skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the thing; having a whole pantheon of gods, each of differing levels of 'goodness' neatly solves the problem of evil. (so does postulating one true god who isn't entirely good or entirely evil.)

The problem of evil is only a philosophical problem insofar as you postulate a god of infinite ability, infinite knowledge and infinite goodness. Obviously, such a god contradicts the world as we see it. remove any one of those three pillars, and the contradiction goes away;

Further, I think, once you start knocking one of those three pillars out, so that we get a god who matches observable reality, I question if that god can create any more meaning than the traditional "What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power"

I mean, would you worship an insufficiently good god? one who intentionally chose some people for very good lives and others for very bad lives? My argument is that worshiping such a god would be either an act of fear or a grasp for power. What about an insufficiently powerful god? a god who really was doing his best?
If you don't have a smartphone it will be difficult for you to do this, but try creating a time- or location-based reminder using a keyboard interface. And I'm generously assuming that you're going to run this test at a computer, and not directly after bumping into someone in the hallway who reminds you about something you need to do.

This is a bit off-topic from the CAP thing, where I think it's reasonable assume that you are at a computer.
I remember seeing the projects on Medium [1] and thinking it would be pretty cool if the code was available.

It would be more awesome if the code alone was available for free and charge for the videos. But I'm sure the countless hours spent on making & editing the videos/Projects justifies the price.

[1] https://medium.com/@samvlu/100-days-of-swift-736d45a19b63
How to Negotiate with a Liar
Mr. Robot easter egg
Olark is actually entirely done over XMPP, so you could theoretically connect directly to Olark with any standard XMPP client. Trillian is doing some cool stuff in their latest Mac OSX beta using some of our XMPP extensions.
Do diplomats ever ask what Texas thinks?
Try http://3eanuts.com/ which is Peanuts with the last panel cut off.
I think the real "only" way to improve your brain is to improve the sophistication of the "software" that makes up the wiring of your brain. I'm pretty sure from a logical standpoint that electricity alone doesn't do this.
Eh, Eagle in this day in age? If you're going cheap, I'd stick with KiCAD. It's unintuitive, like GIMP vs Photoshop, but gets the job done with no restrictions on functionality. I've also heard decent things about CircuitMaker, but never used it.

If you have any academic links at all though, or don't mind piracy, I'd grab a student edition of Altium Designer. Solidworks too if you can get it for mechanical modeling. If you ever make it big, these are the tools you want to learn and know how to use. You don't mention anything about a good debugger - this is crucial! If you work with ARM the Segger JLink is the gold standard.

Also you should probably mention where to get cheap stencils, like Osh Stencils etc. With all the cheap parts going to extra small packages, stencils are a godsend. Or, just have your prototype made in China at any of the small board-houses - quite cheap as well compared to the time you might spend doing board assembly.

Just my quick 2c.
Again, hindsight. Backpropagation was first applied to ANNs on the verge of 1980s. So we are slowly moving from Misnky wrongly criticizing perceptrons to Minsky not inventing sound backpropagation/multilayer ANN algorithm, which is perhaps taking it a bit too far.
> It is strange isn't it?

And I assume intentional. This is your work and submission. Exactly what statement are you trying to make? A way to deceive with diagrams?

EDIT: To explain, I haven't looked at the raw data, but reading the diagrams and taking the scale changes into account, there aren't especially big differences year to year, but you're led to believe there are. There could even be an overall nationwide decline for all I know, but the misleading rescaling makes it hard to determine by just looking at the images.
I make a lot of presentations, many of which include plot.ly plots. slides.com made it easy to embed iframes, and they are sized nicely on every device I've tried.

I used to think text was the future for making slides, but then I realized I cared too much about exactly how my slide looked, and a WYSIWYG saves a ton of time if you want that level of control.
Although the most famous wirehead (spoiler alert) got a wire installed when he was walking through the park, feeling depressed, and someone shot him with a "tasp", which is a device that stimulates the pleasure centers without wires.
I posted it as "How to build server-less applications for Ethereum" because I assume most people don't know what Mist is. But someone changed it back to Mist.
On point, indeed.
Your first thought was the correct one. This from last year:

Theranos halted the use of its finger-stick draws, collected in a small tube called a nanotainer, after the FDA declared the container was a medical device that should be regulated. That decision did not affect the company's Scottsdale lab, which exclusively uses FDA-approved blood analyzers and instruments made by companies such as Siemens and Olympus.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/consumers/2015...
> Other astrology sites are ugly as hell,

Users of astrology sites are used to these ugly designs. This is the case with arcade gaming sites too ... which is why you see modern arcade sites are ugly.

You aren't designing the site for you. You are designing for the customer and the customer is used to and sometimes subconsciously prefers the ugly design.
http://therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/the-reality-of-uglines...

Because there is reasonable doubt of the newer cleaner design, I urge you to at-least A/B test an ugly looking design that your target users would be familiar with.

------------------

Signature : I use http://www.hnreplies.com/ to track replies to my HN comments. Do you ?
Reminds me of Neal Stephenson’s great essay, ”In the Beginning Was the Command Line”.

http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html
>I think it's terribly naive to think they'll stop to ask what the EU thinks. They'll keep asking that, and if the UK gets mentioned it will be as an afterthought.

You misunderstand my point. Even if, on the surface, they continue to ask what the "EU" thinks, they'll actually be asking (as they always have) what Merkel, Hollande, and (now) Theresa May think. Greece, Italy, Portugal, etc. don't have a say because they need to keep their heads down and continue to service their debt to the big 3 EU leaders, who clearly don't agree on much, even at the global level (war, trade agreements, etc).

Have you been to Africa? Have you seen the level of infrastructure (education, access to electricity and clean water) relative to violence (civil wars), corruption, and pillaging of resources (western countries, China) that continues to take place across even the most developed African nations?

The UK may not even exit the EU at the end of the day [1]. It's much too early to make such dire predictions for the future of UK growth. I prefer the simple or "naive" view that things will not change much.

[1] A referendum in the UK is not binding on the government of the day; it is advisory. The UK has a government with a slender majority (implying it will be tricky to ram things through parliament), it is looking for a new prime minister (and, possibly, a new leader of the opposition), the referendum result was close (the country is split) and no one seems certain who has the power to get the ball rolling by triggering the “infamous” Article 50.
But using that to reason about "wrongness" still seems backwards.

"This is bad in a way similar to how littering is bad, therefore it should be discouraged (and maybe banned) like littering is discouraged and banned." is a perfectly reasonable form of argument. "But it's not banned like littering is banned!" is not a good objection.

It is, of course, possible that it's not actually bad like littering is bad, or that other concerns genuinely override... but that doesn't make this particular objection appropriate.
I think that Java has (on the whole) been very stable, but as steveklabnik pointed it, it also has had breaking changes. But considering Java's age and the quantity of these changes, I'd say it's been exceptionally good (especially since there's some fairly hefty pre 1.5 stuff that will still compile and run.) Clojure, Go, JavaScript, and Scheme come to mind.

I don't think it's fair to compare a language's breaking changes to a library's. I expect different levels of stability depending on the library, but with languages I expect the same level of stability. Rust __has__ been very good at dealing with breaking changes, yes. I'm stating that I don't like breaking changes in a language. Breaking changes in a 1.0 > language are something that should be exceedingly rare.
Do phones not filter out/ignore any sound being emitted from the speaker? Seems like that shouldn't be too hard to do.
Perhaps there are individuals that don't feel the need to cater to a broad audience?
I can't speak for the parent comment, but I will say that while there are plenty of developers with "X years experience" who are not operating at a senior level, it is unrealistic to expect that someone will be operating at senior level without those years of experience.

I liked their ideas around direction given vs. direction required. I liked their distrust of the notion of "cultural fit". I liked that they identified leadership and connectedness as distinct skills, and that a senior developer has both technical skills and at least one of the other two (leadership or connectedness).

But true technical expertise requires the ability to make holistic, contextual decisions. That kind of stuff takes experience shipping multiple products, full-stack exposure to at least one or two mature software stacks, and awareness of the historical context of how technology has changed. That is, it's not so much about "years of experience" as it is "diversity and quality of experiences".
Kudos for tackling such a huge range of topics!

As a proponent of Continuous Delivery, I found the part on releases a bit old-fashioned and slightly disappointing.

I can elaborate a bit more if you want, but most likely you're already familiar with the more iterative and automated approaches.

Everybody has their pet peeves, I guess.
Jet turbofans have an efficiency curve related to the velocity of the aircraft. They are least efficient when the aircraft is stationary, and most efficient when the aircraft is moving at the same velocity as the exhaust.

A jet turbine generator can run at near-constant efficiency.
Link to July 12th release notes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pokemon-go/id1094591345?mt=8
I didn't think they were doing anything nefarious but you never know. I think I will install it now, to see what my grandchildren have been talking about.
We are removing our Russian presence
Wow, that Jim Davis tribute was impressive. And had a nice little jab at the guy right at the end :)
> Most people with European ancestry are 10th or 11th cousins to each other based upon how every US president is related to every other.

"The people who have been elected President of the United States" are not a representative sample of "people currently alive with European ancestry" (or even a nonrepresentative subset of that set) such that generalizations about relations between members of the latter class could be drawn from the relations between members of the former class.

And even if they were, strong conclusions can't really be drawn from an N=44 sample.
Yeah. Actually, I didn't write that definition, as amusing as it may be. I don't consider my username to be suited for Urban Dictionary, since it doesn't qualify as slang.
It would short circuit your normal reward-action feedback loop. We don't live to trigger the reward, we are rewarded to live.
Did they just..get rid of it? I can't find it either.
This is not true:

> Although we expect that the vast majority of programs will
> maintain this compatibility over time, it is impossible to
> guarantee that no future change will break any program.

https://golang.org/doc/go1compat

It's extremely similar to our attitude, and that of Java, etc:

> Of course, for all of these possibilities, should they arise,
> we would endeavor whenever feasible to update the specification,
> compilers, or libraries without affecting existing code.

And they have in fact made such a change: https://golang.org/doc/go1.4#methodonpointertopointer

This isn't a bad thing! My point is as I said below: every language includes some small breaking changes, even if the goal is to have very, very few of them.
> It would be much nicer if religious people would only use religion to measure those who are part of it, not those who are outside.

Only speaking for Catholicism here, but the fact that official Catholic doctrine touches so heavily on so many areas of life, making objective and universal claims about human nature, means that Catholicism can't help but make assertions about people who aren't Catholic or even Christian. This tends to deeply piss off a lot of people, even when no individual Catholic is actually applying those principles to specific non-Christian individuals. In other words, many people tend to not it when religions have anything to say about people who aren't in that religion.
How German Producer TheFatRat Finds Creative Freedom in Label Independence
Not documented, Pokemon Go now asks for Notification permissions. (Which is typical of mobile games and should have been done at launch, but ironic given current circumstances.)
Dietary cholesterol has been thoroughly debunked as a cause of heart disease. Starchy,sugary diets and the elevated triglyceride levels they lead to are much stronger in their link, resulting in a very accurate indicator of heart-disease risk, the HDL/Triglyceride ratio.

Eggs are loaded with HDL in addition to LDL, so they actually boost the top number. However, drinking soda or eating sugary pancakes in the same day will radically increase the bottom number.

I became keenly interested in the science on cholesterol and diet ten years ago, because my father, who has been a vegan since the mid 90's, had his first heart attack. He's subsequently had more. He consumes zero animal products, and we have no heart disease in our family history.

Edit:

Your food politics doc you linked to is just AWFUL. It makes a point about industry funding of cholesterol research since the 1990's, but ignores the immense funding and lobbying by the agricultural commodities producers (General Mills, for example) to push the original lipid hypothesis science that spurred "eggs kill you" thinking in the 1970s. I love how they use this basic correlation (increased funding and cholesterol being vindicated) to conclude causation. That's the flawed thinking that led to the bullshit nutritional standards we have today.
That's interesting, does that mean you don't receive any compensation from that expense ratio, like sub transfer agent fees?
Banks have a lot more information about the merchant when you swipe your card. We use this information to add smart controls to the card.

Yes this is a REAL credit card, and will have no issues working internationally. However, some of the categorization and controls may not be as accurate as they would be in the US.

We are trying to improve our categorization of transaction using machine learning so when you categorize different transactions it will become more accurate over time. We also are working on technology that pulls data in from different APIs (i.e. Yelp, Foursquare, Google) to get even more details about merchants and locations.
This is good to know.
Now a Third Tesla Crash Is Being Blamed on Autopilot
If you look at the colors, it seems gun violence is much worse in later years. However, if you look at the scale it tells the opposite story; gun violence was far greater in 2013. Also, 2016 isn't over yet, it should be scaled appropriately (which we can only assume is not). This chart is useless as it is.
Also look to localize. Some countries actually value purchasing a book over the software referenced (e.g. China) and you can make more $ that way.
Any source on where this data comes from?
Also, this is very visually misleading. If you're not looking at the key closely, it's changing quite a bit between years.
The separation of design and construction into phases is a hangover from civil engineering. It has the baked in assumption that the design phase is relatively cheap, short and somewhat unpredictable the construction phase is expensive, long and predictable. The root problem is the assumption that specifications can be validated for correctness, like a blueprint for a bridge can. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is a persistent myth in software development.
YTD Vanguard has charged me 27 dollars in fees. So like 5-6 bucks a month. Sample size n=1 yes, vanguard is cheaper.
EveryNickname – service for storing nicknames
> No.

But the rest of your comment seems to say "Yes."

> Trade deals get signed because all parties involved believe it will be to their mutual benefit.

I think that's optimistic. Deals get signed fundamentally because each side individually benefits. A better deal will see the weaker partner able to grow as a result, but that's not necessary for it to be worthwhile to the stronger partner.

> Why would you want to sign a trade deal with a weak country? It is self-defeating: you would get little out of it.

There's always a stronger and a weaker player at the table. It might take some fiddling to work out which is which, and it's certainly not limited to a single axis, but deals still happen.

> abuse regulatory passporting

I don't see that as abuse, that's just playing the game with the pieces that are on the board. From France's point of view, given the choice between a quick zero-sum win where they gain the limited number of banks available and a long-term mutual win where everyone grows, why not do both?
I'm not sure it is that much of a leap. That's not to say that a person will be rational by suppressing those emotions, but as long as the emotions are suppressed, but not the information about any situations that led to those emotions, the person may be able to more objectively assess a situation.

That is, there are assumptions involved, but I think a case could be made that emotions are a way to bypass rational thought when it's less efficient, useful (too slow for the situation) or lack of information (or lack of our own capability) causes us to fall into local maxima thinking (e.g. love, distrust of the different, etc).

If tDCS helps test this in some manner, that would also be good. We of course need a lot more information on what tDCS actually does first though. It's entirely possible that the described effects are not what is happening at all, just what it feels like. Measuring the state of the mind is weird.
What if you do do the determination of all true statements empirically? Is that not the empirical way to determine the truth of that all-inclusive statement?
go to the http version of the page, and it works fine. http://deborah-digges.github.io/shooting-viz/index.html
At least on the iPhone, Siri is only activated by the "Hey Siri" command if your phone is plugged in to charge.
I'm 45. I'm so old that I'm proficient using (+) to code outer joins in oracle :)
Comma-join was the standard for me, and I had a hate-phase towards LEFT/RIGHT JOIN. But I must admin that once I've really tried the "new" join-on syntax it has great advantages that outweighs the pain of change.
And it was always ridiculous to use the same key across millions of devices. Of course there is a huge security benefit in having unique keys that are inaccessible to possible attackers.
> So when a disaster knocks out power and takes down cell service—along with those government emergency alerts—you’re going to need a radio to know what’s going on.

Remember that Paul Graham essay about how most articles that aren't about politics or war are pitched to the journalist by someone with a stake in the matter? This is almost word for word what they say in the NextRadio app's radio commercials.
I wonder if you could ship a fully featured javascript engine written in WebAssembly. Then servo could just include that and it would interpret/JIT the rest of the JS.
Wow, some of those are absolutely astounding.
I'm sorry you found it offensive.

It's sort of a relic from my childhood. I don't get a whole lot of negative reactions to it; most appreciate the humor.

But you're certainly entitled to be offended and I am sorry to hear about it. It was not my intent.
Yeah that is pretty ridiculous, it is non-obvious that the scale changed.
The scale being inconsistent from year to year is terrible, it leads readers to make inferences that aren't true, and makes it very difficult to understand how gun violence has changed in the time period shown.
Maps and graphs are usually used to tell a story or to highlight an interesting pattern. Am I missing something here? All I see is a color coded map whose colors change volatilely because the scales are changing.
Here's a similar project with source:

https://github.com/allenwong/30DaysofSwift

i started a similar project:

https://github.com/melling/ios_topics

There's an incredible amount of Swift projects, blogs, etc, it's really just a matter of organizing it.

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html
That's a lot. Vitamin D tests are easy to get, so I just took a few over a few months to find a dose that would keep me at ~50ng/ml. Previous to that, I had taken 5000+ IU/day for some time and the test showed my levels were very high.

It looks like this site has a nice chart:
https://www.vitamindcouncil.org/further-topics/i-tested-my-v...
I hadn't heard of VoltDB until now, but have been following jepsen for a while. I wish more project did what you did. Congrats on the increased reliability.
Interesting. I work in a US research lab and while I do not manage finances, I am under the impression that we are never in debt.
There's precedent of sorts for this though. Currently a non-EU citizen with a visa to Ireland still needs a visa to travel to the UK. This could be policed in the same way as that case.
Whoa, I just took security with David Wagner last semester and Nicolas/Pratyush were some of my TAs. Academia, where cool stuff is always happening under your nose!
Can you really distinguish sound emitted from the speaker from someone with a hoarse voice? Furthermore, what about medium? Traveling different medium should be considered.
Poll: What operating system do you prefer as a Data Scientist?
Do Data Scientists prefer any particular system over others? Do you have a particular reason for your choice? Why?

Rather surprisingly, I can not find any particular survey online apart from a few Stackoverflow or Quora questions. I wonder what the HN community has to say on this.
MacOS/OSX
Do they still have the colored lines towards the top? I think you have to click on it to see the language percentage breakdown.
Similar feeling to transcendental meditation. You can change your brain..
Tower Records is long gone (in the US), but Elton John was interviewed for the Tower Records documentary "All Things Must Pass". He states that he probably purchased more records there than anybody else (forget the exact quote). Judging by his enthusiasm, I believe him.
Trivia: this paper was renamed The Mathematical Theory of Communication the following year, after people realized just how significant it was.