skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I envision a future when we can grab a handful of organs on a chip, then decide on what kind of experiment we want to run. Want to see if something affects the cells in bone marrow? Bone chip. Want to understand if a drug is cleared exclusively through the kidney? Bone chip + kidney chip vs bone chip + kidney + liver chip. Want to test subcutaneous vs intravenous delivery kinetics? Put together a bunch of chips: bone, kidney, liver, gut, and skin.
This is besides the point, but I would just like to point out that Linux does have a kernel argument called "memmap" which can sometimes allow a system to operate normally by excluding a range of bad RAM addresses from being used.
How Technology Enables Disruption Through Transparency
Huh? In the northeast it's invariably pronounced /pi:nIs/. /I/ and /æ/ are phonetically close enough to be substitutable in the syllable "nas".
Buy low and sell high? What a brilliant strategy.

EDIT: If you think you've found a sure-fire way to beat the market, you are probably wrong. That or you are doing insider trading or high-frequency trading (arbitrage).
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Most of the comments here are mindlessly skeptical basically boiling down to "citation needed", and "not peer reviewed".

The whole approach Seth Roberts takes is based on a philosophy of self-experimentation and personal science. His writing needs to be evaluated in that context.

Comments that react in these default ways really add nothing other than to assert that anything that is not conventional science should be dismissed without further consideration.

Doesn't seem very hackerish to me.
I'm reading responses here and I see a common thread of, "I've said much worse things to other men." You think that excuses you? What makes you think that would ever be acceptable behavior? Why should anyone--regardless of sex--in any situation--regardless of private or corporate or what have you--be treated with anything but the utmost respect?
The only problem with odesk is the ridiculous fees for a contract to hire scenario . Their rules is something like 10% of their salary for 2yrs iirc. Head hunter industry standard is something like 10% for 6mos ?
Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins
This story dates back to December 8th when I initiated an ACH transfer with CoinBase.com for a total sum of $35,104.11. On that very same day, the system informed me that I would be credited with the bitcoins come December 13th.

December 13th came by and it was this past Friday. No coins ever came in, the only thing CoinBase did was lock in a price for me @ $868.91. Again, they locked in a price and didn't give me coins on the day they told me they would deliver the coins.Ever since the 13th, my transaction page has been showing the following:

http://i.imgur.com/R2qEn8E.png

As you can tell, the funds cleared their end on the 11th. BUT... it still says pending for crediting the coins.<p>This is how the history page looks like:

http://i.imgur.com/BQ4fUwZ.png

Just take a look at that...it actually says that the transaction has been completed here.

Let us now look at the email conversation:

http://i.imgur.com/6SQht98.png

http://i.imgur.com/eNlIS0V.png

I gave their team eight hours to get back to me and settle the issue. They have now missed that deadline so I am taking this matter a bit public. Further avoidance by them will lead me to make a few calls to news stations. I have the right contacts to easily put myself in the media.

Now the real dilemma for me here is the fact that while CoinBase.com has locked in a price for me, because they have failed to deliver I cannot sell my coins at any rate. Bitcoins could drop down to $200, and only then might they deliver the coins. The issue at that point is that I would be down a crazy percent already. If they had delivered the coins on the 13th as they had initially promised to, there would not be this issue.<p>Give me a break, the company just secured $25m in VC and this is how they are treating their clientele.<p>
Sure, those are some client implementations, not all, people are free to interact with the network in all sorts of ways. Servers are also free to not include transactions that don't have enough fee for them.

I'm sure when the time comes something will be worked out, but it is most definitely voluntary rather than an enforced feature. Hell, do a quick google search for "Bitcoin no fees" and you'll find thousands of BTC supporters shouting about how it's so awesome as a payment method because there are no fees!
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Seems like the author wants to make programming as simple as building something with Legos. As someone who struggles with software development I would love this.

The problem however is that there is a translation problem between me and my computer. It doesn't understand what is in my head and I don't understand how to make it do what is in my head. So we have come up with lots of different ways to do that, with tradeoffs between rigor and usability.

The problem of translation of ideas really crosses all boundaries, machine/human, human/human, human/animal etc... so if you could figure out a way to do that translation (specifically human/machine) that has basically no learning curve the world would beat a path.
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Can every word be considered an abstraction?

An abstraction in mathematics is a simple, small idea that we use to describe and understand a large variety of objects. For example the concept of an algebraic group is an abstraction that can be applied to numbers, functions, matrices, etc. We can understand all these objects using the same concept.

Are all words this way? Take the word "orange". Are all oranges the same? They all have variations in taste, texture, color, etc. They are all physically separate objects. But we use the same idea to understand and describe them. Maybe this is more clearly seen with the word "fruit".

This applies to verbs too - think of the verb "to run". Usain Bolt runs in a very different way from normal people, but we use the same concept to understand what they do.

These abstractions "leak", i.e. cause confusion when the underlying reality doesn't match up. Is a tomato a fruit? If I trained as an Olympic sprinter would I have to abandon misconceptions about how to move my body, misconceptions caused by a lifetime of using the word "run"?

Is every word an abstraction?
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Note the title is a bit misleading. They say 650,000 users but the next sentence they state

> "we crossed more than 650,000 consumer Bitcoin wallets"

I'm not familiar with their service but I have 20 or so wallets that I've accumulated over the past 20 months, so I'm guessing its entirely possible for a single user to have multiple wallets, infact its so common that I'd label it the norm.

I wonder what percentage of their users, and wallets hold any bitcoins?
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"Why are you spinning off the business if it's profitable?"

I think it makes a lot of sense and is a smart move.

Gives an incentive to the person running it to "do their own thing" and by creating a separate entity they can also sell it more easily (if they want to). Or give an equity stake to Claire. And empower her to take chances she might not take if she is just "joining 37 signals" and is all distracted with general company goals.

More importantly it even creates a template to start other similar businesses and do the same. And not to get dragged into the day to day of each and every business or product line or decision.
Ben Goertzel, who is a bona fide AI researcher and was connected with SIAI/MIRI before a leadership split, has written about the topic:

http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2010/10/singula...
http://jetpress.org/v22/goertzel-pitt.htm

You might find some other related commentary with the search term "scary idea", which is what Ben has labeled Yudkowsky's side of the FOOM debate typified by the "That Alien Message" story. TL;DR: Goertzel takes friendliness seriously but considers a fast, hard FOOM to be implausible and worrying over it detrimental to the cause.

I don't know of anyone else with qualifications to be counted as a "top AI researcher" that has covered these topics in any significant detail. Those few times I have seen the topic mentioned in interviews (with Pei Wang and Hugo de Garis, for example), it's dismissed out of hand as crazy-talk. You may find some discussion of this at the various AGI conferences though (use search terms like "friendly" or "safe" on the youtube channels).
Personally, I consider this the real problem 'fire and forget' systems based on large complex code bases. The US Military invested a ton of money in the development of Ada to try to address some common issues (like you can verify the code still meets the specification).
My assumption is their target market is the African American community. It looks like a razor specifically designed for the face of an African American man.
Uh... yeah it is worse than material goods. Someone will give you $5 for a TV or you could at least enjoy kicking it down a hill. With a devastated, leveraged position in an illusion, you ain't got squat.

Once the bubble pops, there is 0% chance of rich or break even. You can wait forever, but the lack of diversification means you are 99.9% likely to be holding the thing that never recovers. A broad market recovers. A speculative vehicle is dead. No chances. Hold long :~)
In A Divided San Francisco, Private Tech Buses Drive Tension
Seriously. It is amazing how many of these problems wouldn't be problems if people just behaved towards each other with even a minimal amount of courtesy. "Praise in public, criticize in private" isn't a hard rule to learn.

I wonder how much of this is due to tech's historic legacy as a safe space for the socially awkward. There's a fine line between a culture where the socially awkward are welcome and a culture where social awkwardness is considered a positive good.
Clickbank is the best one and I am using it as an affiliate. It is better for your company to use it to get high number of affiliate marketers for your product...
Nobody mentioned TEMPEST yet in this comment thread. It's old (60s) but very interesting stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_%28codename%29 It includes acoustical leaks as one side channel.
Also see: http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_spectrum/t...
It's cool that they were able to demonstrate it that well.
Which is fine if you're a Libertarian, but I tend to take the stance that Libertarianism is like Leninism: a fascinating, internally consistent political theory with some good underlying points that, regrettably, makes prescriptions about how to run human society that can only work if we replace real messy human beings with frictionless spherical humanoids of uniform density

Brilliant prose! Pragmatism always has and always will rule.
And how do you know when low is low ? sorry but what you says doesnt make sense.

You dont know wether bitcoin will go down to 100$ or go up to 1000$. You cant know for sure, you only can assume it will go up or down.

So the "buy low sell high" doesnt mean anything.It like saying water is wet.

For some people 1000 was low enough to buy, for some it was not high enough to sell.
You'd be surprised how many people buy high when caught up in the euphoria, then capitulate and sell low...
Mice in a particular experiment tend to be housed in the same room or same rack, with enough circulation in the room to hopefully assure a homogeneous temperature in the room. Therefore, the control animals were likely right next to treatment animals. In this way, one could reasonably say that variations between the groups is not due to the way they were housed. Many other things that are controlled in housing include their feed, bedding, access to water, number of animals in a cage, etc.
AWS C3 shortage signals thirst for cloud computing performance
Bay area depression therapist that understands the entrepreneurial mindset?
I have been depressed for 5 months and I want to seek professional help. I have tried therapy before with a previous episode during college and it wasn't a great experience, but I'd like to try again. Can anyone recommend a therapist in the bay area that understands the stresses (and thrills) of the startup lifestyle?
Oh, good. Now the experience of begging for slave wages fixing people's wordpress installs can be even more streamlined.
So your argument is that she was asking for it?
$60 for a starter kit for the safety razor, brush and some cosmetics. $30/month thereafter for... I dunno. More cosmetics and some spare blades, I guess.

$60 for the starter kit doesn't sound insane, to be fair...

For what it's worth, I got a perfectly good safety razor and some blades shipped from Hong Kong via eBay for $10-$12. Works like a charm.
>On the second half, I've never been managed by someone who I wasn't supposed to learn something from - have you, really?

Are you kidding me? One of the more basic roles in tech/IT is that of the idiotic, clueless Project Manager (which 90%+ of the time is a male btw).

That's how the Dilbert guy made his millions...
I seem to recall that Kantar does consumer surveys to generate their marketshare estimate, so it wouldn't be a direct measure of sales and there might be distortions depending on their methodology.
nothing new here. i've been applying shaving soap with a badger hair brush and using a safety razor for years.

i guess startups are at the point where reintroducing "old" technology is the new thing? this market is FLOODED with competition, good luck.
I wonder how many Finance professors just opened up their Investment 101 lecture deck and added a new case study under the Risk/Return slide. I think a lot of investors and speculators just got reminded of regulatory risk.

That said, the MBA professors are updating their case studies for Regulatory Arbitrage...outcome tbd:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_arbitrage#Regulatory...
Well...just because someone learns to code, does not mean they will be able to do it full-time. I don't think we'll run into that problem anytime soon
This is a tough rule to follow. I'm a man. I'm talking to a woman. I'm not allowed to say anything that she thinks I wouldn't say to a man, regardless of whether I actually would say it to a man. How am I supposed to know what that set of things is?

Prior to reading this article, I would not have included "you're emotionally attached to your code" in that set because that is something I would say to a man. I can only wonder what other things I do say to men that women think I don't say to men.
You have 20 Coinbase wallets? Unlike regular bitcoin wallets, there's no reason to have more than one Coinbase wallet. A Coinbase wallet can have an unlimited number of Bitcoin addresses and it is generally tied to a real name with a bank account and/or credit card for purchasing and selling bitcoins.
wow, you're ignorant. it's a safety razor.
"In a civilized society one should be able to afford his own place, provide for his daughter, give her rides as needed without sacrificing job security, etc" - should society provide a place for a person in a location of its choosing?
That's not really true per se. That's the chart of USD/BTC so the inverse of BTC/USD which has dropped significantly in the past few days so of course the inverse has shown an increase.

For a more accurate picture of the dollar I track the UUP ETF which pegs it's value to the dollars exchange rate over a basket of currencies. (Which btw has been on a steady downtrend in the past 6 months, definitely not doubling everyday)

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As a so called hacker that has grown up with the Web I awe at how software vendors released their software in the past. I mean when you got stuck with xyzy there was no quick Google search that gave you 10 different fixes or workarounds. When the CD-ROM/disc/s was shipped it was shipped. It must have taken ages before the user got the bug fix
In the case of the simulation, the question is whether running the simulation at 24Hz or 48Hz would result in inaccuracies that require them to run it at 2000Hz.
Libertarians are annoying, anyone who thinks technology will solve complex social problems will be dissapointed by bitcoin eventually.

The deflationary nature of bitcoin is it's hardest aspect to defend because there really hasn't been anything like it in history before. A finite asset that is easy to transfer over long distances without central interferance really is unprecedented.

I think you have bought in to the bitcoin fantasy that it will be the only currency in use. I don't think that will ever happen for a variety of reasons. If gold and fiat can coexist why not bitcoin too?.
Loaning bitcoins seems to be a crazy proposition, so I suspect inflationary currencies will stick around just for that reason. Not to mention bitcoin by itself is fairly terrible for in person transactions, if you add a service on top what is the difference for the customer between that and a credit card company?. Fiat is useful and solves problems that bitcoin doesn't.

Regarding mining, I have my own concerns, bitcoin proponents love to describe mining as “securing the network” and equate it with vaults and security guards used in banks. This comparison is at least partly flawed, mining prevents double spends and nothing else. It's certainly true that a centralized ledger could prevent double spends for tiny fraction of the cost of mining, but globally who can be trusted by all parties to adminster it?. The comparison isn't one sided however, it is much cheaper to securely store (and move) bitcoins than gold for example.

Energy use is tricky, preserving the environment should be a top a priority, but should we aspire to use less energy?. One question I have often asked but never got a good answer to, how much of the worlds energy needs to be devoted to mining to prevent a 51% attack?. If it is north of 30% of the worlds energy output then right now that would seem a huge waste. But if we had access to cheaper, cleaner renewable energy, would it still be a problem?.

Malware?, it's just a symptom of larger problem, computer security is terrible. No one is really sure who to plame, users, applications, operating systems and hardware makers all come into the firing line. If bitcoin pushes forward computer security surely that can only be a good thing?.

I'm unconvinced about whether greshams law applies to mining due to the performance disparity between ASICs and CPU/GPUs, but surely if computer security improves this problem diminishes?.
"Error establishing connection to database"

Clearly they need to use their own services for a system admin & someone with aws+scaling experience
I feel that the moon bases analogy is incredibly unfair. Bitcoin's utility has already been demonstrated, and, through that, the utility of decentralized digital currency in general. The remaining question isn't so much the long-term viability of this model as much as it is how far can it go?

Comparing it to the notion of a "moon base" is extreme on multiple levels, I guess one of them being that the actual demand for such is clearly minimal where as Bitcoin's adoption continues.

Bitcoin being banned by someone somewhere was a wholly inevitable and arguably necessary outcome. The positive spin on this news is that Bitcoin is on the radar at all to even be banned by anyone to begin with.
The author's complains are a sober reminder that society is not yet ready

Communists used the same rationale. It may have merit, though. Many dot com failures were due to inadequacy of the internet's infrastructure.
From what I can tell as a Coinbase user, for someone to have multiple wallets they would need to have multiple user accounts. Ie: each user account has 1 wallet.
I found this quite interesting... nice to read something that isn't just 'lets help women into tech', 'machismo is terrible' or 'sexism is a big problem just for women'.
> Furthermore, move out of the bay area, man! That's one of the most expensive places to live in the country! Go move to Iowa, or North Dakota. Those places have high qualities of life, good wages, and low costs of living.

Yea, he should probably abandon his daughter.

Not everyone is a programmer and even if everyone could program well, there wouldn't be a market large enough to support it. Communities need to be able to support people in different occupations and income ranges.
We consume too much and we work too hard to fill our lives with vacuous material goods. Look around you, it's pure madness. It's out of control, everybody is permanently dissatisfied and we continue to rape the planet to fill a hole in our lives that can never be filled.

I used to worry about this aspect of bitcoin but now I just think, let it happen. Maybe a world in which we aren't forced to consume just to keep our net worth wouldn't be so bad. Maybe we don't need investment in yet another company selling more useless crap we don't need. Maybe we don't need to work five days a week to be happy.

> Some people will choose to buy 2x as many t-shirts, making them (roughly) 2x happier

More choice has been proven to lead to greater dissatisfaction. Aside from better healthcare I don't think our modern world makes us any more happy and fulfilled.
Since OpenBSD is a fork of NetBSD, this makes sense.
I can see where she is coming from, but I think that this can only be resolved when many more women work as programmers than they do now.

It's just a fact that men think a lot about sex, if you are the only female person around for like 9 hours of the day, and if you are likeable and somewhat attractive, then all these men will think a lot about having sex with you (and trying to impress you as a result). It is obvious that this might have its effect on workplace interactions, and usually not in a good way.
Maybe we should first examine if there is a victim there in the first place?

Instead of, you know, taking their word for granted (something not even their own lawyer would do), and spouting silly unwaranted "rape" metaphors against anyone arguing?
And this boys and girls:

""Cost is the big roadblock for algae-based fuel," said Douglas Elliott, the laboratory fellow who led the PNNL team's research. "We believe that the process we've created will help make algae biofuels much more economical."

Is why we won't run out of 'oil' at any time. Even at $500/barrel equivalent there is a point where if you must have 'crude oil' you can make it for a price. Of course at that point its a 'renewable resource' which is kind of funny.

I am glad the PNNL guys have gotten this down to a continuous process. The NASA folks who were showing it at Yuri Day a few years ago were still making algae in batches.
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What makes you think that they aren't trying to get it right?

There's countless examples of fraud, complacency and bias in scientific research, but I'll just quote the wise (albeit fictional) Jedi Master Yoda: "Do, or do not. There is no try." Especially when the fate of sentient life hangs in the balance.
Hi, I have not written a single of line of php. How hard would it be to get started with a Ruby/Node/.NET background?
Santa Survey.Is he real? What is his full time job?
It's a bit sad that TTS could not be enabled on 133MHz machines with 64MB of RAM, but that's just how it is now-a-days:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Automatic_Mouth
Probably to avoid people associating ownership to one person as easily?
"Elance buys oDesk" seems like a more accurate headline.
I, for one, think that "low density" is exactly what makes Silicon Valley so nice and pleasant to live in.
Isn't the buyer's incentive to hoard balanced exactly by the seller's incentive to acquire? If the currency acquires value at a stable rate (a big if), it seems to me that buyers and sellers would meet in the middle. After all, people buy things all the time (cars, computers) that rapidly depreciate compared to leaving cash in a savings account.