skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
minecraft is about building factories too, if you want, with mods like buildcraft and so on.

its rather amazing, you can even eventually end up building star trek level tech where you order items out of a computer that are stored digitally.

if you haven't tried it, check out one of the modpacks like Feed The Beast, or similar, set up a server play with a few friends.

best gaming experience I've ever had.

I programmed an in game robot with LUA to build hedge mazes, and 3d mazes

http://i.imgur.com/M6QcpKU.png

http://i.imgur.com/9VSlLxc.png

a messy factory:
http://i.imgur.com/VUi07P7.png
Okay. Your comment made me think otherwise. Sorry...
Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for Computation [pdf]
How much of the problem is actually the way (big) pharma conducts research? ( I know that I am over simplifying and dozens of startups are focused on improving the way research is done)

From a manf process standpoint, there are cheaper ways to create these compounds. Generic drug manufacturers have proved that ignoring the cost of research, the drug itself costs next to nothing to make, market and sell.

From an economics standpoint, healthcare costs are a significant part of GDP. In an ideal model if all research is funded directly via government grants and the key research is licensed through a free licensing - It should create a very competitive drug cost model.For a healthcare practice standpoint, legislation can really help. Stripping down some of the malpractice laws are a good starting point.

Additionally, the monopoly on medical education should be broken - Making medical education a national priority is a key step. We also need to make sure, that doctors are not the only healthcare providers. Enabling entrepreneurship among non doctor(nurses, mid wives etc) medical practioners can increase the market supply.

These 2 actions in theory should create more doctors and reduce the cost of practicing medicine.
> PayPal doesn't want its sellers to basically say "please use any of these other ten methods of payment, but as a last resort if you have to use PayPal fine I guess you can."

If they don't want people to do that then they can offer a quality of service that does not cause people to disparage them.

What I really don't understand is, why can't PayPal just fix what everyone hates about it?
Huh, interesting to see a lot of people here coming out as apparently pro-troll. Or at least troll-neutral.

There are a lot of problems with certain modes of discourse in the US, but is anyone here willing to argue that trolling has possibly positive transformative benefits, similar to political satire?

If so, I'd like to see that argument made coherently, as I have yet to hear it. If not, then any "victim-blaming" really should be called out as at least a red herring.

IMHO, "political correctness" is not the problem, it is a symptom. Trolling, to me, just aggravates the actual problem: deep socioeconomic/racial/sexual inequities.
You are right, I did not correctly word what I wanted to say. I was not thinking about repeated messages, I was only thinking about subsets of all possible messages. Say you are hashing HTML documents, then all your inputs will be in the subspace having <!DOCTYPE html><html as first characters but that information will be erased by the hash function.
I just love 90s computer scene archive footages like this. Even though I was too young, I appreciate where we were then and where we are now.
There are volumes written on this subject, though Taleb's "Dynamic Hedging" is as good an introduction as any. The short explanation is that, in theory, the payoff of any vanilla option can be replicated by trading the underlying asset. For a while, quite a long while even, this kind of trading can look profitable. There are many variations on this, such as trade frequency and holding interval, but in the very end you realize you are being compensated for an asymmetric risk. That is the risk of sudden changes of price while you happen to have a position open, among many other risks. I would say that 99% of the "newly discovered" profitable systems I have seen over the last 20 years were unwittingly replicating a short vanilla or exotic option without understanding the risk.
Largest issue with privacy is that in my experience generally speaking that the average person does not see privacy as a priority, or worse, questions the need for it.
This story was interesting: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37735369

I don't see how to stop it though. For areas of the world with few economic opportunities, and little resources to chase you...the risk/reward profile is just too tempting.
the map in factorio isn't very big....

or does it grow or something?
Infants usually have individuals called "guardians" who we accept as responsible for their healthcare.

The ones that don't probably have bigger problems than access to healthcare.
Did you mean !FUN! ?
Sounds an awful lot like modded MC to me...

Go check out the Feed The Beast modpack or something of that sort for a taste of it.
I can sign into NC with a PIA VPN no problem.
Bitcoin is secured by relatively simple algorithms, mostly relying on the SHA-256 hash. If this is broken, the internet has far bigger problems than bitcoin becoming worthless.
I don't think it raises any questions about strawmen descriptors of the "modern left" at all. The pearl-clutching over "ess jay doublyous" far outweigh any impact they have in real life.
I have some code for extracting PDF annotations into markdown or org-mode: https://github.com/malb/emacs.d/blob/master/malb.org#pdf-vie...
If you went back in time - say, 20 or 25 years ago - and you picked up a progressive, left leaning magazine - say, adbusters or mother jones - you would very regularly read warnings about the manufactured needs of medicine and healthcare and pharmaceuticals.

Barely an issue of such a periodical could pass without dire warnings of a future in which big pharma and insurance interests would convince us, through advertising, that we were foremost consumers of "healthcare".

What happened ?

The progressive left is now fully, fervently convinced that "healthcare" is a basic priority of human life. It is a rampant consumerism that reaches far beyond - and profoundly deeper - than the fears that good people have always had.

It didn't have to be this way.
People confuse "the economy" with certain popular commodities, such as physical paper cash or the concept of the dollar.

In practice extreme inequality of commodities remove those commodities from the general purpose commodity market. Do you buy food with baseball cards? Do you pay the rent with beanie babies? Is your 401K in collectible Elvis plates?

Or lets look at it from top down, instead. Currently the marketplace for fine art is irrelevant to the general population. Lets say a Picasso sells for $100M in a trade between two billionaires. Frankly no one on the planet cares. Picasso's are no longer an economically relevant commodity currency. Who in America owns more than $100M of confederate money? Some coin collectors might know, but its not worth as much as you'd think.

This is where the dollar, or perhaps currency as a concept, is inevitably heading. Eventually someone in America will collect all of what we call money in 2017, one guy will have all the money, and frankly it won't matter because we'll be living day to day trading HN Karma or whuffie or bitcoins or ... The point I'm making is hyperconcentration of wealth doesn't mean the death of the economy it means the death of that form of wealth.

Is collectible Dale Earnhardt memorabilia still wealth? And if it died as wealth does it matter to you today (assuming you weren't speculating in that market?)
Regex: badly needs fuzzing
But it isn't. It is the root of their problem, making it exactly the point.

You're right, though, in the sense that the advice won't be followed. It's too obvious and not convoluted enough to make sense to businesspeople
Neither neovim's or vim's ecosystem is primarily (or even significantly) Lisp, though.

A fully Lisp ecosystem is one of emacs' greatest attractions, and one that neither vim nor neovim is likely to ever achieve.
If dogs don't love us in the deepest way available to a mammalian neural architecture, then people don't either.
Couldn't somebody make a phone company with better security? It seems stories about accounts being stolen via the phone company as weak link have been around for several years now.
A $60 hardware wallet does a good job protecting larger amounts.
It's not stupid, it is logic and not just emotional arousal, and it is actually fairly clean argumentation. The issue isn't just the American Revolution. It's the French Resistance. It's protecting the ability to prevent the Federal government from imposing a tyranny today. (The person you're talking to may feel there is no such danger. Ask them how they would feel if Hillary had won.)
I kinda disagree with your choice of the phrase "poor graphics". This is kinda like say that Minecraft graphics are poor. The truth is, these games utilize exactly the graphics they use for a reason. DF is a throwback to Roguelike games and Minecraft sorta became the defacto standard for voxel construction. Now maybe we could agree that these visually abstracted styles are no everyone's cup of tea. The beauty of this tradeoff is that it allows a small development team (or developer) to focus on gameplay without sinking significant time into making things look good and perform well.
Reposting my comment on the first HN submission of this page

"The claims made in this interview are extremely suspect, it just not make sense. Absolutely no relevant details are included. The developer claims he was able to built an AI trading strategy that is profitable 95% of the time. No technical details about the strategy or platform for trading is provided. A few trading buzzwords thrown in a few places. The rest of the interview is platitudes and inspirational hacker talk

I think IndieHackers needs to investigate the claims and be provided proof, otherwise this appears to be a fake project for the developer's own publicity. If IndieHackers are fine with that, I will stop visiting as I cannot trust that the content is not just shallow, exaggerated claims to raise peoples profiles."

After expressing my concerns directly to IndieHackers, the interview was changed in multiple places to flesh out a number of the spurious claims which I had criticised.

Without further details or some proof from the developer, this piece stinks. Taking into account the rest of the interview which contains stereotypical inspirational hacker talk, the whole thing feels like a badly done promotional bit for SV style status.

If I am wrong, I will apologise and the developer is going to be a multimillionaire very, very quickly. Until there is more details, I am going to be totally sceptical of IndieHacker interviews going forward. Which is a shame as I think IndieHackers is a great site. How can I trust that the other submissions are not baseless, PR pieces?
Not sure that's the best analogy.
Also:

- print a letter on a laser printer, drop it off at any USPS pickup box. No return address. Strong 4th amendment protections

- write in a journal with a pen
I see two problems, one is that consumers don't buy health insurance, their employers do. So the insurance company that is willing to deny legitimate claims and kick sick people off its rolls in order to lower its costs will win.

The bigger issue is that insurance is the wrong business model. Insurance is supposed to protect against a catastrophic risk, like a car crash or an earthquake, but we use health insurance in this country to cover routine and ongoing care. Whether there even is a "business model" to treat people is debatable. Sick people as a group tend to earn less than the healthy.
As parent said:

> You can be yourself in many different ways, one "persona" per topical forum. No one would know who you are or care about your sex, race or political orientation.

Use pseudonyms! Be cautious about what you post online. There are so few sites that require your real identity that letting it 'slip' should not even be a possibility.

There is no 'my online history', but 'nick1 online history', 'nick2 online history' etc.
Yes, in my relative's case (being peds) it is Medicaid.

It's a really frustrating thing, as a physician you want to treat everyone, but accepting Medicare and Medicaid can really hurt the operation of your business.
Speaking of needless complexity and bloat, I don't know why you stop at nvi and don't just use ed.
Cassandra had a minor bug with timestamps which was fixed relatively fast and now it passes Jepsen fully. There were also a few implementation issues around LWT (Paxos) but at that time Paxos was very new. There were no architectural / fundamental changes needed to correct these issues. Also, even before fixing, Cassandra was losing only a tiny fraction of data than Mongo was losing. So, yes, this is what I call "far better", even if not initially perfect.
"Proprietary" technical details? He doesn't even cite the kind of network he's using. This is an ad for him as a freelancer (I doubt the ad revenue hurts him either).
Lob (YC S13) Is Hiring a User Acquisition Manager
Great, now we're exhorting US government to snoop on online comments.
>Because every doctors visit would cost money

Yes, services and goods procured, even necessary services and goods like food, clothing and housing, cost money.

If you're arguing that no life necessities should cost money, I'm afraid you're not going to get anywhere with the non-socialist crowd. Since most Americans are non-socialist, this is not a politically tenable position. Do you have an objection that isn't "it should cost literally no money"?
(For those who may not be familiar: https://www.pacifict.com/Story/)
I know hindsight is 20/20, but with a wallet that valuable, it would have been prudent to split that into smaller encrypted wallets of, say, $1000 apiece, and only mount what was necessary (partition the external HD).
>blind reliance on algorithms can be catastrophic.

And in other places, basic algorithms smash human judgement:

https://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Versus-Statistical-Predictio...
Please come to Ohio and inject some sanity to this world.

It's actually a decent place for technology workers: the jobs and schools are good and it offers a decent standard of living at a low cost.
There are a wide variety of routine (STD tests, birth control pills) and completely predictable (pregnancy) services where the ACA explicitly prohibits copays.

I've been told Singapore's forced savings + cat coverage plans are reasonably close to this, however. Hardly surprising given how well Singapore tends to govern.

But your broader point (or perhaps my steelman of it) that high copays are not incompatible with socialized medicine is absolutely correct.
Point #2 is what I'm talking about. Any algorithm that is going to make money long term on a large scale has to be inherently unpredictable, which is difficult if it is an algorithm that predicts the future state of the market from past data.

Sure, the world is less than perfect in a lot of ways. In most cases we try and fix it. Why is capitalism the one way where we say "oh well, that's just how things are" ??

Research has demonstrated that barring insider information, random stock picking often outperforms "experts".

I believe the market is fairly efficient, and people who make money are either lucky or are leveraging short term information differentials, which in today's hyper-connected society are going to become increasingly rare (barring insider information, again).
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Last time around, I elected to buy a smaller "dumb" TV, and just sit closer to it. I learned my lesson very early, with LG as my teacher.

If I really had to get a large display, I'd just make it a big computer monitor and add a separate sound setup, or I'd spend the gratuitous extra markup on a commercial "digital signage" display. Either way, I'd probably have to route all TV-related functions through a set-top box with HDMI output, like a DVR, cable/satellite box, or HTPC.
Agreed. Obviously it needs to be expanded. As is often mentioned, Saudi Arabia should be included because of 9/11.

This woman was from Pakistan which suffers terrible internal terrorism problems. While the government of Pakistan is great, there is obviously a terrorism problem in that country. It seems like perhaps that would be grounds to make Pakistan another possible 'country of concern'.
Currently that police officer is motivated by money. That money comes from taxes collected by siphoning off a bit of value every time value changes hands. How do you continue motivating that police officer? Or the engineers/technicians operating the free-electricity boxes?
Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API
Billionaires say they’ll end disease: evolution says otherwise
It's much more complicated than that. Sales in the US where they can charge more are what actually offer pharma companies good ROI. Effectively the US is subsidizing R&D for the rest of the world.
Merriam Webster updates tech list–and you will believe which ones were added
Out of curiosity how would your "Social Score" suggestion differ from Klout?
"For the initial project, Watsi will fund primary healthcare for a community in the developing world and build a platform to run the system transparently."

Start with Tuskegee, Alabama, poorest town in the United States.
IIUC Juju networking and a couple of managers.
Changed my user account to local just now. Good thing I always assumed this computer is a sieve. I still have a hard time believing every single modern Windows OS is essentially intentionally backdoored. That's just completely, incredibly unacceptable.
Some of us are already using MongoDB and are not so keen on replacing it.
If you had created something that works for you, would you sell out all the details by spreading it on a public blog?
That's too bad. I quite liked fleet for its simplicity, but maybe it is time to spend more time with Kubernetes.

Just after finishing a prototype Redis Cluster pseudo-PaaS built on fleet makes it a bit of a gut punch though.
That's the simplest way to do it, sure. Not the best, the most efficient, or really workable, but simple.
That and curiosity.
Software Project Rescue
Never attach a cold wallet to an online machine. Sign transactions offline and transfer them to an online machine for uploading.
Ah but in 2008 these news articles were still written by humans :-)
>print a letter on a laser printer

but be careful, just for a case:

https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d...
I am going to coin the term "Bitcoin Rodeo".

It refers to the fact that people get rich from bitcoin if they don't fall off their bull by:

Losing their coins e.g. forgetting a password, throwing away a laptop.

Having their coins hacked from their computer by a Trojan or the mentioned attack.

An exchange loses them or shuts down.

Due to greed you wait it out and bitcoin plummets to zero

Due to greed day trade your stash into the ground.

Due to fear sold your 1000 btc at 10$ each back in the day.

Etc.
Those who are privacy conscious must first take the step towards self-hosting. They are many interesting approaches that are trying to make self-hosting practical. They make it trivial to run your own mail server, keep your contacts/calendar/files/notes. Why trust yet another mail/cloud company (yahoo, anyone?)? There are promising existing projects out there (like cloudron.io, sandstorm.io, yunohost). Go try them out today. The projects are open source and have issue trackers where you can contribute even if you are not a developer. Such solutions will empower the average person in the future.
I've hit the limit when pulling in all Play services. The key is to only pull in what you will be using. Many tutorials(including one from a third party analytics API) are a bit lazy and just have you import Play in its entirety.
> Also think of the power that would be available if there were some relational table capability (true real MySQL ACID) right inside MongoDB whenever it was needed, if they were the 'same animal', rather than having to use two totally and completely separate DBs

Just use Postgres (or several other options) then? It has all that built right in if it's what you need. But...

> if you need NoSQL and also ACID in an app, which 99% of apps DO NEED, at some point,

...I doubt 99% of apps really need this.

> once an app grows beyond the round-one funding startup-toy phase and MongoDB falls flat in it's RDB capabilities.

Or don't try to force MongoDB to behave like a RDB and you won't hit those problems? I just moved a system from Postgres to MongoDB, and it's running faster on way cheaper hardware now. Not because either database is inherently better than the other, but the use case lined up with mongodb perfectly and the old model was leveraging Postgres really poorly. Eventual consistency is fine, and I can denormalize certain data for faster reads because I know it won't be modified later.
Tail-Risk Analysis in R: Part I
>Universal healthcare is already much more cost effective than fully or semi-privitised health care.

That's not true. Most developed countries have some form of privatized system, falling into your 'semi-privatized' definition. It's more cost-effective.
Sounds great! Is it really that easy to use and click-to-edit?
Wanna know.
Quantum computing doesn't provide speedups for hash algorithms, generally. It breaks public key cryptosystems based on factoring and discrete logs.
Blackberry Goes After Twilio with New SDK
Sad to see so many apologists for bad interface, but I didn't expect any better. "It's an amazing game" and "It's for developers" are not excuses for poor UI.

Complexity is not any more of an excuse than the inconsistent order of arguments or use of underscores in PHP is defensible.

Reminds me of an argument I once had with my brother-in-law, a psychologist, over academic writing. He argued that the obtuse, frequently unreadable style was simply "how they're done." Good writing is simple and logical — every academic would benefit from a semester of journalism, where deliberately bad writing isn't tolerated.
I always found directory navigation to be a pain with TRAMP and even dired. Also, I like to run various commands on remote systems and not just edit files there, so having a native shell open there is very natural for me, and emacs' terminal emulations have been very clunky in my experience and require way too much indirection in keyboard shortcuts on top of tmux and evil which I how I use emacs.
I actually do the same thing with a private Bit Bucket git repository. I have a shell script sync to my Note 3 and use MarkdownX on that device to edit and read.
Ah! The dead of night! When I once had my most meaningful conversations with my loved ones who, alas!, now turn to the sleep they did not before, for some reason we shall not dig into, for there lie dragons!
Part II here: http://www.capitalspectator.com/tail-risk-analysis-in-r-part...
Of course it's the new technology that causes this and not economists running monetary experiments, that keeps wages stagnant. (who would expect the purchasing power of money to drop when increasing the money supply!?)

For the past thousands of years we've seen incredible productivity gains thanks to technology (the wheel, the loom, the steam engine!), and purchasing power always kept increasing across the population.

On the other hand, we've been running this kind of monetary intervention for a very short while, at an accelerating pace, but no way this is causing an increasing pay disparity.

This time it must be the AI.
I have a feeling someone said the same thing 10 or 20 years ago.
> up to 40% of all healthcare funding is wasted on operational inefficiencies, fraud, and ineffective care.

Any system where the consumers, the providers, and the payers are not accountable to each other is never going to operate efficiently.