skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are Christians even polytheists?

They would emphatically say no, but the Trinity suggests otherwise.

Three distinct entities, with distinct personalities, goals and natures: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Son forgives easily, the Father holds grudges for generations. It's an unforgivable sin to blaspheme against one, but not the others. Meanwhile, the description of the Trinity as essentially distinct aspects of a single being is similar to some interpretations of Hinduism. There is at least a superficial (and not at all radical) case to be made that Christianity is monotheistic in name only.

So would, or do, Muslims consider Christians to be polytheists? I don't know. But it seems they would need to for that verse to really apply.

Although... Christian teaching holds the Old Testament to be as sacred and inerrant as the New, and that has many examples of God (the Father) commanding His people to stone the unclean and murder the infidels (which at the time would be anyone not a Jew, because of course the God of Israel was, exclusively, the God of Israel, (until He wasn't)) and the Book of Revelations is almost entirely about a holy war between Christians and Everyone and Everything Else.

Yet, I doubt you would find the majority of Christians or Jews holding to such a violent and literal interpretation of scripture. Some, yes, obviously. In the US at least, apocalyptic Christian theology is big business (just see the Left Behind and assorted clones in any bookstore) and big politics.

Nevertheless, it is no more the case that all Muslims want the infidels dead (but only a few are willing to pull the trigger) than it is that all Christians want every woman on her period within the city limits to be stoned to death. The truth is, most religious people are hypocrites, and the world remains the better for it, and both Islam and Christianity could (and have, now and then) justify genocide and hate with their Scriptures if they wanted, because both religions come from a time when those were SOP for religions and societies.
Bitcoin Exchange (e.g. okcoin). Offline (e.g. physical media like a few DVDs, an unplugged flash drive, and so on). I wouldn't store more than you absolutely have to online as some of these Bitcoin "banks" have a habit of running off with everyone's Bitcoins.

I wouldn't recommend Bitcoins in general as an "investment." Only if you are buying the coins to be used in the near term for a purchase. Investing in Bitcoins is a little suspect, never invest what you cannot afford to lose.
Are these data that is used there available somewhere?
The Europeans or the Mexicans?
Create simple product tooltips and onboarding tutorials
I think this is because of the inherent inequality that exists at work. In a typical social network, everyone is essentially "equal" when it comes to who you know and interact with. At work, you necessarily are very closely involved with people who hold significant authority over you. Because of this, you have to act incredibly more guarded at work and on its related networks.
Completely off-topic, but if you haven't seen Moon, do it.

It's an amazing movie.
He might be trying to learn more about Microservices by identifying the structure in a current project. So it is a valid question.

Those names are useful to communicate ideas. It is just like software patterns. It doesn't correlate to a direct implementation of the pattern, but a pattern correlates to an idea, and it is extremely useful to communicate them. Microservices are just that.
FYI, the criticisms there are actually trivially handled by using the MathType and Endnote packages.

The biggest challenge is I work in a field where Word dominates and collaborators don't do LaTeX and journals won't accept it. So, there is very little payoff for slogging over the LaTeX hill, unfortunately. The LaTeX to Word translators all blow and Track Changes rules the world for collaborative writing.

There is no workflow that is not a pain in the ass to collaboratively write LaTeX with someone that can't use LaTeX or that sucks at LaTeX.
Tahiti Audio Converter is a free in browser JavaScript audio transcoder
I actually would like to get HN's take on this. Maybe someone should submit an HN poll. I'm still of the opinion disabling javascript is an extreme measure and those that do it need to come to terms with whatever broken internet experience they get. While I do think it's worth it to display to the enduser something like "Looks like javascript isn't enabled; you'll need to turn it on for this site", is it truly reasonable to spend development time to make your site functional without client-side javascript? Probably depends on your audience. I bet sites that are more commonly accessed through Tor have people more likely to have javascript turned off.

But yeah, anyone here work webdev where your webapp is expected to fully work without client-side javascript?
I don't think time spent and performance are good metrics on the quality of the result, not meaning the output look but the quality of the work itself. Anyone that has spent some time on SQA knows that.

For the study they used a predefined text, so there's no real way to measure if there's an inherent quality on documents created using LaTeX, or if LaTeX does something to your brain to conceptualize your ideas while you are punching them on the keyboard. Or not.

> Given these numbers it remains an open question to determine the amount of
> taxpayer money that is spent worldwide for researchers to use LaTeX over a
> more efficient document preparation system, which would free up their time to
> advance their respective field. [...] We therefore suggest that leading
> scientific journals should consider accepting submissions in LaTeX only if
> this is justified by the level of mathematics presented in the paper. In all
> other cases, we think that scholarly journals should request authors to
> submit their documents in Word or PDF format.

This just sounds hasty. LaTeX may not be the tool for everybody and should not be enforced. Neither MS Word.
Running PVS-Studio static code analysis on Linux 3.18.1
On the "Substandard Treatment", my personal experience is the loss of power. I was the team lead for a government project. My wife took a job she always wanted; we move 900 miles away to Florida. Pretty much after that, while still team lead, the team lost cohesion. It was harder to drive changes and tasks at a distance than if I was in someone's cube.
Won't be so easy for Apple to beat GoPro
It's not quite a social network, but Skype got quite a bit of use at my previous company. If there was a topic that people wanted to share links or ideas or discuss things about, we created a new Skype group with everyone pertinent in it. We had serious and less serious Skype groups too.

So we'd have one for the Project X team discussion, and another for Project Y team discussion, one that included the QA team if we needed to discuss bugs with them, and we'd make a temporary one if we just needed to discuss prep for an upcoming meeting, etc. And then we had the group that wanted to share meme pics and youtube links, and the group that wanted to share links to metal music, and another to discuss anime, etc.

You could also put in filters so it only notifies you if certain words appear in the chat, like your name or some feature you're in charge of. It was simple, dynamic, and more effective than any other company I've worked for before or since.
I agree with you except for:

> multi-page tables

You won't be able to persuade me that's easier in LaTeX than Word! I say that as an otherwise very proficient LaTeX user who finds himself much more productive with LaTeX than Word.

As for this study, I imagine it's a question of proficiency–good LaTeX users will be better with LaTeX, and good Word users will be better with Word. I have colleagues who can only barely use LaTeX, so it takes them forever, and they'd be much better off with Word. We do all our paper collaborations using Word, for example (which drives me nuts but there we go).
Banks don't fail because of mysterious hidden costs that they didn't know existed. They fail because they get the accounting wrong and/or because people defraud them - i.e., the exact same reasons that lead to mtgox's failure. Difference is, bank deposits are FDIC protected.
Unfortunately, you are in the vast minority of people, probably even on hacker news (I would guess less that 1% of overall population [1]).

So the decision has to be made, just like whether you want to support IE7 users, whether or not you want to put in the extra time to support those edge cases.

And as always, it depends on the type of site you are running. If it's Amazon, that 1% matters a shit ton. If it's a side project or SaaS startup for example, it makes sense to hold off on supporting those 1% in favor of more pressing features.

1.https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missi...
We use Yammer at our company and it's much more like Facebook than Twitter. It's not the be-all and end-all of our collaboration tech nor do I think people spend more time on it than actual work.
If I raised the spectre of violent mobs, it was unintentional. I merely meant to raise the spectre of police/DHS/etc using violence to prevent people from engaging in trade. My apologies.

I'm also not attempting to "remedy" any injustice of birth, I'm merely opposed to using violence to make it worse.
Five recent results in high-performance data paths
Aiming to get product documentation under control with a backend like github, so it is easily reusable. If you have any questions please do ask.
Minecraft Antarctica
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/advantages/security/zec12cry... (previous generation)
http://www-03.ibm.com/security/cryptocards/

One reason for industry standards is that they distribute risk across the whole industry. So if NIST crypto is broken the entire industry goes down together; one company wouldn't have a competitive disadvantage.
Behind-the-scenes look at making fonts
Google Docs doesn't have the much-vaunted "stream."

Going to docs.google.com simply brings up, well, docs.
> Balzer used Photoshop to layer the new DICOM files on top of the old images, and realized that the tumor hadn’t grown at all — the radiologist had just measured from a different point on the image.

Think about the some of the implications of that statement for a while.

It really is no wonder that the softer sciences have a reproducibility problem.
>I don't see a purely online web agent

Thanks for your input, though my question was specifically to lugg and asked "can you imagine what, if any, part of this could be done purely online". Still, your thoughts on a different subject have been interesting and thanks for them. You can also send me email if you'd like to write more.
Function constructor as well as setInterval() and setTimeout() with stringyfied functions are almost as insecure as eval().

Until now I don't think that I have ever encountered a case where any of these were the absolute only solution.
It makes business sense: server cpu cycles you have to pay for, client ones you don't. (If the client is fast enough not to notice -- if not, of course, you could lose customers).
I was one of those people who loved Wave and used it constantly. I was so sad to see it get shut down. Very happy to see Lars doing something new!
Looks like a cure that is worse than the illness from here...
If Wikipedia is to be believed, we would need a substantial amount of Helium-3 to make a working reactor. At the moment, the US produces a mere 8kg of Helium-3 per year(and that's 60,000 litres!).

Apparently a litre can sell for as much as $2000, so even if the Chinese brought it back from the moon (I really wonder how, if 8KG take 60,000 litres of space, are they planning to bring back 20 tonnes??) they would still make profit.
Reinventing the Nintendo Power Glove as a Stop-Motion Animation Tool
They also got big when they started scouring peoples inboxes for contacts, one of the largest security breaches in Net history.
The first benchmark is primarily a comparison of Nim's PEG package to Rust's libregex package. The two have very different algorithms, and libregex is optimized to avoid exponential blowup on pathological regexes. It's missing a fallback to the backtracking algorithm at present.

Using rust-pcre would probably mitigate this problem.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8854354
The more senior people in my research group actually prefer Word (and OpenOffice) for the reason that it does have an inline, visual change tracking feature. Not as powerful as git of course, but it does actually get the job done and is a lot easier to use.
My Perspective on Go
Slightly related http://rubular.com good regexp validation utility.
> The simple act of following instructions – which is all a computer can do – never results in actually knowing what those instructions mean, or what it is doing.

The fundamental mistake so many people make is assuming that somehow "real" consciousness is special, and different from this -- that we're not just complex chemical systems blindly following instructions like a computer.

How do you know this? Because your brain has been wired to "feel" like it has agency?
Object.create history and memory leaks
I usually have a terrible UX with Angular websites, I don't know if the problem is Angular itself or the developers, but these are some of the problems I usually experience:

-No HTML hyperlinks. This means that I can not open pages in new tabs, which it's very frustrating.

-Slow loading times. Static websites are much faster. Even non-cached server-side dynamically generated websites are faster.

-High CPU usage. To be fare my computer (1.4ghz c2s) is almost 5 years old, but using 100% to render a very simple "About us" page is ridiculous.

-Broken style when using some add-ons. This _only_ happens with Angular.
> the [Power/AIX] virtualization is insanely good in practice

This is my experience as well. IMO, Power/AIX has the most sophisticated virtualization available. IBM just has no idea how to market it.
> Google shouldn't get to build a log of every page we visit.

Why not block Google at your router?
>The trick with overlaying follow-up scans is called image fusion and is easy and can be done by one-click applications

Just wanted to point out that image fusion is far from easy. The brain is easier than most areas of the body because the skull provides a good basis for performing a registration, but even then the brain has some small room to shift and you can't get a perfect alignment with only rigid transformations, especially when you're dealing with tumors.

For most other parts of the body you have complications like organs shifting around, gas passing through the digestive system, patients being in slightly different orientations, etc. In these cases you most definitely need to use some kind of deformable registration, which is far from a solved problem, especially when you have things like tumors changing shape/size or even appearing from nowhere from one scan to the next.
Brazilian here (and surprised to see they used Brazilian research software in a top HN story!). Couple years ago, my wife had a mass on her throat that turned out to be thyroid-related but (thankfully) benign.

I had the EXACT same feeling as you, and feel we're copying the US in only the wrong aspects. "A bunch of busy, reasonably bright people caught up in an insane circus" sums it up better than I could. I'll digress here and vent about another aspect of it, but I liked your links about too much data, thanks.

Not sure how it is in the US, but what is strange for me here is that it's not only about cutting-edge tech, even old stuff (Email? Messaging of any kind? Hell, phone calls!) is not really used by our hospitals and doctors.

Here, if you do any type of imaging exams, y'll have to wait a few days for the results, get them on the lab - physically -, schedule another doctor appointment, wait an hour or so in the waiting room just so your doctor can take a look at the images and tell you, basically: "Ok, you're fine", or "Hmm, I need these other exams to be sure. Here, take this piece of paper where I describe what I need and get it done".

Seriously, we use instant messages delivered to phones all around the world simultaneously to share pictures of ourselves, of our cats, dogs and dinners, just for a giggle. And we can't do it to save lives!
You are not right about that. I think your faith in the medical system is touching, and I hope you never have to experience enough of it to lose that faith.

Doctors have a reasonably good general medical background, but most of them have little or no idea on specific issues that they have not encountered directly in their recent practice. When something like that comes up, they go research it. Given typical patient loads, they research it quickly.

It is very easy for people to do that research themselves. They have access to all the same material that doctors do. Educated laypeople will quickly end up knowing more than the average doctor about their specific conditions.

This was especially obvious to me when dealing with my mom's cancer. E.g.: https://www.quora.com/If-you-had-15-minutes-to-educate-a-doc...

Or pop over here, where HNers are currently discussing how an active advocate made a huge difference for another cancer patient, and how scarily little doctors know: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8886164

With well-documented drugs like modafinil, your average GP will have little or no advantage in prescribing them over an educated layman who has really studied the topic. Indeed, the way many drugs with mental effects get used in practice is a doctor saying, "Well, let's try this." Followed by, "Does that feel better?" When I was my grandfather's conservator, his GP did exactly that with Prozac. When I asked some follow-up questions, it was painfully clear that he knew approximately nothing about the drug other than that the pharma marketroid said it could help with moods.

The point of the medical licensing system isn't to create perfect wisdom and great outcomes. It's to place some broad limits to limit some obvious harms and establish a mechanism of control. It should be no surprise that smart and motivated people can, in specific and limited circumstances, do better than that very low bar.
Both of those things actually have very serious consequences, but in case of a company setting up a division somewhere else, you're not the one being directly affected.

I didn't mean to say these are simple issues, I meant to say it's hypocritical to support one and not support another, ideologically speaking.
New, more powerful Google Translate app
How to open source a rails app with sensitive data
Homicide rates aren't really reliable metrics for violence, at least in the US. Here in Chicago, homicides are down a bit, but shootings are up. That's actually more violence, but the homicide is the only politicized fact. More shootings and less deaths probably have more to do with surgical outcomes than any sort of peaceful nature argument. Kids are getting shot left and right here. Its not getting better.

Humans are basic creatures that engage largely in rational game theory. A south-side kid with no prospects joining a violent gang is 100% rational. Shooting a rival for turf makes perfect sense in that socio-economic system. Under those circumstances violence is the most efficient way to gain resources, solve disputes, and build social capital. 70% of homicides in Chicago are never solved, so you don't need to worry about jail time either.

Pinker's stuff is a bit too idealistic for my tastes. He ignores that humans really just adapt to circumstances. We're only less violent, if we even are, its because circumstances dictate it so. My milquetoast bureaucratic life has no room for violence, but if things drastically changed for me, I'd be the one buying a gun and shooting rival gangbangers. Its just makes sense for me to do so. I wouldn't necessarily be averse to this. I'd try to maximize my life, protect my family, and collect resources that best way I personally can.

Thankfully, my parents immigrated to this country and gave me the luxury of never having to shoot anyone. I'm not a good person. I'm just a person. I can, and often will be, what circumstances demand if need be. I've never been tested like a south side kid. I doubt I'd take more a more moral or peaceful approach under those circumstances. I'm certainly not overly-moral today and I imagine most people aren't either. Are we all wringing our hands over not buying fair trade goods? Do we really care who makes our ipads, computers, etc? Why would I be overly-moral when it comes to violence if I suddenly found myself in certain situations?
You lost team spirit, but this is not because of the distance. It is either "team culture" or your personal skills.
Tell us more how it is better structured and better documented than Backbone and what exactly makes it better for the large apps. The size of the app will hide the size of the framework better?
There is no data to support the health benefit of "organic food".

The very notion of agriculture itself "fights nature". Saying we should "work with mother nature" sounds nice, but it doesn't mean much.
Did you read the indictment? Do you think they just blatantly made up the dialogues and diary entries there? It seems unlikely they would risk doing that just to spice up what already seems like an open-and-shut case.
I think you're hugely overestimating how many US companies support remote working.
Another thing people tend to overlook about server-side rendering tends to be the battery usage on mobile involved in keeping radios alive for things that would otherwise not require it. Mobile OS's go through pains to keep battery performant by turning off hardware when not in use, but constant server-side view round-trips de-optimize that capability.
We built the DO community site from scratch as there was nothing else out there that offered the tight integration we wanted between presenting content and offering a place to ask questions and discuss. Even though it didn't meet all of our requirements, we're big fans of Discourse. It's a great platform for hosting discussions.

If you're looking for something that follows the Q&A model, there are quite a few StackOverflow inspired sites out there:

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2267/stack-exchange-...
Man saves wife's X. Man strong. Man good. [/sarcasm]
There are two major faults in this study:

1. They compare only "errors", but don't have any measure of overall document quality. It's certainly the case that it's easier to make mistakes in LaTeX, but I find that people who use LaTeX tend to end up with more professional documents.

2. They compare only on very short documents using very little time. In much the same way anything I'm going to type in 20-30 seconds is better served by Notepad than Word (mostly because Word isn't always even usable in that time window), they're failing to compare LaTeX to Word in the situations where I'd argue that the distinction matters - namely, large, complex document writing. Things with >40 hours of work involved, >100 numbered items, >50 internal references, etc.
Yes, indeed. Typing on a mobile device is a pain, sorry.
Cool. I've been out of Android development for some time, but why does this need be an Activity? Couldn't it simply be a service (an IntentService or otherwise) that receives the intent and drops the text in the clipboard? Aren't Activitys usually associated with some UI that fills the screen?
> How do you know how many people disable javascript?

In this day and age, most businesses don't care about this type of user. I have no sympathy for those who intentionally cripple the web and don't care to cater to them. You aren't worth it; progressive enhancement isn't worth the effort. It's cheaper to presume Javascript and ignore users like you altogether; don't forget this is business, our motives are profit, not doing things "right".
This initially targets companies with >100 employees, so there has to be some existing infrastructure.

Facebook has a great UI and there are many advantages.
The Ideal Morning Routine for Successful People