skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To this ignorant observer, the task is: traveling and occasionally fighting, in shallow coastal water. That requires a ship with shallow draft, which meets certain minimums for maneuver, survival, and deadliness. Those minimums would have to be developed with an understanding of previous military experience in shallow coastal water. USA certainly has such experience, although maybe it's 40 years out of date? Have there been no more recent conflicts in such an environment? That seems unlikely, so it would be an indictment of the Pentagon if such had been ignored while developing this ship. That would also be confirmation of TFA's point that this program should be canceled. Another such confirmation would be to learn that some airy ridiculous notion like "imperial tool" were ever considered by the designers.

The first aircraft carriers were big boats with flat decks. The effect may have been "revolutionary" but the design certainly wasn't.
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This is great, and I think it should be fairly easy for everyone to follow in small measure at the very least. I'm not minimizing the struggles of those who can't control their weight or eating habits. I simply believe that people often pick something like a "diet" as their primary focus and then skip the workouts or continue to indulge in alcohol. I find it much easier to succeed when I attack the problem from more angles and try to make changes in all of these aspects to my routine. If one fails, I can still reap the benefits from the other changes I've made.
I literally just yesterday saw on national television news a report that suicide is the second leading cause of death for teenagers in the US.

Rather than invoking conspiracy theories, consider this much simpler theory: Western media doubles as entertainment and doesn't report much on suicide when they don't have to because it's fucking depressing.
If they have herds, they are not hunter-gathers. They are agricultural. And the anthropologists agree that with agriculture, life got much more difficult.
Usually Netflix engineering impresses me. This does not.

This sounds like all of the typical separate test org antipatterns that healthy companies eventually eliminate by eliminating the entire test team.

Integrated tests are a scam. The only way to succeed in a micro services architecture is with a strong focus on quality inside each service and consumer driven contract testing between.
"What we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years," she says. "If you don't get it right, you will have an unlivable environment. That's the crisis I see."

This is something people don't talk about enough. Kids are literally the future of humanity. If we want to improve our society, we should put more focus on helping parents raise their children and on helping teachers educate them.
For some reason (arrogance?) doctors don't explain their reasoning in many cases

In this case it might be as simple as "I don't have time to argue with the patient about evolutionary biology." But that's probably a bigger issue in the US than in Canada.
The article was not about the hunter-gatherer life being better as a whole, it was about how what is natural to human beings is a life with a good deal of play.
and snapchat is not? please...
It very probably is (on non secure boot systems). The EFI system partition is just a FAT32 partition that can be mounted e.g. using mountvol. The EFI boot options and order are stored in changable variables (see efiboootmgr). Writing this code to ESP and setting it up to run on next boot then chainload windows doesn't sound too hard.
> So given that you say both campaigns lied a lot, that would imply that Leave voters were less misled by propaganda and MORE likely to know what it was they were doing.

Believing that politician are lying to you does not make you informed, it makes you uninformed. For example, if you believe your GPS is not working, and you chose to follow its direction (or not), it does not mean you know the road, you are still picking at random. I conceded that it is the case of both sides.

As I explained, the reason I believe the Leave voters voted against their best interest is not based on the Brexit campaign, it is based on who they put in charge by doing it.

> Yet that does not appear to be the conclusion you have reached. Why not?

Don't get me wrong, as I alluded before, I'm in a position to actually benefit from the Brexit. I believe that the Leave voters are going to get the shit end of the deal.

I can believe they are informed as you suggest, or I can believe they were mislead. The difference is that I may vote against my interest for the later (eg: increase my taxes), but not for the former.

As final note: better NHS, better social security, more money, more job opportunities, vibrant country side full of activity, ... The fact that I don't believe it will happen does not mean I don't want it to happen. I don't mind being proven wrong, even if that means being ridiculed every 23rd of June, or looking stupid when my kid ask me why I was Remain.
That's O(N^2). Each time a timer expires, the code linearly scans the table for the next timer. You can do a lot better than that. The really good solution, O(log N) with an upper bound, was developed in 1987.[1] The better algorithms all involve tree structures, as you'd expect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order-maintenance_problem
[2] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/papers/maintaining-order.pdf
I'd hire him... Oh wait... I already did... I'd hire him twice!
On the other hand, a lot of the improvements we see in the world are the result of new generations criticizing and rejecting the ways of their predecessors, on their own.

The best thing you can teach a kid is "don't copy me; half of what I think and do is probably wrong".
The thing that consciousness has that is not simply an idea is sensation. At a certain point, it becomes indescribable.
I couldn't have been the only one that read this as Don Rickles. Man you thought reviews from coders was tough, wait till you get roasted.
Any tips for getting listed or why my own profile might not be coming up?
This is great. I thought this would be a useful feature at one point, and then just figured it would probably never happen.

Funny how any stream of notifications just turns into a todo list though. I wish I could just pipe them all to one place and have the changes actually committed back to the source. It'd be great to collaborate where some people use Asana, some people use Trello, and some people just use textfiles but they're all in sync and it doesn't matter where or how you make edits.
>some people have already had their natural driven curiosity ground out of them by sour experiences at school or poor home life prior to getting the change to try this.

Somehow I find that extraordinarily unlikely, but I suppose it is possible. From my experience and what I've seen in other people, it's never that the curiosity in them gets pounded out of them, rather it is that they're not ideally granted the opportunities to capitalize on their curiosities.
Peppers aren't that hard to find in Germany. You appear to also live in Berlin. As a Texan and significant cooking hobbyist (I ordered Kengi's book from the US before it was available in Germany), here are some tips:

Major grocery stores:

- Real usually has fresh cayenne peppers, bell peppers, and some long sweet peppers. Occasionally they also have habaneros.

- Edeka more often has habaneros, and often tabasco peppers too, but less often cayenne peppers. Usually also a couple kinds of non-spicy peppers.

- Organic stores usually have peppers too; I have an LPG-Biomarkt around the corner that virtually always has a couple kinds of peppers.

Markets:

- The Turkish market on Maybachufer usually has some peppers available. What is a bit of a mixed bag. As suggested, other Turkish markets and shops are likely to have similar.

Online:

You can get dried chilis here:

https://chilliesontheweb.co.uk/chilli/

They're shipped from the UK, so no (at least for a couple years) customs to deal with.

Don't get too hung up on the specific cultivar of chili. Most chilis are actually cultivars the same species and exist on a couple of spectrums of flavor and heat. Substituting fresh green cayenne peppers for jalapeños isn't going to radically change a recipe.
It's amazing just how badly this study was distorted by generalized clickbaitism. It chafed me sufficiently enough to put out a video on the subject at the time[1]. The hype really wasn't even necessary... the underlying findings were plenty interesting enough already: that there is an association between stem cell division rate of specific tissues and overall cancer risk. This, however, in no way implies that cancer is only due to bad luck.

Science ended up printing a follow-up actually clarify things, perhaps feeling themselves that the interpretation by the public at large got out of hand a little bit[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiH4m7NvV98

[2] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/01/bad-luck-and-cancer-s...
> Patient doesn't respect doctor's/pharmacist's guidelines.

This is not at all restricted to antibiotics. I still treasure the memory of listening to a cardiologist ream out a patient over the phone on either Christmas or New Year's Eve (I was waiting for him to leave so I could take the servers down). Said patient hadn't been seen in the office in 6+ months, had gotten things prescribed by other docs in the interim, and had decided to stop taking some of what had been prescribed effectively self-medicating.

The basic message being passed to him was "You're an idiot, you're going to die, if you have problems over this long holiday weekend call the doc who saw you most recently or get to the ER, did I mention idiocy and death?, we haven't seen you in months and didn't prescribe what you're doing and are not responsible for your stupidity, I'm documenting this in your chart."

IIRC, in this case the patient had kept taking a diuretic that had a side effect of potassium elimination but had decided to stop taking the potassium supplements needed to counter that.
>This is always a big problem for conservatives, because the work of the historian is exactly to discuss new views and interpretations of history. Doing otherwise would be scholastic work, not critical thinking. For this reason, most historical research ends up being an analysis from a point of view that is complementary or even antagonistic to conservatism.

This is true in the sense of what the study of history has unfortunately become in recent decades at universities, but untrue in the sense of what the study of history has meant and been over the centuries.

Not to mention the sort of lamely attempted indoctrination I experienced, such as the professor who flatly told us all that we should vote for Gary Hart. It was 1984. The course was on 19th century Russian history. We learnt far more about Lenin's and Stalin's mothers than we did about, oh, say, Russia's territorial ambitions and their reactions to the shifting alliances in Europe at the time.

So, you can say that I'm just a crusty conservative because I had to do a lot of extra reading to get the big picture of what was actually happening in Russia at the time and I found the information the professor shared with us from her thesis to be as interesting as watching paint dry. I'm ok with being labeled if that's what it takes to make the point that not all history done these days is particularly helpful for understanding the things that affected tens of millions of people.
Downvotes and no answers... not too inspiring.
Money. It actually matters to have more than just enough to eat and a roof over your head, for many people - which is pretty much what Guaranteed Income and other approaches to the work problem provide.

If you have horrible jobs and pay very little for them and the only way you can fill them is by making it a choice between shitty job and starvation, then what's the functional difference between that and slavery?
I'm kind of repelled by the instinct we have to tear those people down.

Sorry you took it that way. Myself, I'd hate to see our desire for gossip overrule wishing to avoid folks having a difficult conversation with their manager. Maybe not in this case, but if enough people from various companies start posting out of turn on public forums when they as individuals don't know the whole story, someone's going to wake up to a bad day. It's one thing to comment on "MSFT Announces new, cool widget thingy": "I worked on that, and what a long road we've travelled!" Quite another when the headline is "Google writes down $4 billion on stupid acquisition", and "I work Google, but I only speak for myself, and I think..." Any whiff of controversy and I'd say just stay out of it.

But it's just advice, do what you like with it, including ignore it.
> A prototype robot capable of hunting down over 100 slugs an hour and using their rotting bodies to generate electricity is being developed by engineers at the University of West England's Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory.

That's both... disgusting and delightful!
In the late 80s I worked on (to the best of my knowledge) the first multiplayer/networked AI-based NPC system for DARPA SIMNET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMNET. So M-A-N-Y stories!

My most personal one was when we were first installing the system on-site at Fort Knox, in a massive building which housed about 90 4-person M1 tank simulators - all networked. 320 soldiers all participating simultaneously. (I also wrote the networking implementation for the simulators, and also helped integrate the custom image generators, which notably contained the first hardware-based texture mapping). The NPC system had Symbolics Lisp machine front-ends hooked up to a multiprocessor system running up to 256 separate CPUs on lightweight OS.

So we installed and booted up the system in the raised-floor machine room (remember them?), which took a long damned time. We were of course concerned about race conditions and memory leaks (the Butterfly was no less tricky to program than any other shared memory box with lots of CPUS). So we dropped down a company of Ivans (Russian tanks), and figured we'd let it run and go get fed (since we were tired and hungry - we might have been there all night - I cannot recall). When we came back into the building after lunch, lots of soldiers were running around, very pissed off, asking "who shot my tank?" and "will you please reset it?" So, I reset the tanks with the magic keyboard sequence, and retreated to the safety of the magnetic swipe-card-protected machine room to check on the Beast.

And lo and behold, there on the digital map display was the Russian tank company, surrounded by the digital corpses of many manned tank simulators.

The Beast was ALIVE. (I had, arguably mistakenly, initialized Ivan to be weapons-free when emplaced. I had also not known the soldiers would joyride through the vast terrain database during lunch break every day, shooting up everything around - none of which would have shot back before the Beast was delivered.)

It was a very Dr. Frankenstein moment.
"we have always worked less than that earlier in history (1)."

I'm not so sure about that.

Most people lived on farms, and if you know about farms, you know it's almost 12 hours, 7 days a week. Or rather, it's an 'all consuming' type of business.

That said, this is North American farming wherein farmers owned their land.
There isn't a single example of data raised in that article. I really don't see any value in pop-psychology articles like this.
If peak cancer years are two or more decades in your future, I'd argue that the best thing you can do today is donate to research programs that are likely to change the economic landscape of cancer research. You should also not get fat, not smoke, and all the other things that require no money, but research is much more transformative. You want the future to be no cancer, not less cancer.

Why economic transformation in cancer research? The cancer research community suffers from a high level strategy problem: the majority of treatments are only applicable to a small number of cancer types, out of the hundreds of known types, and the majority of new technology platforms under development will be just as expensive to adapt to a different type of cancer as to build in the first place. A much more efficient approach is needed, as there are only so many researchers and only so much funding in the world.

This is much on my mind because I'm helping to raise funds for one such project right now. It involves taking on the less well-supported but still necessary part of building a universal cancer treatment platform, one that can target all cancers. This could be built for about the same cost as one of today's highly specific single-cancer treatments. Obviously that is an immensely better path forward.

The approach is to block telomere lengthening: all cancers must lengthen their telomeres in order to grow, and abuse a small number of target mechanisms in order to do so. These mechanisms, telomerase and alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT), are very fundamental to cellular biochemistry. If they are turned off, it is expected that there is no way for a cancer to evolve around that dead end. Many of today's cancer therapies, in addition to being very specific, also leave room for a cancer cells to evolve a different way of conducting business that renders them immune.

A number of research groups are working on sabotage of telomerase, but next to no-one is working on ALT. It is known that telomerase cancers can turn into ALT cancers, so it is probably the case that both doors have to be slammed shut to have a truly effective universal cancer therapy. So I'm helping a fundraiser to use an ALT assay to scan the standard drug candidate library for compounds that act to suppress ALT, something that should greatly advance that part of the field, both by identifying more lines of investigation, and by finding potential therapies for ALT cancers. Since ALT doesn't happen in normal cells, completely suppressing ALT should be a pretty safe treatment if an approach with limited side-effects can be identified. The telomerase blocking will need more work on compensating or targeting for other effects, since stem cells require it. But that is still a lot less work than producing one therapy per cancer type.
Step 1: Have brilliant children.
Step 2: Don't ruin them, do a bunch of other stuff.
Step 3: Assume that some of that other stuff is the 'active ingredient' in your brilliant child.
I have to disagree with your last statement (integrated tests are a scam) very strongly. Think about it as follows:

We assert unit tests are useful, because although we may "trust" primitives (1+1=2) we can introduce semantic bugs in how we compose them.

Does it not also follow that if our primitives are now "microservice functions" and our composition is the "integrated service", we should test the composition for validity?

I truly believe in E2E testing, I could go on at length about esoteric bugs we found only in interactions between properly functioning microservices (Hell just today I watched a coworker work out a fun timezone doozie). One could make a feasible argument that with a more well defined set of constraints and capabilities, the microservice could have sufficiently covered unit test cases for all possible interactions from a stub perspective, but pragmatically, _this does not happen in the real world_, and E2E testing is a nice way of making sure your product is indeed continuing to not be on fire (mostly).

One could feasibly (from my view of the world) say "Integration tests are a cheap fix", to which I'd say "yes, yes they are" and then continue to perform them, even if they are only in the form of a click through smoke test by hand after a prod deployment :)
That's completely fair I was too broad.
Funny, I read it 1.676 months ago. :)
I worked on calibration and test software for fiber optic switches with large (100+) numbers of ports. It certainly didn't make a billion dollars, but it made many millions of dollars for sure. :)
That you have four close friends who have made significant windfalls is a bit of an anomaly. There are far more people that have lost on that gamble(trading salary for options) than there are that have won. Give it another ten years of working at startups and it won't look so crazy.

I'm mot even sure how you "optimize for gaining a "life changing amount of money"? That's like saying you are going to optimize for luck. There a substantial amount of luck involved in seriously "cashing out" on a startup.
I think by the fact that you are already looking for ways to disapprove the research (Which you say doesn't exist yet) your point gets lost.

And given I'd say most people on HN take it as fact the the internet has caused concentration and contemplation issues you need evidence of the opposite.

With everyone believing something on anecdotal evidence it becomes up to the opposing view.
Well, how about "I love you.", for starters?

I've been thinking lately that electrochemical modifications could enhance or add senses or experiences, say by tapping into the olfactory bulb in the nose or via the tongue / facial nerve (which already exist, actually - tongue cameras for the blind)
How about Lead-Bismuth eutectic?
Do more with less = efficiency

And usually efficiency is rewarded?
Still going on today with reunification of Germany and their joining the Euro as the price of reunification - and subsequent Brexit.

It's the never ending game of balance of power.

I'd argue that the Russian Empire is maybe more important to the equation.
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I might just move to Poland then!
Maybe I'm old, but why not call them? "I'm looking for 5 on a 25 pre - can I have 15 minutes of your time face to face?"
Even without that, you'd think they would want to avoid irradiating birds and creating carbon-14 in the atmosphere.
To me, the difference between GCE and AWS really has to do with "openness": while I do admit GCE machines can be faster and cheaper, you only feel like you are treated somewhat equally as the big corps when using AWS.

For example, Lambda has been released to the general public for quite some time, while on the other hand, Google Cloud Function is still in invite-only phase.

I do love Google, they are building many awesome products(personally Chromebook is my favourite computing device now, if only I don't have the tech requirements that is only doable on a Mac -_-), but when it comes to GCE, it really gives one the sense that they are only aiming at big corporations right now, for small startups or individuals doing side project, AWS is significantly better. For me, this is an advantage even tho I have to sacrifice a little performance
I can vouch for the fact that these are, indeed, excellent.