skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a Product Manager inside a software company, which means I work with an internal development group to actually execute my ideas (certainly some POs/PMs work with outsourced staff, but that's not the case here, with the exception of one product where the outsourced staff are largely treated as direct team members, so the dynamic is largely the same as with our internal staff).

That means my job turns into talking to customers, collecting requirements and authoring user stories, prioritizing the backlog, and generally giving the developers all the information and guidance they need to build (what I hope is) the best product we can, with the right feature set, executed with the right timing.

Of course, I still enjoy coding, but what I enjoy about coding isn't the hammering of the nails, but rather building a finished product from which users gain benefit. In that respect, what I'm doing now is leveraging an entire staff of people to achieve a vision I couldn't possible deliver by myself, which is pretty damn cool!

The role itself is multi-disciplinary. I have to understand the technology in order to adequately gauge cost and complexity, technical tradeoffs, and so forth. But I also have to understand the business impact of those decisions, and the way those decisions affect the customer.

In my particular case, we're in a B2B environment where we do deep technical integrations as part of product deployment. So my customers are individual business owners and technical operations staff that I interact with directly on a very regular basis (as opposed to, say, a consumer product where you're dealing in aggregate customer behaviour).
In the US, at least, don't most states mandate library access at public universities for taxpayers of that state?
I find it ironic that while critizing someone for making bold claims, you make the unreserved assertion that their claims are false.

They could be correct, regardless of evidence.
Best resources for getting started with AI and Deep Learning
Assertion: There are more successful projects not written in X.
Let wildlife claim that territory.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/05/wildlife...
Agreed, which means 50% of social science at least is disqualified and should not be making into future publications or become part of curriculum.
Shell Shock wasn't about brain damage it's what it just was called because it was a convenient name, later in Korea it was called combat fatigue and after vietnam we had PTSD.
PTSD cases have been recorded in cases with or without physical trauma including TBI, and not everyone gets it even under the same circumstances.
You can have a platoon of troops on the same deployment, going through exactly the same stuff day in and day out but not everyone would develop PTSD.
Good point. Thank you!
You don't understand how the EU works. There is a parliament and a central bureaucracy, yes, but 80% of it is just leaders of national governments sitting in a surveillance-proof room hashing out deals. There are legitimate complaints against how the EU is structured, but this is not one of them.
As for me, I stopped giving tech support by saying "I don't use Windows anymore, probably I forgot how to do it; if you want to install Linux, I'm happy to help".
Don't forget about radiation exposure from nuclear weapons (including test bombs here in the US) that will continue to cause cancer deaths among people that are alive today.

This map shows just how many people were exposed to fallout from a single nuclear test:

http://www.americanscientist.org/include/popup_fullImage.asp...
The problem is worst in fields that don't have reproducibility 'built in' to the field.

I do genetics and development, and the main sanity check we have is the distribution of mutant lines. If you say that mutant X does Y, other people are likely going to see that (or not) when they get their hands on it and start poking around. This strength of working with mutants is at the core of the success of molecular biology. Even if don't set out to confirm someone else's results, you're quite likely to come across some inconsistencies in the course of investigation.

If a field lacks that sort of mechanism, they need to take special care to address reproducibility.
5 Email Marketing Benefits That Will Increase Your Internet Marketing Campaign
I stole it first!

source: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/744595961217835008
They are, and very aggressively so. They bought up a ton of CMU's research department to do so[1].

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/transportation/2015/5/19/8622831/ube...
> And Go 1 compatibility promise [0] would prevent any change.

For example? I cannot see how the language itself could be the problem here.
A Data Scientist Discovered the Most Metal Word in the English Language
Not exactly a comprehensive history. Article poses a lot of questions that it doesn't answer. Why does drywall in a landfill produce hydrogen sulfide, yet recycled drywall can be used as a soil additive? Why is it good in one context and not another? Why does drywall grow mold when plaster doesn't? (The paper layer on top?) If plaster is moldproof, why don't we cast panels of it, and use it like drywall? (Not strong enough)

This reads like the outline of an article, published prematurely.
If I remember correctly, NaCl atoms are packed pretty closely together in crystallized form. They seem to be only looking at large crystalline structures, which do not have evidence of disruption.

Of course, they also said they used the same method with modern salt, and the O2 levels were lower than atmosphere by 9.2% for one of those samples.

It seems fairly legit but it would be great if they could test salt from the same period but from a different mine.
> And those new regulations in favor of business would be vetoed under a Libertarian government. It works both ways.

Wait, what? Vetoed by whom?

> Also, Libertarians are in favor of regulating business if the business is depriving others of their rights.

Who would be doing the regulating exactly? Wouldn't the regulations be seen as oppression by other businesses? Wouldn't they be challenged in a court of law, which is a part of the government?

I'm honestly amazed at the required amount of self-delusion required to believe that some form of libertopia is possible by simply removing some regulations and cutting down government agencies left and right. It then turns out that to arbitrate selfish interests of business and handle other edge cases in conflicts of interest you need certain agencies to act as arbitrators and in order to have a functioning society you start adding those agencies back 1 by 1 until you end up at the current form of government with all of its "overhead"
what does FI mean in your case -- retirement? i would think that means something different to everyone
These are not fair comparisons, because you are talking about bombs dropped from the air, whereas WW1 was about shells fired from artillery. According to wikipedia [1], about 1 ton of explosives was fired per square meter of combat territory. If the Zone Rouge originally covered 460 square miles (= 1200 km^2 = 1.2 billion m^2), this works out to 1.2 x 10^9 tons of explosives (can that be really true? wow! [2]). In Vietnam, "only" 7.6 million tons were dropped from the air. That's a few orders of magnitude less.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest

2. My numbers don't add up. I just saw a BBC story about WW1 industrial production (tl;dr: allies vastly outproduced the central powers by more than 2 to 1). There's a graph showing that Germany produced 400,000 tons of explosives from 1914 to 1917. Four times that amount is less than 2 million tons, so the number in wikipedia (1 ton per m^2) is definitely wrong.
One small example: someone could delete that github repository, and you'd be hosed. But many centralized systems (like crates.io) do not let you remove packages. The only way that things accidentally break there is if the government gets involved.
For #1+#2-- I'm also a convert, which is sadly still not as prevalent in my field (computational science) as it should be.

I always tell people: its a good 10% extra overhead you add to a project during design to be careful with regression testing and source control, and that is paid back many times the first time you avoid a dangerous bug or bad tarball that goes undetected for 3 months.
Switching from Python2 to Python3. I never had a strong preference for either (most of what I write are short, throwaway scripts), so just stuck with Python2 out of habit. After implementing a basic static site generator, seeing it explode when I put "naïve" in the database, and then discovering the awkwardness of using Unicode in Python2, I decided to port it over to Python3. Using Unicode by default was a huge advantage.
Yes. It's not about the money.

If supply & demand intersect at a price which is even 20% higher than it currently is, that would be fine by me. What I hate is the mental gymnastics of tipping, the lengths which Lyft drivers go to to extort tips from you, and the clear potential for discrimination which a tipping culture creates.
I agree with the main point of this article but in terms of its analysis and prescriptions I think it gets two things backwards. (1) Most scientists seek fame as a means to the end of getting tenure and funding, not the other way around; if you gave them tenure (and the ability to move their tenure to somewhere else if they wanted to move) and perpetual funding and told them they could choose to be anonymous, I think many would choose that option. (2) Replication is not done/published enough because the incentive to do so (measured in: increase in probability of getting tenure per hour spent) is not high enough, not because people are overly willing to accept unreplicated work.

In order for a lot more replication to get published, what would be needed would be for people who spent their careers replicating others' results (at the expense of not producing any important novel results of their own) to get tenure at top institutions (outcompeting others who had important novel results but not enough published replications).
It's probably waiting for the mass production of either e-ink display or screen as flat as a tablet to be more attractive and/or low power demanding.
I'm not attracted by the business side of things, but you go for it ! :)
How about stopped doing? There was a weekend where I had spent close to 20 hours playing World of Warcraft to farm materials and reagents for the epic engineering mount. After I had finished it, and spent the requisite time showing it off in-game, I looked around and realized that all of thrill of lifelong learning and making things in the "real" world has been subsumed when all my spare time was consumed in a virtual world making vanity things. And it finally hit me how profoundly stupid that was. So I stopped playing WoW.
Pharma needs to send information about studies beforehand and regulators pay attention to this for new drugs which counters the effect your talking about. Further, they are happy to report inconclusive results the FDA mostly cares about harm to people not effectiveness.

Now, after drugs are on the market then there is another wave of less reputable research. But, the FDA has already approved the drug so they don't care as much.
Removing Windows Administrative Access from everyone's computer's whom I "managed", allowed them to never call me again. Now I just get bugged when they want a new computer! :D Switching everyone to Chromebooks helps too.
Looking back, though, I might have said the same thing about Rails or Sinatra or Laravel, but they stood the test of time, and people still use them. A lot of what gives a framework longevity is just whether or not big players adopt them and developers love them, these two factors will go a long way in ensuring a framework continues to get upgrades and continuous maintenance. At least longer than Backbone, anyway.
She is still in office because she hasn't done that many unpopular things, especially in her first 2 terms. If anything, she is as seen as to inactive, but as long as the status quo wasn't too bad... And internally, many see her having a lot of influence on the EU as good.

The general opinion is not a fan of "Mommy Merkel", but it hasn't been enough to propel the actual alternatives from the corners to a position where they can't be ignored, especially since right now the two largest parties (Merkels CDU and the SPD) support Merkels government together. Traditionally they'd prefer partnering with a smaller party, but their preferred coalitions didn't work out. The alternative combinations that would have had a majority are not seen as viable (yet).

And sorry, this isn't great for change, but doesn't make Germany non-democratic. Other possible governments after the last elections would have been more interesting, but I'm not sure if they would have represented the votes better.

Right now it seems like opinions drift away from Merkel in both directions, so it'll be interesting what happens next year. Election campaigns haven't really started yet, so it's hard to judge how the large parties are going to position themselves. SPD has to do something to break out from Merkel, or work another 4 years with her.
There is a long list of opposition parties in Turkey but few of them have any power [1]. The main opposition party with about a quarter of MPs (vast majority representing urban districts) is the Republican People's Party, which was the first political party in Turkey post WWI as well as the one led by Ataturk during his secular revolution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_T...
This isn't a rebuttal of the linked comment.

The linked comment doesn't state that it would be a waste of time to replicate on a hypothetical LHC clone.

Rather, the linked comment states that we can accept the Higgs result with reasonable confidence even though it's currently infeasible to replicate that experiment.

Feynman's issue was also qualitiatively different -- the scientist was comparing results from two different instruments. The people in charge of one of the instruments wouldn't allow the scientist to run both experiments on a single instrument. In fact, from context, it's not even clear to me Feynmann would have insisted on re-running the original experiment if the scientist were not using a different accelerator for the second one. Anyways, in the Higgs case, there's no potential for a "comparing readings from instrument A to readings from instrument B" type bug.

More to the point, and FWIW, I somehow doubt Feynman would insist on building a second LHC for the sole purpose of replicating the Higgs measurement. But I guess we have to leave that to pure speculation.
The main problem is that it is not easy to find the nearest person who has the js file. You see, the connecting time is much longer than downloading time when you download small files with P2P software.
Techmate rules!
More like a false-flag operation designed to cement his leadership by allowing the execution of anyone critical of the great leader.

It would have been hard for a real coup to be as damaging as more time with Erdogan will be. It'll look like Syria in a year or two. We might as well just remove the name Turkey from the map and wait until the flames die out.
I totally agree, but that doesn't mean it's going to happen that fast, or that the public or local governments are not going to be obstacles to these initiatives going forward. Short version: I think the timeline the author has in mind is dramatically faster than it will actually happen. But hey, would love to be wrong.
Someone else suggested below to get a personal trainer just to get over the hump. Alternately, schedule firm dates to exercise with someone else as a change of pace.
>You basically pretend that there is no problem and that time is perfectly accurate, up until you have a minute with 59 or 61 seconds.

Time is perfectly accurate, including all the minutes with 59 or 61 seconds. UTC is perfectly defined as atomic time (TAI) with an offset to keep it within 0.9 seconds of UT1 (time as measured by the rotation of the earth). Every time we increment or decrement this offset, this leads to leap seconds. But since 23:59:60 is a valid time (and distinct from 00:00:00 on days with leap seconds), there is no ambiguity here.

The problem here is how most computers handle this: introducing ambiguity by setting the clock backwards or forwards one second, instead of accounting for the fact that not all minutes have 60 seconds. Google did a pragmatic fix for their use case by squeezing leap seconds into the surrounding seconds, stretching them. It works for them, but now their "seconds" are not actual seconds anymore.
Interesting. How will you handle dynamic front-end routing though? Or will you rely entirely on Sails for server-side routing?
Isn't reddit doing schema-less on postgres?
How Much Do Car Maintenance Costs Increase with Mileage?
Earn my salary in bitcoin.
That's great to hear. Is the author's contention that Uber "doesn't have the tech" accurate?
I heard they are going to reduce final app size by doing smart analyzing of used features and getting not used stuff out of the final build. But I might be wrong.
More specifically, there is already a package manager and ecosystem that can install all of an OS, and you don't have to fuss with installing anything on your own. This package manager and ecosystem could subsume the problem of language-specific package managers entirely.
What are the best resource for learning Angular 2?
In probably 6 months time, our company will use angular 2 for enterprise apps and I want to be ready by then learning angular 2 and typescript. Where can I begin? Currently, I am dabbling with python(intermediate..)..so I have a bit of experience with programming and tried javascript and node for a short period of time.
3 things for me:

1) Meditation, I used to think it was something hippies did. I now think its worth 10 IQ points. I honestly can't recommend it enough.

2) Sleep, I'm getting close to 40 and the last 2 times I pulled all nighters I ended up deleting pretty much all the code I wrote from 11pm onward.

3) Occasional Fasts. I normally fast from 6pm until noon the next day but I now do one 3 day fast each month. I think this is going to become more and more common as a way to head off cancer in the body.

I'm not a doctor but my doctor friends believe that eating less is the secret to increasing life span and fasting is the secret to heading off cancer cells before they can really start to grow.

Also after 3 days of fasting I find that the mind becomes sharper.

Your millage may vary....
I am reading the second edition of "The Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja" now and I am learning a lot of what goes on
behind the scenes. Highly recommended.
>>If the replication fails, it's even more time-consuming and expensive to convincingly demonstrate the negative result.

Said scientist will gain immense fame and recognition if they show established ideas are wrong. (Source: academia Physicist)
What have you been reading? I loved Anabasis (not too tough for a beginner like me), trying to read Ethics.
here's similar calculators without needing a sign-in: http://mustachecalc.com
Humans don't really navigate at a meter scale when they are driving. A nav system giving directions 19.9 seconds before the turn isn't going to be noticeably different than one doing it 20 seconds before the turn.
There have been about 2,000 nuclear explosions in world history, plus dozens of meltdowns, innumerable leaks, etc.

How about the lives that weren't lost as a result of

(1) nuclear deterrence preventing wars between great powers

(2) nuclear power competing with coal and preventing deaths from air pollution/coal mining/global warming

though?

> human life and ecosystem stability

You're going to have to pick one of those.
Security and reliability could probably be sorted using the Thin Client. For security could that not be done by validating the checksum of client received against some expected value only available on the real server? In terms of reliability you could say if not received after a very short amount of time, get from real server. Bandwidth I agree with you on for today because you don't know if someone is paying per MB or how it's working on their end. Under some scenarios you could cost someone real money. In a time when bandwidth is next to free for every one everywhere it may no matter but we're not there yet.

I don't think anyone is going to use this stuff any time soon in production but I do think the general idea is one that a lot of people have thought about and it's nice to see someone take a wack at it.
"Other applications" is general enough to be obviously true, but what would "boring old human-driving cars" need sub-meter-precise GPS for?
Ueber has strategic challenges as transportation solution provider. The way I see it Ueber

- has few barriers to entry in it's business besides brand.

- scaling up, maturing is dulling the brand

- as a dominant player with a large war chest it may engage in price wars but as a dominant player it will risk regulatory trouble when overdoing it.

- established players will adjust e.g. Taxis orgs. with their app or regional/local public transport integration with car sharing

- while self driving cars may be a little off the concept of ad-hoc renting a car without a driver is catching on in Germany. Like a taxi one rents a car by the minute and drops the car when arriving. Daimler/Smart, BMW and German public railways are all in. This seems also the proving ground for small electric cars - operating a fleet of your own vehicle is probably providing some insights.

Millennial car ownership is dropping vs. earlier generation. So the underlying fundamentals for new transportation solutions are strong. However it is far from clear what role Ueber will have in the medium term.
While we're talking mostly about past wars and their past and ongoing effects, let's not forget that we've created and still perfecting weapons that are several times more damaging than any of those used in those wars.

And we're always looking for opportunities to use them. Remember Donald Rumsfled's "Shock and Awe"?
>Self-driving cars, for example, must have infinitesimally precise location data to avoid accidents.

With GPS having at best three metres accuracy? It's nice that they keep their data up to date, but I'm not so sure self-driving cars have anything to do with it.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12186674 and marked it off-topic.
I didn't like this tutorial. I don't think that using Lisp clarifies what is going on.

They claim to show how numbers are created in lambda calculus, by defining some lisp functions that call take a function and call it on itself n times (starting from... what?). And then they just use the builtin lisp function "inc" and claim this somehow shows how numbers are represented.

That doesn't make any sense to me. They haven't shown how 45 is represented in lambda calculus. Is it just represented as "inc" called 45 times, starting from the number 0? If so, why is zero special? What is the connection between "inc" and representation of numbers in lambda calculus? I'm a mathematician and this is similar to one way to define integers, so I may be filling in blanks that aren't there.

Then they try to show equality between numbers (which doesn't exactly work "because Lisp") by showing that the two functions generated by this process are equal... of course they are! You started with two numbers which were already equal, this isn't a proof of anything!

Basically this gave me no insight into lambda calculus but I learned a couple of lisp functions.
Can you suggest an alternative?
Agreed, Vue.js and Riot.js are both brilliant for actually getting things done without having to read a 100 page manual.

As for Vue vs Riot, it's subjective, but I'm personally partial to Riot due to its simplicity (albeit with a smaller feature list) and focus on components without being opinionated at all (not even regarding the toolchain).