skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love Common Sense Media. My kids don't like to be scared, it negatively impacts their sleeping and frankly their general well being but I'm not really concerned about bad language or minor innuendo - CSM is the best way to get an idea if my kids are going to enjoy something.
Students with low test scores are discriminated against. That's what the word means. It has a negative connotation because usually people use it to describe discrimination based upon things that are usually unjust to discriminate based on, like sex and race.
You could probably do that. Live on $20,000 and save the rest for 5 years as a software engineer. You now have enough to retire in a developing/undeveloped country. Go there and build schools.
None of the reboots have the spirits of the 80s. Technology changed the way "art" is produced and feels, too much details, backstory, less ~onirism. In Robocop's case, far too less cyberpunk, flesh and metal.

In these days a Cyborg was a thing to imagine, nowadays it's a possibility, and the ethical comments : 'should we really pursue robotics' and 'is man playing god', aren't just a sci-fi story anymore, it felt like watching the news.

If movies are correlated to societies subconscious, dreams have changed and the way we express them too.
Why is this garbage here? The author's tone is flagrantly antagonistic. If this wasn't meant to be satirical, then it is almost certainly a purposeful deviation from civil and constructive discourse meant to provoke angry reactions from dissenters. It's precisely this kind of deplorable vitriol that hinders and sabotages the gender debate.

I also disagree on a purely rational level that retreating to an echo chamber can lead to anything positive: on the contrary, this is precisely how strong beliefs and emotions can fester into something malignant. This is for instance why things like the Tea Party exist - because people who shut out dissenting voices quickly become unable to empathize with alternative points of view.
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No I'm not trying to promote something. I found a cool domain name, bought it, put up a landing page. Now I'm trying to figure out what the heck to do with it. Please advise.
When whole genome sequencing doesn't give us the whole genome
There was one to grab for 50$ on a local craigslist, I saw it a few hours after it's been bought, I was mad.
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I don't really think the video reduces people to a secondary role. It shows people driving the technology for the most part. My issue with the video is that the technology demonstrated within it doesn't seem to enable or aid any more than what we currently have. It just happens on more screens with more animation.

I would like to see technology take our tasks from us. I love thinking, designing and creating things, but there is still so much tedium in implementation. To take that away would be to accelerate everyone's creative ability.

If we had the ability to automate all tasks then we probably wouldn't need to earn a living. We would need a government could recognise that the value created by our technology should be distributed amongst everyone equally.
I have the same issue for the Beijing office.
... what

Data science is a buzzword substitution for statistics.

How you could possibly have someone in a "data science" role without a statistics education is baffling.
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Why do you think it would be a fraud?

Isn't race self-reported anyway?

What exactly qualifies you as an African-american that people who you or I qualify as Asian - can not legally claim?
> What is the difference between a file system and a database?

An additional index, support for separate/extended file streams and a query language - all implemented in the (kernel mode) filesystem driver (like NTFS-Cairo and BeFS).
To don't.
I wonder if it would be efficient to use part of those millions of CPU hours to optimize the programs themselves before running them?
sentry gun clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQDy-5IQvuU
The technical side of the redesign is impressive, merging 100k posts since 1990s across 12 databases and 17 blogs into 1 WordPress install (@MarcusWohlsen )
Yes, my recovery was full. I haven't had any symptoms in about 15 years, so I think that is a fair assumption to make.

Studies do show that the majority of CFS patients report more stressful life events preceding their illness than controls (e.g. Salit 1997, Hatcher et al. 2003, Theorell et al. 1999). Also, from speaking to patients, you do very often find that they lived stressful lives prior to developing CFS.

Also bear in mind that it may be burnout more than stress that is important in triggering the illness, and it appears to be possible to have burnout even in the absence of stress (see for example Pruessner et al., 1999).

Infections also activate the HPA axis in a similar way to psychogolical stress, and it may be a combination of stress and infection that causes CFS. (Some studies show that gulf war syndrome is more likely if vaccinations occur during the stress of combat). Alternatively the viral infection at onset might simply be due to suppression of the immune system due to stress.

If you're interested, here is my theory of CFS:

https://peerj.com/preprints/860/

Feel free to email me or leave a comment there if you have any comments. If you're interested in this area, I'd recommend reading the full-text of the studies in my references -- let me know if you want the full-text of any of them. Like you I'm compsci rather than medical, but IMO a lot of the medical people aren't really doing a good job at figuring out this illness.
If I had a nickel for every stupid leftist quote falsely attributed to Thomas Jefferson on the internet, I'd never have to work again.
A cynic might say that, since Harvard is part of the predominantly-WASP establishment it's in their self-interest to keep their student body predominantly WASPy, with a diverse smattering of minorities. If Harvard turned around one day and based admissions solely on academic merit, they would end up churning out lots of well-educated Asians and Jews, and let's face it, it's not like white people are going to let Asians and Jews run the country so Harvard loses its status as the academy of the nation's leadership.
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Wait for all the hip .io domains to be taken, then sell to the highest bidder.
Really? That kind of looks like 2015 to me.
If I can pick out a somewhat abstract question: Can we believe that something exists without knowing its cause?

Yes. We believe in electromagnetism, for example. We've characterized it, it has reliable properties, we therefore believe it exists.

The recent Institute of Medicine report giving diagnostic algorithm for CFS/ME (and proposing changing the name to SEID) is similar. There is a cluster of symptoms that occur together, we can give it a name, characterize it more accurately, and search for treatments.

Hopefully we will find a cause, it is very good fortune that many diseases have simple causes but it isn't a given. It looks like a lot of genetic diseases don't have simple causes, for example (hence GWAS has been disappointing).
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When I was 12 I disassembled a microwave, unplugged from the wall, and got electrocuted. Not the visible kind like from static or from an outlet, but... I don't know how to describe it. Inside was a boxed case the size of a Kleenex cube, and my hand, palm side, just got sucked right on it like a magnet and bam I nearly passed out and fell off the chair. That was the end of playing with microwaves for me.
"As a way to support women and marginalized folks of all sorts, I’d like to see Slack add an additional option to the free offering that allows people to choose to permanently delete messages that they can’t access themselves. That would be sweet!"

Not that the government should have a right to all of your private communications, but maybe it's not a good idea to integrate your team communication platform with your discussing/doing illegal activities hobby. Marginalized folks like Richard Nixon made that mistake and he had to resign before his company fired him, if you can imagine the injustice.
There are a lot of immature startups throwing away money in vulgar fashion without considering the consequences of it, the value of that money. Startups are run by relatively young folk. Unfortunately, there are few or no shortcuts to years of first-hand experience of learning things the hard way, something most startups don't seem to get. Startups on a daily basis should be governed by a slightly conservative, old-school, level-headed individual.

People need to take the Facebook movie this seriously, the same way many startups take the Steve Jobs' ideology.
Ever since I found a tattered copy of "A Wild Sheep Chase" at a used bookstore in Bangkok, he has been my favorite writer.
I too have CFS/FM (and have had for over 20 years) and have a middle-ground theory that there are both physical and psychological components to the symptoms.

On the physical side, there is an obvious inflammatory immune response going on. I'm allergic to just about everything. I have IBS, I have GERD.

On the psychological side, this inflammation causes a constant sense of panic. The symptoms of the anxiety cause muscle tenseness and lead to further inflammation. The adrenaline causes me to be tired after low levels of exertion.

I've learned to manage the anxiety through mindfulness and CBT (some days are better than others) but the chronic inflammation is still there.

So, while I agree with you that there is a psychological component and that treating it helps CFS sufferers to cope, I think it's a chicken-and-egg argument at this point about which started which. I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that it's all psychological just based on having some improvement to quality-of-life by working on your mental health.

Not that it's not worthwhile -- it definitely is -- it just probably isn't the whole 'answer".
"Never trust the Internet."
-- Thomas Jefferson
If Google is back into separate services can we get Reader turned back on please?
It's funny, but I wrote something similar back around 1999, built for the dhtml v4 browser days... I am so glad to be doing web development today vs the bad old days.. abstracting box drawing between Ie4 and NN4 browsers for stack diagrams and gantt charts was no fun at all... neither was masking while drawing because of NN4.x's bad flicker, or dealing with the various overflows, or bugginess all around... IE's broken 5.0 release (included with Office 2000), fixed in 5.0.1, and various other quirky behavior at the time.

(end of rant)
In most US states anybody can make an arrest if they reasonably believe a felony has taken place, and can even make an arrest for misdemeanors that involve "breaches of the peace".

As for carrying guns, WaPo might be interested to know there are lots of places in the US where you can carry a gun without being a cop.
Meditate before you startup: How to hack your brains to be a better founder
There's a strong bias for short jumps, not so much attention for constant falls. This claim also depends on which time scale you use.
From the article: "A handful of incidents involving SCOPs in Virginia and nationally have focused attention on the training and oversight of private police."

Well, many incidents nationally have focused attention on the training and oversight of municipal police too, to put it mildly.
Amazing, I was looking for such a paper for a long time.
I think you're making the mistake of saying that psychiatric illnesses are not "real".

Regarding the rituximab trial, it's primary end-point was actually negative. It will be interesting to see if the results are replicated.
Sure there is. It's called Binary-coded decimal, and its been around since the 60's (at the latest).
Is the method you described not another form of inferential statistics? (Definitely not hypothesis testing however).

It seems that this is a combination of several techniques:

1. First, we either explicitly or implicity choose a model to relate deaths and RTOR laws (perhaps a linear relationship, i.e. [deaths w/ RTOR] = a*[deaths w/o RTOR]).

2. Then we perform point estimation to estimate the parameter "a".

3. Then we compute a confidence interval.

With respect to the RTOR example in the paper, it seems to me that it WOULD be incorrect to reject the null hypothesis that the change in crash numbers arises from random chance for ANY INDIVIDUAL STUDY. In this case it seems that you must figure out a way to transfer information between studies to establish this idea of "statistical significance." Perhaps a survey of studies or usage of bayesian techniques would have resolved the difficulty.
Compare and contrast Stephen King's lessons with Elmore Leonard's "10 (really 11) Rules of Writing", and the difference is as stark as the author's respective works.
Stone Age Britons imported wheat
Bill Gates last vision video "information at your fingertips" (1995): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XxeY-OchwY

It shows a wallet PC (=smartphone), digital currency (like BitCoin), touch screen, digital personal agent (next-gen Siri/Cortana/Watson), database based filesystem/shell (like Windows Cairo & WinFS - vamporware).
Translation. I have serious problems that need solving. You have the skills to do it. How much I value that is a TOTAL SECRET but almost certainly MUCH LESS THAN YOU DESERVE. Please beg for me to hire you now.
I must've tried like 300 replacements, and settled on bazqux, which is pretty good (though a bit ugly, and doesn't have a good mobile site).
The result of the computation 1/3 in JS results in a number which is terminating, but that number is not 1/3. Open up your console and type 1/3+1/3+1/3... 1, as expected. Then type 1-1/3-1/3-1/3... I get about 1e-16, which is not 0.

The statement that "1/3 is terminating" is not true in binary, it is not true in decimal, and the only reason that you sometimes get the expected results is that sometimes the rounding errors will cancel out.
I'd agree with that. I'm of the pretty firm belief that CFS and a bunch of other autoimmune disorders are of a parasitic origin. This pretty much sums up my knowledge on the subject: http://www.iadvocatehealth.org/protozoal_infection0.aspx#.as...
Glad you said it! A jacket with no tie is much more casual than a tie with no jacket.
The future is full of smudge marks.
Did you just dust off the ol' "I know you are, but what am I?" bit in defense of conservatism?
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No, I brushed off the ol' "Don't paint an entire group of people with one brush unless you actually know what you're talking about, and even then, you're probably wrong" bit. I can't stand people on either side who believe that their side is the side of RIGHT and everyone else are just greedy scumbags (or brainwashed idiots).

I am not a conservative, but I know enough to know that there are devils on both sides of the aisle.
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I really enjoyed King's On Writing. I was a huge fan of his fiction as a kid and into young adulthood, and kinda grew out of it. But, I read and then listened to On Writing as an adult, and really enjoyed it both times. King is extremely effective at his craft, whether one enjoys the resulting work or not, and I learned a lot from his process.

I think King (like Asimov and a few others) is proof that being prolific is at least as valuable as being great. If you do something enough, you're far more likely to have lightning strike and result in something like Shawshank Redemption; which is unarguably a beautiful work, in both prose and film form. Most of King's work isn't that good, but for most authors none of their work is that good, because they haven't produced enough to find that piece of brilliance (if they have such a piece of brilliance in them).

I've been working on being more prolific, lately, in all things I do. And being less of a social media junky, which conflicts with being a prolific creator.
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I'm using https://github.com/mjibson/goread now. Nice of google app engine to help me self-host it.
I'd never read that. That's wonderful. It literally is like the "Guide For Not Writing Like Stephen King". But, it's also like the "Guide For Not Writing Like Mark Twain", making it somewhat dubious advice.
It's interesting to note that in the original, a reader would also be reading his name as Kanda until the first explanation pops up.
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We make high-tech bicycle parts in a beautiful[1], out-of-the-way part of the country.

Official job postings will be up soon. In the meantime, email me: mrages at sram.com.

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They cost too much, and the privacy issues are obvious--but I really love my phone. I don't even use the phone/sms options very much, what I really love is the data service & "computer" and what it gives me.

Spotify in my car, gps/maps when I'm out of town, google results, HN, etc...I'd miss it sorely if I ditched it.

I could spent a lot of time and/or money setting all of that up in "offline mode," essentially. Mp3s, some map software, wikipedia offline...but in the end, we really can't trust pretty much any of the hardware available, so it might check in on every open network or something.

I'd totally splurge for an anonymous plan, with a trusted data provider, and open hardware platform.

Note: I did go 3 months with no phone a couple of years ago while I lived in Costa Rica--but I was either on my PC or at the beach. Never wanted a phone.
Interesting how it compares with their earlier vision of 2019 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gEWoVCl-xU).

Seems to be fewer screens in the new one.
Are you guys actually hiring? I don't see any jobs listed in this post or on your site.
Oh really? Everything? In ten minutes? Well, I am reading this, then I will reply to this comment and you all can judge for yourself.

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Edit: see my reply, in which I use the rules I just learned. This was a genuine experiment. Any feedback is appreciated. :)
I think HN is less bubbly than most enclosed communities, but it's definitely a bubble whenever it comes to feminism or social justice issues. Check out any post on those issues, check the comments, and refresh. It's intense how many comments are removed.
Emacs running in Neovim [video]
I hope you later apologised to your dad. Imagine how hard that was to leave!
What is the problem with Feedly?
Well, every base has issues with non-termination. In base 10, we have problems like 1/3 = 0.33333... . Base 2 has its own set of non-terminating decimal expansions, including 1 / 3 = 0.01010101... and 1 / 10 = 0.0001100110011... . Since we only have finite storage space, we have to cut the repeating string of digits off somewhere, no matter what base we're in. This can cause rounding issues.

You can't dodge all your rounding problems by changing base. There are binary-coded decimal (BCD) systems that store numbers as strings of decimal digits. You can generally find these in calculators (ever notice that a TI-84 overflows after 9.(9)e99) or some financial software. However, you'll still have problems like the 0.1 * 0.2 issue in binary floating-point. For example (assuming shorter-than-usual numbers):

2/3 = 0.66... ~ 0.66667

2/3 + 2/3 ~ 0.66667 + 0.66667 = 1.33334

However, 4/3 = 1.33333... ~ 1.33333, which isn't the same result.

Basically, you can't get away from this problem, you can only push it around to cases you care less about.

(You probably can't find an API for binary-coded decimal in $LANGUAGE unless $LANGUAGE is often used for tasks where you really really don't want any float-related gotchas since most everyone else doesn't care too much).
Link for the lazy: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/16/arts/writers-writing-easy-...
Videos are too slow to watch or quote. This appears to be a repeat of what Kaku said in 2011. A partial transcript is at http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2011/06/how-come-the-scientific... .

> How come the scientific establishment of the United States doesn’t collapse? Let me tell you something. Some of you may not know this. America has a secret weapon.

> That secret weapon is the H1B.

> Without the H1B, the scientific establishment of this country would collapse. Forget about Google! Forget about Silicon Valley! There would be no Silicon Valley without the H1B.

Compare this to the analysis posted yesterday here on HN, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9125193 . (I chose this because it was very recent, and indicative of the ongoing discussion about the H1B.)

> H-1B is not about skills or skills gap

> [Proponents of the H-1B] claim the H-1B is used: 1) to recruit and hire the “best and brightest” workers from around the world; 2) to fill skills gaps in the U.S. workforce; and 3) as a way to retain talented foreign students with advanced degrees who received their education and training in the United States (this is a favorite canard of President Obama). H-1B data and the SCE case show that none of these arguments are even remotely true.

> If American workers are training their foreign replacements before they get laid off, then it is quite obvious that it’s the American trainers—not the H-1B trainees—who have the superior skills. Are H-1B workers being brought in because they have extensive formal training, like an advanced degree? The answer to that is a definitive no.

FWIW, the term "Silicon Valley" was coined in 1971, and the H1B program didn't start until 1990, so all evidence shows that SV was created and existed for decades without the H1B. It's not clear to me that the absence of the H1B would have killed it during the dot com era or later.
I find it so frustrating to watch Google fuck-up social. Pulling photos and communications into their own group is clearly conceding defeat. Google's social initiatives are already too splintered.

I wish they had some somebody who could cut through all the politics and read tape and build a really great, unified, product.

The first thing on my hit list - Material Design. It's just bad. It's too spread out, the animations detract from the experience, and every ui element just seems flaky. ARRG!
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Well, "real" insofar as it's shorthand for "not emotion-based". I.e. it can be observed, studied, and treated in an appropriate scientific manner, and not by means of self-help emotional woo.

Do you have a source for your comment about the end-point being negative? The last interview I read with the researchers suggested they were still getting results in 2/3rds of patients, they were optimising their dosing schedule, and were fairly upbeat about their prospects for their phase three trial. I'd be interested to read more discussion on their work though.
I was thinking the same thing as I was watching it. The interaction hasn't changed as much as the form of the screen itself has become more versatile.
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Stark difference?

3. and 4. are identical to King's recommendations in "On Writing". King is pretty passionate about that.

5. is the same, I think.

7. is kind of a difference, although King laments that few writers can actually handle it.

8. and 9. are real differences.
You can't stand people who believe their political views/beliefs are the RIGHT ones? How should people feel about their political beliefs--what would be an appropriate attitude to take, if not to think theirs are RIGHT?
Without that kind of optimism, I guess they would've never gotten into bitcoin business in the first place.