skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your summary isn’t quite right. There are no degrees (or angle measures) involved here. Instead, we have the lengths of the short side of various rectangles and the lengths of the corresponding diagonals, along with (what the author’s claim is) the squared ratio between the diagonal and the long side of each rectangle – the squared secant – each of which happens to be a sexagesimally regular number with the rows organized in order based on this squared ratio (and which can conveniently also be interpreted as the squared ratio between the short side and the long side – the squared cotangent – by subtracting 1). The authors claim that such a table can be used (along with linear interpolation) as a very effective tool for solving trigonometry problems.

I thought the paper was quite interesting and worth studying for anyone interested in number theory, metrical geometry, high school level math education, or mathematical history.

I’ll agree that the press is a bit ridiculous though. Nobody is seriously suggesting that we should give up on computers and do all of our arithmetic in base sixty.
At least in SJC, they are the only airline that consistently loads from both ends of the plane. I like them for that.
So I suppose it's often better to turn your idea into a company instead.
Completely agreed, although the parent's post does not appear to be snark to me. I believe it is sincere, and I fear exactly the same outcome.
Maybe the diffractive elements the paper proposes could deflect wavelengths not used by plants. This would reduce total insolation on Earth but leave photosynthesis and CO2 absorption untouched.
C# doesn't seem to be working properly

string Hello ()
{
return "test";
}

Console.WriteLine(Hello());

solution.cs(1,0): error CS1525: Unexpected symbol `string'
Correct, EGR increases particulates across the board. Another alternative is to reduce NOx creation in the burning process, which also increases particulate emissions and DPF clogging.
As a counter point, I really don't like that Wapalyzer does this. It always takes me a couple of seconds to find the correct extension to click because its icon always changes.

If you keep your icon the same I will switch from Wapalyzer.
I'm sure most qualified teachers will tell you they are in desperate need of quality classroom materials. What this article doesn't address (and a quick search reveals no answers) is that these materials _need_ to fit into a research-based curriculum. It's one thing to make engaging lessons, it's another to conclusively prove they teach the material.
You can make a living as a mechanical engineer without using an equation newer than a few hundred years.

Have you seen what's happened to control theory in the last 15 years? There's so much new math that new PhDs are having trouble deciding which parts to learn. Control theory has imported much of machine learning in addition to all the classic control theory, and they want bounds so they know the machine learning parts won't do something stupid.
Can you elaborate on what you find disturbing? The implication of high failure rate, or the shift of focus to reliability?
One of the books that has had the biggest influence in my life is "The Art of Learning" by Josh Waitzkin, the child chess prodigy of "Searching for Bobby Fischer" fame.

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Learning-Journey-Optimal-Performa...
Didn't Microsoft do that? Created a version of Node using Chakra as proof of concept
I don't understand why people are still obsessed with "global warming". The political proponents of it have already changed it to "climate change" after global temperature stopped rising for a decade and it's been almost two decades now. I would be much worried about "global cooling" i.e. another ice age.

A couple of degree increase over the next hundred years (which is their worst case estimate based on the most advanced models, even though no model has been able to predict anything, only fit historical data) will change nothing. Sea levels will probably rise by a few feet and people living in their beach houses will have to find another vacation spot in 20 years after they notice that the sea has been coming closer to their house since the last decade.

Ice age is just as unpredictable (except they don't even have a make-believe explanation for it) and could start any time giving us very little time to prepare. If we want humans to suffer less because of it, the least we should do is try to give over a billion people who have no access to electricity some way to make sure that they will be able to heat their houses if it's cold, like most of the developed world can... in addition, meanwhile, they can enjoy clean drinking water, washing machines, industries etc.
Individual and collective cognition in ants and other insects (2008) [pdf]
I also really like them as an Airline, and use them often to go to and from Hawai'i. Their staff is usually very kind and the planes are clean. I don't remember the seat sizes.. I am not a 'big' person so not an issue for me (at least yet)
A code of conduct without transparency or due process seems more than dangerous to me. It is the stuff of kangaroo courts and star chambers.
You're right. On closer examination, that's specifically airframe maintenance. So that would exclude engines and probably other important and expensive things.
Introduction to distributed systems
How many planes crossed the total solar eclipse's path? probably a bunch...
Dear Elon–Forget Killer Robots. Here’s What You Should Really Worry About
Don't we need the photons to convert CO2 back into O2 through photosynthesis?
I have personally been pushing for the title of "HerpDerpgineer"
Seems we already solved that one, just 100,000 years early.
Please follow up on what was the supposed evidence against him and you will see his response was reasonable.
Speaking as an Australian, the anecdotal effects I see as contributing to high piracy rates are:

* Online content is more expensive in Australia. This isn't due to taxes or anything, Australians just get charged more for the same products.[1]

* Content is very often not available legally in Australia by any means, or is delayed for months or years from the US release.

* (this one may be old, and is certainly actively changing) Poor internet speeds and data caps make streaming services not a viable option, whereas a download can be left running overnight so the final result can be stored and watched many times.

[1] http://www.news.com.au/technology/australian-government-rele...
In the meantime they outfit every single car with the best hardware that is realistic from a cost standpoint today, instead of waiting til 2020.

And so far, it just sits there and does nothing useful, since the self-driving software that can do the job safely with those sensors doesn't exist.
I create this HN account to help someone with this exact same issue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8701003

tl;dr:
1) create a label; 2) add the message to that label; 3) Go to google.com/settings/takeout and export the single label from gmail.

Good luck!
> Stein's trick was to notice that the point µ = 0 has the property that if y is sufficiently close to it,

It’s not clear in this presentation but shrinkage can be done toward any arbitrary point, not just toward the origin.
I love those terminals and books in the Deus Ex series. They flesh out the world with much more detail than could ever be shared in cutscenes or NPC dialogue.
> it calls the system into question if someone can violate established rules and get away with it because the judges disagree with the rules.

Welcome to adulthood, corporate life, and the real world. It's not fair. It's not designed to be fair. It's not intended to be fair. It's never been fair. You just pull up your big boy pants and deal with it.
I haven't gone back to re-read for this, but I believe 10 degrees is presented as a worst-case scenario because if we hit that it's pretty much game over.

The part you may want starts around footnote 20, in a paragraph that notes 4 degrees as a median projection from the IPCC, with up to 8 degrees at the high end of the curve without factoring in permafrost melt and its associated carbon release or any of a variety of other exacerbating factors (footnoted in the article).

There are ways to calculate how much effort or expense is reasonable to attempt to mitigate a risk, I believe that's often part of the job description of actuaries. Part of it involves figuring out what the cost is if the event in question happens, then what the likelihood of the event is.
What kind of issues did you face using Chef and autoscaling? We use Chef to configure servers which are managed by an AWS autoscaling group without any issues.
I mostly agree. They're selling a development platform. You could look at this at marketing fluff aimed at stroking the egos of their prospective customers.
Time Travel Debugging: root causing bugs in commercial scale software
> Now instead of drawing funds directly from the district, you're subsidizing private schools at the state level.

In California for instance, 57% of school funding comes directly from the state, so that's no change in funding source.

Personally, I don't see a difference between funding a religious school and a secular private school, both are capable of following a particular philosophical bent and applying it liberally or dogmatically.

To be honest, I think the idea that we can fund any philosophy except one that touches on cosmology (i.e. religion) is an unnatural discrimination against religion.
Couldn't you filter most of them out by the timestamp? If you get a reply that was sent faster than a human could have responded, ignore it.
One step closer to cattle.
> Has he never heard of the second system effect?

My team and I were recently working on a replacement for an old service. One weekend I thought, "I could re-write the whole thing in a way better, clever-er way!" I stayed up way too late hacking on it. It was my masterpiece. Sunday night I uploaded it to our org's GitHub and then on Monday the team lead was like "Um, what's that?" and then I knew that the feelings I'd ignored while writing it were true: it was a waste of time. We weren't going to use my new re-write.
>wherein only people who have demonstrable interest in programming outside of work can succeed and advance.

Nobody in this thread has said this. Maybe your misunderstanding of the other side is part of your frustration on this topic?

Some have said that the self-taught programmers were better. Some have said passionate programmers were more driven to stay relevant in a changing field. Some have said they learn more from coworkers that developed interest in programming outside of college and work.

You may disagree with all 3 of those statements but none them are about dispassionate programmers not being able to succeed.

>It's an issue when you're desire pushes all the G1 people out of the work place.

This has never happened. In fact, the opposite has happened. G1 is the overwhelming norm at most businesses. To repeat -- most programmers do not view coding as a vocation. G1 programmers already fill most jobs slots.

The idea that the minority of G2 programmers want a work environment with other G2s and this is hurting G1?!? That is a complaint that's way out of proportion to reality. Literally.

Also, I'm not sure why hiring heuristics that negatively affect G1 somehow has a higher moral standing than heuristics that negatively affect G2 programmers. What about the opposite situation? E.g. G1 people say being well-balanced with non-programming activities helps them be a "better programmer". Great! Let that belief be a guide and don't hire G2 programmers since their excessive interests in computers actually makes you believe they perform worse. They are not assets. (See my previous cite to HN thread for example of this.) In those cases, G1 wins over G2 in getting the job.

>They are employees of whatever company. They are there to do a job.

The founders and many programmers would like the daily effort to be "more than a job" if possible. Sometimes, that's not possible (e.g. Walmart cashier). However, with programming, some do try to optimize for a better work environment.

>with people of the same race. Or people of the same gender. Or people of the same religion. Do you see the problem now?

Those race/gender examples weaken your argument. Having a preference for people with similar intellectual dispositions in programming is very aligned with Martin Luther King's "not being judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

>arbitrary standards that has nothing to do with their ability to do a job

Then this discussion has no resolution because in this thread, many have written about experiencing the opposite. Instead of it being an "arbitrary standard", it's been a positive correlation with performance on the job.

>what a company should be looking for is "able to do the job to whatever standard we've set"

Ok, many programmers in this thread said they prefer colleagues who enjoy computers+programming as outside interests. That's the standard that's been set. Many companies want to attract those programmers by hiring G2.
You could use a compact Gtk theme to get round this.
Ask HN: What fast-growing startups are using a tech stack considered “uncool”?
I'm curious as to what recent startups are choosing stacks that are no longer considered popular or have been past their peak in adoption for startups, such as LAMP and Ruby based stacks. And perhaps, also finding out how they came to that decision.
Richard, I can help you with your spelling...
They share the bias towards utopia that underscores all of the most murderous regimes.
This was how I viewed it as well. Especially if what Rod said about not being notified about ANY of these items is true.

This just appears someone compiled a list of things Rod screwed up, most of which he seemed to own and tried to fix. Maybe my impression is wrong but it just comes off as awful.

I tried getting the entire story. I tried reading through the complaints, hunting down tweets and even reading Rod's side. But I eventually had to give it; it was going to take me hours to gain a small amount of context (some appears to be private / offline so I don't see a way to gain all of the necessary context to judge this situation).

I get the feeling people are going to take their biases, one way or another, and run with what their side is because I don't see a quick way of wading through all of this.
In the process sounds very nice which bank? (and are you a US citizen or resident?)
Guice WebServer module with latest Jetty/Jersey/Jackson
I feel this is dismissing engineers. Most i know engineers also care about elegance and asethetics.

You may not like it, but engineer is probably the closest match to an existing profession.
> "And don’t feel pressure to go to networking events. No one really mixes at mixers. Although we plan to meet new people, we usually end up hanging out with old friends."

Well yes, if you choose to. I wish the article could keep the focus of the positive effects that creating great things leads to, and not try to position it as an opposite of networking.

Networking is gold. Networkers that also produce extraordinary things will get even better results.
Exploring and Visualizing an Open Global Dataset
No, Microsoft modified node to allow drop in replacement of the JavaScript engine and then provided a Chakra backed version of node. It actually seemed to work pretty well and was pretty well received by the community. I believe others were attempting to do the same with the Firefox JS engine (SpiderMonkey? I can't remember what it's called) using the same base of work Microsoft created.
This is all over the place and reads like a collection of random pieces of advice.

Why not stop at "An engineer makes something work. You are more than that. You are an artisan." and present a reasonable line of argument?
Tons of government programs have wait lists because they don't have enough money. And other programs don't give people enough, because the program doesn't have enough to do so.

Any government run healthcare would be money constrained the same way, and they would have to do exactly the same as the insurance companies to try to save money in order to have enough to at least give the impression of being fair to everyone.

The issue here is not for-profit insurance companies, it's that there is no competition on the Doctor side of things, so costs just go up and up and up.
I must say I'm troubled about recent political situation in Germany.. for so many years they been a real good example in Europe how to lead, despite the fact they start the WW2. But now there is no free speech (you cannot shout Heil Hitler - that might be long prison sentence) and just recently there been article here how Germany court system doesn't believe in freedom of speech. Now this.

If there truly won't be any consequences for those involved (or extradited) then I really put Germany next to Russia, Ukraine and Kazakstan, and will make sure all my friends and family avoid it during their travel plans.
Company scrip
Many U.S. coast cities will become submerged when sea-levels rise by several feet.

This is not the omly effect, particularly countries in the middle east will dry out, leading rural inhabitants to gravitate towards in excess of their capacities, leading to destabilised countries.

This has already happened with Syria and millions if refugees, now wait for the remaining countries to follow with hundreds of millions of refugees in the next 100 years.

Naturally, even heavier hurricanes, more devastating floods will happen.

Keep in mind, a rise of only 6 degress fahrenheit, means a rise of 20 degrees fahrenheit in some areas and less in others. This is catastrophic for the areas that are among the ones with bad luck and will induce mass migration/fleeing.
Probably incidents which are escalated all the way to rapid fix by programmers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBA0AH-LSbo

I wonder if they knew this...
I was expecting this to happen after the first news broke of the "findings" a while ago....

Can we ethically ask if it does work?
Of course, the original comparison between coders and artists was made by Paul Graham in Hackers and Painters:

https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/d...
This as least is something I can understand (and it seems he understands it too, as he apologized for it). When you're not involved in a discussion, are in a leadership position, and apologize to someone for the outcome of the discussion, you are undercutting the authority of the people involved in that discussion, the decision they made, and the entire organizational process that produced the decision.
Criticize work not people.
I'm not convinced that the recovery is genetic (well it is, but that's not the point.) People give themselves repetitive motion injuries in music all the time. It causes tons of otherwise amazing musicians to wash out.

It's become such a problem, that it's basically become the biggest issue the pedagogy community as a whole is actively trying to address. This is interesting, because there has been a lot of progress made in injury-preventive technique.

Even in running, a quick Google search revealed that injury preventive techniques exist.

So I guess, I'm not convinced that injury isn't technique related and that not being injured doesn't have more to do with luck (in terms of natural technique) than genetics.
Hacking the 'Time Out' App and Forcing Myself to Take a Break
> Writing stable code and being available to fix your bugs, even sometimes after hours.

Nah I'd rather be available during hours to fix my bugs. Call me old fashioned, but does anyone not believe your work should not follow you home? I love what France is doing with the "right to disconnect"
Thanks for introducing PH! That site is so great!
Secret, anonymous accusations? Check.

Instructions to not discuss this with anyone? Check.

Little to no evidence? Check.

No opportunity to provide a response? Check.

Witch hunt. But don't worry, if he doesn't float, we'll pardon him posthumously.
I guess it is a matter of preference at some point.

Storing each step in variables has the advantage to be self-documenting and nicer when debugging.
However in many cases I feel like wasting energy trying to find
short and adequate variable names for each steps in a computation,
especially when the steps are clear enough by themselves but difficult
to describe in 1-2 short words.

You also need to keep the variable names in sync when refactoring,
which may cause even more refactoring if the line gets too long with the
new name.

IMO it makes sense to use both styles where they feel most adequate.
Too much drama and polemics. My god he spent a lot of time on that response -- like hours.

If you are writing long emails dealing with responses to drama, you need to move on. Not because you are at fault but the whole situation is screwed up and not worth your time. This is not a win-win situation, but an everyone lose situation.

It means you and others are in the muck. Once you get a bunch of these accusations and long polemical post flying around it is nearly impossible to figure out who is right and who is wrong. The way people try to win here is ultra long polemical posts, secret discussions, accusations, character assassinations, etc. Non of which is at all productive.

Being in the muck is a huge waste of time and energy for everyone. Find something that doesn't involve so much drama, life is short.

I think one rule in software development is that once you are engaging in polemics, especially many hours of it per day, and not technical matters, something is sick about the situation -- get out of it.
Working as the CTO at an early stage startup. I've got about 6yrs of dev experience, but was under the impression that under a TN the only matching category was a computer systems analyst, which requires a degree.
That and the expense of initially building nuclear energy facilities. Even though it's cheaper once it's built, the initial capital cost can be daunting.
TLDR: A test using mice doing a transfusion of blood from younger->older showed signs of rejuvenation. It's still going through clinical trials for humans. An SF startup is running such a trial with 100 people, each of whom paid $8k.

+ there are critics/skeptics of it's scientific viability as well as the costs considering it's unproven.

Key quote:

> “There's just no clinical evidence [that the treatment will be beneficial],” argues Tony Wyss-Coray, the Stanford neuroscientist behind a key 2014 mice parabiosis study. For one thing, Karmazin’s trial does not use a placebo control group and participants can be as young as 35.
If you want to be taken seriously by these troublemaking outrage addicts as a while male, you need to get a weird haircut and to dye your hair a few different colors. Chunky glasses are a plus.
Yuck; if that's where awesome profits takes you, I'll pass. Can you get more detached from reality?
I'm not sure what that proves other than that sugar is more addictive than cocaine.
You have to play the politics, some way, any way.
It says ycombinator.com uses React, jQuery, "Vis JS", a Facebook tracking pixel, CloudFlare and Cloudfront ...

https://www.whatruns.com/website/ycombinator.com

That sounds strange. Can these claims be backed up somehow? I cannot see anything in the source that would confirm these.

It also says Facebook uses Google Analytics \o/
Via http://uk.businessinsider.com/young-blood-plasma-transfusion...

"He adds that because patients are paying it wouldn't be fair to give anyone a placebo."