skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I try not to have conversations here, and remember that everyone's entitled to be wrong, and that readers won't always assume the commenter with the last word wins. Also remember that we're all pretty much here with a common base of knowledge, so re-iterating the same old points (e.g., if you're not paying, you're the product) really accomplishes nothing... and everyone already knows Javascript is useful and that CSS sucks but it's the best we have, etc etc.
I think this is the same as the idea of the Governor and the President. There are a lot of issues with it, but the main one I see is the jobs issue.

Typically, immigrants move to places where jobs are plentiful. With a program like this, you are moving immigrants to a place, and then ASSUMING that jobs will follow. I'm not sure it works like this. I think places like San Fran, Chicago and Boston for instance, all draw a lot of immigrants because there are a large number of open jobs in these places. Historically speaking... setting up immigrant neighborhoods in the absence of jobs has proven to be a bad idea.

If you have to use governmental incentives, and I'm not saying you do, but if you are going to use governmental incentives... I think a BETTER approach would be to give the incentives to companies and startups. If companies and startups come to Detroit, then people will follow to fill any jobs these enterprises create. I don't think you need to put forth more governmental incentives to INDIVIDUALS to live in Detroit. (In fact, I think that's been a big problem in Detroit in recent history).

If you want healthy growth... it really does need to be predicated on a diverse and vibrant private sector.

Now if you are absolutely bent on providing incentives to individuals, then Detroit should provide the incentives to recent college grads, or other young people to come to Detroit to try to make a go of a startup. Everything from free healthcare to nearly-free office space in some of the many available buildings just outside the development zones, (or even inside of the zones???), could be offered to them on a first come first served basis. Such an offer would, I think, be well received by today's young people given the troubles they are experiencing in the job market.
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The manager’s gender isn’t a factor.

So what's the best way to rearrange corporate structures so that doing well in business doesn't require traits that don't match our cultural ideal for what women should be like? Or would changing cultural ideals be easier (maybe find a way to get hollywood on board)?

I guess I'm assuming here that "I figured only strong performers would be willing to share" is correct, and selected for mostly people who do behave in a mostly-ideal fashion for business success.
With Regulation Looming, It’s Time to Raise the Bar for Software Quality
The submission kindly made here is a controversial blog post by a blogger who habitually blogs about topics that I actively research for my professional research. First I read the previous comments here, then I read the fine blog post by Peter Frost.

It is correct that Charles Spearman originated the current, generally accepted view of "general intelligence" (g) as a common factor for diverse mental abilities tapped by a variety of mental tests. Each kind of mental test, in Spearman's view, also tapped "special abilities" (s) and Spearman, contrary to the brief account here, elaborated his view of those in the years after his landmark 1904 publication on general intelligence. Spearman wrote, in a 1927 writing I'm indebted to John Raven for drawing to my attention, "Every normal man, woman, and child is, then, a genius at something as well as an idiot at something. It remains to discover what—at any rate in respect of the genius."[1]

The article continues, "In recent years, however, we’ve begun to identify the actual genes that contribute to intelligence. These genes are very numerous, numbering perhaps in the thousands, with each one exerting only a small effect." The second sentence quoted here is a lot more accurate than the first. We know FOR SURE that genes that influence human intelligence number in the many hundreds, with confusing interactions with one another and with differing environmental conditions, and also know for sure that none of those genes have a large effect acting alone. But we have barely begun to identify any of the individual genes.

Blogger Peter Frost then comments on some current primary research publications. As someone who regularly discusses current research with other researchers in the local journal club,[2] I'm always glad to see citations to some new primary research studies, but I've also learned how few of those replicate, and how limited our precision is so far in matching behavior patterns to gene assemblages in Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) in human subjects. The sample sizes are becoming more and more huge in human GWASs, but are still too small to provide reliable data on associations between genes and behaviors of interest.[3]

The unreplicated primary research studies he cites (in some cases from very obscure journals) will be worth following up on, but right now I think the blogger's suggested conclusions run ahead of the evidence, particularly about spread of literacy in some regions being associated with particular genes--the sample sizes of the relevant populations are still grossly inadequate for backing up conclusions like that.

P.S. Reliable information about the neurological underpinnings of reading ability can be found in the book Reading in the Brain,[4] by a scientist who has done many neuro-imaging studies of reading ability, a very readable and interesting book.

[1] http://assessingpsyche.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/strawman-spe...

[2] http://www.psych.umn.edu/research/areas/pib/

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3778125/

[4] http://readinginthebrain.pagesperso-orange.fr/intro.htm
From the article: "...manufacturers are permitted to label products containing between 0 and 0.5 g of trans fat per serving as '0 grams' in the United States"

I'd like that to be on the label
I think religion (and I include cryonics in that category for the purpose of this discussion) is far from being a scam as it most certainly provides immediate benefits that cannot be dismissed. I'm sure it makes people happy to pay a high price for effectively convincing themselves that their death is merely temporary, thus hopefully alleviating what may be a very burdensome dread. That money would otherwise be spent on alcohol, drugs or therapy, and may not be as effective.
There is no restaurant featuring or anything like that. The game only takes distance and price into account, which the user specifies, when you FoodTrip. This is literal free marketing for restaurants right now.
My understanding is that the country Ireland left the union, and a new "country" (territory? unsure) joined the UK.
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I am in Seattle and hiring a short-term contractor to work with me. Ideal location in Seattle / West Coast but not required. This person will work on a frontend development project to create a product demo using HTML/CSS/JS only. The demo will be based on an existing product with clear defined use cases, sample dataset and interaction logics.

This project will require the candidate to perform following tasks:
- RDP into an environment to scrape HTML/CSS of the official product
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- Reuse existing AngularJS modules such as ui-router, ui-bootstrap, AngularJS Lightbox... to save time on implementation

Email me quanghoc at yahoo dot com. Sorry I have to use personal email to avoid exposing the company for now.
coffee naps? It's like Joseph is talking to my heart.
This could also be the result of misapplying articles such as this one (http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2014-...) where women are taught to be dominant, and say things like "Stop interrupting me", and "I just said that". [Said article was making the rounds on Facebook among my professional female friends recently.]

Topics tend to be rehashed quite a lot in discussion, and sometimes people interrupt one another. It is entirely plausible that this probably affects women more than men. But if someone compensates by saying things like "I just said that", or "Stop interrupting me.", it is not surprising that they would get reviews that label them as abrasive; whereas they might just be trying to be more assertive than usual by following this sort of advice too literally.

Solutions? Perhaps a more holistic approach, where all parties involved are reminded that women might be less assertive, or be dominated in the conversation, and take steps to mitigate this. (Or possibly also being reminded that speaking is not
Crptocurrency is all about giving economic incentives to do the right thing.

In most fields, fraud/lying/cheating are ethical failures. In cryptocurrency, they are bugs that need to be fixed and giving them moral assignations isn't helpful, IMHO. A cryptocurrency that fails doesn't do so because "bad people ruined it" but only fails because of its own shortcomings.
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A common element in scams is that they make promises they can't deliver on and relieve people of their funds.
Apple Confirms Special Event on September 9, Likely for iPhones
Why do you think the likelihood is very small?

Has there been research?
The core assumption is that minds have an intrinsic value. Future civilizations who don't share that belief are unlikely to engage in resurrection. But as far as cost is concerned, there is no reason to think it'll be in any way costly, especially if it's in the form of whole-brain emulation.
In the current legalization debate "legal" generally means legal without a prescription. Those who want it to be legal but only with a prescription generally use the term "medical marijuana" instead of "legalization".
Yes, this video is great, I saw it too
The next step in your calculation is to ask, "What are the constraints on production in a society that has ultra-high automation but no artificial intelligence?"

There is only one: intelligence. I can see such a society going to great lengths to obtain that resource. The incentives to revive an individual for unfortunate purposes in such a society would be very large.
Where are you going to find a 2 bedroom apt in SF for $1,956 (2014 HUD FMR)????

http://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/FY2014_code/...
by netconf-master do you mean

https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/tree/master/netconf-...

?
What happens in the situation when something Watson has "studied" gets proved wrong or inconclusive say 1 year later. Does Watson have a method to discount that and all subsequent chains based on that research?
IIRC, that was in 1983, when three TransTime patients were transferred to Alcor thanks to donations. There's a very interesting article written about it: http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/postmortemexamination.html
Nowadays the public expenditure of many European countries is above 50% of the GDP. This is, more than 50 cents of every monetary unit are being expropriated and distributed according to a central planning. Even for the US, the figure is around 40%.
I'm not surprised by this, but I am surprised that the author didn't mention her past research on this topic. Her shock at the "discovery" seems a little disingenuous.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=13513
this applies to many of the "sharing economy" businesses.

airbnb seems to have a monopoly at present but as their listings become shown on competitor booking sites with lower fees customers will soon follow and the whole thing becomes commodified, and eventually peer2peer or non-profit/non-fee networks will win out.

the supreme type of monopolies enjoyed by facebook/ebay/amazon will not occur in these style businesses unless they can enforce exclusivity, and most (non-US) states won't allow this.
"What it costs" shouldn't be represented as a percent of mean household income. This is very misleading. For example, if you drive out poor by increasing prices it may well make a city "more affordable" because both the numerator (prices) and the denominator (income) are increasing. Despite what Figure 6 would suggest, New York is not considerably "more affordable" than Detroit.
>Nearly 70,000 residential accounts are going to have their water cut off through the end of September.

No they won't. Detroit faced an endemic issue where people simply felt that they didn't have to pay their water bills because there was no consequence. Now that they've instituted this plan, lots of people have found the ability to pay their bill, or to make arrangements to pay it eventually, or to credibly make a case for why they can't.

Pretty much every city charges for water, and pretty much every city cuts you off if you don't pay your bill.
Depends on the person, so this isn't going to work for everyone. I can fall asleep in ~2 min. It's a curse when I need to stay awake.
> Once we've defeated death, reviving people who were preserved is the next logical step after saving everyone currently alive

...unless defeating death leads to a huge overpopulation problem and severe restrictions on producing new children. Then there will likely be a lot of popular opposition to reviving them.

A revived frozen person first will need to have the condition that killed them dealt with. Then they will need training to be able to function at a basic level in society [1]. If we haven't got to a guaranteed basic income system or some other system that gets rid of the need for people to have jobs or live off welfare, there will probably be very few jobs that the revived person can be trained for.

Other than exceptional circumstances, such as reviving someone who would have knowledge of historical interest, it is hard to see how reviving a frozen person would be better for the future people than letting someone have a child.

I think Larry Niven's stories have it right--a given frozen person is far more likely to be broken up for transplant material than be revived whole in most potential future societies.

[1] I'm assuming it will take us a fairly long time to get to the defeated death stage, and so it will be a very different world that the person is revived into.
Some people who say your sanity.
I think it's broken. My mom said shirt collars as a service was a million dollar idea.
Data point: My girlfriend is a tech designer who's worked at Guess, Hot Topic, and a slew of smaller companies. She absolutely loathes the working environment because of the drama and bitterly regrets getting into the industry. She's considering going into customer service in a call center(!) (a 50%+ pay cut) because the work environments are so stressful in the fashion industry. She explicitly blames it on the gender balance being so female-dominated.
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Reasons for Red Hat CTO departure still a mystery
In C++, the following:

"Hello, World!"

…is a null terminated array of chars. When literal strings are not, in fact, strings, this is a problem with the language. It's confusing, you see? Underlying semantics nonwithstanding, how on Earth the followig works:

(std::string)"foo" == "foo"

and the following may not?!

"foo" == "foo"

These are not basic concepts. These are trivia. I know there are reasons for these confusing rules, but they're still confusing. You should not mock the programmer for forgetting them now and then.
This is anecdotal, but I discovered this in undergrad - I would drink coffee before a class, and end up falling asleep briefly during a lecture, and then end up wide awake the rest of the time and more. It really does wonders.
But what if what you really need is not the promise to be delivered (which will be long in the future in any case) but it to be fully convincing. That is, you're paying for a convincing promise -- not for its fulfillment (then again, some would say that all scams work like that)
My immediate thought when I saw this a few days ago was "sampling bias" -- not that the author had a biased sample of professional women, but rather that professional women are a biased sample of women. Given the social environment -- pushing both females and males away from what they might have preferred as a life trajectory -- I think it's very likely that the average professional woman is significantly more aggressive than the average professional man, simply because the non-aggressive women tend to not enter professional careers.

This mirrors an observation I've heard from several faculty members in computer science and engineering programs: As complete populations, girls aren't any smarter than boys on average, but in those programs the girls are always among the top students -- because it's only the most exceptional girls who overcome the social factors which keep most of their peers out of those subjects.

There may be a real effect here, but the evidence presented is inconclusive.
Google's driverless car is truly hands-off – there's no steering wheel
I agree that adoption is a challenge but the tech is also really challenging. Getting a system to a level of accuracy that gives doctors enough confidence to use it is no small task.

A "second opinion" service would have a lot of potential legal pitfalls.
Earplugs + couch at a quiet place (e.g. library). If it's too loud for even earplugs, Emancipator's "Soon It Will Be Cold Enough" album works for when I'm on a bus/subway
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Upon a quick read, none those are not particularly cause for optimism. By far the most important one is the organ vitrification (for the impact it could have on viable transplants) and it wasn't very promising at all.

The ALS article was very far removed from an in vivo therapy and the premise was hypothetical. Looking at a collection of the links on the reanimation link, it might as well be molecular nanotechnology. None of them were anything more than science fiction.

As to the other response (zanny) ... that's your prerogative to believe those, but I believe they are impossible or outside of the intellectual capability of humankind (leaning towards the former). In my opinion it's as feasible as though you'd suggested FTL travel with wormholes.

Regardless, I wouldn't cryopreserve myself even if I could. I've made efforts to live a good life and accept my mortality.
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How to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Happiness
It's a great list, that confirms my POV. I'm glad someone posted this.
> Literally everyone knows about ice formation. Robert > Ettinger wrote about it in his cryonics book before it ever happened. Cryoprotectants have been used since the first real (ie non-cosmetic) cryopreservations.

Note that the vitrification process didn't exist before the 90s, and so it's a bit of a stretch to think that it's been handled adequately. And even then, there's the fracturing problem, which despite Alcor's handwaving, is a serious problem.

> By the time you have the biological machinery to repair the kind of damage that thermal stress fractures, residual ice and cryoprotectant toxicity causes, cancer will be a curiosity in the bookshelves of history.

It's a very big assumption that we'll ever have the machinery to repair the damage caused by the freezing process. But apart from that, there's real and rapid decay of tissue in the brain when a person dies. Loss of even a small percentage of brain tissue has seriously traumatic effects on otherwise healthy people who haven't been frozen.

It's probably not gonna work.
It seems to me that how it's played is almost as important as the melody itself. Playing it just now on a clean guitar and a piano, it's not all that evocative of China. Yes, maybe a little bit, but it does sound 'wrong'. Curious.
OSM has lots of POIs. OSM is more than just roads. You can add points and say "This is an italian restaurant called "La Bella Roma", it is wheelchair accessible, doesn't have wifi and is open Monday to Saturday 10am to 11pm." (which would be amenity=restaurant, cuisine=italian, name="La Bella Roma", wheelchair=yes, wifi=no, opening_hours="Mo-Sa 10:00-23:00".

OSM is trying to be more like Wikipedia, so reviews, comments and star ratings don't belong there.

Please help improve OSM by adding POIs. I'm sure you'll know something that isn't there already.
Yes it absolutely does.

Qualifying the US as a "surveillance state" ( and not as something-that-could-one-day-become-as-such-if-people-don't-pay-attention) , means you think you have no freedom of speech ( at least on the internet). This is outrageous, not only compared to countries were you can actually be arrested for a tweet, but also because it means you actually have no clue as to what kind of country you live in.

As a young french adult, i tried to protest once against a government law i found revolting, by sitting peacefuly and quietly in front of the Elysee ( the white house equivalent) with a sign. I immediatly got arrested, my ID card was taken for a check, and i was told to move on. I said i found it surprising they did that, and the french policemen told me "well, you've seen people doing that on TV but this isn't the US here".

And yet, i am very able to make the difference between france and china, where people would face actual prison for that. Because i have a god damn sense of proportion.

There isn't an absolutely "free" country. A nation means laws and regulations, it is a compromise. You compromise a little bit on your personnal freedom for the sake of general interest. It's a complex matter, not a binary switch.

So all qualification of a country has to be done in comparison with other countries, facing the same kind of threat, and see how they deal with the situation. If you find a western country that doesn't "spy" the net, just tell me.
They do it for child porn, drug traffic, and terrorisms. And to me that's absolutely great, as long as it remains for those purposes.
Trinkets also don't have agency. What if someone wouldn't want to be brought back to life?

Trying another way, let's say the technology is created to bring Finney back, but it would only keep him alive for 4 hours, and after that there would be no chance of him ever returning. Would it be violating his beliefs for future-folk to bring him back for those 4 hours just because they want to hear what he has to say?
The down vote is interesting since I actually agree with her primary research. Women should interrupt more. I've said as much when doing reviews myself.
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Those won't compile.
Groups who are or expect to be treated differently will behave differently. Groups who are specifically taught to behave differently will also behave differently.

Are both of those really that unlikely?

We have arguments here all the time about perceived vs actual sexism or the effects of cultural gender norms, and have female-specific business self-help books.
Sorry you feel that way. I specify in the description, the website, and images that the adventure mode is paid. That's why FoodTrip is free (and personally, I think FoodTrip is better haha).

However it's completely understandable if you didn't read it. So again, sorry about that!
I think there's certainly a likelihood that men and women are different, and that not every perceived difference is sexism.
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