skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it is great

The radio recordings are limited by the radio transmission quality, AM was not great, but the piano recording is really almost as good as tape.
Just because its old tech doesn't mean its bad either - when one very large employer I used to work with turned off its old in house payroll system written in COBOL the second month of the new brought in system was a disaster 70% or so of the staff didn't get paid :-)

I cant say more as I was sworn to secrecy but lets say some very stupid contract operators had a large part to play
> waste their free time staring at their text editor

Is this how you see programming?

Something tells me you wouldn't be a very good programmer.

"Why would a sculptor waste their free time hammering rocks?"
As awesome as it was watching it play Jeopardy, it feel like that is all it has ever done. So many press releases boast about the areas it could improve, however the real-life tangibles seem disparate at best. It would be great if the PR department touted its actual, real-life, in-the-field results rather than hypotheticals. Next up, Watson considered for role in improving food production!
I think it's perfectly fair to call someone whose head has just been cut off and frozen dead. If not there are going to be an awful lot of killers who froze their victims heads exonerated and those that pulled the plugs on the freezers will be in the docket. It's the world on its head.

Mourning is a reasonable response. Advertising is not and this article does not contain a whole lot of mourning (I can't detect any, correct me if I'm wrong) but it certainly does contain a ton of advertising. Essentially it is not about the person at all except for the first 10 words or so.
Hi HN, we're reimagining real estate for a generation that grew up with e-commerce. We've been working full time for a couple of months now and this is our HN debut.

We'd love to know what you think of this. We're hoping the DIY aspect resonates here as much as it does with us.
There's a difference between a "belief in an unknowable deity" and extrapolating current scientifical problems and believing in technologies that are known to work. Molecular nanotech, which seems to be the holy grail for restoring cryopreserved patients, is something that is known to work (it's called "life"), and the only missing link is that we don't have much control over it yet. Unless you assume life is magic and information theory doesn't work with brains, there's a solid case for cryopreservation.
I've watched the evolution of a few of these things. My experience is that even if people aren't trying to be jerks then the quality of books inevitably goes down over time as people take the things they find interesting and replace them with things they find less interesting. You might think that since different people find different things interesting that this might work out in the end, but it doesn't seem to.

Add to this the fact that some people are just jerks and will take books without replacing them, plus a bunch of people who see this as an opportunity to promote either their self-published books or their own political opinions, and you get a bookshelf rapidly being denuded of popular books and filled up with political tracts, dated "how to" books and obscure genre novels from the 1970s.

Compare this to, say, an ordinary public library, which allows you to freely borrow any one of many thousands of well-catalogued books as long as you return it in a few weeks.
I agree there is a lot of fraud and greed in the cryptocoin community which makes it risky for people new to it or the naive. For people who have done some reading or hung around for a while it's usually pretty easy to spot most scams. In cases like Monero it was probably a something the developers missed. The important thing to note is that the community fixed that oversight within a month or two.
Open space + Bose Quiet Comfort 15 active noise cancelling earphones makes this concept a bit more tolerable :)
Hal Finney (May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014 [probably])
I have a pet theory that the reason that women (as well as non-traditionally-masculine men) are considered bossy, while other men are considered "go-getters" is due to a lack of the threat of violence. Not that a type-A guy is going to assault you if you don't capitulate to their authority. More that there is a perceived or possible threat.

In contrast to women who would be considered bossy or abrasive because they don't "back up" their claims to authority. I suppose that there is often a feeling of resentment that society/culture/custom is taking the place of that threat.

Again, all supposition and musing on my part. Probably much better articulated by someone writing on the subject 50 years ago!
Your argument is not logical. These were professionals in the same sphere: tech. And one could make the argument that the sample of men was also biased--towards men who liked tech.

No one claimed this was an iron clad peer reviewed scientific study--and I'd love to see some done on this in addition to those that already exist. Deborah Tannen is one of the more well known researchers in this area to uncover distinct gender patterns in speech that affect performance, for example.

There are now hundreds and hundreds of data points, and anecdotes. At what point is there enough evidence to convince some people that there IS a problem, and believe those of us who have experienced this exact phenomenon?

TBH this response is exactly what I thought I'd see on hacker news: attack the methodology, thus missing the forest for the trees.
You don't think it is possible that in the 30 years since the original system was written, things have become a little inane?
We Will Live Again – A Cryonics Documentary
The point I'm trying to make is that this behavior on Red Hat's part is totally reckless. They're not entering any new markets, they're sitting on their laurels. Of course, I think at a high-level they feel that they can cure any shortcomings with acquisitions, but if any of the Docker/CoreOS or whatnot players are sufficiently motivated, have the competitive mindset, and proper funding, Red Hat is totally ripe for the taking, they just have to be really smart about it.

I have ideas as to how to proceed, but I'm not going to speculate out in the open. But it's pretty clear to me containerization is a disruption (just not exactly in its present form).
I think one of the premises you have to accept in this article is that the actual difference between women and men is less than (looking at the "has negative feedback" vs "only constructive criticism" chart) 72%. I don't find that a hard premise to accept
I visited the abandoned neighborhoods as well and saw some terrible blight and impoverished areas- my point is that as an outsider, that's all you expect from Detroit, which is only part of the picture.
Legal doesn't even start climbing from 0 until after 6 am. Are you looking at "protective services" perhaps, which has a slightly-pre-3 am trough?
Is their MTA data more reliable than Google's? Terribly often, and especially on week-ends, Google Maps will tell me a subway is coming even when the line is closed, rerouted, etc. I understand taking all temporary changes into account is a hard problem, yet I can't help finding it ironic that in the city which hosts their second largest engineering center, Google can't get that right.
Did you happen to notice the author's full name and workplace? And at startups where much of the more recent notorious and egregious behavior is happening, there is no such thing as a legal department, let alone a robust one.
Well the point is any other API will face the same restrictions in the browser. It isn't something JavaScript code can fix directly. If you need to call external services from the browser (and not everybody does), the isobuild APIs certainly don't make the situation worse.

Also HTTP.get() may be smart enough to detect cross-domain call failure and try to automatically proxy the call. Meteor has a server-side component that can act as a proxy.
Martythemaniak, Could you please give some examples of this generation's rich people's things that haven't gained widespread popularity yet?
I guess I meant it as a verb :)
In terms of how it is marketed cryonics may be scammy by drastically overselling the chances of success, but I'd expect many people who sign up for it see it for what it is: an extremely long bet with money they don't have any further use for anyway.

Unless you have other things you care deeply about spending your money on, there's pretty much only upside.
Calling it a "scam" implies that, not only is cryonics hopeless, but that the cryonicists agree it is hopeless and are just lying to people for money. Do you have any evidence of that at all?
I accept that there is evidence that cryonics may become viable for human subjects in the future.

My point is merely that freezing one's own body despite a lack of any evidence that present methods would allow revival of a human in the future requires optimism that is not incomparable with religion.
> Currently I'm working on something Mike Hearn suggested, using the security features of modern processors, designed to support "Trusted Computing", to harden Bitcoin wallets. It's almost ready to release. I just have to do the documentation.

Did this ever get released?
Playboy Interview: Frank Sinatra
Are you guys a brokerage? How can I buy a property by sending you an email?
Our arrogance in assuming we can some how control the climate of the entire planet is the most worrying thing about this to me. We can barely predict the weather beyond a few days let alone make measured predictable changes to the climate.

If a solution like this were to get out of control or go too far we could find ourselves in a far worse place than we are now.
> you realize that there's no element of faith, only reasonable extrapolation of technological trends and a hedge against progress.

Religions are based on similar premises (given what humans knew about life at the time of their founding), and your argument is, in fact, known as Pascal's Wager[1].

Those arguing against faith will claim that the money spent is very certain and a very unreasonable bet. Others, like me, see some immediate, earthly benefits in religion, be it cryonics, singularity or another religion, and consider the money well spent.

> if you can't believe that a cryopreserved person can be revived in principle...

Thing is, you can't deny god's existence in principle, nor even disprove Christianity, and since Christianity seems to be in opposition to cryonics (hmm, actually, it might not be) then you're in serious trouble whether you agree with modern information theory or not (physics, and maybe even mathematics, might not hold in christian hell).

Personally, I think human beings, as a product of our evolution, are so ill adapted even to our semi-primitive civilization and its own repressive discontents, that I cannot possibly see us living our immortal coils.

BTW, are cryonics and singularity part of the same mythology? I mean, is there perhaps a book painting a clear (or, better yet - vague) picture of how this all would work out?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager
What is the tolerance level for naps in silicon valley companies (both big and small)? Does it depend on the role/position? Wouldn't they rather have all their employees down mugs of coffee instead of taking even a quick nap?
you might be thinking of the Transmetropolitan issue "Another Cold Morning"

http://www.comicvine.com/transmetropolitan-8-another-cold-mo...
To quote from Wikipedia, "A central premise of cryonics is that long-term memory, personality, and identity are stored in durable cell structures and patterns within the brain that do not require continuous brain activity to survive.[13] This premise is generally accepted in medicine; it is known that under certain conditions the brain can stop functioning and still later recover with retention of long-term memory."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics#Neuropreservation

What we can do today, is preserving the brain structure. What we can't do today is to restore the brain and body after prolonged preservation, and to fix whatever illnesses caused the patient to undergo this procedure in the first place.

Both of those problems seem to be tractable with nanotech, which we know is real and works (we usually call it "life", but life is nothing but a nanotech that's not ours and we can't controll well enough yet). So at this point I'd say cryopreservation is a bet against continued technological progress (which is not bad, because not taking it means certainly dying), not an act of faith.

One can argue against economics of such, and the cost a cryopreserved person imposes on the living, but comparing it to faith in God and resurrection is IMO wrong.
Anything in-ear or over-the-ear will start hurting your ear one way or another.
Around the ear + active noise cancelling is the way to go.

My choice is Bose Quiet Comfort 15.

The guy behind me talks whole day explaining low level network connectivity issues to half of the world.
The guy in front of me talks spanish to someone he loves non-stop for a few hours daily.

Bose allows to handle it gracefully :)
Building your data earthquake kit
You seem to be inherently motivated. As noted you have transferrable skills that are desirable, and an ability to showcase them. So do so. If this is where your passion lies, all the better.

Read up: Quora.com
Study up: Khanacademy.org

Any potential workplace you meet with will glean far more from your enthusiasm and expertise of a topic than most degrees.

Hire character, train skill.

Lastly you have to consider relocation as part of the equation. Got to go where the work is. This may lead to a step back in lifestyle, but is just part of the ride...
I can't prove there never was an elephant in this room either or that God does not exist.

So I can't prove with 100% certainty that cryonics is a scam. But I'll take what evidence I have and I'm more than happy to stand by my words.
looks awesome. I want an invite!
Would this allow you to mesh together containers in separate datacenters? Or mesh together, say, the containers on your home PC with containers in the cloud? I'm guessing not.

What I'm really excited for are the possibilities of docker containers with public-routable IPv6 addresses. It would move the world away from "one host: many services on different arbitrary ports", and back to the "one host: one service, possibly speaking a few protocols with ports being used for OSI-layer-5/6 protocol discovery" model of the 1970s (and eliminate the madness of SRV records, besides.)

Imagine if, say, bitcoind (which normally speaks "JSON-RPC" to clients -- a specific layer-6 encoding over HTTP) sat on "bitcoind.host:80" instead of "host:8332". Suddenly, it'd be immediately clear to protocol clients (e.g. web browsers) which hosts they could or couldn't speak to, based on the port alone! The whole redundancy between schema and port in URLs could go away: they'd be synonymous. And so on.
Non-free web apps definitely come with their own range of problems. Data doesn't need to be out of your control though. JavaScript is usually run locally, so there are lots of calculations being performed by your computer before it reaches the remote server. For example, Mega encrypts data client-side before it is archived online. Just like with regular non-free software, you have to trust what it is doing. The best way to deal with these problems without throwing away non-free software would be to have security functions like encryption performed client-side with free software.

I agree that server-run non-free software is neither safe nor private, but I still believe that this is the flaw of particular programs, not web-based software in general. It only emphasizes what a need there is for further development of open standards in web apps.

But the ability to use a cross-platform browser as a universal client and run software that is built on the advantages of networking is a huge bonus for software in general. Free software just needs to catch up in a few areas, but in general it is dominating the backbone of the web. Now we just need to push that freedom forward to the user.
I don't understand the last part, if the rent is high buying will be high too.
This works well with other stimulants and other medications too. Take methylphenidate and an opioid, take a quick nap, wake up feeling fantastic.

It's also got emotional benefits. If you are feeling down, then simply waiting for the medicine to do its job can make things worse, as your mind goes in a negative spiral. Taking a nap can give you peace that you're just putting everything aside and going to concentrate on the warmth of the nap and a dream. And before you know it, bam - everything's perfect again.
This bump http://i.imgur.com/dt0iVfG.png
I'm an Alcor member. For me, it's a no-brainer. It might have a low probability of success. (Depends on your assumptions.) Regardless, it's a higher chance than if I were buried or cremated. Since epsilon > zero, I signed up.
You little ones are so ungrateful, sometimes I wonder why I ever kidnapped you...
They're certainly doing containers, just a bit slower than the startup crowd. But let's face it: trying to mine open source infrastructure for monetization potential in an era of increasingly smaller/un-enterprise organizations, cloud apps and mobile devices with multiple identities/organizational affiliations is a fool's game for the most part.

Their clients are the exceptions: slow-moving organizations with specific engineering and security requirements like stockmarkets and militaries. Perhaps bringing the benefits of emerging tools like containers to these sorts of clients is what they do best, and there is an argument that the wider open source world has become a parallel one.
> When I look at Hangul, I see a rather simple underlying set of principles. It seems to logically build up. Compared to say, the Cherokee one, which, by looking at it for a minute, doesn't appear to have any structure. It seems like they're more-or-less random symbols. Maybe there is some deeper design there but it isn't apparent at a quick glance.

It's the other way around; Hangul is also composed of more-or-less random symbols with no deeper design. Hangul is an alphabetic system much like Spanish, except that the letters are arranged into two-dimensional square syllables, and the squares then placed in a line, instead of the letters being arranged into a one-dimensional line directly. That's just an artistic choice.
Okay, if you literally have all the semantics of C, your idea works. But if you have ALL the semantics of C, why bother changing the syntax?

As for ML and company being a better choice than C++ for writing a compiler... There may well be convincing arguments for this position, and if I asked you, no doubt you'd give me some. But I'll ask something else instead. Most compilers I heard of are written in C or C++. Name me a compiler written in ML/Haskell/Lisp. There's just one rule: no bootstrapping. Meaning that if you show me a compiler for ML written in Haskell, that's fine, but a Lisp compiler written in Lisp is not.
Hollywood's Big-Money YouTube Hit Factory
> "Rent for a typical household in NYC is $14k? Where can you rent out an apartment in NYC for $1160/month for a "typical regional household"?"

NYC is bigger than Manhattan. The parts of Brooklyn and Queens that aren't filled with rich people (i.e. most of it), as well as the Bronx and Staten Island, are not nearly as expensive as what you might be used to.

Not to mention statistical sampling of rents is always going to skew lower than market because of rent stabilization and rent control - it measures how much people are paying, not how much they would be if they were on the market today.

NYC is 8.5 million people, only ~1 million of whom live in Manhattan.

I haven't looked at the data itself, but if their measure of NYC is the NYC Metro (rather than the city proper), rents will go down too, since now we're including most of North Jersey and a lot of Long Island.
was downvoted for my previous comment, let me clarify, books are a known vector for bed bugs. libraries are facing this problem all over. a friend of mine worked at the columbia university library and had to go through freezing process on returned books.

all i'm saying is, books cost hardly anything, libraries have ebooks. why expose yourself to this problem?

google it if you do not believe me.
Lob (YC S13) – Hiring Engineers Who Love APIs
Lob is hiring a Senior Node Engineer. If you are interested, please email jobs@lob.com with your resume, Github, and any personal projects (blog posts, open source, speaking, etc.) you are proud to share.

Background

Lob (YC S13) is creating a suite of cloud APIs for businesses to enhance their operations. Our most popular API is a print and mail API that enables companies to send physical mail like would send emails with Amazon SES, Sendgrid, or Mailgun. We’ve been featured prominently on Angellist and recognized as one of the 10 hottest startups. We are a team of 7 who love API’s, sports, and great food. We are located in San Francisco, CA.

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior Node Engineer to help build our suite of API’s. You will be one of the first engineers to join and as such will have an unprecedented opportunity to shape the future of Lob.

Responsibilities

Own one of our API products.
Work directly to define, architect and build new Lob APIs.
Drive towards successful deliveries of scalable, maintainable and secure code.
Create and define engineering best practices.
Tackle challenging problems in distributed computing, HTTP, API design and more.

Requirements

Experience managing engineers in a technical leadership role.
Deep understanding and expertise in a backend language (bonus if node.js)
Experience & comfortability with most AWS products.
Hands on. Passionate. Persistent. Creative.

Benefits

Health benefits for you and your dependent(s).

Open vacation policy.

Commuter benefits.

Free lunch, dinner, and snacks. (Our fridge is always stocked!)

Free Berry’s Bootcamp classes.

Ground floor opportunity as an early member of the Lob team; you'll directly shape the direction of our company.
Really? I've been studying the kanji and well this is true enough to build up a framework to jog memory, it didn't particularly seem enough to have much predictive power. I can say "oh, I can see how those 3 concepts could be related", but only after-the-fact. Maybe it gets better when one knows over a thousand.
Let me understand: you think nothing of value can be determined from this study even though my entire newsfeed on facebook is full of my friends in all industries sharing it as exactly in line with their experiences?
It would be really interesting to see that study. Could you possibly find it?
square cash?
stabbings are free; eau-de-bumshit in the mornings too!
At what point is there enough evidence to convince some people that there IS a problem, and believe those of us who have experienced this exact phenomenon?

The existence of a problem is virtually undisputed, it's the nature of it that is debated. In addition, the existence of a problem does not justify misrepresenting it, even if the intention is to raise awareness.
Detroit is above San Diego on the chart in the article. Can someone explain that to me? I just read how Detroit is an "emerging market", and San Diego is often cited as a very expensive city.
Kubuntu 14.10 beta 1 arrives, comes with Plasma 5 preview
Sounds like it might be cool, but I'm hesitant to put my email in there in order to just browse around.