skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount of junk science we all in all facets of our lives is truly alarming. I know this will sounds like heresy, but this also applies to the whole "global warming" alarmism. I am not saying it's not happening, it's just that there are also serious questions not only about the actual underling scientific methods and results, but also the larger issue of whether the outcomes are conclusive in their interpretation.

The whole conversation of global warming, along with so many other conversations, is so besmirched and defiled and polluted with junk science and feelings and emotions that it makes your head buzz as someone that is reasonable and level headed.

As much as I want to believe in science as much as the next person, the fact act we don't properly practice it and by qualified and authoritative people, but instead rely on a kind of quantitive science of low quality just makes things worse in the end. It's almost as if we simply have too much "science" that any good science just gets drowned out and never recognize in the pile of junk science.
This is true about a lot of expensive things. Richard Mille watches (http://richardmille.com) for example look like cheap watches.
We host PostgreSQL on GCE with two separate instances (master/standby) replicated with repmgr (http://www.repmgr.org/). Then we have a service defined with custom endpoints that point to these two instances.

There's plenty wrong with a Pod that writes to PV - if your Pod/Container somehow gets corrupted, you're left with a corrupted database. It's unlikely, but as the origintal article states, Docker is young and things happen. Are you willing to risk it?

So in every case you need to ocnfigure replication and master selection. Are you willing to trust the pods to do the right thing without manual intervention on data that is the core of your business? I'm not.
Don't live in NZ, but somewhere similarly distant to the US West Coast. Server management is a pain in the ass -- all I can say is that deploying from colocated (i.e. close to app servers) jumphosts makes life infinitely less painful.

How's the tech scene in NZ? My (academic) wife and I were looking at the map, and we were thinking that maybe NZ wouldn't be a bad place to work for a few years.
there are multiple reports of cable internet subscribers' speed is downgraded to 1,44 mbps.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5771998066
You are comparing apples and oranges.

That pew study is income relative to worldwide range, which is fairly pointless in this context. Nobody is talking about upper/middle class boundaries in these terms, and McMansions are largely a US (North American?) phenomena.

Any family in the US with a very low six figure household income (or even a very high five figure) can choose to finance a McMansion. They are not rich by US standards.
As the Dalai Lama writes, to feel needed is a basic human need. For more and more people, this need is NOT fulfilled.

So, no, this is not the best time to be a human being.
Zara Hadid proved that point brilliantly with the new Antwerp fire station -- a €55 million monstrosity. The sad part is that the taxpayers got to foot the bill.
Can you summarize how you're doing this, e.g. the similarities and differences from Linux containers?
NYT was just a platform allowing people to advertise. They got done under Fair Housing Act because they allowed racist adverts and didn't do enough to stop racist adverts.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/14/nyregion/times-adopts-a-ne...

> In the four-year court fight, The Times sought to dismiss the suit on First Amendment grounds, arguing that the ads were created by advertisers and that the newspaper "merely published the advertisements as submitted."

> But Federal courts ruled against the newspaper, saying that there would be no infringement of press freedoms for a newspaper to refuse advertisements that would, as the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit put it, "to the ordinary reader indicate a racial preference." The United States Supreme Court refused to review the case in 1991.
Never heard of EmotionML before. OMG.
Wow, I'm sorry to say this, but the website through which we submit an application (icims) is awful. I get it that Amazon doesn't want to be liable to lawsuits etc, but the website is very bad.
He was innocent & executed.
I always thought someone could make a fortune introducing insulation to homes in NZ. Loved living in Wellington, but my god, the homes there are the draftiest coldest places ever!
that's interesting, I (used to) live in Christchurch, and the statement is what we had at the time. Most of the folks I knew were more rural, and either had adsl, dial up, or a 3G usb stick.
Hey there,

Would you be willing to speak to a junior iOS Developer? I have about 1.5 years of self-taught experience, but I also did a 10-month intensive program. I've been doing a lot of open source recently, and would love to chat.
We will get used to VR cuts just as we got used to film cuts.

I don't think that the "cut" automatically applies to VR. Film is fundamentally more indirectly immersive. You are looking through a window into another world, and the immersion is also largely through involvement via plot/characters/interest. VR will also (hopefully) have this, but the jump up in immediacy from film is like the one film has from books. Instead of a "cut" I think other tools and vocabulary will arise that are much more interactive.

People like looking through a window into another world. I don't think slaving your POV to the level where it's strapped to your head is fundamentally viable. Looking through the magic window of cinema is an active choice to delve into that POV, moment by moment -- for you can always close your eyes or look away in an instant. With VR, it's more like you have the choice the moment you strap on the goggles, you give it up for the experience, then have the "safe word" of being able to take the goggles off. Many more people will like looking at stuff than they will like being strapped to it.
The difference here is that quick cuts in film, generally speaking, don't literally make people physically sick.
Comparative performance with people in the same demographic and income range seems a lot better.

That seems like a great way to always be depressed about your position in life. Someone is always doing better than you are.
The KRG, despite being Kurds, are besties with the Turkish government (a pipeline going out of Iraqi Kurdistan exports oil through Turkey), and rather at loggerheads with the PKK (Kurdish rebels in Turkey), so there's little chance of the weapons passing from the KRG to the PKK.
S3 bucket names are globally scoped - ie. they are literally scarce resources.
Bieber is there to make this generation feel a void so they can make a new Sinatra in the future.
Elon Musk: Robots will take your jobs, government will have to pay your wage
> the devil at work

It's just money (power/manipulation/dominance) at work. With increasing intensity, which of course is sick.
Similar junk in the UK has put many innocent parents away for "shaking baby syndrome" just based on a theory, not proven by scientific evidence.
Expert witnesses who don't agree with the consensus establishment, have even been banned from practicing medicine, thus most now refuse to testify.
I think your comment is missing the point here: their actions themselves have consequence for the market. Indeed, their existence and their practices have an effect on the market even if they don't act. Their existence and expectations do that alone. 'If I don't do it, somebody else will', which is a poor selfish excuse for sociopathic values.
This is just an old woman being dishonest with herself. The US was the 1st to put warnings on tobacco packaging in 1966. This was about the time this woman started smoking. Is it really believable that an additional scientific data point about the harm would've swayed her decision? Especially one she wouldn't have even understood at the time? It's always been abundantly clear that inhaling smoke into your lungs is not a good idea - the scientific details aren't really necessary in making the decision not to smoke. What was necessary was a shift in the culture and advances in general healthcare which made the trade-offs worth the delayed gratification
Looks like they are going to limit the APM of the AI. I wonder how they are going to decide the limit? I've never played StarCraft, but from what I understand very high APM is needed to play the game at the highest levels.
I didn't realize this was about games at first.
It really has more to do with what the vendors creating the "serverless" tools perpetuating at the industry level. You can blame the technical marketing teams and tech media that also pick up the terminology (whoops, our bad).
Those reports of the past describe one-off location-based entertainment systems which didn't scale, and novelty devices which didn't last. That may be the future of VR headsets.
No, pretty much in every aspect. If you're living in the U.S. or Europe today, your lifestyle likely surpasses that of the royalty and robber barons of 150 years ago.
>normal people do this too. who do you think is buying up all the ammo before elections?

The people behind the prepping industry are just affiliate marketers for the most part.
That's ignoring risks. It's like being the richest you've ever been in 2007. True but not reassuring.

We have nukes, very worrying demographic trends in the west with massive migrations, and a declining hegemon. We're comfortable but fragile.

What I want to say is that Taleb seems to have a better handle on things than Pinker.
A lot of the issues in this article seem to stem from running Docker on old kernel versions.

> We are using Debian stable with backports, in production. We started running on Debian Jessie 3.16.7-ckt20-1 (released November 2015). This one suffers from a major critical bug that crashes hosts erratically (every few hours in average).

If you're stuck on an older system that's poorly supported by Docker then it may be a bad choice for you.
New MacBook Pro Models Lack Optical Audio Out via Headphone Jack
Probably an average of the best players.
sounds like texas alright
Do you recall the case? I think it's one of the seminal cases that cast grave doubts on the accuracy of fire science as then and currently understood.
Can you describe the model rust uses or point me to a link?
It's rather obvious that it's an essential oil diffuser:

https://twitter.com/mcwm/status/794235923454107648
I probably should have clicked around a bit to determine that he is the owner of that site :)
Stolen Bitcoin? Anti-Theft Feature Gets Second Life on Sidechains
C++ is fundamentally different insofar as it has no garbage collection. Which means it's different enough that learning it will be educational (e.g. it means different forms of resource cleanup are possible: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/03/10/compare-contrast/).

On the other hand, it's also a massive language, and modern C++ is very different than the legacy code bases you'll encounter in the real world. So it's a large time commitment to learn it well enough to code well in anger.

If you have the time try skimming a tutorial, and doing some exercises, enough that you can get the differences in mindset. But it's probably not the most efficient way to increase earnings, if that's all you care about.
Some people don't even question that the so-called "Europe" exists.
I took this class in 2010. Most assignments consisted of proving one or two theorems from a recent research paper.
Any analysis of anxiety that does not distinguish between males and females is going to be extremely hamstrung.

Each half of the species has very different socio-biological failure modes.
Read my reply below
In my experience it is.

The sbt-android plugin is really amazing. It makes compiling with ProGuard enabled as fast as Gradle without ProGuard, due to the plugins integration of incremental compilation with ProGuard.

Plus, there are quite a few built-in features and "add-on" plugins which enhance the experience further (sbt-android-protify, sbt-android-gradle).

A bunch of people built an "official" website around Scala-on-Android recently, scala-android.org. If you have any questions drop by in the Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/scala-android/sbt-android
I'm not even in your country, and honestly, I don't want to live there. Where you see people shouting "freedom" the loudest, I see fear, distrust, and anger. I'm just pointing out that no one is as free as you think you are because you always have influences. But I appreciate your willingness for open thought and reflection.
I am from Jersey, I agree the distribution is not at all even and that is one reason why few state decide the entire election.
You can be both better off than where you were and not as well off as you could be. Complacency is not the way to respond to stagnation.
Garrett D'Amore, who was previously a maintainer and is also the maintainer of mangos, returned in April on the condition he be BDFL.

See: https://github.com/nanomsg/nanomsg/issues/619
I'd also be owning a house or a farm not renting.
I didn't get that in-depth, which is why I was able to do it so quickly :) I just deployed to Google Container Engine using some docker images I built to replicate a rethinkdb/node app we've been working on. I used DNS for service discovery in the app, and didn't hook into a CD tool. Just used the google command line tools.
Oh come on.

http://www.btplc.com/Careercentre/Ourlocations/UK/Apprentice...

And many other companies as well.
It seems like you are saying that the wine's qualities and how they pair with the food are very important. I don't think anyone would disagree.

The question at hand is whether a cheap/expensive wine, of the same type, would matter in the boar stew example.

Personally, I have no reason to believe that a more expensive wine would only shine under these types of conditions. I also think it's a matter of subjective taste, and there is no arguing matters of taste ;).

From the non-oenophile POV, my objection is the pretension of objectivity. "This wine is better than the other one" is a subjective statement masquerading as an objective one.
I personally think the things that have the biggest potential in VR are games like Tabletop Simulator, where both the game itself and the context of "being with other people playing a game" are part of the experience.
VoCore team on their site[1] said that VoCore2 Lite is "very very close" to cost. I concur, as the heart of that VoCore2 board - MediaTek MT7688AN SoC chip costs between $2.79 and $3.35 (depending on the order quantity) on the Alibaba wholesale site[2].

Congrats to VoCore team to make low cost IoT DIY projects possible and affordable for students.

PS: If you weren't familiar with MediaTek, their SoC chip was the King of Shanzhai culture[3] during early iPhone era.

[1] http://vonger.cn/

[2] https://wholesaler.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-and-origin...

[3] http://www.core-corner.com/Web2/GsMaterialDB/HC_HBRC_9/2014-...
I've followed the professional StarCraft 2 scene for a long time now. There were a few players who were famous for having high APMs, here is an over-the-sholder view of one of them [1]. I don't have a reference but believe he used to play in the ~500APM range. That would probably be the upper limit of a human's ability.

[1] https://youtu.be/WHcl6Cs1FAM?t=7m57s
Could we conclude that it's better to choose individually in as many circumstances as possible, since choosing in groups has so many flaws? It seems the more choices are made by some for all the more people are dissatisfied.
http://huonw.github.io/blog/2015/03/rust-infrastructure-can-...
I agree that it's still bad practice. My main objection was to the statement "Since GitHub is for open-source projects, it also meant that any user could submit a request to modify the code and impact Trump’s website". If don't trust the maintainers' judgement in merging PRs, hosting it yourself isn't a solution (short of reviewing the entire project yourself).
Perhaps because the "want of something more" is becoming less and less effective a political motivator, compared to the expedience of action tied to the "fear of something worse"? (I recognize we have an incredible capacity to crave more, but maybe there are diminishing returns of a sort in our psychology.)
> We’re particularly pleased that the environment we’ve worked with Blizzard to construct will be open and available to all researchers next year.

This is awesome. I've only ever reached the Platinum league in Starcraft II (1v1), but I'd almost feel more driven to create bots to (hopefully) surpass that skill level, than actually playing the game.
I imagine they'll have separate AI brackets, and they could potentially simulate at multiple APM levels.
The fact that this fungus is strongly antibiotic-resistant and so far has only been found in healthcare settings, suggests it may be "iatrogenic" (resulting from activities of healthcare professionals) - or at least that such settings are vectors of infection.

"...a sweep of the Illinois patient’s hospital room revealed traces of C. auris in his mattress, bedside table, bed rail, chair, and windowsill."

Scary stuff, considering the description of its effects on the human body, and that we're only now beginning to be aware of its danger.
I have three echo's at the office. It's utterly boring and completely un-natural to talk to. Even when you learn the commands it feels so forced, having to draw from memory the almost exact syntax required to trigger each skill. Furthermore the majority of the user-contributed skills are absolute nonsense. Top ones include cat and dog facts. Amazon really should curate them as discovery right now is impossible with all the crap. And as there are so few users, there are hardly any reviews - making it hard to find what's good and what's not.

The echos also can't talk to each other - meaning you can't tell echo1 to play music on echo2.

Oh, and the speaker is pretty poor for the value. If you want to play with Alexa, get a dot and hook it to your own speakers.

And don't buy them if you're not in the UK or US. You physically can't set to an address in either of those countries yet - meaning no local features for you - apart from the time.
Is junk science in court rooms a root cause or just a symptom?
probably limit it to human levels. 400 to 600 apm is around the limit for brief periods of time. It makes for an interesting optimization problem with how to use them though.
Junk science is probably the greatest issue of our time. I theorize that ~90% of what is labeled science actually isn't.
What I think would solve some issues is to have a last option on the ballot that says, "None of the above" and if that wins, then the current president if they reached their term limit, steps down, and the vice president takes over for the next term. IE pretend the head of state has passed away and move everyone up in succession.

Basically it removes the "lesser" of two evils from the equation. Yes one could argue, the party in power could stay in power if every year the party abstains from voting but I don't think that would be a likely outcome because, lets face it. The VP probably wouldn't be a leader everyone likes come the next election cycle. They could also abstain from running in the next election if they choose.

EDIT: Also puts a lot of emphasis on selecting a good VP for either party since they could possibly succeed after 2 terms.
it's funny he has plenty of money, yet he doesn't seem to have more leisure time. Personally, I see AI progressing much faster than robotics.
Anybody else sees a problem with training the AI to move troops around a battlefield, with the purpose to exterminate the opponent?
Somewhere, a lonely nerd feels like this is the perfect match for his passion for VHDL/CSS. :) Or maybe he's a Verilog guy who will keep looking. ;)
A quick question, because I'm genuinely curious: if you never did it daily, how do you know it wasn't worth it?
The Web is not Fashionable
> reliable health care

Health care is more available to humanity than at any time in history.
After that, Garrett D'Amore eventually returned on condition he be BDFL. See https://github.com/nanomsg/nanomsg/issues/619

Since then the project looks to be fairly healthy.
This is so exciting. I've always wanted to program bots to play online games -- mainly for learning purposes. (Can I make a bot that plays better than me?)

But I've never done it because of the risk of bans. I'm glad that Blizzard has opened it up for people to experiment with this. I wonder how it will interact with any sort of anti-cheat systems in place, etc.
DroneDeploy launches the first app market for drones
I never thought people would pay for privilege of having an always-on, data-gathering microphone in their living room, but here we are.
blah blah blah. The people of Turkey have stood meekly by while an authoritarian has has turned their democracy into a quasi-dictatorship.
to be fair though, if you're feeling severe anxiety you should go see a doctor.

i've been seeing a lot of articles on hn lately that are like "just think your way into a good mood yay" or "heres arbitrary reason for how you feel etc" when we all know there's many environmental or genetic factors that play into how our minds develop.

maybe it's the fear of the being unneeded or maybe if you have anxiety you should talk to someone or it's likely both.
The average is actually 85, but yes.

https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jense...
High apm is required, yes. But most people push it by pushing it through spamming 1-2-3 (groups of your army). There was a pro player who didnt do it and he was around +- 70 APM.
I think you're confirming the point of the article.

Gotta find the right combination of OS & filesystem to have a stable docker.
I definitely try to highlight the success stories, but there's a critically different way that audiences react to "here's why everything went great for me" on Hacker News, though I think that is understandable. Too many times they're customer success stories, or case studies from the marketing department, and many don't care for those.
That article suggests the results had been changing dramatically for 10 months.
Adding to this - half of developing a taste for scotch is developing the skill of tasting scotch. Which is to say, take smaller sips. I've personally found that 80% or so of people who say they don't like scotch will enjoy a good scotch if they can be convinced to take a sufficiently small sip. Agreed, one of the great pleasures in life!
If that would be the only need, sure.
But why not just whip out your phone?
This looks great. An official Go driver would be even more awesome though!
When Kafka met Bruce: How one service can boost app messaging reliability
>Do you recall the case?

PBS to the rescue:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/death-by-fire/
There is no known contradiction of original Buddha's doctrine with modern evolutionary psychology and cognitive neuroscience. The modern notions of Cognitive Dissonance, cognitive biases, framing effects and modern western philosophy of mind only supports Buddha's views.

The only applicable critique is that original Buddhist doctrine is too general and allows flexible interpretations, nevertheless lots of scholars would maintain that Buddha's approach is one of the earliest attempts of systematic study of the mind using an imperfect method of introspection (famous Upanishadic neti neti doctrine is, perhaps, the earliest known to us), leaving validation of the insights to everyone who wished to follow the same path.

Buddha's investigation into the nature of reality and mind, which obscures it, is qualified for philosophy - precursor of modern sciences, not a religion (there is literally nothing to be saved). Theology has been developed by various competing sects hundreds of years later.
Is anxiety a failure mode? Or is it somehow exactly what's needed to tell us that something's missing?
Well, yes. Many programmers have trouble mapping ideas into bits: imagine how hard it is for people aren't in programming?
Microsoft Releases the Groove Music API