skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dream would be to have a place I could look at any paper (even if not on a campus internet connection), be able to look at raw data, code, and have a forum to facilitate discussions between researchers.

I know the first won't happen for awhile, but it is a dream (open science).

The second is direly needed but in some cases not practical. But I think there could be a lot to gain from just having a small portion of this. It could help verify results significantly. Also imagine if people could research things without having to have all the fancy instruments. Some of this already happens, but I think it is harder to find and not always easy to sort though. It isn't connected to papers and research. Just having a paper and a link to the data would be tremendous help.

Similarly code. I don't know a researcher that hasn't made an accidental bug in the code that changes results (some slight, some major). I think we need to get over that WE ALL write hacky code. Hacky code is better than a vague description in a paper because you don't have enough room to write an accurate description of your model. Science is supposed to be replicated! Even linking papers with a github account would be tremendous help. Some people don't want to share code, and I think this is a shame and anti-scientific (especially if you are using public money), but that's a rant on its own.

Researchers email one another all the time. Some of these discussions should be public. Papers leave a lot of gaps. An area researchers could add extra notes that couldn't be fit in a page limit, where collaboration can happen, or where people can just ask questions, would be great. Replicating results can be hard and we should be learning from one another's hurdles. That's the point of science after all, for to push the progress of humanity. Lack of ability to communicate should not be a gate.

Along with these things it would be nice to encourage putting up null results. Aside a paper I would love to know what challenges a researcher fought. That's where most of the work is. It is funny, we constantly talk about failure being 80-90% of research. Whole projects failing or just banging your head on the desk because you can't figure out why something isn't working. Let's open this up. Let's help one another. Let's talk about what went wrong and how we fixed things to get to our success. I can't think of anything that would help science more than this.
Woman are now 33% more likely to go to faculty than men. So care to explain how woman are being held back (unless your are proposing there are clear intelectual and cognitive differences between genders)?

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/aug/28/university...
Hong Kong isn't a democracy, China has the real power. They also control all big media corporations in HK.
Kind of related: Can You Swim in Shade Balls? [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZbChKzedEk
The original comment argues a different claim: a terminal is not required to be considered usable.

As for success, I'd say that what brought Apple back to making money was iTunes and iPods, followed by iPhones.
The head of Hong Kong is not elected by popular suffrage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests#Backgr...

> The leader of Hong Kong, the Chief executive, is currently elected by a 1200-member Election Committee, though Article 45 of the Basic Law states that "the ultimate aim is the selection of the Chief executive by universal suffrage upon nomination by a broadly representative nominating committee in accordance with democratic procedures."

The election committee is more pro-CCP than the general Hong Kong populace, and the current leader, Carrie Lam, is widely held to be a puppet of Beijing.
And that's why the women outnumber the men on college campuses?
For example, there are two "dialects" for writing equations: vanilla LaTeX, and the amsmath package. Also, graphicx is not the only package for including images in to a document (I just forgot what the other options are).
Call it caring about ones profession and having a just hiring culture if you must.
But I'm sure you could imagine quizzing without spaced repetition
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."

All men are not equal, never have been and probably never will be. So why is that line so famous? Why has it influenced the course of history? Not just in the US. What that sentence, and its effects on history show us, is when people are faced with the Unprovable, they have a choice to sit back, do nothing and accept it OR decide what they want the truth to be. Unsurprisingly its always the latter group that makes change happen. The rest just fall asleep reading Goedel.
Signal 11's Slashdot Farewell Speech (2000)
Right and that's fine - I agree an optimistic way to look at medicine is that we have yet so much more to discover.

But I look at the massive pro-medicate industry that is incentivised to get us to take medicine which is built upon disappointingly unrigorous discipline and the confidence some doctors carry themselves on matters which really aren't as clear cut as they think and I kind of want to nope out of the system - I'd rather lean on my body to fix itself whenever I can.

(ironically the best doctors I know generally advise the same, the exception being all the obvious cases where medicine has successfully intervened)
False as in not true. Amazon does not have a policy of interviewers intentionally making candidates uncomfortable.
Reducing LaTeX to the look of the equations it produces clearly misses the point. I use LaTeX because it just formats everything correctly. Inserting figures or tables in word can be one of the most frustrating tasks I can do. Every little change can potentially break the format. Have you ever tried to add a table in word in a double column document? It is madness. The caption system for figures and tables is a joke, too.

With LaTeX your references get updated when you add new figures or tables without having to think about it. The same holds for the references. The formatting of sections and titles is kept (the only way to change the format is that you really want to).

In the Word-templates for papers of conferences there are always so many rules about the formatting. Most of the people never satisfies all those rules, even if they started with the template. I blame word for that, because there is no way to enforce a template (take care of the references, captions, etc.). The last year I just stopped sending word documents to the conferences I go, and instead created an equivalent latex template for them (one of them got even officially accepted). I prefer to invest a few days in making a good LaTeX template than loosing much more days fighting against the Word-nonsense.

It is true that LaTeX requires some time to learn, but it definitely compensates for the time you can loose using word.
The original story here wasn't about code written in an interview, but code written on the job by someone who wouldn't have been hired if they'd had to write code in the interview.

But, 45 minutes for mergesort? I mean, it's not fizzbuzz, but this took me seven minutes, and it passed the test on the first run (well, not counting the test runs that verified the test was invoking an empty function and correctly reporting that None wasn't the correctly sorted list). Does it have some kind of subtle bug I'm missing?

def mergesort(items):
return (items if len(items) < 2 else
list(merge(mergesort(items[:len(items)//2]),
mergesort(items[len(items)//2:]))))

def merge(sa, sb):
ia = ib = 0
while ia < len(sa) or ib < len(sb):
if ib == len(sb) or ia < len(sa) and sa[ia] <= sb[ib]:
yield sa[ia]
ia += 1
else:
yield sb[ib]
ib += 1

def ok(a, b):
assert a == b, (a, b)

ok(mergesort([3, 5, 3, 1, 10, 11, 12, 0, 1]),
[0, 1, 1, 3, 3, 5, 10, 11, 12])

If I were doing it on a whiteboard I'd probably want to use something like http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/paperalgo rather than Python, but I can't imagine it would take 45 minutes. Do you mean in assembly language or something? In minimal space (none of the logarithmic number of copies required by this version)?

I agree that these are not very basic coding skills, but they are kind of basic coding skills, I think? Like, it's covered in the first part of an undergraduate CS curriculum, isn't it?
Because the proportion of college degrees is the only measure of privilege /s. Convenient not to consider representation in government or executive boardrooms.
I'm not certain about her, but I know many of the positions now have to be appointed or approved by the mainland government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Appointments_System
How would we as a society decide that? The majority of society is more concerned with putting food on the table and paying their rent, and would have zero interest in deciding to get rid of "paid by data" products. Unless we as a society can provide everyone the basic amenities first(food,home,maybe a job), I am not sure people are willing to let go these seemingly free services. Getting control of your data is very important, but the vast majority of humans have many far more pressing concerns.
Trying to permanently get rid of spent nuclear fuel under present and foreseeable conditions costs more than monitored dry cask storage for the indefinite future. A determination to permanently get rid of it despite the lower cost of once-through fuel cycles is a determination to take a modest liability and make it worse.
Locking it down to the web platform is IMO too restrictive - if it was instead a low-level library you could access it anywhere, including the browser (if you wrote the server on top of the library). Sometimes, you want to use GtK, for example if you want lightning quick startup times, or weird portability, or anything else like that.
https://miniflux.app - Very minimalistic and written in Go with a hosted and self hosted option.
Build tools to make research more efficient and reproducible. The research community is a small market and has little money. Building tools is often not regarded as scientific activity and can lead to dead ends if publication is pursued.

So, if you do not have to rely on income anymore and want to contribute to science, build tools for the community. Or better, come up with a way to help scientists to build their own tools fast and efficiently.
I'm not sure I gained a lot of understanding through those. I came across this map the other day which is kind of an amusing model of part of the crypto ecosystem https://mobile.twitter.com/MartinCWWalker/status/11222656443...
There are DVD renditions of old media. Cassettes were popular at one time only to be supplanted by newer technologies and it will be the same for current media formats.

There are thousands (at least) of movies that existed on VHS that never made it to DVD, or streaming. They have effectively been lost.

The same is true for audio. Lots of records never made the transition to cassettes. Lots of cassettes never made it to CD. Lots of CD's never made it to digital.

Just this morning I remembered a song I used to like a lot as a teen-ager. I looked for it on Amazon, iTunes, all of the streaming services, and it no longer exists. A general Googling shows there are plenty of re-makes by other artists years later. I managed to find one copy of the vinyl single on fleaBay, so I bought it. But effectively, this song no longer exists for the rest of the world.

These things will happen to digital, too, when we move on to whatever is next.
As the other posters have pointed out - it's definitely an open source project with an open source license, but it's the CDDL. Same as it was in 05.

I love ZFS, use it on my server. It sucks that this has happened but AFAICT it's the result of a license choice made way back when, and it's still impacting things now.
I haven't used Bootstrap in a while, but all I was saying above is that it rebuilds itself with a simple "npm run dist", which under the covers is a call to node-sass. That compiles sass files, but it's still not what I consider a build tool. (Attempting to override bootstrap with a css file is DOING IT WRONG.) For build tools, people used to use Grunt and Gulp. Now they use Webpack. Parcel is better than any of those, because does the right thing automatically. That could include calling node-sass, if you want.
Tangential, but most people live among people who look and sound like they do, it is in no way limited to whites, and even less to males.

If anything, it's less likely for whites - most Western countries have above-average diversity.
To be fair, there's not that much information apart from the technical usage on that link. I read it but it's not that easy to parse what it's for and what it looks like.
The latter. Without a doubt.
short version - she was appointed by Beijing.

longer version - she was elected by an electoral college carefully constructed to be pro-Beijing whilst superficially appearing representative. Votes must be publicly declared beforehand so Beijing can apply pressure.

Every single chief exec election has been a mess democratically speaking with extensive controversies, pressure from Beijing, veiled and not so veiled threats or talk of finding the trouble makers.
Availability is only part of the answer. As article notes, even when it's available, far fewer men take it. In my experience, it still comes down to the known hit to your career. I worked for a large tech co. in a "liberal" city that offered generous parental leaves. Most new mothers took many months off. Fathers, if they took p-leave at all, would take it in small chunks. Not having to leave work for a long period helped their career growth/trajectory tremendously.
> Deprecated?

Yes. In 1994, you would `latex document` and then `dvips document` to get your document.ps. Then in the 00s almost everyone would use `pdflatex document`. And these days, pdflatex is going out of fashion, but I am unsure what the current to go tool is.
The worst thing you can do to Facebook is to stop using it. Sure they keep a profile on you even if you don’t have an account but their power is derived from people using their platform.
qemu-vm-escape
If I asked my dad what the technical merits of Chrome or Firefox were or why he used what he used, he wouldn't have an answer for me. He'd say "I use Chrome because you told me a few years ago to use it and it still works."

The reason we switched from IE was because IE just straight up did not work. Sites were broken. Now it doesn't really matter but for these invisible things that normal people don't see or care about. Most people are like my dad.
Cambridge Analytica was never a "breach" - Facebook worked exactly as designed.

This is just demonstrating the government/LEO's own definition of Third Party Doctrine which says once you give information to someone else, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy. This is why law enforcement claims not to need a warrant to get your bank records, call history, or internet traffic.

Like it or not, disagree or not, it's clearly established until States or Congress roll it back. SCOTUS stepped in last year to block cell-location history but that's one piece of the problem.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
Opposition to "social justice" typically signals that one does not believe that "social justice" equates to fairness and equality.
I literally know it’s true from chemistry.

Polyethylene for example is a long string of hydrogen and carbon. (CH2-) Microbiology requires more than that for replication. It’s the same reason dry sugar does not get consumed by microbes.
Pinch zooming can also be force-enabled for all sites in the browser's accessibility settings.
That's not really a popular or even useful definition. According to that author, a Go microservice I wrote yesterday would be legacy code, while a 25 year old Turbo Pascal scientific instrumentation program running on MS-DOS, which some poor soul still has to maintain is not, because the programmers wrote a few tests for it back in the day?
>Here is someone proclaiming to be a scientist, and then throwing out proclamations of ‘truth’ not backed by evidence. Goedel proved logically that any axiomatic system of information exchange can have truths that are not provable.

The trouble with this argument is that Goedel's proof relies on systems which can model Peano arithmetic; in particular, it assumes that the system deals with numbers that are arbitrarily large. For example, Goodstein's theorem, the commonly-stated simplest unprovable theorem, depends on a function like this:

f(2) = 19, f(3) = 7.6 × 10^12, f(4) = 1.3 × 10^154, ...

Most numbers in sociology are not so large. The number of possible subsets of the human population is between f(7) and f(8).

Additionally, theorems about discrete systems do not always apply to continuous systems. For example, the theory of real closed fields is decidable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_closed_field

Most undecidable statements depend on things that look vaguely Diophantine, but sociology is rarely Diophantine. Rather, it tends be that approximately a solution is still kind of a solution.
That is a very click-baity publication (yes, it happens). Title suggests this phenomena is independent of fields. Content talks about the high p value. Not every field uses this metric. So this publication is aimed pretty much at medicine.

While I think the p-value thing needs to be rethought, it is bold to claim "Most Published Research Findings Are False". Honestly it would be more accurate to say "Errors matter and we can't take findings at face value and ignore error bars". Which is pretty much something every self-respecting scientist should know in the first place.
The difference here is that the college appears to have actively taken part in the protests, as opposed to merely letting them happen.
This is also based on the assumption that you can't have ads and privacy. We had ads for a long time without privacy invasion. Just have the ads match the content being viewed (instead of the person viewing the content)
I suspect at the heart of this is that making it a women’s issue is more likely to move the needle in terms of attention and consequently funding. See breast cancer for example.
Not that I disagree with you (quite the opposite) but, please, let's not use that three letter acronym. It's needlessly provocative and is likely to derail the discussion.
It’s worth taking a moment to reflect that the PM in the UK is also not elected by popular suffrage. The next PM will (literally) be elected by 100,000 members of the Conservative party, not by general election. It’ll be the second time in recent memory this has happened, after Gordon Brown.
Thanks for pointing out ConTeXt, I might try it out for my next presentation. The examples in the wiki seem to provide all that I need in a much more concise way that the LaTeX-Beamer package.
Only regulation needed is to prevent FB from buying off their competitors.

FB would have to innovate internally or turn into MySpace without without Instagram, WhatsApp and others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
That makes sense. Sure, I'd definitely be up for trying to write a patch for it. I'll pull down the repo this evening!
> He cared about whether quantitative decision making contributed to hopelessness, despair and extreme anti-social behavior.

Makes one wonder, how tall the giants on whose shoulders we rest, really are.

I mean, callous and anti-social behaviour existed before computers came about. Computers are a force multiplier for almost everything at which they are applied.

Page 11:

"It may be appropriate that our profession, not normally given to introspection, start to examine its own role to better appreciate the contribution we might make. I believe those who understand future technology have an obligation to act at least as an early warning system to the rest of society."

Indeed, it seems those 'future technology' wizards need to constantly remind themselves of such duties... and the delicate quandary is that what is old, becomes new again meanwhile.
The original title of this post is "Level Design and Shaping a Cogmind Experience," but I felt that the HN audience would be more familiar with the name of the genre than the game itself.

If you're one of the lucky 10,000, Roguelikes are a type of video game that has remained virtually unchanged since Rogue, which was released in 1980 for Unix mainframes. Most games are based around procedural generation and dungeon crawling.

Cogmind is a modern, Sci-Fi take on the genre and possibly the most user-friendly Roguelike out there.
Women tend to be over-represented in government and party leadership positions compared to their numbers at the base, for example as party members.
China would not but that's not the target. The audience is Chinese people, but what do HK'ers do? Call them locusts and put peeing children on social media to demean them. Again, the sentiment is understandable, but they're not making their case very well with the people who ultimately matter to HK'ers because they can shape what China looks like after 2047.

You're being shortsighted if you think the Victoria Park vigils don't do anything. People watch silently but it has a bigger effect than all the loud protests combined. The strongest argument needs no words at all.
A typical Lisp program of any size is an implementation of a library or language which reflects the natural way your domain would typically be expressed, which is then used to describe your solution.

I was so steeped in this model that I was surprised when I first heard the (relatively recent) expression “DSL”. I mean that’s one of the main values from abstraction.
There's a great podcast about infocom games which is very funny to listen to even if you don't know/play the games (that's my case)

http://monsterfeet.com/grue/

Eaten By A Grue, the Infocom podcast

A podcast about Infocom games, text adventures, and interactive fiction
Hosted by Kevin Savetz and Carrington Vanston.
As a matter of fact they recently tried something along those lines by creating a bunch of 'fashtag' memes designed to assert that the # sign was a cryptic Hitler reference, complete with fake warning memes designed to look like they came from the ADL, SPLC, antifa etc. and create the appearance of a backlash, in hopes of drawing media attention to a manufactured controversy.

It didn't work well, both because it was such an obviously forced meme and because they got so carried away that they burned a large number of sockpuppet accounts.
The bottom of the post includes an image that shows you exactly what it looks like.
The reason why consumers are unwilling to pay for service is because VCs have funded companies ability to give away tremendous value to achieve fast growth. Because of this consumers now have an expectation for free.

Previously when software was sold at retail, consumers had no qualms paying for software.

So maybe you are right and the root problem are the business models and specifically the funding behind those models.
Some of this already happens. But you also have to realize that that is not in the spirit of science.
Previous discussion or original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20185672
As a counterpoint, my paternity leave was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. California provided 7 weeks; I took 3 weeks immediately after my daughter was born and the rest spread out over the first year of her life. My daughter was a relatively easy newborn to take care of, she didn’t have any serious health issues and she was (and still is, thankfully) a very good sleeper. Even so, being home the first 3 weeks was an invaluable help to my wife. My wife fed our daughter every 4-5 hours, so I helped do things like grocery shop, make food, change diapers, put the baby to sleep, do laundry, tidy the house, etc. so my wife could get some sleep in between feedings. I have very fond memories of my daughter falling asleep on my chest while swinging in our hammock. I wouldn’t trade that time for anything.