skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... and that your estate will be able to afford the procedure ...

The concerns about your frozen remains spoiling before anything happens is valid, but I personally suspect that unfreezing will play out like Social Security, but in reverse order. If we're unfrozen, it will be paid for (or prompted, in whatever post-scarcity Star Trek economy exists in the future) by our children and grandchildren, who will be unfrozen by their children and grandchildren, or childhood friend who misses them, or former coworker, and so on down the line.

There's probably no practical or economic reason for future people to unfreeze corpsicles, but there are sentimental ones. So I'm not so much worried about estates needing to pay for unfreezing or some future banks needing COBOL programmers.
Excellent. I did want to eventually write something showing how to modify this algorithm to handle games with randomness, and ISMCTS at a glance looks like it does just that. Thanks!
It makes me assume a non-technical writer
I'm usually allergic to rants, but I liked this one because it didn't attack anyone in particular and also had tons of technical evidence to back up its claims. Gaffer even helped out the OP in a big way by providing a solution to his problem. Basically a free consultation from a networking expert.
I guess this is pretty off-topic, but I kinda always thought it was unreasonable to regard a "high-level language" as also a "programming" language. If the idea is that it's made for humans-first-computers-second, then it's not really a "programming" language so much as a language that computers happen to be able to understand.

I mean, by this definition, since computers are getting good are parsing English, isn't English a "programming" language?
Not sure if you looked up "sluggish cognitive tempo" on Wikipedia yet. Give that a read. Have you experienced a head injury in your life's? I experienced a traumatic brain injury after being hit by a car in my early 20s. I never returned to my former cognitive pace until I was diagnosed with ADD by a doctor who couldn't say for sure that it was caused by the head injury but who suggested I try a mild stimulant to test the result.

The stimulant did the trick. I got my life back. Talk to your doctor and talk to a psychologist or neuropsychologist.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Totally.

But we can rebuild it. Make it better, stronger, faster....
> That's correct the USSG pretty much makes plea agreements non-viable because it doesn't allow the prosecutor to offer any substantial leniency on sentencing, mandatory minimums on pretty much every federal crime also make plea agreements pointless.

You are very wrong.

First of all, the majority of federal crimes do not have mandatory minimums. http://famm.org/Repository/Files/Chart%20All%20Fed%20MMs%202... is an exhaustive list of federal crimes with mandatory minimums. It's only a fraction of the total number of federal crimes.

More importantly, the effect of the Sentencing Guidelines was that it removed sentencing discretion from judges and gave it to prosecutors. That's because the sentencing range given by the guidelines is influenced by what charges the prosecutor brings, and the details of those charges such as quantity of drugs or amount of property damage. This gives the prosecutor enormous influence over the sentence.[1] (Edited to add: In the same way the prosecutor can influence whether a statutory minimum is triggered.)

Consequentially, the plea bargain rate in federal cases is about 97% whereas in states it is somewhat less.

See http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/why-inn... for a federal judge's take on the situation.

[1] Technically, since U.S. v. Booker in 2005, the sentencing guidelines are only "advisory" so the judge can ignore them, but judges still mostly sentence according to the guidelines.
While I totally agree with your point, I think the problem goes both ways. A lack of understanding of science causes serious problems, especially when you look at policy making for example. However, there are plenty of scientists and engineers with completely wrong-headed ideas about social issues, history, and so on. I would argue there needs to be a lot more crossover: Liberal Arts majors should probably have to get through Chemistry, Physics, Calculus, Biology and Electronics, and STEM majors should probably have to get through (sorry, US-centric) Women's Issues, Western and World History, African-American studies, Introductory Constitutional Law, etc.
Allocating Courses Fairly to MBA Students by Finding Approximate Equilibria
I would not pay if the do not revive body they frozen.

I also would not pay even if they do revive bodies they have frozen.

Why freeze myself if revival is available already?

The only compelling reason to freeze the body if unfreezing alive body is a proven process, but some disease is not curable yet.
No, it's consistent. It's a meaningless dog whistle like "socialism". Depending on your ideological perspective, anyone from a hardened Maoist to a Chicago school economist could qualify, or anything to do with state control whatsoever.

Therefore I'm really flipping your buzzword and using it against you. There are no HIGs for system software, and more often than not "This is user friendly." is a codeword for "I'm biased into thinking this way." It's not a criticism, it's a thought-terminating cliche.

If you have technical criticisms of djbware, that'd be fine. You evidently do not.

(That said, I do think it's generally accepted that system software disobeying you by making policy decisions you have not authorized is not admin-friendly. djbware excels at being mechanism only.)
ha ha.

Once cabs are automated, it won't matter if public transit is.

Without human drivers, cabs will be cheaper to use than your own car.

And that's when public transit dies.
If you look at a globe the Bering sea is close to China. Greenland is easily 4 times as far away.
Very good point! Back in Quake 1 days, the gameplay framerate was only 15 frames per second, so a more crude mechanism would do.

I guess modern AAA games synchronize their clocks with an algorithm similar to what NTP is using. We're still talking about discrete time steps, though, so there's some tolerance for a little clock mismatch.
I agree. Further, all kinds of tools use logs in different ways and often need decent CPU power anyway. Making logs efficient & machine-readable by default aids that. It also lets me use lower-cost components for services producing and storing them. This goes same for lightweight, high-performance services like we've seen show up in HTTP. So, instead of one bulky server for several grand I might have several, embedded boards in a H.A. configuration with plenty of memory and storage doing same workload.

So, efficiency still matters today if you're squeezing the most out of your systems or like physical isolation like I do. Easy, portable processing on arbitrary machines, too. Human readable logs can have an impact on that. A nice compromise, though, is stuff like JSON, s-expressions, or a TCL style with abbreviated keywords.
Yeah, but getting one to take me directly to my destination doesn't even work in Manhattan.

A cab will always be much faster and will get a whole lot cheaper once its robotic.

An urban train can only get as fast as it already is.
Hey ChicagoBoy11-

I wrote an update above with some more information on the types of data we need to accomodate, but feel free to reach out on the email listed in my profile, I'd love to make contact with you
There is a certain special irony in debating the genealogy of an idea within a thread about Russian cosmism, given Vernadsky's belief in the noosphere.

Regardless, I didn't mean to imply that the modern transhumanist movement is merely an outgrowth of Russian cosmism. But the cosmist writings may be the earliest articulation of transhumanist values.

If someone finds a direct, linear connection between cosmism and transhumanism, I would love to hear about it. But I suspect that the same set of ideas has been developed independently multiple times.

Indeed, it would be problematic if they had only evolved within one nation, because that would imply that they were culturally contingent. If they are intrinsically sound, they should be available for discovery by diverse thinkers.
Was there no third type of student: those who WERE understanding?
I'm not sure that per-request would work; because the resources that a request takes can vary wildly in resources used / time taken. PiCloud (somewhat similar idea) used to charge based on processing time essentially (down to the millisecond I believe).

I personally think that is the correct kind of pricing for something like this; but monthly plans including X time/requests would likely be a good idea.
What they are free to do or not is irrelevant, as long as users complain about the 16GB phones causing negative publicity.
Was it in Chernihiv by any chance?
For those who want to try it in a more modern context, there is this recent port of spitbol patterns for Nim: https://github.com/Henry/Nimbol
Where is it MY buzzword? You used it before I did, my first comment in this whole thread was a response to you.
What's the state-of-the-art in these kinds of systems in terms of one that's easy to use and makes it easier to eliminate effects of malicious feedback?
I have found that switching to the "POSE" running regime has eliminated running injuries - not had a running injury in over 10 years, so with good form, running can be safe. Before switching, I had 20+ years of intermittent injuries. For normal people I can only think of skipping with weighted handles that would go beyond running.
So far, this is my favorite 3.x release. Typing annotations, async/await, unpacking generalizations. Lots of cool new features. Too bad that PEP0498[1] didn't make it in this release, we'll have to wait for 3.6.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/
White people hold incredible advantages in modern society.

Not anymore. There was a white man recently who could only get his work published by using an Asian pen name. Look at all of the white men who have had their careers destroyed by the mere allegation of sexism, racism or homophobia, the scarlet letters of your so called "progressiveism". Just ask Pax Dickinson, Brendan Eich or Brad Wardell.

The world is consistently more progressive and permissive over time.

This is easily disproved if you knew even a little world history. Any time a civilization gets significant wealth and comfort, it becomes more progressive. That progressivism in turns creates its downfall, after which wealth becomes scarce and the people become more conservative again. Round and round it goes since the creation of Babylon. The Roman Empire followed this cycle, until it was sacked by the Visigoths. It was followed by the dark ages. Then came the renaissance and its progress, followed by the stark conservatism of the Victorian era. We just finished a long upswing. The pendulum has already started swinging back towards conservatism.

Technology continues to progress. Humanity and its flawed ideologies follow predictable cycles.
Which specific behavior concerns you?

My only real complaint is that he's addressing a particular person here. In his shoes I would have anonymized the source of the text and maybe blended material from a few different people. I'd rather the individual didn't accidentally recognize their words.

Other than that, I think I'm ok with people making exasperated rants. For those of us who actually understand the topic or have experience of teaching, I think a rant like this can at least be funny, and often can be cathartic. One shouldn't howl at the noobs, but howling at the moon seems fine by me.

I think it's also helpful for novices to see the occasional bile-dump like this. The question comes across to me as kinda lazy. The querent never really took the time to understand the core technologies and instead just spent a few months implementing broken stuff. But rather than think it through, he just waves away an expert answer as "kind of silly". A piece like this can help novices see how frustrating and self-defeating that kind of laziness is. I know I've benefited from seeing others get roasted for mistakes I could well have made.
Quite the opposite for me. I find caffeine makes me hungry after about an hour or so I only have 1 drink per day.
ElixirConf
Backside added!
https://deck-of-cards.js.org/
> It is a stance toward the world that can easily doom the United States to military commitments and interventions in strategically insignificant places over intrinsically trivial issues

Can?
I've seen many people stick with Apple because they've invested in media from iTunes that will never play on Android devices, even Chromecasts.
Python 3 keeps getting better and better. I've been writing more code in Python 3 than 2 for about three years now, and I absolutely love it. When I have to write code in 2.7 now, it feels like shifting from fifth gear down to second.
How Curiosity, Luck, and the Flip of a Switch Saved the Moon Program (2014)
The entire purpose of a programming language is that everything written in it describes an unambigiously executable process.

English isn't and never will be a programming language, no matter how much computers will be able to comprehend.
We changed the title since the local audience knows all about this.
i'm interested... i looked at your site, but didn't see any more info on it... thanks!
> IIRC the federal government really doesn't offer plea bargains, right?

Quite the contrary - in 2013, 97% of federal cases that weren't dismissed ended in a plea bargain: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/why-inn...

> And federal sentencing is pretty rigid, so he probably would have served ~80 years.

No - in fact there's no way the Sentencing Guidelines would have given a sentence anywhere near 80 years: http://popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence-ele...
It's highly likely that powerful interests [governments and big tech] can already silently listen on mobile phones and have a database of voice signatures so they know exactly who's talking and what. That being said, the Panopticon is going nuts. I want a device with a pluggable mic, so I can buy / build my own mic with a physical on/off switch. Fuck off, peepers.
Computers are perfect at understanding high level programming languages, but you cannot program in English. All programming languages, including machine code are designed for humans first and computers second, within the limits of what we know how to construct. So, no.
This might help some:

http://www.canvaslms.com/

It's actually open source, you can host it yourself if you chose or they will run it for you for a fee. You can program against it... build plugins etc. There are also a large number of plugins already available. It's written in Ruby on Rails with a Cassandra DB.
Ask HN: How can I help others?
Hey,

I want to help others to achieve their goals. It can be a startup, a lonely developer, a young kid who just started playing around with various technologies..it doesn't matter. The only condition is that these goals must be something that add real value to our lives (so not fart apps).

Because I'm not a rich person and I cannot jump in and invest, I'm looking for other ways to help. For example I was thinking on building a hosting server based on multiple raspberry pi platforms or offering a room in my house for free. Or buying and renting books, online courses or even computers.

I'm not interesting in any benefits, I just love science and technology and I want to help the community.

So dear HN, do you have any ideas? What would you do? Or what would you need?
It's great to see this work receiving more attention. If anyone starts using it, I hope you'll post about it to HN.
"Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World" by Ian Bremmer
> Einstein refused surgery, saying: "I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Death
Ask HN: How do certain companies achieve such high visa acceptance?
According to http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/13/technology/h1b-cap-visa/, then there were 233,000 H1B applicants last year, and only 85,000 places. That should suggest that around 1/3rd of applicants should receive a visa on average.

Yet when I check the statistics for some companies, they are achieving a much higher success rate. See AirBNB for example: http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/netflix-inc

Am I misunderstand the statistics?
@jMyles: you are taking too limited a view of programming language. A programming language is simply one that is suited to the task of describing a program, there need not be a computer involved. In fact the Britannica even has an article entitled "Computer programming language" which implies a distinction between "programming language" and "computer programming language". I admit it's probably not a distinction that one often has a use for.
And yet, Python 2 usage is still strong while Python 3 adoption has actually slowed down, and at this rate, it will probably stop being used completely while Python 2 continues to live on:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3k9yif/larry_w...
We at prgmr.com started accepting bitcoin recently via bitpay, and I think that a payment gateway like bitpay which allows you to accept bitcoin without actually having to hold bitcoins at any point make a huge difference. In the US, bitcoin counts as property which means you can have a capital gain or loss when it is exchanged later, which can become an accounting headache.

The reason we first started really thinking seriously about bitcoin was because existing customers weren't able to get very many US dollars anymore due to economic restrictions in their home country, and without offering bitcoin they couldn't pay us. As long as these sorts of economic constraints exist, there will be a market for bitcoin.
Important notes regarding earnings from the dataset documentation (https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/assets/FullDataDocumentation...):

> There are two notable limitations that researchers should keep in mind for all of these metrics. First, the
data are not yet available to produce program-level earnings data. Research suggests that the variation
across programs within a school may be even greater than aggregate earnings across schools; for
instance, STEM and health majors frequently earn more than students who study in other fields. Second,
the data include only Title IV-receiving students, so figures may not be representative of schools with a
low proportion of Title IV-eligible students. Additionally, the data are restricted to students who are not
enrolled (enrolled means having an in-school deferment status for at least 30 days of the measurement
year), so students who are currently enrolled in graduate school at the time of measurement are
excluded.

Although, looking at the data, the real problem is that half the colleges have PrivacySurpressed values for those fields.
> "students at private for-profit two-year and four-year institutions have high rates of borrowing and their graduates often have large amounts of debt."

Isn't that expected? Students who go to for-profit schools by definition have to pay their way through so it would make sense they have higher levels of borrowing and debt.
"They are not able learn on chip - that is a non-starter and not particularly useful anyway. Customers dont want self-driving cars that need to learn how to drive, they want self-driving cars that already know how to drive."

That's a good point to not overlook. Plus, you mentioning this just gave me an idea for a Triad Semiconductor-style, via/metal-programmable, CNN chip tied to a specific FPGA architecture for easy prototyping and conversion. Could be some promise in there. Brain hasn't gotten further than that sentence so don't ask for details haha.

Not clear to me how you will do analog and reprogrammable at the same time unless your reprogramming is building things around the analog components that still perform pretty much the same function(s). I could see the weights, connections, location on chip, etc being configured while connected to analog, signal processing blocks scattered throughout chip kind of like FPGA's do with MAC's. My guess as a non-HW guy with a little research into these things. Am I anywhere close?
oneJob,

I can't thank you enough for the depth and thoughtfulness of your response- you're 100% right about looking for a SaaS solution, about finding one that is aligned with our mission. I've been experimenting with Tableau for the last two days and it strikes the perfect balance of incredible power and usability.

From what I can tell, Socrata is focused on open data and sharing data with outside organizations. Their product is what we're looking for, their mission is spot on with ours, but our data has to remain secure and private. We need a socrata for internal use.

I've shared your thoughts with my administrators, thanks again
Since marijuana legalization, CO highway fatalities near historic lows (2014)
Can you account for radiation pressure by modifying the orbit? It's a constant radial force. Searching for Lagrange points is searching for points where (in the rotating reference frame fixing the Earth) the combined gravitational forces of Earth and Sun are zero. Just add in the radiation pressure and you should get a Lagrange point slightly closer to the sun.

Buut I haven't done the math so this is speculation.
Show HN: Aa HTML5 mobile game source
Pulling Git into a Docker image without leaving SSH keys behind
1) How do you know that all body freezing failures are pretty well documented?
If they do not test recovery then they register only the most obvious failures.

2) "in the hopes that someday in the future someone will know"

They promote and claim that revival will be possible in the future. Without any proof.
So it is a confidence game. Hence "scam".

There is a good chance that successful freezing and revival would be possible in the future.

But it is very unlikely that revival of dead bodies that Alcor is freezing today would ever be possible.

> most of the people involved in this are people who really believe in the mission

You can say the same about any established religion.

> They're not lying, not misleading people,

Sorry, internal belief is not a guarantee that the statements are true and not misleading.
Hey, I know you said no fart apps, but do you know how to build one? If yes I have a little idea (a small weekend project) we can work on together. There might not be any money in it but I'm sure it will be fun.
How about aftermarket removal of all microphones from the iPhone, then using a headset with mike when needed?
Anyone up for collecting all his 'contributions'? This would be a goldmine for forensic text analysis and authorship attribution studies/ proof that they are all sensitive to context of the text. Prof. Patrick Juola, if you're reading this, the public would absolutely benefit from public research on this. Anyone in stylometry here? Drexel grads?
The data is not particularly uniform, with NULLs and PrivacySurpressed values everywhere.

I wanted to play around with SAT/ACT data and create correlations with other variables...but the only values reported are 25% quantile and 75% quantile for accepted students (they derive a midpoint between the two...by averaging them, which is wrong). Hmrph.
Question - is there any web/api framework that leverages asyncio ? This implicitly also means first class DB/ORM support.

Flask, sqlalchemy ,etc seem to be using gevent and py 2.7.
China economy: New signs of economic slowdown
Isaac Asimov’s Favorite Story “The Last Question” Read by Isaac Asimov
On his Reddit account, he writes:

Jews aren't white or human, despite being Jewish himself.

Makes me wonder how many internet white nationalists are in person self-hating minorities

But this big story is the thwarted bomb attack, which is why he was arrested. The trolling is secondary.
There Is No Theory of Everything