skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, a rewrite is costly even for simple code, where verification is easier. I don't know what percentage of code that is, but I'd assume not too small.

But even if simple, non-tricky code is the exception, is a rewrite (or verification) really worth it? Maybe in some cases it is, but you'd need to carefully analyze where. A "mass rewrite" is almost always a wasted effort, that would be best put to use elsewhere. Even in writing better tests.
Fossil fuels account for 67% of the power generation in the US. Coal was replaced with another fossil fuel: natural gas. Solar accounts for less than 1%. So, yes, there's a lot of room for solar to grow.
So... I wrote this comment on the the rust subreddit in reply to someone else who also had a repo named "rusl" where they were planning to do something similar. Not sure how it's relevant here, though. Also, if you're going to quote me it'd be nice if you mark it as a quote and source it :).
it wouldn't be a flash crash if there was no demand. it would be a crash. the flash crash happened because there was insufficient liquidity on one exchange - as soon as the market sought to fill the gaps, it went right back up.
No, but the 457 is easy and you may also have independent skilled migration options to get PR without job sponsorship. Let me know if you need help.
Has somebody performed a security analysis of the underlying protocol?
> And if you find evidence of abuse the only way you can do anything about it is to flee to a country from which you can't be extradited.

Not true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(U.S._intelli...
You think that football game attendees (and T-shirt buyers, and...) would write checks to math researchers if football got cancelled?
Why FX? More direct access to exchanges?
This doesn't even mention the very troubling questions that have been raised about the security of the electronic voting machines that some states are using [0].

[0] https://www.verifiedvoting.org/resources/voting-equipment/
> Nowadays those problems simply signal that "you're a mediocre dev" (probably in all platforms).

That's not a good way to sell a platform if you have to be a really good developer to use it.
Yes.

A more meaningful comparison would be the market cap of various bitcoin exchanges; the flaws with that comparison are pretty much the same as the flaws with comparing bitcoin to WU in general.
Those who don't understand Unix are doomed to repeat it.
They are not plenty fast. You know you don't have a fast platform when the best you can do is scroll + a couple animations at the same time.

And even then, HTML+JS apps often cannot do that without lag. Not saying that native apps are necessarily better (especially on Android), I die a little inside each time I unlock my phone and the unlock screen fails to keep up with my finger.

We had smooth scrolling in the late eighties on the Amiga 2000 (7 Mhz and 1MB of RAM) with CygnusEd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L41oIvre9K0

The fact that we barely manage to do that with HTML+JS on what amounts to supercomputers (relative to the time) should not make anyone proud.
> Do you have a link to what goes into methodological review, esp good review, so I can try to assess how to reduce its cost?

You can read PLOS One's criteria here:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/criteria-for-publication
or their reviewer guidelines:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/reviewer-guidelines which states:

Unlike many journals which attempt to use the peer review process to determine whether or not an article reaches the level of 'importance' required by a given journal, PLOS ONE uses peer review to determine whether a paper is technically sound and worthy of inclusion in the published scientific record.

So basically they've removed any assessment whatsoever about the "importance" of the work, but keep the aspect that assesses for scientific soundness. One note on that is that it allows you to use a broader pool of reviewers. If I'm looking for reviewers to assess the impact of a certain study, I'm going to need potentially very specific people who deeply know the field and how this particular study falls in the context of other noteworthy studies. However, if I only need reviewers to assess scientific soundness I can include a larger pool of reviewers for each paper, since theoretically someone's ability to assess scientific method doesn't require quite the same deep expertise (obviously there's still a good amount of expertise required, just not within the specific micro sub-specialty).

So the theory is that that allows you to do faster peer review and accept more papers because 1) you don't have to be so specific with regard to finding the right reviewers, 2) the review itself is faster because the reviewer can focus purely on methodology, not on importance, and 3) you can accept everything that meets the methodology bar. And remember that the revenue of these types of journals is directly related to how many articles are accepted because it's purely author pays upon acceptance.

But other than those distinctions in general the peer review process is the same as a traditional journal. Typically at least 2 reviewers, and either single-blind (which is the case for PLOS and others like PeerJ) or double-blind. And typically the process can take a few rounds, because the reviewers can reject a paper in its current form but ask for a revision and then re-review the new version.

The PLOS pricing is listed here: https://www.plos.org/publications/publication-fees/
PLOS One is their megajournal that does the type of methodological review discussed above. Other PLOS journals, like PLOS Biology have different review criteria (and higher author charges) that does include importance as a factor (http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/s/editorial-and-peer-re...).
fastest would be using wormholes. not sure if there is one available between SF and LA though
There's also Victoria BC. A smaller city, but that makes the tech and startup scene more important locally: by some measures, tech is now the biggest "industry" in the area, beating tourism. Plus, it's got the best weather in Canada.
High school is not the same as college.

Also, The Atlantic is not a reliable source. It prints garbage like this:

"Football at Premont cost about $1,300 a player. Math, by contrast, cost just $618 a student."

even though everyone at the school takes math, very few play football, and not everyone involved in football is a player.
New wave of cryptocurrency scam started in May. How long it will last this time?
Bitcoin transaction volume in USD for the last 24 hours was $ 224 million. Not sure how much WU turnover in transaction value a day...
SENS isn't new science. It is a synthesis of existing evidence for what causes aging and age-related disease, pulled in from many branches of medical research. The original contributions are the high level view of damage repair as the guiding basis for treatment, plus specific plans for how to address these causes.

I don't think you can say it's wrong in wholesale at this point, given where things stand. The mainstream position in the aging research community is that aging is caused by an accumulation of damage.

Senescent cell clearance has been on the SENS agenda since day one, with plenty of evidence to back it as a cause of aging from the past decades of research. Life extension has been demonstrated in mice through senescent cell clearance. There are two funded startups moving senescent cell clearance therapies to the clinic.

You'll also find it hard to argue against the proposition that amyloid causes specific age-related conditions. E.g. amyloid beta in Alzheimer's disease, transthyretin amyloid in heart disease. These are very mainstream concerns.

Similarly, there are few objections to the idea that declining stem cell function is a cause of aging, and plenty of evidence to show that restoring stem cell activity is beneficial.

And so on.
Tim Weiner's history of the FBI's intelligence operations, Enemies.
Hollywood's Millennial Problem
As long as there is criminal activity, there will be cryptocurrencies.
I think this article is making fun of the idea that you need to start with a tidy structure.

That matches what happened, the OpenAddresses project mostly put all the messy data in one place, which made it possible to extract the parcels from the mess. Tracking down the data provided a lot more value than pontificating about how parcel data should best be stored.
Major Hollywood Studios Sue Video Streaming Service, VidAngel
Thank you for mentioning the book; I will check it out! :D
It is a NON IMMIGRANT Guest Worker Visa good for 3 years.
It can be extended for an additional 6 years.
If they apply for a green card, it can be extended indefinitely on a yearly basis.

Virgil
Keep America At Work
FINANCE PROFESSOR: Bitcoin Will Crash to $10 by Mid-2014 (2013)
A big part of writing about this was to share one potential strategy for reducing risk in rewrites by doing it function by function. That's a strategy which is available to Rust with zero overhead FFI, so I'm not sure why you're holding that up as a benefit exclusive to static analysis and verification tools.
The last remaining place I’m guaranteed to be alone with my thoughts is in the shower.

Teddy Wayne clearly hasn't discovered LifeProof cases.

When I first got a LifeProof case many a friend received a photo of water coming out of the shower head and the words "just having a shower".

But anyway, yeah we spend too much time on our phones. But so what? There are much worse things. Out of the 20 or so <25 year olds at my work place only three of them smoke cigarettes. Who cares if we use our phones too much. If we go to work, pay the bills, and generally don't get too involved in fucking people over, do whatever you like on your phone.

At least smartphones are interactive, at least to some extent.
Fair enough. I don't think I've ever actually programmed a GPU with the purpose of making images, so my terminology might not be the most precise.
don't forget social security. Social security is 5.65%, whereas the equivalent in Canada is the Canadian Pension Plan, which is 4.95%. And you have great medical insurance built right in. [0]

[0] - http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0411/do-canadians...
I'm guessing Tesla would be Nigel Sheldon, I wonder who Ozzie Isaacs role would be fulfilled by?
I can't help it, but as a physicist the first thing I look at are orders of magnitude and relations in orders of magnitude. And given the total number of cells in a (human) body (~10^13 according to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23829164) compared to the number of stem cells stated in the article that'd would be 10 orders of magnitude in between. Just talking about red blood cells it's still a staggering 10^12 / 10^3, i.e. 9 orders of magnitude. And for white blood cells it's 10^9/10^3, i.e. 6 orders of magnitude.

Next question: Does the number of stem cells scale with body mass? Because if that's the case then I give you the Naked Mole Rat (aka the penis with teeth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole-rat ). The Naked Mole Rat is _THE_ model organism for longevity, completely defying extrapolation of ageing models. The average Naked Mole Rat weighs about 30g, the average human weighs about 75kg. So a Naked Mole Rat hat about 1/2000th the body mass of a human. Assuming a mass proportional stem cell count that would make about 1000 stem cells in total and 0.5 stem cells replenishing blood cells at any given moment.

Where does these 20000 and 1000 figures come from in the first place? Given my personal experience in TA-ing students of medicine and biology I don't have a lot of confidence in their calculation abilities. These students manage to get their figures wrong by several orders of magnitude on a regular base. So I'd not be surprised if these figures are grossly underestimated.
Indeed. Simply defining where the "mid-point" on an issue is represents a very strong power in controlling how the issue is portrayed. Some do this intentionally, others do it in an attempt to be "objective" while still letting their implicit framing of the issue color how it is handled and presented.
Their definition of "woman" doesn't have the requirement of a vagina, though. In their minds, gender is a subjective mental state. Ask if they have a penis. When it comes down to concrete realities, I doubt that most of them would say "no".

If someone abducted me and forced a sex-change operation on me, then I'd have to say that I had a vagina, but I'd still say that I was a man. I'd consider the physical state of my body a result of an act of mutilation.

Them saying "I am a woman", or me saying "I am a man", is a statement of gender (a social construct) rather than sex (a biological fact).

Traditionally, we'd consider sex and gender to be in lockstep, and it wouldn't be useful to consider them as anything but perfect synonyms. "I'm male" is a simple enough concept. It means three things: that I have a penis, consider myself male, and I'm attracted to females.

Add in the 5%-ish of the population where the 3rd point is completely false, and the larger percent where it's true, but not completely exclusive.

Add in the smaller segment of the population where the second point doesn't match the first.

Add in the yet smaller segment where even the first point doesn't have a binary truth value.

This isn't to say that there aren't delusional people that would argue about the observable biological state, just that mostly I'd think they're talking about their perception of their own gender, rather than their perception of their sex.
The fix is to visualize years as loops in a spiral. One loop per year.
This video was linked in the article:

https://youtu.be/b2hBDKtm-y0

The person recording clearly believes he's captured evidence of spys tracking him, yet the footage seems to show an ordinary trip to the subway with fellow pedestrians minding their own business. And there seem to be many other videos along those same lines.
Weird, I think of time as more like an unending river going forwards and backwards, and as it goes away from me it spreads out and becomes hazy and less certain. More of a spatial vector than a loop as in this illustration. But I can't say it's a strong visual image, more of a sense like smell or hearing.
> If you want to live in America, then an American citizenship is the most important one to have.

A green card is all you need; the only real difference is that you don't have free speech rights -- though your speech rights are still stronger than in Europe, which is otherwise a much better place to live.

I live and work in the bay area because it's a fabulous and exciting place to work -- best in the world of my experience, but in overall QoL I rank the US_significantly below western Europe and Australia.

No place is perfect!
The way I do it is my salary goes to a online savings account (~2% interest) that's not linked to any cards. I have a debit card I move money over to when I need cash out or to use it (simple with the bank's app). Then I have a CC (used for utilities etc) which I pay every billing period from the savings account.

Works well.
Taxis don't have to suck

But the fact remains that they do suck, at least it most US cities. Uber, Lyft, etc. exist mainly because city governments and regulators have been happy with the status quo and don't want to make taxi service better.
My money is on Canada!

Look, our culture, the geo-political environment, the general tolerance level of an average Canadian, all of these play a factor and when given a choice, people would easily Canada as their home base.

This is where you want to start a family and grow your kids. The tech scene has always been miniature compared to SF or NYC, but the high caliber of talent and expertise is the same if not greater than those cities.

The more reports like this come out, I believe the more of the current Canadian Diaspora living and working in the US will be swayed to move back here, bringing their talent, their money and their valley connections with them.

This country is already winning with it's social policies and adopting multiculturalism, anything else is really icing on the cake. The tech sector picking up is icing on the cake. Choosing to live here is a no-brainer for anyone given the choice.
Parent didn't pick a random app, they picked the "top showcase app". Since you don't want to discuss it, despite parent's attempt to select the best example, let's pick something you might discuss: what is your choice of showcase app that few would know it's not native? If it's $5 or less, I'll go download it even if it doesn't interest me. I'll state ahead of time that I've yet to see a non-native app on Android or iOS that wasn't obviously non-native, so I'll be viewing the chosen app with some degree of bias that I would try to keep to minimum. And, hey, if it's any good I'll be happy to rethink my stance, and probably go learn a new framework.
Test Driving New York City's New Micro Apartments
This sounds like a lot of reasons why Bitcoin is not in the government's best interest. Not much evidence that Bitcoin will fail. Edit: now I see that this article is from two years ago...
Heaps of modern language development focusses on types. Take rust for example.
Making it even easier to keep yourself out of debt, at least until you fall for one of those payday loan scams.
its nitpicking. everyone knows the japanese have a very high suicide rate. i could have pointed out that the japanese are not the healthiest people in the world. the healthiest people in the world are singapore, italy and australia. but i didnt point that out because everyone knows that the japanese are very healthy. these details are not relevant.
The Stunning and Expected End of Gawker
FYI, even Musk thinks that hyperloop only makes sense for distances on the order of a few hundred miles. Much longer than that and planes are superior.
just in case, https://mridgers.github.io/clink/

only 600kb to enjoy your sanity back
To a certain (high) degree I agree.

First of all, when I'm wrote this article by coroutines I meant specifically Python async/await pattern which I don't find easy to use or read.

And I agree on Tornado. Over the years I've seen many APIs that abstract away stuff like implementation details of cooperation yet are in fact coroutines - e.g. goroutines in Go, tasklets in Stackless. Even Erlangs processes are, on the VM level, cooperatively scheduled green threads.

For me there are 3 problems when you design concurrency APIs. One is performance and language internals. Second is API that you expose to the end programmer. Third problem is what you can achieve as a programmer using those API based on how integrated concurrency is into the language.

All the examples of higher level platforms I know are good for highly concurrent apps: Erlang, Go, Node.js, GCD - they were designed and throughly integrated into the language.

In that context threading in Python really feels bolted on.

And for something different: seeing how some people reacted I'm diving deep to make 2-3 articles of tour-de-concurrency. What do you think?
It could be one factor, but still, the sports action doesn't seem to be organized around clubs even in higher density areas. My country has half the population density of U.S. and still organizes around local clubs, even in the lowest density areas.

Regarding churches and other religious institutions, however, the population density doesn't matter: the U.S. has many more of them, even where population is sparse.
And social security is owed up to the first ~$110K of income, whereas CPP is only owed on the first ~$50K of income.
I'm curious, how do you copy and paste in Bash without a GUI?
The article goes right into lumping up all the people who doubted official story on 9/11 with paranoids. Nice.

Reminds me of the way psychiatry was used in Soviet Union to put people who objected the official party line into mandatory detention in the hospital.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_...
A few weeks ago someone posted the command line mysteries on hacker news. I thought that was really fun and educational at the same time.
That's correct, but looking at the Python internals it seems that working around the GIL is possible if having this pattern exposed to end programmer.
I don't think that would be trivial at all. How would it work?
I want to see what happens after 28 days:
http://www.thehalvening.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3o89yz/the_halveni...
That was particularly weird, out of everything they could censor, why this?
It would need to be a concerted effort, imo. Not just one or two actors. But if enough market share made the move, the benefits? Numerous. As I already outlined, in my OP. In addition, to what I said, the (new) market would cut out all middle men (Visa, etc...Chase/BoA, etc...maybe even others). I think some downsides would be more or bigger insurers and maybe an aggregate of wealth but even our current system doesn't tackle these issues.

No system will be perfect in the first increment but I think this would be a step in a better direction, for all involved.
Waterloo grad here. Seeing pretty much the same thing.

Really not difficult to imagine why Canadian tech companies have mostly stopped being competitive on the global stage, considering most of the talent they have access to at these pitiful salaries are essentially left-overs.

Unfortunately, I honestly don't see how the situation can improve. It's a classic tragedy of the commons situation. Companies act in self-interest by paying as low as they possibly can, with no regards for the damage being done to the Canadian talent pool, and have little incentive to do otherwise until most of their peers do the same.
Too bad it's so cold.
I think financial prediction via machine learning will be a useful cruicible for defining AI from non-AI. So far, so many companies that have applied machine learning to prediction have ended up on the wrong side of the order book at the wrong time. I don't know if this is because other algorithms figure out what they are doing and rapidly develop a counter algorithm to fleece them, or if its just savvy traders intuition about what the algorithm is keying on and manipulating it. Sort of like good RTS game players that figure out how the opponent AI is playing and start playing against its programming rather than some strategy from first principles.
Canada has lost engineering talent to the US for 149 years...

In the old days (pre WW2) you just hopped in a car and moved down. Well over a 1 million Canadian born people live in the states including about 70,000 illegals..

That said there are about 200,000 immigrants coming to Canada per year many who have stem backgrounds. Quebec has an open immigration policy for French programmers moving to Quebec. And for all those of you comparing salaries - low salaries are generally good for startups..

WEF ranks canada 4 in the world for human talent
http://reports.weforum.org/human-capital-report-2015/report-...
WW3 GERMANY IN CIVIL WAR ISIS MARCH IN LONDON
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't this "Hyperloop" system just some, granted elaborate, set of blueprints and whitepapers, but Musk isn't actually delivering it himself. Rather, other companies are working on it ?

But even disregarding that, I think OP was referring to how certain segments of the media hang on Musk's lips, as if he is some sort of tech-messiah.

And I don't want to take any praise away from him, the man has done really impressive things. That's not it.

It's just that there seems to be a certain type of over-hyping. The idea for magnetic, vacuum-escaped tube travel certainly isn't new. And a last week's reporting of his "we probably live in a simulation"-comment comes to mind as well. That's not a very original thought, yet was widely reported.

So yeah, I agree, delivery matters. But it's not just the delivery that's being idolized here.
> I think a good type of treatment for this would be body cameras and mikes which a therapist could review with a patient and provide them with rational explanations.

That just means the therapist has been got to and is now One of Them.