skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silly downvoters: they are responding to your tone rather than the content of your post.

Anyway, for sure there is a tonne of cruft and confusion when starting a new js project(SPA app) nowadays. Esp if you want to use react: it's one of the blessings/curse of using a library vs a framework.

If, however, you stop looking for the "right" way to do things by reading blog posts etc,and just take the easiest path with react, then redux and webpack will take you far enough.
Making it clear and making it happen are two very different things.
Yes, of course. My intuition would be the same. But that doesn't mean that the only point of a university is to guarantee exclusiveness/selection and accreditation.
This was pretty low risk considering that they have been landing the cargo Dragon capsule under parachute for a few years now. The crew Dragon capsule probably has slightly different weight & balance characteristics but the system hasn't changed that much.
I don't think this was the initial memo to call attention to the issue, but the final "I am putting my objections in writing" memo after he realized it wasn't getting fixed.
That probably depends on which parts of CS theory you're thinking of... the way my university taught CS theory for topics like data structures, algorithms, state machines, applied machine learning, etc. was fairly interwoven with programming projects.
Intro courses are the same (calculus and basic chemistry are calculus and basic chemistry) but once you get past anything more difficult than 101 you see a wild disparity in difficulty across different universities (some universities will have material as junior-level undergrad that others have as graduate). Community colleges don't even try to teach the vast majority of courses taught at the smallest least prestigious 4-year university.
I think something is being lost in translation here. An object made of multiple particles could potentially have one at dead center that is spinning perfectly, and this would be of the same sort of angular momentum as that at the quantum level. But a particle sitting out on the edge of an object is subject to the forces of those surrounding it, keeping it moving in a circle instead of a straight line. Instead of microscopic particles, imagine a bunch of marbles connected by loose springs in a 3D mesh. If you spin this around, are you suggesting that something is happening besides the simple fact that springs are tugging and pushing at marbles to constantly affect their linear motion to appear circular? It's like suggesting somehow that a line on a screen is not made of pixels.
> Well. I think you might be getting a little bit too eager with your reductionist approach to mental illness.

Schizophrenia is a classic case of a mental illness that isn't one, a condition that doesn't appear in people who don't have a specific genetic predisposition.

> It may not fit nicely into your mental model of the world, but biology is extremely messy business.

Yes, that's true, but according to the new finding this thread is about, biology is now able to (a) detect schizophrenia in people who lack symptoms, and (b) dismiss the possibility in those who show symptoms (for example by an actor trained to imitate the symptoms). The reason? Schizophrenia isn't a mental illness, it's a physical illness with mental symptoms.

Dustin Hoffman nailed autism in "Rain Man". If Mr. Hoffman appeared at a mental health clinic and performed his character, do you suppose he would be turned away by the psychiatrists as a fake? Now consider this alternative -- if there was a genetic test for autism (there isn't at the moment), do you suppose he would be turned away by the biologists?

> ... you have ideoligical [sic] issues with this reality.

Science isn't about ideology, it's about evidence.
How much of that theory do you have to understand in order to be a competent professional programmer? Some, sure. The more the better, sure. But much of it can be learned independent from much of the rest of it - you don't need one mammoth 4-year curriculum to "master" CS.
Why evolution may be more intelligent than we thought, like neural nets
How do you know it's the same guy?
70 years ago? Psychiatry still has odd ideas. The complete and total refusal of social scientists to accept the reality that behaviors are largely genetic in origin has led to this absurd proliferation of blank-slate-based crackpot theories with very low reproducibility.

Behavioral genetics is very real, but our irrational fear of ( studying genes == hitler ) is stunting the potential of social science across the board.
Cause yeah, dumb teacher training is the root cause of absentee students, housing insecurity, hunger, abusive home lives, systematic poverty, terrible funding decisions...
I wonder if the author could test the model against the Snowden leak -- how many people knew vs the time it took to leak.
I'm no engineer, but I'll take a crack at it:

* Both axes of the chart are inaccurate. The temperature on the X axis intermingles ambient and O-ring temperature, but they're not the same (imagine ocean temperature vs air temperature). The vertical axis, O-ring damage, is semi-relevant, but the important question is whether the O-rings held a seal (degree of blow-by). O-ring damage probably correlates, but seems like a proxy that may be misleading.

* The data available in the chart was not available to the engineers at the time. There was only one previous failure (SRM 15) that led anyone to believe temperature itself was an issue. They had two valid temperature data points (SRM 15 and SRM 22), and correctly pointed out that another launch at 29 degrees was completely outside their tested range and would be inherently risky. It's not clear to me that a scatterplot with two datapoints would be that effective.

Furthermore Boisjoly criticizes that Tufte presumed to judge the engineers, for the following reasons:

* The engineers previously recommended no launch should occur, months in advance (due to previous O-ring issues), but NASA overruled them.

* The engineers recommended, and their managers accepted, that the low launch temperature was outside their test database. NASA came back and requested proof that the temperature was dangerous, but the engineers could not comply, because the parameters were extreme enough that they had not tested them. They couldn't prove a negative. The managers at Morton Thiokol and NASA then jointly overruled the engineers.

* The idea of putting together a chart was not something the engineers considered, because there were a variety of previous unrelated problems in O-rings (each resolved afterwards) that muddied that data, and muddies the data that Tufte presents.

* Tufte himself failed to research or note the pivotal information, and thus misrepresented the situation the engineers were in, and the data available, while imputing that the engineers should be held morally responsible for not presenting data they didn't have (and then going on to present such data himself, compiled after the fact and at his own leisure, incorrectly).
You're right. I don't want to come off as a liar. I think maybe I should do something like first 500 people to register will be guaranteed early access and everyone after will be put on a waiting list unless they invite 3 friends. Something along those lines.

Do you have any suggestions on how to make the landing page better? From the explanation how would I go about wording what the purpose does without it sounding too wordy on the landing page?
It's not just the depth, but the breadth as well. Better universities do an amazing job of teaching their students how to learn. The curriculum is thoughtfully designed to produce well rounded students who are capable of achieving expertise in their chosen field (they don't leave college as experts by any stretch.. and THAT is the disconnect surrounding education these days).

The big difference between someone coming out of a higher-end school and a community college isn't (necessarily) intelligence or even knowledge, it's that the university educated ones have been prepared to reason about the world in a more complete way. Which is comforting for me to know when I'm hiring.

I should note: I didn't finish college (I made it through three years). My wife on the other hand went on to a PhD. At 24 I was convinced that I had missed nothing. It wasn't until about a decade later that I began to understand that she was capable of seeing so much more nuance and detail than I was. Partly because she's smarter, but partly because she had so much more substance to her education. It gives her a basis to reason from that I don't have. It's a gap I'm feverishly trying to close through completing my own education... but it sure would have been easier to have done it in my 20's...
$40 is a bit too steep for me. I'll wait till a steam sale.
They'll pay attention when someone emails them their own salary information. I'm kidding, that would be career suicide. Printing it out and leaving it on the printer would be much better.
It's exciting to see some thought and movement at this level.

The existing system is broken when it comes to actual student knowledge. A lot of systems are to fault, but as the modern university has bowed to their corporate overlords in filling the pipeline of modern corporate key punchers, college has essentially become tech school for Power Point and Excel in a lot of cases.

So many of our current college students would be so much better served by tech school.

Heck, so much of this community often ends up eschewing college at large to go build something - often because the value proposition of the university model right now simply doesn't make sense.

We're always going to need people who can think - maybe a bifurcated path where a lot of our university experience returns more to a true liberal arts education.

This experience-based model wouldn't have been out of place historically. That it appears so revolutionary to us today shows how broken the current model is.

Something has to change. I'm excited to see some movement around the borders.
> I personally couldn't get over the significant whitespace, (relying on invisible characters doesn't sit well with me)

Most editors can be configured to show whitespace. Either in a low contrast color to avoid creating too much noise, or toggled in/out when needed.
Needs [video] tag.
There are only two hard problems in computer science - naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors.

Glad to see "naming things" made the top of the list. Names that are readable and sensible can be remarkably hard.
That's quite the provocation, certainly. But (at least in America) the cops aren't known for bluffing either.
Longer blog post here: http://dna.hioscar.com/2015/10/14/scaling-deployments-at-osc...

We work out of a mono-repo and use pants (https://pantsbuild.github.io/) for python/jvm/js packaging to deploy on mesos (https://mesos.apache.org/). Pants gives us (effectively) the same development workflow as in production and let's us treat any application (we have ~500 at this point) as just a command line executable (for things with weird lib dependencies, we do statically compiled wheels for each architecture - CentOS and OS X in our case - on our own pypi mirror). We've got a few kinks to still workout for local development of web projects (mostly related to JS/CSS) but for things that don't touch the frontend it's pretty beautiful.
​Microsoft buys into Ubuntu Linux on Azure hybrid cloud
Wow. This is going to be interesting... The page even includes the key to decrypt the encrypted fields in the dump. Is pg_crypto that easy to crack, or is it more likely the key was stored somewhere in plaintext (e.g., email, pdf, etc.)?
...So long as she wasn't the one that killed SICP.
Nothing rude meant by this (honestly), but if the experience of discovering the island, finding and completing the puzzles itself isn't motivating enough then perhaps it's just not the game for you?

I understand your point about filler, but the puzzles are the game, and if you're enjoying them then it probably doesn't come across as filler, just more to get stuck in with (though I do wonder whether so many slight variations on a theme are required in certain areas).

Hyped it may be, but that doesn't mean that you absolutely have to enjoy it at all costs. There are other games, and other developers :)
I would assume the Harvard person was smarter (unless their father also went there AND they have a building named after them there), simply because anyone can get into the Community College but not Harvard. That, in and of itself, is a filter. So it's not biased to think that.
Closed as soon as I saw a log in with fb/g as first step
The last half definitely devolves into Android API-bashing. The first half does generally apply to most APIs.

The main issue with most APIs boils down to documentation. Document it well, and it will largely be usable. This means everything from cross-references ("If you are trying to do X, ThisOtherMethod may be a better fit") to examples, and also extends to the API itself (good naming, and discoverable methods). Most developers using your API do not live in your API -- they live in their application domain. So you need to put effort into ensuring jargon is explained, the API is discoverable, and basically they can use the API easily, and get on with their application.

I really like the idea of thinking of API design in terms of Developer Experience (DX), in the same way that user interface designers consider User Experience (UX) about much, much more than simply the layout and colors.
Pi433- a €10 Radio Module that allows two Raspberry Pi to communicate
> Even if they're both accredited, wouldn't better faculty lead to better teaching?

No. Generally, at research institutions, faculty are not chosen for their teaching ability. They are chosen for their research background. They are often horrifically bad teachers, if they even teach the class at all and don't just assign it to a TA.

It also doesn't take a world-renowned genius to teach an undergraduate or even a Master's program. It takes someone with a very solid grounding in the subject, which should be any graduate, who also happens to be a great (preferably enthusiastic) communicator.
Yet most teachers I know have Masters degrees for teaching things special ed, and it seems they need to get those degrees or at least it's competitive that they have them.
Except that (a) "obligating" someone to do something is useless, because it doesn't mean they will, and (b) OP already stated data integrity wasn't maintained.
We have so many choices in the javascript ecosystem that it's pretty impossible to make a meaningful choice.

But, it's very possible to lose time trying to figure out what you "should" choose or even what your choices might be.

And since that's what the parent is bemoaning, your distinction is pretty useless.

Note: If you want to use react then the correct choice is react + redux + webpack. If you want to validate a startup idea, then the correct choice is jquery :)
Comparison with Varnish
from "Performance Evaluation of the Apache Traffic Server and Varnish Reverse Proxies" (2012) [1]

... the results indicated that Apache Traffic Server reached better cache hit rates and slightly better bandwidth throughput with the cost of higher system and network resource usage. Varnish on the other hand managed to response higher request rates with better response time, especially for the cache hits. The findings in this thesis indicates that Varnish seems to be more promising reverse proxy.

[1] https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/34903
A new collection of Burnham's writings has just been published -

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/dissolve-comprehension

Highly recommended!
Is there any background here or are there any summaries of what is contained in the documents?
I know this is more anecdotal, but I don't see that at least where I attend.

My school allows transfer credit from all of the neighboring community college.

I also have friends who attended my same high school who are attending community collage. We have traded notes on classes and it seems like we do learn the same material.

The only difference is that my school packs every class with 20+ people while their school has at max 15 people per class.

This is also very anecdotal but the teachers that I have met from their school are also most focused on helping students rather than getting all of their hours of teaching done for the week so they can continue their research.

Again, this is only my experience.
What if you never had to worry about rent, food? Y-combinator Basic Income
> I wonder what's in the unpublished docs, and why they're remaining unpublished.

Probably something damning/valuable/devastating.

Probably so that whoever this is has something of value to further prove authenticity and to hold as leverage against retaliation (hence the OP words you quoted).
Improved commenting with Markdown
Https only guarantees the origin and protects against MITM, they provide a GPG signing key and sign their isos so it does all that + guarantees that even if their websote gets compromised attackers wouldn't be able to distribute software unless they obtained the private key.
I'm always glad to see submissions to Hacker News from the new Stat news service. This submission has a lead paragraph before the interview transcript that sets a lot of context: "In an extraordinary move, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors last week issued a proposal to require researchers to share their clinical trial data as a condition for publication. And the researchers would also have to submit plans for how their data can be shared. The journal editors, who represent such periodicals as The New England Journal of Medicine and the Annals of Internal Medicine, believe data sharing 'will help to fulfill our moral obligation to study participants, and we believe it will benefit patients, investigators, sponsors, and society.'"

The key words there are "condition for publication." If researchers can no longer publish in the major journals without an ironclad guarantee that they will share their data, the incentive to share data well improves a lot. Interestingly, the Retraction Watch group-edited blog about scientific research has a guest post today "Sharing data is a good thing. But we need to consider the costs"[1] by Liz Wager referring to the same proposal by medical journals, but suggesting that some other rules would be even more helpful for improving research.

"I want to re-emphasize that I am not against data sharing. If I had a magic wand (aka unlimited funding for research and its dissemination) I would undoubtedly wave it over all research and create a system in which raw data were permanently linked to all types of report and all the report formats were linked (so that, for example, somebody reading a press release could easily check the journal article, and, if they wished, also the protocol, full study findings and raw data). But if the fairy gave me two wishes instead of a wand, I would wish for prospective trial registration and access to full trial reports for all trials before wishing for raw data."

[1] http://retractionwatch.com/2016/01/28/sharing-data-is-a-good...
I'm not saying NASA didn't fuck up by any means. I'd just like to point out that hindsight bias is a very real effect that can have huge consequences when planning for future events: http://lesswrong.com/lw/il/hindsight_bias/

>Viewing history through the lens of hindsight, we vastly underestimate the cost of effective safety precautions. In 1986, the Challenger exploded for reasons traced to an O-ring losing flexibility at low temperature. There were warning signs of a problem with the O-rings. But preventing the Challenger disaster would have required, not attending to the problem with the O-rings, but attending to every warning sign which seemed as severe as the O-ring problem, without benefit of hindsight. It could have been done, but it would have required a general policy much more expensive than just fixing the O-Rings.

>Shortly after September 11th 2001, I thought to myself, and now someone will turn up minor intelligence warnings of something-or-other, and then the hindsight will begin. Yes, I'm sure they had some minor warnings of an al Qaeda plot, but they probably also had minor warnings of mafia activity, nuclear material for sale, and an invasion from Mars.

>Because we don't see the cost of a general policy, we learn overly specific lessons. After September 11th, the FAA prohibited box-cutters on airplanes—as if the problem had been the failure to take this particular "obvious" precaution. We don't learn the general lesson: the cost of effective caution is very high because you must attend to problems that are not as obvious now as past problems seem in hindsight.
Interoffice memos were often used to document important issues that had been previously discussed. I'd be really surprised if this issue hadn't already been brought to management's attention verbally. In the early 90's (pre email), I recall having to put things in interoffice memos so that there was a paper trail of meeting discussions.
NIO was 1.5. Before that, a lot of network programming wasn't practical where performance was a concern. I would guess it was the same with Linux before 2.6.
We should expect the FBI to become involved if there is any credence to this, and the domain name thecthulhu.com (Namecheap with WhoisGuard) should be taken down shortly.

Heads will roll, that much is certain.

Does anyone have a file listing for this? Is it just a PGDATA dump, or are there more interesting things?
There are a few changes with this parachute system. Notably, it uses 4 chutes, rather than 3 (which is the number used by the current cargo Dragon, and how many the Crew Dragon test article used for the pad abort).

All in all though, you're right, this was mostly just a checkbox that needed to get checked off.
Basic introduction to functional programming using OCaml
I will never be able to look at a video of a space flight again without thinking of how it would be achieved in Kerbal Space program.

Four Mk2R Radial Mount Parachutes, I think...
Enjoy the HIPAA; I know I do :(
> No. Generally, at research institutions, faculty are not chosen for their teaching ability. They are chosen for their research background. They are often horrifically bad teachers, if they even teach the class at all and don't just assign it to a TA.

I will have to say that I have had a few, select few, of those few bad teachers.

As a TA, I can also say that I am thankful that my professor doesn't stick the load of our lecture work on me, but I have heard from many other TAs that this does happen. From what I understand, I'm VERY lucky that I am working with am amazing teacher.
> Then it proceeds to the grammatical error of "insure" which almost made me stop reading

Let's hope the management reading the letter wasn't so fickle. Oh wait, hmmmmmm.

> The total loss of a future shuttle mission and the death of its crew is a near certainty with our current booster o-ring design.

From the point of view of the engineer, that would be a misrepresentation of the facts. An exaggeration.

You're basically outlining the difference between engineers and marketers. I don't mean that as a sleight - perhaps the situation called for a bit of "marketing".
How can a new treatment demonstrate that it has good long term outcomes if we don't try it?
The more interesting test for me was the hover tests (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Pm8ZY0XJI) I keep doing back of the envelope calculations to see if a Dragon2 has enough fuel capacity to land and return from the lunar surface. Granted there is limited ability to leave and re-enter the capsule but it would make for an interesting capability.

If I recall correctly the "land on land" scenario for dragon has it using parachutes most of the way down, then doing a drop and land at the end.
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It is not misguided, it is a good practice. Read more about why here: http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/03/19/persisting_future...