skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We would need to master the natural process of aging that serves to kill us once we have outlived our evolutionary purpose

Related to aging is the length of our telomeres. Doing a search through recent news brings up some interesting related topics like:

Childhood trauma causes shortened telomeres (and shortens life):
http://www.medicaldaily.com/childhood-trauma-may-shorten-tel...

Acne-sufferers may have longer telomeres (and live longer):
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161003133005.h...

There's now a genetic test that provides more information about your telomeres:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161005005364/en/TELO...

Gene therapy may add years of life to leukocytes (and follistatin may help those with MS and spinal muscular atrophy):
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/45947/...

Some anti-cancer drugs inhibit telomerase (which keeps telomers long making cancer cells live longer than they should):
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160818111454.h...

Loss of (T)P53 genes cause increased cancer rate (and elephants that have more P53 genes rarely get cancer)- surprise, surprise- because loss of p53 function accelerates acquisition of telomerase activity:
http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v22/n34/full/1206667a.html

It seems that, if we don't kill ourselves or die of natural disasters/famines/diseases, we will have a better handle on disease and aging with more study. I don't understand why people would study statistics on aging and conclude that we can't age more than we already do.
Anyone can create money because credit creates money. The lower down you go (i.e. M3, M2, M1, M0) the more controlled the process is. But a private firm raising capital and signing term sheets, in a certain but very real sense, creates spending power.
This is heartbreaking. I have used it for a couple of different projects and it's just a dream to work with.
Flag because you disagree with the validity of the analogy? Or because it's offensive to you?

Should we flag invalid arguments? Potentially offensive material? Since you didn't elaborate, other than the 'definitely' qualifier, it's unknown what your beef or overall goal is, here.
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RethinkDB is one of the developer tools that we at Stripe most looked up to.[1] The team had so many good ideas and rigorous, creative thoughts around what a database could be and how it should work. I'm really bummed that it didn't work out for them and have enormous respect for the tenacity of their effort.

I'm also excited to have them join us here at Stripe. As we've gotten to know Mike, Slava, and the other Rethinks -- and shared some of our plans with them and gotten their feedback -- we've become pretty convinced that we can build some excellent products together in the future. I'm looking forward to learning from all of them.

[1] (And, for me, even before Stripe -- I started learning Haskell with Slava's Lisp-interpreter-in-Haskell tutorial back in 2006... http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp-in-haskell.html)
How many dimensions are you using for your approximations?

The medium is approximately 2d, but spread over a sphere.
>I think Bernie Sanders went too far in some of his policy proposal, but I wouldn't characterize him, or progressives in general, as promoting a utopian Marxist vision.

Very much agreed. From the point of view of actual radical leftists (for instance, the ones I grab beer with once or twice a month), Bernie Sanders is very much a moderate, even a kind of conservative. In trying to expand the sphere of public goods back towards where it has previously been (in some places and times) and a bit past that, he's just trying to turn our market society[1] back into a market economy subservient to a democratic society.

Correspondingly, we also need to consider the degree to which, while we don't live in Friedrich von Hayek's or Milton Friedman's ideal society, their ideas now exercise far, far more influence over our society than they did at the inauguration of the Mont Pelerin Society[2]. These men plotted utopia, and to a great degree, they've achieved it, exactly insofar as the social democrats whose hegemony they wanted to destroy are now seen as unthinkable radicals dreaming of utopia.

[1] -- http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/03/q-a-with-mi...

[2] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Pelerin_Society
I agree but but worry at this point that it would be viewed as conceding to Google. My problem with iOS has always been the forced integrations you cannot decouple.
Is there any special function your website can do that FRED can't? I'm pretty sure all BLS data ends up in FRED.
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SolveSpace looks exactly like the sort of "user-unfriendly" tools I build for myself and am absolutely personally productive on but would never release to the general public. Maybe I need to re-think this ;)

That said I'm getting back into GUI editors. Anaconda for research computing. And Atom for text and code. Including Markdown.

The advantage is Atom's module system. 5000+ third-party creations. Including really edge cases. That, I believe, is due to the reach of JS/HTML/CSS.
Maybe you should rethink that decision.
Are you suggesting that Holmes is distorting the truth???
Yes. At least Dropbox isn't selling snake oil. I find it just appalling that these high ranking officials were seemingly cashing in by sitting on the board of a corrupt company.

I wish we could adopt Taleb's idea of capping lifetime earnings for anyone who takes a job as a high ranking public servant.
PaX is a patch-set, that's fine. People who care enough about low level security can apply it. The market for 'we care about security' is very large. Unfortunately, it still doesn't intersect with 'popular', and at that level one kernel team may be deploying to millions of machines. The mainline kernel (as well as other OS kernels) have drawn features explored through PaX and its predecessors slowly over time, and will likely continue to do so. Writing off PaX as increasingly irrelevant because you personally can't configure it with a button-click on your distro-of-choice simply reflects a profound ignorance of the longer term technical and social environment in which it is developed.
Wow, I've always used RethinkDB for toy DB stuff here and there, but nothing serious. I loved how well everything was put together, from the documentation to the homepage. Hopefully the project can live with OSS contributions.
I think this is really exciting. A year ago, I was looking for something exactly like this - a formal course in Computer Science, with access to top mentors, which could fill in the theory gaps in my mostly-self-taught background, and which I could do in my own time whilst juggling looking after my young kids. Back then, the options were either MOOCs (free but no consistent mentorship available), remote bootcamps like Hack Reactor (expensive, limited syllabus), or audit a course at a local uni (also expensive in the US, limited access to resources, have to jump through annoying course prereq hoops). Or, of course, commit to a full-time degree, complete with the long-timeline application process, the expense and the relocation hurdles. More recently, several online CS Masters degrees have been made available but at eye-watering prices. (UC Berkeley's Data Science MSc weighs in at over $60k!)

This fills the need perfectly for mid-career types who want an affordable option that fits in alongside their work and family life. I think there's an enormous unmet demand here, particularly in an era where professionals need to keep retraining throughout their careers in order to stay relevant. I really hope that this opens the floodgates and other top institutions will follow suit.
The not-yet-launched but almost ready Horizon Cloud was also going to be a route for monetization. Unfortunately, it just didn't quite make it :/
I think it has to do with the sudden rise of cheap pornography, cheap computer games, social media, and the lack of women who need a provider due to societal pressures and government safety nets.

Before, if you wanted a girlfriend/wife, you had to get a decent job. That way the lady in your wife knew that she'd be reasonably taken care of. Now, the money you make is somewhat superflous - there are ways to get cash from the government/family members/divorce, making the man's income less important than the way you feel about the man at any particular point in time.

These days, with cheap pornography and entertainment and social media, you can (somewhat) satisfy your sexual desires, your need for entertainment, and your need for social interactions with porn, video games, and social media without much monetary cost.

Plus, if you missed out on the education train fairly early on, the way the job market is structured, you get fairly low wage jobs that are not intellectually fulfilling.

Looking at the cost benefit analysis, if you don't have in-demand or highly paid job skills, you chocies are to sit on your butt and mooch off your parents (which is increasingly possible and fulfilling and socially acceptable), or take a low-paying boring job for 40 hours a week that will only incrementally raise your happiness level.

The math seems easy to me.
It would be terrible if his source code or build system/process was carefully subverted by an attacker. With Apple stonewalling him he'd never know.
What's the phrase? "If you assume, you make an ass out of you and me"?

In reply (because of reply functionality, instead of stealthy edits), you should know I run an unmasked ck-sources kernel because rice (and BFS/BFQ).

If you really want an unstable Gentoo install, go with the x32 profile.
That bitch is delusional. If she really cared about the business she should have stepped down. Then again having a shite non-working product and lying even when it endangers the health of people is psychopathic. She is NOT dealing with reality in this letter even as she uproots the lives and careers of countless employees.
It is very easy to zoom out an fit a line but the step like changes at certain points are interesting. Averaging over the variations might throw away a lot of interesting information.

But you are right about one thing, the curve has not dipped up appreciably in the last 30 years. All I see are steps, plateau's where the level is kept before the next drop.

EDIT: can't do math or I keep thinking it's 2000's still.
Britain did something very similar after the deindustrialisation of the 1970s. The number of Incapacity Benefit claimants more than trebled between 1980 and 1995. As a welfare adviser, I personally witnessed claimants being coached to apply for incapacity benefit. There was a clear quid-pro-quo - unemployed people disappeared from the statistics in exchange for a bit more money.

Millions of unemployed men in former industrial towns were effectively consigned to the scrapheap, with no real effort made to create new jobs or provide retraining. Both major parties maintained the ruse for decades. The current Tory government has attempted to reform the system, but in the most brutal and cack-handed way imaginable; they have simultaneously forced long-term claimants off benefits while cutting programmes that could help them into work. It's a shite state of affairs.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/c...
I don't see a time limit mentioned anywhere, but I suspect the unlimited free storage is not going to last forever.
No, who?
I agree I think the next evolution is a relationship with the AI. We are at a point where with enough effort and data these AI can answer your questions and preemptively tell you thinks that are relevant.

If someone can build something you grow empathy and compassion for it will most certainly be a winner.
> it is ridiculous that they have a profile in each other "social network".

I disagree. Should socialists not be allowed to use computers because capitalism made computers and they are betraying their cause by using one? (Simple/contrived example, but it makes the point)

How is anybody going to even hear about this project if it doesn't advertise on social media?
When there are 90 jobs, and 100 people looking for work, are then ten who end up unemployed choosing to not work?

I suppose they could offer to work more hours, and accept lower wages. Would that mean that the 10 people that they replace are now choosing not to work?

The structurally unemployed don't choose to be idle - or more specifically, some amount of the population will always be idle, regardless of whether or not it does so by choice, or not.

The only countries that have full employment are war economies, and communist states.
If you hung around for too long at the place that might signal the capacity to put up with institutional corruption. It's a character trait viewed positively in some places.
Heh, had no idea about that one!

I had recently been thinking about how terrible it would be to have a resume with a Wells Fargo job ending in the last couple months.
Right, whenever you try to use mathematics/logic to reason about the real world, you risk that some of your assumptions may be wrong. Every formally verified project will have some set of trusted assumptions. But hopefully this can still dramatically reduce software vulnerabilities---for example, systems more often fail because of bugs in the program logic than bugs in the x86 processor, so assuming a specification for the hardware and proving the program correct with respect to that should still be helpful.

(As an aside, hardware and compilers are actually comparatively tractable things to verify--the specifications are well-defined, and they are used by lots of clients so the effort to verify them pays off better. I think in the future, we are more likely to have unproven application programs running on top of proven compilers & hardware than the opposite.)
I think the reasoning goes: mass underemployment -> discontent -> voting for in-group-identifying representative to fight on their behalf. There may be many black men who have reached the second step, but who view Trump as an outsider (from their perspective) and have not found a substitute representative (i.e., their "black Trump").
You can have an open source product with a company behind it, they're not incompatible.
Well, real streaming queries, not just oplog tails for starters... a document database with the ability to do on-server joins. There's a few other things, but those are the two biggest ones over most others in the same mold... All that applies to Mongo, applies to rethink.

Oh, yeah... and the ability to do shard + redundancy, where mongo you're either or have to do both. So scaling works a bit better. The admin tooling for rethink is better than anything I've really used in non-sql databases. And frankly even better than db admin tools, including sql based ones.

It's just a really great, stable database with really good scaling for the majority of use cases.
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Clearly you are implying exactly Condoleezza Rice, but if you look at the other companies she is a board member/advisor for you find a diverse groups of companies. It makes sense for someone who wants to stay current with the latest in business to seek a diverse portfolio of companies to be a part of.

One board member being formerly involved in politics doesn't strike me as valid the way you are comparing it to Theranos.

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/condoleezza-rice/advisory-...
That really wasn't the point.
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What's the datasets' license? Public Domain?
One of a few cases when "bitch" is completely justified. She endangered people's lives because of her greed.
Strong desire is not force, even when it's really really really really really really strong. No number of attempts at this redefinition will succeed.
MIT! https://github.com/udacity/self-driving-car/blob/master/Lice...
I've been working on a Clojure RethinkDB driver for about a year now, and I've always been incredibly impressed with the Rethink team. Their openness, friendliness, and helpfulness when asking questions has always been outstanding. You'll be sorely missed all.
Agreed that it'd be interesting to try to figure out what explains those cycles and steps. Recessions in general? Would be interesting to see what correlated with those points in time.
I wish RethinkDB had published a performance benchmark against Hadoop. It'd be enough to show the world how ahead of its times RethinkDB is.

I also wish I knew what RethinkDB's investors are thinking.
We all have our standards. If I come to your house and there's trash on the lawn I won't leave with a good impression. For me that shows lack of management / organization. It's not like they can't afford it.
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Yeah, no need to post patch releases I think unless there is a big RCE (Remote Code Execution) in them.

BTW In other news we just published https://about.gitlab.com/2016/10/03/yc-application-office-ho...
Either broken again or maybe you hit a cache.
I used to hold this opinion, but my experience with academic research changed my mind. Much of the scientific knowledge we have is passed from generation to generation by mentoring. The amount of knowledge is so vast, and our means of searching the written literature for relevant facts so poor, that when I want to learn something or solve a specific problem there is no substitute for a discussion with an expert in the field.

The core problem is that human communication is very difficult. It becomes even more difficult when we try to communicate ideas without interaction, as we do when writing a book and expect someone to read and understand it. If I read a paper and I can't understand a sentence, it might take me days to figure out what's going on by myself, whereas asking an expert might yield an answer in less than an hour (sometimes minutes). The difference is really orders of magnitude.

There are whole fields that have effectively died because no one works on them any more. That knowledge doesn't live in anyone's mind. All the literature is there, but actually acquiring that knowledge by reading the literature is incredibly challenging and time consuming.

I have come to believe that the main purpose of hiring scientists in academia is to keep knowledge alive and have it passed on to future generations. Advancing research is of secondary importance. In fact I would say that most new research I see probably has no intrinsic value. I include my own research in this category. We have researchers solving esoteric problems of no value to anyone besides their own personal entertainment. Except, working on such research keeps our neurons firing and keeps knowledge alive. It is a well known phenomenon that taking a break from research very quickly leads to a sort of decay of memory. Our learned ideas and the connections between them wither away without constant reinforcement. In order to keep knowledge alive we have to engage in research, even if it seems pointless.
It is hard to tell. I am wondering the same thing after having massively invested in building code on top of RethinkDB. I am not optimistic at all. At a minimum I wish Slava had announced a plan to relicense under BSD or Apache. This is the moment when he could do it and he hasn't.
It's bizarre; the same people who will happily state they enjoy drinking will be viciously opposed to the enjoyment of other drugs.
Time to rethink RethinkDB.
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Pass. I will say that I saw features in webOS that took a long time to roll out to Android and iOS.
You make a very important point with regards to manufacturing providing jobs for both high and low skill workers. I would add that it can also be a very good way to go from being a low skill worker to becoming a high skill worker on the job, meaning that you are being paid while improving your skills. If you're already poor and don't have any particular skills, it can be extremely difficult to improve upon your situation while trying to make enough money to survive. Many times additional schooling, either at the college/university or trade school/community college level, are out of reach, or at least made much more difficult, once you've already worked a 40-50 hour week.

I work as a technician in aerospace and when I started I had zero experience in this type of manufacturing environment. If I hadn't gotten the opportunity to improve upon my skills while on the job I would most likely still be stuck in a much lower paid and less satisfactory low end retail or service job.
RTFA. It is specifically talking about people who are choosing not to work.
Yes. That would be a start.

The downvotes are comical. Never seen so much sympathy for people who defraud investors and put healthcare at risk.
There will be a blind test set for the challenge itself! Including a public leaderboard. We are asking the world to compete on building the best vision based network for predictive steering.
Doesn't make the entire city shitty, but it's not excusable either. There are much poorer cities (in relative poor countries) that don't have that problem. Also, the fact that you're defensive about this gives us a clue as to why the problem persists.
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So, maybe we should find a way to develop good technology that doesn't involve for-profit companies?
How can AI software improve your business and / or its sales?
I'm here as a core contributor to the project and will be answering questions as well (in between making cable extensions for our lidar units).
Regarding rapid change, I've just come off 90 minutes of troubleshooting, whose end result was "upgrade npm to latest". I've never before used a package manager which had to be so often upgraded to solve issues.
I've always found that to be a perverse incentive model. I don't know how to do any better though. Maybe shaming companies that use OS projects heavily into donating? Not really sure how to scale that either.
Leaders (or at least those who perceive themselves to be) rarely have a need to attack those who are underneath them.
Source code for the OpenGL terrain renderer demo
https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/commit/2cfc76a754ede7... :(
D's binaries still aren't small[0], what with including the entire prelude without code elimination.

Sure, they seem tiny alongside Electron, but a giant doesn't look big next to Jupiter.

Nim competes in the same space, and seems to hit this problem a whole lot nicer. [1]

[0] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/yhcopkgdkhclbkfpisut@forum.dla...

[1] https://hookrace.net/blog/nim-binary-size/
Very sad to know that RethinkDB is shutting down. This was one company that I wanted to see being successful! A great tech team taking on a hard technical problem. Even if they are closing down, I hope they have changed the landscape.

Also having followed Slava for a sometime, nothing but respect and admiration for him!
"Formerly involved in politics" hardly scratches the surface of what Rice is. Rice got on national television and told America that Iraq had nuclear weapons. Rice was also instrumental in leading the CIA to torture of certain detainees. Rice should be on trial at the Hague, not collecting honoraria for sitting on corporate boards.
very interesting data! It would be even better if we could see the "Active population"(18 to 65)
Looking at the 20+ charts:

Back in the 50s, only ~30% of women used to work. Since 1950 it now went up by 27 points. (31% -> 58%). In the meantime men employment went down of 17 points (88% -> 71%).

So overall for the population, we went to 59.5% ((88+31)/2) of the population working (Assuming as many men as women) to 64.5%((71+58)/2) of the population working. Where is the 'quiet catastrophe'?

Compared to 1950, 5% more of the current population is now working. Shouldn't the author feel happy about the gain of "meaning, self-esteem and masculinity" of those 5%?