skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me it's both. You're trying to visualize the problem, its parts and how they interact, and you may write down some code for specific sub problems because it just popped into your head and you don't want to context switch.

There's a limited amount of things you can keep in your head at once, and the paper is somewhat of a navigational aid and rapid access memory. Paper also offers you a lot of flexibility in regards to laying out things fast and sketching things, which computers still don't have quite down yet. If I try to layout my thoughts in emacs or photoshop a lot of my processing power is taken up by the act of using the tool ("ugh, was it M-x rect or M-x rectangular-region"/"Let me get the pen tool, and the rectangle tool, and where did the tool tray go?").

Scribbling on a pad doesn't just apply to coding though, it's a useful technique for a lot of areas that have thorny problems that exceed your local memory capacity.

Just my take on the technique.
Great way to spend a Sunday morning!

http://sampulator.com/davehunteruk/tribal-beats
Political propaganda must be taken with a boatload of salt. A Dalit organization's claims is something like KKK's claim. People of all castes and religion get lynched and burned and maimed all the time in the lawless parts of India for all reasons.

However if we look at impartial research such as by James Tooley who was studying history of Education system in India, he points out that literacy and education levels in even the tribals and so called "low castes" in India was reasonably close to "so called higher castes" and most certainly higher than the peasants in United Kingdom. It is a fascinating book in itself and borrows heavily from another book of same title written by Gandhiji's disciple Dharampaal.

Beside the third book is a comprehensive survey of all caste related laws, judgements and British Census reports in India and shows pretty big holes in "discrimination" and "privilege" arguments.

Here is the essay by Dharampal who notes the British Census in one of the provinces (Madras). It compares schools, school going people in England and Madras which were of comparable size. Turns out that enrollment in Madras is actually higher than that of England and lower castes dominated the students.

http://www.esamskriti.com/essay-chapters/Indigeneous-Educati...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ELPRLC0/ref=dp-kindle-re...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-beautiful-tree-indigenous-eighteen...
[3] http://www.amazon.com/Falling-Over-Backwards-Arun-Shourie/dp...
This is mostly a Christian missionary driven attempts to marginalize Hindus even further by painting them as evil. From the sense I get it wont go anywhere.
Even in the US, it seems they only bought the rights to do the first broadcast, since Comcast has bought the rights to do the re-runs: http://www.wired.com/2014/03/comcast-bites-netflix-snagging-...
Oh, this sounds so enjoyable compared to multicultural restoraunt scene or actually putting an effort to cook something interesting.
A photon is a photon, regardless of whether it's emitted directly or reflected. All that matters is vibration frequency and intensity of the stream of photons.

Do you disagree?
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cough www.grove.io would like a word with you ;-)
See also: "Insights for California water policy from computer modeling" (California Water Blog, February 9, 2012, by Elena M. Lopez)

http://californiawaterblog.com/2012/02/09/insights-for-calif...

I find the Lopez article to be a better read because it is detailed and level-headed.
Anything cool one can do with this? I have my MRI + DTI and wonder what to do with it.

Mine looks like any brain to me (no tumors, yay!).

From the DTI I was able to calculate the white matter trajectory with slicer: http://screencast.com/t/yDYFJdL7D

(I was a little let down I couldn't follow the visual nerves, but as they cross there is no clear direction of diffusion that could be imaged I guess...)
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Isn't GPS tracking of delivery drivers and arrival time estimation rather old hat these days? I thought such systems had been around for well over a decade?
-> The historical average reservoir storage level is the hard-to-see aqua in the background, and the thick blue line that stops around today’s date is the current storage level.

I'm really not sure if this is an appropriate criticism, but if you are trying to plot something like this and you don't like the color contrast because it's hard to see then change it. For me, the cyan-on-grey is tough to see.
Also:

- Basscss [ http://www.basscss.com/ ]

- Tachyons [ http://tachyons.io/ ]
The argument was made against the statement "Apple gives Xcode away for free."

They do give Xcode away for free. I didn't think that factoring a modern development computer into the price was a reasonable stance to take against that line.
Not to mention that many TV providers already have their own movie rentals.
I'm not sure if there is any data to back it up, but I remember reading somewhere that the average American adult is less likely to casually partake in sports or music (compared to maybe 100 years ago) based on the perception that they wouldn't be good as a professional athlete or musician because of constant exposure to experts via television, MP3s, youtube, etc. Music and sports are seen as something that kids or experts do, and programming is mostly for experts. I think any important issue to resolve is how do we change the thought pattern and convince people that it is acceptable to do these activities without being an professional/expert?
The purpose is completely different! Here's one of several important reasons.

You wouldn't survive doing math with longer variable names. Imagine yourself writing "time" every time you need to write it in a formula in the course of a working on a problem. Just expand the following expression (time + 2)(2time - 3)(4time + 5) by hand, writing "time" every time. Or imagine studying vector calculus and writing out the formulas with the long names like "grad", "curl", etc. That kind of notation was replaces with the nabla symbol and overloaded notation for a very good reason.

Also, most derivations, for simple formulas even, go through larger complexities before they converge to something slick. Take a look at the derivation of the Navier-Stokes equations [1] and see if you could have done the same thing with longer variable, function and operator names.

So yea, it all boils down to repetition and quantity.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivation_of_the_Navier%E2%80...
Quick one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number
Thanks for posting your scans. As noted in the issue I just made (I am @maedoc on Github), if you add the diffusion imaging scans we can virtualize your brain [1] and simulate it [2].

What strength MRI was used for the scans? 1.5T, 3T, 7T?

[1] github.com/timpx/scripts
[2] github.com/the-virtual-brain/tvb-library
Yes, I know everyone's affecting to be jaded about JS tooling these days, but good luck downloading a package with webpack (build runner) or yeoman (application scaffolder).

Your comment is a bit like sarcastically asking "what do we build C projects with these days? Make? Lint? Valgrind?"
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I found it quite easy to set up actually.

Just use one of the pre-existing recipes as a starting point, take common.php out and have a look.

Let me know if you need any specific help.
Also, mathematics' naming conventions are quite strict.

The nabla symbol is almost-exclusively used for vector-calculus operations. The letters t, s, u, v are almost-always used for parametrizations. The letters i, j, k, n, m are usually used as indices of summations. We can go on.
You could virtualize and simulate your brain, see my comment here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962075
I appreciate what you've built and I'm interested in helping out. What is the way going forward for the project? Do you plan on monetizing it? Is code eventually gonna be public?
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Maybe you're familiar with Dreyfus's critique of "cognitivism" in AI, as explained in his book What Computers Can't Do. His recent article "Why Heideggerian AI Failed" is also relevant... and his book on Heidegger, Being-in-the-World, which has some philosophical background for his anti-cognitivism.
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IBM should have built AWS before Amazon did.
I would blame the Indian VCs also a bit , there are a couple of new interesting models and plans which people come up with but they die too soon because a lot of VCs are simply not up to take the risk , they just look for startup idea that have worked well in China or US market and just want to clone here .
This is great, only thing missing cowbell. Here's a basic house beat: http://sampulator.com/paulcretu/house
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Read Think Bayes from the author of Think Stats.
But for the work of 1 man - Martin Burgess, this is yet another marvel of old technology that may have been lost forever, along with Greek Fire, Roman Concrete, Damascus Steel and many others.
Yes. For my girlfriend's birthday I grabbed her MRI scans, extracted the pial surface as a mesh, 3D printed the mesh, made a silicone mold from the print, and cast her brain in chocolate so she could eat her own brain, thus becoming an auto-zombie.
I think you make sure that product gets delivered and you have skill set to do that (be it programming or design). "Product builder" or something on those lines should be good .
> As the name suggests, the language is dense and convoluted. The contemporary British clockmaker George Daniels has called the text “rubbish”; Rupert Gould, the author of the biography Burgess read, described it as “gibberish.”

This is the mark of a strong "right-brainer": completely inspired but struggling to communicate it.
Hi Iian, great work!

I built recruitment CRM with cached 1,000,000+ nodes and can imagine how much time and efforts you invested in your project.

I assume that .NET MVC and KnockoutJS was your first choice as you get used to it ... and it's fine.

I personally found a lot of frustration dealing with Neo4J full-text search in multiple languages English, Russian and Japanese. There was no clear guideline on Lucene integration at the time.

How is your experience with Neo4J? Do you have to sync Neo4J data with traditional databases like M$ SQL?

Do you want to make your project as community efforts or see it as potential business?

The last question is much more important. I assume that a lot of developers won't be excited about .NET or KnockoutJS staff, however they might consider to share some crawling data, D3.js graph visualizations code, etc with you.
Very clever. I've used `echo 'foobar' | mail myname@gmail.com` before, but this sounds nice too. Are there particular advantages you'd highlight with this method over that?
The reality of 'web hooks' in a really well written API is something that still cannot be relied on.

I use an API for a shipping company that fulfils orders for USA/Canada. It does have 'web hooks' to update orders with tracking numbers and status updates. It also has some type of regular update to make sure that any orders left 'open' are updated even if they should have been updated already.

It all works, but only 99% of the time... There are many orders left 'open' with the only option being to look up the orders and assess them manually. This is a big task even with only 1% or so to follow up and double check.

So, despite the wonders of the 'web hooks' approach, we are going back to API polling, to get all order updates since [last poll time] and updating order statuses accordingly. We will disable the web hooks once the straight API + polling approach is fully tested. A client library for the API will also have to be built so that simple getters and setters can be used for updating order statuses and inventory levels.

The 'web hooks' approach ultimately does not work reliably enough for us, so a more thorough and robust solution is needed. Really it would have been better to have not gone the 'web hooks' way at all, it would have spared us the problems we have had with only 99% of the information coming through. Nowadays customers are quick to talk online about poor service so this type of thing is of consequence.
Please don't post like this here. Even when you think someone is expressing a bad point of view, it's important not to degrade the environment with hostility.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10959436 and marked it off-topic.
It actually already works that way! Feel free to tweet at it.
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The "second concern held by some" is clearly a rhetorical figure of speech to make it sound as if they are not really sharing it, although the rest of what the authors say only deals with this exclusively. The first concern complete disappears. They are also using the term parasite or parasitically throughout the paper, which is not really helpful in this context.

The real concern of the authors, as it appears to me, is that you "own" the data that you produce and should have the exclusive right to use it - they call it "obvious extension of the reported work".

How would data sharing work best? We think it should happen symbiotically, not parasitically. Start with a novel idea, one that is not an obvious extension of the reported work

On the other hand, if you have a novel idea, you are supposed to work "symbiotically" with the authors with relevant coauthorship:

Third, work together to test the new hypothesis. Fourth, report the new findings with relevant coauthorship to acknowledge both the group that proposed the new idea and the investigative group that accrued the data that allowed it to be tested

The problem is that science does not work this way. You cannot own the facts, as someone famously said. Imagine people in computer science or mathematics held the same attitude, especially in artificial intelligence/machine learning.
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I live at 52.5 degrees North. Cosine to the power 4 being what it is, my neighbours and I could be experiencing significantly lower levels of daylight intensity in all seasons than people who live at lower latitudes. In the summer, we will see similar or slightly more daylight integrated over the duration of the day because of the longer days.

The OA does not specify the latitude at which he(? assuming the OA is the site owner's work) is living.
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Howdy folks, author here - sorry for not making it clearer, but if you tweet at @dupdupdraw it'll interpret your tweet as a program and reply with a picture. Words not in the vocabulary are interpreted as random numbers, so worst case you get a flat color.

For a more detailed guide, check github or some examples:

https://github.com/polm/dupdupdraw
http://www.dampfkraft.com/by-id/efa8fe5c-34b0-47fc-99dd-9992...

If you have any ideas, pull requests and forks are welcome too!
I did this too, but it took much longer than the simple steps you've outlined would seemingly take. I spent at least an hour on the whole process, which is more than I'd prefer for something so straightforward. I blame the early tech of 3d printing for not being as swift as I'd hoped.
>>What Gunn et al. show is that the accumulation of consistent (non-noisy) evidence can reverse one’s confidence surprisingly quickly.

I know this comment won't be accepted very well here on HN, but I think this is one of the reasons most people who don't believe in climate change don't. Science, and the subsequent reporting on it, has been consistently reporting for the past 20 years that climate change is real, and it's worse than we thought. Every few months, there is a new study being widely reported saying that X new evidence is proving that things will be much worse than we thought. If there was a study every once in a while that said X study about climate change was wrong, and we didn't consider Y factor, but climate change still seems to be headed in a dangerous direction, then I think people might be more willing to accept the thesis.

Of course, the paper doesn't suggest that we are wrong when we suspect systemic error, and skeptics of climate change may very well be wrong, but maybe this will help others understand their skepticism.
Found this fork that seems more open

http://bettar.no-ip.org/lxiv/
See also: a film about Harrison, and his designs for a sea-voyage-proof clock.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192263/

(I enjoyed the film many years ago, and I can't recall what, if anything, it has in the way of technical details.)
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That's an interesting perspective. I would think it's the amount of precipitation at the major watersheds and reservoirs that would be indicative of an "onslaught", rather than what happens in Silicon Valley.
Not sure why the title is prefixed with BBC, it was broadcast on UK's Channel 4 in 2007. Seems like a bit of propaganda by the fossil fuel lobby - very one-sided.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swind...
But that argument simply books down to "more expensive computers cost more". True a Linux computer might cost $500 and got $0 more you can program on it. A Mac might cost $800 and for $0 more you can program on it. The marginal cost to develop is the same. But I could easily spec up a Linux workstation costing thousands of dollars. Macs being expensive doesn't make Linux computers more expensive, it doesn't raise he costs for anybody else. So who exactly is being harmed here? I just don't really see what useful point is being made.
Freedom is vague, here, but I think what you want will still be possible (at least theoretically) given causality and physical distance.

Deeper freedom (that is, infinite potential) is inherent to being itself, but if what you're looking for is something more like diversity or novelty, then yes, that's contingent on perceptual subject-object duality.
Sketch-n-sketch (programmatic and direct manipulation and svg)
I use a hand drill for quick holes in soft material, because it is faster than dealing with the electric drill, extension cord, etc.

Not mentioned are air powered drills. Those tend to be powerful and very small, meaning they work great in tight spaces.
In your point 4) I assume you are referring to this tool?

https://github.com/ocaml-bytes/ocamlcc
Quote from interesting page linked in parent post...

"...Now to be fair most of this is the result of OpenBSD ports choosing to build and package optional dependencies, including the GUI..."

I suspect the people who produce and maintain the ports builds are putting all the options in to cover as many use-cases as possible. I've noticed that some OpenBSD ports give alternatives to pick from with different compilation options. I suspect that might be impractical for many choices.

Now I'm wondering if I can build sct.c on the Slackware box and have a play with a bash script setting the colour temp by time of day for current latitude...
It still bothered me after a few weeks, specially since "automatic" setting started making my screen red at like 18:00, more than 6 hours before I usually go to sleep.

It was incredibly annoying :/

Maybe I just didn't see that much benefit because I never look at screens in rooms without additional (yellowish) lighting.
No, its a normal feature of the ocaml compilers. I never saw that tool before your post.
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I found Virtual Machines to handle this quite neatly. I use windows as a host OS and I have to use desktop linux in a VM for some tasks, what i noticed was that once i don't have to do those tasks i just hibernate the VM and when i start working again i resume the whole VM exactly where i left it with all the required applications already running inside.

If you were to use one VM per project though one obvious drawback is that you would have to maintain a whole bunch of OS installations. It's also a bit tricky to be disciplined and use the correct instance of an application if it exists in both the host OS and the guest OS (even more so if you are using seamless windowing mode), Firefox as example i prefer to use in the host, because that one has all my extensions installed, but that means all the tabs i open that are related to the project will spill over to the next session when i close the project and switch to play-mode.
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On OS X, Horos is a free and open derivative of OsiriX.

http://www.horosproject.org
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The aging of the post-war baby boom, I guess? Truly just a guess though.

Edit: What I mean is, what makes you question that explanation?
Northern California is mentioned in the article.
That's very interesting, thanks. Now I'm quite tempted to study OCaml.
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IBM has so much cool stuff you don't even know about. I'm not even really sure what they would be 5-10 years behind in: they're not an Internet company, their hardware is not commodity, their services are not aimed at YC-culture at all...
This is good encouragement for me to try using pen and paper again. The problem is that every time I do, I get frustrated by how slow it is for me, my hands get cramped, and I miss the backspace key. But perhaps I just need to keep at it for a bit, because I do see (and have experienced, back in college) the advantages.
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No comment on Turing then?
There are plenty of people for whom $50 is quite a lot of money to lose.

And I know some people who have cards for online purchases only, which they use very rarely. Leaving the card locked except when actually in use would be quite a security improvement.
You probably want to change all the passwords you remember, to something randomly generated not by you - just in case :-)
It seems to be getting hammered in the moment, so I can't give it a spin right now, but just from your explanation this looks fantastic.

For some reason I just cannot parse Postgres' query planner output, so this might help me understand EXPLAINs for the first time. Thanks for sharing!
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For those who aren't scared of using Git with their blog, there's fugitive.

It's a few {pre,post}-{commit,receive} hooks which generate a static html blog from html articles (though you can configure it with an external parser iirc, so it shouldn't be hard to get Markdown support.) It probably wouldn't suffice for many use cases, but for simple blogs it might be enough.

https://gitorious.org/fugitive/fugitive
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