skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't get features like transactional rollback to prior revisions of your system definition, which is never an important feature (until it suddenly is). This also seamlessly allows non-privileged multi-user package management without duplication of programs or anything like that, so you don't need to poke your system admin or alternatively pollute $HOME (and in turn pollute your bash/zsh config for library paths, require fixing up include paths for anything you compile using $HOME stuff, etc). This feature is actually particularly important, because it allows you to set up individual, 'hermetic' (or 'pure') build environments for every project, using 'nix-shell', even on multi-user machines.

If the project supports Nix, you can just go in and run 'nix-shell', and your machine is magically populated with the needed dependencies to build it (or using already existing ones), and you drop into a new `bash` with a cleaned environment and custom $PATH for that project. You can then leave that shell (after you submit your patch to an upstream project or whatever) and garbage collect the installed dependencies.

The model also permits things like transparent, remote multi-system/architecture builds (why build the Linux kernel in my chosen configuration on my laptop when I have a 16 core server somewhere else, why SSH into my OSX machine to run a build when Nix can do it with the same description, etc,) -- and in the future when binary determinism is worked out, a single checkout of the Nixpkgs repository will (hopefully) be able to serve as completely-reproducible build chain, allowing anyone to produce identical binaries and identical Nix packages. (And since Nix works on any Linux system, you can run that build anywhere).

NixOS of course supports general container technology as you mentioned in your first post, so you can also use that to your hearts desire.

In practice NixOS is quite powerful but there are still many glitches and user-facing UX issues that are problematic. It is definitely not for everyone.
Not only ICs, the very idea of The Cloud is basically the mainframe as it always was.
I am not sure why cryonics are not in the menu of every reader here when he has the opportunity (you don't have it if you die in a sudden accident) to subscribe when it seems inevitable to die.
Yes they then raised from Qatar but the unfolding was dramatic http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7658277.stm and Robert Peston was having the days of his professional life eheh. Got it the link! http://monevator.com/how-fear-is-driving-bank-share-prices/
At the time most popular web browsers didn't have tabs. If you wanted to have two pages open at once, you had to open them in separate windows.
> What's really sad is that the state of progress in cancer treatment is extremely slow.

This is massively false. There are great strides made for numerous cancers, while for some others (pancreatic, colorectal being among the worst) there are still not many good options. For pancreatic cancer the main issue is that it's very hard to detect in early stages and when you get the symptoms you are basically already in stage IV. Pretty much the same story for brain tumors (like GBM, usually detected very late).

We also know a lot more about how to prevent many types of cancer. If you want to reduce significantly the odds of stomach cancer, you basically need to really restrict your alcohol consumption. Even for many cancers alcohol consumption shows up as correlated with increased risks.

So, treatments are improving, prevention is improving, but of course there are still cancers with very poor outcomes. At the same time, it's a major field of investment so many companies are trying to make odds better every day.
> If you're writing tests, you will have to come up with the mock data anyway.

With property based testing, your system will come up with mock data for you.
Libreboot: Please back the EOMA68 campaign
It's still sort of a solution to an invented problem, but you could have them wire in a small motion light. Or one of those battery powered stick on LEDs.
There is also this commonly held notion that if you "live right", with healthy habits, food, and exercise, you will live to 98 in perfect health, and probably die of an instant heart attack while in bed with a young lover. It's of course true that obesity and lack of exercise increase health risks at all ages, but that risk was never going to be 0. The notion that I mentioned basically makes health problems into a morality play. I've even seen people get angry at the fact that statins can reduce heart disease risk in an "unearned" way - they can't accept that. The fact is that blood vessels and everything else lose function with increasing age, at a different rate for different people.
First thing I did is google that word, it's rather poetic.

"persphinctery", one word to capture the brokenness of waiting for updates the provider has no incentive to create.

I laughed because it's a very erudite sounding word with a very vulgar interpretation: "persphinctery" == "as they are shat out".
One of the reasons I chose to settle down in Raleigh, NC. Not a large city, but a great tech scene that still pays well, and very reasonable cost of living.

Not as much to do as San Francisco or NYC - but I certainly think it's worth it.
I think the analysis could be improved by excluding people who made a couple of trades worth of a few dollars just as an experiment, etc. This way, leaving only the people who took it somewhat seriously. Even then, the data would be heavily biased - it includes only traders who decided to use eToro AND keep the history public. This is far from a random sample and very biased.

However, I would not be surprised if the actual results (across all brokerages, etc) are close to that, or even more extreme.
Check out Bitwig, it's very similar to Ableton. That said, I can't recommend it right now as it's still quite buggy.

Worth keeping an eye on if you want to get off Windows though.
Yes, I do see what you mean. I guess I look at it as a white male statistically I'm far more likely to oversell myself, and I've certainly done that before. Now I might overcompensate for that. I would much rather set low/mid-level expectations, than sell myself as a "rockstar" (god I hate that term) and set myself up for burn-out.

Being cheap is funny. In San Francisco at my last job I was around $175k before the expected bonuses which never materialized, as they tend not to @ start-ups. To no avail I tried hard to sell myself on "$100k and I only work 9 months per year", but there's such a false notion that "bodies in the seat mean productivity". I ended up finding a gig around $110k, which provides me a far better lifestyle in the cheaper part of the Balkans/Near-East than I could afford in any US city where I would want to live.

This is part of the problem: golden handcuffs.
With the Great Power Comes Great Mining
Tienda ropa mujer
Maybe P2P Tensflow as a service would be a neat idea?

E.g. I have data, TensorFlow model anybody can bid who can do quickly the cheapest compute power. E.g. EC2 spot, Google Cloud preemptive or some NVIDIA CUDA spare computer.
Atom does look very cool. Systems will get faster and any performance problems with Atom should diminish.

But Atom makes me sad. I've got years and years invested in understanding how Emacs works and being able to tweet the capabilities of Emacs and write my own commands and packages in Emacs Lisp. I feel kind of stuck with it now.

Don't get me wrong its a great place to be stuck--Emacs is the world's most powerful editor. Yet, a weakness that has always bothered about Emacs is it's reliance on an unpopular language, its own version of Lisp. There are so many Javascript programmers that, eventually, a Javascript based editor will exceed the capabilities Emacs which is written in Lisp and C. (I don't rule out success for NeoVim either, the foundation of vim with a clean way to write packages in Python, totally cool!)

I wish there was a Neomacs project or a true org-mode and magit for Atom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functor
I personally hope MS keeps going down the user-hostile path. It's causing people I wouldn't have expected to care to seek alternatives. The only way I'd ever consider using Windows for my own computing again is if MS went crazy and open-sourced Windows, Visual Studio and Office.
In Emacs' case, it bothered me until I discovered you can compile everything (including your `.emacs` file) and have it boot a lot faster.

AFAIK, there's no equivalent in Atom yet.
Except that the point of marriage is closer union with someone you intend to spend the rest of your life with. I am talking specifically about this kind of marriage.

I'm not saying people don't marry for reasons other than lifetime union. I'm pretty certain I would have a prenup drawn up in the situations you give as examples. My point is that I would not treat marriage that way because it is an honour that you bestow only on the person you intend to marry.

Perhaps i'm getting confused too. I'm talking about serving what is in effect a contingency plan wrt division of assets in the event of divorce. If that is the case, I still stand by what I say in that if you feel this is necessary, perhaps you need to give it more time instead of jumping into what is the highest honour two people can bestow on each other.
Why don't you go and work at one of the previous startups?
For me the issue with bigger cities isn't the financial but the human aspect. I see people all around me with their friends and relationships having a good social time, and it makes me crave interaction and friendship, things that are challenging to just pull out of nowhere, especially in NYC where you're liable to get ignored if you say hello to a stranger on the street. Many people make friends at work, but I find software development an isolating profession, even though the pay is more than sufficient.

In my limited experience, it seems to me that in the countryside, being alone is solitude, but in a city, being alone is lonely...
Ok, but Paris transports way more people that Lille ever will. And if you want to add Lyon, well it's like paris and it's the second/third city in France.
Google will not be bidding. http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/google-won-t-bid-fcc-...

But this doesn't necessarily undermine your broader point about the competitiveness of the auction. There are 62 qualified bidders. Most will probably not compete meaningfully with the Verizons of the world, especially in large markets where prices may be very very high. But some may.
How the New York Public Library Made Ebooks Open
Seeing that someone else had lots of money to spend on a nice holiday wouldn't make me feel better about my situation...
Have you tried changing the free downloads password setting? See http://lifehacker.com/allow-free-downloads-from-the-mac-app-...
I personally don't have ambitions to be famous or even super rich. The only thing I want is "creative freedom". In my career I've had it 3 times (and it was the most enjoyable times i can think of in my career), all three times the project was shut down or some change happened for one reason or another, and I was moved to something where I had basically little or no control of the code I wrote. At first, I questioned my abilities as an engineer, but two of the projects were decently successful by most measures. My drive comes from trying to get that freedom back, and to be in a position where it can't be taken. It's not easy to obtain.
Who has the luxury of having a CPU bound problem these days? The developers of games for handheld games consoles maybe. Most problems are memory or IO bound nowadays and in this era the latest crutch is the SSD. Since random access is faster than on an HDD the developers care less about optimizations. Heck even in the games with fast loading screens there is still low hanging fruit like "oh you are in a queue for map X? let me preload it for you in the background instead of waiting until the match starts and then loading it" for example.
Penny Auctions are notorious for running their own bots to compete and ultimately, act as financial loss prevention.
What stops you just pulling out of such an auction?
You need far more guarantees from bidders than usual...
Make a shortcut to the start menu folder so that it opens in the file explorer?
Some of this advice applies to people with chronic non-terminal health problems as well. We may not be dying, but the "helpful advice" from people who hear we have problems usually doesn't go over very well with us, even if we do smile and say thanks, to be polite.
Sounds like you would like the 3.5 GHz "citizens band." https://www.fcc.gov/rulemaking/12-354
The moment someone suggest that their advantage is being older than someone else (that everyone under 30 is somehow stupid), I look for companies that will disrupt them.

Only a handful of formidable execs are not stuck in a bygone age, but are still scowling at these tech millennials pulling in millions of revenue because they used unorthodox business methods.

The previous generation needs to catch up. Adapt or begin dying at your own peril.
>is it gambling with the best odds around?

You can expect, on average, to perform as well as the market, less your trading fees (which for most of us small-timers are ~$10 per round trip).

The problem is not knowing the odds (and hence expected earnings) ex-ante. That said, horse racing would probably be the best analogy.
I used NixOS for about six months, and while I think the core of NixOS is great, but I never liked KDE and how much it kind of forces it on you.

Gnome support is kind of horrible, and it felt like I either had to commit to something incredibly low-level like XMonad, or KDE.
That and moving to cities with concentrations of brainpower; I live near a couple world-class universities and feel real dumb most of the times I meet new people.
Index Innovation
I just discovered that PhantomJS has a built-in web server that serves generic WebKit-based dev tools (basically identical to Chrome's)[0].

It's obviously not helpful in terms of seeing the layout of the site, but it's a helluva lot better than writing Phantom scripts, running it, seeing it's failed for some non-obvious reason, modifying it, running it again, having it fail, etc. If anyone has any other suggestions for avoiding pure trial/error workflows with Phantom, I'd love to hear it.

[0] http://phantomjs.org/troubleshooting.html#remote-debugging
Do you have any literature you can recommend for when one gets into financial troubles. I don't think I would ever feel comfortable using leverage, but would like to know what I'm up against if I get to medical bankruptcy, for example.
Feedback and discussion would be much appreciated! Thanks.
1) Do we implement 1 child per couple policy?
This would work, until you run out of people.

2/3) Consider AI, what with all the STEMS ? Also, how many stems do we really need ?

4) As soon as everything is automated, capitalist "win the game". No money will flow back. You have to abandon this at some point.

4) What if the government runs out of money ?
Same things that would happen now, increased taxes, or a bankrupt state. In a pure socialistic state this would translate in: you will have to do with less (not money, but luxuries).
The other hidden scam in this is that [some/many] these sites will give you X number of free credits when you first sign up. Not only is this to get you hooked and using the site but it cheats people who are already hooked and paid for their credits because it allows others to bid and "take away the winning bid(s) of actually paying customers) for free!
There are plenty of us :-).

While I do hope that this is "just a phase", I don't think it will pass too quickly. The one thing that flat design excels at is quickly and cheaply creating "compliant" UIs and associated elements.

A former colleague of mine sketched the situation bitterly over a few beers; ten years ago or so, he'd spend days, sometimes even a week on an OS X application's icon. It was exhausting and it was hard to convince clients to pay him a week's worth of hourly fee for a damn icon. Nowadays (well, nowadays was about two years ago, I think), he could have two or three mockups ready in an evening and the hip entrepreneurs he worked for on the side would fall off their chairs gasping at how "clean" and "intrinsically meaningful" those blobs of colour were.

We joked around that a lot of the activity could be automated by just writing clever software that takes a 3D picture or a good enough photo of something and makes a "flat" version of it, requiring only a little intervention on a vectorized version to get something final-ish. Voila, icon "design" as a service.
Not true, you can create an iTunes account without a credit card: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT204034
Huh? I actually read the paper before I wrote that comment. :P

While the authors claim a link between taxoplasma and fetishism, they don't elaborate on which fetishes.

I haven't reviewed the supplemental data yet. Maybe vore's in there?
I'm in HFT (as per my handle). Exchanges like NYSE, NASDAQ, etc. sell stock data to firms but not before they get processed. The only way you get front run is if the broker that you submit through (ETrade, Schwab, etc.) notes your order, knows that it's big enough to move the market, and then prioritizes their own action over yours (which I'm reasonably sure they do not). Buying data center space (colocation) means they can react to activity quickly, but only after said activity has happened.
>>> HFT systems with AI

I highly doubt that it would affect you, tbh, and I suspect that it's a highly sentimental matter. Only if I did have money to buy Apple stock 10 years ago, that kind of :) no offense if I am totally wrong, it's just that you didn't provide any specific argument for your reasoning.

Aren't these folks with hundreds of millions in the trading accounts in a totally different league and they do not affect you, unless you want to play in their own game (e.g. high frequency)?
The Oregon trial had no effect on diabetes. It caused people to consume more diabetes medication which the authors speculate might make them healthier.

You are correct that having insurance made people feel better. So what?

It also found improvements across a lot of other medical issues, they were just considered statistically insignificant...

And you've just demonstrated that you have goals here other than finding truth, or perhaps you just don't understand hypothesis testing.

Your medscape article is just a press release parroted by some innumerate reporter. Further, the article is focused on stuff like "stop smoking" and "stop drinking" support, not medical interventions. The full study isn't even linked.
I remember a game circa 1980s called Inside Trader, a stock market "simulation". There were a bunch of fake stocks that fluctuated in value randomly, and one could choose to trade honestly or based on tips. Tips carried the risk of penalties and jail (losing the game). I eventually figured out that while the prices did go up and down, they never went below zero. Therefore, one could trivially beat the game by purchasing penny stocks. Unfortunately, the real market does not have a meaningful lower bound on losses.
The spread betting companies are winning, of course. They are the market makers and they can manipulate the market as much as they like, even pushing the price up or down temporarily to hit stop loss orders and the like. And of course they adjust the spread to suit them, esp. in equities. I always thought the safest markets are forex because the huge liquidity tends to limit the spreads somewhat, but I have no idea if that is actually true.
Isn't that what the linked paper says? Its form suggests that the author had a similar insight to this one.
Is that really true? I mean the radius of the fold is going to mean the outside most layer is going to have to get larger and larger relative to the inner most layer. If it's 1 mile thick then the outer layer will need to be 3.14 miles longer than the inner layer. Won't that have some kind of effect? Is it all proportional or will the length of that difference eventually make it so the outer piece can't stretch/bend/flex over that great a distance (in reality vs magically friction-less paper)
>but from your profile page I see you've been a member for a little over a year

I've been around much longer than that. As someone who doesn't really care about "karma", I reset my social media accounts on occasion.
That is an incredibly interesting perspective - enough to step back and think through my stance.

Perhaps my view of this kind of agreement is tarnished by the stereotypical type (you mention it with "if you cheat then x" or how someone with a lot of wealth would aim to protect that when marrying on short notice).

Thank you!
> Yet Atom is still slower and laggier than Notepad running on Windows in 1986.

I would love to see something beyond just a void claim of this. Numbers, a video, literally anything. Even though Atom has a completely different use case than Notepad, one is for a quick edit of a file and one is for managing a project including file indexing, project search, and plugins, I still don't believe this is true. And I don't even like Atom!
Whataboutism: the radical idea that everyone be held to the same /lowest possible/ standard.
> Mosquitoes are the main food source of some animals, which leads them to die out. Then those animals are the food source of other animals, etc. etc..

Actually, several biologists believe the impact would be minimal, or even beneficial:

"Yet in many cases, scientists acknowledge that the ecological scar left by a missing mosquito would heal quickly as the niche was filled by other organisms. Life would continue as before — or even better."

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
How about you think about what you just said for a minute. How is this a situation of "nothing to lose"? You are talking about an extremely sick person who, based on the fact that he has extremely advanced heart disease, probably has a lot of difficulty just being there for his family, and trying to put his affairs in order. Do you think he has the time and capacity to go on an "extreme diet" on the strength of "why not"? And if I publish some book which says that hitting oneself on the head with a pillow 100 times will cure heart disease, should he then try that? After all, what has he got to lose, right?
An online friend just got into currency trading and went into some tutorials about reading curves. Apparently there are recurring curve patterns, which allows one to predict where a rate is going. If you can code up some pattern recognition algorithm, there might be a way to make money.

Although I'm very skeptical about those patterns, because there could be someone trading back and forth to create those trends, and screw you when they want.

Anyway analyzing data and gaining money with it makes really no sense at all. Surely you can make money to live, but there is no point to it until you really are able to win big, and nobody does. Investing money where real business create economic activities that are in effective demand, maybe. But trading numbers, that's really an awful thing.
> "parasites are generally a bad thing"

There's some evidence to suggest parasitic infection can prevent or reduce some diseases, such as asthma or Crohn's disease.

One study published in an ATS journal concluded: "Parasite infections do not in general protect against asthma, but infection with hookworm may reduce the risk of this disease" [1]

[1] http://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1164/rccm.200603-331O...