skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The PZ Myers article you linked isn't very good though. It would've been a lot better if he had poked holes in the 2014 presentation's argument that analysis "ruled out large unstable natural reactors", or its argument that the data was consistent with "fusion-fission explosions", or its argument that the explosions were necessarily airbursts. But, Myers admittedly doesn't have the expertise to do that.

He could've consulted with another subject matter expert, but instead he decided to act as though the very notion of an ancient civilization on Mars getting nuked to extinction is prima facie absurd, and then ended his article with the kind of things you'd expect to hear from a Fox News anchor.

And I say this as someone that thinks the chances of any advanced civilization having been on Mars at any point in the past, let alone getting nuked to death, is ... rather unlikely.

PZ Myers is probably right, but in this case, it's only accidentally.
> What would you say the purpose of open source is?

The Open Source Initiative has this to say: "Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in."

Recognizing that "Free Software" and "Open Source" are terms for essentially the same thing originating from groups with slightly different goals, the FSF says this about Free Software: " Free software is about having control over the technology we use in our homes, schools and businesses, where computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary software companies or governments who might seek to restrict and monitor us." [1]

Seeing the past history of a project before the point at which it was opened is somewhat related, but not necessary, to the motivation cited by the OSI, and not, as I see it, even related to the FSF motivation.

[0] http://opensource.org/about

[1] http://www.fsf.org/about/
It did before, that was my bad. For me it makes a difference, even if they decline responsibility. Maybe they put it in the official account just to test the reception, and I for one would welcome an officially backed IU Go library with open arms.
You are welcome to your opinion, but i think you are wrong.
That's because the indie artists aren't looking at the big picture. They would be getting less than they hoped for from the Spotify model, but now you will likely never even hear about them. They're significantly hindering their growth potential and ability to sell concert tickets.
How smart traffic signals may ease your commute
Not sure if this is the best place to ask but is there any chance of custom storage drivers for the Team Server? I'd love to be able to integrate with <insert favourite cloud provider> and I'm sure many businesses would love to as well.

Also the "Learn more about Team Server storage options" link on https://www.aerofs.com/features/flexible-storage/ is currently broken.
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It's been a while since I dealt with HL7 but I'll be happy to try and help. My contact is in my profile
Indeed, a casual listener like myself is basically paying money to the top artists while not listening which is a bit absurd. It is a problem that should be possible to at least partly resolve by calculating artist market share without a bias towards users that have Shopify open all the time. Incidentally, I blogged about this some time ago: https://davidlebech.com/thoughtflow/spotify-royalties/
I doubt this. Rock climbers carry powdered chalk to constantly dry their hands. It's my own experience that dry hands grip better, as well.
Will this help CMake's ability to generate solution files?
That assumes that those artists are already on the verge of quitting spotify, which is a bad omen for the continued existence no matter what.
> These are the folks--the good, artist-supporting folks--who are being most hurt by piracy.

As much as I hate pirates, it isn't the pirates that killed the music industry.

Look at this thread. Most of the people here are not going to spend more than $100 per year on music. That's simply too small a pool for the number of artists that exist.

Think about these same people. They are willing to pay more than $100 for two video games.

Guess which industry is doing better?
> [...] a real progressive tax on capital gains [...]

What does this mean in concrete terms? We have a real (= non-imaginary, actual, existing) progressive tax on capital gains now. It's also at favorable rates (across the whole spectrum of its progressivity) compared to "regular" income, and especially favored compared to labor income (which pays payroll taxes, which are flat to regressive, on top of income taxes, which are progressive).

In fact, because of payroll taxes, its arguable that we have more "real progressive taxation" of capital gains than of labor income.
My wife is co-authoring a review paper on this topic with the group from Zhongshan. The rise in myopia prevalence is really quite staggering, especially among asians.

It's a long article, but the essential point is that insufficient time spent in bright light >10k lux (roughly corresponding to being in shade on a bright day) during early childhood increases the risk of developing myopia.

Normal eye growth requires dopamine which is released in a circadian fashion, which requires exposure to bright/daylight. Absence of this dopamine cycle may cause the eyeball to be more elongated, leading to refractive errors.

The precise number of hours needed to prevent myopia is difficult to say, but studies in schools with even 40-mins extra have shown benefit, and there's some evidence supporting 3+ hours/day.

Importantly, it doesn't seem to matter how much close-focal work kids do, such as computer use/studying, as long as they spend sufficient time in bright light. I'd consider setting up a study desk in front of a large window, and taking breaks at school outdoors instead of inside.
"After a tower project gets FCC approval, it takes about a year to complete. While the KVLY tower cost $50,000 to build in 1963, a typical 2,000-foot tower today costs about $3 million."

I'd love to see the full breakdown as to why exactly. That seems grossly unnecessary.

Wolfram says $50,000 in 1963 dollars is $393,000 in 2015 dollars. So there's an almost 10x increase on top of inflation. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2450000+in+1963+dollar...
> I am so tired of seeing visual evidence dismissed by people who refuse to even consider it if it's not endorsed by some large "respectable" institution. You mean to say this rock is just a naturally occuring anomaly? Really?

Of course it is. That's by far the most likely conclusion.

Consider: Curiosity alone sends back between ten and 100 images every day that each contain thousands of objects (mostly rocks). So let's say there are 10,000 objects a day that people can look at (many more if you consider the tiny size of the "face" in this compressed image.)

I can't find any actual data on apophenia and pareidolia (finding patterns and faces in randomness, respectively) but given what we know about it the incidence is unlikely to be less than 0.1%, which means we'd expect to see ten objects per day in Curiosity images that look something like a face or other recognizable object, so if a fraction of one percent of those instances are fairly realistic we would expect to see something "very face like" a few times a year.

Those numbers are a bit hand-wavy, but they aren't out by orders of magnitude, and from them we can conclude that it would be pretty surprising if we didn't see something pretty facelike now and then in Curiosity imaging. If we didn't, it would be a major surprise. That we do... well, it's what we expect, so we dismiss it as evidence that what we see is of artificial origin. To do anything else would be to ignore what we know about human perception.
> Complex accounting isn't a good reason to pay artists unfairly.

But is it Spotify that pays the artists unfairly? AFAIK, Spotify pays to the record labels, and then it is up to the record label, how they distribute the money to the artists? (Also some of the money, the labels keep them selves, and do not distribute to artists.)
I somewhat agree with you - but then there's the insurance and license question.

I admit that I'm not a fan of that company and couldn't care less about their service. But IF (I don't know. Not a lawyer, no expert) the majority of their drivers aren't covered by their insurance in case of 'commercial' accidents, then yes! they are far less safe than regulated services.

On top of that Germany (because that's what the thread started out with) requires people to have a special driving license (That is NOT a taxi license. If you drive a bus or anything where you transport people from A to B for money, you're supposed to have that extended license). And that is a good thing. It checks (every 5 years, because that thing expires) that

- you're fit (physically.. Think "My eyes aren't what they used to be, but hey .. I can still drive"
- your police record (you can request a file/except of your police record and you have to turn that in for this application)
- you know the area

It also limits this license to people >= 21 years old that have their license for > 2 years.

So, we're having two things here (ignoring all the "But it's faster, cheaper, more convenient" crap) that relate to safety:

1) IF the drivers aren't insured, you are screwed. That is less safe, demonstrably so.

2) Given that those drivers probably don't have that commercial license: I'd say they aren't vetted as good as the taxi drivers. This is a bit more mushy, but I'd still consider this 'less safe' and the list above points out why.

Obviously 2) is specific to Germany, but 1) is a global concern, as far as I understand?
Researchers develop the first-ever quantum device that corrects its own errors
My assumption based on your posts is that you have a degree you are proud of and look down on those that don't. Anything that makes that choice seem unwise is quickly put down or dismissed. I find this attitude quite common with those that spent a lot of money for a piece of paper.
Must be great for NSA & CIA guys.
would it work on vpsdime? or some of the lowendbox stuff?
And a native Bengali speaker has discussed his input into the Unicode discussions and why he disagreed with the author. What do you know about the linguistic input into the work or the participants? Did you check the huge international lists of liaisons that the author ignored? It costs $75 to join Unicode.
> Nobody is seriously going to fork this and create their own port of MSBuild

Except only a little project known as Mono [1]

> possibly one of the most mocked and reviled parts of the .NET ecosystem

News to me, people generally seem to like it.

1. https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/237615174863958016
Does it mean msbuilb uses roslyn somehow?
Well, it WAS started by Googlers, working at Google.

And it's not like officially sanctioned Google programs are not often crap.
Apple may have felt that they were sufficiently protected by the copyright on their software, including the ROMs. Indeed, Apple defeated a clone maker, Franklin, based on this protection.

Release of the design had an interesting side effect. Since the entire ROM could be disassembled, developers started exploiting un-documented features, for instance by manipulating RAM locations and branching into the middle of routines. A book, What's Where in the Apple II contained hundreds of useful addresses and entry points. As a result, Apple lost control of their API, and could not upgrade the system without breaking popular software titles.

The Apple //e was a heroic effort to preserve software compatibility, but included a bare minimum of new features. I suspect this may have been a factor towards Apple developing their next big thing -- the Mac -- as a closed system.

A similar thing happened to the IBM PC, because developers started hard-coding the known address space of the display RAM, rather than going through system calls, resulting in the famous 640k barrier.
Very cool animations on the UI side. I'm one of those users that wouldn't trust to share all of that data though. Like others pointed out, maybe if there was the option to run it on your own infrastructure...
The model is extremely simple. The number of formulaic, near-identical lines on an arbitrary report has nothing to do with complexity.

Splitting per song already has to be done. This just gives you a different amount of money to split per song with the existing mechanisms.
Exactly, the original 'thin man' HEU A-bomb[1] was really pretty simple, compress two subcritical chunks of fissile material into a supercritical chunk and hold it there as long as possible.

So imagine you've got a bunch of sub critical chunks all in a line, they hit an atmosphere which gets them to pile up like a line of tailgating cars on the freeway. The numbers should be quite computable to figure out a bounds box on the possible yield.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Man_%28nuclear_bomb%29
Try www.sagebump.com/?view=technocrat

It negates the excess in bias by adjusting the ranking algorithm
b fnegate b b f* 4 a c f* f* f- fsqrt f+ 2 a f* f/
Is this a replacement/competitor for Bittorrent Sync? There was no mention of the Android client on the site.
IIRC, it was originally Okasaki's PhD thesis, then he converted it into a book.

edit: source: http://www.usma.edu/eecs/SitePages/Chris%20Okasaki.aspx#cup9...
>and the evidence overwhelmingly suggests that their intentions are (a) good and (b) founder-aligned.

But the characteristic we're looking for here is employee aligned. Founders can make out like bandits whilst the employees find out the hardway what their contracts really mean.
Correct, VS commandline calls MSBuild.

That seems like an inaccurate description of what's happening: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11932164/what-parameters-...

They're using MSBuild, they just don't know it.

Given the age of projects I've worked on, and that it's unclear whether MSBuild is involved in VS's C++ compilation, I don't think your assumption is correct.
For some more sweaty palm fun, check out professional climber Alex Honnold "free soloing" various rock walls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR1jwwagtaQ

The whole video is worth watching, but the meat and potatoes starts at about 11:30
Engraved Ring Suggests Viking, Islamic Contact
Effective Python: Consider Coroutines to Run Many Functions Concurrently
In Finance, technology is a second-class citizen
Same thing, around the same age. A somewhat famous ophthalmologist who did a decent amount of research insisted to my mother, at the time, that there was no statistical correlation between CRT use and myopia. Interesting to see the consensus move since then...
Looks very good .. but its very slow right now .. have you hosted in on EC2? or your own dedicated machines?
What you're thinking of is probably similar to foundation's interchange
http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/interchange.html

The images could've been compressed a bit with a tool like https://imageoptim.com/ I'm seeing a little 20% (half a mb) could've been shaved off, but the bigger issue is the 1.7mb medium bundle js file. Not sure what that is, but it isn't minified all the way.
I miss Erik. comp.lang.lisp was the last newsgroup I followed when USENET went into its tailspin, and I gave up on it when he left. He was an incredible teacher for those who listened.
There are many 20% time hobby projects by Googlers hosted on the /google GitHub account. Don't read to much into it.
"Writing cached data back to persistent storage is bad", what is the "right" way to write data? I'm not terribly familiar with distributed systems, just curious. Is this referring to write-back vs. write-through?
No the parent comment is right.

Aligning your circle of influence and circle of concern is the key to productivity and happiness.

Moral fashion is all the rage, but unless you are going to engage in the political process (properly, not just retweeting hashtags or sticking bumper stickers) then you're better off not bothering with it. People spend far too much energy on fashionable 'global' causes when there are a pile of local causes that need their help.
Strongly disagree that the specific kind of intelligence that builds spacecraft is not unique to our planet in any way follows from the quite reasonable belief that life is probably not unique to our planet.

The latter belief is supported by a lot of evidence: the molecular machinery of our kind of life is pretty common, and the chemistry that drives it appears to be robust and nothing special.

To get a sense of how special the kind of intelligence that builds spaceships is, however, consider that every complex feature of organisms, from insect societies to wings to eyes, has evolved many, many times, all independently of one another.

Intelligence of the kind that builds spaceships, on the other hand, has evolved exactly once in the history of our planet, and appears to have been the result of a runaway mate competition and mate selection process in our social primate ancestors. There was certainly no material advantage to having a brain big enough and well enough designed to build spaceships when you were busy scrabbling for food (a feat that a huge range of unintelligent organisms, including unintelligent social organisms, manage reasonably well.)

So it is quite plausible that there is life all over the place in the universe, and intelligence almost nowhere. Just because we can see the advantages of intelligence doesn't mean there is a clear evolutionary path toward it, and the history of life on Earth suggests in fact that the path to the kind of intelligence that builds spaceships is extremely narrow and twisty.
It's the internet. People can do what they want. Everyone is in the pool. Sharks and swimmers. If swimmers want to risk, sharks can bite. End of story.

I for one support the uncovering attempts. I'm attempting to do that myself on all the stories as well.
Had nothing to do with proving they were not humorless fascists. There was a legitimate need for a universal codepoint among Japanese cellphone operators. Keep in mind, Japanese is a language where frequently entire concepts are represented in a single character, so this isn't perhaps as odd as you think. "Poo" had a specific semantic in "cellphone Japanese" that the market demanded. To be used interoperably with other Unicode characters, various 'emoji' were added to Unicode. I, for one, retain the right to be called a humorless fascist.
Rust will actually now panic when not in release mode when an integer overflow happens, as opposed to how things used to be before, where it would just accept the overflow silently with wrapping semantics. Here is the discussion from when this change was announced:
http://internals.rust-lang.org/t/a-tale-of-twos-complement/1...
Why Are Movie Trailers Called “Trailers”?
In populations studies at all scales, Adam is more recent than Eve. 10 years ago, I read it was Eve 120,000 years ago and Adam 60,000 years ago for the out of Africa theory.
It's a divisive issue that people are very sensitive to, and if someone perceives your point as wrong, they will just downvote you. Deal with it, or don't comment on threads about sexism if you can't. Complaining about it is unlikely to make it better, and will only result in more downvotes.
Anyone recommend running apps?

I use Nike Running but it doesn't integrate with this.

Any recommendations between Strava and RunKeeper?

(I run and will be getting into cycling shortly.)

Thank you!!
there was another series done where a tower climber showed the proper way to climb a tower https://youtu.be/9b9LahaBJIk
I thought it was funny, why are people so touchy about it?
I'm gonna be the guy, and risk the downvotes. Its been long enough, and if we're gonna be idolizing this guy we need to have a serious discussion about the naivete of him.

Aaron Swartz claims that politics, news and all that doesn't affect his life. And then a few years later, when he makes the news, he commits suicide. In particular, it was clear that his morals were not lined up to what the powers that be are.

Instead of working to better understand the risks in the "piracy" that he was undertaking, maybe he could have paid attention to the news and garnered a better understanding of people around him.

This "I hate the News" article glorifies ignorance in the most terrible way possible. Especially since it was that ignorance that eventually gave way to Aaron Swartz's untimely demise.

Aaron Swartz eventually did wish to become involved in politics. He took documents from a university and published them online, in the name of "opening up information". If he did so with the naive "I hate the news" attitude however, then he was flying blind. He had no idea how others perceived him, including the FBI and other police powers.

That was his mistake. And it is a mistake I hope no one else makes. If you are going to put your neck on the line and perform a protest that toes the lines of the law... be sure you are ready and willing to receive the attention of the media that will fall down upon you.

On the one hand, we have Martin Luther King Jr. who broke the law, and managed to turn those crimes into a strength. A victory that changed the country for the better.

On the other, we have Aaron Swartz who (probably) broke the law, and instead turned those crimes into a tragic weakness. A weakness that ends in the most horrible way possible.

Note: I supported Aaron Swartz's cause. I've donated money to his prosecution when it came up years ago. So my money and actions are where my heart's at. The irony in this article is rather strong however, especially when we take it into context.
Note that that's restricted to state and local taxes vs. spending, it does not include federal taxes and spending, so isn't (aside from the additional explicit disclaimer of utility in the last sentence there) a basis for any conclusion about net impact to government overall.
But! Perfect splitting across lines according to a formatting algorithm which is simple, consistent, and incrementally applicable:

1.

(/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4 a c))))
(* 2 a))

2.

(/ (+ (- b)
(sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4 a c))))
(* 2 a))

3.

(/ (+ (- b)
(sqrt (- (* b b)
(* 4 a c))))
(* 2 a))

4.

(/ (+ (- b)
(sqrt (- (* b
b)
(* 4
a
c))))
(* 2
a))

Now you have a sideways tree, revealing the structure of the expression, where it is immediately apparent what the operands are of the / and the + and so on.

Infix turns into a mess breakfast when it's too long for one line.

For this particular expression, I'd probably go with variant (3) in production code. Compared to the beauty of (3), the original one-liner is basically a strawman. In terms of clarity of structure, it trumps the infix also.

This is actually a very important point that is overlooked by Lisp noobs. In real Lisp code, expressions are not written all out in one line, whereby the human reader must mentally match the parentheses. Even numeric expressions that might be one-liners in Fortran or C, are split across several lines to make at least the major constituents clear in relation to the major operator.
There aren't a lot of people qualified to work on security software.
Not to mention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PreScheme.
Not to add insult to injury, but these people posting on Reddit complaining about the money they have lost are opening themselves up to massive prison sentences. Reddit is a US site; all it takes to arrest everyone posting is to subpoena Reddit, get their IP's/emails/whatever, then raid their houses looking for drugs and whatever other contraband the police can find. Complaining publicly that you lost money on a site whose sole purpose was to sell illegal items is plenty of probable cause - especially with several implied death threats and people saying they may be killed over missing funds right in the thread. The feds will be all over this.

Not that they shouldn't complain somewhere, but maybe keep it on the darknet sites.