skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, birthrate (in the developing world?) is correlated with female empowerment. Small stuff like when females have educational and economic opportunities, are not utterly dependent on their males counterparts, have basic humans, etc.
Innovations for Africans by Africans
In these cases it's extremely easy to get a gist of the research behind a certain topic by searching PubMed.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22257640
This reminds me of the movie Secret of Nimh.
This is the approach I adopt as well. Customization is nice, but the basic tools offer a lot of functionality if you choose to learn and more so adopt them. Vim tiny some distros ship can be a problem though.
My wife and I have accounts at Fidelity and my local credit union. My wife manages the CU and handles stuff like groceries and gas. She mostly gets a wad of cash each week, and spends that. Nothing comes out of the CU account automatically, so no "surprises".

I "manage" Fidelity account in the exact opposite manner - almost 100% automatically - paying all the bills and such. Fidelity knows of the biller and can pay the exact amount each month for many of my bills. The others, such as my electric bill are mostly on payment plans that make it the same each month and re-adjust once or twice a year, so Fidelity just sends a check to an address with the account number in the memmo. It also automatically sends money to the credit union, retirement accounts, etc.

Oh, and we have a separate account for giving, both to causes that we support and people in need. Some of its automated, some of it changes each month.
nah they're pretty common on all major airports. In some cases the airlines will take the cash during the flight too so you don't lose a second of time.
I only skimmed the article since reading familiar @#$% in Chinese context in another language made me feel sick. I think this guy is just like many other Chinese that want to make a claim on a global stage with little awareness of what the reality on that stage might be. They often coin a concept for China and claim its uniqueness and somewhat advancement. People are easy to make that kind of claim when all they can see are just raw observations, especially when they think they know what they observed.
UN agrees to adopt expanded resolution on online speech rights
How Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law
From the post:

but I do daily development on an Arch linux desktop sitting next to my MacBook Pro

I have a similar set up, both at home and at work, where I use a MacBook for Office, Omni{Focus,Graffle}, etc., but SSH into a Linux machine for serious development word. My reasons are two-fold. First of all, many OS X's command-line tools are behind the times and buggy. For instance, grep segfaults on trivial usages such as[1]:

% echo i860 | grep --color -e i860 -e i86

Or returns incorrect results for even trivial expressions:

% echo "1234 1234 1234" | egrep -o "^...."
1234
123
4 12

Since I use UNIX command-line tools such as grep daily, I cannot have them fail (yes, I know, get GNU grep from Homebrew). Secondly, Mac hardware is very weak these days, even the Mac Pro is years behind. At the same time, you can get a similarly spec'ed machine on eBay for a couple of hundred of Euros. Plug a card to use CUDA, etc.

[1] http://blog.loadzero.com/blog/tracking-down-a-segfault-in-gr...

I don't have many real stability problems (kernel panics), but there are oddball bugs everywhere. E.g. Mail.app likes to redownload all my e-mail when I quit and open it.
Cash is a liability to the central bank which is offset by a corresponding amount of US Government debt. That is a what "full faith and credit" means.

Solvency of the Federal Reserve is required to control the money supply and manage inflation. When the Federal Reserve wants to put cash into the system it buys debt and creates cash. When it wants to take money out of the system it sells the debt and retires the cash it receives.

An insolvent central bank would cripple its ability to manage the money supply as it would never be able retire the cash for the defaulted asset because who would be willing (or required) to surrender their cash for the defaulted asset?

What you are arguing is essentially that the central bank should start operating as an insurance company instead of a central bank. Acting as the insurer of last resort so to speak. That function has traditionally (and rightly) been carried by the Federal Government and having the Central Bank take that role would require a dramatic change in its charter.
For me this post isn't an argument against Mozilla implementing a similar dialogue; it's an argument for implementing one and improving it.

To really have meaningful improvements would require totally reworking how extensions deal with the DOM and requiring them to ask for different levels of permission. That would break most plugins as written and probably require significant work to implement.
> The claims are unsupported and unscientific, and they demonstrate the danger of wild assertions made by non-experts reaching and misleading the masses.

What damages? You just thoroughly criticized their claim, on a major newspaper no less. The reddit thread is already tagged as "Editorialized & Misleading blogspam." Meanwhile, the earth spins as usual, scientists keep working, and life goes on. In a week or two, nobody will even remember this debate. At worst, some people who are already prone to believe anything they read on the web may have acquired another incorrect belief. At best, people like me have learned a few more things about our wonderful planet thanks to this incident.

> Such information viewed through the lens of a non-specialist may come across as both credible and alarming but damages the reputation of the science when ultimately shown to be flawed.

The reputation and credibility of science comes precisely from the fact that it consists of an exchange of bold conjectures and ruthless refutations, all carried out in front of many watchful eyes, both scientists and laypeople. Thanks to you, we just witnessed such a public refutation. More cycles of this exchange, with more time and more data, will ultimately determine who is right.

Why would this display of science-working-as-intended (regardless of who turns out to be right) damage the credibility of science, except in the eyes of those who already hold nothing but contempt for science, or those who want to use science as a blunt-force weapon in their petty political games?

You don't get closer to the truth by trying to shut up people whom you disagree with. We, collectively, get closer to the truth by finding and presenting better evidence than one another.

Now who's the alarmist?
Evolution of Apache Spark: Journey of Spark in 1.x Series
Anyone knows a better decompiler for .net other than ilspy? It's a hit or miss for me with ilspy, would like to try something better even if it's paid.
Thank you for doing yeoman's work here.
Introduction to Spark 2.0: Next Step in Spark Journey
where did you think all the comments and likes came from?
Why is tmux better?
Check out CapitalOne. They have a nice credit card that pays 1.5% cash back with no foreign transaction fees. I describe in another comment how I use their 360 Checking and Savings. The debit card from the 360 checking account has been a fantastic no-fee way to get cash when I'm traveling.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11905555
The micro/macromanager analogy is flawed IMHO. I can write modular, component based code imperative style. It won't be worse than please().do().this().for(me)

> I'm not trying to tell imperative is bad

"In another word, the imperative one is an annoying micromanager" ;)

> By knowing another paradigm, we will get the right tools for the right jobs, right?

Yes, if you not only introduce the paradigm, but tell them when it makes sense to use it. I haven't seen it in your article.
>> "claims are unsupported and unscientific, and they demonstrate the danger of wild assertions made by non-experts reaching and misleading the masses."

Maybe I missed it, but if it's so obvious that it's not unusual, then why're the "experts" unable to use science/data to prove it in the article.

Realize this isn't a popular opinion, but "peer review" is not science.
C'mon, tell us the secret. We won't tell anybody.
Those of you who said they use a financial advisor -- where/how did you find a reliable person/firm?
That's basically Cython. Cython normally gives you 40-100% speedup over python without making any changes to the code and can often give you 10-100x speed up with some relatively minor changes to the code.
The Day I Got My Green Card
Optimization is only a distant goal according to Guido---I think he said so in the PEP or the dev mailing list discussion thereof.
Interesting: "Measurements in the late 1960s showed that the orbital velocity of stars in spiral galaxies with respect to their distance from the galactic center is indeed higher than expected from Newtonian dynamics but still cannot explain the stability of the spiral structure."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_galaxy#Origin_of_the_sp...
Hiring people without a skill test solely to fill a quota? Engineers are expensive so I'm suspicious of people who will just hire people like that.

Also, it doesn't quite address the actual issue. It's a very superficial response.
Maybe it is because of workplace and hiring culture. Perhaps the states weights social media higher in their hiring decisions and hence people are more reluctant to express themselves in fear that this might cost them a future job
Not really. LuaJIT and V8 do pretty well on benchmarks. Maybe not "fast", but they certainly aren't slow.
Teenagers use facebook?
The phenomenologists on my floor are confident. Between ATLAS and CMS, one saw nothing and one actually saw a slight deficit (with much more data taken this run than in the last).
My perception for watching the video is that the cage opener wants to mate with the rat inside once it is free. At least mount it.

If there are from opposites sexes, there is certainly an egoistical reason for the rat to free the other.

If they are not, rats are very sociable. They need close contact with other rats.

It also looks like the opener rat is also very curious and wants to enter the cage too to know how it feels inside.
I am excited for the discovery of the specific causes behind this general effect. Especially if some specific interventions are possible.
Indeed. What goes as "American blueberries" around here are less expensive than the ordinary ones, I think, and and nice and big to look at, but unfortunately don't taste much.
Thinkery – A solid alternative to Evernote
The subject of interesting gear designs is cool but this is just a link to a store, it's not very informative.
Our behavior will improve the instant that improvement doesn't represent an inconvenience for the average person. :|
Agreed.

The slashdot "value add" for this article appears to be in the negative.
OK, I finally found something related he wrote in Chinese "超幻时代的写作（宁肯）": http://www.bjwl.org.cn/wwwroot/bjzjw/publish/article/657/530...

From what I can guess, he is from the inside of the system "体制内". So most likely, someone in the system needs to do some more "theoretical" work to prove/claim the advancement of "us" (Chinese). That's it. Don't worry about what it actually delivers, it is way less related than we think. The only difference nowadays is that we can make those propaganda seen by westerners. Even on HN.
Apple kind of solved this problem with the Content Blocker API - all of this is defined in a 'static' list which is used by Safari to block certain things.
New Zealand town with too many jobs offering packages of land and homes for $165k
Welcome to Australian journalism.
Exactly... If you drink 8oz of water, and your kidneys got rid of 4oz, it's because you didn't need those 4oz (or because your kidneys needed to use that water to carry other stuff away with it).
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What's an example of words I'm putting in someone's mouth? Perhaps you could reply specifically to a case where you believe I'm doing that?
Because hard-science people sometimes forget just what a pack of horse dung some of the soft-"sciences" really are.
Hmm...I thought I had told them in the article.

> According to sample number 2 above, we will read the loop 4 times to track the current value of sample. Imagine if you have an array with 1000 elements inside it.

That is one of that.

> ...made our code more concise

and also in the summary. Well, I know maybe "concise" is a subjective thing :)
A civil servant missing most of his brain challenges theories of consciousness
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The desperation in this article, to peddle a narrative that essentially no reasonable person can afford to buy anymore, is a little embarrassing.
Dang, at first I thought it said The Crazy History of Naming Conventions. Somebody should write that article...
>Heaven forbid people express a mutual desire clearly to their management. Far better to be shot down individually so the manager can control the message to their management.

No, common etiquette forbids it. A guest given an opportunity is not in a place to make demands, especially without even bothered to ask about what they are demanding first.

>It is not politics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics
I thought he literally lived in one of MIT's office/academic buildings rather than having an actual apartment?
Not sure if you're aware but iterm2 (v3) has tmux support so you can have the benefits of both.
self hacking the ultimate hacking ?
Is physiology a "soft" science now?
Definitely interested in continuing the discussion. My email is in my profile, otherwise I'm not sure where you want to take it offline (just realized HN doesn't have private messaging).
I thought the default was to create a login shell? See the "Start a non-login shell" section on the Arch Wiki[0]. I turn that off with the option mentioned there: that way it inherits from my current environment - I probably misunderstand what you mean by "inherit" versus "leave the environment as is".

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/tmux
So they used 30 rats in total?Any numbers on how statistically well-powered this was?
Indeed. The free market is only efficient if property rights exist and are enforced, transaction costs are low, and there are low barriers to entry. In the US we had the property rights done fairly well, the transaction costs were manageable (outside of emergencies where every second counts)... it was the barriers to entry that were a major pain, and no reform in recent memory has done anything but make those worse.

Unless and until it becomes easier to start new businesses, hospitals, practices and careers in the medical-care profession, no one should expect the market to be functional.
I visited Guatemala around '93, and it still stands out as having some of the most desperate people I'd seen on our continent. In particular, near the end of the trip a rumor started to circulate that white people were kidnapping babies and selling them on the international organ market.

Mothers who would have been shoving their children in your face to beg for money were literally cowering in doorways, hiding their children behind them. It was eye-opening.
All you are really saying is "I am used to screen's behavior and keybindings". That is fine, but it doesn't delete the huge amount of useful functionality in tmux that is not in screen. Nor does it make screen "simple" or "mature". Screen is old, not mature. It is fragile and brittle and clunky and inconsistent. Which is not surprising given its age and lack of active maintainers.
This study is the perfect example of a soft "science" in action, yes. Shit methodology, small sample, terrible conclusions.
Everything we draw should be alive by default
There's also tmate which makes it easy to share a tmux session over ssh.

Not sure if there is something similar for screen.
Stop Drawing Dead Fish
Bret Victor
http://worrydream.com/

I encourage watching the entire video, but I linked to the last part which may encourage you to do so
Webpack: It’s getting real
Why do you think you feel empathy to begin with? It feels good because it helps on net. Your brain is a product of evolution; when something feels nice, there's usually a pragmatic reason for it.
So the 1070 is the no-brainer choice in this price range. A single card is always better than XFire/SLI, and you have the option to move to 2x1070s if you need the boost. SLI scaling on the 10xx series has been really impressive.
You're doing no better by trivializing the author's purview. He doesn't live anywhere else you mentioned, he lives in China and in Tibet before that. That is the world he inhabits and that his writing reflects.

Not to mention that problems are relative; you think an American balking at finding out their favorite restaurant was closed because of hygiene issues doesn't feel something comparable to a Chinese person who finds out their favorite street vendor used gutter oil? [0]

Also in all of those Western examples you gave, China was much worse off. How can you say that China's situation isn't bad with a straight face? This is a country where the smug is so bad you can't see a few feet ahead of you. Where people who criticize the government can be made to disappear. Where the internet goes through a firewall [1] and is closed off from the rest of the world. [2] Sure, there are many countries worst off, but that doesn't mean we can completely overlook issues with our own countries.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_C...
What are the benefits of developing such technology?
Why would you prefer multiple ssh sessions over a single ssh session and tmux with iTerm2, which will let you keep the tabs (and when you make a new tab, automatically make it a remote connection).

Look at 'tmux -CC', it's really great.
Gym Timetables – Group Fitness Classes – Ringwood Genesis Fitness
“In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioral research laboratories running around inside wheels and conduction frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man. The fact that once again man completely misinterpreted this relationship was entirely according to these creatures’ plans.”

RIP Douglas Adams.
Boffins spotted over 100 snooping Tor HSDir nodes spying on Dark Web sites
Body hacking, biohacking, neurohacking...
Is this true? I though the issue was that the write might happen while the file is still being read?

Does the '>' operator blanks the file first, before the read happens?
I keep hearing this sentiment and it reminds me of the Yogi Bera quote "Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded."

People keep talking about how "over" FB is yet every time I'm in line somewhere and I glance at people's phones in front of me I see they are scrolling through FB.
Feedback on  Mac CLI (command line tools for developers)
You could try to sell the songs to System of a Down.

(which may not be particularly metal, but they have an interesting contrast between their sound and their lyrics)
Exactly... "hydration" is a vague term, and where that fluid is matters a great deal. It's even more subtle than 'in the stomach vs out of the stomach'. Is it in your circulatory system? Inside your cells? In the extracellular space?

Your body is very good at leveraging osmosis to move water around. It's main goal is to maintain adequate volume in your circulatory system (low volume means low pressure, just like any pumping system, low pressure means not enough blood gets to your brain). It will shift fluid around from various places to keep enough in the blood. This effect is actually leveraged in traumatic injuries with significant blood loss. "Extra" salty water will be given via IV, and that will 'pull' water into the circulatory system, via osmotic pressure.

If you're peeing out the water you drank within an hour or two, it's because your body didn't need it (or it needed to use it to carrying some stuff out with it). Urinating is a _good_ thing.
Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs
30 rats are plenty if they selected them properly - different gene pools, different breeders etc...
It used to be common practice to cache useful routines (e.g. start with "os_path_join = os.path.join" before the loop and call "os_path_join" instead of "os.path.join"), thus avoiding the iterative lookup on each iteration.

I'll admit to being skeptical to how big an effect this would have, but it was bigger than I thought:

%%timeit
s=0
for i in itertools.repeat(1.0, 1000000):
s+=math.sin(i)

10 loops, best of 3: 124 ms per loop

vs

%%timeit
s=0
math_sin=math.sin
for i in itertools.repeat(1.0, 1000000):
s+=math_sin(i)

10 loops, best of 3: 89.1 ms per loop
Then the extension would have to similarly say, on install, that it sends analytics to <fishy provider>.

Which would make the user want to use them even less.
I've read that, but it really depends on the bug. A simple console.log would catch it easily. I think you need debugging skills in FP right?

I don't always prefer concise code. It means that I have to keep everything in my head, what the function does exactly.

So what I miss is real use cases. Would you write a video editor in FP? Would you make Quake 4 in FP? Is it good for Todo apps? CLI apps maybe? Or is it best for 50 line microservices?
Is that a joke? cause I find it really funny..
This is 'bad' science, not 'soft' science.
Debian isn't doing any independent development on icedove, are they? I think if thunderbird development stops so will icedove's.

https://wiki.debian.org/Icedove#The_future_of_Icedove
An annoying thing about screen is the default settings are pretty terrible. I use the following $HOME/.screenrc on all my machines which improves things a bit:

# Set escape character to Shift-Ctrl-^ and meta character to ^
escape ^^^

# Get rid of stupid visual bell wait.
vbellwait 0
vbell_msg ^G
bell_msg ^G

# Status line.
hardstatus on
hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string "%H|%w%=|%d/%m %c"
Unfortunately they are all too often synonymous
How to Swallow a Sword
mcHF QRP transceiver. home-brewed amateur radio project. Firmware is released as open source and most project files are released as well.

Continues RX coverage 2-30 Mhz
5W output power
CW, SSB, AM and FM – transmit and receive

http://www.m0nka.co.uk/?page_id=2
Could I enquire why you find it difficult to believe that empathy can be a common driver of behavior?
A week ago, a Github user had a fantastic idea: To implement modularity and plugins to be able to extend Mac CLI by adding new plugins or add new commands on the existing plugins.

I refactored the code to have a modular structure and now each of the commands is separated into plugins on the /mac-cli/plugins folder.

Since the modularity and plugins elevate Mac CLI to the next level, I would like to ask for your feedback to see what could be the next steps for the command line tool.

Thanks a lot for your time.
Mobile touches: A study on humans and their tech