skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be right. I'm going off the NYTs 2015 editorial:

>Ahead of new elections set for Nov. 1, Mr. Erdogan last month reignited a war with Kurdish separatists, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party or P.K.K., in an apparent effort to rally support for the government and thus salvage his ambitions for continued authoritarian rule and greatly expanded powers.

Regards reading the Turkish press the recent "16 TV channels, 23 radio stations, 45 papers, 15 magazines and 29 publishers will be shut" and various reporters arrested stuff makes me wonder if there may be some bias there.
Check the Jose Silva method (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lutmDJtGKPw). It's the most controllable form I've found so far.
Hadn't heard of this, but I am familiar with mashape. Their stuff is solid.

Though, it looks like it is in beta, and I don't see any way to do cloud/team syncing.
"It doesn't work."

Mac != Linux
I was thinking more about scientific research, such as funding for pure mathematics, theoretical computer science and such. These are skills that require years of dedicated effort to master the basics and reach a level of understanding that is rigorous enough to start making original contributions and yet offer very little financial compensation in industry.

You are right in that a decision has to be made in what areas we consider important enough to allow a sustainable career from it. In your example, I would certainly not fund a person for studying Medieval German poetry only; but more funding for research into history? Sure thing.
>> funding regulations meant the grant couldn’t pay my salary as its lead researcher

> I've never, ever heard of anything like this occurring.

It's a Canadian academic, so perhaps Canadian federal conditions are different from what you're used to?
I wish that more of silicon valley would penalize people for reprehensible behavior. If Uber execs were ostracized rather than lauded... if investors pounded the table about legal risks and the importance of ethical business rather than cheering along any behavior that makes the numbers grow (temporarily)... we might not have Zenefits melting down, nor sociopathic exec teams at major companies that are held up as scions of the tech world. If this is one of the best and brightest companies the tech industry has to offer, we have a deeply worrisome problem. If pursuing paper growth absolutely trumps ethical concerns, we are feeding into a horrible system. If nobody calls this shit out and there isn't actual financial and social/cultural consequence, things will only get worse.
Or retool for figuring out how to get everyone on Earth to chill the fuck out for a minute.
I wouldn't say academics is not part of the 'Real' economy.

I would say that if you put all your eggs in one basket, you shouldn't expect sympathy when they break.
Java can't compete with C the moment you start creating/destroying objects. A fact that Java proponents either don't understand or carefully avoid talking about.
I thought I was the only one who felt this way. I used to spend many hours playing minecraft but now I just cannot anymore, nor any other games really
ZEPS: Now any bus can become electric
Meditation slows down your mind. This allows you to become more aware of your thoughts. You start to discover your thought patterns, what you believe about certain things, why you act in a certain way in certain situations.

If you also practice something like loving-kindness (it sounds hippy, but it has scientific backing[1]), it can increase the quality of your relationships.

[1]http://www.emmaseppala.com/18-science-based-reasons-try-lovi...
The couch to 5k program worked very well for me. Have kept running 5k and 10k events ever since. Recommend it to everyone.
Update is free. Instructions on how to migrate your App Store purchase are here: https://paw.cloud/docs/getting-started/migrate-from-appstore
I'm a mutt user, too. I think

set markers=no

in your ~/.muttrc will get rid of the plus signs.
The public does not want its funds diverted into private profits, period. Allowing any exceptions or leeway is a wide-open door to a trough filled with corruption and deceit.

You receive no special additional benefit from a library by being a researcher. Everyone can read the same materials as you do. Time on the Hubble costs more than any individual astronomer could pay. If you are keen on closed, private astronomy, you would need to check the NASA budget figures.

If you derive useful benefit from work done at your request, you need to pay the person doing it. If the intern is working for the government for no pay, how would they not just laugh in your face when you ask them to do work for you? You invented the hypothetical; I won't fix it for you.

If the military or state department could derive some benefit from subsidizing private research, they can bloody well do the research on their own. "US Army cures Dengue" would be great for both operations and PR, and would be a much better use of funds than a smart bomb that can stalk you on Facebook and blow up all your friends at the same time as you. If you as a private company want to sell a cure for Dengue on your own, then don't go begging the government for money. Fund it yourself!
To be fair, there are probably a few places such a system could hide from a given observer, but that starts to place some pretty ridiculous restraints on the whole endeavor.
I find it disappointing that there is this aversive sentiment in tech-scene towards groundbreaking, physical technologies like segways, self-driving cars, and now magic leap.
I like Peter Thiel's point of view on this issue: world needs more zero to one and less of the same. Note that I'm talking this as an average software developer (I don't work on cool technology at work).
I'd like to live in the future and I acknowledge that without huge risky hardware bets the future will be as bleak as present is.
These aren't disruptive ideas, they're just bad ideas.

> Build drone carriers.

You mean like regular carriers will be with N-UCLASS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B) or the optionally-manned F/A-XX (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F/A-XX_Program)?

> looks like any other civilian cargo ship until the need arises.

This is called Perfidy. It's a war crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidy

> Drone operators can control entire formations of combat drones

They have a hard enough time controlling one -- bandwidth requirements and ensuring reliable communication are hard.

> point and click interface should be enough with modern tech

Right up until your adversary degrades your access to all that modern tech. Military tech needs to be literally bullet-proof.

> programmed to proceed with their missions fully autonomously

The UN disagrees. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/09/un-urged-to-...
That is simply not true unless the C code is written by a C programmer inexperience in writing high performance C code (a Java programmer for example).
The latest version (3.0) appears to be in beta, but 2.x is stable and I've been using it for at least a year. It doesn't have cloud/team syncing (at least in 2.x), but it does allow you to export request groups as JSON which can be shared/versioned. For being free and cross-platform, that seems good enough for me.
For starters, they aren't paying a not-so-insignificant portion of that GP to a sales guy. There are absolutely tax benefits to it. And finally they don't have the cost of support, which can be quite large, of taking care of an external entity.
Why do we eat food at all? It seems self-evident that a biology that didn't synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide would be outcompeted by those that did.
Projecting power isn't just about appearance, it's about being able to use your military even in small conflicts to enforce your policy.
JSON and JavaScript: JSON comments, security, pretty-printing
You don't create anything by doing sports, but it is among the most popular and healthy hobbies. You don't create anything by playing chess. Is chess not a hobby?

And if you want to look at it that way, I can say you are leaving a collection of stamps, you are preserving little snippets of history and culture from around the world and through the years. In my case, I might be leaving sick replays of me beating SMW2 World 1 in record time, for other's to watch in awe as I do over other speedrunners' work.
Dartino: a managed language on micro-controllers? – Curry On
Actually no, it's not a terrible process, it's a misunderstood process[#].
Modern tools (debhelper 7+) allow for simple process, though one needs to
understand how the binary packages thing works.

This is a decent overview on technical details:
http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2016-pragmatic-debian-packa...

[#] I assume you meant the friction with the tools, not the fact that package
builder needs to chase down all the dependencies and generally prepare many
source tarballs to be included in a repository.
US Military Using $600K 'Drone Buggies' to Patrol Camps in Africa
On reconsideration, I'm wavering on my belief. NIH and NSF get a lot more support than, say, the NEA. HST, fine as it is, was extremely expensive.

I still maintain that the military is still on a higher pedestal than science, in terms of funding and prestige. You hear stories of people buying military people in uniform their meal, to honor their service. That's much less common for scientists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7ez-gIt08I
Hm, even without the above stuff, `cargo fetch` should enable you to do offline builds just fine.
Why aren't they building a fiber optic link? Is it that the shipping channel makes it too likely for disruption of the link?
As an anecdotal counterpoint, I have tried meditation (both guided and solo) many times and have found it to have little to no benefit long term. I get none of the benefits mentioned above.
While I agree a credit card might theoretically offer recourse, in practice I think what would happen is I would end up locked out of my iTunes account and I would discover that all my past "purchases" would be better described as "donations".
You'd be appalled at how much overhead universities take out of research grants (from NSF, DARPA, NIH, etc.) to maintain these administrations (along with legitimate uses, like paying utility bills). 40-50% is not uncommon.
It doesn't sound ridiculous at all to me (as long as it is presented spirituality- and supernatural-free). I was mostly skeptical about the fasting. Meditation sounds all right, I just never got around to trying it, nor do I like very much the idea of doing nothing for 30 minutes out of each day.
Does anyone else see the contradiction: the amount students are spending on college keeps going up, but the budget for professors seems to keep going down. What accounts for the discrepancy?
I would be in a much better condition.

Coup of 1980 destroyed Turkish left and opened the door to rightwing extremists. In 14-15 years after the coup, fundamentalists and nationalists pretty much seized the bureaucracy, which led to the raise of Erdogan and deterioration of secularism.
You know, these days, we shouldn't have the concept of a blog or paper being published. It should be collaborative effort.

The initial post should be a comment period where you ask for feedback and no matter how large your mistake, it should be considered okay.

And slowly as you get more eyes on it, it should solidify into a more accepted paper.
I would almost tend to extend that to say that no large-scale modern terrestrial base/war machine can really stand up to modern, anti-whatever missiles.

There's this idea where there are two sides in war scenarios, offense and defense, attackers and defenders, like sports or whatever. It seems to me more like modern war wouldn't be two sides playing offense and defense, it would be two parties dishing out incomprehensible destruction and one-upping each other hoping that the other gives up first.
Carriers are more of a psychological force projection than a physical one for adversaries such as China. No nation dare attack a carrier strike group because of the power behind the response if something were to happen. They are a "I'm not touching you" kind of a game at that level. A way for American to claim physical space for awhile and back up diplomatic rhetoric. I don't think anyone in the pentagon would be foolish enough to pit f/a 18s against modern missile defenses. For less well equipped armies they are used as a blunt instrument as in Syria, Iraq etc. Just so we're clear, only the most advanced countries have ASBM technology, it does not apply to many.
using a system package manager does not mean that one needs to use a distribution's (debian, ubuntu, redhat, gentoo, arch, etc) mirror to pull the package, it does mean that you use an OS provided tool to manage all software on your machine.

- It does mean that the common libraries are installed once
- conflicts between common libraries are more transparent
- System tools make sure that package stays up-to date
The biggest problem in recent decades seems to be the reticence to actually pull the gloves off and really fight a war. War is one of those things you have to actually do, and not dick around with, to be successful. All that artificial "Rules of Engagement" provide is a framework for the enemy to hide behind.
During sessions, he stops speaking for many minutes, to let you focus on the breath. I found it useful at first, because I saw it as hand-holding. I couldn't focus for very long at the time and this helped.

When I developed more focus, I stopped using Headspace, so I could have longer periods of uninterrupted silence.
Happy Veertu user + plus nice vagrant integration [0]

The performance is on par with native Docker for OSX and for sure faster than VirtualBox / VMWARE.

[0] https://veertu.com/knowledgebase/vagrant-setup-instructions/
How to land a passenger jet without any flight controls
Funny how 1 data point can be extrapolated to make such a bold claim (best cities for X). Hong Kong is a terrible place for book lovers.

- I think almost all the bookstores are not profitable, many of them closing down (especially the independent "second-floor" ones", ie not street-level stores). The book choices in mainstream bookstores are rubbish. (PageOne and Eslite slightly better.)

- 99% of the HK publishing houses are controlled by Chinese government by proxy. This imposes editorial censorship and determines which books will get promoted in the stores.

- If you publish or sell books that offend the CPC, you may be arrested in China with some false charges

- Generally speaking, most people in HK are not book lovers. If you visit Eslite (a Taiwanese chain), you'll see a large area of their store is devoted to lifestyle goods, not books.

Go to Taipei, go to Charing Cross in London, but don't go to HK for books.
Bring your A game and get a good nights sleep. It is a job interview, have fun and be yourself. Be honest and don't forget to interview the interviewer so you can get information about the company to help you insure it is a good fit for you in the short and long term.
Announcing Meteor 1.4
> Jed Rakoff, has now, in a 31-page order, called “blatantly fraudulent and arguably criminal.”

So? It's Uber, they are above the law. Silly judge.

or is this finally the line? Ignoring regulations all over the place, fine.
Questionable "Contractor" status for employees? That's cool. Sharing economy man.
This sounds very much like occupational burnout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_burnout

The eroding self confidence and inability to perform mundane tasks. If not addressed, which can take years, you risk more than the business, you risk your life.
Effortless was referring to how quickly they positioned themselves to compete in an emerging landscape with lots of startups - one deal staffed them up. Whether they can manage those people effectively or ship big projects ... is a problem startups face too.
Or is it about projecting _the idea_ that your military is able to be effective even in the smallest of scenarios?
Administration. More and more money going to committees for every little thing.
This is what they did. They rolled back to soviet era names, which was exactly what the names were before Ukrainian parliament renames them.

So Crimea had a bunch of Soviet-named cities for these years
I don't get why "pip" is checked in "Has separate manifest and lock files". Actually it doesn't have that feature (which Bundler for Ruby has, for instance). This very feature comes with a third-party package called "pip-tools", or possible alternatives, but raw pip doesn't have this ability directly afaik.

Fwiw pip isn't even able to enforce versions correctly (packages are installed as the file is read, and can conflict with previously expressed constraints). Or report installed versions correctly (it's possible that packages are half-installed or installed but not reported as such by pip commands).
That's been the thesis every since the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb in 1949. It didn't stop Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran/Iraq, or the two Persian Gulf wars from happening.

What seems to occur instead is that major powers fight via proxy wars, where they provide arms, training, covert assistance, and sometimes even open troop commitments on the soil of vassal states. This provides plausible deniability to the superpowers (neither of which actually want to see the world end in nuclear annihilation); offloads the human cost of the war onto foreign, less-developed countries; offloads the political cost onto puppet governments that can be disposed of when no longer needed; and prevents widespread public discontent from threatening the ruling government.

Just because the war is likely to happen in the Persian Gulf or Sea of Japan doesn't mean that the weapons & tactics involved won't be developed by first-world nations.
> and yes the process of becoming an expert reduces the likelihood that someone will be a good teacher (of non experts).

I agree, but would add that it loops around. Somebody with a very good grasp of the abstractions at some point can go back and review all of the intermediate ones. They can hold them simultaneously and help guide students through them. That makes them excellent teachers.
If its effects are observable then it can surely be the object of scientific analysis?
I really wonder if Uber will stop doing these shady shenanigans before their business runs into the ground. I guess they'll be around for a long time with the enormous amounts of money they're been given through investments, but I feel like, at least in the US, where consumers prefer companies that aren't blatantly distasteful, people will start switching to other companies that have better PR or go back to the traditional taxi services. If what was said in February was true, that they're profitable in the US (which is difficult to believe because I doubt Uber uses GAAP), then they will eventually find themselves in a difficult position with one of their primary markets losing interest in their product. But, on the bright side, at least they're unlikely to have to worry about losing billions of dollars in China as much considering the new law that passed about ride hailing since they won't be providing the same incentive for drivers anymore[1].

1: http://qz.com/745337/china-finally-made-ride-hailing-legal-i...
I read the article carefully, and was unable to find where it says what you say it says.

In particular, you're making super-strong statements like "be all and end all of what defines 'science'" -- that's not what I see in the article. The article is reasonably pointing out that we have a repetition crisis and that more emphasis should be placed on it. That's not the various super-strong things you're claiming you see in it.
Facilities and administrators. Schools get ranked based on their facilities and the types of programs and activities they offer so they keep outspending each other in this area to remain competitive. It's a tragedy.
Looking back on Swift 3 and ahead to Swift 4
I think the change will come through total surveillance, mutually assured destruction for nation states and genetic engineering for asymmetric threats.

When technology advances such that individuals have the power to cause massive destruction in lone wolf attacks, and science advances to the point where we have the ability, we will have the choice of whether or not we will allow traits such as psychopathy to continue in the gene pool or to be edited out.

We will come to a point where we will just not be able to tolerate the destructive power of anti social individuals.

I think we will edit out the sadistic, dominating and anti social parts of our nature or we will become extinct.
Why can't we just get along?
Sort of funny that the recently deposed McDonald's CEO was an EE. That demonstrates the true value of STEM jobs in our society rather than the phony "shortage" hype.
This requires a programmer who writes a lot in both languages, who has enough
energy left to help with two package managers, and who happened to be in the
right places in the right moments to actually join the projects.

It's already very hard to find a programmer that writes a lot in more than one
language and cares about packaging/deploying software.
Raise your hand if you thought this was a post about a new Dwarf Fortress patch....
I can also relate to this. Especially when I was pushing through a period of unemployment (funemployment). I felt compelled to keep busy and regular hours of simulated work.
Felt great until, somewhere between practicing interview problems and actually interviewing, I crashed and burned.

I remember it explicitly. Staring at a problem for almost an hour, not writing anything. Then just kinda saying screw it. I gave myself permission to just stop. Just started playing the first game I could find and sank a weekend into it.

I'm back to where I was before, but that moment is something I won't forget. Gotta give yourself permission, almost the way pomodoro gives you permission to focus completely for x time.
those studies are not 'science'. Have you heard of 'replication crisis'[1]? Also see the other top post currently on HN [2]..

And, Yes universities are filled with idiots, egotists and scamsters with their own nefarious motives. How do you explain the absurd 90% hypothesis validation? [3]

you have your own brain to observe and meditate on, why do you need some authority to tell you what to do.

>If you want to prejudicially exclude research, don't claim to speak in favor of science.

People like you who blindly believe anything a supposed authority puts out there in the name of science are real curse to the gift of science.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Psychology

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12185845

3. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
>It didn't stop Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran/Iraq, or the two Persian Gulf wars from happening.

So why do we need lasers, railguns, and stealth fighter jets to fight bands of rice farmers and goat herders?
Used it about a year. Happy with it. Has a few nice shortcuts (though can't speak to how those compare to Postman)
Is stack really a package manager? It seems to me that it's more of a build manager, delegating package management to cabal/stackage.
I didn't say moonshots were a bad thing. I just stated the basic standard for collecting a sample of something in a halfway unbiased way.
Uber hired CIA-linked research firm to investigate Seattle union politics
That's like losing at counterstrike to a 12yrold. At that point they have the knowledge of how to play and will out-class your reflexes by miles. I don't play competitive twitch games anymore (am in early 30s).
Last January [1] there was a report of Veertu violating QEMU's GPL license. There seem to be quite a few users in this thread, could anyone confirm them?

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg057...
There is no single right way to meditate. My dad has been practicing Nichiren Buddhism for over 30 years and he taught me this. He chants twice daily with a gohanzen, sometimes writing, sometimes only reciting text.