skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it even possible to be in a position to take care of someone's every need? Ignoring the realities of unknown diseases without cures, unless you have dynastic wealth it seems unlikely that you can, with 100% probability, have the resources to take care of every scenario. It doesn't take much imagination to come up with a large number of scenarios.
> I also think it is not hugely important whether the animals went there intentionally seeking medical care or happened to end up in the right place.

I respectfully disagree with this particular sentiment. Elephants intentionally seeking out treatment from a place they've never been indicates high levels of planning and general cognition. If true that would afford them a moral weight very near to that of humans (to my mind at least).

Whether they were attacked by poachers or some other humans is relevant only for the particulars of this story. How intelligent elephants are is a question whose answer has widespread consequences.
> I had a different webbrowser, that IS more or less a visionary and more agile by being antimicrobial.
One case that comes to mind is that of wolves in Montana:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/05/science/earth/conflict-ove...
Can you hint at what this means, for the uninitiated?
This probably shouldn't be surprising since the oil industry has been using "underwater drones" (ROVs) for some time now.
Actual map, for the curious:

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/224813/response/56039...
That precipitous 2015 drop in concrete prices doesn't look nearly as exciting if you plot it on a properly scaled graph whose bottom is at y=0 rather than y=300.

Also, the slope of the 2015 price line seems to follow those of the 2012 and 2014 lines fairly closely. This suggests that there may be a seasonal pattern in cement demand (e.g., less construction occurs the closer you get to winter).
Growth in the ‘Gig Economy’ Fuels Work Force Anxieties
Out of curiosity, does anyone know anyone else in real life that is not open to the idea of bringing back some extinct species?

I noticed this recently. Not a single person in my social network is against the idea of trying to clone a mammoth or trying to clone an extinct cat or dinosaur. There is some hesitancy when you bring up possibly reviving old bacteria, but that's it that I've noticed.
What Happened When We Tried To Publish a Paper Investigating Time Travel (2014)
I second the recommendation for MM-M, after recently reading it. You may find the chapters around how to structure a team to be interesting. Here's my review (posted elsewhere):

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I decided to give MM-M a read, after seeing it repeatedly listed as one of the classics of the fledgling - as the book maintains - field of software “engineering”. Despite a few dry chapters extensively detailing the development of OS/360, the book holds up remarkably well for being forty years old. Indeed, many of its central, oft-repeated development aphorisms still hold value. Unfortunately, its advocacy for extensive and exhaustive planning and documentation cycles screams “waterfall”, and muddies what is otherwise - I think - a number of worthwhile recommendations:

1. Avoid the second-system effect by being ruthlessly practical

2. Build a prototype and throw it away

3. The essence of programming has an irreducible complexity

Aside from these, I noted with great interest Brooks’ suggested team structure which he refers to as a surgical team: 6-7 people in highly stratified, and complimentary roles, led principally by a “surgeon”-type chief architect. I’ve only worked within relatively flat team structures up to this point, typically set up in junior/senior relationships. Since this is a less frequently cited recommendation in the book, I’m curious to know if it has been implemented with any success.

Finally, this suggestion is tantilizing:

As a discipline, we need an extended information theory that quantifies the information content of static structures, just as Shannon’s theory does for communicated streams.
Neither. Society is changing, at least in the West, eventually all animals will be treated humanely and reared in conditions that are not only better for the animal physically but allow them to interact and socialise as they would do in the wild, and therefore its better for them mentally.
has anyone tried asking technical questions back? e.g. a list of putnam questions.
Ok, lmgtfy. https://github.com/Netflix/zuul
The selection criteria for medical school admission has little to do with skill and more to do with how likable you are in your personal statement and interview.

After someone passes that selection criteria (which again, seems to have little to do with being a competent physician), it doesn't seem like enough of them are being filtered out for being bad at actual medicine.

I went to a good school in mathematics and we only had a 70% graduation rate. The people who dropped out or switched majors had passed the rigorous selection criteria just like the rest of us. I'm suspicious the equivalent cohort in medical school just get pushed through and graduate all the same and become bad doctors.

> And with med schools it's not like you can increase the number of students easily as each student requires a lot of resources due to requiring residency and things like that.

Most who can't hack it fail in first year. I don't think watching lectures and writing exams in first and second years is all that resource-intensive. And even if it were, they'd be paying tuition to cover it all the same.
I agree with you and I am inclined to believe the elephants sought out care. My point was more "It kind of does not matter that this one story does not prove that. It still makes an important point that we should pay attention to, aside from that highly controversial detail, which is just flag-fuel on HN, basically."
The internet seems to have been a boon to conspiracy types, racist and religious fanatics more generally. It might be more fair to say that it's hurt certain type of cults, such as the kind that relies on secrets/esoteric knowledge.
Inflation- the secret tax
Agreed, very interesting! The original paper is available online: http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/materials/papers/14046/paper-7.... They found that people were more likely to use a different route post-strike in areas where the tube map is more distorted.
I'll tell you one thing I don't attribute to being poor, and that's buying clothes from Banana Republic.

I wonder how much of their total traffic comes during the work day, from office computers.
You might live to see it, given the amount of research that is starting to be put into anti-aging therapies. Biology is gonna go through an amazing revolution in the next few decades, so be optimistic.
Characterising this as "the 1%" is a disservice to the concept. You don't have to be "1%" wealthy to do what's in the article.

Also, I question "The wealthy build a better sense of when prices are low and deals are good." - the poor are very aware of how much their food costs, for example. Wealthier people aren't, because they're not counting pennies. A question illustrating this, taken from Yes Minister: "How much is a pound of margarine?" The really wealthy, the 1%, aren't going to have a good idea. But the poor are aware of the costs of their staple foods.

The underlying point of the article isn't a bad one, but extrapolating "this dude orders clothes sight-unseen from his smartphone every two weeks" into "the poor have it so tough" is a strange path to take.
1. My qualifier "most people" covers that situation, because it is very very rare.

2. Usually this happens because they place a higher value on their children's life and well being than their own.
So even in the case were someone does place a value on their own life, it's only in relation to someone else's life.

The case of 2 is interesting because it shows that of the people who would accept a finite sum for their own life, very few would accept a finite sum for their chidren's life.

Since paying for the child's healthcare is the responsibility of the parent in a free market, we are back to my previous point that their is no fair free market way to price life saving drugs.
> They're trying to take advantage of a narrative that's politically en vogue (that the world is stacked against the poor).

Are you seriously implying that this is a mere matter of opinion? Sociocultural disadvantage is what being poor means, for as long as mankind has measured wealth. Certainly there's disagreement about what should be done about that, if anything, but the fact of the situation is not in doubt.
The more we learn about other animals the less superior we should feel, it's now perfectly clear that there is nothing divine about human beings, and there is no magical spark that makes us better than other animals.
What's the One Device You Need to Survive the Apocalypse?
Elite entrepreneurs threaten to leave UK if Corbyn becomes Prime Minister
There is a little bit of a safety concern with some of the larger species of New Zealand moa. They're massive and New Zealanders currently don't really have anything that can harm them in the bush (e.g. no big cats, bears, snakes).

One of the proponents of the project (http://bringbackmoa.org/) has stated that he's not interested at de-extinction of the larger species (http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/10216641/Time-to-bring-back-...).
Not likely. Dude to the chemistry of nucleotides, they can degrade in a particular pattern that obscures the ancestral allele. For example the deamination of cytosine to thymine can leave us with an ambiguity in what in our read for the correct nucleotide is.

Was it thymine? Or was it cytosine that degraded to thymine? That means for literally 50% of the genome we have a huge ambiguity and few ways to tell what it really is.

We can use the ancestral allele from a nearby extant species, but then we miss out on all the extinct variation (which is the important stuff).

We can try to increase coverage of the ancient genome to capture loci where cytosines haven't deaminated, but thats tough for a dozen reasons, and in the end you'll still have no confidence in 25% of the genome.

We can get very close to a full ancient genome, but never 100%. Maybe through transgenics, selective breeding, and ancient sequencing we can re-create ancient species, but we will never make them exactly as they once were.
I've been having a feeling that drones are going to be allowed everywhere except for private operators. As long as there's government or a corporation behind them, drone use will be legal.
http://www.google.com/search#q="amazon+closed+my+account"+re...
Nice work.

FYI, cicking on the "<#> Comments" link from within a comments page leads you to a 404.
For the average Joe and Jane it would be exactly the same thing, as Android sideloading and jailbreak iOS prove the point.

Security starts with the user.
Show HN: %%30%30: A Game
I kind of feel bad I discovered what was going on in like 20 seconds.

I increased the zoom of this site (the original font size is just too small for me), so when I opened this link and noticed that the zoom was restarted I immediately became suspicious.
Ask HN: First time working remote, what do I need to know?
I'll be the second remote worker I think. I've worked there before in person a bit, so I know everyone and I'm excited to go back! I'm curious to see if I'll face any new challenges while remote.

Do you guys have any tips for how to manage myself well? Are there any good tools you've found success with? Anything you wish someone would have told you earlier? Thanks!
Well, we were talking about the government and its regulations.

On a philosophical take, I'd say that informal "favor currencies" that people in small places use are an earlier form of money as speech, though admittedly, it's a less precise form of money.
Huh, I definitely put a link in the submit form - not sure why it didn't show up. Just edited the post!
Retirement is a very new system. The concept that people just quit working and let other people pay for their existence over the last 30 years of their life is an artifact of the industrial revolution, since by about 70 people couldn't reasonably tolerate factory work anymore.
I'm probably not entirely in the 'bitcoin has no value camp.'

But that those currencies issued by dictatorships having value as you say, doesn't really have much to do with bitcoin, apart from being another example of currency.

Those dictatorial governments have real world clout, they can make things happen, by contrast bitcoin's govt is it's users, and as a group the only changes they can affect on the real world are changes directly pertaining to bitcoin.

Also, those currencies issued by dictatorships, for the most part have zones where they are 'the coin of the realm,' meaning they are the only or one of the few currencies widely circulated. This gives a currency value.

A currency's value derives from some combination of it's supply and it's currency(this use of 'currency,' meaning how widely it is accepted as payment for goods, services, etc.)

So there is a lot of value in the US dollar system for example, because it is a currency that is used widely throughout the world.
Raspberry Pi 2 downloadable Web Server released
Come build kickbutt apps
>I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Do you know someone who considered studying computer science but decided not to because the wages were too low?

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying happens.

The thing you have to remember is that this isn't a choice between underwater basket weaving and computer science... you're competing for the top tier students. The people who would have gone into law, medicine, top-tier business or finance instead. And compared to those careers, programmers don't get paid very well at all.

Even if some of them can't make it as programmers, certainly, some of them could. My own stereotypes are that while most of the business people I know lack the requisite gray matter, most of the people I know who studied law or medicine could have quite easily become programmers. (how many of them would switch for mere money? I don't know.)

If working as a programmer paid more than being a business person, working in finance, being a lawyer or being a doctor, it wouldn't change everyone's mind, sure... but it certainly would change many minds.
TrialMatch Aims to Ease the Pain of Clinical Trials Recruitment
You seem to believe that one could assign a value to a drug, and that rational actors in a market would choose to buy that drug at a cost at or under this value.
Well, I didn't mean all possible scenarios. I.e. catastrophes, wars, acts-of-government(CPS), etc.

I meant it in the more plausible sense: Health, Safety, Education, Food.

These are things that not everyone is entirely sure of before they make the leap into parenthood. Despite them being very simple/intuitive, they're very often neglected, and I feel that that is one of the worst injustices/acts of cruelty an individual can do.
I hate antivirus software with a passion. I've wasted too many weeks of my life hacking around bugs that antivirus programs introduced into my customers' systems.

A couple I've dealt with in the last six months:

McAfee Antivirus causes applications built with Unity 4 to fail when they call WWW.LoadFromCacheOrDownload() on a large asset bundle. This API call downloads a temp file and then renames the file to move it into the cache. But McAfee also opens the file for a virus scan. For a large file, the virus scan may not complete before Unity tries to rename the file, so the rename fails and you never get the asset bundle.

For one client I fixed this by patching Unity's .exe file to add a retry loop on the rename call. Unity 5 also works around this issue with the same retry loop.

AVG Antivirus causes updates to fail for applications that use wyUpdate. wyUpdate calls the CreateMutex() function in the Windows API to make sure another updater instance isn't already running. Bizarrely, when AVG is installed, CreateMutex() returns the wrong value, so wyUpdate thinks another instance is running and bails out. No updates for you!

Going back a few years, I tried NOD32 after some friends recommended it. It seemed fine, except the Alt+Tab key no longer worked. It was a known bug, unfixed for some time.

About 5-6 years ago, McAfee had a known bug - unfixed for nearly a year - than under some circumstances it would erase the entire hard drive. This was the ultimate in virus protection!
I may be wrong, but I have a feeling that there is already a very large market of people who like to tinker with cars. Imagine a self-driving Delorean (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_DMC-12)
I think he means "get how to deal with them", or "see them for what they are".
Others were more civil in their reply to you. I just have to call your comment complete bullshit.

I ignore the first two paragraphs which are devoid of content, but try to set you up as reasonable person.

Then you bring up parenthood. And boy, you messed that up. I don't think you can fail any further. Not only are you trying to set up (your own!) rules to even _have_ a child, you are then ending in a - as far as I can read this comment - condescending 'be better than your parents were' pat-on-the-back comment.

Here's the thing: You cannot make sure that you can take care of a child's needs. You might be prepared to support a kid and looking forward to a family of three. Then you get twins or more. Or your kid has health problems (let's take a really common but overused example: Trisomy 21). The former just means that your calculation was off by one or more and you basically pay twice+ of what you planned for - and arguably have more than twice the amount of stress.

The latter is something that influences the rest of your life. You probably _planned_ to pay for college, but now you pay for a lot more and basically will have a child that will need support in one way or another.

You claimed that the GP shouldn't have kids if they couldn't afford to take care of them. I say that you don't even _know_ what kids need before you get them. Yes, if you live under a bridge you might not be in the best position to have a child. No, "I might need help" isn't a reason to have no child though.

And frankly, I'm so sad that you really think that way. In my world, society is meant to support people in need. If I lose my job tomorrow, I'm glad to know that the people around me will support me - through taxes - until I get a new job. If I have a kid that needs help I'm glad to know that the people around me will contribute to make its life bearable/comfortable/as good as possible.

Actually, that's the only thing a state is good for. If it cannot provide that, why would you associate yourself with it in the first place? If it doesn't help you when you're in need of help, why .. wouldn't you ditch it and shake your head while you're traveling across the border?
I checked before posting by typing in "median us income": https://archive.is/M05IS . It's $51,939. The difference is that this is median household income, not median personal income. This is the answer I usually see when median income is discussed, and it's really debatable which is the most appropriate to use when discussing what a person can "live off of", though I accept that personal median income is the most direct analog to personal Social Security payments. The real question is whether the OP has a wife that will also be collecting SS.
Presumably 3-SAT ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_problem... )

Obviously, software is not actually smart enough for SAT ;)

This is kind of an interesting case, in that the article, contradicting the headline, says that the software was only given some "geometry questions" from the SAT, and that it only performed at the level of an average 11th grader, which is shockingly bad. Writing the software to solve SAT geometry problems with perfect accuracy isn't difficult at all, so what's being tested here is the ability to parse visual diagrams and natural English sentences into an accurate representation of the problem. (Again, this is made clear in the article, but seems basically unrelated to the headline.)

But since that's what we're doing, I don't see why we don't give it the verbal questions too. Understanding written English sentences is most of what's left there.
On that logic, murderers would be better if they killed everyone, as then murder would not be sustainable.
And likely the type that requires blockading members off from interaction from the world.

Good points though. The internet has allowed people to create echo chambers to get a global pool of potential devotees.

It's still a different situation from the stereotypical cult system where they cut you off from the world and strip away your individuality.

Regardless, excellent point.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain#Markov_text_gener...
> Why does it matter if, say, elephants go extinct? If they're extinct they're not suffering.

That's the same logic a cartoon supervillain uses to justify a plan for destroying the world.

To answer your question directly. I believe that elephants probably have inner lives at least as rich as humans with severe developmental problems, and thus should probably be afforded the same level of legal protection.
This is a solution in search of a problem.
But nice anyway!
With all due respect to the original article, and with thanks to someone just a few days ago probably on some HN story, I submit the true accurate map of the London Tube.

http://carto.metro.free.fr/cartes/metro-tram-london/
>Not a single person in my social network is against the idea of trying to clone a mammoth or trying to clone an extinct cat or dinosaur.

What are you going to do with them? Neither a T-Rex nor a Mammoth would do well in the wild and even if you put the issues of environmental difference between the distant past and today, you may be disrupting existing large fauna, which is already on the brink of extinction due to human activity. If that's not the case, you'll be left with the ethics of zoos and animal rights.
I agree, it doesn't sound like much money. Their poaching of Tesla's head of Autopilot R&D is very interesting though, and is definitely a sign of confidence.

I think you're making quite a few assumptions though: (a) Getting third party modifications to make your current car self-driving may look crazy today, but when self-driving cars become more of a thing, it'll certainly be a more attractive option when compared to buying a new car altogether. (b) Right now the quality and safety are unknown, but assuredly they won't be in the future. I'm sure these devices will be tested thoroughly and have to meet specific regulations. (c) I'm not sure they would void the warranty, it would depend on a lot of factors.

Regardless, the article hints at an upcoming pivot from Cruise, so the described product may not even hit the market.
> If working as a programmer paid more than being a business person, working in finance, being a lawyer or being a doctor

Even if money is your only motivation programming is a better choice than any of those.

Being a programmer makes you more money more quickly than any of those professions and has a higher ceiling to boot. How many billionaire lawyers and doctors are there? How many businesspeople, financiers, lawyers, or doctors make six figures at 22 years old?

Not only that, it's also less risky! How many programmers are $250k in debt at 25 years old without having worked a day in their lives in their chosen professions? How many doctors? How many lawyers?
What if the clone went to war with the original?
Depends on which country you live in. The U.S. is lagging far behind in terms of regulations for unmanned aircraft compared to other countries.
There isn't, but I don't think it should be difficult to feed this into 'char-rnn' if you wanted to do it with RNNs rather than Markov chains. The interface, such as it is, to char-rnn is very simple; you dump everything into a text file 'input.txt'.
This wins