skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this. Good software updates that I've resisted in the past have often surprised me at how much I prefer them once I acclimate to them.

The alternate line of thinking, that nothing big about the UI or system can ever change unless a customer specifically asks for it, seems to conveniently pop up in teams with enormous technical debt that make big changes unthinkable for managers. I'm guessing this is the case for QuickBooks - given the years they've spent supporting an inconsistent system, apparently with a goal of preventing it from becoming consistent, while also inserting customer-requested features.

I have a hunch that if you're afraid of inconveniencing customers by making the software better, then the real problem is that you're afraid users won't stick around, and it's because you think that you haven't taken good enough care of them to weather the bump of re-acclimation. Compare the unchanging-system strategy to Snapchat's. Snapchat regularly improves their software (and users complain about it until they re-acclimate), because they are confident that users will stick around through updates; this confidence comes from the fact that they know they do a good job serving their users. So, my hunch is that when this unchanging-system strategy emerges, it's likely because you've already spent a long time disappointing users and eroding customer confidence.
> I much more need a syntax that does not hide what happens

Yes sir!

> (procedure call,

80febf0:	08
80febf1:	c7 44 24 04 01 00 00	movl $0x1,0x4(%esp)
80febf8:	00
80febf9:	89 3c 24	mov %edi,(%esp)
80febfc:	89 44 24 0c	mov %eax,0xc(%esp)
80fec00:	e8 cb c8 f4 ff	call 804b4d0 <__fprintf_chk@plt>

> list indexing or at least "indexing").

Gotcha covered there too!

80fd7eb:	8d 7c 0e ff	lea -0x1(%esi,%ecx,1),%edi
What psychopathy test did your son take?
Could this principle not also apply to any journal/conference paper? For the most part, one has to have a basic understanding of the field, and read through prior research to have a better understanding of the current problem domain.

We don't expect journal papers to be written at an elementary level. But people who make an effort to get themselves up to speed in the area can understand them. The same thing applies to a lot of tools that are used in software development.
How to test HTTP related code in Kotlin via mock-server
Sounds like JVM
Interesting, but can you mine BitCoins with it?
"Modern VR" has a lineage dating all the way back to the 1950s and has seen progressive advancement (in step with technology) since. No single person invented modern VR, and certainly not someone who wasn't even involved until five-seven years ago that's absurd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality#History

This will no doubt boil down to some warped definition of what the term "modern" means.
> Cold fusion (oh sorry, Low Energy Nuclear Reaction) research is a bad joke, unsupported by theory or practice.

I'm curious, as I only have a fairly shallow depth of knowledge on the subject, why there's been so many reports of large-scale Chinese (etc) investment in the field, if this is the case?
Google launched Chatbase – an analytics platform for your chatbots
Very interesting research, thank you for linking. I only wish they'd broken out IQ by broad motive, I imagine it would differ between those doing it for "thrill/lust/power" vs "financial gain".
It certainly is.

I'd add that it's two lines on a typewriter, but then I'd need to explain what a typewriter is.
There's no way to do that because it relies on a naive understanding of truth.

Sometimes the celebrity themselves may have selective recall of an event - so even a statement from the subject of the rumor could be false.

Two video cameras catching the same event from different angles can imply vastly different stories.

Basically the plot of rashomon unfolds everyday and at scale.
She’s lost every chance to get a good exec position. The SEC doesn’t send people to jail, that’s out of their jurisdiction. The government will be the ones to do that.
Don't blame yourself.

You are obviously not the one that did something wrong.
This seems to try to get the reader familiar with commands in a verbose sort of way, but IMHO, that's not exactly the best way.

See for example the section on branches - it tells you to run certain commands (checkout -b) without telling you what's happening in the background. So while you kind-of get a feel for the command in the context it's being explained, you wouldn't know how to apply it to your context, unless your workflow and context is the same.

On the other hand, if you look at how branching is dealt with in the "official" book (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Branches-in-a-N...), it tells you very clearly what each command is doing in the background so you know exactly what's happening. Once you understand that, you know git.
Per other posts in the thread it looks like she didn’t beyond a 6 figure salary.
The difference between reality and Internet news/blogs can sometimes be vast, and we "problem solvers" have to be aware of that. There are hundreds or more enterprise companies using Docker EE, which is using Swarm currently as its orchestrator/scheduler. (see https://www.docker.com/customers) and I also recently ranted about the assumption that everyone is using one thing for orchestration. https://twitter.com/BretFisher/status/958416831659872256

IMO, a healthy ecosystem always has multiple opinions on how to solve a problem.

I'm biased and like Swarm for those that want a great UX (from dev through CI/CD to prod) and their needs match the problems that Swarm solves. I currently teach workshops and consult on Swarm because that's what my circles ask for. It doesn't make anyone wrong or better. These are all opinions on how to create container clusters and some teams like Mesos/DCOS, some Swarm, and some Kubernetes.

In the end, does Swarm solve your problems? If so, stick with it until it doesn't. Docker has publicly stated on their blog months ago that they are not EOL'ing Swarm, despite the news falsely stating Swarms demise. In Docker's main paid product, Docker EE, their new Kubernetes integration actually uses Swarm to help ease K8s deployment AFAIK, so at this point, I feel its future is solid and don't have a problem using it or recommending it. It's still early days for the ecosystem through, so I might be singing a different tune in two years. Swarm may not be the most talked about container orchestrator, but like others, it does solve problems for many people.
Launch HN is for YC companies, although AFAIK it's just convention that keeps other people from using that phrasing.
Calif. weighs toughest net neutrality law in US–with ban on paid zero-rating
There have been reports of supposed large-scale Chinese investments into EmDrive as well. It's probably one or a combination of "don't believe everything you hear" and poor funding allocation in a corrupt system.
Many things that are obvious to us in retrospect are not at all obvious when they're happening. You can't spend the rest of your life blaming yourself for not realizing what was going on.
I used to work in a well-regarded Astronomy and Astrophysics department at a research university. Every few months, I would go through the department "crackpot folder" when I was especially bored.

Every couple days the department chair or some well-known professor would get a letter (this was before most of the crackpots had email accounts, I guess) claiming that some theory--particularly general relativity--was wrong and all it took was a simple application of high school arithmetic to see it.

One of our faculty happened to coin the phrase "dark energy" while I was there, and man did the letters start coming in after that. Of course, the only absolutely universal commonality among all of the letters was that they were all nonsense, like the above.

In general, I felt sort of bad because you could tell that a lot of these people were really not well, but it's still hard for me to see things from someone's perspective who genuinely believes that the entire astrophysics community (save a tiny handful of contrarian actual physicists) has somehow engaged in a massive conspiracy to ignore introductory physics in favor of some other vastly more complicated theory for absolutely no possible benefit. (Especially when these professors are literally teaching introductory physics to students while they're pursuing their research.)
Git from the Bottom Up
The possible rewards often blind people to the implausibility of the claims made by cold fusion. Politicians and investors are rarely people with a deep knowledge of nuclear physics either, and time and again both are routinely swindled. Theranos is a fine example of how a lot of greed and ignorance parts fools from their money.
Just because something is illiquid or can't be returned doesn't mean it has no value.
Your idea of "morphogenetic fields" is fundamentally incorrect; re-read the wikipedia article you linked to, the word "electricity" doesn't appear in it at all. It's talking about "fields" of chemical gradients which control the development of tissues; that kind of idea has been established developmental biology for over a century.

Meanwhile, in terms of the parent article, yes- it turns out that "bioelectricity" is an important part of the embryonic development. But this is not at all serving the same role as DNA; DNA stores durable information, whereas these fields are being used for, essentially, intercellular communication. I would think that the fact that the researchers successfully replace a frog's entire brain, for developmental purposes, with a simple tweak to an ion channel, pretty clearly demonstrates that the amount of vital information being carried this way is minimal.
The point I was trying to make is that there is no "more" or "less" important. There are just multiple layers of complexity that are all required to form the end result. DNA being the first layer just means the information that sets up the environment for bioelectric/epigenetic/whatever mechanisms still originates from DNA. Is it possible that there is some kind of mysterious force/particle that creates DNA? Anything is possible I guess. But that just seems like anomaly hunting at this point.

The discussion of what layer we should concentrate our research on has been going on for a long time actually. I remember reading some passionate arguments a decade or so ago about how we should concentrate on cells as the basic unit of biology.
I moved from git to perforce when I switched companies, and even though I actually really like git and consider myself reasonably proficient, I don't mind perforce.

My one real pain point with it isn't so bad, but I dislike how perforce tends to work at a file level instead of a commit level. It's hard for me to make several related changes which all touch the same files, like a series of patches which all refactor the same area of code, but which I would like to review and discuss separately, and potentially revert some/all of.

It's hard to manage this with shelves, because perforce can't handle unshelving the same file in two different CLs. I could submit all the changes to a separate stream, but perforce streams just don't usually work well for us, and it's still hard to experiment by constantly making and rolling back changes.

I guess I'm probably only used to this workflow because I have experience with git, but this is the time when I really miss the granularity of a git commit (and I'm doing a pretty gigantic refactor right now... so it's hitting me quite hard).
The constitutional powers of the Supreme Court are widely known to be somewhat limited. Congress can and has repeatedly limited the supreme court's and lower courts' ability to review laws. Under the US constitution, "In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction" and "In all other Cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make."

It is generally accepted that Congress could theoretically prevent the Supreme Court from hearing all other cases, so long as a different court could hear the case so that there is judicial review.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisdiction_stripping
A story: I completed a PDP11 assembly coding assignment in university, on an Amiga. Actually it was an Amiga running a Mac emulator, which in turn was running a PDP11 emulator.

Macs at that time used a variable speed floppy drive, while the Amiga floppy drive was fixed speed. So I was also using a Mac-compatible external floppy disk drive.

The point of the story is that you could use an Amiga as a Mac if you really wanted to.
It does depend on your initial location. But if your initial location is inside, then when going outside you are necessarily passing through dangerous territory. Because for as long as your exiting your building, you're right next to a building, which is a more dangerous place to be than inside a building under a desk.
I tried putting in verified users and they were all "probably bots". By definition is that not the only type of user publicly acknowledged as "not a bot"?
Maybe, but what is really causing the DNA methylation? The article pins it mostly on epigenetics or environment, the 'stress of space travel', including dietary constraints and oxygen levels all of which are valid.

- https://theconversation.com/epigenetics-can-stress-really-ch...

- http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/stress-induced-dna-mo...

- https://www.scientificamerican.com/page/sponsored/nestle/how... ooh, sponsored article, didn't catch that the first time.

However, the CNN article only briefly mentions 'radiation' as a factor and likely is lumping that into the 'stressful environment' case repeated several times.

Realistically, cosmic rays or radiation are far more likely to the be prevailing indicator for DNA disruption but are not plainly disclosed here. Despite much research having been done on this specific topic.

Wikipedia states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_threat_from_cosmic_rays
"The potential acute and chronic health effects of space radiation, as with other ionizing radiation exposures, involve both direct damage to DNA, indirect effects due to generation of reactive oxygen species, and changes to the biochemistry of cells and tissues, which can alter gene transcription and the tissue microenvironment along with producing DNA mutations."

From this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6641 "In the present paper, we suggest the BNR as a cause of genetic “fails” in living cells, that is one of the possible origins of the so called spontaneous mutations. Cells exposed to the shower of electrons and ions, caused by the collision of a neutron and a proton of water, could be annihilated or experience a permanent damage, in particular, a damage in the DNA."

Cosmic radiation detrimental effects to DNA confirmed by NASA in this study: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/200800...

And more poignantly, from https://www.vencoreweather.com/blog/2017/6/26/1200-pm-cosmic... ( do not read full link if you are easily panicked ): "... there are other consequences of increasing cosmic rays according to “Spaceweather.com” including the penetration of commercial airlines, dosing passengers and flight crews enough that pilots are classified as occupational radiation workers. [Dose rates are expressed as multiples of sea level. For instance, we see that boarding a plane that flies at 25,000 feet exposes passengers to dose rates ~10x higher than sea level. At 40,000 feet, the multiplier is closer to 50x]"

Sorry for the data dump, I just happened to be researching cosmic ray effects the past few evenings and have collected many interesting facts on the topic. The most I have concluded at this point is that humans, as currently derived, are not made for space travel.
Top bottled water brands contaminated with plastic particles: report
The speakers really are exceptionally terrible, but upgrading them seems like a lot of work for not a lot of improvement. There's a detailed guide to the speaker upgrade over here:
https://petrosprojects.blogspot.com/2017/12/thinkpad-x220-sp...
Being able to prevent something doesn't make you responsible for it, especially if you had no idea you could prevent it.

Also, you sound like you're in a lot of pain. HN isn't a great support venue. I'd suggest posting on an appropriate, supportive subreddit or forum to start and (as soon as possible) seeking help from a professional. It sounds like your daughter needs physical and emotional care, and you need emotional support.

Good luck and remember that you aren't responsible for someone else's harmful behavior.
Facebook co-founder says the 1 percent should give cash to working people
All the math?
My point is that the Tweet implies that being motivated by concerns over the government's control over our financial transactions is objectionable. It makes someone a "paranoid dork". That's a terribly derisive attitude toward something that can be an extremely reasonable concern.

And since we're on the subject, Bitcoin allowed individuals to get around the financial blockade against Wikileaks a few years ago. It has also allowed Venezuelans, who have been driven to abject poverty by their government, to get their capital out of the country and the reach of their government.

As for privacy, there are other cryptocurrencies, like Monero (ring signatures) and Ethereum (potential to create ring signatures, and since the Byzantium hard fork, zk-SNARK proofs), that open the door to significant privacy.
Totally off topic, but maybe the machines in the Matrix needed human brains to solve a proof-of-work puzzle that was more efficiently computed with a human neurocortex. Morpheus just used a battery because it would have taken too long to explain blockchains and ICO's to Neo.
From the videos I've seen of the 2011 Japan earthquake, the general reaction generally follows a pattern of "meh, just an earthquake... okay, this is a strong earthquake... HOLY SHIT THIS IS A STRONG EARTHQUAKE." I don't know how much of that is particular to the earthquake, though, and it's hard to tell why that kind of reaction seems to occur.
By the late 1970s he was quite difficult to understand, but consider that he began his graduate studies in 1962.
A down vote should carry an obligatory justification. Down voting without responsibility is destructive of community.
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The Chinese government has enormous support from it's citizens according to multiple independent studies done by western nations. It could still be that astroturfing is underway, but there's perpetually plausible deniability because of the nature of the Internet. The CIA and US government in general has used this to their advantage to flood countries with dissenting propaganda, creating destabilization and opportunity for resource theft. Like other weapons, the Internet is showing itself to be unpredictable, and may be used against the aggressors as well as by them. Now we're seeing pressure put on Youtube, Facebook and other large networks to block out dissenting views because the ruling class feel it disrupts their control of power domestically.
Mobile view is great--thanks!
Refactor monolithic apps to microservices and Serverless one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_CD32
Okay I see what you're saying and I completely agree.
Everything in biological systems depends on everything else; all variables are global, all methods are public, and all definitions are recursive. It's all spaghetti code- there is nothing like the separation of functionality that we impose on our designed artefacts for the sake of our limited minds. A signal needed to be sent from one place to another, and the brain has the machinery for endocrine functions already, so why not have it handle it? So while this is a quite valid and interesting result, it's not nearly as exciting as the popular press is going to make it out to be.
Here’s why you should attend a startup decelerator
Well, Shkreli also disrespected the Wu-Tang Clan.[1]

[1] https://www.spin.com/2017/08/martin-shkreli-jury-selection-t...
Is it possible that some forms of cancer may be a result of something going wrong with bioelectric signaling, causing abnormal tissue growth?
They're not being rigorous; it's just simpler to explain in terms of the data model.

The data model is very simple and clean (and most of git's benefits flow directly from the model).

The UI is awful... confusing and inconsistent.

The engineering is brilliant: informative error messages and hints; fast; great features (e.g. a better diff, with --color-words; logical argument parsing). The only significant things missing are deliberate design choices inherent in the data model. e.g.:

not storing renames explicitly (which BitKeeper did), so you can't easily search for changes in a file that was renamed/moved. It could be simulated with out-of-band info (like tags), but isn't.
Its not your fault. Humans by default are trusting creatures.
But when you're 2-3 years of age? That's part of the article's point.
My parents got me one, hoping I could use it for school or something. I guess I was too young to really appreciate it beyond the fancy games I could play. Still have it tucked away in the basement though, but the floppies are likely dead by now.
I should point out that clojure-android provides exactly that. The tools are not currently maintained and it is quite difficult to get a development environment set up these days, but once running, it works very well.

It's strange from my perspective to see REPLs as a separate mode of operation. Yes, there's a little overhead, and it's something you might want to strip or disable from a production build, but the overhead is small in the context of a modern application language. Contrast with something like Electron.

This style of development makes the feedback loop between the programmer's mental model of how things work and a reality check extremely tight. It's one of those things like TDD that often changes what kind of programs you write.
Maybe https://github.com/v2tec/watchtower, but Keel looks cool.
You may find this helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve

If you look at a 33rpm spinning record, you'll see that any point on the edge of the label is moving a lot slower (linear speed) than the record's edge ... even though it has the same 'angular velocity' (33 rpm).

But galaxies are not solid like a record, and as the article explains, "most stars in spiral galaxies orbit at roughly the same speed" (that's linear speed). So the edges 'fall behind.' (That was not recognized until about 1975.)
Raising Awareness About Mass Incarceration Over Dinner
And one of those Pilots is known for tax evasion and other fraud:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edtn/pr/federal-jury-returns-gu...
Neuroscientists devise scheme for mind-uploading centuries in the future
This makes a lot of sense. My worry will be how manual linking to timestamps will be but then again video editing is manual as well :)