skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really hope my competitors take this advice to heart, and put limits on the aggressive personalities within their company.
You stop reading things as soon as you encounter an "oddly placed comma"?
Sorry - just checking my understanding. You want to buy satellite images of the tesla factory to work out how long it will take them to get to your number in the purchase list?

That is my favourite Ice Station Zebra moment to date!
Can't wait to see your $5 billion valuation thread in two years!
Nice library, and beautiful implementation.
Now I'm getting it ;(
I can no longer speak for them, but while I was there we were entirely focused on getting our core consumer online banking product right. We did not want to launch an API without properly supporting the community, and we didn't want to distract ourselves from executing on the core product. There were other complexities but it's not appropriate for me to say any more.
While in college, I put in dozens of hours on an SEM and got pretty good at it. A TEM is a whole 'nother story... I would have needed an order of magnitude (or two!) more training on it to be able to use it proficiently.
As entrepreneur, with experience as manager and engineer I could tell you that arguments and discussion are probably the most useful thing for any company.

More than two interesting people, with different backgrounds and beliefs should always argue. It is a great thing for any institution.

Arguments discard weak ideas before the market does. If the market does you have already spent enormous amount of money.

This should not be confused with keeping it civilized. My main job as a manager was keeping a great environment for discussion.

Good quality debate and discussion should be teached in schools, like in ancient Greece, when they were trained to defend their position, and then to defend the opposite. This forces you to understand the other side.

Like in marriage, a great marriage does not mean no arguments, because if there are no arguments it means simply that one party is surrendering to the other. You can love and respect the other person and disagree, listen to the other party, understand what they tell you and take a shared decision.

No arguments in a company means design by committee. Everybody's opinion is equal an usually this means disaster, unless the people in the Round table are already preselected like King Arthur's.

Brainstorming is something that you do before arguing. First you are not critical, you expose all ideas that you have, you are creative, not rational, but at the end end of the process you start trimming, cutting for getting to decisions(witch etymologically means to cut branches) based on rational decisions that make some ideas stand and the others perish.
Yep, Rudy's was great 15-20 years ago, but their quality has plummeted as they've expanded. (Now 37 locations, according to your link.) As Aaron explains in the article, it's difficult to source the best brisket in high volumes.

I haven't eaten at Franklin's since they became really popular (standing in line for 2-hours isn't my thing) but Aaron's success is well-deserved and I'm happy for him!
2015 and no REST API?
Jupiter's Moon Ganymede Has Salty Ocean with More Water Than Earth
DevOpsLibrary E09 – ELK Stack for Logging Tutorial
> (There are certainly wetter states, but they have seasonal extremes that make X, Y, Z crops very challenging.)

Then perhaps we as a culture should stop eating X, Y and Z so much.
If anyone's interested, here is a blog post I wrote a while back about a subtle pitfall I encountered while using klib:

http://blog.qoid.us/2014/04/10/klib.html

(Since then, after a few rewrites of similar generic containers using various implementation techniques, I've settled on a style that minimizes the use of macros in favor of inline functions [generated from an initial declaring macro], adding verbosity but making the whole thing much easier to get right.)
+1 for Holvi. They're great.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I was more referring to the disbelief/skepticism in the original comment:

> The study this observation is derived from only talks about competitions of physical ability.

This doesn't say anything about disproving the extrapolation to other areas of competition, it's just pointing out the problem with relying on the cited study for the assertions made. In that sense, I think it's fairly neutral. I tried to make it clear, but probably not clear enough:

> B is just skepticism when you paraphrase it fairly.

By "paraphrase it fairly," I was referring to proveanegative's comment, when paraphrased in context and while honoring it's implied skepticism, as opposed to rejection.

gress had rewritten it as a statement of rejection:

> a) to think this competition extends to other spheres, or b) to think that it does not

Although now that you point it out, maybe we've been talking past each other. As I stated above, I think it's reasonable to assume based on gut heuristics that this competition extends beyond the gym. However a new burden of evidence is assumed when one cites studies to grant apparent legitimacy to one's argument. I don't think that burden of evidence has been met here.
I always found the difference between Argentina and Brazil quite surprising. While I lived there (for seven years, in Santa Catarina) I felt like people were very divorced from politics, and would avoid the topic as much as possible. The only people that would engage me when I asked questions about politics (mostly because I wanted to learn the history of the country) were people from bigger cities (mostly Paulistas.)

Argentina went completely the opposite way: once the dictatorship was over, people became incredibly political because we wanted to avoid the same kind of political vacuum that created the first coup. As a result, most people in Argentina will argue about politics, even when they don't have a completely educated opinion on the matter (but hey, that's how we work on most stuff anyway, heh.)

Agreed on the conflation of lobbying with bribing. Unfortunately there's too much evidence suggesting that private interests putting money into politics is not a good idea.
I agree, it really shouldn't be that painful, unless you hardcoded balanced API calls everywhere and have no abstractions at all.
Are there moral facts?
There's nothing erroneous about reporting random mac addresses. I think that should be the default behavior for devices. Mac addresses shouldn't be used for tracking. If the airport reports valid data in an incorrect way that's their fault.
c'mon man, put a link for that paper of yours. You know everyone here will be curious (well, at least some people will be, I'm sure).
The problem is your "this looks fake" button would be as easy to game as the current system. People with a financial interest in a book would be marking every negative review as fake.
Also, I believe (at least I hope) that men are able to see women in a more relaxed way than boys see girls, doing far less thinking about showiing off.
> The moon landing really was nothing compared to this.

I used to believe that, but I have slowly moved to the other side.

Things are complicated. There is no doubt about that. But, landing on the moon was a fight against nature (gravity, air, distance, etc). Current programming is a fight against stuff someone else dreamed up and no one ever fixed, because "LOL, that's old school" or "You're just doin' it wrong".

Most of the points about parts not being specified correctly, not working as expected, or disappearing happens all the time in other industries. (That's one reason hardware kickstarters fail so often.)
Thank you! Let me try to address those questions:

> 1. Is the Spark cluster running on top of an in-house cluster or on AWS EMR/S3?

It runs on an in-house cluster.

> 2. Any more details about the custom message system, specifically how to guarantee exactly once delivery?

This topic might deserve a separate article. We have built a custom locking system that ensures proper delivery.

> 3. How do you guarantee data is never dropped?

We write each data point into 2-3 locations in our system and also back it up in S3.

> 4. "Make sure every message can be re-played without data corruption" how to achieve this when there is so many data points coming in?

Basically, batch things and keep a lot of signatures and checksums around.
Wait....every where BUT California has water now?
"Well, my God, this is the second incest case I've seen in [then] 23 years of practice"

I don't believe this. Either the doc has deliberately kept his eyes shut or hasn't spent much time talking to patients. Incest, a term wide than but inclusive of most 'child abuse', is far more widespread than laypersons realize. Docs see it regularly and geneticists debate the ethics of tests any test which might reveal family secrets.

http://blogs.nature.com/spoonful/2011/02/qa_the_insidious_an...
Are you certain these are better? I would love to see studies and whatnot.
I have used them, stick with Stripe.
It also means "To support".
Mac OSX with Homebrew, iTerm, Vim (split terminal with vim on top and repl on bottom is pretty nice), Atom (for big projects), git, GitLab, Firefox browser. That's about all of my non-language-specific stack.
We then had this conversation:
Me: “I believe that George Washington was the first president. Is that a fact or an opinion?”
Him: “It’s a fact.”
Me: “But I believe it, and you said that what someone believes is an opinion.”
Him: “Yeah, but it’s true.”
Me: “So it’s both a fact and an opinion?”

At least his son is smarter than he is.
Agree, it's early days for non-Java based alternatives.

One of my colleagues, Marty Schoch, has been working on a full text search engine in golang, called bleve [1]

1: http://www.blevesearch.com/
Yes and no.

I believe we need a new language, a new way to structure knowledge. Of course, AI will benefit from that, but I don't believe it's a precondition.
Agreed it would be bad if distracting. This is why I said it would be good for the watch or some other ubiquitous item. Basically key it so that the phone doesn't show anything as it is sitting on the desk. If the teacher wants to call on someone, tap a button on their watch (discretely) and it will show someone's name/seat number.
The face of the internet
It's true that I don't like the result of this study. My experience is that plenty of healthy, smart, motivated, effective people consume cannabis quite regularly. I have been smoking marijuana quite regularly since I was about 19 years old (which is 13 years ago now) and of course I don't like to think of myself as cognitively impaired.

However, I think that studies like this are particularly vulnerable to this critique of methodology. Any time you assess the performance of a large group and then divide that group into subgroups, you are going to find trends of varying levels of statistical significance.

It is incredibly easy to do. http://www.tylervigen.com/

That is why, in every scope-and-methods class in every college across the country, the various methods for ascertaining causality are demonstrated and taught.

Reading only the linked article and not the study itself, I so far have the impression that none of these were seriously considered - presumably on the basis of ethical treatment of humans subjects. You can't just take a group of people with a particular set of desirable control features (perhaps, in this case, a typically shaped hippocampus) and force-feed them cannabis smoke for three years.

On the other hand, it's just as easy to read this study as meaning that people who performed poorly on the relatively specific requirements of this study seemed to prefer to smoke marijuana. If this study were about serious science, the conclusion might be the utterly uninteresting sky-is-blue headline, "absent-minded people likely to smoke weed."
Loosing control over rare earth metals played out very well. For China.

Not being able to produce enough wood tanked Soviet Union.
I have a hard time understanding this would be a problem, considering the scale, i.e. how much water there is in an ocean.

Let's say we take the amount of water mentioned in a link in another comment, and desalinate 54 million cubic feet of clean water per day in a single plant. That is 204 400 cubic meters per day. It is a huge amount, but we're talking about operating this plant at depth of 1 km. 204 400 cubic meters is 0.0002 cubic kilometers. The California Current flows at around 0.25 m/s which means that the cubic kilometer of water around the desalination plant will be completely exchanged almost once per hour, 21.6 times in a day.

I would say that the salt that you take from desalinated water is an entirely insignificant problem when just left in the ocean, even locally. It's a drop in the ocean. Most likely the saltiness of water will vary a lot more due to other reasons (e.g. how much water evaporates locally).

Other aspects of access to more water in places like California are probably a much more relevant environmental problem. That water is mostly going to be used as irrigation water in agriculture. This will flush a huge amount of earth particles to the ocean. Literally, it will eventually wash away the agricultural land, unless it is used sparingly. When doing that, it puts additional earth material in streams and rivers.

And then there are the issues of fertilizers, pesticides etc for the ever increased volume of agricultural production.
That's an obvious point, and I would be very surprised if any of the researchers working on this topic have not controlled for that.
> Tough sh*t, fix it yourself.

I never said that, but most projects welcome pull requests.

> I owe you nothing!

True, it's the short version of the MIT license.

> That's not a reasonable mentality to have if you want adoption.

Yes, maintainers should always try to take care of their projects and to accommodate the needs of their communities.

> Obviously the Ruby devs don't feel this way, but you seem to.

You are over-interpreting. But I hate seeing more and more OSS contributors getting burnt out and steamrolled by a self-entitled rout.
What I meant was, his son's blank stare is exactly my reaction as a 30 year old adult --- I can't comprehend how this guy doesn't comprehend how stupid his questions are.
PD: Some people will find the story of the atom fascinating because the atom knowledge comes from "Argument culture":

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1fix14_bbc-atom-1-the-clas...

People like Edison getting mad with a young genius that was ALSO right. All of those physicist fighting each other using arguments.
I don't believe that there are any.
http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/P10.pdf (some are more/less appropriate for non-embedded-systems)

In general, the answer typically involves formal specification and formal methods that check the code against these specifications, combined with testing and coding standards that result in analysable code.

More references:

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~mvz/cmsc630/clarke96formal.pdf

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/fo...
I've never seen any proof of any.
Is the California produce you buy bone-dry? Probably not. It's full of that precious water. A lot may wind up in the ocean as runoff, but a lot gets exported from CA too. It eventually winds up back in the ecosystem, but the point is that it will take eons to get back into the acquifers.
True direct democracy would be at the very least the common use of referenda, citizen initiated laws, recall elections, etc.
BigPharma/BigBooze paid HN to put this on the front page
I mainly use emacs, gcc, g++, git, gdb, plus bash, sed, egrep, tr etc. avrdude.

I do use Xcode, but can't say I enjoy it much. If I could use Emacs more easily within Xcode I would be much happier since I do enjoy the dynamic environment of the Mac OS with ObjC. llvm is pretty good.
Zuse is the nerd's nerd. Not only did he build the first programmable computer, he also was the first dude to grok digital physics and the idea that the universe may be a computer.

Zuse's book 'Calculating Space' was written in the 60s, years before Fredkin et al. People thought he was insane. Consequently, he thought his intellectual life was over and actually went into startups later in life.

Today, his ideas about the universe being computation are very trendy. Before his death, he was invited out to MIT and shown some love for his pioneering work.
So, it was written such that a 7th grader could read it. How is that a bad thing?

Edit: I pasted a sample of John D MacDonald in there and it showed a level of 6.61. Poor John, no wonder he was never a success. /S
No, you just probably never thought about what "knowing" actually means. Put simply, he wasn't there when Washington was President so he can only believe that historical resources are telling the truth.
The ignorance is much easier to process upon learning that the author works at an episcopal church and is on the committee of two "Societies of Christian Philosophers".

http://www.justinmcbrayer.com/#!leadership/c53p
There are facts. There are moral positions. What are moral facts?
Residential use is a small enough part of the picture that it is not worth focusing on. Yes it would help to reduce residential use, but if we want to reduce water usage enough to make a difference we have to look at farming.
Access to enormous amounts of fresh water in the form of the Great Lakes may very well be the Rust Belt's ace in the hole in the coming decades...
"All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY."

― GNU Terry Pratchett
If you just have a laptop, anything is a desk if you're brave enough.
Challenging the official story about the alleged holocaust costs you your freedom, however.
I would claim water - groundwater - is a local resource, not global, as a certain part of a country is dependent on a particular reservoir.

Of course, water can be bottled or put into containers or tanks and this water can then be transported across the world. People are shipping branded water bottles back and forth, and it is often stupid (Can you spell "Evian" backwards?), but not entirely different from all the other material flows in our global economy.

Still, in any amounts relevant for agriculture, water is a local or a regional resource.
I mean they are facts in that most everyone agrees on them, which is one usage of the word "fact". But they're not facts in the same way as "the sun will rise tomorrow" or "2 + 2 = 4" (which those statements themselves are two different types of fact also!).
> Conversely, many of the things we once “proved” turned
> out to be false. For example, many people once thought
> that the earth was flat

Is this satire?
Could you please explain why you think this guy's questions are stupid? They seemed like good questions to me. His son's school's definitions of "fact" and "opinion" seem to not be mutually exclusive, which seems to contradict the implicit assumptions in the exercises assigned to the students.
"The 17,000 or so patients in this study were mostly middle-aged white people, upper- and middle-class, from San Diego."

It's true that there are a lot of variables when asking broad questions like what causes poor health, but it seems like the majority of the participants weren't of a lower-socioeconomic demographic, as indicated in the article.
Not a single argument against moral relativism was put forth in this article. But they mentioned that there actually are moral facts ad nauseum without a reason.

"Furthermore, if proof is required for facts, then facts become person-relative. Something might be a fact for me if I can prove it but not a fact for you if you can’t."
Yes, yes, they are! Welcome to reality, a place where we can't even be sure it exists! I am proud of this educational system, teaching kids intellectual integrity and preventing them from accepting random statements as true facts just because someone repeats over and over again that they're true!
QfG V was such a let down for me, easily my least favorite of the Quest for Glory games. It was particularly disappointing because QfG IV was so incredible (although it had the worst of their many awful combat engines).

However, I'm still glad they made it, and I wish they were up to QfG XV by now. Or at least that they had been able to truly finish the storyline with part 6. I hope that Hero-U is able to measure up in some respects.
The article doesn't provide anything to back the claim that moral opinions may be universally, non-subjectively true. The cartoonist example is deeply flawed. We're outraged because this event violated our deepest beliefs and values we hold dear, not because it violated some universal eternal moral law. We also know that there were people that weren't saddened by this event too.

This is the problem I have with many philosophers. In the whole text you cannot find a single strong logical evidence. Everything is just an opinion.

It is impossible to prove that e.g. "stealing from others" is universally "bad". It may not be a beneficial strategy in a game theory, or maybe some statistical analysis can show societies are better off with this rule, or just that people sleep better knowing that others can't steal. But neither of this is universally true for humanity in general, and there are examples in game theory were cheating actually is a winning strategy.
Sure, or if he'd been alive, he could only believe his senses are telling the truth :-/
As a real estate investor, let me say this is fantastic. The only suggestion I have is to include more demographic information. I usually need a lot more detail about the neighbourhood (ethnicity, income, profession, married %, pop by age group, etc). Are you familiar with zipskinny.Com? They do a great job at the demographics.

Edit: looks like zipskinny is down, but here's an image of what their chart looked like: http://www.bobguskind.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/zip-ski...
The Midwest is rapidly depleting its own water supply as well.

"About 27 percent of the irrigated land in the United States overlies the aquifer, which yields about 30 percent of the ground water used for irrigation in the United States. Since 1950, agricultural irrigation has reduced the saturated volume of the aquifer by an estimated 9%. Depletion is accelerating, with 2% lost between 2001 and 2009 alone. Once depleted, the aquifer will take over 6,000 years to replenish naturally through rainfall."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer
Ganymede is the exception here, due to the fact that it is the only Jovian moon with it's own magnetosphere.