skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess this is a matter of interpretation.

My read is that they simply show accurate line wait expectancy, thus ensuring that all lines are utilized (as opposed to one line being empty and the other having a 10 minute wait).

From a business perspective it's much simpler for an airport / TSA to put same staff numbers across and expect passengers to figure out optimal route, as opposed to making staff move around.
You might want to look into coding standards for C and special languages like Ada (like C, but less writeable, more readable with strong types) and Esterel (deterministic multithread scheduling). Seriously, Esterel is probably the coolest thing you'll read about this week.

There's also various specification languages for multithreaded behaviour, which allows you to analyse your programs behaviour using software tools, for example SPIN[0].

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIN_model_checker
If you really don't want to fork someone else's existing repo, want to participate, but can't violate rules, you could always start a project on your account, do a ton of work on it, then start an organization, and have that organization fork your own repo. But honestly, I'm pretty sure github cares more that you wind up with an interesting and fun game at the end of the day rather than you following to the letter about what to fork and not fork.
Yep, we're using Spark 1.1 currently for aggregating log data on a one big bang per day basis, and I'm currently experimenting with Spark streaming also. I'd say go with Spark if it's green fields dev, the API is far nicer, and it's far less fiddly to work with.

Spark uses a lot of Hadoop under the covers, so you still benefit from that ecosystem.

What I really like about it is that it can be easily unit and integration tested.
Those definitions remind me of when I was caught in the school library after hours and out of uniform. The teacher who "caught" me freaked out on seeing cuts all over my legs.

I had just been mountaineering the day before, which explained the cuts. But the real joke was that I couldn't go home. It was a boarding school. To her credit, she thought I was a day student too afraid to go home. Not to her credit, she should have talked to me or the teacher who took a group of us climbing BEFORE launching an investigation.

I was bored with the common rooms and just wanted to read a book. Where I got and hid the keys she never found out.
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The point of the article is not to prove that values are objective. Rather, the point is to undermine the fact/opinion distinction.

If moral sentiments were mere opinion, then there'd be no point to arguing over whether some action is right or wrong. When you tell me that you really like the taste of sushi, I don't argue with you - I just accept that that's your taste. But that we don't simply accept as 'taste' other's moral sentiments suggests that our own understanding of what is at stake is different.
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I wonder what services you could start having access to such fine grain satellite photos.
So if I read this right, this is 2d only? Could a theoretic 3d scanner with this resolution be used to e.g. duplicate matter like in a Trek transporter?
Yes I am guilty of moral relativism, that I am not alone in that is interesting, so the article is one I find interesting. But it is flawed, your example is apt and that's not the only one:

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?”

The blank stare on his face said it all.

...

I also tend to stare blankly at people when I'm thinking "Duh" too. He could have done better than accept a blank stare as freedom to interpret whatever he wanted.

With a mathematical operator: Fact > Opinion, one is a higher form of truth.
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Ability to perform an action doesn't impact on its morality.

I would guess that empathy is genetic, and so a moral fact might be that causing undeserved pain to someone with whom you can empathise with is wrong. "Undeserved" of course is wooly at the point of expression.

Fear of death I'd guess to also be genetic, so another moral fact might be that suicide outside of an overriding other moral purpose being wrong might constitute "moral fact", although like the last example, its expression is clouded by other non-fact morals that come in to play.

Incest taboo seems to be genetically expressed too, so you can probably include that.
If you read my comment carefully you will see that I did not express the sentiment that you are arguing with.

My point was that the parent comment action was primarily directed toward fellow passengers (ie it's a dick move towards them, airport staff aren't going anywhere :), not whether 'mac tracking' is right or wrong.
Okay but that's still, like, just their opinion man :-)
Yeah, whenever I think too much about why we're here I discover that it's best not to think too much about it.
That doesn't set a standard, it just moves the discussion to "what is proper to the life a rational being", which is still completely subjective.
Is it only for US companies?
Contemporary academic philosophy is full of rigorous logic. Either you're ignorant of what actual academic philosophers do, or you can't recognize rigorous logic when you see it.
- Efficiency is not just the means; it's the actual end.

- The means justify the end.

- Truth is all that matters. Therefore, to lie is morally bad.
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I do accept other's moral sentiments as taste - maybe I'm some sort of sociopath? To hell with me. I see arguing over right and wrong as the mob enforcing its rule.
It was in Berlin at the new year, and didn't look like it was going anywhere. :-) Konrad Zuse's son is a retired computer science professor who built one of the replicas in the exhibit, and still sometimes lectures on it and demonstrates it.

http://www.horst-zuse.homepage.t-online.de/
The Mississippi River system and the Rocky Mountains?
I think you should give Blacks a go. Lockhart isn't too far of a drive.
> Fact: Something that is true about a subject and can be tested or proven.

That could be some positivist definition.

But in general a fact is something held or believed to be true, in that context it doesn't matter if it's self evident, deduced from other facts, known through experience, etc. Also that means some largely held facts can be just plain wrong.
Well, what else should representative democracy be? It's a small number of full time legislators representing a larger population. Calling it a corporate democracy veils it in cynicism.

If it want to represent my electorate in a parliament, I can stand at the next election (or ideally, I can attempt to initiate a recall election for the sitting member). Indeed, there is nothing in a well run representative democracy to prevent me from picking anyone who puts their hand up as a candidate.

I think the problems you are referring to with representation are overwhelming concentrated in the United States. The U.S. does have problems with ballot access, voting systems, electorate size, etc., but those are problems with an implementation of representative democracy, and can, if anyone is willing to, be fixed.
And yet this very post describes incest as "relatively rare". Now maybe folks don't realize that still means it's more common than they might expect. But the article doesn't seem to support the claim that " docs see it regularly", unless I missed something (which is entirely possible).
What does the cm measurement actually mean? Is it the number of cm's each pixel covers?
Damn it! I totally feel your pain. Migrating COBOL to Java has long been one of my pet peeves. The former is procedural with all variables being global and fixed-width and the later is OO (sort of) with lexical variables of variable size. The two do not mix and match well.

Trying to get away from COBOL is actually a three-way problem: technological (as we've alluded to), business (hey, we gotta stop using this shit!), and social (hey, I don't want to touch this shit!). Unfortunately, virtually every solution I've seen focuses on the business or technical issue in isolation, but ignores the others.

I've actually found a solution that solves all of the issues and would make new developers excited to work in COBOL shops, but it's on hold until some technical challenges are surmounted. Frustrating as hell!
I guess it makes sense, a third of the population is 65+, they won't be around when the consequences of their unconscionable actions really hit.
Oddly enough, I live in a university town in the Midwest, in a neighborhood with quite a few elderly residents. I've noticed quite a few elderly people driving hybrid cars.
That was my only goal.
While I've not eaten at Franklins due to time requirements when I've been in Austin, I have made the short trek to Lockhart, Tx and had the best Bar B Que experience of my life at Smitty's. Post Oak smoked burnt ends were like buttery ambrosia of the gods. (I live in Fort Worth, have eaten at Rudy's, Blacks, Saltlick, etc.)
Well, he then opened his eyes and/or talked to them more:

> "And so I started routinely inquiring about childhood sexual abuse, and I was really floored."

> More than half of the 300 or so patients said yes, they too had been abused.

Are you saying you're surprised it took 23 years for him to notice? How long should it take, then? I know nothing of his professional background, but don't you think it's possible certain types of doctors are less likely to "see it regularly" than others?
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A lot of the data in the ACE study is actually pretty dodgy -- what people are comfortable admitting to changes over time, and also people forget things as they get older. So comparing responses from a 70-year-old to responses from a 30-year-old about things that happened in their childhood is kind of apples and oranges. I still think it's an important study and worth talking about, but I'm not sure I really believe that, say, people are 5x more likely to commit suicide or 4.5x more likely to get an STD than they were 20 years earlier.
> 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!

What about the teaching discussed in the article about there being no moral facts? Should kids accept this proposition just because the education system repeats it over and over again? The teaching itself is a statement with moral implications. Where is the proof for the statement itself?

> Welcome to reality, a place where we can't even be sure it exists!

This viewpoint also contains a truth claim. Taken to its logical conclusion, there would be no way to prove anything since it's all an illusion.
You figured it out. People didn't like the article because they're too stupid to read that many words. Or they were confused by the title.

It's not cause the tone is accusatory, or because it rambles, or compares mission critical life-or-death Apollo software with the unimportant web and native applications we write now. Yep, it's cause people are too dumb to look at that many words without a beer commercial dropped in the middle of it.

Saying "people who disagree with my opinions are too stupid to understand the subtlety of the point" is the rhetorical equivalent of denial in the Kubler-Ross sense of the word.
Wow. It feels like I wrote that article I agree with it so much. There are a few things I disagree with:

1. I'm not a TDD purist but I do think a red/green TDD cycle does strongly encourage all of the following things to happen in a more natural, flowing way: "Tell yourself what you’re going to do, and then implement that sentence. When you’re finished, take that sentence and write a test, then just move on."
Coding before testing isn't the issue as much as the potential for needing to change code just to be more testable (an efficiency issue).

2. No sale on the idea of documenting every piece of code; I truly feel like doc comments muddy the contents of the file, plus resulting documentation is less likely to be read than code and more likely to fall out of sync with the contents of the code. Completely separate documentation is hard to keep updated. It's often something to maintain with often no tangible benefits unless you are churning developers like crazy. Certainly it might be reasonable to document high-level interactions for complete view of the system but documentation at lower levels seems an increasingly bad value proposition to me. In a perfect world, sure... but in real life there are deadlines and tests+code almost always serve as enough of a developer guide to understand clearly. If not, I'd rather spend time refactoring instead of writing docs. For the few new developers brought on, reviewing the system in a paired programming manner is a good way to get to know them and ramp them up at the same time. Parts of the system that are difficult for them to comprehend might warrant refactoring attention.

3. "If something is performed more than three times in a 4 hour span"
It's difficult to make a wholesale suggestion on things like that. If said task is 1 second clicking the "get mail" button and automation is auto-checking every n minutes, automation can be a net loss in terms of productivity. I think the XKCD[1] chart is probably a better measure ;)
Anyhow it's definitely better to not waste loads of time doing things you do often, and the more often you do something the more likely it is that automating the task would pay off; just don't do it with an utter lack of discretion.

Some typos in the post:
- Stray period before "I just call it by what it was: A big ball of mud."
- "Simple isn't sexy." should maybe be "Complex isn't sexy" or "Simple is sexy"
- "internet" (proper noun)
- "explaining just how the interact with" s/the/they
- "english" (proper noun)

Very thought-provoking and fun read (lots of laughs)- I really look forward to future posts!

1. http://xkcd.com/1205/
> The article has only an image of the Z4 in Munich.

Looks like I have to visit the Deutsches Museum the next time I'm in München.
I rather liked the article.
I'm having trouble with this.

Can you prove that what you said is a fact?
With the fun side effect of taking away Palestinian land and water. Everyone wins.
It progresses the discussion to there, by being a first principle of morality. From there, with a definition of rationality, "what is proper to the life a rational being" can be answered. For example, death is not proper to the life a rational being. From that follows certain things to avoid. Using this logic, those things would be morally wrong.
This is great, thanks for building this!
Well, we don't have perfect information - but I think it's pretty obvious that we have abundant information that voters don't avail themselves of. The drive to use even the information available seems to be lacking.
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It's also extremely suspect that a completely irrelevant measure ("hypocampus shape") was selected for this correlation rather than memory function.

In the absence of a randomized trial, the dose-response relationship is one of the most important tools available for teasing out causality. If you can't show that increased dose strongly correlates with increased response, you likely are looking at population variables, not drug/lifestyle effects.

It turns out that almost everything that gets people's hands wringing from fatty foods to chemicals with complicated names have almost flat dose-response curves. The ones that stand out as having strong dose-response curves are alcohol and especially smoking, which meets all of the causal criteria you want to see in a correlative relationship: http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/corre...
Reminds me of the film "Interstellar" with dust storm. And this is already happening every year in Beijing and its neighboring towns. Does this "bad" human cultural behavior push our scientific researcher further? It certainly does for the 200 yrs of technological advances.
It doesn't matter if the stock is undervalued for this narrow question of dividends vs stock repurchases.

If an outside investor buys stock, of course, under/overvaluation matters.
In either case, the instructor would need training to do the actions discretely. Waiting for a teacher to go jot down any notes is annoying.
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I'd you don't mind me asking, how is your direct democracy platform any different to how most political parties work internally anyway? What that charter describes is how a lot of political parties reach policy decisions, and it doesn't really describe anything that resembles direct democracy that the whole electorate takes part in.
I'm not saying this to try to discredit this or any other study, but I think it would be appropriate for publications, universities, hospitals, doctors whose names are on studies to disclose affiliations. Especially with contentious issues like marijuana.

After a brief Google search I found other studies where this same doctor (John Csernansky, MD) has linked marijuana use to "Schizophrenia-like Brain Changes".

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/818082
Sean Parent would bring up the fact that given enough scale all systems end up being a network problem. If you look at the internet, you can think of it as one big system. Huge and hideously complex, its pieces are connected but not dependent.

If you can boil your software down to parts that can afford latency (even if they need throughput), you can pass messages between them. That is possibly and probably less efficient, but your macro pieces that pass well defined messages between each other can exist without adding to the complexity of the other pieces.
which is why a software project requires someone with technical knowledge doing the management, and not an MBA or "project manager" who cares only about on budget and on time at the cost of technical quality.
I noticed this too. To give the benefit of the doubt, it's hard to know what that sentence means, because of some ambiguity over whether it's about a) only incest that results in a child, b) "routine genetic tests" detecting incest, c) "rare" as in, say, "only" 3% of babies are the result of incest, which would still probably surprise a lot of people. (I'm not even sure what percentage I would personally expect or be surprised by.)
I'd argue the Balanced dashboard (Ember.js) is superior to the Stripe dashboard. Their technology, design, and engineers are exceptional, but just shows how important market, positioning, and being first is. The "startup game" is brutal. They had everything in place... YC company, top tier investors (Andreessen), great product... The market just overwhelmed them.
Your description of cheating presents facts, but there is nothing moral about them, except in that they are facts that explain why one group of people may prefer another group of people to accept something as a moral truth. (Which isn't what people generally mean when they asset the existence or nonexistence of "moral facts")
People argue about tastes all the time. That tastes can't be argued over is what we tell ourselves, not what we actually do. Why else would we say "he has bad taste"?
You absolutely have to split jade documents and use includes/blocks though, any decent sized page, even if it's static becomes unmanageable very quickly.
How is that an "affiliation". Isn't it natural that people tend to publish on the same topic?
I can't imagine that tracking cell phone emissions is the simplest way to estimate the number of people in a line.

I also can't imagine this is the only thing they are doing/planning to do with the data.
I believe one of the key advantages of Spark over Hadoop is being able to run the full stack on a small environment (single machine) and do all the coding there without the need of a cluster just for development.
That's too bad, I'd like to try your service out. Thanks anyway, good luck!
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But the point is that, as a society, we don't treat moral sentiment as taste. For instance, when someone murders another person, we don't say: "Well, that person just likes murdering people. Who are we to disagree?!" Instead, we say they did something wrong, and we punish them.

If you're not prepared to give up all claims on how others should act, then you're not really a moral relativist. And the point of the author is that, as a society, we seem to have an inconsistent position.
I wish I could still edit my old post. Here's a great example of this in action

http://www.imore.com/truth-behind-apple-watch-hit-piece
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> Marijuana may or may not be similar to tobacco in this respect, but I have not done much research on that.

This isn't going to be a significant issue if it's grown indoors. Also, a large part of the reason why tobacco has a lot of radiation is because of the fertilizer that sticks to the leaves, whereas this isn't an issue with cannabis because it's not being fertilized by crop dusters.
"All men are created equal", if we're talking about what Thomas Jefferson wrote, means all human beings are equally deserving of rights and possess equal worth. It does not refer to objective criteria like intelligence, beauty, strength, etc.
This is exactly why I prefer to have my search box and my address bar separate, as in Firefox. I use the address bar for quick jumps through my browsing history, ordered by Firefox's very well-tuned "frecency" algorithm. Getting to Hacker News is "ha" then down+enter. Twitter is "tw", Gmail is "gm", etc. Meanwhile, "ha" in my search box gives me all sorts of random things that I've searched for: "haight ashbury san francisco", "the parser hack", "demographics of hawaii in 1940s"... I can't imagine the annoyance of having this stuff showing up in my address bar history.
Man, this makes me wish even more than I usually do that independent study for programming was a class that actually existed.
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The Big Ball of Mud is not unique to software. Ever been in a building that's had a lot of renovations and additions? There are weird half-flights of stairs here and there, convoluted paths from one side to the other, different styles of fixtures, etc. Eventually they get to the point where it's easier and cheaper to just build a new building somewhere else, or tear the old one down and start from scratch. Just like we do with software.
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I use taste just because it's the most widely-accepted instance where subjectivism applies. But, certainly, a substantial minority will hold that for certain kinds of tastes, objectivism holds. If you think there are meaningful disagreements about taste, that makes you an objectivist. In which case, you already agree that there are facts about these kinds of things.
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FTA:

> Given the presence of moral relativism in some academic circles, some people might naturally assume that philosophers themselves are to blame.

and then a link to this:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/372-mor...

I generally don't go for guilt by association, but can't believe he linked to this nonsense as some sort of support for his position.

"All men are created equal" is a moral consensus or opinion to me. Some are definitely more equal than others.
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