skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just saw the report and agree it is due to the "go to" icon as you said. The most likely cause of that is if you do not have location services enabled/your tablet hasn't found your location yet and my app is trying to make use of a location that "doesn't exist" yet.

I will implement a fix for that tomorrow.

The user location should be exact, but there is a limitation due to the "macro level view" -- I think.

You make a very excellent point... my first version/draft was meant for phones. I didn't add any special logic/format any views for tablets. That would take a little bit longer to implement. I don't have a tablet, and honestly didn't think of it. Thank you for pointing it out :)

The photo problem is pretty interesting... as I've been able to change/use multiple different photos and got what I wanted. It could be a tablet thing...

Your feedback is very useful, a lot of what I hoped to get from posting here. Thank you very much.
You're forecasting the future based on the state of technology at the present. That is unlikely to point you in the right direction.
That sounds a lot like it will do very very well in Singapore especially if Singapore Post depots act as the hub for these drones. The entire country could be completely served by them.

Although there's no front lawn to speak of, so they will have to be able to slot things into mailboxes.
Same argument for delivery trucks, I think what is going to determine the future of drone delivery is if it's more efficient than traditional shipping.
Or an Oncovirus :-)
Which Lisp compilers also do.
I hope to live in a country that legislates away all the noisy little delivery mosquitos.
I didn't say reach, I said land.
The phrase “visual line of sight” is sometimes distinguished from “line of sight,” which can refer to operation in which a radio signal can be transmitted directly from an operator to a UAS that may be beyond visual line of sight.
This is something so few people understand. And even if they did, they would still have to appreciate the thermodynamics and the non-linearity of the systems involved.

Medicine typically only knocks on the door with extracellular signaling. The cell remains a black box. Even if it weren't, with cancer we'd have to select certain cell populations based on internal cues that may never be exposed. Then there's the structure and pharmacology problems--there's a lot of chemistry and calculus along the path from drug introduction.
Cool. Love getting down voted for having an opinion & starting the conversation.
That is the area of the world I was thinking about.
> I hate how they lump "equal opportunity" and "affirmative action" together, when they are fundamentally different things.

They aren't different different things -- one is a goal, one is a mechanism serving that goal. "Affirmative action" in employment refers specifically to affirmative action to achieve equality of opportunity -- the term and "equal employment opportunity" came into use in the US at the same time, from associated legal mandates in the 1960s; "Affirmative Action" in hiring, as a term, originates with a mandate in Executive Order 10925 (1961) requiring federal government contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin" (nearly identical language -- differing from the quoted text from EO 10925 only in that "creed" is replaced with "religion" -- is in EO 11246, of 1965, which is still in effect) and was further used for remedial action that could be applied to address specific employment discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964; see, particularly, 42 USC ch. 21, subch. VI -- titled "Equal Employment Opportunities" -- sec. 2000e-5(g).

> "Affirmative action" means we will give preference to candidates that aren't white or Asian males.

No, it does not.
The biggest thing that hasn't been discussed yet is that the admissions counselors and marketing seems to be entirely run by 2U.

Not saying this is not a good company or that online education is not good - just that 2U is representing themselves as part of Berkeley Admissions.

Check this - http://2u.com/partners/berkeley/

Was contacted by this person when I wanted to learn more about the program, who's email signature looked like this:

Peter Wahlberg

Admissions Counselor

datascience@berkeley Admissions Office

UC Berkeley School of Information

pwahlberg@datascience.berkeley.edu

datascience.berkeley.edu

But he also works for 2U - maybe only for 2U - http://www.linkedin.com/pub/peter-wahlberg/67/800/27b

Again this admissions counselor and the company are innovating in the education space which is a good thing, but I do find it odd to misrepresent 2U employees as Berkeley admissions counselors - especially when I talked to him on the phone and he defended the $60k price tag by saying an MBA is $80k.
Except that in this case, the guy bought the whole market by indexing, so he wasn't very wary and picky, although the index itself took care of getting rid of bad performers (because they went out of business).
While Chris Knight certainly had basic survival skills, he was definitely not self-sufficient, going on a theft mission for goods approximately once per week. Besides, being self-sufficient in the wild requires quite a lot of land to support a single human - it's not something that a lot of people can do at the same time.
That's nothing, last.fm would show who is listening to the same song you are listening to right now.
What if the base were mobile? Instead of the UPS truck driving in to your neighborhood and stopping at each house on its route, a truck parks in an out of the way corner and releases a bunch of drones to take your package just the last block or two. After it releases its fleet, the base drives on to the next neighbourhood and the drones catch up after delivering their packages to get their batteries replaced and their next package. It would increase the efficiency of the truck, the truck would still be there as a failsafe and to deliver larger packages, and most of the drone's flight time it isn't carrying a load.

The biggest challenge i see is the annoyance factor, but people have proven willing to put up with a fair bit of annoyance if it provides them with enough utility.
Most of this increase is due to earlier diagnosis.

I really hate 5 year survival rates as a measure of success as it is almost totally meaningless. We know most cancers have lead times from initial mutation to symptomatic diagnose of 15 to 30 years. This means that if I was able to make a test that could detected cancer 10 years after initiation I could in one swoop make the 5 year survival rate 100% for all cancers without changing age at death by one day.
Internet simulator
Yeah, the dwell time is ridiculously short. A way to slow it down would make all the difference in the world.
Thanks. I very much appreciate your substantive response.
[0xDBE](http://www.jetbrains.com/dbe/) runs on Mac, Linux, Windows and can connect to any database that has a jdbc driver out of the box (so out of box support for Postgres, DB2, MySQL, SQL server, Oracle, SQLite etc etc etc) and has awesome auto complete.
MyISAM serializes each table to a single file on disk (well, three files, one each for the definition, data and indexes).

Would you consider MySQL to be a flat file database?
Unlimited Dropbox usage for all members of the MIT community.
Well I predict flying cars won't happen anytime soon either. Pretty much the same reason.
Ironically, you can also find isolation in the heart of cities. A lot of mentally ill people become homeless in order to find that isolation, that release from social requirements. Yes, you see people, so aren't literally physically isolated, but you're not seen yourself.
Great conversation, if you don't mind I'll try to put together a group of thoughts here rather than individually.

I was imprecise when I said "ration drinking water" rather the more accurate term would be "ration the water allocation to citizens" (that is what the city meters) and rationing isn't like you get your 150 gallons and then poof, it is really more like if you use more than your 'ration' your water bill will be much much higher. Which is, as others have noted, an economic allocation mechanism.

The rice fields are being drained. Over time as contracts run out and federal allocations are cut, those fields too will go dry.

It is hard to 'see' the regulation if irrigation water, and it is true there is no regulation on water pumped from underground. Having spent the summer working on a farm, the farms in the central valley get allocation from the water system that goes through it, and those big pipes with the wheels on them get closed and locked. When you are getting your allocation they are opened for a specific amount of time, as the system is calibrated to pass a specified amount of acre feet per minute/hour/day which is dumped into the irrigation canals around your farm. Once the allocation is up the pipe is closed for that period.

I agree that long before anyone decides to fund a giant river rerouting however some of the hydroponics experiments going on are going to yield much more water efficient farms.
I use IPython. %cpaste doesn't work all the time if you're copying from the middle of a function. And even if I just paste a one-liner that starts with a few spaces, why the hell does it even bother to complain about that? Oh wow, this one line of code (which happens to be the entirety of code I'm asking you to execute) is indented wrong, tell me something I don't know! What a PITA.
Google's Blockly Games
The intersection of war and architecture
For people looking to get EIN, we just did this last week - They do not issue them on phone starting January 2014. You need to fax the application to a Cincinnati number, and if you put down your fax number on the application, they fax you back your EIN in 3-4 business days, not counting the day you faxed on. If you do not get a fax back or you did not put your fax number on the application, you can call them in 3-4 days and then they will give you on phone, if your application was processed.

Moreover, for an Amazon payments account, you also need a US bank account. And that task is not easy for non-US entities.
tmarman,

It is agreed that the jump from $0 to $125 (preview pricing) is a large jump and I can say we are definitely considering something in the middle ground. I am curious, what types of features would you be willing to give up for a lower price point? For example, one option might be for us to consider using smaller VM's, but that would greatly reduce the document count (perhaps 1M docs max), QPM's (perhaps max 1 QPS) and/or possibly limit the ability to support for high availability.

Do these sound like reasonable things to give up for this lower price point? Do you have alternate ideas?

Liam
Loved this article, mostly because of the fact that it turns much of the normal perspective on markets on its head. Rather than looking at a best case or a simulated median case, looking at a worst case is pretty cool.

What would make this more interesting would be to look at a constantly rebalanced portfolio that is a blend of stocks and bonds. That would have performed even better.

@notastartup -- "the best investors" is a complicated statement. Usually investors are graded on an annual basis compared to the market. If you outperform the market and justify your fee (if your fee is 1%, you had better outperform by a lot more than that, or else an index fund would have been a safer way to go), you keep your job, are able to get more capital into your fund, and generally are more highly regarded as an investor. So while I think there is a ton of merit to using an approach like this (or using the rebalancing approach I mention above), this is not what makes successful professional investors successful. That can be ascribed to luck, a ton of luck, skill, nefarious dealings, or any other number of other good or not-so-good reasons.
Note that these seem to be all local attacks - on a home network these devices will almost certainly all be behind a NAT, so they would not be remotely exploitable. A remote exploit i.e. over the Internet is far more worrying; these are not quite as bad in comparison.

Both compromised devices where running a Linux 2.6.x kernel, and a lot of interpreters such as perl and python. One of them also had the GNU C compiler installed, which would make the attackers' life much easier.

This is probably a side-effect of cheap Linux systems becoming available, and the general attitude of laziness and waste here really annoys me - having to download a firmware update that's tens or even hundreds of MB for a device whose featureset doesn't need even one tenth that amount of code to accomplish is absolutely insane. I miss the days when devices had just enough computing resources to do what they needed to, didn't need any updates because the firmware was pretty much perfect, and as a result were less likely to contain exploits. Now it seems "take an ARM devboard, connect something to the GPIO and ship the whole mess complete with the bloated Linux distro it came with" is the norm. I certainly won't be replacing the devices in my home with anything "smart" anytime soon.
And if there was ever a testament to why Copyright should expire for the public good, this is it.
Before you ration drinking water, you ban or ration washing cars, watering lawns, and laundry.

I live in Fresno, and we're not too far off from that. Come November, no one is allowed to water their lawns, and they're threatening to completely shut off the water to anyone who violates this multiple times.
Name the final edge in the transduction graph of a proliferation, apoptosis, or cell cycle regulation pathway.

I suppose you can do this for a cell in a terminally differentiated state of your choosing. (But as you know, pre-cancerous cells are typically in fuzzy states that break our tidy little metabolic models.)
I would rather change that URL, the url_source points to linkedIn.com. Just saying.
On the contrary, it's quite possible for practical implementation details to hold back a field for hundreds of years. My favorite example is the hydrogen fuel cell. It was invented at a time when Abraham Lincoln was busy launching his first political career and still looked like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#mediaviewer/Fil...

yet 180 years later hydrogen fuel cells still aren't a competitive energy storage strategy. Less spectacular examples include flying cars and speech recognition / AI.
> California's attempts to "crack down" on the ALS challenge and such

I don't think this has actually happened. The only source I've seen for that is a satire site.
Embed your code movie anywhere
Alice Pascal
It stops playing after ~20 secondes for me. Then a ~5 seconds silence gap and then it picks up something new.

When I select the active tab it cycles through locations every ~3-5 secondes.
Using APIs with Python Requests Module
What would make this more interesting for me would be a pretty accurate answer to the question: "what are the chances that this could happen again if the guy started in 2014"? :)
> Lisp doesn't really have [efficient persistent data structures]

It does now: http://www.ergy.com/FSet.html
This Robot Butler Tried to Get Me Drunk
Of course this whole story is a typical media beat-up. We know that cancer can be eradicated - it happens every day. Even in the absence of medical treatment seeming terminal cancers can go into complete remission and never return (as a bit of an aside if anyone has any desire to become a saint the easiest way to achieve this is to go around blessing cancer patients. As long as you bless enough you will get the required two “miracles” you need from spontaneous remissions alone).

Since cancer is the consequence of the loss of the regulation of cell division it is axiomatic that in any cellular system given enough time and mutations the regulation will be lost in at least one cell of an individual. We don’t need to prevent disruption of the regulatory system, although this is good, we just need to be better able to identify and destroy those cells that are not regulated.
A Downtime Irony
When is the flash on and when is it off in these plot?
What would these plots look like in a control subject?
Does the subject have any other indication of when the flashes are occurring?

I know that this isn't written to be read critically, but I don't know what the take-away is.
Cool idea, and great video, but don't soft launch without the actual site. I was very interested (both as a business and consumer), but when all I saw was the video and nothing actually working...it makes me think that all you've got is a video, not an app, and I doubt I'll remember to check back on September 1st. But best of luck to you!
Some good news in there though:

"Treatment for this disease has become so effective that 80% of patients with metastatic testicular cancer can now be cured. Thirty-five years ago, 95% of these patients died, usually within 1 year of diagnosis."

From idlewords' post it might sound like we've made no improvement, but instead it is more like slow and patchy improvement.
This could certainly be possible. Jay Neitz did experiments on monkeys to cure colorblindness using gene therapy and was successful. [1] He has said that perhaps one day humans can have genes for more color receptors added to be able to see more colors as some birds do.

1. http://www.neitzvision.com/content/genetherapy.html
I read something on imgur or here some days ago from a guy who could "see" some UV. He had to wear polarizing glasses because of headaches and had developed a fascination for violet objects.
I think it's better standalone. I already have a hundred ways to voice chat.
Connect Arduino and Tessel
Cell division is by nature binary. Of course the process of division is probabilistic so that a regulated cell is unlikely to divide unless the conditions in the niche are favourable, while a unregulated cell is much more likely to divide even when division is not favourable.
Everything is poisonous at some dosage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose

Edit: From this [1] non-scholarly source,

"The median lethal dose (LD50 value) of vitamin A injected intramuscularly
in a water-miscible form in the young monkey is 0.6 mmol (168 mg) retinol/kg
body weight. Extrapolated to a 3-kg child and a 70-kg adult, the total LD50
dose would be 1.8 mmol (500 mg) and 41 mmol (11.8 g) respectively."

Also, it's teratogenic. Just like an innumerably many other chemicals we ingest daily.

[1] http://www.uta.edu/faculty/sawasthi/Lecture%20Notes%20Chem14...
I think it's more that estimates don't work well with projects. If you know you're going to be building a, b, and c as part of the project then there's not a huge benefit in estimating them.

I also think projects don't often work well as a way of building software. There's often uncertain deliverable a long way off into the future, and a guess at whether it will actually generate any value.

I don't just think that estimating the cost of features along a project is a bad idea, I think trying to come up with features a long way into the future is a bad idea. Things you learn along the way are likely to require you to scrap them or make significant changes, unless you're ether prescient or learning nothing.

Without projects estimates become more useful again. Focus on the most valuable things you can be building in the next couple of weeks. Estimating the top n that seem the most valuable will tell you a) if it's achievable to complete them in 2 weeks, b) give you an idea of the value:cost ratio to help prioritisation.
Can tell you we have an application we are already planning to migrate onto this. It's a back office event searching-esque app.
I believe I originally heard that here:

https://we.riseup.net/riseuplabs+paow/openpgp-best-practices
I just added the gamma conversion change to my resampling library. It made a definite improvement in accuracy, especially to astronomy images. Before most details shifted towards being darker, but now they appear to retain their luminosity better.
>The next step is mandatory rationing of drinking water.

Whoa, slow down! There are about a hundred steps to take before cutting back on drinking water:

- less water intense crops
- less water intense lawns
- recycling for industrial uses
- recycling greywater for toilets

Personally, I'd prefer they just charge a rate that looks more like a drought and let farmers sell water rather than "use it or lose it".
The Day a Dozen Parents and Children Killed a Shark for a Selfie
The Ubuntu Steam box, one year later
I had one device that just killed all SD cards on power up. I still don't fully understand how this is even possible.
> I'm sorry, but this is insane. No local government is going to allow these things to be buzzing around everywhere for no good reason.

You mean like all of the cars and trucks that are rumbling around everywhere for no good reason? They roar around everywhere, are incredibly dangerous, require billions of dollars of government funded infrastructure, and destroy the environment. No one would ever allow them to become common, when we have such alternatives as walking, bikes, trains, and the like, right? They're just crazy inefficient; a bike is so much more energy efficient for a single person, and a train is faster, safer, and more efficient for moving large numbers around.
Danny Hillis on the Evolution of Thinking Machines
> I wonder what is your opinion on the similarities between American Capitalism vs USSR State Socialism during the cold war?

I'd say that a good point was made by Marxists I've known (not of the Leninist/Stalinist persuasion!) who referred to Soviet-style Communism as "State Capitalism" and traced the failure directly back to Leninist vanguardism recreating one of the central problems of capitalism in that it produced a narrow elite class that exercised control of the means of production and ordered society for its own benefit.

I would say that in many ways, during the Cold War, the "capitalist" mixed economies of the West -- even, though less so than some if its European allies, the US -- were more substantively socialist than the USSR and its allise following the same basic structural model.
Multiple inheritance is much more complicated and restricted in C++ than in Common Lisp. As with many things in C++, you really have to know what you're doing to use it correctly. In CLOS it pretty much just does what you expect, and only when you want to do something unusual do you have to learn the finer points.
Instagram Just Geotagged Us to Hell – Five Hundred Words
> I've been known to employ somewhat similar tactics myself.

How can we be sure?
A much more likely delivery path will be something like Uber + Amazon.
30 Seconds with Guerrilla Marketing's Guru [1995]
I remember when almost every demo had metaballs in them. Now that's been replaced with distance functions/raymarching, which can produce far more interesting scenes.
I've used a USB portable power brick for charging phones, that can run a Raspberry Pi for a few hours which avoids minor power outages.
Don't forget Weblocks[0]! The learning curve is imposing, but once you climb it, it's a very productive environment to work in.

[0] http://weblocks-framework.info/
Alfalfa and other animal feed grown in CA due to senior water rights seems even crazy, even relative to California's baseline level of crazy. Whenever I see a restaurant (usually in the Central Valley) which has signs out that they don't serve water on the table by default due to the drought, it's hard to take anything seriously.
> It's a lot easier to write Mathematica than it is to read it.

+1. And it gets even more easier to read (“read”? :-) when you can select pieces in FrontEnd, with multiple mouse clicks or a corresponding hotkey. I got so used to it that I actually developed phantom pains in my editing of Html or TeX (or whatever, for that matter).
And don't you need visual line of sight according to the FAA in order to operate model aircraft / drones?
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