skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry I made the point too quickly. Humans are literally cannon fodder for nations in this type of war. Value is close to zero.

The thing that matters most is producing enough stuff to keep society held together and continue to supply weapons and other material to support the war effort. When nations approach the breaking point pre-nuclear weapons (ie. Soviet Union in 1942/3), they give you a hat, dump you off the back of a truck and suggest that you scavenge a gun. That isn't an option with industrial states post 1945.
My issue is that while medical technology may progress at an exponential rate, so too might the challenges of repairing our biology. So yea, we may be getting way smarter, but the problems may keep getting way harder, and then it is not as self evident as this particular article makes out that we are all going to be immortals.
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Smalltalk is pretty close. I use the GNU one (yeah, I know about Pharo) and is awesome you can switch between a Smalltalk scripting and the VisualGST browser.
Dom D’Agostino on various things about Ketosis and Cancer fighting.

http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/11/03/dominic-dagostino/

Ted Talk here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fM9o72ykww

I'm going to try the Bullet Proof Coffee recipe I think!
A breakthrough may not be of any use to those already around. Likely a genetic manipulation would allow newborns to have a longer lifespan (many mammals have different lifespans already; it may be programmable). Adults may have changed in ways that make it ineffective. So we'd grow old among a rising generation of immortals.
Even for a TN visa?
It is a very strange essay form to give multiple reasons why a thing has not worked very well, then end it with the conclusion that people just irrationally don't like it because your brain is just biased against it.

I don't believe in it in the general case simply because I've never seen a general-purpose visual programming language work. Show me one and show me lots of people choosing it freely and I'll believe just fine. I'm not holding my breath, though. (There are certainly specialized ones that meet this bar.)

Most analyses of this problem fall prey to the "anything can be made to look good if you only consider the positives of one side and the negatives of the other" effect. Visual advocates generally make wild promises about the positives of visual programming, which turn out to much harder to manifest than imagine in your head, and then make silly criticisms of textual languages, mistaking accidental issues of complexity for fundamental issues in the language. (Visual languages, just as one example, have no special protection against spaghetti code, any more than anything else does. Spaghetti code is not caused by textual languages, it's caused by developers creating spaghetti code from the spaghetti concepts in their heads.)

So not only are the analyses incomplete, examining only the positives of visual languages and the negatives of textual languages, most of the ones I see are even pretty terrible on those terms.

If you want do this, you need to look at both the pros and the cons of both sides, fairly. And if you haven't got a solid set of positives on the textual side and negatives on the visual side, go back and do it again.

(I'm not saying you must conclude that the net benefit is to text. You may have things that outweigh what I mentioned and your sum may come out in favor of visual programming. I'm simply saying if you can't explain in a sensible manner why text has been successful and why existing visual languages have failed, you do not have an analysis. You have a wish.)
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Except the programming is shit. My first job was building DCS software for coal power plants. We had such a graphical programming language. I can assure you, it was a pain in the butt to work with. Oh, you want to build many similar logic systems? Go ahead, do the SAME thing 200 times, click spamming is your job. The technology is used not because it's good, but because the industry is stuck in the 80's.

I understand the appeal of having visual flow and feedback for your code but I see no reason why the building of code should be exclusively visual. I see great improvements that can be made by programatically generating control structures. But, well, the clients pay for it, the companies get wads of cash for sending engineers in the field so I guess it all works out in the end.

As a side note, I suspects that if someone good puts his mind to it they could generate the code out of the layout of the plant and the different control mechanisms involved. With proper constraints, I suspects the system would be sufficiently defined without laying one stupid line (like, an actual line, from point A to point B) of code.
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So how do we stop this stupid pendulum and bring some sanity and stability to our industry?
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No. That's not quite true. Yes we are very close to maxing out Moore's Law but so far we've still kept up. If I remember correctly there's a completely different reason for CPU speed not being higher than that (maybe the physical limit to transistors themselves?). We are still increasing the number of transistors per chip and not exactly scaling horizontally - after all we are fitting 4 CPU cores onto a chip that previously only fit a single one.
Limited resources will always keep population in check. When population growth outstrips available resources, war (or some other catastrophic event that reduces population, eg. famine, drought, disease, etc.) is inevitable.
Well, then you didn't read the article, because it is about a specific type of virus. And the word "This" in the title further clarifies it.
Yeah, wildcards are a necessity when every certificate is difficult to obtain, but LE really means we hit post-scarcity and certificates can be issued on the fly for new domains and subdomains.
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Admittedly I've never used the replication in Postgres but that surprises me. I don't think I had the opportunity to use replication in MSSQL 2005 but it was pretty awful 2003 and pretty terrific in 2008 so I guess it was fixed somewhere in between.
Yeah, it overlooks the fact that with many of the tools we use now, a little coding can go a long way. I'm far more productive in my job because I can manage to make some of my own tools instead of waiting for the IT department to provide me with something that will likely be not what I asked for, if they even ever get around it it.
Really, the article is one paragraph.

It quotes Doug Cifu, the head of the largest HFT firm in the world.

I don't know much about Aquis strategy for growing their exchange but if its anything like the aequitas exchange that has just opened in Canada then they get inflated numbers by begin the exchange off record where some banks get paid to report their large block trades.
You can always jump from a bridge...
I found it odd there is no mention to Scratch or Scheme Bricks.

https://vimeo.com/62615513
Doing asynch UI "by hand" might be easier than you think. Here's a table view example: https://github.com/pepaslabs/GlitchyTable
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It's better than the alternative though.
Capitalism: an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

The United States is not a Capitalist society when those private owners of industry and trade also own the state, and then use the states funds to bail themselves out whenever their business plan fails (i.e. 2008).

This is what increasingly centralized economic planning looks like:

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03573/big-bank-t...
It's funny watching techno-religious belief systems emerge in the West as Christianity recedes. This is literally the replacement of the afterlife. Sorry guys, this ain't gonna happen. One day you will die, get over it and start praying.
The Top Fives now has 'Focus' mode for times where you don't always want to see news and inspirations with each new tab.

Go into focus mode, add tasks that you want to accomplish and the same will open in every new tab.
I'd recommend learning assembly language using a macro assembler. Getting up close and personal with actual hardware without a particular programming model being interposed will give you an appreciation for the conceptual and practical support programming languages provide. Writing programs that run on bare metal and programs that run with operating system support is an educational experience of the first order. Just writing a program that bootstraps itself is a right of passage.
There is certainly a place for "a little coding", as you put it. I used to work in an investment bank where traders would write their own Excel macros to perform duties it would've taken months for them to get IT to implement. But building most production-worthy software is not what "learning to code" is about. I guess I'm just trying to re-draw the line. Wouldn't want to stop anyone coding :-)
The private planning of corporations, whose budgets were sometimes bigger than those of governments, defined postwar American capitalism, not markets.

There may not be a practical difference between centrally planned economies by governments and by corporations, but there's definitely a moral one.

Governments can coerce their people into participating in their plans, but corporations cannot. They have to convince employees, customers, and other stakeholders that dealing with them is in their best interest.

The difference is analogous to seduction and rape. The end result may be the same, but there's a very clear moral difference between the two.
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Unfortunately, no, this is pure wishful thinking.

Using life expectancy is a misleading argument, and I believe intentionally so. Life expectancy is a function of early mortality. Longevity is the average age at death of people who die only of old age, and it doesn't vary much and hasn't for thousands of years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity

Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey De Grey are playing on the hopes and fears of people to make arguments about the fountain of youth that won't come to pass. I wish they would, but they won't.

The part that bothers me is that Kurzweil, at least, knows his argument is wrong, it is clear that he's intentionally misusing the data and knows it. Take a look at the very last graph and paragraph in this piece, for example: http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns.

Kurzweil uses data from 1850-1920 and then conveniently skips all the years between 1920 and 2000. That is not possible to do accidentally, it is a misleading abuse of statistics. Unfortunately for Kurzweil, if you look at the data between 1920 and 2000, it paints a completely different picture, one of life expectancy asymptotically flat-lining.

Kurzweil also appears to conflate life expectancy with longevity, he says "In the eighteenth century, we added a few days every year to human longevity;". That statement is false. We added to human life expectancy, not longevity. And the gains were due to reductions in infant mortality and violence, and improvements in medicine and general health.
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At work we use a blend of C++ with Unreal Engine's visual programming language Blueprints. I am going to be honest with you guys here: I love blueprints.

They are very limited compared, lacking even maps. When it comes to connecting existing behavior together they are king. Consider the parts of game development which cannot be made generic. By sticking those in Blueprints we get nice high level code.
> So we'd grow old among a rising generation of immortals.

Sounds like the premise of what would be a very interesting sci-fi book.
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> What if your cronjob doesn't fire? What if LEs script has a bug and you're not up to date?

That's why I renew them a week in advance. I set up Nagios checks which alert me when a certificate is not renewed. Those were already in place before LetEncrypt since human error is just as likely as a script breaking.
I'm starting to wonder the same thing. I've been looking for a project to try it out on but every time I think I find one, I realize that it's something I can't do with Windows 10 IoT because it lacks a key feature (e.g. printing) and the time it would save on other aspects would be wasted trying to work around it's inadequacies in other respects.
Stop making up excuses
I've heard that the human animal evolved to walk/run 12 miles per day, and that some people suspect that our sedentary lives are at the root of all sorts of mental and cognitive issues.
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And then after a millenium your great grandchildren will be relatively as old as you are (Say 900 to 1000, at that point how does aging affect someone?)

Also, how would your memory hold up? Would you even be able to really remember anything that happened over a century or two ago?
Usually web based rich text editors just use a <div> with contenteditable=true. They don't manually manage the textual data. The browser manages the data, automatically adding and removing <p> elements to contain the data. The editor just adds buttons which call built-in functions that transform the text.

I imagine someone somewhere has written a more complex editor that manages things a lot more manually, though. I checked the first one you linked (quill), and it, as expected, uses contenteditable.
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Visual programming is doing quite well in editing computational graphs in software such as Maya or Blender.
From the list "Top International Robot Companies" half way down the page, the US is strangely absent. At #10, Adept is the only US company on the list, representing less than 2% of the install base of the top 10. Why is this?
To add to this, I present to you screenshots of visual programming spaghetti code in all of it's glory [1].

[1] http://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com
Are there specifications for the hardware?
Previous discussion 4 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539195
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If by accident you've opened the issue before applying CodeMill to the repo, or added the codemill$price tag in an edit action (github doesn't fire webhooks on edit issues) then please simply add a new comment to the issue with the codemill$price tag and it will work
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This. Scratch is the killer application of visual programming. It's educational, yes, but it's excellent at that (from experiences from my two kids).
overpopulation anyone?
This does not explain how people in rural China that eat mostly carbs with very little fat and consume 25% calories more per body mass than westerners have noticeably less rates of most cancers. Only their rate for stomach cancer is significantly elevated compared with Western levels.
They meant to say "functional" instead of "ugly" ? Or "with a focus on content versus design"?
Just like vendor lock-in is good for business.
Not this again. .NET is still primarily useful for developing GUI applications. None of that is available on Linux; only the language and the web stack. And, while most devs think C# is a perfectly usable language, quite frankly, IMHO, ASP.NET and EF aren't even in the running compared to other toolchains for web development on Linux. If MS would make the GUI libraries available, then and only then would it be a game changer.
Yet user's of LabView describe it as a horror to actually use practically [1].

[1] https://jshoer.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/why-i-hate-despise-d...
> However, if everyone (or a substantial portion of the market) is following this same strategy, it could be bad.

Monoculture comes to mind...
No need to go so extreme when a more plausible scenario is a 15 year old vs a 65 year old.
Over 100 years most 'rich' only tech ended up getting cheap. (computers, cars, air travel).

So, you might have ultra rich at 850, rich at 800, and the masses at 750. But, having access to 100 years of refinement the 750 year old's ongoing treatment is likely far cheaper.

Though IMO, this is all wishful thinking. 1,000 years ago people thought they where close to unlocking immortality, and we are likely just as wrong.
The Wikipedia page links to a credible article which mentions that "the software that drives it is written in C++ and consists of 200,000 lines of code for the operational system and 250,000 lines of code for the simulation systems.[2]"

What am I missing?
Here's a simple demo: http://jsbin.com/satakudifa/1/edit?html,css,output

It's way easier than you might expect. Only one line of JS needed for this demo (inline `onclick` handler for the bold button). Shortcuts like Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I, Ctrl+U, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+Z work out of the box (in Chrome; IIRC Firefox might open bookmarks for one of those).
Why would it? People always seem to assume that with extremely long lifetimes, humans would still reproduce at roughly the same age as they do now. I just don't believe that would be the case.

So many things change with lifetimes that long and it seems more likely to me that the human timeline would adjust to the new lifetime. Physically maturing into an adult may take the same amount of time, but now it's a tiny fraction of your overall life. You may spend 50 or 100 years in secondary education, then another 200 in a career at which point you should have enough money put away to live on the interest.

And it's at this point, when you're 300+ years old that you start having children. On this timescale, you'd still see more generational overlap than we have today, but no so much that overpopulation is a concern.
Because they provide valuable content and they don't need to provide empty nice design as well.
You can't fool me internet. I'm not going to get my hopes up on such a long shot.
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I actually asked someone here on Hackernews and they let me know its fairly easy to block the scrolling function of LI's homepage by using uBlock.

I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn (3 hours on average a day) and early in my career when I was avoiding making cold calls I found what made other peoples LinkedIn profiles stand out and copied them. Now my profile is a personalized and tweaked version of the 100's of interesting profiles I've viewed.

I do a lot of profile optimization internally for my company and team but I have thought about making some type of public guide or offering a service but it seems like there is no good way to edit or suggest edits to a profile without actually logging into someones account and that raises obvious recruit risks for most people.

However If your interested I can send you the powerpoint deck I use to give meeting on this topic.
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Or, alternately, everyone gets a vote in the planned economy of the government. It is transparent, observable, and democratic. Only a tiny elite group of capitalists get to vote on the planned economy of corporations, which are as you say often bigger than governments.

Corporations need not convince people to participate; the impact of their plans and decisions have effects on the entire society, and they need not ask anyone their opinion first. The power structure in a corporation is a tyranny: disagree with the guy on top and you're forcibly removed. Toe the line, suck up, and maybe you'll move higher in the pyramid.

I don't need to make an analogy: there's two distinct methods for decision making here; tyranny and democracy, and I know which one I'd choose. There's a very clear moral difference between the two.
Another place where visual programming is popular is among music producers, with systems like Max/MSP[1] and PureData[2].

I dabbled in PureData a little, and while it seemed to be ok for simple things, I imagine that for anything even moderately complex, it would quickly become a nightmare.

While visual programming paradigms seem like a nice thing at first glance, they are missing out on whole ecosystems of tools developed over many decades for text-based programming. Things like debugging, version control, grep, search/replace, all the features of advanced text editors like vim or emacs, etc.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max/MSP

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data
> I think the LE endgame is that setting up HTTPS will be as easy as setting up SSH

It already is. Use a self-signed cert and ask your visitors via a side channel to tick the box to add an exception. That's the security model of SSH, and has the same assurances. It's just a terrible comparison. We can do better.

A better comparison would be with DNSSEC...

The way to simplify TLS deployment, while getting a better level security as DV CAs, would have been DANE. DNSSEC has an unfortunate reputation as being hard to setup ("pdnssec secure-zone mydomain" is not hard), but it also has exactly the same X day rollover key problem to solve as LE. Solving it once instead of twice would have made a lot of sense.

The symmetries between DNSSEC and LetsEncrypt are striking. Your account key is your KSK. Your cert is your ZSK... but instead of your webserver (in DNSSEC, your DNS server) doing rollover for you, you're depending on a pile of scripts, leaning on an already insecure DNS, and setting it up is still, comparatively, a pita.
I found the default client to work as expected. It doesn't automatically modify nginx config, but I really don't want it to. It's simple to point the config to a correct location and then just use the webroot plugin. (Granted that needed the change to allow access to hidden directory via HTTP, but that wasn't rocket science either)
May I point you to the awesome Caddy server of Matt Holt [0]. It automatically obtains and !renews! lets-encrypt certificates.

[0] https://github.com/mholt/caddy
Nice work. I expect the OP will be hearing from NBA teams at some point. There was a guy who made something very similar a couple of years ago (not in R, but same functionality) and he now works for an NBA team (a friend of mine works on the same analytics team). Of course, he had to bring his side-project with him and take it offline.
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The sad indicator for me is the decline of activity around backbone in irc. The channel is all but dead, which means it's hard for people to get help when it is needed.
"From what I've seen of women in classical orchestras, if I were the one in charge of auditioning and hiring musicians (not blind), I'd probably be hiring mostly women.... Honestly, if you're a straight guy, why wouldn't you want pretty young women working with you?"

This is what you wrote. So, no, I think you're just trying to walk away from the implications of what you wrote because you are embarrassed. How do you propose interpreting that without any sexual bent?
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I assume they disclose what type they are? Also, any idea what the ratio of synthetic ETFs to physical ETFs may be? If it's low, it's not a potential market problem.
Go and Java aren't slow. The JVM is highly optimized and is competitive with C++ . I thought that was settled a decade ago.
No technology has ever extended life. The so-called gains in life expectancy have only come about by reducing the causes of early mortality and slowing down the diseases of ageing.