skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right that we have a culture of missionary work. And my post probably does double as subtle proselytizing (Props on using the right word - Mormons have come up with some not quite word).

On the other hand, my comment seemed completely appropriate. My other comments hacker news make no mention of, although in them you can see I have principles and I do quote religious leaders once in a while (twice besides this I think), generally unattributed, and paraphrased/adjusted for clarity. I'll leave it to you to decide whether I'm here to preach or not.
It's not just pop media though. There's a general attitude among many people I know who have advanced degrees in science that our current understanding is close to perfect, and that every correlation between two variables validates the entire theory that motivated the experiment. There's also a general attitude to just believe headlines and not look for authoritative or in-depth sources. The fact that pop media reports the way it does is a side effect of these underlying problems IMO. We ought to value accuracy in statements and healthy skepticism more than we do, I think.
People are asserting that these reversals are a normal part of science and therefore good. I think they are a normal part of science but reveal a huge flaw in the method: scientists frequently over extrapolate and end up drawing erroneous conclusions based on limited data. The widespread presence of basic methodological flaws in many scientific papers such as misunderstanding the meaning of p values means a lot of so-called science is built on faulty reasoning. This is worse than merely presenting a model that imperfectly represents the data, it is simply wrong: reaching conclusions that the data do not justify and never could.

You see this most often with efforts to reduce complex systems down to the effect of single variables; such efforts are almost guaranteed to miss the point. The serotonin story is a good example. The notion that the complexity of human psychology that led to depression could be reduced to the activity level of a single neurotransmitter should strike us as an absurd exercise on its face. It's not even wrong, it's a basic misreading of the problem space.
That (spirc) is a library. Are there actual applications of any significance written in Javascript which run in a web server (or browser) and do not use the web?

Even if there are, I still feel that Javascript is too completely dependent on its position in web browsers for Node.js to be entirely disassociated with the web. If a new language would replace Javascript in the browser, Node.js would be instantly abandoned. But I could see your point.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone advocate rewriting shared history.
I'm saddened to see no mention here of Vera Rubin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin

I've heard several male scientists in cosmology suggest that Rubin either discovered or was instrumental in the discovery of dark matter.

This was a profound and fascinating experimental result: galaxies contain much more mass than can be accounted for by observable matter. The implication is that the observable (baryonic) matter in the universe is only a small fraction of the actual mass content. This is remains an unsolved problem in cosmology.

I know that even today the LHC is running at higher energies in part due to an is interested in explaining dark matter through the generation of WIMPs and other massive particles. So this remains a very interesting question in physics.

Despite her thought providing result, she is not a well known scientist.
I think that this is a symptom of Adobe’s de facto monopoly position; if there was a viable competitor who could keep Adobe honest it would probably be different.

Remember that it was actually Microsoft who created and pushed for the RTF format as a common interoperability file format for word processing documents. This was way back when Microsoft and its Microsoft Word™ was the newcomer against the established giants in the field of word processing: Word Perfect, WordStar, etc. Of course, when Microsoft Word gained popularity (through no direct advantage of its own – it was using its coupling with Microsoft Windows, which the competition was wary of), then Microsoft lost all interest in RTF standardization.
Git-flow indeed has serious problems. This author is proposing a particular subset of gitworkflows(7).

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitworkflow...

I like subsetting gitworkflows(7) because you can incrementally add process when the tangible benefits (like increased reliability and experimental access for eager users) outweigh their process cost (which depends on team experience). I wrote about these issues here:

http://mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=87zjx4x417.fsf@mcs.an...

This diagram represents a workflow that uses 'maint', 'master', and 'next' branches.

http://59A2.org/files/simplified-gitworkflows7.svg
GitHub +1s Chrome Extension
For content bans obviously. We don't want you to post porn here. Banned. Creates new account and posts porn. Banned.

But if I get banned for harassment on Reddit, make a new account and don't harass anybody would I get banned? Probably not.

In addition they banned /r/thinpeoplehate which obviously was satire and did not result in harassing thin people and neither fat people as that content didn't even exist there.

https://archive.is/2TLLz
this is a definition of "frequently" that vastly stretches what I would have considered the normal bounds.
To simulate the IMAX experience, sit 10" away from your TV.
A bit of warning about Seveneves: treat it as a duology. A lot of readers complain about the pacing problems caused by that 5000-year jump the article mentions. Basically, the pace slows down to a crawl again at that point and starts slowly building up.

If you treat Seveneves as one book, that might annoy you. If you treat it as two books, published at the same time so you don't have to wait for the next one after you've finished the first, then it suddenly makes sense.

And if you're used to Neal's writing style, then you already possess the patience you need with almost every one of his books, because they usually start slow and build up a tremendous momentum over time, until they reach a frantic pace and then they just... stop ;)

Don't get me wrong, I love his books, but I'm all too aware that you simply have to get used to his style and "forgive" him for certain aspects of it. I know I can and do, but I also know people who can't.
For other non-Euclidean space example (although not hyperbolic) there is Antichamber (http://www.antichamber-game.com/). But in general, not only space whole reality was distorted/dream-like in this game.
AMD Embedded G-Series SoC Powers New Line of Samsung Thin Client Solutions
Be relieved that you have one less project to accomplish in your lifetime and move on to the next thing you'd like to do.
Absolutely. If you aren't in the US, market it to wherever you are. And YC is a funding/networking/mentoring mechanism, not a super power. Don't be intimidated just because someone is YC.
Oh and walk around with a baby. That one is awesome. Second only to the new puppy walks.
Those are prime examples of shitty, distasteful communities, but are they examples of leaking over into other mediums to make threats or bully?

- Were the parents of the deceased ever raided and harassed on facebook?

- Was the husband of the dead wife bullied on twitter because the mods posted their handle?

- Did the black man receive PMs threatening violence?

Reddit admins banned these subreddits because they said they had clearly identifiable instances and patterns of person to person abuse. That's the point you're missing.

Edit: I'm not sure why bhayden deleted their comments
The phrase i like most is "data structure server". It's basically a giant heap that you can fill with data structures - strings, lists, sets, sorted sets, maps, bitsets, and this wacky HyperLogLog thing:

http://redis.io/topics/data-types-intro

The data structures are all addressed by string keys.

Redis can persist this heap to disk, and load it again, so you get a measure of durability, but the typical use case is for data you can afford to lose - caches, metrics, some kinds of events, etc.

Redis's key non-functional strengths are speed and robustness. Operations people love it because you stick it in production and it just quietly keeps on working without needing attention or setting your CPU on fire.

To my mind, any project should have PostgreSQL as its first data store. But it should probably have Redis as its second, when it finally has some data that needs to be changed or accessed so fast that PostgreSQL can't keep up.

(Kafka is third)
I thought whom follows a preposition: To whom is the message addressed?
I've never met an unsuccessful person that doesn't have skeletons in their closet.

This dystopian view of people ("... built their tower through shady deals ...") is sad, and untrue. On the backs of others? Of course--some people work for other people. We all stand on the shoulders of giants... and midgets.
see http://blog.plague-dev.de/posts/Adblock-isnt-immoral .
Not everyone uses Cisco, some people use Juniper. Not everyone uses HP, many use Dell and others. Not everyone has a LAMP stack, some prefer SQL Server, IIS, and .NET.

There's many ways to differentiate. Maybe yours can be more featureful. Maybe it can be simpler; not everyone wants everything to be covered in options. Maybe you can iterate faster; maybe you can offer more stability and a more "corporate-aligned" update schedule.

Look for people who don't like the other person's product, find out why, learn from their mistakes, and try to serve users that they ignore.
Should I use flat design or round design?
#2 is demonstrably wrong.
Won't work on: (1) systems expecting COFF binaries, (2) systems who support ELF but use a different architecture.

For #2, there's several very popular archs to support: x86, x86_64, arm*, mips, x32.

AFAIK ELF doesn't (yet?) support multiple arch-in-a-single-file.
I might as well be honest. And I swear I didn’t know
to be fair, if it's truly a "derp" commit you're better off using "git commit --amend --no-edit", which is technically rewriting history but in one stroke :)
Worthington Assembly Reveals What It Takes to Buy Parts
It definitely tickled some of the same parts of my curiosity. Grinding hard sci fi.
"Swift Education" on Github from Apple
Is Imgur required to host FPH content?

Imgur is a private website that can moderate content as it sees fit. They didn't want to be associated with a hateful community, imgur generally tries to encourage positivity from what I've seen.

The appropriate response is not to harass people. It's amazing how difficult that concept is. What might seem like "satire" to you is pretty messed up behavior, and in others contexts would be an outright threat
The Tragic Diet
rhetoric doesn't imply lying.

But does it imply misleading?
> And yet, right in the front they capitalize "the Press" which doesn't seem, on a quick skim, to have been covered in their own capitalization rules!

They're referring specifically to The Chicago University Press, not journalists in general.

EDIT: Rule 42 seems to cover it. Seems weirdly specific, though!
I haven't read Reamde, yet. I've read lots of complaints about it on Goodreads, so I'm kind of on the fence about getting it.

In your opinion, how was Reamde compared to works like Anathem, Snow Crash, Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon? I'm asking because I like your ranking :)
Brain-teasers aren't overly helpful, IMO, unless they're directly related to stuff the company does.

For example, I had an odd one that addressed solution search space, how to short-cut going through the entire space, etc. Definitely a brain-teaser, and not something 99% of developers have likely dealt with--but relevant.
So you get to learn from their mistakes, and you don't even have to start in the same market!

You could even advertise yourself as being like your competitor, but the local option. Sell them on the idea that by paying you instead of the competitor, the money would stay in the community instead of going to the USA.
If another app solves all the issues I set out to solve in my own app, and is in a language I am comfortable with, then I would try it out and see if I could contribute somehow.

Then again I only program as a hobby and everything I make is open so I have no financial motive to compete.
Not sure if the talk covered it, but the core Proxygen framework is opensource: https://github.com/facebook/proxygen
The number of "visually muscular" women contributing to the rise in the average US female body weight is essentially a rounding error.
Thanks! That will help me get motivated to finish it. I really enjoyed most of it so far.
I don't see the problem with making a change, breaking something that's not practical to immediately test, committing that change, noticing the breakage a few days later, and committing a fix. No need to rewrite history, just have "fixed Y which broke when I did X" later on.
Vim on OS X with the Rust plugin [1].

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust.vim
What you're forgetting is that most developers, as with most athletes, aren't competing at the international level.
This is a good study, but it's important to understand that the study results [1] don't really contradict much of our current understanding of serotonin-related antidepressant activity. If you read through the actual study, you'll see that the authors aren't disagreeing with SSRI activity but rather attempting to gather more insight into the accepted anxiolytic activity of SSRIs.

Neurotransmitter reductionism is one of the more difficult pop-neuropsychiatry concepts to shake, because it's so tempting to think of neurotransmitters like serotonin in the same way we've come to think of more basic biomarkers like cholesterol levels or other hormone levels. Neurotransmitter function is several orders of magnitude more complex, and can't simply be summarized as "too much" or "too little."

For example, neurotransmitter signaling is often divided in to two components: Tonic and phasic release. Tonic signaling is lower frequency (think closer to DC current for a very crude analogy), while phasic release is higher frequency (think more along the lines of AC current). The balance of tonic vs phasic signaling often has a massive influence on the actual outcome of the signaling. SSRIs are frequently (and wrongly) thought of as generically "increasing serotonin levels" when what they're really doing is altering serotonin dynamics in the synaptic cleft. Inhibiting the serotonin reuptake pump causes the serotonin to stick around longer in the synaptic cleft, which (again, roughly speaking) slows the serotonin dynamics down a bit and moves toward tonic, rather than phasic, signaling. It's not difficult to find studies showing relationships between serotonin tonic and phasic signaling, SSRIs, and stress adaptation differences. See [2] for the first example I found in a quick search.

Another very important component of serotonin signaling are 5-HT1A autoreceptors located on presynaptic terminals. These are part of the feedback loop regulating serotonin release. Briefly, 5-HT1A autoreceptors bind serotonin in the synaptic cleft and apply negative feedback to serotonin release. More serotonin in the synaptic cleft results in more 5-HT1A autoreceptor activation, which will in turn slow serotonin release. SSRIs will increase extracellular serotonin area under the curve, which will result in additional 5-HT1A activation and altered serotonin release dynamics. This system will ultimately re-regulate to some other set-point after several weeks, which is theorized to be part of the reason for the therapeutic lag in SSRI treatment, and also thought to explain why SSRIs often initially cause more anxiety by acutely increasing serotonin levels before the system re-regulates. 5-HT1A autoreceptor modulation is also the theorized mechanism of action of anti-anxiety medications like Buspirone, and 5-HT1A modulation is a property of two of the most recent anti-depressant medications Vortioxetine and Vilazadone.

This is another good study to have, but it's important to not be too quick to think that this contradicts our current understandings.

[1] http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=23197...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22791197
From Objective-C to Swift: A Journey
The ability to filter to a specific API version would be wonderful as well.
I was wondering, if a legal trick can be used to limit these C&D letters that have no merit. Effectively, the lawyer on the other side of the letter is making a legal claim, that the law says what you are doing is wrong. If that claim is clearly baseless, then shouldn't the their lawyer be held on malpractice charges? After all, they are licensed and certified experts, and have a duty to not mislead the public.
UK: I ran into the thing about batteries when sending a phone back to supplier not so long ago. Strange, I had to show the Post Office counter lady the original packaging that had space for the battery cut out of the foam. After some discussion, I was allowed to send the phone back but with the battery in the phone.
Knowing a bit about Philip's methodology, that statement was not necessarily referring to editing text on the live web server, but more likely just referring to SSH'ing into a Unix system to do development work.
I've read a few as well, and I totally agree. It seems everyone else whose read his books says the same thing. His ending just never compare to the fantastic worlds and stories he creates in the first 2/3's.
And if they're any good, they probably are.
"These huge green multinationals, with budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars, have now systematically infiltrated science,"

The energy companies denying anthropomorphic climate change have much larger budgets and a vested interest in convincing everyone everything is fine, there's no need to change anything, so they can continue on with their current business model. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing - after all the global climate change advocates have done a pretty good job of convincing everyone the climate is changing but what they haven't done is looked at whether the change will be net positive or net negative. The confirmation bias here is they appear to be only looking for the negative since it's assumed change is bad.

Finally, the author of this article forgot to mention one anecdote not supporting his claim - the link between smoking and cancer. The omission leads me to believe he has his own agenda he's pushing, or to be polite, has his own confirmation bias.
Nope. It´s your choice to use one.
I never said it was bullshit. I'm just looking for your "falsfiability" criteria. My point is "no-ff" is cluttery and no one can tell me in "objective terms"(e.g. newtons, projects/year) backed by clear evidence that there is any benefit. All I see is downside. Your points are pretty shakey lets break them down shall we?

> Your last paragraph is a nice example of psychological projection. If you weren't so narrow minded you could have used your energy to learn something.

well thats clearly ad hominem nonsense. So nothing to see there.

>Myself I use --no-ff because it fits the kind of work I do very well. I haven't lost a minute of sleep or time over its deficiencies. And I am pretty certain that I spend a whole lot less time fiddling with git than people who advocate "agressive rebasing".

No point to any of that either.

>Also merging two branches that tend to touch upon same modules but are not kept in sync all the time (due to whatever reasons) is a lot simpler when you use --no-ff.

This might have some merit. But I don't really understand what you mean.

>You say that these properties are bullshit, but I found them invaluable when fixing bugs and architectural defects and where it was important to find out when and how the bug or a behaviour occurred. And funny that you mention accountants and auditors. Because being able to do forensics more easily on the codebases that I worked on has saved me and my clients many hours and gray hair. And I have found myself in situations where

Here you actually makes some points but they are all anecdotal. How many hours has it saved you? How could you even know this unless you split time into two parallel experiments and measured them independently? Its not that there is anything wrong with relaying an anecdote. But when you introduce this handwaving nonsense as justification for something as though it has the same strength as an objective measurement that I call bullshit.

>I do admit you have some merit in pointing out how bad a git history looks when littered with merge commits for single commit branches. But then, this is pretty easy to fix. Just use a fucking vanilla merge, or indeed a rebase when it fits the problem. Another way to work around the bad aspects of --no-ff approach is by using a better git history explorer.

After all those words here you start to make some sense. Of course I would use `no-ff` if I saw some value in a "merge commit" which is the mirror to your point. But my point is just that ... I've never encountered that case or had it concisely explained to me
>But if I get banned for harassment on Reddit, make a new account and don't harass anybody would I get banned? Probably not.

Probably not since it's easy to fly under the radar due to the size of the user base. But if you do you can't really complain since you were ban evading.
Microsoft Azure: SDN in a Hyperscale Cloud
The question is, how many of them are there compared to the typical "9-5" type which seems to compose the majority of western societies? And grocery stores are somewhat understandable, but who the hell goes to banks during workday, so that it makes sense for them to be open only Mon-Fri, 9-5?