skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
£1k is a bit less than the recommended monthly cost for students in London of around £1.1-1.2k, depending who you ask. That presumably assumes sharing a flat/house with others, but also probably assumes living relatively close to the university.

The "London Living Wage" works out to about £1200 per month, after tax. There are people earning less than this in London.

If the startup doesn't need to be in London they could cut costs significantly by being further out of London in the suburbs, or in a satellite town, and taking the train in when necessary. But this can put off potential employees. Maybe it could work at the beginning.
I think my cups are closer to 200 ml, which apparently is approaching 100 mg caffeine per cup, so I guess you're right.

A "medium-size coffeehouse coffee" (at Starbucks) is 16 fl.oz. Here in Europe, that's not really a normal cup of coffee.
Are you sure that's the optimal behavior for everyone? If the entire developed world took this advice, the result would be economically devastating, particularly in places like China.

A poor person in China cooks with coal instead of electricity from wind or solar because it's cheaper and energy costs represent a huge fraction of his daily expenses.

A well-to-do person in Connecticut doesn't mind that his electricity bill is much higher because of carbon taxes or renewables mandates because energy costs are a much smaller fraction of his expenses, and well-worth a cooler world for his children.

I am convinced that a richer world is much more likely to both reduce CO2 and better adapt to rising temperatures than a poorer world. It will also have the virtue of being a nicer place to live.

This is a long way to say the goal of policy should be reduced carbon intensity, not reduced growth.
Many university library systems have programs where alumni (and sometimes outsiders) can purchase access to their resources for a yearly fee. If that's unavailable to you or cost prohibitive, most academic libraries are open to the public. When I worked at an engineering library for a large university, a good part of my day was spent helping working professional access these kinds of resources.
Margins for Elsevier are closer to 40%, but I don't care about margins. What I care about is that we the tax payer have already paid for the research. Research often happens with government grants, done by researchers working at public universities. Editing and peer review is done for free by other researchers (who are also usually paid by grants and public universities). Elsevier does nothing but extract rent and pay for lawyers to help them keep extracting.

It is insane that they go after people who wrote the paper when they try to give it away on their own website.

A little reading goes a long way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier
Offline capabilities + easier to use for some people (one of them being me). Loading up a webpage every time I want to try some new nodejs module would not work as well as opening up a nodejs repl with the module loaded there.
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Correct me if I am wrong but at the end of the last Ice Age we did not had 7 billions people.

I find the terms "Nature", "Earth", etc really ambiguous in these kind of discussions. Sure "Earth" will be fine, will still orbit the Sun, even if it gets as hot as Venus. Cockroaches or water bears will inherit the Earth.

But people worried are not really worried about "Nature" (at least I am not) but rather about the very people that are sharing the same and only habitable, in our reach at least, planet.

Europe is considered in a major crisis for 3-4 millions Syrian refugees, now imagine if tomorrow there are 100 or 200 millions refugees moving all around the world.

In the end, it is only a "people" issue.
Google are the obvious candidate, with Apple close behind.

As I see it, it's most likely to evolve from a combination of translation software (which needs some sense of the semantics and context of a sentence to do really well) and DWIM-orientated search. But attempts at building a huge ontological model of the world in the hope of producing a formal-reasoning intelligence have been going for years with little fruit (Cyc etc.).

Next AI step to watch for: computerised bureaucracy assistants. It's one thing to have a team of human experts turning the tax code into a program; it's another to be able to just feed all the text of the law into a program and then engage in a dialogue with it to have it fill in the form for you.
Medieval tea-drinking and coffee-drinking in the same place? Where might this have been?
> EF is not a very large part of London's startup scene.

The rule e.f. companies are given is that conferences are a waste of time unless you're speaking. I've spoken at HN London and other events, but am generally less 'startup scene' oriented than I was before I joined.
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Of course it should - if it gets severe enought, even if humanity makes it, lots of people will die.
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> It's widely knew that too much coffee is dangerous. But a normal dose has plenty of benefits

I'd be interested in reliable cites for either of those.

Here's what Cochrane Collaboration says. http://www.evidentlycochrane.net/caffeine-and-health-evidenc...

It's a short list.
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>AI is whatever hasn't been done yet

There will probably be an interesting landmark when AI no longer needs us to survive. At the moment if all humans disappeared the power would go off and computers would stop working. At some point we may reach the stage where AIs could send robots out to man the power plants and similar. At that point it would be hard to claim that there isn't proper AI.
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> When we would occasionally get an extra cold day or cold winter, climate change deniers would say "where's the global warming if it's so cold?" and the response would be "you have to average it over decades, not just cherry pick the anomolies."

Well, what should be said is that weather is not climate

> Here they're cherry picking an anomaly.

How so?
Typo:

> you can unassgin them

Anyway, this seems interesting. But as a developer who completes pull requests, what's to make sure I actually get paid? The buyer could easily reject a pull request and merge the code elsewhere anyway. You say the payment is pre-approved. Does that mean it's impossible for the original developer to get their money back?
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Theoretically yes. Pragmatically no. There comes a point when it makes more sense to scale sideways (more OS instances) instead of up (more processes on beefier hardware).

It's no secret that Apache isn't the leanest of HTTP daemons, but that's really a separate point to the argument of whether you can reasonably argue a process as a web server.
I'm very late to the smartphone party, but I've read that although the Jolla hardware is weak by today's standards, the OS makes up for it by being light and sleek, even outpacing a modern Android device.

My phone cost <€200, with FedEx delivery included.
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I apologise, I meant blend modes:

https://dev.windows.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/status...

They have it marked as low priority, even tho it is a standard present in all other browsers.

I think that roadmap displays a solid representation that Edge is going to be our next lowest common denominator for webdesign/development for the next few years... I really don't care about its native ES6 support.

Maybe SVG 2.0...

This is the link of doom for me: https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-microsoft-edge-dev...
Linux took down microsoft...now we have apple, google, and facebook...Even if they opened up 100% of there code, and server design the network effects of these companies along with the data they own make code as a point of differentiation almost irrelevant. If Google is using Neural nets more and more you could have the code for the neural net without the weights and 10 billion pictures and not be able to have a competitive system.
Just to be clear, a few hours of sauna does not kill you. It's not a pressure cooker.
> What I'm saying is that it's misleading to call one process a web server when they really are saying [...]

No. It's simply a terminology used in Erlang, there's nothing misleading in it, once you know the definition. I mean, there is very specific thing called "server" in Erlang: http://erlang.org/doc/man/gen_server.html and also "processes" are described here: http://erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/processes.html

What's highly misleading is using more general definitions of such words instead of Erlang-specific meanings. This is a conversation about Erlang and it makes sense to use the terms accepted in Erlang; you can't blame anyone for the fact that some of these terms have meanings different than you'd expect.
Interesting, but they should make it more clear how does it work legally - i.e. are there guarantees built in that the repo owner won't discard the pull request, and then use the code anyway? Especially on open-source projects. Is this purely reputation based? Seems like it could be done with proper licensing. Also, the line

>If you're not happy with their progress though, you can unassgin them
and then other developers will be able to grab it again.

Worries me a little. Is there no limit, no appeal process? you could be 80% done with a task, and then the repo owner decides they don't want it done anymore, and just ditch you?
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Interesting. Cool idea. Thanks for the post!

Just guessing, but wouldn't it work better as a 2-phase process? Phase 1 you set a price on automated acceptance tests. Phase 2 developers bid on how much to write code to pass the tests. That, and perhaps required paired-programming, should address the quality issues you're probably going to face just setting a price on code slinging.
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Plus, the repo owner can change the price at any time, from what I gather.
- madaxe_again said that "our extinction is coming", not that it would happen within 30 years - nobody is, I believe, saying that.

- The doomsday clock thing wasn't unfounded paranoia, there was real danger of nuclear war in the 1950's.
Lol, downvotes in this thread? That is just ridiculous.
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> Also very close to Alan Kay's vision of "object oriented"

Yes! I remember reading a quote by Alan Key about how pretty much every modern OOP language gets it right entirely wrong, because OOP is supposed to be - in Kay's view - about classes or inheritance, but about sending messages to each other.

If one thinks of processes as objects and sending messages as "method calls", it is very object-oriented indeed.
>freshwater lake

Death Valley has no outlets (is endorheic), so it would be a salt water lake (at least after all the surface salt had time to dissolve).
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I think you've missed the point entirely here. Minecraft is a popular game that kids would play anyway, so if they can involve the game in an educational sense then it's a win win.
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When I switched to DuckDuckGo last year I read an interesting comment from someone. The basic idea was that we have all become so accustomed to Google's results and the manner in which we use it (i.e. the way we define our search terms) that it is actually we who must be willing to reprogram our search practices if any competitor is to have a chance to catch up.

I'm not sure if I buy that, but I do believe if we don't commit to alternatives it will be next to impossible for alternative search engines to get as good as Google with result quality and relevance. Google simply know too much about me and has performed so many more searches for a rival to outperform them. I still use DDG's 'g!' often but I feel like I'm doing my part to help DDG get better for me and other users.
I interpreted the statement as as slightly more hyperbolic than it actually is. What they say is true, across the board, but it's not as bad as it sounds. The problem is that 'especially' implies that the ratio gets worse as you get higher in academia and I think that's nonsense.

My undergraduate degree was physics, but we spent time in other classes run by the maths and engineering departments.

The stats for UCL are here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/srs/statistics/tables/g/1415

It's difficult to get more granular data. The graduate figures there are for masters and PhD combined. My department is space and climate and we certainly don't have 99 PhD students!

I can't find stats for my undergraduate intake (Warwick '08), so you'll have to take my word for it. Things may have improved a lot since then. My girlfriend says that her physics course (St Andrews) was fairly even.

Oxford is an interesting edge case because they seem to control for gender quite well. They accepted more girls than boys for undergrad in 2013 (over all sciences) at least.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/statisticalinformation/#d.en.62...
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Utilizing multiple processor cores was something of an afterthought, IIRC. Initially, the Erlang VM only used a single CPU, and in order to utilize multiple CPUs, one had to start one Erlang VM per CPU/core.

One of the nice things about Erlang's general approach is that this was a lot less painful than in many other languages. (I have no idea, though, how much work it was to get the Erlang VM itself to use multiple threads.)
Hi! Data is indeed as important as the algorithm. Common Crawl is a very good bootstrap but we will certainly need to go beyond once it proves to be the limiting factor. We also hope we can help them improve their data set in the short term by giving them a larger URL seed list.
In the late 90s I implemented the same concept for a web application written in Perl. (It's still running today.) There were three tiers to it:

Tier 1: a very small master program which ran in one process. It's job was to open the listening socket and maintain a pool of connection handler processes.

Tier 2: connection handler processes, forked from the master program. When they started they would load up the web application code, then wait for connections on the listening socket or for messages from the master process. They also monitored their own health and would terminate if they thought something went wrong. (ex: this protected them from memory leaks in the socket handling code.) When an http connection came in on the socket, they would fork off a process to handle the request.

Tier 3: request handlers. These processes would handle one http request and then terminate. When they started, they had a pristine copy of the web application code (thanks to Copy-On-Write memory sharing of forked processes) so I knew that there was no old data leaked from previous requests. And since they were designed to terminate after a single request, error handling was no problem; those would terminate too. In cases where a process consumed a lot of memory it would get released to the OS when the process ended. We also had a separate watchdog process that would kill any request handler that consumed too much cpu, memory, or was running much longer than our typical response time.

This scaled up to handling hundreds of concurrent requests per (circa 2005 Solaris) server, and around six million requests per day across a web farm of 4 servers. That was back in 2010; I don't know how much the traffic has grown since then but I know the company is still running my web app. This was all very robust; before I left I had gotten the error rate down to a handful of crashed processes per year in code that was more than one release old.

BTW, while my custom http server code could handle the entire app on its own, and was used that way in development, for production we normally ran it behind an Apache server that handled static files and would reverse-proxy the page requests to the web app server. So those 6 million requests per day were for the dynamic pages, not all of the static files. That also meant that my web app didn't have to handle caching or keep-alive, which simplified the design and makes the one-request-then-die approach more viable.
Obviously it won't work offline if you haven't already installed the package (which seems like the general case?)

I'm biased of course, and I understand why some people are turned off by an in browser solution. But I think it's probably faster, in most cases, to try something you've never installed in Tonic than in this. (And I hope there's genuine value in things like being able to share links to your experiments.)
Remember that story a few days ago about a mysterious investor throwing millions of dollars around on the Turkish stock market?

I'm not sayin' it's a wild AI, but...

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I didn't know much about the peewee. It seems like a great library. Thank you for the comment.
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Thanks for the typo fix.

It's true, a client can do what you describe but then we won't keep them as clients for long ;-) I assume in the future we can add a mechanism to ensure payment in case of such a code "theft", and I admit this isn't handled now. That said, we're talking rather small tasks, not complete projects here, and what you describe is not something that doesn't happen in real life, i.e. contractors that don't get paid. I assume that a developer that works on this system, saves a lot of time on marketing and clients relation and even if 1/100 tasks he is not paid for, it still be worthwhile than the alternatives.
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Electric trains still are built in Derby and Loughborough.

Perhaps Vivarail counts as a recent startup, founded 2012 in Stratford upon Avon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivarail
Thanks for that.
It's very well done and the message is spot on!
Yes, that is what I'm arguing, they are selling perceived big improvements, but I see low hanging fruits at max, certainly not disruption. Without hindsight. The few times I used taxis, I called them from my phone/skype long before Uber, and they arrived exactly when discussed. What is the fuss. And you eventually have to pay up, I don't really care what is the method. Getting from A to B on demand was solved long ago.
All, without operating in the frame your competitors have to is a bit fishy.
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I haven't, and I reject that premise---it is not a win-win, because I don't believe they should be playing it (and other proprietary games) to begin with, and I certainly don't want them to use it as an educational platform upon which they'll build their foundation.

That doesn't mean I'm opposed to kids learning something when playing games.

I'm proud that my kids play and learn from free games---an walk around the house repeating things from, say, gcompris. They're young (two and four), and I'll be challenging myself to keep up with their need for learning as they age and require more sophisticated games and learning tools.
If your looking from a job perspective then do a job search with that as a keyword and see what comes up the most in your city.
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Hospitals are like evolutionary pressure chambers and any drug that combats MRSA will inevitably lead to its own demise.

The more accessible and effective the drug is, the less time it will buy us.
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> Provide scaffolding to help the community develop, publish, find, and evaluate Scala libraries.

This sounds little odd. Has there similar efforts for other languages?
General AI is right around the corner like cold fusion is right around the corner. I'm not holding my breath.
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You build stuff out of low poly blocks. If your imagination can't comprehend that then you've missed out on much more than a game.
so overwhelming :(
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You've paid for the research, but not for the publishing cost. If you don't care about the cost, then the decisions you support will obviously be skewed.

Claiming that they're just extracting rent ignores the cost, which even at a 40% margin is still 60% of what they charge.

Do you have any information on their legal costs that would reduce the cost above?

Do you think everyone complaining about prices would be happy if they would reduce prices by 35% across the board, thus making no profit? Or would you still want it to be free? If the latter, your complaint is not solely based in Elsevier's "rent extraction", but in something else.
> tax is theft

The Supreme Court stated this "rhetorical nonsense" even more strongly: "the power to tax is the power to destroy".

> property rights can be derived from non-aggression

> violent coercion is bad (unless it's used to enforce property rights, that doesn't count)

Property rights aren't a consequence of non-aggression, so much as non-aggression is scoped by the extent of property rights.

https://mises.org/library/what-libertarianism

"...what aggression is depends on what our (property) rights are...One cannot identify an act of aggression without implicitly assigning a corresponding property right to the victim."

For example, driving a car can be aggression, depending on whether I have property rights to that car or not.
One of the ironies is that a very common side effect of standard issue chemotherapy is a marked and often permanent weakening of the immune system by altering a person's microbiome. Advances in oncology perhaps within our own lifetime will make today's treatments seem as embarrassing as medieval blood-letting.
From what I've read, the winter was caused by complete lack of direction. No one knew how to even approach the problems. This doesn't seem to have changed at all.
If what you need is just search, you could try a SaaS, such as Algolia (https://www.algolia.com/)
The idea here, since we don't want to make it a competition or something where only one wins the jackpot, that if a lazy dev takes the job, and he's behind schedule, or provides a low quality deliverance, then the client can unassign. I here your concerns but I hope it won't grow into a backdoor for stealing code.
Here's a round-up:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/upshot/more-consensus-on-c...
That's the biggest by far and still only 1k hours.

But yes, that is what we need more of - not matrix libraries.
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Negligent shootings have nothing to do with gun control.
When a toddler manages to get their hands on a firearm it's a gun safety issue, but leave it to the guardian to make this point and also bring up Syrian refugees into the mix.
All I can say is sounds kinda interesting. Page load time is insanely slow right now though and your landing page gives me ZERO idea of what this actually may be when you launch.
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If you want to drink coffee, drink coffee. Using a goofball medieval study (with a sample size of literally 2 people) to justify your personal choice is pretty silly.
I mean, not really. It's a big name because the best research is published there. Therefore, if you are published there it's because you are doing some of the best research.
Very much this. Simply put: current state-of-the art is very task-specific. True AI is not and we are possibly hundreds of noble prizes away from it.