skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
right!

So lets make this a discussion about:

Alien abduction
Alien implants
Alien space crafts
Cold fusion
Drawing energy from magnetic fields
noble gas engines
plasma reactors
gravity engines
making gold from other elements
turning water into pure hydrogen or pure oxygen
Remote viewing
Astral projection
Summoning spirits
Contacting the after life
Wireless electricity
HAARP
chemtrails / RF chaff

And of course animal rain to make it truly Fortean.[0]

Try not to make arguments from ignorance, provide sources based on actual research.

Oh, and don't confuse the examples for the topic!

Enjoy!

edit

I see the fear of the unknown has already produced 1 down vote. I shouldn't be asking but I'm curious why. Perhaps I should explain a bit more:

I think rationality is best tested where most people abandon it. If all of the above are not real we must have rational arguments for each item.

I dont claim to know anything about the items beyond a bit of superficial googling. The arguments found on the web left much to be desired. I cant just copy other peoples opinion if they didn't arrive there logically.

[0] - http://www.resologist.net/loei.htm
Apple and Samsung are two great examples of higher end companies whose products aren't appreciably superior or inferior to most of their competitors

I'm not sure this is true: Samsung is not a (particularly) higher-end company, and their phones at least are lower cost than Apple.

In the case of Apple, their phones were appreciably better up until two years ago or so. Their laptops have been physically better in fit and finish for at least a decade (http://paulgraham.com/mac.html).
>They behave more like ideal economic actors.

I believe the author is making the mistake of equating the "rational" in "economics' rational actors" to be people who choose wisely. The type of wise choices that most of society would agree to lead to positive outcomes.

My understanding is that formal economics is using "rational" as in "rational choice theory"[1]. It's a specific term-of-art that's different from the everyday usage of "rational." It's not some positive measure to satisfy a global optimum. A "rational actor" is simply someone who reliably arrives at the same consistent choices given the knowledge and preferences he happens to have. If a consumer chooses CocaCola over water even though soda's sugar content causes obesity and teeth decay, the consumer is still classified as "rational" even though it looks like a suboptimal choice within the bigger picture of healthy living. Economics' rational choices satisfy a local optimum (consumer's imperfect preferences) and not a global one.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_actor
That's a common comment but actually isn't true. Some great movies have fantastic Peetimes. Take for instance Captain America: Winter Soldier. (Lets not debate how good the movie was. I think it was at the very least a well told story.)

At any rate it has a fantastic Peetime. There's an entire 4+ minute span of Steve and Natasha entering the old Army base where Shield began. There's almost no dialog, it's just them searching as the tension builds. As a story telling device it's an important scene - building the tension. But if you need to take care of some urgent biological needs this makes a perfect time to run and pee. :-)
I disagree. Software engineering skill and software engineering job interview skills are only tangentially related. The only thing jumping ship regularly says is you jump ship regularly.
The Airwheel
Same applies to all hash functions. It's how you implement it that counts.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/20/32000_motherboards_s...
Yes it does - command-line, GitHub for Windows, SourceTree, IDE plugin - you name it, it has it.
Same applies to all types of hashes. Implementation counts more than which function you choose.
Ask HN: Where does your self-worth come from?
I want to know how people here evaluate their self-worth (or esteem) because of how tied that concept is to work for me. Particularly, I'm wondering how people reconcile their feelings about their worth with problems at work.

For perspective, I'm a year out of school working as a developer at a huge tech company. Recently I've felt like I'm just running into walls and that what I'm allowed to do is much less than what I'm able to do. This really lowers my self-esteem and I'm not sure if I should be looking for it in other life-aspects (I've always felt like I've had a singular focus, so my self-evaluation has always tended to be tied to how that's going).
Nice to see that! Your upcoming book seems promising. I'll make sure I keep an eye on it :)
They are not scheduled on the same day though.

This also applies to the regular season - again, so as not to split attention from fans, and the other simply logistical (some stadiums - being used for both NBA & NHL - need more prep time to setup the ice rink).
And it goes beyond that. Salary isn't the only compensation you receive. There are also benefits like 401k (often with match), stock grants/options, health care, bonuses, etc. If you just look at my salary, I've averaged a 4% raise each year for the last 5 years. But if you look at my full compensation, it's more like a 50% raise the first year, and a 4% raise each year after that. I've had offers to go to other places, but they often don't include the other forms of compensation. (Or they do, but the stock is worthless, or the health insurance isn't very good, for example.)
Is there an outline somewhere of the differences between ordinary Mathematica syntax and "Wolfram Language"? I was a bit disappointed when I first discovered that it seemed so only resemble Mathematica, which is excellent for REPL style programming but pretty hopeless for large scale structured programming, much like Matlab.
Very happy to hear it. I'd love to hear exactly how you use the app and if there's anything you think I can do to improve the experience. It's certainly a tricky situation: making an app usable during a movie without bothering the other people around you. Email me: Dan@RunPee.com if you have any feedback.
Well, I as a longtime NFL fan have become weary of watching live games b/c of the ever increasing volume of advertising. They changed the rules some time back in order to shorten games which were stretching beyond 3 hours. Naturally, playing time was shortened and not ad time. Since my team plays on the east coast and I live on the west coast, I can take advantage of NFL game rewind service and watch Sunday games at 9pm ad-free for 35$ for season. What a steal. Can spend entire Sunday with family.
Resistors and Potentiometers
Review submitted with substantial discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7784874
Nice project! Did you use JTAG or some other (more painful) work flow?
"Stimulating antibody production" means you're protected from the antigen for some period of time, be it a virus, or at the other end of things in the case of tetanus, against the neurotoxin that's produced by the bacteria responsible for it. If there are enough antibodies in your system, they'll latch onto their specific antigen, which triggers other parts of the immune system to deal with it.

Antibiotics only work while their level in the body is high, and they pretty much are limited to zapping bacteria, by going after things that are different in them from the class of more evolved organisms that includes everything from yeast to humans (many have cell walls like plants, their protein producing machines are slightly different, etc.).

They are largely derived from compounds molds evolved to produce, to allow them to better ecologically compete (there are also some bacteria produced antibiotics, although I don't know if any are used as drugs).
Performance benchmarks: KVM vs. Xen
Frequent urination is also an indicator for type II diabetes, get your sugar checked.
Because that statement is backwards. It is not the case that the number writer needs to know about the gaussian distribution, but the other way around. The guesser needs knowledge of the types of numbers that the number writer is choosing in order to create the gaussian distribution.
My experience is the absolute opposite, but maybe that's the difference between the US (or CA) market and the German one. Germany seems to pay people by seniority, not by their abilities (which, I think, sometimes causes unemployment for older developers). Maybe it's an "equality" thing - so all developers your age will make roughly the same.

Even with excellent reviews by my bosses (not to mention being a well-respected team member and the go-to guy of choice for technical questions), they wouldn't even give me a 10% pay increase. Switching jobs also didn't help (I got maybe 3% more), but at least a single company didn't get to reap all the profit from having me around.

Right now, I don't even bother anymore. All public job offers are for consulting companies, which seems to be very profitable (basically: you get paid less than the internal employees at companies that hire you, and the consulting company keeps 70% of the hourly rate they get paid; you get maybe 30%).

Sometimes there are article what nice salaries you're supposed to get, but if there aren't even jobs available?
Exactly. Rationality in economics simply means an agent maximizes his (expected) utility from the common and specific knowledge he currently has.
Interesting David, myself and some of the guys at the office have been experimenting with quads lately and discussing possible military/police or media uses, after reading your initial proposal #1 struck me as a possible solution. However I've since swapped to another much more "back to basic principles" idea that while more difficult, would have a much wider impact.
Different post. :-) That post was about the accuracy/reliability of various weather forecasting services for predicting rain.

This one is about the accuracy of three weather forecasting methods and how far into the future they can predict the temperature.
Ask HN: What search library can be used for the new communication platform?
Hello Hackernews,
We are developing a communication platform, where users share content in the group. Group consists of two parts - messenger (for discussion) and part with files and links, where only files and links are located. One or more files are connected to the text message, that was sent with it.
So now we want to implement a search system, that will be able to search in messages, file names, links, image tags, file contents (if possible). What is the best solution that you can suggest (both paid and free are ok)?
Thanks in advance
I know the guy behind this fairly well. I think the movie watching is split up between 2-3 people (Creator, his sister, and someone else). I believe they also have a movie critic on board to get the pee-times early for expected blockbusters.

For many years he has had very busy Thursday/Fridays.
Okay, so there's a lot to break down here and a lot of conflations taking place.

At a base level we can understand, I know people in my life who seem more "rational" in general than people I know who I would describe as more "emotional". In this sense, you can think of "rational" thinking as any thought-pattern that activates the cortex -- roughly speaking, the region of the the brain associated with higher-order and abstract thinking.

On a more nuanced level, the author seems to be making a case about capital-R "Rationalism", as espoused by communities like Less Wrong, Effective Altruism, capital-L Libertarians, and the singularity wonks. In this, I feel like the author is making a huge conflation that I feel is kind of misleading and rather insulting to people who don't buy into one small communities ideas about cognitive bias and logical fallacies.

Often times, "evidence" of "irrational" behaviors, as displayed for example in the Linda problem and the Wason task, typically fail in that the askers don't understand language or how it's typically used. There are loads of people that have a rational bent that will get these problems wrong, simply because they don't put too much thought into it, or they're trying to answer a question linguistically, rather than purely "Rationally".

I have a lot of theories as to why LessWrong / Libertarian types develop this inflated sense of self importance about their "Rational" outlook of the world, but it's pedagogical, and probably insulting to those involved, so I'll leave it for another day.
I'm so glad we use the metric system here; that was hard to follow.
Is this to enable bitcoin services that do not hold a user's funds?
At some point these folks: http://www.oneonthego.com/ will sense a marketing opportunity.
So what is the marginal cost of storing the tape? And does it matter? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_cost)
Easily load 2x images with this JS snippet
I am in the exact same boat. One note I'll add is that the first time I was already trying to make sense of it, and sort of interpreted the sound as something like "Perhaps you should <gibberish>". I still heard that after knowing the real sentence, so it may be a case that our own brain can supply that prior knowledge, even if it turns out to be incorrect.
On the flipside - I've never had to suspect _ for being the cause of a problem.

That's a huge benefit. I actually spend less time debugging. I've reduced my program to data manipulation strategies. If I get something wrong, it's because I did my logic wrong, not because I typoed in a nested for loop somewhere.

In fact, when I happen upon code that isn't using underscore, it tends to be really long, loaded with unnecessary state and memos, and is very fragile and not easy to reorganize. One of the first things I do is start utilizing underscore. Once you get used to the extended language, you can do things like convert 200 lines of code down into a few lines. It frees your mind up to think about other things (which, for me, is the single most important thing in programming).

I suggest learning to love the higher order data flow abstractions.

Edit: I also suggest you utilize breakpoints ability to backwards through the call-stack (at least in DevTools), within the 'Breakpoints' tab, when paused, you will see a trace which you can click through, and be plopped into the scope of that execution as if you had a breakpoint anywhere along the chain of function calls. Even if the function is anonymous, you're interacting with it and so it shouldn't matter as much.
Oh, it's certainly not just you! I suspect most folks aren't used to writing and reading code in this kind of functional style.

In fact, these two blocks probably aren't equivalent... my guess is that `silent` catches all exceptions, since it would be an odd name for a function that just catches `TypeError`. Relying on the reader to learn the name of a function that specific would be completely unreasonable. OTOH, transforming a collection is pretty common, and silencing all exceptions is fairly common as well. (And occasionally even correct!) General-purpose functions like that are often worth the time to learn, since the small dividends from each application soon outweigh the up-front learning cost.

IMO, the biggest benefit of small abstractions like this is that they make bigger abstractions easier. The first form is easy for experienced programmers to understand because it's a common pattern, so you don't have to think too much about it. The functional style extracts that pattern and gives it a name, so it appears only as a single token. The resulting code is higher-level, but smaller; and once that extra machinery is out of the way, you have a chance to notice larger-scale patterns that was obscured by all that extra code. As programmers, we already learn to notice repeated calculations and factor those out to a method; the functional style does the same thing with control flow, with the same caveats in terms of extra abstractions and learning cost, and with the same significant benefits.
What is this video?
I hate seeing the bright phone screen in the middle of watching a film. [I have no idea if cinemas have a formal policy on that, though]

That said, the app had a "low key" design so it doesn't shine bright in the theater. ( Theoretically anyway).

When the movie starts you start the timer, and put the phone in your pocket. The the phone vibrates when a pee-time comes up. You don't have to take out your phone [until you're in the bathroom and want to read about what you're missing].
Please upvote so that many HNers would answer.
HN doesn't have any staff who are 100% focused on managing spam and abuse, though some days it's easy to feel otherwise.
Depending on the job market it can also be very expensive (time vs yield) to hunt for job offers. If there are hardly any offers, and if the companies all look like rather bad employers, or the job looks like it will pay probably less than you already make, then you waste lots of time on nothing. So people just stay at their jobs.

I'd really really like to have something like Stackoverflow jobs (i.e. well-described jobs), but also with information what they would pay (seriously: this should be public; hiring is a business decision, and hiding the price only wastes people's time), and with something like the company's kununu profile linked directly, so I can see how well they treat their employees.

Maybe software development is different from more traditional professions, but if you can hire a top performer for 20% higher salary, they'll probably be as productive as 5-10 average developers, so it's really worth it. Well, over here nobody in HR seems to share that opinion.
I'd love to see an app the combines Popcorn time with this. Instead of just reading about the missed parts, it'll stream the relevant part on your phone.
Obviously it would have to be legal, therefore with some kind of partnership with the studios, and should recognize the scene you left the movie.

That is, if you're ok with using a phone while peeing.
HR is really a problem here (at least in the software industry). Pay is usually based on title and how many people you manage, but I think that's pathological for managing developers because developers aren't interchangeable. You have huge variances in skills and knowledge. The thing is, development skills scale in a way most job skills can't. You can have at developer that has 10x more impact than other developers. (It's not common, but it certainly happens). But those people are definitely not making 10x more. Or even really 2x more.

I think companies really need to realize that they have to compensate their best developers to get them to stay even if they're not giving them management responsibilities, because the good ones are going to realize they're good and either job hop or freelance. Saying "we can only give you this much because your title is X and we don't have an open management position, but we really value you!" is a great way to lose your best people.
Yes, nor their private keys. This enables these services to sign any kind of Bitcoin transactions, of any complexity (as long as their are valid), without ever touching user's private keys or having to migrate its users to their own [web] client-side wallet.
No, it translates into CL is quite widespread but we don't use SO (we have CLHS/good documentation, c.l.lisp, #lisp, loads of mailing lists etc.).

Also SO is kind of geared towards entry level programmers, which applies to few CL folks.
I don't think you need an app to screen moviegoers for that, you need an app (or, really, a website) to rate theaters for that...Type and level of distracting behavior (whether its food related or conversation related) is a cultural preference, and different theaters serve different client bases with different dominant cultural preferences. This is in part an effect of geography, and in part self-selection through experience, but making it easier to share experience would make it easier for people to align their theater choices with their cultural preferences.
I forgot to mention that every time you change, assuming you have a PTO balance, you also get that paid out as a bonus.
Why did you even bother writing that, is it supposed to be funny? Because there is certainly no truth or utility to this ridiculous speculation.
Thanks for the PSA about PSA (public service announcement / prostate-specific antigen).
Yes, my mistake, you're absolutely right. They're different articles.

But they are talking about the same problem, giving related data, posted the same day, and clearly related. So I think the cross-reference is valid, and the discussion on the other submission is appropriate.

But it's true that they are definitely different articles.
Spacex and then USA v Portugal.

So much for this afternoon.
Sure! That's valid. Just didn't want people to get confused. It's happened before. :-)
The problem with technical management is often that good developers stay where they are (they are NEEDED), but bad developers are often promoted because it's convenient, and because they don't exactly cling to their technical position - they're expendable.

So you have people that were bad coders to begin with and that don't have lots of technical know-how and experience making decisions that impact the project in very bad ways (like choosing absolutely the wrong frameworks or tools that HAVE to be used).

Also, good engineering skill isn't rewarded, because - of course! - a management or team lead position has more status and salary than a technical position, because it's worth so much more to the company.
elasticsearch is the way to go.
The Kindle e-readers are excellent products in their own right. With the Paperwhite they've perfected the category IMO. The software -- e.g., the Xray feature, and the overall gesture UI -- and the hardware are equally good.
We needed a statistic for this? I thought it was common knowledge, kind of like water is wet, fire is hot, (weather) predictions are getting more inaccurate the longer time scale they are predicting...
Please don't reply to snark with more snark.
> users typed the + operator in less than half a percent of all searches

Matt Cutts obviously isn't stupid, but that's a very stupid thing to say, or think, or act upon.

Many things are done rarely, that are extremely useful or important.

Hey, most search strings probably represent "less than half a percent" of all possible searches; so by that metric they could drop most of their index, and only answer the most frequent searches...
One is not likely to get to the same place in life as that CEO by job-hopping as a software engineer.
From my personal experience: If one is able to dig deeply enough, for what I guess to be something like 90% of the population, there is a level where people just declare "I feel that way" and there is no logic, nor even the barest respect for rationality. What's more, these feelings are very often used to justify the arbitrary bad treatment of others who are deemed to be "wrong" or "inferior."

All of these feelings have some "rationalization" as window dressing, but ultimately, it comes down to irrational feelings of tribal affiliation. This invariably comes out in politics and professional life.

We're goddamned grunting, screaming apes who have the ability to occasionally surpass our primitive nature and are well suited to being organized into groups. The vast majority of us do not have the intellectual integrity to hold consistently to a set of rational principles to the nth degree. In the end, our feelings hold sway, and our empathy often fails.

Prejudice is a part of our very nature, and it comes out all the time. There is no need for it to be attached to race or gender, and our society doesn't equip us with the intellectual tools to recognize it at the substrate level. Rather, our present societies are organized around it.
Assuming this isn't supposed to be rhetorical - yes, it works pretty well in fact. Windows's bizarrely ropey FS performance means it's a bit slower, but in general the experience is basically the same as using it under OS X. SourceTree/git gui/gitk are work the same.