skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Raising a son, I wouldn't have to worry that much about this stuff, and I could focus on helping him help make the world a better place, instead of worrying about whether my daughter is gonna get raped because she wore short shorts today.

I understand the comment you made (downthread) about parents being perhaps irrationally concerned about low-probability dangers to their kids, and totally understand: what I don't understand is why you'd be more afraid of your daughter being raped than your son. According to CDC data[1], the 12-month incidence of rape victimization for men is basically the same as for women. Given that the data doesn't support it, is it perhaps possible that your lopsided fear of rape is rooted in more sexism? A la, "Women are frail creatures that must be protected from all the dangers of the world", but "Men are independent, powerful shapers of their fate". I feel like an attitude like that is more of a concern to your hypothetical future daughter than any of the other concerns you've raised.

[1] pp 18-19: 12-month incidence of penetrative rape is 1.1% of women and the data is too noisy for men; non-penetrative rape is 5.3% for men and 5.6% for women.
There are a variety of names. DAC is something Ethereum came up with. Before then they were being called autonomous agents:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Agents

I was never totally clear on the difference, but as people often refer to Bitcoin itself as a DAC, I feel the term is too vague to be useful.

The next step to make these REALLY useful for agents is to set up Intel TXT on them. This would likely involve some voodoo as TXT is appallingly badly documented. But, if you make sure the hardware is compatible and that hardware virtualisation integrates properly using tboot it should be possible.

This step is a game changer because then an agent can get a hardware-rooted proof that the remote system is secure including against Kordless or whoever else owns the hardware. The agent then knows it's safe to install a copy of itself on the new machine, have the copy create a wallet, and send money to the new box such that the operator can't steal the money but the new agent can still pay for its own hosting costs.

Once done the agent would effectively be autonomous if it had a way to earn income e.g. reselling disk space. Scary stuff!
I doubt that relo money plays any role in a decision for or against any candidate.
One big global write lock in LMDB maps pretty well to one single stream of replicated log entries in Raft, IMO.

And logical address space is still far in excess of what most disks or arrays can fit, right? 40 bits or so on linux?

EDIT: 47 bits, for 128TB -- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2159456/whats-the-max-fil...
The layout of your page is really making it hard to read. I feel like the words are trailing off the side of the bounding box.
Also I have to scroll all the way right to reach the end of the sentence. I'm sure the information you posted is useful, but I couldn't spend more than 30 seconds on the page.
In my app, you cannot try out the code. You can step through the execution to see how the program state changes, but that's based on a pre-generated trace of the program execution.

In Pythonista and 'Python for iOS' mentioned by ldayley you can execute the code you write. Don't know how they do it, though.
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Makes sense. I didn't realize you had multiple sources, but I'm glad you do!
Procedure to create babies with three people's DNA could be legalised in April
It is the health insurance lobby that doesn't want it. Also corporations don't want the flexibility because it encourages people to stay and keeps salaries down.
This is the same Freese who has proposed detecting dark matter using gold and DNA. I have no idea if she is right or wrong, but reading about this kind of researching is exciting to me.
Very interesting point. The Norton batch is our SSL Batch (Symantec bought them or vice versa).

It seems like they need to do a better job of education users about that. I don't think they have a pure "Symantec SSL" batch anymore.
My point is that a comment filtering system is consciously based on the identification and exclusion of a group, which we'll call the out group. Of course it's limits will be debatable, just as the definition of spam is debatable.

If what you're excluding is political speech of a sort, then someone is going to be able to accuse the system of censorship, no matter where the line is drawn. It's inherent in the system's goals.

Personally, I think that's a point where any system is going to be rightfully challenged and examined critically, but I think it's still worth doing on a greater good basis. Spam filtering works, it makes my inbox a more tolerable place. It's a good idea to extend it to other types of crappy speech that makes other peoples' lives worse.
I've quit a job once because of that. The company wanted to have an in-house developer, but failed at understanding what it involves and providing an appropriate environment.

One-half of the office was open plan with people talking on the phone all day, the other was a room full of editors talking to each other every 5 minutes. When I explained I needed a quiet place to work, they either thought I was not a "team-player", or that I was cheating on them to surf Facebook all day. It's really hard to explain when the company's core is not software development.

They also wanted me to develop new features, but no one had 30 min to set aside to talk and gather requisites. Worst job I've had.

Nowadays I work from my home office. Not only I'm more productive, I've cut a 3 hours/day commute. Best career decision I've made.
How unique is JavaScript from SELF?

In regards to Scala, I would say OCaml has similar capabilities.
I'd love to be laid off with a good severance. It's an extended paid vacation.

It might be a slam to your ego, but every doer out there needs to know, you are seen by management as a cog in a machine, easily swapped out. Everyone is replaceable.
So, a named-data networking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking project.

> Named data networking (also content-centric networking, content-based networking, data-oriented networking or information-centric networking) is an alternative approach to the architecture of computer networks. Its founding principle is that a communication network should allow a user to focus on the data he or she needs, rather than having to reference a specific, physical location where that data is to be retrieved from. This stems from the fact that the vast majority of current Internet usage (a "high 90% level of traffic") consists of data being disseminated from a source to a number of users.

(Another idea with a Ted Nelson pedigree, btw.) Van Jacobson's working on another, NSF-funded project in this area http://named-data.net/ at present.
I am interested in hacker school, and this school looks awesome. I bet it's competitive. What do you recommend doing/knowing to do well on the application interview and hopefully get accepted? Thanks! -Jessica
Epeen is often enough. Make some sort of virtual practically useless reward depending on how much data you share/host.
Could you point me to some good examples of those open source MAME UIs? I want to show them to someone who wanted to build a game grading web page.
Oh, they know what they think about it.

What they are thinking, but not saying, is:

"We don't want our tax money going to black people and Mexicans."

"Socialism" is a dog-whistle term that usually indicates racism when used in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
I've found SmartGIT has been maturing nicely, the only thing I'd really like is for a bit more status in the repositories list.
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Interesting. That's quite a ratio in favor of WhatsApp.
We looked into building a WhatsApp hook via OwnerListens but since it's not that popular in the US (where most of our current customers are) we couldn't justify the resources. We'll revisit as we expand internationally. How much would you be willing to pay for such a service.
34 years old and has been at Microsoft for 15 years? That seems a little strange
I think it's because the web is a document based system, and very few collections of documents are worth viewing in a 3D environment, especially without looking cheezy, fake, or being distracting. It's much the same reason that 3D Word docs and PDFs aren't popular.
Stop motion chic perhaps?
Three things I've noticed as a manager of several developers who use or don't use GUI's for git: Pre-commit self code review tends much better with a GUI or at least a good git-aware diff program, leading to higher code quality. Visualization of branches, merges, etc. is much easier with a GUI. Complex merges with conflicts, partial commits, etc. tend to be easier with a GUI like tower.
My personal opinion is the government should not even begin to think about implementing a socialized healthcare system until the budget issues are radically solved.

I mean, I could be a lot more healthy if I could afford that gym membership, but I'm busy buying all this beer and junk food instead. I'd have to reduce how much beer and junk food I purchase in order to afford a gym membership. The government is buying a lot of "beer and junk food" programs that make it un-economical to afford such an vast and expansive program in current-day (even though I agree healthcare expenditures are likely a much better choice to fund rather than some of the frivolous and redundant government programs).

Also, we'd need to somehow figure out how to not de-incentivize hospitals from hiring top-tier medical staff, equipment and facilities. There is a risk that if hospitals become more standardized (by means of standardized payments, etc), that it could reduce income revenue, and therefore the overall quality the hospital can afford (hospitals are businesses too). Currently, in socialized healthcare countries, the "everyday joe's" get the local healthcare treatments, while the country's elites fly out-of-country (mostly into the US) for treatments -- possibly because they perceive the treatments to be, or they are more superior to what they can get back at home (idk honestly, this should be studied more).

That's not to say we can't do it... only that our present situation may not allow it until a future time.
This has the potential to be seriously interesting!
Dental is harder, and (at least in my dentist's opinion) private dental insurance just isn't worth it. I can see the merits of that, because you're less likely to have a catastrophic dental emergency that can bankrupt you. A lot of dental insurance also seems to only cover 50% of the more expensive items.

It may be worth looking at how much you're paying each month in premiums and comparing that to the annual out-of-pocket cost for preventive / cleaning visits plus perhaps a filling or two. You may find that all the insurance is really doing is smoothing those payments out without saving you much money unless you have a "years of neglect" situation that you're still working through.

It's probably also worth asking your dentist if they have "self-pay" rates comparable to what they're getting from the insurance companies. If they bill $120 but accept $80 from insurance, will they take $80-90 cash from you instead of that $120? Also, for more expensive procedures like crowns, it's very likely that your dentist's office will let you do installments to spread the cost over at least several months. That doesn't really help when you don't have current income and aren't sure when you will have it, but it does relate to smoothing out your expenditures the way insurance premiums do.
A lot of people didn't like ACA because we would have preferred single payer. Many others felt we would just be sending much more money to the for profit insurance companies who were already treating us horribly and making record profits.

We also have heard many stories of people having to wait months if not years for non-emergency treatment. Such as getting an MRI for an injured knee in Canada for instance. As a very healthy avid runner it would be very frustrating to not be able to pay for something critical to me like that (once again I am not saying this is always or mostly the case but it is a scenario I have heard about). I suppose our imaginations extrapolate if health care is more or less free for all then our level of care will be much worse. I am not really sure.

If it was up to me, I'd kill all insurance companies with fire, have us all pay into a pot for medicare and just use that.
Layoffs not based on talent? As competitive as the market is, throwing away valuable people seems insane to me.
I have. They might, or they might not. But instead of changing myself, or expecting them to change, I simply choose not to associate with them.
None of your examples entail building a mind. Also there's a kind of irony in my example, since as a branch of computer science it is independently funded and seemingly unrelated to mental health.
I think that's because it's perfect price differentiation. The alternative is that advertisement is massively overvalued.
Does assembly language leak compared to machine code? That is, does mnemonic names for machine code instructions leak?
Google does open source when it benefits them. Giving everyone else Spanner doesn't benefit them.
Even if the impact on a near-term undertaking is limited, the understanding of comparative capabilities are huge for program management decisions for future iterations.

For example had they realized that the LM the Soviets were building was incapable of working, that could impact the program in huge ways including changing how funding for the US program was structured, rule out or confirm a configuration as viable, speed up development in other critical areas etc...
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Mostly a matter of preference. Several tower users on our team and a SourceTree user. Try both, take cost into consideration, and go with what works for you.
It's somewhat similar to a Flash-only website, since it has less support and most notably lacks many of the features HTML makes easy (search engine indexing, browser search-and-find, ease of development, layout, and separation of content from style).
When fully autonomous cars are the norm, will you miss driving?
I was tangentially involved with the Kew Gardens mosquito project - however they're all exciting and worth a read!
>But it seems US citizens want to live like that. Why?

Well first, not all US citizens do.

Primarily this seems to stem from a free-market, conservative viewpoint. Central to this viewpoint is the thesis that not only is labor just, but the sociological outcome of labor is also, always, just (unless the government interferes). In other words, those who can afford healthcare have earned the right to it, those who can't were simply to lazy or ignorant to work hard enough to afford it.

Also, there can be a deep aversion to the government (any government) interfering with a person's property and income, where any program which requires people to give for the "greater good" is seen as not only theft, but an existential attack on the fundamental ideals of American individualism and personal liberty. The argument here is that governments are by definition corrupt, fascist and incompetent, and only a free market with as little regulation as possible could handle something like "healthcare" efficiently and fairly.

Therefore, advocates for limited government will see social programs as interference by an increasingly "big government" regime which has no right to force a moral imperative on people or relieve them of their property, and conservatives and free-market believers will feel that social programs undermine the moral principles of capitalism while insidiously creating a dependent class of lazy left-wing radical neo-immigrants.

Also, it's probably worth mentioning that not many Americans appreciate that there is a difference between liberalism, socialism and communism, and nor would they care.
For the public at large, that badge is likely to increase trust, and certainly few outside the tech community are going to be concerned with poor JS.

disc: not implying you would disagree with any of the above.
but how do we know much of that "naturally" is actually from decades of sleeping ~8 hours of day
That is pretty neat. I got my Beaglebone but haven't quite figured out what I am going to do with it. A GPS time server is a neat idea.

The price sounds about right. But, you also used your expertise, time and labor. Then add an enclosure box, documentation, support line, CE+FCC certifications and it can quickly get up there in price.
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The redacted document can be found at the CIA's library at https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...

Note that it doesn't say when this happened, only "number of years ago" from when the document was written in 1967.
She didn't identify the other women whose stories she told. It's an assumption that they're all writers.

I think you're reading too much into her tone. The key point is that no skin is thick enough to shrug off this treatment, and it's common for various unidentified women and one identified one in the industry to receive it from the general public. Do you think that's true, or not?
"These would be better supported and more discoverable if they were implemented by an add-on."

Better support but not by Firefox and more discoverable, but not in Firefox...
I never used ST, I thought a block == closures, but according to http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SmalltalkBlocksAndClosures there were differences until they wanted to make blocks real closures.

edit : I should have said closures + curryfication so you can partially augment the creation of a final callable entity that binds many parameters (similar to an object constructor arguments)
> Panels commonly run at 12V (or some low multiple thereof),

That is absolutely not true. Generally speaking nontrivial sized photovoltaic systems are designed with panels in series such that the voltage stays just barely within the 600v rating on the wire.

For example, grid tie inverter, MPPT rated 195-550v:

http://pdf.wholesalesolar.com/inverter%20pdf%20folder/Schnei...
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I agree that it's an edge case; I disagree that it shouldn't inspire much worry. It's not intuitive that "only those you approve" means "people whose follower requests you have approved since you went protected, plus everyone who was following you before then, regardless of whether you follow them back". The three or four people I've mentioned this to in person were all surprised by that behavior, anyway.

(Full disclosure: I'm elsewhere.org.)
You still need DC-DC conversion. High voltage DC transmission is already used in some parts of the world [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
Poll: What's the most Valuable feature of LinkedIn?
LinkedIn has become a running joke among engineers, mostly due to the recruiting spam mails, poorly created 'endorsements' feature and low quality content. I wonder how to improve it so I made this poll asking "What do you find most valuable about Linkedin?"
1/ I've never had a LinkedIn Account
2/ I deleted my Account because of recruiter spam
3/ I deleted my Account for some other reason
4/ The networking with other engineers
5/ Looking up other people's info
6/ Looking for a new job
7/ The endorsements or recommendations
8/ Other
America is a land of laws: DC Appellate Court guts Obamacare
Now all eyes will turn to Justice Roberts who will have to decide whether the law must be interpreted literally as written, or whether the clear intent of Congress was that the subsidies apply to all, given that the belief at the time was that almost all states would create their own exchanges.
This was one of the main inspirations for Locoroco. It's been around a lot longer than 2007 (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sodaplay.com)
Is it ethical to experiment on artificial people? Wouldn't the artificial person describe itself as experiencing consciousness?
Yes, is scary... right now, I'm hoping she inherits her mother's confidence :)
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What would be the TL;DR? (or TL;DListen?)
> But it seems US citizens want to live like that.

US citizens, in aggregate, want to live like that (or, perhaps more accurately, want other people in the US to have to live like that) when opinions are aggregated by effective political power, sure, but effective political power in the US is largely a function of wealth, which is extremely unequally distributed.
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Agreed, but productivity per hour worked and moral willingness to abuse social programs are two different issues.
For a while, old games were their main focus. Then they changed their strategy. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com#Rebrand_to_GOG.com
If "it is almost impossible to understand control flow in Haskell" as you posit, then how are so many people making time and space efficient Haskell libraries?
How could having your password not allow someone to order things on your behalf? All I need to get into my account is my password, and then I can order anything I want.
In my opinion, one of the most profound ideas in Spanner is the introduction of TrueTime API and the guarantee provided in the implementation. I wonder if this project is going to have something similar?
Is Open Source the Perfect Nash Equilibrium?
MSE is for varying the bitrate of videos when thing get congested.

EME is for browser video DRM.
Yeah, related! I haven't looked extensively into NDN, still need to sink into it, but good thing Van Jacobson's doing it! :)

Contrast points: IPFS is an implementation at the leaves of the network (rather than calling for routers to change initially), can be mounted as a filesystem, maps to the web (string paths as URLs), and provides a Merkle DAG data model.
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Already done. When I worked in EVs we used a HybridPack2 power module from Infineon. It's about the size of a sandwich but longer, and skinnier. You add a driver board, a logic board, a capacitor, connectors, cold plate. It's about the size of a shoe box and can deliver 100kW continuously. I pushed one under ideal conditions to 200kW.

Of course, liquid cooling means a total system that is quite a bit larger than I describe. In order to get rid of liquid cooling at that power level you'd have to get the losses down by a huge margin. We were dissipating 2-3kW at high power, so for air cooling you'd need to get that down by a factor of at least 10. The only way to drive the heat down like that is at the semiconductor device level.

This is a challenge that everyone in the field is already aware of and working on, while people outside the field have no ability to do meaningful research.

At the small scale, an Arduino with the mega-moto shield can push some hundreds of watts in a few cubic inches. So what exactly is the challenge?