skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really awesome app! My only advice would be to move the sidebar to the top when possible because horizontal real estate is important, especially if you have lots of long term events.

Other thing I'd love to see in a calendar app is prompting me to track the exact amount of time I spend on each thing in my calendar. Having contextual reminders and a split (planned/reality) view would be really interesting. It would help spot those people who are habitually late.
> I think improving the vetting procedure for the entry of international students is necessary; and sadly that does not seem to be in focus due to the revenue that students from foreign countries bring in.

Agreed. I think there's an opportunity for someone to come in and one-up the SAT or ACT with a better vetting procedure for international students.
I feel like 99pi might become the "relevant XKCD" of podcasts soon. This was an excellent episode and it's a really fun problem to discuss.
There are really cool free apps but they're drowned into scams and poor clones. And most games are impossible to install. Feels like having Windows and being stuck with minesweeper and sharewares floppys.
It's not completely meaningless. Apart from the association with the radiation symbol due to the symmetry, it looks strikingly unfriendly, with sharp tentacles reaching out to grab you like a biohazard well might.
Beautiful. How do you build something like this? Coding language? Stack? Dev environment?
Those other ways do not get rid of a potentially serious environmental contaminant. Or do you prefer if those "waste dumps" remain unused and potentially dangerous.

It both serves as a very valuable source of rare energy and at the same time gets rid of the "waste" of old redundant processes, what's not to like ?
Heritability of traits can be measured by twin studies. Some people have spent quite a lot of time doing this for IQ. Others have even identified some of the genes that are correlated with high IQ, TOR1A being one of the more interesting ones. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this area of research.

Regarding population genetics, I don't think it matters as much as people seem to think. Han Chinese are short, but Yao Ming is tall, and there's no contradiction in that.

Regarding Urbit, I certainly hope that it isn't heritable, or for that matter infectious, because it seems totally opaque.
That is indeed the trick, but who said anything about computers? Mechanical sound reproduction, even specifically using electricity, predates computers. I see no reason it couldn't post-date them in this application, as well. You would want to build the system out of simple, indestructible components, something closer in complexity to an electric doorbell than a computer.
Thanks for the link - apparently I need to flag "things I vaguely remember being as facts I read at some point" as "possibly an urban legend".
Yes, pretty much the result of the 5 major (or 9 major) extinction events. I was using this [1] it's a number frequently used when referring to whats been and whats left. It's really an extraordinary number when thinking about it.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/extinction/massext/stateme...
Its probably not public yet. The mystery does help with marketing. Keeping people guessing is an age old tactic. Either way I'm interested.
Amazing UI fluidness on mobile. Very good idea!
Beautifully done. I have had this exact idea for years as well and you basically took the dream app I was going to build "Some Day" and seem to have nailed the execution. Bittersweet feeling for me. ;-) Hope this becomes hugely successful!
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It is because the problem does not exist. So no solution is required. Those "waste dumps" are prime fuel for next gen LFTR's.
I never got to use TFS, but I'd sum up the benefits with /integration/. The MS dev ecosystem is amazing. I write software now for Linux on Mac OS X. I use IntelliJ, Netbeans, virtual box, and a whole bunch of bash to tie it all together.

If I want to do a deploy of my lambda software, I edit some Python in IntelliJ, I then run a build and upload it to lambda using some bash scripts, and test it using the GUI in Chrome.

If I'm editing C code, I edit some code in Netbeans, and edit it over Netbeans SSH integration in VB. I then go compile it using make on the remote machine, and load it. I have a bunch of bash scripts to do testing on that remote machine that are executed via SSH.

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I have several more duct taped integrations. With VS, this is all in one system.
Exactly my thoughts too! Might be humbling and perspective shifting.
I signed up for the email but I didn't get a download. Did anyone else have any luck?
http://tasks.office.com
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/

99pi did an awesome about this. I thought the most interesting idea was that culture permeated much deeper than anything else. So seed our world with these stories of cats that changed color near radiation or something like that would do best. Since symbols meaning change but oral tradition or old wives tales last much longer.
Dark patterns aren't uncommon, sure. But I feel like in trying to design a nuclear waste site they are using antipatterns, purposely trying to avoid or subvert every common pattern in design. Or in terms of the computing metaphor a dark pattern would be a website that splits content across several pages. An antipattern would loading MBs of webfonts and polyfills to display a single word and a link saying "Click here for the next word." (At least as I'm trying to use the word "antipattern").

I do not really know much about architecture personally, so I appreciate the input. I do feel sorry for the people who do the soul crushing work like that, making the world just a little worse in order to survive. We all have a choice, even if we can't see it now.
The story goes, GM made the fantastic decision that the executives in charge of each division had to drive their own cars. So Chevy, Buick, Pontiac, and Oldsmobile wound up making something very much like a Cadillac. This created brand confusion, and Cadillac lost its status. (although i can't remember the source of this story, so it might just be a fairy tale from the 80's)

Also, i thought the 1k hp was an aftermarket thing. (although 640 is still kind of insane.)
That heuristic is good for 99%+ of the data set (and probably higher accuracy than a word2vec approach anyways). That's more than acceptable for this analysis.
> and the only ones to meaningfully modify it.

The first oxygen-excreting algae may have a prior claim...
I was as well. It makes some sense, my family is an example. They were Scots they came to the British-American colonies in the 1750s after the clan system was extinguished in the post-Jacobite era. But part of the family went up to Canada in the early 19th century after the Revolution. Many of them are still there today but some have moved back down. My wife's family has gone back and forth between the US and Mexico a number of times, depending on economic factors. Her dad had dual citizenship and renounced his American just 20 years ago. Sounds odd but he does really well for himself in manufacturing and as a politician.

The ties between all 3 North American countries have to be pretty deep at this point.
I like the creativity, but I think for daily use I still prefer the table inspired week view (or 3 day view for portrait mode) as it gives me a better sense of orientation.
For execution you get A+ :) really well executed.
Sad that even in 1993 the government was still producing documents on a typewriter with shitty, photocopied black-and-white line art. Photoshop had already been available for three years at this point.
I'm not so sure about the "virtual reality goggles" idea, but inventoryless dealerships seems like a no-brainer. If I want to buy a Cadillac, I want to test-drive the same model, then pick the options and colours I want, and then have a car to my exact specifications delivered to my door.

The model where I need to scout around to find something vaguely resembling what I'm actually after is ridiculous, especially with something like a Cadillac that can be optioned up the wazoo.
Intelligence is not a indicator of survivability, and if it somehow was, we found ourselves on the completely wrong side of the argument. How many other planet-altering intelligent species do you see around you ? Do you think that is a good indicator of survivability ?
Leaves quivering can be done with a simple sine that gets a value that is increased with a random delta with a different offset for each leave group (if you notice in games which have "wind", this is how it is done - the system exposes some knobs for designers to twist until things look good, but in general that is the idea).

The flames are very simple particles, the flame effect is probably the simplest particle effect you can do. The particle scene is blurred though before rendering the human figure, so the irregularities are not that visible.

The humans are simple black+white cutouts (they might be even stored as a single bit per pixel) with a small "light edge" on the side (most likely applied as an effect and not part of the data). It isn't very visible in the YouTube video because the compression smears a bit the scene, but if you run the demo locally you'll easily see it.

The intro isn't that high tech (compared to other intros of course), but Conspiracy are masters of presentation - the scene with the humans, leaves, mountains, house, etc wouldn't look as good as they do if it wasn't for the color grading, the camera motion and framing, the post processing and even the sequence the scenes are presented.
it exploded in many ways: new technology startups, innovation, etc.
This was one of my favorite demos back in the day. I still have a copy of it (along with 10~ other favorites) sitting in a "Demoscene" folder somewhere. Many of them don't work on today's hardware/software, sadly (including this one).

It's great that it's open source now! That means if someone's really motivated, they can update it to run on modern environments (by no longer keeping it 4 KB), even OS X, etc.
This has been haunting the news since the early '80s and it will go on for several more decades. Then, after whatever they finally come up with is constructed, there will be a creepy spectacle about which to write more tired news stories.

It has always seemed a waste of effort to me. If some primitive post-dystopian human were to dig hundreds of meters through salt (!) and come into contact with the waste they would be rapidly educated as to the hazard and go find something better to do. Anyone less primitive should have no trouble interpreting some straightforward pictographs preserved on a few strategically placed brass plaques embedded in granite. In the meantime surround the site in stainless barbed wire and perform routine inspections.

I guess it was kinda fun thinking about this `problem.' Once. Long ago. But since then it seems to have just devolved into a boondoggle attracting an ever greater circle of paper writers. Meanwhile, with all of these great minds sweating 10,000 year hypotheticals, the actual handling of waste is down to yahoo contractors mixing high level waste with randomly procured cat litter, producing nitrate fueled nuclear waste explosions...

Priorities. In order. Not.
Anyone else annoyed by software no longer asking for an install location?
> For example, do I really need the fact that I'm on vacation to be taking space at the side of the screen at all times?

That is a very "now" view of time.

I like my calendar to act as an archive, a diary that writes itself simply through living.

In the moment I may want to only see the beginning and end of a long-running event, but on the whole I want to see what happened/is happening at the given time frame in the past/future.
Which is interesting because he doesn't really need to do anything else does he? Like you point out, having a $3.2B buyout is pretty much a home run in anybody's book.
Haven't thought of that, but maybe self hosting could be done. I intend to make the app free, but it isn't open source.
I don't see how a clean-slate approach brings them closer to their goal of "make hosting this virtual machine easy enough to do that anyone could".

Decentralized "cloud" computing is a necessity and I commend them for their efforts but this seems like a case of NIH syndrome if I ever saw one.
A 19th-Century Cartographer Crammed All of Human History into This Map
I agree wholeheartedly. As a gamer who now only makes time for games I can play for short sessions, Spelunky was an absolute godsend. I've only put it down because my gaming time is even more constrained and because I achieved my personal goal of a $1MM daily challenge win (after a lot of near misses and managing to post some pretty high scores!).

Discovering the patterns within the apparent randomness (without the aid of wikis, for the most part) was a big part of the game's appeal to me. Depending on what kind of randomness I'm facing, I might need to make quick decisions about timing or routing or resource usage, often needing to weigh risk vs. reward along several dimensions at once. This game does so much with so little, and the attention to detail and thoughtful design have always shone through for me, all along my journey from bewildered novice to cunning whiz.

With a huge back catalog of video games in existence, it says a lot that one can look forward to returning to a timeless classic like Spelunky.
Surely not the only ones to meaningfully modify earth. If you look from space, earth looks green... Also, wasn't the atmosphere changed to be more rich in oxygen by early microbes?
I wouldn't go so far as to call it deeply unsettling, but it does seem odd. For me, I think the reason is that I now have the desire to try and fill in all of those empty decades. And if you have only a few reoccurring tasks (go to gym), then that's all that appears year after year. That was a little odd too.

People don't do well when confronted with planning at that scale. Not only that, but when looking at decade scale, you probably don't want to see daily tasks bleeding in. It's one thing to see a five or ten year plan. It's another to see that you're still planning on going to the gym at 8:30, June 7th, 2026.
They are intentionally scarce.
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I think the most interesting thing about this is the underlying assumption that warnings and containment must survive .. the death of our current civilization and States.

These researchers are talking the long path .. how do we warn people who make not have any knowledge our civilization exists in its current form?

Too many people today think this will last forever; that we're in a golden age that we cannot easily return from.
This article was a little confusing for me. When I read "consciousness," I think of private, subjective experience—qualia. This meaning of consciousness is a very hard problem indeed, and any new theory is bound to be interesting. (See Chalmers for a great summary: http://consc.net/papers/facing.html) But the article seems to be talking about meta-cognition, not conscious experience. Meta-cognition is interesting in its own right I suppose, but far less so than what I normally think of as consciousness.
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I agree. Trychtophobia (spelling) is definitely a real thing, so I don't think it's out of question. It seems that (in some people at least) certain patterns or images can have very, uh, "deterring" properties, I guess.

The biohazard symbol looks flat out dangerous to me. While the radiation trifoil scares me because I've learned what it means, the biohazard symbol is something more instinctual to me. It says "someone who knows more than you do wanted to freak you out by putting this here, so stay away!"
Honestly it was probably way easier (and more performant) to implement it that way. I would hate to wrangle DOM elements and CSS to get it to perform that smoothly and lay out in an expected and consistent way. I think most game developers would likely agree.
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That a project can't be explained in plain English is starting to become a guarantee for successful crowd-funding.
Honestly I think the biohazard tie mentioned in the article isn't so bad, since presumably it's warn by someone in the field who will be surrounded by others of the same field, so I don't think anyone will be tricked into thinking the necktie itself is a biohazard. I actually think the biohazard necktie is kind of funny, in certain circumstances (maybe not if worn by my doctor, but instead by someone giving a keynote speech about biohazardous material)

The lunchboxes, water bottles, and helmets on the other hand... that's just absurd.
Do you use transistors?
Then stop, because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley
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Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness (1995)
I second org-mode, being using it for years. I had to write a couple of scripts to update my notes to newer versions, but it went mostly painless. I however found myself using more and more plain text recently without much markups. There is certain mental ease and simplicity in writing:

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Someone like Daniel Dennett would argue that meta-cognition and consciousness are pretty much the same thing.
Mobiles to blame as number of teenagers with tinnitus reaches ‘alarming levels’
Due to a random circumastance I have visited a luxury resort where rich people go on weekend retreats and such. Anyway was surprised to see lots of Cadillacs in the parking lot. I thought the same that they were a luxury brand for 70 years olds. Granted some people there were in their 50s and such, so perhaps it still holds some appeal for them.

Also funny to hear the phrase "The Cadillac of $X", where $X is some category of products. Even though in reality most today would not consider Cadillac as anything cool or associated with quality.
You should read the paper, all of this was considered.
>"Heritability of traits can be measured by twin studies."

No, correlations between traits can be measured in twin studies, but they do not prove a causal link.

In the realm of intelligence, it could be (and I would argue) that looking like a nerd generally proceeds becoming one. People become social outcasts, and then become intelligent as a defense mechanism. That is,once in that nerd social caste, a greater percentage of people will find themselves using their brains more often. As a result, they get smarter, and score better on IQ tests.

Because twins are liable to look the same way, have the same temperament, same physique, etc. they are liable to be pushed into the same sorts of social groups, and as a result the same sorts of interests, ultimately pushing their IQs up or down together.

This would not mean that IQ is heritable, but that traits which can have a forcing effect on nurture (and thus IQ) are heritable.
Love the animation that resolves the home icon into the menu icon.
Cyano-bacteria created our current breathable atmosphere and most all iron deposits. Calciferous phytoplankton built England, vast tracks of southern France and literally creates the air we breathe. Those things all meaningfully modified it back in deep time and continue to modify it today.
It's interesting how on the forum this is totaly not about Windows 10, but more about Akamai and here all people are bashing on Windows.
...portability? That's the whole point of this conversation :)
I was thinking the same thing. Pretty bold move for a startup with an aim to provide a digital identity for everyone in the world with their stack.

But if you really dig (and I mean really dig) into their site:

> In the general case, a ship is actually a 128-bit number.

...

> A comet's [128-bit] address is the hash of its initial public key. Anyone can launch a comet. Nothing stops you from using a comet as your identity, except that the name is a mouthful and everyone will assume you're a bot. [0]

So, I mean, there will be a market for names I guess.

[0] https://urbit.org/posts/address-space/#-moons-and-comets
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Yao Ming was potentially part of a breeding program, of a sort. This is an argument that population genetics does matter, in that you generally get whatever the past has selected for unless you make a deliberate effort otherwise. Otherwise it's a no show.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/basketball/yao-ming-the-basketbal...
Can someone summarize this page here ? It is too long and I am unable to understand the context.
Why are you sad that an interactive calendar app requires JavaScript?
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And S_OK in Windows also being 0. Seen that take down services with a misplaced parens...

But to use it everywhere flies against the origin of it, which is current flowing vs not.
Here in Utrecht, The Netherlands, we have something similar. Asphalt that's red in color, usually means "cycling lane". But some roads are completely red, with signs saying "cars are guest users".
Yes, all of those don't really matter. You just fire up whatever and start building the damn thing.
What language(s) did the earth speak 10,000 years ago. The concept is electrifying for will English or any other language written or spoken today even exist?

The monument would have to be a "Rosetta Stone(s)" quite obtrusive and large like a pyramid. It would have to be written in multiple present and ancient languages. It would would have to feature math formulas and illustrations etched foot deep into Titanium, carbon fiber, or a material that wouldn't degrade in 10,000 years. Then inside the monument would have to feature even more information. WOW!
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Looking at my pay check tells me that Michigan does not pay more than said agencies :).