skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I did the same investigation myself a few years back, but was frustrated by the lack of the -r flag for shuf(1). It seems that's been added at some point recently (though many of my systems do not have it--GNU coreutils percolates slowly through older Debian/Ubuntu versions. :))

Good to know things are still getting better in coreutils!
This is pretty cool. I currently work at a place that builds a similar solution but for mobile apps effectively using Excel, or Google Sheets as the CMS. It's called AppSheet (https://www.appsheet.com) We've managed to make the "translation" from tables to a mobile paradigm quite efficient. but I see the biggest challenge in applying logic (that many people use in the spreadsheet itself) to the app. Very interesting to see how people use similar solutions. We are moving to Expressions to solve for logic limitations which would make it more robust for an advanced spreadsheet user.
Is "an average user" going to have expensive ramifications from updating from 7 or 8 to 10?
Seconded. DMS is the easiest thing to just drop-in on the Nth cron job you add. Eventually you might need something more complicated for monitoring/outages/etc, and that something is probably either a whole lot of Nagios and bailing wire and/or PagerDuty, but DMS is perfect for "I really need Tarsnap backups to not just silently fail."

I also end up creating a lot of Twilio scripts which are either positive control or negative control for the call/SMS, depending on how critical the thing is that I'm monitoring. For example, one of my sites updates an /api/healthcheck result with a timestamp every five minutes if everything is going peachy, and another box polling that endpoint blows up my phone if it fails to get HTTP 200 and a timestamp within the last five minutes. (This works, but I swear I need to tweak it just a wee bit, as today I had my once quarterly woken-up-at-4-AM-because-gremlins-ate-a-single-HTTP-request.)
This was before Go 1.4, which dropped memory use per goroutine from 8kb -> 2kb. They're fairly close now (minus my leaking goroutines). ;)
US government will require all drone purchases to be registered
Possible, but in the spirit of statistical rigor this could also mean that 7 of your friends dated the same violent woman.
When you say he faced "potential legal problems", what you really mean is that they were threatening to send him to jail, or if he failed to cooperate with the brave boys in blue, they would shoot him. Fines are enforced in essentially the same way: either pay, go to the small box, or die. It is unpleasant to describe things this way, but using euphemisms to assuage our consciences does not change the reality of the system we operate in.
There's usually all kinds of Flash and scripts on porn sites, esp 3rd party. These pose more risk than the main video of a reputable porn site that seeks to keep its viewers. So, as usual, you use NoScript to limit your risk by trying to block third-party stuff where possible. You can also sandbox if you want.
> Until now there was no such correlation with Alzeimher's and Fungi.

The point of the criticism seems to be that with an improper control group, there still isn't such a correlation, just a suggestion of a possibility of a correlation. But it might be a correlation between, e.g., age and fungal infection.

That's why, but for the variables under study, you want your control group to look as much like your experimental group as possible.
Quite so. it would have been better for me to say 'could be read in the light of' as opposed to 'should be..'
> It's too bad they didn't bring the body back to the US. I wouldn't consider Bin Laden to be a Muslim and therefore not deserving of a proper Muslim burial. I see no reason they should have disposed of him and prevented some sort of public verification.

They did not want the body to become a shrine to those who followed the ideology of Bin Laden, and they similarly did not want the picture(s) of his body to be iconography for that ideology. I know a lot of people disagree, but I can see very valid reasoning behind how they disposed of his body.
I was just wrote a zero knowledge architecture section of a whitepaper. For a second there I was so excited to learn a new, simple way to explain it... sigh
The article mentions infection of blood vessels so it seems likely that the fungi make their way into the brain from other sites.

Perhaps the fungi avoid the immune system by being very slow and relatively non-disruptive, and the reduced effectiveness of the immune system in old age allows it to take hold and spread.
Observations on the Double Agent (1962)
Not yet. But it's definitely preferable to have the software architecture figured out before we have commercial quantum computers in need of it.

See Krysta Svore at Microsoft Research's QuArC for a good presentation on the topic. (Also read her paper on quantum deep learning from 2014 just because it is so very cool.)
"The tradeoff is that you have be disciplined in your data entry process...i.e. unique identifiers have to be spelled consistently, as you don't have the ability to enforce constraints or enumeration"

This is a really good point and one I should have included (I wrote the piece above). There is no easy way to validate syntax and spelling in the spreadsheet and we would often find ourselves hunting around, trying to find the typo that was breaking a particular project. We obviously got better at avoiding this situation as time went on, but it made the learning curve all the more difficult for new users.
Foundry Group Urges Boulder to VOTE NO on 300 and 301
Shouldn't the hypothesis be put forth, and destroyed?
Entrepreneur? I've never seen this used before either.
I go by the King's rules: No head? Then he ain't dead.
Is there any relation to the study that suggested AD is diabetes type 3? Insulin resistance + fungi?
Grit is essential for success, but not always good
Twitter is not a public utility and you're mistaken if you believe a centralized service should function as one. I'd rather see a distributed model like SMTP, where organizations would run their own twitter-like service.
Sequencing is getting pretty cheap, so I imagine it won't be too long before someone offers an honest, simple business model based on charging a straightforward cost + profit. 23andme, etc, who sequence at a loss and plan to profit by selling the data however they can, are creepy. Add in that they're creating huge new honeypots of extremely personal information begging to be stolen, and I can't imagine using them.
A great article on securing SSH is "Secure Secure Shell”: https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.ht...
Or Elixir, Clojure, Erlang, F# depending on context they could be a match as well.
Isn't there a huge potential for crowd sourced research platforms to take off and help advance the state of the art?

So far it seems like most studies are done by scientists / academics in a very closed off kind of way, but the true nature of science is open to everyone and with the right platform we might be able to use normal people to gather enough data to confirm or deny our hypotheses in a way that's much more open than the standard study.

Essentially, anyone would be able to test their hypotheses and either help advance scientific knowledge or at least provide extremely interesting markers that could be used as a basis to get funding for more rigorous / controlled studies. This approach obviously won't work well for every kind of question but just as the OP has highlighted: it's particularly well-suited for making self-experimentation more rigorous and I imagine it would work well for the social sciences.

Imagine if we gave independent researchers like Gwern the tools they needed to help answer more questions. If it was designed right: it would also be an incredible learning tool for the scientific method (since you could participate in the experiments + propose new ones.)

Are there any platforms like this in existence, I wonder? U-Uber for science?
“Right now, the wealthy pay too little,” Hillary Rodham Clinton said at this week’s Democratic debate in Las Vegas, “and the middle class pays too much.”

Careful folks, that's focusing your attention to the wrong areas. Look at the (wo)man behind the curtain. A flat-tax is what is needed.
> We've already seen society that only had private welfare - look to our societies before public welfare existed, and you'll see that private welfare was basically a toy.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of confounding variables in that comparison, namely those associated with the passage of time.
We can't ask whether it's justified if we don`t know it's happening.

Investigating a potential problem requires recognition that there may be a problem. That's what's happening here -- investigation. I'm surprised you find that controversial.

Sometimes investigations start with the regulators, and sometimes they start with members of the public.

We shouldn't have to wait for the regulators to change the regulations before we're allowed to ask "what's going on here?" In fact, what reason is there to change any regulation if there's no perception of a problem, nor desire by anybody to see it changed?

You seem to be arguing that anything that is not explicitly prohibited by regulations should be acceptable to the public. If people can't regulate themselves to at least some degree, this means we'd have to explicitly codify all "good behaviour". This is unworkable, and frankly undesirable.
It's reasonably common for LaTeX documents to use PSTricks or PGF/TikZ or Asymptote to specify diagrams as text, within the main document. However, these use textual descriptions of diagrams, rather than ASCII-art pictures of them.

I think before there were GUI tools for editing ladder diagrams [0], there were tools that would read ASCII-art diagrams, and program PLCs with the corresponding logic. However, a quick Google didn't give a source confirming this.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladder_logic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGF/TikZ
PyPy's JIT requires quite a bit of memory. CPython doesn't have a JIT so it doesn't share that problem. However PyPy also has optimizations specifically to keep memory usage down. Especially if you have a lot of objects, it's certainly possible to consume less memory than CPython.

PyPy using less memory than Go does seem weird but depending on how much the GCs differ and how they are configured it could simply be that Go's GC doesn't give up memory as freely to the OS.
Snowpiercer was a brilliant movie. Not the plot, that didn't really matter. And of course there's a lot of rather implausible things going on. But the cinematography, the choreography, the directing, were all fantastic. The axe battle scene in specific was a great homage to Korean films (there's some film in specific it draws from, but I'm forgetting on the name), which makes sense as the directory, Joon-ho Bong, is Korean. The acting was pretty good too, I especially loved Tilda Swinton.

There's also arguments to be made about the philosophical message of Snowpiercer, but I don't think that's particularly relevant to why the movie is great (though obviously others disagree).
>In general people tend to work on greed and fear.

People are pretty flexible depending on their environment. Paulgraham.com/good.html is not totally naive but depends on an environment where evil doesn't prosper too much.
MTK6592 phone w/ 4GB RAM straight from china - $120

paying someone to put CM12 on it/firewall your baseband to data-only - $100

VoIP account that allows for zRTP - $120/year

Asterisk or Yate vps on seychelles cloud server - $200/year

Account with Cryptostorm.org for VPN - $100/year

Paying a Nerd to Configure your phone and PBX to work with all of the above - $200

The above is NSA Grade Security.

Total First-year cost: $840

Recurring Cost each year thereafter: $420
Maybe this: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/07/02/15614221...
RST could do this - but I like Markdeep's simplified way (no "directives")

Now if all editors could come up with a compatible ascii graphic drawing tool that would actually be useable.
> In general people tend to work on greed and fear.
Could we build a system that is based on peoples goodwill or it would be doomed?

Some people work on greed and fear, while some others do work on wanting to improve the world.

In my experiences and observations, the ones who work because they want to improve things were the ones who grew up in stable and loving households and were taught to be nice.
Nice one, I made something initially very similar to what I see you made with grille in drive-db[1]. However I changed from an 'update the data when you call a function' to 'set a maximum-life for the data' format now as I just found myself making that new version manually in every project. The name will be changed from `timetout` to `cache` though as the name is confusing even for me.

When do you normally update the data? Are you using it in any public-facing project?

Also a couple more of differences I've seen:

- I store it in a file then retrieve from file or remote depending on the last time it was retrieved. This gives a mixed performance locally, but remotely not so much as server-server is quite fast. I might try storing in memory as you though, that should be way faster

- I use a mongodb-like syntax for finding, which allows for (I think) simpler use, but your syntax for sure allows for simpler debugging as you can see the data 'as-is'.

- Grille allows for more flexibility, but it also looks more complex. So our demo files are completely different [2]

So basically every advantage has a disadvantage (:

[1] https://github.com/FranciscoP/drive-db
[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fvz34wY6phWDJsuIneqv...
my son would be asleep after reading this
A general correlation between age and fungal infection might be even more significant, since that suggests a path to reduce the effects of aging in general. Either way, a follow-up study to remove those control flaws and hone in on the cause would be necessary.
Even with an improper control group, the fungi-Alzheimer's correlation still exists. There may be another factor which is causing the correlation (a so-called 'dreaded third thing'), and the correlation may not indicate causation, but the correlation still exists.
Yeah, they have become more strict over the last 2 years. Mentorships is another thing they value less
The discovery: " This is the passport of Satam al Suqami. A passerby picked it up and gave it to a NYPD detective shortly before the World Trade Center towers collapsed."

> ... Two of the passports that have survived, those of Satam al Suqami and Abdul Aziz al Omari, were clearly doctored. To avoid getting into classified detail, we will just state that these [passports] were manipulated in a fraudulent manner in ways that have been associated with al Qaeda. ...

http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/archive/hearing7/9-11Comm...

Surrounding statements seem to contradict that, such as "And yet between 1992 and September 11th, 2001 we have not found any signs that intelligence, law enforcement or border inspection services sought to acquire, develop or disseminate systematic information about al Qaeda's or other terrorist groups travel and passport practices." How did they know the manipulations were al Qaeda's if nobody had been tracking their techniques for years? I guess it can be squared by presuming they cataloged some information post-9/11 (possibly including "training manuals recovered in the mid 1990s") that had been available before but not closely examined. I wonder if the determination of what al Qaeda passport techniques look like was a bit circularly-defined or sloppy, since they had little information to start with and concluded the investigation quickly.
IMO a better introduction to ZKPs is http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/zero-knowled...
The discovery, if corroborated by others, could indeed be huge but I'm afraid it wouldn't open up new treatment options anytime soon.
Fungal infections inside the body are really really hard to treat in the first place. Add to that the blood-brain barrier which makes it very hard to treat any type of infection in the brain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%E2%80%93brain_barrier#Fu...

Combination of these two factors sadly means that short of major breakthroughs in fungal antibiotic research or in drug delivery to the brain, Alzheimer is not likely to suddenly become more treatable even if the fungal infection theory proves to be true.
Why not just sign up with a fake name, like I did?
Another recent discovery, that of the existence of a meningeal lymphatic system, makes this finding all the more interesting. As far as I know, fungus is in the set of foreign bodies that the adaptive immune system does the least about. Instead, the body mostly removes fungus by mechanical lymphatic clearance.
Feature suggestion: allow people to comment on individual tasks (in addition to just tags).
If you're problem is that you're memory bound, using a language that allows precise control over memory allocation and layout is certainly a good idea.

The constant conflict might be annoying but using Rust or even C++ would certainly be a very reasonable choice.
I can't wait for these services to be free so I can be the product.
The way I deploy Python apps at $EMPLOYER:

- CI system detects a commit and checks out the latest code

- CI system makes a virtualenv and sets up the project and its dependencies into it with "pip install --editable path/to/checkout"

- CI system runs tests, computes coverage, etc.

- CI system makes a output directory and populates it with "pip wheel --wheel-dir path/to/output path/to/checkout"

- Deployment system downloads wheels to a temporary location

- Deployment system makes a virtualenv in the right location

- Deployment system populates virtualenv with "pip install --no-deps path/to/temp/location/*.whl"

The target node only needs a compatible build of python and the virtualenv package installed; it doesn't need a compiler and only needs a network connection if you want to transfer wheel files that way.
What about RC model planes? Do they have to be registered too now?
No, as a founder you can forget to get a H1B visa, even 2 years in. Unless you have a legit board of directors and you can demonstrate you could potentially be fired, they will argue that you started the company to employ yourself and get yourself a visa that way.
Well, think twice. Just by incarceration rate alone you can tell that the US govt is more dangerous to its own citizens. I'm also much more likely to be shot by a cop in the US than in Russia. Russia also doesn't execute people (there's a moratorium on capital punishment). What else do you need to know?
Rocket Men: Analyzing the breath of critically ill children at warp speed
I dunno. Cron is particularly bad. Want a sane looking cron? You'll probably end up writing a wrapper script to handle stdout/err. Every time I deal with an annoying dev or proprietary binary, my crons turn to a total mess.

Also:
/home/on_a_phone/parse_today.sh `date +%Y%m%d`

Will fail catastrophically because cron treats '%' as a newline character for some silly reason. Have fun troubleshooting that one!

Side note - clean your damn leap second crons, Steve!
Code Documentation Written as Code
I use and like both too; webapps in python (django/flask) and microservices in go. My systems also use some large programs written in go but more like black boxes (nsq, heka, influxdb).
I think it's a combination of it being difficult/expensive to get inside the brain, limiting such exploration to only the most severe cases, and also a latent bias in western culture to buy into Mind-Body Duality. The idea that the Mind is separate from the Body is still prevalent, and has an insidious effect on many people's judgement: even people who are trained otherwise.
The proposed "box truss" is sometimes called a Vierendeel truss and has been used occasionally in modern architecture. The omission of diagonal members means that the joints must be rigid (not pinned), complicating the structural calculations because the structure is then statically overdetermined. It's a promising design I think, compared to the clunky garden bridge proposed for London.
"You also imply that just because none of those people act like that, that the ENTIRE industry must be the same."

I never said anything remotely close to the thing you are saying above. Even if I did, the OP said the opposite thing based on a much smaller sample size and of course none of you have any issue with that....? I said that I know hundreds of recruiters and they don't act like this. In contrast, the OP said that he knows a couple recruiters and they do act like this. How on earth could you possibly go with the "yeah, that OP guy is spot on! But man, this other guy who knows way more recruiters and is making the opposite generalization that doesn't make it as easy for us to get mad at faceless strangers is full of shit!" line of logic...?

"I'm WASPY as they come and your arguments are so privileged it's not even funny."

Huh? What are you referring to? Again, the OP wrote a long rant about how all recruiters should be avoided because a few are bad. I then said I know a lot and that I've had the opposite experience. So, you actually believe that ripping a bunch of faceless strangers is NOT privileged but simply defending them is...? What. The. Fuck?
I wrote a comment in another subthread but basically that's not likely to happen anytime soon due to two factors. 1) currently available antifungals (for internal fungal infections) are not nearly as powerful and quick as we think of "regular" antibiotics to be even in the organs that get plenty of medicated-blood supply and 2) Blood-brain barrier means that it's hard to deliver any medications to the brain tissue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%E2%80%93brain_barrier#Fu...)
It wasn't a cop who found it.

>Suqami's passport was found by a passerby (identity unknown), reportedly in the vicinity of Vesey Street, before the towers collapsed.
Is there any good open source distributed scheduler that blends both timer based tasks and event based tasks?

Chronos is the only one I'm aware of, but I don't believe it supports event based tasks.
But that requires a significant new effort for each individual. It has been possible to do Facebook-level surveillance for millennia, if you knew who you wanted to follow in advance, and paid someone to follow them. You could even save the information for later use. Facebook essentially pays people in trinkets to surveil themselves, and stores the results forever. The sequencing companies are trying to "unlock value" in an analogous way for DNA.
tl;dr:

Hersh’s most consequential claim was about how bin Laden was found in the first place. It was not years of painstaking intelligence-gathering, he wrote, that led the United States to the courier and, ultimately, to bin Laden. Instead, the location was revealed by a ‘‘walk-in’’ — a retired Pakistani intelligence officer who was after the $25 million reward that the United States had promised anyone who helped locate him. For that matter, bin Laden was hardly ‘‘in hiding’’ at all; his compound in Abbottabad was actually a safe house, maintained by the Pakistani intelligence service. When the United States confronted Pakistani intelligence officials with this information, Hersh wrote, they eventually acknowledged it was true and even conceded to provide a DNA sample to prove it.
working on your US company, or your foreign company, is not allowed when you visit the US on a visa waiver. You are allowed to represent your foreign company, look for partners/customers, do marketing, visit conferences etc. But not be "productive"
I think Safari may already have disabled DHE.