skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want anyone to believe you then I would expect to see evidence from a large scale, double-blind clinical study published in a respectable medical journal. Find some researchers yourself and help put it together. Since there's no expense for medicine or food it ought to be fairly cheap to run. Despite your ridiculous conspiracy theory, hospitals and universities frequently conduct studies that aren't funded by pharma companies. Just pick up some medical journals and start reading to see how totally off base you are.
http://www.brighthub.com/science/aviation/articles/104548.as...

You would basically have to fill it up to its capacity.
This is not incorrect. YMMV obviously...but I stand by what I say.

However you misunderstood the reason - they are not coming because of me. They were coming back anyway because they want to work in India and build something here.

That was my point all along - I'm not uniquely positioned. It's happening all over.
At this point you are trolling. Would you please stop?
Lucid dreaming and meditation (Intensify practice),
Sketching,
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Could you clarify the distinction in the context of my parent's question? I think the same thing could be said of family doctor, but I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. For what it's worth, my dictionary refers me to "general practitioner" when looking up "family doctor".
Qantas don’t have any 777s (or any 777 orders). I think that going so hard on the A380 and never getting any 777s was one of their biggest mistakes. Now they’re doing better having cancelled their remaining A380 orders (after they got 12) and have started using the A330 on some routes with smaller demand and have finally got their first 787.

That, and their Emirates alliance have finally turned things around (they weren’t profitable internationally for several years until about two years ago).
> in the run-up to the Iraq War, there were many well-known voices both for and against it.

I'm certain you realize a 'media' and a 'well known voice' aren't exactly the same thing. The Iraq war is an excellent example and you are absolutely right that 'medias' were certainly proposing oped columns to those voices here and there. Those voices were sometimes occasions for a little bit of intelligence and sanity, other times unfortunately, in a way, just a way to make the idea of not being 100% pro war kind of dumb and unpatriotic. Sometimes debates were simply being made on alex jones level kind of conspiracy theories, such as the idea that Saddam Hussein has links to Al Qaeda (lol).

Anyhow, digressing a bit .. I'm talking about the media here, and my claim is that it is overwhelmingly unanimous on those category of issues, at large, and generally speaking aligned on the positions of the state department. US media coverage of Iraq war before the runup is actually a state of the art example of what I am claiming. If not, I would be curious to hear you explain the reason for this trend:
http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/ol...

> I may be wrong, but I am guessing you know this perfectly well, and are trying to mislead people for some political or ideological motive.

The second part of your sentence is not right or wrong, it's just inelegant, given you just allowed yourself to speculate on negative intentions of mine, to mislead people for political or ideological motives. I dont know if the idea here is to corner me into disproving a negative such as being a supporter of a particular president of the US? :)
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Is that example really supposed to make anything clearer?
Why wouldn't you just work remote and solve that problem?
Problem is also that it is not easy to diagnose in early stages, so you end up with most patients diagnosed in stage 4.
Which part of my statement is inaccurate?
I find it difficult to understand when you say "it was a sentiment I was not at all exposed to in real life, ever". Even if I were extremely mollycoddled by my parents, I fail to grasp how I would not be exposed to such attitudes - however slight or fleeting - in my pampered upbringing.

As for the prophets of Internet 2.0 (not sure why you're adding 2.0 here, we're discussing Brand and Kelly who were prophets of the intial web), I'd hazard a guess that their blindness came from a combination of good old-fashioned wishful thinking mixed with 'the shock of the new' that the web had in spades back then, galvanising them into becoming the 'egg-meet-face' cyber-utopianist proselytizers that the author of this article is deriding.
In general not though. They have maids because they need them, not as a status symbol. And it is largely for the fairly wealthy and not something generally aspired to (in and of itself).

In fact, a lot of people will instantly regard those with maids as "probably assholes" in the US.
I'll go for the low hanging fruit - unions?
Somewhere between all possible speech, ever, should be free, and, well, fascism, is a more nuanced and useful classification of speech than "condone: yes/no".

A thorough and well thought out treatise on why the Holocaust didn't actually happen, exists in a different class of objectionable compared to a single anti-semitic tweet, which is different to credible threats of bodily harm or death against a specific individual (including street address and phone number). Different still is claims that the Earth is flat or 6000 years old.

Expressing like or dislike of current political leaders belongs to yet another class, and the various different kinds of sales pitches could be divided into a few more, as well.
Only if you like using words incorrectly. "Contact" isn't a verb if you really are the pedantic prescriptivist you are presenting yourself as.
I really like Jonathan Haidt's ideas about encouraging people from 2 different sides of an issue but who are both genuinely committed to the truth to battle each other with the intent of letting the truth emerge from the argument. This is extremely beneficial because we are all blinded by our own biases and it is very helpful when the other side helps us to see past them.
This is admittedly difficult to achieve in a forum like hacker news but IMHO it would be amazing if someone could make this happen. The biggest improvements to my own predictive model of the world have always come when arguing with someone who held a contrary view and I'd like to believe that I have returned that favor from time to time as well.
That's more a statement of just how backwards North Korea is in an increasingly prosperous world in which the median standard of living is at an all-time high and continues to rise by the year, famines are between extremely rare and non-existent, and global poverty is at an all-time low. It looks increasingly like North Korea may be among the very last of the failed state hold-outs. Even Cuba looks like it's set to change considerably for the better in the coming years.
Unfortunately, I'm waiting on the publication of the MOOC and course materials to find out.

It looks like the latest book, "BeagleBone Robotics Projects, 2nd Ed", https://www.amazon.com/BeagleBone-Robotic-Projects-Second-co..., came out in June and I haven't had a chance to look through it. The 2014 book, "Mastering BeagleBone Robotics", by the same author walked through multiple robotics examples implemented using Python and didn't involve the PRUs. Using only Python, there were examples of a rotary aircraft, fixed wing aircraft, sailboat, wheeled vehicle, and computer vision tracking.

My understanding is that TI only recently began improving the PRU documentation to make it more accessible and that Code Composer and other tools TI has created for working with the PRU are maturing slowly. I've never tried using it. Here's the PRU page on the BeagleBone wiki: https://elinux.org/Ti_AM33XX_PRUSSv2#C_Compiler

Another thing I've never tried, but that might be of interest to HN readers, is the Nerves project for Elixir development on single board computers including BeagleBone Black. https://hexdocs.pm/nerves/targets.html
I quit academia, frustrated at how bureaucratic it was and how impossible it seemed to become a Great Scientist. Very inspiring to read about the lives of those who make it against all odds.

May the work and memory of Ben Barres carry the next generations of scientists.
Because, after factoring-in the business risk, the expected return is 5%, and 5 is bigger than 3.

Or 10%, or 20%. Eventually, some business opportunities are better than sitting on a pile of cash.
In this context, politically correct.
Or they have some motor disabilities in their arm/hand, which you should check for before making a judgement. Some people have carpal tunnel, some people have tremors, some people might have other condition they might not have even know themselves or would like to talk about openly.
Yes, this is a scam. Now can we please stop giving it free publicity?
They are one of the top nations for cricket. Famous stars like

Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni or Dada - Sourav Ganguly

Checkout youtube for some amazing highlights.
Regarding OpenDime, I found these two relevant exerpts browsing the site, which were easy to find.

>How do I know the manufacturer doesn't know the private key?

>When you first plug in a new Opendime, it has no private key. It shows up as a writable drive and the user must copy files onto the drive. They are immediately forgotten, but the the file contents are hashed (SHA256). It's the hashed output of that which forms the private key (along with the unit serial number and entropy we derive from the environment). That happens as soon as 256k worth of bytes have been written to the drive. The private key is created and the drive "ejects itself" and comes back read-only and in "normal" mode... only the public key is shown until unsealed.

>Is the private key unique and secret?

>Yes. Opendime is delivered without any private key. You must give it entropy (random numbers) the first time you use it. Once it's gotten enough numbers, it will hash them all together and use that to pick a random number to use as the private key. At that point, the payment address is generated and set in stone.

>This whole process is very easy: just copy some files into the USB drive. When it's got enough bits (256k bytes) it will eject itself and come back with its final payment address.
How much do you guys think current DevOps roles will be automated within the next 10 years? I think about this a lot but then I remember that back when most of these functions were called "sysadmin" tasks, they were always supposed to get automated out but never really did.
In my experience, battling it out us part of the problem. HN already allows people with divergent views to discuss them. Discussion of that sort is enriching, with no winner and no loser. Sometimes views are changed, but it helps to assume the world is not black or white, not even shades of grey, but is a rich technicolor universe and sometimes we run across people who know things we do not who thereby have the capacity to broaden our views.

And battle is not how you get there.
they don't teach excel in the comp sci department at Rice.
Look into research and patient treatment results by the likes of Dr Herbert Shelton. There is quite a bit of literature to support caloric restriction and in particular water fasting as ideal treatment option for many diseases once you filter out MSM sources that tell you it's a lie (and in the same page push you ads by Pfizer.. yep, clearly unbiased!)

It's not about who funds the research - there is literally no benefit to confirming that water fasting cures diseases. Nobody in the medical industrial complex would benefit from this. Not even food companies! (because you won't be eating for up to 30 days and then change your consumption habits drastically against mass produced factory food).
it is very cheap! how many people do you need to operate a train ? 2,3 ? compare to the scale of train it is very cheap!!!
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A broken request parser? What a lovely first impression.
"Spy on employees" = Monitor the network activity of a sensitive, private business network.

I'll give the same spiel I give every time proxies come up: I am a donor to EFF, friend of privacy and the 4th amendment and I love the ACLU. I also recognize the legitimacy and importance of MITM proxies that inspect the content of SSL on a corporate network. It's not despotic to deploy company assets with company root CA certs that proxy TLS traffic to make sure a random employee isn't uploading credit card data to Box.
Why don't NRI's quit their Bay Area job to come and contribute to the motherland?
I don't get the significance? It's just some random users repo.
The value is set to 2million satoshi I assume. So the devs will premine 0.02BTC(~250) for working on the fork?

What is going on? There seems to be more than few of those addresses. Not sure how many would be in the code.

EDIT : Nothing to see here.

Apparently, they are trying to run a scam.

More discussion here

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7mfkhq/psa_...
Does the scammer stand to benefit from the publicity? I'd like to know what tricks people try to pull on me.
also worst damage such a government could do would be to double-spend some coins. That is if the 51% is somehow undetected and that the rest of the bitcoin community doesn't fork the chain upon detecting such an attack.
fjsolwmv: Maybe 100 years ago. I don't know anyone or even heard of anyone with a maid. The closet thing is paying someone to come clean your house once or twice a month for an hour or two and that's pretty inexpensive.
The community docs for Rasperry Pi do win out for the moment, and so do product and accessory availability.

Long-term, it seems like the goal of the BeagleBone foundation is to support each board for a number of years in order to allow for text books, curriculum, and other support material to emerge. Their focus seems to be on robotics and headless embedded systems rather than trying to duplicate the "cheap desktop learning computer" objective of the R Pi. It will be interesting to see if they're able to achieve that goal.

I do think the BBB model for open source is the most comprehensive model so far. I'd be very interested to hearing of other open source hardware models. The Open Compute Project hardware licenses were promising, but I haven't seen much action on them since the request for comment in 2014... http://www.opencompute.org/blog/request-for-comment-ocp-hard...
Anything labeled Watson get out the checkbook!!! My guess is that this thing will do less than Amazon Lex and cost $$$$.

Reading the buzz on the page, I don't see any difference between this and the chat api Watson released last year. The one they wanted like $60K for my startup to use for 50 conversations a day....A DAY!!!

Watson == overhyped, devalued brand
Hours seems like the wrong metric to measure a (potentially) highly distributable training time. Has deepmind released something like how many floating point operations it took, or perhaps how many watts?
I agree though, by the time a patient makes it to a traditional physician for advice it's pretty much too late in the game. What do you expect from doctors that accumulated a total ~20 hours of nutritional education in their many years in school?
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Numbered pages 3, 9, and 10 of https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42637.pdf have some info on why even positive train control (PTC) isn’t live yet:

> The estimated capital cost of meeting the PTC mandate is thus roughly equal to the railroads’ total capital spending in a single year.”

… and that’s for PTC, not driverless. Successful PTC is arguably a precursor to anything more automated, with or without humans.
With all these forks I am confused. Are the forkers just issuing to themselves a generous 'premine'?

I thought they wanted to 'reclaim' Satoshi coins? When I first read about that, it reminded me of Margaret Thatcher: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money."

They don't even pretend they are concerned about the destabilizing effect of large balances. Sad.
Maybe 100 years ago. I don't know anyone or even heard of anyone with a maid. The closet thing is paying someone to come clean your house once or twice a month for an hour or two and that's pretty inexpensive.
I expect Qantas have all the A380s they’re going to get (twelve). They originally planned for 20, but their eight remaining orders are postponed indefinitely.

The 787 will be a big part of their strategy from here on in. Their first has finally entered service in the last month or two.
> The reason for this though is terrorism concerns, as wearing the uniform could make them a target.

Curious, what is the background of that. Basically who would be attacking them and for what reason? I can't think of as Australia as an overly aggressive military power. Does it have to do with the treatment of Aboriginal Australians somehow?
China has one cyber security engineer per 22k Chinese and United States has one per 35k Americans. To match China we need to increase our amount of engineers by about 60%, or increase the effectiveness of an engineer by about 37%.
The point is to show boot times. If you are scaling up/down in response to load, this is a nice quality to have. Most folks have really spiky traffic patterns so this can save you a lot of money.

Obviously no one would ever run something like this 1 vm per request thing irl.
When Orson Welles Interviewed Andy Kaufman (1982)
> So who has the best human expertise is irrelevant.

i agree, there's no way on earth any chinese firm could have the best shoe-making robot plant in 20 years. we all know chinese people aren't smart enough for that.
The Direct Project has an SMTP implementation which allows for emailing medical data in a secure, HIPAA compliant way.
http://wiki.directproject.org/SMTP+Implementation+Developmen...
That would be an excellent ruse to steal another countries satellite for reverse engineering at ones leisure later..

Put in dummies in place of stolen satellites for weight.. then "make a programming error"
This is what I chose, but there are some tradeoffs: there was a biomedical engineering in Cincinnati, OH company who recruited me that I interviewed with that wanted to hire me (and I was very interested in the work seeing as it was stuff that I did but in another field), but they wanted me work onsite…

After a couple of more years working remote, I may just go work for another lab again because its not too hard to find very interesting work, but the pay sucks (for non-degreed folks).
Muir Woods.

The most twisty, turny road in America.

Walk around downtown SF.

See the Golden Gate Bridge.

Reyes Point

Reyes State Park
Joseph Campbell on Following Your Bliss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLKUFYAOoRI
> 1. There is a finite number of bitcoins, which means you can never have inflation, or in other words the bitcoin price is only going up tomorrow.

It takes both supply and demand to create a price.

If demand evaporates then the price can crater even though the supply remains constant.
I've seen 'soft' vs 'hard' skills treated as a constant-sum quantity, e.g. somebody who conclusively demonstrates hard skills must not have soft skills so they must be a bad person to work with, won't be able to teach/learn, probably works badly in a team, etc. This is in the context of hiring meetings to discuss candidates. Interestingly, the opposite isn't as strong: a candidate with soft skills is presumed capable of picking up hard skills quickly, although it doesn't actually happened in most of these hires
Yes, every social media headline that is not unambiguously calling this thing a scam has the possibility of confusing more people. Besides, there are thousands of crypto scams out there today and nothing makes this one more noteworthy than all the rest. We can't have stories about each scam because we'd never be able to post anything else.
I would say that technically it's complaint because there's nothing saying a server can't tear down a connection whenever it wants.

Our InfoSec friends are rightfully suspicious of 'weird' looking packets and data from clients. It's one of the few ways to catch/stop zero day vulns. It does make things difficult when legitimate traffic is caught in the crossfire but such is the nature of most security practices.
Obviously that's false. There have been many successful Silicon Valley healthcare companies creating software, drugs, biotech, medical devices, etc. Just drive around and look at the names on some buildings.
Yeah. Teem is another one.
>> the uniform could make them a target.

In typical canadian fashion, with us it was non-violent attacking, mostly verbal insults. But a few years ago I heard an interesting perspective from a US base commander after a real terrorist attack at a recruiting center. He said in short: "bring it on". He would rather have his base, his people, attacked than a school or stadium full of civilians. His view was that it was the job of soldiers to stand between terrorists and civilians even on home soil. I think I agree with his point, but only if we assume that the terrorist attack was inevitable.
Sadly, it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. As an Indian IT guy, I was lucky enough to work in product companies all my life. My many friends in the service industry haven't had that luck. I've heard horror stories and I've sworn not to work for bodyshop firms.

I feel its a systematic issue - too many IT related courses and seats in colleges, companies hiring for head count rather than quality, a huge number of maintenance projects which provide little scope for learning, etc.

Sure the employees do share a part of the blame, but only a part. There is no incentive for them to change anything in a highly bureaucratic environment, so this vicious cycle will continue. I just hope the industry as a whole learns and adapts before its too late and millions lose their job.
> In the case of 2D histograms the resulting plot will have the pixel intensities of a channel on the X-axis, the pixel intensities of another channel on the Y-axis, and the frequency is given by the color of the plot.

I'm still having a hard time understanding what exactly this represents and how to properly interpret it.
Their “3d histogram” is a 4d image
I am not aware of any study (that has been made public, remember they always have that option at the end) by a pharmaceutical company or university that was set out to test whether water fasting for 5+ days is beneficial in treating or curing disease.

Several reasons:

1. They conducted one, but didn't like the results.

2. "Don't ask what you don't want to know the answer to" applies here - there is ZERO benefit in discovering that water fasting indeed reverses diseases to which these entities have vested interest in keeping their symptoms a lifelong struggle to patients. Nothing good would come out of it for them. The entire modern medical business model would collapse.

Tin foil hat? Sure, label me that. All I can do is drop tidbits that may be helpful to someone now or in the future. I already know that I've helped a couple dozen people personally in the last few years, myself included.

Those people would still be in a very bad shape if they waited for government or pharma company to endorse what has already been proven to be used successfully for hundreds of years as a primary healing treatment.
Are you referring to this one?

Shelton, Herbert M. Fasting Can Save Your Life: How Christians Can Change World Events Through the Simple, Yet Powerful Tools of Prayer and Fasting. Natural Hygiene Press, 1964.

Please.
A type of semi-transparent polymer that can be mended at room temperature