skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't confuse our history as the only possible history. There are lot's of planets out there vary much like earth. Presumably there are trillions of planets with single celled life and quite possibly trillions of planets with intelegent life just not close enough for us to notice.

The universe is likely far larger than just the observable univers. Still ~27+ billion light years across means we only get to see suff that's less than 1 billion years old within ~1/20,000th of the univers and the last 1 million years is ~1/20,000,000,000,000 of the visible universe. Look back 1 million years and earth has little trace of any intelegent life. Worse if there was another identical earth pushing out radio waves as much as we do 1,000 light years from us we would probably have missed it so add another 9 zeros.

Hell voyager 1 is in a well known location less than 2 light days from us pointing a directional antenna directly at us and it's not that easy to detect. 1 light year would mean ~1/10,000th the signal which would be hard.
It depends. I used to take a lot of ibuprofen (generic Advil), and I found that generic ibuprofen is often wax coated, probably because it's cheaper. Real Advil is sugar coated and much easier to swallow.
All good points, but I would debate about whether newsgroups would not be considered a "community". A few I'd been involved in in (lord, so many...) years past certainly had all the hallmarks of one. c.l.l was large enough to have perhaps diluted that, but the lack of an owner I don't think is necessary.

But yes, those were different days in different contexts.
What the flying fuck are you on about?
I think you should have been more specific then.
I'm selling my open source app
Protestors march on Ebola centre in Sierra Leone
It's not like we need a special control group if that control group is supposed to receive no treatment - we know rather well how untreated Ebola works and the mortality rate.

If we try out drug X and only 50% of those people die, then we know that drug X is good for Ebola. Once there is drug Y to try, then we can use drug X for a control group.
Yes! C-s navigation, once learned, is the thing I miss most from other editors.
Meanwhile, we haven't really seen anything truly compelling come out of GCC camp.

Ehm, auto-vectorization?

https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/vectorization.html

Very compelling if you are working in numerical computing. LLVM has only added auto-vectorization recently:

http://blog.llvm.org/2013/05/llvm-33-vectorization-improveme...
To be fair, it had a 3rd party battery that might be the issue.

Still, Samsung seems to have more 'phones bursting into flames' stories than any other manufacturer. Might be the easily replacable battery thing and sub par batteries. You can't just shove any 3rd party battery into your iPhone easily.
The Five Axioms of the API Economy
Once Facebook has your info, federal, state, and local governments can get it just by asking. They're not really separate anymore.
also known as the copernican principle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_principle
(/me waves at xioxox)

It may be worth noting the significance of ASTRO-H to this kind of science (full disclaimer: it's a long time since I did any astrophysics so I am liable to get things wrong). The attraction of ASTRO-H is not just newer == better. In fact in several ways it's worse than existing X-ray satellites, for example it won't have the angular resolution of Chandra (so no pretty pictures) or the sensitivity of XMM-Newton (so bad for looking at very faint objects). Where it is designed to excel, however, is in spectral resolution, where it is about an order of magnitude better than the other observatories. This means it's going to be great at measuring the precise energy of incoming X-rays, which is essential for studying emission lines like this. If your spectral resolution is too low you'll find it difficult to detect weak lines at all because they get averaged over such a big energy range that they end up just looking like the background emission from the hot plasma in the cluster.

Once you have established that there is a line in the emission, good spectral resolution is also critical to determining which models are compatible with it. There's almost certainly a lot of ideas people can dream up that will fit "a vauge bump around 3.55keV", many of which will be eliminated once you have a better idea of the shape of the line. This is the sort of science that ASTRO-H should be good at.

Hopefully someone will correct me if I made any egregious errors.
Yeah, I suspect a lot of churches could just get by with Facebook Groups and be happy.

For our church, however, finding/begging people to join Facebook was a problem, and some people have privacy concerns, so having our own private social network has been successful.
> To assume humans are not special among all life is to ignore evolution and our dominant position on Earth.

And bacteria didn't evolve during last 2 billion years, right?
Whoever downvoted me: you can't have it both ways. Average means average. We are not dominant species on Earth - bacteria is. I can imagine how they would laugh reading about such preposterous idea.
No, I'm not kidding. I firmly believe we were created by bacteria by intentional effort, and every cell of our body is a specialized bacteria. One of them (probably, neuron) believes he is "me". But you won't like the idea, hence the objection. Simply NOT LIKE. Nothing to do with science or principles, just arrogance and pride. Please continue downvoting.
Looks like there are some better recommendations for book-related charities: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/05/...

Charities rated highly on Charity Navigator:
http://www.firstbook.org/
http://www.cliontheweb.org/
It's different. It's illegal for the government to have this data, even if they bought it. I don't need a court order to be allowed to listen to some music.
Not really his fault. If you read the book, you know that if he had his way he would have been a lawyer.
One interesting domain-specific class of compression algorithms not mentioned here is for lossless audio compression, which tends to use a different (though also pretty simple) technique, somewhat related to PPM. A common approach is to predict the waveform using linear predictive coding (LPC), and then entropy-code the residuals. FLAC does that, for example.
Most of the life is really unknown. I mean, archea is just beginning to be discovered really, all the wired little places prokaryotes seem to be these days, all the strange things they do, all the things we are engineering them to do, it's really exciting.

I don't know what you define intelligence as, but bacteria certainly don't possess it. They mostly just travel up or down a chemical, temperature, and maybe even electrical gradient. Then they mytos if there is food around. Sometimes a virus or other gene factor comes along and then they mutate a bit. A lot of the time, they just die.

Also, the AI stuff is not futile, it's just a tool. Yeah, the phones get smarter and smarter, but they are still tools. Until we start making AI's the make their own tools, then they really can be called intelligent. That and they'll need evolutionary pressure to stay alive.

Also, we WAY cooperate with prokaryotes and eukaryotes alike. I mean, Beer?! Cheese?! Like all the really tasty stuff has a bacteria or yeast culture at the start it seems. Also, insulin is all bacteria derived. Most agriculture started out with bacteria to get the nitrogen fixations going (now we just make ammonia industrially). We really rely on bacteria a lot in civilization.
Are you referring to the throttling of 128kbps for T-Mobile US postpaid customers travelling internationally? :-)

Well, yeah, that ain't gonna be fast, but, if hotels abroad have as crappy the internet as those in the States do, that's still likely to be a huge improvement. :-)

Or you could always get a local SIM for some more unlimited fun.
I've found LLVM/Clang's better performance when compiling C++ code, while still offering all of the functionality I need, to be a very significant win over GCC.

With optimizations disabled, I tend to see a 30% to 40% reduction in compilation time when using LLVM/Clang instead of recent releases of GCC. That has a noticeable impact on the time it takes to develop code, especially when dealing with large systems with lots of C++ code.

So at least how I use it, I haven't really seen LLVM/Clang "catch up" in a long time. They've been delivering me better compiler performance than GCC, better diagnostic messages than GCC, suitable optimization, and very good C++11 and C++14 features, without depriving me of functionality that I find useful.
Agreed. I thought 2048 bits was the minimum RSA key size.
Internationalize Early
AdSense keeps doing the most un-Googly, "evil" thing and getting away with it. - https://medium.com/@ad_insider/googles-latest-monopoly-trick...

They don't even realize how much they are hurting Google in that process.
It could also be due to the fact that samsung sells A LOT of phones. And I'm guessing it's due to the third-party battery in this case, since the cheaper ones have been known to simply report fake temperatures back to the smartphone.
What if I want the freedom to communicate privately? Ok, we'll only spy on the terrorists. But how do we know you're not a terrorist? We'll have to read your email before determining whether we can read your email or not...
LLVM received this award back in 2010: http://www.sigplan.org/Awards/Software/2010
Is it still worth reading for somebody who despise the man? Both what he was (a robber) and what he became?
It does say right here it's for training, it's mentioned quite a lot actually.

> Two full days of technical training, covering Ubuntu, MAAS, Juju, Landscape and OpenStack.
Yeah, I know right? This is crazy. I surely didn't expect this kind of support! Thanks guys!
Damaged race relations more than centuries of slavery and systematic discrimination by our country's leaders did?
You are using your intellect to convince the world that white men are oppressed. That's a waste.

Malcolm X was addressing decades of white-on-black domestic terrorism across the country. Black people were being regularly lynched, firebombed, raped and imprisoned for little more than being black and asserting basic human rights.

Segregationists controlled Congress when Malcolm was at his most influential - there was vanishingly little support from the federal government in stopping these attacks, and the state and local authorities were often complicit.

Even in the face of this, Malcolm X never advocated violence except in self-defense, which is REASONABLE under the circumstances. His threat of returned violence lended credence to the more tolerant views of MLK, and even Malcolm preached universal love in the years before he was murdered.
Good parents will learn not to listen too closely to whether their children are asleep or reading - great parents will make sure the flashlight batteries are periodically replaced.
Probably true. I just had my S4 replaced because it would no longer charge one morning after I woke up. After inspecting the charging port and cable, there were clear burn marks. A few days before this is would randomly heat up and go into "cool down" mode or whatever they call it. This was with the stock battery and charger, so it was slightly concerning. I wouldn't completely rule out a genuine defect.
Yes - but now they do a lot of the classic "use a good product in one to gain an advantage in another" tricks - https://medium.com/@ad_insider/googles-latest-monopoly-trick...
Git Commit message conventions for Angular.js
Perhaps they stopped using datelines for stories?

It was probably a change in style or format, not a reduction in the number of stories about New York, because the percentages of stories about other cities drop in a similar way at the same time.

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=new%20york.washington....

Bonus... the end of that chart, I think you can see when the NYT really did begin to expand its proportion non-local news.
Eh. Different professions have different needs. If you're in a profession where you need to interact with a broad variety of human beings in a positive way, then having a haircut which is designed to draw attention to yourself by boldly and deliberately flouting social conventions, it may be a problem. You're being paid to make the customers happy and their interactions straightforward, not to challenge their conventions and ways of thinking.

If you're in a position where you need to work closely with your fellow employees and a computer, that's different. Approaching things unconventionally and thinking outside the box could very well be a NASA scientist's chief virtue.
> Anything that uses Apple’s “Accessibility API”, which lies at the heart of Hydra, is forbidden by Apple to enter their App Store.

Not heard that before - why is that?
The Linux kernel seems like a poor example of professionalism. It's written in C, released with barely any testing (and thus has major regressions, such as the dup system call being broken a while back), and the community around it is very unfriendly (sometimes with reason).

The development model is interesting, and was basically bound to happen once you had the license, the internet and eventually the tools (git). It's a step forward from proprietary software but we're not at the level of discipline required to build bridges, skyscrapers and nuclear power plants.
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.", Albert Camus, The Stranger
I never said that GCC hasn't been widely used, nor did I suggest that it isn't widely used today, or anything like that. Of course it has had a big impact.

I just see its impact as diminishing these days. An award like this would have been more deserved in the mid-2000s, after it had successfully recovered from the struggles of the late 1990s, and when we did see significant improvements with the releases of GCC 3.x and 4.x.
I think it would be pretty easy to get approval, everyone knows what happens without a possible cure. The control group would be everyone to date who hasn't received anything (or who refuses care).
I suspect I was a victim of a version of this fraud years ago. Lots of suspicious clicks off of strange queries or weird AdSense blogs (the latter might have been the more straightforward AdSense fraud) and the visitors rarely engaged with more than one page.

Google insisted that if there are any fraudulent clicks, they are detected automatically and we are not be charged for them. But it was essentially impossible to know if that's true. I guess it doesn't really matter: at the end of the day you tally up your metrics and AdWords is either worth it or not. Still a very frustrating experience.
A long time ago (so forgive me if I can't provide the reference), I read a paper about exploring a parameter space with a focus on "novelty".

The basic idea was that there were two different machine learning algorithms competing against each other. One was searching for configurations in the parameter space (I forget what type of learning algorithm the first one was), and the other was an unsupervised learning algorithm (a Kohonen self-organizing map (SOM), IIRC) which tried to model/predict the output of the model with the parameters chosen by the first one.

So there was a parameter space being explored by some search/learning algorithm. These parameters, when fed into a model (I forget what kind, I think it was a procedural graphics formulas of some kind) produce an output image. This image (not the parameters) is then fed into the SOM (which is doing online learning, so it's training and classifying at the same time), which slowly adapts to what sorts of images it sees, creating a sort of internal model.

The parameter-configurations found by the first algorithm were then scored against how well the SOM could fit/represent the output image of those parameters (IIRC, in the SOM algorithm you can calculate a score for how well it's doing).

So if the first algorithm would find something novel, something unexpected, the SOM would have more trouble fitting that output with its internal model.

From what I remember, it worked relatively well. The output images definitely had more "variety" in them than purely randomly chosen parameter values.

I'm not at all sure how to apply these ideas to planet/ecosystem-generation, though.

Apologies for the super-vague description, but it must have been at least 10 years since I read that paper :)

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BTW another completely different approach to this problem might be found by using constraint solvers. Check out this site: http://www.gamesbyangelina.org/2013/06/the-saturday-paper-go... (if you're interested in procedural content generation, there's a lot of cool articles there, bringing together scientific research and game development).

I'm not entirely sure why, but from most examples I've seen, generally when you add constraints to a random generator, it tends to produce more variety. Variety is really all about restricting the randomness, anyway. White noise all looks the same, but it's the most random from an entropy point-of-view.
It's the current leader in performance: http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/p/compression-benchmark....
Vim has great plugins -- but expanding it is often best left to experts. I have a pet theory that part of the reason for the high quality of many vim plugins is the horrors of writing them (and of course, tpope). Most Vim users are simple, "off the shelf" users -- they use plugins, but they don't WRITE plugins and they often don't radically change the environment (it still feels like vim, as expected). Vim is a good editor that works great with other tools.

Emacs is more -- of its own things -- lots of people write little bits of elisp to do their bidding, and the "plugins" can completely reshape the editor into an IRC client... a mail client... a media player ... a connection to spotify ... etc. It is a wild crazy world powered by elisp.
Does anyone know why P-/GPG is still using MD5?
Interesting that "republican" is much more common than "democrat" and has been for all the decades covered by the graph.
You can certainly get all of that stuff (except fast builds in some particular circumstances).

My project I described before is a web app, and my workflow involves my editor, a browser, a clojure repl, a clojurescript browser repl that runs code in the browser and a shell script that runs the various watchers I described before.

If I change any clojure file the browser refreshes automatically (and my tests run automatically).

If I change any clojurescript file it gets rebuilt automatically and the js file is reloaded in the browser (just the js, not a full page refresh)

If I change any sass file, it gets rebuild and the css in the browser refreshes (just the css)

If I change any html template then, depending on the template, either the page is refreshed or my clojurescript is rebuilt and the js refreshed.

So all those things are possible (I saw a cool post the other day of some ring middleware to handle using clojurescript inside <script> tags transparently).

The non-clojure stuff is handled completely outside of the clojure ecosystem, I was using LiveReload and Guard when doing python dev to get that partial refresh on file save functionality and it was pretty simple to hook clojure into that same workflow.

I will say that if you are doing a lot of compile time template processing in your clojurescript like I am (using Kioo/Om/React.js) then the compile time for the clojurescript can be a little long, but since I have a browser REPL I do my experimental stuff in there instead of hitting that recompile cycle frequently so it's only a minor imperfection in practice.

So I definitely don't worry about building at all, and I don't even have to refresh my browser thanks to LiveReload - I just have to hit save in my editor.

There unfortunately aren't a lot of tutorials for setting this kind of thing up. I've got a start on writing up my setup and will put the project skeleton on github soon-ish ... I have this damn real work that keeps getting in the way.
Depending on how many times you're going to decompress the same data and the bandwidth you'll use to transmit the compressed data, different things will be "best". http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/p/compression-benchmark....
In case you don't know it yet, you should probably also really check out the blog I linked in my other post.

http://www.gamesbyangelina.org/2013/05/the-saturday-paper-du...
From my investigations, a lot of the time symphony spends just using the classloader. i.e., it can't load dependencies fast enough.
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This is no surprise because reading the article, the history of data compression seems to be riddled with patent lawsuits and general blocking of "competitors" to use the same or a similar algorithm.
Often only the downstream is shaped; if you have lots of p2p, you might want to ensure they do traffic shaping for upstream, too.

Where's your hotel? How'd you manage to get 100Mbit uplink? :-) Most hotels I've stayed at have either Cable (if it's 3* or below), or DSL / T1 (if it's something like 3*+ Hyatt Place), and they're all ridiculously slow.
"There are cases where throwing your capital around is
appropriate"

I'm curious where you think this is the case? Remember, your arbitrary definition of appropriate might not be the same as others'. I probably won't go either way, as I think anti-trust laws in general are not appropriate, but that's a different discussion.

Moreover, may I ask what your moral argument is for such laws? From the looks of it, most people would say: "If you have a lot of money, then you're not allowed to use it to your advantage if we perceive it as predatory". With such vague terms (unless you can make it more explicit), and it will most certainly end up having a favoritist bureaucracy grow around it.
You do enter into a contract with Coinbase though, by signing up you have to agree to that. Banks are different (highly regulated, but also house real hard currency!) and simply losing a password isn't going to have the same effect.

There was an interesting article about this in the NYT recently. Apparently arbitration clauses do have a decent chance of standing up to challenge. It's discomforting because when all the vendors in a space have the clause there is no way to have your right to trial.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/your-money/a-closer-look-a...

It's even more dubious in finance because you not only agree to arbitration, but you agree to arbitration by the private financial regulatory organization Finra. Think about that--to get a brokerage account you must agree to arbitration through Wall Street's self-funded watchdog. Unsurprisingly Wall Street has a great track record in winning.
I suspect that a salesman would give others pause if he was near-obsessively washing his hands. Not so with a surgeon.
Race relations would have gone nowhere and would have been co-opted and neutered were it not for people like him.
While a I agree with you up to the point, the word "professionalism" is often used to construct social convention around a rule that did not existed previously or is not strong. I am talking about a situation where the society do not care much, but the person using the word "professionalism" does and wants us to force it on others.
the largest percentages i found so far are for the words: president and war.