skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a scientific + atheistic view of the world, and when I took psilocybes, those views grew stronger and more complex. I do not believe you will have a revelation that makes you believe in God. To the contrary, you'll explore things you think about deeper.
Kind of an unified, explorable map of historical events, in which you can see how the borders looked like, could see various information overlays like trade routes, major wars, events, etc.? It's quite an endeavour but I believe a worthy one, and I hope a project like that will start soon.

This could have tremendous effect on people. It's BretVictoresque stuff, things that could expand the space of thoughts we have, and vastly increase our comprehention of information available.
Intel is only on their second generation of OpenCL-capable GPUs, so there are still tons of machines out there that have no GPGPU capability and don't have even a CPU-based OpenCL implementation installed (except on OS X). APIs giving access to fixed-function transcoding engines on GPUs are also not as standard and universal as they should be, and those fixed function engines also have poorer output quality than the good software implementations.
If money is speech, and speech is free, where's my free money?

If money is speech, especially with regard to politics, lack of money is the stifling of speech (and to an extent, indirect disenfranchisement). Ergo, through not giving those without money any funds with which to perform their speech, the government is violating the first amendment.
For all the hate MongoDB gets, I have to say building queries in server side JS using MongoDB JSON syntax rather than SQL style queries is the way to go.

Check out these two examples:

https://github.com/olegp/stick-blog-pg/blob/master/lib/serve... - uses Postgres
https://github.com/olegp/stick-blog/blob/master/lib/server.j... - uses MongoDB - much easier to construct dynamic queries using the JSON syntax

There are of course plenty of other things a relational DB like Postgres has going for it, so I've been experimenting with having a MongoDB interface to Postgres with data stored using the JSON datatype. It's now feature complete and passes all unit tests with read performance exceeding that of Mongo in some benchmarks:

https://github.com/olegp/pg-mongo
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> What will Mongo 2.8 mean for TokuMX? We're seeing document-level locking, possible B-Tree improvements (I presume Toku's R-Tree/Fractals [can't remember which they use] will still be superior), possible transactions (although what's on JIRA hasn't convinced me so far) and a few other improvements and Performance Boosting Things.

TokuMX is quite a bit ahead of MongoDB in those respects - it already has document-level locking, transactions, MVCC guarantees, and partitioned collections (a recent addition, and awesome for time series data). It also offers (configurable) data compression and a non-fragmenting storage mechanism, which means tremendous disk usage savings in update-heavy workloads. It's quite a lot faster both reading and writing in many cases (particularly when you can take advantage of clustering keys). It's not without its faults, but the things it has over vanilla MongoDB far outweigh its faults, IMO.

It would be nice to have geo-indices and full-text search (we use ElasticSearch for the latter in concert with TokuMX, and it supports geoindices too), but "server doesn't fall over under high load" is a lot more important to us (as users, I don't work for Tokutek). 2.8 promises to bring MongoDB up to speed in a lot of respects, but it's definitely not accurate to think of TokuMX as "MongoDB 2.4 except with faster writes".
Not really, it is deja vu for anyone that has been around in this industry for long time.

The idea of universal VMs go back to UNCOL project (1958).

A few mainframes made use of VMs with some kind of AOT compilation at installation time. The most notorious of it OS/400, still being used.

The first sucessful JIT compilers were designed as part of Smalltalk systems, namely SELF, which JavaScript is a descent of. So of course you hear a lot about it in the context of JavaScript.

Where JIT compilers bring a major win is when compiling dynamic languages.

With strong typed languages, the type of optimization algorithms you can make use of usually win over the limited options JIT compilers have available due to responsiveness limitations.

In the early 80s there was a fad of VM craziness around P-Code virtual machines, which eventually died out when everyone went back to proper compilers.

So this going back to AOT compilation trend, is just the IT circle going around one more time.
Huh, interesting. I stand completely corrected. Thanks!
That is what Microsoft has done with Windows Phone 8.

AOT compilation is done at the store. The OS only does the linking at installation time.
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Your comparison is not apt; an ORM can be used for any SQL flavor.
On the other hand, policies of e.g., local government in North Carolina reflect the influence of the pork industry really clearly.
Have you looked much at the Philips Hue? The combination of a reletively low price (at least compared to LifX) and an open RESTful API, they're my favourite.

Recently I created a little node service that listens to events from our site from RabbitMQ and flashes the Hue lightbulbs when interesting things happen.
Dispatch from Guinea: Containing Ebola
>Do you get a refund when you refuse to give any politician the voucher? If not, then your tax money is actually going towards paying for other people's vouchers, whether you like it or not. You have been effectively disenfranchised.

On the other hand, if someone has no money with which they can enable their political speech, they are effectively disenfranchised.
Having written an ORM myself back in 2000 and used Hibernate and JPA for many years, I'm now of the opinion that ORMs are an unnecessary, leaky abstraction in the modern day of dynamic languages.

One is better off talking directly to the data store and effectively streaming data out via a REST API.
The downvotes that you got and i got are something normal, internet trolls are everywhere, although i asked a real 100% valid question, the title of this post and the first couple of paragraphs didn't give me a background about why this is in the front page, those who downvoted me obviously thought i was trolling so they whipped out their swords and fought like real knights ... dumb motherfuckers.
The scale of the September 11 attacks was greater than most predictions (given that no terrorist attack in history had ever been that destructive) but planes into buildings and terrorist attacks on the WTC were frequently predicted events.

The Empire State building has been hit multiple times by planes including a serious incident involving a B-25 in 1945:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-25_Empire_State_Building_cras...

and the WTC had been the subject of multiple previous bombings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing

Planes attacking buildings – especially the World Trade Center – is certainly something that had been imagined.
IRC protocol spec limits message length to 512 bytes, I know only of a single implementation that lets you go above that and many clients crash or otherwise break if you go above it.
Except it had already been attempted by Bin Laden in 1993, albeit without planes
No need for the extra comment, just upvote it.
Ron Paul Revolution.

I'm not sure if anyone remembers it, but they were great at raising money online. They had a lot of good ideas and frankly they were right on a lot of issues that helped win Obama the election when the rest of the Republican party was still gunning for more war in the Middle East the public no longer supported. Oh, and the economy.

Here's what happened...

Even with millions raised, the Republican nomination went to John McCain who brought us Sarah Palin. Months after a sound defeat, Fox News and Glen Beck co-opted the Ron Paul/Tea Party movement, which they previously spent 2 years making fun of, into the corporate political machine that it is now. The Tea Party of current times has little in common with the Tea Party that tried to get Ron Paul the nomination, twice.

This is a very long winded way of saying I've seen political movements pop up online before and they tend to fizzle and die, or have the energy co-opted into something that is not the same thing at all.

I fully expect if this becomes a big enough deal for some Democrats and Republicans to once again crow about campaign finance reform (because it sounds good, just ask John McCain), that it will get co-opted by big money into somehow reinforcing the current system or otherwise giving big moneu politics further advantages.

I'm not sure that any of us fully grasp how much money truly controls the political process at every level. There is so much money it's basically impossible to expunge it no matter how hard you try.

It's nice to see the excitement around this, even if I don't think it will pan out.
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Or own a company / work harder and save the additional cash, then retire at 40?
Also, campaign finance reform seems to e in vogue every couple decades or so. It's like the argument of mainframe vs. client server or monolithic codebases vs. modular codebases.

It feels like we are doomed to repeat ourselves.
I would be highly interested in a study that analyzes people who have been married for 50+ years and compares them to people who have been divorced. I have some opinions on what leads people to ultimately get divorced; however, without any evidence to back them up, those thoughts aren't even worth mentioning.

My belief is that marriage (at least for me personally) is a lifelong commitment, and divorce is only an option in the cases of abuse or cheating. In that sense, my biggest fear toward getting married is that the person I marry would at some point change who they are ("get bored" in modern parlance) and divorce me.

At this stage in my life (24 years old), I'm slowly realizing that I probably won't ever get married even though I would really like to... I just can't imagine meeting a person I feel so certain and comfortable about. Heck, I can barely even find someone I want to date.

I was speaking with my sister (engaged) the other day and asked her how she knew she had met the right person, and she told me that her fiancé is the only guy ever that she felt like she wasn't playing "mind games" with. That's particularly interesting to me, because I've never been with someone who I didn't feel like I was playing those games with.
That was an absolutely terrifying read. What seems to make Ebola worse is the manner in which you die...bleeding out on the floor, alone. Doctors Without Borders is an incredible organization, and one that I gladly donate to yearly.
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Last time i built an app on sails was March, and i couldn't compare it to RoR, ActiveRecord is far more superior IMHO.
Relevant, Making History Available: http://lesswrong.com/lw/j0/making_history_available/

>To my former memory, the United States had always existed—there was never a time when there was no United States. I had not remembered, until that time, how the Roman Empire rose, and brought peace and order, and lasted through so many centuries, until I forgot that things had ever been otherwise; and yet the Empire fell, and barbarians overran my city, and the learning that I had possessed was lost. The modern world became more fragile to my eyes; it was not the first modern world.

>So many mistakes, made over and over and over again, because I did not remember making them, in every era I never lived...
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I took an important lesson from that article, completely unrelated to startups, when first reading it few years ago.

> The man with the knife did not know how to use that knife. If he had been as trained in knife fighting as I was in hand combat, he would have been able to destroy me. But he had a tool that he felt gave him an advantage (...)

You can have a false sense of confidence that because you possess a particular tool, you're safe, even though you have no idea how to use it. If the first time you discover how the tool works is in a dangerous situation, you'd likely be much better of if you didn't have that tool in the first place.

I applied this lesson many times in my life. For example, after a theoretical worplace safety course at my job I realized I have no clue how fire extinguishers actually work, so I bought one and fired it outside in an area where it wouldn't disturb anybody. And now I know how extinguishers behave and what to expect from them. Another time, a friend of mine was planning to buy pepper spray, because she was often returning late at night from university. I told her to buy two cans, because just having a spray will instill a false sense of confidence in her. We used up the second spray for "training", for her to see how it actually works, so that in case of real danger, she wouldn't have to worry about how to use the gas and how it actually works.
Sisko makes a number of morally questionable decisions, most especially in "For the Uniform" and "In the Pale Moonlight".
Increase the price. I'm not sure to how much, but possibly to $20 or $50. Selling something for $1 hurts you more than it helps you because it attracts the "wrong" customers and also lowers the perceived value of the product.

I'm not sure if there is a market need (don't know much about Bitcoin) but you can't expect to find any customers without putting significant effort into marketing it. Maybe try content marketing, writing about Bitcoin security and how to protect oneself. One problem I see is that people may not be actively looking for a solution. People don't care about securing their wallet until (like you) they have been bitten by malware. Convincing existing Bitcoin users that securing their wallet is important seems like a difficult task because you need to educate them. That's the problem of being the first-mover in a market (I assume there aren't lots of competing products). If you have competitors they can do the educating for you.

If you don't want to put your efforts into marketing maybe just leave it there for a while. As Bitcoin becomes more popular it may well be that people come realize the need to secure their wallet. Maybe it's just a bit too early?
FYI for some reason MalwareBytes treats that link as malicious.
Not necessarily. In the vast majority of cases, being in close contact with a corpse, before it's gotten serious about decomposing, is not a big deal. I would guess the few cases where it is a problem are not enough to exert significant selection pressure.
consecutive lines from the same sender are collapsed into a single message, double spaces are where new lines should be.
There's always at least three - there's a 'hidden' datacentre in each region if you can only see two AZs.
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On the contrary, I would say that evolution works pretty quickly to weed out cultural phenomena like, say, suicide cults, in much the same way that it works quickly to remove gross physical deformities.
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Feeling lucky? Sure. What about the tourist visas?
Oh I forgot. Americans and Europeans don't need them.
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A great article, thanks for linking it and also posting the most important quotes for this discussion.
The conclusion I drew from what was described was that the soldier knew exactly what to do and dispatched the situation the most efficient possible way. He sounded so much more skilled than the highwayman that the effort to disarm the man was worth less than what he had in his pocket.

He was probably kicking himself afterward for not being that skilled at something more lucrative. lol
Actually quite a bit of the view code is native still - start reading the source for View etc and you hit a level where it's mostly calls out to native libraries. e.g https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/mas...
In debates about what is considered soft drugs I often see opinions of people claiming
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Beyond that it sounds as if he were compassionately trying to get the guy to do the right thing.
Makes sense, though I don't think that's the standard log format for any client.
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Over fifty years? The person you marry is going to change.

YOU'RE going to change.

Marriage is agreeing to let another person have first dibs over wooing the new person you change into, and vice versa.
You might ask the same question of the folks looking to spend $1T on a China-proof rock.
> It can't buy you love

Not to be a smartass here, but that's probably false. Money buys you social recognition, something that is an important part of your mate valuation. Rich folks will generally have a better time finding 'love' than the poor. The richer you are, the better your chances, more or less.

Money really is very important in the modern day. I wish it weren't this way -- I don't want to be doing selfish things, but sadly this just is the way it is.
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1.5 billion of public funding? That's quite fat piece of change from public coffers, and that's just for one presidential campaign. But more importantly, availability of public funding does not solve the problem of restricting political speech in any way. So imagine we put 1.5 bn of public spending in the campaign. What prevents the candidates from spending another 1.5 bn of private money? The private money spending is limited only by the amounts people are willing to spend to support their causes. Adding public money to that does not change it (unless you somehow conclude people would not be willing to donate anymore, but this is an unsupported assumption). So unless you prohibit people from spending money on political speech - I do not see how public funding changes the picture.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't know if I could ever trust an engineering culture that thought succeed-without-acknowledgement was a good default. At least not as a primary source of truth system. There are plenty of databases that take data seriously and have from the beginning. I'd probably just use one of those.
Yep and your kids are teenagers and you missed their entire childhood because you were at the office. No thanks brah.
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> Not to belittle the signifigance of these events, but you do realize that this means a whole slew of "anti terrorist" and probably "anti violence" laws will be passed through congress.

> Any "anti terrorist" laws will be given almost a blank check to do what is necessary. I'd be surprised if in 6 months you'll be able to make a domestic call without it being monitored.

> That's the way terrorism works. It's not the attack that hurts most people. A couple of hundred people die -- every death is tragic, but the truth is the real tragedy will be the loss of freedoms for the survivors.
Military client? mIRC is shareware:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC
If you're into anecdotes... http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/195806/chasing_the_wha...

I do wonder about the thinking of people who make games like this. I mean when the business model is about getting your customers literally addicted and there's no benefit besides "it's fun" (questionably), I don't see how it's particularly different from designing slot machines. I did find a blog that discusses that perspective in more detail:
https://drmarkgriffiths.wordpress.com/tag/slot-machine-addic...
I'm pretty sure you misread the parent comment.

The original question posed is about the chances of ebola spreading TO western nations. However, the grandparent question answers the chances of ebola spreading WITHIN western nations.

The epidemiology of the former involves questions like transportation controls, quarantine of travelers, border controls, and perhaps even banning international imports from involved nations. The latter involves differences in cultural behaviors, sanitation levels, healthcare coverage, etc.

They are very different questions.
Ah OK, so the author hasn't even tried it yet. Well thanks for sharing anyway.