skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are probably right. Interesting though; thanks.
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I agree. But watching BP's contractors repeatedly fail to plug the Deepwater Horizon gusher made me realize that these catastrophic possibilities are not limited to nuclear power.

With non-renewable energy production, the situation is literally "pick your poison."
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It is terribly depressing for many people to admit the reverse also. That money cannot buy happiness...
Lattekit: Android Framework for Building UI in Kotlin, Inspired by React.js
Panama papers: the names
That's what hippies call the setting. That's literally what the hip in hippie means to me, the ridiculous enthusiasm. I don't mean offense, but I find other words for the kind of careful optimism that is necessary to keep this ignorant excitement going.

That said, the article's link to the paper seems broken. Because there's no correct link to the paper yet in this discussion, my impression that most comments here don't really hold scientific merit gets stronger. I will admit that I don't understand enough of statistics to judge the methods used, if there was any control group at all.
It isn't very clear yet.
In a democracy, people talk and complain to get ineffective laws changed. My fear is that if the government doesn't act soon, the backlash will be against all immigrants. Just like the idiots are vilyfing 1% of the highest income earners.
Suicide dropped by sociology exam board: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jun/15/suicide-dro...

A law professor saying it's becoming harder to teach laws relating to rape: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trouble-teaching-rap...

> To be fair, these are also young adults floundering about with these new ideas. Presumably there's always been kids who complained about the professor in one way or another. Is the 'too hard' criticism of the modern ratemyprofessor.com any different than another young person complaining about a useless perceived microaggression? They're both probably going to be ignored in the greater context of things.

I'm not trying to stop them complaining. I am trying to stop them having their professors sacked and having speakers no-platformed.
It's not too strong. I actually meant "in most use cases" which in fact is true, most people are slow anyways.
Your database or the roundtrips are mostly not the performance factor nr. 1
OP writes really well. Found myself reading the README of his Python web framework (which I'll never use) just because of the clarity, style and pedagogical approach.

Hope there's more on the way.
People are not created equal, some are predisposed to happiness so you are limited in how much happiness you can buy. However, if money is not buying happiness your not buying the right things.

EX1: Sometimes your better off paying down debt or investing than buying stuff.

EX2: Sometimes your better off buying stuff for other people than yourself.

EX3: Buying experiences tends to have better returns than stuff.

EX4: Sometimes the best thing to 'buy' is time by making less money.
But if you give a man earning 0.1X dollars X, you can make a huge and long-lasting impact on the man's happiness, because he didn't have enough money before and now he does.

Money doesn't buy happiness directly; it buys security, and security enables happiness.
Incredible that Virtual Light was written more than 20 years ago. How prescient it was ...

Funny thing with its rising real estate prices and large number of bums (I hear), San Fran is turning into exactly what Gibson envisioned.
I like Arq, use it as a "real, offsite" backup complement to Time Machine. Not quite as fire-and-forget as Time Machine, but darn close!

And the format of the stored data is available, which is a nice safety feature in case of major problems.
Yes, film wasn't sensitive enough for black skin.

Personally, I'm inconvenienced by discrimination against tall people (for instance, in airplane passenger seats).
I guess you aren't running X Windows then.
I came from the gamedev side of things.

In there Microsoft now is perfectly still the 90s Microsoft.

From my point of view, the Linux on Win10 is a strategic move to incentive people use Windows as their sole desktop (since with this move many people won't have any reason whatsoever to use Linux at all).

I tried to convince lots of people on the Linux community that they need to react... of course, not blocking Microsoft (that would be silly, and unfree), but by fixing stuff that people wants fixed for years: Audio, driver support in general, ease of use, not having to edit text config files, and so on...

But instead I got EXTREMELY negative reactions, some people even told me they are against AMDGPU driver efforts because it would make Linux more accessible to stupid people that will need help.
My argument (currently) is that money can buy a housing location next to your office. Completely removing a commute is a pretty big happiness booster.
So ... just to make sure I get it, your argument is there is no theoretical limit like Y approaches zero as X approaches infinity on the graph, and if there is a line it doesn't have a negative slope, because finding individual points with a small Y and large X somehow proves the line, if it exists, is flat or has a positive slope, despite the entire point of the article being that enormous piles of data imply the opposite, because ...
I've seen it established too, though I don't have the citation either.

But doesn't seem too "incredible", it's mostly the typical notion of "diminishing returns" we see everywhere.
I'm not sure you mean my comment and not someone else's. All I'm saying is that "deciding" has nothing to do with the question of whether money means you can get better medical care. Who said anything about "everyone being as wealthy as Steve Jobs?"

But one way a less blatantly corrupt system could "play out in the real world" is not allowing people to arbitrarily switch states when they find the organ waiting list not to their liking, or just maintaining the whole waiting list at a national level.
Top 1% wealth is over 8 million. Most doctors have nowhere near that.
The summary nearly matches the essay for length. It seems the text is available:

https://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/hell/camus.html

edit: (looking more closely that is probably only 1 of the 4 chapters)
I'm going to give it a shot, hopefully it does text wrap nicely and provides a proper hierarchical view. I tried HN in all the text browsers, and those are two problems that are common to all of them. I've stuck with my preferred choice, elinks, and it does pretty well otherwise.

[edit] Oh, phantomjs... I don't want to install that on this machine. :|
Not if it's harmful to the development of a fully Free ecosystem. Unless Windows becomes fully Free - which would be a huge, unprecedented change - its users are forced to accept whatever compromises Microsoft makes on their behalf.
At 62, the hedge fund manager is eligible for social security, on top of the capital gains he's been living off of comfortably for the prior 27 years. The Wal-Mart employee may never be able to afford to stop working because of the penalty on income over the minimum. That's how the system is set up.
it's weird how they use the term genomes over and over, but their reconstruction is based on ~12 RNA genes. There doesn't actually seem to be any genomics in this article.
Human history is unfortunately littered with stories like this, but we know the Neanderthal genetic flow came in from the males. The reason why we know this is we are missing all Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA sequences which are only inherited down the female line. If your theory was correct then we would see modern humans with Neanderthal mitochondrial genomes.

It appears what happened is much more interesting - Neanderthal males mated with female humans of African origin, but the male offspring were infertile.
Is your ISP hijacking your DNS traffic?
Awesome! Seems easy enough :)
A design from the 50s-60s era of nuclear design should not still be in service for this reason.

We can do way better now. Our process, materials, and engineering have advanced orders of magnitude.
Does putting your head in the sand and ignoring people pass as conforntation nowadays? You confront ideas with other ideas. You think Stephen Fry would be happier if he was a hidden- or silent- homosexual ?
You don't necessarily need ORMs. If the developer had used prepared statements (e.g. PDO in php), then there would probably have been a lot less vulnerabilities.
While I agree that the long-term solution is absolutely to use renewable stuff (especially solar), I don't know that the renewable tech is completely ready to power 7 billion people.

Nuclear is messy, and far from ideal, but it doesn't spew chemicals into the air, with a high yield of power, and we already have decent(ish) nuclear tech.
Argh, the website is down...lol:

"Error establishing a database connection"
Why does it need phantomjs? There is an official HN api that can be used. If it uses phantomjs why not just use lynx/links/links2?
Well, even for smaller use cases, systems with peer-to-peer clustering over a lan have better high-availability profiles than primary/secondary replication systems.
Steve Jobs died regretting that he had spent so long attempting to treat his cancer with alternative medicine before agreeing to undergo surgery, according to his biographer Walter Isaacson; if he had received treatment as soon as he was aware of the cancer, it's possible he would still be alive today.
I recently discovered you can use GDB from inside Emacs. [1]

Before, I always used some awkward IDE to debug with a live source view, then switched back to my editor to fiddle with code... but with this things are finally unified!

(Of course, to use it you first have to be able to tread water in Emacs...)

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/GD...
He doesn't have one.
Interestingly, nowadays all but the last one tend to require a service to be available.
Yes, personally I believe that the past, present and future states of the universe exist as a kind of eternal structure. This is commonly known as the "block universe" view. In that context my life is but a small (but nonetheless eternally existing) pocket within space-time.

In particular, I think that the relativistic concept of simultaneity is a strong argument in favor of this kind of view.
The Advantages of Being a Blind Programmer
12 Tips to Help You Become a Talented Presenter: Part 4
Linked from podcast: http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/02/programmer-anarchy

We (at Forward) had to rewrite a system that was previously on .NET and SQL Server. The team ended up using several technologies (Ruby, Clojure, Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB, etc). The core of the system was an Energy bill calculation logic, with several complex conditions and checks. In the original .NET system, this logic was all around the software – as a part of our rewriting exercise, we rewrote this core logic in Ruby in roughly 600 lines of code. Then we rewrote it in Clojure to be 300 lines of code. Then the same developer rewrote it in Clojure to be 200 lines of code and be cleaner than the previous implementation. And finally it does several things that the original system was intended to do, but never did!

What manager allows you to rewrite the core of the system three times? No Manager. That’s why we don’t have managers!
What do you think of the Steam work on this?

IMO they're doing it as a means of keeping their options open against the day when Microsoft decides not to allow a third-party app store on Windows and cuts off their air supply.
I read about it a few years back. Has there been any resolution to this case recently?
Entrepreneurship is about freedom, not money
You are correct, I over generalised. I think there's an increasing tendency to aggressively use victimhood (or survivorship if you prefer) in a censorious fashion.

Censorship simply because you don't like what someone says has been around forever.
> "We want to become a tech company" is the new management fad

I'd say that it's the new necessity for any large-scale operation. Software (and tech overall) is integrated into everything, and relegating it to an expense column is increasingly a mistake in any enterprise.
Love arq too. Rumor has it arq 5 will also stop eating up free space with its cache.noindex folder. Excited about that!
I remember a speech Christopher Hitchens gave a few times about this, and I generally agree with him. Suggested reading for all:

http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2014/09/30/christopher-...

The real point is that saying "I'm offended" doesn't give anyone the right to shut up anyone else. We have freedom of speech, not freedom from speech. The recent move in the US to push hate speech laws is an egregious attack on our foundational principles of free speech in my opinion.
Would you like to take a guess?
All of those and reactor designs for safe(r) generation of civil power are very different to reactor designs for breeding weapons grade material/based on similar designs.

We can build clean, efficient reactors that fail entirely safe.
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It can be more nuanced than that. Some of these "rich kids" are brought up in an environment, or culture, where they simply don't expect ostenentatious displays of wealth (even by those who have apparently not earned the wealth themselves) to be met with these responses.

In any case, I think it's important to emphasize the individual has a choice.

No one is forcing these people to flaunt their wealth.
Google cache link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dy3xEV...
Nope, go Google it. For humans, it's something like a 1.07/1 male:female ratio, IIRC. Sorry, I don't have a link handy.
This is pretty interesting, given the article about NY's poor being healthier than other poor Americans that was on the front page of HN yesterday [1]. I wonder how much of this can be attributed to environmental factors (long commutes to work, few quality grocery stores, violent crime, etc.) I'm glad there seems to be a fair bit of interest in figuring this mess out.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/11/upshot/poor-new-yorkers-te...
Awesome! And this is not just REPL. I think this software will bring up metaprogramming into a new level. We can instantiate template class at runtime (at configuration phase) and plug it into a working program. As result we get flexible runtime configuration with zero-overhead abstractions at the same time.
Most interested parties here are not merely users but developers. Potential contributors. Or if anything, merely curious about the inner workings.

That represents a large percentage, if not the overwhelming majority of users of HN. I'm surprised this question still comes up. It's a bit like when people ask on /r/gamedev showcases "why should I care what engine your game is built in?".
I suspect that genetics (not measured by this study) and lifestyle factors (big according to this) are probably the dominant factors.

I expect that Delhi/Shanghai magnitude physical environment factors is also important. But luckily the US is a lot cleaner.
Also the Aliso Canyon natural gas leak - something like 100+ days of the thing uncontrollably spewing gas
Hydro is renewable, and dangerous. So is silicon production for solar panels. Life is a risky business.
There are multiple arguments "at hand". The one I refer to is beaker52's argument that a call for trigger warnings and safe spaces is due to a childish rejection of the real world. I disagree with that conclusion, for reasons I gave.

I think you are talking about a different argument?

Personally, I see direct parallels to the current call for "safe spaces" to older calls for non-gendered job titles, prohibitions on the casual use of racist slurs, the student protests against Kissinger appointment to Columbia which lead to the university cancelling his appointment, and more. I can't point to a time when there wasn't a debate about a "change in society to accommodate the fear or the offence".

It all seems more of outrage about "kids these days" and "things were more meaningful when I was your age" than anything else.

Is that the argument at hand that you refer to?
Mostly Microsoft or Windows device driver developers, but also people who want to reverse engineer device drivers.

There's many DRM / anti-hacking tools that rely on windows drivers to hook Windows kernel APIs at the lowest level they can.
Very nice working example but I don't understand why they would maintain the X to close modules when it is so easy to close required functionality (like Save). Are you unable to remove the Close button and they had to add "Reset Layout" to get around it? To me most of those modules shouldn't be permitted to be closed.
Educated: Cause 3 would be a no brainer.
"WTF": Case dropped.
Step-by-step guide to C++ navigation/completion in Emacs with Clang-based rtags
Interestingly for the most part these European immigrants refused to teach their children born in the USA their native languages because they were that concerned with integration.

I think it is sad that languages were not passed on but it seems that later waves of immigrants or even some groups as a whole (e.g.: Chinese, Latin Americans) are more concerned about preserving their native languages in their new country.
Jupyter runs on the command line. It started out as a fancy Python REPL replacement (IPython), the notebook part has been a relatively new development.
"Though Defendants conducted these searches against the will of Ms. Doe and without her consent, the Medical Center billed Ms. Doe more than $5,000.00 for its “services."

Reminds me of the bullet fees (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_fee) charged by China and Iran.
By randomly adding skips, can definitely get to all possible combinations even with only 16 seeds (since skips can be seeded from a much larger space), although there could be a speed implication.
Hierarchical view is a no-go, alas. Some people might view this as a feature :)
"meaningful professional life"

One thing that I've noticed is that some men I've known (and it seems to be a male problem) don't handle the step change from a high flying career to retirement at all well. Seeing people who have worked hard to enjoy a very comfortable retirement drop dead within a year of retiring is pretty alarming!

[NB They weren't in software]
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Most police aspirants have to be sprayed with mace before they are allowed to use it on other people.

We should require aspiring border patrol agents to undergo complete invasive searches as a part of their training before they are allowed to demand them for others.
It's both sad and worrying what's happening with the culture of U.S. authorities. From police up to the NSA, they're all now thinking that the Constitution doesn't matter, personal liberty doesn't matter, human decency doesn't matter - it's all about the mission, and the mission must be solved at all costs.

And if you have something to say against that, then you're the enemy of the state for trying to stop the state from accomplishing whatever mission it believes it has then.

I think this trend will stop reversing only when the people manage to elect someone that will hold accountable and punish severely any member of law enforcement or the intelligence community that breaks the law or does unconstitutional things. Until then, things are only going to get worse, and it will become increasingly harder to do something about it.
Pair programming in developer interviews
So we basically go back to using fireplaces for heat.
By the outrage and anger people express when you don't give them spoiler alert.
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Your wife refactors my code too.
Aside from giving people a call every so often, I use LinkedIn - messages, comment on their posts, etc. I also have a group of former colleagues whom I've worked with at multiple companies and we'll get together every few months. Depending on the size of your network, it may be nearly impossible to keep in touch with everyone on a frequent basis. In the past, I would invite a number of them to tech events around the city and that worked with some success.
Jonathan de Ferranti has a webpage reviewing different digital elevation maps (http://viewfinderpanoramas.org/reviews.html#aster ). It sounds like he was not super impressed with the ASTER height data (the review is from 2011):

> Despite the nominal 1" resolution, the true resolution is lower than 3" (downsampled from 1") SRTM data, and there are very many pits, bumps and mole runs. So far the tallest spike that I have found is 3,844 metres, at N 60�43' E 22�02', in south west Finland, and the deepest pit is about 3,000 metres, in tile N27E088, containing cells below 5,300m close to where Kangchenjunga's main summit ridge should rise to 8586m. Generally, artifacts are visible in almost all areas of low relief. Coastlines are not at all accurate; lakes have not been flattened and are particularly badly affected by artifacts. Major errors can be found in most areas of very high relief, But in between, some areas of medium to high relief have been well done and are almost artifact free. My early impression is that, for areas where topographic coverage is poor, these data could be separated out for use to improve DEM data, including both mountain and desert voidfill data, on this and other sites. At one time I thought it may also be possible to flatten the low relief artifacts to provide data that will improve coverage of the plains of North Eurasia, but after further consideration I doubt that this will be possible.
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Great post. I just wanted to add that space and energy could very much be emergent phenomenon, as well. Take for example Wolfram's conjecture that the universe might be modeled as a causal network [1], in which our 4D spacetime emerges from the connections between nodes, and energy/particles emerge from the complicated dances of knots in the network. It might sound pretty far fetched, but it seems to me at least as reasonable as the universe being modeled by a small set of equations.

[1] http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-rea...
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Female engineer polishes skills at Kenya's new rail project
No they are not like md5 hashes. They are likely https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA hashes.
So, you're saying the servers are aladeen?
Seems to have been settled. Found this:

Mention of "Doe v. El Paso County Hospital District, et al.
No. 3:13-cv-00406 (WD Tex., filed Dec. 18, 2013)" at this blog,
https://holdcbpaccountable.org/category/texas/
links to "Texas Hospital Reaches $1.1 Million Settlement" http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2014/07/0... (July 2014)

In particular, "Texas Tech University, which operates a medical school campus at the hospital [will pay] $500,000."
We should have all their assets seized and they should spend a few years in jail also...

edit: for the slow among us, obviously I don't believe this.
There does seem to be some links between the endocannabinoid system (the primary target of marijuana) and the serotonin system (the primary target of LSD). EG:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17944876
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/27/43/11700.abstract

From what I can see, the relationship isn't terribly clear at this time. As dopamine and serotonin systems are linked to schizophrenia, until more is known, I personally think anyone with even mild signs of schizophrenia would do best to avoid chemicals like marijuana, LSD, stimulants, etc.