skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question: what's to salvage from the brain of a terminal brain cancer child? This strikes me as a very silly way to preserve a human being. If they really wanted to give their child a "chance" to live a full life, they should have cryogenized her sooner, no? (It might be illegal, though.)
I was more addressing the implication that because it's racist, we shouldn't do it. And as to generalizing about entire continents, if your goal is to avoid getting mugged on a late night, and you know that on average black people commit more muggings than anyone else, is it not practical to walk to the other side of the street if you see a black man (and that's your only information?)
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So when it's plugged in to power it can send everything? how reassuring, since I pretty much always plug it in when I'm home?

Related, my 'Hey Siri' is only active when the iPhone is plugged in.
The thing that discourages work is (mostly) not the cash grant itself, but the high effective marginal tax rate you get from phasing it out as the recipient earns more. The negative income tax and the earned income tax credit (which is almost the same thing) should actually encourage work among those with low incomes, because the more you earn, the larger the credit.
It is locally convex in the sense that it has no loops

Of course it has loops. But in the scale of the drawing, the loops are lost due to the vast distance from Earth/Moon system to Sun.
Why broken sleep is a golden time for creativity
Erlang in Anger – Erlang ebook [pdf]
The word outrage fully implies otherwise. It's a hyperbole? Then this is how others will respond. QED.
It's awesome site. Thanks :)
Its impossible to imagine how hard it would be to lose a child, but I can imagine why that state of mind makes even the remotest glimmer of hope for reincarnation seem like a good idea.

I thought This American Life's episode on cryonics was riveting, educational and fascinating.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/354/m...
In Alameda County, "extreme" conservation is 35 gallons per person per day. I stopped watering the lawn last season, we have an water-efficient washing machine and dishwasher, and the shower heads are 1.5gpm. We (two) still flush every time and one person takes some pretty long showers -- and we're doing less than 40 gallons per person per day.
As much as I like python 3 I don't think it really matters in this case. Other than the common python pitfalls everyone already knows about, the rest of the book can be applied to most OOP Language. So its really less python 2.7 advice and more general programming advice.
I'm working on a client that helps you seed the file for a while http://diegorbaquero.com/bTorrent/ it's still on alpha stage
A big +1 for DynamoDB + S3 for a cash strapped startup.

If you are writing an app from scratch, and the cost of data services is a big concern, then don't pick a data store with complex and expensive replication properties.

DynamoDB is admittedly harder to understand and use than Postgres or Mongo, but when you figure it out its a HTTP data API with no setup or maintenance costs.

$8/mo of DynamoDB can easily cover your users and other CRUD.
How does he get insurance for this complicated guest-driver matrix?
This is what I was thinking when I read this post - pretty much anything you read online about marketing seems to just be stuff that was already said 80 years ago in that book.
This may be true for human programmers, but compilers also must compile machine generated code, which often looks very different. As an example, I can't remember the source on this, but I have read somewhere that the original C++ compiler (cfront) compiled C++ into C code, and this generated code exposed many bugs in the C compilers of the time, as it was very different than how a human would have written that code.
This is the reason a lot of economists think it would be better to implement the earned income tax credit as a wage subsidy rather than a tax credit. Instead of a getting a big lump sum at tax time, you'd get a bigger paycheck: kind of like a negative tax withholding.
Wasn't HSBC already included in a massive fraud somewhere else? Should they not be seriously sued for that kind of thing?
We'll know if/when China is actually successful in stemming capital outflows because we'll see it reflected in real estate prices in tier 1 North American cities.
Yes, you can always convert direct style code to continuation passing style code. And continuation passing only uses tail calls. This is one of the big advantages of CPS. Of course if you don't have a tail call optimization, then you overflow the stack pretty quick.
> "Error creating WebGL context THREE.WebGLRenderer @ 3.js:421"

Sounds like Chrome is unable to get GPU acceleration. Are you on Linux?
The combined value of all bitcoins is only $4 billion. It would be impossible for this to happen unless the price of Bitcoin increased something like 100x.
What's awful in "La Grande Bellezza"?
Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems (2013)
As far as I can tell, the article committed the most important information: how rigorous is Amazon in ensuring that Echo can not be used to eavesdrop?
It was one of the four OpenGL screensavers 95 had (presumably NT 3.5 had the same bunch). They used opengl32.dll which provided OpenGL with software rendering, IIRC.
GitHub has a new design
There were ideas for submarine launched V2 rockets as well as the Amerika Bomber [1], the He-177 could have dropped a bomb on London.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika_Bomber
if you visit someone and they have one plugged in, treat it as a faux pas.

I might just direct a profanity-laced rant about surveillance at it, on the slim chance that there's actual humans listening on the other side.

...or not, because that could even be enough to arouse suspicion in the world today. This reminds me of a scene in a movie long ago...
While I agree with you, I think I am starting to suffer from a kind of "privacy violation revelations fatigue". I have read the article and thought "so here is another gimmick that steals away a bit of my privacy, so what? no big deal". And that's scary.

The problem is there is no coherent programme on how to counter the privacy-encroachment trend. There is a bit of general dissatisfaction, some idealists urging us to repent and leave the clouds and a good amount of profiteers trying to benefit from that dissatisfaction. Meanwhile the forces behind this trend are organized and powerful.
Does Echo support this type of "networking" today?
Could it be just racism and hatred of immigrants as usual?

They live in military style dorm because they can't afford any better. They are a visible minority, and there's no reason while Keynyans shouldn't be more racist than say Europeans.
I'm on a mobile device so can't view the book. Is familiarity with Haskell is one of the prerequisites to follow this? Thanks!
Presumably there's no way to rename it? There are quite a few humans named Alexa, and I can imagine the confusion that could arise...
Yeah, I didn't mean corpo-world is great, just that it's easy vehicle to do travel. I know people travelling around the world with no degree whatsoever - they are just good at what they are doing and got noticed in corporation..
I don't think privacy is the main issue with this product launch, yes it is a major issue but we had these discussions already with Google Now, Cortana, etc. There's nothing new to discuss.

The main topics I am surprised:

1. Why do I need a dedicated device if any phone can do this too?

2. I think Google is capable of doing way more than Amazon AI-wise since they have more NLP experience and more data about us and the world

3. This is another time that Bezos launches a questionable product which will probably fail (Amazon Fire), the one success in the hardware space of Amazon is the Kindle though
India fears startup bubble about to burst
How to Find the Right Keywords
The serious answer is that resuscitation of cryopreserved humans is not currently possible and has never been done. We have no idea whether anything from the brain or the body is salvageable, nor whether starting sooner or later makes any difference.

Perhaps one way to think about it is that cryopreservation is a modern alternative to a grave burial, and the thing most salvaged is the hope and memories in the family and friends of the deceased.
Flip side:

I get a ton of sales emails each month. Almost no sales calls because I go to lengths to avoid having my number get out there.

In my space, the ad network sales people and ad tech reps almost never add any value to the conversation. I would be better served getting technical documentation as to what actually differentiates them from all of their competitors (usually nothing).

It is an annoyance and an intrusion on my non-existent free time. The worst is when I receive unsolicited swag in the mail that they then feel obligates me to talk to them.

I'd be much happier speaking directly with a sales engineer. At least they can often answer the technical questions I have and not spout some BS answer from a benefits/features matrix.
Because they're cheap and management is inefficient?
>France has seen similar decline despite pretty extreme cultural protectionism.

Despite?
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Has any living person ever had their heart intentionally stopped, been cryonically frozen, defrosted, and revived?

Because if not, then we don't know if it works on people who aren't yet dead. And if we can't do that, what hope do we have for reviving the actually dead?

(I'm aware in rare cases people have been massively cooled down and had their heart stopped for operations, but that's not quite the same.)
It could send everything, but you can do some pretty basic investigation to figure out if it actually does. Spoiler: It doesn't.
Spoiler: two years old.
>there will be little to differentiate your service from any other Amazon hosted/run service.

Besides, you know, your product.

Infrastructure can kill your product if it's awful, but it certainly can't "differentiate" it in a good way.
Right at the top of that section: "Since the latter decades of the 20th century, for political reasons, in English and French, Farsi has become the name of the Persian language as it is spoken in Iran." And a little farther down: "In English, this language has historically been known as 'Persian', though 'Farsi' has also gained some currency."

So I don't think it's as clear as you suggest. I certainly recognize the name "Farsi", though I would not have known "Dari" (the name of the Afghan dialect).
I will happily share all my secrets with such devices.
Just give them the voice of Scarlett Johansson :)
It doesn't have any "lost" loops.
Privacy and security are quite similar when you think about implementation.

With respect to both, it's impossible to achieve it 100%. As the amount of applications running and the nuisance to which they run increase, it gets trivial to break either.

Developers have long agreed that security is an arms race you really can't win. It's easier to break into than it is to secure. What mostly stands in the way of security breaches is that it's generally frowned on to do and, failing that, is illegal.

The same might need to be true (or truer) for privacy. Privacy is harder to make people understand, though, given the muddiness of the area.

Privacy breaches will never be reined in, therefore. We need to deal with the new reality of ultimate transparency. This could be okay as long as everyone has the same access to that information.

Private information access inequality is the issue.
I'm a Unix sysadmin and I describe my job as 50% public relations. Working with other people is a problem so hard we evolved a human brain to do it better.*

* if the social brain hypothesis is true.
"The internet renders business models focused on scarcity and litigation obsolete."

Translation: The whole concept of intellectual property is kind of troublesome for the content aggregators that I invest in and we'd prefer not to pay for any of the media that we sell advertisements around.
Personally, I'm with you on this. Cryonically suspending a person that died from brain damage or debilitating disease has even more fleeting chance for success. Unless there's a chance that at the moment of death the conscience is still there (due to great redundancy in the brain), it might be futile, after all. This is one issue that I believe all cryonics companies and advocates prefer to wholly overlook.

I imagine it should be terrifically hard to let go of your child and 'kill' them preemptively, for them to have a hope of later life. Even if the parents did even consider that option.

As far as I see it, cryopreserving a person that is not legally dead ('cryothanasia'?) might be possible, but no cryonics company has procedures in place to arrange for it and I am not aware of anyone that has been preserved this way. At least, it is necessary to move to a country where voluntary euthanasia is legal and the associated autopsy is not mandatory, and you are on your own with this. [1] This is another issue that cryonics companies and advocates prefer to overlook.

Cryonics is still very niche as it is. People are still very reluctant to arrange for cryopreservation beforehand, as it is. Cryonics companies have their hands full with just continuing to operate and convincing people to use their services. For there to exist people that are fully rational about their own or their loved ones' death, and think about it more deeply than the cryonics companies and advocates, is a whole next step entirely: I am unaware of such people yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_euthanasia
When I inquired about a better chair, I wrote "I'm a big dude and the chair I have now won't last more than month or two with me on it. Do we have options for better chairs? No rush, whenever you have time."

One of the facilities guys came by a couple hours later, said "We have two options for big and tall chairs, want to follow me and you can try out the ones that a couple other people have?" The first one I tried out in someone else's office (they were gracious and said "sure, he can try mine") worked, I said "This one will do". He rolled it in, assembled, into my office the very next afternoon!

Sort of a funny contrast from my first day at my first "real" IT job at an ISP in Oklahoma City in 1995 - "here's a screwdriver, you get to assemble your own desk." That first day happened to also be April 19 - the day of the OKC Bombing. What a first day.... We ended up winning awards for our duct-tape-and-bailing-wire on-the-fly 'Net coverage of the event...

Everyone oohs and ahhs about the perks that Googlers and Facebookers have - but I'm feeling pretty damned spoiled here in Houston.
Flynn co-founder here. We plan to expand to support many more popular open source databases next year (and expose a framework for others to do the same). The goal is that a supported database should "just work" on the platform and be sanely configured out of the box with high availability, automatic failover/recovery, encrypted streaming backups, app credential provisioning, etc.

Our Postgres appliance is unique in that it is explicitly designed to not lose data in the face of failure. Simply wrapping up a database in a container with leader election and replication is not enough, as there are many pitfalls that can cause data to be lost during failures. Of course we are limited by the guarantees the database can provide, so some datastore appliances we build may have clearly defined caveats.

Storing binary blobs is another tricky matter, and we're exploring what we can do with little to no configuration. We currently store app images and git repos in Postgres, which works but will only scale so far.

We are also improving our scheduler so that it is capable of providing the constraints necessary to place stateful services properly.
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I find it pretty hard to navigate at higher resolutions as there's no visible indication of the size of a river or stream after switching from zoom level 100km to 50km.
Another aspect to the problem is that honoring privacy as a human right is a social issue, not a technology issue.

The place to work on solving it (and, like all social issues, it won't be "solved," just "solved for now") is in the public and political spheres. We need to talk about this. We need to have the conversations that describe "what does privacy look like" and "how can we get the benefits from these gadgets while protecting our human rights".

Right now, no one's talking about a world in which you can have your cell phone listening to your conversations, while ensuring that private companies and government agencies can't make use of that willy-nilly. The place where those restrictions have to happen is in the laws we need to develop to keep them all in check.

We can't go back to a primitive, disconnected world, but right now, no one's leading us forward either.
> Your phone battery dies in 3 hours.

I'm not so sure. Passive background network activity happens perpetually on Android and iOS devices now. I'm not saying it doesn't have an impact on battery life, I'm just saying that sending chunks of speech during this time wouldn't have significantly more impact than Gmail syncing in the background.
Can you also add Earth's orbit to the drawing?
Benigni is a class on its own. I think many folks don't really get what he is really trying to say; you can view his movies with a quarter of a brain, but you need all of your heart!
That's not a nightmare. Somebody else caused it, and you aren't to blame.

It's not the code that causes the nightmare, it's the result of the code. Say, a live production system, where something went wrong due to your coding, causing a great irreversible loss. You realize it the moment it happened, and you can't do anything about it.

Closest I got: data inconsistencies in a +5-year old, live core production database of a large company, caused by a coding error. You don't know where it is wrong, you don't have means to fix it (it was wrong from the start), you do know how much was lost because of it. Only 'good' thing was that it wasn't my fault.
This is an amazing book. We need more people with writing capabilities like SPJ. Reading this book is almost like inventing compilers for lazy functional languages yourself. There really is no substitute other than actually doing it yourself.
I've gone back and forth on this with a previous coworker before.

My opinion on it now is: there's two common general ways to use css. One way is as a style class, which is something you'd apply in multiple places around your project (like `.error` setting font colors to red, for example). The other way is to markup specific content so that you can apply specific styles to it - for instance, pixel pushing a header to fit exactly where you think it should in this one instance (perhaps to align an upvote button with a username, or something).

The latter way really seems to just markup dom nodes purely for the sake of identifying them within their structure (I might use BEM or rscss especially for these).

The way I structure my css in projects follows from this - I extract common styles and pepper them throughout my app where needed (but they are never referenced in any js/$ selectors). These are intended to cascade.

And then I will scope my more specific css under a selector (using sass, or cssnext or whatever) to avoid polluting the global scope:

.some-view {
.header { ... }
.note { ... }
.icon { ... }
}

In the case of these nested selectors, they are more identifying tags for the content of the node, than they are declarations of a specific style. These are not intended to cascade.

So even though css classes "exist for styling purposes" I think they have two paradigms for use. One for marking up content for a general application of a style and another for marking a node to be given special treatment.

And taking that approach, I argue it's fair to use the same selectors for js as well as css.

Besides, in practice, you're going to realize you're just adding the same class name appended with `js-` everywhere `<div class='error error-box js-error-box'></div>` when you're using that `error-box` really only to mark the node for use.

Though I'd be curious to hear more about why you think this:

>Using CSS classes for both style and data binding would result in a maintenance nightmare, IMO.
a football powerhouse

That could explain why the women were tired of the topic.
Time Scale Map of Bay Area Rapid Transit
List of selfie related injuries and deaths
Bryan O'Sullivan (Haskell, Facebook) mentioned in a talk that he got into the whole Haskell ecosystem while interning for Simon P.J. (the author of this book) and this book helped him get started back then.
I’m an American, and I very much enjoyed La Grande Bellezza. I thought it was a fascinating glimpse of a world I otherwise know nothing about. It was also a visually engaging movie with some gorgeous scenery and nice camera work.
http://www.wired.com/2012/12/does-the-moon-orbit-the-sun-or-... has a zoomed in drawing
I take a slightly different tactic when arguing for privacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_violence_against_LG...

It wasn't very long ago that the private lives of the LGBTQQ community risked physical violence.

Even today, people risk physical violence for their personal opinions: http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/black-lives-matter-critic-fired-f...

Privacy is the only tool that protects in a society where free speech is not respected. So no, you probably don't have any secrets worth protecting, but others do. It's these victims that matter- and you are turning a blind eye to the defenseless when you are saying your privacy isn't important.
Sorry, not where I live.
It wouldn't hurt, but given this paper predates Haskell by 3 years I think you're safe.

Would be more a history lesson of what eventually led to Haskell. IIRC Miranda might be a more apt comparison.
Black Holes in Space (1988)
That would make sense if it is intended to be welfare.

I could honestly say when I was getting a bigger tax refund than what I paid in taxes, I really didn't know what it was or understand why I was getting it and when it would go away. As a once a year thing that I didn't understand, it had little influence on my thinking about work and I certainly didn't think about it as welfare.

As a more frequent payout I'm certain I would have gave it more thought and it would have an influence on thinking and behaviors. As a working person I'd likely have considered it welfare and would have given it consideration as my pride and ego would have to grapple with that.
I was "a bit" older when I picked up a copy of Slackware back in '95. I was working doing C development on a number of *nix and other platforms (most of which are gone now), and needed something better for working from home than a 16 bit compiler on MS-DOS.

Slackware felt MUCH more powerful than the SCO x86 OS we had at work, and having a desktop GUI was just gravy, rather than worrying about anything being "ready for the desktop".
I don't have that view of HN, it's just that most of us understand that corporations are not evil by default, they are not part of a bigger scheme that wants to enslave the world.

That said, I believe that most HN are very privacy-aware. Indeed one of the reasons Echo wasn't a huge success is privacy invasion.

If you read the latest threads regarding Paris Attacks, you'll see that most HN users are ready to give up security for freedom (if there ever was such a trade-off, I'm not even sure anymore).
The exception proves the rule. A blind squirrel and all that.. (Not comparing Benigni to a blind squirrel but modern Italian cinema.)