skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would recommend reading "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas S. Kuhn.

Scientific revolutions are far more widespread and involve many more scientists than you may think. Even during the earliest stages of the Copernican revolution there were many scientists who ascribed to the ideals. You may only hear about Copernicus, Darwin, Maxwell, and a few other notable scientists but the revolutions included many many people. Some of these people may have irrationally stuck to their previous hypotheses at each of these transitions but that is GOOD. Skepticism in science is critical to its function. If the skepticism is not entirely misplaced or competing theories still have merit for exploration, it will not die out (It's more complicated than this, but for the most part holds true).

As for the climate change in reply to this posts' parent: go on scholar.google.com and find real peer reviewed papers on climate change or go find the high impact environmental journals and often cited papers. Then find the papers that cite those papers that contain actual data!

Scientists have gathered a massive amount of data on melting ice, carbon dioxide concentrations, and world wide pollution. The jury is still out on whether or not humans are a major contributor to carbon dioxide emissions but it is irrelevant when atmospheric CO2 concentrations and temperatures are increasing. This may simply be a natural cycle but it is wise to err on the side of caution until we know more about the equilibrium conditions of the system.

The more troubling problem is pollution and deforestation that reduces the number of oxygen producing organisms. Even after ice ages and mass extinction events, the most important organisms for oxygen production in our atmosphere have been phytoplankton, which currently account for probably about half of all of the oxygen produced by plants. Already there is evidence pollution is drastically reducing these populations [1][2]. If this is proven to be true, there is unlikely to be some other mechanism on Earth to replace the phytoplankton in oxygen production (unless we force the evolution of a phytoplankton species immune to industrial pollution...)

Edit:
[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7306/full/nature0...

[2] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7120/full/nature0...

I apologize that these papers are behind a paywall, but no news article for the public can do them justice. When you jump into the data for both papers you see science in action: a complex web of variables and events that we are trying to understand.
Why? Maybe they optimized for their own performance (put words online) instead of (buying, configuring, and) over-building their server. What if they're not a sysadmin? What if they hate sysadmin work? Seriously, it's a wordpress site.
Because OpenGL is ugly as hell. DirectX is rewritten often (with new versions) to accommodate new ideas, whereas OpenGL new features/ideas are just "tacked" onto the existing code base.

OpenGL also has a huge barrier to entry compared to DirectX.

MSND DirectX resources are fantastic, whereas resources on OpenGL are often out-dated and generally pretty crap.

DirectX requires the DirectX SDK, whereas OpenGL requires GLUT, or GLEW? I think. Perhaps FreeGLUT? OpenGLUT? Or can you just use SDL? Or none of them? What? Exactly.
Another interesting data driven Digital Humanities project is the InPhO project at Indiana University. The project has produced a network of influence between philosophers and thinkers and some other interesting work.

http://inpho.cogs.indiana.edu/datablog/

There is going to be some exciting stuff coming from the Digital Humanities in the upcoming years!
An ever popular item from 2003. Thanks llambda for submitting it again so newer members of HN have the chance to share it with their friends and families to help them (the friends and families) better understand them (the HN readers).

For those who are interested in the previous discussions, here are a few:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4990645 (no discussion)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2044356 (39 comments)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1349564 (36 comments)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=561311 (64 comments)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=107612 (6 comments)

This last is from close to the dawn of HN - 1822 days ago. The most recent, with no discussion, is from 4 weeks ago.
Agreed. I actually protested the DCMA when it was originally created, but then, 7 years alter, I was threatened with a suit because a commenter on my Website had written ugly things about someone. As a common carrier, I was safe thanks to the DMCA. The EFF actually told me the DMCA saved my butt. Weird, huh?
It sucks my client will be able to say he was right about now allowing source code to be hosted on github.

(We ended up setting up a gitlab box and it works just as well)
Dfs
sdfds
Maybe having access to the sourcecode of a site or app = access to the site or app.
Did you mean that the compromised printer would be made to produce compromised output? If so, the downvotes may be because it's relatively easy to audit the output of a 3D printer, compared to the output of a compiler.

It's a common practice, for example, to x-ray a critical piece of structure to verify it's free of cracks. A similar inspection would generally show if the hidden internals of a printed object conform to the original design.

Auditing the output of a compiler, on the other hand, would be devilishly hard, multiplied by the fact that every program it has ever produced is suspect. Given that this might include your kernel, filesystem, network drivers, etc., it's hard to find an adequate 3D printer parallel. Yes, a bit of crucial structure might be compromised by a pwned printer, but it would probably be relatively easy to spot.
IBM reveals nanotech gel that can 'explode' cells
Yeah. That's where ipython probably hits the sweet spot, so that's reasonable.
The thing is that this is a really dated opinion. While I realise that it was really painful for those months, the end result is that audio on Linux seems to work a hell of a lot better these days.

By making Linux audio temporarily problematic Linux audio became a solved problem (at least in my mind, and the minds of many users of the major distributions that use it)
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The EFF told you that the DMCA protected you from a defamation claim?
I was musing that I could probably lower my rent by painting graffitti. FBI didn't find in funny and took me to a mental hospital.

I did every line in SparrowOS and all the songs, with God's help.

I hired an artist for a few of the sprites.

God says...

the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.

11:5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come
hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city
of David.

11:6 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be
chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was
chief.

11:7 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city
of David.

11:8 And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about:
and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

11:9 So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was
with him.

----

FBI is intermixed with mental health, if you know what I mean.

Don't worry, God is just -- you get blessings for persecution and it can't go well for them, retards!

God says...
electronic tenets pour loosest list Was excluded hardheartedness
wantonly times returns indirectly wont_you_be_my_neighbor
worshipper soul -i

----

David was a rebel!
No, it was Prawo Jazdy.
Spoofing GitHub's SSL certificate is a step in the direction of inserting espionage-style backdoors, as GitHub permits HTTPS read-only checkouts of repositories.

I'm not suggesting that this will be free of problems, given how particular Git is about checksums, nor am I certain what methods they would use to acquire SSH commit access for altering repository contents to affect the rest of the world.

Still, it's absolutely a necessary prerequisite to altering data from GitHub - and, if they acquire SSH keys, altering data at GitHub. Both possibilities are terrifying.
It's actually "Prawo Jazdy" in Polish.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/473...
I find this a sad commentary about your (and certainly others) relationship with your clients.
Not likely. Proof?

I'd agree if you'd said "not a lot of key/values," as the setup could supersede the subsequent speedups. However, in that case, the difference is negligible, and we should do what is "pythonic."
Look, I'm not saying that anybody who engages in philanthropy is beyond criticism. We certainly need to be able to critically discuss these issues in order to provide the best help for those in need.

However, this should not mean that your criticism's of the Foundation's methods should reflect your opinion of Bill Gates The Man, or really provoke any kind of moral response other than "holy shit, this guy is a massive force for good in the world, and my entire life's work will amount to a hair compared to the work that Gates and the foundation has done."

Basically, if every comment here would have started with "Bravo and kudos to Mr. Gates and the foundation. I am concerned that some of their goals, however, are misguided...", then we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Secondly -- unless you've worked extensively with the developing world, there's a very large chance that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about when it comes to the Foundation's efforts or goals. Developmental economics, for some reason, tends to attract much more armchair philosophers than other professions, and it's much worse because these systems we're dealing with are off-scale in terms of complexity and uncertainty.
I thought that, then I installed nexus and let it proxy the remote repositories and really haven't looked back. Takes some time to setup (few hours). But makes life so much easier that it's well worth the effort, especially that with Java you WILL have a dependency on a 3rd party jar from Oracle that for whatever reason won't ever show up in maven central or want to include some other 3rd party repository.
"Do you seriously think research is 'throwing shit against a wall and seeing what sticks'?"

That's exactly what most pre-clinical research is. Testing hundreds of thousands of different molecules in hopes of finding on that works. For every NME that makes it onto the market, there are several thousands or tens of thousands that are initially tested.
Very true, and, to be honest, I'm not advocating for systemd. Though according to the original article this isn't quite the issue that it's claimed to be (I'm not actually familiar enough with systemd to be able to have an opinion on it), see point 20.

My assessment on the systemd debate, though, is that it feels a bit like neophobia and the technical justifications (against systemd) are a bit on the weak side.
Might this be partly because there are huge numbers of Mac using professionals who are holding off until the Mac Pro refresh later this year?

If the ipad is cannibalising consumer sales and new products such as the iMac with non-upgradable RAM are not appealing to the top end.
It was a dumb question, but if you scroll down, someone responded with an awesome history of the war between Direct X and openGL. I'm pretty sure that's why it was posted here.
Some possible reasons:

GitHub is popular among developers.

Many developers have faster computers and more computers per household than others that aren't in IT/development.

Many developers, though they pretend to be security minded and focused at times, often have a more lax attitude in practice than system administrators, especially at home or working on personal projects.

Some developers have more usernames/passwords and certs to other servers available than non-developers would.

Some developers have access to other confidential data or newer technology that could be of practical use.
Who wouldn't think it's a waste of time to sign a "normal" petition, given the previous response[0]?

[0]https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/what-we-have-say-a...
True. I realize now that this phrase may offend contributors to GPL licensed projects, please let me clarify what I mean.

Working for companies it is a rare occasion that we would open source a project, consequently most of the time we cannot use GPL libraries. On the other hand Apache, BSD and similarly licensed libraries are the safe option.

So for me it would be ludicrous to prevent others from benefiting from my OS libraries.
It would be nice to see a link to a sample site on the frontpage.
One step closer to Ghost in the Shell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Man_(Ghost_in_the_Shel...)
The scientific method's own error correcting mechanisms also operate on itself. Our understanding of epistemology, repeatability, and falsifiability have evolved alongside and as a result of the scientific method as we have journeyed through mechanics, electromagnetism, statistical physics, and quantum mechanics and relativity. Popper's own seminal work was due to what we have learned from applying the scientific method and on a meta level substantially changed what "science" codified for many of its practitioners.

However, even the need for falsifiability is sometimes suspended (although not lightly and with much criticism) when there is something interesting to pursue like in string theory, where we are operating on energy levels we may never be able to experimentally reach.
I wouldn't say it's a stupid question. It's a broad question seeking a better understanding that most of us take for granted. And it clearly was treated as a good question by the absolutely astonishing answer it garnered.

Humanity is better for this exchange on Stackoverflow - we need more discussions like this.
I was referring to the rel attribute, not the uri. So your point is that once the server establishes a defined API that it can't change in order to maintain compatibility with the client, which is the need for API versioning. So the client still has to be updated when the API changes.

I suppose it provides a little flexibility for the API to adjust the endpoints, but in practice it still seems like a bad idea to modify the endpoints because clients could have cached data pointing to existing endpoints that you now break.
No, the post is spot-on about how the article is really just playing with definitions. What the post is doing is what LessWrong calls "dissolving the question"[1].

Reword the article to be pointing out that "There's more to life than immediate hedonistic pleasure seeking activities". Now, most people just agree with it. Instead, if you play with multiple meanings of "being happy", you can try to create a sense of insight or deepness where none exists.

As to why the post added a disclaimer, perhaps he wanted to be polite and not sound offensive to what Frankl has accomplished. (Me too: I'm not saying Frankl's work was not good, just the style the article portrays.)

1: http://lesswrong.com/lw/of/dissolving_the_question/
Poettering gets things wrong more than once, and Draxinger could have stomped him, if he were a little bit more informed on the details.
This is utter rubbish, hosting your own git server(s) is easily justifiable.

The client declining to hosting code on github should be enough justification.
>Bill Gates is not a Western country

Except that the Gates Foundation acts like one. Its endowment is larger than the GDP about half of the countries of the world. It exists to promote a "creative capitalism" in which the domain of public, governmental services is now understood to be yet another market open for business (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/exec/billg/speeches/2008...).
The 27" iMac has upgradeable RAM, which I discovered when buying mine over the phone from Apple.
"I read once that the last medicine designed by a chemist was the cure for syphilis - decades ago."

http://www.vice.com/read/interview-with-ketamine-chemist-704...
Hats off for open-sourcing this, especially under the MIT license, could make a great add-on for an Saas app!
While we can't give you conversational interaction with a human-level AI yet, I've been working for the past couple of years on a project for The Language Flagship (http://www.thelanguageflagship.org/) to try to solve the real-world context problem by creating a searchable database of re-usable multimedia resources for language learning, so that you can always give a learner new stuff. It's kinda like Duolingo, teaching you to translate the web, but with audio, images, and video along with the text. It's mostly vaporware still, but we do have some really nice tools for teachers for making playlists, video captions, transcripts, and annotations.
Additionally, there's a startup here in Utah that we've been working with called MovieMouth, which produces software and auxilliary content for teaching language comprehension via popular movies (they get around copyright problems by only providing playlist files and original content like test questions, and requiring that end-users have independent access to the video media to feed into their software). They've been running beta tests, teaching English with Pixar movies, down in Chile .
I've heard this same sentiment from numerous programmers, including many who prefer Linux. I'm thinking this is probably an informed opinion, not an uninformed one, and should probably not be in the negative in votes.
your'e right, the top answer provides great insight. I was actually surprised it wasn't already posted here.
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... are you saying that the DEA currently enforces alcohol prohibition, or did you missread what I said?
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Thank you for this. I see this as a perfect companion to Freemind. Sometimes I want to jot stuff down, and firing up freemind is too cumbersome, or I'm on my laptop and haven't sync'd recently. I've been using Evernote for this purpose, and it's just not quite as graceful as a mindmap.

For getting ideas out quickly, and sharing mindmaps without installing software or paying for an one of the (many) web-based services, this looks pretty ideal.

Also, +1 for folding.
Hi there, thanks! :)

My opinion is based on my own experiences developing DirectX and OpenGL applications, as well as advice from my brother who is a games developer.
Thank you - was incapcable of handling lookups on iPhone whilst deciding if this was too cheesey for HN
Doesn't matter. The negatives of the DMCA greatly outweigh the positives.

Why should I not be able to hack my OWN tablet? Why can't I unlock my OWN phone? Why is it that the government exercises near-dictatorial control over digital rights? Sure, it does help with copyright issues, but there's a ton of things in there that have nothing to do with copyright, like the law against jailbreaking tablets.

The point is, the DMCA exists for a good reason, but it was written by people who know nothing about how digital media works while they were in bed with the RIAA and MPAA. It can be revised to eliminate the freedom-limiting aspects while still preserving the good portions of the law.
My sense is that there is a correlation between geeks and activists, so I think it's a "logical" group to target for further "attention"/persecution. It also makes sense to want to inject flaws in project code. (Even though git has hashes, the hash can be fine if the injection happens on commit.)
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Articles such as these are very strange to me. There always is some unspoken nebulous assumptions which the author doesn't even bother to justify. What is the "better" that the author is referring to? She seems to think that it is better to be a person who could survive living in a Nazi prison camp than someone who could not. But what are you giving up to gain this ability? And why is it so important?

Listing out a recipe for how to become a "better" person is also a strange way of trying to help somebody. I mean, doesn't the idea of becoming a better person appeal the old base instincts of greed and fear? Greed of having the ability to appear confident, strong and satisfied, thereby the social status ladder, and fear of falling behind. By following her advice from such a viewpoint, you might be allowing yourself to be ever more aligned to instincts that drive people to despair.. ever chasing the carrot just out of reach.

Of course, it's just my interpretation. The author may never have intended to appeal to such base emotions, and is simply trying to help you achieve a higher plane of thought by example. And the book she pushes may truly be full of insight to guide you to the next step in your path to enlightenment and fulfillment.

All these self-help guru's all do seem to follow the same pattern though, it's always some sort of plan to appeal to your basic instinct to be better than the people around you. If they were truly altruistic, then why is it always a solution to your problem their peddling, and there is usually some next step tied to giving someone somewhere money?

I think they are often doing a disservice to people who take this stuff too seriously. By constantly bombarding you with the assumption that you're broken and they have the fix, they leave you feeling not to bright, helpless and insecure, when in fact if you just trust in yourself, you'll get over it. But telling people to do that doesn't sell.
He means graphene that's incidentally always there in graphite ("in graphite in the anode"). We didn't coax it into sheets, it's just there and it's what makes things happen.
The sad part is this will most likely end up providing us with a history lesson on the DMCA instead of any actual action. Same with the petitions to legalize marijuana and most of the other ones.
"PostgreSQL is pedantic with data insertion, almost to a fault."

The PostgreSQL philosophy isn't about being "pedantic", but it is very different from MySQL. I assume that you have much more experience with MySQL; maybe you are trying too hard to use postgres in the mysql way rather than the postgres way?

Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to migrate usually for this reason. The entire project development always has lots of built-in assumptions about how the DB will be used, so the new system is almost never quite the right fit. It can only work in trivial cases, or when you have the right expectations.
Except its not dated at all. I have constant issues with PA randomly failing to do basic things like mixing, or outputting any sound at all on newest code releases. This is still a real problem for people, pretending it isnt and everything is solved and working because it works for you is an incredibly shitty attitude.

Stop it.

And yes I reported the bugs.
nice work, need full screen version, i like you can actually play this as instrument even (hey why not), but nice work