skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do our brains like to torture us like this?

It sucks but its the same aspect of our mind that thinks up the amazing things like skyscrapers and cameras that we're then able to build. Imagination. :)

For contrast look up stories of the woman with a damaged amygdala who literally has no fear whatsoever. She has to have people around her to keep her from doing dumb things like pick up poisonous snakes.
(WINDOWS ONLY) :(
You also install runtimes once for other languages.

GOPATH isn't awful, but it's something more than "just source" as claimed in the article; which is my point. Go is simple, but not as simple as claimed.
There are basically five jobs in all of Albany outside of state government. Yes, many of us would love to live in quaint smaller/medium towns within sight of a major global city but there tends not to be much career opportunity there
Just FYI Nobel Prize in Economics isn't actually a real Nobel Prize and was invented by the central bank system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economi...
Meet Project Phoenix, the New NYT Android App
Ask him why you don't need a license to use a phone even though title two was used on phone companys? Also the difference is that radio and TV have a limited spectrum which limits the amount of content that can be broadcast. The internet does not have the same issue since each user can get different content unlike TV and Radio.
qwerty allows me to type most languages. steno is barely for English. Do not go that route.
Nothing is true by definition.
Sounds like that WiFi router is trying to do too much and should be re-engineered so its firmware no longer needs to be updated as a matter of course.
Yes, the "audit the Fed" movement is really about increasing the influence of Congress on Fed policy decisions, not financial controls the way we normally think of them.

The Fed was designed to be independent of Congress and the fight over whether that was the right decision is still being waged.
Especially since post editing is allowed, though maybe post editing could just drop the votes or something.
This is interesting, but this seems like a pretty minor thread in Kahneman and Tversky's body of research. The review highlights a number of experiments that show how actual human reasoning differs from maximizing utility. The critique of Bayesian analysis isn't mentioned in the article, and I don't recall it being in the book.

If you have any interest in how people make decisions then "Thinking, Fast and Slow" is worth reading.
something about this makes me incredibly nervous and provokes a lot of anxiety, I can't even look at these photos. that said, I'm sure that is the sort of emotion they are looking to elicit, well done!
"Thin" implies little work is being done over the work that C would do. I can't see how the size of the source repositories would matter here.

Memory management is worth mentioning because actually it's a lot of work done automatically, and it is among the many important distinctions between code written in C and code which runs on an interpreter written in C. I doubt many people would have called Go a thin layer of glue over C even when it was implemented in C. There is, at least, the entire Go runtime to consider.

By the time we've described almost every language in wide use as a thin glue over C (and so many languages do offer some kind of interface layer or FFI to C, permitting the use of C APIs outside of C)... there is no longer any real purpose calling anything a thin glue over C.

So I have an alternative explanation: calling PHP a thin glue over C is just how PHP decided to market itself years ago, even though it's either not true or it's trivially true of almost everything else. The apparent idea was to encourage the thought that PHP is 'almost as fast as C' and to excuse very raw APIs (they have to be this raw, you see, in order to allow the high performance of staying close to C).

I guess that made some kind of sense 15 years ago, and if you like PHP then at least there is still work on things like HHVM to reduce its disadvantages, but so much has happened in languages that now you can have either much cleaner APIs with comparable speed, or just plain much better speed than PHP, and there are also arguably options which have both cleaner APIs as well as higher speed.

I'm not arguing that PHP is unusable, much less that PHP users are stupid, but it seems very strange to say words that seem to imply that PHP is faster than Perl and Java because it is closer to C, when PHP is not very close to C at all in any sense that everything else isn't also very close to C.
The real missing part of this article is that NASA's budget is dominated by building launchers. If all NASA did was build payloads and buy launch services, it would get a lot more done for its dollar.

It's a sign of corruption in the governance. As Shakespeare noted through Polonius, you can distinguish true craziness from the put-on by watching what people do with their money. Boondoggles, even partial ones, whose main purpose is to broker power through the distribution of fat contracts are a clear sign of failed governance.
As a semi-recent Unity Developer, I find myself really wanting to jump ship to Unreal, really great stuff all around.
I use Evernote's Readly. Quite lovely, but the customization isn't the best compared to Readability.

I prefer having an extension/built-in tool to a bookmarklet, though.
Yes, the UI used by UE4 (Slate) is resolution independent. It can be scaled freely.
> The folks at Rice have the most approachable material on program optimization I've come across.

What a funny bit of synchronicity. I just started reading Cooper and Torczon's "Engineering a Compiler" and, though I've just gotten started, it seems really awesome so far. They're pretty clear that the book is focused heavily on optimization and back-end, which is exactly what I was looking for.
Especially now that 'fatbikes' that can ride on snow are widely and cheaply available, e.g.
http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/gravity/fat-bikes/fat-bi...
In a major shift, reddit bans stolen nudes and revenge porn
> The Obama Administration has focused on domestic social issues like jobs, education, and health care, and deemphasized longer term programs like Nasa.

Which might be true in a touchy-feely subjective way, but the annual budget figures don't reflect that at all:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA#Annual_budget.2C...

> Americans love cool space stuff. The entire Baby Boomer generation grew up with the 1960s-70s manned programs and these things are near and dear to their hearts.

The trouble is that people in the United States have literally no idea how much anything costs. People really think things like space and foreign aid are currently significant chunks of the budget. News that the military spent more moving fuel into Afghanistan in a year than NASA's entire budget is met with very strong disbelief in some quarters. It's very easy to sell such people on some very strange ideas, which is where we are now.
I assume that's a temporary limitation, they have lots of developers on OS X.
The vast majority of men do not actually date supermodels, and therefore they must not be willing to.

Just joking, but I think your logic might be slightly missing some other important factors.
> A 95% success rate means 1 in 20 failure

I'm not sure my success rate is any better than that typing on my iPhone.
How to Style a Floor-Length Cardigan
You're right that you can't get a diff of a large binary (or even a small one). It's still useful to know when the file changed and who changed it.

For example, imaging you work at a video production company where you have videos on each page of your website. (Let's also imagine that you're not using vimeo or youtube to host them.) You might make a branch of the home page with a different video, and you want to coordinate changes across pages.

git-annex is amazing for this use case, as you don't have to actually have a local copy of videos that you're no longer using.
I must not understand Baseball well, because it strikes me as one of the least fatiguing sports that there are.
That's just building that is Windows-only, obviously the apps will work on any reasonably modern browser. And OSX support should likely come as soon as they can package the tools properly.
Assembla was down – here is the explanation
I've seen equal or worse inefficiencies in the private sector.

While the root causes may be different, a badly managed organization is the same whether it is public or private.
Sprites and concatenated js/css are still useful. HTTP/2 lets you make 100 requests over a single connection, and that's a lot better than making 100 requests over 100 connections, but it's still not going to beat one request over one connection.
My Depressing Day with a Famous Climate Skeptic
that's incredible; much better than I would have guessed.
It's been deprecated in favor of a chrome plugin.. Which alone sux for FF users like myself..
I'm just curious if when you say incognito mode that you are using Chrome? I am assuming that changing the default search engine from Google avoids sending partially typed searches to Google, and the privacy policy seems to state that limited personally identifying data is still transmitted but I'm still somehow a bit wary of chrome. Is it fairly substantiated that other than having a different search engine and not signing in, that chrome behaves in a trustworthy fashion? There is still the odd translation suggestion and double click definition that I suppose would also have to be turned off. (From their privacy policy they claim no identifying data is sent along with these requests but the IP alone is an obvious identifier)
Introducing Flarecast
It says a lot of you if that is what you have understood.

Are you here pranking us? Apart of insulting, of course.
Donations (https://flattr.com/thing/38589/DuckDuckGo)

Referral programs (Amazon)

and VC funding

AFAIK
That doesn't matter. The pixel output of subpixel rendering only works on monitors with the pixel layout it's intended for.
The one "fastest" I know of is "Fastest Fourier Transform of the West". The abstract for the 1997 paper starts:

> This paper describes FFTW, a portable C package for computing the one- and multidimensional complex discrete Fourier transform (DFT). FFTW is typically faster than all other publicly available DFT software, including the well-known FFTPACK and the code from Numerical Recipes. More interestingly, FFTW is competitive with or better than proprietary, highly-tuned codes such as Sun’s Performance Library and IBM’s ESSL library.

If a "fastest" paper comes in with a good, robust benchmark and tests against the top performing and the most accepted implementations, then it would be worthwhile. And rare as hen's teeth.
Clever Marketing gig from DDG's CEO Weinberg (as recommended in his book 'Traction').

The post makes sense, DDG makes sense, good timing, ok no news to most of us but a good way to get people again talking about DDG.

Considering that DDG is 'just' a Yandex whitelabel (before Bing) with some extra features, especially the no tracking, it's surprising how big it got with Weinberg's Marketing hacks. Congrats!
It's mostly to do with JavaScript's warts:

- Can't deal with 64-bit integers

- Insane type system, e.g. null vs. undefined and all kinds of complexity around seeing what something is. Types are strings? Really?

- No baked-in language-standard way to do async coding despite the language being inherently async, which leads to a mishmash of promises and indent cascades with callbacks.

- How do I use exceptions with callbacks or promises? All kinds of edge case hell here. Either have exceptions or don't. Again there are probably good patterns, but since there is no canonical way everyone does it differently.

- The == vs === mess

- Lots of fragmentation around how to do classes, inheritance, etc. Getting fixed in ES6, but there will forever be tons of legacy code where everyone did it differently.

- In practice I've found it easier to get leaks in JS event-driven code than in other GC'd higher level languages.

I'm sure others could list other things.

JavaScript is the product of a death march at Netscape in the late 90s, and it shows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_biosynthesis

The order of amino acids that make up specific proteins are neither random nor irrational, and that's just one example of things that our DNA explicitly encodes.
It's like riding a roller coaster or doing a bungee jump -- you know intellectually that you're strapped in tight and therefore safe; but your lizard brain, the part that operates at a deep subconscious level, doesn't get that message, so it's still scary and/or thrilling.
The physics of Mario World show the game has a fundamental flaw
Magic for Real Estate – MVP for artificial intelligence app
Don't you mean P2P?

Also reep.io is already doing this really well. No client necessary. What makes yours better?
Touch screens are not the solution for every problem.

I just saw a TV show the other day where the bomb squad was driving a robot with an iPad. Yes, all driving input and finite movement of the robot arms was done on a touch screen.

Terrible idea; nobody would do that in real life.
This exactly. We keep our game's asset in SVN at the moment only for the convenience of versioning. Artists are still locking files to ensure no conflicts are happening (and therefore no merges are needed).

It's much easier to naively do a repository checkout/update than manually detecting changes (or rolling your own solution using rsync or similar).

Especially when considering the game has over 100Gb of raw assets. SVN, Git or Perforce might not be the best tools for such a task but it works great.
A massive public organization like NASA simply cannot get anything done for a reasonable budget. Unfortunately, sub-contracting work like we do with Boeing & friends seems to result in just-as-wasteful spending.

I think much 3rd world corruption is a weird shadow/echo of Victorian era corruption. In the decades to come, this form of corruption in US governance will become equally quaint and exist in such echoes.
Great Idea :D
Replacing the Rails asset pipeline with Gulp
> If you want an entourage to witness how badass you are (as opposed to leveraging that through your creative work) then you're a walking liability.

Yeah. It's like the old joke: what are every true redneck's last words?

"Hey y'all, watch this!"
> Americans love cool space stuff.

So I'd like to believe that. But my conclusion based on studying the relevant history is that it was fear which motivated Americans to spend the money for space exploration.

When Sputnik launched in 1957, it threw Americans into a panic. Here was a Soviet god-knows-what that you could see from your house in Kansas. The Soviets beat us to nearly every milestone: first satellite, first animal in space, first man in space, first EVA, first probe on the moon. The Soviets' first manned lunar landing was scheduled for 1968, but the architect of the program died at an inopportune time in 1966. The need to keep up with or beat the Soviets is what drove the space program until 1969.

I don't think we would've gone to all that trouble if we didn't have the Red Empire breathing down our necks.
What are the advantages of CitusDB over Oracle RAC?

Your pricing page tells me you will charge me as much as you think I can afford, so Oracle kind of is the elephant in the room here.
Fishing, at a low enough volume, it is sustainable, which humans have been doing for dozens of millennia.

The problem comes when the threshold is reached and passed. That is specifically the tragedy of the commons. It's a fractal problem - i.e., even if one country fixes the issue through regulation/taxes/prohibition, another country may still overfish a shared body of water.

The "full cost" wouldn't need to be replacing each fish caught. It would be a fee/tax to ensure a sustainable fish population - this could still result a reasonable market for fish.
I'd actually love another go to create these images all over again. If I can find another rooftop, I would definitely give it a second shot. Thanks for the feedback!
Cymatics: the science of visualizing sound
It works if you substitute "willing and able" for "willing", which is the usual context of this discussion. If you are willing and able to date a supermodel and you don't, well, why the hell not?

(FWIW, I personally have little interest in supermodels...but then, most people would consider that lack of interest = "not willing", so the logic still holds. Like all logic, it obscures subtleties - I'd be quite willing if she were a good match beyond being a supermodel and I weren't already attached - but then, this is a problem generally with imposing words on the world, and not with the specific instance.)
120 $ per seconds between your two comments ! 5,490,313 now.
Impressive.
>Aside from looking at the ink, none of these things actually have to do with reading..

Actually they do, comprehension and memorization are parts of reading. Events (like reading) that engage more senses engage us more deeply and enforce comprehension and memorization.
So is this a good investment? Just go buy a bunch of helium tanks and keep them in my basement as a gift to my kids 25 years later?

Are speculators already doing this, driving up the price?
The key difference being that Firefox's implementation gives you all this without having to let Google rifle through the data you want to sync.
You're quoting from a TV interview focused on a very narrow question (specific kind of evidence, specific location, specific killing mechanism, etc.) -- and treating an offhand interjection from an interviewer as some kind of BBC statement. Neither of us is qualified to judge this, and certainly NOT from such a third-hand source.

The gap between the Le Monde excerpt you quote and your claim about what it shows is similarly large.

You are not arguing honestly, so I'm done.
"Hold my beer!"
Great, thanks very much! I'll check it out.
Here is what I'd recommend: for four hours, alternate sitting and standing every ten minutes in a sunny park. When standing, once every thirty seconds or so tense into a squat position and concentrate as hard as you can on something about 100 feet away. Every 10th time, sprint all out in a random direction. Every 20th time, throw a rock as hard as you can as far as you can.

What you will find is that you, a normal human, can keep this up for about one hour, before you collapse of exhaustion or hurt yourself.

That the super humans who play professional baseball are able to do this day in and day out for more than half a year is insane.
To watch how change sets are going into the tool. To see what is being done and why as it happens. I find that one of the best ways to learn these things. Especially when it is theory heavy and watching the implementation congele around the theoretical framework.
It's within range to work remotely and come in a couple days every couple weeks, while living in a lovely village in the mountains, and to take relatively easy weekend trips to the city, while paying Midwest-level real estate prices on lovely old houses.

Not everyone's choice of lifestyle, but it's certainly a nice one.
Unius is presenting its e-learning system at GESS Dubai 2015
What is the difference between GitLab Annex and git-annex?

https://git-annex.branchable.com/

Edit: Just found the relevant quote from the article

> In GitLab 7.8 Enterprise Edition this problem is solved by integrating the awesome git-annex.

I guess the repeated branding of "GitLab Annex" just seems a bit strange to me.
Obama's natural inclination is to never to "regulate" the power of government, but to regulate industry. Government's intrusion of our privacy is the much bigger problem, but Obama just says "look over there at those big internet companies, forget about the NSA, CIA, IRS and other numerous government agencies and unaccountable bureaucrats that want to snoop into and control your private lives. Forget that the government has the guns that can force you. I'll throw the boogey-strawman of "big internet" to appease you"
'Ship Your Enemies Glitter' Sells for $85K Two Weeks After Founding
For a sentence that begins with sorry, that's quite an abrasive followup. It's rather offputting.
http://nigelstanford.com/Cymatics/Behind_the_Scenes.aspx
There's a word for that: Sales.
> Furthermore, the idea that complex parts like a brain and nervous system—including nerve cells, synapses, and neurotransmitter molecules—could evolve separately multiple times perplexes evolutionary biologists

This makes absolutely no sense. Why would this be perplexing? If evolutionary pressure causes a feature to evolve once in one part of the tree of life, why couldn't it happen multiple times independently? It would be a lot more surprising if it didn't!
So what about batching GET requests?
A touch screen that is 1.5" square is effectively four buttons.. without the tactile feedback.
Overall, cool.

One thing, though: That download button is irritating. At least on Chrome, it doesn't react whatsoever to mouseover/hover. The cursor doesn't even recognize it as a button.
Maybe it's the voters? I'm all for space exploration paid in advance, when the national debt is falling as well. Otherwise, no way. Why should my kids get only the bills? That would be rude. Let downvotes commence.
>Correlations are what the word "proof" refers to.
>That's what proof is. Saying proof is not proof is not all that useful a conclusion to draw.

No. Proof is a synonym for causation not correlation. Establishing correlation between stork population and baby population is not establishing proof that storks bring babies to mothers. Proof and correlation are entirely different things.

>See? That's why it's a stupid conclusion.

Sure applying the scientific method to daily life is stupid, but we're not talking about that. We're talking about the nature of logic itself. That is the context of this debate. You're attempting to deny the validity of my argument by shifting the context into some vague definition of the word proof.
Virgin America Is the Best Airline for Moving
As I look at the total pledge amount climbing higher and higher, at $5.5m presently, I can't help but think that VCs and bankers got completely cut out of the "deal". It used to be that you had to please a whole bunch of finance guys to get anything done, but this time they weren't even invited to the table. It's a big change.

I also keep thinking about other ways in which the financial sector can get disintermediated. Bootstrapping is always an option, if a very long and arduous one. To speed things up there is Kickstarter in b2c, but what about b2b? Are there ways to get the future beneficiaries of a new b2b product to fund its development, and that don't involve spending 6 month to raise funding? It always bothered me that funding decisions are usually made by people who know a lot about finance and, as a rule, very little about the target market. Surely there is a lot of potential there for the insiders of the target industry?
I believe that prudent compartmentalization is the best way to control tracking and reclaim privacy. Each compartment comprises interests, relationships and activities that you want observers to track and interrelate. For compartments where privacy is essential, it's best to use pseudonyms, and to avoid cross-linking with public compartments.

Compartments are isolated in VMs, with separate network connectivity using nested chains of VPNs, JonDonym and Tor. Particularly sensitive compartments are isolated in separate computers. It's prudent to avoid cross-compartment sharing of USB drives.
NPR Interview with Transit Consultant Jarrett Walker About Houston Transit
Yes, they state that in the article.

"Windows is currently required for HTML5 support. We’re working on Mac for an upcoming release."
What would be an example of a thin glue? If your definition excludes all possibilities, it's no more useful than a definition that admits all possibilities.