skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Automation/APIs are generally lousy. Some try (Digital Ocean is trying to shed its past and become a real boy--err, cloud), but stuff like Linode is infuriating to work with when you expect to be able to just do something like "declaratively describe your infrastructure and go". Or when you expect to have monitoring and alerting on hand without having to reinvent every wheel yourself.

- Networking is usually real bad. SDNs are your friend. Yeah, learn you an iptables and all, but this is the future, we can do better. (DigitalOcean is almost to the point AWS was at, like, eight years ago with EC2 Classic? Something like that.)

- Geographically-centralized but independent systems are hard to come by and so fault tolerance is a Big Problem. AWS loses an availability zone, my stuff keeps rolling. Can't say the same elsewhere.

- Value-add services. The sibling comment's complaining about RDS, but RDS configuration hits probably the 98% case and You Don't Have To Learn It. I'm a little more hesitant about lock-in services like SQS, SNS, etc., but moral equivalents exist elsewhere for the most part, you can use them pretty effectively.
A $Billion isn't what it used to be...
Could you elaborate on what you mean by we've confirmed dysgenics? Does that mean humans now are actually more disabled than a century ago?
> measure your days by how much you've learned not by how much you have earned.

That is a beautiful quote.
I guess the question is, why not Django?

I mean, I get it - for a personal project, I did exactly what you just described, wrote the web app in rails and wrote some scikit-learn stuff with python. I did this mainly because I like rails, I like python for ML stuff, and I didn't want to have to learn Django to get a prototype working.

But assuming you were willing to take a small hit/make a small investment in a new technology, do you think it might be a little better to have it all in python, and use Django? Or is the separation similar enough that it doesn't really make much of a difference (i.e., you'd be calling the ML stuff through an api anyway, an your web app would be pretty separate from your ML service, so the only real benefit to Django vs Rails is one language for everything, which I'm inclined to think isn't that big a deal).

I've moved more heavily into Python lately because of data analysis, ML, numpy, all that, and I am enjoying it a lot. I find python very nice to write in, even though I like Ruby and Rails a lot. Python looks good on the page, and has that clarity I like in ruby and rails, and of course the scientific programming world isn't really a ruby one, python is far, far more prevalent. So I've been thinking of taking the plunge and learning Django, but I'm not completely convinced it's really necessary, since you can do what you just described here...

Oh also, (sorry, this is a very scattered post), would you mind sharing some of the technical information about what tech you used to create the api for your python side?
Wouldn't be full from day 1, that's for sure.
Measuring the size of savings accounts != measuring the size of savings. Brokerage accounts exist. 401k plans exist. Hell, even paying into a mortgage is a form of savings.
It is pretty easy to self-host Ghost though.
Express and a weekend with Google.
I am confused between two.

1. Go + chi + Postgres + React

2. Node + koa + mongo + React
> If he lives another 60 years that is a bit more than $1.25M

Over $7 million if he can get 5% annually.
I think MIT math PhD former NFL Player has just as much marketing power as MIT math PhD backup center. So I could see Bose keeping it for a year. He probably has more star power announcing his retirement than all of his NFL career so far.
Corporate VCs Invest $1.8B in AI in First Half of 2017: CB Insights
Exactly. But why use the term "philanthropic investment" and use that term to cast aspersion on what Bill Gates is doing?
Youth soccer in America has rules against heading the ball. Under 11 can't do it at all, and there are time limits and incidence limits for kids older than that (though it probably needs to be outright banned for minors).

In addition to concussions, football players are also believed to receive repeated microtrauma from running into each other repeatedly, which contributes to CTE.

Football is a full contact sport. In games and in training, you are repeatedly slamming into people at full speed. There is nothing comparable in soccer or basketball outside of accidents (which by nature of being accidents happen much less frequently).
Where can I sign a petition to let Javascript die before 2020?
Their hosted version starts at $29/mo ($19/mo if you commit to 1 year), so probably not many personal bloggers there.
Which include obedience if they are only measuring PhDs.
>while organizations use solely genetic information far beyond its predictive limits (set by heritability estimates, which are noticeably <100% for traits of interest like intelligence) and ignoring the overriding phenotypic information,

Organizations cargo-cultishly over-emphasizing certain ability signals? Seems pretty realistic to me! "How many golf balls can fit in a bus..."

>but puts this in a setting where there are no genuine consequences to any of this, no genetic engineering, no embryo selection, all of which should make the society unrecognizable.

What? A key plot point was that parents go through a doctor to have kids, who then picks the genetically-best kid that the parents are capable producing. Those who don't (and have "god-children" or "de-gene-erates") end up with sicker, stunted kids.

Maybe that's short of maximizing the potential of the tech, but it seems like a genuine consequence.

>it is ludicrous to imagine a world of genetically-engineered von Neumanns walking around and still needing human janitors, for example.

Because they'd have automated it all? There will always be the 1% least-intelligent, who will take the roles that can't be automated. Perhaps it's unrealistic that someone would be mopping the floor, but that's just to save the viewer from having to be told "oh, 'janitors' now just press buttons and visually inspect the work of machines".
*IES being Iterated Embryo Selection - the concept of shortening generation times to months or less by producing gametes from selected embryos and crossing those until you have embryos with the genotypes you desire, so we could breed human strains on the same timescale as mice. An important caveat is that we wouldn't see the phenotypic outcomes (behavioural or physical) until we let a generation mature, so selection will be entirely on the basis of trusting the SNPs that large studies have implicated - who knows if all of these SNPs would function well in concert?
Instead of looking at "% of successful exits that had n founders", it seems more relevant to look at "% of startups with n founders that had a successful exit".

Without knowing the distribution of startups with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5+ etc founders, it's hard to tell how much more/less likely each group is to succeed.
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I'm wondering why they're getting more and more adamant that people register an account, even though a lot of people don't care about having an online persona outside of Facebook and wouldn't ever contribute anything to the platform.

I honestly believe that could do much better by providing a good experience to people that just want to stay up-to-date and follow a few people that they find interesting.
Population genetics shows harmful mutations tend to accumulate much more than beneficial mutations, but not to a degree that reduces reproduction significantly. So the human genome is degenerating over time.
We (society) typically require someone reach a certain age of consent before we allow participation in life-altering activities. e.g. drinking, smoking, driving, enlistment, marriage, tattoos, etc.

A 13 year old jr. high schooler who wants to play for their school's football team isn't able to fully assess and weigh the risks of long term brain injuries from an activity. Maybe parental education and consent is enough for some people, but at the same time, we flat out don't allow parental consent to buy cigarettes at age 13 either even if there are parents that would allow it.
Or the "so bad it's good" movie Robot Jox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Jox
Yep. There are also, as I'm sure you're aware but for the benefit of the less-familiar, plenty of "hybrid" ways to build "native" apps for mobile: https://github.com/auth0/blog/blob/master/_posts/2017-01-11-...
The Hubris System(R) provides adequate protection and is highly practical.
The scheme is well known, but what attack against it outperforms an exhaustive search?
How do you build a database of poetry I haven't written yet and will never publish?
Frequency analysis may help, but many of my poems are about a yellow zebra named x-ray who plays the xylophone.
If you come up with an attack that outperforms an exhaustive search, I will just write longer poems. You will never catch me.
Password cracking is an arms race. The crackers can't win. The math is against them. Every character I add to my password makes their problem exponentially harder.

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I thought 2to3 was designed for converting apps from 2 to 3, rather than making them polyglot? I think six could have simplified things here, however.
It's a hybrid really. It's a speed runner with platform elements (or vice versa, really).

But yes, fundamentally quite different in goal and style.
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But a log scale is interesting because when you switch of scale, you change the meaning of money.

1) First stages of the visualization would show people from country where the money measure doesn't mean anything at all

2) Then powers of ten later it show how disparately "rich" people are in countries where this measure has a little more significance

3) Powers of tens later you see big companies and rich billionnaires like in this article == Money Is Power (Jeff Bezos is not going to buy one billion baguette de pain tomorrow I can assure you that)

4) Then of course you see higher in the scale huge aggregate of macro economics stuff which no one really have control over or understands
Artificial Intelligence and National Security
Top 5 Pet Peeves as a Lyft Driver
Your argument can easily go the other way. What if your app wastes 30 seconds a day for 100k people? By, say, building addictive mobile games, or a social network dedicated to watching food pictures, or gambling websites, or, like the parent comment said, throwaway apps.
Thanks for the liking the visual. This is a quick hack in an hour to demonstrate how http://skygear.io 's real-time sync and cloud database feature. Yet I am thinking to add more feature to it - markdown support and collaborator marks. Do you have any ideas on that?
I don't understand what you gain by using the term "philanthropic investing" over "charity" if there are no monetary returns.

Edit: I'm just trying to understand why you think it's more precise to label what Bill Gates is doing as "philanthropic investment" as opposed to "giving money away."
Awesome? Maybe... https://www.bitrig.org/
I'm not the OP, but the Toba catastrophe comes to mind. There were a few others.
Maybe. I think it's difficult painting these things as having a net value. There's good and bad, and they co-exist, one doesn't come without the other.
I'd assume it's because most companies aren't big winners or big losers.
i want all those things. my point was "if you dont like the system, leave" is a bad argument
I'm sure we're not, but Twitter still feels like it's at the 1.0 version of the user experience.
This extraordinary claim is going to need some extraordinary evidence, re: Monero's fungibility.
To relate this to the news about CTE in American Football, I wonder how much American mental potential has been lost to CTE.

One thing for sure, very few East Asian and few Asian American parents who are aware of the news will allow their kids to play the sport.
What about the reactions from other American parents?

"Symptoms of CTE, which occur in four stages, generally appear 8 to 10 years after an athlete experiences repetitive mild traumatic brain injury."

There were about 1,100,000 million high school players in 2014. This is approximately 7% of US high school students.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopat...
They gain to sell ZoL themselves with their own RHEL derivative distro. And they get all the usual open-source community benefits. It may even become necessary for them to do so, perhaps not in the short term, for Solaris' long term future is uncertain, while Linux and ZoL continue to get better.
>Indeed, the cryptocurrency is currently trading at $461, meaning it's worth about 18% of bitcoin's current price of $2,568, in an already-open futures market.

This statement needs a lot of asterisks added to it imho.

BCC has been trading at $600K USD volume in the past 24 hours [0] compared to Bitcoin's trading volume topping over $600M USD in the same time period.

BCC futures have only been trading on a single, unpopular exchange, that does not allow withdrawal of the coins being traded until only after the fork takes place.

If you can send them BCC to trade before the fork, I fail to see why you can only cash out after the fork.

I'm all for Bigger Blocks, but claiming that BCC has 18% support of the community based on that single price valuation is extremely misleading imho.

From a volume standpoint, I would argue that it has less than 1% support of the community at large.

[0] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/
Can offer an opposing anecdote. I have an ASRock EP2C602-4L/D16, loaded with tons of RAM, hard drives and PCIe cards running a bunch of VMs (some with GPU passthrough) and it's been 100% stable. Plus their support has been awesome -- I had an issue with a bent pin and they did a complete motherboard check for me for free, then threw a bunch of SATA cables in the box when they sent it back.

Having said that, they're one of the smaller manufacturers, and it wouldn't surprise me if they're still in the process of getting on top of some of the issues that inevitably come up with a new platform.

It also wouldn't surprise me if GP got a lemon. It can happen with any manufacturer.

As it is, though, I'm a very happy customer of theirs.
Any head injury in all sports (or not sports for that matter) are incredibly devastating. That being said, what happened to your cousin (I am sorry about that) is an anomaly in basketball. Most basketball injuries are to legs then hands/arms. Concussions are rare in basketball. Not so much in football.

In my view, there is a very big line between head and spine injuries and any other physical issues long term. Today, people can have artificial hip and knee joints that are acceptable for every day life. If an athlete wants to destroy his legs in exchange for millions, I have no real issues with that. I start to struggle when these guys are doing lasting, unseen, and irreparable damage to their brains. It has become harder and harder for me to watch football over the last 5 years. I watch 85-90% less football than I used to. Most of this time has gone onto watching soccer (which does have some concussion issues of its own) and basketball. I don't think that LeBron James is comprising his future each play he runs. I did feel that way while watching each down in an NFL game.
Looks like there are about 3 times more kids playing soccer than tackle football. I'd say a 3x lower concision rate isn't close to "nearly as bad".

In addition to concussions, football players are also believed to receive repeated microtrauma from running into each other repeatedly, which contributes to CTE.

Football is a full contact sport. It is inherently more dangerous. Collisions in soccer happen accidentally. They happen intentionally in football.

In addition there are new restrictions on heading the ball in soccer for younger kids, which will likely make the game a bit safer.
> and how much do you think MIT professors are paid?

Depends a lot on department and situation. Course 18 (math) doesn't pay that great while course 6 does. If you have a chair you can pay yourself more; if you take a non-academic role (dean, provost, department head etc) you can get more. Even when you have tenure you get reviews and raises just like any other job.

Point of reference: my gf's ex is a tenured prof in a non-engineering field. B/c child support etc I know what he earns. Adjusted for inflation, my summer consulting gigs (before the 1980s AI winter) earned me over 50% of what he makes all annually including his own summer consulting. I'm sure if he were in computer science he'd make more in a month than I would have made all year.
For swimming at a college level, we got up at about 4:30, swam 5-7, lifted 7-8, then classes, then swam 4-6, then stretches/bodyweight exercises.

This was while classes were in session.

During the winter training trip, we would do the same, but also swam sprints in the middle of the day.

Sometimes other teams, including the football team, would try to use the pool for off-sport workouts. We would crush them. But when we ran, they would not outrun us.

And that's just one sport I have personal experience with. Please do not discount what other athletes are doing--any sport is an intentionally competitive environment, everyone is looking to gain advantage: that push to go harder is present and is not exclusive to football.
...yes, it is controlled for. Read the comment above you again. They compare exposed rats to unexposed rats. That accounts for your concern.
Zuckerberg and Musk Are Fighting About Their Personal Brands, Not AI
If This Pakistani Singer Doesn't Mess Your Head Up,Then Nothing Ever Will
So put your web app in a Cordova bundle and you can send push notifications. No need to learn react or write native code. Not a huge problem to solve.
Clojurescript + Reagent or Om

Because Clojure as a language really spoils you, it's more concise and quick for prototyping than any other tool I've tried. And Reagent or Om build lightning fast interfaces.
A Call to Info-Environmentalism
"Over three years he "only" earned ~$1.8m http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/baltimore-ravens/john-urschel-145.... - which after tax is 7 figures but still not a lot"

For a lot of us this would be FU money if you don't have the desire to live big. Plus he gets the pension.
So to understand how much money he has let's say Jeff Bezos is walking in the street and sees US$42,000 laying on the ground. He is so rich that it's not worth for him to stop and get the money. It's like you and me seeing a 10 cents coin on the ground. That's his life.
Google Analytics works fine for me.
Announce it someplace if you do!
Huh I have had a very easy time integrating passport, mongoose, and morgan respectively for the above 3 asks.
It's security. Money (currently a proxy for power) can provide you with the ease of mind that if you fall ill, if someone you care about is injured, then you can get them the best care, that you can take time off to help them. Similarly, it helps to feel as if you have people who are also secure so that they can be there for you too.
> The real issue would arise if they can somehow test high school students and find similarly high percentages (90+ percent), but since you can't test right now until they are deceased (from what I understand), that would be extremely hard to do.

I think that's seriously downplaying the issue.

Let's say hypothetically HS football players are developing it at 10% vs 1% in the general population. That alone would be a massive discovery, and grounds for seriously reworking or even eliminating HS football. You don't need these rates to be in the 90% range for this to be game changing, so to speak.
Ask HN: How often would you pay someone on a per-snippet basis?
I have an idea for a project that is something like a mix between StackOverflow and a job board. Like you post a request for a chunk of code in whatever language/framework to do some particular thing and say how much you are willing to pay for it. They first person to produce an answer you are happy with gets your money.

Should I make this?
All good kings eventually die. So projects without a good king are more future proof if they survive because they have already priced that reality in. The other projects could very well collapse once their good king dies.
I've written an amateur, hobby-level engine, described here: https://mellinoe.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/net-core-game-engi.... This was more of a personal exercise for learning and experimenting than a serious attempt at game design, so the engine isn't that advanced.

For something more professional and polished, there is Xenko, which runs on CoreCLR for some of its non-mobile targets. https://xenko.com/

Also, Unity itself doesn't really run on Mono -- it just has a scripting layer that hosts Mono on top of its C++ core. Perhaps not a useful distinction for you, but I thought I'd mention it.

(Note: I work on .NET Core at Microsoft)
Yeah the one major issue is comparison shopping: you can't open multiple tabs/windows and flick between them.

Then again, "focus" might mean reading one review at a time. Or instead waiting until you're at a desktop and remembering to do it. If you forget, are you worse off or better off?

It's just a different situation. Depends on your criteria. Certainly, I've not missed it on my mobile.
I wish GitHub used something like that to edit its wikis. Telling me somebody else saved a new version of the doc I'm working on is so uncool.
Single playlist is not good. Time to buy another Nano 4th gen just in case....
Project Sidewalk: Crowdsourcing and machine learning to map urban accessibility
His lack of nobility does not invalidate his argument. Arguably, many of the most despised jobs are most important. None of the elite would or could do them, and without society would fall apart. On the other hand, a very large percentage of elite jobs could be eliminated without ill effect.

Our role as the elite is to elevate and recognize their worth, and not sink them to our moral level.
I wouldn't worry too much about that, because I don't see the whole of humanity having access to this technology. Their will remain an underclass who, in general, won't be allowed to have access to this (more due to economics and politics that don't allow access instead of direct prohibition of access, think about how medical care is currently allotted). I think the interesting bit will between what happens between those who have regular access to this technology and those who don't. Could there end up being two human species resulting from this?

Also, as someone else pointed out, it would be more likely we edit different lines of humans. Two people having the best genes for a soldier and having the best genes for a scientist are likely to be better off than a single individual who has the best possible maximum of the two together. Optimizing multiple lines of humans each on a smaller set of traits is likely to produce far better result than optimizing one line on all traits.