skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh I know. You're preaching to the choir, believe me! But that's not the meme. The meme is invoking it to dismiss a study with no further thought and no specific content.

Small samples get overinterpreted, many published findings are false, etc.—it's all true and the community here is well aware. But it's a gross overreaction to dismiss small-sample experiments wholesale. Even a few seconds' reflection is enough to see that.

For example, assuming this experiment was rigorous, it didn't need more than 16 subjects to find that greater saturated fat in diet doesn't automatically cause greater fat in blood. Additional resources might be better spent on future samples (i.e. replicating the finding by other researchers) than on a larger single sample, which is probably a game of rapidly diminishing returns. And so on.

The point is that HN wants reflective discussions, not reflexive ones. It takes no work and no real thought to pick out one detail that people are currently primed to fuss over and make a post of it. That's not reflection, it's habit, and its payload is not learning, but reinforcement. Reflection requires engaging with the material—this specific material.

There are two ways to do that. One is to dig in and learn the material, think about it, and report your findings to HN. The other is to happen to know something about it in the first place. The first takes work, the second luck. Comments based on neither work nor knowledge are likely not to be substantive. That's why want to avoid generic dismissals as opposed to specific ones.
Isn't it Conky with nice theming?

http://conky.sourceforge.net/

http://conky.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
No. Some formulations are useful for this, but this was not its original purpose or goal: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/06/cyanoacrylate-supe...
http://news.genius.com
Another thing I forget to tell , Imagine one day whole linux desktop ported to Qt , what about C programmer ? what is Qt's answer for C programmer ? (please don't start C vs C++ , it is personal and technical choice , somebody like me prefer C's simple approach , somebody maybe like you prefer all OOP/C++ approach)
Part of the reason for the change is that they removed X-UA-Compatible. I would have suggested TridentEdgeOnly/x.x.
What about any FPS? Instant headshots would be hard to deal with.
I really wish MS would do at least an IE only shared source program.
If you'd like your perfectly-cooked steak in 20 minutes, not 2 hours, try Pantelligent (note: co-founder). Video here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hevans/pantelligent-int...

Unlike sous-vide cooking, Pantelligent is not limited to things you can cook in a plastic bag, doesn't take forever to get to steady-state temperature equilibrium, and most sous-vide recipes encourage you to finish in a pan anyway!

Instead, the Pantelligent app helps you control transient time & temperature profiles. The recipes adapt automatically just like a real chef would (for example, extending the cooking time a bit if the temperature is a bit too low). And the results are delicious, every time.
Yes that was dumb. Should have basetraded (attacked with the tanks to force retreat (buy time and build towers) or destroy zerg base or 2 if the zerg keeps attacking).
>Also, be aware that even if you know it is unenforceable, the nasty letter may scare your next employer

I am curious about this part. Why would the next employer even care, given that they are not party to any agreement made between the individual and their previous employer?
I do, but I think it goes a level up. It's the political system that needs to change. I fully expect companies to use what means they have available to them in order to improve their business (to a point). I'n also not saying that they don't do anything unethical, I was speaking to the general idea of protecting their investment as it applies to DRM in your browser.
I used the python BWAPI client. I recently tried to get back into it but it seemed a lot more buggy and BWAPI wouldn't run on my newer Windows PC. :/

It was a lot of fun. Figuring out a base layout was the most difficult part for me. I ended up using the random function and placing buildings around my main base at random offsets. Didn't get too far with that, haha.
It's too bad that keyword arguments are semantically opposite between CRuby and RubyMotion in Ruby 2.0+. It'll cause a divergence and makes it a little more difficult for Rails+RubyMotion engineers like me to switch.

I understand the reasoning behind both decisions (RubyMotion is following Objective-C's semantics, CRuby is following Python et al).

For those who aren't familiar with RubyMotion's syntax:

def my_method(arg1, keyword: arg2)
puts arg1
puts arg2
end

my_method("test", keyword: "test2")
# output
test
test2
I guess it was caught off guard and started panicking. Typical for human players as well.
> Python simply requires you to be consistent throughout the same file.

You or the other team of developers/maintainers/sys-admins looking over or patching this particular file. Using whatever default editor they prefer with whatever config an tabifying/untabifying behaviour that has.

Or maybe they are applying a patch produced on a different system with different tabulation? Or the other 2000 common ways for accuracy to go out the window.

> That strikes me as an even more valuable property for configuration

So you'd like to deliberately make the configuration system more brittle for absolutely no gain?

Yeah. Count me up for anything else. I personally prefer s-expressions, but I would be willing to go the full mile with pretty much any format NOT based on whitespace. Whitespace is bullshit and depending on it even more so.
IE doesn't need to be open sourced. It needs to be euthanized.

Also, we don't really need the entire application open-sourced. There might be an argument to be made for open sourcing Trident (the rendering engine), but only for the purposes of figuring out what in the hell is happening under the hood that's causing things to work so poorly. If any part of IE were open sourced, I imagine that at least modern versions of it are written on top of .NET which is also open source now, so maybe it would be made to work on multiple platforms? This is a bad thing. As I said before, we need less IE, not more.
They probably have a lot of licensed proprietary code inside it, so it could be hard. What they could do is release critical components (like the JavaScript VM) as Open Source and gradually open more and more of their code base.
4 big headlines that are non-newsworthy to almost everybody. The only headline of any relevance was a 10-day old piece about Philae.
I saw the scallops demo[0], and it looked like a ton of fun. Obviously haven't had a chance to try it yet, but it looks like a great execution of a simple, but brilliant idea.

Looking forward to seeing where you go with this - there are some obviously cool next steps.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScLOkv0ly9g
Teespring University
WikiNews struggles from a lack of contributors, yes. I don't think creating a competing site is going to help that.
Medications are tools not answers. All drugs have multiple effects most of which have received little or no study at all. We are not fortune-tellers. It's impossible to predict exactly what effects a drug will have in a given individual.

Hydroxyzine is an old drug, with antihistaminic, anticholinergic, and some degree of 5HT2a antagonism. It can have moderate anti-anxiety effect, and may reduce discomfort of opioid withdrawal symptoms. However, some people respond poorly, or even become agitated with use of such agents.

While SSRIs block presynaptic 5HT reuptake, this is also known to be a transient effect. Antidepressant action is associated with "downstream" intracellular neuronal changes that are extremely complex and incompletely understood. Specifically, 5HT2a effects are diffuse and connection to particular symptoms tenuous at best. A quick look here should illustrate this point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-HT2A_receptor

Pragmatically, if a medication produces troublesome effects, don't try too hard to "explain" the problem, but definitely don't suffer in silence. Talk it over with the doctor and try other approaches. Psychotherapies can be effective. I agree, it's not an "either-or" situation, rather "all-of-the-above". By all means use the whole range of effective and tolerable tools at your disposal.
I wonder whether one could program them in assembly for teaching a Machine Code / Assembly Language class.
The real revelation is that I can read this bbc.com article. Apparently they've stopped blocking British people!
seems legit...
Agreed, and then some. I don't think it's always bad to reinvent the wheel -- especially if the wheel as it exists today is wobbly, flat, or square.
Let's say you're right. What kind of "political" leverage Lennard had to convince distros to use systemd?
***The Maze Runner (2014)***
> The philosophy is to make as many errors happen at runtime rather than "compile" time

This is pretty terrible. I would much rather find out about errors at compile time. Its a lot easier to find the source of the error from within the IDE and fix it, than to debug a runtime error.
hacker news is essentially a wikipedia for tech news.
This may be a stupid question, but what's wrong with shell scripts as config? Yeah, they're Turing-complete, but they're necessarily trusted, and a lot of times you end up wanting that anyway. But in the simplest case, they're almost the platonic ideal of a config language: name=value, repeat. If your objection is that shell languages have lots of nasty warts, then I'd agree, but you should be fixing that separately anyway. I sort of encountered this idea in FreeBSD init scripts, so I don't see why they don't just run with that.
I did think that too - why not just release this as a Qt widget library? Why a new distro?
> I'm well aware of the physics of the situation. It's my day job.

I have met many people for whom this is their day job who nonetheless don't understand this.

> Bob can certainly check to see if Alice has actually made the measurement she claims to have by making a local measurement on his photon

No, he can't. The best he can do is determine (probabilistically) that the bits Alice gave him are not the result of such a measurement. But he cannot know whether or not Alice's measurement was actually performed.

In other words, Bob cannot distinguish:

1. Alice does not perform a measurement, but rather simply pulls two bits out of a hat.

2. Alice does perform the measurement, but sends Bob two bits pulled out of a hat rather than the results of her measurement.

He cannot make this determination EVEN PROBABILISTICALLY, i.e. after aggregating many trials all prepared the same way. Because of this, it is wrong to say that Alice's measurement changed the state of Bob's photon.

Of course, Bob can distinguish between Alice sending him bits pulled out of a hat and bits resulting from her measurement, in which case he can know that Alice must have performed the measurement. But that's a red herring.
So, everyone interested in this idea should put their efforts into a failed project. No alternatives, because that would be harmful to a project people clearly aren't interested in developing.

If wikinews isn't able to get this idea working, why is everyone else required to keep supporting it. Maybe it's time for an alternative.
This looks like a PTFE pan on which you are searing ingredients, in one demo bringing the whole pan close to 400f. Isn't that dangerous? Also: counterproductive? There's a reason serious cooks tend to use non-stick pans solely for fish and eggs, right?

Also: what are the ingredients you're thinking of that are difficult to cook in a circulator?
They use a code generator to implement reflection methods on classes marked with the Q_OBJECT macro. The output of that code generator is standard, readable C++. It was, and still is, a very useful, practical way of doing things.

I can't say as to what Microsoft has done or not done, but I don't see anything immoral about the moc.
You see this in the startup world in general. Worth noting there's often a lot going on behind the scenes at zombie startups – off-label experiments, etc., so they can be less dead than they appear.
Oh cool, you found that! Yes, we had some messages asking for a full, un-cut cooking session, so you can see how the whole Pantelligent system works together, so we recorded the iPhone screen over Airplay and just made an 8-minute-long scallops video!
I'm not getting why someone has to declare "we are creating a new OS", instead of just settling on "we are creating a better UI".
OS is a very serious thing that has nothing to do with usability as it is perceived by grandma
I would suggest it is democratic - there is and always has been a tension between our elected officials bein our representatives and our delegates.

The same goes for any democratically appointed UX team.
Announcing LaserCutter ruby gem and MakeABox.IO web site
Seems like a race to the bottom. How will original, reliable reporters of facts have time to gather them if they aren't paid?
>TLDR: take it apart and put it on a plane

Yeah, I'm not sure why it's a surprise to anybody that you can load anything on a plane and get it anywhere in the world as fast as that plane can fly.

What's with all these mediocre Wired articles making the first page?
No Olin thread is complete without a link to Olin's antics on usenet:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/opinion.html
I agree - kind of. You have to have a standard - make.conf for example is just systemd for the 90s.
He's a smart guy, a Haskell programmer, and co-author of a pretty great Haskell book.

I don't think he's a troll; it just seems that his opinion of Ruby is influenced by experience in other languages.
Wow, I didn't expect people would read so much in my poetic language.

Qt used to be relegated to KDE on Unix but is now also used by Unity and LXDE. People prefer using Qt because it is much more cross platform friendly than GTK+ and has great developer tools. Qt seems to be the future of the Linux desktop at this point. So excusez-les-mots.
It makes plenty of sense when you consider who OpenBSD's actual competition is. Hint: They aren't trying to target the desktop market.
So a few people mention that this is a really revolutionary product and someone suggests that it should be in every first aid kit.

It's certainly cool. But apart from a few specialised applications this is not really a game changer.
This is because the best defence against bleeding is tamponade. As in, a finger applying pressure.
I work in an emergency department and recently we had a trauma patient that was bleeding. The trauma fellow was doing his assessment and a emergency consultant was getting very anxious and stating that the patient had to go to theatre right now as he was bleeding out. The trauma fellow was trying to complete his primary survey and wanted the emergency specialist to shut up so he stuck his finger in the wound, the patient stopped bleeding, and he turned around and got on with the rest of the survey.

The point is that bleeding is very rarely life threatening, and te couple of applications where is would be are military and intra operative.

The intra operative application would be particularly useful when a patient had a lacerated spleen or liver or when these organs are operated on. Currently we use a product called geloseal to stop bleeding on these organs - it works pretty well. But if this product works as suggested it may be better.

No-one needs this in their first aid kit, and until it is approved for use in surgery I don't think we will save any lives with it, but it is still a very cool product.
A tight race! Hacker News maybe?
They have account reps you can talk to and make your case. Worth a shot
Cyberwar is bullshit
Yeah, silly problems like that really made being competitive with established AI's or even players hard. Just an AI that sets up a base properly and manages to build a proper army at the right timings but without any strategic insight into the opponent or even micro-decision making (which unit targets which opponent) will still do very decently, just because all the boiler plate is so much work not many AI's get to the actually being 'intelligent' part.
Could be wrong but I think the Sansaire came first. Their kickstarter finished in Sept 2013. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seattlefoodgeek/sansair...
But given the claims of this article, can that source be trusted? I tried to dig deeper, found zillions of copies of that quote and http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1877...., very likely Collett's article, but behind a paywall, where I have to register to even see the price of the article.

Also, that 'fifteen hours' doesn't say much. Speeds of sailing ships differ a lot, depending on the ship, wind direction relative to ship direction, and, of course, the density of the lemmings in the water. The fjors is about 130km long, though, and the eye would reach (depending on height above sea level and weather) around 10km.
IE users aren't asking for it in the same way that .NET users were. People use IE mostly because they don't see any reason to change.
I have been contributing to infobitt for awhile now. The potential is for it to be a place where you get a rounded view of a story by multiple editors providing different facts. One option I hope will emerge is filters so I could see for example how the world news appears from an Australian perspective and then instantly flip and see it from a is perspective. That would be something that nobody has done as yet.
Yes, it's possible. I haven't seen a crowd-sourced news website with a focus on the community so much as Infobitt. The site's style is really good: the news is given to me in small pieces with easily digestible key facts. I can see a lot of people going to this site every day to know what's going on around the world.
A herd is only as fast as their slowest member.
I found it a particularly helpful comparison (since I've recently tried using FreeBSD after a long lapse, and considered trying PC-BSD), but I can see how you might find it deceptive. Debian is really effortless when you know what you're doing, but you still need to know a lot more to use it effectively than you do with Ubuntu.
Pasta carbonara? Scrambled eggs? Mushroom risotto? Grilled cheese? Pancakes? Stir fry?

Most non-stick pans will just tell you "don't overheat the pan", but you've got to guess where that line is; Pantelligent actually knows the temperature, and the app can warn you if you're heading into dangerous territory.
I wonder if most of the people behind these startups are still working under the "work hard, huge payout" mantra, given the evidence against that highly unlikely outcome.
This is Larry Sanger, one of the original founders of Wikipedia, but he disagreed with it very early and left to start a competing project, “Citizendium”, which went slowly and stagnated a few years back.
May be a sponsored article, but still the massive scale that applies to F1 racing is mind-blowing.

I had never thought it 'd require 30-50to material to be shipped across the globe - and it's not surprising many teams have financial problems.
Building these AI's is actually a lot of work. They're usually built by a single or a few persons, in their spare time or perhaps as a college course. Most time is spent making sure your bot actually plays the game. Very little if any at all time is spent making the bot smart enough to deal with situations like this. In this case, obviously there's a bug where the bot is not dealing property with aerial attacks. A human player would have given up or made a suicide attack the second those mutas landed as he realized he missed a turret at his main.
You missed my point.

I didn't say that Aereo was legal or not based on its marketing, I said that there was a common cause to both Aereo's lack of legality and the marketing the company chose to sell the product.
What's your previous work history and educational background? That's the first thing that's going to come up with any employer. It could be in your benefit or not depending on what you were doing previously. How you frame it to potential employers will be key in getting callbacks.

Since you don't have a deep dev background I would suggest a portfolio site with links and descriptions of side projects and any other relevant work.

Regarding a resume, if you're going to include all the different technologies you've been looking into you should provide some indication of your level of experience with them, e.g. beginner, advanced, etc. Personally, I get a bit put off if resumes from inexperienced candidates contain a laundry list of technologies without ranking and it just turns out they've only used them in passing.

Generally, you may not want to spread yourself too thin learning so much this early in your career. Getting some deeper experience with a few key technologies could be very desirable to potential employers. It sounds like you've been mostly concentrating on web stacks in which case you may want to focus your job hunt on web developer positions specifically rather than full stack or back end.
I would love to see this work. Really love to.

This has as big of a chance to improve humanity as wikipedia, I believe. The elimination of news curators will reduce other people thinking for them.
I'm a happy user of InfoBitt. I went from skimming different news sources, such as Yahoo headlines, to strictly looking at InfoBitt for the top news of the day.
I've been contributing to infobitt now for about a year. I think the idea of breaking a story down into individual facts linked to sources is interesting. The game changer will come when we start adding value beyond that. There are some ideas percolating on that front. So I would encourage anyone interested to get on board and see where this takes us.
Designing Plan 9 (1990)
Couple of warning signs: (1) Article is actually a paid advertisement, and doesn't pretend to anything like peer review. (2) "In addition to the statistical evidence, Renshaw collected anecdotes that supported his developing theory." Seriously?

As we don't have anything like a useful theory of what depression is and the details of how neurotransmitter levels are connected to mood, especially over the long term, he's really jumping to conclusions. His statistical correlation is weak, and correlates to a lot of other things (maybe Republicans cause suicide, or proximity to harbors protects you from suicide). He needs a causal mechanism and a LOT better data before this is anything like a useful hypothesis. By the way - lets note that Switzerland's suicide rate is considerably lower that France, and half that of Japan (most of whose population centers are near sea level).
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