skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd kill (well, pay up to $600/mo) for a low-carb version of Soylent. Even if he made it in a (clean) residential kitchen, although I'd prefer if RFI did it under contract.

Even better if you could get monthly blood analysis and then have your Soylent customized for you.

SoylentPro, perhaps.
RAID10 only gives you room for one disk failure in some scenarios.
Actually the Terminator listings were from Sandy Mossberg's "Disassembly Lines" column in Nibble magazine, where he published and discussed a commented disassembly listing of DOS.

(Or at least some portions of it. I read Sandy's column religiously at the time, but I don't remember how far it went.)
> Anyone that is a fan of Bill Gates cannot also be a fan of humanity unfortunately.

What utter nonsense. If you want people to take your opinions seriously, you should start having opinions that aren't obviously wrong.
I don't care about the banks, that is a separate issue. There is a competitive market for loans. Making it effectively cheaper to default on a loan will subsidize people who default, at the expense of people who do not.

I am saying that we should not be transferring money from people who choose to default over those who do not. We should be transferring money from people who are wealthy to people who are not. Which is what taxation and welfare does.

Try to focus on what I am saying rather than the bad guys that you falsely assume I represent.
True, the millions of children killed by chemistry sets don't live to tell...
Walmart now using Scala + Akka
Not Just Wine in Bordeaux (Part 2)
I think this is a cool idea and I'm pretty sure something like this will exist in the future.

Can we all agree though that its time to start phasing out the use of the word 'Ninja' with everything? How about 'Ranger Sphere' or 'Knight Sphere' or just 'The Sphereamid' - thats a pretty neat word you guys came up with, go with it, enough with the 'Ninjas'
When people think of 'hamburger', they think of ground beef. Just ground beef. And maybe some spices.

They don't think of the chemical process involved in factory processing the normally inedible bits of a cow into a slimy pink goop (see where the name came from?) and then mixing that in with their ground beef at a specific percentage to avoid getting into trouble.
I still think the answer is not in any particular standard in any particular field, rather it's outputting the final, worked datasets. Making the numbers themselves available and usable to the 'reader' or scientist following up will immediately clear up issues of reproducibility or not meeting statistical thresholds. If I see the same data, run it through my own processes and it looks like noise I'm likely to discount the results moving forward. There's nothing inherently wrong with saying 'look, I did this once, and this is what I saw'. And many times it's useful. It's less useful, but still reasonable in certain circumstances to say, 'look, I did this a hundred times and I saw this once'. There are occasions when the experiment cannot reasonably have more than a statistically insignificant 'n' - but it still might be useful to see what happens. What is not reasonable is to say, 'this is what I (sometimes) see always (trust me)' and hide your data behind a 'representative' jpg and a 'statistically significant' p-value.

As I scientist who has worked with both rich, and poor datasets from standard and invented datatypes, I'd just say, "let me see the data".
I agree with your main point that long-term health is very important, but I'm hoping you're not saying that healthy food and tasty food are mutually exclusive.
I made a goal to read 100 books this year. I'm through 87 so far. Most of them have been non-fiction. Using this year to learn things outside of technology has been time very well spent for me. Here are some of my top books this year.

- Currency Wars, James Rickards

- The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein

- What Technology Wants, Kevin Kelly

- The Art Of Happiness, Dalai Lama

- Lies My Teacher Told Me, James Loewen

- The Four Agreements, Miguel Ruiz

- Man's Search For Meaning, Viktor Frankl

- Understanding Power, Noam Chomsky

- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander

- Good To Great, Jim Collins

- Abundance, Peter Diamandis

- The Mystery Of Capital, Hernando De Soto

- Pathologies Of Power, Paul Farmer

- Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff

- Seeing Like A State, James Scott

- Ishmael, Daniel Quinn

- Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman

- Beyond Fear, Bruce Schneier

- The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan

- The Birth Of Plenty, William Bernstein
Electronic Medical Records!
http://careers.epic.com
I accidentally photographed 2 galaxies, 6 Clusters and a Nebula with a DSLR
How crass.

On such a button-pushing subject linking to your own blog. As if you have the very best post ever written on the topic. Even if you did though (which I doubt very much you have) humility should lead you away from self-promotion. If your writing is that great others will eventually submit your posts and link to you, won't they? Also, a quick look at your submissions history shows that every single submission is one of your own blog posts. In short, you are nothing but a self-promoter.

> More people living doesn't necessarily mean people living better lives.

Yes. And. So. What? Where did you get that from the article? Better disease prevention leads to a _reduction_ in population growth. And this is the observed trend.

> limits to growth

Ok. So we have an energy growth ceiling. Yes. And. So. What? Where did you get in the article that Gates is calling for _unbounded_ energy growth? I read a lot of techno-utopianism, I read a lot about disease prevention. But _unbounded_ energy growth. Nope.

> Capitalism is great at increasing the pie, but poor at distributing it to those without capital.

This speaks directly to the article. Gater says that he is a fan of capitalism. He is suggesting that the current economic model is a good model. You are not. (I agree with you to some extent by the way.) You need to articulate a _better_ model instead of just disagreeing. Are you advocating more socialism? A Tobin tax? A carbon tax? What model are you proposing that better distributes wealth than the current one. Arguably Bill Gates's own action show that in order to address his needs he had to _go outside_ capitalism (i.e., he had to turn to philanthropy) to achieve his goals. This and his seeming antipathy to open-source and free-software are two very real areas you could take serious issue with Bill Gates rather than your overpopulation/finite_world/limits_to_growth schtick.

Pity I was late to this party :)
That's a lot of code! I wonder if it has more feature coverage than the Android device-independent RIL layer.
With TrueTime you are trading some latency on concurrent operations for correctness.

Other structures such as CRDTs/lattices might be more appropriate for your use case.
In Lavabit Appeal, U.S. Doubles Down on Access to Web Crypto Keys
Did 'microwave pulses' create super typhoon Haiyan?
Is the service it runs open source so we can run it completely in our home?
Mechanical engineer here.

Metal clays have been around for a while. Physical properties depend greatly on the base metal used and the temperature and environment in which the clay is fired.

Compared to "regular" metal, the clays will be significantly weaker, especially in tensile or shear loading. Not so much under compression.
>>Given the ingredients of Ensure, I wouldn't want to try to live on it for 30 days.

Ensure itself doesn't want you to. Because its a food supplement, not 'food'.

The right analogy is to compare {Soylent, Ensure} with {Cereal, Fresh Fruits, Vegetables, Meat, Milk, Eggs and other natural food}
When people say things like this, I wish there really was a god we could invoke and offer these people the opportunity to put their life where their mouth is, put them in front of a god who offers them two buttons: push this one to never exists, or push that one to be born "in a place where I have a high change of dying of malaria, or dysentery" - I'd feel pretty confident betting money most of them would have a sudden change of heart.

EDIT: Come to think of it, if he's correct in his assumption that the non-privileged people of the world would tend to share his opinion, we should expect to see extremely high levels of suicide in these regions should we not?
Success stories of algorithms
And on USB, don't forget SMM code emulating PS/2 input devices by parsing USB HID packets. I think part of the reason why real mode exploits was never very common was that the address DOS allocated memory depended on for example what TSRs you were running.
Can I run it without it having a connection to your servers?
Cassandra offers a mix of commutative operations (sets, maps, increments), an eventlog model, and lightweight (paxos-based) transactions. Unlike a key/value database like Riak, Cassandra can update individual fields of a row or document independently, which simplifies things enormously.

http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/why-cassandra-doesnt-need-v...

http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/cql3_collections

http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/lightweight-transactions-in...
The license cost starts at 20k/year with 1.4 USD license fee per 1000 views (CPM) for websites and mobile apps. The licensing of 1.4 USD CPM alone is more than normal sites can hope to earn from 1000 page impressions.

Source: https://developer.musixmatch.com/
Prime Focus Launches View-D (Amazing)
http://vimeo.com/78259829
Bill Gates is a massive investor in Monsanto

I take it you aren't a fan of GMO foods then? If so, then you are wrong. I'll leave it to former anti-GMO activist Mark to make that argument[1].

If you are talking about their business practices, then generally I agree with you. I can understand the point of view of people who think otherwise, though. I think people who agree with Monsanto's view are wrong, but that is a disagreement about methods, not outcomes.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/mar/09/mark-lyna...
http://vimeo.com/78259829 - View-D in action.
I think every new industry does have to make this argument. And they have to make it to their industry regulators and to the people who employ them. That is we, the people.
You took 3 months to write a mutable array for clojure?
Amazon DynamoDB Serves Trillions Of Requests Per Month
This is from the actual parent article:
Soylent is designed and regulated as a food, not a supplement.
By "everyone" I meant "in a company", and "losing" to mean "down for a whole week, at least". I should have worded that a lot better. My apologies.

If you're paying someone minimum wage, and they're a profit center for the company, their productivity over the week a flu would take them down is worth a lot more to you than a single flu shot. Extrapolate that to a whole department, which is likely to be lost because the flu is so contagious, and you're looking at a potential loss which is a lot more expensive than a department's worth of flu shots.
"Soylent is a choice"

So is airlines offering tickets that aren't bound by the lowest denominator of price. Those airlines went out of business.

If there's a good chance that Soylent becomes popular and a good percentage of the population uses it on a day to day basis, it's not a "choice" in the same way as avoiding all technology and being Amish is a "choice". Setting good practices like not having mold in your food, and following regulations, would be good before it gets to that point.
You're describing particular subreddits, not reddit.
How old are your users? Google Analytics shows demographic info
The market for purchasing debt securities on the cheap is factored into the cost of the debt. So if debt purchasers go out of debt, the interest rates for borrowers, both good and bad, go up.
I have a PhD in economics and that is the first thing that an economist would think of (in my case it wasn't, but I did eventually realize it...).

One reason why many of the the "crazy" ideas posted on HN don't make it to policy, is that there are people trained in economics who are able to see the flaws in such policies.

EDIT: and in case you were curious, this wouldn't generally be considered a dynamic problem in economics. Once the policy was announced, interest rates would immediately change to a new equilibrium, which accounted for people's higher tendency to default. So the problem is simply to calculate the new static equilibrium.
I tend to agree with you on this. I don't understand the ruling.
I haven't seen any reason to believe that being multidisciplinary makes this more likely. The whole problem is caused by the fact that most of the single-disciplinary researchers are using bad statistics.

Very few degree programs give scientists enough background in statistics and experimental rigor to prevent these problems.
How about a series of Haikus? Building size is not poetry.
Brazil and Germany Proposed UN Resolution Against Mass Surveillance
I'm surprised this article got so many upvotes. It's a lot of anecdotal evidence, and even the anecdotes and websites they pointed out don't support the point that much.

http://yahoo.com and http://yahoo.co.jp both have similar, tight aesthetic with a lot going on.

http://youtube.com (view in incognito if you are signed into an account http://nicovideo.jp are very similarly information-dense. I'd say Youtube's layout is even more jumbled with all the different column widths as you go down the page.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/ and http://newyorktimes.com are both very information-dense, with a lot of text on the page.

And these are the cherry-picked examples that this very article chose.

Here are some other sites that are among the most popular in Japan:

- http://naver.jp - Clean, Google-like simplicity

- http://www.ameba.jp/ - Very common splash page style front page, and inside is a very busy social-network-like page, but not really that much different from Facebook, except the ads are a bit more tastefully done.

- http://www.nifty.com/ - Yahoo-like portal

Do these sites really look that different to you? If your answer is yes, I'm going to guess that you probably don't read Japanese, and that it being an unfamiliar jumble of characters is what makes it look weird/different/intimidating. Look past that, though, and you'll see that the similar sites ended up at a similar conclusion, even if aren't mirror images.
You didn't get the point I was trying to make. The whole point is the term 'real' is difficult to define. You seem to have definition of the term real, as to some state of wakefulness. But how did you come to that conclusion? How do you know that you are not dreaming at this point in time?

You might simply be treating a level of wakefulness as real.

This is exactly what happens when you have dreams within dreams. You wake up to level, which you think is real. Until you wake to another level and so on.
Thank you for the link! Very useful.
Yeah that definition is good.

For the purposes of understanding the definition, another way of looking at it is basically a 'statistical proof by contradiction':

1. Assume null hypothesis is true

2. Compute test statistic

3. Ask the question, "What is the probability of obtaining that test statistic or one more extreme?" (this probability is the p-value)

4. Pick a threshold (usually 0.05 but this is totally arbitrary)

5. If p < threshold then conclude the null hypothesis is false and reject it.

Reductio ad statistico absurdum.
But that's not a safe reference point is it? Should kids be allowed to handle the acid in a car battery?
The reward tiers make it sound like the optimum operating environment is a single-floor apartment. I live in a three-floor house with a basement. I use a single base station that covers my entire house. The reward tier that adds a second floor sounds like a lot of equipment... what's the challenge there and why is it so much more? Is there a square-footage per way-point estimate?

I love the idea and have been experimenting with my own designs but haven't imagined doing the positioning stuff in such a sophisticated way (let alone gesture controls... voice commands work for me so far). I'd love to pitch in on a project like this and let someone else do the work better than I ever could in my spare spare-time. I'm just curious if by "home," you mean, "tiny, controlled environment," like a condo or something.
Our project's greatest challenge has been producing the actual sets' boxes exactly to my specifications.

This sentence really rubs me the wrong way. It says to me that they really do not think about the possible consequences of distributing these to unsupervised kids. It's the "I just gave him the gun/alcohol, what he did after that is not my problem" point of view.

I'm not saying that all kids shouldn't have access to fully-loaded chemistry sets, but chemicals should be distributed with forethought, and this guy is clearly not thinking about what harm the chemicals can do. (He's thinking about how to design a nice case.)
How To Sculpt Yourself
I would interpret barely sealed to mean the zip strip was 95% sealed. That is generally sufficient to keep stuff from falling out, but it's not quite airtight, and prone to opening with jostling.
would they exceed 5000 psi in compression? and what drives the cost up? I noticed they have a steel clay. Is that real (ish) steel and could it be made for under $5 per pound (as a bulk material)?
> Don't worry, the bankruptcy system will catch up and find a way to make medical debts non-discharge-able just like it did for student debts.

Inheritable, too, what with all the old people dying with medical debts their whole estate can't cover.

(The way it works now is this: When someone dies, their estate is responsible for paying their debts. Once their estate is gone, however, that's it. The creditors can try to convince the heirs to pay the debts, but they have no legal leverage to force them to. Lying about having such leverage is apparently fair game, however.)
> but the "world that knows it should use its wealth to provide decent sanitation, opportunities, education, peace and justice" doesn't exist anywhere but your head.

Incorrect, that idea exists in the heads of many people, and many of them are doing something about it.

> the things needed to keep that population in a good condition are not manifesting.

Incorrect. Standard of living is improving for most people.

> Essentially we are setting ourselves up for things like massive famines, biological diseases, etc.

I'm open minded and willing to be convinced, but it will take more than a mere opinion. I don't see anything compelling in the news that even suggests this is likely.

> It has nothing to do with happiness, and more people means more people suffering.

So we shall just ignore happiness, but focus on suffering? Got it.
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The Ultimate Guide to MOOCs
>Pretentious diction. Words like phenomenon, element, individual (as noun), objective, categorical, effective, virtual, basic, primary, promote, constitute, exhibit, exploit, utilize, eliminate, liquidate, are used to dress up a simple statement and give an air of scientific impartiality to biased judgements.

From: Politics and the English language, George Orwell, 1946
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
What do you call someone who posts ancient, moldy quotes?
While WD has taken over Hitachi, they had to give Toshiba Hitachi's desktop 3.5" HDD operations in part of the deal of taking over Toshiba's (TSDT) Thailand factory. So if you want Hitachi's good 'ol reliability, buy Toshiba desktop drives.
Just going on community size is rarely a good yardstick for framework choice.

Look at the team you have today, the team you want tomorrow, the scale your app is likely to grow (both in terms of traffic and code base size).
Presto - OpenSource SQL from Facebook
It's going to be a cat-and-mouse game. In this case, the mouse is pretty far ahead an has $80MM in the bank.
I would donate for somebody setting up a server that streams audio (and video, …) from all phones in reach. With bitcoin this could even be pulled off anonymously. I would hope for such a server streaming data from financial districts, one at a time would finally lead to something to change about this. Donations would help buy antennas and rent space in financial districts.
lol at a couple of dudes who are publicly known to be existing large amounts in bitcoin stating that it "should be worth a lot more!".
Trust based vacation policy
Their company name is Ninja Blocks. It makes perfect sense for them to build on that brand and put forth an association to carry along good will for this new project. They're not just calling it "Ninja" because they think it sounds cool.
In my opinion, anti-virus should be turned off and uninstalled. AV software kills performance, and has false positives and false negatives all the time, and just screws up systems all the time.

It's really not worth it; you're going to have a bad time unless you take care to not install junk. (junk may include all microsoft and adobe software ...)

I suppose I should add the disclaimer that I've used primarily linux for 6 years and rebooted into OS X for gaming for a couple years now. But I've seen it all with Windows + AV, I've serviced computers for common folk, and we still see stories on HN about AV accidentally quarantining a dll needed to boot.
> You have swallowed the American dream / fairly tail! Inequality growing.

Growing inequality does not mean quality of life is decreasing (the point you are disputing).

> More and more people (in the UK) relying on food banks.

Has general standard of living decreased? By most any measure it has not. People have vastly more resources than their ancestors did, but if you make poor choices yes you may have a visit to a food bank in your future. And there is a food bank to visit.

> Falling real wages, with increased rents.

This part I can agree with in many cases. But, let's not forget the vast improvement in affordable entertainment options available now compared to the past.

You would have us believe everything is worse. This is not true.
In most areas (social sciences, medicine) there is no "standard" for statistical significance. In economics, people try to deal with the issue by looking at the robustness of a result. If a result remains when you make various changes to the specification of your model, then it is less likely to be a statistical artifact.

Another step in the right direction is greater reproducibility, so that at least people can play with your analysis and see if what you did was the most direct and natural analysis, or if there are clear signs of playing with the parameters until you get the result you want.
Yeah, but that was the entire point of the councils decision. The tower on top counts as a core part of the building.
Health care is definitely not the only positive right.

Off the top of my head, public education and voting are two. Public safety comes to mind, as does disaster relief. Children have a great variety of positive rights where the state backstops parental providers. Those accused of crimes have the right to a fair trial. You could argue that a lot of regulatory activity comes from rights. E.g. a right to clean air, or a right to access a fair and free marketplace.

And that's just in the US. the UN Declaration of Human Rights includes "food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control." I expect that many European governments see those as rights as well.
> I don't see anything particularly dire about our current state of affairs at all.

Misremembering, but there's a Soviet era quote about being 3 days away from revolt. People need to eat.

Yes, Life (sic) will find a way. But governments are far more brittle. Should we (humanity) experience food riots, things will get very bad very quickly.
There have been studies conducted (between lab, natural experiments, and naturally occurring data) that indicate performance in lab experiments closely mirrors how people act in real life.
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