skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as transhumanism - that's a philosophy.

True, but there are tangible aspects to it that don't require you to be onboard with the philosophy. Brain computer interfaces, mechanical assistance etc... have plenty of uses that don't require the philosophical aspect, like helping paraplegics and the elderly.

Also, going there is relatively cheap, so why not go?

It's not relatively cheap. What do we do after we get to Mars? Go to Jupiter, venus etc? Ok great, now you need to build systems with life support capabilities that allow you to not age out on the way - so add that to the cost? What's the long term goal here? If the goal is to just drive around the universe then the human animal is one of the worst systems to do that as the life support needed is excessive.

If you look at the current state of funding for AGI or Genetics, Robotics and Nanotechnology (GNR) then it's basically nothing in comparison to what we have or are planning on spending on space. Despite what people say it is a fixed pie (on the timeline for any human use of outcomes) both on the private and public side in any practical timeline. So funding for space practically does crowd-out funding for AGI and GNR.

I'm all for space exploration, but not right now with squishy humans.

The "problems" that the space exploration people claim to be solving around humanity will not actually yield results if all we're doing is taking our problems elsewhere - because our problems are baked into our biology. Climate change, resource allocation etc... are all human problems. Man made existential risks are just moved, not eliminated by being a "multi-planetary" species. I also argue that natural existential risks are not solved, just again moved - at crazy high costs. An ELE on Mars is just as likely as it is here on earth, only we have fallback systems and can at least breathe here without energy inputs. The earth is still more habitable after an ELE asteroid than it is on Mars today.

Humans were made on earth for the earth environment. We need to actually change "form" if we are going to explore the universe in any meaningful way - if nothing else because of the time involved in transport.
Countering your anecdotal evidence with some of my own: it works fine for many, many cats. Even if the success rate is <100%, it's worth doing.
Exactly. Cats make bad pets. And I say this as an owner of two cats. One of our cats loves people and is very happy to be our pet, the other one, not so much. We feel bad for him and let him go out on our patio as a very modest way to feed his needs. It does help, but he really would prefer to be free.

My wife and I have decided no more cats going forward.
... but Elon has better video simulations.
Yes exactly, there is nothing "unfortunate" about the implications of those studies. Also thanks for taking the time to statistically prove "Jessica" is a girl's name for some reason.
Note 4 user here. Not sure what to do when this one dies. The pen is a great feature that hugely expands the uses of the device. I hope Samsung doesn't feel the need to stop producing phones with a pen.
If it is a paywalled article in a journal, just submit the sci-hub link.
The version of Docker on the OS right now is 1.10 so the ram footprint of the OS is fairly small. The team is all asleep (being in Berlin and whatnot), but I'd estimate about 50mb is a decent approximation. We're working on getting a newer Docker but its RAM footprint is one of our concerns, though we do have ways forward.

The number of containers is kinda a red herring for a couple reasons. For one, you can make a trivial container and launch as many containers as you like, it really depends on what's in them. For another, embedded devices don't usually need hundreds of containers, they run payloads that are either single-container, or look a lot more like a docker-compose file with a few microservices.
I liked Visual Studio Code but ditched it because it created .vscode folders all over my filesystem... is there a way to turn that off?
I mean I understand the intent but it turns npm into basically a dumb pipe / just infrastructure. Every business that gets reduced to that struggles to get out of that space and expand.

Granted it's far too early to write npm off. But with how slow they've moved over the years I'm unconvinced that yarn won't take over the space unless it runs into some bad problems. Npm 3 and its launch was an absolute mess and, ultimately, it's almost just a package managing tool. I am unconvinced that breaking changes is much of an issue if at all for them. They could abandon shrinkwrap into a better system and I think everyone would be happy for it; no need to keep propping up that awful system.
I'm quite happy with my Samsung TV - picture quality is great.

The remote is a terrible piece of shit, and I disabled the "Smart" TV features the moment that thing showed be a goddamn ad, but as a front end for my Apple TV/Playstation 4 it's quite good.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, correct. Some theory that has not been tested, however, is equally pointless. Unfortunately we're opertating in a space here where it's more an economy of attention than hard scientific discourse which is very hard to attain in that field. You seem on the right track, though.
I used Atom for over a year then switched to Sublime Text because of Atom's inability to open large files and because of its slowness when doing things like highlighting as you type while using Find in a large file.

I think the problem is simply that their stack handicaps them severely in this respect. I need my text editor to be able to handle large files and to be extremely fast.
on a related note

http://nautil.us/blog/why-blind-people-are-better-at-math

It seems that I'm better at doing math in my head than most people. I've wondered whether that might be related to aphantasia.
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It's easy. Assuming you've got $15k+ to burn you can take a nice cruise there.

http://www.nationalgeographicexpeditions.com/expeditions/ant...
Especially problematic as things turn up in search results, so you click on them, then realize it's a build file and you can go get a coffee
Fortran?
maybe instead of going after the companies (who might feel the need to get some tangible benefit) you can search linkedin for employees at some of the co's that the 2 students admire. perhaps a person may simply enjoy the benefit of helping someone.
This isn't my main account as I don't want to expose who I am for fear of being fired.

I work for a company that is US based and live in the US, the CEO wrote a letter of resignation for me back in August of 2015 and told me I had to sign it and would be hired back on as a contractor and tried to feed me a line of lies about how this will benefit me financially. He didn't increase my wages, cut my insurance benefits, still tries to treat me as if I'm an employee and he still reaps the benefits of not paying any payroll taxes, can fire me without cause, no unemployment, etc.

Sorry, today is a really bad day and I just had to vent.
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Where are the videos stored?
What does a user need to view a video?
I checked that last night, actually. A traceroute showed packets winding their way through comcast's network, hitting google's, and then vanishing. Whatever the problem was, it's been fixed. The moral of the story is to never rely on third-party assets, especially for synchronous stylesheets that block the browser from even parsing the rest of the page.
Can you expand a little more on how your wife works smarter? I'm always looking for ways to improve, so maybe her example could help me. :)
maybe it's easier to be existential over essential with Myers-Briggs style systems? less rooted in the stars, though i guess overall humanity is now in a position to be getting smart about mixing and matching which references and metaphors work and which don't, depending on context. all abstractions are leaky, though it's easier with some to frame a flow of change.

e.g. later Wittgenstein, process relational, integral theory, chaos magic
I think the biggest shared threat is the ability to punch holes in firewalls with upnp. That and the fact that they're running ancient unpatched software stacks.
Sue the importers then, and/or file ITC complaints.
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Regarding selection, a lot of these selection decisions are made before people have any experience with actual real world IT.

A mother who thinks that programming isn't something for her girls in high school does damage that no amount of work at making things friendlier later on can repair.

I think it's counterproductive to associate selection exclusively or even strongly with IT culture specifically. It lets wider culture off the hook.
People have lived in remote, desolate outposts on Earth for extended periods of time for a wide variety of reasons (military, science, etc). And that was without (basically) unlimited media to keep them from complete boredom.
No, it really doesn't. That's what the world "any" means. There is no possible valid other way to read it. It's like saying "2 plus 2 is undefined, because if you interpret plus in a strict way the question is undefined".
Fantastic read! Thanks.
The market for data visualization tools is crowded and has gotten very competitive in the past year.
Specifically, how does Cluvio compare to Microsoft PowerBI? That also (already) has support for R, supports many more data sources, seems to be more polished/mature, and is a lot less expensive, it even has a free desktop version.
I'm always excited when alternatives to the resume work. Glad it did for you.

Did you happen to post about this anywhere (on a blog maybe?). I'd love to see the narrative version and hopefully learn a thing or two.
All, but not any, and in fact none.
What's the potential for a class action suit here? Should they have issued an official recall in September when they started issuing replacements.
You can always snapshot and keep track of state as you go (a little bit tricky with Spark, though). We use spot instances for training we know is not vital (as in, has to be done, but rather run it twice and save money anyway that run it for sure). Also, once you know what availability specific instances have you can always choose better (i.e. maybe c3.xlarge is slightly more expensive as spot than large, you can do with large... but xlarge has almost no shutdowns)
Brand damage? 13-year-old kids are getting burned by these phones. Airplanes have been evacuated due to these phones. This is not a media overreaction.
I worked with NASA for a few years. It made me a cynic about a lot of things. You have some people there who are brilliant and very excited about space. You also have people there who are completely incompetent but will be able to retire in their position in 30 years as long as they don't commit a HR violation.

NIH is a serious problem in all of the NASA centers.
people are complex creatures and I can't honestly get on board with such a "no true scotsman" argument that conveniently simplifies things.
> the community would either stop it from happening or continue with a forked version

Would they, though? If Yarn turns out to be the better tool that doesn't change the way they work (beyond solving some pain points) then would they even care? Facebook could even offload the hosting to some open source group like Apache.

It's purely anecdotal but a lot of people I have worked with would love to see an alternative to npm. It's just slow and the features it gives to authors is pretty limited (I want better metrics, please!). I'm not even sure I would call it sketchy, it would just simply be phasing out something deprecated (I'm not talking about a swift take over more like a slowly-boiling-the-frog-in-the-water takeover).

It's only my opinion and if Facebook really doesn't want that to happen then I guess it won't but it's pretty easy to imagine it, IMO.
You can use PocketSphinx to turn voice into text with a little training... and then Tensorflow that text into a set of commands.

Easy peasy. (Not really, but for an in-home piece of software, it doesn't seem too bad.)
"No free press" is a bit of an overstatement. There is still a comparatively free press in the RF -- but it's been successfully marginalized. And that's precisely the approach -- marginalizing dissenting voices, rather than automatically banning them (in all but extreme cases) which characterizes Putin's neototalitarian style.

Because you just don't need to ban dissenting voices, when your propaganda is successful enough.

And BTW, popular support for Putin really is quite genuine. To a point where he almost doesn't need to fix elections (it just makes him feel a bit "safer") or manipulate the press. This may not much much sense in the West, but it's the way things are, nonetheless.
If you mean "decide" as in force them to take it, then yes I would be surprised. In my experience, even the high achieving parents didn't force them to take specific classes. They put pressure on their kids (both genders equally, tiger mom does not care about gender roles) to take STEM AP classes in general instead of specific ones. Those students decide which STEM AP classes to take (except for Calc which parents stressed more).

This was before knowledge of comp sci salaries have gone mainstream (before 2012), although it's still a relevant, anecdotal reflection on the backgrounds of current software engineers.

My AP comp sci class was actually composed of non-high achieving people. AP comp sci was the only AP class many of the students took. The high achieving students didn't take AP comp sci for whatever reason.

I think AP comp sci was actually considered lower status/prestige compared to the sciences Physics/Chem/Bio among the high achieving students.
I'm arguing nothing of the sort, only that the sheer number of people enjoying and fulfilling fantasies of violence and destruction are indicative of deep instinctual human tendencies.

Most people would not enjoy child rape simulator 3000 because most people do not have embedded instincts to do such things. Some people, however, may enjoy CR3000, and I would venture to guess that there is an underlying reason (i.e. pedophilia).
Last i read the zombie was still stumbling about...
Turing test is relatively easy to pass if you creatively design your program to roleplay an irrational character. See this program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Goostman

Obviously such programs, while being works of art, are not interesting from AI/Machine Learning point of view.
First and foremost we had to focus on what made sense for our business. Initially we were trying to grow super fast without looking at our bottom line. After a lot of introspection we decided what made sense for our business is to grow (still fast) but focus on getting to profitability - for us this meant we shouldn't be "buying" customers who will use us once and never come back. Healthy, sustainable growth made sense for us.

Ultimately you'll need to partner with investors who align with your vision and that's what we did.
Question: it seems there is a lot of overlap between the technology required for space exploration and the technology needed for ICBMs. To what extent was space exploration in the Mercury-Apollo missions a way to make a huge investment in ICBM technology palatable to the public? Does anyone know good documentaries that discuss this?

(Put it another way: how important was R&D done in the name of human space exploration to the development of ICBM capabilities?)
Anyone willing to ride a self driving car doesn't value his life
> no problems

Absolute and utter hogwash.

I don't even need to get into versioning to make this argument but I'll exclude it for clarity's sake. Simple scenario:

root -> A
root -> B
root -> C
A -> B
B -> C

What folder structure is created?

root/node_modules/A/node_modules/B/node_modules/C
root/node_modules/B/node_modules/C
root/node_modules/C

Symlink that all you want, how is it in any way whatsoever thoughtful and elegant? It's not a real solution by any stretch of the imagination. Myriads of pre-existing systems that correctly deal with this scenario existed at the time that NPM was concoted. Ignored. Considering that node is touted as a cross-platform solution, how well does version@3 deal with filesystems that don't support symlinks? I've run into this: not at all.

NPM version@3 could not be further from the ethos of "engineering." It's an outright hack, and it quickly betrays its limitations. It could have been far simpler, far more considerate of pre-existing wisdom.
Wow! Did you even read my comment? I was saying that opposite of that!
Sorry, "Nazis" should be replaced by "Germans" here, as the German re-armament started already before Nazis were actually in power -- the Soviet-German military co-operation started after the Rapallo treaty of 1922 and waned after 1932, to be reconciled at the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

However, it is quite well documented that the German re-armament, forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles, was largely made possible by this co-operation with USSR. It provided grounds for training armored forces in Soviet Union, allowed building and testing chemical weapons in Soviet test sites under German leadership, and had German aircraft tested in the USSR. The sources I read before this were not in English but after a quick Google one could start with e.g. http://www.feldgrau.com/ger-sov.html

It looks like "The Roots for Blitzkrieg" is an English presentation that I should read myself (thanks to prompting the search).
https://www.amazon.com/Roots-Blitzkrieg-Seeckt-German-Milita...

The Germans visiting Soviet extermination camps is documented at least in "Kremlin kellot" ("The bells of the Kremlin") by Arvo Poika Tuominen (a Finnish Communist who worked for Komintern in 1933-1939 and spent quite some time observing the camps at the Baltic-White Sea Canal works and Solovki prison.) It's a pretty chilling read; the canal works were where the basic research for extermination via forced labour was done.

Solzhenitsyn then later provided a more well-known description of the GULAG.
Can you show how, say, a hostility to uneducated Latin Americans would bleed over to upper-middle-class Chinese immigrants and their descendants?
I get what you're saying, but it still doesn't make sense. It is obvious that providing bank information will tie your identity to both accounts. That is utterly obvious. Ergo, by "linking" what he is referring to is being personally responsible for the behavior of the other person, even though they have a different name etc., not that Apple would be unable to see the common bank info.
This is an apples and oranges comparison. The changes Reddit instituted under Pao, and the return of spez, were designed to create a platform that can be "remotely controlled." The entire site is being gamed from behind the scenes now.

Oh, wait. No, this IS apples to apples. You're right. Why in the world do they need so many people? I'd say Twitter is directly employing their gamers, and Reddit leaves it to political PAC's.
Nolo Press: "In between the manufacturer and the retailer, there may be any number of wholesalers, suppliers, distributors, or other "middlemen." Each and all are part of the chain of distribution of the defective product, are therefore potentially liable, and should be named as defendants in your defective product lawsuit."

Cloudflare can start by suing a retailer. That's likely to result in the retailer pulling all merchandise from the offending vendor, even before the lawsuit gets very far. (Otherwise, they move to a higher tier of negligence and damages for knowingly allowing the problem to persist.) That will start to get the attention of manufacturers.

See this article.[1]

[1] http://www.techrepublic.com/article/lock-it-down-ddos-attack...
Tested both Atom and VSC for a couple of months before going back to Sublime Text. They're both really nice, but nothing beats Sublime's speed and customization.
Do you know that they use Emscripten? SketchUp is using Ruby, so it may well be a rewrite in JS.
The number of women in pornography/sex work is likely dwarfed by the number of construction workers.

I'll grant you there's much less official statistics on this, so the best I found is that there are 1 million prostitutes in the USA, but 6.6 million construction workers.

Due to that, numerically, there will be more deaths in construction work even if you are 6x more likely to die as a prostitute. Thus if construction is male dominated, and prostitution is female dominated... then you'll simply see more male deaths per year than female deaths.
On many subreddits, paywalled articles are prefixed "[Paywall]". I think that's a better option than banning it altogether.
Try disbling Javascript, I disabled it by default and the site is really fast for me and I can read the document just fine. I enabled JS and have to agree that now it is pretty sluggish.
He didn't call out ULA or any private company. It gets tricky to call out specific companies in a broad statement like this one.
I use WebStorm for projects ( mainly TypeScript ) and Sublime Text for cases where I need to open huge files.

WebStorm is doing pretty well, except that I don't like the customization options ( they are 1/10 compared to Atom / Sublime ).

But kudos for Atom team, because they brought Electron, which is a huge game-changer.
I'm not sure how that would help the problem. When you're talking about thousands or more devices, counterattacking them individually wouldn't be feasible.

Also I imagine many botnet owners secure the devices they take over so that others can't steal them for their own botnet.
True, I recall now that cars automatically turn on hazard flashers and some attempt to connect to OnStar and the like. IMO, that should all be a separate inertial sensor...
It's also incredibly valuable that we're developing multiple competing solutions to the problem. This means the problem will get solved, one way or the other. I recall multiple prototypes and development projects to replace the shuttle with newer spaceplanes during it's run. NASA would invest a lot of money and research into one design, and then they hit a fundamental roadblock that killed the project. And they were back to square one... the shuttle. Until they had a new idea, and started again.

Additionally, two successful strategies will be far more helpful than one. Consider that when a space shuttle exploded, it shut down the entire US space program for a lengthy span (sometimes years) while everything was reevaluated, refit, and recertified. When we shut down the shuttle program, we no longer had a viable route to space except through Russia.

If we have two viable craft from two viable contractors to get to space, we're able to rely on a persistent strategy that can weather unexpected events or problems.
Hey, cool site. I work a lot with financial data and decided to poke at this, here are some thoughts / findings:

- It would be nice to be able to look up companies by CIK instead of just ticker.

- You should support share class delimiters in nyse tickers like BRK.B instead of BRKB

- The chart on the first tab is not split adjusted but the chart on the second tab is but it is not called out anywhere. Check CBB to see a recent example.

- The 'stock price' indicator is not in the list of possible indicators but is in the text box by default.

- The 'share price' indicator shows 'no data to display'.

- There is a typo in the terms and conditions for line 7: "netowrking"

Overall this is a nice resource for quickly looking at fundamentals.

edit: formatting
Cannot agree more with this, I've been using Arch for close to 4 years and it's been much more stable (!) Arch is rolling release (!) than Ubuntu has ever been.

I also enjoy pacman a lot more than apt.

Hate that Ubuntu == Linux for many people.