skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, repeatable. The specific event of that nova will not be repeated, of course, but the interesting observations, when compared with existing theory, will suggest repeatable experiments.

And that's where the science really gets done. Not in the initial observation, but in the controlled experiments that follow, in which individual hypotheses can be tested.

Experiments do not need to be run in a lab, BTW. As long as the variables are accounted for, natural observations are just as valid as those that are synthesized in a lab. One of the most famous "experiments" in physics history was the observation of gravity-deflected star images during an eclipse, which helped support Einstein's general theory of relativity.
You can view a live simulation using a Mac/PC app downloadable from:

http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/eyes-on-juno.html

From the description on the page: In this interactive visualization, you can ride along with the Juno spacecraft in real-time at any time during the entire mission. For example, watch the arrival at Jupiter on the 4th of July, 2016, or see Juno use Earth’s gravity as a slingshot to pick up speed, or just learn about the science of Jupiter and about the spacecraft itself. You can even turn on and off the magnetic field, aurorae, and the radiation belt, all in 3D! All of this and more is waiting to be explored.
I work at Data Alchemy. We're an Amazon Merchant who runs our system on a search engine, built by search engineers who used to be at Looksmart and Loggly. Amazon does merge ASINs occasionally to help improve quality of listings (and merging comments), but we've found focusing the algos on the listings that both sell well and get a lot of good comments and support work really well. Our store on Amazon is the result of this search algorithm running on about 1.7 million listings: https://www.amazon.com/s?me=AZHZ102UTKBMA
Global Immigration Map
Eyes on Juno
> I went about 4-5 days without charging it when I was traveling (barely any calls, mostly standby).

To be fair, most Android devices and iPhone would achieve similar battery life if you're not actually using the phone.

Apple claims to get 10 days of standby out of an iPhone. I would imagine with 'barely any calls' or using the device you would get somewhere between 5 to 10 days. 5 days doesn't really sound that impressive.
Samsung or all other mobile companies now know 1. how much Google pays Apple. 2. How much profit Google makes on mobile search. It will make negotiations harder for Google.
Grocery Outlet?
You are talking about modern medicine. It's ~150 years old as a field.

It's cured all sorts of things. Vaccines, antibiotics, joint reconstruction, etc, etc.
Where did I say that?
Of course the desired phrase was "So sad". Or was it "Too sad"?
Amazon is an online retailer, they are the absolute most vulnerable to cross shopping...

The 60 million+ of us that have bought into Amazon Prime are very unlikely to cross shop very often; we've happily locked ourselves into the Amazon ecosystem.
Best guess - Network effects (of more than one kind but rooted in very low marginal costs to produce one more unit) tend to favor monopolies - but monopolies tend to keep prices very high until they have at least one competitor. Then they lower their prices. But the real reason may well be that the government lands much harder on monopolies with no competition - so it's actually more profitable in the long run to have one competitor with 20% of the market than to try to grab the whole market. High tech monopolies in particular have been know to boost or subtly subsidize these pet competitors to keep them around, and the AG's attack dogs away. I suspect we'll see more thorough regulation in the next few decades so this somewhat cheesy strategy might stop working.

The real duopoly is x86 vs ARM - Intel and AMD were a forced dual source, long ago. So why doesn't MIPS get more love? Does RISC-V have a chance? Intel's disinterest in low-powered chips opened up enough space for one competitor in a slightly different niche.
Well, then those real people aren't doing science.
Mlpack – a scalable C++ machine learning library
The Plague of Unoriginal Content
But only if written; it's more unfamiliar pronounced: http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/Guide.Readings/wave/p...

By the way, that's a made-up example from an Old English textbook. How about:

Lord's Prayer I (Exeter Book,10th c.)
[....]g fæder, þu þe on heofonum eardast,
geweorðad wuldres dreame. Sy þinum weorcum halgad
noma niþþa bearnum; þu eart nergend wera.
Cyme þin rice wide, ond þin rædfæst willa
aræred under rodores hrofe, eac þon on rumre foldan.
Syle us to dæge domfæstne blæd,
hlaf userne, helpend wera,
8 þone singalan, soðfæst meotod.
Ne læt usic costunga cnyssan to swiðe,
ac þu us freodom gief, folca waldend,
from yfla gewham, a to widan feore.
(The Exeter Book, ed. Krapp and Dobbie 1936)

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words04/history/paternoster....
Man, ain't that the truth. Any BOM I try to come up with doesn't get remotely close to the Pi Zero's list price, but I don't know Shenzhen well enough to understand if they could make it happen in quantities of, say, 10,000. But I'm not a hardware guy.
Ignoring a huge body of scholarship (cf. Popper, Feyerabend, Kuhn) as well as a great deal of recent upheaval and critique on how properly to use 'science' to approach knowledge of real truth in favour of a facile, nay vacuous, and self-serving definition of the 'scientific method' just so you can claim it's nothing special is probably not in any way helpful. But apparently it will get you published in the New York Times.
You can never have a perfect free market, nothing that humans craft is ever perfect. But you can get pretty close. As I've posted here before, the software development industry is fairly close to a free market.

Besides, just because we cannot reach perfection is not justification to run the other way. The government is run by people, and people are subject to imperfection, incompetence, and corruption. The more power added to that means the more temptation there is to use that power for personal agendas.

Remember that county clerk who was using her government power to deny marriage licenses to gay couples?
I couldn't find my account and now I'm feeling pretty down. "Am I not worthy?" I ask myself. "Why would you leave me out??". But in all seriousness, this is very very nifty. Would be great to use this to plan meetups too :). Thanks!! Bookmarked.
Amazon smile actually still generates affiliate revenue. (Amazon doesn't take the charity cut out of the affiliate side.)
The fall of marketing agencies
Yea, I'm sure you're right. I have some friends who spent time in Belize and they loved it. I'd definitely like to go visit some day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper#Criticism
Pump VFD for Constant Pressure Water Supply System
That's not what it is saying. It's saying that if the same tools can inform poetry then they aren't limited to being "scientific" methods.
Most games I've seen don't account for mass. In Job Simulator 2050, there's no feel for mass. I think there should be some sort of indication or "tractor beam" that pulls the object in tow, perhaps?

Until we get hand controllers that have gyroscopes that simulate resistance, that's all we got so far.
I would also contend that for a large fraction of those people who have deathbed wishes, if a magic force suddenly granted that person 50 more years of healthy life, they'd go back to doing what they had "regretted".

The guy who regrets working too hard at the end of life might be reflecting on some projects he put too much effort into, thinking he should have relaxed instead.

Yet with 50 more years, he might get a jump on a dozen more projects, or reach for that next promotion.
It really depend on what you include in your mandays.

Here mandays includes exchange with clients.
Also 1 mandays doesn't mean 8 hours of work. because in one day you can't work for 8 hours on the same project.

For the number of mandays, every company have it's own recipe. here is the "wet finger" for the beginning, then rounded to the next Fibonacci number, then multiply by the estimate scale of the project.
for a navigation bar for example, with a good code base, it will be 0.5 for code, 0.5 for testing, 0.5 for clients exchange. so 1.5, next Fibonacci number is 2. size of the project is small aka 1.5 so result in 3 days.

Also notes that imho : going lower than 0.5 is too much details, we fail at estimation therefore better be safe, giving details will make your pricing more legit, best advice I can give is to pick little ideas from everyone to make your own recipe, try and experiment.

About efficiency, Pomodoro is nice but not really natural for me as you don't follow your own rhythm. I rather turn off every auto-update or notifications. I check them when I'm available and that my choice, not my notification's choice.

Make your own way, try and fail, that's healthy :)
BSD vs. Linux (2005)
I don't see the huge issue with using VB. You can engineer a solution in a modern language terribly, and similarly engineer a VB application well.

However I do suspect that they engineered the VB application terribly. But them using VB should not automatically disqualify them from writing good code.
The thing about a language being "a dialect with an army" is a bit tongue in cheek. Of course we'd like more consistent ways to distinguish languages that don't depend on politics. When there's a continuum (like the Scandinavian languages) and it's hard to decide where to draw the arbitrary line, national borders are a pretty convenient place to settle on. But that's not so fundamental that it "doesn't make sense" to ask why we distinguish languages.

It's easy to imagine Norwegian and Swedish being considered the same language if they were the same country. It'd be a language with multiple written forms, but Norwegian already has two of those anyway.

But you can only get so far by simplifying the issue to say that language borders are national borders. That erases a lot of the linguistic complexity of Europe, it defies reality in Africa and South Asia, and it just wouldn't make sense at all in North America. (What's the Canadian language, besides a joke on South Park?)
This issue is, from what I've gathered, fairly recent, and amounts to what some would call a crisis in psychiatry; there's a strong incentive for drug makers to prefer a repeating, temporary solution over a permanent one. Even if a permanent drug was researched, tested, and approved, it would be hard to come by because it would basically be a net loss for the company. However, it remains to be seen how viable "actual healing" is for a chronic problem—mental health or otherwise.

In my opinion, taking things from your perspective is going to be very hit-and-miss. Combined with the replication issues that seem to crop up in these fields, a great deal of money and energy might be spent on a non-drug remedy that is simply a more effective placebo. It could take years to figure out whether a treatment provides life-lasting effects.
Actually used it this past weekend to create a long island railroad time table app. Submitted to Amazon for review just now. Wanted to drop a line and say thank you.
thanks for the link, started and bookmarked. Lots to get on top of in that interview!

There was a feeling reading the original paper of "why has no one done this yet" but I don't have the chops to ask that, yet.
He doesn't support Hillary. He is supporting a non-Trump presidency.

And how can you possibly say he is part of the DNC? Do you even follow US politics at all?
The posted article lacks substance, but I read "Over the Top" because of your comment. It is excellent. Thank you. I found my copy on archive.org[0].

I read it alongside "The Arms of Krupp"[1], and found the combination highly synergistic. The sensation of perspective is multiplied further if read with "All Quiet on the Western Front".

[0] https://archive.org/details/overtopbyamerica00empe

[1] https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24200511M/The_arms_of_Krupp_...
Arg I hate being at work at this time. My lunch breaks about to finish, so at least I can catch up in a few hours.

The burn has started according to the tweets though! Good luck Juno and NASA team!
I'm with you: let's build better transportation infrastructure. But we can't keep using our laws to segregate by income. Some income segregation is inevitable, but we shouldn't encourage it by making the good life scarce. More homes is good for everyone.
This is the No True Scotsman fallacy, and a rather obvious example of it.
How do parents react if their child doesn't choose to learn academics?
Thanks! I really didn't want to go enable flash
Nice O Pluto – Stress Medicine 3 – Download – Audiomack
How to make your blog more searchable
Clifford Stoll never had any idea what he was talking about. Try reading The Cuckoo's Egg if you doubt it. Nobody who groked the internet denied its deeply transformative nature. The debate has always been about how far it would take us, how fast we would go, and whether the changes would be for better or worse.
Hard to fully get the Haskell Monad with analogies. The way to understand them is to use them.

Coming to think of it same for OO. All those silly Dog is an Animal examples spring to mind.
Cool!

I did note that everybody in their control room is wearing identical grey polos... guess somebody really doesn't want a repeat of the shirt incident.
OK, so what do you consider to be science with hypotheses that can't be falsified?

Edit: Much cosmology and some theoretical physics seem pretty iffy to me, but at least there's the possibility of falsifiable hypotheses.
I'd like the compensated-for-review bit to be a checkbox, and then to be able to set a profile setting that excludes them from reviews and ratings. As it is today, I have to scan reviews for the telltale text, then mentally recalculate the rating from whatever's left.

I doubt Amazon would do this, because they probably consider these reviews to be barely on the good side of the line between fake and real, and higher ratings undoubtedly lead to more sales. Moreover, before the FCC rule change, this probably happened all the time but nobody disclosed it at all.
On reread, I give him too much credit. As he manages to misrepresent Science, Kepler and Socrates (hint: Plato's teacher was less interested in rigourously defining words than in establishing a foundation for an entire political philosophy when he says things like 'What is Justice?') in only a few hundred words, I'm going to assume this is some sort of farce that I just don't get.
There will probably be no USB. All data in the cloud. Printer, Keyboard etc. will connect using Wifi or something.
The point wasn't to help OP generate a list of congressional district descriptions, because that's useless in general and nobody wants that. Except maybe you I guess.

The OP had a list of names of congresspersons in a committee (useful) and wanted to help their audience determine if they were represented by members of that committee (useful). Most politically active individuals know the name of their congressperson or at least the name of their district, so they were already satisfied by the original list. For those that don't know who their congressperson is, they want to know who their congressperson is, not read a list of geographical descriptions of congressional districts. Which is why I recommended a tool to look up one's congressperson.

You seem to be focusing very heavily on a different problem that nobody cares about, namely how to create precise descriptions of congressional districts based on geographical landmarks. If you really want a tool that generates precise descriptions of congressional districts, by all means go make one, but I don't know who would want such a tool other than yourself.
My last project which is still online is from 2014 - Hashcash.io - But nothing really changed since then. It was pretty cool experiment and I use it myself on many content websites I have, as well as many people use it to protect their wordpress (mostly) blogs. It is running on auto-pilot, just does its job :)
I am going to let my prime membership expire for the first time in years because of this.

Honestly I think I will miss the video streaming service the most at this point
Wikileaks Leaks Hillary Clinton Email Archive
Wow. How did we poor benighted fools manage to stumble along without benefit of that penetrating insight?
Ah, also in 2015 launched redirecto.io - idea was super simple, but afer pitching it to multiple people - no engagement, so I just left it on 'auto-pilot' too. Does its job for me :)
I'd be really curious to know why rsync.net is so expensive. Is there something inherently costly about scaling a ZFS based filesystem like this?
Shirt diversity is at an all time low.
Your use of "we" is overly broad for the points you are trying to make. I see no reason to believe the mindset that you imagine everyone to have is one that they actually have. It looks to be merely a good straw man soap box for you to preach from.
And it began successfully its first orbit. Now that it has completed its 1.8-billion-mile journey, the solar-powered craft is set to cruise around Jupiter 37 times over a period of 20 months. Juno will collect information about the planet’s magnetic field, composition and internal structure.
Right, I doubt there's any conclusion that can be drawn from a single piece of anecdotal data, especially one that makes as significant leaps of logic as yours.
The essence of teaching, it seems, to assist students with theoretical knowledge while they are learning by doing the right things. We are evolved to learn by doing (beautiful studies about how children of remote rural areas in Himalaya and Mongolia are learning their native language without being taught, by mere exposure is a nice evidence).

The second factor is to be taught of right things - the first principles, fundamental ideas with no nonsense examples. This is why classic MIT or Berkeley Scheme courses based on SIP were wastly supervisor than modern "pragmatic" Python or Java crap. Brian Harvey's CS61A is a gold standard.

Schedules and grades are of second importance. The proof is all these self-educated people who picked up knowledge without attending any high school. Moreover, in many cases a municipal primary school, being much like an overcrowded prison-like facility for kids from impoverished families, did more damage than good by imposing wrong habits and impressions of what education is about.

Learning is a continuous and natural process for us and other higher animals. Removal of obstacles, distractions and idiots and exposure to right principles and ideas will do much more than all the micro optimizations combined. "Good schools", like MIT or Yale proved it many times.

There is also Pirsig's book.
Agreed on leaking information. It make total sense why they wouldn't want the participants to get access to the data.

Though, when I found that out, I did some naive scans to see if they had any public webservers that would have the research information. I didn't see any, but there were a huge number of HIPAA violations where many, many computers with health information were exposed directly to the internet. Their security team told me that it wasn't anything to be concerned about. A HIPAA complaint didn't go anywhere, either. Already spoke with a journalist to try to get some traction on it..
Ellen Pao: Silicon Valley Sexism IS Getting Better
The sad thing about this is that said young people didn't get paid anywhere near the $250-500 million paid to the contractors and cronies[1] who built the broken healthcare.gov in the first place.

[1]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-08-28/all-the-co...
This is too good. I'd use it all the time.
I splurged and got myself a used Happy Hacking Pro 2 keyboard, just to see what the hype was all about. It's quiet, blank, and very fun to type on.

I also have a Leopold Otaku with Cherry MX brown keys. It's not as quiet as the HHK but I like the tactile feedback. I like the tenkeyless form factor better than the HHK because I use arrow keys sometimes.

And before those 2 expensive ones, I had a MS Natural ergonomic 4000 which was a good, inexpensive and comfortable keyboard. I had the one with the very stiff space-bar but I think the newer versions' keys were less stiff.

Good luck on your search. My dream keyboard would be one with the MS 4000 ergonomic layout and the keys of the HHK. But I've spent enough on keyboards for awhile. :)
This is probably the best comparison of [Free]BSD and Linux, if a bit dated.

In the meantime FreeBSD has changed the release schedule and there are efforts under way to package the base system separately.
2 doesn't work because the sellers work to stop it. They add logos and ad ons and all kinds of things. Like it or not white label is a large part of Amazon.
> There's currently a stigma of anything that isn't a traditional drug / pill...

Just using penicillin as an example:

Imagine you have an incurable infection and I told you that there's this mysterious blue mold that, when crushed up and consumed, will cure you. That sounds a lot like alternative medicine, but when you extract the active component and put it in a certain delivery system (i.e., a pill/capsule/tablet) it's "traditional," modern medicine.

> ... traditional medicine doesn't actually heal you.

And penicillin has saved millions [1] of lives.

[1] estimates ranging from "several" to "hundreds" of millions.
> Would you agree that Rust can never eliminate the runtime overhead of dynamic dispatch, because trait objects, at a language level, require dynamic dispatch? I would not agree: Rust programmers routinely eliminate it by sticking to the statically-dispatched areas of the language. Likewise, Swift programmers routinely avoid the runtime overhead of reference counting by using structs and not classes.

Sharing is something that is pretty necessary in programming; you are severely limited in what you can do without sharing. Trait objects are not, and are pretty rare in Rust. I often see people using enums over trait objects, and only sticking to trait objects for creating extensible APIs.

Rust provides a way of sharing that does not involve any extra runtime overhead, which gets used often. Swift does have nice optimizations to value-typeify things, but without a finer-grained distinction between the kind of sharing you want to do to hint the compiler, this will be vastly limited as compared to Rust giving an explicit choice between borrows and Rc.
Atlantic Magazine article on the Pao essay: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/saying...
Raping and looting though. Couldn't you also be rewarded with land or was that only for the higher ups?
Yes, if you don't want to get shut down, you have to take down content for each and every complaint, even the spurious ones, until you file some type of lawsuit against it. Because otherwise somebody else will do it for you.

It's part of being a middle-man, which is exactly what Surge is. There is no "due process" here. It's unreasonable for a service provider to ask for it.
Then the sheep is fucked. But at least they have a shot at trying to defend themselves. Note that I'm assuming that it goes without saying that armed defense is a measure of last resort. Obviously one would try diplomacy, etc., first. But my point is that "democracy" isn't any kind of inherently perfect system if you're the minority party. It has pathological edge cases that can't just be hand-waved around.
http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/socialresearch/f...
The ironic thing for me is I'm doing more shopping on Ali Express these days. I start on Amazon, but invariably land at Ali Express.

Sure you might have to wait for the slow boat from wherever your product came from, but the savings is almost always better than Amazon
Congrats!

So what do you think?

About using Polymer I mean. :)

Would love to get some insight as to how the experience was learning and building something in Polymer. I haven't heard much of Polymer lately.