skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, is moderation in your belief of your understanding of the origins of the universe a well-known fallacy? Also the focus on moderation in the article was in describing 'possibilianism', a middle-of-the-road example belief.

Second: belief in a higher power, as answered on a Pew Research poll, seems to directly imply deism as a belief. I agree that it isn't 'religion' which has a set of dogmas & behaviors, or even deism worship, but I don't think someone that believes gravity is a higher power would answer yes to this question on a poll. It has a fair bit of connotation that implies a particular belief.

Thirdly, I agree, it's an unfair comparison, and a bit of a ham-fisted article. I submitted because it was the most clearly written on the topic I could find.

Fourthly, If Einstein was a pantheist, he was theist. Theism is the belief that at least one deity exists.

he was also a known apologist for religion, oft quoted for writing in the NYT Magazine "science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind". Why would a scientifically minded religious ilk NOT try to incorporate such rhetoric as their own? and, why does that upset you?

Einstein seemed to have a respect for religion's acceptance that human understanding is flawed. a quote from Isaacson's biography:

"You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being"

I am not religious, nor particularly spiritual, but I do believe that a respect for religion is a positive thing. I find wisdom in attitudes that try to include the value that religion brings to the human condition as opposed to damning it for 'making shit up' scientifically. I'm well acquainted with religion's uglier and more ignorant sides (grew up in Saudi Arabia, family in West Texas), but I agree with Einstein (Nassim Taleb also writes some interesting stuff on this) that I would prefer an attitude that accepts the weakness of our understanding.

I appreciate your comment, I submitted the article for discussion and I got it.
https://practicingruby.com/articles/low-level-computing?u=64...
For topics that come up over and over and over again on Hacker news, I have a 251KB flat text file with some references on various topics (and a few of those appeared in my reply to you). The particular TED talk was memorable to me because a local researcher shared it to an email list for the journal club I participate in, and then I posted that TED talk to my Facebook wall.
Arbitrage is precisely the subject. Sorry you don't understand that.
Yes, it's very similar to the jslinux project. However, I added more hardware (it can boot a real bios: seabios). Also, I'll make this open source.
Would anyone have records/images of such MVPs? More examples?

I always feel like there's too much to do to reach an MVP.
Because HTML wasn't created with GUIs as a use-case, and it shows.

Although we mostly get away with it in today's strange world of reinventing the wheel inside a browser, it's still a hack.
We live our lives. Danger will always be present. I could be hit by a car crossing the street from my office to the parking lot. I could be shot in the grocery store near my house.

Sometimes, there is nothing more that you can do. Accept the risk and move on.
Eclipse: Portable shade system
Yeah there is a lot to take into account, I really just dont want to step on folks toes. Though the feedback I'm getting so far is certainly in my favour.
Thinking more and more using generic words to name your software is silly if you're worried about other people using similar words in differing order.
For example the difference between calling something Cat in the Hat, and CatintheHat.
Thanks for your feedback.
If blockchain.info was queried over ssl, the spoofing would be a bit harder to pull off.
Front-loaded prevention (ie regulation) serves as a damping mechanism against short-term maximization with irreversible consequences. A lawsuit and ruined reputation do nothing to stop the next guy.
This seems like a non-starter to me:

"You can connect to computers running Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, or Windows 7 Enterprise."

"You can't use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to computers running Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Basic, or Windows 7 Home Premium."
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/remote-desktop-c...

Aren't the vast majority of Windows licenses out there ones that you can't connect to as a host in RDP?
I think the interesting thing here is the shift from the target - the "best" target used to be compromising the OS, so OS's made moves to protect themselves from programs running as unprivileged users. Now, it's trivial to wipe an OS and restore from a backup. The real value is the things people store on a computer, which are usually going to be accessible via a user account.

You make an excellent point, but there is a second and perhaps even more sinister side to it. Encrypting your data and holding it hostage is one thing, but even if you have indestructible backups, there are probably still many sensitive pieces of information that can be acquired by a blackmailer with only user-level privileges: bank details, company trade secrets, personal mail/photos/videos, etc.

Having a back-up of these is important, but probably so is ensuring that they aren't distributed to people they shouldn't be. This requires a very different model of access control and user/application privileges, and unfortunately I don't think any mainstream OS is even close to solving this one yet.
You can manually initiate an upgrade by opening Internet Explorer and entering into the address bar:

ms-windows-store:WindowsUpgrade

(Be warned: 8.1 Preview to 8.1 RTM is a fresh install. Your Metro apps will come back, but your Win32 apps will have to be reinstalled.)
You run quantstart? Haha awesome, thanks for commenting. I've been familiarizing myself with the content on your website. Thanks.
> "Scaling" as in: more developers, more files, more lines of code. Bigger projects. CS doesn't help with that one bit. It's just as difficult to handle as JS.

Right, and that's why we have modular design patterns that use the single responsibility principle, and AMDs like Require.js or CommonJS. It's testable, maintainable, can support a large codebase with multiple developers, and doesn't need static typing or other features from TS/Dart.
Slave Recovery in Apache Mesos
Bitcoin price doesn't really change slowly if you're following it live at the exchanges. You should try one of the above links. You'll see the price change every second at least even at the slowest times of the day.
We are apes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Apes
The difference between algo trading and technical trading is what, exactly?
Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia
I'll bet you you're going to make a lot of people happy with that :) (Not even me, just know people like it!)
I think the one think that TypeScript needs to get it going is modularity. If another project like [harp](https://github.com/sintaxi/harp) could use TypeScript as a library and could compile the code without having to result to system commands would be a great thing.

However, I think if someone came up with a system to add optional typing through the use of string literals it would be awesome. That way we can have perfectly valid JavaScript with the benefits of certain JavaScript engines and type checkers. The string literal would be before a function declaration like:

"add(Number, Number) -> Number";
var add = function(x, y) { return x + y; };

That would basically specify that the function takes two numbers, and returns a number. This system would not replace a language like TypeScript, as TypeScript provides much more functionality. But it would allow for really simple optional typing and for TypeScript to take advantage of this(in the case that a JavaScript engine eventually implements and optimizes for these type declarations).
Probably not. If a lot of energy is being used in the clean up process, then the need for sleep is most likely driven by the physical advantages of sleep, not the advantage of using less energy or similar.

Note this quote: "Cells in the brain, probably the glial cells which keep nerve cells alive, shrink during sleep. This increases the size of the interstitial space, the gaps between brain tissue, allowing more fluid to be pumped in and wash the toxins away."

Neurons are powerful cells that are so active that they cannot even keep themselves healthy. The glial cells are there to help. If the glial cells are shrinking and (presumably) partially shutting down in order to efficiently clean out the brain, then sleep is an efficient engineering solution -- you are trading off having a super-active brain for ~16 hours at the cost of a less effective brain for ~8 hours.

There may be less efficient solutions that allow for 24 hours semi-wakefulness, we might be able to tune the total activity of the brain down for continuous operation, but being in a groggy half-asleep state all day is probably not what you were hoping for.
Text Compression for Web Developers
"95% uncertainty interval 48,000–751,000"

I understand the value in trying to quantify this, but it's difficult to really conclude anything useful when your upper and lower confidence intervals vary by 15x
Breathometer gets $2M to tell you that you’re drunk
I wonder even about the seemingly simple case you mention, that of spending some money on health insurance.

In this case, it seems like the principle has already been compromised, and now the two parties are simply haggling over the price, so to speak. The principle that I think has been compromised is whether the government should take by force from some individuals in order to give an unearned benefit to some others.
Apparently I can. :-)

Also, try their "You Can't Write Proper English Under Pressure":

http://toys.usvsth3m.com/write/
Problem is that doesn't really help you identify the perpetrators. Both mixing services, and the fact that a user can generate unlimited wallets (if someone sends money to a wallet, you can't prove they own the second wallet or if they transferred money to someone else) makes this very difficult.
For kicks, here's Dart versions of those:

Reducing boilerplate for loop code:

var index = 0;
for (var el in arr) {
el.doThing(index++);
}

Dart hasn't really optimizing for iterating over a collection with indices since we don't find that very common in real-world code.

Better iteration over objects:

obj.forEach((k, v) => print("$k is $v"));

Here, obj is a map data structure, not a random object since Dart distinguishes objects and data structures.

Default function params:

foobar([foo = "default", bar = "shmefault") {
// Go on...
}

String interpolation:

str = "There are $num ${item}s available for \$$price each"
Because of the sanctions in the 90's there were also up to half a million excess deaths of children aged under 5. It was called genocide by both men who were in charge of it, both of whom resigned in protest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq#Estimate...

I also find it interesting that many people who deny that this many people were killed in Iraq since the 2003 invasion will have no problem believing the 100,000 figure of people who were killed in the Syrian Civil War so far, which has been a much smaller conflict than Iraq.
It was always that way. Remote Desktop is probably used most by people connecting to work computers over VPN.
Ah, "crisis". The most overused word of our day.

From what I can see real innovation slowed dramatically in the '70s. The world my grandfather died in was dramatically different than the one to which he'd been born - transportation, medicine, and communications had all taken dramatic leaps. If I live to the same age it's likely the only really dramatic change during my life will have been the introduction of the internet.
My reaction to this, it is very important to by well hydrated when sleeping.
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"A startup is trying to sell idea X" and "Silicon Valley is trying X" are not equivalent.

And even Blueseed has, as part of its pitch: Silicon Valley is the best place in the world to scale a company, and once you’re large enough there are legal channels available to move into Silicon Valley proper. We will provide you with the resources and contacts you need to make the transition. [1]

https://blueseed.co/quick-facts/
I like this theory. I think, but cannot prove, that cultural norms are propagated much more forcefully by TV than person to person, for example standards of beauty, expectations of behavior. Partially because TV gives the illusion you are seeing a complete person, while in real life, behavior tends to be more varied even within one person than any character on any show.

I tried not watching any TV or media for about 6 years, and after that period I saw a commercial at a friend's house, I thought "Holy cow! That is so incredibly sexist! When did they start running those commercials?" ... no one else in the room had that reaction, it was only from lack of exposure that it seemed so surreal and over the top to me.
Evidently you don't consume the Economist very often.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/09/ipcc-climate-...

To put it in the language you seem to prefer, Bill O'Reilly thinks the Economist leans left. I disagree with Mr. O'Reilly's employers and will not send them traffic, but support for this claim is easily googled.

ETA: The link above is more flip than I'd like. Try this:

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21587224-all-means-que...
I don't think the HoC $100 million bet was as big as it looks. Execution counts for a lot in this business, and it's very tough to get right, but if you throw enough money at it, and give the right guy enough control, you can do it reliably. It's like pop music. You can't guarantee that your next album will be Thriller, but you can guarantee a big splash if you get everything right and have the cash for it.

It's a question of management bandwidth. If you're at the kind of scale Hollywood's at, there's just not enough to go around. Not enough cash, not enough rockstar executors. James Cameron can only make so many movies.

Netflix simply realized that they can put all their eggs in one basket, then watch it extremely carefully.
Ah yes. I need to listen to authority and ignore the fact that observed data are falling out the bottom side of their models' 95% confidence intervals. This is how science is done in the modern age.
Try using a footrest, perhaps a rocking one so that your feet get to move a bit while working. It should help you maintain a better posture.

You should also try to get out of your chair and move about for a few minutes as often as possible throughout your day. Among other things, the slouching/hunching/shifting in your chair is often an attempt to alleviate the pressures placed on your spine while sitting. Forcing myself to get up with a timer made a huge difference with my back pain. Before, I was at my chiropractor's office at least once a week.
I've found that when I have a chair with armrests I am able to slide it closer under the desk and sit straighter than if I was just sitting on a chair with no arm rests.
Um,
RoundUp is an herbicide, not a pesticide. RoundUp resistant pests are a non-sequitur.

In fact, RoundUp is supposed to be among the most benign possible herbicide, since it binds instantly to the soil and breaks down. It is a contact herbicide; you have to brush it on the weeds to kill them, which is done with a variety of wicks and boom arms on tractors to touch the weeds poking up above the corn and miss the corn.

I suspect GMO fear is all FUD and no science. Even intelligent people spout nonsense on the subject (maybe even me I suppose).
> You need to first show how our present road system isn't a complete nightmare.

This is reversing the burden of proof. You are the one who wants to alter the status quo, you should have to prove why your solution would be "better".

From my perspective, I can get anywhere I need to, and anything I need can get to me, consistently, reliably, and at the cost of a tiny fraction of my income. Seems fine to me. I see no reason to radically alter the system, and doing so introduces obvious risks I am not willing to accept. So not only is the burden of proof on you, it's a very heavy burden.
I'm not sure. The TV had to be scrapped in favor of an AM radio with one dial missing.
Docker on LVM thin provisioning
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>Google Chrome Updater certainly does have a few virus like characteristics.

You could say it's in its DNA
Backblaze maintains previous versions of files on a rolling basis of 4 week window. This includes deleted files.

I do not work for backblaze, but I am a happy user.
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Also, consider the advantage that AMC has in a dedicated sales team going hard after advertisers on the merits of buying a spot during the breaking bad finale. If youtube worked in a similar way, I bet you would get higher CPM by virtue of better sales people...
FWIW he said he is a techie.

I often prefer a succinct summary from an expert to, say, a wikipedia entry.
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It is not the neurons themselves, but the the glial cells that keep those very large and (potentially) active neurons healthy. Presumably the glial cells must partially shut down in order to physically shrink, thus the neurons must notch down their activity as well.
Although I beat it, It still took my brain until level 3 to realize why I skipped from level 1 to 10
I personally favour only commenting on the unusual. I also think that if you are doing TDD then the tests should do a good job of documenting the code. I can't count the number of times someone has asked me to explain some code I have written where my first response is "okay, let's look at the tests".

All that being said, it really depends on the scenario. My second last project was a shrink wrap product development that ran a million dollar plus accompanying piece of hardware. This project quite rightly required us to write thorough and consistent comments and docs. Expensive product, complex code, high risk = thorough docs. I am currently working for a small rapidly growing and changing business, where the software is mostly internal. Low risk, quick development required, constant change, low complexity = waste of time and money creating and maintaining good docs
is it an iPad native app?
> Who says that corporations as they exist today should exist in libertarian-land?

Since the corporate form is a government intervention into the free market to protect select players for notional public benefit, presumably, it wouldn't exist at all in libertarian-land, assuming, of course, there is even a small dose of consistency with libertarian rhetoric.

On the other hand, you could just dispense with any kind of consistency and...

> Perhaps you'd have only LLCs where the limitation of liability is actually rather small

How is supporting government intervention to protect select players (even if it is "just LLCs") from liability to the unconsented harms they do others "libertarian"?

> Up until Glass-Steagall was repealed Goldman-Sachs was a relatively well run bank

Glass-Steagall wasn't exactly libertarian, either, so I'm not sure what the point here is.
The vanilla Android also adds new items into alphabetized grid. Samsung's Touchwiz does not, it will put new items at the end by default (you can change it though).
There have been very serious studies done on Iraqi war mortality for quite some time, starting with Roberts and Burnham, who did two very credible epidemiological surveys of mortality in 2004 and 2006 (published in the Lancet) using a similar approach as the study referenced above. The later study estimated somewhere around 600,000+ (95% confidence interval of 392,979 to 942,636) had already died by 2006 (and this before the renewed sectarian violence and US offensive in 2007).

It's notable that even this new study's lead author thinks their half-million figure is an underestimate:

""We think it is roughly around half a million people dead. And that is likely a low estimate," says Hagopian. "People need to know the cost in human lives of the decision to go to war."
Apple multitouch patent upheld by US Patent and Trademark Office
Perhaps, but we still have our share of dense morons (the "wage theft" people, the May Day crowd, the NIMBY anti-growth types)
They do. I wouldn't even call them limited. They're pretty extensive, up to and including never remove deleted files.
Except in this case (original article) it was an executable inside a zip file.

In the normal case, unzipping a file on linux will result in the executable bit being restored if it was included on the original file.

This is normally what you want - imagine an app that was distributed (over https) as a zip file where you then had to go and manually add the executable bit to each relevant file.

But a zip file that was opened as an email attachment is largely indistinguishable from one that was opened from an HTTPS download (it need not be that way, but it is), so the OS has no reliable way to allow you to run executables you download in a zip, but not ones you received as an email in a zip file.

There are certainly ways around it, but the executable bit isn't really the solution here.
Isn't Buddha normally depicted as being surrounded by datura flowers on his death bed? They might not have needed these things on any given day, but given that it's a path, you might need various tools from time to time to get around obstacles blocking the way. You might only use a substance once or twice in your life, but if not for that you might never have advanced any further.
I have to travel at least 5 hours to see a Tesla dealership, I love Tesla, but I won't be driving 5 hours to go to a dealership to test drive one.

Nor would you be driving one home, unless it's on a flatbed.
Full disclosure, I do work for an HFT firm.

To the last part of your argument:

significantly change who is able to benefit from asymmetric information by inducing others to take the wrong end of zero-sum trades, which is what HFT is designed to do

This is simply untrue, nobody is being induced to do anything. Tactics like submitting orders you don't intend to let trade, to make other participants believe there is interest when there is not is illegal and enforcement is more aggressive than you might think.

To the remaining part, if you believe that HFT improves market efficiency to the extent that it exists, but don't think that the increasing competition provides additional value - OK. I'll work with that, but then if we can come around to a view that HFT is at worst neutral, why should it be curtailed? Simply because some think the people who practice it should spend their time elsewhere? I think that is a dangerous standard to enforce anywhere.