skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't referring to the draft. Everything I said applies to volunteers too. Soldiers don't get the right to disobey orders just because they volunteer.

There's a huge gulf between acknowledging the pain and suffering of the veteran, and glorifying soldiers. Totally different concepts.
> Even the most expensive operations won't exceed $10.000 which should be more than affordable for any retiree.

Should, but not necessarily is. $10k is a large amount of money!
Can't you say that about regular medical check-ups, too? Those are covered by insurance.
Studying the relationship between remixing and learning
The fucken nigger has all kinda of squirrelly ideas.

I wrote a compiler that works AOT and JIT.

My compiler can compile 100,000 lines of code a second.

My operating system is 50,000 lines AOT and 50,000 JIT at boot.

God says...
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Want to know what happens when your server goes down? 600 angry bridezillas. No thanks
"The article treats conditions along WWI front lines as static"

I don't read that:

"On the opening day of the Somme on July 1, 1916, British guns hurled 250,000 high explosive and shrapnel shells towards German positions"

That's phase one: throw lots of stuff in the hope to destroy their capability to fight. When you think that succeeded, have your infantry walk over and conquer their positions.

"During the beginning of the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, over 3,000 British guns and howitzers fired a “creeping barrage” on German positions"

Throw lots of stuff to prevent their soldiers from killing your soldiers with their guns while your soldiers advance on their position.

"The Germans developed and perfected the “box barrage"

Throw lots of stuff to prevent your enemy from being reinforced.

"The American St. Mihiel Offensive on September 12, 1918 was preceded in some areas by a seven-hour preparatory bombardment"

Throw lots of stuff for ages to soften their defenses. Stop bombarding when your troops attack. Problem: they dig down deep, wait for the bombardment to end, and then get up and shoot your infantry while it still is exposed between trench lines.

"By the end of the war, most attacks by French, American, and British forces began with a swift but short artillery bombardment that massed thousands of guns on one small area, followed up almost immediately by a ground attack"

Throw lots of stuff to force them to keep their heads down, then immediately have your infantry get up to them (= use artillery bombardments as covering fire)

That's a lot of evolution, partly driven by technological advances. For example, a creeping barrage requires the capability to drop stuff close to your own troops, while not hitting them. That requires good maps and explosives with reliable explosive force (so that one can be confident that shells will carry the desired distance). As another example, concentrated fire requires precision, too.
I don't mean to draw any comparison between PTSD and sorrow. It's merely an example of how the same word can be used to describe very different things without implying any sort of equivalence.
You are letting the #terrorists win
It's not hard to imagine that grntrification only have net good effects up to a point for many people.
That makes sense. I didn't think you were being dismissive. Hopefully I haven't just managed to be dismissive of you!
I thought that fMRI hasn't been taken seriously since they scanned a dead fish and found it was thinking.
Came here to say this. I learned so much that I didn't previously know about WWI from HH. Not only the military history aspect, but the political and cultural context for a lot of it.
I've heard about optimizing for developer happiness, but this is kind of silly.

- the app has an unintuitive and harmful name that casts aspersions on the core values it purportedly touts because the developer saw that it was an available .io domain [0]

- This app has a shitton of leftover boilerplate and dev dependencies from a bootstrap scaffold, even though AFAIK there is no testing suite. (Because we all know how safe npm dependencies are...)

- A good number of unnecessary non-dev dependencies too. It includes font-awesome, which seems unnecessary to include in its entirety already...but are there any uses of font-awesome? I did a search for "font-awesome" and "fa-" but couldn't find any.

I understand using boilerplate generators to learn the ropes of creating within a framework...I've done it to learn React and Angular. But to use a scaffold-generator for a niche and highly specialized/sensitive app like this? It can't mean that it's anything more than a toy app. And yet one in which the decision to give it the name "felony" just looks immature on the author's part, meaning that it's not even useful as a resume padder.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12030422
Ok, we consed an f.
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Well, the degree to which costs would have to be scaled down can't be understated; 2.5 million euros for 40 cows. Yikes.
There are three basic, independent parts of graphics: drawing shapes, lighting and light vs surface interaction.

Z-buffer is a very clever way to draw shapes. The only other way used practically is ray-tracing, where you cast rays through pixels on the screen and see where they intersect with the surface. Z-buffer reverses it - instead of casting rays towards surface we project set points on the surface (vertices) onto the screen. Even though it's asymptotically O(n) vs ray tracing's O(log n), practically it's very fast. The vast majority of CG, from movies to video games relies on this algorithm and I don't know what could be more important. All the stuff listed in other comments: texture mapping, texture mapping, shaders, perspective projection etc are specific algorithms, which don't deal with the shape drawing directly and not used everywhere.
Why flag it? It's not violating any rule. It's just a political opinion he disagrees with. This is the purpose of the downvote.
You started a flamewar and then fed it. Please don't do either of those things again.

Snarky provocations aren't welcome here, and have little to do with serious discussion (of PTSD or anything else), regardless of how correct your opinion is.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12032858 and marked it off-topic.
That was just a false positive.
Would you voluntarily submit to being eaten then?
I salute your trolling and utter ignorance. WWI history is replete with stories of how pointless it was, hence 'war to end all wars' etc. Overwhelmingly it was the generals and admirals who were happy to throw men into the meat grinder. Haig, Churchill, Ludendorff, they are the monsters.
The tl;dr as far as I can tell is: scientific reasoning is a subset of reasoning, and not necessarily superior to other forms of reasoning.

I can agree with that. There is a need for philosophy and purely theoretical pursuits, we can't predict what will come out of them. But at the same time, the world of science is where I want to make my bed. As the probability of a scientific "endgame" for a particular philosophical idea decreases, so does the probability of it's usefulness, or something like that. Philosophy can be one engine of creativity, but science will best determine what ideas should survive.
And that's the original word.

This is a word that's changing pretty rapidly because nobody's pushing back against it. No one shouts "you're stupid and wrong" at people who use the word "flammable" instead of "inflammable". Every sensible person can recognize that "flammable" is the clearer version of the word, and being clear is important in this case, so who cares what the word used to be.

So as opposed to cases where people get angry about language changing, this is a case to get angry that language hasn't completely changed yet.
Site needs love for mobile styling
Maybe not. Listening to the History of England podcast, was pointed to the poem "Pearl" https://interestingliterature.com/2016/02/03/a-short-summary... and http://www.billstanton.co.uk/pearl/pearl_new.htm which includes a father's grieving for his lost two year old daughter. So some evidence that these losses were keenly felt.
gdb:
set disassembly-flavor intel

gcc inline:
asm(".intel_syntax noprefix");

objdump:
objdump -M intel -d program_name

All the fun of arguments over goddamn bracing conventions in C or C++.

ATT is src,dest

intel is dest,src

Commit that to memory, the rest follows, get on with life which is much too short...
The thing that's most novel to me (not much VR experience, though) is how you convey the masses of held objects, given the lack of force feedback. It implies that the virtual hands have some kind of not entirely real existence in the simulation, or it's like you carry everything via an elastic string. A more "simulationist" approach would be to have the hands meet resistence to their movement, but that would break the linkage between player movements and visual feedback.
I assume you're talking about gitlab.io, which I suspect as part of your incorporation, hiring of Dmitriy, etc. is now gitlab.com.

Nice job!
It does when you insist on eating meat in literally every single meal, as many people do.
Wait wedding's have websites now?
List of largest companies by revenue – Wikipedia
My impulse is to jump in and critique, but after reading this twice, I'm actually not sure I understand what he's saying. Is it a good point?

He doesn't really make any reference to the commonly understood definition of the scientific method, which AFAIK, is: hypothesize, test, repeat. And the real takeaway is: TEST. The point of the scientific method is to validate assumptions, plain and simple, isn't it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method#/media/File:...

> "If scientific method is only one form of a general method employed in all human inquiry, how is it that the results of science are more reliable than what is provided by these other forms? I think the answer is that science deals with highly quantified variables and that it is the precision of its results that supplies this reliability. But make no mistake: Quantified precision is not to be confused with a superior method of thinking."

I feel like this is the crux - the scientific method is not about quantified precision as a goal, right? Measurement is a means to an end - we measure are part of testing to actually complete the process of validating the hypothesis. If that's what "highly quantified variables" means, then maybe there's an interesting point here. But measurement was never the goal, testing is the goal. It's not really about superior thinking either. The superior thinking, in fact, is in not thinking about it, but proving it instead. It's more reliable for one simple reason: hypotheses are not accepted until tested.
I agree that it's not a great article, perhaps typical of philosophical writings, which I have always struggled with. It's hard to digest, I read it about 4 times. But the author is a philosopher of science, I am pretty sure he has heard of Popper. I think he is trying to write it in a simple style for mass consumption, but as a result the examples seem shoe-horned in to fit his thesis.
I work for a mid sized contracting company (think Deloitte but much smaller) and 18F has been such a breath of fresh air. Working (well, dealing) with a group of competent people who are setting modern goals in such an terribly outdated environment is awesome.

18F is pushing my company to invest more in real technologies rather than Salesforce for everything. This is going to have a ton of great effects on my company and seemingly the industry in general.
I work with a young school so the experiences are not quite there yet for me personally. Sudbury Valley School did do a study of its graduates at one point and found that they led very satisfactory lives embracing challenges everywhere: http://www.sudval.org/05_alumni.html#03

There is a lot of entrepreneurship involved in their pathways.

Our first graduate wanted to become a pastry chef and upon graduating our school, apprenticed to become one and is now a pastry chef at a well-respected restaurant. Our only other graduate just graduated from the college of his choice so it is a bit early for that one. From SVS, of recent fame is Laura Poitras, of Citizenfour.

My impression is that they embrace life with eyes wide open. If they happen to work for a bad outfit, they will understand why they are there (need the money, perhaps) and be open to moving on. They keep their power, always carrying around a memory of this accepting community in their hearts, motivated to take on challenges in their lives.

I am sure there are good stories and bad stories amongst the alumni, as with any group. But I would be willing to bet that the spark of living in the moment is almost universally present in all of the ones that attended a Sudbury school for most of their 5-18 years.

As for politics, a person can have a lot of power by taking actions, organizing, doing the hard work of establishing a movement. They learn at our school, presumably, that while voting is important, it is not nearly as important as being actively involved in the community, in talking with people, in making the connections that lead to results. Even bad bosses can be politicked for is not a bad boss just someone who is suffering and could use a helping hand?

I susepct your real question, and it is quite telling about our society, is "If you were going to end up a slave, would you rather have some freedom first or not?"
Yup, right there in the article vermontdevil linked to:

In the small farming towns of France and Belgium, undetonated World War I explosives that turn up during each year’s spring planting and autumn plowing are known as the “iron harvest."
It's amazing to see how fast VS: Code is picking up extensions with full autocomplete, go-to definition, and other IDE-styled features. Atom's equivalents are rarely as nice, unless you're using Nuclide because they wrote their own damned framework inside the editor to achieve those features! I think it's because VS: Code's APIs are built around exposing those sorts of features nicely and simply.

- OCaml [0]: IntelliSense, go-to-definition, interactive debugging. This plugin is so well done that I feel VS Code is the best editor for my OCaml work now!

- Nim [1]: IntelliSense, go-to-definition, linting, Nimble building integration

- Purescript [2]: IntelliSense, compilation, linting, quick fixes for common errors, and type inspection

Seriously, more and more are added every day, which is just awesome. I'm still annoyed at small UI parts of VS: Code, but honestly the functionality and speed make it second to none in my opinion.
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[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hackwaly...

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kosz78.n...

[2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nwolvers...
Any hope for US capitalism redeeming itself in the next 4 years went out the window with Bernie Sanders's campaign.
Yup, I just wrote essentially this same comment, then deleted it after I had seen you'd done it already.

Even the telling of the stories leaves one affected.
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What the free market rules should be are fairly clear. When corporations influence government to favor those corporations and blunt competition, that is not a failure of the free market, it is a failure of the government.
And that is the root of the article's thesis: the current regulator has basically said that if we had technology X back in 2007, none of this would have happened; this idea is a dangerous presumption against the adaptability of the system based in partial models.
Shitty job
Uh, what are you talking about? More cows, more farmers and more trucks (pack animals) is perfectly scalable, and how it worked until recently.

It's only when you want a singular capitalist to get a cut of all these transactions, that you need to complicate things.
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Linux Mint 18 is a winner
No, but I haven't looked. I have been reading about Buddhism lately and working at a Sudbury School so the two naturally are feeding into one another in my mind.
just checked it out. Looks awesome. I suppose it must be pretty difficult growing a site like this esp as this space is a bit crowded. How did you get the word out? That must be an interesting story.
You're very right that our school system as a whole hasn't made any progress in that direction, but I do find it a somewhat hopeful sign that there are now quite a number of democratic schools based on Summerhill and the similar Sudbury model. 40 or so Sudbury schools (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sudbury_schools), probably a hundred or more under the loose umbrella of "democratic" and associated with AERO.
I would think "indifferent" is a stretch, but would agree it's something that almost everyone experienced themselves or in their immediate circles.

Another difference is that generally, "pain and suffering" was not seen as deserving financial compensation. That changed at some point last century also, maybe as it became more rare and thus more shocking to judges and juries.
Why on Earth would there be a correlation between music proficiency and maths? Math involves no musical skill, and music only involves mathematics because mathematics is abstract enough to apply to literally every human discipline. Music is probably one of the places where math is used the least.
About 6 months ago posted a Show HN for WhenToExchange http://whentoexchange.com it shows currency exchange rates and keeps track of large price moves that make it favourable to exchange one currency for another.

Didn't receive much feedback, but still use it personally when shopping online and booking travel.
Oh good point. Charitable interpretation fail!
Okay, why do you think the null is crappy?

In the absence of any information whatsoever, the idea that an analysis pipeline produces false positives at or below its nominal rate seems pretty reasonable.

But, they have some prior information.

Let's look at the E1 paradigm (2 sec on, 6 sec off). In the NeuroImage Paper (Figure 1A, 2A), the FWER on voxel tests is statistically indistinguishable from 5%. In other words, it's appropriately sized. They replicate this result in the rightmost panel of the PNAS paper, where it's also within the 95% CI around 5%.

Now, for the cluster inference, look at the left-most panel of PNAS Figure 1A. The E1 paradigm is the green bar. Using the defaults for FSL (left panel) and SPM (middle panel), the FWER is about 30% and 25%, respectively. That is not good.

I agree that the Block designs look awful in the NeuroImage paper, which makes it hard to say whether this phenomena makes it worse in the PNAS data. It's unfortunate that these numbers are going to be in the press release (70% is much sexier than 30%), but 6x the nominal rate is still bad.
Or to really dig back into history, Bronson Alcott's school, Leo Tolstoy's school, and the schools founded by anarchists in the 1920s. The latter and Summerhill are really more radical than the one described here.
I have it up on Github. It's 90% complete waiting for me to get some free time.

http://kevinpt.github.io/vertcl/
It's all about the finesse in how these issues are worded. She reduces complex issues to a bite sized, strong, yet inaccurate argument. By leaving out the nuance of such issues, we could end up with overreaching legislation that leaves the market less competitive than previously.

A company can choose to sell their products through Apple's store front, however they have to play by Apple's rules. Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc all make products in their stores that compete with products from other vendors that sell items in their stores. If we change the rules because Apple is perceived to have an unfair advantage, should the other distributors change? And if so, what sustains the incentive to make services and products that could possibly compete on price and quality with other vendors.
Gets tricky! In the case of valve/games in general, are we really going to say all in game currency is 'real' money? If I make gold playing wow ( and this gold has a real world value ) should I have to claim income on that?

If I buy and sell items in-game is that taxable? I have to imagine that at some point down the line the answer to these answers will be a fat "YES!" assuming you believe VR will continue to take over.. People just spend too much time, engery, and cold hard cash inside these video games for a government body to say "No" to forever..

I've chosen to ( okay, my lawyers told me ) to just claim normal income on the transactions out of steam ( I sell the keys for USD ). And if you follow that logic, then gambling in the current context should be okay. May be other laws on the gambling side but it's out of the scope of my knowledge.
Man, you're nuts.
This is some combination of something I read once somewhere (Fred Brooks?? possibly) with my own experience over the years. (I didn't go past 10^6 lines because I've never worked on anything larger.)
I don't know how things work in Germany, but in the US all prestigious universities will consider, and have admitted, homeschoolers or others with nontraditional transcripts. This school would be no problem at all for a US university as long as you're able to demonstrate that you can compare well to others in what you've accomplished or learned.
What stops multiple companies from forming pacts to stomp out the little guys? What happens when smaller companies cannot fulfill niche needs of their market whereas a larger company could afford to do so?
The more power the government accretes over the market, the more potential there is for corrupt use of that power.
I think societal condemnation is inconsistent, poorly calibrated, and largely rooted in exogenous/historical factors.

The outrage over isolated killings of charismatic megafauna is matched only by the indifference to extraordinarily large-scale habitat destruction that sees multiple species go extinct every day. See also factory farming.

The incredible revulsion we feel toward an individual pedophile is diluted over an entire industry of child sex trafficking until it reaches homeopathic levels.

I think the condemnation of racism and sexism were basically gavaged into society by social movements and brave people fighting for their rights. While this was definitely an incredible step forward, it did little to neuter our base instincts for prejudice; we were instead outfitted with a sort of pattern-matching, Pavlovian hair-trigger that fires whenever someone says the word "black".

It's said that society progresses one funeral at a time, and that could be the reason why intergenerational prejudice has had no champion. Who will fight for Gen Z once they're dead?
So his problem is that Kahneman was confident before the replication crisis?

We should not fault a person for trusting studies and science published in countless journals.
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Indeed, it started as GitLab.io and I later aquired the .com and .org domain names. In the beginning we ran GitLab.org for the open source project and GitLab.com for the company and the SaaS. We later consolidated everything under GitLab.org
When a future state does not depend on previous states, it's called "randomness". Not quite unattainable, but does not sound too desirable either.