skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They own Blogspot, and you could always agree to the "massive cookie consent form" and it would go away.
The Entrepreneur Who Wants You to Make Love, Not Porn
Welcome to science!

Also, not just flaws in methodology, but also flaws in its model, which is a more significant issue. Making better models & checking them against reality is a big part of science. It's not necessarily that the original author fucked up; it's that our knowledge of the world improves (we hope) over time.
The History of the Black-Scholes Formula
This. The court ruled against her because she demanded information she herself had previously made available to the general public to be removed based on privacy concerns.

While I would maintain that "available to the general public" doesn't equal "available to everyone" (info on the web is more likely widely available than info in a print book) I agree with the court in that her claim against Wikimedia is invalid in this case.
That's an interesting concept. Is the selection of random bookmarks completely random, or does it use a more complex algorithm to choose what to display?
Geostationary satellites are boosted into a graveyard orbit at the end of their lives.
While I think the libgit2 initiative is fantastic, I don't think there needs to be just one Git implementation.

One of my favourite things about git is that the underlying storage and protocol is really simple and straight-forward to implement. You could do a lot of it in shell scripts, if you wanted to.

The stateless storage is simple and consistent, but the thing that does vary is the various operating algorithms: diff, merge, garbage collection, etc.

This creates a really interesting ecosystem where you could potentially have third-party tools that have some secret sauce producing more efficient diffs or fewer conflicting merges but still base it entirely on the open git ecosystem and remain completely backwards-compatible with all the other tooling.
To be fair, it looks like the website itself for angular.io [0] is built on Angular, or at least a HTML framework that is not Jekyll (which is what they've used for other site documentation, including AMP [1])...so at least they're dogfooding Angular on Angular's own homepage, even when it doesn't seem needed (I didn't see many features that didn't seem to be mostly static HTML)

[0] https://github.com/angular/angular.io

[1] https://github.com/ampproject/docs
>but it's also true that over a long enough timescale (100 years, to trigger a reductio ad absurdum) there is a very high risk that not replacing or rewriting that code will sink your technology and possibly your organization.

Could you elaborate on what basis you claim this as a truth?
Bingo.

That means even if your new pretty-shiny is going to eventually have a new API, it is usually worth it to still offer an old shim in with the old interface. It may seem like extra useless work, but it reduces risk.

Far be it from me to suggest rewrites are never useful. Half my career could be characterized as "rewriting the things nobody thought could be rewritten because they were too messy and entrenched". It's personally a bit risky (you end up owning not only the bugs you created, but the bugs you failed to reproduce... doubly-whammy! better be good at unit testing so at least the new code is defensible), but the payoff is pretty significant, too, both for your career and for your organization.
Its a matter of politics. US can afford it, but that'd be "Evil Federal Government laying down red tape on locals".

It doesn't help that the local government is sometimes even more incompetent than the Federal Government either. I mean, redirecting the entire city water-supply to a poisoned river? That's some grade A F---ed up right there.

In any case, America overall is a strong country, but the worst parts of America are equivalent to a 3rd-World nation.
Systems with a non-GNU find, including the default one in Solaris 10 (I've just double-checked). Perhaps you were using the GNU find in Solaris?

By the way, there are systems where 'print0' is a recognized parameter for the default find, but not '+'. RHEL 4.x comes to mind.
This is actually an interesting case study. government closest to the people (municipalities) want to provide a public service. States decide they want to help defend the Telecom Industry and use state power to block such efforts. The FCC issues a rule trying to prevent the states from killing the municipal programs. Who is right?
TIL that github used to merge files differently than git because it used its own merge implementation based on git's code, to make it work on bare repos. Showcases a benefit of open formats and open source, showcases a downside as well (I'd never guess it might merge differently.)

It's a good thing nobody contributes to my github repos since noone had the chance to run into the issue...
EZ Systems Releases Content Management Products Built on the Symfony Framework
Awww, they updated the appearance of Raymond Chen's blog? I kinda liked the defiantly, unapologetically old-fashioned look it had before (like Jamie Zawinski's site).
That makes sense, but in a model where time doesn't have a privileged sign, would it have expanded in both directions then? So our universe inflates forwards, and the antimatter universe inflates backwards, both sides creating time from the same zero point.
Abandoned or neglected properties are not a great measure for poverty.

The average after government transfer income of the bottom quintile of households in the US is ~$25,000, which is slightly more than the after government transfers to the bottom quintile of households in the UK. Meanwhile the middle quintile of income earners in the UK is about $20,000 short of the middle US quintile.
I’d strongly recommend Bostrom’s book ‘Superintelligence’ for a good overview of the problem-space. My favourite high-level solution to the virtuous AI problem is Yudkowsky’s ‘Friendly AI’ approach[1]. The best part of this strategy is ‘Coherent Extrapolated Volition’ [2] which would have an AI want what we would want an AI to want. By doing this, we can offload the problem of working out how to locate and implement our values over to the AI.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligen...
[2] https://intelligence.org/files/CEV.pdf
I believe it's due to the point of ascension changing. With the earth tilting at 23.5 degrees, a GEO orbit also has to be at that angle relative to the sun. Once they are no longer operational, they will stay at that 23.5 degree angle, but the point of ascension will drift as the altitude (and therefore the orbital period) changes.
Top 25 Science Stories of 2015
it would be great if you would share how you did that, because there may be other cities and countries than NYC and the UK... ;)

so far i've only used google maps PDFs but that sucks. i've also had good experiences with offline Garmin maps based on OSM data, but that requires a GPS with much lower battery life than a ebook reader... a bunch of providers here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Downloa...

i used this in the past with good success: http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/garmin/Lambertus/

although this seems like the newest best thing: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/
I'm of similar age and understand the rightward cycle. Growing up we didn't have much, but I remember working in a grocery store and watching people who drive nice cars buy steaks with food stamps and beer and cigarettes with cash. My family was eligible for food stamps, and my parents fought about it often. My mom wanted my dad to go get them and he refused and instead took another side job.

I think experiences like that shape people, and over time becomes part of their core. I'm more libertarian while many of my friends who grew up well to very well off are extremely liberal. They never experienced pulling themselves out of nearly nothing so they have a hard time imagining it is possible. I did it, so I think it is infinitely possible. Of course the reality is somewhere in the middle.
I sit corrected, thanks. Odd, Get-AppxPackage -Name king.com.CandyCrushSaga doesn't return anything for me in Powershell
Swift Removes C-Style for Loops
Why I no longer use MVC frameworks
>It's a tradeoff, it depends on what you're protecting against. AFAIK none of the libreboot-supported boards have VT-d, so you lose a lot of qubes's isolation features.

I think you are confusing the topic here. No one denying (ate least as far as I can tell) the isolation mechanism is good, and beyond any other approach we have seen already.

But the main problem is there . They just switched the topic for people who consider their privacy.

For example if you use windows let say it is filled with zero-day backdoors which can be useful for invading your privacy .

But when you use this laptop , yes if even your application has backdoor maybe they cannot go beyond the application layer. But for highly technical people this is non-sense (not visualization , no it is good idea, the idea of running whole system on closed source blobs) . Why ? because they have access to your data via low level backdoors.Maybe they have another level to circumvent (XEN), but it is there and adversary is in your laptop already.Effectively it is there.(It sounds for me like extremely secure environment on closed source blob, which ruins whole design)

But when we are talking about FSF approved laptop (the ones which run whole system on fsf approved software) there is no backdoor. Yes, maybe it is simpler to hack such device , but it is technical problem which should we work on, not a decision problem.

(Personally I think running secure microkernel on fsf approved laptop would be much better, but it is my opinion and since I don't have fact I am saying it in parenthesis)

So practically talking you are not improving privacy . You are improving security.

I hope I was clear enough , though I don't think so.

cmiiw
This article is worth discussing in itself, as it is very clear, gives a good sense of the situation, is easy to read and understand, and avoids the kinds of inaccuracy and solecism usually seen in articles about math.
>The treatment of statins is very much like the treatment of vaccines

I don't think that's an accurate comparison. There's not really anyone in the healthcare industry that would argue against vaccines but there are plenty professionals with qualification (mds, pharmacists, etc) that are against the broad use of statins.
I suppose we're making the no-true-progressive argument here? Whether or not that is accurate, anti-progressives use Detroit as an example: https://www.google.com/#q=detroit+progressivism
That is geostationary orbit. The active satellites are in circle along the equator while the inactive ones are in wider band outside of geostationary orbit.
Well, I'm just going off of my gut, not real data. But I would have thought 33% of Americans still being in bed at 8am would be high.

Of course, the service industry has more flexible schedules - but over the course of the day, by 11pm most people are in bed and by 2 am it looks like just about everybody is asleep. I don't really have deeper insight other than I expected it to be either most people would be up by 7am or more distributed over the course of the day.

At noon, only 3% of Americans are asleep.
It's pretty crazy to think that this will only be a more common occurrence in the future as jobs are eliminated. We should be figuring out how to solve that problem now, not the day after we've suddenly eliminated ten million careers. It's my opinion that we shouldn't try to retrain these people, but begin creating a society that can support lifestyles outside of the labor force. Unfortunately, the how of it is extraordinarily difficult to even consider.
In my team's projects, code review in PRs made a mess of the history (certain devs in particular :P). We switched to a squash merge based workflow to address it, git reflow is our particular poison: https://github.com/reenhanced/gitreflow
In my experience, many if not most command-line tools and programs we use on UNIX are not great examples of simple, small, focused design. Lots of Swiss army knives packed with options. And the interface is limited in frustrating ways.

One example: I started using email with mh, which used command-line tools to slice and dice your mailbox. Each of these tools was relatively easy to use. But who uses this approach anymore to read email?

It's a more interesting design question I think to study when UNIX tools are subject to the same diseconomies of scale as everything else...
Data Superpowers for the Masses
Faces might be blending but the audio isn't exactly something I enjoy, pretty wild that's how it sounds. Could surely pick a favorite audio track, or, a la Max Martin, comp all the takes for material knowing the digital warp will be passable. Slick technique, I'm definitely impressed with the the show of tech and capability.
is that a european thing?
When running with Scientist enabled, doesn't that mean you will add both the runtime of the old/new implementation instead of just one implementation?

I could see this begin ok in most cases where speed is not a concern, but I wonder what we can do if we do care about speed?
The auto-dissociation constant Kw is 10^-14 mol^2 L^-2.

That means that concentration of hydronium [H3O+] ion multiplied by the concentration of hydroxide [OH-] ion is equal to the constant. In pure water, there are no other ions to change the balance, so you get 2 H2O <-> H3O+ + OH-, and each concentration is the square root of the dissociation constant.

So 10^-7 mol/L H3O+ and 10^-7 mol/L OH-. The abbreviation "pH" stands for "power hydrogen", and is the negative log10 of the H3O+ concentration. 10^-7 mol/L H3O+ is pH 7, which is neutral. There is also a lesser-known term pOH, which is pretty much pOH + pH = 14 under normal conditions.

But that water doesn't stay perfectly neutral for long. CO2 from the atmosphere dissolves into it, using

CO2(g) <-> CO2(aq) K_CO2 = 2.0e-3, P_CO2 = 3.6e-4
CO2(aq) + H2O(l) <-> H2CO3(aq) K = 1.3e-3
H2CO3(aq) + H2O(l) <-> H3O+(aq) + HCO3-(aq) Ka1 = 2.0e-4
HCO3-(aq) + H2O(l) <-> H3O+(aq) + CO3--(aq) Ka2 = 4.7e-11

Solving the equilibrium gives you a pH of 5.65 (10^-5.65 mol/L H3O+).

Some natural groundwater contains other dissolved minerals, including carbonates (limestone is CaCO3), which pushes the CO2 equilibrium in the other direction, making water more basic (higher pH).
By the current state of the mobile world, you'd have a special Apple vetted copy of Wikipedia with no mention of their competitors, adult themes or anything that could remotely be percieved as offensive to anyone ;)
It is important for things like HTML5 games that essentially wouldn't work without this functionality.
so basically we're all going to die.
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So the millions of students with massive amounts of student debt or people losing their homes due to injury or disease don't need help?

Anyhow, the point about rich and poor living side by side happens anywhere where there is gentrification. Some communities, too. I promise you that in some islands in greece there are beggars living side by side to people loading 50" plasmas onto donkeys
We always referred to them as the flaunters. They would carry a towel in hand, which was counter to my traditional towel wrapping technique. Basic qualification for the flaunters was grey hair.
Managing SSH Keys Is Obsolete – Here's Why
This is as true as it can get. I'd like to reemphasis the bug-for-bug. Sometimes that's the only way you can drop-in replace a system.
The mad + sad takes seemed to give a lot more emotional nuance than either of them separate. I like this, but hope it doesn't become as over-abused as autotune is.
I love this option. I type "/tmp" when I'm about to create some short-lived scratch files. Those saying "you can just alias that" are missing the point. Where do you stop with the aliases?
If manufacturers would stop removing the SD card slots we might already be at that point. What do you consider a "full" copy of OSM and how big is that?
True, seem to be harder to go the opposite way.

Something noteworthy: China plans to halt rain for Olympics - http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-rain31jan31-story.html
On a sufficiently long time horizon, yes.
New Philadelphia Startup CLVmetrics Hiring Engineers Immediately
And the new paper likely has flaws in its methodology as well.

Mystery #2! Double climax!
Solar in space is only about 2x more effective per unit area of solar panel than solar on the ground, after you deduct transmission losses. The costs, of course, are much higher. The enthusiasm for hydrogen as energy storage is misplaced. Electricity to hydrogen to electricity is maybe 40% efficient. Lithium batteries are 80% - 90% round trip.

In any place that needs air conditioning, solar power is very effective. Peak load and peak solar panel output line up nicely, and little storage is needed. Keep it simple.
I'm sorry if I totally butcher the fundamental concepts of Turing completeness here; I was neither a CS nor a math major.

But as I understand it a Turing machine is a physical impossibility because it is defined as having an infinite stream of data being inputted. And the physical presence of an infinity of information is a physical impossibility (I also wasn't a physics major, so I'm not sure if this violates physical laws or is just a practical impossibility, but either way it's obviously impossible).

So instead of an infinite stream of input, we usually define something as "Turing complete" if it's possible for it perform arbitrary computations on arbitrary input supplied in real time. CSS3 cannot do this; programming languages with real-time I/O can do this.

So CSS3 is "weakly" Turing-complete because it can perform arbitrary computations on arbitrary data input supplied ahead of time. With an infinite amount of random HTML-formatted data input ahead of time (same as a Turing machine), it can be equivalent to a Turing machine. C or Javascript are "strongly" Turing-complete because they can perform arbitrary computations on arbitrary, properly-formatted data input supplied ahead-of-time or in real time.
Every time I install Jenkins, I install the thinBackup plugin. Losing your configuration is way too common, but it's easy to restore.
I'm surprised he does not mention email. This is my personal knowledgebase. It keeps boatloads of receipts and travel reservations from years ago. It is available on all my computing devices. It's Gmail so it's easy to search and I don't have to spend time sorting it. I write notes and send them to myself just so I will have them in the email. Other people are also obsessive about keeping their old email so I can't possibly be alone in this regard.

Gmail nails most of the features on his list.
The real question is, though, is drug therapy something that should be pushed on otherwise healthy (non-FHC/high risk) individuals in order to reduce mortality. The PCSK9 research paper you linked has the percentage dead after 15 years (starting at an average of 55 yr/o) at 10.7% for those without the mutation and 8.3% for those with it.

Assuming they actually work identically to the mutation, maybe one could argue that the $$$ cost of the new PCSK9 targeting drugs will be worth it to save 2.4%, but we have zero long term data on their safety. There is certainly some evidence [1] that the risk for diabetes could be higher...much like the current statins.

I don't think we have anything even approaching a complete picture on the interplay between CHD, cholesterol, and overall mortality. Until the picture becomes clearer, it doesn't seem prudent to push drug therapy as strongly as it typically is.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20026049

The coincidence of statins falling out of patent and the rush to develop PCSK9 drugs is not lost on me.
From talking with people on #freebsd on freenode, it sounds like freebsd should be unaffected. The system calls involved are Sony-specific additions to the kernel.
Always interesting to hear people who openly deny science attempt to reason about science.
So all knowledge can be seen as connected, but all knowledge can also be put into hierarchies. Concepts and how those concepts are related is something that people come up with, rather than being an inherent property of the universe.

The idea of forcing yourself to put knowledge into hierarchies is that it makes your thinking more clear, makes it easier to remember where things are, and perhaps paradoxically makes it easier to see how things are related. (Or at least highlights certain types of relationships that are only visible in the context of hierarchies.)

I'll admit it's pretty weird at first to only get one root node, I think it took me a couple years to get used to that. But once I embraced it the benefits quickly became clear.
Very long, most CS people don't know any group theory.
Already 7 hours ago here, with comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10737433
Part of the point is to run Qubes though, and I and others already discussed why this is not a good idea if you want to run Qubes in another thread below. Not to mention hardware kill switches too.
I'm a C# developer. I have been patiently waiting for angular 2.0 with the hopes of switching my stack to TS.Node + Angular and I'm really excited about trying this!
It's not clickbait, it just requires reading the article for the full story.

I also recommend this blog post: http://jeremykun.com/2015/11/12/a-quasipolynomial-time-algor...
For the nearly all practical purposes, there already exist efficient algorithms for GI. This work is mostly of interest for theoretical matters because it shows that GI can be solved in quasi-poly time for _all_ graphs, whereas previous work still had exponential time worst-cases. Hence why there isn't really a concise algorithm that you'd want to implement.
Dynamic Root of Trust Measurement It's part of Intel's Trust Execution Technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Execution_Technology
This is basically what allows the hardware to verify that the OS which is being booted is "trusted".

Intel's TXT framework is quite nifty not fully utilized and I'm still it's not sure if it's as good as ARM's trust zone approach.
The problem is that this is/will be a very important factor in any trusted computing in the future and currently it's utterly unaudited at least publicly (and from hearsay also wasn't internally audited).

Intel is pretty much mandating AMI/AMT support within the UEFI, support for TXT/TPM/NGSCB will be also mandatory soon unless Intel open sources all of this there will never be an open source UEFI BIOS which will functional with Intel going forward. Coreboot is shipped with proprietary parts which cover it, you can use Libre but then you are stuck with a decade old hardware and there is very little hope for it to ever support modern hardware the skill set way too demanding for an OSS project without a major corporate support and without full cooperation with Intel this wont be supported.
If AMD was smart they would jump on this train, but as BIOS is quite a tricky business these days (probably even more complicated than OS internals with the exception of maybe really low level kernel stuff) I just don't think they want to take that risk considering their financial state.
Video of the team announcing the Beta release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WitNPCLSZr0
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Yet you have not given one example of a better term. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate... here at the bottom of the page.
Yeah. But that's true anyway. "Death and taxes" -- we were all born under sentence of death. Ain't none of us getting out of here alive.