skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you truly believe American democracy is so far gone that it's comparable to 'democracy' in the former Soviet Union? For me, I honestly couldn't say with any certainty (I'm not an American).

From an outsider's perspective, I don't perceive American elections as being anywhere close to one-candidate Soviet Union elections. Heck, even the 'primaries' process that your major parties use to select presidential nominees seems to create greater scope for the public to influence outcomes.

Not that the US system is without its problems:

- Administratively, the way US elections are run is worthy of a third world banana republic. I find it astounding that gerrymandering and 'vote caging' are routine occurrences in a country that espouses such a strong belief in democracy.

- 'First past the post' is a terrible voting system that guarantees a 2 party system. However, so does Ranked preference/Instant run-off voting (despite what its advocates think).

- US public political discourse does seem to be influenced, to a relatively greater degree, by powerful private interests and god knows who else...

- [This is a bit controversial] Voluntary voting leads to worse outcomes compared to compulsory voting. The greatest virtue of CV is that politicians are forced to consider minorities or cohorts that would otherwise have low turnout rates under voluntary systems.
See also: horseless carriages, flight, splitting atoms.
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France and Germany.

With the EU tax money only Exalead emerged (web search engine) which got bought by Dassault Systèmes: https://www.exalead.com/search/
> getting rid of fear is foolish

Name one instance of sensibility in retaining fear-response in this modern world.
Yes, this technique isn't intended for general-purpose synchronization. In particular it's not for offline synchronization. It's about something like Google Docs where everyone is online and lots of small diffs happen quickly. If there's a conflict, you can see it happening in real time and can easily correct it.
Yes, I live in Chiapas and we have confirmed cases already.
Air resistance is a very minor issue for rockets. Long/thin things are very slippery and once at 10-20-30,0000 meters the air is basically gone.

Jumping off the elevator from LEO altitudes would still require one to fight gravity, to avoid dipping back into the atmosphere before getting to orbital velocities. So there are still gravity-related losses to account.
The problem is, in a world, where profits are the most important thing and everything else is secondary, human life does not count -- even when human health is destroyed, it can be good -- to increase the profit margins of some corporations.
https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
KitKat is the most used version of Android (36%). More than all versions of 5 and 6 combined.
Ask HN: Any event sourcing systems that use source files for persistence?
I've been thinking about event sourcing while also trying to whittle down the number of languages in play in my stack.

It occurred to me that if you're doing event sourcing, you could just persist actual source code that replays the log, i.e. just dump something like this to the filesystem and keep appending to it:

createUser("rbg@scotus.gov", "dj85jig")
createUser("knope@nps.gov", "b85kee6")
befriend("dj85jig", "b85kee6")

It seems like people usually persist to a traditional database, which gets you acces to that whole ecosystem of tools. But source files seem like a natural fit for event sourcing and I'm curious if there are examples of this approach in use? Cautionary tales?
More Turing-completeness in surprising places
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> an authoritative encyclopedia of business models

Yes, such a high-level overview would be valuable, if only to provide business model names/types for web searches. Along those lines, there is a small book called "The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking", oriented to individual decisions. Each model receives a introduction and illustration, http://www.amazon.com/The-Decision-Book-Strategic-Thinking/d...
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It's amazing how few sites are using these techniques to measure their user experience. Less than 1% of sites in the HttpArchive.
That's really not the problem that Flint had, it's quite possible to treat water so that it's potable and in fact the water leaving Flint's treatment plants was perfectly drinkable. The problem is that Flint hadn't operated it's own water supply for 40 years and the people in charge thought that having drinkable water leave their plant meant that their job was done. But really preventing the water from rusting the iron main pipes and dissolving lead from the distribution pipes requires another layers of work involving controlling pH and other stuff that wasn't being done.
BGPStream [1] and RIPEstat[2], indicate that they also briefly announced prefix 87.23.14.0/24, belonging to a major Italian telco.

[1] https://bgpstream.com/event/17606

[2] https://stat.ripe.net/widget/announced-prefixes#w.resource=A...
Once the conversation shifts from performance to prestige and image, you're back to my original statement, which is about something existing primarily to have its purchase price shared.

Your car example is perfect. If performance was the only metric the buyer of a Pagani cared about, he'd have bought a ZR-1 Corvette. But because anyone with a six figure income and a 730+ FICO can buy a Vette, the gazillionaire buys the Pagani, something that exists (in part) because it projects the buying capability of it's owner.
Not really good reasons. It's just difficult to find them in Finland. All available shafts and chucks are about 30e individually. You can buy decent looking electric drill with that same 60e, so it sounds like ripoff.

Meanwhile any yanks should enjoy their big internal market. :P
This article is a piece of garbage.
These sorts of pithy and sweeping bromides are almost never universally applicable, and relying on them for important decisions is usually a sign of intellectual laziness. Fred points to one case it was applicable, but you could easily point to cases where it isn't (ex: ridesharing).

As for what happened to Tacoda post-acquisition, it wasn't pretty[0].

0: http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/01/aol-shutters-tacoda-merger...
Sure, if the whole document fits on a napkin, maybe.

Could you always spot a conflict in real time if 15 people are plugging away at a 500 page document?

It is quite hard for just one person to produce a big document, and hunt down all the inconsistencies.
We need something what Linux is to Unix, but for the Windows 10 problem.

They could sponsor Wine and ReactOS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS
Yes, we do now have far better onboard sensor suites and logging than in decades past.

And this can provide incredible amounts of information, and get us closer to the source of issues much faster. Many times, it makes the issue immediately obvious and documented.

HOWEVER! Do NOT make assumptions and fool yourself into thinking this is a cure-all. There are many problems that, while the logged sensor data narrows it down and provides clues, it can sometimes either not provide the critical clues, or can even be misleading. Yes, sometimes adding more sensors focused on the issue may help, but not always.

Sometimes it is just down to the hard work of finding the peculiar circumstances and interactions that cause previously unknown failure modes.

Been there, done that (UAV & motorsport systems), seen lots of very smart & experienced engineers stumped for way longer than you'd expect.
It's not unusual to be downvoted for factual posts by people who disagree with said facts.
Agreed. This is about "curing" disease, about dealing with abnormal fears. There is already a drug for numbing one's self to everyday fears: beer.
Even your comment makes it look scammy, without even knowing exactly what your site does. Your account is fairly new, and every comment you have ever made includes a link to your site. You are talking about raffles and winnings, and using bots to enter sweepstakes. The negative feedback you shared here looks like reasonable feedback, and nothing you say contradicts it.
I don't think your summary is accurate.

It is more than relieving "the trigger emotion". According to the linked study, there is an ending of the conditioned fear-response itself:

"Disrupting reconsolidation of fear memory transformed avoidance behavior into approach behavior in a virtual binary fashion—an effect that persisted at least 1 year after treatment"

... which ending naturally segues into approaching.
Great write up. But does this mean that Google doesn't hold themselves to project zero's 90 days before disclosure?
(Or have they realized that 90 days really isn't enough time?)
I don't think that would actually be a million times better.

If we want to get to the reality where confidence in the efficacy of things is well-founded on rigorous experimentation and analysis, then we need to get there, one step at a time. Instead of tearing people down and saying that their efforts to improve themselves is crap, you could be offering constructive criticism. Even just bring up one question that would have made it a better experiment, so that when a reader here decides to copy him, they can do it better. Maybe they'll even share their personal experience and propagate more experimentation? If enough people do that, maybe collectively we'll one day have the interest and funding to have better studies done.

Would you rather he have not done the build, not shared it with the internet? Maybe he could have been more like the status quo and consumed someone else's product, quietly?

This post and your post yesterday where you argued 2700K screen temperature late in ones day is NOT less straining than 5800K, because if that were true, movie theatres would play all their movies with screens at 2700K... makes me think you're not really interested in people improving their quality of life, you just want to argue.
I've often heard that benefit mentioned, but not at all in the context of AI. Rather, it's usually in the context of applying any kind of statistics or data analytics to a field previously devoid of it (e.g. Moneyball).

I don't understand why this would be a benefit of AI.
Are there any examples of companies refusing to provide the requested data to the NSA other than lavabit?
You need to cross a busy street. You could cross in the middle and get to your destination faster, but your fear of getting hit impels you to go to the crosswalk instead. That wasn't even hard.
The article says, "His conclusion: The space elevator could be built with existing technology—minus the super-lightweight tether necessary to make the whole thing work." In other words, it cannot be built with existing technology.

NASA uses the idea of "Technology Readiness Level (TRL)" [1] to help assess speculative technology, the (obvious) idea being that each stage of deployment of a technology relies on passing tests at previous stages.

On this scale, it's not clear to me that space elevators are at TRL1 ("basic principles observed and reported") yet. Space elevators depend critically on having a material that's strong enough to build the cable. Feasible designs for climbers, debris avoidance systems, power transmission and so on, can't make up for the lack of this critical component.

[1] http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/trl/trl.pdf
Is it just me, or does "scientific overreach" sound like a terrible euphemism?

If the same people were on late-night TV peddling this, I doubt we'd be calling it "overreach".

For those of us who truly love science, it's important to treat these things exactly the same, whether it's a newspaper article, TED talk, or "Incredible Mysteries" TV show. Being mealy-mouthed isn't doing anybody any favors.
Just built it on 15.10 and it will segfault when I do "sourceweb index" but will run fine "sourceweb ./index", seems like a path is mandatory.

All in all this is not as feature complete as source navigator, which is old but works for me better still.
See this comment for a link to start with for patents in general: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962996

To my knowledge, empirical evidence that incumbent patent holders in the software industry are suppressing innovators is mixed. This paper from 2006 claims no ill-effects have been felt: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=926204

Another 2005 studies also suggests that patent thickets do not prevent the creation of young firms, and the use of patents may actually help startups: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=510103

On the other hand, this 2006 study finds that product areas with patent thickets see fewer new entrants: http://www.nber.org/papers/w12563 -- Interestingly, this paper also finds that startups with patents of their own are much more likely to enter a patent-infested product area.
I also agree. There is a significant difference in treating anxiety vs. nullifying fear. PTSD is trauma induced conditioning and the result is irrational, but expected. Primordial instinctive fears are required for survival of all living things. e.g. fight or flight, reflexive reaction to danger, etc...
Oh come on, there's absolutely no reason for Russia to use a large Russian industrial company to perform BGP hijacking.

Nobody would be bringing up state sponsored attacks if it was a random US manufacturing company doing this.
a large problem and reason why ACH's are so slow, revolve around the lack of real time fund validation.

it doesnt exist. Returns (NSF's) create a huge issue and lag in the entire process
That is also pathological http://www.wired.com/2010/12/fear-brain-amygdala/
That's debatable - look at the late 90s early 2000's. They were playing catchup. Now, it appears they are setting the tone.
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Thanks for the link. Just fixed the issues with KitKat. A new release compatible with KitKat should be available soon.
I believe you have misread my post. I see no issue with geostationary orbits. I'm talking about the low earth orbits on which we so depend.
Truly a terrible disease. The fear associated with it must be horrible for pregnant women. I wonder if the warning would be the same if the virus had killed or disfigured 4000 newborns instead of affecting fetuses. We seem to put more emphasis on the health of a fetus than anything (prenatal supplements, mother's habits, etc).
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The same Swarm Intelligence predicted the Superbowl Contenders here: http://unanimous.ai/unusuperbowlpicks/
>When people argue that not everyone needs to learn to program, I contrast it to the idea that not everyone needs to learn to read.

Programming is active/productive. Reading is semi-active/consumptive. The proper analogy would be the idea that everyone needs to learn to write well.
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I really like this demo, but it reliably crashes a mid 2012 macbook pro with lion, both on firefox and safari (the older version of the demo was the same).

Now, reading the other comments, i wonder if there are any tools that help with diagnosing device capabilities?
I don't have high hopes of integrating anything WebGL related in my projects due to these problems, so how can you make sure that WebGL code will work across devices?

Edit: How can you make sure you notice when it's not working?
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Not really this is like saying that It would be more cost effective to build jumbo jets instead of sail boats in the 15th century.
Even if an alien descended from the sky and gave you the materials to build it we don't have a single analogy as far as the actual engineering and construction process goes to even begin drawing blue prints.

So yeah in the "long run" it might be more cost effective but it's irrelevant you can say the same thing about any hypothetical technology but you can't stop spending money in the mean time if nothing else we need to be able to be really good at launching extremely heavy payloads and building stuff in micro-gravity before we can even begin to start dreaming about how to build a space elevator. We also need rockets that can go out quite far and come back with a huge payload like a small asteroid for the anchor and even most likely have to master asteroid mining for the raw materials for any potential space elevator. My bet is that it may become feasible around 2250-2500 (yes I know this is a 250 years window :)) if it's possible at all (because when all said and done even carbon nano-tubes aren't good enough they are a good candidate and most likely will be used but we need much stronger composites than what carbon-nano tubes alone can offer).
[...] the arachnophobes who were exposed to the spider and given the drug were able to touch the tarantula within days and, by three months, many felt comfortable holding the spider with their bare hands [...]

Meditation in a pill?! Where do I sign up?
One doesn't. Its already in orbit, but not travelling fast enough. As it trends downward, it gains velocity until it reaches stable orbit. If the maths were done correctly, that will be the desired orbit. If the maths are in error, an opportunity for experience is gained.
At least over here, Irwin still sells brand new auger bits for two-jaw chucks. I inherited some bits and braces and they're completely compatible.

A picture of the collection I have - includes quite a few eggbeater / chest drills, hand braces, and a bunch of other hand woodworking tools.

http://i.imgur.com/rZIj2zl.jpg
Is there any chance that ASLR would put libcamera_client.so in a lower memory location than get_input_buffer_size so you couldn't increment the pointer to reach it?
My system (Chrome/X11/GNU/Linux) completely hung up when viewing http://js1k.com/2015-hypetrain/demo/2179 ... Anyone else experience this?
It isn't so much that it is killing many. It isn't. The problem is that these babies are being born relatively healthy, but with debilitating mental/brain deficiencies that will follow them and their families for decades.
Yeah, Lawvere has attempted to formalize dialectics into category theory via the theory of adjoint modalities. Whether or not that is a full and faithful interpretation of Hegel isn't something i can determine or argue but the notion leads to interesting synthetic mathematics.
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Weren't they having good success in clinical trials using MDMA in a similar manner?
I was thinking the same thing.

It sounds like that name is implying science shouldn't be touching this, as if it's over science's reach and it's going for it anyway.
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Is that an excuse for a chipmunk crossing the road? Seriously, as a member of intelligent species you don’t need fear to inhibit yourself from doing such a senseless and risky act of crossing in the middle of a busy street. A rephrasing of Hanlon’s razor is appropriate here: “Never attribute to lack-of-fear that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” Indeed, normal people with fear intact perform such risky acts on a daily basis (i.e., despite being fully capable of fear); I was raised in India, where busy streets with erratic traffic patterns are usual, so I should know.
Scanning source code for issue links and printing there statuses
Howdy.

Humble neuroinformatics lab knave here. While it's nice that you've made your data available, you might want to reconsider including the PHI. Many researchers are not interested in your phone number / where you live past the recruitment stage, and even then that information is kept confidential in accordance with IRB policies and HIPAA. The only data that a researcher might want to know is whether there are any phenotypes associated with your data (e.g., autism, ADHD, other stable traits, etc) or, in the case of task-related data, when certain blocks or events started/stopped and for how long. Even with phenotyping data, we are very cautious about how we go about sharing since we don't want to violate anyone's privacy (see here: http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/enhanced/sharing.ht...). This is very important for individuals with conditions that are stigmatized in society- we don't want to make someone's life worse by outing them as being autistic, bipolar or depressed for instance.

In light of what I've said above, I will also express my disagreement with your philosophy. I do not believe that is natural for information to converge to a single point- in fact, many corporations rely on information asymmetries to gain an upper-hand in the market. The internet may reduce such information asymmetry, but it is unlikely that it will eliminate it completely (unless humanity turns into the Borg and creates a hive mind). Indeed so long as human thought is decentralized with separate minds in separate bodies, information asymmetry will remain the default.

Moving along, I want to note that a chief goal of science is to seek truths that are generalizable to the population at large. A single DTI series isn't really useful for achieving that goal since you can't determine how it relates to scans from a number of other participants(i.e., a 1st-level analysis is not a 2nd-level analysis; a case study is not a wider truth about cognition). In that sense, it might be better to see if there is a databank willing to accept your scan and donate your data to that so that you could be part of a broader sample.

More pragmatically, you might also want to consider using the NifTI format for your data, since this is the format that researchers use when processing data in various neuroimaging suites (i.e., Freesurfer, AFNI, SPM, FSL, etc). You may also want to consider organizing your data according to the Brain Imaging Data Structure standard, as many datasets are moving towards this (http://bids.neuroimaging.io/) and software tools are being written to take advantage of this structure.

Finally:

Under no circumstances was this done in the name of art.

That doesn’t mean that it can’t contribute to art (:P)- http://www.neurobureau.org/galleries/brain-art-competition-2...
That's a great question! I didn't cover this in the blog post, but there is a primitive identical to the increment-by-one presented there, which allows me to decrement-by-one as well (I've gone into more detail in the exploit code: https://github.com/laginimaineb/cve-2014-7920-7921)