skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh fun, I can speak to this. I was at Janelia for the last year and a half, and actually just submitted a paper with Keller. I did ML stuff for reconstruction and otherwise post-magics with the images.

There are a lot more people in that place working on scopes than just Keller and Betzig! Whole institution is basically vertically integrated fluorescence microscopy. You got your folks that work on making specific parts of mice or fly brains glow, your folks that build the special scopes, VR rigs for the mice to run around in while they're getting imaged...

IMO we are close the limits of what can be done with 'classical' microscopy, classical meaning basically as practiced now. The real strides are going to be made in sophisticated reconstruction techniques leveraging the latest and greatest in ML and high fidelity simulations of the scope itself, which allow us to get close to reconstructing at the physical limit of information captured by the scope.

But even with current 'classical' microscopy such as Keller et. al's Simview, the datasets we are collecting far exceed in complexity the neuro communities ability to analyze them, in particular at Janelia. Amongst other frustrations I have with the institution is the complete lack of interest in serious theory. Instead its all grasping at straws with very expensive and sophisticated straw grabbing apparati.

Weird place, amazing science nonetheless. But my advice for neuro people considering a visit is to stay far away.
>Spend that big salary on a home near your workplace and sell the $40,000 SUV.

lol a home in downtown DC, where the MD guy likely works, is gonna set you back 2 million at least. you're not gonna find a 1br apartment downtown for less than 2k/mo.
All I can say is fuck Aetna. Worst insurance ever, maybe this will make them not be shit. Good luck getting your promised benefits out of them and making it work for you. Every single time I've called them, I get put on hold for 20 minutes, before getting someone who can barely speak English, and the worst part is that their call center is in America.
Not a fan of Adobe software, but they created the open source text editor Brackets:

http://brackets.io/

They also have a series of high quality open source fonts:

Source Sans Pro: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans-pro

Source Serif Pro: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-serif-pro

Source Code Pro: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro
Modular Power Blocks Snap Together to Scale Up Energy Needs in Remote Areas
There's a difference between saying no non-accessible media should exist and making changes to media which add very little and simply serve to make it less accessible than it already is.
I'm going to add burn-down charts to my list of bad Agile fails.

- Using points as measures of time

- Redefining "done" as something that's not really done

- Trying to ship fixed feature sets ("your commitments!") within a sprint

- Any type of time estimates.

- Burndown charts
More money is spent on diabetes than any other category.
https://health.usnews.com/health-care/articles/2016-12-28/di...
Great point.

Also worthwhile is to consider the overall likelihood of success for projects you take on (and what it implies for future work, quality of life while working with the client, etc). I wasted a lot of time early in my career on projects that I knew were doomed just because someone agreed to pay my rate.
I'd like to add realistic departure opportunities if you get tired of the job:

BigCo: No sweat, I'll get another job by name dropping BigCo and its people who are likely also well known.

StartUp: I can never leave, too many customers rely on me, I have too much riding on this.

SmallCo: Notice of intent to leave + maybe a month or two to find/train the next human.
Enter 'petro': Venezuela to launch oil-backed cryptocurrency
No time estimate should ever be made by anyone not responsible for implementing it.
It said I owned 45 domains, and listed 10 that I actually own along with 35 I've never owned, heard of, or ever been associated with.

I have a very common english name.

Annoyingly, some of the domains it inaccurately says I own are NSFW. They need to put a big disclaimer on the results page pointing out that the results aren't necessarily accurate.
kream: A development environment for the Puppet/kubernetes module
This is a really good question.
Pretty much this. A personal anecdote: a few months ago we realized our daughter was waking up very tired in the morning, so we figured she wasn't getting enough sleep. When we told her that bedtime was moving earlier, her initial reaction was to get very upset and ask why. Instead of saying "because we've said so" (like I know a lot of parents do), we calmly explained how it's important for humans to get adequate amounts of sleep, and that at her age she should be getting X hours of sleep at night (and we showed her the math matching the new bed time with the time she has to wake up for school). The explanation made perfect sense to her, and she's so into the new routine that we don't even have to tell her it's time to go to bed most nights.
The Link Between Autism and Trans Identity [2016]
probably not more expensive for them... to go to your doctors office, you need to make an appointment, take time off work, etc.

To go to a pharmacy, you can stop by on your way home or do it on the weekend.

By making it inconvenient, you reduce the number of people getting a flu shot... and I would bet that more people drop out from the inconvenience, than the extra amount it costs aetna when you go to the doctors office.
The Chrome team has a lot of its own infra due to policy that a lot of Chromium stuff be public (its bug tracker system now code.google.com is dead and its CI infra are all done by the Chrome infra team).

I imagine to some limited degree it's true for WebKit (though I suspect they don't have anyone whose sole job is infra) given Apple don't have any general public bugtracker or CI system, and totally untrue for Edge.
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Point estimate, in this case, is reducing down to a single number. If I'm using the wrong term, please correct me.

Now many people doing this use a "point system" where they escalate the allowed votes as you go up. This is a neat heuristic that accounts for some uncertainty. But it really only boils down the estimates to the easy to estimate tasks. Which are often not worth estimating.

I'm not claiming to be elaborate. But do realize if someone estimates a house project is large, I will have less faith in their estimate compared to someone estimating it will take about 300 square feet of tile, plus for gallons of paint and probably to gallons of mortar.

One shows they have thought and didn't gut shot it. Even better, we have something to actually burn down in the supplies. We can also gauge it with previous jobs to know how long it took to use that much supplies.

Software is tougher, because we don't have the same supplies. But this is why you don't list lines of code, but required screens, technical integrations, and general features. Agreed that you don't want to get too elaborate. But also don't give me some stupid t-shirt sizing or other nonsense.

Not the least of the reasons why, is negotiating a size is dumb. There are literally no reasons not to convince someone they estimated high. However, cutting an integration is a choice that has obvious downsides to account for any speed up in delivery. Even better, it is empowering to choose what you won't deliver, instead of having it chosen for you.
"we've all got to start somewhere" is pretty condescending.

If the author is in the united states, torrenting the videos would violate copyright (when you torrent (if you don't have uploading disabled somehow), you redistribute without authorization). Transcoding DVDs you've already bought is not distribution.
Actually, this is no longer true. An autoconfigured IPv6 address can leak your MAC address, depending on your settings, as one mechanism for autoconfiguration embeds your MAC address right into your IPv6 address.
It's unprofessional to give time estimates since you know they can't ever be accurate and it's poor software development practice to rely on them.

Its your job to educate your boss and your team about this.
I remember using something similar called the Fusion back in elementary school. It had a built-in typing "instructor" and we were supposed to use it to learn touch typing.
German social security is roughly similar to ours. So if you want to live comfortably in retirement, you have to put extra money away there too. As for health insurance: employers cover on average 71% of insurance premiums for families; at the $100k mark, it's probably significantly higher than that. Finally, as for tuition--you get cheap tuition in Germany because: (1) people making 30,000 Euros are getting taxed a lot more to pay for it; and (2) most kids get tracked out of college and sent to apprenticeship at 16.

If we taxed our middle class what Germany taxes its middle class, we could afford cheap tuition too (for the 1/4 of our kids we chose to send to college).
Harder to calibrate, mostly.

In a CoreXY printer you can calibrate the X and Y axes more or less independently. In a delta you have to take several points to get exact values for arm lengths and therefore a solution to the mechanism.
I didn’t say it was justified.
I think the point is to try to be the most honest and clear that you can about the situation and consequences.

With that you don’t need a hierarchy:

1 and 2 are the same, you just have shallower arguments in 2

3 is not an option IMO, it really should be 2: you can plainly say “I can’t explain, but that’s what I believe is right” and let the kid decide what they want to do.

This helps if the kid doesn’t take your side: if you’re not happy with outcome, there was clear a warning, making an eventual punishment more fair;

Or if they happen to be right, you don’t lose credibility as you were transparent about your standpoint and you can make it right to them.
What about bluetooth? And does NFC have an hardware address?
The sibling suggests that non-Mac ports shared the Trident rendering engine with IE/Win. IE/Mac used Tasman, which was totally different (and was the first implementation of many CSS 3 features); as far as I'm aware there was no code shared at all between IE/Win and IE/Mac.
The law cares about intent.

Changing your Mac address, or wearing a fake beard, are both fine.

Changing your Mac address to trick a Wi-Fi hotspot which gives out one hour free per device per day, or using a fake beard to trick a shop keeper into letting you get "one free bagel per person" twice, is a crime.
I setup a couple of Mikrotik routers at my work and it's done wonders. The CCR (Cloud-Core Routers) are absolutely amazing, but probably overkill for most home users. But considering when I first started at my job the network was an absolute nightmare. Because they were using a NetGear Nighthawk AC1900 (N7000), for around 70-80 users at any given time across 3 separate buildings. Considering every desk has 2 or 3 connected devices (Computer, VoIP phone, and some people also have laptops as well, plus everyone wants to connect their cellphones to the wifi). Now they treat me like a god dam wizard in disguise. They went from massive internet congestion, slow speeds, and phone calls always dropping (VoIP), to smooth sailing. The previous IT guy still works there, but he's more of a media guy.

Now, for the most part I do general IT support and a ton of web development for company, without a ton of oversight.
Man, you don't even understand basic security practices.

When going from a HTTP page to a HTTPS page, what guarantees can you give that I see the original content and clicked the proper link and that I was not MITM-ed?
A potential attacker can MITM and easily redirect me to any order page they want...
This is security 101.
>He said the weekly will rely on stories written by full-time staffers, freelancers and unpaid contributors who are passionate about their communities.

I imagine the quality moving forward will depend on what sort of mixture of these 3 contributor types there are.
Someone else’s mentionec the size of their repo on a game that’s 11 years old. Last time I checked on an unreleased project, in development for about 4 years at this stage, we have 200GB of source code and binaries checked into perforce for normal usage, and about 800GB of source assets (audio, models, textures). We probably 150 changes a day, and about half of them are to art content, the other half to code. There’s a lot of churn, and this is on a “small” AAA project (probably about 100 people total).
An angle grinder through the drive, repeatedly, may or may not be the most effective mechanism, but the sparks sure are pretty.
Hello all, this is Ketan Kothari (one of the co-founders of AlphaSmart). First I am honored to see such fans to a product that is over 25 years old. But every now and then I think, it would be awesome to create a modern version of AlphaSmart.
So much for the mindfulness of their ceo: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/how-aetna-s-bertolini...
I’m saying lashing out at a company that’s paying 9 billion in taxes as “stealing” is short-sighted. Especially if you’re going to make that your public activist stunt.
Like kids, d'oh!
I would have responded "Then your dev process is broken".
It's never a binary thing, though. You can't just one day wake up and say 'son, now you're old enough to know better'. If you do so, a smart kid will simply ask 'so dad, what changed since yesterday?'.
I work in D.C., and there are tons of 3 bedroom houses around mine (in a good school district) for $300,000.
Isn't it possible that the two companies being under the same management could have a second-order effect of expanding their Minute Clinic business? That is, because Aetna is part of the same company, it would be less costly for patients to visit MC since the prices that insurance providers usually have to negotiate with providers would go down enormously (to cost + profit instead of cost + MC profit + Aetna profit), thereby bringing more patients into the fold.
Someone making $100k should easily be able to save $1k a month wherever they are living in the world and put it into a fund making at least 15% a year.

Here's some mind blowing advice - stop buying useless ornaments that do nothing to elevate you or enhance your life in meaningful ways. People have been hoodwinked into buying junk and stand there teary eyed wondering how it all happened and why they're so empty inside. How they went so far but did so little.

This years black friday/cyber monday sales were extraordinary - because people are idiots.

It's not a mystery. Make conscious choices in your life and you won't be a victim. Someone making 6 figures is the last person anyone should feel sad for.
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Opening Up at Work – On Being Being My Whole Self at the Office
With my daughter, I avoided telling her something was wrong, or bad.
If she was doing something that negatively impacted the people around her, I'd hold her attention. (This practice started around nine months, so quite literally held her attention. Both hands, and maintained eye contact.)

In a calm voice I would ask her questions about what she is doing, and those around her. She's usually come to an understanding of her own, pre-veral she'd go give hugs and change her behaviour. Post-verbal she would apologize, and change her behaviour.

I was always very proud of her ability to learn and look at out side perspectives. Even if she had to be prompted into viewing them.

I recently thought about this, (earlier today actually). How it differs from sending to their room or corner to "think about what they did."

They don't know at that age what they did. Heck up into young teen years. What do YOU do when sent to your room? If you're like me, you stomped, you sulked, you threw things, you thought about how much everyone hates you. That you're just a burden, that no one would even notice if you were gone... Then your think, no they'll notice, that they have less food to make, less expenses etc, all the ways your mere existence is a burden. Maybe, again, if you're like me, you drift into thought about your grandparents, they love you, they'll miss you. You're never a burden to them. You contemplate running away, maybe to their house. But at no point, do you think about apologizing, what did you do? They're just mean control freaks!

So if you didn't come to think about your actions, you an intelligent, thought oriented, hacker type, what hope does your adolescent child have?

Share your wisdom and insight. They'll learn better if you let them think and help them to it, than if you tell them to and leave it at that. They might even help you think about new perspectives, who knows.
Strangely, there appear to be a set of "comprehension questions" at the bottom of the article. Was it supposed to be aimed at schoolchildren reading it?
I felt that it was more for comedy as well as helping to develop the difference in character between the two.

LaForge is competent, he's also newer in his overall career. Scotty has been around the block so many times he knows where every crack and seam is.

That was a moment where Scotty's wisdom was being handed down; it's OK to know what it will take, but stuff happens, and there's also the potential to hand tasks off to less senior staff that might not do it at perfect speed. Giving a padded estimate gives you options and room for corrections if there are issues.
I take a group based approach because there are too many examples of group-based discrimination and unfair treatment to count. I think history shows that group-based solutions are much more widely effective than individual approaches. Your voting tax example is perfect: poll taxes were applied to everyone equally, so why do you think they were unfair? Everyone, white or black, had to pay the same tax. What's the problem? What do you mean by "unfair and discriminatory in nature"?

There are 26 female CEOs of S&P 500 companies. http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-ceos-sp-500

I see four possibilities. One, biological differences: Women are somehow innately less capable of leading a business. This is obviously wrong.

Two, random chance: Men and women are equally qualified and face no unequal obstacles, but 95% of CEOs just happen to be men at the moment. This is obviously wrong.

Three, unfair hiring practices: Men and women are equally qualified and face no unequal obstacles, but essentially every large company has an unfair CEO hiring process that usually selects men. This is possible, but it seems unlikely to explain the whole gap. There would be a competitive advantage to hiring good female CEOs that were unfairly screened out by your competitors.

Four, societal inequality: Men and women are not equally qualified because they face unequal obstacles in the workplace and in life, and an unbiased hiring committee will find that almost all qualified candidates are men. If this is true, what do we do? It doesn't make any sense to ask companies to hire less qualified women; that's bad for everyone, and doesn't address the underlying issues at all. This can't be solved at the hiring stage, because the real problem is with the pool of candidates. Instead, we need to address why there are so few women in leadership positions, why they tend to leave the workforce earlier. We need to look at history, and acknowledge that since the best qualification for a CEO job is already being a CEO, there's a kind of bootstrapping issue that's difficult to solve. If we just look at individual CEO candidates, we won't even really there's a problem to be solved. We'll just look at good candidates with former C-level experience and probably end up picking a man.
Seeing the news coming out of China, I am very dissapointed by Tim’s tone. He is completely overlooking Chinese censorship, hacking the IP of american companies, and the child labor practices.
Engineers hate giving estimates because they can never be as accurate as planners want.

The only accurate time estimate is a range with at minimum a 4x difference between best and worst case, and preferably more the less certain the estimate is.
Another perspective on this topic by the CTO of influxDB:

My talk, titled "The Open Source Business Model is Under Siege," is about the existential threat that Open Source Database companies, or any open source software infrastructure, are facing from cloud vendors like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. The talk is based on my own experience building a business around open source over the last three and a half years with InfluxDB and our other projects.

https://www.influxdata.com/blog/the-open-source-database-bus...
It’s not exactly tied to that implementation but because error sum types are runtime values, it’s not clear whether a statement like “return foo” should return a normal value or do stack unwinding.
I wish someone had asked me about my homelab. Trying to run a homelab from a sailboat presented some very unique challenges (power, no physical internet) and opportunities (low interference, environmental data). While most homelabbers are hacking on pfsense or other networking tools I was hacking our boats NMEA sensor network.
Do you work in science or research (or publishing)?
I think I agree with you, and I also think that, "physicist do not really understand what they are doing" is phrased a bit flippantly.

Physicists understand what they're doing perfectly well, and they're not, for the most part, producing rigorous math. They are identifying phenomena which can be described systematically, as well as the systematic representations of those systems. Rigor, and math as a whole, is meaningful for a physicist only insofar as it facilitates that outcome.

It's interesting that you say that, "almost certainly, a rigorous formulation will come about later..." You seem to agree that experiment is a useful test for the rigor of operations, at which point it comes down to simple division of labor. The physicist has an expectation that an operation is rigorous, and his job isn't to establish its rigor; it's to arrive at the expression. He does his job, and mentions to the mathematicians that this operation 'should' be rigorous, and it'll be interesting to find out exactly how.

I think it's exceedingly wrong to say, "Their derivation rules are due to habit (in the sense of Hume), not due to inference or logic." Derivation rules support only one goal: predict outcomes of systematic phenomena. Physicists are neither nor are they trying to be mathematicians. The property that guides derivation is physical intuition, which I would say mathematicians malign at their peril, since the universe has thus far proved to be a useful machine for checking rigor.

And that's the heart of it. The universe has, for whatever reason, proven to be a detector, or perhaps executor, of mathematical rigor, and in describing the universe with ever-increasing precision, we develop results that feed back in to be explored and made complete. We can say, "it must be mathematically rigorous that this infinity can be discarded, so long as the universe is still functioning as a system that exhibits mathematical rigor," and be satisfied because the universe has shown us it is so. This does amount mathematically to not understanding exactly what it is you're doing.

For interesting reading on this by someone smarter than myself:
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.htm...)
Absolutely agree. And if they are unpaid, and the employee can schedule them around projects finishing (or at least in places where multiple people are responsible for them so that the loss of one person isn't a big deal), there's really minimal cost to the company, but a potentially large upside.
How ironic, an authoritarian government launching a cryptocurrency. Having said that, it'll be interesting to see how the fact that "it's backed by oil" affects it