skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And also, interestingly, climate science, where they face a similar problem in having a single enormously complex system that they can't bifurcate and run experiments on. To be fair, even nutrition and digestion and neuroscience/psychology tend to be a pseudo-scientific shitshow, and we've 6 billion test subjects for those. Or even epidemiology, where we get endless statistical garbage about this or that factor leading to cancer. Cancer is a real physical process, triggered by real physical causes (carcinogens, genetics, etc.)... how about we put down the statistics textbook and focus on finding the empirical causes? But again we struggle to do that with 6 billion experimental test beds. So yeah, it is best to take anything like sociology/economics/planetary climate modelling with a big grain of salt, because the simple truth is that we're nowhere near achieving accurate modelling in subjects where we have six billion verification sets, let alone subjects where we have a handful (societies, economies) or one (Earth).
Here's a publication about that http://jb.asm.org/content/194/16/4151.full
Jupyter is coming BUT I have zero idea why the community around iPython still doesn't know that iPython will only equal the Python back end and Jupyter will be the over all project.

This switch is happening in iPython 3.0 and still the lack of public information is concerning for me. It feels that Jupyter has loss steam????
Reading the discussion (page 10 after the pretty graphs), it seems mostly fragments of DNA that they can't source

"Most importantly, none of these data indicate
that these organisms are alive, and the fragments of bacterial DNA detected in these data may have arisen from sources other than humans (insects, rats, mice, or other mammals)."

How many creatures have we sequenced vs we know about? Not surprising a lot of unkonwns. Bateria are everywhere, including millions of them inside us.

" half of our high-quality sequence reads do not match any known organism, which is similar to the range reported in other studies (Yooseph et al., 2013) and demonstrates the large, unknown catalog of life directly beneath our fingertips that remains to be discovered and characterized."

Millions ride (and complain about) the NY subway daily.

They found some intersting stuff (anthrax, plague?!) Although they point out we evolved with some nasty bacteria and we don't get sick from it often (thankfully).

"Indeed, these data indicate that the subway, in general, is primarily a safesurface. Although evidence of
B.anthracis,Y.pestis, MRSA, and other CDC infectious agents was found on the subway system in multiple stations, the results do not suggest that the plague or anthrax is prevalent, nor do they suggest that NYC residents are at risk....
Approximately seven hu-
man plague cases are reported a year, and none recently in
NYC or anywhere near NYC,.....
This finding further supports the notion
that humans have interacted (and potentially evolved) with their environment in such a way that even low levels of
Yersinia pestis (plague) or
Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) will not necessarily confer
a risk of acquiring these pathogens.
No, they are super-human, and all of this is part of an intentional plot to subvert us in a way that won't cause us to rise up and behead the super-humans currently running the show...
Do I have to to the work of editing the video myself to be able to watch it? When watching this video, you have to change to camera angle yourself to be able to see the presenter introducing the artist. I think I'd prefer to have someone chose the camera angels for in advance, but let me override ...if I cared to do so. I would love to see multi angle videos for sporting events.

https://www.youtube.com/user/MadilynBailey/ChooseYourView
"It is absolutely true that the old Sullivan-style – tens of posts a day, mostly excerpts and links, with regular essays in immediate response to ongoing news – is mostly over."

I'm having trouble finding a concrete argument in the article about what, if private content creation is indeed dead, is actually left to blog about. According to the article, a large part of where blogging moved on to seems to be mere social link aggregation and propagation.

Meanwhile, we're reading this on a blog. In fact, here on HN, we're reading blog posts all the time. It seems to me we consume a lot of essays which, shockingly, have not in fact been written by media companies.

I think what's changed about blogging has nothing to do with all that. Instead, it's all largely down to the fact that we moved from automated content aggregation to a human-powered filter. The death of the RSS reader itself was probably in equal parts due to an unfavorable signal-to-noise ratio, context switching costs associated with using the app itself, and social media platforms swooping in as an all-in-one replacement. Google abandoning the platform might also have played a role, though it's difficult to discern cause and effect in this case. HN has replaced Google Reader for me, and I'm sure Twitter and Facebook have done the same for other people. But we're still consuming blog content at the end of the day.
There's a lot of slack time, I'll grant that. It's also quite curious how it plays out -- there are many clips shown with little or no explanation. I'm only about an hour into the video myself at the moment, but the example of the Karzai assassination attempt shown comes to mind.
I love being being caught off guard like this by what's possible with the Web platform. Nice work!
I'd suggest that you take some time off from your current life and go out travelling and see the world. You will definitely get some perspective on things.
It's not so much that such an attack would be created by the government (which if that's what GP is saying, then I utterly agree with you). It's more what's done after the attack — painting it as a terrorist attack in the first place, then arguing that it like all terrorist attacks could have been prevented if intelligence were more powerful, etc.

I found it very interesting recently that the BBC has decided to stop using the word "terrorism" to report these attacks[1], and I hope that this will lead to a more nuanced argument over different events.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-bbc-has-just...
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I wondered if it was a deliberate device to make us feel the confusing complexity that can't just be neatly explained by a simple voiceover narrative, which was kinda the point of the show.
Thanks for the reply. It's a LLC. So when we say foreigners can be owners--does it mean foreigners can own stock?

Are there any harmful effect of salary deduction method he proposed?
I wouldn't lead the question by telling them that you were supposed to be annoying, because then they will look for things that annoyed them about you that they may have not noticed otherwise. I would tell them to be brutally honest, and, to be honest, if you're wearing the 'suit' of someone else, you could just ask them if you seemed like the kind of guy they would hang out with. Then note their response down in a survey like manner.
To me, an IDE basically just means "an editor with a built-in debugger". I really don't know where else you'd draw the line. However, for many languages, there's no such thing as a built-in debugger (most interpreted languages, for example).

I've used Visual Studio for C# and C++, and Eclipse for Java.

For Python, Javascript, Go, and editing random files, I prefer Sublime Text. It loads and runs way faster than VS or Eclipse. Setting up plugins is usually a one-time thing that only takes a few minutes to follow some directions off the web. There usually zero "configuration". Just install and you're done.

My guess is that your day job is using Java, C++, or a .Net language, and that's why you feel tied to an IDE (probably VS or Eclipse). Other languages don't really need that much integration into an IDE (unlike others, I don't think needing an IDE is really a bad thing, generally it means there's just a lot of stuff you can do with the language besides writing logic).

I mainly write Go at work, and Sublime is great for that. There's not really a Go debugger yet (there's a couple bad choices, but not ones I'd want to use on any kind of a regular basis), and there's not really a way to write GUIs either... so what's left is "write code, format code, run tests, run program". The last two are purely command line, and the first two are what my editor does.
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Isn't wavelength as such dependant on space? It all seems to come together as A is defined by B and B is defined by A.
Don't know much about 3D printing but seems it's got a long way to go yet if it's taking 7 hours to make a mug with some ugly scaring which costs between $2 and $30 in materials.

If I want to print a mug I'd want it done in 5 minutes and cost $1, otherwise what's the point of owning one from the point of view that one of these will be in every household. Does anyone know if the current materials have any hard limits on them as to how fast they can be manipulated for example?
This only applies to BBC Arabic.
due to some reason this page redirects to another site :
From google cache : http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qwRe934...
Direct link to a related paper (Massachusets
not SV) by the authors since there's no reference in the article: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c13493.pdf

Science article: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c13493.pdf

[Beware here be paywalls etc.]

I'm not sure what to think overall. EQI strikes me as a somewhat strange idea. But then again I'm interested in all approaches that go byound my crude: networking and investors are there as are other tech companies so gogogo. Also weather is fine but internet connections may suck :P

Edit: Nevermind, the link is at the bottom of the article. The "Source" thingy is kind of hard to see.
Oh, really? http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/dec/15/saudiarabia.armstr...
Relax, it's probably God's favourite way of keeping an eye on his universe.
The linked paper doesn't address the elephant in the room - numerical integration is a finicky process to work with in many systems. Students who are still working to understand the underlying concepts are not going to be helped by things like non-energy conserving integrals. [1]

The lack of units in the type system also means the error-preventing properties of static typing are somewhat limited here; it's possible to write code that assumes F=a/m without any complaint from the compiler.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_drift
Can we also just take a moment to consider the monumental stupidity in accusing Blair of "war crimes" for "crimes against peace" by invoking the Nuremberg principles?? If it's "crime against peace", then it is - under the Nuremberg principles - not a war crime.
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Yes, I know. And since long before then there have been endless back-and-forths between manufacturers of such equipment and their customers about achievable precision.

Especially after initial delivery and after initial calibration. And of course nobody would ever move such a machine and forget to tell the manufacturer that that's what they did.

The strength of the web is a huge factor in machine precision (and repeatability, just as important) but what you don't get out of that brochure is that just lifting and putting that machine back down again will put it seriously out of spec, the deformation incurred will require a complete recalibration. Dealing with dynamic loading is a different problem entirely.

We're talking about machines where thermal compensation is considered a normal thing and where you compensate for toolwear.

Not all of these machines are owned outright (they can be very expensive), plenty of them are leased and lease companies just love it when a customer goes out of business and their expensive goods have grown legs and have walked off.

Anyway, DRM without valid reasons is a bad thing, but there are some reasons why not wanting to move machinery like this around without knowing about it is a good thing and you've provided no reason why it isn't, obviously, you can petition the manufacturer to help assist in a move and re-calibration if required (nothing stops you from doing that in the present day), and your conclusion that the machines strength means it does not have to be calibrated is out of touch with reality as far as I'm aware of it.

Those unlock-codes are provided for free to the buyer of the machinery, and it isn't even a given that they will always trigger for every kind of move. (But at a guess, if you simulated shipping one in a container I'm pretty sure that it will come out dead.)

FWIW I worked on the software of an older generation of machinery like this and have spent enough time watching teams calibrate them to have serious respect for how easy it is to knock a machine to 'useless' territory.

As for the bad version of DRM: Mitutoyo had some equipment ending up in Iran contravening the US export ban (pretty weird that a Japanese company could be found in violation of a US export ban, but there are probably relevant details that I'm not aware of), so that's where the DRM component comes in.

So if you really want to complain about that aspect then you should petition the government, not the CNC manufacturers.

But "lock-down, unlock through mfg" has other uses too.

(You could easily imagine that the Gyro software could be set up in such a way that if the change in location was minor that it would not cause a lock-down if the export restriction were the real concern here)

Which makes me wonder how these would fare during earthquakes.
Another day. Another editor comparison.

They're both good, powerful and accessible editors (alongside a pile of other editors that people will swear on their children's lives are the best)...

However, nobody else on this planet is you. None of us shares your exact likes, requirements and thoughts. What I like in Atom might really piss you off. What you need from ST might not even be on my radar.

If you want to pick, try both and decide for yourself.
I dont see how your post is arguing against what I wrote in parent.

You're not so smart so you cant be taken down by yourself, your brain doesnt protect you from claws and fangs. Only as a cooperative group are we strong. Not when competing, but when cooperating.

Our brain is the cooperation centre. It has this capacity to feel with others, be it animals or humans.
I've gotten lucky in life therefore my opinions must be taken seriously.
From the title, I thought that the article was going to be about the rise of the surveillance state, and how monitoring/tracking drones would be the next battleground in the War on Privacy. Instead, we get a fearmongering article that stops one step short of suggesting that civilian drone ownership be banned.
Those quotes aren't from his private journal. I'd be much more lenient on him if they were. They are from interviews and public postings where he is trying to explain what the Silk Road stands for, in public. That's exactly the time when he needs to be really sure why he's doing what he's doing and have a coherent, convincing theory of it. That's what a smart person would have. But he didn't.
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Unfortunately this browser doesn't support orientation so will not show your correct heading.

Chrome 40.0.2214.111 on Yosemite. Not really cross-browser when its not working in newest Chrome ...

Edit: tried it on iPhone, its working but orientation is reversed. For example I turn to North, turn left 90 deg and instead of showing West, its showing East.
I'm not a libertarian, but it seems to me that making drug certification take 15 years and a billion dollars kills more people than any bad drug ever could. If you disagree, please point me to anyone, anywhere doing a cost-benefit analysis of preventing bad drugs vs discouraging new drugs, and concluding that current FDA policies are even remotely close to optimal. From where I sit, it looks like these policies are over-cautious because deaths from bad drugs are much more visible to the public than deaths from non-existent drugs, even though the latter outnumber the former by far.
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Well, that's the thing — if you're building "regular Web Apps", you're _almost_ building Firefox OS Apps, too!

For instance, I built Reeddit [1] for The Web, and with just a couple of config files here and icons there, it's on the Firefox Marketplace [2].

Now, a "stricter" FFOS App would be one that uses FFOS' APIs for more specific stuff, I guess.

[1] http://reedditapp.com
[2] https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/reeddit
Is this related to what you have in mind?

http://adam.chlipala.net/papers/UrWebPOPL15/
It looks cool to stay up to date.

Just a little thing: You may change the top icon to a flat ruby icon (maybe something from the projectnoun).

Is it open source? If it is open source, can you give me the link? then we can contribute.
I think that is one possible perception, but I could argue the same for the existence of 'chaos' or 'randomness' and make the same point.

Do things succeed because they adapt correctly over a given time frame or do they succeed because the adapt correctly over a given time instance. The evaluation of whether competition successfully denotes success is limited to the scope of variables that the competition tests. If those variables cease to be indicative of success, then we have a lot of stuff that appears like it won the war, when in actuality it only won a very small subset of selective battles, much of what we only arbitrarily correlate to success (because without reproducing the conditions exactly, the data and information we can derive about the past is limited and/or subject to malleability).

We've evolved this far because we did. It's survivor bias.

It is entirely likely that there exist good things that are adapted for everything they purport to be, aside from competitive environments. If competition is eliminated, we can at least begin to separate the variables that are a function of the competitive process, and the variables that denote skill.

It is not necessary that we leave the survival of culture and ideas up to the same primitive mechanisms that determine whether a fish with smaller gills reproduces in a shallow pool rather than a deeper one - and make the inference that because it does survive, that it was because of the depth of the pool, and not because of the lack of sharks. Just because it has worked so far does not mean it will continue to work. Competition can cause emotions to control direction rather than objectivity over the data as it exists. When people want to win just because they want to win, .. Then competition becomes a measurement of competition, and not of the things it purports to select for.
One-electron seems very problematic in light of the observed antimatter asymmetry. Why/how could the electron travel forwards in time more often than backwards?
Personally, I don't see what is stupid about charging him with an appropriate crime here in the UK (if there is one - IANAL) if he lied to parliament to start our involvement in a war.
Yes, the implications here are very troubling: that security for high government officials is more important than privacy and anonymity for the rest of us.

For those of us in the states, how the &*$# did we end up here? Was this value system mentioned anywhere in our founding documents? In any government/civics class that any of us took in school? Who are the people they have making these arguments?
Yes, but the standard second doesn't depend on wavelength (maybe I should have said "known energy"). You take a Caesium-133 atom, look at it's emission spectrum, isolate the ground state radiation and time a number of oscillations. Of course, the radiation has a specific wavelength/energy, but the calculation doesn't depend on it.

Once you know about time, you can start talking about distance – a meter is defined as the distance light travels in a given time. Given that the meter is defined this way, defining time in terms of speed would be a bit circular.
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I think we've gone far beyond what anyone wants. I'm starting to be a bit surprised by the good news though, I'll take what I can get.

* Until such time as we can fix this mess.
So, like @higherpurpose pointed out - ruling without enforcement is nothing in this case.

I seriously doubt GCHQ will transform their Cornwall facility into a tourist attraction like Bletchley Park, after NSA recently invested in it such fancy amounts of monies.
If you squint just a little bit, a huge percentage of the population wants a king. Starting from there, it's not surprising that leaders get that treatment.
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A modified BSD master licence, unfortunately, which significantly negates the potential advantages changing the license.

See lots of discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8992340

Some additional discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8990537

And of course recent discussion in the Google Group mailing list, most recently this topic: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qilang/qGHfX3Iimqk/PBQerwjM2...

Which indicates there will be a further change to the master license with "END OF LICENCE" text added before the recently expanded "Commentary", which in theory will further weaken the modification (I haven't analyzed the expanded Commentary yet so I don't have a considered opinion on this).

Which would still require a "run this by legal" even if your org has an established policy on the 3 clause BSD licence, but that should be easy. Certainly not guaranteed, certainly a lot worse than a pure 3 clause BSD, but now, maybe not fatally crippling to the nascent Shen community. We'll see.
You are, of course, exactly right. Right now 3D printing is mostly in the "neato" stage, and is being oversold by a lot of actors. The materials are limited, costly, and prohibitive, and the process is extremely slow and of moderate accuracy. It is getting better, of course, but there are some hard, sober limits on the sorts of materials that can be extruded and modeled like this.
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One step closer to the Singularity.
I found martial arts a more bearable way to get more exercise and not get bored. Started out with karate and then picked up Brazilian Ju Jitsu, which is a lot more full on and arguably less structured. Both did wonders for how I felt about myself as well as putting on some muscle and losing some fat.
We need to teach our children how to make airplanes. As long as we can, as a living generation, assure future generations that this technology will be something they can, themselves, benefit from, then we have a chance.

It is true of all technology: it can be weaponized. So, use it more peacefully, with more enthusiasm to promote life, and stay safe. Fact: drones are good for the environment. Conversion to a drone-based delivery system could be a very positive impact on our environment through transportation. The drone-pizzabox is a good idea, death robots from the sky are a very, very bad idea. As long as you know how to make a flying thing out of a bit of greasy cardboard, you can stay safe in the universe. Pizza helps too.
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