skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a claim only in the sense that any skepticism is a claim (which, sure, is true in a narrow semantic sense). Skepticism is disbelieving an assertion due to lack of evidence. All B is saying is that there's no evidence provided that trends in physical competition can be used to extrapolate intellectual or political competition. Extrapolation from one set of evidence requires more than just gut feeling -- it requires supplementary evidence to show that the two situations are more than coincidentally related.

Of course, I would expect men to be more competitive with women in a number of areas (not just grade school PE races) based on my limited experience and the cited study, but where's the evidence?

edit: speeling
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I was gonna swing by the office when I'm in SF in a month or two, oh well :/
I've been working on a pure-JS browser extension for Chrome/Firefox which supports two-way sync with existing 1Password vaults via Dropbox that has the ability to add and edit items: http://robertknight.github.io/passcards/

There is no support for folders or tags at the moment in the browser extension, although there is a command-line tool which does have additional editing functionality and works on all platforms that Node JS does.
I can't see JustAnotherApp™ helping in a meaningful way. How would that work? I fear the teacher would need to bring another device or pull out their phone, distracting the lecture.

It sounds like the biggest problem's awareness (teacher bias). From there, a class roster and a pen would address tracking in the simplest form.
This is an excellent perspective. Those tradeoffs are often the root of these arguments anyway: Alice comes up with a solution that has some advantage x. Bob comes up with a solution that has some advantage y. They'll argue endlessly because neither one of them will say "Oh you're right, I didn't consider x" or "I like your solution, but I don't know what's more important: x or y. Let's focus on determining that instead."
AWS console works really well ?
It's one of the worst designed pieces of software I have ever used. Pretty much everybody who uses AWS heavily, switches to CLI after loosing their sanity working on the console.
If amazon made it policy to remove any negative comments that steer readers to competing products I think, on the balance it would help.
Obamacare tripled the rates in my state, while not really providing anything over what was provided before.

Nationally, the last time it was reported, the average increase in insurance costs was around 2x.

Obamacare also does not provide coverage for anyone that is near, or makes less, than the poverty line. It simply mandated by pen, rather than by a way, that the states absorb those people on their medicaid program (though the fed does assume the majority of the cost at least till 2022).

So there are quite a few excuses for not having insurance, such as its now more expensive for a lot of people, especially the ones that can't afford it.
No, it isn't. Most C will use void* instead. Which approach is better is left as an exercise.
Sorry to hear this guys. I really wanted to see you guys triumph.
Are there any local-only contextual apps which can turn wifi on or off based on GPS location?
If you really need to get a hold of someone my roommate works there. Since the google acquisition, I'm not sure they operate the same as they used to so a small contract might not be what they're looking for.
Well done, Time, you've created a webpage that is unable to scroll without javascript.
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So..... this article is making a good point, but it's not following from the presented arguments.

It's almost a tautology that unregulated aggression is a bad idea and should be dealt with.

but -

If you have an idea, how do you know it's a bad idea? That requires critical engagement, taking it apart, putting it back together and performing analysis on it. Doing this well will involve some fairly in-depth reasoning and questioning. If someone is losing their temper in that process, then (1) they are too sensitive/protective and/or (2) someone's being a jerk to the offended party and it's time to knock it off. Egofree programming is an old ideal, but not a bad one.

I also retain the mildly heretical notion that a really and truly aggressive environment about code, design, and the quality thereof is probably a more enjoyable place to work than one that focuses on relationships and keeping them smooth. Wrong stuff is wrong, and should be called out and removed. IMO. :)

I don't have any comments about gender here, because any gender comment will draw down 'unregulated aggression', and I'm tired of reading such.
The Almighty Wiki says 'Usually, tardigrades are about 0.5 mm (0.020 in) long when they are fully grown'.

Following the reference, we find that they're almost translucent, but can be seen in the right light [1].

1: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2011/5/tardigrad...
These high detail satellite images are really impressive.

As there are several (startup) companies in this field I just looked up who is still around/got bought and what's there status:

GeoEye was merged into DigitalGlobe. Google had secured exclusive online mapping use of the GeoEye-1 satellite (Google Maps/Earth). Google bought the direct competitor Skybox for US$500 million in August 1, 2014. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigitalGlobe , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoEye , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skybox_Imaging ). There is also "Spot Image" (EADS/Airbus), NASA (and other US agencies), Sovinformsputnik (the Russian Federal Space Agency) and others.
> Maybe cannabis smokers smoke less frequently than cigarette smokers; but maybe they inhale the smoke deeper and hold it longer.

I'm guessing it's probably because you don't have to smoke as much as tobacco.

Also, anecdotally: I have yet to hear of someone getting lung cancer from smoking pot. Heck, Willie Nelson has been toking up for decades, and apparently his lungs are just fine.

And then there's this: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/cannabis/healthpr...

> It's a bit frustrating that anyone who expresses any concern about cannabis is written off as a propagandist of an oppressive government.

That was not needed.
I interviewed with these guys a few years ago. Nice people, good people. I don't have a web background but they gave me a fighting chance anyways.

I wish them the best.
Indeed - I've documented what I've learned thus far at https://github.com/robertknight/passcards/blob/master/lib/ag...

I did create a test vault with every item that 1Password v4.x supported but you have probably come across additional fields that I've missed.
Ummm... I don't know how to break this to you dude, but your friends aren't mixing in coke and meth to make the effects of the pot stronger.

They're mixing coke and meth in to smoke coke and meth.
cmurf. What the article and John is talking about is CephFS (which we do use). As you can see that is in the heading of the quote that you took.

What John is not talking about is the Object Store (S3 compatible) or RBD (rados block device, EBS like block storage). There's countless people using both Object Store and RBD in production today. Both of these are the most deployed solutions for OpenStack (for storage or object storage). For example the Bloomberg folks use in production.

We use CephFS, and contributed to it earlier, and helped find a lot of bugs in the kernel and the MDS. Last time we uncounted a bug was over a year ago. We currently only use one MDS with a hot spare (backup node actively replaying the log).

What's really missing today from CephFS is the fsck and restore utilities and I believe people are working on them as we speak.
> and there are good substitutes for rice

American culture can replace it with wheat, yes, but if you ever want a case study on government fiddling with a crop for national security reasons, rice is it. Not in the US, but Asia? It's probably on par with oil.
It's roughly the probability of an electron undergoing a state change in the vicinity. It took a lot of measurements to make those images. It also took a very sensitive instrument, very good control of high energy particles tuned to the target, and a very stable local environment (cold, dark, and quiet).

Edit: reviewing awgl's comment: I just want to clarify which electrons we're talking about. The target has electrons. The electron beam is also, by definition, electrons. So you're shooting electrons at A) electrons, and B) nuclei.

What are the odds of a negative, 100 KeV (medium-high energy) electron in the beam interacting with a heavy, relatively stationary, positively charged nucleus? High.

What are the odds of a negative, high energy electron interacting with a low-energy electron that may, occasionally, be in the area? Low.

But we've been shooting high energy electrons at dense targets since the 1920's or 1930's. The joke in accelerators is that most of the particles you fire miss, implying you can't hit the broad side of a barn. (1)

What's far more impressive is the ability to focus the beam down to sub-angstrom scale (1^-10 m) and then scan at equal or higher resolution! And then detect at the same scale of resolution! How? Almost certainly the beam is steered electromagnetically. I'm interested in the detector. I'm guessing these are reconstructed using a combination of side-scatter and forward-scatter information. Not entirely sure how though.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_(unit)
The nanobots are coming back
Why don't you read the last paragraph that summarizes the whole thing?
OP here.

I really can't say as much as I would like (there's stuff I can't share), but my publisher had a face-to-face with an Amazon rep and internal action was taken. Amazon's investigation is apparently over. The internal position seems to be "we're making money, there are words on pages, so there's no problem here." Amazon's investigation was short and sweet. Some bogus reviewers were removed, but Felicity — one of the worst offenders (http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1NT2YXTUES4RW/ref=cm_c...) — is still there, despite the obvious fact that these are fake reviews. Many other obviously fake reviews remain. In fact, a new fake book with fake reviewers showed up. I genuinely do not know if this response is because of a careless employee or if Amazon discourages employees from shutting down profit streams.
A bit surprising that a sufficient proportion of people leave wifi and/or bluetooth services on while at the airport, for this system to get a large enough sample size.
We are aware of at least 500 production use cases. Howeve,r since it is is open source software, there are a lot more that we don't know about.

You can find some public ones here:

http://spark-summit.org/east/2015/agenda

http://spark-summit.org/2014

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Powered+By...
>but you have to realize that this kind of perfection in software costs huge amounts of money

Maybe not as much as people think. There are machine-assisted mechanisms for building mathematically perfect software. See Curry-Howard oriented languages like Coq and Agda. It's certainly harder to write perfectly, provably correct programs, but maybe not as hard as most people think.

There is also a lot of middle ground in the form of relatively powerful (but not quite Agda-powerful) type systems.
GWT, to some extent.

https://plus.google.com/photos/photo/112686186868556352991/5...
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I never said that by only cutting frivolous usage, the problem would be solved. If 80% is agricultural usage, then agricultural cannot be not part of the solution as well. But if people keep coming up with clever arguments for not cutting their favorite usage themselves and argue that others are at fault, nobody will do anything.

You are looking at the problem from the perspective of which cuts will bring the usage down faster. I am looking from the perspective of which cuts will produce less cost to society. Each point of view lets you highlight some aspect of the issue, and obscures many others by necessity.
Doesn't Google maps use satellite imagery, they seem a lot more detailed/closer?

Or do they use arial photography over land?
Once the SDK is publicly available, putting your code on Github should be fine. I work for the Echo team and we want to engage hackers and open source and create a community around the product. But right now the API is a work in progress and we don't want to build too much hype around it until we are confident that we've got it down right.
Plenty of successful people drank Alcohol when they were younger but that doesn't mean we can just ignore the ill effects of alcohol.
Seems to be much more complicated and slower than godoc.org
I agree with OP. Solve the big problems first. If at some point landscaping ranks as a top consumer of water, then solve it. Attention and effort is a resource -- spend it where it has the most impact. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
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Similar research has been done in mice, with similar results. See e.g. http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131%2814...

Bottom line: try restricting calorie intake to a ~10 hour window for 5+ days per week.
Before this announcement, I'd never heard of Balanced.

Reading comments, some people are saying it was a great service. But, it's shutting down, while services less great carry on.

This is hard for dev people (like myself) to realize, but if you're looking for commercial success, marketing is generally worth more than the quality of your product.
Bill Casselman is interested in the history of the number 0, and travelled to Gwalior, India, to see one of the oldest known written occurrences of it. I had the good fortune to be eating at a dinner with him in which he was talking about his trip (see http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-india-zero), and another diner remarked, without missing a beat, "that's a long way to go for nothing."
This is one of those moments where good programming architecture and integration testing becomes obviously useful. We have a payment gateway interface and the transition to Stripe will be relatively painless after accounting for some accounting differences in how fees are charged.
I dunno. It depends what parts you use. I find the S3 interface is painfully slow so I end up using either command line or GUI tools. On the other hand, I don't mind the interface for EC2. If you are doing big EMR jobs, however, you need automation to avoid blowing $15 on a bum cluster.

One thing I do know is that there are parts of the AWS console that look similar but that have differences of the sort that make me think the implementations are different.
Ahh, you're right.

To make an ACH debit, you'd need to verify a bank account beforehand. And I don't think client libraries support a `bank account resource` w/o curling.

Maybe I'm missing something.
This looks great. Friends don't let friends use Evite. For events where your guests are people you already text with, this couldn't be easier. Perfect for "Let's do lunch!"
"The system allows the airport to display to passengers how long the wait in each of its security lines is. It also allows the airport to adjust its resources to respond to demand."

I feel that this supports the GP and contradicts your statement. If you're sure the article is wrong, can you support that?
They do use aerial photos for the really zoomed-in bits, yeah. I don't think anything but the best military satellites could provide the kind of resolution you often see on Google Maps. Maybe not even then...
Please consider a way to "prefund" amounts in escrow. Or at least existing Balanced escrow accounts. You'll see it all over the comments here. Using a CC to load money into Stripe is much too expensive, when you are paying out marketplace amounts in large sums. We provide Net30 Invoicing for buyers, but immediately payout to our sellers on our marketplace. Not being able to preload a large balance is going to make things very difficult for us.
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The best counterargument is that Uber drivers are very much allowed to work for other rideshares simultaneously, and very often they do.
that reminds me of this project: MusicBox: Mapping and visualizing music collections (http://thesis.flyingpudding.com/)

there is a commercial product for unique ID provided by http://the.echonest.com/
I don't think it was mentioned anywhere that using SQLite was causing problems for the AV. Just that it was used internally and users were finding temp files.
To my knowledge, the most detailed imagery comes from aerial photography.
One side note (from a cofounder of WePay here). WePay is 100% focused on serving the needs of two-sided platforms like marketplaces - and now we're the only company that can claim to do so.

We're bummed to see Balanced go, as I think they have a great product - indicative of what a focus on the space can produce. But we're excited to carry the torch forward.

We process billions annually and have crossed the scale chasm that the article describes (and have raised a fair amount of money to boot).

If any Balanced customer (or other marketplace) would like to chat, I'm happy to do so. Shoot me a note at bill@wepay.com
Yes, currently we are OSX only, but that's for this initial private beta. We'll be expanding to other platforms very soon. If you think it could be helpful for your team I'd love to reach back out when we support other platforms :)

Oh and re codex, I believe we're using opus.
I am familiar with some code-proving tools and functional programming. Verifying such code is tedious and will increase time, cost and skill required for the project substantially. People just aren't ready to pay the price for that. Yet.
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Planet Labs [0] is currently deploying its 'flock' which will collectively image the entire planet every day.

[0] https://www.planet.com/
Whatever dude. The vast majority of climate change comes from Brazil destroying their rainforests, it has little to do with the US.

>If drinking water or water to grow plants runs out maybe some people start to care finally.

No, water will simply become further commoditized, as Nestle is already doing today. And instead of the bottom Billion suffering it'll be the bottom 5 Billion.

The US will still mostly be fine.
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Water is a global resource. If your water isn't exported right now doesn't mean it won't be in the future. A huge amount of the US is dependent on groundwater reservoirs. When those reservoirs run out, they'll need to import water from places that don't depend on groundwater or (more likely) move. You may be able to take long showers now, but if we as a nation (or even species) are going to get through the long term consequences of global warming, we're going to need to learn to reduce our water intake. Why not start now?
I know right? She calls names at the start of the article and then attempts to strike a superior pose. This is one of the worst articles I've read in a long while. It is emotionalism writ large. The mere fact that she poisons the well at the very beginning shows she is ignorant of argument.
Wow, that's the bit you don't hear in the papers. Ever thought of writing a book with this stuff?
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Our startup Retreat Guru is using Balanced and we were impressed by their vision and support. Sorry to see them go but looking forward to working with Stripe. I wish them all well in their future ventures.
Quinn from Sourcegraph here. Sorry for the slowness. It has to pull a lot of data to show the code highlights and cross-reference counts, and it's getting a lot of traffic. We're working on improving the perf.

As for the increased complexity vs. plain godoc.org, we thought about just forking godoc.org and adding this in (instead of integrating it into Sourcegraph), but this was a quicker way to get this out there, and lots of folks seem to like it so far. Would you prefer to just see this linked/highlighted code and the usage examples in the godoc.org page design?
Winning is badz according to this. I'm not sure you even read the article.
Seed is building this for business banking. https://seed.co
Is there a self-contained alternative to ElasticSearch specifically? If there was one written in Go or otherwise statically linkable that would be great from a deployment standpoint. I could deal with somewhat worse performance in exchange for that.
> with [the federal ACA legislation that the insurance companies' lawyers/lobbyists wrote to mandate everyone in the nation to buy into a broken healthcare paradigm in a broken financial paradigm] there really isn't any excuse for not having health insurance

conscientious objection
Llama is really nice.
wow, this is a real bummer. Good luck guys.

p.s. Classy move on the migration plan.
> The vast majority of climate change comes from Brazil destroying their rainforests, it has little to do with the US.

Brazil's destruction of its rainforests to create land to raise beef for export actually has more to do with the US than you might think.

I mean, why do you think that is a profitable (in the short run, anyway) thing to do?
These libraries are screen scrapers with no security control. You can't make a read only version that prevents an attacker from using your API key to steal your money, for example.

I want to completely disclose Neocities financing, and lack of API for safely doing this has been a frustrating problem.
How has Teamspeak worked out for you? We're actually building a similar product that's specifically for teams. I'd be curious to hear your feedback on it as it may be helpful for you. Here's a quick walkthrough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV7HBXuhT7Q Let me know if you have any thoughts / ideas.
Just another chapter in the arms race between marketers and consumers.
Kid attempts to go viral within a week following his passion..could it be done?
If it is something expedient and thoroughly embarrassing I use

//kludge
12 years is the middle years for a career programmer. Enough to know what patterns aren't serving you, and enough to know that there is still a bunch to learn.
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Normally I don't comment on Show HNs, but there are a lot of good things to say about what you made. It was a great idea to make this SMS based, as it is a universal medium and most people aren't willing to download Yet Another App. Also if I am planning a gathering, it's more likely that I'll have everyone's phone number, and much less likely that I'll know all of their email addresses or even be friends with everyone on Facebook. The part I appreciate the most is that you don't need the app to RSVP. Most developers would text a "download the hobnob app to RSVP" link to people, but clearly this is far superior since it makes it super easy to respond. The text message picture is beautiful.

I honestly don't have anything negative to say, the app is beautiful and the entire experience is quite polished. Really nice work!
Hey there. I'm the co-founder and CEO of SEED. We launched our banking API a few weeks ago - https://seed.co

We are only serving business customers for now. Feel free to send me a note at brian at seed.co if you have any questions.

Thanks!
Nice to see Randall Lucas back in business.
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What like here article that opens with name calling? Pot, meet kettle.
Basic sequencer now added. Automation next!