skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's anything real here. McCulloch's papers on arXiv seem very confused. Eg., this paragraph:

"In this scheme there is a minimum allowed acceleration which depends on a Hubble scale Θ, so, if Θ has increased in cosmic time, there should be a positive correlation between the anomalous centripetal acceleration seen in equivalent galaxies, and their distance from us, since the more distant ones are seen further back in time when, if the universe has indeed been expanding, Θ was smaller. The mass to light ratio (M/L) does seem to increase as we look further away. The M/L ratio of the Sun is 1 by definition, for nearby stars it is 2, for galaxies’ it is 50, for galaxy pairs it is 100 and for clusters it is 300. As an aside: equation (11) could be used to model inflation, since when Θ was small in the early universe the minimum acceleration is predicted to be larger." (http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0612599v1.pdf)

If an effect was stronger in the early universe, you'd expect to see a big correlation between the effect size in a galaxy, and that galaxy's redshift z. It wouldn't make any sense to say that "galaxies" have a ratio of 50, since there are galaxies at every redshift; many are nearby and have redshifts of almost zero, while the Ultra Deep Field galaxies have very large redshifts of up to ~10. If the number is really the same for "galaxies" in general, that means there's no distance dependence, but McCulloch doesn't seem to realize this. He seems to imply that nearby stars have a higher mass/luminosity ratio because of their distance compared to the Sun (?!), but the time-delay effect for anything in the Milky Way is negligible (< 0.0005% of the universe's age). In reality, nearby areas of space will have higher ratios than the Sun just because they contain many objects which, unlike the Sun, don't emit much light (red/brown/white dwarfs, gas and dust, etc.). Likewise, he seems to imply that "galaxy clusters" are farther away than "galaxies", but most galaxies are part of clusters, and we can observe both galaxies and galaxy clusters at both small and large redshifts.
The news sections are always biased, if only by what they cover. For example, the New York Times, until the past month or so, was constantly running news stories about Hillary Clinton's chances in the general election against various Republicans. However, they obviously betray a bias since they considered all of the Republicans running, and only one of the Democrats. (Curiously, they started running more serious articles about Sanders only after it became clear he wasn't going to win the nomination.)
This article appears to be bent on buttressing an anti-scientific religious viewpoint rather than improving science. (Read the last few paragraphs.) The conclusion strikes the same themes that I've seen many times in the religious anti-science movement: science is a religion, a cult, etc.

Sure, statistics are difficult and can lead to incorrect conclusions, but that's why we make sure that a scientific claim is falsifiable. The fact that we can test the claims are where much of the power lies. Let's not forget that a few centuries of the scientific method have made human lives so much better than millennia of religion.
Are menstrual cups socially acceptable in India? You need to be able to empty them and then wash them in a sink.

From the article:

> There are still many taboos around menstruation in India. Women can't visit temples or public places, they're not allowed to cook or touch the water supply - essentially they are considered untouchable.
Not familiar with bison, but we do have the same issue with deer, as I understand it. We've driven out their natural predators, so they have a habit of overpopulating and eating their environment clean, then starving off. That's why we encourage controlled hunting. Keeps the numbers down to what they would have been if we still had wolves/bears around eating them.
As mentioned by others in the other threads, I would not recommend continuing these summaries in an attempt to promote your Apply HN.

At minimum, it is an attempt to influence votes.
Yes I appreciate that paper-thin walls aren't going to cut it, that's why I mentioned 'luxury' flats....

I lived in quite a few in France, and I remember playing electric guitar, loudly, at 3am in one and the neigbours couldn't hear it!

They did object about the Djembe session tho :-)
Christ, I get it.
Do you want to pay more taxes to upgrade something utilitarian for purely aesthetic reasons?
Evaluating NASA's Futuristic EmDrive (2015)
When I bought my first "luxury" vehicle (a mid level Audi), I was able to roll into the financing for about $5K more a "service" and "care" package that for the first 6 years covers of course all the usual scheduled maintenance and service, but basically "as long as you didn't break it yourself, everything will be fixed with no out of pocket".

That seemed a worthwhile investment to me.
It's really not. Science, or rather the scientific method, applies only to that which can be quantified, as otherwise you'll have no way to accurately verify the success of a scientific experiment. You can try to quantify happiness, but only superficially, it doesn't accurately describe what happiness is. For example, if I said I was 72% happy today, what does mean objectively (i.e. outside from my personal context)?
You can use RLS with a web app.

You can still use connection pooling.

PostgreSQL is performant with hundreds of thousands of user accounts (though not pgAdmin).

create role www noinherit login password 's3cr3t';

create role alice;

grant alice to www;

Connect to database as www (same connection string = you can use pooling)

After you get your connection from the pool

set role alice;

When you release you connection back to the pool

reset role;

Want per-database users instead of per-cluster users? See the db_user_namespace setting

Use LDAP / AD? Sync users/groups/roles to pg: https://github.com/larskanis/pg-ldap-sync
Work as Product Swarms
This is really old news - here is the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4_MeS6SOwk
Maybe it's just me but a swarm that goes around poking their needles into the bloodstreams of different species, seems like something that MAY have played a very important role in Earth's early ecosystems, like bee transferring pollen, but that role might be vestigial if not outright undesirable now.
I'm not up on every instance of "replication" -- but so far, the ones I've read about have been really shoddily performed.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/no-german-scientists-have-not-confirm...

I'd love for this phenomenon to be real, but the Technology Review article did not present a realistic picture of the verification attempted to date.
> If they're even wanting to have a modest wedding with 80-ish guests nowadays,

It's kind of funny. I've been to six weddings in the past five years and none of them had over 50 people.

I guess some people just have more friends and family or are under some kind of custom wherein they invite 2nd or 3rd cousins or minor acquaintances to their weddings.

My best friend's wedding was 40 people, total cost to the bride and groom $1000. Location: a beautiful beachhouse owned by his aunt. Food and the such done by the family, and everyone who flew in stayed in houses of relatives. Photography done by my wife, music by his brother.

Save money on your wedding, spent it on your honeymoon.

> I wouldn't want to eat out at a $50/person restaurant with a family of four once every week.

I like exotic food with ingredients and cooking conditions I can't replicate at home, so $50 a plate it is.

> I don't really disagree with your main point, just your numbers seem to be bad estimates to me.

Right :)

That's really the issue at heart. Everyone makes choices that X is worthwhile, and Y isn't worthwhile. Some people choose no luxury at all, save all their money and cash out at 35 to retire.
Misruption: “Software is eating the moral compass”
I had this reflex to stop reading anything but Mailing Lists or 'close to the work' sources only. Way too much noise and fluff floating around.
everyone hates banks but, come on, AMZN is about as filthy of a corporation as they come.
>You can buy one every 5 years for the rest of your life, and come out way ahead.. so why not?

For me the main reason is environmental impact which isn't accounted for properly in the price AFAICT. I'm currently trying to recycle parts from an old machine - many of which are polypropylene - but which despite bearing recycling logos aren't seemingly recyclable anywhere. Not even the ferrous seems to be wanted any more - stainless steel drum, few parts from aluminium, rest seems to be destined for landfill.

I'm talking about turn of the millennium washing machine (front-loader, UK) versus a current one. Price seems pretty comparable from what I recall.
> so low level of education makes almost 7x more impact than diet + exercising combined. something is seriously wrong with this happiness calculus

"Ignorance is bliss" is a pretty old idiom; who's to say it's not rooted in some truth?
Just to be clear: most the media outlets that misreported this story typically issue corrections more frequently than Vice/Motherboard.

The credit of this article goes the the writer and not Vice. Vice has a long history of history of making up stories for content.
Yeah, I really like this style, especially for GUI intensive apps. Some other open source projects with similar release notes:

Krita: https://krita.org/krita-2-9-the-kickstarter-release/

Blender: https://www.blender.org/features/2-77/
I was having an internal tug-of-war about whether to visit the gym when I read this comment. Although I knew this already, this just gave the activation energy to get out of my chair and out the door. Thanks!
MS was really generous with how they handled defective devices. I had a friend call MS because his 360 broke 4 YEARS after he purchased it and they still fixed it.
maybe you should go apply to google.
Prefer Clojure Over Build Tools

Clojure scripts take several seconds to start for me, and even jars take almost a full second. Am I doing g it wrong? Do people actually find this tolerable, when they are piping several of these scripts together, with the later stages being started a new for each input?

I must be doing it wrong. Are these clojure build tools supposed to run as daemons, that take requests from... bash scripts?
Agreed. I never really spent any time specifically learning, but just by getting deep into the thing I'm working on with a secondary focus on learning is all it took. Deliberate, dedicated learning like what's being described here just sounds like a recipe to learn at a shallow level, rather than using self motivation and interest as a tool to learn.
yeah -- perhaps there's a lot of negative things to be said about node, but the fact that they've released multiple versions? really?

https://clojure.org/community/downloads_older
http://www.scala-lang.org/download/all.html
https://www.python.org/downloads/

etc...
Carry around an extra cup, empty current one into a toilet and place in a bag in your purse to wash later at home. The only time I know a woman is menstruating here in the US is when they tell me.
This is a nice video, I wasn't aware of Zizek's opinion on the topic. It could also be that jokes coming from hostile parties sound more like threats.
Like Jacques Monod, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Monod. We don't pronounce the "d" I'd say.
Were are you from? Here in Argentina a bottle of wine usually last only a dinner, in some cases until the next day (i.e. 12 or 24 hours). But I think that in USA is more usual to drink just a little of wine before a big meal, so the bottle may last more time.
Interesting thanks, I'll look into it. Your earlier comment has sent me down a Postgresql logicdecode/Kafka/Hadoop rabbit hole. Funny where you end up.
You work for Rupert?
This line of argument really needs to be toned down. While it's obviously true that papers like the WSJ, NYT, WashPo, etc. have influential partisan editorial boards, their newsrooms are filled with reporters and editors of various political leanings. More importantly, these reporters are among the best in the country and do their very best to find and report the truth in an unbiased fashion. That's what makes these papers good sources of information in the US.
Looks like decriminalization to me, which matches up with what I heard. Meaning that personal users don't get thrown in jail, but the supply chain is still illegal, and nobody would dare try to set up a legitimate business for production or distribution. So all of the profits of the trade go to criminal gangs and street violence instead of either legitimate, tax-paying companies or the Government itself.
Oh I know, I can write clojurescript tools, and run them through node ;)
does bloomberg.com refresh randomly? The page keeps reloading but I see no other complaints like this when searching around..
But the customer isn't switching. Hell, citus could even make the import themself (by having servers in aws to read from your s3 and push to their own servers in hetzner so you don't pay bandwidth prices). Just like people can use algora without leaving aws.

unrelated: Have you ever thought, that the bandwidth pricing on the clouds is fucking insane ?
They could be in ~/.local/share/meteor following "XDG Base Directory Specification" (https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-... - seems well used on my Kubuntu but it's a case of "pick a standard" I guess).
Not a good comparison, considering six independent research bodies including NASA have experimentally verified that this does work (citing the OP article)
> How does one uninstall stuff on Linux anyway? My Linux boxes are always like thrash cans...

That is called sedimentary data storage, ie. piling new files on top of the old ones.
enjoy your +7% of happiness!
While these problems clearly exist, I would argue that we're still making more progress than "regress". The whole premise of the article seems to be that the "good old days" are gone, but I'm not convinced that things were much better then, after all, human psychology hasn't changed. For example, psychological bias can be found even in physics, as described by Feynman:

"We have learned a lot from experience about how to handle some of the ways we fool ourselves. One example: Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops, and got an answer which we now know not to be quite right. It's a little bit off because he had the incorrect value for the viscosity of air. It's interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan's, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.

Why didn't they discover the new number was higher right away? It's a thing that scientists are ashamed of—this history—because it's apparent that people did things like this: When they got a number that was too high above Millikan's, they thought something must be wrong—and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number close to Millikan's value they didn't look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off, and did other things like that..."
Introducing the new $20, $10, and $5
If they can afford to wait for their results 10x longer, and need 5x more RAM, ok.
But in the normal, nonlazy, technical world you have your backends optimized, and only the frontend is simplified to python or R or matlab.
I started getting ads in Spanish recently and I was totally confused. I've been watching soccer on Telemundo Deportes recently. I wonder if an app was listening in. I'll have to see which apps of mine are using the microphone. I'm guessing it would have to be the standard Google app though, since I don't have Facebook installed on my phone.
It's pretty much impossible to gather the resources needed for a lawsuit against a huge corporation that's got health insurance companies in their pocket, when you're trying to acquire the drugs needed to not die this week.
If you look closely enough, you will see photons traveling at the speed of light between atoms, getting absorbed by atoms and reemitted later.

That's a story we tell kids who ask too many awkward questions. If it were true we would see sharp changes in the observed speed of light at wavelengths depending on the absorption spectrum of the material in question.

My understanding is that the real answer involves photons gaining inertia via coupling with particles in the material they are passing through (cf. Higgs) ... but I'm probably mangling that explanation horribly.
It's not no true Scotsman to point out a faulty generalization (particularly, because there is no denying that the specific cases are examples of the general concept, merely that they are isolated to a particular subclass of the general type and thus are not sufficient to demonstrate a conclusion about the broad class rather than merely the subclass). But nice try invoking one fallacy falsely to protect another.
There are other way to control the diseases. There's even a startup called AIME (http://www.aime.life) that focuses on using machine learning to predict the next mosquito borne disease outbreak. They claim to have pretty good accuracy too.
The truth is though, that as the diseases mainly originate in "developing countries", no one seems care enough to even financially support them (not even YC). Still, they've made a lot of progress in the past months, even supporting the state of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
It's like, the more languages I come across, the more problems I see...
Landscape photography, england, staffordshire
I never said that.
"You're the one who brought up CRISPR and gene drive. "

Which can be targeted to eliminate the mosquitos themselves.

"Perhaps you should read the actual paper"

The actual paper? Like there's only one? Hint: there's more than one way to use this technology, and more than one group working with it.

"On-target mutations are trivial to produce, and alleles segregate independently."

I think you're misunderstanding what "independently" means in this context.

If the probability of a mutation that will get around one targeted sequence is (say) 1 in a million, that's almost certainly going to happen, just because there are billions of mosquitos.

However, if you target (say) ten independent sequences, the probability of any one organism having resistance to all of them is going to be 1 in (1 million)^10 = 1 in 10^60 and that is basically not going to happen. It does no good in this case for one organism to be resistant with respect to one target, while another organism is resistant with respect to another target, because all of the targets will have fatal outcomes. The only way for the organism to survive would be for it to be resistant to all of them at the same time, from the beginning.

And there's no reason why you'd have to stop at 10, either.
Some people have natural reaction to hoard their money after being dirt poor and remember onf how hard it was.

"Natural reaction" is a cop out. People who get hired for being really freaking smart should be smart.
Think of DeepDream x 1000. First, start with self-driving cars and semis cutting out taxi and freight services. Then, move on to musicians and composers no longer being hired to do mundane (90%) work, or video game levels being procedurally generated with intelligent design. From there, go on to everything that could be automated today, but requires a little bit of human ingenuity.

Economic transactions will start to look very different than what's normally accepted today.
That was the initial response, but the results have since been replicated several times by several organizations, including NASA. "Sloppy experimentation" seems unlikely at this point.
Not really although FreeCAD has a 2D drafting mode. Inventor is a better comparison.
As someone who has spent their whole career in and around startups in NYC, I think it boils down to a handful of things:

- The dot-com bubble in the early 2000s left a bad hangover, but also built up a set of young people with tech experience and lots of ideas who enjoyed working for non-traditional companies

- Those people often went to go start their own companies (disclaimer: I am one of those people). In the early 2000s, though, it was tough to find top tier VCs who were willing to invest in NYC. I remember in 2004 meeting a VC who said they would love to invest at a great valuation if we committed to moving the company to boston or the bay area

- Consequently, the selection criteria for NYC companies who got VC funding were often those with strong revenue streams, which led towards less sexy, less "moonshot" companies to those that sold products for actual money.

- The other driving criteria was those where geography was an advantage, which also led to financial services/enterprises or advertising

- As those businesses grew, expanded, raised more capital, it drove more VC money to NYC, which created more air in the room for more startups.

It's really a very straightforward evolution. As far as why Seattle "flails", I think it's even simpler - Seattle has a population of 650k people. A handful of large companies, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. can take a huge percentage of the engineering talent, and there's neither the educational base of graduates that the bay area or boston offers nor NYC's base of large corporations to sell to.
The link to dash: https://kapeli.com/dash
I like it. I'm busy and that summary was really nice. Let him have his one line advertisement.
Simple and Rich Landscape Building in UE4
"It was in my interest to have a headline that'll make HN users clickthrough (but not an inaccurate one) and read, so I did exactly that."
If anyone here could be reasonably construed as arguing from ignorance it'd be you.

You said that "there are many much more subtle and effective ways to stifle free speech and human rights than a big firewall," such as "MITM attacks, botnet troll armies, astroturfing, etc. etc."

If you're not asserting that such techniques are being deployed, then ok. But if you are, and follow that up with "Good luck finding proof of that though," as though that's a perfectly reasonable excuse for not being able to back up what you're alleging, then you are yourself asserting "a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false."
The living room is typically the biggest screen in people's homes, the screen they spend the most time with, and the screen they are the "fondest" for as it is the home for much of their entertainment. Why wouldn't Microsoft want to be at the center of that? Microsoft wants to "own" all of your screens, by being the friendly operating system and development tool provider for them, so of course the battle of the living room is huge for them.
Unnecessary complication. If you do it generally, it'll matter more and go further in depressed regions on it's own. Line drawing exercises are unnecessary and counterproductive.
Intel made a huge mistake 10 years ago
Easy: I have to eat meat, and I'm not a reductionist.

I don't eat meat for pleasure, particularly, and certainly not as recreation. Fox hunting is purely recreation.
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