skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"because he believed (correctly) that it would result in large groups of them forming armed militias and start a middle eastern uprising"

Do you have a reference for that - because that is one hell of a strong accusation?

NB Not saying that it would surprise me, but I've never heard that particular accusation before. Though it does sound worryingly like the claims that US money indirectly funded the Taliban via Pakistan - allegedly without the US knowing but that is a remarkable thing not to know....
That's the statistical theory, but what is the reality? I would be very surprised if 95% of results are accurate. We would need a study of reproducibility across other fields - and of course a study that reproduces the Reproducibility Project.

> it's not hacked (or the papers go through selection effects)

There are many, many reasons, besides 'hacking' or selection effects, for results that aren't 100% accurate.
No, technically, tho depending on service and specialty, can be a reason for not getting to lt.col.
Just need to not be a dumbass for a majors board
Aren't your apartments still over $1k/sq foot?
Fine, then. Just use the smallest positive nonzero real number, instead.

Edit:
I really hope I'm not the only one laughing.
So not source code, for the most part.
Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture (new Book)
USAFacts.org
Cornell's Roosevelt Island Campus Opens
That's not how it works. Anyone in the market for an apartment isn't driving up demand for this $2.4m $1,200/s.f. house.
At some point every abstraction above Assemby meets that criteria though. The lines are personal and mostly arbitrary.
Like a migrate in rdb, with mysql postgres. Something that keeps track and makes DB schema changes.
> ideas like Nazism, with its close historical proximity to genocide and the death of millions

cough, communism, cough
Well said. I think it's easy for people to think, "it should be this way, so let's do something" without realizing that the Law of Unintended Consequences is almost always a participant in outcomes. Human behavior is a wildly complex thing to predict and incentivize. Often times the counter-intuitive approach of "let it work out" is actually the optimal approach.
"I can't say how much I support this, it is so obviously a good idea" -- https://twitter.com/hanno/status/907904636283224064

I have nothing to add. Sign the open letter! :-)
Take a look at Enpass (https://www.enpass.io) it has a free desktop app and one off fee for mobile apps. I've been using it for tree or four months and it's been great.
They have "Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software" and "Computer Programmers." The latter goes back to 1970. However, I'm really not sure if there's supposed to be a difference between the two.
Worth noting no one is going to jail for being a Nazi (except the ones that are actually killing people). Private companies are just choosing not to do business with them; because, turns out associating with people that think killing minorities for the glory of the master race is a good idea tends to be bad for business. Who could have guessed?
Holy crap, thanks! I was considering wrapping a small tool I made in electron but this fixes the need entirely
No, but your fundamental human rights, as recognized by the UN, have been.

http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Article 19
For those that like SICP, the picture language in section 2.2.4 describes a monoid, though they don't call it that because the term hadn't yet been adopted. Even so, I found it very helpful in understanding what all the monoid literature was going on about because I'm much more familiar with Lisp than I am statically typed ML-family languages.

http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/2_002e2.xhtml#g_t2_002...
The guidelines say "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

As a reader (not the submitter), I found at least two interesting ideas in the article:

(1) the fact that the correspondence between bones and graves is less than fully documented. An interesting factoid about past archeological practice.

(2) the argument that burial accessories don't necessarily prove life occupation: Could it be that some "warrior graves" (of either sex/gender) were really "warrior cosplay graves"; that in a society where warriors have high status, other high status individuals could also be buried with the accoutrements of warriors? Will future archeologists digging up US graves conclude that there were millions and millions of people playing for the New York Yankees, because of all the baseball caps they'll find?

So I'd argue this article qualifies.
iTunes 12.7 removes app backup and ringtone sync
For what it's worth, all of this is currently true for most US cities. It's not a "just San Francisco" thing, or a "just the coasts" thing.
> Go should generally be a bit faster or equal speed to Java and should use a fraction of the memory.

Eh. Go certainly starts out faster and is faster in some benchmarks, but in most workloads Java is faster.

> but even Java 8 doesn't have the ability to set a variable equal to a function definition

Function<Integer, Integer> f = x -> x + 1;

> which I don't think any JVM language has.

Java (and so all JVM languages) has had Unicode support since at least 1997.

> The standard library feels really good to use compared to C++ and Java for me

I think you haven't seen Java's standard library recently.

> The tool chain.

This is one area where Java is ahead by a large margin in almost every single component you list.

For me, Go shines for small applications, and especially small command-line tools, for which the JVM is not a great fit. It's easy to learn and get started with, and the deployment is convenient. But for anything big, Java wins hands down, in robustness, ecosystem, debuggability and serviceability.
Many people buy it. It's expensive, too...
What if the user doesn't have pip installed? This is before we've installed the requirements, so we shouldn't be assuming anything outside the stdlib.
> In a breakthrough that disproves decades of conventional wisdom, two mathematicians have shown that two different variants of infinity are actually the same size

I thought there are only two types of infinity and Cantor already proved that they are different.

* Uncountable infinity which is the cardinality of the set of real numbers

* Countable infinity which is the cardinality of the set of integers

Cantor has already proved that uncountable infinity is larger than countable infinity.

Is this article claiming that mathematicians have proved that these two infinities are equal now? Doesn't that contradict Cantor's proof? What's going on here? Is the Cantor's proof flawed or have we introduced a contradiction to mathematics?
It's not people are horrified by Assad's regime at all. That's just a line to sell a war in newspapers. There are much much worse governments than Assad in the world. Some are nominally our friends. Some we just ignore because they aren't in strategically important locations or don't have resources of interest.

I thought it was commonly understood at this point that "spreading democracy and human liberty" translated to "strategic significance". Which I'd feel a lot better about if they just came out and said. I might even support the campaigns if a good argument were made. But being deceived leaves a bad taste in the mouth and you start not trusting.
I wonder how much of if the gender disparity in education is pure preconceived notions. "All my teachers were women", so women are more 'teacherly' and more likely to be hired.

More recent fears over men in proximity to kids probably reinforces this.

I've certainly heard the theory you suggest and it does seem to make sense. Perhaps the data doesn't show that because as smart women have 'left' teaching they've been backfilled by the additional women joining the workforce that didn't used to be there?

Interesting questions around the massively skewed jobs.
Annotated Underscore.js Source Code – Good for Budding JavaScript Developers
Need Input – Mysql Database vs. Redshift
We have a extremely small database few GBs in size and wanted to combine data from lot of third party vendors for analysis. Is it worth moving to AWS Redshift or we are better of just creating a new Mysql instance and aggregate data in MySql. Performance & processing are not an issue here since the size of our data is pretty small, we just intend to do simple querying nothing fancy.

I am leaning towards a new MySql instance since we have lot of code and functionality which already works fine with MySql + cost considerations as well. I guess my big question is that does AWS Redshift offers any functionality which is worth exploring in this use case of just simple querying and analytical reporting.
Oh! Didn't know this. Thanks.
They are not perfect substitutes. If they were, no one would be paying $2.4m for this postage stamp in Sunnyvale.

There is plenty of supply below $2.4m. The 20 people who made offers on this house weren't interested.
Finland's foreign policy was benign, but its domestic policies weren't pretty.

Eugenics:
http://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/tree/530b988476f0db569b00...

Kekkonen and the collapse of democracy:
http://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/18/archives/finns-extend-pres...
Today I was sitting in a hotel lounge in Dubai and a lady asked me to help send her geolocation to her friend. She asked whether she can use my Whatsapp. I said I don't have Whatsapp, but I have Messenger abd Viber. She looked at me very bewildered and asked, "You don't have Whatsapp? Why would you use Messenger?" I explained to her that in Europe we use Messenger and Viber, not Whatsapp. She thought I'm crazy. In the end I gave her hotspot and she left me to my crazy Messengering.
I wouldn't be so harsh; this was a self-directed learning project as part of a 12-week educational course. And they totally managed to get it working, which is no small feat given that WebAssembly only hit v1 a few months prior, and the tooling is still rather rough.
I live in a web browser day to day. I'm constantly in and out of Teamwork, Harvest, Google Drive, Slack, Google Analytics etc etc.

Trello is also a core part of our workflow (we're custom software developers) and so Cmd/Ctrl + T to open a new tab and type in "tre"...<Enter> to load Trello is basically muscle memory at this point.

All of that is to say, what's the need for a "native" app? I say "native" because it's Electron, which isn't really native per se. But still, why??
Server-sent events with Fastly
When we talk about rich libraries we mean actual libraries for generating PDFs, reading barcodes, report generation, talking with all kinds of enterprise databases, GPU programming, parallel distributed algorithms, embedded development...

Not yet another packaging tool or fait-divers like pad left.

And the majority of them written in pure Java, not C++ wrapped in a JavaScript API.
I am very glad to see that app backups will no longer hog my SSD.

I don't quite understand the ringtone move, which seems like some downside and not much upside. I don't use any custom ringtones now but have in the past. It sounds like there's no way to do this now.
You've misinterpreted my comment. I'm not saying I am right or Stallman is wrong, I am saying he believes that others who have different values do not understand freedom, whereas they simply rate freedom as a secondary value. Much like node does 'robustness' according to Cantrill's presentation.

Also a HN search for 'Stallman is right' isn't much of a reference, any more than an HN search for 'Stallman is wrong' would be.
But then you have to manually add the hundreds of thousands of individual subreddits to your exclusion list, and be prepared to add hundreds more each week.
I use Alfred as a Spotlight replacement and as a clipboard history manager mostly. I don't use remote because I haven't delved deeply into it like you said. It's one of those "one of these weekends when I have time" and I've been telling myself this for years at this point.
There are a lot of factors that play into the speed (perceived and real) of an editor. Sublime is written in C, which is generally recognized as a performant language when used correctly. In contrast, Atom and VS Code are Electron[1] apps, which mean they have to deal with browser optimization. They both use a lot of tricks[2] to operate as quickly as they do. And in all editors, one bad extension can kill performance, from my recent experience Resharper in Visual Studio increases startup time by 3x.

An editor is not as simple as displaying lines of text a la Notepad, different editors optimize for different use cases.

1. https://electron.atom.io/

2. http://blog.atom.io/2017/06/22/a-new-approach-to-text-render...
May this be a thread where people post their favorite ST tweaks. Things that really make a difference day to day.

I for one swapped the mapping of paste and paste and indent because I want the latter's behavior to be default.

I also use a proportional font and love it. Something I can't get vim to do.

I like gitgutter though it doesn't refresh properly always.

What are your favorite plugins?
Bannon existed long before those interviews happened. He has a long history.
Having tried Atom, it's the main reason I stuck with Sublime. Somehow, even typing was slow in some larger files...
All 'anti-vaccine' and 'damorish' types I met were undereducated in one way or another. Not necessarily in terms of university education, often it was some gap in basic self-education resulting in the lack of quality reasoning or soft skills or breadth of knowledge. On the side of an average person, there are many other enemies of science like absence of intellectual honesty, sincere pursuit of truth and ability to work towards it (often combined).
It's also very important when building long-running applications (e.g. electron applications).
> Conversations have context, you know. Parent poster mentioned dignity being different. Did you not read the or are you intentionally clipping it.

No, I got that. And then I asked, why would one need a "list of activities" to make that point? I don't see how that would work, seeing how those activities also have contexts and motivations which matter. It's like "taking bread from a place and putting it somewhere else" can be various things like making breakfast, stealing food, giving food, playing with food.

> You are kinda going off the rails here buddy.

Off what rails? Your comment was an own goal, I'm just beating a dead horse.

> Maybe try to be actually ambitious rather than being content with raging over people doing better than you.

It's more mocking people who I consider lame. Which brings us back to your projected "Now you are making up arguments on my behalf and posting your retorts." haha.
> The U.S. has never armed al Qaeda in Syria (al Nusra).

That's not true[1]. The USAF might have bombed them, the CIA certainly supported them. The war between the CIA and DoD is described here [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Division_(Syrian_rebe...
[2] http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-i...
The shape example reminds me of how traditional raytracing renderers work: the entire scene is a function whose input is [x,y] view space coordinates and output is [r,g,b] color. To produce an image, you call the function for each pixel and store the results.

Could be an interesting tutorial to see a raytracer explained in terms of monoids.
Does that have to do more with the industry's performance as a whole, or this specific company? I do notice that in order to possibly avoid the arms "looking western", they are focussing on buying & supplying soviet looking weapons instead.

Perhaps, the to-capacity usage of black/smuggling routes by various powers (US, NK, Saudi) - would increase business to legal transportation routes? Because the price of being illegal might be driven too high. Thus shipping might actually be doing well... I dunno.
Any better sources? ZH is notoriously sensationalist and often completely wrong.
"Computer Programmers" is there but looks like it has always been dominated by men.
> It's apparent that it's actually saying that being too "greedy" (i.e too low a horizon) can be bad for achieving an objective.

As in Reinforcement Learning, it's an exploration vs exploitation tradeoff.
> A reality TV show about making a reality TV show

A success recipe right here.

Just like how the only bloggers who got rich in the early 2000s were the ones who were blogging about "How to get rich blogging".
Inability, to a large extent. The relative youth of the US in cultural terms. the simplicity of dealing with a small biddable tyranny rather than a large messy democracy that might not agree with us. The Dictator's Handbook by Bueno de Mesquite & Smith does a good job of breaking down the utilitarian calculus of foreign policy decisions.
Not all uncountable infinities are the same cardinality.
Nice article. Minor gripe about the static vs dynamic memory section. The requirement that the data sizes be known at compile-time for static memory (with the example of an array allocated to a user-inputted size), seems to be based on a past restriction of the C language. C has since remove the requirement that stack-based arrays are sized with a compile-time constant; there is nothing at the hardware/assembly level which prevents such arrays. So these stack-based non-compile-time-sized arrays don't fit into either the static or dynamic memory categories presented here.
> I meant that, when compared to the numbers of practitioners, those who actively spend much time thinking analytically about theological issues form a very small minority.

Somewhat, but how many people watch Transformers versus read the latest cryptocurrency paper?

And there are many styles of preachers that teach and talk much like an enthusiastic college lecturer. They are very erudite and draw large audiences once a week. To talk about philosophy, ethics, morality, and critical analysis, basically. And it's really common for congregations to break out into smaller groups throughout the week to have similar self-lead conversations.

> ...there is also the tenet that faith trumps reason...

That may be a cultural disposition among some, but it's not a tenet. In fact, Christ himself used reason, for example, when saying, "...[a] house divided against itself will not stand." He was using deductive logic in that case to refute that he was exorcising demons as an agent of the devil.
I am having a hard time figuring out if this is a strange joke I'm failing to get or if you actually mean to suggest that Nazism is victimless.
Yes you COULD, but you can also haul water into your home via buckets from the well :-)

But setting up a git server is so easy if you don't care about having a UI like github or gitlab. Git talks SSH, so pretty much just spin up a VPS, get it SSHable, then install git, create a bare repo, and push to that path.
Editing large CSV files is something I do infrequently enough that I'll just use vim or whatever when that need arises. No need to choose my code editor based on that niche use-case.
National park infrastructure to access the nature requires funding, and thus the selling of access is inherent, so indirectly, yes.

I see your perspective that it's different as the lumber companies are telling the government "Hey, we should cut down all these trees, and I should sell them for profit!". The OP's point, though, is that the only reason the lumber company would make a profit is because there is a need for the lumber, and people will pay for it.

It's still morally identical in terms of people having a desired use for the land, just with the corporation as a middleman.
If you're a conspiracy theorist, sure. Why would WaPo write negatively about the CIA if that were the case?
Ah, I understand now.

I guess my point was that since vim/emacs already exist and have advantages, that use case for atom seems a bit unnecessary, but of course in reality many people don't use vim/emacs due to the learning curve, so I suppose the point is irrelevant.
Can you simplify for us what exactly have the mathematicians in this article proven?

I get that they have proven some infinity A = some infinity B but can you tell us what these A and B are.

Also, isn't the cardinality of reals equinumerous with that of the cardinality of the power set of naturals?
Many of those shifts from a majority male workforce to a majority female workforce seem to happen quickly (or even abruptly) at around the 1960s/1970s.

I'm not well versed in American history. Did anything significant happen then to cause this, or is it just an interesting anomaly?
you're underselling it. yes, it's a 'chat app', but one that runs on a billion phones in every country on the planet
Pointless. Works great in the browser. Won't install this
The "objective" part is a bit confusing. Evolution doesn't have objectives like "create the turtle, elephant, and man". Which is what is meant by "The Myth of the Objective".

Evolution has two eyes on the path (optimizing survival and procreation) and none on objectives (concrete outcomes, i.e. specific organisms).
A true native client would be a lot of work. Maintain feature parity without adding new features. Identical UI including all the quirks. Is having a native app going to gain them any users? Maybe for user who can't have a browser installed, but they might not be able to have an internet connection either...
Another good source for Steve Bannon's views comes somewhat ironically from Buzzfeed:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-is-how-steve-banno...

In regards to your point about arguing in favor of the working man, here's an excerpt from a response about how to counter ethnic/racial tribalism:

"I think in Spain it’s something like 50 or 60% of the youth under 30 are underemployed. And that means the decade of their twenties, which is where you have to learn a skill, where you have to learn a craft, where you really start to get comfortable in your profession, you’re taking that away from the entire generation. That’s only going to fuel tribalism, that’s only going to fuel [unintelligible]… That’s why to me, it’s incumbent upon freedom-loving people to make sure that we sort out these governments and make sure that we sort out particularly this crony capitalism so that the benefits become more of this entrepreneurial spirit and that can flow back to working-class and middle-class people. Because if not, we’re going to pay a huge price for this. You can already start to see it."
Define gargantuan. I just opened a 900MB CSV and it choked part-way through and eventually opened after about a minute. Windows 10, 8GB RAM and running on an SSD.

Not to mention if you hit ctrl-f and search for something in the file. Another lock-up for a few minutes while it tries to figure out highlighting. This is something I've reported to them. I have never considered Sublime to be a good handler of large files.
The public does not give two shats what it costs you. In thier eyes they want it faster cheaper better.
Please don't do this. It's just yet another tool which makes the same thing as setup.py yet another way with no real benefit and it's not "standard". Everyone who did some Python packaging already know at least the basics of setup.py, now they all should learn yet another file type syntax for the same problem.
That's great - but the Mi5 came out in February 2016. I'm not sure why you can compare it to a phone that was release in October 2013. I would hope that the Mi5 would be better than the 5s!
It was a different balance. We, in effect, were in a forced trust position. Access to raw information was time consuming and expensive. If it could even be had.

Because of that, media was regulated differently. A more diverse body of media (pre-media for profit news and consolidation) as well as the fairness doctrine and a non-profit public service expectation were all strong norms and law in play.

Technical limits forced all of us, including the media, to take it more seriously.

Yes, we could trust them more than we could now, but also yes, we could not check so easily too.