skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's because such subcultures are self-selecting - why would a Wall Street banker (of which most seem to be terribly motivated) become part of such a group?

There are a number of experiments (eg. across Africa) where a BI-like model made relatively desolate towns flourish.

Basic Income needn't provide luxuries- as long as it eliminates the threat of physical harm out of the job market (thus allowing everyone to walk away from any given job at a given rate), it works as designed IMHO.

To add drive to people who aren't self-motivated, there's still societal status and its symbols, some of which will naturally cost more than BI can afford - otherwise they won't be status symbols for long.
See I think the question "is HFT harming society and do we need more transparency or regulation" is much clearer and easier to debate about than "does HFT make more money than it's value to society".

When we have that debate I'd like it to be informed about what does and does not actually happen with HFT and not bogeyman scare stories. I'd also like that debate to consider the pro's and con's of the system it replaced and the unintended consequences of any regulation we introduce.
Well, I'm there with you on Soylent. And the at home FMT makes nervous as well. What I don't get is the widespread notion that: self experimentation makes you a nutter.
Many people at bluelight.ru have blogged extensively about their experiences using ketamine to treat bipolar depression and major depression. The general consensus seems to be that using doses low enough to not feel any effect with very frequent dosing (every hour or so over the course of a few days) seems to have the strongest effects. I have tried both this route and the more traditional k-hole route to self-treat treatment resistant depression but haven't noticed much of an effect with either route in the long term. In the short term, I rather enjoy the psychedelic experience of ketamine trips. It is a rather "more-ish" drug though, because it is both short-lasting and hits dopamine so I urge people to experiment responsibility (ie; lay out the ketamine you are going to do, put the rest away, and don't touch it no matter how much you think one more line will be useful/fun)
If you're feeling unbiased enough to try and ignore what certain words mean to use today, you may want to ready Oscar Wilde's take on these things from a 19th century point of view.

If the words "Socialist" or "Marxist" mean something much more livid to you than " Romanticism" or "Postmodernism," you are not allowed to read the linked article^

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-m...

^I was considering banning Americans from reading this article. I'm allowing it for now, but please behave.
I'm curious: I've always suspected 'probiotics' are ineffective, like scattering a few daffodil seeds into a field of weeds. Either not a significant quantity to compete, or just 'food for bugs' which feeds everything indiscriminately.
Some of us have HBO GO, pay a cable subscription, have Amazon Prime, and still pirate it. It's nice sometimes to be able to download it once and then not waste the bandwidth watching it again, especially when your ISP puts a bandwidth cap on all customers and calls you "data hogs". I also wholeheartedly support piracy (even of the things I make), so there's that.
You don't really know IntelliJ if you think that behaviour like that wasn't configurable. I can see why you wouldn't feel like paying. It might take a person who has put some real time into IntelliJ to see how much it offers.

For future problems, the preferences view is searchable, as is many other view.
If true, I would argue that limiting reproduction rights significantly diminishes the principle of ownership.
Just to hold you to task, here: what exactly constitutes "flourishing"?

I'd bet you mean something other than mindless growth and expansion--just want to make sure.
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Not April fools'. The story was published by NRK today, 3. of April.
File -> Settings -> Editor -> "Allow placement of caret after end of line". Uncheck.

I'm not exactly a zealot for any particular tool, and I used Eclipse for almost a decade. However, after trying even the community edition of IntelliJ for a few weeks... I would feel like the guy in "Flowers for Algernon" if I ever had to go back.

The community edition is actually open-source (Apache license). I ended up buying an ultimate edition license recently because of the Chronon debugger, but you don't NEED anything beyond the community edition unless you want deep IDE integration with Spring, JEE, or some other supported framework. Frankly, I'm not really using any paid features beyond Chronon...
And don't forget "Idiocracy", the finest documentary ever made about SoCal.
A related question: what's the probability of an aircraft being struck by a meteor. Seems this question was asked in the wake of the Air France flight 447 disappearance (since resolved as pitot tube freezing combined with pilot error and control feedback failures of the Airbus design).

But still, the odds of a strike on _an_ aircraft over the next 20 years are about 4%:

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2009/06/how-much-of-a-th...

at any given time, airliners cover 2 billionths of the Earth's surface. There are 125 meteors an hour, each with probability 2x10-9 of striking some airplane. In 20 years, that's about 22 million independent possible impact events. The chance that every one of those meteors misses every airplane is: ppois(0,2e-922e6)*

(Using R).

So the odds of an asteroid flying past a skydiver aren't as infinitesimal as one might otherwise think.

It also makes one wonder at the possibility of space-junk collisions being the cause of past aviation accidents. There's little enough evidence this would leave, particularly for a flight which disappeared entirely without a trace, or whose wreckage was only found much later.
I'm... skeptical. If you look at the frames of the meteorite falling, it looks like each frame has the fragment at about 3 feet from its last position. If that's a 60fps camera (I think it is?), that's 180 f/s speed or 122mph. That seems really slow for a rock flying into the atmosphere from space, and far slower than a rock would have to be going for it to "cut him in half."

My guess: a rock that fell off the undercarriage panel of an airliner, and was carried by strong winds. Or a particularly slow meteorite.
Absolutely, I really enjoyed it as a non-Haskell guy as well.
Time to start my own backyard space program.
Three years since being rejected from CS
It's haphazard, but at least people here are trying, right?

No, no, no, no.

We should not encourage people to randomly experiment on themselves under the guise of "being a hacker" when those experiments can pose significant threat to life. Unscreened, random FMT can have a number of potentially life threatening outcomes; stool contain human serum, blood, lymphocytes, viruses and other biologics that can be harmful.
Great write-up! We did something very similar when trying to find duplicate product images for a consumer review site we were working on. Our implementation desaturated the image, broke it into a fixed number of tiles, and generated a histogram of each tile's values. Then we put a threshold on the histogram values, and had each value in the tile represent a bit. Combine the bits, and we had a hash to store in the DB. Our hashes were a bit larger, so images within a certain hamming distance were flagged, rather than just looking for exact hash matches. It took quite a bit of tuning for us to get good results, but it seemed to work pretty well. Do you see many false positives with such a small processed image size (the 9x8 one, I mean)?
I often do a SELECT first using the same WHERE to make sure I am updating the correct rows. Also on my staging system I use a subset of the production database so that I can test destructive queries like this before running them on the production database.
This is a bad approach for a couple reasons:
1) The total measurable space/information over a resized icon-size greyscale image is pretty small, so you run into a much higher likelyhood of collisions/false positives.

2) It's not too hard to program a Haar wavelet[1] transform[2] (basically iterative scaled thesholding). This has worked well over at IQDB[3], where they do reverse image lookups on databases of over several million images via a modified Haar wavelet.

You can't beat this algorithm for simplicity, though. Have you guys done any false positive checks with this algorithm? The saving grace might be that icons are fairly small and limited in detail/color.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haar_wavelet

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1034900/near-duplicate-im...

[3] http://iqdb.org/
They have a reference wiki with some example programs. Have a look at this page: http://code.kx.com/wiki/Cookbook/ProgrammingExamples
I've worked on some metagenomics projects in the past, I admit I don't know too much about uBiome, but what I do know is that it is really hard to figure out what bacteria, archaea and fungi are in a given stomach.

consider that you can only cultivate a very small % of bacteria and archaea which means you can only find the genome of a given species that is living in a natural environment (often a very extreme environment). to figure out the genome, you have to sequence them all at the same time, but you can only read 1k-2k base pairs at one time, which means you need to bin these sequences into what you (educatedly) guess is the right organism and then sequence the genome. overtime, our understanding of these genomes should increase but I wonder what the current provable accuracy is using uBiome.
Oso tragic, Oso foolish
If you are a hobbyist, sure. But if you are a programmer for a living, I see it as a no-brainer.
If he threw a rock of that size at his buddy ... what a jerk
Relative to the JVM, Mono on Linux is slow as heck.
IntelliJ community is free & open source. It's missing some of the enterprise features of the commercial version but it's still a fantastic IDE. There is a learning curve if you're used to eclipse, but it's worth it. Give it a week.
Any number of companies these days don't provide you with an A record for the root ...Heroku, Amazon's ELB, etc etc etc ...the list goes on. We're solving a real problem considering how popular those services are these days. Perhaps it's not an issue for your setup, but for anyone using those names servers (among many others) it's a very real issue when you'd typically need to use a CNAME if you want to use the root vs. the antiquated WWW.
For me, 70 years still is "a couple of decades" and the "cold war" wasn't entirely friendly either, now was it?
Waaaat. How can you say Angular is hard? I don't think I ever encountered a framework or a technology that I picked up so quickly. Hell, node.js took me longer (with all the callback hell and workarounds for it). I've built several apps in Angular now (and am close to finishing a very complex one) and I dont think I have ever gone through a tutorial.
WebStorm is a much better IDE for PHP, but if your primary language is Java, then the PHP plugin is more than sufficient.
Not going to directly reply to the reading comprehension impaired, but my point is that part of the philosophy was required.

To print technical papers to a phototypesetter, one of the first use cases for which the UNIX project got serious funding, required a pipeline so that, as I remember, tables, equations and basic formatting were all separate programs piping their output to the next, with troff at the end (as I recall, I only used nroff in one step to a Xerox daisy wheel printer for one paper before I moved to Scribe and then TeX to a laser printer). No one single program doing all that could fit into the 11/45's split I&D address space as described above.

Now we can and have made individual programs bigger, but the philosophies of doing a limited number of things well and communicating by plain text are still very solid for many applications (but, not, say, many of the use cases of Photoshop/GIMP etc. Or a browser. Or (in)famously, the linux kernel itself).

How much they should apply to system initialization and daemon management etc. I just don't know, haven't examined the issue. Not entirely, I would hazard a guess, certainly nothing I can think of that looks like the chain ending in troff. That the creators of systemd are reported to have ignored this philosophy does not automatically make it bad.

Their reported consistent bad behavior (from people I know and trust, at least in the case of Ted Ts'o) would seem to make it automatically problematical. That Linus felt compelled to revoke this person's kernel commit privileges (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7522791) is also telling.

Or let's put it this way: a program like systemd must, by definition, "play well with others", that's its job after all. That main developers can't do that in the real world is a very bad sign.
Given its a wingsuit jump he's likely miles from where they exited the plane. The rock would have a more straight down trajectory as well. You can tell the forward speed when the other jumper comes by.
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Could it have fallen from some other plane, they weren't aware of, that was above their altitude or do the principles of terminal velocity and gravity not support that hypothesis?
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I think people forget how much front running happened in the bad old days on the stock market floor, how the NYSE organized a cartel that kept trading prices high, and that the bid/ask spread is usually a lot less than it used to be.

One thing people don't say much about HFT is that the HFT practitioners got the exchanges to add undocumented order types that let them, in some cases, take advantage of people who do limit orders as the author of this post describes. The best description of this is at

http://www.amazon.com/The-Problem-HFT-Collected-Frequency/dp...

Often when I trade stocks I like to set a limit order at a price that might be a percent or so better than the market rate. Since the price fluctuates, odds are pretty good that I'll get my fill. Now if it is just the normal Brownian motion, it's a good thing that I get my fill, but if the stock is getting hammered by an external event that is driving it way down I might have hit the limit for the wrong reason and be unhappy I got the fill. In situations like that, HFT traders have an advantage with their special order types.

I think the normal retail investor who buys and holds for a while is not hurt terribly by HFT and flash crashes(unless the market is depressed because of the fear of HFT) but you can definitely get burned if you use stop orders. If a price goes down quickly, that can trigger your stop order, causing you to sell at a bad time.
We invest a lot of code in GUI, which makes me think of:

I'm afraid the holodeck will be society's last invention. - Scott Adams

And this ultimate GUI would require the ultimate coding effort.
This is a lot better than the conference selling out in 2 minutes like last year.
Yep--your point?

I can maybe see a case for forcing them to use the same police departments as everybody else, in hopes that it would motivate the parents and community involved into maybe actually fixing a broken system.

More likely, though, you'll end up with worse enforcement, because why would cops deal with "stupid college kids" when they could be stopping real crimes? I'd bet they'd just be ignored.
It's sad that I as a retail investor need to spend my valuable time focusing on how not to get screwed by the exchanges that have introduced a side business which does not serve the functioning of the market and instead corrupts it.
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My wife spent 8 unpaid years in education (4 years first degree, 2 year LLB, 1 year mandatory post-grad, 1 year devilling to be an Advocate) - with a 2 year trainee period before the devilling.

That was 8 years unpaid, 2 years low pay.
I love the EU man. It doesn't look like you understand the plan. Given the size of the US, China and India each European nation alone is weak. However combined they are the largest economy in the world.

We're doing this to remain relevant and to prevent other nations from tearing us apart through uneven economic exchanges much like workers ensure they cannot be exploited by joining unions. It is a union and has all the perks (and problems!) associated with unionization.
There's a reason FMT's require clinical care and they don't sell "FMT-at-home" DIY kits. Without careful screening of the donor and recipient, you risk severe consequences. Bloodbourne pathogens are a real and present risk with fecal matter on top of the microorganisms poo contains. What's healthy/works in one persons gut can be tremendously bad for anothers.
I think it's easy to explain: TypeScript is a new technology and programmers will have very little experience in using it. It's completely impossible to find "TypeScript programmer with 5 years of experience" for example. On the other hand, JS is stable and much older and you can easily assemble a team of highly experienced people.

Relative strengths and weaknesses of TypeScript will be only visible after it's around long enough to get its own best practices and experienced programmers. I see the same process with CoffeeScript - in the beginning average CS code was much worse than average JS, but now they are comparable and the advantages of CS are starting to be visible.

That's of course on average. It's still possible to get a few people with enough knowledge to be able to use TS effectively, but I think it's hard enough to make it very rare. It's unfortunate, but technologies - and especially languages - take very long time to mature. In short, your impression is probably correct, but it's not because of TypeScript features; we need to wait a few years before we can compare TS and JS products success rates.
OP: I agree completely, unscreened "random" FMT would be a very bad idea. The donor in this case was definitely not random.
I'd recommend Twitter and Atlassian HQs if you can swing it.
As best I can tell it seems to be a very heavily veiled excuse to get their web service customers to sign up for Cloudflare hosting their DNS zones as well.

Traffic balancing and redirection via DNS responses isn't new ground--other people just don't conflate it with CNAME kludgery.
These rocks slow down considerably when they move through the atmosphere (Unless they are massive and this one was not). What is also interesting is most the time they are cold to the touch immediately after impact.[1][2]

[1]http://misconceptions.us/are-meteorites-hot-or-cold-when-the...
[2] http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=215
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Like it or not, money is the best way to determine whether such a job is "bullshit" or not. Limited resources are allocated, on the whole, where those controlling those financial resources see the best productivity as measured by profitability. You may not grasp why a job is worth paying for, but you're not the one putting the money up for it. If a manager grows his fiefdom but his managers don't see fitting payoff, he'll find himself no longer a manager and his fiefdom dismantled.

It's not perfect, but it's way better than any other system.
> With technological progress worker roles are eliminated, but the idea is that the market has demand for new currently non-existent things and as the progress enables those things to come into existence creating new jobs as it goes.

The author is arguing that this isn't always the case. You can't take it as an axiom that the market will always have need for employing everyone.

For example, as automation becomes more sophisticated, the intelligence needed to use or modulate that automation may increase. As that base requirement rises, more people may become structurally unemployable. In the limit, if there is little that humans can do better than computers, there is little need to employ many humans.
That's resetting settings.

What netsh winsock reset does is tear out DLLs, tear out various registry settings and mucks about with other system files.

Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about.
GoPros have high frame-rate modes.
Possibly. A small rock would have a lot less air resistance than a person, and those suits are designed to increase air resistance. So it might end up with a higher terminal velocity and fall slightly faster.

http://www.wired.com/2013/10/do-heavier-objects-really-fall-... http://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/newtlaws/efar.cfm
Why is this news? It's a nicer drone, which isn't too ordinary, but nicer toys are more common in SF.
The difference between Eclipse and Netbeans/IntelliJ is, that Eclipse is implementing its own Compiler while the other two are using Oracle's javac.
That's why Eclipse didn't have Java8 support out of the box.
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Camera isn't stationary.
I'm getting down voted for this so I'd be interested to know why.
You really do get rights for a friend if they have their own copy. So it doesn't cost millions.