skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd appreciate for someone else to weigh in here, since this is well outside my area of expertise. But my somewhat informed legal instinct is that the government can invoke certain privileges to protect it from having to disclose certain information, but these privileges would allow it bar information that is already public from use in court.
I imagine paying for sex and paying for a service to help you find someone interested in you (either physically, mentally or both) actually fulfill two related, but still very separate, desires.
Thus the comment in the article about a programmed maximum.
Could you tell us a bit about the physics? I'm fine with AABB collisions - but any-old-angle collisions sound hard!
Yah, in general I hate wavers. The problem is that I've experienced bicyclists who just don't follow traffic rules regarding stop, yield, and red lights. Given that I know there's a nonzero probability that a bicycle will intersect with my car if I pull out, I don't go from my stop until I'm pretty sure they're going to stop at the 4-way.

As I mentioned in a cousin reply, I once struck a bicyclist who wasn't obeying traffic rules (she blew a stop sign at a 4-way) and was found liable for the accident at least by the officer who wrote the accident report. We're all lucky her injuries weren't major, but there's no way I'm going to risk hitting a biker who is barreling down a hill toward a 4-way by assuming they're going to follow the traffic laws.
So why should the privacy of cheaters be any more important than the privacy of people like...Donald Sterling????

Sorry, but when the ends justify the means because you don't like someone's behavior/beliefs/actions, I have no sympathy when the same thing happens to you.

This should open up a discussion about protecting all privacy, but somehow I doubt it.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-8-18

Background

The ongoing increase in life expectancy in developed countries is associated with changes in the shape of the survival curve. These changes can be characterized by two main, distinct components: (i) the decline in premature mortality, i.e., the concentration of deaths around some high value of the mean age at death, also termed rectangularization of the survival curve; and (ii) the increase of this mean age at death, i.e., longevity, which directly reflects the reduction of mortality at advanced ages. Several recent observations suggest that both mechanisms are simultaneously taking place.

Methods

We propose a set of indicators aiming to quantify, disentangle, and compare the respective contribution of rectangularization and longevity increase to the secular increase of life expectancy. These indicators, based on a nonparametric approach, are easy to implement.

Results

We illustrate the method with the evolution of the Swiss mortality data between 1876 and 2006. Using our approach, we are able to say that the increase in longevity and rectangularization explain each about 50% of the secular increase of life expectancy.
> Clients pay us by the hour, and we tend to cost per hour more than permanent employees.

My clients pay me by the day. You lost me already.
Is any of the work open source? I'm also a node/js dev and this sounds like a project I would be interested in.
I would not discount big picture thinking, that skill on the right team is invaluable. Taming the beast is the challenge.

Regarding being overwhelmed, there are a number of tricks. I recommend 'climbing the mountain one step at a time', keep a regular cadence and move on to a different task if you find yourself stalled. I wrote some thoughts here
http://www.pauric.net/blog/?p=430

Regarding finding insight in the mundane, I recommend listening to the BBC audio article and watching the Google Talk video I link to here: http://www.pauric.net/blog/?p=171

Finally, if you're a dev - the ability to see the woods for the trees is going to serve you well over the long run. A lot of good devs lack in this area, but it's something that can dig a team out of a hole.

edit: apologies, the bbc podcast I referred to is gone. If I find a copy I'll update.
I apologize for telling you how to vote.
Flash-less Youtube works well for me for at least a year now. Vimeo required more effort but also used to work.

Many embedded videos often don't, though.
Good point. Seems obvious now. I meant to say, does this "rule" have a name, but even then "Chip" suffices.
Do I need to be on LSD to enjoy this? :)
Would be interested in hearing whether anyone's successfully used that style of billing in engineering. I haven't heard of it being common/allowed at least in the oil & gas sector, though I haven't done any kind of big study of it. Of course, if you're bidding on a fixed-rate contract, you can internally account for your labor however you want. But if you're bidding on a cost-plus contract, the labor part of cost is—at least as far as I've run in to—expected to be in the unit "hours". RfP systems often even have that expectation baked in to the software. (You can add terms specifying minimum billing increments and such, common especially around site visits being billed in minimum 4-hour or 8-hour increments, but the actual quoted rate ends up being in the unit "hours" still.)
Actually, the Jewish tradition is that Moses lived 120 years, and that, after him, 120 years was the approximate cap on human life. Many Jewish well-wishings end with something like "may you live until one hundred and twenty".
Except I don't know who that is - they don't publish them either.
Agreed. One of the many things that makes Phoenix/Elixir great for us rails/ruby refugees is that it's built by other rails/ruby refugees. In many ways, we have all the good things that our old masters DHH trailblazed with rails, but at the same time, very little of the mess that also came with the trail-blazing.

That being said, I do miss active_support though; Elixir's utility libraries (fox, pipe, croma, etc.) doesn't yet have all the easy automagic that made rails so simple to develop on.
It's very cool. I also notice that there is an area of chaos at the edge of the world, where the lines are perpendicular to the map edge. This can cause new areas to emerge and take over. For example, my current Universe has 3 distinct areas, but a 4th has emerged in the last 5 minutes from the right border that has expanded to the left.
I sent some fixes up to noVNC (along with the colleagues that worked on Glish with me), but our node work is closed source and will remain so since it deals with some internal things like authentication. However, we have some pretty cool open source projects in the pipeline for the coming weeks/months/years/decades.
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Any security checklist should start with a description both how the machine is to be used and the expected threats models. There are plenty of things in this list that I disagree with, but only because I am looking at different security needs.

For instance: I see no mention of Tor or VPNs. So this workstation isn't concerned with APT-style threats, or anyone else with the ability to manipulate network connections at a high level. And my quick read sees no talk of memory encryption or any of the physical measures for countering cold-boot scenarios.

This is not a workstation for international (China) travel or for protecting against surveillance. It has some good advice, but is certainly not comprehensive.
If we push verifying, then signing is bound to follow. It feels like the (small) push is on signing currently.
One interesting tidbit that I came across in all of this is that the "affair guarantee" itself is its own little scam.

The way it works is that if you don't hook up within the specified time (I believe it's 120 days) then they refund your money. And technically speaking, this is not a lie.

What they don't tell you is that they process the refund in the form of a check, with their name on it, mailed to your home address.

Given that the entire concept of the site is to attract users who want to keep their activity secret from the people they live with, how many people will actually go through with asking for their guarantee to be honored?

(I know that there are legitimate uses of the site that don't require going behind your spouse's back. But it's pretty clear that most of their user base was using it that way.)
"“It was a binary thing,” he says matter-of-factly. “We didn’t get into suborbital space within the 10 years; thus it was not a success.”" I had to read that sentence twice. I saw "binary" and didn't think 10=ten.
The T&C did not say or imply that ~100% of the womens' accounts were fake. Plus you can't rely on fine print in the T&C to absolve you of engaging in a fraudulent business relationship, that's not how contracts are enforced.
How to make tough decisions quickly
The kind of freelancing (consulting, really) that Thomas is referring to usually isn't the kind where you have to type numbers into an application to get paid. Usually it involves hand-shakes and emailing an invoice to the accounts payable department of your client and receiving an ACH transfer or check in the mail.

If technology is a barrier, I can almost guarantee they aren't happy about it either, and maybe they would like to have a conversation about the pain points of their outsourcing solutions. (Hint hint.)
That's beautiful, thank you for sharing.
I remember when massive dragnet government surveillance was a conspiracy theory.
Wonderful argument by the way. But the fly in the ointment here is the following analogies:

1. Human evolution never meant for man to fly, but human ingenuity figured out a way to circumvent these biologic limitations.

2. Man was never meant to go faster than 20MPH in a sprint, but here we are regularly traveling 80MPH on freeways.

Similarly, your argument holds true until man's ingenuity circumvents these limitations, such as transposing mental/emotional state onto a cybernetic machine that can be indefinitely updated/fixed for as long as the materials are available to do so. We may not be there now, but in 100 years?
I wouldn't put a limit on human ingenuity to overcome this problem. Evolution has already become a tool for humanity to further itself. See: Farming. It will only come under greater human control as genetic engineering continues developing.

Maybe one day, we will be able to turn this "death gene" off. What happens then?

If a novel infectious disease pops up, sure it will cause widespread death, but it's highly unlikely it will cause the death of the species. We'll either save a few of us in some deep underground bunker, or we'll figure out how to beat it. That's really the only Earth-based threat that can still threaten the species as a whole.

Evolution operates on a scale of decades and centuries. Human ingenuity operates on much shorter time scales. We don't fall under natural selection anymore. We are the ones who select now. We don't need some of us to die for us to adapt. We can adapt to every single biome and environmental condition on Earth without waiting for genetic variation to produce individuals who can. Evolution may need death to work, but we no longer need evolution for us to work.
SOMEONE posted your game on http://reddit.com/r/webgames, and it's currently the top game!
The thing is, technological advances can be exponential, too. Moore's law is one example, but there are others. Here's a quote from Ray Kurzweil, who's a leading exponent of this idea:

> "People declared the Human Genome Project a failure halfway through, when one percent had been decoded -- they said it'd take 700 years. My reaction was, no, we're almost done. It was finished seven years later."

Personally, I think Kurzweil is an optimist and I suspect it'll be too late for most of us, but we are just beginning to learn to rewire our genes. Take a look at this link, and notice how many significant events happened in the last fifteen years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy#History

Now, imagine that level of change accelerating, because we're still in the early days.
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How does this compare to something like Path Finder?
This reminded me of Dogma 95, a similar manifesto for film directors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95

It's not practical, but something uniquely valuable can be grown from the constraints.
The issue is rate of environment change. If your individuals have 100-year lifetimes and changes occur at 1-year rate, then clearly there's a problem. Even if those 100-year individuals reproduce throughout their lives, the older individuals won't bear modifications. So if the environment can change quickly, it's plausible there's a mechanism to secure existential threats to the species by maintaining a short reproductive cycle at the expense of extra overhead to recreate individuals.
...And it would be nice if HP finally hit some kind of payoff for investing so much in that doomed processor.
Do you have a citation for that? I'd be curious to read more.

Intiutively it sounds wrong since I'd image any cancer that comes back after the whipple is coming from left over cancer cells in the pancreas, no?
OK, but then don't eat at restaurants in the US.
Maybe by the time this is ready for production, the Mill will also be!
I hate wavers. They include among their number, those that are planning to run over bicyclists. I can't distinguish between the two sets, and a false negative means I die. So no, I'm not going to go first even if you wave at me.
Do you have demo video or screencasting for this? Looks interesting..
> My goal is to make my browser as private as possible with minimal damage to my usual browsing experience.

Not very long ago I wrote a guide documenting my specific configuration which has precisely this goal in mind [1].

The short version: disable third-party cookies, enable tracking protection (Firefox only), use uBlock Origin with some extra filters, use HTTPS everywhere, Enforce Click-to-Play and Disable Unnecessary Plug-ins.

One tweak I don't cover in the guide that I think I like is disabling custom fonts. In Firefox this is under Options > Content > Advanced > uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above". The privacy benefit here is probably negligible, but I quite like that I don't have to wait for giant remote fonts on everyone's blog to load.

[1] https://brashear.me/blog/2015/08/11/hardening-firefox-to-pro...
While solid advice, this is not really specific to freelancing. Perhaps the freelancing model offers more opportunities to violate this code of conduct, but that's it.

With some cosmetic rephrasing most of it would apply to developers with regular jobs just the same. Only your customer becomes your employer.

Okay, we're not paid by the hour, but don't we still "owe it to the [employer] to not burn their money unnecessarily", and isn't it still true that "time on the phone with your girlfriend" isn't what one gets paid for? (I'm not saying anyone is supposed to, or capable of flinging code for 8 hours straight - obviously not, the boundary is a matter of common sense)

Not to mention honesty, doing a good job etc.
Seems like if you are cool with the price point Pathfinder does this better.
More years ago than I like to think about while I was working corporate, I threw together something to track my active window titles. That may not work to track vim in tmux, but I'd you're doing anything with website development it should give you a decent overview (which may also surprise you and motivate you to change your habits).
The question you're asking there is one of human morality and politics rather than evolution or technological feasibility. I'll tell you what solution evolution "wants" to pick: population increase, starvation, and may the fittest win. Obviously that's not something you or I would want but it's why evolution doesn't have any problem with creatures living indefinitely.
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A growing number of Americans are living to age 100. Nationwide, the centenarian population has grown 65.8 percent over the past three decades, from 32,194 people who were age 100 or older in 1980 to 53,364 centenarians in 2010, according to new Census Bureau data. In contrast, the total population has increased 36.3 percent over the same time period. [0]

If this hasn't been the result of social and technological factors, what has caused it?

[0] http://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/articles/2013/01/07...
I disagree that fake-work is as endemic to daily billing as it is to hourly.

Regardless, maintaining an incentive to bill make- or fake-work is not the only reason to avoid hourly billing. I have something like a dozen more arguments in the links I posted, and elsewhere on the site.
It's hard to argue with someone who claims that systemd has zero benefit.

You claim unit files are confusing. Let's say we took a Windows programmer who was a sophomore in CS but didn't have any Unix or Linux experience, show him both systems. Explain how runlevels are handled in systemd vs sysvinit. Show him a systemd unit file vs the equivalent bash script. Explain how systemd tracks the process tree vs sysvinit pid file hack. You spent five minutes trying to figure out systemctl and declared it terrible. It probably took you more than 5 minutes to find /etc/init.d your first time
I don't know if I would or I wouldn't because I have never had the experience of needing to back down on daily billing.
I don't understand how FB revenue per customer relates to your original issue? "Let's attack this problem"--- what's the problem? Are you saying that facebook user attrition is lowering revenue per customer, even though they're still logging?

--- going off topic:

From your responses, you're definitely intelligent. But you're not using that intelligence to seek truth, you're just doing your best to tear down facebook. I'm sure it works in your other social circles, but we can tell what you're doing and that's where the downvotes are coming from. And it makes me sad that a fellow libertarian is not being nuanced and holistic in their thinking.
I remember someone telling me they already had all this built decades ago, and were bringing people interested in computer science to see the system, and perhaps see if they could have any input.

Most who were competent and not fooled by the attempted facade of this world, would simply show up, kick it(manually boot), and leave laughing at the stupidity...\

That was decades ago...
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Depending on what climate change models you believe, we may already have passed the point at which we can prevent mass death due to a sufficiently large population overusing resources. The only realistic ways to deal with this problem is to get more room and resources by developing technology to send people to live on other planets or wrangle asteroids into orbit and build habitable environments on them. We're already well into this process, but the more people we have and the longer they can live, the more able we'll be to build on these technologies.

Essentially, the problem is already here, and the solution is more people working on it, which preventing people from losing their ability to function would significantly contribute to.
Generally the metric is how fast the environment changes versus how fast new generations are produced. If a population can breed rapidly then it can adapt to fast environmental changes no matter how long the members live. If it breeds slowly it cannot adapt to rapid environmental changes no matter how long it's members live.
It reminds me of a boiling frog.
"Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75."

- Benjamin Franklin
The simplicity culture is what drove me to Python, and the Clojure community's simplicity culture is on a whole other level. It's not just the code and syntax that need to be simple. The abstractions in the program need to be simple as well, and Clojure gives you the tools to make simple abstractions easy to build and understand.

Go learn Clojure.
Your example is a straw man.

IRL, I've seen this crop up while processing database results and large datasets. On several occasions I've shaved up to several minutes off of execution times by replacing chained map, filter, and zip calls that were iterating through the data multiple times with more complicated expressions that only performed the iteration once.

I've also written a graphics applications where converting several chained map/filters into a single pass made interacting with the application noticeably less laggy.

I'm actually surprised so many people have challenged this as a potential pitfall. I didn't pull it out of the air or from trivial examples. I've seen it happen.
> Any security checklist should start with a description both how the machine is to be used and the expected threats models.

It states right at the top that the target audience is Linux sysadmins and their workstations.

> It has some good advice, but is certainly not comprehensive.

"This, by no means, is an exhaustive "workstation hardening" document, but rather an attempt at a set of baseline recommendations to avoid most glaring security errors without introducing too much inconvenience."
Oh sorry, I was thinking of shumway. Swiffy isn't open source, but it is free at least, so third party ad networks can still use it.
Its super cool that just through means of monitoring search requests they were able to pin point a potential engineer.

"I am what I search" lawl.
You can do reasonable metaprogramming in Erlang with the syntax_tools and stdlib interfaces. Most famously was bringing back parameterized modules via a parser transformation for tools like BossDB to support ActiveRecord-like ORM patterns.

I've looked at OTP the Elixir way and I do not see any real boilerplate reduction. The application-project dichotomy and the opinionated integration with a tool like Mix is also policy over mechanism.

rebar3 does fine dependency management given its constraints of having to unify packages coming from disparate sources.

The syntax is not nicer. It is a jarring conceptual mismatch to put Smalltalk-ish Ruby syntax over a language that eschews excessive monkey patching and dynamism like Erlang.
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There are two reasons a company hires a consultant: They want expertise not available in-house, or they want a cheaper price than in-house. If they question daily billing they are looking for the later. You don't want to be a cost cutting measure.
Wow, if you survive birth you don't have that level of risk until your almost sixty? Can that be right?
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Bill Gates does quite a few things these days that have more of a focus on making a better world in general. That seems sort of like a president mindset to me. I don't know that he would be someone interested in dealing with all the politics though.
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Can definitely confirm about yoga, pilates, social dance.
Humans are different from other primates, in this respect. For example, chimpanzees don't have menopause: female chimps continue to give birth until death. Elephants too. And Galapagos tortoises, I think. This fact argues against the theory that "nature just wants you to reproduce and then die".

Why do chimps (and many other species) keep on reproducing in old age? Why are human women different?
I just started BraveClojure today. I've said "next week" enough times. http://www.braveclojure.com/
I was being careful because I think it's not so simple. Some changes are not deleterious (don't cause death), but still confer subtle cumulative benefits. If individuals live arbitrarily long, you might be accumulating old material that slows down evolution.

In that example, if your individuals live for 100 years and you have a 1-year reproduction cycle, each year only 1% of your population is new.
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