skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that curiosity that leads to science predates all religion and is built into our dna via evolution. I think projecting cultural motivators for natural motivation is questionable. In another culture you'd say Islam was a motivator for science and you'd be just as wrong. The evidence we have shows that this is a natural part of being human and would come about in any culture- and has! Our most innovating culture, the ancient Greeks, were pagans with relatively low levels of religiosity for example. Religious belief really has no bearing on curiosity and innovation but theocratic structures can, and do, hold back progress.

> knowledge that because the universe is created with a purpose, you can be confident that you will be able to find answers

Except the deeper we go down the more complex and chaotic things seem. The simplistic Newtonian age and doctors who just had to "rebalance" humors are long dead. I think your assumption here is fairly bewildering.

>they had no choice but to pretend to be Catholic back then!

Just because it bothers you doesn't make it any less true. Historically, most people didn't have a choice in religion. Apostasy was a serious crime in Christian soceities up until recently and still is in many parts of the middle east.
I keep wanting to find a font to use on the portions of my website that contain Japanese, but they are all so big! No way I'm making my visitors download 115MB worth of font just so it looks a little nicer.

Edit: Thanks for the tips, I will look into those options :)
So all it takes to destroy someone's iOS app business is to hire a shady marketer to shill for them?
I'm really not kidding all that much. I'm tempted to make an app that's basically this idea. I have heard of that story, but haven't really sat down to read it yet. Is it pretty good?
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I _want_ to write, but what stops me is:

1) I may not like what I write even though I _know_ I won't be any good at the start (or ever).

2) Although I know the style I want to write in and read that style a lot, I can't think of a good plot and so I convince myself that I need to do this before even beginning to write. If that makes _any_ sense at all.
It is SFZC, the zen center everyone knows. It's actually a system of at least three zen centers: City Center on Page and Laguna; Green Gulch farm in Marin; and the Tassajara Monastery in the Ventana wilderness near Carmel. I lived in all three for about a year total, and the community of monks and practitioners moved moved from one to the other for operational and other reasons. It was (and probably still is) a great community.

The startup is Skymind.io, which supports an open-source deep learning platform that we created, Deeplearning4j, ND4J, DataVec and some other libs in the JVM big data ecosystem.

Startup as utopia is particular, different from previous communities in its main goals of growth and focus on product and customer. But underneath those differences, there are many similarities around how people communicate with and treat each other, and how the organization configures itself to share information, allow for individual autonomy and perform tasks together.

The Collison brothers probably have some interesting thoughts about this. I'd be interested to hear from some of the YC partners, too, about the extent to which they want YC to have utopian characteristics.
On one hand it's annoying that this is how our government behaves. On the other, in this case at least, they're welcome to the records of my spam emails. I truly wonder if anyone is using Yahoo as anything other than a spam-catcher at this point, or for years now.

To be clear though, the underlying government behavior is reprehensible, and needs to be curtailed. Governments and LEO's are inherently lazy, and if you let them investigate broadly instead of forcing them to specify, they will.
Indeed the pine beetle did quite a bit of damage. Some time ago I was working up in the mountains regularly, and from the US-40/I-70 junction and on up the US-40 corridor, the damage was apparent and got progressively worse the deeper one went into the mountains along US-40. Once past Berthoud Pass, the forest was the opposite of how a healthy one should look: dead brown as far as the eye could see with the occasional patch of living green. I've not been up there in a while, so I don't know how things have progressed -- if they've gotten worse, better, or just shifted about.

Sadly, what needs to happen in these areas of pine beetle infestation is what will never be permitted to happen: the forest needs to burn. A large forest fire would kill the beetles and their eggs/larvae, clear out the dead trees to make space for new growth, and fertilize the soil, making it possible for the forest to recover. But with how much beetle-kill there is up there, I don't think a controlled burn would be permitted. It would likely escape containment; there'd be too much risk to persons and property. But the longer such a burn is deferred, IMO, the harder it will be to prevent one, and the more severe it will be. I don't know of a good solution here. Cutting down all the dead trees for lumber might help, but I don't think it can defer a need for a burn forever, nor do I think it will help the forest recover as well as a burn would.

I would be happy to be wrong in this regard.
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You shouldn't need to look at the implementation of a function to know it's basic functionality.
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That's not true at all. In fact, the church was okay with Galileo's models, but they were not okay with how he was slandering the leadership.
It's not obvious to me why price was a function of earnings in a situation like this, the goal of the purchase seemed to be to save resources of developing the tracker inhouse and save time building up a customer-base, earning seems mostly irrelevant in this case.

If the codetree was looking to raise funding, it seems like a reasonable metric for valuation.
Nope.

My command line git workflow should not require working through a GUI.

Now, if this was added as some git hooks, enforcing the policy from both the command line and GUI then I'd be impressed (and excited).
I think most simply, the entire solar system revolves around the sun and not the earth.
I really wish I could use Duolingo on the subway...
> but not everything I want to share

Is that a typo? Did you mean "not" or "now"?
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What you describe is the type of stuff that is largely unimportant. This is not a commercial for a retail product, it is for an unapplied manufacturing technique. It doesn't mater who you wow with this stuff. It has an application or it doesn't. In fact, for all the good this video does, they should have just wrapped an egg it the stuff and dropped in from a building. 15 seconds of potentially viral video would have done a better job than this video. The video is fine for telling an engineering story, however. She and the hack videographer did a fine job for a low-stakes presentation. It's fine, really
Yeah, back before my friends and I had computers, we would pour over the program listings in various magazines. We even started writing our own adventure game, modeled after one we saw the source for... even though we weren't able to even run it.

Crazy computer kids, we were...
> By the way, if some good soul from Microsoft reads this and has a license to spare for Visual Studio Pro 2010, I'd be happy to check it works just as well :-) I have Microsoft Imagine but for some reason they don't give license for old version of VS

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You are a little too quick to paint an almost caricatural image there, perhaps informed by more recent religious developments, such as the literalist interpretations (mostly, but not exclusively, an american phenomenon).

The reality is that the people who shaped the debates within the Catholic church back then tended to be well educated, and possessing all the attributes of one raising through a hierarchy - above average intelligence, determination, and skill. It is pretty extreme to describe them all as narrow-minded fundamentalists.

Before telescopes, Plato and Aristotle were state of the art knowledge in cosmology (inasmuch as this field even could be said to exist back then). An educated person, including top theologians back then, would have been well acquainted with their views. It is also the case that the Catholic church has been historically more open to scientifically-backed knowledge than most people give it credit for - look at all the Jesuits who had successful careers as scientists, while also remaining men of faith.

Please be aware that observing the (mostly american) present-day religious phenomena does not provide you a good basis for judging religious thinking in the past, especially that related to the non-protestant churches.
This is sad. I could see this causing a lot more problem than all the fires we're getting in CA.

This is a slight tangent, but are there jobs for people in tech to help fight this (or drought, logging, etc)? Wouldn't mind spending a few years trying to protect the environment, but want to put the engineering skills to use.
Forking is wrong, and there most definitely are materials on the WWW about this.

* http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/242860/5132
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Seriously I am not kidding. I heard about Productboard.com from a guy behind me while I was attending the Pragmatic Marketing training. Reluctantly - I tried it out. It is awesome!!

Just passing along.

https://www.productboard.com/
Actually, given the time frame, focusing on the Catholic church is already meaningless in Western Europe. The Reformation was already well underway, indeed Galileo was outspoken during the Catholic Counter-Reformation.

The Lutheran church was very anti-Copernican; Martin Luther himself condemned it as heresy 80 years before the Galileo affair.
Hey Alex, in transactions of this size (sold through a broker like FE), valuation is often based on earnings.
Wow how interesting to read this here.

I saw this company on FE and requested more information.

In the end, I decided against making an offer because developers are notoriously hard to develop for.

That said, the business itself looked great, wish you the best of luck and good on you for taking a shot.
Not a dev, but as someone who has used shopify and set up many of the wordpress ecommerce solutions - I have strong opinions on the UX of ecommerce. Let me know if I can help.
>Police seem to only want to manage the war on drugs not defeat it

Because they cannot defeat it. You will never win a war on vice. We didn't learn our lesson when prohibition was enacted. When you target vice and addiction a violent black market is created.

>they would just exist as smaller decentralized crews that would be much less violent

Being sure is pretty different from knowing. It's just as likely the street gangs would congregate power because there is a whole lot of money in illegal drug sales anyway you look at it. This is no different than non drug gangs, and even businesses themselves.

Decriminalization of most drugs, and clinics where drugs are given in free, metered doses is probably the best way to remove massive amounts of money from the drug black markets.
I lived in DC for 15 years, some of that contracting for federal agencies. This attitude is evident in nearly every interaction with gov't people, on the clock or not.

You couldn't tell from my comment history here, but I used to be a believer in the power of gov't to solve problems. Up-close observation taught me the error of my ways.
Not a physicist so my answer may be totally wrong, but my first _guess_ would be that geocentrism necessitates unequally valid reference frames. You would need different equations to represent the movements of Venus and Mars relative to Earth as you would need to represent their movements relative to each other. Or at least it certainly seems to me like you would at first guess.

Perhaps you could use matrix algebra to apply geocentric laws of motion to all reference frames, and then simply translate them into a reference frame where Earth is the "actual" center of things? But then you're just admitting that Earth isn't the "actual" center of things.
No to discuss this directly, but Donald Trump himself often conflates immigrant and illegal immigrant in his speeches, mixing statistics from these sets. This was evident in his RNC speech and a number of other speeches. The line is being blurred on both sides.
I did not hear it on my last four flights across Europe with Lufthansa last week.
Ha, thanks for not making a competitive bid :) Appreciate the kind words.
I agree with you. When Two scientists find different results only inferior scientists would take it as a personal attack.

There was a story about two chemists, I might have some minor details wrong, but that shouldn't hurt this anecdote because something like this happened back when chemistry was still raw and new. The going wisdom was based on the assumption that the atoms in a molecule were the only thing that determined its properties. These two scientists were having trouble replicating each others results when working with a molecule of 2 Carbon, 2 Nitrogen, 2 Oxygen and 1 Mercury atoms.

One describe it as inert and the other as explosive. Neither bothered to include synthesis steps in their papers and each thought the other was wrong. Rather than insult they swapped more and more information until eventually each confirmed that we dealing with a molecule with identical parts, but different properties.

They had discovered that molecules have structure. One arrangement was Mercury Fulminate an unstable explosive used in primers and detonators today and the other was really inert and not of interest, to me at least.

Any scientist who argues with the concept of "disagreement based on evidence" is arguing a foundation of science. They should be looking for evidence of reasons for that disagreement instead of quibbling over personal attacks and defense.
Can we stop bad-mouthing CSS in developer talks, please
Yeah, having support within the business probably helps. I was hung out to dry one time too many.

I likewise promoted and hired to try to make the situation tenable, but wasn't allowed to change my role to be less client/organisation focussed - by that point I was truly shut out of the dev team.

It's also very hard not to take personally when nobody else is willing to take any responsibility - everything ends up escalated, usually with clients making death threats and other such fun.

Perhaps I'm just thin skinned, but I reached the point where halving my net worth just to escape was the best option.
"I don't know the answer, but I'm going to insult you anyway".
Being occupied/having a purpose is not the same thing as having a 9-5 job that you do to pay the bills. Many people would prefer to occupy themselves in ways that don't necessarily generate money.

leisure != idleness
I mean, I get that this is a serious problem, but before we get too hasty about doing anything about it, imagine all the shareholder value that could be lost by hasty actions, or all the economic liberty that could be destroyed by environmental regulation. They're the real victims here.
It's hard to say what will happen here. If the drought subsides, which statistically speaking it should as California's climate trend should "regress to the mean," the ecosystem should recover to some extent. Unless the tree population/ecosystem has been so grossly devastated that the tree it is past returning to a self sustaining point.

The current drought in California isn't widely considered to be caused by global warming though there does seem to be some notion that it has been worsened by it. It's too sharp a climate swing to fall along the global warming trend line.

The scary thing isn't that this is global warming but that this is just an image of what rapid climate change could do on a much vaster scale if not kept in check somehow.
I believe that even when you dismiss the recent tweets box, the tweets still don't return to your timeline.

It's baffling bad.
Oh, man what a high bar you have set for no reason. This video is the equivalent of an internal company newsletter. It doesn't matter the quality. Do the shoot, tell the story, wrap. They did exactly what they should have done if they wanted to get an engineering story out there. There is no pleasing some people
Wow, yeah, thanks for sharing!
In the scale of a human lifetime this is a tragedy. We see the forests when we are children and we expect to be able to return to them again and again and that the same will be true for our descendants.

But go a little farther out, and every asteroid impact above a certain size incinerated every last tree on earth, instantly. Giant ice sheets scraped them off en masse like barnacles.

In every case, trees came back. Maybe not the same trees, but trees suited for their new environment. It will be the same for beetles or climate change or whatever comes next.
Refreshing to see the lorem ipsum replaced with something meaningful.
>But I think that trying to shoehorn Vim or Emacs into becoming something that it’s not isn’t quite thinking about the problem in the right way.

...Well, this is clearly a Vim user. If you're never leaving Emacs, and you're writing plugins to do everything inside it, you're using Emacs exactly as intended.
h1bdata.info has everything searchable by city, employer or title.

eg:

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=MANAGER+TRAINEE&city=&...

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Murphy-brown+Llc&job=&city=...
It is clear that illegal immigrants take jobs away from Americans. Ask carpenters and bricklayers who have been replaced by illegal immigrants because they don't have state licenses for their jobs as opposed to plumbers and electricians who do.

If a trade is not protected by licensure, then it is quite possible it will be replaced by illegal immigrants.
Any idea why they don't just merge Roboto and Noto?
I'm sad for this. I really liked rethinkdb and thought the potential for future development seemed really promising. They seemed to really know how to ship -- it's sad to imagine the momentum they had created fizzling out ... i would've liked to have seen what they would have came up with over the next couple of years ...
Ironically, your response would fit in a tweet.
I don't see why, for example, chickens couldn't be humanely farmed for not much more expense. If you let them wander about freely in a field, they will voluntarily go back to the coop at night. The current battery system, besides being awful for the animals, is very unhygienic with the chickens cramped together, pooping on each other. Consequently the chickens are given large amounts of antibiotic which encourages superbugs to develop. It's not good for public health, surely!
What would be nice is automatically attaching git-notes to commits indicating whether or not they passed CI. That said, I haven't looked into git-notes for a few years, so I'm not sure if they ever made it easy to sync them without a bunch of manual configuration.
The 1000 new people also need to buy goods and services, this increases demand, which requires the producers of goods and services to scale up their production and hire more employees.

Money is not a fixed thing, it's debt created by producing something that someone else values. Rather than a personal IOU we all agree to use money as a common means of exchange. Economic health is not the fixed amount of cash that everyone has, but by how many times it changes hands. Poor people who are living paycheck to paycheck are therefore the best contributors to the economy per dollar earned.

Your scenario that 1000 people show up and the jobs remains fixed is nonsensical, the number of jobs is very much correlated to how many people there are. This is somewhat abstracted away by globalization, but it still has to work itself out in the end.
Noto fonts are great. I especially love the OFL licensing. I wanted to include fonts in a mobile application and there was confusion on whether including a GPL version of the fonts would force me to GPL my app - something I could not do. I couldn't find a definite answer.

With Noto's OFL licensing, I no longer had that worry.
Bitbucket Server 4.10 comes with a new personal dashboard
"Blind watchers of the sky", by Rocky Kolb, is an awesome book about the history of astronomy which spends quite a lot of pages about Galileo's trial. It is wonderfully written and full of humor: Kolb is a notable astrophysicist, but also a gifted writer.
HyperTerm has been great, I've been getting a lot of mileage out of it as my default terminal. Love that I can hack on it so easily!

Sorry to see the name change though! Gonna be tough on plugins and lists that made use of the original name. I really liked "HyperTerm".
Deep Springs is located in a naturally majestic place (the high desert valley and surrounding mountains are breathtaking), and the school was the most vibrant intellectual community I ever knew. The students were very dedicated to learning, and most of them were also dedicated to the goals of the school: labor on the ranch/farm and communal governance. Students have a lot of power at DS to make their own decisions (and mistakes): they admit each incoming class, hire and fire the faculty, and choose their own curriculum from what the faculty can offer. The student body is usually around 25 people, and the rest of the community (faculty and their families, admin and farm and ranch operations) tends to double that to about 50. Because it is a two-year school, it changes and leaks institutional memory more quickly than other places, at least among the students. There are many Deep Springs, and each DSer walks away with his own vision and experience of it. The labor, governance and academic demands, during my time at least, made it so intense as to be excessive. It was probably a bit much for a bunch of 18 year olds. A few students always leave because of that. I hear it's better now.
Reduced water does indeed make pine trees more susceptible to beetles. Pines defend themselves by producing pitch to trap and expel the beetles, and that works better when the trees have enough water.
It sounds as if you've taking your conclusion that religious faith must be blind and ignorant and worked backwards from there.

I remain unconvinced that people who consider themselves religious are any worse at adjusting their world view to scientific evidence than people who do not.
Yes exactly. It's embarrasing. Those tweets are just removed from your timeline and there's no way you can make them return. For someone like me who follows just a few people and intends to read the entire timeline, it is very very bad.

That's their core product there and it's broken. And they don't care. I miss the twicca days... That's the Twitter I liked, a chronological stream of text. I mourn for it.
Absolutely not true that "the church at the time based their understanding of the physical universe primarily on Aristotle."

We talk about the religious view. For the religious view the Bible was actually relevant for the Church:

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

"Augustine wrote that too much learning had been expended on the nature of the firmament.[9] "We may understand this name as given to indicate not it is motionless but that it is solid." he wrote.[9]

Saint Basil argued for a fluid firmament.[9]

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, the firmament had a "solid nature" and stood above a "region of fire, wherein all vapor must be consumed."[10]"

1475:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmament#/media/File:Scheme_o...

Before the Christians, the Jews also had such interpretations:

"According to The Jewish Encyclopedia:

The Hebrews regarded the earth as a plain or a hill figured like a hemisphere, swimming on water. Over this is arched the solid vault of heaven. To this vault are fastened the lights, the stars. So slight is this elevation that birds may rise to it and fly along its expanse.[8]"