skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Break the paradigm New project on redefining life
If you want to determine the value of a user's comment by the community's knee-jerk reaction to said comment, go back to reddit.
This is a good time to mention https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/60qe8k/mining_...
Why so pessimist? This planet can easily support 100 billion people (I know, citation needed), yet the highest projection of the world population in 2100 is less than 20BN [1].

In a few years we may very well be able to eat lab-grown burgers [2]. As a vegetarian would you oppose eating this type of meat?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Meats
I wonder if these stores will suffer any more from shoplifting than regular stores. I assume they will function roughly the same, i.e. an alarm goes off as an unpaid high ticket item leaves the store, but what's the psychological impact of having a human near the front door? will people feel they are stealing from a robot rather than a person (in fact they are stealing from neither), and will that lower the cognitive barrier to theft?

it comes with built-in plausible deniability for the guilty, too -- "sorry, I guess your robo-store is broken, let me try signing in and out of my amazon app"
What really aggravates me about this article is the exceedingly disingenuous dismissal of SENS rejuvenation research programs it puts forward.

The author settles on allotopic expression of mitochondrial genes in the cell nucleus as an example of a project so difficult it is impossible. But allotopic expression is a very poor example to pick for something that is alleged to be "a doomed labor." The work has been accomplished for three of the thirteen genes needed; this is a capability that exists, and is underway towards completion. The allotopic expression of mitochondrial gene ND4 is the basis for a therapy that is currently going through clinical trials in Europe! It exists, it works! Yes, it took effort to get there, effort funded at the early stages by the SENS Research Foundation and those who donated to it, I should note, but so does everything else.

This is one of the things that frustrates me immensely about many of the critics of SENS - they willfully ignore some of the progress that has been made, pretending it doesn't exist.

Yet their behavior for progress that is so compelling they can't ignore it is in many ways worse. Let us look at what is said - and, more importantly, not said - about senescent cell clearance, something that de Grey and other SENS advocates have been promoting as a path to treat aging for the past fifteen years, on the basis of strong evidence, that they assembled from the various groups who created it across the research community, laid out, and made the argument for. It is right there in the SENS outline; hard to miss, and has been from pretty much day one back at the turn of the century. Senescent cell clearance is a core part of the SENS agenda.

Fortunately for all of us, targeted removal of senescent cells has finally taken off these past few years, the evidence for a significant impact on aging has grown to be nigh irrefutable, and near everyone in the research community is enthused. Yet SENS and many researchers' past vocal rejections of senescent cell clearance as a part of SENS is swept under the rug, never to be mentioned. It is unconscionable behavior, and it happens in this article: despite covering UNITY Biotechnology, the senolytics company, no mention of senescent cells is made in connection with the SENS vision. It takes some brass to claim SENS to be a doomed effort and then roll right on in the next paragraph to a discussion with one of the UNITY co-founders on the topic of removing senescent cells to treat aging.
OpenAI needs a revolution to meet its goals
OpenAI's goal is to see that AI is not monopolized for bad ends. This will require a mass mobilization of people to use it for good ends. The fastest way this can occur is to start with a scientific revolution, comparable to those of the 17th or 20th centuries, that establishes a new cosmological concept of time. Since science is the meta-religion of our time, this scientific revolution will also be a religious revolution. This will eventually lead to a politic revolution like the American Revolution, which was backed by clergy.

The largest barrier to this occurring are two academic dogmas: 1) Earth is not in a special place in the universe, and 2) Science reduces to microphysics. Both dogmas have been useful in focusing efforts on the creation of powerful technology over the last four centuries, but both are merely assumptions. The maturation of this powerful technology into a potential AI apocalypse means that we should now drop the dogmas in favor of a scientific/religious/political revolution. The necessary mathematics and supporting empirical arguments are already available in a rudimentary form and can be rapidly expanded to the refined form necessary for meaningful global discussion.

Explanations of the origin of life and of "cold fusion" are the first major science and technology research branches of this Revolution, so rapid global interest is readily assured. Elon Musk and Jim Simons are appropriate leaders for the first major scientific effort, since they are interested in the origin of life and SpaceX's resources will be required to explore the Moons of Mars, Vesta, and Ceres, where the evidence lies. The mathematical modeling of "cold fusion" will take an intense effort, even larger than Oppenheimer's Los Alamos group, so who would be good long time leaders is less clear.
> I still don't understand: Is there any good reason that raw data should not be published along with each paper?

Confidentiality? What if correlations give away subjects' identities?
look at this :
https://math.mit.edu/research/highschool/primes/materials/20...
How is Smart Mart? Their website is quite sparse.
"God's favorite game is Donkey Kong."

Surely the best quote of all time.
> That decision said defendants in patent cases, as in other cases, may be sued essentially anywhere they do business.

If this is the case, it seems like it would make sense to simply stop doing commerce in hostile jurisdictions. It might constitute a short term loss for some vendors, but it might kill the cottage industry of plaintiff-slanted patent hearings.
Beware ‘fake news’ campaign regarding Bitcoin block size
I've been nagging anyone who will listen that this ought to be done. (Easy for me: I don't have to do it. I will of course take credit to the fullest extent the law allows.)
Was hoping for a cameo appearance of Lee Cheng, the (edit: former) Chief Legal Officer for Newegg. He's a force to be reckoned with when it comes to patent trolls in East Texas.
How successful are humans at rejuvenating large codebases back to when they were new and small and fresh? (Without rewrites or replacements)

Surely human bodies will be easier to rejuvenate than that, eh?
Isn't this a feature HN had before and intentionally removed?
Everyone is so scared of all of this, but ...

This will be used for control. 50 pieces of senators want to sell you online thoughts already (internet history). And yet, you are willing to live in an alternate reality where this doesn't happen and it's all for good.
Norden bombsight
And the volunteers working for him rather than his opponent.
This worked, thank you!
The original source would be this link: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing

Followed by this by Dries Buytaert, Drupal BDFL: http://buytaert.net/living-our-values

And then there was this other response from Larry: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-part-2

And besides techcrunch, there was this other piece by inc.com: http://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/drupal-larry-garfield-gor.html
> Using a more C way he'd really only have needed a couple of pointers on the stack.

This is pretty much how it's done in Rust too via slices. For example, the standard way to split a string is to create an iterator and it won't do any allocations.
>how is this different that discriminating based on sexual preference (being gay)?

Garfield made that exact analogy in his reply (https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing).
I understand what you're saying, but what I'm trying to say is that your approach is wrong. You're fighting fire with fire, and making an environment hostile to men in an attempt to make things equal for women. You won't win support by doing that. If we are to break down the barriers to equality, we must behave in a manner that will foster an equal environment for _both_ sexes.
Please don't put URLs in code blocks, it makes them non-clickable.
Thanks. Didn't know. Had never had it happen before, but I also don't think I ever upgraded so soon after release. We must have got this one within an hour of it coming out.
It doesn't seem to function the same at all. If an item is detected leaving the store, then the person who took the item (or the person the store thinks took the item) is charged. And if they aren't detected, there's no way to have an alarm.
I specifically qualified with not affecting others, because otherwise that would be a different discussion. Yet...
hm. well, i can't argue. i'm not the expert on the aliens we haven't found yet.
Is Bitcoin Unlimited an Attack on Bitcoin?
Terms of service forbidding user in East Texas?
Searching for "1099" brings up quite a few interesting documents
It's intended to be restrictive. The idea is that more than three levels of indentation should be the exception rather than the rule. Exceeding that without good reason is a hint that functions should be split up.

Having some such rough limit is a good thing, but the number 3 is language dependent. Java for example automatically eats one level for the class.

Also C lacks syntax such as nested functions, try blocks, python-style context managers and all kinds of other stuff which excuse more levels of indentation.
and goods misplaced on wrong shelves. Kinda hard to track.
2000 year old Roman lead used for physics
how exactly is someone charged when they don't have an amazon account / connected phone / whatever method of payment is being used here? are you saying you need to swipe your card on the way in?
Only thing I really don't agree with is the 80 char max.

I'm not suggesting unlimited but isn't it time we revisit this?

It really feels like one of those "we've always done it this way so just leave it"
Which is zero, because a large part of Ars business model is making a big stir about defects.
If Spotify is planning on pushing their subscription service more in the near-future, I'm happy they are purchasing companies that will work to improve their algorithms even more. Having lots of music on the go without downloading will get a lot of people in- but if they are making their already good discover even better, that will be really effective in keeping customers paying.

For anyone who hasn't paid for the upgraded version, it's half off for students. It is worth trying for sure, I've found a lot of new music with the daily discover you get.
Tere naam part 2 trailer
This is the ultimate necessary thing to do actually for human beings. All economics and social activities stem from the quest to live forever, though it's impossible to implement before. But today, technologies have made this promising. Believe me, it's not absurd at all.

Think about all religions, they come from the quest to live forever deeply inside human's unconscious, but today, technology and science have become the new religion, and its goal, in fact, is still the same here, because human beings never change much.

Combine biology and information theory, I think this can be done before 2500 A.D..
> "family dad" and "decent, professional coworker" seems to fare nicely

I'm not a woman but I've had girlfriends who've complained about being sexually harassed at work and it's always been a "creepy, old married guy".

Of course, maybe they personally didn't perceive similar attention from younger guys as harassment, I don't know.
316 is a beautiful book.
I agree, but I came from 10.1 so I don't know if 10.2 did some work on that side of things.
Show HN: Sublime Text 3 Debugger (Python 2&3 for now)
Coding style wars will die with the rise of *fmt.
The Text Message You Can’t Afford to Miss
Yes. You need to have the Amazon Go app installed on your phone, and you scan your phone at what looks like a turnstile to enter the store, from the store's PR videos. Then the store keeps track of what you pick up using computer vision, your phone and various sensors, and charges everything you walk out with to your account.

Unless you can avoid the requirement to load an app and scan it to get into the store, walking out of the store with goods stuffed in your jacket or bag isn't shoplifting, because the store knows you picked those things up and is charging them to your Amazon account.
Does a substantial portion of the subjects actually care about this?
Congratulations for taking my contrived example way too literally and missing the point entirely.

Not every group of variable assignments warrants a comment for every line, nor is my argument relevant only to static constants, nor is there any reason why aligned assignments should be construed to be related any more than consecutive assignments should be, nor should that stop you from reaping the unarguable improved readability of aligning them anyway.
I've been mulling over putting in a TOS clause in my product prohibiting its use within the jurisdiction of the Eastern District of Texas. And if I'm understanding this right, not only would it be impossible to sue me there, it would also be possible to bring both criminal and civil complaints against any East Texas patent trolls accessing my site for violation of the CFAA.
https://www.amazon.com/Olay-Total-Effects-Anti-Aging-Moistur...

Don't buy it off Amazon, you're likely to get counterfeit product, and it's also much cheaper in stores.
Yes, but he's noting that a century of technological advancement has not been able to keep the costs to less than a 22x increase. It must be something other than the technology.
IIRC Netflix has preferred traffic agreements with a number of backbones and ISPs -- so it's Netflix that's actually killing everything else lol.
Why or how does it make you sick?

Also are you regarding a specific season? the camera work? The ideas/stories themselves?
Yes, that's how it's working for now, anyway. The app has a QR code you scan at the entrance to gain access to the store.
former chief legal officer for Newegg...

http://www.law.com/sites/almstaff/2016/10/03/outspoken-paten...
This is great, he always concentrates on the really important problem.
Baity title for maximum effect, but the article itself is not so bad. Content marketing, but ok.
Core developers? Plural?
Probably no better chance for humanity to transcend its current perennial state of warfare and short term thinking than to make people live for a few centuries. Imagine a world where life is precious and they have to live with the consequences of their choices rather than having the next generation deal with their decisions.
i suggest removing the unnecessary $500M and one week from the title. those things are total clickbait.
I've been thinking about that as a C refresher. I haven't really worked in C in over a decade and that looks like a fun way to get back into it.
I think PE ratio is something that can not stay high forever. At some point it has gotta catch up with the profits. I can understand that Amazon reinvests most of its profits and can "at-will" switch itself on to generate profits but the problem is that this future switching-on is already been included in their current PE ratio for most part. So the real issue is that it's damn hard to calculate the right price of stock with correct margin-of-sefety.
From what I've read they were offended at his views on women. Views that never seemed to be expressed in his professional life.

Seems very wrong to me. We don't need thought police. He should be judged on his professional actions not private beliefs.

He has beliefs from gorean philosophy, that are something along the lines of women submitting to men. While many wouldn't agree with him, those same views are present in many religions, Christianity, Islam, Judaism and many others. If he managed to work with women without any problems why was he kicked off the project?

The responses allude to something they refuse to disclose, but it all seems very wrong to me. People should be free to believe what they want.
I have a tough time seeing that worldview as anything much different from solipsism ("it's my brain which creates the world as much as the world creates me, it's you who makes the sun bright, it's you who makes the sky blue, it's you who makes rocks heavy - so you can't say anything objective about anything") and nihilism ("everything is subjective and relative, nothing matters, not joy, not torture") and fatalism ("you can't change yourself to be better, because you don't know what better is, and the you which is supposed to do the changing doesn't exist either").

As he says, you start learning that you are one with everything, because you don't realise that you always were one with everything and can never have become separated from it. A skillful person operates on two levels simultaneously.

And then he enlightenedly cheated on his wife, married again twice, and drank himself to death. (Which is not to ad-hom his position, but to point out that for all his studying and meditation, he doesn't seem to have had all the answers)

Well we do have a label of what death is, and we might have a chance of changing it, and if we prefer that, what does it help to say "you weren't alive"?
> 1. Any reason for not wanting to target WebAssembly/JavaScript (and in conjunction node.js [I understand that this isn't trivial])?

Wasm will likely be the browser target.

> 2. Any reason targeting QT isn't on the roadmap? [targets for KDE, Sailfish, ect..]

They wanted to go native to start. QT is GPL licensed. Not a good fit for Red. Their "small" installer, which downloads the big stuff, is 18M. Red, with self-contained toolchain and cross compiler + GUI, is 1MB.

> 3. Any reason wxWidgets wasn't a great choice as a foundation? (I believe they have a C API last I looked)

Targeted at C++, and also very large.

> 4. Is there or will there be an API for creating custom languages that can target/leverage Red's infrastructure? (basically a Red version/wrapper for flex/bison)

You can use libRed, which makes Red available as a DLL you can call into from other langs, like C. See http://www.red-lang.org/ where a couple GIFs show integration with VBA and Excel even.

Ultimately, the decision not to use something comes from value added and available resources. Team Red is small, and has to pick their battles carefully.
Here's the thing: Sometimes there are people who are exceptionally talented in a given field, yet suffer from a serious illness or disability. The symptoms can be apparent in their physique (such as Stephen Hawking), or in their mind (such as Terry Davis). I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person, but I would encourage those who criticise Terry for the highly unfortunate way his illness manifests itself to try to find compassion for the man, not ridicule.

I'm willing to bet pretty good money that less than 1% of people on HN, and the software development industry in general, could achieve the technical feats on the level of what Terry has done. In fact it's probably considerably fewer than that. Here's a guy who's built an entire platform from scratch, including kernel, development tools, user interface, and applications. While there are obvious flaws (such as the visual appearance and lack of memory protection), some of the other design decisions like presentation of documentation and the way different parts of the system integrate with each other put mainstream operating systems to shame.

We should be emphasising Terry's technical work, not the symptoms of his debilitating illness.
Not sure where you see anything about private URLs in the article?
As someone who routinely has 5 or 6 files open in various configurations of Emacs windows, 80 char max is a huge convenience. Out of interest, what's changed since it became a norm which would make it worth reexamining?
I just think that death gives life meaning and knowing/accepting that we will die is a part of growing more self aware and focusing on the good things in life like family and love rather than the wasteful things. Maybe that's an unpopular viewpoint in the age of technology but I also think a lot of people are scared to death that they spent decades of their life in a rat race and are desperate to get those years back. All the money in the world can't save you from death and time is our most precious resource.
I would disagree with the reason being "because we've always done it this way."

I started programming C full time about 2.5 years ago (after many more with PHP, et al). There's an aesthetic to writing C that I don't find with other programming languages. I believe this is, in part, due to the generalized use of shorter variables and keeping everything as compact and simple as possible.

Since deciding to keep everything at an 80-char width, I can say that it has helped me maintain a certain kind of readability I don't find with other languages. And, while aesthetics don't matter once the compiler takes over, I can say that good aesthetics do improve my ability to program more effectively and efficiently.
Study the fundamentals. Learn some timeless science like physics or math.
I suggest leaving them in for the same reason.
This works in theory. I've yet to see a project accomplish it in practice. There's always someone with an incorrect editor config that does indentation and alignment with tabs (because it's easier to configure your editor to just send a <TAB> than to have smart behavior, or copy-pasted code contains a tab rather than spaces, or a million other reasons), and nobody notices until two years later and everything is a mess for anyone trying to use a custom tab-depth.
I think you're missing the context. Office Online/OneDrive/etc. already implement more or less the default behavior you recommend. docs.com is a separate service intended specifically for public sharing, i.e., it's a platform to which you post or publish.

I would guess this is less of a technical or UI design problem and more of a branding/product concept/positioning problem, i.e., (some) people don't seem to understand the overall concept of the product, possibly because of the name
Unions themselves are not the problem. It's the union-government partnership that prevents the market from operating properly.
Go Presentation Tool
> I think this can be done before 2500 B.C.

Uh, I'm pretty sure it's already too late for Gilgamesh. Sorry to give you the bad news.
My guess is that the market for high quality software engineering simply isn't there at scale. A lot of what we use day to day really just scrapes by the threshold of passable. So that's the bar they need to clear. If your customers are content paying you for 80% reliability, why pay for engineers who can deliver 5 9s?
Yeah, it's very clickbaity but I figured it was the original title, and the content was interesting enough to be submitted. Hopefully it won't prevent people from reading it because of an anti-clickbait reaction.
Agreed. Nowadays I am a true believer in aligned code, I think it improves readability more than almost anything you can find in modern coding styles.
In terms of hardware, sony has built in 4k and hdr streaming through its androidtv software. I hardwire from its ethernet port.
The author of this story clearly does not know what "reverse engineer" means.

This is reverse engineering AI companies:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02943
It would surely be nice to have a central decision tree which would make the accidental supersession of 1400 by the novel 1394 obvious before an action to make it law.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13964685
I used Happn dating app, again. Meet people you crossed paths with