skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stargate has an amazingly contemporary American conservative outlook on the universe: that most places, peoples and dilemmas, even if bizarre on the surface, ultimately boil down to familiar with-us-or-against-us conflicts that are solved through might and a strong sense of exceptionalism. It's a suburban universe that you commute to that's not too different from home and doesn't compel change other than to double down on the status quo. Space is the Olive Garden. Aliens are more interested in us than we are in them. Scientists are myopic and are only good as resources to be used by a white guy without much book learnin' but lots of common sense (who of course is always smarter than the scientists when push comes to shove) -- I don't even mean particular characters, it's a template across all the shows. The characters might profess hope about the future, but to me it was more a sobering study of the narrow view we have of our own world projected onto the universe.

TNG has its share of similar colonial tendencies, but the show has some self-awareness about it and DS9's entire run was a deconstruction of those themes.
I had Gittip in mind, and it is a single place.
Ask HN: Which Support tools do you use?
I am looking for a support tool, to communicate with my customers. I like the way Intercom does it, but it has no reasonable pricing model if you don't need user-tracking and have a lot of inactive users.
might also be due to the fact that Turks are simply - really mad about soccer :)! I lived couple years in Istanbul, and was amazed by how Turks are obsessed with soccer overall.
BridJS – BridJ-like API for binding C function and structs in JS
But was written 20 years ago. Certainly within memory of many readers who'd be alive today, but certainly missing many important themes that could be explored to extrapolate from today.
There was a pretty good two-parter on DS9 where an admiral took advantage of the fear around the dominion war to over-step his bounds and implement secretive/draconian security measures until Sisko "blows the whistle." Probably came as close as any episode to showing Starfleet dysfunction. And of course there was Section 31 towards the end of the series (starfleet's NSA).

There were also a couple TNG episodes: one where there was a witch hunt to find a supposed spy on board the Enterprise, and another where Starfleet claimed Data was property and not alive.

There's also Star Trek 6 which exposed a Federation conspiracy to sabotage peace talks with the Klingons. Probably my favorite movie in the series after Khan.

Granted it's much earlier in the Trek universe, but Enterprise also tackled xenophobic groups in the last season.

I always enjoyed episodes that featured internal struggles even if they were relatively rare.
(I assume you're referring to QE1, QE2 and QE3)

It's say a supermarket advertises bread for $1. Anyone who reads the ad, will consciously or unconsciously believe that the dollar has value. Now multiply this effect by all the similar advertising over many years and you'll see that the dollar is the strongest brand ever.

When the financial crisis hit in 2008, the public starting saving and they choose the most stable brand they could find (the dollar) and the brand was well on it's way to get even stronger.

The way to counter act it was by flooding the market with money (lowering interest rates and later printing money).

Bitcount does not derive it's value in the same way and printing bitcoins is fixed by the block chain rules.
> that these exercises are the most effective way to improve someone's overall health and fitness.

This doesn't explain anything, however. It's tautological... he wants to increase his fitness, to increase his fitness?

> Now, I'm not going to argue with you about whether humans need exercise to be healthy or if so,

To what end? To eke out another 3 years at the end of his life, probably in a nursing home?

If he was trying to avoid diabetes, that makes sense to me, that affects anywhere from 10-40 years of your life, and is a very extreme quality-of-life factor.

This doesn't explain the ever-present fitness craze.
Can you please provide more information? What campaigns and how did you discover them?
This sort of thing happens every now and then, even when there are no indigenous tribes involved:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jul/15/childprotection.so...
Kids (6-13) React to an old Apple II Computer
I like this.

Only thing that I don't like is that many candidates will assume that they have to fix the code within the parser, given those instructions, even if they know that a battle-tested library is how they would actually do it. I hope you accept an off-hand comment such as, "ew, why is this hand-rolled" as a sufficient indicator in favor of your solution.
Short homemade movie inspired by those novels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET8IFxPo61w
Which sentences from the article do you disagree with?
In 1994, technology was a part of our lives, but it did not dominate us completely. So it was possible for Star Trek: TNG to imagine a world in which we, as people, stayed much the same, but the worlds in which we traveled expanded infinitely outward. Technology for the past twenty years has relentlessly driven inward.

It's so interesting to me that commentators keep making this same point over and over again, and the only answer we get is "But we'll just make even cooler tech, and it'll all work out."

I don't think so. I think the time of man is at a close, whether we evolve past it or self-terminate. Billions of years of evolution has created this species of hominids that travel in packs. We are, instead, trying to re-make ourselves in something closer to the Borg. It's not going to end the way we expect it to.
Looks like an interesting text, but to be honest I didn't understand a substantial portion of it.
This new workout book from Joe Manganiello (actor from True Blood) is pretty incredible.

http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Cutting-Breaking-Mental-Buil...

He details the workout he used to transform his body for his role of Alcide (a werewolf) on True Blood.

There are also a few chapters dedicated to motivation and mental approach. They're well-written and he doesn't pull any punches. Highly recommended.
It's not super unreasonable for a multi-element primary key, is it? For example, at work we have a MySQL table that stores advertising stats with a (Publisher ID, Country, Day) primary key[1]. All those fields are non-nullable, but I can imagine someone using NULL for the country[2] if we couldn't determine it (it's based on IP).

[1] It's slightly more complicated, but it's basically similar.

[2] "zz" might be appropriate to represent an unknown country, but other domains might not have a good default value

Edit: double asterisks messing up my formatting
End Mass Incarceration Now
I have never read a competent bureaucracy into any version of Star Trek, even at its most optimistic. The Federation has been routinely shown to be corrupt (commodores in TOS and admirals in TNG out only for their own gain), incompetent (failing to defend... anything as a group, including Earth), short-sighted (stupid orders that get ignored), and criminally cruel (the prime directive). In TOS and TNG it was usually Kirk or Picard's job to correct these failings.

In that sense, Trek is actually extremely individualistic. The Borg are the Trek version of a functional bureaucracy, and are shown as terrifying for their elimination of individuality.

In the more cynical DS9+ era, we even get the wonderful element of a puppetmaster (Section 31) behind the incompetence of the Federation that keeps it alive to hide its clandestine activities that keep the sheep believing in their ideals. And our heroes wind up siding with them, effectively.
Writing a File System in Linux Kernel
Thank you for the bug report. We'll make sure to fix you in the next version. ;)
Very interesting! Thanks for the references.

Having read some of these, though, it's pretty clear that ALTER support is a major pain point. Would you have any insight as to why the SQLite maintainers would not choose to prioritize that issue? From what I know of SQLite, it's a very well built piece of software. It seems odd to me that such a smart bunch of guys would disregard community feedback without a good reason.
Is bamboo the next carbon fibre?
So is slavery. If you are an anthropologist from a non-slave culture working in an area where people keep slaves, and you decide not only to keep a few, but to import them when you return...
I'm not sure if you would want to watch "I robot", but there was implications of a robot/AI driving car and what that would mean if there's a system that's calculating the probability of survival in the event that an accident is imminent.

Again, I'm not suggesting anyone to watch it, but there's a scene about leisurely self-driving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj_cW7aoRdQ
Climate Change Reconsidered
Starting Strength is more about getting functionally strong, though an increase in muscle size would no doubt accompany that.

Taking the deadlift as an example, Rippetoe spends pages describing the proper form, and why you need to do them. This is not because he wants you to necessarily get 'big', but because the muscles involved are used on a daily basis.

"The deadlift is more functional in that it’s very hard to imagine a more useful application of strength than picking heavy shit up off the ground. "

http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wiki/Wit_and_Wisdom_of_Mar...
Karplus-Strong Algorithm
Whenever I read the phrase "Information Retrieval", the first thing that pops into my mind is this scene from Terry Gilliam's "Brazil": http://youtu.be/LFlFIG22Y9E
"I look bloody amazing naked."

I'm afraid we are going to need to see some pictures to verify that....
(kidding, please don't post pictures:)

Seconded on edgy when not enough exercise. The same thing happens to me. I notice this goes away if I ignore it and just don't exercise for a long time though. But then I don't feel as good and start having a much more negative attitude on life.
Well, you keep doing this until you get 'acquired.'
You keep on subscribing to this image of the military as valiant crusaders against the dark, yet the most significant deployment of the biggest military in the world this century was an unmitigated disaster, that had nothing to do with defense of innocents, and that left the people of the target country far worse off than they were originally.

The problem is this: by continually glorifying the military the way you do, making them out to be crusader heroes, you fool young, impressionable people. So instead of decrying things like the invasion of Iraq, they sign up in droves, because they've been tricked by the rhetoric into thinking it's somehow about defending their country.

The point is, if the US military was really about fighting your definition of evil, it would be far more involved in Africa. Its mission is "keep the US safe and further its interests", which is fine, but it's not the "fight evil" mission that you say it is. If the US military really was about fighting evil (which is an oversimplistic term), it would have staged a coup when GW Bush declared war on Iraq, a war in which hundreds of thousands of people have died, in a country that was no threat to the US.
This is something I hadn't considered. Being able to do firmware updates to a device with an embedded instance of SQLite seems huge.

Seeing as ALTER support is currently lacking, what kinds of approaches are commonly taken to work around this issue? I'm particularly interested in hearing about how people manage workaround to this problem for things like upgrading embedded devices. I imagine the scarcity of resources (RAM, CPU) available to most embedded devices would make this a difficult problem to solve on the hardware at hand.
Those are Markov-chain based text generators. (yes, I got the joke).
I've always been interested in the Starting Strength program, but was intimidated by gyms and the equipment, so I did this recently. I'm not too far from Wichita Falls, so I was able to find a personal trainer who was very familiar with Rippetoe and his work and had even been trained by him before.

It was definitely a worthwhile investment. After a month and a half of coaching with a personal trainer, I feel a lot more confident with going to a gym or using my own equipment now. I'd still be going to the same trainer if I could fit it into my schedule.
Right, that might have been the problem. The thing I had noticed as an issue is that if you walk down the "supplements" aisle at Whole Foods or whatever, you'll find hundreds of pill bottles with cryptic labels (eg, "Tonalin CLA" or "Garcinia Cambogia") with recommended dosage info ("take twice a day before meals!"), and no info whatsoever explaining what the product is for. If it's on the shelf, thousands of people must think this product is good for something but the FDA won't let the manufacturer say what.

So you might think you could type the product name into wikipedia and see what's up. When I do that, what I want to know first of all is:

(1) What is this product for? Why do people take it, what benefit do they expect to obtain?

(2) What evidence supports the claims that advocates make for this product? What's the backstory behind how this product came into the public eye?

(3) Last but not least, what does mainstream medicine have to say about it?

When you actually look up these products in wikipedia, most of what you get is (3). (2) is nonexistent and (1) is at best given short shrift.

I'm sure the editors who want to keep any claims related to what they see as "quack" products out of wikipedia are well-meaning but I think they are misguided and thereby do more harm than good. It'd be better if wikipedia pages reliably told both sides. Then supplement enthusiasts would learn to go to wikipedia first where they might see the medical caveats alongside the info they originally seek. But if wikipedia only tells one side, the nuts/enthusiasts just learn to avoid wikipedia and instead seek out alternative sources that DO include info of type (1) and (2), even at the cost of omitting (3).
The other 4 being perhaps Rembrandt, Escher, Erasmus and Spinoza or did you have others in mind?
Are you sure that is usually how the story plays out? I don't know, but I also don't trust the usual sources as they have their own agenda. Perhaps the percentage of rapists there is not higher than in the Western world?

I also think it is very difficult to judge from a different culture. For example, what if the girls are being killed if they can't be married? (Again, I have no idea about the real workings of those cultures, but there are certainly cultures where girls get killed because parents can't afford them - not saying that that is a good state of things, but the question is who is to blame?).
If we achieve interstellar travel, we will spread to other planets. I see no reason to assume that none of our future colonies could outlive this planet.
Is it safe to say that in ML, use of NNs is more about writing code that designs NNs, evaluates the results, and modifies the designs to optimize some desired meta-values, like accuracy, efficiency, etc?
Yes, if your morality is arbitrarily determined by what you can get away with, everything's moral that you can get away with.

Does the father in a particular family get to set the culture of that family? If so, I think that many child molesters may have the basis for a "common sense" appeal through your argument.
Portraying the mechanics of post-scarcity has the same problem as showing a truly alien species: Our imagination is simply not up to the task because we've never seen anything like it to template it on. Avoiding the issue and focusing on smaller stories that exist within post-scarcity is the only way to maintain suspension of disbelief.

If and when we reach true post-scarcity, our society will change in ways we simply can't predict. Our economic models are no use there.

But things get a lot easier if you just assume everyone in Trek is a LARPer who can just do that because why the fuck not.
>If he was trying to avoid diabetes, that makes sense to me, that affects anywhere from 10-40 years of your life, and is a very extreme quality-of-life factor.

Sure and two of the biggest factors in preventing/treating diabetes are exercise and weight maintenance.

>This doesn't explain anything, however. It's tautological... he wants to increase his fitness, to increase his fitness?

Nope. He is performing weight bearing exercise to, not only become better at performing those exercises, but also with the goal of achieving better body composition, bone density, stamina, mental well being, etc. These have huge impacts on quality of life. You've established that you don't value longevity and quality of life, but it shouldn't be hard to understand why others seek that out.
* The Sails ORM (which is called Waterline) is very light and simple, but it doesn't have the maturity or the same degree of expressive power that you get with ActiveRecord. Associations were recently added and the query system doesn't really let you take advantage of them quite yet.

* There are also subtle differences in behavior that emerge when you use Waterline with different database adapters, so you really need to develop against the same DB adapter that you intend to use in production.

* When you need to customize the behavior of the CRUD methods that Sails gives you by default (like if you need to transform some parameters passed in by the user in the create method), it is often cleaner and easier to do it by applying custom policy methods rather than overriding the actual CRUD method in the controller.

* For a new Sails project, you probably want to start with the new version 0.10 even though it hasn't been officially released yet.

Those are the points that first come to mind. Despite the limitations, I've found it to be a pretty compelling framework. And it's very actively developed, so a lot of the deficiencies are being corrected.
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Its more geared to university/college students, but can be used for others: http://studygig.com
Sounds like a good idea to me. If you think third-party sources for this stuff are findable, then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:MED might be a place to suggest it, with negative and positive examples (something that would inspire volunteers to take on your idea).
It always seems weird to me when someone shits on another person's credentials without stating their own.
I want to highlight one part of my blog post no one's picked up on: "some engineer actually wrote code to deliberately break document sharing on the web." Think of all the things an engineer can do with the skill to program computers, to make amazing things on the Internet. And he or she spends that time developing new ways to make it hard to read text on a web page. Ugh.

Frankly making fun of Quora and Scribd is like shooting fish in a barrel, but sometimes it's helpful to articulate the obvious.
Cannot say I disagree. I mostly say swiss army because people know what that is and leatherman is not as well know.
>>As someone who started lifting a year ago: you don't know what you're talking about, but don't let that stop you from giving others advice that could hurt them.

I have been lifting for five years and I can conclusively state that you are grossly misinformed about this issue.

Fact: the vast majority of trainers out there are shitty. The problem with relying on them as a beginner is that you cannot recognize the shitty ones from the good ones. Simplest example: most trainers will tell you not to go below parallel when you squat, which is just wrong advice. But as a newbie, you aren't in a position to question them. So you will learn wrong form and will be more likely to develop muscle imbalances and injuries.

Therefore, your advice of relying on a trainer to show you good form is potentially far more harmful than using the book as a reference.
Hopefully there aren't many people designing data models with NULL primary keys.

However, if SQLite never enforced non-NULL behavior then it's certainly possible that along the way some applications could have written an errant record to a database with a NULL primary key (instead of treating it as an error case). And if a "fixed" version of SQLite3 ever shipped, then these previously-valid data files would suddenly become invalid.

Imagine being an app developer and having random customers whose data files suddenly break because the OS happened to upgrade the SQLite3 library to a version that included this fix. I completely understand why the the SQLite maintainers may have decided it wasn't worth the hassle to fix things prior to SQLite4.
How has your experience been with Syncdocs?

I'd recently looked into ways to cure the pain of multiple google drive accounts running on the desktop app. People spoke highly of CloudFuze and InSync, but their support forums were filled with really awful error reports about random file deletions or endless file replication.

These services sound like a syncing layer on top of a syncing layer, which seems prone to errors.
Chomsky's books are deleted off Kindles by NSA?! :-)

If not those, which books? "No Logo"? Books by islamists/KKK/Nazis/etc that preach violence? Mein Kampf?

Can you give ten examples of authors? :-)

Seriously, you can't look more like trolling. We are comparing with China -- there are numbers like a million(!) people doing censoring thrown around.

If you really believe what you claim, go find articles written by journalists in China how they were censored while writing news, etc. Or web censoring. Or...
You said: "If that viewpoint is naive, so was Einstein", and then proceeded to reproduce the same quote. You seem to have used his name to give extra weight to the quotation. I am not arguing for or against your stance here (actually, if anything, I think I agree with it), I'm just pointing out that the first sentence was superfluous. If one of Einstein's viewpoints was in fact naive, that wouldn't make Einstein himself naive, and stating something like that just sounds you were trying to appeal to his authority. That's all.
What are you talking about? Common sense is literally a cultural POV, I mean it has the word COMMON in it, and therefore by definition dependent on that common thread of culture or human knowledge; it is a relative term that's developed through a common experience, which is transformed into a sense, but it's an acquired sense nonetheless.

As for morals, we are animals, and animalistic, thinking otherwise, or towards some fabricated ideal, is untruthful, and therefore amoral.

However for the functioning of a society it is necessary to establish both, morality, and inevitably common sense, and your adverse reaction to such other moralities, or POVs is a direct result of societal conditioning, which is good, because it creates stability in this society.
Speaking of Evolve, I would like to promote my own talk + demo about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OlDm3akbqg