skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked as a journalist in which my (and many other data journalists') modus operandi was to publish the data. Often because the data was public record anyway. I now work in academia and the mentality is significantly different. Some of it is logistics -- I would say most traditional news organizations do not have the internal incentive or habit to figure out a way to publish data. Whereas with newer organizations, such as 538 [0] and Buzzfeed News [1], the data teams have editors to whom open-source and digital publishing is more the natural way of things.

But in academia, there are also set rules and precautions governing every study. I haven't proposed any research yet but my understanding is that if your study requires collecting data from participants, the Institutional Review Board requires you to be very clear to participants about privacy and confidentiality and that you follow the guidelines to the letter.

Additionally, there are datasets only available to academics that aren't available to non-academics (i.e. journalists), which speaks to the expectation that academics be very mindful about confidentiality promises.

[0] https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data

[1] https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/everything
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It's showing overall user karma, not individual comment karma, so it's still far from reddit. Not so sure it's a good thing, all the same.
An incredible edge case, not an untapped market. And how does your hypothetical scenario work today? Right, some people get to arrive a bit earlier.
Ok, the OPs post wasn't fantastic, but I have to be honest, the logic you're applying here is a little confusing.

If I understand you correctly, you're point is Alan studied Zen Buddhism but didn't take it as the gospel, therefore the original teachings are false. Which doesn't really seem correct to me

I'm by no means an Alan Watts fan, it just seemed like strange reasoning.
All it takes is a loss factor of a few percent, and the entire model breaks down.

This is the same reason that long-range RFID (UHF RFID) never worked for cashierless checkout too. You couldn't ensure 100% coverage. Some tags just couldn't be read --
either due to adversarial tactics (eg. shielding with your body) or material properties (eg. metal) -- and the engineering countermeasures to overcome these challenges made the tags too expensive for low-margin goods.
> All economics and social activities stem from the quest to live forever

This is quite an assertion.

> Think about all religions, they come from the quest to live forever deeply inside human's unconscious

Yeah, I don't agree with this one either.

I have no expectations about this stuff. I suppose I find it all pretty fantastical and I probably will until there's hard evidence all this hype is actually leading somewhere.
Also have you tried enabling precompiled bridging headers? This was added in 3.1 with the goal of speeding up mixed Swift/ObjC builds (by none other than Graydon Hoare), but other than that I don't know much about it.
It's unlikely you'll be able to sell at a reasonable multiple (beyond 1x-2x ARR) unless your buyer thinks they can turn the company around. If you're not willing to double down and figure out how to a) reduce monthly churn to less than 1% and b) grow revenue by at least 5% per month (after churn), you're much better off putting the company in SaaS maintenance mode, eliminating new development, downsizing the company to the bare minimum, and earning $30k per month with a 70%-90%+ profit margin while customers are still happy.
More realistically I think will be genetically selecting super smart babies. Most likely this is already being done today. As it proves to be effective people will get better and better at it until we start genetically selecting and even engineering superminds.
Nonsense. The promise of natural death for ultra billionaires is the only thing protecting them from the guillotine.
In some of my research the participants are young children or are disclosing sensitive social information during the study, so we typically cannot share the data in fine-grained detail. It can be difficult to ensure confidentiality will be maintained for the participants.

I usually do my best to find a subset of variables that can be released in an anonymized form and still capture the true essence of the results and make that available. This isn't always easy to do though depending on the study details.
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I think there were differences around calling .description versus .debugDescription when a type is converted to a String, which had some odd behavior with Optional. I think there was an evolution thread about this but you'll have to Google it yourself since I'm on my phone right now :-)
It's weird. If conservatives don't believe scientists, it's because the conservatives are labelled "morons". Could it be that conservatives just think there's a lot more of this crappy "science" out there, and that a situation like this is the canary in the coal mine?

When presented with examples like this, it's actually _irrational_ to think that there aren't other egregious papers out there. Possibly just a few, but possibly a large number of them.

Thoughts?
I believe that someday, this guy will save us! He is so amazing!
Some of these "benefits" of death are just ridiculous. If you don't like a long life you can always end it. It's not like anyone is going to invent mythology-grade immortality and then chain you to a rock to be tormented by an eagle tearing at your liver.

I don't expect that anti-aging research is going to significantly extend my own lifespan or healthspan. Biology is really complicated. But that doesn't justify sugar-coating age related morbidity and mortality. They are really bad. The only thing worse than death is great pain. Old age deals out both: pain and death. It torments and finally kills you. People trying to defeat death may be delusional about their prospects for success, but they are at least trying to do the best thing humans have tried to do in generations.
You say you want people to enjoy the good things in life, but then criticise people who now desperately want to but don't have time left to do so?

We only call time precious because it is so terribly scarce. If we can make more of it, why shouldn't we?
the relevant part of the code:

function getKarma(userName) {
get('https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/' + userName + '/karma.json', function(karma) {
appendKarma(userName, karma);
});
}
2017 and contributors still need to discuss about coding style =/

If you want to enforce codding style (which is OK) you need to provide developers the tools to ease that process.

Contributing with patches to 15 different projects, using 15 different rules for styling makes it impossible to keep up.

FOSS projects should start using tools like clang-format so developers don't need care if a project use 2/4/6/8 spaces instead of tab. The tool should be able to automatically format the code before committing.

Some projects even use git hooks to compare the commit with auto-generated styling tools to check if it follows the rules.
I am curious what your resistance is to OneDrive. Personally, I try to put as much in there as I can as I frequently switch machines that I am working on. I keep my work code in there as well (Git repo and all) and it's convenient when switching between VMs or when needing to wipe my workstation and start fresh.

I encounter many co-workers though who like to do things "the old way" and just email copies of documents around and then spend time merging them back together instead of sending a link to their OneDrive. Just more files for me to juggle on my computer. No thanks.
http://www.openra.net Is a remastered Red Alert (Command and Conquer) which as well is really fun to play.
Yes. Comment scores, user points and average per comment.

The last was the most useful.
What the hell is Ricky going to do for money now?
This shows everything wrong with IP today. There should be no place for legal bullying. Especially when it's as simple as crushing competitors under litigation costs.
It definitely is, but there are also compounds in marijuana that seem to inhibit cancers (citation needed). From memory, the result is that you can still get lung cancer, but the rate of it is much lower than would be expected.
You can download a 3.1 development snapshot. I'm not involved in preparing the official releases but I'm assuming the Linux 3.1 release will be very close to what is in swift-3.1-branch now.

And all the action these days is on the master branch so if you're on Linux and want to help us squash regressions you should periodically test your codebase with master snapshots.
I didn't realize you worked for Acquia, but I have used your Ansible DevOps repos on Github heavily, thank you for those!

I would be interested in reading your take on this situation, but working for Acquia I guess you may not have complete freedom of speech on the topic.
Suspension of disbelief doesn't make science go better, but science that doesn't get popular support or widespread credibility doesn't get funded as readily, or accepted as quickly, or treated as urgent. And an excess of incredulity can become fear and rejection.

150,000 people die every day. That's bigger than a moderate-sized city. That's not a problem to casually get around to maybe thinking about in the perpetual "a few years from now but really never"; that's a problem we should be devoting a substantial part of our total resources to.
> I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person

I don't judge mania, or schizophrenia. But at what point do you stop trying to separate "the person" from the things they believe and say? He's a schizophrenic, and I can't hold that against him. But a racist, homophobic, antisemitic schizophrenic is just an asshole with a regrettable mental illness.

A quote from the "poor misunderstood" genius:

The IRA beat Sherlock Holmes with the grace of God. Ghandi was a faggot. God
said boys should be taught military things.

Reputation is worth more than gold. Niggers have a reputation -- no fathers. Irish have a reputation. Germans have a reputation. Attacker has the advantage. Jews have
a reputation. God said the French once stood for character. (Code of Chivalry)
Ironic. I guess Jews did, too. Woah! God is boss. Too bad the Jews were
cowards and didn't assassinate NAZI's.
I feel like this article is outlining how to fake a lot of things... It emphasizes rote lines. It feels shallow. However, I think it hints at what it takes to be a good conversationalist: a deep and genuine interest in people. That coupled with a broad knowledge allows you to find what someone is interested in and learn from their perspective while adding some to theirs. This is the core of solid communication and conversation.
Google diving. I got curious as to what the keyboard controller was, so I looked up motherboard pictures and specs and eventually found that it uses an ENE KB910 for the keyboard controller. Searching there for how things were set up was mostly fruitless, until I stumbled upon a russian forum which had a pinout for the KB910 [1]. A few more stumbles and I found a result that stated that Compal was the OEM for the laptop -- it's not uncommon for laptops to be made by a white box maker. From there, a search for the model number brought up multiple sites with the schematics.

[1] http://bit.ly/2ob7YaG Not the actual url, because chrome's history ate that.
It is not the same, but our local Sam's Club has an app that you can scan all items as you go, and pay inside the app. Then as you leave an employee checks the receipt like they do for everyone else anyway. It works great.
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Most of the new warnings in 3.1 were with things that never should have worked in the first place (some stuff with public declarations referencing private typealiases in their type signatures and things like that).

There were also some new warnings added for mixed type arithmetic which is a common source of surprising behavior.

The initialize thing is as far as I understand due to a limitation in the Objective C runtime and overriding initialize in Swift never fully worked in the first place.

If you feel the 3.0 to 3.1 migration was still too painful from a compatibility perspective, it is not too late to file bugs; Swift 4 will still remain compatible with Swift 3 source so we can make further adjustments to the type checker if needed.
4chan's /g/ is especially obsessed with TempleOS and Terry's livestreams; there's typically a /tosg/ thread somewhere on the front page.
Thanks for your input, it makes a lot of sense. However, I'm worried reducing churn to less than 1% is very very hard (I don't know if you've ran a SaaS with 1% churn – It's not as common), and often requires product changes, which may impact overall growth and cause even more churn.
There is also the question of how honest people will be when they are anonymous versus not. If you were studying cocaine use in America, publishing your identified data (to enable double-checking the analysis) would give the cops a list of people who admitted to illegal drug usage.

The current system with IRB allows for the collection of identified data. It also allows the data to be released, in full, as long as there is no way for an individual to be identified specifically. In some cases you can simply swap names for a participant ID (after randomly sorting the list). In other cases you have no choice but to publish some summary statistics because the data you collected is only applicable to a very small number of people in a small region, or there is enough data people could reverse-engineer likely participants of the study.

Science is about self-correcting when errors are made. There are plenty of reasons to criticize the current incentive structure for academics, such as there being little funding to replicate other studies, but doing away with confidentiality is absolutely not the way to go about it.
Why mention a hypothetical when we have real-world cases?

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/update-illicit-...

> COLUMBIA — Two MU students have been accused of running an unauthorized Litecoin mining operation on computers in the Reynolds Journalism Institute. MU Police Capt. Brian Weimer said that Eric Wichmann and Josh O'Steen were arrested by MU police Dec. 6 on suspicion of tampering with computer data. Weimer said they were arrested on suspicion of a misdemeanor violation of the state tampering statute, though tampering can also be a class D felony. Wichmann, an Internet technology major, and O'Steen, a computer science major, went to the police station voluntarily and were released the same day on a summons, the two students said.
An old concern is that someone comes along, takes your data, and then

a) shows that you have an error somewhere and disproves your paper, making you look stupid, or

b) does something better with your data than your paper, making you look stupid, or

c) runs a follow up study on the same data you are currently running and publishes before you have the chance

In my experience usually none of this happens, UNLESS you're in a really cut-throat/hotly debated/bleeding edge corner of science, which is fairly rare.

c) is actually problematic if you told your funding body that you're going to generate X studies with the data they paid for, since you can only publish X-1 studies. I've seen this happen with biologists not releasing their genome assemblies with the assembly paper so they could run basic follow up studies using that assembly as reference before anyone else can do it.
Ironically, anti-competitive moves like this are only going to accelerate the game of golf's steady decline[0]. I get needing to protect your market as a large player, but when you are the main player and your product is too expensive to buy and the perception is growing that the sport you specialize in is a waste of time and money, what good does it do to push out someone making a cheaper product that may allow beginning players with smaller budgets to enter the game?

[0]http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/the-death-of-golf-201506...
It's not going to be exclusively available for ultra billionaires, if it is possible at all. There are lots of things that would be powerful advantages if only a tiny elite had access to them: vaccines, antibiotics, anti-retroviral drugs, digital computers... but if a thing is demonstrated possible at all, others will figure out how to do it again. And if the first inventors refuse to sell or share the technology it will just be spread by the second or third group to figure out the trick.
With dignity is a way of treating people. Whether I do so or not says something about me, not the other person.
I live in NY and have lived here my entire life. I am very pro union but not pro NYC construction unions. If you have ever been on a job site, there are arcane rules that pad their pockets. Want to plug in a computer in a finished room? Sorry you are going to need an electrician for that. If you do it anyway they will bill you for the electrician coming over anyway.

Need to get in the building? Well the elevator operator that gets paid $40 hr is off for an hour for lunch. He sits on a cooler and eats and drinks all day and occasionally there is an elevator operator apprentice with him. These are elevators that are not construction elevators, but ones that work just fine automatically once the construction guys are out.

The teamster guys sit at the loading dock on lawn chairs also getting paid huge rates for doing absolutely nothing. They will not help you unload anything. They sit there hanging out.

Sounds like a racket? Well it is. And for a really long time it was a racket with the Mafia enforcing using union labor. If you didn't go union they would hurt you or somehow sabotage you, and conversely the union would walk off the job if you didn't take care of the Mafia.

Now the modern racket is with very low level politicians and regulatory boards. The only way you get in these unions too is by knowing someone.

These people make a bad name for unions, and drive costs way up for anything in NYC area.
Well, many who opposed adoption of the U.S. Constitution did so anonymously, to avoid retribution.[0]

0) http://www.learnliberty.org/blog/anonymity-and-doxing-in-the...

Edit: My point is that, leaving aside argument about whether anonymity is "good" or "bad", it's often prudent.[1]

1) http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&...
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with c# you need at least two more indents for class and a completely frivilous namespace block. i wish c# had adopted java's namespace syntax too.
I like Swift but I hate the Xcode and the Apple tools. Is so painful to code with it. Apple needs to change its entire development flow. Even working with the react-native I need to use Xcode. =l
I kind of find it a fitting irony. An article which I want to read because the title - while probably click bait - irks me enough to raise my interest because someone else - a corporation that uses me as its product, no less - is going to define for me what being a better citizen is ... this article is blocked unless you subscribe.
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There are a few reasons, partly because of corporate policy which says no sensitive documents on cloud.

Partly because I need to access stuff offline so prefer to have a local copy. For example if I have to take my laptop travelling with between sites I may not have access to a internet connection.

Your right that a large part is familiarity - we use Sharepoint (which I also hate) to share documents between teams rather than email.
I think that cryogenic hibernation is a significantly easier way to achieve interplanetary travel.

Immortality -- to me at least -- doesn't seem like it will end up providing that many benefits to humanity as a whole. Population control will become much more difficult, unless all over-aged males are somehow forced to undergo a vasectomy. And I highly doubt that people living longer will lead to increased productivity. On the contrary, I think that people will rely on welfare more and more as they age, not because of health, but because of burnout. The obvious solution to this is the creation of a general AI that provides the majority of humans with unlimited income for life. But then, if everyone is rich, people will quickly get bored after experiencing everything they're interested in, making immortality essentially useless!
> Also, alignment like that produces an excessive amount of diff noise: when you add or remove an entry, every entry changes.

I absolutely agree that this is a drawback — no approach is without some flaw. This is the flaw in mine. That said, I'm utterly convinced that it is worth this drawback.
Seven years ago when I was starting my current job that is what I was doing; which was all of it. From taking design's PSDs to turn them into markup, to programming the back end, and occasionally traveling to the data center to setup servers and networking. The "Full Stack developer plus SysOps" of trades.

My job was not labeled as front end, back end, DevOps, or SysOps. We did not really use those terms that are much more common place today. Just an engineer who was wholly responsible for various web properties from end user experience to server up time.
Assuming quality of life is high enough for most of the world, births will automatically adjust themselves. If you know you have a couple of centuries to decide whether you want a kid or not, you don't have to rush into it, you have options.
VR and self driving cars should do ;)
Have you tried the JetBrains AppCode IDE?
I don't understand how

"“We laughed when we got the lawsuit. We knew we made it.”"

and

"his company settled the 2015 claims with Acushnet by agreeing to get out of the golf-ball business altogether; it received no payment from Acushnet, nor did it pay."

are compatible statements.
Development related blog posts never get super high traffic. You can't compare an article about some python topic to YouTube video about a mass market consumer tech product.
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>It's a bit idealistic but it would be wonderful to have truly wise people in power who have to care about the long term for once

No it's not. Idealistic is to have the masses wise and involved enough to get rid of persistent leader-castes. This sort of getting-rid is likely to happen quite soon, especially if we in the masses hear that the leader-caste are likely to become immortal while we remain subject to the Reaper.
Of course there are lots. There's a bucket-load of papers get published every year, and sometimes reviewers are in a hurry too and miss things. A miniscule number of papers ever replicated, and replication studies regularly find reproducability rates of less than 50%.

Fortunately, critical thought does not stop at the point of publication. When researchers read each other's papers they (hopefully) do not blindly assume them to be bug-free.
I second this.

I think NVC is on of the most important books that exists and should be taught in all schools, at all levels. Most of what we do is communication, and this is how to do it in a way that connects with people.

I listen to the 8 hour lecture on youtube a couple of times a year and have read the book easily a dozen times.
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That doesn't sound satisfied. That sounds exhausted. I sympathize, despite being relatively young.
That guy needs to finish his itasks for 2017 first.

- Tesla Model 3 production line (First deliveries late 2017. He said he was going to live at the factory to get the cars out the door.)

- Brownsville TX launch facility (first launch scheduled for 2018, not much construction started yet)

- Manned Dragon spacecraft (as of 2015, first crewed launch scheduled for late 2017)

- Falcon Heavy (as of Q3 2016, supposed to launch Q1 2017. Now Q3 2017. Maybe.)