skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument with the trash I was trying to make was that we don't need magic to make things that are beyond our understanding. I do believe that our conscious derives from the physical structure of our brain, but that doesn't mean it is possible to "upload" it.

Yes, part of the impossibility stems from the impossibility of reading a brain. Non-destructive measurements aren't possible because the amount of energy required to scan the tiny structures in the brain would destroy it. Destructive measurements would destroy the brain while we read it, and we can only read a subset of the information before the whole brain is destroyed.

But even if it was possible to scan a brain, I think you are underestimating the task of creating an artificial brain. Storage is the least of our troubles. To actually simulate the neural net, each of these two thousand hard drives must be connected to every other one, requiring millions of interconnects, and then you need millions of processors, and every simulation step touches every byte of every hard drive. This is so many orders of magnitude beyond what we can do now that I doubt it is ever possible.

I think the only feasible way of uploading a brain will be to create a program that can convince everyone that the uploaded person is actually living inside the computer, similar to the Turing test. You'd configure the program by telling it anecdotes from your life and taking psychological tests, rather than "scan your brain". However, I consider even this variant unlikely, because it would basically require something similar to an AI.
They made the only choice. Because various applications are now dependent on systemd APIs in order to function correctly, and those APIs in turn can only be implemented by an init system that is structured the same way as systemd, it's essentially impossible to use anything else. Someone could come up with an alternative to systemd that was superior in every other way and it'd be impossible to move to it. (Hell, it'd have been impossible to move to systemd in the first place if the existing init system was so closely entwined with everything else.)
This was inevitable; I posted about this almost a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6245975

They were already shipping some items in their grocery trucks around that time.
>Still bullshit.

Really? Because immediately after you dismissed hopes that the Internet might be a force for democratization, you said the following in reference to candidates' corrupting (and incompatible with democracy) need for money:

"We have the Internet now. There is no such need anymore."

Were you thinking of something more democratizing than that?

The rest of that paragraph and the next are ridiculous strawmen.

>If you want to invoke technology, then all technology is a "democratizing and equalizing force".

That argument is just plain stupid. Are you being deliberately obtuse? Trolling? Or are you really that prone to committing such gaping logical fallacies?

FWIW, I didn't just "invoke technology". I referenced the Net.

>And money is not the biggest threat. Democracy? Doesn't exist in America. Not really. The media is right: we are a country ruled by elites

And who are the elites? The poor?

You know, this is pointless. Your entire comment is void of any introspection and is not even internally consistent. It just argues with itself. Worse, you sincerely can't seem to follow a thread. It's so bad that I really do hope that you are just trolling. But, in any case, I'll leave you to your "self-stimulation".
Wise words and business advices from one of the founders of Sony – Akio Morita
I'm curious to know specifically what makes you think she's undesirable as an employee?
In the working age of 18-64, 27% of the population works under the Danish government.
What you mentioned there is one of the reasons why I left to do this company. They won't come if you build it, and many of the science startups have felt that (Quartzy.com and ScienceExchange.com). Both are doing well, and run by awesome people, but academics need something to drive them to a site. Hence why I built data automation tools :)

Re: PhD,
Cool, best of luck:) If you ever want to work on something outside of academic work, let me know. I'm always looking for people to work on Stirplate with me. Also,I'm always happy to help people getting started, so feel free to reach out if you have any questions keith @ stirplate.io
"Paid peering" is an oxymoron.
What about the ecological effect on plant/plankton life in the ocean blocked by these floating panels? Assuming the cost of producing solar panels eventually comes down and we can cover large areas of the ocean, won't it take a toll?
I am really curious what he will do next.

I am just a light user of G+, FB and Twitter. That said, I enjoy G+ the most.
Eastern Denmark: server3.gstcraft.dk
Have not used NGINX cache, but are a heavy user of Varnish + NGINX. Varnish is really good at caching and together with NGINX it makes a solid solution. NGINX cache seems (from skimming the docs) simple and it might be enough for your requirements, with Varnish you know it can do a whole lot and more. As always, it depends.
It's not only about elderly.

Imagine you have a stroke, or your hands are full of blood, or you fall and brake your hands ...then you cannot use your touch screen smartphone and/or speak comprehensible words!

In such emergency situations a text-to-speech would save life's. You may be able to press a physical button or the G-sensor detects the accident and reacts automatically.
This is the Frankenstein problem these type of apps have. You see it in stuff like SharePoint or G+, the horror stems from trying to do much, no matter how well you do the core things, the amalgamation is horrific to behold, unfocused, a sprawling tapestry of decay. People forget that Dr. Frankenstein selected the most beautiful parts to create the monster, it wasn't meant to be a horror it was meant to be a Promethean.

" How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavored to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! -- Great God! ... I had desired it with an ardor that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart..."
It helps avoid shitty clickbait arties and article headlines from news sources who are desperate for clicks to get ad impressions to get enough money to operate.
Thanks. I'd forgotten about that. Anyhow, the point remains :)

Production (nginx + passenger)

17824 1 7.8 MB 0.0 MB nginx: master process /etc/nginx/sbin/nginx -c /etc/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
3247 17824 8.3 MB 1.0 MB nginx: worker process
3685 17824 8.3 MB 1.0 MB nginx: worker process
3696 17824 8.2 MB 0.8 MB nginx: worker process
3699 17824 8.2 MB 1.0 MB nginx: worker process
### Processes: 5
### Total private dirty RSS: 3.71 MB

----- Passenger processes -----
PID VMSize Private Name
-------------------------------
17806 5.5 MB 0.0 MB PassengerWatchdog
17809 36.1 MB 2.1 MB PassengerHelperAgent
17814 10.9 MB 0.0 MB PassengerLoggingAgent
3385 424.6 MB 48.7 MB Passenger ClassicRailsApp
### Processes: 4
### Total private dirty RSS: 50.79 MB

Development (Apache + mod_passenger, no Rails apps running through it at the moment)

---------- Apache processes ----------
PID PPID VMSize Private Name
--------------------------------------
13388 20050 488.3 MB 18.8 MB /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
13389 20050 488.3 MB 18.8 MB /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
13390 20050 488.3 MB 18.8 MB /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
13391 20050 488.3 MB 18.9 MB /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
13392 20050 488.4 MB 18.9 MB /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
20050 1 406.8 MB 1.1 MB /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
### Processes: 6
### Total private dirty RSS: 95.45 MB

----- Passenger processes -----
PID VMSize Private Name
-------------------------------
13370 212.0 MB 0.3 MB PassengerWatchdog
13373 491.3 MB 0.3 MB PassengerHelperAgent
13381 213.1 MB 0.6 MB PassengerLoggingAgent
### Processes: 3
### Total private dirty RSS: 1.18 MB
And huge potential customers don't mean anything to a non-profit open source ecosystem that actually care about security.
I'm moving the server right now. Will give an update.
Salt water is very corrosive.
> The shoemaker's children have no feet.

What does this mean?
Not all gems are created equal. Large amount of gems don't necessarily mean that they are arbitrarily included. In fact, it's often better to pull in a dependency for things that specialize in a particular task because they are more likely to have hardened security and better performance.

The flip side is actually knowing that this "meme generator" gem you are using actually pulls in 50 dependencies, many of which are terribly implemented. I've seen this problem just as rampant in the Node.js and jQuery worlds.

As developers, we should be as aware as possible of the state of our critical apps dependencies. I've recently gone through an app that had over 50 gem dependencies and reduced it to under 20.

One thing that's probably not considered is that testing frameworks (rspec) have tons of dependencies that are not scoped to production. I'm not sure if these reports considered that.
It is trivially easy to bypass most paywalls, if that's what you want to do.
CS academics have been slowly taking control of more of our own journals. It somewhat helps that there is already relatively little editing/layout work done on the journal's side, because computer scientists like to produce publication-ready PDFs straight out of LaTeX, and a journal is more or less just a concatenation of those. In some other fields it's more common to send a draft-formatted manuscript, which the journal staff will format into professional-looking magazine style; that requires more of a "real" staff, which then means you need a budget and source of funds and such. This is one reason some open-access publications in other areas are turning to charging the authors to fund the operations (although reputable journals will waive the fee for authors who don't have a source of funds such as a grant to cover the fee, so it's not fully "pay to play").

In AI, two of the top journals are now open-access and run on a shoestring budget by academics, so also don't have any publication charges: http://jmlr.org http://jair.org

Here was the 2001 letter that kicked off JMLR: http://jmlr.org/statement.html
This is probably the one thing that makes me act like a luddite - smash the darn thing before it gets a chance to even twitch a little.
I should clarify that I didn't think the article badly written - just not quite in the style I'm used to from a publication like Business Insider. That said, I probably haven't read many other long-form pieces on there.

Others here clearly enjoyed the writing style very much!
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Since Captain Kirk, people expect space heroes to have vast sexual appetites.
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I expect them to receive a lot of resistance from federal and state governments. I have a friend that works for UPS, and the union-enforced inefficiency stories he tells me would blow your mind. It's literally the gangster behavior that unions are notorious for. And those guys are no strangers to getting politicians to bend to their will.

Given a truly fair, free-market, Amazon (and the other companies the article listed) would blow traditional delivery services out of the water over the next decade, no question. Companies like UPS are just too bogged down with union bureaucracy. But that's something the delivery unions will fight tooth and nail. This war will involve just as much lobbying as innovating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKNX6dieVcc
> same-day local deliveries are the simplest part of the delivery chain.

Was this a joke...you think splitting thousands of tiny parcels up for delivery in a city is simpler than sending some semis for a cruise down the interstate?
really wishing i had downvote powers right about now. since i dont, let me just pipe in with a comment about how arrogant this comment is. good software developers arent born, they're trained. you really should be constructive in your criticism.
Are you using keith @ stirplate.io ? It should be working...sorry if messages are getting bounced.
They really don't. What you just wrote is like saying
"This is nothing out of the unusual. Cows turn themselves inside out all the time"

(http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/149573/inside-out-cows)
Come on. We have every reason to believe that an OpenBSD library will be easily portable. That's their way. And FIPS was evil and had to go.
What's wrong with Thunderbird, though?
He probably gave notice and this just was developed privately until his time had come. It's wise to do this kind of thing in the background. Subordinates are more likely to question the decisions of someone that they know won't be around much longer, etc.
>> Everybody seems to like the circles ideas for organizing our connections, that's a great idea I'm surprised still hasn't been really replicated by FB.

Facebook has something called "Lists" to organize your friend groups which is very similar to circles on google+.
https://www.facebook.com/help/friends/lists
You're definitely not the only one. Trying to understand the interaction between the various Google properties makes me feel like an idiot -- and yet I'm a Web developer with a CS degree who has been using the Web just about every day since 1994.

For example, have you ever tried to schedule a Google Hangout chat? As far as I can tell, there's no way to do it from Google Hangouts. You need to first sign in to Google+, then go to Google Events and create a new event, and then you have to specify that it's a video event.

Is it a use case they just don't care about? Is there no one at the company who's looking at this setup and thinking, "wow, this is confusing and we can probably simplify that"? Or is my brain just getting too brittle to make sense of it?
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I never understood why Amazon doesn't just get into the drive-through market.

As a consumer with children, it's a major hassle to go to the grocery store with my kids in tow. It's also unacceptable to wait 2 days to get what I order.

The ideal solution would be for me to go to Amazon Fresh, pick my location so I can be assured that everything listed is in stock, and then do my shopping.

On their end, the workers would pick the products from the shelves and toss it into bins with a barcode on them, just like they do at the Amazon Warehouses now. There would be 3 categories of bins: Frozen, refrigerated, and room temp.

When my order is ready, I would get an alert on my phone.

Then I would drive to an Amazon Fresh site and park in a numbered spot and either press a button on an adjacent speaker box or something or enter the parking spot number on my phone.

I would get a notice that an attendant is on their way. A few minutes later, a cart would come out with the bagged groceries and the attendant would load them into my car and I would leave.

This really seems like the best choice for Amazon. It lets them have regional centers for product warehousing so they don't have to ship cross-country, it lets consumers get products instantly without last-mile logistics problems, and it would let them gradually transition to their own in-house delivery for their regular products and not focus on the products that need instant delivery. Having their own delivery unit, UPS, and local delivery companies would encourage competition and keep the prices low for them.
Google doesn't want to be reddit.
yup. you just reflash the stock rom, then relock the bootloader, and it's like new
It appears that many employees did not like working with him. This was posted on Secret "One of the worst execs I've ever worked with. Completely skirted the design process and got designers to do one off projects for him that would derail plans for weeks on end and kill team trust". Interesting, since there is much praise from Page.
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Thanks. I'm the 😈, really. }:) <-- just in case you're using an ascii browser.

https://github.com/steakknife/ruby-net-ldap

Shameless self-promotion: Clients call for this devil if something's hard or something's broken.
agree. So far, the only 'performance' case that I've seen made for systemd is in desktop system bootup time. Certainly it won't make my threads go faster or cause significantly lower power consumption, or give me 'more I/O'.
If it has a proper digitizer and if it's not _extremely_ expensive then it's an instant buy. The reason is OneNote. OneNote + ultraportability + high quality (as every Surface so far) + digitizer = unique, killer product. At least for me.
Either the fees are hidden on the site or I need more coffee.
i don't think cloud means on a public infrastructure. It's a term widely abused, I think they mean it's on a server and can be accessed by multiple clients through a common API. That also means that is likely a self-hosted solution that runs on the same backup-generators the hospital uses during outages.
Yeah, I remember reading about that. Was a pleasant surprise.
You're right. I shouldn't have said "more profitable"- obviously you're going to get more money immediately by exploiting a bug that gives you direct access to everyone's bank account. What I should have said was "more attractive".

If I have to choose between 5 year's wages with a 90% chance of going to jail for a very long time vs. a month's wages as a bounty and a 0% chance of going to jail, I'm going to pick the bounty every time. I think a lot of people would agree with me.

As discussed further down in this thread, raising the value of the payout or lowering the possibility of being caught makes the other side more attractive.

(of course, I would choose to disclose every time, because I'm just a good person.)
This is the first in a two part series. I'd like to feature cool automation hacks you've build that have given you the highest value in the second post.

Please post links or tell me about them in the comments.
OK granted I didn't read that she expects volunteering. That's of course completely ridiculous.
From the summary it seems that Parsons was more one of the people involved in early rocketry rather than a central and driving figure. It is possible that this is much ado about nothing - the author of the book (as well as the person writing about the book) is using Parson's colorful personal life as titillation and is playing up their connection with the rocketry program to sell the book (Otherwise it's just a story about another eccentric bohemian in Pasadena).
I'm not disagreeing, but what would UPS/USPS/unions fight them on? Is starting a delivery service regulated in some way?
What I don't understand is why, (presumably the only HR person at GitHub) wouldn't be at a meeting as requested? Isn't this a rather important function of an HR position? Why would she suggest someone else be there? Didn't she have the authority to say, "under no circumstances will a meeting take place between employee x and employee y without my presence"?
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I think there's something to an idea like this. So much time right now is wasted grocery shopping. I mentioned this in a comment a while back about Instacart:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5039418
I agree, circles mandate additional cognitive load. They should've been implemented such that each user had 2-3 circles max, like "Work", "Friends", and "Family", and it was almost always invisible (meaning you'd almost always share with all). Prompting the user each time they want to post something and making them choose from their 8-10 circles greatly increases the friction of posting.
i provided enough constructive feedback to the maker on his chat.
A service using open source software is a pretty good indicator that they will not sell out. Or even if they do, you will still be able to continue to use it by self-hosting or using a different provider.
Given a truly fair, free-market

The reason the unions exist in the first place is because a completely free and unregulated market, in the past, produced gross human rights violations. For example:

http://billmoyers.com/2014/04/23/us-workers-were-once-massac...
It's not even evidence of that, all you can conclude from that screenshot is that HR is out of the office for much of the next week and is suggesting someone else agreeable.

Everything else is pretty much speculation (but then this entire thing has been like that).
Addenda:

2. So? Like text files can't get corrupted? At least journal has checksums to ensure that data is not unknowingly corrupted.

4. If I recall correctly, systemd can be used with static dev (with limited functionality).

5. That's not what I've gotten (Gentoo). Also, if it's an issue, it can be turned off.

6.

> it is far smaller in breadth than the Linux kernel itself, yet seemingly just as critical

Isn't it a good thing if stuff is smaller?

8. This isn't an actual argument. systemd has code to catch errors and infinite loop the program. It's not even internally consistent. "have fun rebooting, except my argument isn't even valid because systemd has code to reexec"

9. No, systemd is primarily concerned with glibc. Patches to run on other libcs are accepted if they do not unnecessarily complicate the code.

10. Without actual examples, this is a useless argument at best.

11. This is not a point, just name-calling.
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> Cancer therapies on the other hand are going to improve enormously in the near future as forms of narrowly targeted cell destruction take over from the present standards of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, coupled with greatly improved early detection

There have also been innovations in holistic care, including cases of cancer remission.

Promising aspects of holistic care is it's relatively inexpensive, easy to train practitioners, & covers a wide swath of healthy living.

Some of it is incorrect and some of it works. I trust that our culture will iterate & hone in on the good practices.
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A few local grocery stores offer this. You order online and pick it up in a drive through area a little while later.
Cryptol DSL, a tool for writing correct crypto algorithms, is now open-source
They should also start burning their own coal and splitting some atoms in their own power plants. They could save millions by not forking over the utility company's greedy margins.

So much for division of work.
I really really want to see the numbers on this.

1. How much mass are they putting into orbit?

2. How much is it costing them to put that into orbit?

3. How much energy will that generate?

4. How long will the solar cells last?
Script to fetch LibreSSL straight from CVS
>>> investors would rather hold scarce assets such as equities and real estate.

Real Estate is not the investment it once was and homes have yet to recover their initial value since the crash in 2006. I doubt this is something people would be actively investing in like they used to.
The problem with fixed-bid is that the client almost never has a decent specification. If I write the spec for free, I know he'll then just shop the spec around on freelance sites, and I wasted my time. They always get insulted when I say they should pay me for 1-3 days to help the write the specification. One guy expected me to give an estimate without telling me any of the details first.

I noticed that small businesses who want fixed-bid contracts tend to be cheapskates and they're the type of person who'll haggle every little detail and look for an excuse to refuse to pay.

I'd rather target the higher end of the market than the bottom of the barrel. Also, the work I prefer tends to have greater complexity than just churning out a simple site quickly, making fixed-bid less sensible.