skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've never, ever heard of anything like this occurring.

There are some really odd interactions between funders' and universities' rules. Many places won't let non-permanent staff be the "lead researcher"/PI/whatever on grants, particularly if the grant or contract has specific "deliverables" or if the grant runs longer than than employee's contract.

These policies are probably well-intentioned--you can't really commit to an employee doing three years of research if they may not even be employed here next year--but they can lead to aggravating catch-22 situations where people could have the job if there was funding, but they can't get the funding because they don't have the job...
As a (somewhat stubborn) adherent to httpie | jq, what do I gain from my $50 going to Paw?
The very title claims that unrepeated results shouldn't be accepted.
You're accusing me of lying, then you lie?

The exposure of the Norwegians was 2 medical xrays. Thanks for pointing out that mammograms require less exposure, it's irrelevant. Norwegian exposure was well within regular medical norms = fact. This means there was no health crises.

" "Exposure to nuclear radiation during months three and four of pregnancy [due to fallout over Norway, 1956-1966] was associated with reduced educational attainment, high school completion, and adult earnings. "

Causation is not correlation. Do grasp how many factors over an entire nation and culture affect 'learning of young children'? There are innumerable. To posit that this one minor thing was the driving factor is completely unfounded.

Laughably, you would have saved far more lives by requiring seat belts be worn in the USA during that time. Where is the scandal? There isn't one because we had different views of health and safety, moreover, we had no understanding of the ill health effects of radiation, though we should have for seat belts.

The nuclear program was essential to balancing power during the cold war. The US government did absolutely the right thing. And I'm saying this as a non-American.
Maybe I'm being blunt, but my definition is that I spoke to them personally and they told me they would still be in academia if they had managed to land a job.

I asked, because at the time I was considering leaving to pursue a graduate degree myself.

Of course, I didn't literally speak to every quant in on the street, but I sampled from the ones who were around me. Most people were quite open about the situation but glad they had left; some were still very bitter.
A while back I posted a map of ordnance dumps, and there was some discussion about the danger: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8923702
arXiv.org does a better job than most at allowing resubmissions... and serving as a repository for rebuttals that might not warrant journal publications.

Lijie Chen (the student Scott mentioned) used arXiv.org's preprints for this purpose.
2 reasons:
first, we don't really use that state-of-the-art stuff against them. Most of these conflicts are being executed with comparatively boring, conventional means. The railgun, however, are a marked improvement over current naval-based artillery, and allow us to strike much further inland with them. Its a lot faster, cheaper, and safer to fire a cannon than to send a plane with a bomb in certain situations. The cutting-edge toys are used as deterrence mechanisms for other more sophisticated countries, which we have healthy diplomatic channels to communicate over. My comment above explains why merely having them is necessary and sufficient in most cases, especially since other powers are developing similar tech.

Second, we are much more squeamish about losing American lives than we ever have been before. Any administration that chooses to throw bodies at the problem like we did in both World Wars will be quickly replaced. I can't defend every project (especially not the F-35), but by and large this tech is designed to maximize effect with minimal risk to American lives.
Into the Black
Yves! Long time no see =) How are you doing these days? <3
>>You're making something that others can enjoy and that you can look at and appreciate.

If you kind of look at it, everything can preserved and enjoyed by those coming after us. Stamp collection too in many ways is preservation of history. A game of chess with all its moves recorded, or an epic game of tetris.

Or take food for example. No body can taste what you cooked, but you can write down the recipe and ingredients to the very last gram and people can enjoy it forever.
And this is why my inbox blew up...
I'm not European, but I've heard the situation is hard there too, although not in the same way. The European academics I've met are, years after finishing the PhD, still quite dependent on their advisors for patronage. Those advisors likewise have to defer to their advisors. For decades. Until somebody dies. It's very feudal.
and this is why my inbox blew up :(
>Uber is more than dispatch

I still don't think that most of those checkboxes is terribly important to either drivers or riders. If I were an Uber competitor, I'd thank Uber for screening the drivers for me. Now I can offer them fares at half the price Uber can offer them for. You have a point about delivery, but in the end that's just another fare. There will certainly be good dispatch networks, and Uber may be one of them, but none of them will be able to maintain high margins, certainly not margins that would support Uber's valuation.
"I'm surprised many believe this. It seems self-evident that our bodies are well adapted to periods of starvation. Any biology that wasn't so adapted would have been out-competed by those did."

I actually never thought about it from that angle. It seems like it should obviously be true now. Now the question is how true and if nuances exist where our bodies can take it but not optimal in health.
I think another reason they didn't consider proper versioning is that only a few of the Go core developers have a background in languages with a good dependency management ecosystem. C and C++ have never really had that, and Python never really has either, despite what fans of it seem to think.

I think the bottom line is that the Go team simply doesn't know how good the ecosystem is in a lot of newer languages. I see this reflected in other decisions in Go as well, such as the absurd amount of boilerplate needed to manage some of the Goroutines, and the way string are handled.
Most American merchant vessels are not American-flagged... Liberia, I believe, is the most common flag for US shipping.
Is there something like a "standard" HTTP client library and also a SQL abstraction library in Haskell nowadays, that everyone is using?
Similar to what 'requests' and 'SQLAlchemy' are in Python?

I feel those would be the two libraries that I would probably miss the most when switching to Haskell for a project.
But both issues relate to death or injury within a larger population. The chance of getting killed by most risks is very small, but the magnitude of the impact is obviously massive. The end result (death) is the same.

It is reasonable to feel aggrieved about risk you have not consented to simply because it is an injustice. Perhaps the injustice won't be visited upon me in particular but that is not the point.
Most of these haven't become second nature yet, but I'm getting there. The hard part is having momentum and flow. But, generally, my day works out great if I can do all of this in a day.

1) Meditation

2) IFTTT that syncs trello and google calendar

3) Eating Healthier

4) Running

5) ABC: Always be coding

6) Talking to people who are really good at their domain

7) Sleeping: Flux helps

8) App that tracks how much time I spend on websites and apps

9) Pomodoro

10) Reading fiction from a good writer

11) Reading good blog posts

12) Having a lunch with different people

13) Finding people who just started programming who I can help out

14) Not having decision fatigue

I have more, but these are the main one
Coinbase and Reddit CEOs Discuss Removal of Moderator of Bitcoin Subreddit
It's a stretch to call them "ill-equipped" in Vietnam and Afghanistan, considering that the insurgents won both campaigns (with generous military assistance from the opposing superpower). No, they didn't have armored infantry - but they had surface-to-air missiles, anti-personnel mines, anti-tank missiles, and automatic submachine guns, all provided by the opposing superpower. The U.S. lost many aircraft against the North Vietnamese, and the Soviets lost many tanks and helicopters against the mujahideen in Afghanistan.

steve19 also makes the very good point that these weapons did fall into the hands of the enemy: most of the Taliban were trained by the CIA, and the weapons our forces faced in Afghanistan were largely ones we had sold to the mujahideen in the 80s. Now the weapons left behind in Iraq are largely in the hands of ISIS.

The point of this article is that the U.S. is likely to face similar asymmetric threats in any future war, where the opposition doesn't have the same weapons as us but they do have weapons that are very effective at countering us.
Again, you're wrong. And yes, you clearly have every intention of starting an argument.

1. If you'd simply read the link (which you clearly have not done), you'd understand that a k-value of 2.0 means that each customer referred an average of 2 new customers. I never said "probability". You did. Yes, probability above 1 is impossible, which is why I never used that word. You clearly conflated the two, which is your error, not mine.

Here's why I said "likelyhood" (likelihood) instead of "probability":
http://stats.stackexchange.com/a/2645

"...the likelihood function does not obey the laws of probability (for example, it's not bound to the [0, 1] interval). "

2. Reading-comprehension. It's not that hard.
"their tech" could really mean anything as they have been involved in many forms of AR.
I'm not sure how anyone here could say anything about which, if any, state actors are responsible. The available details are scarce and mostly come from not unbiased sources.

To put forth one alternative hypothesis, let's say I'm a disgruntled insider who wants to cover my tracks. How much it take for me rent a couple VPS instances to launch password guessing attacks against a few staffers, triggering the "danger danger nation state hackers danger" warning in yahoo mail? $20 worth?
I think you can have both -- keep a record of who made what suggestion when and which got merged into what branch on whose approval. Wiki/git-style tools already do (most of) this.

In fact, that makes ego validation easier: "I contributed these insights, reviewed these contributions, and received these upvotes/contribution acceptances."
http://retractionwatch.com/ is fun to visit once in a while
Me too. Sort of. I think I realized this subconsciously before I was conscious of it. The result was two years of depression and anxiety before I got everything straight and quit.

I don't know if it was wasted time or not. It was a long time to not be in the workforce, but I learned a lot of skills while working on what turned out to be dead end research projects. I have a job now that requires merely a fraction of those skills. But maybe I wouldn't have gotten the job without my half phd. Or maybe I'd have a better job if I finished.

I'm still pretty frustrated by the fact that what was presented to me as a failsafe career path was anything but failsafe. This is pretty much the same problem with all of higher education and the current economy in miniature. Just as an undergrad degree no longer garuntees a good job a phd no longer garuntees a tenured job.
With the WikiLeaks releases of the past week, it certainly appears that the DNC is in her back pocket.

EDIT: Really, flagged... whatever.
Does HN have any advice for those looking to get a PhD because they love the field (Computer Science)? And then follow up the PhD with a job at one of the tech companies' research arm?
If you aren't willing to actually fight a war, then maybe you shouldn't fuck around and waste people's lives on a half-hearted adventure.
Using Vim, it's really allowed me to be more efficient as a coder.
A b-boy is a term for a male breaker. Wikipedia does a pretty good job explaining "breakdancing" and "b-boying":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-boying#Terminology
Yes, as far as I know the repo includes everything.
wreq and persistent are probably the closest libs to what you've listed for python
Is the Semi-Permanent “Gunpowder Empire” Historical Scenario Plausible?
It really makes you appreciate the power of a beam of relativistic electrons, when you consider that it's managing to cause a star to basically flicker.
I don't have a question; I have an interpretation of the OP's question that may or may not be correct. I took "What was your moment" to mean "tell me about the moment" rather than "tell me what you did".
This happened to me when I was introduced to the game. I was playing my class, working out different angles. Did a bunch of quests and leveling. A friend eventually asked, "Dude, you realize you've been at this for around 8 hours now?" I thought, "No way!" Sure enough.

So, I thought back on all I did in that time. I noticed the missions were all similar with slight variations. The levels, items, and so on gave me little accomplishments but mostly just changed the numbers or face of the enemy I'd fight. There was also enough time lost to make some real money or do something like apps in the real world. Last time I did MMORPG's.

Closest thing I do these days is Battlefield 4 since it improves my hand-eye coordination, assessment, and adaptation skills as I try new weapons. Plus diverse strategies available for various maps. Keep thinking I need to get back to RTS or TBS games to but I just have a console right now.
Nobody. And nobody has to, either.
I couldn't agree more. I think if everyone just got to experience this dramatic difference, even briefly, there'd be no obesity epidemic.
I love using Paw. I'm no longer in the building phase of my service, but when I was defining my API and testing endpoints, Paw was critical in the process.

My main feature request (and I'm not sure if any competitor does this, so please inform me if it exists somewhere):

While Paw allows me to export code, which is cool and all, it would be very interesting to allow me to compose workflows, like, say Automator in macOS, including assertions, so that I could essentially compose and export integration tests with Paw. It'd be neat to see some more generally API-definition features hit Paw, or maybe a companion app that plays nicely with Paw to do the definition half of things, compatible with Swagger and whatnot.

Clearly not a well-thought-out idea, but I think there's space in Paw's domain for some form of what I'm talking about.
Anyone surprised and/or outraged at this runs a very real risk of playing the useful idiot
Fake news. It is as simple as that.
True unless you are doing something to concentrate the radiation, like drinking milk from a backyard cow.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK100835/
AFAIK its import/export features are plugin based. Write it!
Do you know how much funding is at stake nationwide? (It's E-Rate, as I recall.) How credible is it that an organization or wealthy individual or crowdfunding effort could offer a wholesale alternative? In San Francisco, SFPL chose to give up this funding several years ago in order to decline to install censorware.

Edit: a whole lot of money! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Rate#Modernization
Have a look at Haskell Toolbox: http://haskell-toolbox.com/
It saddens me that this is the top comment. It's complete and total FUD unrelated in any way to what Proto is, and to boot, it's an optional type, provided if you want it, but otherwise not forced to be used in any way! Scroll down the page for much more worthwhile discussions of Proto.
How I wish for a lisp like Clojure with a type system like Haskell...

Hope core.typed will be that!
Let's talk real disruption: money. DoD wastes money like you can't believe because they're required to.

* Contracting takes forever -- actual times measured in months to years. We haven't had proper planning and budgeting from congress for almost a decade, so funds that expire are released late, forcing the services to take a bad deal signed quickly over a good deal that would come too late.

* No flexibility. Projects are funded as "Programs of Record" (or not at all) and funded for their life-cycle in the budget. Services fight endlessly to keep PoRs no matter how they turn out because it is so damn hard to start new programs.

* The system is designed to allow bad deals. It's legal (and not uncommon) for a prime contractor to subcontract work through a middle-man corporation that contracts back to a subsidiary of the prime to perform the work. DoD acquisition contracts include a negotiated profit fee with the prime, but often have no insight into the structure of their lower-level deals, allowing the primes to take a profit straight off the top, then an additional cut at the working level.

* All new acquisitions are driven "top-down" by resource sponsors distilling warfighter needs into "requirements" that are then solved with a materiel solution.

* We spend a lot of money on this stuff, and we can't make new programs, so we end up supporting things long after their planned EOL. Check out B-52s, A-10s, F/A-18s, weapons, etc. It costs a lot of money to keep supporting this stuff.

* PoRs usually require a competitive tech development phase where you pay two prime contractors to build solutions before doing a competitive down-select.

So... Make it easier to contract. Easier to spend small amounts of money to test solutions. PoRs should grow out of successful products, not the BS we do now. Be a bully in contract negotiations, and put some teeth in the regulations on contractors playing shell games. We don't see much innovation because the services can't move quickly, and they can't adapt to changing requirements.

How bout we disrupt that?
Using vim, and learning it in depth.

I'm an old AIX/HP-UX hand, and stuck to vi and clones because I was afraid I'd start using a vim-only command that wouldn't work on vi.

Then Unicode became more and more prevalent and vi and it's clones didn't support it well + I started doing mainly Linux, so I switched to vim. Then finally I started learning all the vim-specific extras... Yeah totally wish I started earlier!
This is similar to Postman's test runner feature. You can export a collection of requests and even write simple assertions in javascript.

Although it looks like Paw has potential for something similar with its extensions. It already has some sort of javascript availability.

https://medium.com/ios-os-x-development/make-your-app-extens...
PubPeer might be a decent option. They have some mechanism to identify comments from the author but I haven't investigated how it works.

www.pubpeer.com
You are not a role model (anymore, at least). Don't set up people for failure, or alternatively, an unhealthy lifestyle like yours.

Whatever phisique requires steroids to achieve is literally too big and anyone who is not into bodybuilding will think that.
Ask HN: What Atom editor packages do you use?
I'm interested in discovering how to level up my productivity a bit with Atom. I'm an experienced Vim user and a proficient Emacs user.

Two areas of particular interest to me include (1) making Atom less mouse-focused and (2) being able to use more effective keyboard shortcuts -- it doesn't seem like there's a lot of navigational defaults available.

Please share your thoughts!
The parent comment didn't say anything about sports cars or yachts. Those are potential answers but lowest on list of meaningful things far as I consider. You could be investing in business, learning new skills/hobbies, going interesting places, forming lasting relationships, working on any number of problems in the world around you, working on problems in your life, and so on. Yet, your most meaningful moment is the numbers you've achieved in a virtual box a private company created for profit while they and the rest of the world keep moving on with such meaningful pursuits. Even these companies are rarely loyal to their virtual boxes.

So, certainly do it if you want and enjoy it. Some things do have objectively more impact than others, though, with your save and games probably not existing unless someone stopped playing theirs for a while to create them with expectation of such impact. That you even like it sort of endorses getting out to create or improve something similar as more meaningful.
Yann LeCun Quora AMA Jul 28, 2016
Yes, blacklisting is insufficient in general. But it covers many cases, including the one here. Contextual encoding must be done each and every place you emit user input into HTML, and it's easy to screw this up. Character blacklisting provides an extra layer of protection.

Unless you're intending for your user to post HTML, or math inequalities, or diff patches - there's no reason to allow angle brackets on a form post.
The suggestion of stopping caffeine after 6pm helped me. Yet, I am on my computer late at night with HN and other places waking me up with ideas. So, yeah, that might be a great way to improve sleep. Might have to try it when I can muster up the willpower.
I'd wager the first 48 hours of a modern all-out war with another major nation will be the deciding factor, or heavily tip the scales.

A modern war with another major nation likely won't last months or years like traditional wars. There's too much destructive firepower available to major nations for that to be realistic.

It's more likely that it will be destructive, brutal, and very swift.

Not to mention Rickover said that nearly 40 years ago - our modern carrier groups have a lot more firepower and technology at their disposal - including new generation stealthy ships.
Be faithful or at least try to have an intellectual discourse on religion without devolving into bigotry. Even just learning about another religion can be so enlightening.
ie for any mildly complex app, [re]implement a framework rather than using an existing framework that is battle-tested to a far higher degree than is possible if you roll it yourself?
For very good, proven talent, in tight local markets, negotiating for the best job based primarily on compensation and not, for instance, how interesting the targets are, $150k/yr as salary+cash bonus is a reasonable expectation.

Plenty of very good security researchers make less, for any of the reasons I just implied and many others. $80k-$90k is roughly the threshold where I'd say that if you're talented and have a track record, you're needlessly underpaid.

On the other hand: $150k as consulting returns sounds a little on the low side. At 80% utilization (hard, but possible, to maintain) and a reasonable bill rate, you might expect to gross somewhere north of $250k.

For specialist talent, this all goes out the window, of course.
Even betweeen nuclear superpowers, there is a Nash competition to field superior conventional forces.

The goal is to achieve escalation dominance, in which your military forces are strongest at all levels of conflict intensity. Think of conflict escalation as a ladder, where the lower rungs are covert or plausibly deniable operations, middle rungs involve conventional war, and the highest rungs involve nuclear war.

All wars involve the escalation of conflict. As a war fighting power, you want to seek dominance not only on the thermonuclear rung, but also on all the rungs below it so that you are not forced into an escalate-or-lose situation. If you achieve escalation dominance on every level, you have achieved hegemony which is a term of art meaning you can compel other powers to act without having to act yourself.

(I leave the proof as an excercise for the reader)