skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How would you make a system which could kill interlopers quickly and reliably 10,000 years from now?

1. Put the real stash of waste very, very deep underground.

2. Put a (much smaller) booby stash in a moderately innaccesible place above. People who make it this far should get the first symptoms within one hour and probably die painfully a few weeks later.

3. Leave smaller traces of the stuff laying around in the more accessible areas of the site. Ideally, it should not leak out and should not be easily removable by human means. However, the main goal is to have people getting sick by repeated exposure. Nothing that kills right away, but something that leads to reduced life span and/or quality of life.

> Also, killing people is a great way to send the message that "something valuable is here."

The point is not to issue any overt warning. People will be smart enough to create a story that fits the scenario. Instead of a fortress made to guard unfathomable riches with ancient evils, you want them to think of us like a bunch of idiots that messed with stuff they did not quite grasp and got Darwinized in the process. There will always be 3Ds jobs: dumb, dirty and dangerous. You masquarade as one of such places and people will not give it a second thought.
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What's up with the xenophobia? Does it help?
"Sarcastically" Just about every civilization around would have guessed
> One solution would be to literally force everyone to take high efficiency, high density modes of transportation

One example of this put into practice is in Singapore, where you bid for one of a limited number of 10-year Certificate of Entitlements to own a car https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_Entitlement

In many cities in Japan, you have to show proof of access to a parking spot to register a car, which limits the amount of cars to the amount of residential parking lots.
I have a superstition that when people in a startup start fabulating about the company jet it's time to jump ship. Based on a sample-of-one experience, but I've happily extrapolated to the population (statistical word meaning). Since I'm with another startup I hastily and aggressively stop anyone talking about possible riches as soon as they try to voice such thoughts, to prevent the curse from spreading.

I know I can make plenty of money with established enterprises - have done that as employee and as freelancer, getting lots of money. So I'm at the position I'm in, while giving up a lot of sure and easy money, because I hate 9-5 jobs and doing highly paid but uninteresting projects (and not infrequently I got paid for nothing but being present, even when they had to pay an hourly rate). I don't want coworkers with dollar signs in their eyes.
I love projects like this. I'm a chip designer, and I feel very comfortable at that level, and low level programming like assembly. I used to be comfortable in C back in the day.

These days I feel like I don't have time for the nitty gritty details of programming anymore and only work in Clojure (with occasional forays into other languages to see "how goes the world").

I have a large intellectual gap between logic gates, assembly and a high level language like a lisp. I'd really like to attempt a project like this some day, but I mostly feel like those days are behind me.
Not only that, they are incorrect constants. The definition for :cet, for example, is only correct for non-leap centuries. 2000-2099 has an extra day compared to 1900-1999, or its partner :qad, which has the opposite problem and assumes any 4-year span has a leap year.

Of course, the language has other problems too, like 'moar' being used as a serious part of the language's grammar, or worse, more nebulous verbs like 'snag', which makes the language even more difficult to understand for non-native english speakers. It's just an utter mess.
You're right on the money. It's not the British Molyneux of game design fame but rather a fellow from Sweden. The whois of oneviewcalender.com shows he's definitely from Sweden & lives in Sweden. I won't go any further with the doxxing though. He also owns slidecalender.com too - which I is a less apt name than oneviewcalender.
Very nice!

One suggestion is to auto arrange to different number of columns based on the current time unit. Though zooming would get weird -- it would have folding/unfolding effect or snaky undulations! Not sure if this is possible but such "zooming" can have other uses....
well in this case I think it does.. Animating this many DOM elements in a performant way would be really hard. Looks like the webapp is rendered in a <canvas/> element. I think its a better discussion than 'which js framework should I use?'
Zero is good for "absence of failure". It's a "yes" in the sense that "this worked". Whereas any one of the myriad non-zero codes is "no, it didn't work".

If we have a situation in which there are many numeric codes, exactly one of which means "success", it's probably best if that one is assigned zero.
It's operational programming, that is, British for operational planning.
There's some karma threshold you have to achieve to get downvote privileges (possibly coupled with a minimum account age, but I don't know for sure).
Stay puft? You just commented to say you don't care, you addressed nothing, and if that's the only thing you respond to, that also is another signal. No good deed, right.
If you can expand on your argument, I'll consider taking it off the list.
Selecting a calendar allows you to access checkboxes that allow you to disable/enable subcalenders such as national holidays, birthdays and the main calendar.
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I wonder if the same might happen to Elm, should Phoenix adopt it as their browser language of choice.

There's definitely a connection there -- for what it's worth, the keynote at 2016's Erlang Factory conference was a shared talk between Chris McCord (creator of Phoenix) and Evan Czaplicki (creator of Elm),
"Making the Web Functional" [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ9ckqCMiKk
I read a study the other day that concluded that neuron regeneration can occur well past middle age. I think that's the only explanation for what happened here. He was easily the toughest senior citizen player that has ever lived.
Translation for us lesser humans: "Look after you [to the time after your death] and remember you're [only] a man.
In practice, the real problems don't have to get very large or complicated before just typing the problem into AMPL or clicking on SOLVE won't work -- that is, solver capacities may be exceeded or the running time can become absurdly long.

Then you must exploit whatever special structure you can find in your problem and dig into the algorithms to make refined usage. So, maybe do some Lagrangian relaxation. Maybe find an embedded network flow problem and use a network flow version of the simplex algorithm.
Oh, Sorry friend I know that feeling. We should of teamed up ;)
> 1. Put the real stash of waste very, very deep underground.

What exactly is the benefit of that?

If you're willing to poison people, just go ahead and poison them.
I could give you the apk. Send me an email and we'll do it that way.
Finally! Been wishing for something like this for a while, good job!
Unsolved math problems: The Moving Sofa
> It's annoying that you can't retract your votes. What is the point with that?

Supposedly it "encourages people to vote thoughtfully," which would be somewhat less silly if the buttons weren't tiny and about a millimeter apart.
This is why conversational design / ChatBot is overrated.
It's not confusing enough. I would call the 0 "pull down" and 1 "high z".
Great, sorry it took some time. I wasn't really ready for all this response :)
Cats that change color as a geiger counter? Shut up and take my money!
The execution is awesome. So smooth. What are you using for the nice animations and transitions? Is it available on iOS?
Yes, they work well in operations that have many parallel steps which must be performed once, correctly, and in the correct time and order, and where the effort is quantifiable. While Hoover Dam was constructed on an unprecedented scale, the project planners could still do reliable man-hour calculations for many parts of the project.

Most software development projects lack those properties. Many software projects live or die by how well the "last 90%" of development goes (as opposed to a public works project which has much more critical initial work), but a Gantt chart usually represents that entire effort with one bar.
Hi, I will try it out again. The zooming and scrolling should have been done to perfection, but maybe I've missed something.
The two finger zoom is intended to follow your fingers vertically and ignore any horizontal movement.
This is awesome! I find Fantastical's presentation to be very poor (though love their input), Sunrise is now on the way out... The UX you came up with is amazing!

I'd pay as much as I paid for Fantastical for your native iOS app with CalDAV support, right now. Even more, to make sure you keep developing it.

If you're certain it has to stay free, please consider open sourcing it. Shopping for critical Apps every three years 'cause authors got bored of it is painful.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11846199
Hi, glad you liked it!! On the trackpad scrolling and zooming is done as on google maps. That is a two finger scroll does zooming and a single finger pressed and dragged does scrolling.

Hope that helps.
Example:

Uranium-238 is the most common isotope of natural uranium. It has a half-life of 4.468 billion years. By the "long half-life = ZOMG! DANGERRRRR!" standard it must be really, really bad, no?

Nope. It's just not very radioactive. You can buy uranium ore on Amazon and even get free shipping (no hazmat or anything).

Uranium was also used to color glass in the early 20th century. While it's not used for that purpose any more (and I probably would not routinely drink out of a uranium glass vessel), it's not considered hazardous. There's a lot of it for sale on eBay.

The really dangerous stuff tends to have a short half-life (= intensely radioactive, again by definition) and an affinity for body tissues. For example, iodine-131 -- half-live 8 days, and gets absorbed by your thyroid gland, or strontium-90 -- half-life about 29 years, and gets absorbed into your bones (it mimics calcium).

The people who convinced you that isotopes with long half-lives are somehow more dangerous? They either didn't know what they were talking about, or they were lying to you.
So all other physical characteristics, even things to do with domestication of dogs, that are more "soft" like temperament, are hereditable?

But not IQ?

What's the exception?

If your view is that genetics in terms of the science is flawed, then, don't beat around the bush, state your case.
Getting out of the solar system is incredibly difficult. Well, not necessarily difficult, but expensive. So far we've launched a grand total of five spacecraft that will leave our solar system, with a combined mass of just over 2500 kg. That doesn't even put a dent in the amount of nuclear waste we're talking about.

Somewhat counter intuitively, it's actually a bit more difficult to crash into the sun than to leave the solar system.

There's also the small problem that an explosion on launch could result in a massive area being exposed to highly concentrated radioactive fallout.
While I appreciate the effort they put into it, trying to plan anything for 10,000 years in the future is sheer folly. We have no idea what humanity will be like in 200 years, much less 10,000.

Assuming we are around at all, we'll likely have mastered fusion power (thus no longer creating nuclear waste) or have mastered space flight (thus we can chuck it into the Sun) or have discovered that concentrations of radioactive materials are incredibly useful and not waste at all. A few hundred years ago crude petroleum was a waste product as well.
Shared Language of Event Microschemas
This is something I've always wondered about, especially when confronted by environmentalist camps that oppose nuclear power.

Nuclear fuel recycling seems totally viable, and I imagine nuclear "waste" could be reprocessed and used for as long as there are fissionable products left in it. At which point it would pose minimal danger and save us a boatload on 10,000 year warning signs.
Perhaps start with this: http://cogprints.org/254/1/quinqual.htm (1988)
I'm going to go out on a limb and surmise that, barring cataclysmic events, 10k years from now the majority of people will speak an english-derived language that is mostly understandable to someone living in the present day. Information transfer in the past was extremely analog, slow-moving, and lossy. Today we are rapidly approaching a "single meme pool" and your tweets are getting archived for eternity, whether you like it or not.

Scratch that. I already can't read twitterspeak. Sigh.
Thanks for your interest.
Performance has been har to get good enough.
Basically it is a javascript app on a canvas. Thats why it can be integrated on the landing page.
Any marks would only attract people's attention. I can't come up with a single historical example where some marks would successfully keep people away. Even now we keep digging once forbidden and sacred places like pyramids, graves, temples, plague victims' burial grounds. Furthermore, a "menacing earthworks" example from the article looks like a treasure is buried inside that square. Why not bury it deep enough in an unmarked grave (for example, put it in the tunnels inside a mountain then blow all entrances up) so no primitive civilization could dig it up? If civilization is sophisticated enough to dig deep enough, they must be well aware of radiation as well.
Yeah the artifical constraint of understandable by everyone is quite limiting. I can see two set working best: scary faces and statues for primitives, atom structure of thorium or whatever waste is for educated. Optionally leave some stuff out in a ventilated but inaccesdible area so people die/get sick before releasing the whole toxic dump in the wild. Can be in stages like pyramids: first zone warning, then the second zone trapped. Inhuman, but if your priority is to protect the whole word from releasing the waste a couple curious casualty may be a compromise.
I think Denett is right about that -- and yet I side with Chalmers saying there is a "hard" problem. Or if not a hard one, at least one that is a different problem from what neuroscientists work on.

Meta-cognition or any other natural process might be "the same thing" as conciousness; but is nontheless a physical thing that somehow has qualia. Where that equivalence comes from is an interesting question that Dennet & co. seem determined to dodge.
Geomelting
> the ideas appeared to be deliberately obfuscated
It reminds me of early days of http://21.co ,the Bitcoin computer, with the same ambiguous wordings. I assume the libertarian socialistic aspects of this genre of technology is prior to its technical and practical aspects.
> So far we have "do more during orientation".

Another solution would be come up with a secure US-administered standardized test. Students cheat on the SAT [1] (3 min video)

You could (1) pressure the SAT / ACT to become more secure, or (2) create an alternative.

With a secure test, test-prep centers would not find success from cheating. This would pressure schools/businesses in foreign countries to provide better education.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-s...
Except that Curtis strongly (and snarkily) claims that Hoon is a typed language:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11819810 item #3 (and subsequent discussion)

So why are they punning integers and booleans in the first place?
Hackers can remotely disable car alarm on Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV SUVs
It's personal computing, explained in the context of a VC pitch to people who have never heard of an OS, think the browser is their computer, and don't seem to comprehend software that gets installed.

Look at the Evernote example - wouldn't it be great if you could replace the Evernote UI with a different one for $10? Well, you could do that today on any OS with an app and a REST API, but it either doesn't exist (because it's not that great) or it does already exist (so what's revolutionary?).

The same thing applies to almost every single thing lauded. Your data is saved locally! Great, my UrbitTwitter clone keeps my data locally in some undocumented format. But that's ok, I'm not beholden to the app developer in case they die (yes, that's in there), because I can get someone else to reverse engineer that format and build me a new twitter clone. How does Hoon make that special?

Gmail works locally! And <other Web service> Translation - someone (lots of someones) will build APIs and SDKs for our platform to interface with those services, and they'll be used just like in any other OS to make apps that run in your machine.

It lauds "you can install software, and it runs locally, forever!" as something new and great, when really that's existed since we got off mainframes in the 70s.

Everything it offers is stuff that was solved the first go around in personal computers, but this time with a cryptographic identity and an obtuse language. Maybe there's something I'm missing, but I've been looking at urbit for 2.5 years, know (good) people that worked on it, and still can't find a compelling reason to think of it as something other than a hipster OS, reinventing decades old ideas because this time they'll do it right.
I assume Waze is monitoring the entire duration of your travel (while you have it on at least). It should be fairly easy to identify users who stay within the 0.25mi radius of one neighborhood and/or never exceed 20mph.

There is an 'Allow mock locations' toggle in developer options, though applications can detect that it's been enabled. Xposed framework can prevent that however.

Perhaps some community will start a crowdsource fund to hire a developer to implement such a system? Or go low-tech and crowdsource real users, paying $n per false report.

They could also take a page from the residents of Beachwood Canyon (near the Hollywood sign in LA) who petitioned their council member to arrange a deal with Garmin and Google Maps. http://gizmodo.com/why-people-keep-trying-to-erase-the-holly...
But not in this case, the first thing that came to mind was a sufficient rebuttal.

Since you are constantly referencing the legal system you should remember it is the prosecutors role to prove the hypothesis. It is not on the defence to disprove it.

Merely rebutt sufficiently.

You have not made a single compelling argument for not testing coders with the current model.
It's especially interesting to see a government body doing this sort of thing. Politicians don't usually care much about what kind of world they're leaving for their own children, let alone random citizens of the far future.

Is anyone actually following these suggestions? My cynical assumption is that they'd be laughed out of the house by the people who actually hold the construction purse-strings.
Sorry, I should have done that.
For now could you use the contact form?
Cheers Peter
> what if the brain has no emotions? Or no pain? No concept of self? No empathy?

Why are you asking me? I said what I think about that. If you disagree, just say what's on your mind directly.

But hey, would the people behind this campaign be willing to subject themselves to clinical diagnosis? How about this, everybody gets tested and then we have a forum where people have a little number next to their name, showing how much a sociopath they are. Then we're still just total peasants pretending to know about mental health, but at least we'll have a ranking or something.

> No concept of self?

That's interesting, seeing how so many valid questions go unanswered. Like, any documentation for the plagiarism claim. Or that maybe there is not just the binary of "abuser and victim", that maybe even someone being guilty of something doesn't warrant simply declaring them non-human. No discernible reflection I can make out.

Oh, and coming back to the above, are you saying people who are heavily mentally disabled or have personality disorders should be stripped of human rights, and subject to lynchings by mobs if they ever do.. anything? "Just a bunch of meat", right?

I'm not trying to shut you up by acting offended, to the contrary, I find it kind of incredible to open such a big can of worms in two lines and leave it at that. Leave it in the subtext, leave it in the gut instinct of the mob. How about not using lip service of being against abuse for perpetrating and apologizing abuse? You can't just randomly suspend the humanity of someone on a whim, because you have this stub of a philosophical question you yourself don't even seem to care enough about to actually put in words.
These are the sort of things you could argue in favor of using GWT.
Why free if not open source? Because the latter would be a prime requirement for me; the former is not.
Hi, glad you like it. Yes IPhone version is planned. But will be a few months yet. You could send me an email and I'll put you on the list.
why not write in a language that has survived more than 10000 years?
I taught of something like private cloud for company, because it's really annoying to manage all deploys by connecting trough ssh etc. we already have gitlab with ci but i wanted a deploy environment, so i will probably use dokku.
I don't think there was ever a 2600 model in the Catalyst family. But the Cisco 2600 series were incredibly common routers.
Students are told about the honor codes. It's not something you have to look up.

Grade inflation has nothing to do with cheating - that's just more FUD. If a class curves to a B, and everyone cheats, the average grade is still a B.
You can add the optimization course on coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/optimization to your list. I have been waiting for it to start and it seems that it is finally going to start this month (https://class.coursera.org/optimization-003/forum/thread?thr...).
No frameworks, just plain js on a html canvas.
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I like the zoomable/scrollable view that's a UI improvement. The add event form could do with some UI tweaks. I'm not the biggest slider fan, but that might be a better control for the reminders (with sticky graduations) (instead of a dropdown) and reduce the length of the form.

Some autocompleteness on the 'Where's could be good. Can you make time input easier?

Shifting between calendars needs to be very easy. I used to use Gcal, and I was forever putting events in the wrong calendar.