skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're kind of missing the point.

I had thought the point was answering "why would you want to live forever?" so I gave it my best shot. :)

> Why would you get married
and have kids if you could have it 100 years later?

Because you get the enjoyment of marriage and an expanded family now.

Frankly, speaking, I cannot believe people would be willing to delay satisfaction for 100s of years, merely because they are immortal.

But what if you're right? Well then...

If in fact living past 200 causes everything to be meaningless, we'll likely just find out people waste away from old age depression, and the point of the debate is moot.

If immortals stop caring about life because it is long lasting, we'll just find the first members of the immortal generation do worse than their mortal peers in all respects.

The question of "how much life is too much life" is something I would rather find out through primary research on people who are 500 or more years old, instead of debating in the hypothetical.

Practically though, I doubt immortality is within the grasp of this current generation. Research into 'immortality' is just using forever as an ideal---not as an expectation of what will really be delivered upon.

Extending life by a few more decades is a valid goal for our generation.
Singapore is in the northern hemisphere. It's north(west) of Pontianak which is on the equator.
Agreed. It would make sense to have an offline mode.
Thanks for that - it could be an even better choice!
Well, Pharo seems to have quite a few contributors, so they probably figured something out. Let me have a look..

So, based on these slides about Pharo 6[0], it seems that they use multiple things. First, they have a tool called Epicea, which is a more modern way of tracking changes to an image[1]. Then, for git integration, they have a bunch of tools at pharo-vcs, specifically Iceberg[2].

[0] https://www.slideshare.net/pharoproject/pharo-6

[1] http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~MartinDias/Epicea

[2] https://github.com/pharo-vcs, https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg
> ads for things I talked about.

Perhaps you'll be getting those "live" as in:

Your friend says: Let's go get a drink (in some other language)

You hear: let's go get a <drink by advertiser>

...
> no air resistance (nowhere on this planet?)

In 1971, Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott repeated the experiment on the lunar surface with a hammer and a feather. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%27s_Leaning_Tower_of_P... (includes a link to a video clip; jump to about 0:35).
I would happily discuss it with anyone on HN -- it's not secret techniques (and we agree such are problematic), we're simply not ready for the attention posting publicly on HN would bring. A lot of internal docs use internal jargon, but that's not helpful explaining the idea to others -- so we're in a "productizing" phase and part of that is private conversation with interested parties to (eg) practice/refine explanations.

Sorry for "announcement of announcement", but check back 18Q1 if you only want to discuss it on HN.
Kid is 7 weeks old and have literally just found 40 minutes to work on a side project for the first time in a week.
> Is your issue with the conclusions or with the data? Your initial comment seemed to challenge the veracity of the data

I don't see anything in lispers posts challenging data, only the authors selective portrayal of facts and reasoning from the data.

Further, your upthread comment didn't reference the data either, it referred (falsely) to the 538 piece coming to the same conclusion; you backed off to claim it was about shared data and not a shared conclusion when it was pointed out that your claim about the conclusion was false.
600$, compared to 800$ for a comparable Pixel phone. That 200$ difference is the premium you pay for good support. The Pixel doesn't really have anything else that the 6P didn't have.
I don't think swing voters are very common. Elections are decided on turnout. Voting is terribly inconvenient.
It's not secret, we just don't want a spotlight yet.

There's a difference.
Recall from the previous chapter that
to do science (and other nice things)
requires survival t not the other way
around?

Uh, what?

I don't understand that sentence? Is "survival t" a typographical error?
http://www.aauthespian.news/2017/10/why-are-some-nigerian-mo...
I was having a conversation with my boss at lunch today - and he made a joke how the difference between our respective sleep/activity schedules is basically the same as the difference between our schedules on the east coast of the USA and our team overseas (he's a morning person, I'm not and have never been).

I told him I'd never again work at a job that required me to be there at 9am, because I'm effectively useless before 11am, completely independent of how much sleep I've had the night before. The only plus side, I joked, was that even though I'd only gotten 4-6 productive hours of work done, no one batted an eye when I left at 5pm, since I'd been there since 9.
Perhaps what inspired them and what their creation most resembles are not necessarily the same thing. It would do some good if both you and your parent poster could agree or disagree with that statement.
Everyone always says this but I feel like it's a non-starter. I haven't ever misplaced my earbuds and I've owned them for several months. House & car keys have a similar form factor and don't have a cable, yet most people don't seem to have problems keeping track of those.
Senator to Ex-CEO: Equifax Can't Be Trusted with Americans' Personal Data
Project Fi does not charge extra for international data use, and it works in 135+ countries.

Many people may not have Fi, which I get, but I get the feeling Google's ideal use case is these headphones paired with a Pixel 2 running on Fi.
Are Crypto Coin Portfolio apps the new Weather apps? Seems like a new one comes out every day.
If you’re a consultant, you are ALWAYS up selling products. Consulting is a sales business and nothing more.
broken link for me.
Really? I'd love to know how they do that? Can you _really_ cram a useable sized db of popular music fingerprints into something small enough to store locally on a phone these days?
Not much. Even in the relatively high-labor-cost United States, only 12% of utility scale solar project costs are attributable to installation labor. See table 14 on page 56 of this report:

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy17osti/68925.pdf
Many private schools don't have buses.
House/car keys didn't migrate form factor
I've got a great pair of wired-together IEMs (Jaybird X3) but have been considering buying AirPods just so I can listen to podcasts single-ear on my bike ride to work.

Balancing that out is my desire to not get run over, and to save $160.

So what I'm saying is, I'm pretty sure I'll end up with AirPods soon.
Actual URL:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/04/peter-thiel-sean-parker-inve...
The leadership of the democratic party believes the people should not see their internal memos. The candidate for the democratic party didn't want transcripts of her speeches to donors made public. So yes, I believe there are plenty of politicians who don't want truthful information made public if it doesn't create the correct optics.

Giving out true information is not propaganda, its journalism.
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Interesting that you think most people value their life over $6M USD. I bet you that across the entire world, more than 50% of adults would take a 15% chance of death to win $6M USD.
What, biking to work and showering there? It's heavenly.
Go is really easy to install manually. Just download from the official golang.org website.
When I was in school in Los Angeles during the same time period there was no bus to take you to a private school.
I missed my chance of learning vim properly and I never internalized h I j k. After trying a few episodes of forcing myself to use h I j k miserably, I question that wisdom. The fact is I never find arrow keys a hindrance, probably when I navigate with arrow keys, I am always unclear of my editing goals and I can use some slowdown thinking anyway
bragi pro headphones have allowed to do this for a while. also theyre truly wireless :)
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/bragi-dash-pro-earbuds-can-...
Google Pixel 2 gets 98 DXOMark score
http://www.corkscrewsonline.com/images/00232.JPG

Oh Reghinold! I disagree!
Maybe you don't lose your car keys, but there are dozens of products that purport to help you find your lose keys, by attaching various detectors and buzzers to them. I personally never lose my keys unless my wife moves them while I'm looking the other way - I swear that's what's happening.
It's my opinion that:

1. Taleb is incredibly smart
2. He is not being arrogant or trying to impress (any more than any other writer)
3. He is writing about something that is interesting and not everyone knows
Nine Rounds a Second: How the Las Vegas Gunman Outfitted a Rifle to Fire Faster
Puerto Rico Has a Once in a Lifetime Opp. To Rethink How It Gets Electricity
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I use one airpod all the time, it’s great for when I’m out riding my bike. I use the right side so I can hear traffic to my left.
AFAIK, C-AD has no support for DOM Storage or IndexedDB (or other legacy APIs if they're still alive, like Application Cache), though. I think it doesn't support Flash LSOs, too. It's very inferior to the SDC, and cannot be considered a reliable solution for sites to forget you. Not its fault, just that there are no APIs for this.

Nor there's any protection against HSTS and HPKP pinning, ETags or other "supercookie"-grade stuff. I'm not sure even Contextual Identities are enough, given that e.g. HSTS leaks into incognito mode if the flag was already seen in non-incognito session. That's only a suspicion, though - I haven't checked it, and it's well possible containers are isolated.
If only Apple invented some sort of device that held the headphones when they weren’t in your ears. I wanna say like a basket but that’s not it, this thing should fit in a pocket.

If they really went nuts I’d say it be cool if the thing also charged the headphones. But I mean, what a crazy world that would be.
> Any reason why new tabs shouldn't create an entirely new, isolated container by default?

That sounds a lot close to self-destructing-cookies, or now, this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

The thing about "new container by default", is that sessions are always lost, and people generally want to keep session alive.
Depends on whom you take a photo off, where and from where.
It's a complicated matter juristically, but the morale is easy. Don't take a photograph of someone visible in your photo without their consent. If so, at least don't upload it anywhere public or online.

In Germany there's a law giving you the copyright on your own photo[1], it's difficult in the USA and less difficult in other countries[2]

EDIT:

Voice recordings are practically illegal in the public without consent in Germany[3] and also in the USA [4][5].

--

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recht_am_eigenen_Bild_(Deutsch...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_and_the_law

[3] https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/201.html

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_recording_by_civil...

[5] https://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/digital-jour...
AAC is supported on Android Oreo.
I already operate a small scale operation near my hometown in India which is almost self sufficient (powered by wind and solar). For deficit, we have connection to the grid but it is rarely used save for rainy season.
> Never heard of XRP before. Very briefly scanning, looks like a distributed consensus type protocol, which isn't anything new doesn't attempt to solve the core concern about decentralised trust.

To save you some googling, it _does_ try to solve decentralized trust. It goes for a more traditional scheme, a variant of Byzantine agreement.

However, there was a dispute wherein David Mazières (of Kademlia fame) claims that Ripple's design has a flaw, that he fixed in SCP (Stellar Consensus Protocol), by designing FBA (Federated Byzantine Agreement) as described in his paper: https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pd... (which features a comparative description with Ripple and Bitcoin).
Love this for company documents as well on my commute.
Dropped my Pixel 1 in a toilet. Glad the Pixel 2 is water proof. Preordered!
That table gives a value of 9 Wh/kg for electrochemical supercapacitors. I've seen a lot of researchers claim values over 30 Wh/kg in research papers over the past few years. That's still not adequate for mobile applications that currently use lithium ion batteries, but what we're wondering is why supercapacitors aren't being used for stationary applications where cycle life is more important than density. It could just be, as I speculated before, that these improved supercapacitor designs take a long time to move from lab to factory.
Most of the big expensive physics projects actually have little to no impact on daily life, or really scientific progress they're mainly about confirming theories that were thought up a long time ago. Dollar-for-dollar medical research has a much greater impact than physics
Killer feature or not, it's the distinguishing feature that makes AirPods what they are, and it makes little sense to consider any product without it a "competitor". Unless we're going to play with language and stretch the meaning of competitor.
From speech globally. What? Gosh, they might find out our health care policy sucks, for example.
I’m failing to see what these headphones do with translation, all they seem to do is launch Google Translate app on conversational mode by saying Help me speak... so technically they don’t really do anything you can’t already do right now, they certainly don’t help with fast network connection required
Sometimes, your home country (or rather, the country where you live) has a different official language(s) than what you are most proficient in. That's the case for me living in Barcelona (catalan and spanish here, where I speak mostly english and swedish).

Also, being able to travel around in europe without any extra roaming charges, means that I can still use this, wherever I go in europe.

I'm very excited to try these as soon as I can get my hands on them.
Thanks! Please share what you're doing and we'll promote as much as we can.
It boggles the mind that they just can’t seem to fix SourceKitService for three versions now, it’s such a massive part of making the Xcode experience suck.

It’s worse than no completion, you never know when it’s actually going to work.

I guess it does do something though, for eating up all those cycles.
I think it's easy to look past positions and want to punish someone, or anyone, who you believe has used corrupt practices to unrightfully squash your candidate's chances. Especially after some of the perceived chicanery at some of the caucuses, some of the emails, etc. There's a very real tendency to say "oh, so you think you can not play fair and square, try to manipulate me, and take it for granted like I'm some pawn? Well then, I'm going to let it all burn. Serve you right."

That said, I don't think I know any people who were in favor of Bernie who did vote for Trump.

Whereas I do know decent numbers of "conservative-ish" type people who were disgusted with Trump, but never in 10 million years would vote for a Clinton, but would maybe have been willing to vote for Sanders over Trump, mostly because he wasn't Trump or Hillary and sort of overlapped a bit with Joe Biden type blue-collarism while being an outsider. But given the choice between Hillary or Trump, they'd all feel sick and go Trump.

Tangentially, I think there's a large chunk of Democratic party die-hards who still just do not understand how much the Clintons are hated, or who focus on such dislike being unfair rather than just seeing it as reality to contend with.
Too much empathy from one group of people causes other people to drop all empathy.

How can you find a common middle ground with people who are overflowing with empathy?
I know that the headphones which came in the box work through the lightning port on my iPad. I think firmware support was added to all devices in iOS 10, maybe check if she's updated.
I used the AirPods for a week before returning them. It stayed in one ear, but kept falling out of the other ear. The thought to purchase a cord or ear hooks crossed my mind until I realized it would make charging them in the case painful by having to disconnect the attachment before charging them.

As such, the AirPods form factor is a killer feature if they fit your ear and stay through activity. If they do not stay, there is no point in trying to "extend" them.
And the point of the GP was that that does not address the OP point that it is "just a distributed database"
Mr. Monopoly at Equifax Senate Hearing
I'm a Smalltalk'er, and that's completely disingenuous and frankly intellectually dishonest.

What Smalltalk does is not remotely what you do in other languages and when we say file based we're referring to that difference, file oriented programming vs image oriented programming.

A Smalltalk program is not a collection of files one works with, it doesn't fit into the standard file based workflow, you cannot without jumping through many hoops, work on a Smalltalk program from your standard editor using your standard unix tools and file based workflow. So when we say file based, it's this we're referring to, do not lie to people and claim Smalltalk is file based, it is not. Smalltalk is image based, you work with its dev tools on a running object model in an image; having the option to export that to a file after the fact is not remotely the same as being file based; that the image stores source code in a changes file, or that we share code between each other with st exports does not a file based language make.

St files by the way are a serialization format, they are not meant to be hand editable and are not treated as such and contain all kinds of non-Smalltalk stuff related to the serialization format; we don't edit st files and compile them, we edit in the image and import/export st files to share code between images.
I still think multiple profiles are a better choice. My main profile never keeps cookies and have a very rigid https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js file and only a couple of extensions. I'm very scared about extensions and self-updating scripts so I only keep them isolated. It also helps with organization since I have different bookmarks. I can also "firewall" that profile to never accidentally load websites I don't want to.

If needed you can drag windows/tabs between profiles or even other browsers. I disabled all the referral options too.
As someone with an S7 , while many improvements are nice, they are cobbled by being buggy as hell.

If I just turn on power saving then turn it back off , I have to hard reset my phone because the resolution gets all messed up.
Why answer them witch accurate information in the first place? It's not like the company is going to check and see if you gave the "correct" answers. The answer is what ever you provided the first time. As long as you remember the answers you gave them, you're okay. (Recently, I did come across a site where the four security questions could not have the same answer, so someone figured out not every answers them accurately.)
I made a test repository and proceeded to clone it using the keybase:// uri, expecting it not to work, but by some dark magic, it just did. Impressive!
Why is it one step away from "I only want to pay for healthcare for healthy people"?
Bluetooth headphone sales passed wired headphone sales last year, even before the iPhone 7 was announced [1]. I have to believe it’s only gone up from there.

1. https://qz.com/745108/wireless-headphone-sales-just-hit-a-ti...
We find all that out through real, open discussion.

You really should not be delegating these things to Snopes without having a robust check in place.
There was a vacuum created in the area of manufacturing consent after the election. Mass media had one job - they were supposed to elect a certain candidate. And they failed. Google, Twitter, Facebook immediately noticed and rushed to fill that void.

Remember this article https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/technology/google-will-ba... ? Right after election both Facebook and Google came out saying they will protect us from fake news. That's a good goal on the surface. We can certainly do without lizard people conspiracies. However the timing wasn't accidental. They basically announced they are the ones who will be willing to manufacturing consent and do a better job than CNN and NYT and friend. Effectively saying "Don't go to them, they failed you, spend your billions on us. We'll make sure your version of truth is the real truth. If we have to ban and some accounts, no big deal, we've got you covered https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/01/business/facebook-china-g...
Pretty much all leftists figures (and even most Democrats) were against NAFTA when it was signed; it was an sign of the serious rift in the Democratic Party at the time that Clinton had to rely on unanimous (or nearly so) Republican support and weak support from his own party to secure NAFTA passage.

> Notice how he correctly predicted an influx of poor South American farmers who are pretty much forced to abandon their family to come and wash toilets and pick crops here.

Mexico is not South America, and the basically linear increase in Mexicans coming to the US started before NAFTA.
For the love of God, don't feed the troll.
AI predicts whether your relationship will last based on speech with partner
The important thing to note here is that the 'mainstream' news sources and Blue Checkmarks have all that influence because their political adgenda is aligned with advertisers and so they have tons of money to self-promote. (See the adpocalypse on YouTube) They dont have all that influence because their political slant is vastly more popular or more accurate than non-corperate (aka alternative) news sources. That's why the niche for alternatives to them exist.

Plenty of fake news on both 4chan and CNN, just different fake news. "Hands up don't shoot!" vs. naming the wrong man as the Vegas shooter

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/0...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/googl...
Phone-Powered AI Spots Sick Plants with Remarkable Accuracy
Don't you think that more moderate Democrats would vote for any Republican candidate if Bernie would the primaries? Trump may be an assholes, but at he's not advocating any radical economical policies that a LOT of US voters completely disagree with.

(Please note that this comment had no value judgements on any policies).
Yes of course lexicographic ordering is assumed, and the pattern will depend on the polynomial used to mod out multiplication. The boringness of the additive group presumes lexicographic ordering.
They do, by an order at least.
Because you're not paying for the content, so the publisher is desperately trying to get you to click on the adverts which are the only way they can make money.
I know they're a hassle to charge, but I bought bluetooth earphones for my morning run. Started using them on my morning commute in the subway.

Now I don't use wired headphones at all and the experience is just way, way better.

I still have my audiophile headphones (AudioTechnica M50x) but I only use them when I'm making music or seriously listening to music.

I've offlodaed all casual listening to the Bluetooth earphones. Couldn't be happier
I keep my car and house keys in the same key ring thing.. isn't that basically a cable?
This was exactly the feedback I had provided on a previous HN post a few weeks ago. At that time, one of the developers suggested filing an issue for it. I didn’t get around to doing that at all. Maybe you could consider doing that, or I’ll do it in about a couple of weeks.