skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yep. I just skip my 2nd bus transfer and walk to the office after getting dropped off downtown by the first bus (little under 2 miles each way). only takes a little longer than waiting for and riding the bus, but i get free exercise out of my work commute 2x a day.
When did he say he missed out on experiences? I must have missed that part.
What is your opinion on the so-called Function-level programming, and languages such as J?
Hi Alan, I'm a CS student thinking about graduate school.

1. Would you suggest going into a popular field that excites me but already has lot of brilliant students? (for example AI and ML)

Or rather into a not-so-popular field where maybe I can be of more help? (for example computational biology)

2. If I had to choose between studying my current favorite field at an average research group, or another still interesting field with a top group, would you suggest going with the latter for the overall learning experience?
Maybe try a different physical activity, e.g. rock climbing, a team sport (ultimate frisbee), or running (which requires a different type of mental discipline).
It's basically confusing "math" (which they had and like all of us were overwhelmed by how neat it is and how much you can do with "thinking rationally") with "science" which they didn't really have. "Math" is hermetic and Science is a negotiation between our representation systems and "What's out there?"

I.e. it is really difficult (didn't happen) to guess the "self-evident" principles and operations that will allow you to deduce the universe. And being super-rational without science is one of the most dangerous things humans have come up with.
About a decade ago, I wrote a system of intermittently connected systems that would run independently and sync up to a central db, all using firebird (uuid custom type) and a few utilities that ran via C# (mono under suse). It worked surprisingly well for the purpose it was designed.

Firebird was definitely nice in terms of being able to utilize the same db from the local systems (embedded) to the centralized server (service mode). As you say, it could use some love, but some of that could be done via symlink and/or consistent structure (/var/firebird/db/*). I haven't even looked at it in a while, wonder how hard it would be to use with electron/node, may have to look.
Another aspect most of the "just exercise" folks don't get is what it feels like to be 300+ lbs and weak. Get out and walk for 30 minutes? Why, so I can expose my gross body to the world? Running? Cycling? Haha, get out of here. And after exercising I'm going to come home and make up for it by eating more.

Diet is more important than exercise. A 300+ lb person can lose 100 lbs in half a year just by changing their diet and doing no more exercise than they currently do. (I advocate the keto diet, especially if one has tried other diets and failed, but it's not the only way.) You can't out-train a bad diet.
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We think safety is extremely important, and will have concrete things to say here soon.
> People would give up "I am not good at this" because they couldn't do some crazy poses after two years.

This is a really bad example if you're trying to show that people give up too easily because they go to extremes. 2 years before quitting is a long time. 2 years of dedication can reach most reasonable fitness goals. If you follow an exercise regimen for two years and decide it's not for you, then either the exercise regimen is crap or else it's really just not for you.
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Just a thought: Is it mostly select statements that your colleagues write? Because if they do, they might not fear accidentally altering the data. I found that new programmers can get confused by the difference between things that are immutable and those that aren't.
Comments like this sounds like saying to a depressed person: "have you tried being happy instead?"

In other words, it's pithy, not helpful and sounds smug and condescending.

We should be able to support maximal health in everyone, regardless of if they live the ideal middle class lifestyle that gives them time to exercise, money to afford food, and the many things that go in to a good nights sleep.
Because this is a forum about sharing knowledge. Young people don't understand the damage certain behaviors can do to their bodies. Some people relate this by demonstrating how past errors are now effecting them later in life. That's the norm. Others explain it by showing that good decisions can actually pay off. I had no idea that eye health was tied to drugs/alcohol use. It's not the sort of thing discussed as once the damage is done there is little point. So I assume others here were equally oblivious.
How much does it cost you to build an Android app for your startup?
It's true that HN isn't a place for political battles. But it's definitely not just for technology news either.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Check your spam folder, some of the email from the last private beta went in people's spam folder, so they never saw them. Either way it doesn't matter anymore since Docker for Mac and Windows is now public to use without the need of a code.
Kubernetes? Really? Any evidence?
Strength training is the best exercise you can do to preserve function into old age. As an example:

ABSTRACT
Muscle plays a central role in whole-body protein metabolism by serving as the principal reservoir for amino acids to maintain protein
synthesis in vital tissues and organs in the absence of amino acid absorption from the gut and by providing hepatic gluconeogenic
precursors. Furthermore, altered muscle metabolism plays a key role in the genesis, and therefore the prevention, of many common pathologic conditions and chronic diseases. Nonetheless, the maintenance of adequate muscle mass, strength, and metabolic function has rarely, if ever, been targeted as a relevant endpoint of recommendations for dietary intake. It is therefore imperative that factors directly related to muscle mass, strength, and metabolic function be included in future studies designed to demonstrate optimal lifestyle behaviors throughout the life span, including physical activity and diet

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/84/3/475.full.pdf
Hi Alan. What are your thoughts on how rapidly GUIs are evolving nowadays? Many apps/services revamp their UI fairly often and this oftentimes hurts muscle memory for people who have just about gotten a workflow routine figured out.

Also, what big UI changes do you foresee in the next 10 years - or would like to see. Thanks.
I have been designing and hacking my own languages (to varying degrees of completion) for almost as long as I have been programming. A lot of the time, their genesis is a thought like, "what if language X did Y?" or, "I've never seen a language that does this, this, and that... I wonder if that's because they're insane things to do?"

When you're working on a system, how do you approach the question, "Is this really useful, or am I spinning my wheels chasing a conceit?" Is the answer as simple as try it out and see what happens? Or do you have some sort of heuristic that your many years of experience has proven to be helpful?
People keep talking about a tech bubble. What are some of the best case methods people can use to insulate themselves while investing?
Hi Alan,

What advice would you give to those who don't have a HARC to call their own? what would you do to get set up/a community/funding for your adventure if you were starting out today? What advice do you have for those who are currently in an industrial/academic institution who seek the true intellectual freedom you have found? Is it just luck?!
> And they are on estrogen supplements

Is this a thing? I've never heard of a woman supplementing estrogen as a general fitness "shortcut" the way some men (and women) supplement with steroids.
What are your favorite talks you've given? Can you link to the videos if they were recorded?

I enjoy watching your presentations, but I'm sure there are some I've missed.
But the risk of ischemic stroke is still tiny, and the risk of stroke (among many, many other things) is still much higher during pregnancy, which birth control, obviously, helps to prevent. In fact, for a sexually active and fertile woman, birth control will help lower the risk of ischemic stroke, overall.

There are plenty of other OTC medicines which are far more dangerous than birth control. Tylenol, cough syrup, Bronkaid/sudafed/ephedrine, benadryl... Aspirin alone causes thousands of (some sources say more than 10,000) deaths a year. Birth control carries a relatively small risk of problems (especially for non-smokers and/or women under 35), but has a much larger benefit.

And the copper IUD does not, strictly speaking, increase the risk of ectopic pregnancy. It's a matter of survivorship bias. They prevent pregnancies from occurring, but are slightly more effective for pregnancies that implant inside the uterus. 2% of all pregnancies (without an IUD) are ectopic. If a woman does get pregnant with an IUD, she is more likely to have the type of pregnancy that the copper IUD is less effective at preventing -- an ectopic pregnancy (According to Wikipedia, 3-4% of all pregnancies that occur with an IUD are ectopic). However, overall, comparing sexually active fertile women with IUDs and without IUDs, the IUD drastically prevents ectopic pregnancies, and, of course, pregnancies in general.
Then I assume you're against any tech that would allow brains to be digitized, right?
If decision makers want to improve security, there are readily available levers they can pull: give a shit about code quality, put 5 minutes of thought into authorization decisions inside their applications, escape strings, take advantage of memory safety, upgrade unpatched legacy garbage, stop using and creating protocols that are trusting by default, etc. They don't do those things. They buy bolt-on antivirus suites and magic Cisco gateway boxes and when a 12 year old who's heard of SQL injection comes along they throw up their hands and go "APT nation-states, what could we have done?" They continue to believe in perimiter-based security, where network drops in unlocked conference rooms and hallways are inside the perimeter. They continue to laugh off email encryption and signing.

We aren't seeing sophisticated attacks, by and large. We're just seeing someone finally bothering to attack all the crap that was designed in the assumption of "who would ever want to attack this?" or that pre-existing viruses for which signatures are published are the only relevant threats.
I did my google on-site interview entirely in Perl which at that time was my strongest lang.
I've been interested in Nix and Guix for some time; would you be able to comment on the two?
I think it's almost exactly the same as the diff viewer in Team Foundation Server 2015, though I really really don't recommend installing or using that when you have Gitlab at your disposal.
"Dealers of Lightning" is not the best book to read (try Mitchell Waldrop's "The Dream Machine").

That said, Bob Taylor cannot be praised too highly, both for Parc and for his earlier stint as one of the ARPA-IPTO directors.

Simple answer: There aren't a lot of Bob Taylors in any decade (but there are some). Big difference between then and now is that the funders were "just right" back then, and have been "quite clueless" over the last 30 some odd years. An interesting very recent exception is what Sam Altman is doing -- this is shaping into the biggest most interesting most important initiative since the 70s.
High performance computing relies on message passing -- if not pure and simple -- normally with the MPI standard. There are applications which scale at least past petaflops and 1000 cores is unexceptional.

The developers of the PETSc system wrote a position paper eschewing the typical hybrid (MPI+threading) techniques for trundling towards "exascale" -- if with MPI's shared memory support, which doesn't require cache coherence. (Apart from remote memory access, MPI departs from actor-/CSP-like systems in supporting things like collective communication (and i/o), and dynamic process management.)
The examples on the GitHub repo (like this basic one: http://vizicities.com/demos/basic/) use an OpenStreetMap tile endpoint provided by Mapzen and so will work anywhere in the world. The caveat being that the OpenStreetMap data varies in quality around the world. However, in that case you could use a better quality GeoJSON-based dataset for the area you're interested in if it exists.

Countryside rendering depends on what you want to see. You may not see many buildings but you'll see the underlying map on the 2D basemap and you can always decide to output (or ignore) specific things like roads or fields or trees. This obviously depends on whether that data exists and exactly how you want to output it.

By default ViziCities can't do anything with LIDAR data yet but it's on the list of things to add in the future.
There is a plausible argument that certain animal shapes are optimal for certain functions, so an industrialized civilization would likely have evolved to resemble us anatomically (especially the arms with opposable thumbs bit). They probably even used this argument in Star Trek. But the real reason ST aliens just look like humans with latex glued on their faces is because it started out as a low-budget show and that's the easiest way to make aliens.

In reality, there's no way for us to test this theory without actually meeting some alien lifeforms.
Yep, the JS inference engine here is just the TypeScript inference system with a few extra rules bolted on. It's also the JS inference used when compiling JS files in TS under the --allowJs flag.
From http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/building.html

> Various NumPy modules use FORTRAN 77 libraries
FYI, this is exactly how the better torrent sites work.
I agree it's not perfect but it is proxy for life style. The US or UK is great if your want to have a career, work for (or trying to sell to) a big company and be part of something bigger than yourself. Southern Europe is has sunshine, good food and social life. Germany or France is good if you want to work for a family business.

The reason the Nordic countries top these list is because they have things like good working conditions, time for yourself, overall decent education systems, relativly low bureaucracy, universal healthcare etc. If you're in the US you can change jobs until you find one where they respect you, pay for extended vacations yourself, move to a good school district, pay lawyers to handle things for you and have private health insurance.

What you can't buy is not having to care. That's what the Nordic countries are good at. You can focus your energy on the things that matter. You'll find a disproportionate amount Nordic people in almost all "digital subcultures", from e-sports to systems programming to startups.

This is changing in some ways. The Nordic countries are becoming more like the rest of the world with health care systems that are hard to navigate, high private debt and valuing status over substance. But it's still a very good place to live.
It seems there's a whole industry dedicated to making exercise seem hard and pointless

From trainers that overexert students, things like P90X that do work IF you manage to survive and a large amount of people pushing the "go hard or go home" mentality
Hey Matt - Working on getting that up on the website! In the meantime, feel free to email me (charley@plaid) and I can send over details.
Depending on the type and location of the fracture, mobility can aid in healing.
Too weak a model of meaning on all counts. Not a new idea, and still they did it again. (This is not an easy problem, and machine learning won't do the job either.)
Yes. It's a big thing in Hollywood. Taken at the right stage in life, estrogen sups can have dramatic effects. The flexibility thing is tied to the fact that young/fertile women have to push a kid out of them. Some studies of young soccer players have drawn direct links between estrogen levels and knee injuries due to more flex in key tendons. An outcome of those is that more conventionally attractive women were more likely to suffer such injuries. (Higher estrogen is linked to attractiveness, proven through some interesting studies that monitored the estrogen levels of strippers.)

Also, insulin and other drugs that regulate blood sugars. More than a few celebs are diabetic and use this to regulate body fat, famously Halle Barry.

Antibiotics are also popular. They kill bacteria in the skin (acne) but also play havoc with your gut, which is great if you are trying to not eat.
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Not as Bash script but some time ago I documented complete environment setup for Windows / Mac OS X / Linux

https://github.com/Corsaair/redtamarin/wiki/DeveloperEnviron...

The Windows part have a Batch script setup to automate the install of cygwin, apt-cyg, wpkg, etc.

It is very specific to the Redtamarin project, compiling C++, compiling Java, compiling AS3 to bytecode, etc.

there are also other doc for hardware setup, SSH to/from Windows, running "remote" build from the LAN, etc.

but the setup should work for about anything, comments to improve it welcome :)
My opinion is that you should be allowed to opt out of the uncertainty of human law and accept that the code will decide exclusively.

After all, otherwise we'll never truly be able to build very autonomous networks due to humans halting them all the time to reset some part of them.

In fact, I even think that should be the default for blockchains, letting the code be canonical, the authoritive source.

The better solution IMHO is to allow people to opt in to legal authority by declaring that a given human contract is the canonical declaration of intent, with the code declared as a tool built to help enforce it.

This way you also drop the uncertainty and ambiguity in meaning of the code and in most of the marketing, when you always have a primary document declaring what it is you're dealing with.
> And they always gloss over the fact that this is an old idea that to this day still hasn't managed to prove any of its claims even as a proof of concept.

This isn't true. There's been proof of concept.

It's just that people who actually develop Thorium power make more reasonable claims, and its actual advantages aren't that compelling.

Waste storage is next millenium's problem, and the cost of nuclear power is dominated by amortized infrastructure, so the economic advantage of thorium (fuel is more abundant, hence cheaper) just isn't very exciting.
> Anything that gets your heart rate somewhere between 110 and 140 beats per minute is enough.

There's a related point that people often get really wrong when they take up distance running: you can (and should!) actually run within that easy heart rate range. It may seem unbearably slow at first, but that just means you aren't ready yet to go faster.

When the goal is "faster pace at low effort", it's tempting to think you can train at faster pace + high effort and wait for the effort to fall. But that doesn't reliably work. You're better off training at low pace + low effort and wait for the pace to rise, holding low effort constant. Mostly this is because you (definitely) reduce the risk of getting hurt and (probably) don't waste a bunch of energy training the wrong metabolic pathways.
> The pro-EU contingent would certainly push for that but then the UK would be basically in the same situation they're in now.

And that's exactly why it is likely to push for it. And given that there's a solid pro-EU majority in parliament, it's likely that getting a deal as comprehensive as possible with the EU will be high priority, similar to how it was for Norway after the no vote in the referendum, where the EEA was used as a "consolation price" by the pro-EU parties.

They will argue that they have a strong mandate to do so, given that the Leave campaign have kept bringing up Norway as an example of how the UK can do fine outside the EU...

I do hope the UK votes to remain - I'm Norwegian, living in the UK. Though it won't affect me personally that much, as I qualify for leave to remain under at least three different categories. I agree with you that a good chunk of voters will end up voting remain even if they may be thinking of leaving now. The question is just if it will be enough.
Yep. Last month I was in Moscow for a conference keynote and a workshop. Running through demos the morning before, I spilled coffee on my Lenovo and fried some keys on the keyboard. Thought a bit, pulled out my MacBook Air, and had everything running in time for a keynote rehearsal that evening. Nice stress test of the cross-platform mindset, not quite as nice of a stress test for me though.
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I remember reading about this a few months ago. There was a time in my life when I would have been over the moon about a Dylan treasure trove. But now, there other pressing matters...
Exercise. 30 minutes a day. Mild intensity (e.g. walking).
It seems to me they are more focused on NOsql databases with multiple nodes and shared data like cassandra. So that you don't have to worry too much about volume/data mgmt because you will have multiple copies of the data on other containers when you lose a docker host or a container.

You also should conside that docker might not be the best option as opposed to just some vms on openstack for your much needed databases.

I'm stuck trying convince my co-workers that docker is not the answer to everything.
Hi Sunny - Feel free to email me (charley@plaid) and I can get you set up and share more deets! We're working on getting pricing up on the website soon :).
I read that when it was posted, and I got the I pressing the conman was pulling some trick to claim he had informed the other party, but hadn't actually done so. If that's the case then you'd need ESP to avoid being scammed.
Alan,

What research have you been a part of that is the most promising, yet least known, and why do you feel it failed to become more well known?
I'm not sure there's much overlap is between people who can get Docker Machine limping on VirtualBox with storage and networking flowing properly on Windows 10 fast ring and those who don't know how to check their spam folders, but I appreciate the tip.

No messages (and I applied via two accounts for two different platforms). No message telling me "go get the bits!" today. And nothing in spam folders.

But yet another blog post asking me to sign up for yet another private beta... ugh.

EDIT to add: As polite feedback--two separate requests, two separate Docker accounts, one Gmail and one corporate email address, and I did not receive any invite during the private beta nor notification today when it went public.
Larger than life character, including literally!

A rather kind big bear of a guy, with lots of ideas (and maybe a bit too much baggage from the past ...)

Worth reading all "the Macy people", including Gordon Pask, Heinz von Forester, etc.
Your schedule just needs fixing. Designate one parent as the "put kids to bed" and the "household maintenance" for the day, that gives the other an extra 2 hours. Exercising every other day is practically as good or better as every day depending on the exercise.

Though even with 4 hours, depending on the person, every day after work might feel like they need their entire 8 hours of free time between work and sleep just to survive, ideally they'd have more. Technology was supposed to give us more leisure time we can put into things like exercise but here we are still slaving away at desk jobs for 40 hours a week.
What if your app was designed to work against AWS's data offerings, from RDS, S3, etc? Unless you're self-hosting your DB, concerns about persistence are less of an issue. Also worth considering if you are self-hosting is the replication/redundancy in the platform, you should be able to preserve-restart instances.

Me, I'd rather use what's available than self-host more often than not, but depends on the use-case.