skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, science isn't the sort of endeavour where anything can resolutely be considered necessary to start with. Arguably there should be some doubt about whether your research will lead to something important else you can't be doing anything novel. There is nonsense in any endeavour and that is why there are layers of ethics committees, reviews and audits within animal research that limits wanton nonsense. The price of any endeavour is that there will be waste — humans cannot help it — it is unfortunate that the waste is at the expense of animal life.

The first article you link to is about the abuse of frequentist statistics, it is not a piece of nonsense primary research (1182327). The article is correct and an interesting read, but not in support of poor use of animal experiments. The second article (8124111) is about clinical research, not pre-clinical animal research although the arguments raised in the article are applicable to pre-clinical research. It is very difficult to find and expose nonsense research!
Immigration is complex but what I hate is the BS and half lies that are told like this author does.
"We debate immigration and border controls for Mexico ad nauseum, yet, on the whole, the typical immigrant isn’t Mexican."

Like many newspapers the author is trying to blur the line between legal and illegal immigrant. The reason we are talking about border controls is because yes most come from Mexico. The typical person who is here illegally is Mexican, over 60% are from Mexico. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_Unit... Add in central America and around 75% of people coming illegally are from southern border.
I can understand their motivation. What I can't stand is trying to present BS.

When they author is trying to obscure facts one must wonder what other stats he is omitting or only half presenting.

As for taxes. Yes taxes suck. They also fund a ton of things that make American #1 in many areas. Should Americans abroad pay as much as American at home, of course not. But they clearly should still pay. You have a great passport and can come back to a country that has a wealth of opportunities that are not available in most other places and in some cases no where else. Why should you get to pay nothing while the rest of Americans maintain the great country for you to come back when you please? Maybe we should make it cheaper for people to renounce their citizenship, they are not needed.

Note: I should have made two post splitting comment on the immigration stats and taxes in to two posts to see the up/down vote difference based on the issues.
Just want to hasle you guys with danish pricing

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And these services are included FREE

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> How in the world can a drug cure an odd internal social behavior that leads one to feel anxious/uncomfortable? Answer for me is .. it can't.

I can't tell you how, but I can tell you that they do. A friend of mine went to the psychiatrist with a case of social anxiety and after the second or third drug they tried, the problem disappeared. Poof. Like that. With all the somatic effects he had.

So whatever he got in the end, eventually worked. But this is how it works with psychiatric mediation - people have a lot of different responses to drugs and doctors can't predict them in advance, so initially the therapy is mostly matching drug to patient.
I can only answer for myself here, but the reason I choose Evernote over GKeep is:

Evernote is a company making money with their core product — which happens to be Evernote, the note taking service. I pay for Premium because it's a great service that works well for me, and the money I spend on them helps keeping the company afloat.

Google Keep is a product that's not making any money. It's an experiment for Google, the same way Google Wave was. I can't pay for it. While I honestly admire their willingness to ditch experiments that aren't fruitful, it also doesn't make me want to start relying on it because it might be taken out behind the shed in 6 months time.

Well, that and the fact that the Evernote ecosystem is _huge_ — a big plus.
What did tagging B-meson decay involve? I almost understand some of those words, so be gentle :)
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As much as I agree with the sentiment of your post, living in a broken democracy like the USA is a lot better than living under a dictatorship.
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> that doesn't mean that drugs which decrease reuptake/increase (by proxy) serotonin levels won't improve mood.

It also doesn't mean that these mood improvements are actually useful for treating depression. (For example some studies have shown an increased suicide risk - there is no firm consensus on the topic though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidepressants_and_suicide_ris...)

Drug dependency on SSRI's is a very real thing - I honestly don't see how its any better than an opiate addiction.

Also Big-Pharma funding has a strong and very much negative influence on the objectivity of our scientific body of knowledge. Very often studies/research that have been funded but do not support their conclusions will simply be shelved without publication.
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This is (yet another) reason to read a little about philosophy. There was a chap called Epicurus who lived in Greece in about 300BC. Around that time the Greeks had city states with a wealthy elite, democracy, and status that arose from owning property. He taught the idea that those things didn't actually make you happy. Essentially he wrote that pleasure comes from avoiding suffering - and a desire to get more material goods leads to jealousy of those who have more which is a root cause of suffering. Epicurus taught that living a simple life with friends, food, exercise and art would make you truly happy.

He also invented epistemology which is pretty cool.
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> It took me 4 years...

As a resident of Italy, I'm going to say: yes, that was easy by Italian standards :-)
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Wow. Do they count UK population as unclaimed UK citizens(sons, grandsons,...) ?

I had no idea there was such a massive diaspora going on.
Very early on we had a lot of critical updates in core libraries which meant rebuilding everything and releasing but at the time the number of services were quite low and we were still in the R&D phase. Overtime that maturity meant changes going out were mostly feature based and we could afford to lag those things out. You're right though, certain things require rebuilding everything but we try to approach that pragmatically. On the platform team we'd have ownership of say 20-30 services so over a period of a week we can push those through a staging and load test environment then to production. We have 4 or 5 other teams that do the same. There are tools to ensure we can keep track of which libraries are in production and if anything is out dated.

Like I mentioned before. There are definitely tradeoffs to microservices and they don't make sense for every use case but if you look at the companies that adopted this architecture pattern you'll see the common journey they all went on. Monolithic architecture for the first few years, scaled by brute force, money and people. Eventually stalling in development and organisational speed of execution. Taking a step back to reevaluate and then determining a migration path to a new decomposed service oriented architecture.
Many states allow you to vote from abroad if your parents and/or legal guardians are eligible: http://www.fvap.gov/citizen-voter/reside
I'm not sure if that's true. Their line about refunding unused data says "you’ll get your unused data credited in dollars and cents" which implies that it may be as fine grained as by the 1MB pricing (if they are actually refunding cents as well)
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I wrote tlbx.io as a side-project, mostly for the fun or developing something on App Engine again. But it has slowly grown into something quite useful that may help you manage your Dropbox more efficiently.

My favourite feature is the Camera Uploads “automation” that will listen for changes in your Camera Uploads Dropbox folder and move new photos and videos to sub folders named after the year and month (like "Camera Uploads/2015/03/"). That’s a web service, so once you enable it, everything happens “automagically” as new photos/videos are uploaded. (See video: https://www.facebook.com/vrypan/videos/10155446885865057/?l=7336880161868040799 )

Do you have any Dropbox-related tasks you would like to see automated by tlbx.io?

http://tlbx.io/
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Bloody immigrants. Go back to your own country.

Oh wait, sorry, Americans aren't immigrans, they're expats. My bad.

Double standards on immigration are pretty shitty.
Pascal had a commercial ecosystem by the time Oberon came along.

And Oberon is austere where Pascal dialects grew all kinds of warts in the process of adding the features people asked for.

Wirth took away features in almost every iteration of developing his languages - you see this in almost every language he touched going back to the 60's and Algol-W.

It's been the guiding principle of most of his career to ruthlessly simplify.

The Oberon-07 language report is 17 pages.

Oberon takes more of an effort in following Wirth's mindset of addressing deficiencies by looking at how to make things simpler across the board (e.g. including for compiler writers) as opposed to the Pascal dialects which took the approach of addressing deficiencies by making things immediately easier for users to pick up, at the cost of additional complexity all over the place.
How large can the indexing data be? I really doubt it's larger than a couple of MB.

Zero Knowledge is a perfect fit for this scenario (due to the concerns you outlined), store the data encrypted on the server and decrypt it with some personal key (most likely the password - not great security but Better Than Nothing™). The trick is how to patch the data without decrypting it each time (or exposing the keys) - although for such small datasets even that wouldn't be _that_ painful. (Except you'd perhaps need to save the patch client side until the data is processed and the server acknowledges getting it, otherwise you risk losing data on sudden disconnects.)

I work on a Zero Knowledge PGP email service, I think about stuff like this a lot.
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It surprises me every time how expensive data is in the US. I get unlimited text, 300 minutes and 6GB of data(4G) for about $40 a month.

I make a lot of my calls through Facetime now, so I don't need unlimited minutes.
Piece of badly engineered software conquering the world. As if more JavaScript was really something worth pursuing.
Well part of my efforts are going into getting developers interested in the tool and singing in. On the other side, I'm working in continuously adding more people to it. Any particular region that you would like to see populated?
Your point is quite right, I don't think it's self serving at all. Complex physiological diseases like cancer can be observed as tumours grafted to a scaffold in vitro, but you cannot observe the effect of drugs, it's relationship to the whole organism, without using a whole organism.

Monkeys have immune responses that are as similar to humans as we can hope for. Further, Mice while they have some conservation of immune related genes there are many divergent expression of immune related genes including alterations in master-gene (cis) and innate immune gene (CD4) expression [1] which may explain why they don't translate very well into humans. We have an awful time trying to get decent responses to allergic stimuli with mice and guinea pigs! Rodents have very robust immune systems in my experience.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3581886/
You will find it relevant that 1982 was the year of publication of a book called "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche." That title was tongue-in-cheek. This title riffs on that title, which was topical at the time - which tells us it's not meant literally and seriously.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_adventure implies Adventure was first in "around" 1975, but this blog post says WANDER was 1974.
I couldn't disagree more.

Having tried the perfection that is MASM, I'm always disappointed by what NASM lacks in comparison and I'm not at all comfortable with GAS.

Choosing a good assembler, an assembler that you like, that you're comfortable with, is critical.
This is interesting, but the hours are vastly overestimated, at least compared to similar metrics (e.g. from the deliberate practice and expertise literature):

If we figure a 40-hour work week... it wasn't my only activity. Let's knock that number down by 20% to account for my occasionally having to spend time on other things.

There's no way anyone spends 40 or even 30 hours a week writing. Most authors spend something like 3-4 hours a day writing - and that's a good day!

See for example the chapter on writers in Cambridge Expertise Performance Handbook (http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Expertise-Performance-Handbo...).

In general this type of reasoning (40h work week => time for 40h of writing) makes time estimates troublesome in my opinion. Another example is people who claim to write code for 40, 60 or even 80 hours a week. A look at actual RescueTime data gives a sober picture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=209195

Of course, you could claim a lot of the work happens in breaks, and I would agree. But then the actual weekly number for our most beloved artists, programmers, and scientists is more like 24*7, literally. In that case, it makes more sense to talk about it in on the timescale of days, weeks, months or years.
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Most people don't say that. But nice strawman you building.

Millions of people want to come to America. Most countries don't have open borders I am not sure why America is expected to.
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Have you tried public libraries? I worked sometimes in one where I was staying. It was pretty silent, with a table to put the computer, and there was a wifi there - which I didn't want to try, I went there to be in a place without Internet, but I know the wifi was available. Also completelt free. The only downside is that they didn't let visitors plug their laptops, so your will need to have a good autonomy.
And how do you "simply vet a base image"?
I like ledger-cli.

Open source, command-line, double-entry accounting system that handles multiple currencies, stocks, recurring payments, etc with highly customizable reporting.

http://www.ledger-cli.org/
Parent's point is that your Oregonian congressman is not looking out for your interests but those of his resident-constituents. If emigrants comprise a population roughly equivalent to Maryland, why don't they get their own representation?
I am familiar with C++ and not familiar with D, but I have heard from people that D is not very practical without a garbage collector, so I suspect that D is not a good choice if you want to have memory allocation/deallocation in your own hands.
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The cost problem is tied to how procurement & bidding is done by the MTA. Rules & regulations (often in law) have built up over time to protect against corruption & failure. They have calcified out-dated construction practices and insulates the process from any real competition amongst the limited number of approved suppliers.

In addition, federal funding comes with requirements to use suppliers that only employ unionized labor.
Can't upvote enough!
Thank you!

I have to say, I'm all for making science articles more accessible, and I like that science journalism is more widely reported, but it really annoys me when an article both doesn't go into the technical details in any depth, and doesn't provide a noticeable link to the primary source.
This triggered some feelings in someone who lives thousands of kilometres away from their country home town. But when I stop to think about my own (ambitious) path, I considered something that this article doesn't: Can ambitious people be happy staying put?

I may not have the contentedness of the stay-at-home types, but I know for certain that I am a lot happier for leaving.
In summary: (1) I dislike the UI, (2) I dislike Google apps on iOS devices, (3) it's Google, so it could be shut down at any moment and (4) my general dislike for moving all of my tech habits to Google services.

Also, I agree with czottmann that it isn't Google's core business or competency and thus I would rather go elsewhere.
It seems part of the problem is that:

> You have a great passport and can come back to a country that has a wealth of opportunities that are not available in most other places and in some cases no where else.

could be said about many other countries which don't tax non-residents on their financial affairs in the country in which they've chosen to live. So I think some find it hard to see how the US can justify it.
It's the legacy of colonialism. There is an assumed right for Brits to go anywhere we want. It looks like a majority of the Brits abroad are in Commonwealth countries, which is sort of what I'd expect. Over a million in the US!

If you look closely at UK newspaper comments/letters complaining about immigration, quite a few of them are from people living in Spain. And one of the more notorious anti-immigrant columnists lives in Florida, IIRC.
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I know quite a lot of first generation immigrants who call locals "foreigners." Seems especially common among east asians, I always assumed it's just a translation of language that makes sense in (eg) China (non-chinese = foreigners) that doesn't make literal sense in the new context but just stays a part of the language. Not everything is malicious.
I think this is an interesting idea. Might it be that ambitious people are happy as they hunt their dreams and when achieving it need to dream bigger to be happy again.
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Animal experimentation is repellant to many people, I can see why. The point is that society has decided that they'd prefer well-researched, empirically-observed working medicines.

Regulation must strike a compromise between allowing research to continue with enough oversight to limit abuse. It is the sort of compromise developers use with security; enough to limit abuse, but not too much that no-one can use the system!
Except the passport obviously not all of it as I said. If you are paying that much tax then paying $2k to not be American isn't that high.
Don't forget using prayer as an alternative to medicine and vaccines.

It's like the way the ancient Greeks practised exposure on infants.
> Gah. Because I want to drop a metric ton of python code into my own source tree just to build. (gnulib is bad enough...)

Each their own poison. Personally I don't like them either, but pretending it's autoconf or curl|sh is an oversimplification.
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I would say even that may be somewhat controversial in some circles. One way of playing god almost nobody will argue with is selective breeding of crops and livestock, a practice that has been well established for millenia.
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Just nitpicking here, but it's not illegal [1]. It's just not allowed. (At least where I live, YMMV...)

If I just drop a disc with some code on your desk without saying a word, it is not a crime for you to do something with it. Meaning the police won't begin investigating, the DA won't press charges against you.

You still have no OK from the author - "all rights reserved" so to speak. He can always come and sue you for infringement.

So saying "there is no license" leaves all the options open for the author, putting all the risk on the user of the code. Which is pretty nice for the author, I guess. If I didn't care about adoption of my programs beyond anonymous hobbyists, I'd probably do something similar. "Look at my code. I can't sue you if you use it secretly at home, but other than that I'l make no guarantees."

This guy goes a step further and says, if you want to use his code outside of your basement, and his word that he won't sue you is not good enough, then he'll say "OK, I grant you usage under <reasonable license>". Which I also like, because it makes explicit that a license is a kind of contract between two parties, not just a label that belongs to some code (as we frequently treat it simplifying).

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[1] I realize this depends on your definition of illegal: Either A) everthing that is not forbidden is legal, or B) everything that is not explicitly allowed is illegal. Also, wheter you count just penal law or also civil law.
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It's very unfortunate that many geeks refuse to learn how licensing work (just like many users refuse to understand software).

Some licenses, like GPL/AGPL/LGPL, has been written by teams of lawyers to ensure protection for developers and users against lawsuits and patents.
Other licenses has been written by people with no legal background.
I'm getting one, to use in China, without censorship. The problem is, I will stuck with an Android phone :(
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Well, the very simplest thing is just what he did. "Here guys, look at my code."

By doing so, he doesn't give up any (exclusive) rights he has as an author. It's not the best from a user's perspective, but it's the simplest and most conservative from an author's perspective (short of not releasing the code at all).
Worth noting that not every country lets you offline a map. There's a list of countries you can offline a map for here: https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/2650347?hl=en

It's a long list, but there's some notable / surprising absences (e.g. Brazil, Spain).
This goes to show how the values of modern society are backwards.

We see advertisements depicting happy people using a product and striving towards it means a stressful life of work.

We covet status symbols that cause resentment in others.

We meticulously create artificial impressions of us that we publish on social networks which ultimately detach us from real social ties that would strengthen us, provide meaning and make us happier.

It takes awareness and courage to break free from such harmful habits when they are so ingrained throughout society.
Three reasons:

1. The US is the only country in the world whose citizens must declare and pay taxes even when they're living out of the country.

2. The paperwork involved is a royal pain in the neck.

3. Failure to do it subjects you to ridiculously high fines.
I upvoted. You spoke from the heart!
The transaction cost is often higher for pay as you go (Did I use up my cap? I hope next bill wont be too large! Need to remember to top up soon).

Those who use the least, can then feel that it is easier to slightly overpay for fixed pricing.
> there was only one country that had received more historic migration from the US than the US had received from it: Australia

In NZ we call Australia "the 52nd state", but perhaps it's now taken "the 51st state" title from Canada!