skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting. I had a similar setup in a previous life without any issues, but the "it is at this point unclear what triggers it to do this" is ominous indeed, so it's possible I just went down the happy path where this sort of issue doesn't come up.
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My thought is as long as you're not editorializing it's fine. If you're recommending products and affiliate linking then people have to question the legitimacy of your recommendation. If you're simply linking to every book mentioned on HN then there's no conflict of interest.
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Before you invest time in a test, perhaps you should invest a little time in presenting yourself as someone who actually could hire a freelancer.

I'd have contacted you last month if all your domains didn't lead to dead-end godaddy pages.

I rather enjoy building GeoDjango solutions...
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From not seeing a headline from them in a long time, I had hoped PandoDaily was banned from HN for being so terrible.
Why did you obfuscate the jar files? :(
Why no love for opensource?
What if the database results in systematic human rights abuse?
I've had good experience with Navicat.
Except diseases like cancer are almost exclusive to "western" society. The more affluent we become, the more cancer and other non-contagious diseases we get.

We are killing ourselves and it starts with the stuff our mothers eat, is made worse by what we eat, and is topped of by the environment we live in.
There's another name for that - it's called scene whoring.
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1. Finish just one project (not to shiny-perfect, just to functionally complete) and put it on GitHub. This is to show you can finish something. It's a huge risk mitigator if someone can look at your code. Nobody's code is perfect, but some code is always better than no code.

2. Put the rest of the stuff up on GitHub, with suitable disclaimers, e.g. "I was working on this to learn X ..." Everyone understands (well, everyone I like understands) that creative people have lots of projects in various stages of disarray.

3. Target a few small/midsize startups, not the super-hot ones, and spend 1-2 hours to learn their product. I would be THRILLED to get an email from someone who said "I love what you do, here's three things I would like to work on with you to make it better, are you hiring?"

4. Put up front your willingness/unwillingness to relo. If you have remote working experience, give an overview of that. "Worked remotely for company X for two years, with daily standups, weekly sprint meetings, monthly 3-4 day visits, and two visits of 2 weeks duration 2x/year." That lets me know what you're up for.
"I'd say it's my hatred of cancer that drives me to want to achieve riches, via a startup, so I can pour money into its vanquishing."

It was mainly this that I thought was ridiculous. It sums up a lot of what is terrible about valley startup culture, and the strange culture of wanting to cure all diseases.

Oh yeah, I plan to do a startup, solve the money problem, then spend my life fixing all the things I can with my immense wealth. Like say cancer or global warming!

Thanks for highlighting why I shouldn't comment on HN though.
Wouldn't this have heat dissapation issues?
I think it's more along the lines of: the degree itself is a insignificant and unworthy of his work. It's like giving him a Kindergarten gold star sticker. Which says something about the quality of his work, or of other degree holders, or both.
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Accepting BTC is not the same thing as fixing prices in BTC. Who is fixing prices in Bitcoin?

And if eg the Eur/USD conversion rate had changed +/- X00% in 3 months you could be sure that you would hear much talk about that here (and everywhere).
It isn't that anyone should live forever. It's the fact that cancer is such a painful death. It is painful both during the process of it taking over(attacking/destroying) the bones and organs of the body as well as the final moments of it causing organs to slowly shut down. For example have you ever seen a person die of lung cancer? It is a very painful process. I watched someone go thru it firsthand and I certainly hope I do not go thru it - a ton of extended pain, even when the pain was 'managed' thru Morphine. If taking the argument that no one should live forever, then I assume you would support that no one should never go to a doctor .. starting off with the birthing process and leave it all to chance for the unborn and mother.
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oh and one more thing ... have you tapped UVA's alumni network? I went to a good (but "wrong" for the Valley school) & I get calls quite often from people who want to leverage alumni connections into startup introductions. There have to be some UVA people in hiring roles out here!
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Believe it or not (given we live in the age of gmail and the cloud), the big issue for me is trust. How am I supposed to provide login information on mission critical databases, get the convenience of using a cloud-based product AND sleep well at night?
You don't seem to be all that up to date on present practice and theory in cryonics. Take some time to read up on the publications, such as by groups like 21st Century Medicine:

http://www.21cmpublications.com/

Or for a simpler starting point, the FAQs for scientists at Alcor:

http://alcor.org/sciencefaq.htm

You might also look at ongoing results from the Brain Preservation Technology Prize:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/03/an-update-from-co...

Evidence-Based Cryonics has a lot of as-unbiased-as-you're-going-to-get stuff on the perfusion and ischemia issues associated with vitrification of tissue, as well as explorations of other commonly voiced objections. Just wade through the archives:

http://www.evidencebasedcryonics.org/

Also, since we seem to be arguing from authority here, you might look at this, noting that a number of the signatories are quite well known biologists:

http://www.evidencebasedcryonics.org/scientists-open-letter-...
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This the common mistake. Mining does useful work: validating transactions.
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Is that supposed to be a modus tollens or a modus ponens?
That assumes we'll never colonize other planes/satellites/space stations and expand beyond earth.
Could you expand upon the reason why you chose to use 3D over 2D floor plans? From a technological standpoint it's very cool, but I was wondering what value it adds for the business and customer satisfaction?

If I understand your product correctly, 3D may bog down your customer service channels because people will pay more attention to the accuracy of your model (when it may not matter) instead of the metrics you are trying to convey.

There are also some logistic issues that I'm wondering how you will overcome:

-If I'm a local technician, this will be a great tool to spot check the receiver locations. But I have no way to (accurately and easily) measure if it's 4 feet or 6 feet off the ground.

-If I'm a school admin, I need a quick graphic where the only change is the metrics I'm trying to analyze. Making me zoom/move around to see different classrooms / buildings on campus is time I probably don't have. Even pre-made locked 3D views distract me with extra information about the building when I'm really trying assess classroom attendance. And while showing the flow of students from classroom to classroom in 3D would be cool, it would again be much more useful as an analytical tool in 2D where the information being displayed is limited and focused on the task at hand.

3D is typically used to engage someone emotionally or show a highly detailed item. Emotionally, it allows us to connect to an event (such as the SailBoat Race) by filling our eyes with information that can only be gleaned at that time/space in reality. Analytically, it is a great tool to convey and compare important minute details, such as light coming into a room or organs wrapping around each other.

It's a great tool when used appropriately and I do see some value added by making an admin see/feel the cramped musky hallways of a building to explain emotionally why students go to class less often in certain buildings. But I equally wonder if you won't find yourself in uphill battle as people focus more on the problems with your model instead of the problems with their attendance?

On top of all that, what happens if:

-I have a Netbook/Chromebook with too little horsepower for 3D?

-I have to install flash just to use your product and can't (Mac)?

-My internet connection is slow, intermittent or a combo?
I had the mistaken impression it was against Amazon TOS to call attention to the links. After reading the TOS again, though, I think that would be ok from Amazon's perspective. There's a line between saying on the page "click these links so I'll make money" and saying the links are Amazon affiliate. Amazon TOS here: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/oper...

Nice page, though. You should make money from it. How are you extracting the references to books from HN?
Comcast does this for good reason.

https://amibotted.comcast.net

Yes, the javascript is crappy, but no reason for their customers to be outraged. I don't know any other ISP that is helping out with the botnet problem.
Yeah it's still considered Java. While it's been working wonderfully, this still bothers me a little bit. And why not a Go version?

Any chance to open the protocol so other people can work on different clients?
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Those aren't his last two books, those would be Stonemouth and the Hydrogen Sonata.

I'm not sure what meaning you can draw from that unless you know of a sexual indiscretion that Iain committed at a wedding. :-)
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Agreed, I think that there is typically a balance between profit and ethics. One would hope that companies would follow a code of ethics, but many don’t.

As for insurance paying for the drug, that is a reasonable expectation in our current system here in the states. That system is broken on many levels. One example of where bad ethics in another company could potentially overlap with the costs of this drug, Wal-Mart. They do quite the opposite of what this company is doing. Sure they pass the savings onto the consumer, but at what cost. They pay their employee’s so little that many live below the poverty line, a situation that forces them to forgo health insurance. Then those employees without health insurance are forced to pay for drugs, such as this one, on their own. Where as other companies will subsidize health insurance (Whole Foods) and charge their consumers more.

The issue here is that it makes a really good headline and seems atrocious to us as readers. But this is just part of a bigger problem. So when we decide to regulate, we need to attempt to look at the system holistically, not just at this one very outrageous situation.

Also, some people may not be disingenuous, just greedy and immoral...
Sad about the emphasis placed on test scores. Another unintended consequence of standardized tests:http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june13/atlanta_04-02....
I don't understand why there are some people who doesn't open source their work to help other people, but try to comment on goood things. Open source thing first, comment later, please. Thank you, good people.
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From my experience, the people who are able to most easily deduct a car as a business expense are sales people. They will often put 20,000 miles a year on their company car as they travel around their territory and call on customers.

Which makes the 36,000 miles allowed under the Tesla 3 year lease problematic -- they'll have to pay 25¢ a mile for those extra 24,000 miles, or $6,000 at turn-in time. Even if they prepaid those extra miles at a cheaper rate, it'd still negate the advantages of the cheap(er) lease from Tesla.
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This is stupid. The entire reason that people have issues with multiple versions of software is that they had to "roll their own" and don't bother to update it, thus they hit incompatibilities and need some sort of "bundling" utility like this.

If you're running any form of Unix, it's very likely that you already have a package management system. It's also likely that system has more features, and is better designed from a management and consistency perspective than any one of CPAN and it's descendants (gem, cabal, etc.).

A much better solution - either make your own packages, or use a tool like FPM (https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm) to make native packages, then deploy the result as you would any other package.

I hope for an era when running CPAN or gem interacts with the package manager, building a real OS-level package and installing/deploying it, rather than the current "you need to run this script incantation on every production machine, oh, and you need the whole toolchain too" idiocy.
Why is it reasonable to assume that? Its fiat on both examples and both examples currently are impossible.
I applaud the fact that that's all you responded to, given the parent said it'd be stupid to cure polio and better to let poor people die to reduce overcrowding.
Anyone commenting here actually know if there ever was a contract with the early adopters? It could have said for all anyone knows that "this is a beta service, it most likely won't remain free forever and we reserve the right to change the pricing model at any time."
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Err.... no.

It's more prevalent in some societies because we live longer and we don't any longer die of preventable infections.

Our air is cleaner than it's been for a long time. Decent nutrition has never been cheaper or more widely available. Life expectancy has never been longer.

We are not killing ourselves. OK so some are by overeating and doing no exercise, but in general you're talking nonsense.
"Cryopreservation advocates do not claim that the process is proven to be work, they claim that the chance may be small, but it's non-zero."

They implicitly claim that not only is the chance non-zero, but that it's large enough to be worth the opportunity cost of actually freezing people. I agree that a non-zero chance seems obvious, but this claim definitely does not, and needs a lot more substantiation than there actually is.
thanks, will look at this too.
As others have said, totally ok. Everyone should have a chance to make some money from a project like this.

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Sounds like a decent idea.
From bottom of article: "Are you thinking of producing physical bitcoins? Do you have the resources to do any kind of mass production of a product like this and just need the magic that ensures that the product is a reliable functional physical bitcoin? Please contact me."
The article might be more of a personal ponderance than anything, even though the author calls out others. Yes, everything that was wrong back then is being ignored, so that we can focus on a simple fact: most of us are probably not living up to our potential. So it's easier to get into business or write code these days? That's even more reason why we shouldn't be squandering our opportunities! Look at what you do for a living and ask yourself: is it meaningful? Will it truly matter after you're dead and gone? Is it helping to make the world a better place? At a bare minimum, does it make you happy?
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Source? I'm aware of programs which allow internationally educated engineers to earn equivalency in Canada (ie. without having to re-do their entire degree), and there is certainly a test to write before you may be a member of a province's professional organisation (and thus eligible for a PEng), but that test is about ethics and engineering law.

I've never heard of any system by which someone without any formal engineering education could write a series of tests to become eligible for a PEng, unless that "series of tests" is accompanied by several years of painstaking study and a bachelor's degree at the end ;)
The fact that they have the Business Tax Benefit selected by default is also very disingenuous.
Which comes and goes. I've got in several times in the last hour.
I really wish articles like these would include photos, the referenced writings or at least the coordinates.
Living with the doctor, I've come to the conclusion that: yes, quite probably this is the future – but this future is going to be about as easy to implement as replacing programmers with Watson.
Unit tests are of course important, but they don't test for higher level failures like network issues, high latency, increased load, etc. Your components must be designed to be isolated from incidents as much as possible, possibly using the techniques implemented in Hystrix [1], an open source library from Netflix.

[1] https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix
Yes but there is nothing backing up the solving of the algorithm. The rock came from somewhere and can be put back to be picked up again. A bitcoin comes from nowhere and is a magnetic action away from being wiped into nothing.

Bitcoin is b<censored>t, a nonsense bubble waiting to burst. The emperor is wearing bitcoin.
not here http://bitcoinity.org/markets?currency=EUR&exchange=mtgo...

I really would like to buy more, but I am unsure if it is normalizing soon (back to 100$) or hiking like gold did last year.
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I build this service so I could be better in touch with my closest friends.

I wanted to eliminate some of the noise of Twitter and focus on people I care the most.

Please let me know what you think about it, I hope you like it
Was the easiest way I found to keep them updated. :)
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This whole article seems like it must be an elaborate HN Karma Lottery, where the first person to read the headline then post the above comment will immediately walk away with 300 points.

LOL... it's so funny you would say that. I was thinking last night, after this comment started getting upvoted like mad, how pathetic it is that this comment, which is basically just an emotionally charged rant, gets massive upvotes, while my much better comments - the ones full of research, thoughtful commentary, links, etc., - languish with no upvotes. I mean, I stand behind the above comment 100%, and would repeat it today. But it isn't a particularly good comment. There's nothing actionable in it, and nobody learns anything new from reading it, except for "Phil thinks $BLAH". sigh
For some perspective: in the mid 90's, i could buy a gallon of gas for about $1. Now it will cost about 4x that. Do i expect to show up at a gas station now with 4 dollars and get 4 gallons worth? No.

Is it that hard for one to think: "Oh i have 1BTC now and it is worth $10000. It used to be worth $.001 when i bought a pizza. The pizza is still valued at $10, now I will spend ~.001BTC since that is what it is worth now. quel chance!"

The worth of the pizza has stayed the same, the worth of the BTC has gone up.

Come back next week and we'll practice paying for pizza in Euros! (unless you live in cyprus of course :P)
Thanks for the link, will check it out!
Last I heard he is quite well off. He's a relatively obscure/niche author in the US, but enjoys broad popularity in the UK.
I haven't read the 1.0 spec yet but if the marketing in their FAQ
is to be believed, they claim "will provide a substantial system
latency reduction"

http://hybridmemorycube.org/faq.html
My uneducated 4-year-old nephew speaks American Standard English. It doesn't take any education whatsoever to imitate language.
For yourself, the best things you can do today is massively reduce your sugar (and high-fructose corn syrup, which is nearly identical) intake[1] and increase excercise[2]. Reducing sugar will cause you to increase other macro and micro nutrients that are healthier (which may help) and most likely cause you to loose weight if you need to (which will help).

Unfortunately, until public policy on diet (which is set by the people responsible for selling more corn and sugar) changes, it's not going to get better.

1. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130201100149.ht...

2. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/prevention/phys...
Don't know if we can trust that link at the moment: it's showing the last trade as "an hour ago".
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Science Fiction != Science!

(Yet.)
A couple of things (I work for Intel, and do not speak for them):

-A ucode hack would be the ULTIMATE backdoor

-A ucode hack could damage or destroy (melt) the part. Think of things like thermal diode trim values, voltage, etc.

Intel had a billion-dollar lesson with recalls in the past, and the learning wasn't lost.
From what I've read, through silicon thermal vias are used to remove heat from thermal hotspots to the heat sink.
Is there really no preventative tests we can take periodically to discover these things before they get out of control? I have the feeling that future generations are going to ask WTF we were thinking.
I just ordered the first three books. Will start off with Player of Games. Sad news indeed.
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I'm pretty sure he would be against cryo:

"Firmly restating his atheism, Banks spoke of his belief that death is an important 'part of the totality of life', to be treated realistically, not feared."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Banks
Oh, well here's the original paper that describes the system in detail:

http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
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Why not just buy it for research use? You can buy a year's supply for $22 bucks online that's at least 99 pure. Then for an extra couple hundreds bucks you can just put it in a mass spectrometer to make sure that none of the impurities are going to be dangerous.
If you have a system where the developer isn't allowed to charge money because the people it could help are poor, you are setting up a system where the developers will only work on diseases of the rich.

You could say "well, they should have just done this one for free," but there's no more reason for them to it than for you. In fact, there are charities which go through all the funding of researching drugs for the poor. The Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation has paid for drug companies to get drugs approved, with the contract saying that they will be available at low cost once everything is done.
Congrats, R is probably the most interesting language I tried in some time :)

And I really do dig the '95 retro chic of the site.
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