skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool that you have time to update us. :)
Because the linked site seems flaky - no references. A google search for the title of the 'Harvard paper that is about to be published' only returns that site.
Go to bitbucket, or self-host, or find some other shiny new competitor. The market speaks with its feet.
This research seems to indicate that if you already have cancer, antioxidants may accelerate its growth. It doesn't address the commonly held belief that antioxidants prevent cancer.
I understand the argument. What I'm asking about, is whether or not it would negate the positive effects of a basic income. The people who argue against the idea of a basic income often use this argument as evidence that it can't possibly work.
If one wants to get a sense of how far things are, it's probably more helpful to imagine all bodies besides the moon as being infinitely far away.

At 4km per hour, it takes 11 years of continuous walking to walk the distance between Earth and the Moon; 4252 years to the Sun; 214041 years to Pluto; 1.17 billion years to Alpha Centauri.

Assuming single celled organisms travel very slowly, that means if you have been walking your entire lifetime to Alpha Centauri, and your parents did the same and gave birth to you on their way to Alpha Centauri, and their parents gave birth to them on their way to Alpha Centauri, ancestors all the way back to the first biotic life form, you'd be just about arriving, now.

It does also mean, the sum of all distance traveled by all lifeforms on Earth is longer than the distance between Earth to Alpha Centauri and back by quite a few times, that can likely be measured in the billions.
Being ranked #1 in a Google search for 'calendar' does mean a lot. Also, let's say they are penalizing themselves, but the penalty isn't enough to change their ranking. Why, then, would they claim that they are making this change because it's better for users to not have these ads but to still run these ads themselves?

> Our analysis shows that it is not a good search experience and can be frustrating for users because they are expecting to see the content of the Web page.

https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/09/mobile-f...

This would imply that they know the experience is bad for users, they know that the penalty won't hurt their ranking, and so they will continue to show the bad experience regardless? That's just as bad as them not penalizing themselves for the full page ad.
Yeah, got that too. Maybe time to go to bed.
This was basically my train of thought:

"Damn! I'm tired of fighting installing cordova/ionic. WTF is happening now? Oh Github is down... okay that's new"
Someone should make a distributed version control system.
Everyone pretty much has basic income by the standards of a poorer place or time. The issue is people adjust their expectations based on what other people have. So things like air conditioning would have once been considered a luxury are now considered a necessity by many. People will likely feel poor if the average income is much higher than what they have. To get rid of the feeling of poverty one would need to make income more equal, but we know that's not so great: http://paulgraham.com/ineq.html
What can startups do to help increase prosperity for everyone? Help get money out of politics. This is fundamental. In the current state, all policies are tilted towards the most prosperous among us. We all know this. We need our public servants to be incentivized to work towards the public good. This is the foundation without which all else is futile.
You get what you pay for. Having been a former indinero customer, you can't outsource positions that need a skilled individual's labor for a fixed price assigned to a constantly changing labor pool. What you get back is crap. Whether it's law or finance focus on finding someone good to work with, not on a firm with a rotating cast of employees.
Mount Google Drive Storage Under AmigaOS
It will be interesting to see how much of that revenue came at Google's expense.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10983747, which has the more active discussion. Normally we'd prefer the earlier submission (which this one was by a few minutes), but that one is ranking higher on the page, which suggests that people found the original source more informative.
This interview snippet (only 4 minutes long) with the CEO Elizabeth Holmes is a revealing look into the mind of a possibly crazy person (crazy with power).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBs-oj7U-bo
If people are going to depend on github being up for their CI workflows, etc., there should be serious effort expended at the network and cache layer to be suitably reliable. It's probably fine to not be able to do developer-level actions for hours, but even a 5m outage in deploying other systems is unacceptable for most businesses.
This. I would've written the same by mistake.
Ha, thanks :)
Help me find an abandoned city and rebuild it.

Work with the government to get us experimental-close-to-full authority on our laws so that we may rewrite and change them dynamically.

We pull Social Contract.

We share everything. Money is only used to transact with others outside our city limits.

Software.
First, I have to admire the audacity of you using a lifelong academic, who is an employee of the Ministry of Education, to further a point about entrepreneurship.

Second, show me a proof that there is a societal benefit of having a majority of high risk taking entrepreneurs within a country, or even that any country can sustain an artificially high number of entrepreneurs.

Third, if you actually bothered to look up the observatoire de la création d'entreprise you would have seen that the number of created businesses has steadily increased, and is being supported more and more by our lagging, yet trying to evolve, government.
Founder of Clerky here - trust me, we're working on it ;)
But no one can do anything to generate new webhooks.
I rephrased my comment a bit, because "privacy" versus "limiting government power" is a false dichotomy. The former is one avenue of the latter. And by saying that limiting power is somewhat ineffectual, I'm referring to the shorter term when a government will attempt to take all the power they can in an emerging area (eg mass surveillance), and only later be slowly pushed back as society slowly learns why the specific concentration is a bad approach.

> We have a way to change it. It's called "democracy".

Except that "democracy" describes the situation I outlined where the majority tyrannizes the minority. You're really saying that the way to change it is to simply wait, which is a complete disservice to anybody persecuted in the past, or anybody being persecuted today for things that are "still" unpopular.

If you believe progress is truly inevitable, why are you bothering to discuss this? IMHO, the way progress is created is through specific instances of people fighting for it. And a meta-issue like privacy is what enables those on the forefront to be the social change before it is accepted. You'd have no gay marriage if sodomy laws were enforced effectively.
another hypothesis is that spin-coupled electrons preferentially and directionally emit photons from a cryptochrome protein. But tbh, we don't really know yet.

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/cryptochrome/
That would be awesome, unfortunately it is not possible yet.

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_RS6361A_specifi...

> Supported PCIe Cards: Any Thunderbolt Aware PCIe cards including Audio, Video Capture, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and Storage/RAID controller cards

No GPU support.
Fortunately humans are creative and intelligent enough to devise games where they still have the upper hand.

* Arimaa 17281 branching factor
* Connect6 46000 branching factor
* Nymbat 10^9 branching factor
* Shogi
* Crazyhouse chess

More info:
http://en.chessbase.com/post/computer-resistant-chess-varian...
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/
http://www.cjgames.com/index.php?page=nymbat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_complexity
http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/games/
http://senseis.xmp.net/?OtherGamesConsideredUnprogrammable
I wonder how many origin2->bitbucket are being created right now.
>It boggles the mind that an advertising company is the most important company in the world

>I don't trust Google at all

I'm sure that you would prefer that a maker of phone trinkets to have the label as the most important company in the world, but Google is much more than just a "advertising company".
I would love basic income.

I could just stay and play computer games all day =) Relax and go out!
Yes, this is a nice recent advancement. The GNU Guix project will likely be using this motherboard for their build farm.
Not sure any startup can fix the fundamental problem that technology moves too fast for evolution. Came from a long line of big, strong, not-too-bright people? You're kind of screwed. Not much call for that anymore.
There was an error in ionic with Github's error, but I cannot create a new issue :P

Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-app-base/archive/master.zip
x Invalid response status: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-app-base/archive/master.zip (503)
Error Initializing app: [object Object]
errorHandler had an error [TypeError: Cannot read property 'error' of undefined]
TypeError: Cannot read property 'error' of undefined
...
I really do not need help with my relationship to Hacker News. As best I can tell, I have the highest karma of any openly female member. But it hasn't resulted in the kinds of professional contacts I had hoped for. Getting to the position I have achieved has involved a great deal of work, most of it "behind the scenes."

The point I am trying to make is not about my relationship to HN. The point I am trying to make is that the biggest barrier to success is a million-and-one unquestioned assumptions about how someone is supposed to behave and about how people interact with them.

I spent some time reading articles about lottery winners. About 2/3s of people who win the lottery are bankrupt within 5 years. In most cases, it does not solve their financial problems. If anything, it seems to multiply their problems.

People at the top who worked for it or grew up with it know a great many things about who to trust, how to invest, how to downplay your success and so many other things that poor people do not know. Giving them money doesn't convey any of that. Furthermore, when people believe that money per se is the problem and you give them money, you demotivate them from trying to solve the actual hard problems that do exist.

Often, financial problems are clues to something going wrong and also serve as a motivator to overcome your problems. I am not in the least concerned about stigma. I am concerned about removing valuable information from the system and making it radically more difficult to figure out what is going wrong, thereby making it harder to fix the problems because we are blind to them.

People often do not bother to change bad habits if they can continue to pay the bills. Alcoholics often continue to drink if it isn't ruining them financially, even though it is ruining their health and their lives in so many other ways.

One of the hardest things in the world is to get people to change entrenched habits. You are talking about making it easier to not bother. This does not sound like a good thing to me.
Wait, everyone accepted what now? Prior to reading this article, I was of the belief that there had already been randomized controlled trials showing that antioxidant supplements increased all-cause mortality, mostly from cancer, and that this had a known mechanism (oxidative stress kills cancer cells more than it kills regular cells).
bundle install here
That's the whole point of the parent argument. What do we do with people who's work output we don't need anymore?
Free for small teams. Even closed-source projects.
Aren't npm installs actually hosted on npm? This shouldn't affect npm installs.
Frozen Poop Pills Fight Life-Threatening Infections (2014)
100% agree. Except that USAians believe that they live in a meritocracy.
Considering continuous delivery? Pause tool evaluation and assess your readiness
Well, it's not like we have invented binary and source packages two decades
ago, so people don't need to re-download and re-build their build-time
dependencies every time they start compilation.

Oh wait, we have.
For what it's worth, there's a recent PLOS paper that I found to be a real eye-opener. If you haven't already seen it I'd give it a read: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

It's quite a low-key affair (no GPU clusters and so on) but what I think is remarkable is that it described a fairly complex cognitive (neural) architecture that was able to mimic certain kinds of child-level cognition with TINY amounts of training data. Instead, human supervisors guided the evolution of its cognitive strategy in a white-box kind of fashion to encourage it to answer questions as children did.

In many respects (like training data volume, layer depth, and so on) it couldn't be further from the current deep learning trends, and yet it seemed much more along the lines of what I imagine an actual AGI would be doing, especially one we hope to control.
Distro Astro – Linux Distribution for Astronomy
Pretty poor, right now, unfortunately. I was looking at replacing VMWare Workstation with Hyper-V. However, when I installed Ubuntu Desktop on a brand new Hyper-V VM, I had to do some grub hacking to pass kernel parameters to get the display resolution right. Even after I got the display resolution right, there was a noticeable lag in the GUI refresh. I know that maybe with some more hacking I could have gotten everything to work just as well as it does on VMWare Workstation, but that proves my point. In VMWare, everything Just Works, out of the box. In Hyper-V, you need to tweak things to to work, and it's not clear what all things you need to tweak.

Allegedly that will be improving with Windows Server 2016, which is supposed to have better support for GPU acceleration for VM guests, but I'm waiting to see what actually gets delivered before I get excited.
All I can add to the discussion is that I'm excited to see this, I take this as a sign of progress and us moving closer to a better future, rather than continuing on as things are (which isn't bad, but can be better). I hope it goes as well as I think it will.
Pretty much any highly contested search with purchase intent is going to be nearly impossible to search for. Try "free credit card" some time, or "cure for headaches" :-)
You're forgetting (ignoring?) Nokia.
Most of the antibiotics you're going to get from your PCP are old chestnuts like amoxicillin (1972) and doxycycline (1967).
I'm trying to read some webpages hosted on GitHub.
The status page update seems like some ironic machine rant "The status is still red at the beginning of the day" (http://take.ms/50Tox)

Hubot has assumed control...the singularity is upon us!!!
The citations don't support your conclusion, and neither does the entire paper itself. At best, it shows whole olives are a healthy food to eat from time to time. How can you possibly reason extracting, refining, processing and heating olives make them into "good oils"? My advice for you is, don't allow yourself to be informed by industry, and look for unbiased systematic reviews and meta-analyses instead.
A native Facebook chat encryption extension
www.crypter.co.uk

We have been developing a Firefox and Chrome extension for facebook. The extension seamlessly fits into your facebook chat and encrypts and decrypts your conversation with a secret password that you and your friend decide.
History repeats iteld, so it might be good to start by hiring a historian. The claims of impending mass unemployment that serve as the premise for Basic Income were common during the Industrial Revolution. For example, see the "Luddites" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Ultimately what happened then is that greater efficiencies actually increased the demand for labor. Supply begets demand.
"Political correctness is ass-backwards."

Sometimes, something that people are calling "political correctness" is merely "correctness", and is not political in nature at all. The statement tptacek made about Ferguson was accurate, and five minutes (or less) of Googling could have confirmed that for you.

To demand color-blind language in this circumstance is to deny the existence of systemic racism, and to make it impossible to discuss solutions. A discussion about Ferguson without acknowledgement of the racial divide in Ferguson is actively harmful to finding solutions.
scary...
"remote: Unexpected system error after push was received.
remote: These changes may not be reflected on github.com!
remote: Your unique error code: 7527a6e1bbc9fe126d51c97feac7b4e3
remote: Unexpected system error after push was received.
remote: These changes may not be reflected on github.com!
remote: Your unique error code: 7527a6e1bbc9fe126d51c97feac7b4e3"

seems pushes are going into oblivion, but the client side gets a return code that the push was successful.
I liked that question better with the apostrophe.
Well that's the last time I ever write a deployment that assumes Github is working...
Yeah, I'm more convinced this has nothing to do with basic income. You are just repeating over and over that basic income will make it worse but with zero proposed mechanism.

Unpaid house work isn't going to get worse if women get the (new) option of leaving situations they previously were stuck in.

The problem of unpaid "emotional work" is caused by a sexist society. More social safety net either does nothing to alleviate that problem, or it helps. It makes no sense to argue it makes things worse. Unless you provide even a shred of an argument for how it could make things worse, it sounds like you're just yelling into the void of the internet. Unless by "men are impossible to talk to about this" you really mean "men don't accept my assertions on faith".

Edit: Also, it sounds like possibly you don't know what basic income is. Or you mean something different by it. This[1] sums it up neatly in the first paragraph. I'm not trying to be insulting, it just sounds like you're talking about something different.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
"We're investigating a significant network disruption effecting all http://github.com services." - https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/692508939792039936
Which is, in a sense, a bit disturbing.
> Of course, but there's a general expectation that stuff served over HTTP isn't sensitive.

For us, sure. For the other 95% of the population, not really, which is why Google is doing this
Oh wow, color me surprised. I edited my comment.
I dont know about Vancouver but in Melbourne lot of for sale commercial properties also have the sign in Mandarin(or Cantonese).
Less than 100% sure, but 10 days to file a POC was always my experience. Most issues can't be provably corrected in that timeframe.
It seems to me that images and sounds are 'alike' in a way that doesn't (on its obvious face) expand to include Atari game strategies and evaluating Go positions. In which case generalizing across the latter gap is more impressive than a single algorithm working well for both images and sounds.

The difference isn't easy to describe, but one such difference would be that a single extra stone can change a Go position value much more than a single pixel changes an image classification.
For the impatient. I would make a gist but...

while true; do curl -s https://status.github.com/api/status.json | grep good && tput bel || echo -n .; sleep 1; done
Sorry, I didn't see that when I posted! Didn't mean to spam. (HN usually detects these at post time too, but I guess this didn't work for some reason.)
Luckily, git is a distributed control system and we all remembered to:

git remote add backup <bitbucket or gitlab url>

git push backup
why only bower-dependent?
The angular momentum of a spinning bucket of water has approximately nothing to do with the intrinsic angular momentum of the particles, though. Statistically, we'd expect all of the intrinsic spins of the electrons and quarks to cancel out entirely.

Rather, the angular momentum is due to the fact that the straight-line motion of all the atoms on the left side of the bucket is opposite in direction to the straight-line motions of all the atoms on the right side of the bucket. (With respect to the reference frame of the center of gravity of the bucket, etc, etc.)
Before 0x, Java didn't matter for production code as the 1.3 with JIT came later than that.

But in those days it was a big mess to write portable C++ code, given the discrepancies between compilers.

I don't miss those CORBA and DCOM libraries, but I miss OWL and VCL.

Java is still quite strong in the Fortune 500, and most managers don't care about Oracle vs Google, as it was caused by Google trying to avoid to pay Sun anyway.

However I sense some signs similar to when CA started loosing CLIPPER's direction, or when Borland attitudes started scaring people away from Delphi and C++ Builder.

On the other hand, Java is just too big and it will take generations to replace all those systems.
I just arrived at work. I think I will go back home... xD
Maybe because "the AI alignment problem" is a classic academic inside baseball term for what would probably resonate with a larger audience better as "the Skynet apocalypse".
We know what space is, at least operationally. Or rather space-time. Space is what can be measured with rigid rods. Time is what clocks measure. Einstein painstakingly defined those concepts this way.

Plank's question is more metaphysical : beyond what it means experimentally, does space have a -physical- existence per se, even in a completely empty universe? In other words, is an empty universe different than no universe at all? If not, one way to look at space it is to consider it as a set of abstract rules regarding the possible interactions between particles, those rules being very close to what we call geometry.
If that really poor explanation of idempotence is representative of the interview, it's no wonder she didn't know what they were talking about.
>The rate of college attendance and graduation increased dramatically with the introduction of state universities

Could you clarify this statement? It seems like you could be saying the state universities are a relatively recent phenomena. If so, could you give a few examples? I suppose Alaska and Hawaii, being the newest states, have the newest "state" university system, but even the University of Alaska predates Alaska becoming a state.
Forecasting traffic along one of Austin's most popular routes
Yeah, MCTS is traditionally terrible with ko. It would be interesting to learn how AlphaGo addresses or doesn't address this.
Yes. Google can't know what happens between Cloudflare and your server. (Communication there is also less likely to be intercepted as between the user's browser and the internet.)
That's right. Except I of course got unlucky.

npm i semantic-ui
npm ERR! fetch failed https://github.com/derekslife/wrench-js/tarball/156eaceed68ed31ffe2a3ecfbcb2be6ed1417fb2
npm WARN retry will retry, error on last attempt: Error: fetch failed with status code 503
I can still support them even though they have engaged that oath-breaker. They do a lot of good, on balance — a lot. I wish that they hadn't fallen for the hysteria, but they're still doing a great amount of really important work.
I'm reasonably sure that robots (starting with self-driving cars) and genetic medicine are going to prove this gentleman very, very wrong. Self-driving cars by themselves have enough power to shape the petroleum economy in a single stroke. Once it's affordable enough for everywhere to have on demand car service a la Uber, gasoline will start to become a massive commodity, traded like steel or coal, not a consumer product. This will have an enormous impact on the petroleum industry. I'd hypothesize that it will spawn another innovation in batteries and clean energy, because no overlord of a fleet of autonomous cars is going to want to pay the recurring cost of gasoline.