skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A parent's simple act of being responsive is a form of praise. This will typically include looking and smiling, though there's little point in trying to fake such things if they don't come naturally.

Children who don't have responsive parents will tend to 'misbehave' until the parents become more responsive. I put 'misbehave' in quotes because although the form of the behaviour is bad, children are entitled to have responsive parents, and they know no other means of obtaining them

I think I know what you mean about words: children learn their moral ideas from parental behavior rather than from what their parents explicitly tell them to do.

But note that parental behavior includes words. So the principle is consistent with giving verbal descriptions of what a child is doing as he is doing it, or just after, or asking a question about it if you have one.

(I mean a real question, which is only rarely about feelings. I add this because all too many adult-child interactions are peppered with fake questions like 'Are you a good boy?' etc)

Verbal descriptions are helpful especially when, as we are discussing, something cool has happened, since there the child is operating at the edge of his ability and understanding, which is usually inexplicit in his mind. A verbal understanding helps to consolidate the achievement and also to introduce creative variations
Shoot an email asking politely to be credited--they either will or won't.

Either way, push it out of your mind and keep making awesome things people want to steal. :)
As a first time introduction, my brain instantly related the Boltzmann brain concept to Spontaneous Generation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation). Oddly, Ludwig Boltzmann lived during the time the Spontaneous Generation theory was discredited after being a widely accepted theory for 2 millennia.
I think the downvotes were because of the login requirement to see content, buut nevertheless it's a great resource. I think this is the same site that I recommended this tip to on a Reddit posting, but may I recommend making the tags smaller? It's a bit distracting, and the main content isn't really in the forefront.
I'd grant bonus points for remembering the standard text editor. Or dismiss everyone who didn't!
Aren't investment bankers the ones providing money when one needs to build a new shipyard, oil rig or a power plant? It's definitely out of range of "Three Fs" or Kickstarter.
A complement to accelerators: Founders Network doubles to 500 members in 2013.
It's unclear to me that "moral progress" is well defined, as it seems to imply that there's some universal, generally accepted notion of an ideal morality which we can aspire to. And yet I seriously doubt that we could find any agreement on what that could be.
Path Encoding Vulnerability in https/www redirects
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A very smart move by Fossil--it makes it safe to try. There's a path out.
The website's font looks bad for me on the latest Chrome, Windows x64:
http://i.imgur.com/cN6tXNl.png

Gets better with zooming though, at 120 % it looks nicer:
http://i.imgur.com/d0GkKcq.png
People will be surprised how blurry the constructs of society really are. Science really IS easier compared to politics. You don't need scientific advancements, but they're welcome too, and in the end they matter a lot.

Marketing technological advances while aiming to help the poorest is I think the best way to show everybody how technologies can really help us, and not enslave us. Technologies must be designed with political goals too. You could naively say the iPhone is creating more political problems than it solves, and you'd be right. What Bill Gates does is creating incentives for research in the way the NASA did. And I think it's awesome.

I guess that's what makes Bill Gates smarter in the end. You'll moan about antitrust laws and go watch JOBS, but today the people who make difference are businessmen who knows their basics of science.

If you're unhappy about politics, don't tell Bill Gates, that's not what he does. His giant financial resources won't help solving political problems.

Maybe he could pour money into making some media communications projects about science and studies just like Al Gore did, but again, I doubt Bill Gates really has the proper connections to do this.
I like the book's example of simple frag with the beer.

So the setup is that you and your time travelling buddy are watching the big Sportsball match on TV in both of your relative presents.

You want a beer so you go to the fridge and there isn't any. So you jump Downstream a couple of minutes, grab a brew and jumps up. Uh oh, don't drink and Span because you just fragged your friend as you are both drinking the same beer.

Your friend is naturally peeved and tells you to fix it. So, what you do is:

* Buy a pack of the same brand of beer and put it in the fridge

* Put a note on one of the bottles telling yourself and your friend not to touch it

* Span (Jump) Upstream a few hours so it's cold then jump back to just after you took the beer from the fridge yourself and put the new beer (the one that was cooling in the present -> future) in so your friend can grab it when he wants a beer.

* You also have to not run into yourself so you jump back up to after the point where you left for the future so as punisment you miss the big sportspile. However all is well because you friend just fills you in regularly and you both enjoy your tasty beverages.
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If we assume they want to hold objects with a size of half a centimeter, a quick calculation shows they are using a sound frequency of 68000Hz.

-> 340m/s / 0.005m = 68000Hz.

If we limit the frequency to above human hearing range (>20000Hz) then maximum size of objects held in this way would be about 1.7 centimeters.
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What was the defining development of the 20th century? I can think of many big ones that weren't technological in nature, for example the causes of the world wars.
s.date is not a group column and a.name seems like a bad PK
I wish the blog had "fixed" each of the poor examples to show what they would have done.
Surprise: Google Kills iPhone File Sharing App Bump
It's really quite hard to stop admiring the technical lengths the NSA has gone to to exceed their constitutional bounds - radar-powered devices for snooping is genius!
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It explains those stories that make the news now and again of dogs traveling thousands of miles home.
As mentioned in the article, the New England Compounding Center and Ameridose did just that.
fotbr - nice observation. In my opinion, illusive (or non-existent) pricing pages only frustrate prospective customers and serve as a barrier.
Well, it looks like it will happen.[1]

In light of my other comment, good for Stallman. Seems he wasn't actually so hardheaded as it seemed.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00...
What's the source for +/-0.5g vertical acceleration? Something in the design docs?
Even if Snowden was granted clemency, ten bucks says that if he returns to the US, he'll be found mysteriously dead of a car crash or "suicide" within 18 months.
I approve of you giving this some thought, but entropy doesn't care about Kolmogorov complexity at all. A box full of helium where exactly half of the helium is on one side and half is on the other is not appreciably more likely than one where there are 17 more helium atoms on one side the box than on the other despite requiring less bits to describe.

The regions of the Canonical Ensemble corresponding to a "A Brain" are much smaller than those corresponding to "A brain that's inside a body". And the incompressibility of phase space means that it's therefor proportionally less likely in the steady state. Just be very glad that the universe we live in is such that we seem due for a Big Crunch or Big Rip before getting anywhere near steady state.

EDIT: A little bit of help for the intuition. In a long run steady state universe pretty much all matter is going to be inside black holes. Sometimes you get a spontanious particle/anti-particle pair forming near the radius and one happens to escape. The odds of this happening enough times to accumulate a brain's worth of mass outside a black hole are staggeringly unlikely. Each additional brain's worth of mass decreases the odds exponentially. So I hope you can see that an entire solar system's worth of mass forming outside a black hole is so unimaginably unlikely that it dwarfs the unimaginable unlikely-hood of some mass happening to assemble into a brain.
Sounds like a plausible sci-fi story!
From that data? It's way too basic.

Mine isn't completed, partly because the real friends know it and the casual acquaintances don't need it, but if it were? Well, I can't tell them where I'm from with any precision. I grew up in four different towns, none particularly close to the others, went back to one for University (well, sort of - a stint in each of two towns in a conurbation), moved to a fifth for work, currently live in a sixth but will probably move to a seventh later this year - and I don't expect that move to be a 'forever' home.

So, Facebook, where am I from?
For the interested, some links to Bayes' theorem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes'_theorem

http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes

Useful if you want to know (or need a good way to explain) what a posterior probability is and how it's different from a prior probability
Since the question simply asked what p(heads) was on the next flip, it seems our answers match. Thanks!
>It is not a matter of morality. Suppose you have 100 billion robots, each programmed not to press a world-ending button. Some of them will press the button.

Am I missing something? If they are (a) robots, (b) each "programmed not to press a world-ending button", then none will.
It is bit more complex.

Socialism discriminated 'intellectuals' in favor of 'proletariat'. For example son of doctor had lower chances compared to son of factory worker. Jews were perceived as intellectuals.

Similar discrimination is today in US. Jews are discriminated for being white.
I think the reason type is used in the last example is to have the name of the class correspond with the table name. Otherwise a regular class would suffice like you say.
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An example that should show this approach is wrong:

Suppose that the jar contains 500 double-head coins and 500 double-tail coins. You pull a coin from the jar, flip it 10 times, and get 10 heads. What is the probability it will come up heads next time?
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Good point. We touched on it a bit at least in concept, but we'll do better in the future about being more inclusive of the solution (just a lot of content for one post). Maybe pick one or two and breakdown and then build up a solution?

The ebook linked from the page has a lot on the right stuff to do.
Instead of the Left Outer Join, couldn't you also make it an Inner Join to S.BOOK_ID? The question, if I read it correctly, only requires you to return sales in Nov 2013. If there is no data for a book_id, you want to exclude it from your returned data, no?
How does the fact, that console gamers on average consistently behave much worse in the manner under discussion than PC gamers do, implicate the origins of various franchises as the problem, and consoles as the solution?
So Winamp's delay has been postponed by a year or two. Okay.
Would you perform code review yourself on a big, unknown code base?

No.
I am sorry I am pretty new to rails. What's bad about using Webrick? I thought it is the default.
Well I guess it depends on what threshold you set for 'necessary', but man I've been hearing this nonsense since 1999 - actually I preached it myself back then. And just like former smokers are the most obnoxious anti-smoking crusaders, every time I see a comment like the GP I roll my eyes and feel the need to warn others to not fall into the same cult-like thinking I did back then.
IMO domain squatters are worse (and definitely more annoying). While real estate investing still seems like a parasitic activity and I'd be happy for it to disappear, at least when it comes to houses, a buyer usually doesn't care about a particular building - one can equally well live in a house next door, or next street. Whereas domains are almost never interchangable; if someone squats on my-company-name.com (and similar forms), I won't settle for company-my-name-friendshipismagic.com; I am pretty much forced to either buy from them or change the company/product name.
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Is it known whether the flame war detector applies any significance to particular words appearing in the comments to determine if there is actually any war going on just because there are not enough item up votes?
I've lived by MPD since I first flirted with Unix in the day. It also runs on Windows.
Most of the curves we experience on highways are apparently the result of somebody, or a block of people, simply not wanting to give up their land

That reminded me of the story of a (now empty) house that's
right next door to my new office:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Macefield
I totally should. Didn't give it much thought when I made it.
Yes. I would certainly use it and frequently. I signed up. Please contact me as soon as this is available. My email is in my HN profile.
We added a sign up to track votes and comments on the resources (so users wouldn't be able to vote more than once). These lists are opening up months of our market research, and you can see all of them without signing up (sign up allows you to see a description and as mentioned, allows for commenting and voting for those that are interested). We're also finishing up the core of the site focused on personal social network analytics: https://globality.be/features which I am excited about.
Data export is definitely on the horizon. Password protection is on the list, but not yet definite. We actually do support multiple currencies (we hope our users agree it is done in an elegant fashion, feedback welcome) - let us know if we are missing yours and we will get it in the next release.
Thanks! Did you find anything unpleasant? Anything that I could work on?
I use Mint and they're pretty close. They do have bill reminders with dollar estimates (for things that fluctuate, like electric/water), so it wouldn't be much of a stretch for them to add balance projections.
I am really confused about what the problem is. Unless you are seeing something different from what I am seeing. The icons are obviously email, twitter & Facebook.
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That's not really fizzbuzz, that's more the equivalent of asking a C programmer to write fizzbuzz in assembly (perhaps that's a little too strong a comparison, but you get the idea).

Fizzbuzz for websites would be to have someone code two paragraphs side by side with a header and footer in CSS.
But that was more about bzr's trajectory than its popularity. My (uninformed) impression is that Fossil is niche but actively maintained.
Recode.net
Hmm, I think that confuses the point.

The NSA programs are either constitutional or not. Wyden was essentially asking, Is this program constitutional? Does it collect data on US persons without a warrant?

Clapper swore an oath to the Constitution, so he should always be able to answer that question truthfully. "Yes, this program is constitutional. No, it doesn't collect data on US persons."

The fact that he couldn't say that is the issue.

Secrecy is not some magic sauce that makes a program constitutional. Secrecy doesn't free a program from legal scrutiny.
China tends to have pretty moderate high speed rail. It's cheap(ish) 200-250 mph (max speed) trains, not expensive and insanely fast maglevs (mostly). They are pretty popular though, because prices are low.
I thought I might learn something until I saw that exact comment, then decided it was safer to stop reading immediately.
Syrian Electronic Army hacks Skype’s Twitter to warn of ongoing surveillance
do you know how clueless what you said is?
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Seems like to do a good code review, the reviewer needs to know the scope of the code they're looking at, and where it fits in the big picture. Hell, maybe even the big picture too.

If you outsource code reviews, you lose that perspective and it comes down to "will it compile, and does it look vaguely correct?" which isn't super valuable.

That being said, if you can overcome that problem then the idea becomes a lot more enticing :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoception#In_humans

It also is unlikely that humans would be an exception here. However, my money still is on "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". Animals may be capable of magnetoception, but I don't think that has been proven yet.

For example, those foxes could try and minimize their shadows or changes in their shadows. They might do that using an internal clock. Alternatively, they might be able to perceive the polarization of the sky, and use that to guess where the sun is (note the high variation in successful angles)
It is pretty hard to find time travellers this way, because millions of lucky-guessers would cause a noise.
And leave money on the table?

If it were my blog, I would have included a link to "Pay me to show you what I would have done differently", or some other equally organic and not-too-weasely way of selling exactly that service: Reporting on best and worst examples is one thing, relatively LHF, but working with a company to improve is something they should be rewarded for!

Not to mention that doing so may require a company to completely overhaul sales and marketing. Or culture. Or both.

LHF: Low hanging fruit, easily obtainable item.

EDIT: PCCAMPBELL was replying at the same time as me. I like their reply.
Will help Startups initiate their product design
Well, there's also the "social and signaling effects" of using something that's non-git

The "not a field" of Computer Programming, to appropriate Alan Kay's quip, is so broken that "social and signaling effects" swamp actual facts and information to a degree that makes it look like Astrology. I've been watching this for decades now -- literally.

Dynamic languages were for years after still tarred with being "slow" when both Moore's Law and progress in JIT VMs and generational GC had make them perfectly fine for tons of applications. If the half-life of patently false misinformation is literally about a decade, and what passes as fact between practitioners is less fact than school rumors, what does that say about our "field?"
I would not use this because:

-I can't have my company's source code existing in yet another system. It's already in github and after CircleCI's security failure my desire to have another entry point to source code is very low.

-More importantly: I, and most experienced developers, don't use code review to find simple syntax errors or fix stylistic issues. Code review is a way to socialize your changes and make sure they make sense in the larger system. The code reviewers on a site like this will not understand the larger system with enough to detail to find issues that are not simple syntax errors.

Just my .02
Thanks for the feedback krrishd! We changed the toolbox restrictions, so visitors can access the full toolbox contents without signing up (need to sign in only to view the resources profile pages and for commenting/voting)

And per your previous feedback, agreed - in the next iteration, we're planning on making the tags less prominent. Would love to hear others' feedback if they have it!
In replies, he says he doesn't oppose the move to git. Most devs who've replied support git. There's already a mirror. Let's not make mountains out of molehills...
I want to sign up as a reviewer, but couldn't figure out how on the mobile iOS version of the page. I put in my email but that didn't clear it up either. Will try it later on a laptop, but just FYI!
Does the design of Hyperloop make it impossible to walk around?

In terms of no windows, sounds similar to the Channel Tunnel. You're typically in the tunnel for close to 30 minutes.
Just an idea for you: Make the service an integral part of a system that customers can use themselves with or without your additional help. You could start the business model with more of a contracted service approach but eventually transition to a hybrid human resource + SAAS model.

Code review is something that many organizations need some bootstrapping on and perhaps some periodic mentoring, but at some point I think they want to be able to wean themselves off of relying on an outside contracted service for something that will be used so often.

Good luck.
Nodejitsu doesn't support development environments
> It turns out however that Git is really easy to grasp.

Please write something to explain it. I must be pretty dumb, because I don't get it, even after reading about ten explanatory texts.
At this point, there should be enough research on claustrophobia to provide the necessary knowledge for the design.
I don't think covering up something else is what the US should be looking at. If the US were to pardon snowden, it would be to turn a corner (or if you are super cynical, look like your turning a corner) on domestic spying.

Recall that nelson Mandela was classified as a terrorist by the CIA for quite a while. and now his funeral was attended by numerous presidents and ex presidents. I'm NOT saying snowden == Mandela, but that a change in language and a pardon would be to turn a corner on this issue.
When I go back in time I'll be sure to setup a Myspace page.
there may be technological ways to enhance empathy or decrease our species’ tendency towards greed, revenge, and moral flexibility under duress.

Congratulations OP, you have reasoned yourself into transhumanism! To me the argument the OP described is one of the best ways to come to human-augmentation advocacy because it becomes obvious that we should be using technology to improve our capabilities.

To delve more deeply into transhumanism from this perspective, I would caution to not get preoccupied with current transhuman threads which are largely based on prosthetics and physical limitations.

Rather, I would look more towards nootropics and other technologies that help maintain or improve brain function and technologies which help reduce biases. In my opinion there is not enough being done to help the average person make better decisions on a daily basis, though there are some things. The fact that this is becoming a discussion point is great!

edit: I should also mention that the field of behavioral economics positively emphasizes the idea of "nudging" people toward better decision largely through design.
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That's a good perspective. "will it compile, and does it look vaguely correct?" can still be helpful though. Imagine you're learning Rails, and haven't learned all the idioms yet. Me leaving comments such as "this would be better as a before filter", "try to avoid metaprogramming unless you have to (and you don't have to here)", etc
> The NSA programs are either constitutional or not.

The idea that constitutionality, or any other question of legal interpretation, is a matter of objective fact which has a clear, crisp, true or false answer is, while a comforting illusion, not at all even remotely true.
Ha! Well, I didn't want to be completely blatant. A lot of our content tells you how to solve the problem, but yes - we do have software and tech services to help you. Work with folks like New Relic, Insightly, Wistia, etc.
I most definitely would. I was searching for this kind of service in the past. The closest is http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ but the problem is that we cannot make frequent changes and ask for more feedback. Also, we cannot submit an entire project and try to get feedback.
Anti-Semitism in Russia is a lot older than Socialism.