skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "People should not have to compensate for the actions of broken people."

Right... I shouldn't have to lock my door, I shouldn't have to avoid dark alleys, I should be able to carry as much cash as I please... but I live in an unjust reality in which it is frequently prudent to take basic precautions.

I looked into getting a restraining order once, after a petty argument online (before I learned better and began using pseudonyms while discussing anything of interest) turned extremely sour. Turns out that since I was never in a sexual relationship with the other person, the state I was currently living in limited my options to "suck it up", or "get a CCW". The general concept of a restraining order is not universally recognized.

(Furthermore, restraining orders are not preventive, they only provide a form of retaliation after the fact. They won't stop somebody from hiding in a bush outside your front door, they'll just allow you to have the police slap them with a restraining order violation after you discover them in your bush. Appealing to restraining orders to protect you is like appealing to burglary laws to protect you. You still need to lock up your home...)
Yes! I find it more alarming that people claiming to understand science "believe" that the Earth orbits the Sun.
In other news : 3 in 4 hacker news readers don't know the earth doesn't orbit the sun at all. That is an impression created by the fact that the space around the sun moves as a result of gravity. This results in that the location of the earth doesn't change, but as the sun is sucking in space and constantly pushing out it's matter the distance doesn't change. This results in the fact that a straight line path around the sun at the relative speed difference that the earth the sun have, and then transpose said trajectory into an approximate euclidean space with the sun as it's point of origin results in a (roughly) ellipsoid trajectory.

But make no mistake : the earth is standing still, it's not moving. There is no actual movement of either the earth, or the sun, or for that matter, any other planet or body, as a result of gravity. The earth is not circling the sun, it is moving in a straight line through what just happens to be non-euclidean space. Hell there is no gravity acting on the earth, nor for that matter on you (on the contrary : you are being accelerated upward, not downward at roughly the rate at which the earth sucks up space).

(Here movement is defined as the only viable relativistic definition of movement : a movement that can be observed to be different from standing still, meaning travelling at a fixed speed in a straight line is not moving at all)

If the earth ever starts orbiting the sun, life on earth will become impossible in a matter of minutes, as the resulting acceleration would affect magma flow and would very quickly change the entire surface of the earth into a liquid state. In that case the earth's surface would quickly change to the average temperature of the earth itself : ~6000 degrees celcius.

People say that the earth is orbiting the sun, because people are thinking within an euclidean reference frame. If you ignore the fact that we live in a relativistic universe and just act as if it's euclidean, it looks like the earth is orbiting. But in (what we think) is the real structure of the universe, that's not the case at all.

Saying that the earth orbits the sun, or God forbid, that it circles the sun, are flat-out wrong statements. The last time scientists actually believed that was about 1931. The "science" that is being popularized is either old, or just flat-out wrong. This goes for other popular versions of scientific theories as well. If evolution is "mutate + natural selection + goto 1", then humans don't evolve at all, and neither does any larger lifeform (and it's still an open question if bacteria evolve or not). Hell, did you know the earth is the exact center of the universe ? No joke. Read a bit about Hubble's discovery. The big bang is not actually the beginning of time, google inflation theory (and even inflation theory doesn't model the beginning of time). Did you know that we lost ~98% (that's a lower bound) of all mass in the universe ? We have zero clue where the rest of the universe is.
do you know why is it called theory instead of theorem,lemma or law?
This is exactly what I mean. Science is not a religion. It is not a faith. Calling it that betrays a lack of understanding of the scientific method. The scientific method is not perfect and there are worrisome trends in modern practices of science (see the recent story about p-values being misused) but this is the sort of thinking that leads people to believe in nonsense like psychics, dowsing, homeopathy, anti-vaccine propaganda, etc.
Aptible is another young startup in the HIPAA space: https://www.aptible.com/ They support a PaaS model similar to Heroku.
I'm the technical co-founder of a startup[0] that stores patient data, and I know a couple of people who are working on what they call "Heroku for HIPAA-compliant applications" (slightly different from what TrueVault is, though it serves a similar consumer base)[1].

When I first heard about this and started building our application, I was surprised nobody has tackled this space before. Building HIPAA-compliant applications on AWS is a lot easier[2] than most people think, but it's a huge pain.

More importantly, it's the same huge pain for almost everyone who goes through the process, and in a way that's rather easy to "factor out".

In that regard, it's not that different from HR or payroll services, which startups almost never do in-house (once they are larger than a few employees, and until they get to be fairly large).

It looks like we're a bit beyond the stage where TrueVault would make sense for us, but I'm glad that this space is starting to attract attention. Technical founders should spend their limited time on building amazing technology and amazing products, not duplicating the same compliance work that everyone else has had to go through.

[0] https://www.boardrounds.com/

[1] The company is Aptible: https://www.aptible.com/ (We aren't customers of these folks, though we like their product)

[2] None of it would be too technically difficult for most of the people reading HN - it's more the diligence of checking boxes, writing up policy docs, etc. It's important to do it right, but it's generally a matter of time (and money) more than anything else.
Apparently Wearing a Bow Tie Gets You Laid on Valentines Day
hahaha - who is wearing a bow tie tonight. You might get lucky
Falsifiability is a feature of every element of science. Something that is not falsifiable isn't science. Period.

But a Theory is not a guess. It is a framework built from individual pieces, some of which may be hypotheses (effectively guesses) that have been tested and found to hold within the larger structure of that framework.
Since when does AWS sign a BAA? I thought they disclaimed liability and said to treat them like a phone company or infrastructure provider w.r.t S3?
Really the only difference between "altcoins" and Bitcoin is the version number in the address, often not even that. "Support" isn't so much needed as incidentally created. Minor fiddling with the POW (often breaking core functionality in the process) doesn't affect things like transaction creation and address validation.
That's obviously because a lot of people have religious beliefs that make more sense to them than evolution. It's not that they haven't heard of evolution, but that they reject it for the simpler theory found in their 3000 year old book.
One hundred years ago Argentina was the future. What went wrong?
One thing that I've seen that's a problem with this kind of thing (whether given out by humans or faucets), is what people can do once they get the coins. You're probably not giving them enough to buy anything with them, so what do they do? Just hold them?

If I gave you 0.01 Serbian Dinar, what would you do with it? Maybe look at it, and say that it's cool.

What do people get out of faucets? Just publicity?
I'd love to disavow Perkins, but I'm a filthy proletarian.
Dropbox's hiring practices explain its disappointing​ lack of female employees
It looks like this whole notion of 'stream' is just a syntactic sugar for javascript guys who lost themselves in a bunch of nested stupid callbacks, which is worse than lisp parens. Instead of nesting whole callbacks, create a stream in the middle; execute first half of callback chain and dump the result into the stream so that next half of callback chain can be executed later.

Why is this so an enlightenment for node guys? UNIX does it right since epoch - simple programs perform simple tasks and connected via pipes. Python has gevent, so you don't even need 'a stream' or other bullshit, you just write the code as-is and greenlets provide the concurrency needed.

The real enlightenment comes from 'programming properly'; you start with C and torture your brain with function pointers and realize why it is a good idea to treat functions as a first-class objects. then you learn some 'proper' functional programming languages like lisp or something to learn how to think in functional way. which is the only guaranteed and proven path to prevent yourself from shooting your own foot by writing 20+ nested callbacks. If you start with binding an anonymous function to a <button>'s click event and think you can do this to do real programming, you'll never get it right.
Awesomeness, De La Soul is the cream of Hip Hop.

More artists should follow this example, and we HNers should listen to Stakes is High and "What we do for (love)" when nature calls. Its valentines after all.
> The real outlier for the U.S. on this survey was the question about evolution...

Which, the way the question was worded, could reasonably be attributed to people just affirming their belief in creation irrespective of their actual ignorance of the accepted scientific explanation for the origin of humans.
But you are living in a small city.

If you are young you might not care about buying a house, and care about hanging out with friends and doing things instead. Cities attract young people who don't mind renting, suburbs attract families who care more about buying their own houses.
I think there was more to it than "I believe whatever I want". That's just her pride talking.

Heated arguments aren't very helpful IMO. I have a good friend who still believes the Earth is 5000 years old, but the last thing I want to do is bash his head into science.

That takes a long conversation over coffee (hopefully several cups) and ensuring that I don't make him feel like I'm looking down on him for what he believes. That's the worst way to convince anyone of anything, reality or not.

People have a tough time separating belief from idea. Beliefs need no evidence, but ideas are testable. Find out what her ideas are and we can move on to her beliefs later (or maybe you won't even need to go that far when she realizes the fallibility of unyielding belief).
I did, thanks! edited
The reason that theories are not referred to as "guesses" is because there is, in theory (pun intended), an enormous chasm of evidence between a theory, and a guess/hypothesis.

Nothing is known with absolute certainty. What is the point is referring to everything as a "guess" simply because it isn't known for certain? Context is important here.
You're confusing grace with humility. There's no problem with people referring to their graciousness, as long as they remain courteous while doing so.

Anyway, 'big deal about being gracious'? Your second sentence contains more instances of the word than Shuttleworth's entire missive. The title mentions grace; the text says "we ran hard, we lost, we'll go with our upstream distro on this one, thanks everyone". The article is essentially a wake for Upstart, a near-10-year project initiated and championed by Canonical, and Shuttleworth is thanking everyone for their past work and work yet to come.

Ironically, you're being very ungracious here.
Fallibility doesn't make it a "guess".
The game also serves as political commentary on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris
Note that the USA scored better than most of the rest of the world in this and several other basic science questions. The actual result is "humans aren't well-educated"; it's being cynically spun as "Americans are stupid."
Serious question: if your potential customers don't feel that your solution isn't worth paying for, how great of a "problem" do they really have?

I have an excellent solution to extract cats who have become wedged into fishbowls. Haven't made a dime on it yet.

Whose fault is it if I go deep into debt trying to sell it?
The question as it's worded is: "does the earth go around the sun or does the sun go around the earth?" There's all sorts of reasons someone might get that question wrong. The way it's framed makes you visualize two systems and pick the right one, and people might have a problem with that. The phrasing depends on word order being significant in English in ways that might be confusing to foreign language speakers (of which the U.S. has many). Heck, just parsing it took me enough time that someone rushing through the survey might just not think about it too carefully before answering.

I bet if you showed two pictures, with a large sun orbiting the earth and one with a small earth orbiting a large sun, you'd get a much higher percentage right.
Great, that means there is probably a fantastic opportunity to separate your brand with something like this and use it as marketing leverage against those folks ;-) Win-win?
I'm not sure how you would setup the study, but has there ever been a study to see what percentage of people will respond to a survey like this incorrectly even if they know the correct answer, either due to a mistake, or general disinterest, or confusion over the question? Especially for the last possibility, I think reading comprehension could be a big culprit here.
I always considered this to be an upside. Being googlable always felt to me like a synonym to existing; it's a way for potential employers to see that I know stuff because of all the texts and hobby projects; for potential future spouses/other people to see that I'm an interesting person who does something creative, etc.

Funny how I didn't notice when being easily googlable started to be considered a bad thing.
We pay whatever they ask. We don't really have the volume or size to impose anything on them.
I agree they aren't the same. I thought the former was true, but can't find a citation for it now.

Your link, by the way, doesn't prove otherwise.
I noticed that OP put a link to the legitimate site. How about serve a version of the site that redirects to the corresponding page on your own?
I'm not a G+ user but am interested in joining this group. I filled out the form without realizing that the whole thing is run over G+, so I put in my own website instead, assuming the only reason you were asking for G+ was to find out more about each applicant. I think some explanation about why the G+ link is on the application would be helpful.
apt-get install gnome-session-fallback
I was a bit confused by what you meant "open" until I read more of your company's blog

|| What is Open Teaching?

|| Open teaching means teaching using open materials and providing open access to those materials on the internet.

I gotta say I agree, I would love to see a future where the teachers are curating the content rather than the assigned curriculum. But those bad teachers, they've really come to rely on their curriculums.

P.S. looking forward to see what you guys come up with!
> Is it because the answers come from the general population rather than students?

I believe that is the case. Those studies you mention generally use results of standardized tests taken by students. For what it's worth I'm not convinced the methodologies used by those studies are very good.
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What you mean by "guess" isn't how any scientist would interpret "guess" in this context, and that what you call a "guess" is a rather glib and incomplete representation of all the things that comprise a "theory."
If you are based in individual pieces that may be effectively guesses, how you are not also a guess?
Since this past summer: http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipaa/2013/06/19/amazon-a...
And the AttributeError can be completely unrelated to what set a variable to something of the wrong type, so it's definitely not dissimilar to C's memory corruption.

The kind of errors that scare me are silently writing past the end of an array on the stack, which will silently introduce wrong values that will probably not crash your program.
This is fascinating and I would totally consider doing this. One thing that I would like would be examples in the gallery that show the source image along with the hand-painted output, so I can get real sense of how my picture will look as a hand-painted image.

https://github.com/blog/817-behold-image-view-modes
In other news reports of official stats (sorry no link), this officer had way more allegations and sustained complaints than his peers.
What is the meaningful difference between orbiting and moving in a straight line that creates an ellipsoid in Euclidean space?
I don't think that's an appropriate analysis, because "orbit" has a specific definition in science that abstracts away the technicalities like Euclidean space vs. gravity as "bent space." The Earth absolutely does orbit the Sun.
I liked this. Programming is not easy and it's not always pleasurable, people should be open about it(maybe?).

As a more programmer-programmer, what sucks, to me, is that I can't play anymore. Since I code professionally I find it really tough to keep on programming like 100% of the time I'm awake. Really, after 8 hours stressing and trying to deliver it feels like my brain is dry and can't take more, then surely I get the feelings of "isn't there more to life?"

I guess if I worked 6 hrs/day I'd probably be a happier and better programmer. It is a strenuous activity, when I get to it after a day of work, lets say 1,5 hours to two hours of doing stuff in my spare time, generally it's not enough to finish anything, or learn something to "I'm satisfied with this" level(I also gave up on backbone)

For example, I've already gone through a book on Android programming besides plenty of articles and plus messing around .. But in trying to build some useless shit just to develop it, in two hours I'll barely have anything new ready that I'm proud of, mostly no progress at all(Java btw), if the useless shit doesn't get done, it puts me off of doing the really cool shit I'd really like to do, there's not enough time in life to play with code and work with it and it gets me bummed, I'm 26 and I'm no longer at the "no really, programming is the coolest thing possible!" phase, I have other interests like reading, music, women, beer, videogames(basically given up on this already), soccer(my legs are not strong enough anymore, so, halted), drawing(seeming like a better escape for creativity than programming nowadays), hanging out with friends... I don't honestly don't know to do about this, I guess I wish I could do whatever I want... ;/
Or a single \r ;).
From your other posts, you don't strike me as a guy who thinks that companies should be dissuaded by lefty activists flipping their shit, so this seems a little disingenuous to me.
> the earth is standing still, it's not moving... it is moving in a straight line

Wait, is the earth moving or not? I also can't figure out what definition of orbit you are using. Your comment feels far too clever for it's own good.
Along those lines, there is a species of bees that works in unison to kill huge hornets by simply enveloping them and using body heat to cook them, which works thanks to a 4-degree difference in each species' maximum survivable temperature.

(Video warning: Lots of bees, hornets, and some flashing lights that may affect epileptic viewers.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6m40W1s0Wc#t=22
And, I could see this as a way for painters make a name for themselves, if they could build up a portfolio that demonstrates their particular talents.
NSF Report Flawed; Americans Do Not Believe Astrology is Scientific
the male dominated frat-boy culture that Silicon Valley is increasingly being criticized for

I don't know if frat boys are different now than when I was in school but all I know is you never saw them in the Computer Science building.
Of course, correlation does not equal causation. If there is something about their "culture" that is off-putting to women, you can't "fix" it by changing the hiring practices. You fix the culture and the hiring practices follow suit organically.

I suspect that the title is wrong, and that the thesis of the article is that there is something strongly biased about Dropbox's culture and the experiences recounted about interviewing there are one symptom of many.

I'm speaking to what I read in the article, of course. I'm not a woman and I don't work at Dropbox.
the earth is standing still, it's not moving...The earth is not circling the sun, it is moving in a straight line

You may have this somewhat right in your head but it comes out as contradictory nonsense in your comment.
"Dark Tetrad", really? Are they trying to glamorize "being an asshole"?
I found it bizarre that the author suggested that the heliocentric model and the spheroidness of Earth are the two most basic scientific facts.
Because his users are not at fault and shouldn't be penalized.
Everybody thinks the general population should be more knowledgeable about the particular topic they love. "Everyone should learn how to code!" "I can't believe people are so apathetic about how laws are made!" "Most people don't understand basic finance; how can they buy a home and save for retirement properly!"
Thanks a lot for the feedback!
Yes, this is a hypothesis and we are trying to get our first users. We are willing to take that leap of faith definitely. So would you suggest us to search for specific restaurants and visit them in person or would there be any online source you could recommend that have better chances at reaching to restaurants?
The word definitely has gotten re-appropriated a bit to where I hear people using it to describe a harmless prank or joke among friends.
relative to us, then how to explain the sun's motion? I'm having a hard time visualizing/explaining this.
Cool. I'd really like to use pry for my production console. Is there a way to start a Rails Pry console in production without forcing my coworkers to do the same?

A slight twist on 'Pry in Production' I've done is to drop a call to `binding.pry` in the code on a staging server. Then I can step through production data and inspect what's going on.
We would love to ask more, as your advices are quite helpful. Thanks for being a part of our project :)
It would be forgery (fraud, whatever) if you mis-represented it as an original, but if you wanted something that looked like a famous piece of art, you should be in the clear.
Yes and the guns, mass surveillance and racially unequal incarceration tantamount to genocide.
Valentines Day, in JavaScript style
Here's the source:
http://liveweave.com/EMvAdg
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I don't have a heavy background in design or development, so everything on the "backend" is manually done right now. I'm just testing out my hypothesis that people might be interested in a service like this. Let me know what you think? Thanks!
rap minus lies = hip hop

in my opinion.