skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything you can offset with weight suits you could also offset with more exercise. There are still physiological problems that that won't help with. I'd guess that 30% plus exercise would be enough but we don't know for sure.
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Modern westerners really do love our low childhood casualty rate, even though it gets expensive.
Other cultures can be more casual about losing a few.
Uhh, I don't know what planet you're living on where people don't need to use algebra. Almost everybody I know uses algebra regularly. How do you suggest we do statistics or any kind of science or teach kids anything about the world without first teaching algebra? Formal logic is essentially a more abstract and complicated algebra which isn't useful in real life.

And understanding the world around you (science) and learning the language that the world works in (math) are worthwhile in and of themselves for every student just as general human knowledge. Removing science from the basic curriculum entirely is absurd at its face unless we allow, for example free college for everyone. It's essentially saying "the poor can't learn about the natural world".

You can't say that since sometimes teaching science to kids doesn't work we should just delete it from our entire educational program and not try. Most students get a lot out of chemistry and physics though many of them hate it. (note: often times the subject the students hate most are the ones that are most important; they hate doing hard work) They learn that mysterious phenomena are not so mysterious, they are just complicated and can be understood and controlled with some study and some mathematics and experiments. This is an invaluable lesson for students to see hands-on and cannot be removed from curricula.

I think the focus on things like tech, and people saying "not everyone needs to go to college" are driven by the desire to please capitalists.

Academic studies in logic (well, formal logic) are I think overrated as far as their ability to train students to think rigorously and carefully is concerned. Though I agree with you 100% on philosophy, and high schools already teach statistics. Informal logic and rhetoric, yes. Ethics, yes. Philosophy of <insert any subject here>, yes. Statistics, sure, once they know enough mathematics to begin to understand it.
Applied and computational statistics, especially related to learning/inferring latent representations and causal inference.

Basically, there's a big complicated world out there, and the data we can collect about it using any fixed amount of human labor is really noisy, and so we need vastly better statistical techniques than are usually applied (see: p-hacking/NHST-worship) to help us figure out what the heck is going on.

Example: http://www.isi.edu/people/gregv/practical_methods_discoverin...
I would say along the lines of academic publishing, there is also a problem with people publishing misleading or plain wrong press releases. I think there needs to be a better way of evaluating the reliability of research, and a way to possibly improve the peer review process. This may mean that research has to be more open with the data that they collect. I think there is definitely some work to be done here.
Yeah, the weird thing about NYC is it's more heavily actor/waiter/bartender focused on the youth spectrum so everybody you meet is almost maximally different from everybody else. It causes a strange effect where people form overly homogenous groups when they do find people who are similar (crossfit cults, every actor has slept with every other actor, revolving doors of finance firms, etc).

In some ways it seems all the "regular" people get absorbed into other levels of success/purpose outside of technology here, so technology is left with a larger weirdo population than SF since there are many more non-techonlogy things to make regular people happy around here.
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Hey, I just checked robomongo's primary website and got to know about their current situation (oh, the design). I have tried several other MongoDB Native GUIs but always switched back to Robomongo.

This guy is looking after native builds of Robomongo on Window, Mac and Linux. The whole scenario is well documented on the website ( http://robomongo.org/ ).

Go check it out ( & Donate if you use it )
LVS load-balancing is amazing. You can use a tiny instance to load balance huge amounts of traffic since the instance itself doesn't need to process and pass the traffic.

the part that makes it difficult to implement is that the hosts have to be on the same network. I didn't dive too much into the code but it looks like you also assign an additional interface to use as a VIP. I believe you'll need to be in your own network and not the cloud to implement this.

Still cool nonetheless!
Good article describing Fortran's historical dominance:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/scientific-computings...
> NASA (in their infinite wisdom) have neglected reduced-gravity research entirely.

Got some evidence for that surprising claim?

NASA is the only organization in the history of the world that has actually put people onto a reduced-gravity body.
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I don't agree with your conclusions, but seriously, thank you for at least detailing what you feel is wrong with it in a way that can be discussed, instead of just posting throwaway "Silicon valley, am I right?" crap.
Cached version : http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_t5yQSL...

And the summary is, separate "system" requirements/dependencies from those that packages depend on so that rebuilding a package doesn't break the system.
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It's not an economics website. It's an advertising website for a company that builds web scraper tools.
Loved that game. Flying under the Golden Gate bridge! F-19 was great as well.
I'm a fan of moonbases myself but there are reasons why Mars might be easier. An atmosphere and a ~24 hour day make heat management less of an issue and solar power easier to do. Plus there's all this carbon floating around in the air you can work with. The Moon's big advantages are that it's close and it's easier to get up and down its gravity well. I think that makes it better for a non-self-sustaining. base but probably worse otherwise.
That's my point. Billionaires don't get to where they are by chasing outlandish dreams. There are people that sacrifice everything for a dream. They are usually the first people to climb a mountain or break an Olympic record. Or they join the church and serve the poor of india. Whatever money they have is dedicated immediately because money is always secondary.
I love how these "news" organizations take snippets and off-the-cuff comments from interviews and make it seem like Elon Musk has announced something.

This "news" is from an interview Elon did in Hong Kong. It's actually one of the better and most interesting interviews of Elon because the host was pretty knowledgeable. Well worth a full view:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiRLGpm5CiY
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Volvo's order book (future orders) is indicative of how shippers see demand for new capacity. If I see demand increasing, I increase my purchase of capital assets (trucks in Volvo's case) to capture the business. If I see demand decreasing or holding constant, I withhold my large capital expenditures and ride my existing fleet as long as possible. It's already a sunk cost and all I'm paying for, at that point, is maintenance/overhead which get included in the rate for the truck.

At a macro level, when we see demand for future transportation assets decreasing that gives us insight into the transportation market and how people who provide the services see it going. They won't buy massive quantities of new goods if they don't see any business. Yes, companies like Apple release quarterly numbers, and we have to examine them in the context of their industry. Apple focuses on consumer electronic goods. As their numbers adjust and change, that gives us insight into (past) demand for consumer electronic goods and the state of the general consumer's purchasing power. You get leading insight into what Apple thinks demand will be, to some extent, by looking at their suppliers. Watch Samsung/TSCM when they announce big contracts from Apple. That gives you an inference as to what Apple thinks demand will be for a product. Same thing with shipping and transportation. Look at the industries that supply the goods and services transportation companies have to make capital expenditures to acquire and you'll get a rough idea of what the companies are thinking the market looks like.

Economy wise, yes, it's complicated to get a finger on the pulse of an economy and a lot of what goes into it. Technology and information travels over cables and electromagnetic waves and we've increased the efficiency of the manufacturing process to such an extent that we can use less people to sustain a higher rate of output than previous generations. However, there are fundamental factors that go into any economy you can measure to get an idea of what's happening and that usually takes the form of commodities. We need raw resources like food, energy, precious metals, and manufactured consumer goods to sustain the economy and most of those goods require special transport equipment to get from the suppliers and manufacturers to the consumers. Monitor that and you get a pulse on the overall health of the economy. The more facets you can monitor (trucks, rail, ships) the better your understanding.

Edit: Fixed wording
isn't the amount of traffic highest at commute times (dawn / dusk) and lowest, excluding night-time, at mid-day when available sunlight is highest?
It's quite interesting how emotive a list of achievements could be. There's a certain poetry to it, no?
This is one of the few types of arms races that I feel benefits the consumer.
Good job! The open-source community cannot let trolls like this win so easily. Now we need to push them up the search rankings.
How the hell is it that ALL of the posts saying anything negative about GS have been reported or downvoted or in gray. When did HN become such a staunch defender of investment bankers? Goldman Sachs repeatedly acts in the interest of themselves over their own clients.

This is going to be downvoted too, isn't it?
It's up. http://jadeworld.org/

I also just posted a Show HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11002843 for this.
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OS X had been UNIX certified, at some point, though. Don't know if that is still true
When I was in high school about 10years ago or so everyone was required to take a computer class. Computer science was the only AP class (More GPA Points) so everyone took that.
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Totally. I think there is plenty of value in design and brand work. The types of startups that don't have the money, or need to get a professional designer to help them out aren't the types of customer any designer would want in the first place. So free resources like these simply fill the gap to make sure startups don't waste $5 on fiverr for crap, instead get something much nicer for free. WHen they have the money and are seeing their company get traction, their brand becomes important and they'll naturally shift towards designers. I think the company behind this resource understands that. bravo.
This is why I didn't even want to google it... ignorance is bliss. Thank you, i guess...
every single post critical of GS has been downvoted/reported. Isn't there a way to call those people out? It's probably the same 2 people.
The nsa knows that it's very difficult to implement security. Nothing new here: look for the weakest link then pivot once inside.

That being said, I really feel the future is in predictive and reactive machine learning algos on data.
I doubt I'll have the same brain structure a hundred thousand years from now that I do today

LOL that is for sure. It'll be dirt within 1/1000 of that time.
Learning a programming language is also about as difficult (and probably easier for some) than learning a foreign language (Spanish, French, etc) for 1-2 years which most states require.
Having a dream is not the same as beeing an idiot. For a Mars mission to have any change you need to improve on rocket technology, you need a strong space industry.

You can not put all your money into one mission and crash into mars. Its a multiyear effort of building a sustainable the needed infrastucture and technology.

Because of this approche Elon is different from others and its why he actually have a change of success.
The problem is that the pusher plate is so heavy that you really want to launch that off planet under its own power to make it worthwhile and that would generate some fallout. There are things you can do to minimize that but it would still be as bad as an open air thermonuclear bomb test like Castle Bravo. The nuclear powers conducted lots of those but they do kill an expected 100 people each given some assumptions about the danger of low radiation doses. On the other hand nuclear-thermal, nuclear-electric, and solar-electric are all fine ways of getting to Mars faster.
Our friend Zoz of Defcon fame has a talk about NSA spying that enumerates and gives details to some of the ways that the NSA can 'see' you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1q4Ir2J8P8
He's misdirecting people. Sure this is good advice. The problem is they only protect upper layers of the stack. NSA TAO hits the lower ones, too. Some NSA tooling even attacks in ways that require TEMPEST-style shielding. An old enumeration of issues I put together shows more of the places they're hitting plus assurance activities that stopped their hackers in the past:

http://pastebin.com/y3PufJ0V

Suffice it to say, the TAO is going to breach most of what people use. What people in high-assurance security usually did was a combination of airgaps, embedded hardware, micro/separation kernels, things like serial ports to avoid DMA risk, and so on. You have to get all the attack surface out of the equation. Then, you make the TCB simple and strong for the rest.

It's more work than most will do. It also counters the mainstream favorites like Linux/BSD, at least usual usage. So, uptake of high-security methods stayed low enough for TAO to have an easy job. Snowden leaks haven't changed that: economic and social factors remain for proprietary and FOSS. So, follow this advice or not, they'll still probably get in because root problems are still there. Might stop others, though.
The amateur game development community would love these. Designing logos for in-universe companies is a thankless chore.

But they're really adverse to using things without an explicit license. This could really use a CC0 stamp somewhere.
>You will not have a Nordic-style prison system in the USA in your lifetime. Too many people that vote have too few fucks to give about people they're conditioned to not give fucks about. It's a people problem, and the author even touched on it - any positives you make to improving the system will be slagged on by the ignorant as being soft on evil people.

This is the real problem. It's not impossible, just extremely hard. How about we innovate on it and see what progress we can make? I mean, if someone said to you "You will not have a Minecraft client running full-speed on an Arduino in your lifetime", you'd call them defeatist.
The article the parent comment linked to is a refutation of the news stories that attacked the town. I'm not sure if they meant to do that.
What about all the roads (most of them in the suburbs) that don't carry a lot of traffic?
Perhaps he believes getting to Mars will cost a trillion, and is waiting to attain that? Given his track record I'm far more inclined to trust the guy's roadmap for attaining his personal goals than yours or mine.
People already use bots to harass their opponents on twitter, etc. It's not a good thing. This sounds good for a short while, but think through how misguided or malicious people would use it.
Most people are not going to be novelists, but all students learn to write. Most people are not going to be mathematicians, but they all learn basic math. Sure, if you are bad at it, it will frustrate you. Go talk to any 10 year old and you will find this is already true for existing subject. Pick any subject - learning it in school doesn't mean you are going to do it for a career, but it is part of education so that you understand enough to get by in a world where those subjects are important. It is also an opportunity for kids who do excel at it to learn that at a younger age and have more time to develop their abilities. but we are talking about basic education, not bootcamps to turn every kid into a coder.

Also, the existing programs are finding that you don't need, or even want, computer science teachers to be teaching kids. You want professional educators, who understand children and their development, to teach kids. Again, we're talking a basic level of curriculum, so having a professional elementary educator learn a new curriculum is working quite well already.

As far as actually developing that curriculum, code.org is a really good basis for it, which many local programs are using. most supplement it with additional material, and I know of at least one program that is funding grants to districts to develop their own local programs, while at the same time formalizing curriculum in a way that they can be shared nationwide with districts that have not yet had the resources to create their own.

This is not a new idea coming from the government that needs to be tried - it is an existing idea already succeeding in some districts that may receive funding to expand.
If you're referring to this device [1], it's a matter of opinion. Personally I wouldn't really agree: the mortar and pestle is a common enough device and the leaf is a nice distinctive element.

The real risk in a situation like this is not really that you get a C&D from using it on your startup's landing page. The risk is that if you eventually tried to file a trademark for it, you would lose: either because some large firm's lawyers would oppose and have no trouble outspending you; or because, if you tried to file a trademark on an open-source logo you found on HN, you probably got bad legal advice.

If I had a natural-supplement startup, for example, I'd be fine using this open-source logo as a placeholder and developing a new logo once I wanted to start a trademark registration process.

http://enjoykingsheath.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/lloyds...
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This doesn't really address the popular prediction - that Twitter is going to continue to struggle with monetization and that user growth will continue to remain flat.

Twitter may be the "greatest social platform ever built," but it wasn't built on a very strong financial foundation.
because nobody wants to be the one to spend millions (or billions) in R and D (while the rest spend $0).

They spend only enough to get ahead of their competitors, which is why I said it's a completely different model. Progress happens more incrementally.
I think computers are pretty prevalent.
This worries me, a lot.

There has been a strong trend of sexism in education for a long time now. Reading between the lines,

"Americans of all kinds – from the Spanish teacher in Queens who added programming to _her_ classes to the young _woman_ in New Orleans who worked with her Police Chief to learn code and share more data with the community – are getting involved to help young people learn these skills. And just today, states like Delaware and Hawaii, companies like Google and SalesForce, and organizations like Code.org have made commitments to help more of our kids learn these skills. "

Code.org makes no bones that it prioritises girls on its homepage. Obama gave two examples of women. Why are we driving gender into learning? It shouldn't even enter the equation, unless our goal is to encourage one gender at the expense of another, like code.org does so brazenly. With failing grades for boys over the last two decades, you think we'd be horrified for young boys, but the campaign to discriminate against them is strong.

Interestingly, there are very few articles willing to discuss why this non-subtle trend has occurred. It's usually explained that boys have become sexist or become slow learners in recent years. I found this article that seems to tackle the topic of "why" in an open and plausible way.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/eliminating-feminist-teach...

One such quote of many,

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In science and general knowledge, as in math skills, the data showed that kindergarten and first grade white boys’ grades “are lower by 0.11 and 0.06 standard deviations, even though their test scores are higher.” This disparity continues and grows through to the fifth grade, with white boys and girls being graded similarly, “but the disparity between their test performance and teacher assessment grows.”
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It's useful, yes, but because of the buggy implementations out there, the risk in bricking, wanton removal of important variables, etc, is just too great. If anything, it should be a device node or the like. /dev/efi makes a lot more sense given its structure and purpose than trying to abstract it into looking kinda sorta like a filesystem.
Do you expect 2000+ packages in NPM to be renamed?
I don't see what you are getting at. An enterprise such as sending people to Mars is obviously not going to be made by selling a house or a one time boost from a personal fortune, but by setting up a system that allows consistent and substantial profits.

Also, Musk's fortune is comes from the shares he owns of his own companies. Not sure it's a smart move to sell all those shares to invest the cash back in the same company.
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>>> .. I don't think anyone seriously believes the manned exploration of Mars will turn any profit.

I think this will be the most profitable enterprise mankind has ever seen. A earth full of mineral wealth untouched, available for whoever can lay their hands on. If spaceX was trading today I would buy its stock in a blink and hold on to it for the next 50 years.
They have and use accounts, but not under real names. As soon as they see any spike in followers, anything more than their few friends/employees which would suggest a leak, everything is deleted. If you are into cyberstalking then you can sometimes find these accounts by tracking a celebs movements against likely tweets. No doubt TMZ has people on this. Since the iPhone fiasco many young celebs have shunned email. Twitter can be a functional replacement, at least for all the inane chat.
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why can't we use similar terms as ours to describe the trees' interactions?

I haven't read the article yet, but presumably because doing so is inaccurate. The inaccuracy isn't a problem for people sufficiently familiar with the topic that they understand the anthropomorphism, but for people new to the topic confusion ensues unbeknownst to them. Natural selection is a classic example of anthropomorphism leading to people not having the slightest understanding of what they're talking about.
Don't worry, it's got company down in the bin along with Separation Of Content And Presentation.

I guess if you only make HTML email templates, this is the library for you!
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Ask HN: Good things about systemd. How has it helped you?
Systemd has a terrible reputation. But it cannot be all bad, right? So I was wondering, how as it helped you? Where has it brought an improvement for you?

I start: service files are usually simpler, shorter, clearer than init.d/ scripts when you just want to lunch a program. Automatic restarts on failures, are very nice.