skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science is a movement that's about simplifying reality to discover principles. (Examples: Galileo ignored friction and air resistance to get at principles of motion. And if something's too complicated, the physicist hands it to the chemist, who hands it to the biologist...)

There's a link between that and critical thinking; one of the first theoretical physicists wrote: "The duty of the person who investigates the writings of ancients [scientists?], if learning the truth is their goal, is to make themself an enemy of all that they read, and ... attack it from every side. They should also suspect themself as they perform their critical examination of it, so that they may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency." — Alhazen, ~1000, Cairo

However, since science is a social enterprise, it's vulnerable to institutional bullshit. Certainly, Alhazen had to pretend madness to avoid angering the local Powers That Be. Nowadays, scientists must contend with all sorts of brokenness at universities; managerialism/bureaucracy, class/sexism/racism, etc.
Indeed. IMHO, the only antidote to this is teaching people (and scientists) to be very, very sceptical whenever someone doesn't care if one of their arguments are refuted.
Halfway down the page:

"Raspberry Pi 3 is available to buy today from our partners element14 [1] and RS Components [2]"

[1] https://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi
[2] http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberry...
It actually depends on the publisher, the french news site nextinpact[1] listen to criticism of ads, looked into the issues and made their move: ads are limited to display format, no behavioral targeting, no animation, no mixing content and ads, no tracker on client-side (tracking is on server side with a locally installed piwik).

The mafia comparison is targeting adblock plus for their "do your ads as we say, give us a 30% cut of the money you make and we may whitelist your ads (only if you're big enough as in at least 10m ad impressions)" feature[3].

[1]: http://www.nextinpact.com/blog/97835-pourquoi-next-inpact-ar...
[2]: http://www.nextinpact.com/publicite-partenariat
[3]: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/25/adblock-pl...
There really isnt any competition from "hobbyists/non-profits". The top publishers on the web all produce a ton of content, none of it can be run without a big business operation which has to earn something, either through advertising or paywalls.
thanks for the links!

i should do a much better job consolidating and advertising all of these resources, but time is never on my side :) so i figure that i'll just keep putting more stuff up and let google figure it out for now.
There are very obvious links in the post:

"Raspberry Pi 3 is available to buy today from our partners element14 and RS Components, and other resellers."

e.g. https://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi
>What conflict of interest does a Young Earth Creationist have? Not money.

Why not money? Most of them built a career that is celebrated, while being lousy scientists, by playing the Creationist card and appealing to particular political/religious publics. And working for similarly minded organizations and "research" institutes.

>If you say religious belief, you'd be right, but it's not a terribly effective criticism because the majority of U.S. scientists are religious, too.

That would be relevant only if they let their religion influence their science. Which a computer scientist or a chemist doesn't have to, or at least as much as a evolutionary biologist.
He may be a spammer, but I take issue with:

> They don't fit with the general theme of the content which is usually posted on HN.

I'm glad HN isn't /r/programming, where there are strict controls on topics. There has always been an 80/20 mix of stories about tech or startups / interesting stories about the world, and I find that works pretty well to hold my interest.

There's a universal nostalgic bias that everything used to be better, so I'm skeptical by default of any claim that something has declined in quality over time. It might be true, just needs some kind of data to be persuasive, rather than personal testimonies.
> As expected, the development edition will come with Skype which will allow users to “interact in the holographic world”

will it _require_ Skype?
"Discrimination"? Seriously?
In the case of Robert Moses, he pointed out his disdain for blacks and Puerto Ricans in public on a regular basis.

Robert Caro wrote an epic biography of the man with intense details of how he ticked.
I've always wondered how people with chronic disorders/diseases manage themselves at a hackathon. That 24-hour non-stop insanity has always dissuaded me from attending one. Turns out there are people who see the downsides of one.
Advertisers run ads on the internet precisely because of the richer metrics it offers - knowing exactly who/how many saw, clicked, or otherwise engaged with an ad. This makes advertising more efficient and better for both the advertiser and you the user.

The implementation is current broken largely due to a lack of regulation and enforcement in the industry but this can easily be fixed by having better opt-out mechanisms online (3rd party cookie removal went the opposite way). This would allow you to get more generic ads if that's your wish.
Did the same and had clicks with a different USB DAC. I'm waiting to hear whether this one works too!
> it's laughably obvious when someone who doesn't know what they're talking about, like you

You can tell from a single comment?
New electrical film that is both solid and liquid
An interesting move by Amazon, will be interesting to see how this pans out.

In the short term, the deal crucially allows Amazon to move into the fresh-food market with a credible fresh food offer quickly, all the while avoiding the potentially huge cost of building a fresh food supply chain platform. While it will probably take some time to build, it will most likely be an effective, credible and deep-pocketed additional market share thorn in the side of the UK incumbents. Given the importance of drop densities, those with greatest exposure to higher population density areas (i.e. Sainsbury, Tesco and Waitrose) will have the most to lose.

I am curious how the demographics of Prime Now customers will mix with Morrison's customers.
Leap Years: we can do better
Continuous Delivery for Meteor on AWS Elastic Beanstalk via Docker
This started out as expected, but then took a slightly surprising twist. Don't judge it by the first few minutes - it gets better, and more technical.
Swift Algorithm Club – popular algorithms and data structures in Swift
Yes, much of the info in this article seems completely made up. The cheapest clicks in the entire industry are probably around 2-3c and these are the worst of the worst. Many are far higher, probably somewhere between 20-70c and going up to $$ depending on ad quality and conversion ROI.
Cheers for clarifying that. Might have been the end for hifiberry, iqaudio etc otherwise
If the field was sane we would not expect breakthrough results or any results all of the time. We would happily say to scientists, thanks for your continued efforts... and allow them the money and time to do real science. But this is not how the crazy Capitalist world works. You have sociopaths which run these institutions always barking orders and demanding results. So the poor employee gives you what you ask, and you say good boy, and give them a treat.
That's true for slicing and indexes, but hopefully you can use Iterator then for basic traversal, which does this.
SpaceX calls last-second rocket abort
And as everyone knows the green advocacy groups are making a TON of money from reselling non polluted air, and they are making a killing buying inland beaches!
It's something like $7k a year to run a car. It's something like $2k a year just to leave the car in the garage. So $5k/12=$417 per month. Where in the US does it cost over $400 for a monthly bus/rail pass?
I think this kind of "worse is better" is actually a very valuable thing to learn. These "crude and fragile apps which leverage most of its work to frameworks" provide a lot of value to people, which is ultimately a lot more important than engineering pride.
In the short term, you're right. But later, when we discuss my yearly performance, it becomes important!
Well, they have lots of comfort food. Katsu curry is only one of these.
Ah, yes that's true. The java ecosystem had much more time to mature, and it shows.
Not even the extreme of the Tokyo metro - there are plenty of rail lines that are standing-room only during peak hour.
We solve all this by having a platform that syndicates sponsored content directly to the user. They click but stay on a rendered page controlled by us. No 3rd party assets or destination to worry about.
MVP for free – would you be interested?
The dominance of baby boomers is becoming total
viva la automated cars.
> HoloLens Developer Edition will be available for $3000.

Wow. I'm a 23 year old Software Engineer living in the Bay Area and making six figures. I have plenty of disposable income yet I still find this expensive. If they aren't targeting me, who are they targeting? I don't think a senior executive at an Investment Banking firm will develop apps for their prototype in his free time.
Actually the critics should be dismissed as soon as they criticize scientific findings without demonstrating their knowledge and valid and effective use of the scientific method.

Somebody's ignorance of the background of some scientific claims is absolutely not an excuse to accept to even spend the energy considering his claims of "wrongness." The only thing we should consider is how we can educate as much people as we can, but we certainly should not treat them as having any contribution to the understanding of the topic.

An example for a case study:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8athT6tfRIg

"Horizon Zoom Boom Earth Flat"

The modern concept of "journalistic balance" (in reality, trying to win the eyeballs by creating "conflict") by representing 99% percent of all world scientists with one person and some group with silly claims with another person and giving these two then the same air time or coverage space is exactly one of the things that produce this effect:

"The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

Also never ignore the "accidental" fact when the "silly" group represents the interests of the people with immense amount of wealth and/or power, or potential financial or power gain in maintaining the "controversy." That's where the events really get nasty.
>Isn't there a better place for you to promote these articles? They don't really fit HN.

That's for HN users to decide, and they have upvoted the article just fine. If you don't like it, don't upvote it.
Our ad network does this. It works. The problem is that the larger global ad industry doesn't have much regulation or enforcement so it's very easy to run scams and nobody gets in trouble for it. The infrastructure players don't care since they make money on volume, not quality.

Basic incentives - until they're fixed nothing will change.
Much Better Adventures, the U.K. Travel Startup, Raises £400K
That may be true of the general HN crowd, but I doubt it's true for most people. I block ads because they make the web ugly and slow. It's simply nicer to browse sites without them.

In my case at least, "surveillance" doesn't factor into it. If I were to see ads, I'd actually prefer they be targeted to my interests.
Native vs. Hybrid App Development
Alan Sokal's 'Beyond The Hoax' and 'Intellectual Impostures' are good reads about the subject.
To Sell a $1,000 Pill for $10 Without Losing Money
Lots of progress, but there's still work to do. If the GC is unacceptable for your application, slap `@nogc` on your `main` function and you're guaranteed to not use it.
Right, but note that almost anywhere outside the (christian) west uses (at least) two concurrent systems without much trouble (e.g. India: Western/Shaka calendar, Israel: Western/Jewish Lunar calendar, etc.).
> One most modern 64-bit systems, malloc will never fail anyway

Except if a virtual memory resource limit is set ("help ulimit").

$ sh -c 'ulimit -S -v 1000 ; perl -e 1'
Segmentation fault
$ sh -c 'ulimit -S -v 2000 ; perl -e 1'
perl: error while loading shared libraries: libm.so.6: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory
$ sh -c 'ulimit -S -v 20000 ; perl -e "qw{a}x100000000"'
Out of memory!
But for the most part those alternative implementations have similar designs and performance characteristics to the most popular implementation. E.g. for Java, all major modern implementations use a JIT, and the language lends itself to a JIT runtime, as virtual-methods-by-default performs poorly when statically compiled.
You can measure something and determine that it's probably too low. And you can look at someone's public statements and determine that it's probably deliberate. But you can't determine someone's intentions with a tape measure.
Yes, Burakumin are still discriminated against.. Less so now than before, but coming from a Dowa area is still seen as a negative, land prices in Dowa areas are significantly cheaper, those neighborhoods are much poorer and there are still quite a few parents who will strongly object to their daughter marrying someone that comes from such an area.

It's not as bad as discrimination against Zainichi Koreans but it exists and does affect the job prospect of Burakus.

I used to live south of Kyoto station which is a Dowa district and had friends from this minority (as well as Zainich Korean friends). So I'm saying this based on experience.

Back to the topic at hand, Saiboshi is delicious :)
Can this decode and play 1080p H.265 videos? I know it can't do it with the built in chip (hardware rendering), but I'm asking if its cpu is capable of doing so.
A significant part of China is a desert. Historically the population of China has been clustered along its east coast. That area is not that much bigger than Germany (if at all).

Look at this section of the wiki article for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China#Populati...
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Are coders worth it? (2013)
I think you both might underestimate just how formidable the desert can be, just a few kilometers away from the nearest road/track/goat-path .. having lived in deserts all my life, the mere presence of a track on a map doesn't mean much. Get out there under you own wind, and you might have a different compulsion towards criticism of the 'accuracy' of the story ..
Things to avoid in Docker containers
Big rise in consumer credit in January
The Most Important Object in Computer Graphics History Is This Teapot
You probably want a computer designed around performance instead of "community". Check out the Odroid C2. It's got a 64 bit quad core CPU (just* like the Pine and RPi3) but clocked at 2GHz. And has real gigabit. And has twice as much ram. And can drive a 4k screen comfortably. Sadly no USB3. You can get that, but in boards that cost $70.

The C2 goes on sale in like one or two days for $40. (edit: You can buy in now on HK's website.) Kind of a childish move for the RPi Foundation to be making so much noise about their new board right now, actually. (edit: Okay, benbenben makes a fair and accurate point. Several boards, including the first, have been released at the end of February.)

* Not entirely just like. It's an Amlogic chip instead of Broadcom or Allwinner. Amlogic is one of the few without blatant GPL abuse.
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It's pretty much all done by emailed patches with git am - I maintain a personal tree on GitHub and one privately in my company, but they're purely for experimentation, not for sending pull requests. Email is how we submit code, discuss code and review code. You use git send-email to fire your patches off to the appropriate maintainer + mailing list, you make your modifications/rebase it/etc then send off V2, V3, ... V14 of your patch until everyone's happy. Among other things, we tend to be quite picky about getting commit messages right, and making sure that patch series are "structured" in a "nice" way - so git rebase -i is one of the most common commands I run on my private branches...

Maintainers all have their own tools and scripts to help automate and track the whole process - in the area where I work, we track things using Patchwork (see http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/list/). When the maintainer's happy with a patch, it gets applied and pushed to one of the trees they use (e.g. with powerpc, we have powerpc-next for feature development and powerpc-fixes for important fixes). Eventually, they send Linus a pull request, and it makes its way into the kernel mainline.

It's a bit of a tricky system that requires understanding of the kernel community's social norms to get right - which I'm not entirely happy with but I don't think it'll change particularly quickly. However, it's also surprisingly effective - the kernel is one of the largest and most distributed individual projects in the open source world, and as a community we keep pushing out releases.
I'd personally like to find the time to write this – some of the infrastructure (like call graph analysis) is already available.

However, I think this is the nuclear option. I have some experience from university where I wrote some Eiffel code, contracts and all that jazz. It often takes some head scratching to figure out the right pre- and postconditions.

I'd actually rather see more safe interfaces for the common cases (like iterators and slices) that are ergonomic to use and may actually carry the proof in their types.
U.S., EU Release Text of New Agreement on Protecting Data Privacy
Me too. Are you a professional economist? What research hypotheses would you be putting to test in Fairhope, AL?
>HoloTour which will offer “users 360-degree panoramic displays of places like Rome and Machu Picchu.

For $3000 now days you can visit half the world.
Worst UI design features that should be avoided but are still in common use
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Probably they are targeting companies.
Saying bitcoin is less centralized than Ethereum is a joke given the current civil war on block size, and some devs being "frozen out". Also, some core devs made a lot of money with bitcoin and that's funding their commitment. Same same, but different.
what's the point of

> sh -c /path/to/program
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You can trivially ensure that by just downloading the page. These things are usually a single HTML page you can run locally.
I'm reminded of LOAD81, from antirez, which is another of these "throwback to the times when computing was easier" style of user interfaces:

http://github.com/antirez/load81

Fun stuff! :)
I'm convinced Trump could kill Marco Rubio on live TV in Times Square and receive a bump in the polls.
Someone needs to tell this to recruiters.

There's too many job adverts for jobs that any programmer could do in any language, but they WANT a Java/c#/etc guy.
I think the ideal system has an intuitive and exhaustive GUI, but where everything can be scriptable.

And a more than ideal system would give you the way to go from GUI to scripting easily. I.e. in any control panel you would have a button at the top that if you click, will make some command windows appear below the current window, which would show you the command line equivalent of anything that you do using the GUI.

I am not arguing against having a scriptable OS. I am saying that a GUI makes things a lot easier to understand intuitively, being able to observe the state of the system visually and making it clear what are all the possible options from a given point.
Oh, it's not only that you have "i5" CPUs spanning many years of iterations and different cores. You sometimes even have i5-<4digit> CPUs with a suffix: There's at least 3 versions of a i5-3470 (no suffix, S or T suffix).

Then there's the branding as Pentium or Celeron...
WhatsApp to end Blackberry OS support
Any tl;dw?
Thanks for the information, I was under the impression that the Pi 2 also used P5... but indeed it's on the 40 pin header now (http://www.pagemac.com/projects/i2s_amp)

Now if one could repurpose another 2 GPIO pins for bit-banging I2s... there are chips which support multichannel, see http://www.ti.com/lit/an/snla221/snla221.pdf page 5.
I would add sticky navbar on mobile..
You can't do that even in London. Unless you're luck and you're getting on at a terminus station and there's seat available.

If you absolutely need a seat you can always let the first train got if there's no seats depends on haw important it is to get a seat for you.

Of course if you avoid peak hours which we can it's a different story.
For information for my 70 mile commute to London my season ticket (not a pass ) is over $500 a Month plus another 70$ for bus/taxis to get to the station
There is work on-going to get ClojureSCript working with React Native. The tooling is a pain-point right now, but it's at least at proof-of-concept stage.

http://cljsrn.org/ is generally up-to-date with the state of the art in CLJS+RN.
D much like C++ interfaces to C see:

https://dlang.org/spec/interfaceToC.html

D was at one point a C++ compiler but Walter Bright decided to break backward compatibility with C syntactically to allow the language to evolve in ways that C restricts, while still allowing it to interface with C. Sorry if I worded this poorly, but you may want to reconsider D and see for yourself if it feels like a second class citizen or what? There are sample projects interfacing to C projects (LuaD comes to mind).
Check you out!

They must be targeting businesses? It is a Developer Edition after all.
Well, they can make a more expensive / difficult to get (for an individual) version, similarly to how it works with Windows 10.
I just picked up the book "Tcl/Tk: A Developer's Guide" by Clif Flynt. I see Tcl/Tk in PureData, Pd, that I am using, and so many other apps that I decided it was worth learning. The short code examples were also enlightening. I have used it so far to write some utilities on Windows that I would have used Powershell for, but now I can use them on my Linux partition too. And the Tk widgets are not as bad as the press they get, especially for personal, rather than distribution to the 'design' saavy ;) I like it so far.
Err how so? Would you actuality like to give us some examples of subsidy.
> I don't think Windows users appreciate the importance of a good command line accessible over SSH for managing headless systems.

You should check out this link - production quality OpenSSH for Windows planned for H1 2016.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2015/10/19/opens...
Looks like standard DeepDream to me so not really the same thing. In OP they combine pictures while this just apply DeepDream over and over until it looks like that.
Embeddable Common-Lisp has now official Android support. It is also known to build for iPhone. It allows connecting via swank to the running application:

https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl

https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/ecl/ecl-android

Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer.

Edit: add main project website, clarify iPhone support status.
See also, https://asciinema.org

An impressively unexciting example can also be seen here: https://pharext.org
Which is why I was referring to Windows RT rather than Windows 10 IoT. I think Windows IoT is meant to run on really tiny under-powered devices. The specs of the RaspberryPi 3 seem to look more like a modern smartphone and I would assume Windows RT would run OK on it.
Have you tried https://github.com/tomaka/glium?
For anyone thinking, "The words in the title sound sort of familiar, but I'm not sure why", it's a reference to "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", a great book by Milan Kundera which translated into Daniel Day-Lewis' worst film.
Nah, that only happens on HN. Ad hominem is a very effective tactic everywhere else.