skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title suggests virus not ransomware, yes those have existed like forever. Show me a single system where there arent.
It's unlikely they replaced the editor data structure in a fork; that'd basically mean they couldn't use any patches.
You probably meant debounce. I'm now thinking of all the things I could use denounce() for.
I have a feeling we'll have to go through a period of global catastrophe before humanity resumes making progress at a quick pace. The momentum of the previous age of intellect[1] is coming to an end, and we're well into the age of decadence. The strong pillars of duty in Western society have gradually, in the past two hundred years, been swapped out piece by piece with some kind of weak inflammable material of decadence. These days single terrorist groups conquer entire nations before being slowed down, and our inefficient & corrupt governments whose hands and feet act independently are hardly able to stop them even with funding of billions. Millions of migrants from wars encouraged by the West's governments threaten the unity of the EU. The enormous sovereign debt burden carried by the likes of Japan and U.S. creates economic instability which threatens the social fabric, leading to a situation where the choice of leaders is between an egomaniac (Trump) and a megalomaniac (Clinton). The supposed saviour of the world economy and driver of global growth, China, suffers from enormous mal-investments and is burdened with even more debt than the U.S.

My own pessimism is not helping.

[1] http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf

(d) The stages of the rise and fall of great nations seem to be:
The Age of Pioneers (outburst)
The Age of Conquests
The Age of Commerce
The Age of Affluence
The Age of Intellect
The Age of Decadence.
(e) Decadence is marked by:
Defensiveness
Pessimism
Materialism
Frivolity
An influx of foreigners
The Welfare State
A weakening of religion.
(f) Decadence is due to:
Too long a period of wealth and power Selfishness
Love of money
The loss of a sense of duty.

The very decadence that corrodes an empire's institutions, rendering its governments unable to effectively thwart the rise of bandits who conquer vast swarths of territory, creates the conditions necessary for a new cycle with a new empire. Even if they can deal with one, or two, or three, each new group of bandits will become harder and harder for a decadent declining empire to deal with. Taliban, Shia militias, ISIS....
can you give us example
how to use that ?
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It was mainly increasing because we almost made the death at birth close to zero. Now the gains are much harder to get on the other side.
I was talking of UB being an open door to break applications, given that the standard allows for "anything goes" in terms of code generation.

I bet very few C developers, less than 1% outside ISO tables and compiler vendor teams, know ANSI C from cover-to-cover and are able to write UB free code when one sticks to the letter of the standard.
You're overhyping block chains right now by comparing them to the printing press and the invention of the Internet.

Block chains are a neat technology with limited application.
Yeah let's use Java on iOS !
Good. I am going to need unlimited will power to wade through the haystack of modern science and find the needles of truth.
The title sounds like it comes from BuzzFeed.
Does that have an ecosystem.
The 8bit Acorn BBC editor called Edit put the entire file in RAM, all the characters before the cursor at the start of RAM, all the characters after at the end. Quick for inserting, but there was a half second delay if you jumped from the top to the bottom of the text.
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A startup has a lot of decisions to make. Sometimes they can be tough to keep track of. Sometimes you wonder what you had previously decided about a given question and why. What are some of your suggestions for keeping track of team decisions? Are there apps to do this?
> Allow me to point out that you have just posted this comment on the future reddit.

Hah, this place is not the future reddit. Not remotely close. This place has been around just as long as reddit and has never tried to be reddit. In fact, they work towards trying hard not to be reddit. This place is the old reddit. This is actually a lot like how reddit circa 2007 was. Reddit evolved, HN did not. Reddit and hackernews serve different purposes. HN isn't trying to grow larger like reddit was. Reddit became about community building while HN is trying to remain a tech oriented link aggregator.
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If none of the three tests is calibrated and traceable to a standard you are just as well off throwing darts at a board and getting your numbers out of that. Take personal responsibility for your health and your bank account by throwing dice!

It's really funny how people have stopped hating on the FDA when Theranos is mentioned. In any other context the FDA is still worse than Satan and the pox.
The Internet of Things's main barrier seems to be cost. Do I want a toaster with a wireless connection? Sure. Am I going to pay more than ~$30 for that toaster? No. Do I want that toaster phoning home to Google about my toast-making habits? No way in hell.
couldn't agree more !
Firefox on Android (Fennec) supports Stylish, Greasemonkey, and NoScript.
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Biologists hate him!
This programmer discovered Philosopher's stone with this one weird trick!

Anyway:
Yes, we will do great advances in health care, but will we _cheat_ death? Will those advancements be available? Is this something we _should_ do as a society? Technological determinism/solutionism (as presented in the article) is a really shoddy idea. It ignores so many things and assumes that progress is an arrow always flying forward…
> How the hell else am I supposed to get a Browser without some form of browser?

For the historical record:

ftp ftp.mozilla.org
cd pub/firefox/releases/
Just a side note. After some benchmarking, I recently discovered that c3.2xlarge does not actually have 8 cores, rather it had 4 real cores = 8 hyper threaded cores. I was very surprised by this and suspect most other AWS users would also be surprised. This is not to say that AWS is a bad deal, but I think Amazon could be a little more transparent about it.

See http://www.pythian.com/blog/virtual-cpus-with-amazon-web-ser... for more details.
Isn't an emacs buffer exactly that? Depending on what modes are turned on the way the file data is presented will also change.

For ex, how you can open a svg file, if you use the image mode you see the image representation otherwise you get the code.
Rocket.Chat is an open source messaging app built with Meteor. It supports video conferencing, file sharing, voice messages, has a fully-featured API, and more. Rocket.Chat is great for those who prefer to have full control over their communications.

In this tutorial, we will be installing and configuring Rocket.Chat on a fresh Ubuntu Droplet as well as setting up a reverse proxy via Nginx to boost security and make accessing Rocket.Chat much easier. Once we're finished, you'll have a beautiful, functional instance of Rocket.Chat accessible from virtually anywhere.
Plea bargains are outright worse for the system. Instead, there should be no plea bargains and if the system is over burdened it should be forced to dismiss any court cases above the maximum it can handle, starting with the lowest level offenses and working its way up, blind to who the defendant is. This will combat the over legalization of society while ensuring true crimes are still punished.
One can turn off syntax highlighting only for long lines in vim.

set synmaxcol=N_characters
Yeah. I was really against SPDY/HTTP2 only supporting encrypted websites until Let's Encrypt came along, as it would have "forced" all the small sites to keep using HTTP 1.1 forever. Now I don't mind the requirement at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6724292
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Using Interface builder is Great indeed it just has a ton of other issues down the road, this article sums it well : http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/why-i-dont-use-interface-build...
But how was Apple supposed to negotiate their store deals with the publishers? Wasn't it an optimal goal offering all the publishers the deal they'd accept? Such a deal can't be made without discussing the prices. How would you make the store deals in Apple's shoes, given the goal to reach the uniform deal with the publishers, in order to avoid some of them being given "unfavorable" deal? And given that app store worked with 30%? And that publishers actually favored agency model? What would you do differently?

If the answer is "not making MFN" then it's what apparently the court decided. But MFN actually guaranteed Apple lowest prices, not the highest.

Would you really even think "that Toys R US case is relevant here"?
They're definitely related problems — I just find it fascinating how often enthusiasm leads people to completely downplay this category of problem, often while spending non-trivial amounts of energy trying to deal with them
I like how you say "on emacs". Makes it sound like "on Windows", i.e. Emacs the OS... ;)
1. You'd have install the custom CA in all devices. Ever tried it on Android? The "network may be monitored" warning doesn't go away.

2. If the certificate is ever compromised, you'll have to keep it in the revocation list forever, or replace the entire CA.

(And I hope your CA contains a DNS name restriction.)
haha indeed
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Wow, who expect that a modern business leaders can learn from the Rome Empire. This quote: "They were just incredibly good at co-opting people and ideas” also remind me other multicultural army - Austro-Hungarian Empire Army befor the I World War. The Rome Army united everybody: Rome citizens and also a other folks (e.g. Lacjum peoples). This was also Austro-Hungarian Empire strategy - amalgamate everybody around one common idea. Great example of huge, team leadership (how "infect" others team members).
> Other services and models will take their place.

You're missing the point. You fail to grasp the scope and size of the reach that ads have on the internet. I saw what the internet was like before the masses arrived, I was here online back in 1995 and while the lack of ads was nice, "the internet" was a ghost town. Those sites wouldn't, couldn't exist without ads. Hell, google isn't a search engine, it's first and foremost an ad company. That's where 95% of their revenue comes from! Their search feature is just a vehicle to display ads. Literally.

> This argument is simply a scare tactic employed by monopolies of every kind.

Except it's not a scare tactic and it's not an argument, it's a fact. Even if it it was both, it doesn't make it any less true. Advertisements actually do spur innovation and there's tons of data and studies to back it up:

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Its interesting to see "technical debt" become a more common term. Is there a rigid definition for it?

From the article: "Leaf is lean and tries to introduce minimal technical debt to your stack."

What exactly does that mean?
The point of the story is that social proof isn't enough when it comes to legal matters. The author contrasts his behavior with Michelle's to point out what can happen when you use social proof rather than direct legal advice.
What if the deal was over email?

To be serious, I think you're making an arbitrary destinction.
> Stop spreading FUD: it does not "mess with all sorts of configuration".

It does more than you'd expect, IMO.

> letsencrypt-auto is a wrapper which installs some dependencies from your OS standard package repositories (e.g. using apt-get or yum), and for other dependencies it sets up a virtualized Python environment with packages downloaded from PyPI.

http://letsencrypt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/using.html

I was certainly a bit surprised when apt-get ran.
But who has standing to sue? Whoever suffered a stroke because their warfarin dose was too high or too low is dead, they cannot sue any longer. Whose dose was accidentally correct or whoever was lucky enough not to suffer a stroke did not suffer harm, so they can't bring suit either.

And Holmes and the board believed in good faith that their prothrombin test was accurate. No mens rea, no culpability. No prison for anyone.
Most people - at least most people here - know that a lot of those publicized numbers are due to infant mortality, but ...

Post-childhood life expectancy has gone up in smaller amounts as the parent comment says. The grand numbers ("life expectancy was just 60 in 1900!") obviously reflect infant and childhood mortality, but we've increased the average lifespan in the United States by 2-3 years in the last few decades alone.

Here's a graph that shows life expectancy at various ages in the UK - you can see this is not all due to childhood mortality:

http://www.maxroser.com/gains-for-all-life-expectancy-by-age...
Ask HN: What are you paying less than $10/month for?
It might be a SaaS tool or any product or service online.
> The country of these assassins was invaded (without provocation) by Austria just before the assassination

I was wondering why there was no motivation indicated for why this assassination was done
This TED talk by Aubrey de Grey puts the argument quite succinctly:

http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Seeking-immortality-Aubrey-de...

More info on Aubrey de Grey:

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

http://www.sens.org/about/leadership/executive-team
That sounds like utter torture. Hell I probably won't make it to 59 so what do I have to worry about?
Announcing Apache Flink 1.0.0
I understand and agree on why they made it like this. But automating it is not an option in my use case, oh well... I agree it's for the better in the grand scheme of things :).
A DSL based format has some advantages as it easy to get going with building networks. However you are then constrained by what the program that interprets/executes the DSL supports in terms of loading/saving data, solvers etc.. If you want to do something more dynamic e.g. AlphaGo then you have to go back to a "real" programming language anyway.

That's not to say that Leaf won't have a DSL at some point, but we will wait until the features of the layers are a bit more stabilized and we have more clearly mapped out what goals we have for a DSL.
It's my pleasure! And thank you for the wonderful libraries, talks, and who could forget those snippets.
Tightly coupled code is how I define tech debt
It's code that you write (typically quickly), that you know will need to be re-written at a later stage. It's debt that will need to paid at some stage in the future. You didn't do it right first time.

Technical debt typically arises because the code was poorly structured or the programmer used the wrong tools/libraries (from a longer-term perspective) or didn't abstract when she should have. The current obsession with MVPs has led to an increase in technical debt.
Because you might not trust any individual or potentially colluding group to timestamp things according to the rules properly.

Luckily, for the most part, as you say, you and the people you're interacting with can find someone you all can trust.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on 28 June. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on 28 July. That's a month.

And it's the period between 28 June and 28 July that real negotiations and build up happened.

And yes, Germany was ready. After the second Balkans War, Austria was interested in a war with Serbia. But while Germany supported Austria, Germany insisted that it would not be ready for such a war (anticipating a Russian response) until mid-1914, and responded to Austria (in 1911) to that effect.
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I'm very sure that I'd like to write code for a living. I have $3k in credit cards from the last time I was unemployed, a $16k car loan, and around $2k in student loans from the one semester of college I did before I had to start working to pay for food. I don't have a savings. My only obligation is that my girlfriend of 5 years has a really great job in this city so I'd like to stay here until I get a "big boy" job.
It is not obvious to me that the error would not accumulate. In fact, the opposite becomes somewhat clear if one looks at similar products that differ mainly in their lack of an arbitrage mechanism.
That post has no clue about the shortcomings, which were true in the past but needn't be any longer. Programmers have been doing visual programming since the advent of the visual debugger that shows updated values during program execution, and they are requesting more and more of it with tools for Live Programming like jsfiddle or LightTable (for VP in classic languages) or new languages like Apparatus[1] or Eve[2].

We are in the middle of the Visual Programming renaissance, now that the hurdles that limited composability of visual programs have been theoretically solved in the last decade by Programming Languages researchers, and computers are finally powerful enough to move visual languages without slowing to a crawl.

Unfortunately, Visual Programming suffers the same curse as Artificial Intelligence: for every breakthrough that produces revolutionary new tools, it is no longer considered Visual Programming but merely "how the tools should work".

[1] http://aprt.us/

[2] http://eve-lang.com/
I don't agree. It depends on the word, but when I hear a swear word, I do not think of the image of the meaning.
I've always heard this about American dining, even to the point of being taught it by an "etiquette" trainer - I've never understood it either. The worst thing about this for me would be that it means your food would get colder quicker.
Ok, now I'm going to go study Peewee's code...
Ooooh very interesting: " cells fuels their growth with amino-acids " what a discovery!
We'll soon add a new old friend: bacterial infection.
Code in ABAP is whitespace-sensitive
The original paper in which the idea of actuarial escape velocity was proposed by Aubrey de Grey is open access, and worth reading for a full treatment of the concept.

The thing to take away here is that this is inevitable, but not necessarily for us, unless we dig in and get the job done right now. The development of the necessary technologies is very thinly funded, meaning that timelines are very uncertain. Senescent cell clearance may be under development in two US startups right now, a part of allotopic expression of mitochondrial DNA in clinical trials in France, clearance of one type of amyloid has had a successful trial in the UK, and clearance of glucosepane cross-links a couple of years away from a drug candidate, but other areas of biological repair needed for SENS-style rejuvenation of the old are still years away from getting to even this nascent stage. It is a miserable state of affairs given that the cost of progress towards prototypes in mice is a few hundred million, less than a single drug's development funding. Funding and advocacy make a huge difference at this point in the bootstrapping of rejuvenation therapies.

----

Escape Velocity: Why the Prospect of Extreme Human Life Extension Matters Now

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC423155/

The escape velocity cusp is closer than you might guess. Since we are already so long lived, even a 30% increase in healthy life span will give the first beneficiaries of rejuvenation therapies another 20 years—an eternity in science—to benefit from second-generation therapies that would give another 30%, and so on ad infinitum. Thus, if first-generation rejuvenation therapies were universally available and this progress in developing rejuvenation therapy could be indefinitely maintained, these advances would put us beyond AEV. Universal availability might be thought economically and sociopolitically implausible (though that conclusion may be premature, as I will summarise below), so it's worth considering the same question in terms of life-span potential (the life span of the luckiest people). Those who get first-generation therapies only just in time will in fact be unlikely to live more than 20–30 years more than their parents, because they will spend many frail years with a short remaining life expectancy (i.e., a high risk of imminent death), whereas those only a little younger will never get that frail and will spend rather few years even in biological middle age. Quantitatively, what this means is that if a 10% per year decline of mortality rates at all ages is achieved and sustained indefinitely, then the first 1000-year-old is probably only 5–10 years younger than the first 150-year-old.
I guess I'm a bit confused.. it looks like MapD is a company, but I can't find an actual product to download (if it's OSS), or pricing to buy (if it's not).

All I see is a link to the whitepaper, which requests contact info. Is there anywhere to get information on the actual product itself?
> Germany insisted that it would not be ready for such a war (anticipating a Russian response) until mid-1914 and responded to Austria (in 1911) to that effect.

And mid-1914 it was.

> it's the period between 28 June and 28 July that real negotiations and build up happened

And obviously all that buildup on German side was not only that month, but planned and executed for years, per your 1911 reference.
You might want to check this rather well documented article about AI

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...
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Senior Programmer at Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning. Mostly backend and devopsy stuff.

Side projects:

* content-addressed storage cluster with a REST interface: https://github.com/thraxil/cask/

* a circuit-breaker TCP proxy: https://github.com/thraxil/cbp

* cyclomatic complexity analyzer for Go: https://github.com/thraxil/cyclo

* python constraint solver: https://github.com/thraxil/constraint

* twitter to atom feed gateway: https://github.com/thraxil/intweet

* utility for checking linked media on a page: https://github.com/thraxil/mediacheck

* collect smoketest results and send them to graphite: https://github.com/thraxil/chimney

* web based feed reader (wrote my own when Google Reader shut down): https://github.com/thraxil/antisocial

* figure drawing timed pose utility: https://github.com/thraxil/zeuxis

* (semi) annual travelling charity art show popup event: http://artsho.org/about/

* blog: https://thraxil.org/

* my art: http://myopica.org/

* graduated interval recall flashcard web app: https://github.com/thraxil/sebastian
For the most part, cancer and heart disease are diseases of old age. Young people rarely die of them.
Also instead of taking over the newtab page it could use it own page :)
There is not a more horrible future to imagine than the one described here.
Revolution, Evolution or Revolutionary Evolution?