skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Science is literally religious faith.

No it isn't. Not by a long shot. Faith requires that you confabulate to a reach a certain cognitive destination. Science only allows models that conform to reality upon repeated testing.
Rand Paul wants government out of marriage business
no authority whatsoever. My statement is unfalsifiable unless TS/her team steps fprward.I admit it's all conjecture, but I should note that TS had a publicist handling her public relation for 7 years before moving that function in-house to her management company.

TS has so far given me the impression of being business savvy and if I'm charitable to assume competence of her management company, I'd assume she would shy from legal minefields

Given the above priors, my estimation is that her lateat blog-post (like all others) was vetted by publicist(s) & legal advisor(s). YMMV.
The Overcrowded Food-Delivery Industry
Oh he's also an islamophobe: http://johnhartnett.org/2014/03/29/cancer-in-our-society/

" We see the creep of discrimination (against Christian doctrines) slowly entering society in appeasement to the Islamic agenda. The mainstream church works against the true gospel. They side with the atheist and Islamic agendas. The progressives (who don’t like the label of ‘the Left’) inexorably have taken over the West. Starting with atheistic Karl Marx, then the true communists using the socialists as useful idiots they have persuaded the democracies founded on Judeo-Christian values to forfeit those values and adopt those that God hates. It all started in the beginning. There is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:4-11)."
I think you misunderstand the problem. If you can afford to buy your way out of jail, you have a much easier time awaiting your trial. This isn't about plea-bargains vs trials, it's about properly setting bail so that everyone has the same opportunity to post bail and await for a fair trial at home.
"Magnify browser's viewport (typically "pinch-zoom")"

That is exactly what is disabled when authors disable zoom via the meta property.
> Put it into http://explain.depesz.com/ to see it in a prettier format

I tried that.... http://explain.depesz.com/s/22H5

The problem is, I'm unsure how to read this. I can explain, but I can't explain analyze, since it's too slow. Can you make heads or tails of it?
I wonder how this affected Toshiba's own processors -- MeP, then Cell.
Some of MPEs (Nuon's processing units) only had access to its small local memory and needed DMA to access the main memory. This is kind of similar to Cell's SPEs. Each SPE has only 256 KB of directly accessible memory and required DMA to get to the main memory.
You can say it's not uncommon in DSPs, but it's still interesting Toshiba has been involved with these.
Sry, that is a terrible argument. You are saying that we do not have to worry about nuclear waste, because we currently do not worry about other waste.
"I don't know of any way to compile non-array-ish, non-explicitly-SIMD-ish code into efficient SIMD code."

Which is why I'm proposing that somebody creating one might get some traction, after all...

"C's main claim to fame is being "an HLL" (in the classical sense) but still being able to do essentially everything Assembly does."

And I discussed at length the things that assembly can do today that C can not, without callouts to assembler. I mean, I know the party line, I've heard it for like twenty years now, and my entire point is that it's not true anymore. C is not a "high level assembler" for a 2015 machine. It's a high-level assembler for a PDP-11. Which is still useful enough, thanks to backwards compatibility, but it's high time for it to get out of the way and stop being "the high level assembler", just like it's high time for it to get out of the way and stop being "the systems language".
Photovoltaics can't really be weaponized, and we can't stop bad actors from getting access to large mirrors.
Obnoxiously self important attitude.
This is of course extremely interesting and probably important for understanding our universe—but how is it helping anyone to say something like, "...with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured." The statement is like a distraction at a magic show, drawing the reader to the glittery 'reality' and 'exist,' which are totally undefined so the reader's imagination can rove without limit.

Maybe this is really just a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about motion of particles or information transfer in the universe. Isn't that interesting enough without these vague, human aggrandizing assertions about creating reality?
But with more and more mobile web browsers hiding the address bar, how is that person reading over your shoulder going to know what's the name of that awesome site you are viewing?
Yep, TUIs are good - but what's your goal for publicising the project?
I believe that gnufied is saying that this isn't a clean demonstration. If one paragraph of explanation is buried in 1,000 pages of dreck, then is the onus on the reader to find the nugget, or the author to emphasize the important part?

If you've ever hung around a physics or astrophysics department you'll find that a lot of people send in explanations of how modern science is wrong. For example, http://www.universetoday.com/108044/why-einstein-will-never-... comments:

> One of the benefits of being an astrophysicist is your weekly email from someone who claims to have “proven Einstein wrong”. These either contain no mathematical equations and use phrases such as “it is obvious that..”, or they are page after page of complex equations with dozens of scientific terms used in non-traditional ways. They all get deleted pretty quickly, not because astrophysicists are too indoctrinated in established theories, but because none of them acknowledge how theories get replaced.
Build a Java EE App on IBM Bluemix with Watson, Cloudant
That's why we need more open source under MIT license in the API space.

Fast growing OSS projects like KONG [1] for API management or Strongloop are a way to avoid to invest in technologies that are not fully open or usable under the right license.

[1] https://github.com/mashape/kong
I'd bet you know far more about it than i do. Assuming solar gets super super cheap, well, then we can do a lot. like suffer the losses of long distance transmission lines. Arizona supplying California might be feasible if the solar panels are cheap enough. Parent poster seems to be implying a few bucks a panel, rather than thousands or even hundreds of dollars.
That's actually an excellent point. Through a partnership with Uber, Microsoft could offer very up-to-date street imaging that Google wouldn't be able to match (at this point anyway).
You claim Apples products are dumbed down but the first example you give is that OSX only runs on certain hardware. That's not what "dumbed down" means. This goes more towards your point of their products being limited (extremely-limited is still a stretch). But if you think about it their product is Macbook + OSX. This pair is not limited, its as feature rich as any Windows laptop (even more so I'd argue because of the unix backed OS). The Windows ecosystem indeed has a larger selection of products but your claims were significantly more far reaching than this simple fact.

> Here's a big one for which there are lots of examples - Apple simply does not let you customize OS X nearly as much as you can customize Windows. Apple's dumb-it-down attitude reaches all the way to the smallest of features - for instance, go try and change the color of your mouse cursor in OS X.

You escalate the notion of a mouse cursor theme being difficult to change into the entire operating system being difficult to customize. An operating system does a lot of stuff, I don't see how any of this follows.

> I think it's hilarious that some people are so in love with Apple that they don't even see the most basic examples.

I'm not sure what you think this tiny thing is indicative of, but I guarantee to you that most people have never even thought about this because it is irrelevant to their lives.

> And the same arguments go for the iPhone versus others. Apple doesn't let you customize it nearly as much as Android and of course they don't let you run it on the hardware you want, so yeah the iPhone is dumbed-down. Enjoy your prison yard!

To summarize your arguments: Apple provides fewer hardware options and a lot less theming options. Seems to me like your words are a bit too harsh considering you are describing a full desktop operating system and a full mobile operating system, both of which have significantly more knobs to tweak than just themes. They also run software you know. Limiting access to fiddle with themes is hardly a prison yard. Also, not everybody has the time to fiddle with themes. Also, just because something is customizable doesn't mean you can make it look good (customizability comes at a cost to coherency). Also, plenty of people use Apple strictly because of how their products look and feel. I think your theming metric is quite weak in general, but especially when used to back up the claims that every single thing Apple makes is "dumbed down" and "extremely limited."
Have you read this dude's posts. There's a big difference between Kerkule staring at the fireplace and stuff like this:

http://johnhartnett.org/2015/01/26/supernova-remnants-and-th...
Some pretty hilarious YouTube comments on the linked video[0]: "could you please share your strategy in that video", "Please, Send your method of play and programs for this need". Sorry, but I'm pretty sure nobody's going to share their bot for making 2000 BTC in an hour.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSLXv5Tz1ZY , linked from "$8000 worth of bitcoin every second for hours on end"
I think it depends on the kinds of things that you post online.

If you make the assumption that whatever you post online can be linked to your real life -- even when you're posting anonymously -- then you'll act responsibly just as you would if you were in a public place.

Another way to look at it is that the internet -- and by extension your blog, etc -- can act as a testament to your maturity and insightfulness. And like everything else in life, you wield this powerful resource responsibly.

Does it suck that we can't state our minds without the possibility of backlash? It's just part of life that if you want to attract controversy, then you have to be prepared to deal with everything that comes with it.
To bounce off on your penultimate paragraph:

http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/Xenopsychology.htm
easy bash version::

function password(){
cat /dev/urandom | base64| tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w ${1:-20} | head -n 1
}
Two things:

> You mentioned

Don't assert that. I asked questions to figure out your depth of knowledge because it was unclear.

Secondly, you're incredibly full of yourself and entirely lacking both empathy and the ability to perceive subtlety.

You're incapable of grasping the simple notion that what happens in your perfect world does not work the same in everyone else's brain.

Yes, there is no excuse for running a red light. On the other hand: No, telling them "you shouldn't bike at all" instead of making an earnest good-faith effort to find out WHY they do it, is bound to be incredibly fruitless.

In summary, i hate people who run red lights, in any vehicle. I have never done it myself, even though i can understand why people do it, at least in my town. On the other hand, i hate you too, because all you do is think in binary terms, instead of even being able to perceive degrees.

Lastly, you also argue in a highly inconsistent manner. First you claimed an intersection stop is always just "hit the break, lean on curb"; then you proceed to show me a picture of an intersection that has no curb.
> Give it a hundred years and hundreds of thousands of grad student hours, and something quite clean emerges.

Ugh, and we just had this on here the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9779206 :-)
Parts of him are actually quite hairy. But fortunately, just like his theory of everything, he's doesn't bother telling people, since doctors wouldn't understand it. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9798776
LSD neural net Large Scale Deep Neural Net visualizing top level features
Helium is leaking from massive earthquake fault in LA
For what it's worth, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla... is a list of the directly observed extrasolar planets.
And that's why I don't throw around "never work for free" as actionable insight :-p
They could power all of those things on different planets.
He'd already used Macsyma on MIT-MC, had written his own SMP, left Caltech due to IP issues WRT SMP, and was in 1985 working on cellular automata at the IAS while no doubt arranging for SMP Mark II, AKA Mathematica which he started the next year....

Interestingly, Pournelle was the kind of guy who could exercise Macsyma, or at least his first computer program solved a system of 60 or so linear equations on a IBM 650, an "affordable" machine back in the '50s that used a magnetic drum for its main memory.
You could have multiple competing implementations, they would for example either have to use the same header files provided by the copyright holder, implement a set of interfaces packaged in JAR file provided by the copyright holder (see JDBC as an example), or generate stubs from an IDL file provided by the copyright holder.
Porting Doom to everything has always been a thing. Way before Atwood's Law was ever a thing. It was the original Atwood's Law. :)

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TuupoxmeQ6U
No proof. This is the role of artist management companies. Taylor Swift has her own management company. All this gs being equal they managed her post.

I could similarly claim "OS X El Capitan is being QA tested six ways to Sunday" without being in Cupertino. You could ask me for proof and I would have none.
Observation does not exist until observed, experiment finds.
You bring solar weaponry into a modern military battle and see how that works out for you.
> There are many theories on it but no observed or experimental effects of dark matter to date.

FTFA:

> And most spectacularly, you get an entirely new prediction: that when you get two clusters of galaxies colliding, the gas inside should heat up, slow down and emit X-rays (in pink, above), while the mass that we can see through gravitational lensing (in blue, above) should follow the dark matter, and be displaced from the X-rays. This new prediction has been borne out observationally and held up over the past decade, a spectacular indirect confirmation of dark matter.
I'd go further and add that the API should be under some governance framework so that a single entity cannot make unilateral changes to the API.
Ride sharing also helps the middle class by providing available, affordable transportation and reducing the need for (multiple) vehicle ownership. It certainly has the potential to reduce emissions and other waste.

There are certainly some trivial things out there, but I wouldn't include ride sharing in that population.

I agree with the "help the living" objective. Helping poor, sick, foreign children is a fine cause. So is helping Joe Public.

If you make video games, and those games offer a few people a little entertainment and enjoyment, I think you've done some good.
Microsoft sells ads business to AOL
Reality is that which, when you stop measuring it, doesn’t cease to exist.
Seawater lower basin adds considerably to site count.

There are other concerns: elevated highly variable salt water ponds and wetlands, and general nastiness of saltwater engineering: corrosion and marine life growth especially.

But generally, pumped hydro is really hard to beat.
> Also, the jury is still rather out on the long-term impact of medications.

I can't speak to your experience, but I would have died as an infant without modern medications and modern medical procedures. I speak to you today as a healthy, relatively happy, productive member of society.

Moreover, I think we can point to the innumerable treated cases of snakebite, lockjaw, rabies, polio, cancer, syphilis, etc. as strong evidence for the positive long-term impact of medication and medical care.
If Windows Phone were to become a real business (not saying it will), it'd be software subsidized. Ad & hardware are not the only options.
Anti-aircraft shells were usually fused to explode at a given altitude. The proximity fuse was developed by the allies during the war, and was regarded as a top-secret piece of technology.
Pumped storage is hard to scale down and has a fairly fixed loss. There are a bunch of other storage technologies that are at the "almost there" stage though. I personally like the Pumped Heat storage from Isentropic as a possible mainstream contender:

http://www.isentropic.co.uk/
Microsoft is quitting from Internet Business？It also sold part of map business to Uber
Go to the site first thing I see is black-dragon-walking though-flames.gif (with "JEGAS MAN-CAVE stand by" scrawed in the top right) and some barely audible speech over terrible (pan flutes, really?) music.
The first company to do this without making me install Adobe Flash (i.e. use webrtc and other existing technologies to do this) will be the first site I ever use.

Right now, when I see "You must install Adobe Flash to use this site", I close the tab and never return.
Why I switched back from Android to iOS
Networking tutorial from wire transmission to TCP
What's the p2p sync software that you've been working on for the past seven years? (This is a part/spare-time project, yes?)
Right, but it's not what the relevant accessibility standard focuses on. It's the difference between zooming the whole page and making just the text bigger (i.e. through a browser's minimum font size setting), and it's only the former that's affected by meta viewport tags, no?
Fun Fact: The sole reason North American women discuss menstruation for more than two sentences is because they're wanting to make the man/men sitting near them uncomfortable.
Flywheels have proved extremely expensive with massive engineering challenges. When you have to account for precession due to Earth's rotation, things get tough.

For short term very high flux power conditioning they've got uses. For long-term storage not so much.

Seconds to minutes is likely their effective range. Not hours to days.
Why would Google Ventures sell their stake? I've heard that they are not strategic to Google.
I did the same thing as you with Python + LaTeX + Tikz. I think I used the same stackexchange question as a starting point too... Here's a view of my deck: http://1drv.ms/1LREWSM

There's also http://paperize.io/prototypes which has recently opened up for a beta testing phase.
Probably not. Energy isn't really what is holding the poor back - a lack of stability and security are. If I had to chose one technological improvement to help most people on the planet it would probably be benevolent AI, which could refocus many of our challenges to what is important. Getting people out of poverty and war.

Energy is a tiny component of modern civilization.
depends on what the meaning of "is" is....
Overpop is sometimes the cause of disease. Compared to the effects of ignorance, poor education, or systemic corruption, overpop is never the cause of widespread disease in contemporary human society.

If one is actually concerned about population control, sterilization is an easy, simple, relatively safe, and well understood solution.
Mail Invoices Like Email with Node.js and Lob’s Letter API
Are you going to do anything?
The origin of leap seconds, and why they should be abolished
Non-invasive blood glucose monitor to launch in early 2016
Lazy instantiation.
That's a great idea. I'd like to see that where I live.
Paris' International Contemporary Art Fair in Full Immersion
You would be guessing wrong, should you wish to guess.

Unfortunately, this means your entire post is a Strawman Fallacy.

But more importantly, are you saying our culture is not shifting towards the directions I mentioned?
Yeah, with turists like Jerry Pournelle, who needs Stephen Wolfram?

"Mr. Pournelle bids me tell you that if you intended to annoy him, you have succeeded, and that his next column in BYTE will have a lot to say about the ARPANET...."

"One thing that is known about ARPA: you can be heaved off it
for supporting the policies of the Department of Defense.
Of course that was intended to anger me. If you have an
ARPA account, please tell CSTACY that he was successful;
now let us see if my Pentagon friends can upset him. Or
perhaps some reporter friends. Or both., Or even
the House Armed Services Committee."
My memory is pretty good, but not good enough to recall that level of detail from a demonstration I attended ~35 years ago!

Wolfram's doctorate was in high energy physics, so they were probably things in those areas.
I remember someone making a big point yesterday about why it's actually really expensive to manufacture in china. His argument was that China's theft of copyright is the biggest cost when your idea's get stolen and reproduced up the road.

Not sure what his argument is going to be now....
as if it were less guilty of the same crimes.
As a programmer, I have a very hard time believing the Theory of Evolution provides an adequate explanation for the state of life on this planet. We are ridiculously complex and very well tuned creatures. I can't believe something like this would ever produce something meaningful:

begin
code += random(character)
code.execute
rescue
code.pop
retry
end

How much more the amazingly complex life on this planet...
> Google didn't just copy the Java APIs, but it took the syntax as well.

I don't understand what this is supposed to mean, and I don't see anyone else asking. So could you explain?
>They're expensive.

I'm pretty sure that femtosecond lasers aren't cheap either.
Dark matter is no more a kludge than phlogiston, or the lumineferous aether, or neutrinos. All of them were introduced as novel entities to explain experimental phenomena. The first two turn out not to exist, the latter does: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1801

Calling them kludges is to mistake the basic process of science for a hack.

There are any number of confirmatory observations that fit the dark matter model, just as there were any number of confirmatory observations that fit the neutrio model. It's just that we haven't observed any dark matter particle interactions directly, just as we hadn't observed any neutrino interactions directly before Reines' experiment.

It may be that dark matter turns out not to exist, and then we will know it was wrong. Until then it is perfectly ordinary science working in perfectly ordinary ways as it has been for over a century.
Why not just use Youtube? If you think setting up OBS is too much of a hassle, you can use Hangouts on Air with the screen-sharing feature. I've been streaming myself coding for the past two months. There have been no hiccups.
It's not necessary, it's just an easy way to get a short-term advantage. It fundamentally degrades our ability to interact peacefully on an international scale, and it is one of the reasons our politicians form a privileged class.

The only justification for it is "they did it first," which is both childish and irresponsible. Just because everyone else does it, doesn't mean it is correct, necessary, or justified.
All the people I asked about this seemed to think that using the bug was wrong, and that the dox in this context was not wrong. But it is obv a biased sample.
What impresses me about Apple is how little seems to leak from them, given the size of the company now.
E Prime is English without the definition of the word is, precisely for the sake of exploring language..

see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Psychology
How can you measure what doesn't exist?