skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can someone like this call himself an intellectual or be called a leading world's intellectual. I think that an intelligent design is an insult to both, intelligence and design and I as well think that circle (more than a triangle) arise from a biochemistry and as a part of the same evolution. Dawkins in the same piece uses the same argument to claim that the evolution came late in the development of human mind. Late compared to what? Evolution? Millions of yeas compared to a few thousands years of a written word or since we invented a more persistent method to pass the knowledge than story or since a man drew some of the first inscriptions on a wall of a cave. And this is no allegory. Let us get rid of the PI formulas then. It does fit the model. Since we can only approximate it we cannot use it. The world is a better place today than it was hundreds or thousands of years ago. The idea that it can be better is the very idea of ideal and abstract types we are never to reach and should always aspire to. Essentialism, from an evolutionary standpoint, relatively is no less correct than some other approximation of what a certain species is in some period. The evolutionary traits are the same for hundreds of thousands of years for a species. Mutations take place rarely and only on extreme environmental changes. The nature (or the evolution) is perfect there. Its every 'design' has a function perfected through many centuries. This is essential (sic) problem with the certain type of scientists (those of celebrity type) is that they not count in how short is human experience on this world. We say Earth is 4.5 billions years old and that we know that and those people who claimed differently are in wrong as if we as a human race posses our own memory since primordial soup. In a shallow struggle against those 6 thousands years we tend to forget that ideas and their shapes were experience of the world. Colours are not wrong, we experience the colours the same way as thousands years before. And will experience them in the future in a broader spectre. Like we always did with everything. The very world we experience, even when we do it with our best tools is no more than an approximation of a world more perfect (or less measured and computed).
Make getting a job your full-time job. Full on, no dabbling. Persistently.
u must be a communist, right?
I also prefix with _, if only to indicate what's private and what's API. Mind sharing your transform?
I think they're guidelines because some (especially the UI one) aren't always enforced or are too vague. You don't have to follow the HIG exactly. People come up with new UI's that don't conform to the HIG but get through because they're good.
Cyberspace now swells with Barricelli’s progeny. Self-replicating strings of arithmetic live out their days in the digital wilds, increasingly independent of our tampering. The fittest bits survive and propagate. Researchers continue to model reduced, pared-down versions of life artificially, while the real world bursts with Boolean beings. Scientists like Venter conjure synthetic organisms, assisted by computer design. Swarms of autonomous codes thrive, expire, evolve, and mutate underneath our fingertips daily. “All kinds of self-reproducing codes are out there doing things,” Dyson says. In our digital lives, we are immersed in Barricelli’s world.

If you want to do this for yourself - you can download Tierra - which lets you do a lot of this in a GUI environment.

Tierra Info Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation)

Mac Download: https://github.com/smfr/mactierra/downloads

Mac Source Code: https://github.com/smfr/mactierra/
It would still be a gradient even if the distribution of where people fit into it isn't even. The way my sociologist professor explained it in school was that the gradient is for "attraction" and like some appreciate the attractive qualities of one gender while not actually having any desires attached to that appreciation.
Why not just add a separate tax for private schools that drives money directly into public schools. They will increase their tuition accordingly, because profit, and more affluent families will think twice about public schools. The rich would still be able to afford private schools and would help out funding public schools.

I'm all for the live and let live philosophy but education and healthcare are things that make a better society. Mostly I just want there to be less stupid people. That would, selfishly, make my life better.
The top universities (such as those in the Ivy League) typically give full financial aid to any admitted student who comes from a middle or lower class socioeconomic background. The "tuition problem" primarily exists at mediocre private universities (as well as those public universities that have significantly hiked tuition in recent years) which depend on squeezing every last penny from their students.
what do i have to do to get the nytimes to run ads for my products like this?
>> "there's no substantive way to fight App Store rejections"

You can appeal rejections and argue your case over a phone call. Happened to me recently and they reversed the decision of the reviewer (who misunderstood part of the apps functionality in relation to an app approval rule).
Google has one: https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/reward-program/
labelInterpolationFnc? Really? :P

Looks cool though.
I'm glad to see Sidecar mentioned. I too live in SF and use all of these apps, and Sidecar has been my first goto for years. It's odd that Lyft and Uber seem to get all the press. When Lyft got really obnoxious with the mustaches and fist-bumps, my order of checking for rides was: Sidecar -> Flywheel -> UberX -> Lyft.
That's true, but legacy admissions is out in the open - universities acknowledge the existence of the practice. But the inequality created by ghostwriting and admissions coaching is particularly pernicious because it occurs through a system that the universities claim is meant and supposed to give everyone an equal shot.
Was that sarcasm or an actual suggestion?
All evidence points to that being the case, until a hundred institutions started putting constraints on 'morals' and behaviour.
True, but if you're using JSX on the server side, the dependency doesn't really cost anything. JSTransform's intended purpose, as far as I can see, is as a general-purpose syntax transformer (the ES6 transforms, of which there is only a handful, come as a bonus), whereas Traceur is a dedicated transpiler that is intended to be a complete implementation of ES6.
> How is an "archivist" different from a random individual who scrapes stuff of the Internet and rehosts it?

If the random individual is presenting it in the same way as archive.org (namely, citing the source), then I don't see a difference.
Really interesting piece. In my post-college lull, I was once in a major financial bind and ended up doing a brief stint as an academic ghostwriter. I wrote term papers, not admission essays, for a ghostwriting service over a period of about 2 months. The work was easy and the money was good.

I felt pretty guilty doing the work at first, but I quickly realized that most of the assignments were so banal that I don't think the clients missed out on much learning value by outsourcing it. Why are college courses giving "major" assignments that can reasonably be completed in 5-10 hours by a smart person with no training in the field? If a college degree just means you banged out a bunch of garbage essays, as it does for many people based on the assignments I saw contracted out, should we really be outraged that some people are not doing the work themselves?

I would argue that the real scandal is not that some people are paying for help, but that many degree programs demand so little in terms of knowledge and thought that they can be easily gamed in this way. I would like to see fluffy degree programs ended, so that legitimate work in the humanities can continue without anyone wasting time and resources shuffling average Joes through the pipeline to middle class office jobs.

The most surprising discovery for me was that it seemed like after foreign language students the heaviest users of the service were education majors. No joke. I never figured out if the noticeably heavy use by education majors was a selection bias caused by the way the service was advertising itself, a sign of especially low ethics among education majors, or an indication that there might be a higher incidence of lifestyle factors (e.g. going to school while working full time) that made it difficult for them to crank out all the BS assignments required of them.

It's also interesting to me that the author of this piece seems to be an independent contractor whose business increased as she became known. Generally, I would expect ghostwriters to want to keep a low profile which makes it hard to be independent. I certainly didn't want anyone knowing how I was paying the bills when I was in it. And unless you are charging top-end rates, the overhead of marketing yourself and picking up envelopes of cash at Starbucks is probably an inefficient use of time. Both of these factors mean that a lot of people end up working for agencies that do the work of finding clients and managing payments, and also provide double blinding. So the writer never knows the identity of the client, and vice versa. It's a pretty good system overall.
Could you please recommend one?
Thanks!
It's a bit of an impossible ask though. If a "scientific idea" is one which is supported by the balance of the evidence at this time, then no current scientific idea is ready for retirement. Scientific ideas don't "have to" contain some "failure". If they do, we don't know about it yet. When we do, we retire it proactively. Unless you zero in on one idea where the balance of evidence has very very recently shifted against it, you have to look a bit further than the "current theories/hypotheses" space, into the philosophical ideas, which is what Dawkins is doing.

What would you suggest as a scientific idea ready for retirement?
Yes, I am a communist for thinking that complete dishonesty in an admissions essay of all things is pitiful and wrong. Same goes towards those who had theirs heavily edited by family members/friends/consultants etc..
The "Shin in 15 minutes" tutorial [1] is really nice (I would even say it's more 5 minutes than 15). Once you read the beginning of it you can appreciate the example on the front page.

http://www.shenlanguage.org/learn-shen/tutorials/shen_in_15m...
I think there are quite a few people, very much in love with the game, who are perhaps more surprised than they need to be about "World class management consultant manages X, things improve". No matter what you may think about those guys, they are not actually bad at their jobs, typically.
If I need to rely on your private domain to access my own research, how is it different or less risky than diigo etc? I'm waiting for an extension that lets me keep my own full data activity (and use your cloud too, optionally in addition).
We use our own lvm solution at work, works great, we do something like pgsnap to swap to the snapshot or pgsnap master to work on the master. I'll check this out.
I didn't either. What a nice feature.

(BTW: Pinboard is one of my favorite one-person companies, the other being Tarsnap. I love that the both seem to be run be people interested in building something and are not just looking for an exit strategy.)
How often do you perform scrubs? The best practice for consumer drives is weekly, but at 200+ hours scrub time I can't see weekly being practical :p

Also, why haven't you upgraded your ZFS file system?
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The rich White/Jewish liberals who write these articles, and enforce these laws, could never stomach 1/10'th of the integration they force on poor and middle class Whites.
It was Monday, 19-Oct-1987. VAXen, my children, just don't belong some places.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)
Haxe seems to be portable in a similar way, and probably more popular than Shen at the moment.
But doesn't that commit the same fallacy of trying to fit your data to a specific model such as a "gradient" view rather than a binary view, when in fact it fits neither , both of these views are "essentialist" in that sense. Besides there's certainly a different between an aesthetic appreciation and a sexual desire, someone might have an aesthetic appreciation for a car or mobile phone for example.
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What happens to these students when they enter their required writing composition/rhetoric classes? Do they just pay someone to do all of that work too?
I think you're using a different definition of "essentialism" than Dawkins is. Dawkins was not arguing against improvement, but against the idea of clear boundaries between concepts.
I think economics raped the word 'rational', shot-gun married it to 'self interest', and created a godawful mess that it's going to take the species at least another century to escape from.

Likewise with 'efficient'.

As for selfishness vs altruism - short term gain can lead to long term loss, which is why 'rational' economic theories have such poor long-term predictive power. (In fact, they have negative predictive ability. You can be sure that if someone billed as important makes a prediction about macro conditions, something else is going to happen.)

What exactly is rational about a system which centuries of history have proven is unable to function without a predictable cycle of manic-depressive booms, recessions/depressions, and anti-democratic bailouts?
unrecoverable read error.
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I'm not sure if you're joking or not but in case you're not this mindset is exactly what happened under communist regimes where children of the inner "party members" were given every advantage possible over their "prol" counterparts. But no, destroying an ecosystem you depend on in the long term and subsequently your future with it because some cynical foreign money-bags type holds out a few extra dollars they no doubt obtained through lucrative government connections is a great example of ... what is it you would call the counter-example of what you think the above poster is? A capitalist?
That's not surprising, given that safety-critical software is very often programmed in Ada or SPARK.
ZFS is pretty great, but it's not perfect. Occasionally you have to dump and re-create a whole pool to fix corruption:

[nsivo@news.ycombinator.com ~]$ zpool status -v
pool: arc
state: ONLINE
scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h43m with 0 errors on Wed Aug 13 20:14:53 2014
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
arc ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/arc0 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/arc1 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors

pool: tank
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data
corruption. Applications may be affected.
action: Restore the file in question if possible. Otherwise restore the
entire pool from backup.
see: http://illumos.org/msg/ZFS-8000-8A
scan: scrub repaired 0 in 5h3m with 0 errors on Tue Aug 26 00:19:05 2014
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
tank ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/tank0 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/tank1 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/tank2 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/tank3 ONLINE 0 0 0
logs
mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0
aacd5p1 ONLINE 0 0 0
aacd6p1 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: Permanent errors have been detected in the following files:

/usr/nginx/var/log/nginx-access-appengine.log.0

I can't delete that file or recover it from backup, and don't really trust the pool or our disk controller anymore. So we're moving to a new server, again. Good times.

I imagine this would be disastrous for someone who's filled a 24 disk array with data, and has to purchase a duplicate to safely restore to.
What does "scrub repaired 1.58M in 201h47m with 0 errors on Fri Feb 21 13:37:24 2014" mean?

I have a much smaller zfs setup at home, as well as a few at work, and I would be super concerned if the scrubs were repairing data. Am I overreacting?
Sure, you could think of it as one gradient (gender) mapped to another (sexual orientation). The whole desire of us to classify these things into neat little labels falls apart though when you look at research and ethnographies of different cultures that did things differently.
I agree, needs a bit more work before Show HN worthy.
They absolutely have not. Lyft is far cheaper and the experience has been better for me.
Looking through the entire list of essays, I was struck by how few I was willing to acknowledge as "scientific" ideas. Many seemed like straw men, and the entire list might give a false impression that scientists are blinded by bad ideas.
That's a good question and you're actually pretty close to the right track. The catch is the difference between the wave function and the actual measurement. Quantum mechanics and Schrodinger's equation gives us the wave function. If you know the current wave function, there's a well established way to calculate the wave function at a future point in time.

The catch is that the wave function doesn't tell us values - only probabilities. So knowing the probability distribution at any given point in time doesn't make anything less random because it's all still probability and not actual measurements.

As an analogy, imagine a casino where the roulette wheel has an LCD label for each number. Each round, they change the layout of the wheel. Sometime, they make all the labels black. Other times, it's 2/3rds red and all the numbers are primes. They also have a big book in the corner that tells you what the layout of the roulette wheel will be each round. As a result, if I put down a bet, you can tell me the odds of my bet coming up each round. However, you still can't actually tell me what will WIN the round.

The layout of the labels is like the wave function, the pages of the book are the time evolution operator, and the roulette ball is the fundamental randomness of quantum mechanics. The results are still random, just as Bell said that they must be, but we are at least allowed to know the odds.
+1, me too, couple of times.
English diversity forms can have complex listings of categories. Here's the English census, which might be mildly interesting to US readers because it has no mention of any American races:

Well, I'd like to copy paste an URL here. I go to Google and type "English census form" into the box. First non-advert hit is the one I want. Right click, copy link address, switch tab, paste. Look at this fucking blob:

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2F
www.ons.gov.uk%2Fons%2Fguide-method%2Fcensus%2F2011%2Fthe-2011-census%2F2011-census-questionnaire
-content%2F2011-census-questionnaire-for-england.pdf&ei=4aQDVO-SE6ek0QXs4oHwAQ&usg=
AFQjCNGAEFRjZVqTLVgB0m9zxbbIcrcoBg&sig2=lPEfOAzhMhA0EO3GG9T19w

(I added linebreaks to prevent breaking the HN page.)

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&...

NO GOOGLE. NO PERSON WANTS THAT FUCKING URL. EVERYBODY WANTS THIS URL:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/census/2011/the-2011-...

(Section 16 - Copy from a multi column PDF is painful. Sorry. Trying to select text from that made me want to smash up my computer.)
Shorter article: Learning styles don't exist, including the specific way that subjects are traditionally taught.
libtask isn't using the ucontext syscall (normally), just the ucontext_t struct. If you look at the source code, it provides local assembly versions of the context swapping code for the most common architectures.

That said, your library is quite nice in that it just provides the co-routine wrappers and nothing else, which I appreciate. Also, your switch code has less instructions (are there cases it doesn't handle?), but if you look at libtask's code, it probably not going to be 100x faster. :-)
Hi! Same thing here as with the other examples mentioned in this thread: this only helps you.

If you save a page but someone else needs it, they're out of luck.

But, if, in addition to making you a private, encrypted archive, they also tested to see if the URL was publicly visible and, if so, made a WARC of it, then they could package up all those WARCs for donation to the Internet Archive, and everyone could benefit.
The Hyperloop -can- be meaningfully tested on a small scale model. For example, the scaling laws of fluid dynamics are fairly well known. Building a scale model with knowledge of the scaling laws can at least give us a sense of the performance/cost of the full scale system.

Other small scale test that can be done. A 100m long full diameter segment of the track could be built and then kept at the vacuum pressure needed for some extended period of time while pushing simulated hyperloop vehicles through the length. This can inform us to the real costs of maintaining the vacuum, and give some hints towards real maintenance costs.

A key part of the Hyperloop proposal is the cheapness of fabricating the track and pylons. Actually building the track and pylons in limited quantities is important so that a) areas where efficiencies can be introduced can be identified and b) give a sense of just how much efficiencies can be gained.

As far as I know, the actual compressor drive that the Hyperloop runs on has never been used on such a scale before. At least building a single full scale demonstration model is surely prudent before even considering it.

Maglev was tested with real prototype trains on real prototype track for decades before commercial use. Transrapid (which made the Shanghai Maglev) has a 31km long test track that was in use for over a decade before they started working on the Shanghai line.

Until something of roughly that magnitude is built, the Hyperloop is an interesting (and well thought out) idea, but nothing more.
But libraries can't freely republish out of print books, which is about what the IA is doing. The equivalent would require the archive to have a room you'd visit with a terminal connected to the archive.
Hey there one of the Co-Founders of Estimote here, that makes the Sticker Beacons and coined Nearables.

Sometimes we think of Estimote Stickers as 'Tile for Developers', at least among the community that knows Tile.

Meaning, we're a developer facing platform, more B2B2C and anyone can create a digital tethering application, and any app can adopt it.

We have a big vision for the 'Nearables' concept and hope that the community can push this narrative forward together. Sometimes we think abstractly of beacons as place URLs for physical objects.
I think the benefit with using beacons would be that you can be anywhere within ~70 meters of the item and get a notification to help out. You don't have to even see it to be able to help.
I feel like I'm repeating myself, but here goes. Germany has made loans to many countries. Loans that come with conditions : you buy mostly from us and make others' life difficult. (say the Japanese and US cars)

Then Germany lent out $XX trillion and in return received sales of $X trillion. Germany lent out money they didn't have (ie. vast majority freshly printed money), and lent it out at record low interest rates, because it's sales were dropping. The "Energiewende" was just one more of those loans, which Germany made out to itself.

Those results, while they provided quite a bit of economic improvement, are not exactly impressive. Using these techniques, a company called "anthrax diarrhoea and coffees" can sell for billions to the medical establishment.

I'm not saying Germany doesn't have impressive engineering, and research (though not as impressive as the US has, and it's not like it matters, cost dominates everything and copying is much more efficient than research). I would argue Germany does not have impressive efficiency. However no sane person believes that's what's made the difference in the last 10 years.