skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that's a fairly common experience (it was mine too when I quit for a year). Caffeine leads to highs and lows. W/o caffeine and having good sleeping patterns leads to higher average energy level and less highs and lows.

Personally though, I love the taste and enjoy the experience of "waking up" with a cup of coffee over the course of the first 20 minutes of the day.
Almost all published biomedical research is government-funded. "Private" universities in the U.S. get massive federal grants for research.
lots of private university papers are still paid for with govt research funds
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Do you honestly think non-technical people from outside the US are going to make a difference in this debate? I can't imagine a demographic with less influence over the situation.
I'm not sure we'll ever get to Strong AI, but if we do, I don't expect any company that exists today will still be around.
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• 2015, 935-54: Third stage failure

• 2014, 935-45: Third stage failure

• 2013, 935-43: First stage failure

• 2012, 935-34: Briz-M failure

• 2012, 935-31: Briz-M failure

• 2011, 935-21: Briz-M failure

• 2010, 535-37: Blok-D failure

3/6 in the Proton-M+Briz-M configuration, 3/7 total, for this decade. There were also two failed Rokot launches involving a different Briz configuration (Briz-KM).
Thanks I didn't know about polls, unfortunately I lack the karma to start one! This is an interesting theory and certainly good to include in the debate.
You're correct to point out that this debate is about a change in the staus quo: law enforcement used to be able to access the dominant communications system with a lawful order, proper crypto removes that capability.

It is inevitable that this change, lwft unchecked, will increase citizen privacy AND decrease law enforcement effectiveness. The HN community is very aware of these privacy benefits, but skeptical about the security costs. I wonder how far security must slip before those costs become apparent.

Until that happens, we basically have two camps of experts talking past eachother. The tech community sees the privacy cost, the law enforcement sees the security cost. Both back up their claims with "trust us, this is what we do for a living." This makes it very difficult to create a policy solution.
There is also the paper about the subject:

http://www.firstderivatives.com/downloads/q_for_Gods_Edition...
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Here's one:

https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-51053

Basically they tried to make some improvements to carts in general, fucked that up, then "reverted" that change and since then powered carts don't work. There's even a fix posted a year ago on the damn ticket itself - but apparently they are too busy adding attention-grabbing bullshit to even do a simple copy / paste job in order to fix major flaws in the game.

You'd think, in a game called "Minecraft", that minecarts would get more attention. Alas...

However, now that I've looked at this again, it appears they are finally planning to do something about this problem, where "something" is just removing powered carts altogether: https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/699241247391772672

And don't get me started on boats - though they did eventually fix that after a few years.
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Given that we are living in what is probably the most peaceful time since dawn of man your statement doesn't really make that much sense regarding the war part.

As for bickering and blaming others, sure it is annoying but somehow it has led humanity to an era where life is vastly better than it has ever been for more humans than ever before.

So it's weird, yeah.
Plus the impossibility of controlling apps, software and frameworks outside the US. All it takes is one person in one country building correct encryption and everyone uses that for illegal activities everywhere. It's not a matter of blocking holes in a dike; there is no dike.
Companies and private universities publish obviously a lot of research papers. These are still more often than not somehow funded by governments e.g. Darpa, EU funds (Horizon 2020) etc. I am not aware of many projects that are truly completely, privately funded.
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> > So by saying that we only have 10 or 15 or 30 years more before we all die as a species, because of what we did to the Earth is non-sense.

> Who specifically is saying this?

In this thread, madaxe_again: 'Our extinction is coming, and the only tragedy is all the other life we'll take with us.'

> I haven’t seen these supposed pessimists’ reports from 1950 predicting “doomsday” by 2000.

The so-called 'Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' has been predicting Doomsday since 1947: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock

My prediction? In twenty years we'll look back on global warming like we do on D&D suicides, satanic ritual abuse and militias: just another instance of mass hysteria.
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I don't think you can responsibly state that the science is "well developed and tested" when we are prescribing dangerous medication to children to treat the fact that they were born in October.

Obviously, the diagnostic protocol that allows such a situation needs some work.
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Many good ones - but of course, not all world-changing is for the good. And sometimes the barbed wire doesn't stop anything, anyway.

2nd from the right:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8487...
How does this stack up against other periods when the earth was considerably warmer than the Little Ice Age period that we are moving out of now? Have we gone beyond the levels of the Medieval Warm Period, or say the Jurassic period?
From experience, this guide works fine on a Pi 2.
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Climate change scares me so much

It shouldn't. The climate has always been changing. Do that thing that humans do: be adaptable.
Some of the headline features from the development cycle are dm-verity forward error correction, optional mandatory locking, the new copy_file_range() system call, the SOCK_DESTROY operation, another set of persistent-memory improvements, extended address-space layout randomization on 32-bit systems, the MADV_FREE option for madvise(), the UBSAN checker tool, some extensions to epoll_wait(), project quotas for the ext4 filesystem, and more.

Source: http://lwn.net/Articles/679906/rss
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finally come around to the idea that climate change exists

Yes... they somehow impose carbon taxes, go to climate summits and make up protocols to agree to but none of them believe in climate change.
It's not that bad. Check out https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign for an example.

I have my own ansible scripts to setup my mail server. It took a couple hours of hacking. Centos 7 provides a pretty good mail setup out of the box. All you need is to setup dkim and ssl certs (easy with letsencrypt).
Or GP may be prone to migraines and potentially doesn't know it... I am and find caffeine pretty good at dulling their effects over multi-day migraines (Which I get fairly regularly).

The frequency of migraines for me is independent of caffeine consumption; I've gones months with no caffeine and suffered though migraines, just as I've gone through months of heavy coffee/tea drinking and suffered (a little less) through them
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> Personally though, I love the taste and enjoy the experience of "waking up" with a cup of coffee over the course of the first 20 minutes of the day.

Yep, which is why I switched to decaf. Still the same taste (there are ok decaf coffees out there) but none of the bad effects of excessive caffeine.

(Most decaf still has ~10% of the caffeine of regular coffee, but even with 4 or 5 cups of decaf a day it's not enough for dependency; I get no withdrawal symptoms if I stop for any length of time).

I still drink the odd normal coffee (if someone/somewhere doesn't have decaf) but a maximum of one a day otherwise it will affect my sleep that night; it also gives me a proper coffee buzz for the short period after drinking it.
I'm not very familiar with appcache, but reading a bit about the specifics it looks like it would work fine as long as you don't need IE<=9 support. Thanks for the input!
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Off the top of my head, that sounds just like Mailpile[0]. There's obviously many other less recognizable solutions. https://github.com/tonioo/modoboa sounds pretty similar.

Lots of players in the modular Linux "apps" and server space. For developers, there are Docker images, OVF virtual appliances, things of that sort. From more of a user perspective, there's sandstorm.io. I believe Mailpile was even on the Sandstorm app list at some point, not sure if it still is.

[0]: https://www.mailpile.is/
I am not against the strategic use of drones vs. putting boots on the ground. I am questioning the number of countries we have used drones in. A lot of questions are also being raised about the targets being "terrorists", and I am not talking about an accidental drone strike at a wedding of civilians, but the public's blind acceptance that we are indeed getting the 'bad guys'. I am not so sure the ratio of bad guys to civilians is as high as reported. Are you, and what's your evidence?
There is no enough reinforcement volume to learn anything complex.

If child gets external reward for every waking moment until she is 12 years old, it's just 4.2 million signals.

Reinforcement learning works for fine motor control and other tasks where the feedback loop is tight and immediate. Reinforcement and conditioning can also modulate high level cognition and behavior, but it's not the secret sauce of learning.
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I'd love to use a sane, simple SSE server impl in Java. Does one exist? I see there's very little about plain java event source servlet implementations. Looks like there's some promising things in Jersey and Atmosphere at least, but things tend to get complicated quick in the java world...
Interviewer here. In this Profile in Computational Imagination I interview Jonah Gabry a statistician and developer on the Stan team at Columbia. One fun twist is that Jonah was a humanities guy; music, history, languages and literature who was gradually drawn to probability, mathematics and Bayesian statistics through intellectual curiosity. That eventually leads him into programming and building tools to make Bayesian analysis more accessible to classically trained statisticians and domain scientists of all kinds.
It was also down for me for a short time, but seems to be back again.
Those people can be policemen.
Here is a Minecraft my buddy pieced together with client side scripting https://github.com/teachthenet/pycraft/
This is highly personal, and there's no substitute for experiment. My rule is no (caffeinated) soda within an hour of bedtime, and no coffee within 3-4 hours, so the variation is wide. I don't smoke, by the way.

As an aside, the whole "8 hour half-life" is astonishingly high, to me. Caffeine is nice, but it doesn't seem to have that strong an effect on me, and certainly nothing I notice 5-8 hours after. I drink quite a lot of caffeine these days, but even at times when I went off caffeine for a few weeks, I didn't get effect durations any longer than 1-3 hours.
The lack of a firearm is not going to deter the intent it will just change the execution of the intent (not that I am insinuating that you are arguing for it). What you see reduced in firearm related suicides will most assuredly be followed by in increase in other means of self termination. Specifically drug overdose would certainly see an uptick. Firearms are preferred because they are efficient at producing the end goal and leave little margin of error. About the only fear a person in that situation has is a botch attempt that leaves them more of a burden on those around them.

In saying that we really have no accurate way of tabulating what the true toll of drug related suicides amounts to given that many of them get ruled as accidental overdose. I have a friend who committed suicide by ingesting Oxycodone and Klonopin in a massive dose the doctor ruled it an accidental overdose, most likely to spare the family grief, but he had voiced idealization many times before that and had confided that it would be drugs should he choose to. A haunting conversation that I recall was his reasoning for the preference for drugs over firearms and it boiled down to him basically stating that while he would prefer a firearm for the certainty of it, he was a gun enthusiast and would not want his death to count as a win for anti-firearm talking points.

Personally I don't see suicide as a valid argument for the abolition or regulation of guns, and in my view may create a worse situation, as I personally see a vegetative state as worse than death for the victim and certainly worse than death for the family members. Further I don't think it will decrease suicide as the gun is not the end goal nor a limiting factor of suicide, rather it is the vehicle, take it away and they will just find another vehicle.

I am not advocating leaving guns in the care of people who are suicidal, but rather, offering my viewpoint that I don't think suicide, or it's rate can be affected by the removal of firearms. I believe they are just a tool to achieve a goal and are easily replaced in their absence.
Why do you sit at the computer all day when it just brings you stress? [comic]
Are other people made very uncomfortable by people like this looking down their nose at the entire species? I'm just not sure what these levels of defeatism and misanthropy get you.
The only reason I drink coffee is because it makes me poop. There is scientifically proven that 25% of people who drink coffee are pooping shortly after. But addicted? Hell know.
Now all we need is a Scipio Africanus as an opponent ai. :D
The federal NIH open access standards require JATS XML: http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/

Proper formatting makes it possible to automatically extract bibliographic reference data, text-mine the contents for whatever interesting purposes you might think of, display it in apps and new formats, and store it for decades in a stable format.
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If child gets external reward every waking moment until she is 12 years old, it's just 4.2 million feedback signals. It's not enough to learn complex behavior.

Reinforcement learning works for fine motor control and other tasks where the feedback loop is tight and immediate. Reinforcement and conditioning can also modulate high level cognition and behavior, but it's not the secret sauce of learning.
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For the last few years before I quit entirely, I was careful not to have caffeine after lunch or early afternoon. Nonetheless, quitting morning coffee has improved my sleep. I'm 44. I think I became more sensitive to the effect on my sleep as I got older, as I hear is common.
If it takes longer than a week to be completely free of withdrawal symptoms, there's something else wrong, I'd think. Two or three days is a more normal recovery time.
I don't think there is a possibility of it happening at all (in the foreseeble future).
Apache was a bad analogy. There is a thing that needs to be multi-process and fault-tolerant with the default case of badly-written code tossing out more state than just your own session, but it's not a web server that works like that.

Instead, it's a "web application server", like Puma is for Rails apps: a server that runs your code in its own address space, where your code can crash the active worker process (which is usually handling multiple requests) for that server.

Puma ordinarily runs ~eight worker processes, and a crash will kill one of them causing it to take the time to re-fork, and discard any other sessions that were also scheduled on that worker. Erlang runs a million worker processes, and one of them crashing doesn't cause anything big to happen at all.
How many public services are being oversubscribed because the lack of politics of barbed wire [UK]?
> Who is most likely develop a true AI system?

Some completely unknown amateur will stumble upon it more or less by accident.
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Interesting; I can see the video in The Netherlands. I wonder which specific regions they are blocking and why.
Helping your employees to cheat on exams versus openly breaking the law because you disagree with it or feel that a law should be changed is of a different taste though.
IIRC, the only well documented case of synesthesia is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme_%E2%86%92_color_synes... . It's an interesting case because the color and letter recognizing parts of the brain are very close, so it's logic that some info may leak and get correlated.

Perhaps someone can design an (safe) experiment to measure the effect of caffeine in synesthesia ...
The 'secret' is not to say "you should learn programming so you can be become a programmer", but rather "you should learning programming so that you can apply that skill to whatever you end up working with". Even someone working in completely non-STEM fields can potentially derive massive value from knowing some basic programming. Even just knowing some super simple MS Office macros that automate some basic administrative tasks is something that can be applied to basically any job out there where you att any point deal with a computer.

Programming shouldn't be just for programmers, just like writing isn't just for writers.
Why do you use these weasel words 'climate change'. For the nth time, everybody knows climate changes. If you think there is a simple cause and effect with temperature proportional to CO2 levels then you are simply wrong. Look at the record. Multiple factors make it much more complicated than that. Still, I wouldn't want to spoil a barnstorming speech to rouse the masses.

Suggest you check historical levels of CO2 before sinking into permanent depression.

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPWmFNAwhvajgpMfPzgX4au...

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It's actually fairly difficult. There are so many different possible combinations of incoming data quality, quantity, system and disk configuration, performance and internal ES settings. Only an administrator would be familiar enough with the environment to monitor and tweak the configuration to make it the most performant.

There are a few hosted elasticsearch services available (Elastic Cloud, AWS ES, Qbox, etc) which would likely be a better option for the team that needed a hands-off elasticsearch cluster.
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The FBI is asking for firmware that disables its anti-brute-force delays and auto-wipe feature. The estimate Apple gave is for creating that firmware and signing it with their key. They're not breaking the crypto, but merely making an brute-force attack more viable (by reducing the delay to ~80ms, which is how long the hash algorithm takes per passcode).

The intelligence community would need access to Apple's firmware signing key in order to do this themselves. (IIRC, in their latest court filing, the FBI actually mentioned this would work for them if Apple is unwilling to implement the firmware changes.)
Either Google or the US DoD. The former has the raw information, researchers, and computation skills; the later has the raw funding and motive.

A state actor with AGI will own electronic warfare. AGI would also be able to bring swift advancements to the first state that created it, so inventing it would quickly follow with leaps in conventional weapons. Assuming the AGI wants to collaborate.
Makes me sad when I see fb profile of people who died prematurely when people post on their profiles on their birthday.
Click bait titles aside it's an amazing achievement.
Great news! Nevertheless, some people will still manage to spin this announcement into some proof that Scala is dying!!! (this time for real!)
Markdown does not support cross-referencing of figures, tables, and sections, and doesn't have numbered "environments" like LaTeX (e.g. theorem, definition, example). It would need to be extended.

There's a slow-moving Scholarly Markdown project, but I don't know what its status is. http://scholarlymarkdown.com/

I agree with the sentiment, though. If there were some markup language that supported what academics do with LaTeX and Word, and converted cleanly to JATS XML and to nice-looking PDFs, it would be enormously useful.
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I very much doubt there will be a Hollywood-movie-event when "company X developed true AI" will be in the news. I think it's more likely that more and more algorithmic building blocks as well as computational power gradually become available, and that humanity collectively gets closer to AGI capabilities.

Many of the algorithms that are making headlines theses days are decades old. It seems to me that we just crossed some computational power threshold a couple of years ago that made it possible to produce qualitatively better results with the algorithms that we already knew about. There wasn't any qualitative break-through -- just years and years of small incremental improvements, both on the computer science and hardware fronts -- and there won't be a "monopoly of AI". That is industrial-era thinking. AI is not like railways, light bulbs or power plants.

On the other hand, I am worried that all the hype currently surrounding AI could lead to a second AI winter. The media cycle and investors seems to have terribly low attention spans, and are prone to lose interest as easily as they become hyper-excited.
Deep Mind who wrote AlphaGo look like favourites. They are owned by Google but not Google's only AI operation. They have produced a general but far sub human level AI system to play Atari games and working on reverse engineering the hippocampus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X-NdPtFKq0&feature=youtu.be...
There must be. At a previous job, I regularly drank 2L of coffee a day (in ~10oz increments), and never experienced anything other than unpleasant slight jitteriness occasionally.
I tried a couple times to get off caffeine, never worked properly... I don't feel obvious caffeine effects, but I need it to not be a wreck.

Later I discovered I was self-medicating my ADHD...

Now I am taking proper ADHD meds, and this allowed me to greatly reduce my caffeine use (that was wandering into dangerous and expensive territory, with me needing to drink litres of red-bull clones to work), still need it sometimes though, my ADHD meds dosage is still too low it seems (my medic is adjusting my meds still).

Without caffeine + meds I can't do anything properly, I lose random objects (including a cup of coffee! I made myself a coffee yesterday, moved it somewhere in the house, and could not remember where, I spent 5 minutes wandering around looking for where I put my coffee), forget to do stuff, including important stuff, forget to eat/drink water/sleep, and all other sorts of not good behaviour.
Context sensitive components is exactly what I want. At the moment you have to compute that context on the server and output the correct class names (or on the front-end with React etc, doesn't matter). It would be nice for a component to not be told about it's context but it's CSS can infer it either through parent container breakpoints or something else.

There's too many negotiation between containers because a child component doesn't understand where it is, components are very "dumb" right now. We need smart context sensitive components.