skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public transport will always be inferior to cars in the sense that it goes from somewhere that isn't exactly where you are to somrwhere that isn't exactly where you want to be, at a time that isn't exactly now, in the company of people that you don't necessarily want to be with.
Thanks for the detailed breakdown. This is very helpful.
Not even remotely accurate if quantum immortality is true, and I'm not saying it is, but we still have no idea WTF consciousness really is therefore no idea what happens to it when its CPU and memory are destroyed.

But do come back when you've figured this all out and you know how to create a new consciousness in any way except for the obvious way.
Is that a real company? The copy sounds like it could be a viral marketing campaign for a movie.
Ooookay, I put a chunk of money into LendingClub, and here's what I learned:

- Remember that the money that you make on this is taxed as income, which stinks for high income individuals

- The alternative is to set up a lendingclub IRA and put money in there, but now you're somewhat limited as to how much you can invest, as well as being ineligible if you've got an employer retirement vehicle like a 401k

- The return is very high at the beginning, and then tends to drop as more and more people default (or pay off early, which can be almost as bad from an investment perspective)

- It takes work - it's interesting if you have the time and inclination to pick out the notes you want, or they have an automated system - I did a bit of both

In the end, I'm making about 6.5% a year on it - not terrible, but at tax time every year it sucks when I'm getting charged state and federal income taxes on that 6.5%.

I think it makes a lot of sense for folks who are not concerned about reducing their taxable income and want a more active investment option than just vanguard ETFs, or who want an IRA option with higher returns. But it's not as awesome as it seems at first glance.
In-memory moving target defense appears highly effective anti-exploitation
This is basically my nightmare. Nothing is as personally terrifying to me then being restrained and medicated.

I also worry about this kind of situation because my wife is black and we live in a very nice house and both enjoy nice vehicles. Neither of us (both tech people) enjoy dressing up-so were often poorly dressed. And we're both absent minded so we've both left our keys inside or had to fiddle with our cars in the driveway. I worry about how different an interaction with a passing police person could be for us-for me, an offer of assistance with a lost key, for her arrest and detainment.
Having just come off a stint with Azure, my experience with generic names (like many you suggested and like most Azure service name) is that they're huge negatives. It makes searching impossible even when you're using the service's documentation. Got a problem with Azure Web Apps? Good luck searching for it. What about Azure SQL Database? Or Azure Virtual Network? Azure Storage?
> The Golang team was not extolling the lack of generics in Go as a point of pride.

Indeed, they're extolling the simplicity one gets. To quote their FAQ:

> Why does Go not have generic types?

> Generics are convenient but they come at a cost in complexity in the type system and run-time. We haven't yet found a design that gives value proportionate to the complexity, although we continue to think about it.

If they can find a way to add it that doesn't take away the simplicity they enjoy, all the better.

> As far as it being "simpler" that Go doesn't have generics, I've never understood this conclusion.

That's if you require generic objects. There are reasonable ways to write code that largely avoids them (namely, by specializing your code on specific, standard types for the given problem). Whether this is reasonable for your circumstance depends on your circumstance and the way you like to solve problems.
What about science makes it a "hobby field"?
I'd rather take the 7-8% over risky investments.
This is crazy. It would have taken all of 30 seconds to run the plates and verify the owner. This must surely have been intentional.
More power to her. I hope she awakens to a body and future that brings her happiness.
Linux and Open Source Propaganda in “Mr. Robot” TV Show
The difference is intensional or extensional behaviour.
I can't seem to get the page to load even though

--- minimaxir.com ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 6223ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 443.694/691.180/969.051/196.041 ms
Maybe an HTML5 version would do? what do you think?
“Just married” comment in code that I just took over on a freelance work
Surprisingly, the financial aspect of it is pretty manageable as explained by Max More (head of Alcor) [0].

Apparently if you have signed up for some kind of life-insurance, you simply pay your regular insurance fee, and direct them to give it to Alcor for your preservation if you die.

Or if you wish to pay in total, I've heard it's ~$80K for head only. And ~$200K for whole body.

Once I can afford any of the above options, cryonics would be my top "burial preference".

(Think about it, in the US, it's a fraction of the amount you get to spend in the final year of your life. You could choose to waste a lot of money during age 79-80 on a losing battle, or you could call it quits at 79, for which right-to-die needs to be legal, and spend a fraction on cryonics. Suffice to say, I'm a big advocate of right-to-die as well).

[0] (Warning: loud intro) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0xiX9mPB_s
Also see every f-in thing Greg Egan wrote. Then for fun try to google his image.
This stands in contrast to the scholarship of, for example, Terence McKenna, who suggested that certain plants and mushrooms actually delivered novel content via the presence of (and ratios between) various psychoactive compounds.

Like most of McKenna's ostensible empiricism, he didn't try to convince anyone that this was true in some objective sense, but rather that it was useful as a mindset to withstand the psychedelic experience.

I find this view more effective at helping to explain how my neurochemistry interfaces with reality.
Would you say something like Clojure is also suitable for compiler development or not?
Try this http://www.printfriendly.com/print/?source=homepage&url=http...
Promotion is a mix between word of mouth (I run installations at hacker conferences) and being found when people search for a PI based solution. So far it's not enough to make a living, but it's ramping up. Hopefully I'll break even in the next few months.
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Are you trying to prove the C++ analogy? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3073642/official-c-langua...
Beats me - I just wanted to see if a library like this even existed.
Note that the Internet Archive’s founder Brewster Kahle was one of the strongest critics of the creative class-action settlement which would have allowed Google as a one-off to publish the out-of-print orphan works that it scanned. If the lawsuit had gone to trial and Google prevailed on fair-use, it would have set a precedent that would benefit the Internet Archive. But the Internet Archive was vehemently opposed to any settlement that didn’t help them.

Reference: Brewster’s op-ed http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05... and filings by Internet Archive and Open Book Alliance https://dockets.justia.com/docket/new-york/nysdce/1:2005cv08...
How do you rank the list of stocks in the "smart money manager" results? Typically rankings for this type of search are done by percentage of portfolio, but that definitely does not appear to be the case here.
How to Run a Scam: My Trip Through China
It should work fine after a reload or two.

I've been attempting to debug connection issues for a long time to no success. Somehow, curl works, but not dig, which baffles me.

I think it's because of the interaction between CloudFlare and GitHub Pages. If anyone has a solution, let me know.
Medallia - Palo Alto, CA - http://engineering.medallia.com

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We are a fast-growing (70% per year), Sequoia-backed company that recently became a tech unicorn; our mission is no less than to transform the way the world's companies view and interact with their customers. We allow hundreds of thousands of employees to access, analyze and take action on large amounts of customer data in real time. We are still a small engineering team, only about 50 or so of us, thus everyone counts.

We are building the new platform based on the latest technologies and best practices: pure REST APIs, based on Swagger 2.0, on top of a state-of-the-art microservice architecture built by our awesome Systems Foundation team. Code is hosted on Github and we open source the components that are of general interest. We host hundreds of millions of records for our customers and run analytics in fractions of a second with no pre-computation thanks to our own in-memory analytics engine.

Please send me a note at kristian@medallia.com if any of the above sounds interesting to you.

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I intended to prove that wrong one day given what I've seen Moore, Wirth, LISP machine people, etc do with no more than two people. However, if I'm to be honest, anything I come up with individually will be a rehash of what a bunch of others came up with. So, hard to even say it was my own work unless I did something radically different across the board from the circuits up.
Can High-Tech Academia Survive Silicon Valley's Talent Binge?
>On what the author is trying to communicate, the author is the only source we can rely on.

That's half true. Or wholly true if we put emphasis on his explicitly "trying to".

Because his work could also communicate other things that he wasn't trying, but are nethertheless apparent in the output.

Consider a racist writing his autobiography, and trying not to sound like a racist and avoids any open remark, but it still comes out in the text. In the same way, an authors beliefs and feelings on all kinds of things, even if subcoscious or hidden from himself, can also come out in the text, despite him not actually trying to communicate them.

If we don't consider just what the author explicitly tried to communicate, but all that's present in the final output, the author is not the "only source" anymore. We can also use other knowledge we have, of cultural norms, ideas of his era, symbolism, etc.

>Whether or not a majority of critics agree is totally irrelevant to me. If the author agrees, that is a different matter.

That's quite an inflexible view of literature/poetry etc, which has been shown to be lacking for near a century. Heck, even authors frequently say in their interviews: "I just put put these images and they are up to the reader to understand them in one way or another", or words to that effect. (Songwriters also are of this school very often: "my songs have no defined meaning, are open to interpretation etc".).

In the example of the racist author, how about if the author doesn't "agree" that his work is racist, but his working and portrayal of black characters makes evident that it is? It doesn't even need to be because he's lying, could just be that he considers the kind of attitude he has to blacks "objective" and "normal" and not racism.

The author is hardly the "only authority". If not for anything else because people have subconscious feelings, people hide things from themselves (even when they're not subconscious, they might downplay their importance when you talk to them, but come pouring down when they write), and of course, people lie.
How does this shit make it past code review?
For Media and Gaming, Virtual Reality Is the Wolf Standing Just Outside the Door
i upvoted on the theory that that was deliberate :) the internet needs more understated hunour
I can't remember (possibly not Greg Egan). In case someone else knows, the main plot is that the characters have to act as inhabitants of a primitive village, in a computer game/simulation.
30,000-year-old giant virus 'comes back to life'
People are trying to download from the old link. Please refresh the install page to get the latest link.
This thread takes me back to Reddit.
Yes, I'm working on selling it / building a portfolio to sell to investors. Unfortunately, I have a day job and fortunately, I have new 8th month old. (means time is short)
Built with Angular 2
>and applying Moore's law, it will take about 60 years before we can simulate a brain in real time with a single machine.

What Moore's law? This has already stopped.
There are several reasons why cancer is so difficult to treat, but the main one is simply that cancer cells is the patients own cells that have a couple of mutations, so most things that kill cancer cells also kill healthy cells. Thus successful cancer treatments are those who kills the cancer cells, but only almost kill the patient.

The other main reason why cancer treatment is difficult is that there are many different combinations of genes that can mutate and cause cancer, so that even the same cell type can get cancer several different ways. There are at least six different kinds of breast cancer for example, where a drug effective against one can be totally ineffective against another, and this is the case for a lot of cancer types. Thus cancer is not one decease, but hundreds of different deceases, each requiring different treatment. It is quite amazing that more than half of those getting cancer treatment actually get cured today.
I try to use open street map over and over again, b/c it has the better data.

But then their site and UX are so bad, I always cry when I use it for the lost effort of so many people.
No, I mean Checked Exceptions. Unchecked Exceptions are the devil and should be abolished.

The inclusion of Unchecked Exceptions is one of the biggest warts on the Java language.
It just so happens that the author is hiring Haskell engineers right now to do related work: https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/642790047163375616
It's amazing to read an article about cancer drug development which doesn't talk about the successful immunotherapies. I know that checkpoint blockade and cellular therapies weren't as widely known in 2010, but it shows how shockingly far research has moved in a relatively short period of time.
This fight for privacy reminds me Don Quixote's attack on windmills.
It gets used in large high-throughput systems.

Just not a lot of need elsewhere, and most of those networks are running proprietary code, so you don't see much about it.
Do feel better now?

Best of luck!
I can't say for sure that I won't ever choose to opt out of the rest of forever, but for now there are things I want to do, places I want to see, people I want to spend time with, or get to know. I'm not universally against death; when anyone chooses to die, that's their choice, modulo some concerns about depression-induced suicide. I'm against involuntary death. I want sufficient medical technology to keep people alive for as long as they choose.

Death may be beautiful. I disagree, but I can see how some people might think that. I hear that the view from the top of mount everest is quite something, but does that mean there's no reason you might complain if someone broke into your house, dragged you off, flew you up there, and dumped you at the top against your will?

I absolutely agree with you that it would be great if we could learn as a society to discuss death more openly. I think that a big part of what might help that happen would be sufficient medical technology that death mostly only happens voluntarily.
This is a well known fact in the pharmaceuticals industry.

For example, here's an article by the Chief Medical Officer of Merck in the Harvard Business Review. It took me all of 10 seconds to find on Google:
https://hbr.org/2014/11/the-real-cost-of-high-priced-drugs
What makes you think there was a code review?
Was about to say all of the same things... Guess MBA mention was just an appeal to authority.
With all the suffering, injustice, unequal opportunity and privilege in the world, this to me is the epitome of narcissism and selfishness.

Would you donate to this rather than to social services for, for example, thousands of homeless children in New York City alone?
It's not that insane when compared to the alternative.
AltexSoft organized the second international conference on Data Science and AI
> In the case of, say, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” you sort of want Hunter S. Thompson to just keep doing drugs, if only so he’ll see more giant lizards.

In the very first paragraph, the author makes abundantly clear that he experienced a major whoosh while reading one of the greatest American novels and drug sagas of all time.

The "Fear and Loathing" books were only about giant lizards, Richard Nixon, or LSD on the thinnest of surfaces - the author needs to re-read.

> What most drug books don’t do is make the reader, upon closing the book, feel as though he or she really ought to think more seriously about experimenting with drugs.

Really? The Invisible Landscape? Food of the Gods? The Human Encounter With Death? The Doors of Perception? The Spirit Molecule? PIKAL: A Love Story?

What exactly is the author reading? Of all the classic "drug books," the only one I can think of that matches the author's description is Be Here Now, which the author does not mention.

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I'm not sure, after reading this review, whether I'm more or less inclined to read Clune's book - probably less.

In this review, such as it is, Lewis-Kraus makes the (sadly still common) mistake of assuming that the reader has an identical understanding of what a "drug" is, and that the category of "drugs" is well-defined and discrete. Are LSD and heroin in the same category of thing? Is sugar in this same category?

It seems useless in this context to compare a book about the highs of heroin with other books that happen to feature "drugs" in completely different contexts or as metaphorical devices.

Reading this, I learned nothing except that pharmacological contrivances still have a grip on the editorial 'we.'
The only thing I would be concerned about is bit torrent sync.
Curves differ by disease. There is no "cancer", just a host of related diseases that each require their own therapy.
Possibly he refers to Permutation City. Absolutely necessary read.
Cryonics is pretty unlikely to succeed! I'm signed up for cryonics through Alcor, and I am not confident at all that there's much chance that I'll be revived post-vitrification. I do it because there's an infinitely greater chance of life after vitrification than there is of life after burial, or life after cremation. I see it as a low-percentage last-chance life support. It's early and underdeveloped and flawed in many ways, but it's still the best (only) game in town for when all other medical technology has failed.
We moved to:

time(NULL) * getpid() * clock()

Thanks!
Except that from thoee, the 'client' never signed any contracf.
I like Go, I've coded a few personal projects in it in the past, and generally like to keep up with the Go scene when I can.

However, I can't help but feel that if people want it to replace Java, then they need to make a robust IDE like IntelliJ or Eclipse.

I'm a Vim user at heart, but when coding in Java I find IntelliJ + IdeaVim plugin to be very productive. It goes far beyond just the classic auto-complete too, IntelliJ does a lot of neat stuff like suggesting updates to the code, or creating fields/methods and refactoring just as a simple key combination.
>There is a sizable fraction of the futurist community who approach cryonics with the pattern identity view of being satisfied with a copy of their mind running in emulation at some point in the future, the original vitrified substrate then discarded

Since we loose continuity when we sleep, is the people waking up "us"? The only reason we say "yes" to that, is because it's the same body -- not because continuity of conscious existence wasn't lost.

>Not very satisfying from the continuity identity perspective; a copy of you is not you.

Consider the classic "Ship of Theseus" way: while the subject is awake, his brain is replaced neuron by neuron by artificial neurons. He is conscious for the whole process.

In the end of the procedure, his whole brain is now an electronic one. We follow the same steps and replace all his body parts.

Now consider that at the same time, the old body is re-assembled from the parts taken out.

Is his new electronic copy or the old one the real "he"?

I'd say, favoring continuity, and since the electronic brain/body remained always conscious as it was being built, whereas the meat-brain got conscious after the transfer was over (brain matter being placed there piece by piece), it's the electronic one that's the real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
People have been going on about mining the ocean floor for decades. The entire industry was arguably born out of a disinformation campaign (see Glomar Explorer) and has been bouncing in and out of fashion ever since. Every new player pulls up some rocks, build a few spreadsheets, and starts arguing commercial viability. Look deeply at those spreadsheets and you will find assumptions that X Y and Z minerals will spike in value because at current prices it isn't worth the effort.

Yes, governments are now selling "permits" but how much has been actually paid? I suspect those buying these permits have yet to fork over any cash. The acquisition of permits seems just a marketing stunt to draw in new investors. And the anger by environmentalists is just yet more publicity.

If ocean mining has a future, it isn't in the depths. Valuable substances can be extracted at the surface.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514751/novel-material-s...
The biggest difference, as of 2015, is that we now have an extremely promising and more coherent research direction in the form of immunotherapy: (1) activating and disinhibiting adaptive immune cells (2) engineering highly active immune cells that target known tumor markers, and mostly recently, (3) personalized therapeutic vaccination against a patient's specific cancer. The first two approaches have already shown significant improvements in survival for several cancer types and there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of combinations and variations worth trying that might extend efficacy to most cancer types.

Specifically, for metastatic melanoma, the "asymptote" of trial survival curves used to be around 0-10% long-term survivors. The first successful immune checkpoint agent, ipilimumab, brought the survival asymptote up to ~15-20%. The next agents, nivolumab & pembrolizumab, brought the survival asymptote up to ~40-60%. The combination of both approaches seems to result in long-term survival for ~60-85% of patients (at the cost of more extreme side effects). That's a tremendous improvement that we've seen over just ~8 years, and in a disease that was previously thought to be intractable.
I've grumped about this before, but fastmail is not great email or calendar; I have a long list of bugs.

For example: just last month I discovered they can't reliably handle calendar events sent from outlook (you know, that tiny calendar server that no business uses). This made a phone screen a huge hassle to schedule. Somehow a meeting request sent as 3pm PDT / 2200 greenwich got loaded into my fastmail calendar as 2pm pdt/10pm bst. It's just flaky.
Take a step back and let your SJW anger fade a bit, then think about it.

Take it back to Reddit, kid.