skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite sure how you read a remonstration of all men out of that article which was, by the way, written by a man.

> There is no way a room full of teenage boys wolf whistled that photo of Marie Curie in earnest. It was obviously a rowdy bunch of teenagers looking for any excuse and means to be disruptive.

At some point young people have to be taught that certain behavior is unacceptable. Seemed like a good opportunity to smack that shit down relatively early in those boys' lives.
Method names like ~, %, %% or #> are terrible in Scala! This should be generally banned as bad practice. There are too many developers creating obscure and unreadable code with such method names.

I even thought to create readable adapters for common APIs like SBT API.
You've got it wrong. If Satoshi's purpose was to get people to pile in after him/them, it had to be deflationary. Mission accomplished. Bitcoin isn't a run of the mill ponzi scheme, it is a very new take on it. But it is still essentially front-running and hoping and planning that lemmings follow you to push up the price so you can then unload.
Why should a startup or tech goliath worry about concerns such as not exploiting users when people can examine the source code? When members of the coderati can customize changes, live in private clouds, and protect only themselves?

What I'm about to say is probably obvious to most HN readers, but I'll say it anyway in case the author is reading the comments: right now the large majority of commercial software is closed-source, and teaching everyone to code is probably not going to change that. Even if it did somehow change, and there were a bunch of eyes looking over all the software that companies wrote, it would probably make it an expensive PR blunder to not implement privacy best practices, etc... you wouldn't want your software's failure to implement proper protections to be a top story on HN.
This isn't so black and white.

Nigella Lawson exists as a sexualized foodie. That's a significant part of her shtick.

Bond girls are predominantly sexualized. That is their shtick.

By the time Marie Curie rolls around, after being berated by the speaker for crassly acknowledging the first two, it probably seemed funny to "acknowledge" the third.

Yes it's crass. Yes it's inappropriate. Yes it makes people (male and female) uncomfortable.

But I really feel like the speaker played a part too. With his tiresome "we'll talk about this later" condescension in response to the unacceptable-but-provoked whistle, he's challenging the audience from his position of perceived power. He's on stage, but has forgotten the asymmetry of heckling.

The Bond girl is an extra, more overt challenge, and his righteousness about it elevates the volley even higher.

It's all despicable, but shouldn't be surprising. I'm glad the smarter portion of the audience felt accommodated enough to applaud the speaker's indignance, but part of me thinks he's like the "hero" that saves kids from a house fire that he started himself.
I think not. They awarded him a degree based on data he presented to them. They found out it was falsified, and in my opinion, that should invalidate the degree they awarded (and probably his grants).
Why not just use digital versions of the textbooks? I like physical books over "ebooks" but it seems like an incredibly wasteful service to shuttle around physical textbooks.

As far as why the difference in coverage? I would guess that a company like Amazon generally announces these sorts of initiatives when they're pretty much available, which makes the "earliest in 2015" bit turn this into a big PR stunt imo.
Unfortunately, it won't.

Money supply is a function of many things that an authority needs to control as an adjustment lever for the economy. A currency with a scheduled-deflation is not the solution.

There are no problems with our currencies today. This is a solution to a non-existent problem. We have problems in the finance world that Bitcoin does not solve.

For example, regulating how money supply can adjusted, or lending & risk.

How do you expect to operate a modern economy with Bitcoin when the whole concept of lending and credit will never exist (due to the shortage of the money)? What about in 50 years when the population goes up and we'll need more money in the system?

The government will never collect taxes, or issue bonds, in a currency that is not a function of the current state of the economy (but a function of time), and one that is scheduled to stop issuing any more "bills" (coins) at some point.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm crazy for thinking this way, but I dream of the day when more people realize how little relevance the subjects being taught have. If Education, and I guess by extension personal and social growth, was about cramming knowledge into kids' heads, we'd have countries filled with geniuses, and the Internet would already have supplanted schools.

Knowledge is worthless and potentially dangerous without the means to properly use it, and that, in my opinion, is where Education has a place. It's about providing the tools necessary to process and accumulate knowledge and cope with unknowns, and fair enough, basic writing/reading and calculus skills are a good start, but far from it all.

In all the countries I've lived in, I've never once seen a school system which properly addresses this problem. I find the very idea of putting children through knowledge cramming and regurgitation sessions utterly appalling. Sure, it makes for a measurable system, but what exactly are we measuring?

I'm not saying the author doesn't have a point, I'm just saying his point doesn't address the real issue. As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter if you're teaching kids programming or the art of growing tomatoes, what matters is that if and when they want to do so, they can.
Does it really matter whether they were in earnest or whether they were just continuing the joke they had begun earlier?

And what gave you the idea that the author was equating all men with the wolf-whistling boys?
The obvious upper bound on "forever" is the useful life of the universe (i.e. enough negentropy is left to support life). More realistically, no pill will prevent your body from being horribly mangled in an accident and very low risks for accidents pile up to probability 1 over long enough times.
Most people are stupid though.
Why Hacker News should use a different Deterministic Algorithm, Not a Random One
Show HN: Life – A timeline of important events in (your) life
Faking data is a very bayesian thing to do...
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Here I go citing another Lemley paper. I'm afraid I may end up giving the impression that I agree wih him on things!

"Are Universities Patent Trolls?", Mark Lemley, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=980776
It seems the author of this article is confusing the delivery of physical JavaScript libraries (as separate files) with number of libraries used.

"Five of the 13 publishers I looked at included at least 20 JavaScript libraries while the most libraries included by a social network was 4, which was Pinterest"

For example, he claims 4 on Pinterest, but I quickly looked and one of those files, called: bundle.e3e1df0f.js which has compressed MANY LIBRARIES IN IT (975 KB worth, without gzipping), like JQuery, underscore, backbone, require.JS, Google closure, etc...

Just because a site is packaging up 30 JavaScript libraries into one file, doesn't mean it's not using all these libraries.

I'll also add, that I think a lot of the 3rd party tracking libraries don't really work if you bundle them up and deliver them with your own code, which is why they're usually referenced separately.
Because the universe will end at some point, either getting to a point of maximal entropy, or via a big crunch, or some other unknown mechanism.

One could conceivably escape from this by escaping to another universe - if that's possible - but that's just fantasy at this point. As far as we can tell, even if you can live basically forever you will eventually cease to exist, when the universe ceases to be an environment that's conducive to existence.

So it's physically impossible to live forever. A few hundred billion years is probably an upper bound. Not a shabby run, but not forever.
Ok. Thank you and I'm sorry for the repost ;)
And if it turns out someone tampered with the forensic evidence or manipulated testemonies in this case? How would you undo the wrongful execution? Witnesses, lab records and cctv can all be manipulated after all...
Yeah but the upside is you get to live forever, potentially see humanity expand outside of Earth or even come across life forms outside of our galaxy.

Snap call all-in?
"I believe" is the problem. Not everyone believe as you do. Working together to respect each other beliefs, that is the big stepping stone.

Don't let your fear stop accepting others.
You miss the point. No one claims that the whistler had a sincere sexual interest in Curie. Such wolf-whistling is disruptive because it is a reminder, to both the men and the women in the room, of the social status of women and men. Even if you think that era of objectification and oppressionf of women is largely over (I don't), we're only in the first few decades of relative equality after centuries without even a pretense of it.
If you define a jail cell to be in two different jails at the same time then you can serve two sentences in two jails at the same time :)
You can absolutely beat the index, and it doesn't require any unusual skill to do so as an individual investor.If special skills were required, Vanguard would be the only financial services company. People pushing the Bogglehead philosophy also push the fallacy that owning stocks == trading every day.

On a more serious note, diversity in investment is the key to success, and I include individual stocks as part of a diversity strategy, provided you have the time and inclination to do the work required.

I have 70% of my investments in various index and actively managed mutual funds 10% in cash. The remaining 20% I put in a mix of other assets, mostly individual stocks. (Although I did some metal investments a few years ago.) I spend 3-5 hours a week, mostly while travelling on investing and enjoy doing it. I've been fairly successful, as over the last 10-12 years my annual rebalancing has seen money flow from my 20% fund to the 80%.

Some things you cannot do with a fund. During the 2008 crisis, I pumped cash into investments that were unjustly punished by the crash. So I have a substantial investment in an energy MLP yielding a net yield of about 13%.
Because of the type of Journal of because of the fact that nobody knows about it?
Well, maybe people who can't learn to code should be poor?
In this case though, he's nay-saying for the purpose of bashing Amazon. Once he's done making rather weak arguments about why it won't work (all of the issues he brought up can and will be solved), he makes his anti-Amazon agenda pretty clear (see last two paragraphs). The content of the announcement was inconsequential; he just needed an Amazon story to write about.

Many political websites do the same thing: they use a linkbait headline, briefly mention something in the news that is barely tangential to the actual message they want to get out, then say whatever it is they wanted to in the first place. Huffington Post 101.
I definitely agree with this. I'm not sure what HN's algorithm is actually supposed to optimize, but apart from that I think it's pretty straightforward how to optimize it with non-random systems.

http://www.bayesianwitch.com/blog/2013/why_hn_shouldnt_use_r...
Can confirm it also exists in Spain and England.
I was very surprised by the response from the institution. I wonder what the backlash will be with regard to those grants (NIH and AHA). Should this invalidate those grants?
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I was wondering the same thing wrt the Bond girl. Perhaps he wanted to create a "teachable moment"? If so, and the result was as positive as he claims, then I'm fine with it.

Edit: Also, you say it isn't so black and white but the point of it is not that somewhere, some boys were bad (SHOCKING), but that he got a good reception to his response.
What does it takes to enjoy your first ice cream in life, second time?
>>ESET, F-Secure, Norman Shark, Kaspersky, Panda and Trend Micro confirmed the detection of state sponsored malware, e.g. R2D2 and FinFisher; they have never received a request to not detect malware. And if they were asked by any government to do so in the future, they said they would not comply.

Glad to here we're safe.
Don't throw features at hypothetical users
I think Tonx (https://tonx.org/cb2dd1d7 note: referral link) s one of the most established companies in this space. They charge $19 for 12oz of freshly-roasted coffee sent biweekly (Roasted on Sunday, shipped out Monday from LA, delivered Wed/Thurs to NYC).

Gravity is $1 cheaper for 4 oz more, but how fresh is the coffee? The beans are sourced from coffee shops, but where/how are those beans sourced?

Tonx also ships out 2 oz free samples to let you get a feel for the quality of the coffee. I made amazing coffee at home with that sample and immediately signed up.
No. The code in question is invoking undefined behavour, making the question pointless.
> The Peacock Problem

> This teenage silliness was based on men feeling the need to overtly display their heterosexuality by the reduction of any female to that of a potential conquest.

> Beware cavemen your days are numbered the decent among us are standing up and by goodness our cheering will drown out anything you try and throw at us.

I'm well aware it was written by a man, but that still doesn't make him right.
Women can do misogynistic things too.
I wasn't refuting anything. Just stating a fact: this author is clearly not making impartial judgments about the company. His objections appear to have more to do with his anti-Amazon feelings than anything else.
Anyone tried Soylent on toast yet? Or does that disturb the nutritional balance..?
Yep. This is called "intersectionality". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
I remember a Google talk where Randall Munroe talked about working with his Professor for hours on a solution to this problem.
> That is treat a human being like she does not have emotions.

Why exactly do wolf whistles fall under this definition?

> That is treat a human being like something that is an object.
> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/objectification

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_definition
Do I misunderstand this technology? I think the fly to GPS waypoints thing is done by these guys: http://copter.ardupilot.com/
So you get to pose random questions without research, but I don't? How's that work?
> With no reason to save I could do whatever I wanted.

You still need to pay for food, clothes, housing etc. As a minimum you will have to sign contracts that bind you to a job for a minimum amount of time (probably years). Someone will have to "keep the wheels turning". You want someone to pick up your garbage, pave the roads and other necessities.

Who would want to do that without getting something back? The world would have to change. Probably by introducing forced labour.
This depends on the ambient level of crime where you live. In my family's home (way out in the middle of nowhere), all packages are just left on the porch (this lax approach allowed me to later leave my backpack in my car overnight in Santa Cruz proper; the window was smashed and the backpack stolen). When I was in San Francisco, leaving packages at your door was apparently not to be thought of.

Personally, I can see the appeal of the strategy "just don't have crime"; things are a lot more convenient that way.
> Where is the risky investment in research that patents are supposed to be making possible?

Focusing on the "risky investment" part, the investment is not just monetary: I spent a full year of my grad research barking up the wrong tree. All I got out of it was a few pages to pad my thesis with.

Just like publications, as useful as it is to future researchers, you can't make a thesis out of "we tried this, it doesn't work", and a huge chunk of research work is exactly that.
The "shady" ads are usually adwords ads - yes, adwords allows some shady ads, but they also include lots of legit advertisers too.

Yes, the parked pages are nothing but ads, but users who land there are looking for an escape and a surprisingly high number click on the ads.

You can find out more from Marchex which is a public company (ticker: MCHX) that runs a large domain portfolio (since it is public, they disclose lots of info).
last week as in the week in which Nigella Lawson was headline news because of her alleged drug taking?

(Not that I remotely care, but if the author was unaware then you can imagine why the video had a strong reaction)
http://docs.scala-lang.org/style/
Homelessness and poverty in developed nations are typically symptoms of mental illness, so I would assume they would be on the target list of diseases to correct on the way towards indefinite lifespans.
Edit: on re-read.. This presentation was given at an all-boys adolescent school. So, OK, the condescension comes from a place of teacherdom. And I guess the pop sex icon imagery thrown in was to relate to the audience.

A pox on all that.

This guy didn't even save the kids from the metaphorical fire. He lit a match in a dry field and wrote a blog post about how he railed earnestly against the coming of the conflagration.
Yeah, was about to comment that that is a very nice bit of CGI. Something about the matte colour of the metals trips my detector. And the lighting on the workers, the too-perfect luminosity of the light sources, that "composited" feel. If you look at the first picture, it's probably the weakest - look at the 3 transverse beams.

Amazing work, though - right on the edge of genuine photorealism.

update: "foto oficial nº14" is also a weak one. Look at the workers up the top, the lighting on them is strange. And that guy observing from what seems to be an impossible position, missing the bottom half of his body.

Geeze it's good though - just that subtle uncanny valley in the lighting, and even so, I wouldn't bet my life on it!

update 2: actually, I don't know what to believe. It looks composited, but it's just so damn detailed, maybe I'm trying too hard. Would love to know the truth.
Some stocks do pay dividends or otherwise find a way to return earnings to investors.

(So it is possible to overall make money on shares that are eventually sold for a loss)

Certainly, the current market is not particularly dominated by those stocks. It is an interesting question though, what mechanism for providing large amounts of capital would result in the least whinging?
No so fast please. The article mentioned "The reading proficiency of Americans is much lower than most other developed countries, and it’s declining." It's not about English, it's about being able to properly read and understand what is written. Very basic stuff, really. For us-writing here in a 2nd language- this is hard to grasp I think.
> It would have provided a single political party with a clear willingness to meaningfully stand up against the authoritarianism that runs rampant in our main two parties

Who are you even talking about here? You can't stand up against authoritarianism by collapsing the government especially when you are a minority partner with no clear better option available.
A lot of the marginalisation that men suffered were actually misogynistic patriarchial systems. ("Women are delicate flowers, ergo only the men should do the hard work", "Women are too weak to fight, so only the men should be conscripted").

Modern Feminism aims to get rid of these gender roles. Women should be able to be in the army and men should be able to be full time dads.
To further prove the point about cache locality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iWb_qi2-uI&t=44m50s
My point is that the quote makes the impression that men were not repressed, even though they were.
When selling in retail how will people know whose monitor they are looking at? Logos serve many purposes, but in the wild they are a good source of marketing. Should we ask them to not brand even the box the CPU comes in?

At most they could make the logo easily removable, too me that would be a fair compromise.
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Rather reads like a hero fantasy, doesn't it?
As we'll find ways to extend life, we'll find ways to enhance cognitive flexibility. I'm pretty sure about that.
> Let guys be guys

Man people claiming "let guys be guys" are only interested in straight guys being straight guys, and tell us other guys to "not be so public" etc. Do you really support all guys being themselves? Even gay men, crossdressing men, effeminate men and straight butch guys?
Well the main point of the article was "it's all hot air and baloney". His logistical issues seem like he's grasping for anything he can to discredit the idea. With his added sarcasm ("any second now"), I'd put him in the exact same camp as the NY Times writer.
Waterstones to deliver by owl?
You can learn from what people are doing in more successful countries against homelessness and poverty. These are not such hard problems.
>My point is. There is no need to stop focusing on systematic suppression on one group, just because other groups are also being suppressed.

My point is that we need to also focus on the systematic suppression of one group. For example, the minority gender in my country still has to do forced labour, and nobody seems to care because the focus is on women.
Well both, but I suspect that just as the need to be published in high impact journals is growing for PhDs and Post-docs, the need to be published with new discoveries is also growing. I think in biology (and particularly in pharma), competition for good thinkers is increasing. I think it is not uncommon to consider 8 or 10 candidates seriously for a position at that level. Maybe it would just put more pressure on the scientist to publish in a post-doc position.
Who said I don't accept others? I don't care if people believe in religion or not.

My opinion is we could be spending our resources as a whole (ie. all of humanity) on much more important things. Unfortunately this will never happen because most people are power hungry greedy pieces of garbage who only care about themselves in the short term.
The Victorians are our moral betters.
Situations like this reminds me of my favorite part of Brave New World:

> Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear
holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops
that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till
finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

This doesn't wear a hole into what a PhD is and erode away the foundation. It smothers it in something else, and slowly but surely we're not left with a rock, but one soft blob of wax -- totally different from what a PhD is, but slowly enough that we still pretend we're dealing with what it was.
oh cool. In my head when I see that I just think spammy popup :) I can't recall seeing it used for a legitimate purpose. But yeah that would accomplish what you're describing.
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Then the answer is "yes and no".
This much we know:

* Brain cells die.
* Brain cells hold ideas.
* We need to regenerate brain cells to continue to support the brain past 80-90 years.
* Each new brain cell will probably adopt the ideas of the surrounding culture.

So I would suspect that over time, an aging but renewed brain will adapt to the conditions of the culture it lives in. Some brain cells are more stubborn than others, but a serious and dedicated effort to not adapt will be met with obvious survival constraints.