skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most probably your impostor syndrome comes from an anxiety. That's it. There's nothing more to it. It's unhealthy.

Stop being anxious, go out in the world and see what your ideas are worth.

- Capitalism would define their value on how much you'd earn from these ideas.

- Writers would value them based on how many readers buy your books.

- Developers would value them based on how many contributors your open-source projects has.

- Or die and keep your diary and maybe in 50 years you will turn out to be the genius who saw the future.

But still - none of that absolutely requires anyone to be anxious.
I stand corrected. A depth sensor on the user-facing camer. That one of the weirdest design decision I have seen yet.
> I read that a lot. Why do people don't like the new extensions?

Probably because you'll end up with .mts, .mjsx, .mts, .mtsx.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't migrations a solved problem in databases that support triggers?

* create a new schema in a table.new

* install update triggers on table.old to write the same content into table.new

* backfill table.new from table.old

* swap table.new and table.old
Ask HN: Depreciation of AWS reserved instances?
Is it possible to depreciate the cost of AWS 3-year reserved instances? Researching GAAP guides and other resources I am still left with an ambiguous feeling. Is anyone doing this or not doing this and how/why? Thanks!
"They"?
I can't upvote this enough. I mean, if Apple would license their previous incarnations of iPhone to a 3rd party to manufacture and to sell, these "iPhone"s would still sell like hotcakes, especially in non 1st world countries.
Whiteboards interviews are inadequate. I'd opt for time boxed (for a month?) trial employment. Paid but probably less than actual job. After a short test for absolute basics to verify that person has the skills to even start.

Lack of diversity in tech is sad for me, but I don't think that there should be any additional incentives or bonus points on entry based on minority status. The problem for me is that large companies pretty much shy away from responsibility of training new employees for themselves and only hire people who got themselves fully educated already. This causes artificial barriers in entry to tech that let in only the people who in the past had the means and the will.

I'd put responsibility on the companies to hire for entry level positions people that have not previously worked in tech and attempt to train them. This could be proportional to company headcount and if company refuses to hire it should contibute significant amount of money to a fund that sponsors free tech education initiatives for anyone who's willing.

I think this approach would increase diversity and even help other groups disadvantaged on the job market.

It would put burden on companies but I haven't heard of company bankrupt because it spent too much on new employee training.

This kind of scheme is in place in my country to support employment of the disabled people. I think it should work on entry level employees too.
The problem with doing that is the music and the apps purchased.
Lotfi Zadeh, inventor of ‘fuzzy logic,’ dies at 96 – Berkeley News
Turkey isn't an outlier they are literally on the line.
I wouldn't compare it to the lifestyle of someone in West Africa, but we have an off grid cabin that we built the infrastructure up from nothing.

Such excitement to achieve the milestones we take for granted back in the burbs. A fire pit. Rain water tank. A sheltered long drop to crap in. Solar electricity. Hot running water and a sink. A shower. Internet. Every one achieved was a huge leap forward in comfort.

It really helped me get perspective on what you really need to live, and cured us of any desire to strive for a bigger and bigger house with immense walk-in wardrobes.
If a superior entity created the earth including humanity, then surely it could make an exception to the rules as humanity studies it. Like using cheat codes in The Sims.
Add me third to that list
my $200 Xiaomi phone has exactly this functionality - 'second space', unlockable by second fingerprint
An interesting thought. As the moderates leave, inevitably more extreme forces gain power.
How exactly does America "have more science"? How do you even quantify such a thing?
Amsterdam teams up with tech companies to attract international talent
Education is the logic explanation of Religion going away in Europe. (http://freakonomics.com/2011/04/25/does-more-education-lead-...)

I think this explains the high degree of religion in the US, some schools still want to teach creationism there.
I was already an atheist and agreed with most of the points Dawkins makes in his books before I even read them. That doesn't detract from him demonstrating various human follies that could, and have been argued to be caused or exacerbated by organised religion. And if it was just one older gentlemen then you could probably just write it off, but when lots of younger atheists form communities to actively practice and promote many of these things, it really just blows that argument out of the water totally.
You're bringing up a straw man version of that "classical argument," arguing that religion is the source of all bad behavior is nonsense. The Dawkins/Harris versions are more that being raised with one clear form of indoctrination opens you up to others, and that morality doesn't need or even suffers from religion.
Because most people are ridiculously emotional, much more than rational. For example, what logical sense does it make to impress your friends with FB/whatever statuses? There are whole businesses built over decades, even centuries that thrive because of this feature of our personalities. Giving up something so fundamental requires continuous inner strength that unfortunately very few have.

Another thing is, once human being has been 'indoctrinated' to given religion from childbirth, by whole community in which it grew up, it is extremely hard to shed off this belief. I see a prime example of this in my fiancee, who grew up in strict catholic setup and although she tried and tried (months in yoga ashrams, continuous exposition to different cultures and religions), she always eventually falls back. Visiting her mom back home has a turbo effect on this. Sometimes she is desperate because of this, sometimes she cries, but sadly its stronger than her.

It is tragic for me to see this unfolding again and again in front of my eyes. I couldn't care less about other's religions, as long as they don't press me into it (and for sure many Christians have this complex of 'you should join our righteous one').

To all parents out there - give your kids freedom of choice in this. Respect their choice, but don't indoctrinate them. Chances that your religion and its specific sect (and often sub-sect) you adhere to is the right one is practically 0. Because whatever you believe, there are millions, if not billions out there who are by definition of your religion heretics, and they can think the same about you.

Just be good human beings, not on surface but also deep down, bring good to this world and all will be OK.

/rant
I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure it applies in the same way. The market demand for a Watch that acts independently of an iPhone entirely isn't even remotely close to the one that killed the iPod. Sure, I want one, but I know I'm part of a very small minority, I think the majority of owners by a huge margin who feel that way are going to get a Cellular Series 3 and be completely satisfied.
> Ultimately though until it can answer why the universe exists, not just how, it can't land a fatal blow.

That's an impossible goal to set because you are pretty much asking for "a purpose" which is an utterly human concept completely alien to the universe and its mechanics. It's a philosophical question that can never be really answered by hard science.

We can ask how something happens on a mechanical level, but there is no bigger purpose, there is no "grand plan" behind all of it (which would assume a planer exists with a goal in mind) stuff just exists without any ultimate designs.

In my experience, it's that whole notion a lot of religious people struggle with, they can't let go of the idea that there always has to be a "why" a "bigger purpose" to their suffering or happiness, when in all actuality it's more often than not these emotions are the result of individual circumstances and/or pure chance.
XML is not a good interchange format, because it doesn't map well to a standard programming structures. There's no array or map in XML. Developers must use OXM libraries (object to xml mapper). JSON is much more direct and simple format.

XML is good for anything that looks like document markup.
Code Smells: If Statements
Are half the sequences on LessWrong about or dependent on priming?
Shipping incompatible software is somehow an issue, but the bigger issue seems to be that canonical shipped the software without testing or ensuring it didnt break compatibility

The job of ensuring compatibility of softwares before replacing them is a distribution's job
IDK what they were but I find it irritating that having unpopular ideas can get you in trouble like this. His views are probably opposite of my ones, but still, I cant stand the hypocrisy in these situations and how easily these supposedly smart people are successfully pushed to go witch-hunting.
CoreTrustSeal Certification launched
Try The Going to Bed Book, or Pajama Time (I actually watched a youtube vid on how to "sing" that one because I couldn't work out the metering myself, but it's now another of her favorites). She also likes Dinosaur's Binkit for the interactivity. I admit I haven't read all of them, but the ones I have are a hit so far.
Who's making a bitter comment?
I work with auditors regularly, can confirm. Naively believed in my first year of employment that this was a cooperative relationship with them there to help us understand our security weaknesses. Boy was I corrected on that quickly!
Simple Nested API Using Django REST Framework
I think codinghorror is just annoyed that Discourse wasn't mentioned :)

(Just kidding!)
Religious fervor travels in waves.

People yearn for belief, and secularism is as much a religion as a religion. The problem is without the moderating influence of less fervent believers, religions create powerful power blocs that can do all sorts of damage.

Examples abound. Look at the state of medieval Europe, bound by a reactionary catholic domination as compared to the more intellectual and cosmopolitan Middle East. Or look at the impact of the various "great awakenings" in US History.
Replying to the child comment from whorleater - that's a good catch! Our mistake with the domain redirects and certs. Will fix it ASAP. Thanks for spotting this bug.
Durkheim's definition of religion:

> A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community.

A lot of things fall under this, even people who wear Oakley glasses or own an iPhone.
It's probably even better without those members on board.

This is from the Ayo "GitHub":

"For the time being, simply by mirroring them to preserve drop-in-ability. Eventually, I have no interest in retaining compatibility with Node Core at all, because that would involve participating in and interacting with a community with deeply dysfunctional governance."

Yeah, good luck with that.
Surfing the internet is fine and there is all that information out there and new things to learn or funny things to read about. You can get into a flow of internet browsing where you are like a squirrel foraging and just keep hopping around from topic to topic.

I liken this to a junkie getting a fix. It feels good when you come across something that makes you laugh or learn something new, doesn't it?

Just pause the browsing, check with yourself and ask if that was "enough". Kinda like stopping eating that massive dish at a restaurant. Are you full enough? You know what - it'll still be there tomorrow.

Some things that work:

1. Pen and paper and just writing down 3-5 things you want to accomplish that day. It'll stare you in the face all day.

2. Pomodoro technique (25 mins focused work). Take a 5 min walk or surf the web. You're probably going to want to get back at it.

3. Leave coding work at the end of day in a state of bliss. Like everything is working and you are ready for the next step of what you are building.

4. Leave coding work mid-solution at end of day. You are going to be itching to finish that up when you get back to it in the morning. You left yourself an easy pitch to knock out the park first thing.

5. Leave coding work mid-problem solving at end of day. You don't have a defined solution yet so your brain is going to chew on that while you're doing other things. You might get to #4 above overnight, at least in your head.

These aren't a prescription, just hindsight on what sometimes kicks off bursts of productivity.
Could there be a not mathematical model of AI
So? If they are different types, it makes sense to have different extensions (e.g. if mts implies typescript module).
The secret ingredients for a perfect Google AdWords campaign recipe
Non-amp link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/11/turks-detained...
After the Equifax Hack, LifeLock Sign-Ups Jump Tenfold
Because they don't want the alt right and Russian bots all over their site, I imagine.
Debugging cron Scripts
CD-ROM curtains are back
Whatsapp for business is already in beta trials in India. I'm sure they are ironing out the wrinkles before releasing it worldwide. I think probably end of this year or early next year.

Its a huge 'about to be tapped' market by FB that many people (mostly those who dont use WA) have a tough time fathoming.
If it's a straw man, why did you close with a restatement of the same thing: "morality [...] suffers from religion"?

Clearly atheists can be terrible people. And collections of atheists can be terrible societies. It's certainly not a binary thing. I'd be looking for more data before concluding what kind of improvement (if any) you'd see if you removed religion totally. It would seem practical in the short term to just be against hierarchy, greed, war etc. separately from belief, rather than hope they'll all evaporate at once when religion is finally defeated. You'd likely find religious allies in most of these fights, as well as atheists on the other side.
A look at the internals of 'boxing' in the .NET Runtime
How I feel reading hacker news (s/nine bladed sword/machine learning/)
Four Corners investigation reveals North Korea’s secret global business network
And you spend most of your life trying to prove how special you are, instead of productively producing things and playing with the world that is also shaping them?

People tend to forget that ideas are worth nothing. It's not that hard to build a model of the world which would be parametrisable for any possible outcome.

Then those parameters would be defined by your experience, which requires you to get out of your mind and earn on the outside.
> There is no 'war' between Science and Religion.

I agree. But there seems to be a war on science by religious fanatics.
> Stop being anxious

Oh thank god, now I'm cured! That's all I needed!

/s
There are some truly weird sociological blind spots in the article.

I think the CIA and police torture might have had a tiny bit more to do with the collapse of USA-ally dictatorships in Iran, not a failure of science to triumph over religion. This highlights the international level importance of religious groups (as opposed to the belief of religion or the individual believer, its the group that matters). The current system propped up by the CIA sucks, revolution executes the war criminal US ally dictator, giant vacuum exists for an org to step in, what giant org with a chip on its shoulder of knowing the right answer all the time oh how about religion? Better a religious than a corporate takeover, probably...

Likewise on a smaller scale, inside nations, the article seems to miss the point that in the old days it was rather easy to discern if you were attending a fraternal social organization meeting like the freemasons or a religious service like pre-vatican-2 Catholic church. In the modern world both extremes have disappeared and merged into the middle. No amount of "science" can eliminate the traditional religious pre-game activities before the church knitting club meeting or the church singles club meeting or the Jesus themed rock music concert I attended one time at my local prosperity gospel church. I would theorize the collapse of the church in the UK is a mix of UK class separation and its related alienation leading to a lack of need for the church to be a social hub, plus mere individual anecdotal failure.

There are also issues that are pretty much banned topics on this site, like religious fervor being transubstantiated into other forms such as political belief. If you ban a belief, if just means conversations about the topic are going to be ineffective and confused, which is why I have to leave this third issue unresolved, although its obviously a major component of the big picture.
Evolution is a scientific fact for local adaptation, i.e. developing mechanisms to cope with environmental changes between generations. In a geological timescale it's just a theory, basically extrapolating local changes to creating whole new species (which we obviously can't observe yet). There are various issues with this extrapolation, i.e. from computational complexity point of view the time from the start of the Universe might not be sufficient to come up with precision needed for a new specie. This obviously then puts evolution among other hypotheses like the religious one (there is a God, or there are multiple gods, creating the world), simulation hypothesis (we are a hypercomputer game/reality show/testing ground/miniatures/VM etc.), chaos theory, total determinism a'la Bell equation etc. From these religion is the only one that gives most people some meaning/goal to their lives, especially during hard times when it's easier to off oneself, so no wonder it's going to stay. Evolution also plays against non-religious people as these often produce less children than religious ones, increasing odds of their genotype to survive and keep the same culture. So in fact being religious might be a better evolutionary strategy, which is quite funny.
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It's all about the hotkeys. I'd say that you have to learn them in order to learn Blender with any sort of efficiency.
WHY SHOULD YOU KEEP EGGS IN Your DIET?
I've thought about something similar - a site that would be the canonical source for all arguments. Something like Arguman but with a mod policy as strict as Stack Exchange, a more approachable UI, and each point is its own thesis statement that could be plugged into different argument chains.

It wouldn't allow for great conversations, but I like the idea that I could write a blog post, go to this site, pick a couple of thesis statements that basically sum up my article, and plug them into the bottom of my post. When people reply, they'd need to reply to those arguments and use the conventions that the site establishes.
It is unlikely to be science. I recall reading that scientists are somewhat more likely to be religious then rest of population. Scientists here means actual scientists that do science for living, not someone writing pop-books about it or doing videos/talks about it.
The License Zero Manifesto
...or gitlab, very nice (and free) repo hosting, in-house or online.
Agreed except for the negative connotations that the words "hardliners" and "fanatics" carry. "Committed", "fervent", or "zealous" would have worked just as well.
My kids and I have Barnyard Dance memorized. We will often recite it as we dance around the room. I think Mrs. Boynton's work will be treasured for years to come and I hope she receives the credit for the amazing work she has done.
If I remember correctly, Oracle has a licensing scheme if you want to build and release your own JVM. Java SE always has significant more usage in production thanks to Android, Kotlin, Clojure, and Scala. While Java EE does get used a lot in more conservative large enterprises, the alternatives developed to overcome the inherent complexity of EE (Spring, Hibernate) get a LOT more. Java EE is big, but Java SE is even bigger.
How is forking the codebase "the worst possible thing"?

The open source landscape is filled with forks of projects that diverged for a variety of reasons.

A fork means the people involved are still contributing code and it can potentially be merged upstream.

The alternative is they don't fork, and contribute nothing because they're unhappy with the original project.
"Too big to fail"
"The US is arguably the most scientifically and technologically advanced society in the world"

Dear people in the US, I have unfortunate news for you: No.
Your comment is basically the entire point of this article. There is no conflict between science and religion. There is a conflict between science and a fundamentalist straw man of religion (biblical literalism, for instance, or the Graeco-Roman pantheon).

I think the conflict idea is spread mostly by those who themselves encountered the idea that science and religion are in conflict before they learned much science or much about religion, so they've internalized the idea that the two are in conflict, and everything new they learn only serves to reinforce this.
>rant about how not having 100% coverage is usually irresponsible.

Well, that's because it is irresponsible.
Luther was probably thinking more of philosophers, whose pesky questions challenged his theology's internal logical consistency, or at least its certainty. How religion deals with such matters is its own business, though it seems to me that for the most part, religion pays little heed to analytical theology.
Governments make rather large investments in preparedness.

The massive food subsidy is one such example where a vast drop in yields would not harm the food supply. CDC does quite a bit to prevent epidemics which are historically the second major wide scale disasters. In third place though most expensive is war / defense spending.

They tend to do less preparation for very rare disasters, but it's not clear that personal preparation for such things is all that reasonable or useful.
> The case has become a battleground for civil liberties campaigners, who believe that citizens should have the right to protect their critical information and to be protected from self-incrimination.

Somehow I remember there had been a recent very high-profile precedent being set for having the permission to "delete private data" and "wiping computer data" before handing over your computer to law enforcement.
The line is drawn including Turkey, but not including America. Visually, they both look like outliers.
I'd like to note here that Spring being popular doesn't mean it's good. Also see: nodejs