skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for these.

On the "why questions" video from the first link, which I've seen before, Feynman's answer only shows that he's used to answering the kind of question asked of him, regarding why magnets repel, and similar questions involving physics.

Yes, he realizes that there are larger issues involved in such questions and their answers, but he steers all the answers and questions back to physics, which to him are the more interesting answers and questions.

Nowhere is there any evidence that his own answers are informed by any kind of reading of philosophical literature or familiarity with the world of philosophy.

Regarding the "Cargo Cult Science" essay. In it Feynman states "even today I meet lots of people who sooner or later get me into a conversation about UFO’s, or astrology, or some form of mysticism, expanded consciousness, new
types of awareness, ESP, and so forth. And I’ve concluded that it’s not a scientific world."

His interest in the question of what is and isn't science, and his answer to it are some of the central things that philosophy of science studies. No amount of physics experiments are going to give you any insight in to that question. To attempt to answer it, as Feynman did, is to practice philosophy of science, which Feynman himself in the original quote which started this thread decries as useless.

The whole essay is really an attempt to engage in philosophy of science, but without any evidence that Feynman is familiar with the field. The result is interesting both because Feynman is an entertaining and capable writer, and because of his obvious familiarity with the practice of science and its ideals. But it's not nearly as insightful as it could have been had he actually undertaken to study the subject academically. It's really an opinion piece aimed at explaining in very general ways some of the practices and ideals of science as Feynman sees them to laymen and other scientists, and almost a polemic on scientific integrity.

Also, it should be pointed out that the philosophy of science studies a lot more than just the questions addressed in this essay. They are important questions, but there's a lot more about science that is philosophically interesting.

Regarding your point about the clarity of Feynman's writing compared to those of philosophers: it's sadly all too true that way too many of them are very poor and obscure writers compared to Feynman. On the other hand, many others are very clear (if usually pretty dry).

When there is lack of clarity, some of it is due to lack of writing ability or interest in clarity (or even wilful obscurity), but in other cases it's due to the specialized knowledge or terminology that is required to understand it -- much like that which would be required to understand a paper in an academic physics journal. If you attempt to tackle such a paper without a great deal of academic physics under your belt, you are likely to be confused. So it is with philosophy, where you'd be a lot better off with some philosophy courses under your belt before you try to make sense of much of it.
There's no need to monetize user generated content. That's what these companies do. They make people generate content for them for free and use it to sell ads while creating an orwellian dystopia.
Computerised spreadsheets were inevitable, we've been using spreadsheets in some form for thousands of years. Visicalc is recognised as being the first, but Excel has been the dominant product for decades now, for all its warts it has had a massive impact on humanity.
Would you recommend someone new to Reynolds start with Revelation Space or the Poseidon's Children trilogy?
Except that most cities criminalize living out of your vehicle. Renting a space to put your RV, mobile home, etc. is a non-trivial expense for many.

I read an article about how emotionally draining it was for people to constantly have to move around, worry about police, get hassled by residents, not know where they could shower or eat, etc. but I can't find it now. Not to mention I can't imagine how hard it is to fall asleep and actually rest with all those fears.

Some articles:
http://mv-voice.com/news/2015/10/23/makeshift-rv-camps-spark...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/high-rents-force-silicon-vall...
http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-the-silicon-valley-van...
http://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/articles/2015/03/04/only-a...
https://www.quora.com/When-living-out-of-your-car-where-are-...
https://www.quora.com/When-living-out-of-your-car-where-are-...
http://gawker.com/you-better-not-outlaw-living-in-cars-unles...
That assumes those people keep an active network. While I - a freelancer - am still connected with former colleagues through LinkedIn I don't expect to ever get a job through any of them, and vice versa, despite having much enjoyed working with them and received offers to do a project together while we were together at a particular job. It's just that we have had zero contact apart from the time we were on the project together. It would feel extremely awkward to now, years later, send them an email "would you know a job for me", no matter how well we worked together. You just don't do that, at least I wouldn't. If I was asked by someone by someone I once knew I would immediately feel like an unwritten and unspoken social contract was broken. It just doesn't feel right to me. After a few years it's just too much time that has passed. It feels like putting social pressure on them, similar to those "endorsements" on LinkedIn.
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I agree that it looks pretty impressive, but I'm unclear on how objects are rendered from a user perspective. Does the user have to wear a pair of glasses or some other viewing device to see the visualizations?
Of course. Sparse operations are on the TO DO list. I would have already added them if I needed them, so there are two options:

1) Wait until I need them.
1a) Become active in the community and bug me often enough that I realize how important it is :)
2) Contribute sparse library integrations (I'll help).
A few of the people in that group (but none on the technical board) have been contributing to projects and then disappear once the IRCv3 bits are included. Thusly it appears from a broad glance that they had no interest in the project itself as much as getting another client onboarded with IRCv3 support.

This in combination with the marketing efforts of the IRCv3 group places large amounts of pressure to just accept and maintain the patch in order to ensure that you wind up on their list of recommended software to use, instead of their advocacy of using a different software which has added the patches.
I haven't read Poseidon's Children, but Revelation Space was amazing despite the fact that I'm a bigger fan of more optimistic and less gritty SciFi. The first book is really good and I read several others as well. Fantastic world-building.
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Twitter had nothing to do with the wars in those countries. It was just a tool used by people to help them organize. By that logic Telephones and smoke signals should fail/be banned.
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With all due respect to your freedom of speech, but who cares? I want to read responses about the article, not anecdotal weight loss data and about your daily habits.
The rich currently pay effective income taxes at a lower rate than the middle class, thanks to their close association with corporations and much of their gains being stock related. Taxes on the rich are just recovering from all-time lows in the Bush years. So stop acting as if the rich are being bled dry or pushed to a limit. They avoid taxes using offshore strategies because they can, not because they're in dire straights. And they are succeeding in paying lower rates than anyone else. Meanwhile, one of the major parties of the country wants to cut estate and upper end income taxes even more, and raise them on the middle and poor.

The fight isn't happening at the rich's doorsteps, it's happening at the doorsteps of the middle and poor, pushed there by the rich.
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Yes... two is in fact... multiple. There might have been more, we don't know.

In this specific case, the event organizer wanted to include women, specifically because they were women. According to the article. He said he couldn't find any, and was actively seeking them. But seems not to have explored the resources available.

Honestly this happens a lot. Because event organizers are embarrassed that their panels/events appear to be men only events.

But they don't actually care that much, just want to pay lip service to the idea. You can argue that he shouldn't care if they happen to be men only events, but pretending to care makes him disingenuous.
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Find a hotel near your conference that you can reach by foot and public transit
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I think that's a vim replace command, swapping 'Science' with 'Sect'
Don't trust anybody who doesn't start with "it depends". For nothing in this world there is one perfect answer. Context means a lot. What have you coded? Why do you think you are done if it is not running anywhere (I would say you are 20% done if it runs on your laptop)? How many people need to use it to be viable (e.g. a diary service needs only one user who writes texts for himself, a shop needs at least make its hosting and transportation fees, a social network needs thousands of people before it can even start to be successful)?

Good general advice is this: The simplest solution is often the best, but in some cases that means taking your old desktop pc, install ubuntu, configure your router to publicly share http and https from that computer. In other cases it means using a toolset like Heroku.

Please don't be mad about this, but the way you phrase your question it is very very likely you have so little skill that you don't even know how little. Please consider to pay a freelancer to support you. He likely has more skill and has experienced more "this can never happen in real life" F-Ups than you, and therefore can handle a lot.
Most of the right do not recognize the UN as a moral authority.

I view the UN generally as 'not even wrong'.

With leftist propaganda, it is not what they say that matters. It is what they leave out.

They come up with things that sound to me like this:

"Everybody has the right to a chocolate bar, because chocolate bars are delicious and everybody ought to have one"

Then I think 'Well, that sounds like a nice thing' but who produces these bars of chocolate. How many bars? What are the limits on this new standard?

These kinds of questions are invariably never answered. You just get a bunch of blowhards leaping down your throat shouting about how you don't care about the children who never experienced the joys of chocolate or something.
Write a little program in your favorite shell or scripting language that

* rsyncs the directories containing the files you want to back up

* mysqldumps/pg_dumps your databases

* zips/gzips everything up into a dated archive file

* deletes the oldest backup (the one with X days ago's date)

Put this program on a VPS at a different provider, on a spare computer in your house, or both. Create a cron job that runs it every night. Run it manually once or twice, then actually restore your backups somewhere to ensure you've made them correctly.
Sure, but he was one of a cast of thousands there.
To me the cloud means you can start an instance with an API call.
www.tarsnap.com - it's pay as you go, encrypted and super simple to use and script using cron
Heart of the SwarmKit: Topology Management
Detroit's getting a u-pick Apple orchard downtown
> ...a new protocol and...

IRC was new in 1988. It's 28 years old protocol now.
The Three Body Problem is reasonably good, and comes from a Chinese author
Link to NPR article about it because I'd rather you chose your own bookshop. http://www.npr.org/2014/11/13/363123510/three-body-problem-a...
I've never been able to understand Twitter's popularity. To me, it's like a website's comment section without the attached content. And most of the stuff I've seen on Twitter is only slightly better than YouTube comments, and often worse. I know there are lots of Twitter users here -- seriously, I'm not trying to be funny or sarcastic, I just don't get the appeal. What am I missing?
It's not really about whether or not the site works similarly to Twitter. It's about the neat stuff people can build with something like Twitter data. I don't think you could do something like http://blog.idl.ssrc.msstate.edu/?p=42 with Plurk data and get anywhere near the same kind of attention for it.

For that kind of thing, having lots of users is the key feature of interest.
I have a website that largely runs itself right now. C++ based desktop products for the Windows environment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12636044
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I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but Redhat's Openshift provides an alternative to Heroku. I've used it for a few years and been happy with it. They have a startup program that gives you access to a paid tier for a year. I've used Openshift to host Node and Flask apps.

Edit: a bunch of downvotes for trying to be helpful, how nice.
It's the least bad of his endings, and quite big. Worth going to the end.
It may also create micro-groups of people who already know each other (old boys' club). Whether that's a problem depends, but it can be a problem.
For all these reasons: http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs421/case-for-ml.html

Many school courses use ML/OCaml as well in their classes and as you do the course they explain why OCaml/ML is best suited for what's going on https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/15411-f13/schedule.html
A wi-fi only device has no baseband processor. In lieu of an IOMMU, the baseband is delegated to a separate physical device, i.e. mobile hotspot.

A wi-fi only device is not a mobile phone, but can provide most of the functionality of a mobile phone via OTT services and VPN to a separate mobile hotspot.
> It seems that "great" developer is somewhat a synonym for "public" developer.

Not really.

What Joel and Dan are both talking about is that great developers tend to have coworkers who know they're great and will happily hire them at other companies.

I'm certainly not a "public" developer. My most popular repo on GitHub has maybe 10 stars. But I do have a handful of people who I've worked with in the past who will readily hire me at their new companies.

Referrals are how most hiring works, and it's the predominant way that companies recognize "great" developers even though said developers are not public.
Yes, this is like saying here is my slim if statement library for PHP.
Yeah, I always wondered why there isn't simply one line running to the bathrooms + laundry room with softened water, and a separate line which goes through RO for everything else. Putting a RO + tank under the sink but the softener in the garage / basement seems backwards to me; I know nothing about plumbing but it would seem to make more sense to have a small softener under the bathroom sink just for the shower.
Dev here. It's completely independent of your config. Indeed many things carry over to Glowing Bear automatically, such as scripts that modify the lines (colorize_nicks.py) or create new text buffers (like highmon or grep.py), filters, triggers, etc.
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How My B.A. Prepared Me for Learning to Code
I use config management to build the system (Puppet in my case, purely due to experience rather than strong preference) so it's fully reproducible.
I push my data with borg (https://github.com/borgbackup/borg) to rsync.net (http://rsync.net/products/attic.html) for offsite backup.
On Finding Root Causes
I don't think these are just "coincidences". I used to believe that business, esp. the kind of business Apple and other tech giants are doing, is ethical, clean, and beautiful. I can't emphasize now how much different I believe this is.

A little conspiracy here, but what if Apple had indeed sabotaged the Note 7 production line? We know they had no new features to add to iPhone 7 and they already knew the new iPhone is not going to be a big hit. So what they did instead is they ruined the face of their biggest competitor (Samsung), so that desperate Note 7 buyers will turn to iPhone 7+ as their only option.

The same conspiracy can be said for the latest Yahoo hack. Isn't it weird and suspicious that just when Verizon is going to buy Yahoo, this huge hack happens? Add that to the news that Verizon now wants a sweat $1B discount on their deal with Yahoo... It's all fishy man.
Coca Cola's brand "Dasani" is bottled tap water.

I'm from Britain, where the product was withdrawn after terrible publicity, and following that it was never launched in the rest of Europe. I hadn't realised it still existed in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani

("Can't live without spunk" is unbelievably bad advertising too. Spunk is slang for semen...)
The simplest way for us it's to use rsync, there is this service decade old (even more) that is just perfect for the offsite backup. http://rsync.net/index.html

We basically create a backup folder (our assets and MySQL Dump, then rsync it to rsync.net). Our source code is already on git, so basically backuped on Github, and all developers computer.

On top of it, rsynch has a very clear and simple documentation to implement it very quickly with any Linux distrib.
I actually think ornithology could be quite useful to birds, if only they had the mind for it.
What would you call it?
"rose-colored horn-rimmed" glasses should give you a hint.
That's a reasonable point, but then we're back to the original feedback loop: even amongst casual dabblers, some are better than others.

They will receive positive feedback and stay with a sport longer.
Oh, nothing, everything is just perfectly fine.
Maybe Obama should consider lowering taxes to compete with other countries.
Introduction to Distributed Tracing and Zipkin
Maybe it would just give them 'The Yips'.
And frankly, much of the same criticism applies to them. A tiny tiny sliver of their constantly multiplying budget is spent on actually hosting the Wikipedia.
Could you please refrain from attributing words to me, which I've never said? Thanks.
So if the stock price collapses, losses will decrease?
> I am now able to undercut my only competitor and will likely drive them out of business sometime next year.

Unless they also move to Panama?
> You just don't do that, at least I wouldn't.

You are definitely an outlier in the industry.

By far the most common way to hire people is through referrals.

Whenever I am looking for a new job, I send out emails to my network saying I'm looking for a new opportunity and to let me know if they know anything interesting. It's a win-win for everyone.
I don't know if Twitter has ever spoken about it but the lack of premium accounts has long puzzled me. Surely there are worthwhile features they could offer without degrading the free tier experience. My circles are perhaps atypical but for those of us who use it as a fairly important professional tool, a $50/year pro account would be a complete no-brainer. Maybe there aren't enough people like this to deal with the complications. It seems unlikely they haven't thought about it. But the lack is still surprising.
My app makes roughly around $1K/month. A simple utility to backup(free) and restore(paid, in-app purchase) mobile phone contacts.
Check it out: http://c2x.eastros.com/
Any memory-safe language? Say, Python. `[] / []` is a perfectly valid operation: its result is a raised exception misleadingly called `TypeError`. OTOH, in most typed languages, this is a genuinely invalid operation, and it can't happen at all.
> So stop acting as if the rich are being bled dry or pushed to a limit.

I never said they were being bled dry. I said they already pay most of the taxes, and it seems unjustifiable to ask them for even more, while at the same time demonizing them for not paying their "fair share" -- as if paying more than half of the taxes isn't already a major contribution. Their ability to pay is not relevant to my argument.
I use https://www.sosonlinebackup.com.

Stupid simple and stupid cheap. Install, select directories you want backed up, set it and forget it.

All for $7.00 a month.
I totally agree. And the 140 character limit that they are terrified of changing?! It makes no sense.
So why not having a company in Panama and just get a salary from it and keep reinvesting the profits? Why did you have to move there physically?
> If an elite candidate balks [something personally negative about them]

It could also be that your interview process is bad and you should change it.

Perhaps the elite candidate is a canary in a coal mine, and fixing your interview would help your less privileged interviewees, too?
Mostly just AWS apps.
It's the world's Great Peanut Gallery.

Everyone can chirp it up, tweet like crazy, or just go nuts.
Yes. It also bothers me that quality news sources, like NPR, have fallen into the trap of presenting Twitter as representative of the general population.

They often report about how some group of people on Twitter are angry about something -- as if that matters. Reddit has almost as many monthly active users lately, yet no journalist makes the mistake of reporting on Reddit comments as if it's generalizable to the larger population.
That's exactly the point. If their existence doesn't change anything, why do they exist? Extra control, transparency? But no extra functionality for/with the hardware? So, why the alternative?
How about the people who decided that they didn't like their land in Nigeria, but decided to move to Dublin, Ireland because they like it there better.

What then?

Government creates property rights, which is what Land really is about, and there appears to be a limited supply to go around. Thereby only citizens of a country who pay taxes should have the right to own Land. Does this make sense?
What type of site is it?
Yes, for a site that can just be hosted on the Firebase free tier (https://firebase.google.com/pricing/) you can go a long way (the same is true of the App Engine free tier). The OP stated they had already written something though, so my guess is that rewriting to Firebase wouldn't work (if it's just a SPA front-end app in Javascript, fine, but if there's any backend a rewrite seems more hassle than it's worth).
Ive already proven it with a risk analysis from years sgo. Some already happened. Here's a summary:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10906999

Just repost that any time someone claims their smartphone is secure. Ask what they did for each area and proof of its effectiveness.
> Plus, much of that gossip is going to be with co-workers, which doesn't do you as much good when it comes to finding a job with people at another company company.

Of course it does, because people don't work at the same company forever.

By far the biggest contributors to my network are former co-workers.
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