skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So? A disease (or injury) is what causes the pain. Why the specious distinction?
I'll bite; Belltown has barely any bodegas and no grocery stores. The closest grocery store is Whole Foods in SLU or QFC in Lower Queen Anne.

However I think the real takeaway from the parent comment is that US cities are not designed for pedestrians[0].

[0] http://www.newurbanism.org/pedestrian.html
The social aspect is a very large component of VR.

Last night I could have been alone after my wife and kids were in bed. Instead, I was in a 5-on-5 person zero-G battle akin to the Battle Arena in Ender's Game. Communication, coordination, and just trash talking are critical.

The night before I went on Star Trek missions with three friends (only one I had met in person). Despite them being from 3 different parts of the world, I could look around the bridge and see them right there. We may as well have been in the same room, with eye contact, body language, and hand gestures.

Facebook bought Oculus because of the pro-social opportunity to connect people worldwide. Though Spaces is early and a bit rough, it clearly demonstrates how compelling it is to have face-to-face talks with people inside and outside of VR.

Echo Arena: https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/22/lone-echos-vr-multiplayer...

Star Trek Bridge Crew: https://uploadvr.com/star-trek-bridge-crew-review/

Facebook Spaces: https://www.facebook.com/spaces
Would that be Boeing, Microsoft, or Amazon?
This is also how I see things going. Humans end more or less, and give birth to machine children. I don't think any part of it will be perfect though. It'll just be some starting condition playing out according to platonic principles interacting with arbitrary specifics like how far the nearest reserve of iron is in the universe, etc.
> "perfect" version of ourselves, which with then exterminate us because we are inferior

The latter makes it sound like a much worse version of ourselves.
I think we are already perfect.
There’s the technical aspects of the fact that every language has to have some notion of “type”. And seemingly interpreted languages might be JIT-compiled etc. This is of interest if you care about the implementation of languages.

Then there’s the opinions that users of languages with more elaborate, expressive type systems have, like how some people really enjoy Haskell or Elm because they feel that the type system helps them express their ideas clearly, avoid errors, and aids refactoring and maintenance.

If you’re worried about this one, don’t I guess? If you can use dynamic languages to achieve your goals, and you like them, then that’s fine! There are plenty of languages you can play with if you want to get a feel for programming with types. Even Java 8 and C++11 are decent at this point (I’m sure a Haskell programmer is fuming right now).

Then there’s like, a few thousand people in the world who have well-informed opinions on research into the theory of programming languages, the Curry-Howard correspondence between types and proofs. Also a lot of Hacker News posters who have heard these words. Some of them pretend like they know what they’re talking about.
Is "asking a patient how much they sleep" the same as "watching them to measure how much they sleep"?
Have you read Freakanomics? They find that agents are more interested in closing add getting paid rather than the extra couple hundred dollars of commission a $10000 swing in price gets them. I'd gladly fight to save a buyer I represent $10000 on price even if it "costs" me $200-$300 of less commission.
AngelHack runs good hackathons. I've been a volunteer and an ambassador for them. An ambassador is someone who organizes one of their hackathons. I put together the first AngelHack hackathon in Vietnam. It was a smashing success and a lot of fun. When you go to a hackathon talk to a lot of different people, learn as much as you can and have fun. I wrote about AngelHack in Saigon here. http://seanlaurence.com/thoughts-become-things-the-first-ang...
The entire reason behind this story's existence is that MSNBC failed to verify the authenticity of a document (one that they declined to publish as fact), something that they wouldn't do if they didn't care about reporting truthfully.
Am subscribed since 2 weeks but their general advise is to take ADHD drugs (at least as far as I can see).

I wanted to give my best try to find a non-drug solution first and thus wrote here.
I thought Heaviside came up with the Laplace transform method.
Most scary statistic (to me):

> 63 percent: Increase in the number of suburban residents living in poverty in metro Seattle between 2000 and 2015.

Also: Add to that the fact there’s no state or Seattle income tax, making wages and investment income stretch further.

Who's to say this will last? Once the gov begins to make larger plans requiring larger budgets, this nice benefit could easily be reconsidered.
Important context: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237#issuecomment-...

This is the Github issue for this bulb where Poettering said he didn't thing this was a CVE
"because my cofounder decided that he was going to be the "vision" guy and I was going to do all the work."

:-) This happens more often than not. All the success and visibility, but none of the work.
Interesting. It would make sense that requests that don't get used in the real world might not work well.
That's dependant on your state (state laws) and the broker. I know of a broker that offers showings at $50 per hour.
I am delighted you responded so positively to what I wrote and didn't take what I wrote negatively which you could easily have done.

Let's for arguments sake say that there are two camps (broadly speaking), the pragmatists as you say and the theorists/idealists let's call them. It reminds me of the difference between someone like Torvalds and someone like Stallman.

Thing is we need both! You're right, the split _is_ artificial. The Linux kernel couldn't wait for someone to come along and create a type-awesome version of C. I mean, Rust seems to be the first attempt to take what type theorists have learned and apply it to a systems programming language. In the meantime software needs to be written and we have the tools we have.

If the fruits of type theory are going to filter through into software development I'm not sure it should come laden down with category theory (as awesome as that is) or the lambda calculus (as mind-bending as that is). I could of course be dead wrong.
The really frustrating part is that people that do not behave in a 'proper' way often seem to get way ahead in life. No such thing as a just world.
When I started building my first app in 2011 MongoDB was the rage. So I build the back-end using the futuristic 'No-SQL' technology. It turned out to be slow (~1 min Query time), inconsistent, and missing an RDBMS layer. Move the thing to PHP/Mysql problems were gone. I still have not found a use case outside of web (comments/discussion) sites where the high integration with Javascript actually makes sense.
Thank you for your feedback!

I will have to think about the art. I went for minimalist approach where nothing but core mechanical data is shown.

I see that this kind of minimalist approach isn't super popular (you + others have commented, I forgot to put that in my first comment).

In my next game (a 2P versus game, also available at www.Combo.Zone ), I experimented with excessive particle effects but art is a major weakness of my development.

Characterization + avatar: Spot on points, thank you.

There is poem at the end that sort of explains the story, but it's very tacked on. What I'm taking from your feedback is that some sort of context - no matter how thin - is critical to keep players engaged.

Levels: Thanks for bringing this up. Fully continuous gameplay felt a little too confusing + overwhelming - by clearing a wave down to the last enemy you get a moment of relief.

It takes under 5 minutes to get through all of the levels, at which point the game changes and you get a continuous set of 8 clones (still kill from 8 to 1, then the 1st in the list is replaced by your last pattern) with random weapons. It's the most fun part of the game IMO but it's difficult without knowing what all the weapons are (identified by color).

I tried a weapon unlock system where you scored points for killing enemies + could purchase a weapon between stages to upgrade. More accurate shooting gave you more points faster so you could skip the easier parts quicker the more experienced you were.

I'm sorry to hear you found the first parts boring so quickly.

If you want to try the more fun part, open up game.js in the source and change line 626 to "	this.quantumpilot = true" ...
to make the weapons random every level.

And ah crap, you helped me find a bug. With the new 2 color scheme for each stage, the final stage would still have all the enemies the same color instead of being differentiated. Thanks stranger.

I will send your comments to an artist I know and get their take on it.

I'm leaning towards leaving the game as is though, and moving onto new projects. My next big project is all about characters - a Choose Your Own adventure where you see the same events from different perspectives. You start as a barista in a coffee shop and whoever you give coffee too is who you play as next until they return.
Leaks are illegal, because their release says something about a country that, when public, weakens it in some way.

It seems that a fake leak might also damage a country. I wonder if fake leaks are illegal? It sounds vaguely like espionage to me. The Russians have been accused of planting fake stories to influence elections, for example. How is this different?
Wow! I wonder about the kind of withdrawal issues that someone with such a tenure would go through. For me, the first six months after I handed over and left a codebase I owned was tough! And that was after only 4 years of work in it, and Roland has done glibc for 30 years.
I also think that mankind destiny it to create by bio-engineering the specie that will replace us. Of course that view doesn't take in account civilization collapse or culture change that might turn humanity away from science.
Have you tried a policy honesty and discretion?

"OOO/WFH: be back Tuesday at 11am"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(novel)
Evolution does not strive for perfection, it is a utility function without so much as a moments pause for what you might think.
Names should be automatically generated. Alpha-equivalence should be trivial. English shouldn't be required, but you're not going to get away from requiring something of equivalent expressiveness at some level.
Generally that phrase refers to the asymptotic analysis of algorithms, which I think has relatively little to teach us about natural systems of the kind mentioned here. I have tremendous respect for TCS and those who study it, and I attended the second "lens" conference in Berkeley in 2011. But it does seem a bit like a field looking for justification. And I don't think it's impossible that academic competition drives more of our brightest to spend more time on it (asymptotic analysis) than is optimal.
There is an official book which is very well written. I remember that I started to read it several years ago and was surprised that I actually can understand most of the things.
There's a germ of a really interesting idea in here, esp with video sort of becoming the de facto standard of content consumption these days ( at least in short form across social media ).

Maybe take a breather from the tech side and go out to some possible users, and I would almost start super niche-y with this type of thing. Don't bother developing some type of customizing generated video tool yet. I bet there's a substantial group of people out there that either have historical content that they would pay to put in video form to distribute across social, or some group that's forced to produce content in standard text format, but would love an easy 'to-video' button solution. And in both cases, I would imagine they would have very specific requirements for you in terms of transforming their content, how the output should look, etc, etc, etc. It would probably be all kinds of specific code that you would be loathe to write for a single client, but you should. And from that maybe it will help guide you w/ whatever next tech thing is worth implementing. Anyhow, 2 cents from internet stranger so take it for what it's worth ;)

I am curious though, what is the bulk of your costs in hosting that's pushing it to 2K in 3 months -- or am I mid-reading that?
So my kids watch people streaming non-stop. At first I had no opinion. Then it seemed like they did it way too much and I fought it. Then I started paying attention and found it interesting as well. For them it's gaming, game discovery, and seeing personalities they enjoy regularly.

Something like this... I would really enjoy. Bookmarking this page so I can have a look at all your streams. I would like to do this myself. It would be interesting to be able to share exactly what it is that I try to get done on a daily basis. It would be useful to show my colleagues and management interests. I don't know how much they would pay attention, but even being able to point back to a video at a specific time to share something would be useful.

Unfortunately, I don't have a solo office, so figuring out a regular location to stream from will be a challenge, but that's neither here nor there. I can do it from home a few times without bothering anyone to figure out all the logistics before I actually try to do anything real.
there's no state income tax or seattle income tax, but the sales tax rate is very regressive and quite high (10.1% in city of seattle borders right now). This is burdensome to low income families since you pay income tax on almost all basic consumer necessities. State income tax that would scale to higher tiers for high-income individuals ($160k+/year gross) would be a much fairer system.
Last year, on college, I started working on a bot to consistently win money in daily fantasy basketball. I think I went negative before I paused working on it.
Why do you feel the need to trademark your assets at this point?

I mean, it sounds like your blocker to making them worth something is that they're possibly not worth anything...

...so why not make it, and then if it starts making money, pop the trademarks? People aren't likely to notice (and steal) unless it's successful enough anyway.

...plus, AFAIK, you can't protect game mechanics; it's something like they're considered the same as math: can't copyright, can't patent.
Philanthropy?

Selflessness?

Sacrifice?
> I found one that was for sale by owner that I liked, we negotiated on a price and came to an agreement.

Sounds like you don't live in a very competitive market. Here in the Bay Area, you don't even talk to the owner of the house, as they will have a seller's agent. Generally if a house is desirable, there will be anywhere from 5 to 20 offers on a house. The only way to get your foot in the door is to have your buyer's agent go to bat for you. Ideally they will have a prior relationship with the seller's agent, and have insight as to what kind of offer to make to make you competitive with other offers. I can't imagine buying a house around here without having the expertise that an agent can offer.

> I really have no idea what tens of thousands of dollars extra would have bought me.

As a buyer, you are not paying anything extra. The commission comes out of the seller's fees.

> I don't need someone to hold my hand and look at cars with me either.

Buying a house is an order of magnitude more complex and expensive than buying a car. Not really a fair comparison.
I find that a significant fraction of the bugs introduced to the code bases I've worked on that have dynamic typing are due to issues that even a rudimentary static typing system would prevent at compile time. I'm struggling to grok how a language with no type system might look. Something post-modern and Picasso-esque? To use data in a meaningful way in a program it must be possible to reason about it, and that requires that it have at least some structure.
Yes. They're called non-adaptive traits or spandrels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)
yeah -- but most of them don't.
also, $878k is the median "home" price, which includes bachelor/1BD size condos, which skew down the price. The median price for a small single family detached home in Vancouver is still way higher than $1.4m. People are buying teardowns in the Kerrisdale neighborhood for just the value in the lot, 50 ft wide, at $2.1m.
Sure thing, I'm all for building up. Buildout does not have to be bad if you have public transport. I would take 60 minutes riding on a train over 30 minutes driving in a car.
Our "natural" biological impulses are often incredibly destructive

Tribalism is easily the most destructive of our impulses, especially in the way in which it can interact with ideology. Through ideology, such tribal impulses can camouflage their own effects and short circuit the "better angels of our nature" to excuse the dehumanization end even the slaughter of the out group.

I think that's the last great barrier to humans finally "waking up from history."

In particular, the way tribalism and in-group/out-group psychology interposes itself into political discussions is especially pernicious -- especially in the ways it manifests over the internet in social media. Fear isn't the mind killer. It's ideology combined with tribalism! If humankind ever destroys itself, in all likelihood, some group will have ideologically convinced itself that it should do so for some incredibly noble reasons.
It's important to understand that oil companies all over the world will be going bankrupt if consumption falls 30%.

To start, they all have huge investments that they borrowed money for on the calculation of making a certain level of revenue for 40 or so years.

A big drop in demand will mean less sales, but also that prices per barrel, which are already low, will go down even further. The result would be maybe half the total revenue, so they won't be able to pay off their loans and will have to declare bankruptcy.
I'm not sure why pier25 was reminded, but Russell's type theory and Gödel's incompleteness theorem are closely related. They both arose in response to the foundational crisis in mathematics [1].

Russell stumbled onto Russell's paradox (among others) and it shook mathematicians' confidence that everything in math was built on top of a perfectly consistent and stable foundation. If you can define a set that it "the set of sets that don't contain themself" then what other kind of crazy talk can you say in math? How do you know proven things are true and false things can't be proven in the face of weirdness like that?

Russell tried to solve the problem by inventing type theory. Types stratify the universe of values such that "the set of sets that don't contain themself" is no longer a valid statement to make.

Meanwhile, Gödel went and proved that, sorry, no, math is not consistent and complete. There are statements that are true but which cannot be proven.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_mathematics#Fou...
Yes, but you can't ignore that the study you mentioned above was done funded by Monsanto, they paid Intertek to do it. [1] "Ten of the 16 scientists on the Intertek panel have been consultants for Monsanto in the past and two others are former Monsanto employees, according to a roster published on Monsanto's website." Paired with the unsealed internal emails from earlier this year, it's at least enough to raise an eyebrow at.

Unfortunately I do not think that peer review is incorruptible either. It is certainly important and speaks more for credibility, but especially in a case like this where there is so much money involved, personally I'm still waiting to see more information. I mean those emails just came out a few months ago, who knows what else will be found at this point?

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-monsanto-herbicide-glyphos...
Yeah, had to go in and fix the entry I put up yesterday for SeatGeek. We're hiring, NYC, CPH, Portland and Remote! http://seatgeek.com/jobs
Don't really see anything new here. Grew up on a farm. Cats beat the crap out of each other in mating season. Horses as well. The stud will typically bite the crap out of her or run her through a fence repeatedly
Believing in a just world is another quirk of biology to overcome.
For those who haven't been to Bellevue, this about sums it up: http://i.imgur.com/y1a7ZsV.jpg
In a Lost Baby Tooth, Scientists Find Ancient Denisovan DNA
Fuck Newsweek
Until you find yourself in a situation with contingencies that aren't properly dealt with. One could lose their earnest money or be liable for damages for breach of contact. Or possibly worse finding yourself in a situation where the deal falls through and your have no remedy or recourse because the "contract" you came up with is inside or not enforceable and are now homeless or scrambling to find housing.
I believe the original assertion is that there is a non-obvious connection between a newsworthy article and a piece of legislation, and that the article is planted to sway public/congress opinion a certain way.

As I said, this kind of thing is extremely difficult to prove without a smoking gun (e.g. an email from the head of state to the head of NYT instructing them what to publish, when or why). And, as both you and I agree, it is impossible to prove without equating correlation/causation or having confirmation bias in retrospect.
Very slick. I see the value as a developer looking at my in memory data. Not sure on the best monetization route but nice work. A way to import JSON might be a nice feature where it could be used by non-developers to visualize data and navigating as well. Good luck with whatever path you take.
> Fundamentally, intelligence can be thought of as an organism's ability to sense, process, and respond to information to its adaptive advantage, forming memories to anticipate and optimize advantage in future encounters. By this definition, an amoeba has a rudimentary intelligence. So does a grove of aspen trees

But then what's an organism?
No, the authors guard that stuff pretty jealously, and instructors are forbidden from allowing the exercises or solutions from being published online. It's a well-known course used at a large number of schools outside of CMU (150+ I think?), so they're concerned about people distributing solutions or something. Maybe you can try emailing the authors about it or something?
Do they? Care to elaborate?
I've been thinking of this as a sci-fi concept recently. On Star Trek all the other races have this singular defining trait, vulcans are logical, klingons are warriors, ferengi are greedy. The defining trait of humans is going against their natural impulses. We evolved from violent savage apes yet strive toward peace. Some choose veganism. Others choose celibacy.
Gotcha, I'll have to check that out!
heritage brick buildings look quaint and cute, sure, but dying crushed to death by bricks and mortar in a 7.7 earthquake seems like a pretty bad way to go. There are ways to structurally retrofit them to modern standards, a lot of the 100+ year old buildings in Vancouver's gastown have internal X-bracing of steel beams and earthquake retrofits, but it's not cheap.
I'm not clever enough to relate these to each other.
Timezones are annoying, and alas I often found myself needing to do timezone time translation across multiple locations simultaneously, so I built https://timezon.es (in jQuery - it was a while ago). An early version had ads, but with total earnings of ~$2 after multiple months of operation I never bothered re-adding them after a redesign :)

I guess doing any advertising at all might generate traffic, but it seems unlikely ad revenue would cover ad spend. For now I just appreciate its being there 'cause I find it useful :)
I remembered this website, which I had seen before