skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. You might be having something known as Sluggish Cognitive Tempo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_cognitive_tempo
For which there is no known treatment, I think.

2. Or you might be of ADHD-PI type. Either way, you need to consult a doctor and get his opinion.

3. A third possibility is that you might be having a hypothyroidism issue or even 4. vitamin deficiency. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/723663_7

Strenuous aerobic exercise is something that might help.
Mindfulness Meditation will definitely help but its not very easy and you have to invest time, energy before you see results. Also you need to learn it from an expert (preferably) and not from youtube.

Other than these; obsessive repetition could be the key as well. Keep repeating every small thing 100 times till it becomes a second nature.

tldr; Go visit a doctor and take this issue very seriously and debug it by filtering out the possibilities.
The sad thing that everyone missed is, insurers already do this. Death panels exist, they're built into our current dumb not-really-free-market solution!
No, they won't say "the guy is innocent" -- they'll say "bad break kid, the guy got off ... on a technicality."
May not be helpful at all, but if you haven't done so in a while, get full blood work done by a doctor and see if you might be deficient in anything.
Talk to your doctor. You may need to increase your dose, or you may need to try Adderall or Dexedrine instead.
What? You mean we shouldn't start with belief, and set out to prove it?

What are the libertarians supposed to do now?
Yeah, it was the Scheme chip I was talking about. I guessed that they were included in the banner of LISP machines because Scheme is a LISP. So, they never actually built it? That's disappointing.
> * if even the NYT is this pathetic then that just underscores that journalism is still ripe for disruption.*

As far as I can tell, "disruption" is about doing things faster, punchier, shinier, on tighter margins and with a shorter turn-around time. Do you think that's going to produce better journalism?

There are worse things that the sometimes-slipshod NYT. I'm frightened of what comes next for journalism.
(Assuming one has good insurance) ... This is the major problem in the U.S.
Looks like ETFs like SPY, GLD, OIL etc doesn't work. The interface could be less jumping from page to page. I would prefer something more simpler and straight forward:

-Enter few symbols (including ETFs), for which you are interested

-show actual data you have for them (like who bough & sold)

-Show your ML predictions

-Show related stocks/ETF to balance out portfolio
Learn Data Analysis by analyzing weed prices (Python)
> Nothing says racism like a country where Asians earn more than whites or blacks. 5% of the US is Asian.

A lot of Jews made pretty good money in Germany in 1930. Too much money, some people felt.
You know, there's a lot of praise given to entrepreneurs because they're doing what most people are talking about. Well, you sir are doing what most people are dreaming about.

I'd love to hear about what drove you to the lifestyle you now have. Also, what do you do to feed yourself? How do you derive an income and live off the grid?
I agree. OCaml is really cool in many respects, and I like it a lot—but the only thing SML really needs is a modern Basis library that is applicable to today's standard use-cases.

I use SML for the JonPRL proof assistant, and I couldn't be happier. Some things would be a bit easier in OCaml, but to be honest, I love the fact that my code will continue to work without modification for decades, due to the simple fact that SML is a language frozen in time.
>And, he said: “I’ve never heard anybody say those companies are fundamentally insecure and fatally flawed from a security perspective.”

Well, if person A wants to send a private message to person B and someone else has access to that message, that's a security flaw. The fact that companies do it all the time with email, IM and cloud services doesn't negate that.
Mom's tomato garden?
I did the first of the Spark courses too. I'd second the recommendation, though I did it without knowing Python and I got through OK.

Is it possible that the author wrote this without mentioning the course to avoid giving away the answers to the course?
I actually agree with you up until the last sentence. Many researchers and doctors care quite a bit and are excited to finally be moving toward curative treatments (rather than chemo treadmills).
Why is it popular in banking?
Perhaps that a recorded version of the song is the same each time you listen to it, whereas listening to multiple live performances of the same song will capture the improvisation/variance that is so important.
Penguins [1] might also be an example. At least according to a documentary I saw, when the one of a pair that went off to hunt returns to the egg or hatchling to take its mate's place so the mate can go hunt, it finds its mate by recognizing the mate's distinct call among the thousands of other penguins calling out for their mates.

Wouldn't that count as a name? It meets the dictionary definition: "a word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to" (assuming an animal sound can count as a word).

The article did say that the dolphins choose their own sound. The penguin documentary did not say how penguins get their distinct sound. I wonder if the article is only counting as names things that are chosen, so if the penguin's distinct sound is not something chosen by the penguin it does not count?

[1] I'm not sure what specific species I'm talking about here.
> Sane people are comfortable with death.

I think people are comfortable only because it is inevitable. Given a universe that death did not exist in, would you consider it sane to introduce it?
I have been travelling and using nomadlist for quite some time. Works like a charm to find quick info.
Pandora's is very good
Making predictions is the main way to test out theories.

> but they're frozen, who cares?

That is another problem with cryonics: why would future civilization care about dead brains frozen 200 years ago?

Imagine that we already have technology that can unfreeze and revive people. And we just found 100,000 frozen medieval people to unfreeze.

So for the same price we can either unfreeze and revive 100,000 people or we can extend lives of 100,000 modern people who are facing terminal illness today.

How many medieval people do you think we would unfreeze&revive given such choice?
>“In a multi-cultural country like ours with such diversity, one should not be over sensitive and over touchy about a short restriction when it is being done out of respect for the sentiments of a particular section of society,” the judgment said.

Although it's mostly an inconvenience for customers (but more impacting for people in the meat business) diversity should mean respecting each other's beliefs or lack of them, not imposing them on others.
> By early 2014 the three had $4 million in seed funding and had narrowed their focus to Bitcoin apps. But they found that the software tools they needed to build those apps didn’t exist and pivoted to building the tools themselves.

> ON A MONDAY MORNING seven Chain.com employees sit in a circle on their Aeron chairs plotting the week’s plan of attack for various projects. The shoptalk is a jargon-fest of “open assets,” “confirmation time,” “UI,” “sidechains,” “federated chains” and, of course, “coins.” Khosla Ventures’ Rabois, the company’s lead VC investor, says he backed Chain.com because it had a nucleus of “10X engineers,” which he defines as “engineers who have the output and insight that’s ten times better than a regularly good engineer.” Elite groups like these, he says, are essential to build tools “so more regular engineers can build applications” for blockchain.

In The Industry, how common is investing $4 million in a company before they have even "narrowed their focus to Bitcoin apps," based on the unproven potential of the founders? What am I missing?
Uh... What the fuck?

What exactly makes this an attack? I don't see it doing anything malicious. And in any case, how is plugging in a keyboard to your computer not authorizing it to send keypresses?
Seems like you're from India for most part. Been There.
Mr. Burns tried this:

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/simpso...
I concur. What's worse was when they finally did get to an example of how you would use something, it was always so contrived as to be pointless.

For example, you've learned about dealing with rates of change. Now lets talk about the rate at which we pour water into a bucket.

For the love of god! Stop making problems about pouring things into other things! This has never come up in my life! And as an example, it doesn't help me relate to anything!
There are sixteen interviews each of them about 18 pages long. The interviewers are really good and the answers are long and detailed and reveal a lot about how universities have changed over the last century among other things.
We are going to do a video demo of a complete app on Monday. Should be posted in the afternoon. Thank you for your feedback.
Human computer clone would be susceptible to the same errors as original human would.

Besides, why would there be only single WalterBright's clone, considering that cloning computer programs is many orders of magnitude cheaper than cloning humans?
The Code of Conduct says:

> "OS4W.org is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression..."

— https://www.os4w.org/code-of-conduct

But the Signup page says:

> "This site is intended to provide a safe, welcoming space for anyone who identifies as a woman."

— https://www.os4w.org/sign_up

And requires you to check a box identifying as a woman to sign up.

So which is it?
They're not really comparable things. One is a bytecode VM (BEAM) and the other is a bunch of compilation infrastructure. As well, BEAM is optimized for heavy network-oriented concurrency and only incidentally is not-slow on a CPU. If you run a CPU-only race with a BEAM targeting language (Erlang, Elixir, LFE etc etc) you're going to be disappointed.
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason.
The poster isn't saying anyone in cryonics is bathing in blood just merely saying that pursuit of cryonic preservation as a means to extend life are one in the same, which they are right now.
It is common for animals to have personally identifiable sounds. However, most animals only make their own sound, not the sound of others. For example, a penguin might identify himself as Bob, but a penguin will not ask where Bob is.
My business partner is an exceptional programmer. He's well known in his field, so it's not just me that thinks this.

Sometimes he solves difficult problems seemingly very quickly. Sometimes he takes 5 hours to write 3 lines of code. And sometimes, he thinks it'll take half a hour and it ends up taking all day.

I was talking with him about this post and he says that there wasn't any information in the post that would suggest that the poster is particularly slow. Some things just take a while. Eventually, you'll develop better instincts and form mental shortcuts and you'll get faster at debugging. Especially at debugging, which really seems like an art form to me.
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what's valuable today, perhaps. Blockchain tech might surprise us all yet. I don't think the possibilities are overblown, just the timeline. It really is a financial solution for a different world then what we currently live in, and only extreme global circumstances can even come close the momentum needed to spark a change such as that in our financial system.
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Americans generally struggle with mathematics, and not just advanced concepts. The problem is cultural, because it is acceptable to be poor at math, it's viewed as wholly unnecessary. Some examples are A&W's Third Pounder vs McDonald's Quarter Pounder (3 < 4 so quarter pounder is bigger) [1], how long does it take to go 80 miles if you're driving 80 miles per hour [2], and Verizon Math [3].

As for Chinese struggling with math, I can give you firsthand experience at my American University, where the foreign (Chinese and Indian) students are known for rampant cheating, in both the Undergraduate and Graduate levels.

We have a serious problem with logic, math, and science. People who are good at the three are ridiculed and alienated rather than celebrated, although it's not a hard rule, just something I've noticed. Reading for pleasure is the exception rather than something normal. We're very anti-intellectual once you get out of the big cities.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2eyq9qTOQY

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShv_74FNWU
Maybe the problem is you don't receive enough value for doing things quickly. For example, if you were paid $1 million to do a programming assignment quickly, you probably would.
Great story.

I wonder how many of the young kids currently crying in the arms of their Syrian parents and hoping to survive political games, voyage across deadly waters and, kicks and blows in foreign lands, would be future graduates of Harvard, if given the opportunity.
> actually need a middle layer to carry out operations on the data before it is presented.

I'm of the school that says you should fetch the data you want because the database is optimized for data operations. can you give me an example of a data operation that's best done in middleware?
Well, I didn't mean to make it so bleak either, because some sites like the New York Times have quite talented developers!
I also use this convention, but one frustration is that no IDE wants to follow it in their auto line breaking functions.
You're not an idiot -- the things you described are very real. I've heard about tons of scams and quite a few dead-end ventures. The 21inc thing sounds pretty bizarre to me as well, but there is more going on in the bitcoin world than just that.

I'm involved with a VPS hosting company called ChunkHost, and we've accepted bitcoin for many years. We're not criminals, and we don't tolerate criminals on our network, and nonetheless bitcoin has served us well as a means of payment. We've written on our blog[1] about how bitcoin payments are 20-30% of our revenue.

Another interesting company is purse.io -- they let you get something like a 20% discount on your Amazon purchases by paying in bitcoin. coffee.foldapp.com lets you get 20% off your Starbucks purchases by paying with bitcoin. Again, this is not a scam -- I use it and it works. Don't you think this is a real benefit that real people could appreciate?

I'm curious how long you've been following bitcoin. I've been interested in it since 2009/2010, and have seen the goalposts move a great deal: every time a goal is reached, the critics change it so they can declare bitcoin a failure. First it was that "you can't buy anything for it," which was true until a pizza was sold for 10,000 bitcoins in mid-2010.

Then it was "no store accepts it" -- which was true until a few months later when you could buy things like web hosting from tiny bitcoin-only companies. Then it became "no large company will ever accept it." That remained true for a while, but eventually Wordpress became the first large company to do so. Others like Newegg, Overstock, and even Microsoft followed soon after. "Nobody will ever pay with it" was another one, and that was shattered once those companies started posting bitcoin revenue which, despite being a tiny share of their overall revenue, showed that people were consistently spending their coins.

I'm not saying that grandma will be buying gas with bitcoin anytime soon (or ever) -- just that there is substance there: merchants accepting it, consumers spending it, and interesting things like purse.io that couldn't exist without it.

[1] https://chunkhost.com/blog/17%2Fbitcoin_revenue_in_2014
Animated map reveals 550,000 miles of cable hidden under ocean powering internet
This has probably one of the most amusing paragraphs of a math paper I have seen:

"We made it hard for ourselves in order to show a method that works for all n.
It would have been more natural to take n = 3, which is the crucial test case
for division. If you can divide by 2, and hence by 4, there is no guarantee
that you can divide by 3; whereas if you can divide by 3, you can divide by
any n. This is not meant as a formal statement, it’s what you might call a
Thesis. We chose n = 4 instead of n = 3 because there are four suits in a
standard deck of cards, and because there is already a paper called ‘Division
by three’ [2], which this paper is meant to supersede."

Also worth noting, these two papers have the same lead author.
Start-up investors are being extra-cautious thanks to some costly flops
Security by Antiquity – The hidden danger in modernising analogue systems
Thanks will take a look
Can't upvote that one enough.

You need enough sleep, you need good sleep, and regular sleep.

And then you need down time. The time where you're not expected to rush to do something. Where you can sit down and learn a bunch, or pick yourself up and take a stroll.

You _need_ walks.
Hey, thank you for this!

Bought your book a while ago -- didn't realize your background was in ad tech. I personally eeked out ~30ms avg latencies with PHP by modifying ReactPHP (non-blocking event loop) and getting creative with Redis and nginx.

It's performing comparably at high loads, and saving us a ton of money but obviously... it's PHP. I'm obsessed with Haskell and have spent a bit of time playing around with HLearn as I think SVM is an obvious use case where it would excel (though in terseness/structure more than performance relative to C).

Any advice on selling a rewrite and/or challenges as one nears 1B daily queries for which Haskell would be uniquely advantageous?

I want to integrate Haskell in our high-frequency serving arm (or as a backup, for machine learning), but honestly don't know enough about it relative to performance to sell its advantages over Erlang, Go or even C. Aside from the obvious "functional is better" and "types are great," which tend to appeal to the folks who see beauty in the language, is it feasible to claim that Haskell will result in a faster, more performance program in less time? ... And not to wear out my welcome, but I'm interested in reading more about performant Haskell (as per your post); any resources you recommend?
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Since regular expressions evaluate to values [that's what makes them expressions], type theory is perhaps a better abstraction than set theory. In particular, since regular expressions accept an input and produce an output, it May be particularly useful to think of them as function types.

If PIRE is an ancestor type of Perl regular expressions, then it's less specific input language can be fed into a Perl engine and Perl's more specific input language cannot be fed into it. Compatibility/incompatibility labels depend on which side of covariance/contravariance [1] the person doing the labeling stands. The authors of the library got their labelbaby label maker out first.

If they were wrong, file an issue on their Github repository.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariance_and_contravarianc...
If the main idea of the poem—a man who follows a strange version of himself through the countryside—doesn't resonate with you, then yeah there probably isn't much of interest there. But I find it haunting and mysterious.

Then there is the melody of the language and the original way he puts words together that sounds modern and old-fashioned at the same time. And how he can write about nature in a way that brings it to life, which is super rare—most nature writing is boring, and the way Thomas does it seems full of feeling, something that was about to fall out of modern poetry. And then it's just perfectly executed, except I wish he hadn't rhymed "mirth" with "earth".

To me that poem suggests a modernism that was possible but in the end never happened. I like Eliot and Pound, but their virtuosity is altogether different and they are far more detached and alienated. Of course we can't say what Thomas would have been like after WWI, which had a shattering effect on all art.

You're certainly right that we needn't all like the same things. Thanks for sharing those links. I admire the Elizabeth Bishop poem for its construction—it's clever how the middle lines all rhyme—but I'm somehow not convinced she means what she's saying. The Billy Collins poem is beautiful, though. Thanks!
There are quite of few aguments to run without it

http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_...
The author may not be a programmer (hence the weirdness) but the points are generally articulated well. I agree with and like the conclusion a lot.
Last post had a little too much mustard for the censors, but I'm persistent!

Freada says she's a "researcher" yet no where do we get an operational definition of "representation" so we know who really is, and isn't over-represented.

But I'll go out on a limb and say employment in tech per capita. I'll go further to say that Asians and Indians are more over-represented than Caucasians.

But clearly the Kapors have some other definition in mind. How else do they frame Paul Graham's replacement by Sam Altman as an increase in diversity? Are young people under-represented? Are Jews under-represented?

Maybe their definition includes a weight, say a Kapor Grievance Index. In the case of Jews, it's unbounded, so they can never be under-represented. Indians and Asians are weighted using a complex and proprietary algorithm (similar to the sausage making at top university admissions committees).

So that leaves WASPs (see tribal exemption above per Altman at YC).

Maybe someone else can shed more light on the matter.
Arguments against systemd
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If it costs $1 billion for private companies to develop a drug, why wouldn't it cost $1 billion for government to develop it? Spending $1 billion to save 500 people will bankrupt the country one way or another, if you keep going after cures for 500 people groups, whether government funds it or not.

A more effective approach would be to find ways to reduce the cost of new drug development.
That's a nice explanation, however, there is already a boost candidate library: https://github.com/krzysztof-jusiak/di
UCB bandit algorithms are quite simple to understand, and the generalisation of them by the UCT algorithm to tree search spaces seems like a pretty clean idea.

I had a go at using UCT to explore a search space earlier this year (not games, but selecting a good sequence of decisions inside a simulation).

The problem I ran into with this approach was that the algorithm has no way to generalise or lift experience from one explored state to other similar / unexplored states, and my search space was large. So having to evaluate each state at least once was prohibitive.

This isn't really a criticism of how well UCT can tackle the problem as framed, but more a criticism of how much better one might be able to do with a bit more structure -- e.g. perhaps with the addition of some kind of similarity metric between states, along with some bounds or assumptions on how the values of "similar" states should relate to each other.

It seems like combining some machine learning / statistical / approximation techniques to approximate the true state->value function with a UCT-like approach to guide exploration could be very effective for the right problem, but getting it to work well might be more of an art than a science.

If anyone has any pointers to reading about this kind of thing, I'd be most grateful! I have previously read about "approximate dynamic programming" techniques, e.g. [1]

[1] http://castlelab.princeton.edu/Papers/Powell-NRLWhat%20you%2...