skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point. Perhaps we can say people have shifted from utter contempt to grudging tolerance?
Even if we don't know exactly where Pluto is, we do know enough about orbital mechanics to have a very good idea of where it will be. Plus, they would run simulations of the solar system to take into account the fluctuations due to gravitational forces of the other planets.

Neptune has only completed one complete orbit since discovery. It was discovered in September 1846 and has an orbital period of 164.8 years. So, it would have completed an orbit in 2011.
Why would it be illegal at all? Facebook isn't a government authority.
Sure, people gotta publish where they gotta publish.

But nobody should review for closed access publications. Reviewing is a largely thankless task that has only marginal career benefits, aside from the first few times you do it.

That's the campaign we have to arrange. It's what will break the deadlock.
observation of reality. not theory. not wish/want/should/ought. actual reality.

trust me, if you're smart and wise then the older you get you should be getting more and more reality-based in your decisions. not theory. not ideal. not PC. reality.
This is mostly about replicating the physics of Super Mario 64. Modeling Mario and coins is obviously not that big of a deal.
As someone who has done this previously, I don't particularly care.
Can't the account information on my checks be easily used for fraud?
"Finally!" the marketers cry. "We know exactly who John Smith's friends are."
To me, "WASP" has a pretty narrow definition, with strong East Coast and British affinities. I'm largely Irish by heritage, and so of course there's some Catholic in there too. So, while I'm white, I'm (mostly) not Anglo-Saxon or Protestant.

In fact, ironically, one of the characteristically WASPy things that comes to mind immediately is the prevalence of unusual names -- "Leslie" as a man's name; "Van" as a legit first name; people with three or four middle names; whole lines of firstborn men with the same formal name leading to ubiquitous uses of nicknames, etc.
As the post claims, PySide is a dead project. But PyOtherSide isn't. And, being a Qt frontend, it works really well with most platforms. It would be interesting to see how Electron stacks up against this.
My point is, the term WASP is used here not as an enpowerment, but as a target of blame for the subject matter. If WASP is a reference to dominant American culture, why not just say dominant American culture? White Anglo Saxon Protestants are in no way responsible for Facebook's naming schemes. Maybe it isn't offensive to you, but it is unquestionably slang, and I would add yes, offensive, because it's a) not true, b) out of context, and most significantly c) in direct contrast with the article's call for understanding of other cultural identities.
Interns working only 60 hours a week is much harder to monitor. A policy that says they can't be in the office between midnight and 7am is simple to monitor.

The press has implied or allowed readers to conclude that interns were previous working more than 17 hours a day, which is nice for the author because you don't need to support an implication and you can't be called out for being incorrect in something you never say.
good point. reasonable. the making of generalizations does not outlaw other generalized groups or categories.

an entire side discussion about Bayes predictions could be entered here. where having a few rough rules would yield a 90% beneficial prediction. add a 2nd rule or exception boosts your yield to 95%. add a 3rd rule/exception boosts your yield to 97%. and so on...
Personally, I did not read that as inciting violence or discrimination against my whitebread self. So I don't think it's hate speech.

I think, as Wikipedia says [1], "The term applies to a group believed to control disproportionate social, political, and financial power in the United States. It describes a group whose family wealth, education, status, and elite connections allow them a degree of privilege held by few others. [...] When the term appears in writing, it usually indicates the author's disapproval of the group's excessive power in society."

It seems like a legitimate label here. Our notion of what a "proper" name looks like comes out of that cultural tradition. And as one of our own notes, that notion is often painfully wrong. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant

[2] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
Google's calendar view to find the right dates, Skyscanner to find the cheapest flight for a particular date.

I want a desktop UI for with APIs for all of the flight websites that can download data in bulk and apply my preferences, filters, searches etc client-side.
The lack of NPC's in this version of the castle reminded me of an eeriness that existed in Super Mario 64, something I haven't felt in Sunshine or Galaxy. The feeling of being thrown into this new world without any allies or clear direction on completing the objective. At the time it felt exciting and scary, maybe I was just young...
I was born in a community of mostly second- and third-generation-removed descendents of Dutch immigrants in the United States. As with most of my friends and classmates, my parents can trace all or almost all of their ancestors back to the Netherlands immediately before coming to the U.S.

Anecdotally, most of the men in my generation are nearly 6' or taller. I have heard the same said of men from several similar small, Dutch-immigrant communities, and those in surrounding towns and counties often remark about how tall the Dutch descendants in the community are (for example, in the context of high school sports). The women are taller, as well, than those in surrounding, mostly German-immigrant, communities.

I have paid a small amount of attention to studies like these. Because of the demographics of my community I've been somewhat skeptical of some of the suggested explanations. Particularly the diet reasoning struck me as odd since despite how closely the community identifies with the Netherlands, it is very much culturally American, with the attendant American diet.

I suspect that genetics really are a big part of the reason that Dutch people grow as tall as they do. The selection reasoning, though, makes some sense as well, though I don't know enough about bloodlines in my community (or the statistical height comparison to current Dutch people) to make much comment about it.
Why won't Nintendo just remake Mario 64 with better graphics. The new super Mario brothers for Wii was decent but all of us who were kids in the 90s would be happy with a decent remake.
Contracts, by their nature, require consent. If there isn't consent, then there literally isn't a contract. Do you and I have a contract saying that you'll give me all your money? Without consent, we might. I'll be expecting a check from you within a week.

Marriage, by its nature, as seen by the government (that is an important qualification), requires nothing more than two consenting individuals. In the eyes of the government, marriage is nothing but a contract between two people. If your religion wants to define it some other way, that's fine with me. But from the standpoint of our government, the way your religion defines it makes no difference, nor should it.

I would actually be perfectly fine with renaming the legal institution of "marriage". It would actually be better if no one could get "legally" "married". Just call it a civil union. If you want to have a religious ceremony, great, but all the government would recognize is a civil union contract. However, most people don't agree with me, so we're stuck calling it marriage even though it has nothing to do with religious traditions.
It's certainly used to be inflammatory and simultaneously denigrate the people it's supposed to represent. It's, sadly, wrong. Anglo protestants are not the ones who brought about the concept of one to one name mapping, nor the most vigorous about insisting upon proscribed names.

One can go over to nominally catholic and gaellic France and find much more state control over accepted personal names[1] A name new to France has to be proven to exist, if its not an indigenous name in France. The are other countries with similar control over names some of which require names to be gender specific and unambiguous, in that respect.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_law
The center of mass of the Pluto / Charon system lies outside of Pluto. So Pluto is more like the larger body in a binary system.
Mr. Byte: The 'Gang' Leader of Gaming in Peru (2014)
Note that the UK, Denmark, and Sweden have kept their own currencies, not using EUR. Look up GBP, DKK, SEK.
Artificially Limited Intelligence
The problem with everything you've said is that statistical significance tests are almost always statistical power tests -- do you have enough statistical power given the magnitude of the effect you've seen. The underlying assumption of something like the p-value test is that you are applying to p-value test to all known data sampled from an unknown distribution.

If it is standard laboratory procedure to discard results that are aberrant and to repeat tests, and then to apply the p-value test ONLY to the results that conform to some prior expectation, then the assumptions underlying the p-value test are not being followed -- you're not giving it ALL the data that you collected, only the data that fits with your expectations. Even if this is benign the vast majority of the time -- if 99.9% of the times you get an aberrant result are the result of not performing the experiment correctly -- using the p-value test in a way that does not conform to its assumptions increases the likelihood of invalid studies being published.
Personally, I disagree with this one point.

> Cynics will tell you that using your “real name” is so they can sell your details to advertisers. That’s not the case.

Facebook is selling access to their profile of a person for targeted ads and tracking across the web - which includes a real name. No, I haven't worked at FB, but I get the business side from a Product Management perspective.

Yes, ad impressions can factor into it, but one could argue that there would be more engagement using a name that a person is currently using or known by, resulting in increased time on the newsfeed, not less.

It's all about a story to sell advertisers though. Facebook is an advertising platform. We use "real names" is just a marketing bullet FB can hold up to advertisers in glossy material and sales pitches.

Real name policies are indeed a made up solution mistakenly used by some to address trolling issues as well. The thing is, that argument has been proven false, time and time again.

Ello, that underdog social community, is proving right now that pseudonymity can work.

I guess the real question is, "Are we willing to walk the talk and support the companies that are standing up for users on this issue as well as privacy?"

Of course we might have to sacrifice some features we are used to, but ultimately it's the only way to send a message that will be heard.

Google, afterall didn't change it's stand on real names just out of some epiphany or random act of kindness. That story is a little more complex for sure, yet our eyes and where they spend time is the ultimate metric in today's ad model.

My eyes choose Ello these days.
I don't think it's possible for a thread to exist on hacker news without somebody complaining about how the web page renders.
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The original DS had a pretty good remake as a launch title with improved graphics and a bunch of new stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_64_DS
I personally don't see a big contradiction between calling for a more diverse understanding while pointing out that what is nominally "normal" is part of a very specific dominant cultural segment.

And given that the term originated among sociologists, some of them WASPs themselves, I think calling it "unquestionably slang" is strong. Ditto "offensive". If you're offended, you can just say, "I'm offended" without trying to cast it as some sort of false objectivity.
I trust MS software. I don't trust MS to select which CA to trust. Sure, MS could backdoor my os/browser. I don't think that's very likely.

If MS force me to trust, say 800 CA certs, and all of them can mitm wikileaks, the likelihood that one of them could be penetrated by a hacker or a state actor is much higher.

Sure, it's not "absolute security", but nothing is.

There are different concept that one trusts, or not trust:

The os, drivers, bios, hardware. I generally trust that. It may be naive, but I do. However, even if I'm right in trusting that, that doesn't matter if I can't trust all the CAs. Not just from the point of malicious actions by the CAs, but from incompetence by them.
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I get that feeling playing Dark Souls now. The game offers very little narration and is quite intimidating.
C++'s Rule of Zero
One of the sadder scenarios IMO is something like an 18-year-old having quasi-consensual sex with a 17-year-old (I say "quasi" just because by legal definition it can't be consensual.) If convicted, the offender is branded a pedophile for life, but few people are going to consider what actually happened (and it's not documented publicly like the generic crime conviction is.)

I don't know if it's really prevalent, but I know one anecdote that appeared to be like that. Some US States are making progress here, though -- see "Romeo and Juliet laws."
Install RequestPolicy, turn off all third-party requests, turn on requests to the same domain, turn on usability/browser subscriptions. Install NoScript, uBlock etc.
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Zip of local text copies would be great, thanks!
I just keep getting 'Path error or limit API' error
Sounds like you would have been a good fit for working at Kodak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
How is it pronounced? "chix"? or spelled out C.H.X?
The death of Antivirus and what comes next – John McAfee
Alternatively, any regulatory approval should be limited to versions of the resulting drug at that particular lab, since only they know how to produce it ... although output may be limited. :-p
I'm in that boat right now so maybe I can shed some light.

Bad hiring practices represents a lot of organizational dysfunction, some of which impact your every day work, and since the hiring process is your first contact with the company it's often the first thing to come to mind.

Bad hiring practices also cause you to be interviewing candidates. A lot. "Google-style" tech hiring is characterized by generally meaningless interviews with very, very low acceptance rates. This is not just frustrating for candidates who fail, but also the people who get to interview them.

When I was at Amazon I was in this situation - a combination of poor hiring practices and organizational dysfunction meant that all of a sudden I was literally spending 5+ hours every single day interviewing people. It was brutal and demoralizing - doubly so when a candidate everyone liked is rejected for seemingly arbitrary/bureaucratic reasons. The sheer gauntlet of back-to-back interviews candidates are subject to also means that for every one candidate, many engineer-hours are spent interviewing them. The impact of diverting this much time towards interviewing candidates instead of actual work is easily felt.
Which is why advertisers consider the video being viewed, not just what user they think is viewing them.
> Jeff Settleman, who left academia for industry 5 years ago and is now at Calico Life Sciences in South San Francisco, California, agrees. “You can't give me and Julia Child the same recipe and expect an equally good meal,” he says. Settleman has two papers being replicated.

Uh, Julia Child WROTE FREAKING COOKBOOKS. The entire point of Julia Child was that she tried to develop recipes in such a way that another cook could produce an equally good meal. Now, yes, if I went into a boiler room at Goldman Sachs and picked 10 guys at random, I doubt that most would be able to duplicate the recipe. If I picked 10 professional sous chefs at random and none of them were able to make a dish as good as Julia Child's from her recipe, I would start to have my doubts about the recipe.

By the same token, I don't expect rank amateurs to be able to duplicate state of the art cancer research. But if labs run by pharma companies and academic institutions are having the failure rate at reproducing research that the article claims, I think it's more than reasonable to start questioning the paper that documented that research, if not the research itself.
I agree with the overall sentiment, the scientific community working on cancer cure(s) is failing us, the patients and their families.

And they are failing us because of some fundamental gaps in how the research, and subsequent review/dissemination/presentation of finding is done. I suspect there are multiple failures in the process. The standards of scientific proof and repeatability, used by mathematicians, physicists and chemists are not followed

The net result is the following disappointing statistic:

"...
In 1971, President Nixon and Congress declared war on cancer. Since then, the federal government has spent well over $105 billion on the effort (Kolata 2009b).
...
Gina Kolata pointed out in The New York Times that the cancer death rate, adjusted for the size and age of the population, has decreased by only 5 percent since 1950 (Kolata 2009a)." [1]

And this was just the US federal government investment. Not counting the private donations, and private company research.
Today the annual fed investment is 5bln annually [3]
I do not mean to sound totally discouraged, as clearly the screenings have helped many to detect cancers before they metastasized. And I would say the science results are showing that that part of the research is working well.

However,for the cancers that can be rarely be detected before the spread (eg pancreatic cancer and others) -- the investment our country and other societies have put in -- simply has not payed off.

What worries me is that our research quality gates are not able to improve the QoS of the underlying research.

And with my 'management hat on' -- I am reaching out for this quote by Einstein.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The OP paper is not the first one pointing at the lack of reproducible results, and it not just for cancer research
"...
But it may also be due to current state of science. Scientists themselves are becoming increasingly concerned about the unreliability – that is, the lack of reproducibility — of many experimental or observational results.
..." [2]

There needs to be a bit of a revolution in the science of the cancer research and the way money is allocated to it.
Clearly the current model does not work and likely is encouraging the pseudo science to prosper.

[1] http://www.csicop.org/si/show/war_on_cancer_a_progress_repor...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2014/01/08/the-troub...

[3]http://blogs.reuters.com/stories-id-like-to-see/2014/09/09/t...
I'm really happy for you and it's that sort of change in focus that I think is hugely beneficial, but either your situation was atypical or you had more going for you than you think. It's not about "being" somewhere or achieving anything specifically, it's more about attitude.
However, many other traditions are much more restrictive regarding personal names[1]. Some countries require the names to be gender specific. So blaming protestants from the British isles (and their American relations) is quite misplaced and inaccurate.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_law
Demystifying the Magic of Rails
It's all my niece and nephew watch (9 and 11). Clips of Minecraft and parodies of Frozen.
Hmm you may like to see a medical specialist concerning your physiological symptoms re: relationship(s) with imaginary things.

OP if you really want to go down the religion route, I suggest you surrender your life to the flying spaghetti monster. Only in his grace and mercy will you ever be free.
There are a fair amount of companies that, during their hiring process, will basically say "Oh, you have an offer from Google? Forward it to us, add 10% to the base, and we'll hire you without further interviewing."
For starts, how many women have you asked out during that time?
It was very unfortunate that the first time that most heard about Dart was through a leaked memo from Google predicting Dart would replace JavaScript [http://pastebin.com/NUMTTrKj]. It created an atmosphere of hostility towards Dart that I'm sure the developers didn't deserve. I now understand your objections and I'm sorry I lumped you in with the general hostility.

My own doubts about Dart after using it for a commercial app, began after watching this video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AqbCQuK0gM] where Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak discuss Dart and TypeScript. I felt Anders made a better case for TypeScript and Lars was feeling a bit threatened, which confirmed for me that Anders was right. Considering where Dart and TypeScript are today, I made the right choice moving to TypeScript.

The other problem that I felt wasn't being addressed was that the Dart2js output and JavaScript interop needed a lot of improvement. Since it became clear that the DartVM was not landing in other browsers, this should have been a top priority and it wasn't. Now it is a priority, but it's not clear to me how many resources Google is giving to it.

I'm very glad that the path is much clearer these days and thank you for your efforts to sort these things out.
HOLY SHIT!

What about trademark? Could the author sell it?

See what happened to Super Mario 64 HD (an attempt at a remake with unity): https://roystanross.wordpress.com/super-mario-64-hd/
As mentioned in my reply to that forum post, VoltDB includes a fault resolution protocol to prevent split brain (VoltDB will trade availability for consistency if required.) a couple of years ago, we decided to to enable that feature by default to maintain the serializability contract as the default choice.
OK, so it all makes sense now. You had a bad experience with one person so you use that as an excuse to generalize and become discriminatory toward humanity at large.

How is that fundamentally different from, say, seeing a person of a certain race do something bad and drawing racist conclusions, or being dumped by a woman and concluding all women suck, or seeing one person of religion X do something shitty and concluding all billion or so people of that religion suck?

In other words, you're falling into the same trap that racists and misogynists and homophobes and nationalists and others fall into across the entire world.

To which I have just one thing to say: put yourself in the other's shoes. Alright, so you'd clearly never be a religious fanatic, so you can't relate to that. But what if it were race or gender or something else? Let's say you're a member of some nationality, in a new country, trying to make the best of life. Some other person in your community who's from the same country does something really really shitty. All of a sudden, everyone hates you too, your boss fires you, and no one will hire you because they just assume they know how you'll act. You never even get a chance to make your case. How would that feel?

In other words, give people a fucking chance. If someone causes problems, deal with that individual. In your situation, I suppose the org should've gotten rid of the toxic person faster. But don't you fucking dare start saying that everyone with characteristic X, Y or Z should never be hired at any job ever just because some particular person you used to know caused problems. That reflects on you and you only.
Why spend billions (perhaps trillions) of dollars to get a pod full of people to fly through a tube when we already have technologies to fly pods full of people through the air at the same or higher speeds?

Cheaper and greener air travel will be the solution to this problem in our lifetimes.