skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
30-50 years is surely "forever" even in snail mail terms. 1000 years? Wow now we're talking about an era-defining technology for civilization itself! I'm going to go with your lower bound: if email lasts largely unchanged for 30 years, then it will have been the most important application of the internet era.
And that would be a good thing!
Compare to the classic rule-making game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
We are definitely aware, but given our skill level games to 11 would end far too quickly. That's why we opted for the old 21 system. Maybe in a year when we can actually maintain good rallies we will upgrade to 11 :)
My favorite are banks that require you to use their security questions which are along the lines of "What city were you born in?"

The average user probably trusts their bank, and assumes that their bank is doing everything to protect them, and unknowingly compromise themselves by putting in correct answers to trivial questions.
Good news, this means South now comes with Django by default. I use South in every new Django project anyway, because database migration versioning is so necessary.
I think this concept has existed for quite some time. Musicians and athletes and dancers have always known about muscle memory. But whether those memories existed in the appendages or in the brain was never well known. I think this gives more credit to the idea that some memories are actually stored in the Peripheral Nervous System.

As a thought experiment, lets say a famous guitarist loses an arm and gets a perfect transplant or a prosthetic which perfectly matches their previous dexterity. Would it perform as well as their old hand, or was the hand performing additional calculations on incoming and outgoing data that could never fully be replicated by a replacement.

Now take it a step further and assume a random person receives a famous guitarists arm in a perfect transplant. That arm is an instrument in itself with its stored knowledge, but that doesn't mean the receiving brain knows how to communicate effectively with it. I'm sure they would have basic communication, but the extended neural vocabulary of the old Brain-hand pair would be known to the new host-brain.

Personally, I believe it is a tandem effort between CNS and PNS in which each becomes accustomed to the signals sent by the other.

For example: A brain tells a finger to curl HARD, the finger neurons receive the brains input, modulates it with local factors, and sends it to the muscle.
Likewise, the finger knows the feel of the strings exceptionally well, and can send highly detailed messages back to the brain who is used to receiving highly detailed messages. But in the new host who doesn't know this advanced feeling, it just feels like a regular old input.
Probably because British people are silly -- John Cleese, Benny Hill, etc.
As I said... web based applications... In other words, I had to interact with both models.. I created some simple box abstractions, but something as simple as a dynamic form (certain inputs visible based on others) was pretty much a pain, since you couldn't break a <form/> across multiple segments in NN4.

That doesn't even get into more complex interactions, or the flicker when making UI changes dynamically. For some things I simply re-wrote frame content client-side as it was faster with less "flicker" than trying to manipulate the DOM nodes.

Doing async stuff was interesting, post queues to frames, with the response wrapped similar to jsonp.

I don't miss those days at all...
>> Once you add all three qualifiers in (approximate/continuous/compact) it starts to sound more like math and less like a miracle.

I agree. The problem with attempting to make subtle technical points digestible by untrained people is that the larger meaning of the exercise is likely to be lost along with the details. This would probably be a good demonstration to show to investors in your NN-based startup, because it seems impressive. But if I had to state the take-home message of this that the average person should care about, I'm not sure there is one. There are simpler systems with the same property that are taught to undergraduate engineers (and NNs don't represent a novel path to having it, even); there's a great distance between approximating functions and solving practical ML problems.

Edit:
To me, personally, I would have been more interested had this been an argument about back propagation for training NNs. I suspected NNs could do this because of what's in them, but training is as much of a constraint on what they can actually do.
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Yeah, but for example, calling the sugar production market in Germany "free" is absurd. Agriculture subsidies and quotas are the core of the EU. You can't blame the market for working incorrectly when you heavily restrict its most important mechanism - competition.

De Beers is also a good example - how can it be a free market participant when its biggest mines are joint ventures with the States of Namibia and Botswana?

I haven't looked at the other examples yet, but I find these frankly unconvincing.
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Owned an 86 and a 92+. The 86 got me through all the courses that needed a non-qwerty TI-83-like calculator, but it had more than enough memory for me to type in all my formula, etc. for various classes. It was just weird enough that teachers didn't bother with it, but was close enough to a TI-83 that they let it go.

I spent hours programming it. I made an animation tool that would assemble a sequence of pictures (painstakingly drawn dot by dot) into a flipbook-like animation and a couple simple RPG games. It's a great first programming tool since the language is pretty easy and you have to be aware of resource usage since the memory is so tight.

My 92+ got me through my undergrad. Teachers didn't care since all of them required us to show our work and didn't allow any calculators on exams. But it was a great study tool, especially in Calculus. The symbolic system is fantastic and the pretty print algorithm they use is quite good.

Being a Motorola 68k-based calculator, it also ran some great games courtesy ticalc.org. There used to be a fantastic version of SolarStriker for it that I played relentlessly. It was a little like having an ultra portable Atari ST that just happened to have a very good CAS built in.

There's some fantastic work being done there in Lua for the TI-nspire calculator. like a SimCity 2k clone http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/460/46069.html
I think this is a pretty silly argument. We cannot even digest our food without gut flora. So I don't think we are as protected from microbes as ideas like this suggest.

What has changed in recent decades and can be proven and measured: We are exposed to all kinds of chemicals that are known to have harmful effects, many of which did not exist until they were recently invented.

It seems to me this is a much more likely explanation of the outbreak in chronic health conditions and so-called "autoimmune diseases" in the developed world.
You can use citrix or terminal services so the sensitive data never leaves the servers.
Such is the power of a mystery. A simple repeating beep captivates thousands. And yes, I had to read the whole article to the end.
It should be just as effective as HTTPS is. Of course whether that's effective enough depends on who you ask. Yes, rogue/compromised CAs are occasionally a problem, but it generally works pretty well.
It's a bad argument for banning things but it is a perfectly correct argument for pointing out the the real cost of something. Cars kill people. We should not pretend that cars are safe, we should make a rational decision and come to the conclusion that the cost is worth the freedom of transportation.

You'r argument would be a valid analogy if I were suggesting that we make it illegal to tell anyone your location (or any other "private" information). I am only pointing out that privacy is valuable and we should count the cost if and when we give it up.
You're probably referring to Jacobson v. United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._United_States
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There is a group in San Francisco called the Guild of Cookery[1] that is doing this with old recipes and running pop-up dinners based on Game of Thrones feasts. I went to one and it was fascinating to hear them talk about finding old recipes and sourcing ingredients as authentic as they could get. Interesting stuff.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/guildofcookery - sorry, they only have Facebook
By the time IE6 landed, it had over 90% market share... I wasn't about to support edge cases that weren't in IE6 at the time... I do agree in principle though.

I think things are fragmenting a bit, but the core is at least more in line among browsers... after ES6/7 take hold a bit better it will be nice.

I really wish the browser vendors would chose to use UTF8 under the covers for JS strings, and simply fix string handling for characters > 2^16 instead of additional regex flags, and string methods. I think it would fix far more bugs in end user code than those it might create.
Read the comments to this blog post. The misogynistic mouth breathers are out in full force as usual.
I think I would explain that it's a placebo and instead suggest verbally banning students from using their calculators for evil, then discipline them when they do so.
"Want to create an 'e-mail killer'? Apply some humility. Accept that you will not be The One Gateway to Human Communication" - Saving this quote.
Yes.

* Get your M.D.
* Do anything afterward, except practice medicine
* Profit

That's what that article is saying.

I think being a doctor is about more than making money. But it isn't simply about helping people and making a good living. Smart people want to be able to exercise their own judgment and initiative. We need to be careful as a society, or the people we want as doctors are going to be the people we chase away.
It won't be for a while (KnightOS can't even do math right now, but it is a passable unix system), but I will continue the research and perhaps work towards that goal. The biggest concern I have is that I am only an amateur EE and I don't know if I could take people's money for something I may not succeed at.
"If Apple were a startup like Dropbox, such a high-profile theft of users’ sensitive, private data could spell the difference between success and failure as a company."

The stock market doesn't seem to care. Or care more about possible new products coming out next week. The stock price went up after the celebrity photo hack news.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAPL&t=1m&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=
Another day, another anti-google article by the duckduckgo guy, more FUD.
Those are big companies but not necessarily big apps.
There is an additional problem (over and above privacy concerns) with putting all your eggs in one basket that is not mentioned - namely if you are cut off from the service for 1 reason or another. This can happen because you do something on 1 of the many services that goes against the TOS and you get cut off from all services. There are other reasons of course: The site could go down, the suite of services may be vulnerable to a tailored malware attack etc.
It was definitely my stupid fault but the fact is that it introduced a bunch of fragility and less control into password management for me and wasn't a great solution. But it seems increasingly clear to me these days that internet-connected devices are simply unsuitable for anything which requires privacy in any case.
1. Thanks, fixed!

2. Every developer in our office :P
I've also done a lot of Django hacking and have the same feelings about Python. You aren't going to find anything as complete as Django in Go. There just hasn't been enough consolidation on a single framework and things are too much in flux. I never found an ORM I liked, but pongo2 [1] is directly modeled after Django's templating language. There's also negroni [2] and its ecosystem. Gorilla [3] is an excellent set of packages as well.

It all feels a lot like using a less mature Flask (mainly because Armin Ronacher has put years of work into it). As much as I want a speedup from Python (as well as good concurrency) I'm finding Python is still a lot more expressive and takes less code. Your mileage may vary. I suspect what Go would be really useful for is a JSON API that a Flask app (or something similar) consumes.

1. https://github.com/flosch/pongo2

2. https://github.com/codegangsta/negroni

3. http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/
What needs to be tracked? Is there specific functionality you want to add to the tracker? If you're concerned about fragmentation with the spreadsheet approach, is this something you can solve with an existing product (SharePoint, Google Docs, etc...)?

The best solution is often the one that gets the job done with a minimum of fuss.
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Why do basement and break room matches need to follow competitive rules designed for television?
http://calca.io/ doesn't have graphing, but it's pretty wonderful otherwise.

(But FWIW, I'd rather see general-purpose programming become easier to use than calculators become more complex.)
Not having data which would incriminate you to a party which will misuse it is something of a pyrrhic victory, but I still see your point. It would be preferable to have no parties which would misuse this data, but if such a party does exist then you would be better off remaining anonymous. As with all risk analysis, there's no clear answer. Deciding whether or not using a service which tracks such data is a consideration of the convenience gained, sensitivity of the data, propensity of the parties in play to respect the privacy of this data, potential for future incrimination, etc.
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They haven't been doing that as much lately, especially if the original title was either uninformative or linkbaity.
I'm merely attempting to correct the author's libelous statement about reddit. Reddit has never hosted any stolen photos, period.

Imgur revealed earlier this year that they have similar image detection built into their back end. Despite the ease with which they could use this to automatically sweep 99.9% of the Jennifer Lawrence photos off of their site the instant they're uploaded and shadowban the uploaders, and despite the fact that every one of their 12+ employees knew about this leak the instant it happened and also knew that their own site would probably be one of the two most actively used to spread the images around the world, half of the Jennifer Lawrence albums I checked there still have all images intact. One album has over 30,000 views and has existed for two days. Why haven't they activated their similar image detection algorithm in this case? At best, this is neglect bordering on malice.

The damage Imgur does by actually hosting these stolen images and dragging their feet for as long as possible when responding to DMCA takedown requests has nothing whatsoever to do with a text-only discussion thread on reddit. The author should correct this accusation and lay the blame where it belongs.
1Password can store those for you as well.
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I haven't followed django for a while. Could someone explain a bit more about django' model association part. Is it currently comparable to rails's model associations?
Looking at these two pages
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/relations/

It seems there are a bit more on rails model associations.
Most of the nastiest chemicals were phased out or heavily regulated decades ago. Lead everywhere, asbestos, mercury, propellants, flame retardants, pesticides, etc...

We have nasty stuff around still today, of course, but if there was a "dark age" of nasty chemicals it was fifty years ago.

The point being that you would expect our immune systems to be on the upswing if it was a chemicals problem.
There might be a better way, but this should work:

(for-each (lambda (x)
(run (ssh ,x uptime)))
(run/strings (cat /etc/hosts)))
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Maybe that is because those rules are to make the game more fun to watch not to make it funner to play.
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It was pretty easy for us. We just use Jira/Crucible. I don't think I've ever had to convince anyone they're necessary.
UVB-76 is a number station transmitting one-time pad encrypted messages. Old transport technology (radio) sending old, unbreakable crypto technology (one-time pad encrypted messages) at the speed of light all across the world. These technologies (as old as they are) will never be replaced with new infrastructure dependent technologies. The key is that they allow for decentralized, secure comms at the speed of light. No satellites or fiber required. It only takes a handful of guys to do it too. You can even run them from solar panels and battery packs from caves in Timbukto. Take that, nation state controlled Internet.

The Great FireWall of X, does not stop radio. Try to jam omni-directional NVIS. Better yet, try to locate the guys receiving it.
> intelligence locked away in our bodies

You may or may not have seen the recent discussion about the "gut brain" and how it influences mood.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7957057
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Hey Paul, I am wondering if AirBNB has an API service that is available to more than just Hipmunk and if it is possible to help me connect with the founders to talk about an integration. Thank you for being awesome.
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I think I know the problem you're referring to (despite not having the right kind of specialist training to actually work in this field). I think that the fact that random or quasirandom probes are able to explore these high-dimensional spaces fairly effectively is evidence that the problem is somehow not exponential and therefore tractable in some fashion. Does that sound relevant?
I read the previously submitted comments here in this thread before reviewing the link kindly submitted here. (I remember this report from the year it was first published.) The paper compares the country Finland to the region Karelia conquered from Finland by Russia and now part of Russia. Life expectancy in Finland[1] is much better than that in Russia,[2] so if the trade-off of growing up in a clean environment is that I don't die of something else but life into healthy old age with some annoying allergies (I do have allergies, so I am well aware of how annoying they can be), I'll take that trade-off. The last time we had an active thread about the hygiene hypothesis here on HN, there were all kinds of n=1 anecdotes from various participants here about refraining from using soap and other socially silly practices. There is a big attitude here on HN that modern life is bad for us somehow. That attitude is mistaken.

The article "The Biodemography of Human Ageing" by James Vaupel,[3] originally published in the journal Nature in 2010, is a good current reference on the subject of how much life expectancy has improved at ALL ages in the developed world. Vaupel is one of the leading scholars on the demography of aging and how to adjust for time trends in life expectancy. His striking finding is "Humans are living longer than ever before. In fact, newborn children in high-income countries can expect to live to more than 100 years. Starting in the mid-1800s, human longevity has increased dramatically and life expectancy is increasing by an average of six hours a day."[4] An article in a series on Slate, "Why Are You Not Dead Yet? Life expectancy doubled in past 150 years. Here’s why"[5] Provides some of the background. Yep, perhaps in the clean modern world, our immune systems aren't challenged as much as they used to be, but we also get sick less often and live to much older ages with good health. Life expectancy at age 40, at age 60, and at even higher ages is still rising throughout the developed countries of the world.[6] That's a trade-off I will happily accept. My mom (who also has allergies) is eighty-one years old and still living independently and enjoying her favorite activities, and she has sisters and brothers older than she is who are still in good health. Girls born since 2000 in the developed world are more likely than not to reach the age of 100, with boys likely to enjoy lifespans almost as long. If that's what I have to put up with after living in a clean environment in my youth, I can deal with that.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Finland+life+expectancy

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=Russia+life+expectancy

[3] http://www.demographic-challenge.com/files/downloads/2eb51e2...

[4] http://www.prb.org/Journalists/Webcasts/2010/humanlongevity....

[5] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_...

[6] http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v307/n3/box...
How not having a social networking account helps with that? Not only you still can't control what your friends (that is, the real-life ones) share, now you're the last to know if they share something about you.
Emacs users who want to play around with scsh might like:

* Geiser integration that (mostly!) works: https://github.com/rmloveland/geiser-scsh

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