wish I had gotten in on the Series A!
What about distributed databases? I agree with your point that Postgres is actually the best option for most use cases. But as a practicing programmer, when should I consider choosing something like MongoDB?
It was also possible to play sampled sounds through the PC speaker using pulse-width modulation. Now that was a hack.
She's privileged to be able to do things like take off in the middle of the day to go the gym or set her own schedule with no meetings before noon and sleeping in and rolling into the office after lunch.
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Reminds me very much of the Adam Curtis documentary "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" (2011), which gives an interesting narrative of this movement's beginning.
It really depends on the use case. I mentioned m1.xlarge as they provide a good general cluster setup. The mix of CPU, RAM, and disk space should work well for most experiments one might want to perform. m1.xlarge instances also have 1Gbps network interfaces when others in the same price range have 500Mbps -- a vestige of the older generation of machines. Finally, they excel at disk space. If you're utilizing HDFS heavily, newer instances are usually SSD (good) but have 10 to 20 times less disk storage (bad).

For the same dollar amount, you can trade for other specs though.

If you're more interested in CPU / RAM / SSD for example, paying $3USD/h for r3.xlarge gets you 3TB of RAM, about 1.5 times more computing power (same number of cores but more compute units), but far less disk space -- 8TB of SSD.

In the end, it really depends on the task at hand, but your dollar does go quite far regardless!
Income does not really explain white-black gap in IQ. Blacks from families with >$200k/year income do about as well as whites from families with income <$20k/year. SAT test is not IQ test but it's probably highly correlated.

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2014/03/2008-sat-scores-by-race-b...
> Yes, there is more memory available than before, but that doesn't mean we should just waste it for useless stuff.

I disagree. I think the point is that it's not useless, by its own existence. It saves dev time (which allows more - and better! - programs to be built), it allows richer features and interactions, it lowers the barrier to entry for maintenance work, and most of all prevents constant re-inventing/implementing the wheel, which is reflected to the user in a lack of many common types of bugs, annoyances, and accessibility issues.
> My understanding is that IQ correlates to socio-economic background, but once that's adjusted for, all race considerations fall away

Unfortunately, that's not true, but it's a common myth that's repeated. Poor whites do nearly as well as rich blacks, on average. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_achievement_gap_in_the_U...

We're still searching for something that would correct for racial differences in testing, but socio-economic background does not correct for it. And even supposing it did, it doesn't directly refute the premise, because it conflates cause/effect, which is why sociologists are searching for other explanations (other than the obvious one, of course, because it goes against our societal values).
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> Racist or not, he is still a pioneer in biology and
> should keep his award for his contributions

He wasn't stripped of it.

He chose to sell it because he wanted to buy an expensive piece of art.
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What are you saying? That defining one's identity by the intensity, quantity and quality of the work that one does, might not the best way to live a life and be really good at something?

;)
I went through a similar migration last month for PyInstaller, and we couldn't find a way to set the original date for issues/comments; the best solution was to add the date/time as part of the comment; see just one example here: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/830

The script you linked does the same (we used a different now). We even contacted GitHub and they said we were out of luck, very sorry.

Now, I see golang has perfectly migrated all the timestamps. I wonder how they did that. If they used some private APIs, I would be very annoyed with GitHub support.
Yeah, if you have money, spend it on nice beans and a burr grinder. My Porlex hand grinder has lasted for years of daily use!
Hmm. That's intriguing. Spam could be modern day Numbers Stations, broadcast to our inboxes.
Yes especially if you explain the solution in detail.
This kind of makes my evening in weird way.

Perhaps it shows a lot about my own psychology at the time. Events that had nothing to do with the fellow I was talking to had biased me to interpret it that way.

People who say failure and hardship are good have never experienced them. It teaches you all the wrong things-- be conservative, be suspicious, be jaded, don't dream, assume the worst about people, ...

That was many years ago. It's been a long trip back from those days.
Definitely a nice UI to visualize the kind of abstractions that services like Marathon and Chronos offer. Kudos!

I'm interested in what's actually happening with the Cassandra/Kafka/etc "add-ons". Are they actually pure Mesos tasks running on ephemeral filesystems? Or are they hooking up to an external storage service to actually persist their data? (Or is this just a POC demo that isn't actually running Cassandra?)

In a typical mesos setup, persistent storage is punted, and left to be implemented outside of mesos. If you launch an application in a stock mesos environment, docker or not, you get an empty directory for your app to run out of. So with a naive implementation of Cassandra on mesos, you'd lose your data if all your nodes had to be restarted at once.

You can mitigate this by having a Cassandra-aware mesos scheduler that knows enough about Cassandra's data redundancy to maintain a "health level" of your database, but this still doesn't solve the issue of what happens when they all go down. You could do regular backups, but then you still have the potential to have stale data if the last backup you ran was X minutes ago and you have to bring everything back up.

The Mesos project (part of Apache, and distinct from Mesosphere) seems to be aware of this and is planning to offer up the primitives necessary for a scheduler to keep tasks "sticky" to a set of data (so you can re-launch Cassandra instances on the same nodes they used to be on) here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-1554 but it's not implemented or even fleshed out yet. I would be incredibly excited to see how they solved it if they're doing Cassandra in a "pure mesos" way.
It's worse than that. The higher up you go, the more bound to standard social-justice tropes you must adhere to or risk losing everything. In that sense, America isn't that different from other countries like China or the former USSR. Dissent from The Party is punished severely, and loyalty is rewarded.
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Assuming the gelatin comes from animal sources (as it almost certainly does) this will present a bit of a conundrum for a lot of vegetarians, especially those who avoid farmed meat products for reasons of wastefulness.
The state's attorney and mayor's office have both called for major changes at Riker's and threatened to sue if conditions are not improved there. But sadly that won't solve the problem of a clogged court system that allows prosecutors to delay trials for months or even years.
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If the cause of all this is american culture being biased against black communities, how come so many blacks are not doing these things?
So a directory server can be a replacement for SQL? Do any one use it for that purpose? I always thought they are both completely different requirements. I will look into the possibility. Thanks for the suggestion.
I worked with two people that were at the MRC when the discovery was made. I'd always ask them for stories about the discovery, great stuff!

Crick was the true genius or at least the best crystallographer in the bunch as it took him only a couple of moments after seeing the image to know the structure.

A little time later, Crick is working in the wet lab, which was very unusual for him.

Asked 'what are you working on?' and he replied with 'wouldn't you like to know' with a smile.

Soon after he determined that proteins and the number of amino acids that were being derived from DNA, which I would argue probably deserved another Nobel Prize.
>My understanding is that IQ correlates to socio-economic background, but once that's adjusted for, all race considerations fall away. If you've got a credible source that says something else, I'm sure we'd find it interesting.

be my guest, the first simple Google search immediately brings it :

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964318/

"Our primary finding is that when compared to Caucasians, an African-American cohort exhibited smaller cerebral volumes but larger absolute left OFC volumes. Additionally, the OFC and amygdala appear to occupy a significantly greater proportion of the total cerebral volume in the African-American cohort. [...] Our findings are generally concordant with recent work that brain structure may vary significantly across populations of different racial or ethnic backgrounds [5]."
Regarding copyright issues, I believe you can still use copyrighted data as long as it's transformed. E.g., building language models, or doing a search engine like Google. In fact, I can think of more computational uses for copyrighted data, while on the "banned" side, I can only think of... SEO.

Regarding point two: "monopoly businesses who viciously protect their human uploaded content". I spend a lot of time scraping these monopoly businesses, and it seems to me they do a decent job of letting their users decide what data is exposed. Facebook, linkedin, and google all are decent about letting me scrape their public info. That's all I have a right to -- private info should stay private, at the behest of the owner (the User in UCG).

You are correct regarding the third point, but I don't see that as a problem. This isn't a solution in search of a problem -- it's a problem without a solution at the moment.

Here's a toy example of something I'd like to do: calculate the positive / negative sentiment of commenters at particular baseball fan sites, so I can hide the content I don't like, and show that which I do. Having a common crawl of the site would be immensely useful (and is indeed a prereq) for this. I wouldn't need to republish it, just compute on it.
Just because a smart person claims something as fact doesn't mean it is. Scientist or not, he's still probably a racist.
"racism rooted in facts" would still be racism.