skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an often misquoted study [1]. The complete picture is actually different in that the male monkeys had an anti-plush toy bias, but the female monkeys had no clear preference for either wheel or plush toys (regardless of what you want to infer from that):

Mirroring the marked sex difference in infant interactions and children’s toy preferences, male monkeys interacted significantly less with plush toys than did female monkeys. By contrast, males and females interacted with wheeled toys comparably, displaying no reliable sex differences. As is the case with sex differences in children’s toy preferences, only male monkeys showed a significant preference for one toy type over the other, preferring wheeled over plush toys. Unlike male monkeys and like girls, female monkeys did not show any reliable preference for either toy type.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/
Wow, this is interesting.

Do you have an email? It would be interesting to talk about this.

By the way, how did you find this post? Was it just a random coincide?
But who are the weapon makers going to sell to? Won't somebody think of the weapon makers!
From their point of view what is easier throw a flash grenade into a crib or build sewer shut-off valves through-out the city. Control them, repair them. Can you prove that these drugs belonged to this particular house. That this one person flushed them. What if they are 10 people in the house. Are they all drug dealers because they found pot flushed in some sewer trap?
Not "mystical" but "mythical" man month.
The original comment mentioned arresting someone. If they want to search the house then wait till it is mostly empty. Presumably to get the warrant they have at least a modicum of surveillance? Maybe made and undercover buy or 2?

There are plenty of ways to avoid violence unless absolutely necessary. Instead police want to raise the level of violence and approach every citizen as an enemy combatant. If a cop wants to play military war fighter, then go join the military.
AllJoyn, as well. http://allseenalliance.org
yes, but would the motivation and money for testing not be more available if there was an allowable marketplace*

* note - I didn't read your links completely.
> This is presented as a novel idea, but governments have been subsidizing education for a long time because of this long held value (see: student loans).

Not only that, but the UK has had the Open University since 1969 which provides mass long-distance learning, with grants and loans being easy to find for those taking less than 120 credits a year. They've been using computers and the Internet since they were first accessible to people (using TV and radio for broadcasting lectures before that), and have been releasing some free course material since 2006. The OU also provide a degree track, giving out degrees that are (theoretically) on par with brick-and-mortar unis.

Of course, MOOCs are interesting in that the course material tends to be free, but they're also far behind the Open Uni in most other aspects.
From the paper "Comprehensive formal verification of an OS microkernel":
"We still assume correctness of hand- written assembly code, boot code, management of caches, and the hardware"

http://www.nicta.com.au/pub?doc=7371

There's a lot of assuming going on...I'm not saying that what they've done isn't interesting, but as always don't let yourself get carried away.
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Sweet. This'll make it a lot easier for an emacs-noob like me to give it a fair shot. The hours of yak-shaving necessary to get a vanilla command-line editor into a state where it's halfway productive has been the biggest roadblock to experimenting with emacs for me.
I found the article vague and unconvincing. If philosophy is useful for physics research, where is the evidence? What new thing did philosophy contribute to physics in the last 100 years?

I am a physicist who cares deeply about the foundational issues mentioned in the article. And yet I honestly don't see any meaningful input about these issues coming from philosophers.
"The government has a much stronger interest in detaining a possible flight risk and processing you through the criminal system than in suspending an officer's pay before some sort of notice and a hearing is given."

Police officers can be flight risks. One of the "riders" from Oakland is still at large.
Oh, we probably would have invaded/nuked the Soviet Union. It's not like MAD stopped us from sowing destruction and chaos around the globe, either. It just made us fight proxy wars instead of real ones with other nuclear powers.
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Years of campaigning means nothing if society hasn't notably changed as a result. It really is our entertainment, half of all television shows for children show men (boys) being innately superior in intelligence [1]. Even worse, there are no children's shows with primary female genius characters (they are all male), and when they do show up as non-primary characters their intelligence is often overshadowed by their feminine attributes.

It's even worse in teen TV, where the smart female characters are more often portrayed as being love interests for male characters over being smart.

And lets not even get into the rampant sexism in most mainstream video games (and their communities), even more important for software engineering and computer science since modding/making/playing video games seems to be a common factor for many male entrants, and relatively uncommon among female entrants to the field (at least in my recent but anecdotal experience).

This all leads to a situation where computers, engineering, science, and math are more often seen as male disciplines. We may have cleaned up a lot of blatant sexism, especially in modern workplaces, but our media is still teaching our children gender bias, often with a detrimental effect for both genders (for example decreasing college rates for males, how many male teen characters care about getting into college, have their shit together, etc).

[1] http://www.truechild.org/PageDisplay.asp?p1=6656
What if the code doesn't rely on undefined behavior?
This is for alopecia universalis - don't get your hopes up, gents!
Would tail call optimization help in this case? AFAIK JS's iteration methods aren't recursive.
> About 14 months ago, it caused some of the most serious vulnerabilities in the Ruby on Rails world ever: http://tenderlovemaking.com/2013/02/06/yaml-f7u12.html

Live by eval, die by eval. But more seriously, nobody is forcing a Rust YAML library to support arbitrary structure deserialization (or maybe as an optional switch). I don't think you'd want such a switch on in a build system configuration file.
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Last year 44 police officers were killed violently[1] in the line of duty, and over 400 innocent people were mistakenly killed by the police. I'm not going to complain much about the police shooting violent criminals, but we're well past the stage of worrying about that.

[1] EDIT: Many more are killed in vehicular accidents.
Minor comment on the otherwise nice site: repeatedly clicking the right arrow on the side of the demo console causes it to get confused.
I might misunderstand philosophy, but I think about it like this: scientists gather data, run experiments, etc. while philosophers draw conclusions. Sure most/maybe all scientists draw their own conclusions (it is pretty much the only way to get published) but sometimes the conclusions are not so obvious.

Does the Heisenberg uncertainty principle mean we have free will? Can free will exist? What sort of (theoretical) evidence would we need to disprove free will?

Is that line of questioning philosophy or science? I'm really not sure. I think you take a headlong leap into science when you start running tests, but I'm not sure at what point talk turns from philosophy to science.

In the end, everyone is just trying to make a more accurate map, right?
It's not going to limit clock speed, its just not going to work. To write multiple values to different ram locations (considering a ram has at most two ports) would require you to stay in the INIT state for 9 cycles and do something like:

INIT:
begin
if (count == 9) begin
next_count == 0;
nextState = `EVALUATE;
end
else
next_count == count + 1;
case (count)
0: begin ram_wr_addr = count; ram_wr_data = `CMD_LED_ON; ram_wr_en = 1; end
1: begin ram_wr_addr = count; ram_wr_data = `CMD_LOAD_NEXT_TO_ACCU; ram_wr_en = 1; end
etc....
end

usually you have a ram module that takes an address and some write_data, wr_en, etc rather than accessing the array directly.
Shut up and give me arthritis pills :P
But you're right, if it really was this simple we would have found it..
This is very relevant: http://www.cato.org/raidmap
I recommend reading about Dan a bit. He's not an amateur in the security world :-)
I agree. In my experience scientific researchers were not interested in philosophy of science and meta- questions that interested me in philosophy. They would engage in conversation but I doubt they concerned themselves with the big philosophy of science, epistemology or metaphysics questions.

They were naive realists and that's ok- it seemed helpful for getting data, interpreting results, keeping the wheels of science moving forward.
If I could restructure our naming system is there a good reason for me to label those who focus on foundational issues in mathematics as philosophers rather then mathematicians? Right now I would be inclined to label them the latter.
The police believe themselves to be at war with everyone. They'd kill anyone they pleased if they could get away with it.
You asserted that crimes where the police might need to barge in without knocking in order to prevent destruction of evidence are most likely nonviolent crimes. In fact, that kind of situation is almost exclusively drug crime, and the drug world is a violent place.

As I said, the fact that no-knock SWAT teams are sent in indiscriminately is bad, but it doesn't mean that crimes where evidence can be flushed down the toilet are "a non-violent crime, probably."

The problem is not that SWAT raids are victimizing an otherwise "probably non-violent" drug world. The problem is that many law-enforcement officers behave in a cowardly way, where the prioritize their well-being over that of the public, so they treat people who are not hardened drug lords as though they were — just in case. That is the big problem.
Then there's the case where the police found drugs in the mail, but let it be delivered anyway. When the homeowner (the mayor of the town, incidentally) came home and brought the package in, they attacked, killing his two labradors (one while it was trying to run away).

After, even though the police had the drugs in their hands when they found it in the mail, the chief said, "We′ve apologized for the incident, but we will never apologize for taking drugs off our streets....Quite frankly, we′d do it again."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor'...
That sounds like lunacy. How is the world supposed to buy overpriced brush metal technology?
"Small" being relative, of course, it was Columbia, MO. I graduated from the University of Missouri.
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I would really like feedback on the startup I'm working on, Coding Scriptures, which aggregates curated content on coding and startups.

The roadmap involves adding Guest Curators' Content Charts, as well as a review feature.

Do you find it useful? Ideas welcome.

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Just learn how to think. The best way to learn to think is to solve many problems. Solve many problems many times. Don't just solve the ones you already know how to solve.

I am not sure you can learn how to think from a book, but the recommendations here can be good to "know what you don't know."

Maybe the best question you should be asking is not what to read, but what problems you can solve you have not solved before. Here is one constraint: if you can solve it yourself, and not through others, then it is not a very interesting problem.
Sounds like you are interested in philosophy after all! :) Whether and how there can be a priori knowledge is an old philosophical question.
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I think 'ed tech' != 'tech ed'. Educational technology pertains to the usage of technology to enhance all types of education, whereas technology education has the goal of teaching students how to code, etc.
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I like the concept. Similar to www.startupscriptures.com

Liked a lot the blog list, some very interesting content there. Also had a quick look at the libraries and apps section and there's good stuff on filtering.
If you are relying on that encryption, just remember to clear your bash history :)
Legalize all drugs, and fill each one with literature about how damaging it is to you (similar to what some countries do on cigarette packs). If you can get heroin at CVS, you wouldn't need to go to your local drug dealer and help finance his shady/violent activities. I know it sounds crazy but we already knowingly sell stuff that can kill you (cigarettes, alcohol). The gangs/drug dealers would simply not survive if drugs were sold legally and conveniently.
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Having worked on trying to generalize npm, component and bower, I do agree that a lot of what package managers do can be generalized. However, there are ways in which package manages can be very useful if there are bindings for the language in question.

More specifically, the import/require statements in a language, coupled with the information you can get from a package manager and syntax tree parsers provides enough information to map out entire programming ecosystems.

If there were ever one package manager to rule them all, it would have to support bindings (possibly as a plugin) for every language for it to truly be as valuable as the language/runtimes it supports.
Thank you for this. It's true that associating with criminals makes it more likely that things like this will happen to you, but that doesn't justify it. A child getting hospitalized is excessive collateral damage for something indirectly related to the family.
> The Cato institute has worked with journalist Radley Balko (who is the expert in this area) to produce a map of botched SWAT raids: http://www.cato.org/raidmap

That's a really bad map. "Botched" is such an arbitrary term and it doesn't capture the way a perfectly executed raid will often damage lives. ("we only terrorized their kids! standard procedure.")

The data is pretty obviously woefully incomplete. Does anyone actually believe that that there have been only 13 "unnecessary raids on doctors or sick people" in the last 30 years? Those are the ones the author knows about. It's an infographic that hides as much as it reveals.
The FAA has never been asked about it before, and the law of the land is "That which is not forbidden is legal." If there's no law against it, it's allowed. In this regard, it makes the statement that they are now banning it more true than they are still banning it, because they have never expressly disallowed it in the past (to my knowledge -- if incorrect, probably renders my point moot).

Class E Airspace, that which is between the surface and 2500 feet, is unregulated for the most part (except near a commercial airport, and other such caveats). I don't know the ceiling on the drones in question, or what altitudes they intended to operate within, but if within Class E, this definitely falls under the scope of a 'new' regulation.
Maybe they violently raid the easy targets whilst ignoring the more dangerous ones.

That's my suspicion.
Won't you help us write this one: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programmable_Logic/Verilog ?
How many use Selenium specifically? No.

It was just a random example that was intended to not point in an easily weaponized direction.

I figured it was both common and known in tech circles that Flash/Javascript executing botnets for ads existed and have for year(s):

http://www.spider.io/blog/2013/03/chameleon-botnet/

They were acquired by Google so it isn't just random blog spam:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/google-acquires-spider-io-t...
Prohibition 101:

1. The act being prohibited is nonviolent; injecting heroin, for example, involves zero violence.

2. The prohibition itself creates the violent black market organizations; if heroin were legal, the black market organizations wouldn't exist.

3. Thus yes, nonviolent laws.
I agree with your larger analysis, and wish that Airbnb would essentially pack up and go home. But I don't think you're correct in assuming that rental rates and short term vacation rental rates are in the same economic bucket. That someone can make more off a property does not mean that the property is necessarily worth more, it may also mean it's zoned in a way that is economically locally suboptimal for that property. In this case that's relevant because hotels need to charge more for the same space because they pay very different taxes than homeowners. So an apartment wouldn't necessarily fetch that $800 more a month on the renters market, though it does in a different marketplace under a different premise (Airbnb and short term renting, respectively).
"This video is pretty disingenuous in my opinion...

This was my thought too. This quote by architect Christopher Alexander from his book A Pattern Language" feels very relevant:

"…face-to-face rental, with the owners occupying the main structure is the one kind of rental relationship that is reasonably healthy. The landlord is actually there, so he is directly concerned with the well-being of the life around him and with the environment, unlike the absentee landlords who own property only for the money which it makes."

In the UK, we have huge numbers of buy-to-let landlords. They are the worst type of abstentee landlord. I see AirBnB operating in the same space.

People like having familiar neighbours, not neighbours who come and go contantly, and who have no commitment, concern or care for their neighbourhood; or for their immediate neighbours. Do these things matter to absentee landlords? For most of them (especially in the UK), absolutely not.

Housing has a social factor that cannot be ignored. In fact, it isn't ignored in countless countries who place restrictions on renting property for the very reasons above.
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Best quote:

"Nevertheless, there are some physics questions where philosophical input actually is useful. Foundational questions, such as the quantum measurement problem, the arrow of time, the nature of probability, and so on. Again, a huge majority of working physicists don’t ever worry about these problems. But some of us do! And frankly, if more physicists who wrote in these areas would make the effort to talk to philosophers, they would save themselves from making a lot of simple mistakes."

Philosophers interests overlap at times with mathematicians, linguists, psychologists, physicists. Sometimes they have valuable things to say to each other. E.g. Experimental philosophy is a trend in philosophy, and people who have never done scientific experiments before could learn how to do them better from scientists who have that experience and knowledge. I support people that find common ground and work together to help each other tackle the puzzles they're working on.
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This is an awful lot of fanfare for the open sourcing of something that was funded with public money by the government of Australia, using open source tools and technologies. Why isn't it already open source?

In general, I would like to see more software developed with public research funding required to be open source as part of the grant stipulation, ideally from early on. Too often tax-payer money is used to develop software which then ends up being closed source and providing profit to some commercial entity, instead of benefiting, you know, the people who payed for it – the public.
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This.

Background: it's long been known that law enforcement officers (LEOs) are _safer_ on the job than non-LEOs. Only an unfortunate few die in violent encounters with the criminal elements. When LEOs scream about how dangerous their job is, they're almost always asking for a pay raise.

Nonetheless, there was a time in the not-so-remote past when LEOs _consciously__accepted_ the possibility that they might die or be injured on the job. That attitude is fast disappearing.

Once one accepts the analogy that "battling crime" (where any "enemy" is poorly defined; those are civilians out there) is equivalent to warfare (where the enemy is well-defined and no quarter given), then one can almost unconsciously accept a "better him than me" attitude where the civilians' lives are, relative to LEO's, worthless.

The creeping acceptance of warfare's "better him than me" attitude by LEOs and police departments is the root of the problem.
Sometimes discrimination is rational. That doesn't "excuse it", nor is it necessarily so in this case, but I rarely see anyone go through the trouble of ruling it out. Which is a pity, because greater cognizance of that fact might provide a stronger impetus for more robust interventions than a mere (nowadays de facto) quota. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/books/25book.html
Do you have some testable evidence that there's something outside the room (in your analogy)?
I don't think 'conventional wisdom' means what you think it means, but setting that aside, what are you trying to say?

That people go to college for different reasons? I certainly think that would be generally agreed to.
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My personal experience with comment/forum spam bot networks is that at least 90% do not understand javascript. The ones that do tend to have extremely realistic traffic patterns and the ability to solve captchas. I suspect those are actually real people with incredibly crappy jobs, not super-intelligent Selenium-powered bots.
I don't care how well known he is. If that quote is accurate, he is peddling something that is known to not work in practice for the more sophisticated botnets.
> Does that prove the causal link? No.

Yes, for all reasonable definitions of 'prove', the vast amount of evidence collected that is a proven fact. Although correlation of one metric does not necessarily imply causation of some other, evidence upon evidence upon evidence does imply causation. And that is what we have.

The fact that you can casually obtain this information from Wikipedia already means that the scientific community is open to, and aware of, other greenhouse gases. Your information also confirms that CO2 in itself is probably the biggest problem. It is also the one that people likely can control most in their day-to-day lives. So if that's what's driving public policy, that's probably not a bad thing either.
This seems pretty much exactly like http://spider.io, now acquired by Google.
I'm of the unfortunate opinion that Americans are too pacified and complacent to actually step up and do anything against the government. I would love to see people reacting with force and violence at a system that is so oppressive and belligerent.
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