skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend the book "Ghosts of Evolution" about the lingering effects of these extinct megafauna on our lives today. Many of our ecosystems and even many species evolved in response to their presence.

A major theme of the book is how many of the fruits we see today (especially avocados, osange oranges, honey locust pods, possibly mangoes and many other large fruits) originally evolved to be eaten by megafauna. The idea is they would eat the fruit whole and swallow the pit, and poop it out somewhere. Evidence for this is that many of the trees have defenses against non-megafauna eating the fruits, or others have out-of-proportion defenses against any living animal today, the fact that many pits will only grow if they have been scoured (for example by the digestive system of an animal), and that the pits often seem over-defended, and the fact that many of these fruits are not eaten by any living animals and often fall from the tree and rot in place.
>> "Nobody has yet put a spade in the ground to verify the new findings, which were painstakingly gathered by geophysicists and others wielding magnetometers and ground-penetrating radars that scan the ground to detect structures and objects several yards below the surface."

No literal groundbreaking involved, just somewhat remote sensing, at least this time. (The Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) will reflect off jumps in eletric permittivity in the ground, which are caused by changes in material, and especially by different water contents, which can also be an indicator for different materials (such as stone in soil, or sand in soil, or soil in different soil - material with smaller pores can retain more water due to capillary effects).)
sure, but i think the reason no one has stopped advocating for it is that very few people believe that "some other system would lead to a better life for everyone in the society", especially seeing as many people count "having a voice in the structure of my society" as one of the very things that makes life good for them.
On a similar tip for PHP, check out my library Flywheel:

https://github.com/jamesmoss/flywheel

It's no way near as powerful as BlitzDB but I'm slowly adding features to it.
I read it. No actual ground harmed in the survey. My tldr is: magnetometer and ground penetrating radar indicate more stonehengy stuff under stonehenge; researchers need more money to dig and find out more; previous researchers have ruined the area in the middle by digging.
There are many governance variants that should outperform conventional decision-making practice in corporations but go unadopted. Either we're living in a decision-making Golden Age, which seems unlikely, or corporate decision making is very ego-driven and resistant to systemic change.
I work at Pinterest, and have some involvement in how we learn from experiments.

In each experiment, we assign users randomly based on a hash of experiment name and userid. So, we assume (and have tested) that the groups of one experiment have a fairly uniform mix of users from the groups of any other experiment. This means the primary effect of being in a particular experiment group G should be much larger than the effect of being in G and some other experiment's group. So, we usually analyze the effects of an experiment independent of any other experiments. Millions of users helps here.

I think this is how trials normally work: assume that random assignment into groups will spread all other factors equally across the groups.

There are experiments which depend on each other (change the same UI, one assumes a precondition of another), and that situation is complicated. We try to avoid it when we can, and negotiate carefully when we find ourselves in it.

You might also be referring to the fact that looking at hundreds of things will find "statistically significant" effects simply at random. As my advisor said, "95% confidence means wrong 1 in 20 times." That is a risk to be managed. We always have to ask things like: is this a reasonable outcome for this experiment? Do we have other corroborating evidence? Is the effect consistent? Do we have reason to disbelieve the result? Some fraction of our experiments are run incorrectly or have a broken implementation; we detect some, likely not all.

Also: is the risk higher to run an experiment that may be misinterpreted, or not to experiment at all and just release things? We like to learn from data if we think we can. There is art in the tradeoffs.
I haven't used elastic search but I've used lucene/solr. It's similar to a technology our startup created which was acquired by IBM and is now part of the Watson portfolio. I think our indexing engine was faster. I know for sure we were better at getting data into the index than lucene appears to be. What are the common connector frameworks for lucene? Or do you generally just push the documents to the index?
These are both good points. I think it's worth calling out here that this post is really about the infrastructure to perform experiments, not necessarily the means of analysis (although the ui you see in the screenshots performs that analysis).

In terms of these issues, we handle them in a few ways. In particular, experiment review catches many of these issues. Think of it like code review for your experiments.

In order to run an experiment, we require you to have an "experiment helper" sign off on your change. This involves reviewing your group sizes, verifying that you have the statistical power you need to test the magnitude of change your hypothesis expects, verifying you interact with the framework correctly etc.. Training to become an experiment helper is generally not very easy, and involves a combination of shadowing existing reviewers, performing enough reviews across the stack, and taking a test to verify you understand potential errors (the test itself being composed of many experiments where we have made mistakes).

Changes to experiments (increasing group sizes, terminating an experiment, modifying an experiment etc.) all require this review.
The UK court system just picks 12 jurors, and that's the jury - no discussion or debate unless there's a significant conflict of interest.

Is that so bad?
So metaballs aren't distinct mathematical objects that you can model on their own (like a fractal or a cylinder)- rather, they're artefacts that are created when sampling in certain ways circles/spheres intersecting?
The Pandorica?
Not sure how you don't know this, unless opening a dictionary would be a groundbreaking experience for you.

I spent two years in an occupation where the most entertaining thing to do was to read the dictionary for fun. The fact that someone, somewhere, defined a difference between the hyphenated and compound forms of the term doesn't mean that everyone is using those forms as defined; thus my request for disambiguation remains relevant.

Edit: also:

$ dict groundbreaking
2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

groundbreaking \ground"break`ing\ n.
The ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a
construction project. It is sometimes carried out by an
official who digs the first spadeful of dirt from the ground,
to begin the preparatory excavation work.

Syn: groundbreaking ceremony.
[WordNet 1.5] groundcover

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

groundbreaking
adj 1: being or producing something like nothing done or
experienced or created before; "stylistically innovative
works"; "innovative members of the artistic community";
"a mind so innovational, so original" [syn: {innovative},
{innovational}, {groundbreaking}]
n 1: the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a
construction project [syn: {groundbreaking},
{groundbreaking ceremony}]
Do you have an example of such an alternative way of organizing society? An example that has been tested in a large society? It's easy to propose theoretical alternatives with no regard for psychological or sociological effects (which are complex and therefore difficult to predict in theory).

Changing culture, which is the means to change the psychological and sociological effects of different forms of governance (or different conditions, generally), is difficult. You can't legislate culture. Form of government A works in society B, therefore we can import A into the U.S. and get the benefits seen in society B even while Intel continues to turn out cpus and farmers in Iowa continue to grow corn?

In order to achieve what you want, you need not only a better form of government, you need a way to hack culture to get it to tolerate that form of government without significant shocks to perceived quality of life (A shock to perceived happiness in that sense is, I think, more likely to disrupt your plans for better political order than to anchor them).
I actually really like the idea of Futarchy for corporates because it gives investors a way to invest in a change in the company, rather than just the company in general.

For example: There are plenty of people who would love to invest in the Microsoft Surface, but don't care at all about Microsoft Office or Microsoft Windows. Why would I want to package all of those together if I don't have to?
Are all operations sychronous? If so, this kind of makes it a no-go for most uses with NodeJS.
Spatial queries and indexing. Most data has some location component. I didn't see anything with this. Is it in there, or planned?
I use grunt.js and from my perspective gulp is nice syntactic sugar that solves the same problem. But, it's difficult for me to tell what webpack is for. Granted, I've only skimmed the documentation[1], but I feel like I haven't run into the problems that it's trying to solve. Is this meant for webapps that are hundreds of thousands of lines of code?

[1]: http://webpack.github.io/docs/what-is-webpack.html
The concept of harmony can refer to lions not chasing gazelles, which is certainly unrealistic , but it can also mean sustainable and balanced. Nature is certainly vicious and ever changing, but there is a balance in the bigger picture, and man is making (or let's say, is at risk of making) excessively disrupting changes. If that's the meaning, that's certainly not laughable.
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Every programmer on some level "copies" snippets of code be it from Stackover flow, Google community, and reddit.
Yes, I assume the bison of the Great Plains were somewhat nonplussed when Christopher Columbus landed on an island in the Caribbean.

The point being that Columbus is not the relevant marker, even though the article brought him up. In this sense the GP comment has a point, that's bad writing.

It is interesting that the bison continued to thrive (until the 1800s), and I guess I never thought about why they outlasted the Ice Age/predation thing that killed off the other large animals.
This isn't a choice between the under 50k person and the over 50k person.
Another way to look at this is that it is based on Microsoft's internal distributed systems infrastructure and thus will never be open-sourced for the same reason Google will never open-source Spanner, Megastore or Colossus. Having battle-tested internal systems to build on is nice, but it means the DocumentDB code is probably nearly impossible to run outside of Microsoft.
That's not the problem. The problem is that hot inlet air means that once you burn your fuel, the air post combustion stage is then too hot and melts things.
ElasticSearch benefits from Lucenes spatial support too, which is a serious benefit.
I've heard its pretty similar to Win 8. Hope they change the metro style to the normal way it used to be.
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Not necessarily. The OED actually gives the hyphenated form for the colloquiallism, and cites William James: "I am going to settle down to the composition of another small book, more original and ground-breaking than anything I have yet put forth". (The more recent citation for the colloquialism is unhyphenated.)

The OED doesn't comment on the act (ritual) of breaking ground, but Wikipedia does, and it uses the un-hyphenated form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundbreaking . (Wikipedia is not, of course, the most reliable possible source, but it does indicate that the un-hyphenated form is in wide use for the literal act).

My strong suspicion is that the colloquialism arose as a metaphorical back-formation of a participle from the gerund + object compound used for, you know, ritually inaugurating (inaugerating?) a building project.

Edit: removed ill-considered emoticon.
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It does no such thing, your claim is false. (re: the article)

"Mental disorders are biological disorders involving brain circuits that implicate specific domains of cognition, emotion, or behavior". It's the second dot point. The first dot point and parts of the prose strongly imply similar, but the second dot point explicitly states biological underpinning for mental states.

This is why I'm not interested in talking with you anymore. You behave exactly as a religious fundamentalist, twisting words, creating strawmen, ignoring inconvenient statements like the above, and putting words in people's mouths - for example, Insel doesn't say that psychology itself is bad science, just that the DSM isn't as good as it could be. In fact, the word 'psychology' doesn't even appear in his article.
That comment was about Microsoft's documentation...
You seem to assume the incentives are always correctly aligned, and agreed on concepts of "better" are immutable. They're not.

Simple example:

Country X decides to do something dastardly against the interests of Futarchy Y. Confidence in the economic outlook wavers, as happens in any country where there's an anticipated reduction in trade and maybe even war. Country X, could have made a lot of money shorting "future GDP per capita" on the Futarchy prediction exchange prior to their dastardly act though.

It gets worse because not only is Country X able to directly profit from making the lives of Futarchy Y worse, but the futarchic system actually makes retaliation impossible. Much as the government of Futarchy Y talks tough, and would like to take action, like sanctions, but when they actually put their sanction policy to the test, these proposed sanctions probably have a negative impact on "future GDP per capita", which is one of a perfectly reasonable set of metrics Futarchy Y has chosen. Despite the man on the street tending to agree that sanctions would be a just and moral cause of action Futarchy Y is forced into retreat because a priori metrics matter more than what the government and the public actually want to happen, and there's no way the market agrees that sanctions are going to help them achieve the given goal of growing GDP.

Smart people outwit crude algorithms in simple games like Go if they have an infinitude of possible outcomes. Now imagine that crude algorithm is calibrated by simpletons voting on parameters they don't really understand
I agree. But that also means that it's not really a moral axiom, so the moral argument is insufficient.
The notion of "harmony with nature" has to do with balance, conservation, and sustainable development, not the absence of death within the system.
Just a little correction, if I may offer it. The article asks:

> How did the bluestones, which weigh between four and eight tons apiece, arrive at the site, nearly 5,000 years ago, from 170 miles away in North Wales?

It's my understanding that the majority of the bluestones have been confirmed to come from the Pembrokeshire area in South West Wales, not North Wales.

Some searching returned these results:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-16245746

http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/pdf-files/uploaded-to-ebu...

Hope that's of some interest to folks...
fair point! I like Windows, but they seem to come a little late to most parties. hope this time goes much better
They don't inherently have to be sampled.

Just like you can define the perimeter of a circle given constants (x_0, y_0, r):

(x-x_0)^2 + (y-y_0)^2 = r^2

you can define the perimeter a metaball on a list of (x_i, y_i, r_i) as described in the post.
They haven't done this for a while.
These self-serving statements are totally ridiculous! How can Wall Street be interested in something with ridiculous liquidity!
Reminds me of the Ruby Standard Library Hash based datastore PStore: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.2/libdoc/pstore/rdoc/PStore.h... ... but without the query wrappers. Nice to see basic things done well.
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Letting people opt out or opt in would destroy the entire point of a jury. It'd turn what needs to be a representative random sample of the population into selection bias.

I think that a better solution would be for small companies, independent contractors, students, etc., to buy into an insurance pool; such that when they are selected for jury duty, they can be fairly compensated.
Unless he's giving you money, why would you give him any equity before the sales phase?
Africa has historically had much lower population density, well below Malthusian limits. Less population pressure from humans may have contributed to the survival of megafauna.
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There are other ways of making refactoring easy. I'm not trying to dismiss a powerful type system - which is a great help indeed - but pervasive unit tests and contracts work as well. Linters are a nice addition, and even gradual typing like in Erlang with Dialyzer is much better than nothing. The point being: problems solved by type systems are being solved with other tools, too. I don't want to argue about how well these tools work, because all of them (including static type systems) have relative strengths and weaknesses; it's just unfair to present refactorings or correctness guarantees as benefits reserved for type systems alone.
There are some changes you can make to reduce the chances of SD card corruption. That being said, I've run plenty of Pi's in production over the past year, and I've only had 1 SD card corruption issue. That issue was caused by a customer unplugging the pi over and over trying to fix what turned out to be a network problem.

The easiest change, if you're not really worried about reading the logs in case of power failure is to move /var/log (plus a few other directories normally written to like /var/log var/tmp etc) to memory instead of on the SD. Also disable swap.
That way it's less likely there is a write going on when the power is pulled.

Another thing to look at, is making the entire card read only, and setting up a temporary directory in memory that's periodically backed up somewhere remote.
I don't think the CAP theorem is so black and white: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem#2012
If you don't have tests, it's probably true.
According to constructor theory, the most fundamental components of reality are entities—“constructors”—that perform particular tasks, accompanied by a set of laws that define which tasks are actually possible for a constructor to carry out.

More generally, we could call these entities "objects", the tasks that they perform "methods" and the set of laws that define the available methods "interfaces".

There, the grand unified theory of object-oriented software design and quantum gravity!

Einstein would never have guessed that the universe is written in Enterprise Java.
I'm currently serving on a grand jury for a 4 week term, hearing numerous cases every day. The level of perspective it has provided into the legal system has been fascinating, and seeing all of these different cases unfold through witness testimony is a really interesting experience, though it is often emotionally draining.

The flip side of my situation is that, as a rather recently hired engineer at a young and quickly moving startup, it's not really a replacement for my job this month, as it is for most of the others I sit with. It's a second job, unless I want to fall behind and lose a lot of what I've worked for.
Lots of companies, Twitch is one of our clients that uses it and has written about it publicly. Its very easy to set up and you can get started for as little as $200/mo.
It wasn't that important to the story but the guy was caught with the car, and as it was his 'third strike' in California a jury trial was required (rather than a plea agreement). There was considerable evidence submitted but barely touched on in court to prove he did it so we found him guilty.

After the verdict was read the judge explained more about the case and more info came out which 100% confirmed his guilt. It was good to know we got it right.
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If the dissident could approach you to ask for your help, he wouldn't need to. You have to gamble on opening up that channel for anyone to use.

You have to pick your Blackstone Number. If the actual ratio of criminal to innocent exceeds it, you should not participate in Tor. Otherwise, you should.

As for myself, I don't think I'd go as high as 10, but I might be willing to enable as many as 3 people to anonymously commit the worst information-based crime I can conceive without my knowledge to enable one person to achieve the greatest assistance possible from safe and unfettered access to information.

Unfortunately, if I run a Tor exit node, I am likely to experience government persecution as the identifiable scapegoat for all that criminal activity that I was willing to tolerate for the sake of helping one person in need. By prosecuting exit node operators for traffic passing through, government policy effectively sets the Blackstone Number for everyone to zero, and damns the innocent.
Dude, if you win it, the aliens come and take you away to hack in space. They've got some bugs that, if not solved, and quickly, could mean the end of galactic civilization.
I was watching Survivorman the other day and he said something along the lines of, "I don't live in harmony with nature. I fight nature every day in order to survive."
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So you're questioning AWS's success then?
Finally! Took them long enough... Hope they start rolling our the update to SP3 soon.
Isn't this essentially the approach Einstein took? He basically added a new "constructor", "the relative speed of light is the same for all observers", to existing physics models and a new more encompassing physics emerged, whose amazing predictions were born out by experiments. He didn't add that new constructor because it made intuitive sense, but because prior experiments indicated it to be reality, no matter how counterintuitive it seems.
This topic and the parents linked article is about MS's new DocumentDB as some example of how "remarkable"

> Microsoft's approach to open source

has become... when they're only using GitHub as a free-hosting CMS provider for docs.

I can't see how releasing a proprietary "DocumentDB" on a Microsoft-only Azure cloud is a glowing endorsement or valued contribution to OSS. Despite what their marketing messaging says about how "Open and approachable" it is: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/documentdb/archive/2014/08/22/introd...
Thank you very much for this. 22k in LA? Wow. Looks like there are only about ~3-5k in Portland, OR.
Depends which land and — most likely — depends who builds it.

It's not like the US forbid overland supersonic flight for their military planes (and overland commercial supersonic flight was only banned as the US's sole SST program was cancelled)
So, if i understand you correctly, what you're saying is that the arrow of time is defined as the direction in which Oracle licenses expire?
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I work as a developer on the API team at Best Buy, and we're trying to open up our data in ways that will (hopefully) be useful to folks outside of Best Buy. Please feel free to comment on anything you especially like or dislike.