skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This surprises anyone? I was engaged to a high achieving woman for a period of time. I loved her, but damn, if I had to work with her, I wouldn't put up with her personality. Very aggressive, pushy, and intolerant, to my mind. Very quick to take offense at the slightest provocation, whether offense was intended, or merely the result of ignorance or incompetence.
Then again, I'm a libertarian-minded introvert, so I basically just want to let other people do their thing and have them leave me alone...

On the whole, I see the adversarial nature of gender politics that is often pushed as profoundly dysfunctional. Men and women are not the same. Each gender is better at some things and worse at others, on average. Men tend to have more variance, so you see more male geniuses and male idiots (the tails on the bell-curve are bigger), where women tend to cluster towards the mean more strongly. If we could just accept this, and spend our time trying to be happy, rather than demonizing each other, the world would be a better place.
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(1) obviously, agree.

(2) unknown, unknowable

(3) unknown, unknowable

(4) unknown, knowable but only in a very far future (if at all).

So, in short nanotechnology is just like every other technology, it has laws and limits and does not automatically allow us to do everything we would like it to be able to do.

For an analogy: we know that the ribosome + DNA complex creates proteins. But we are still bound in terms of expression by what cells as a concept are capable of.

So even if we can imagine life created at will and even if we can imagine all kinds of amazing creatures there is absolutely no way of knowing whether or not we will ever have the technology to direct things in such a way that these desires and imaginations will come true. Compared to the suggestion that we can resurrect a dead person creating a fire breathing dragon out of Condor and Komodo Varan DNA with some basic chemistry thrown in for pyrotechnics is childs play.

It is at its heart the difference between science and science fiction.

That's why we will most likely not have a space elevator (we know of no material strong enough for the filament) and that's why there will never be a ringworld.

Now for those things we have very clear physical limits that we have identified and we know that these limits will be for all practical purposes unsurmountable.

In the case of cryopreservation 'all bets are off', the gap between where our current understanding is located and the required advances means that we are essentially postulating that people in the advanced future will become gods.

That's a leap too far in my understanding of how human progress has worked to date.
Yes, that's it, but I'm more concerned with what happened to what was basically an eloquent tribute to Hal that was upvoted by 200 people, and included comments by several people who knew Hal.
I absolutely love this kind of thing. I spent some time restoring an old 8mm projector so I could watch a few films I had found at an antique store. It felt wonderful to finally flip the switch and see the images flicker to life on my wall.

It's a shame the clips are so short, though. I'd really like to hear the rest of his great-grandfather's story.
Same here,somebody have an explanation?
And that's the danger of 2 9s thinking. It's really probably 99.999% are forgotten and the TSA hasn't found one malicious one.
Payday would've been funnier.
Insert appropriate mention of cold storage here.
How to choose?
I don't think nothing of value can be determined from the study, but I do think what clairity said can't be determined from the study. It really is entirely possible, going strictly by the findings here, that ornery women are overrepresented in this area in much the same way that upper-class white women are underrepresented among convicts.

Your experience may tell you different, and your experience may very well be right — I am definitely not qualified to say either way. I was just bemoaning that what many people seem to want to get out of this study — whether there's a difference in the way men and women are perceived in essentially identical situations — isn't actually in this study.
That's true, but this is a study specifically about women in high positions in the tech field. I'm not sure its meant to be indicative of women in general, just as studies on male CEOs (e.g. the ones that claim CEOs are more sociopathic) wouldn't be meant to say anything about men in general.
Sounds fair to me :) In that case if you must downvote, downvote a post of mine that doesn't have useful/relevant content.

I know I'm burning a lot of points on this one, but the fact is, I wasn't any more of an egomaniacal ass than the guy I talked to who tried to frankly pretend my work didn't exist.

And, this site working how it does, most of the value is in the comments -- why downvote something with (maybe tangentially) related links to open source software/diagrams that other people can use? This is HACKER news, correct?

(Now watch me get downvoted to oblivion just because I am standing up for what I think and backing it up as rationally as I can manage)
Depends on what you mean by "verify the real owner". They can verify that whoever has control of what gets uploaded to myowndomain.com also has control of the user@myowndomain.com email account and can prove they have the private key corresponding to the public key that was posted. Is that what you meant?
Apparently, people would rather downvote and run than deal with the truth. Ad-filled software = adware. Just because you dislike the definition doesn't mean it doesn't apply.
First demo of autonomous hover of a fixed wing UAV was by Paul Oh et al of Drexel in 2006.

http://dasl.mem.drexel.edu/alumni/bGreen/www.pages.drexel.ed...

https://www.microstrain.com/sites/default/files/Autonomous%2...
Needs more Melbourne already :P

(sorry about the pain and suffering if you do decide to build out melbourne and look at PTVs API docs)
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“Every Unix command eventually become an Internet service”
I can attest to this. I've done this several times for the energy boost. I didn't know there is a name for it; "coffee nap". I tend to add dance/techno music to know when to wake up and get back to work.
> the primary obstacle to controlling the weather is ... the power requirements

.. and the intractability of the weather
>Your value to the employer might be no different, but your employer's value to you is much higher.

I'm curious why you would make that assumption. If you're a talented developer, then you have employers around the world who want to hire you, not just in your backyard.

I've seen some truly gifted Eastern European developers charging $20/hr while their contract employers basically giggle at them behind their back, since they'd easily pay $100/hr for their talents. Some of them probably could have negotiated $150/hr.

People like that not only screw over their fellow programmers in more developed countries with high costs of living, since we can't get away with charging $20/hr and raising a family with a nice lifestyle like they can. They also -- and more acutely -- screw themselves.

Don't be that developer.
Gmail likely could have stood alone as a product (that is, I don't think it required promotion on google.com). It was a tremendous innovation at the time, on both interface, usability, and storage capacity. It leapfrogged hotmail by 100 fold on storage.
Yes, there's clearly nothing stopping them from carrying a wide variety of cargo. I'm sure the drones will end up delivering both life-critical and completely frivolous packages.
Aside from the Detroit car industry doing quite well, I have to comment on -

"Also, according to protonfish, Detroit has terrible infrastructure and sounds like a shitty place to live."

Just to contrast here, protonfish questions the motives of a billionaire who has moved thousands of his own employees, and made significant investments, in downtown Detroit. A man who, despite the financial capacity to live anywhere in the world, lives in Detroit. Invests in Detroit. Believes in Detroit.

Isn't that an incredible contrast? On the one hand you have someone taking strong actions, and on the other you have someone posting a comment on a message board. And you believe the guy posting on a message board?

I doubt protonfish knows anything about Detroit beyond some ruin porn they saw on a Reddit post.
Except it's really not designed for that. It's designed for people who know where they're going and how they're going to get there. I don't know, I get in my car, punch in an address, and GMaps does a pretty darn good job of finding a route. That's what 95% of us want.
Afaik it's an illusion.

When I'm not sleeping alone, the other people tell me I'm snoring after 10min lying around. But I cant remember falling asleep, snoring OR waking up. Just That I had my eyes closed and tried to sleep.

So I guess, I cant check for my self that I'm asleep...
It looks like it got severely penalized and is now somewhere around page 7.

https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=7
> Why, then, do people still use the digital equivalent of painting on canvas?

Because anyone who pilots Photoshop can use the title "web designer" and still get hired. It's somehow accepted by most in the industry that the work of a designer stops at a mockup.

> An effective design agency would come up with the overall information architecture including layout, font, and recommend color scheme based on the client's brand.

This is what designers are supposed to deliver. In the real world, the managers will ask for a mockup of the product, something they can show to stakeholders right now to show progress, and that will almost never be implemented because requirement changes/flaws will be found during development, and the design ends up being realized by the developer. I've worked on / know about a handful of companies where the process is exactly this.
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So, like Solr?

I don't mean to be glib; and I do understand that "answering natural language questions" is distinct from "search engine". But I have the feeling that it's a capability distribution that is much more impressive in the context of a full-court IBM sales pitch to an executive who saw it on Jeopardy once and wants to get in on this machine learning thing that everyone's talking about, than as a tool used by experts to do a task or set of tasks better. Their shameless press release marketing isn't exactly dispelling that notion.
This really depends on what clientele you're marketing to (and what skill you have). If you're marketing to cheap contract employers who just want someone to hack up a mobile app for them, then you're right.

If you're marketing to someone based on your skills, which are rare and impressive, then you won't have any issues charging a high rate, regardless of your local cost of living. If you bother asking for it.
That's not universal. I've read that infants / small children tend to like sleeping while wrapped / confined. This adult: not so much. (Part of that is probably the Minuteman attitude I've adopted since becoming a single parent a couple of decades back. Anything which interfered with my ability to quickly respond to / protect my kids had to go.)

I do think it's the warmth. Part of our maintaining constant muscular tension is maintaining body heat. While we do seem to want to chill down slightly for sleep -- my observation, based on how often I'd nap on the bus and awaken sweaty, and I seem to recall reading something about that -- IME that tension does noticeably interfere with quickly getting to sleep.
I'm the same way -- every once in a while I'll fall asleep on a weekend around mid afternoon, and sometimes wake up 4 hours later. Then I really feel like yuck for another hour. And I can't fall asleep easily that night either (usually I don't have a problem falling asleep, just not getting interrupted in the middle by the dog wanting to get let out).
You could try not watching TV, using a laptop, or reading in bed.

For me, when I stopped watching TV and doing things on my laptop from my bed, I very quickly noticed an improvement in how quickly I fell asleep.

Another big one is exercise. I notice that when I exercise I have a much easier time falling asleep than on days that I don't, I now try to exercise every day.

I also got older over the past few years, which in and of itself could explain things, so, I suggest experimenting to find what works best for you.

Edit: typo.
I'm not normally one to harp about these things, but that design was really frustrating for me as a reader.
Certainly got me using it, a bit. I started adding everyone I knew to circles, in the hope that it might improve my author rank marginally.

I likewise made sure to connect buffer to google+ and not neglect that platform for business social media posts.
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Thanks for pointing that out. I was going to ask why it appears to have stalled a year ago, but I guess the author got distracted by something shiny:

https://github.com/richardhundt/shine

Shine appears to address a similar need as the luv "ray" branch, _without_ libuv, with a modified version of LuaJIT[1]. I wonder if the author plans to patch LuaJIT upstream?

A recent HN discussion[2] left me wondering where to look for a high-quality well-maintained lua "stdlib". luvit appears to be an entire distribution with its own package manager instead of luarocks/moonrocks. I'm now looking at luv and luajit-libuv. shine looks like a very interesting alternative, but the modified LuaJIT makes it problematic for deploying to users who want to use system-provided LuaJIT.

[1] https://github.com/richardhundt/shine#introduction

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8191345
I've used openresty compiled with LuaJIT (nginx+LuaJIT) for some low latency high scale services in the past. I wonder would this make it so I could ditch nginx and go pure LuaJIT and still have that level of performance? Has anyone done performance testing of this against Nginx+LuaJIT (openresty)?
Fascinating stuff! I wish the video links still worked. :-/
So if I understand you correctly - you're saying that we don't know today the constraints of that particular problem, so we can't make a good guess for the feasibility of (2) and (3). Therefore current culture around cryonics is vastly overstating the chance of success, to the point that it starts looking to you like a scam.

I guess the main point of difference is our estimate of how likely is that those yet unexplored constraints will let us reverse cryopreserving. I seem to have more hope for that than you do, but I admit, at this point it's probably a bit of a guesswork.
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I've also experienced issues where the data provided by Citymapper for a desired journey in London is just plain inefficient when compared with common sense. Often the app will suggest a route which takes an extremely long way round (such as suggesting only one journey at something ridiculous like 85 minutes), seemingly optimising for some unintuitive variable (possibly number of changes or as-the-crow-flies distance? I'm not sure) which makes it unfortunately unusable for me. I was excited to try it out since I find the app well-made and seemingly a more focused version of Google Maps.

However, Google Maps, given the same destination, provides several routes (and allows for explicit choice by the user for their own weighting) where 99% of the time the quickest route is the one that I had thought of beforehand. And this is when selecting Train + Underground in order to compare directly to the equivalent set of results in CM. A shame.
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Great list. Almost anything Jim Gray wrote, or any of Michael Stonebraker's C-store stuff, is worth reading.

Database Systems: The Complete Book by Garcia-Molina, Ullman, and Widom seems to be one of the few full books with decent coverage of implementing a database, even though anyone wanting to implement a modern database will have to go a long way from what it covers.

There are a ton of great papers out there easily accessible, though, at least in part thanks to the VLDB Endowment. The people at MS Research working on databases publish a lot of great papers, too.
Google's design is very similar to the QuadShot which was built by a team from Santa Cruz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK_-yTrwNtU
When dealing with (London) tubes and train lines, most of the time it should be possible to indeed work out which route is actually quickest. I agree that buses do complicate things.
You got it perfectly. At some point bets about what is possible in the future become meaningless and this is way past the ability of science to extrapolate what will one day be scientifically possible or declared to be impossible.

Thanks for the exchange, off to bed here (4:39 am...).
Some may want a Dick Tracy style "talk into the watch" device, but colour me surprised if many people use them in this way. The most obvious forms of smartwatch input are touch and gestures (both of the wrist and the touch screen). I can't imagine you'd want much more input than this. That said, did see an interesting project on Indiegogo where someone had designed a watch with a small projectable input that went on your hand.
Louisiana is drowning, quickly
Yeah, I'm most curious about who is negatively affected by this.
I don't know why someone isn't driving a route in a van rigged to have curry and rice permanently cooking/warm. Different dish each night. Cheaper for advanced orders. App that tracks location of the van and handles transactions.

If Tuesday was chicken curry night and the cost reflected avoiding the variance and random delivery costs that drive up prices for other food services, I'd buy every week.

Driver plus someone to hand over the food or leave it at the door.
Former Amazonian here. If anyone wants to understand the key difference between Amazon and Google culture there's a great quote in the article.

"In all the testing, Roy had never seen one of his drones deliver a package. He was always at the takeoff point, watching debugging information scroll up the screen, and anxiously waiting to see what would happen. “Sergey [Brin] has been bugging me, asking, ‘What is it like? Is it actually a nice experience to get this?’ and I’m like, ‘Dude, I don’t know. I’m looking at the screen,’” Roy told me."

Google and Amazon are both great companies. But at Amazon the drone program would start with a description of what the customer experience is when they receive a drone delivery and you'd work backwards to the technology solution. At Google the technology precedes the customer experience.
I've had the same experience when sleep-deprived (which is really the only condition in which I can nap). I'll grab a couch at work and recline and close my eyes. What follows is perceived as a relatively brief period -- twenty minutes or so -- of being somewhat abstracted from reality, with my mind operating in that semi-dreamlike state you sometimes get when waking up slowly. Then I'll open my eyes, slightly fuzzy but less tired, and go back to my desk to find that 60-90 minutes have passed. (This is almost always in the context of work-related sleep deprivation, like being in a crunch on a project or up late because of a crisis, so I've never gotten any guff over it; in any case, it happens very rarely.)

What's interesting is that I definitely feel like I'm perceiving the world with some continuity during that time -- I'll hear coworkers' conversations, people walking around, etc. -- but apparently I miss things like people coming up and checking if I'm awake, or even the time someone laid my hoodie over me as an improvised blanket.

If I sleep any longer than 90 minutes or so, I just perceive it the same way I do sleeping at night.

The brain is a strange contraption, isn't it?
Oh, one thread degenerated into a ridiculous cryogenics debate. That's sad, I wish people on both sides of that debate had chosen to show Hal the same respect that other software pioneers were given when they passed away and were featured on HN.

Especially considering how much he and other early cypherpunks pioneered privacy-enhancing software that so many of us have benefited from (PGP and Bitcoin, to name two).
Right, and they also convinced web publishers to spend time working on it.
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Drones doing food drops to long-distance hikers (e.g., PCT) would be great!
If you work at Google but that doesn't work out, you can always leave and do the startup thing.

If you work at a startup and that doesn't work out, you're thoroughly screwed.
> Do you agree then that all those non-technological assumptions can be included in one's utility calculations...

Perhaps in theory. In practice I don't see this happening without turning into a religion. Even from the rational perspective, you don't really have enough knowledge to make a reasonably informed bet. From a rational perspective it's just buying a lottery ticket. But that's not the psychology of what's happening here. To me, your question sounds like: "so you don't agree that people would choose who they sleep with based on cold utilitarian estimates?" Well, maybe that's theoretically possible, and maybe some people can do that, but that doesn't happen in the general case, because human psychology is also very real.

I do not for one second believe that people can think about death and about options of spending resources to win an afterlife in a purely rational, utilitarian way. If you're saying that's how you think then either you're suffering from a mental disorder (I'm saying it in good humor) or you're not being honest with yourself. I don't think that cold calculation can trump fantasies of eternal life in a bright future. I think that there's no way such fantasies do not cloud your judgement, just as a pretty girl would make you do dumb stuff. That's just how we're wired. Once hope and emotion play a role in guiding your decision to act today based on the belief in a (positive) afterlife, you stop being a scientist and turn into a believer. But that's OK. Most of us, including scientists, are often religious (even if we don't ascribe to the omniscient-omnipotent-deity religious model). But we should realize that's what we're doing, and know when we've moved from the very earthly, Sisyphean, frustrating, limited, no-promises science to religion, where anything's possible.

(Actually, who says we should?)
It's bullshit because there's a big step between 'Mozilla thought it would be best that they see “content.”' and them having default paid advertising in all new browser installs.

Wikipedia's got millions of pages of content but barring some self promotion it doesn't have adverts. Mozilla could have used any of those pages of content if they were just concerned about blank tiles. Indeed there are tons of options that aren't paid advertising from help pages on using FF to a list of the top [U rated] sites used by FF users to links to the most used add-ons/extensions/themes and such.

To recapitulate, it's bullshit because that line is is trying to sell us on them being stuck and having to place advertising in the browser. If they think it's the right thing to do then they should be convinced enough to say "we thought it best to put advertising in the browser", if they're not convinced and feel they need to make excuses then it's highly likely that it's the wrong thing to do.

I expect more from Mozilla, perhaps this is what the change in leadership is bringing us?
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