skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“We hope the U.S. government will be submitting some of the funds to finish it out.”

LOL. Thanks for the comedy this morning. I'm guessing they're looking for somewhere around $5B (half of the proposed cost). As nice as it would be to see something like this, the US government has no designs on dropping a fraction of that money on any kind of rail system. They can't even pay for the current road infrastructure.
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It's amazing the stuff that gets funded in the research community in place of, you know, actually addressing the physical, biochemical causes of aging.
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First of all, "evolving" happens by selective pressures and over generations on a population level. But I see what you mean, you mean changing to accommodate to the environment. But here we are not talking about tanning to compensate for increased UV exposure, we are not even talking about changing to match our environment, we are talking about reducing an illness by evoking memories of the past by physical objects.

Unless this past environment was one that actually kills cancers cells (I don't know how the Big Lebowksi might do that) or perhaps reduces tumor growth I can't imagine any way how this can work.

What I can imagine is going on a time out, reducing stress and thus biological stress responses does have an influence on a tumor. I hope they are compensating for this effect. They should have a control group in a reduced stress environment (or something that mimics all evironmental variables of the back-in-time room but for the back-in-time aspect) perhaps with a bluray disc of Lucy.

Hey or perhaps dumbphones induce less stress. Perhaps you get better sleep in the 2003 environment, light/circadian rithm is known to influence cancer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_factors_for_breast_cancer#...

Et cetera et cetera, et cetera
I think this will produce lazier students. This will encourage student to expect instant answers to math problems rather than encourage them to learn to seek answers by understanding the questions, equations and formula.
Should be "based on the citations by members of OTHER faculties"...

Or... doesn't that happen nowadays ?

(everything else will just blow the system ... apparently)
I don't see anyone discussing that this is based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). NHANES is all self-reported data meaning its accuracy isn't great. It's a decent way of looking for potential research topics but is in no way definitive.

Any papers coming from NHANES data should be considered pre-research. Real data on this topic will come from properly controlled studies.
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THIS THIS THIS. Why is no company working on this? This really seems like it could already be here...just use the HOV lanes!
This is interesting to me, as it kind of hits home. I'm more introverted than extroverted, but I can be a true extrovert when I choose to be. I grew up with the introverted face, and had trouble with relationships (friendships, really, at that age). One day in high school, a girl that I liked told me that I should smile more. I took that advice to heart, and from that day on, I told myself that I would try to smile all-the-time.

Well, fast forward a couple of decades, and I can honestly say that that is the one piece of advice that has stuck with me all of these years. The results were instant and measurable. People, in general, treated me differently...better. My social awkwardness faded to but a memory. So much so, that I don't feel guilty doing introverted activities (which I do...a lot), because I know I don't have to be.
Wouldn't that depend on how you want to apply the results? For some things, absolute quantity might be the important measure.
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So as we know the older brain gets, the more things it learns. The more things it learns, the less "space" there is left to learn new things. The less "space" there is left, the more difficult it is to absorb new information and learn new concepts. In order to overcome that, brain must unlearn old things. Unlearning is not easy process and requires much more energy than simple learning in young age.

So in a way it is mindset, but not in a meaningful way.
Yes, the commuter railroads are already at capacity in the DC metro area. Simply increasing the old fashioned rail capacity by adding more tracks to the MARC trunk lines would provide far, far greater bang for the buck. See: http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/20426/marc-backs-aw...
US only? :(
I don't know, why he is downvoted. He actually makes valid points.

The internet and globalization as a whole open possibilities for less developed countries. At the same time, they are often exposing their markets to competition they simply cannot compete with at this point.

The common argument is, that these countries should open up, catch up in education and participate in the next wave of innovation (e.g. skip the web, go directly to mobile) or learn from the faults of the first movers (e.g. European cc-payments requiring pin).

But when we look at the country arguably profiting the most from globalization, China, we find that it is massively protecting its market by requiring joint ventures with local companies and blocking internet-based companies, which could circumvent these measurements.

These points do not mean, that taxing internet traffic is the right thing to do, it just means, that not all regulations are bad. You have to look carefully at each industry. In Germany taxis are strongly regulated. Drivers get special trainings, the cars have to be checked more often than regular cars, a taxi has to accept every passenger and so on. I support them fighting Uber, which ignores these regulations and is trying to build a monopoly by competing on price. And monopolies are bad for workers and in the end customers, even if Peter Thiel wants to sell a book.

Edit: His parent comment is now dead, but you can get the context out of nightcrackers answer.
Carl Malamud has been a big advocate for making not just case law [1], but public safety codes [2], tax records of non-profits [3] and other supposedly "free" information free and easy to access as well. Efforts to digitize documents that are only available in print format often at considerable expense through scanning [4] and he even had a (failed) KickStarter to make accessible safety codes of the world [5].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Malamud

[1] https://law.resource.org

[2] https://law.resource.org/pub/us/code/safety.html

[3] http://philanthropy.com/article/Open-Records-Activist-Shuts/...

[4] https://yeswescan.org

[5] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/publicresource/public-s...
If Amtrak is any indicicator, the US government does NOT know how to run a railroad. They are the last partner you would want on such a project.
Apparently. And, amazingly, a comparison by MIT professors that ranks MIT first.
Wouldn't super high speed make more sense over long distance? Could you not solve lots of the yield issues by optimizing express trains into the mix for commuter rail? So that you could reduce BWI-DC transit by 15 minutes perhaps, but really just add a few sections of secondary standard tracks?

$10B seems exhorbitant for a 40 mile stretch of track + trains etc.
Not really... it's just a "form" of the subjunctive... "Maglev train _could be_/_would be_ seen making ..." You can leave the would/could be out from a stylistic point of view imho, but you normally don't do that out of context (as it is unfortunately done here)....
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They can pay, they just don't.
I was only talking about in web development context but yes I know/use some languages you have listed. I do embedded system programming, also design hardware and do FPGA related stuff. :)
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This is just plain stupid. Stop upvoting this kind of links.

There are enough nonsensical ranking and index computed on meaningless quantity, we don't need more of it. I'm not even talking about the pragmatical aspect of why this specific ranking is dumb (quantity over quality, comparing department of different size in number of people without taking it into account, many very important conferences in theoretical CS are missing (POPL, PODS, CCS, …), there are also journals missing, etc.).

> Our method for ranking is very simple but robust.

Except it uses the ranks of conferences, which is computed based on more similar bullshit.

Moreover, what is the point of such a ranking?
Research about research. Always seems like the time would have been better spent on actual research.
I'm currently writing my (150 pages so far) doctoral thesis in LaTeX. The "flafter" package helps somewhat with the placement of floats, but generally if you put your float definitions where you refer to them it does the "most sensible" job. It is after all having to place floats at the top and bottom of the page only, or if necessary on a whole separate float-only page, while using no more than \topfraction of each page at the top, \bottomfraction of each page at the bottom, and ensuring there is at least \textfraction of each page left to text. The default values of these variables are a little too restrictive, so one of the first things I do is redefine them, which allows LaTeX to put the floats in more sensible positions.
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State vectors and linear transformations are by no means unique to quantum mechanics. A lot of dynamic systems can be described this way: robot arms, chemical plants, airplanes, even network dynamics.
What nonsense like this does is focus on a small aspect of overall human traits and then attempts to make generalizations to promote an ideological agenda.

Bias is a valuable evolutionary trait and judgement is a fact of life.

You get dealt a hand of cards when you are born. You may have an "introvert" face, but you might also have an above average IQ. "-isms" are cop outs that play into a victimization narrative that is then used to drive political agendas which ultimately are not beneficial to the supposed wrongs they attempt to remedy.

This is a limitless world, and don't let fluff like this rain on your parade. Get up, get out, and get doing. Enjoy the knocks along the way, and if you are inclined to feel the underdog, use it to prove 'em wrong.
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> not that we have secretaries anymore

Saving on them, or are they managers now ?
Actually some people are using javascript + node for embedded systems. But I only am interested in opinions related to web/phone development :)
"Facebook tells me _what they want me to know about_ what they're going to do with it,

FTFY
Most institutions rate articles by impact factor for purposes of determining tenure/promotion, which is derived from the journal, which in turn is derived from the number of citations (the idea is that if a paper got into journal X it will probably end up being cited roughly as often as other papers published in journal X), so the sum of the impact factors of the articles would be a reasonable compromise (along with an average per faculty member).
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> “Okay, our Customer Experience Associates normally begin work at 8 a.m. and wrap up the day around 8 p.m. They work five days per week, plus one rotating weekend shift. Is that okay?” She looked at me warily.

12 * 5 = 60 hours per week. That's illegal in the EU.

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

https://www.gov.uk/maximum-weekly-working-hours
This impresses me as someone chasing Federal funds and trying to PoC maglev in the US, not a solution to any real problem.

>'A maglev train may help ease traffic that has made roads in Maryland’s Montgomery County, which lies between Washington and Baltimore, the fourth-most-congested in the country, according to digital-mapping company TomTom NV. (TOM2) Washington ranks seventh.'

Not really.

Prince Georges, Anne Arundel and Howard lie between Baltimore and DC, hence the existing MARC lines running through them [1]. Any new lines would undoubtedly follow those paths.

It's not DC <-> Baltimore that's miserable it's Northern VA <-> North / East DC suburbs. Transit in the DC area is built around bringing people in and out of DC, not from suburb to suburb.

People who don't take MARC for the DC <-> Baltimore now aren't doing it for time, they're doing it because they don't want to ride the MARC, deal with the bottleneck of Union Station then ride two Metro trains and a bus to get to work in VA. Swapping MARC for Maglev won't change that, but it will cost a lot of money.

Improving the existing infrastructure and/or figuring out how to draw more business into DC proper would be a better use of any funds.

1: http://mta.maryland.gov/sites/default/files/MARCsystemmap.JP...
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I am not so sure. The US government subsidizes Amtrak [1], and if you want to start a new rail line that is probably exactly what you are looking for.

[1] to the tune of $1.4B last year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak#Public_funding
It's basically declaring operator precedence - saying "we're going to write things this way so we don't need so many parentheses". It's fairly analogous to writing sin^2 x for (sin x)^2, a notation which the intended audience is probably used to. (Although that notation creates its own trouble when you have sin^(-1) x ...)
As corny as "The Secret" is, this is exactly the same principle at work. Establishing the correct mindset is the fertile ground for achieving any purpose.
I agree with your overall opinion about humanity, and I am too familiar with credit reports to think they are perfect arbiters.

However, we have to ask what exactly we are wanting to trust when we meet people. Once we know what that is, then we can develop technology to receive the information earlier in the relationship. This already happens, just not in time to affect the first impression.

When we meet people, we don't know anything about them, so if we have the goal of removing bias from first encounters with people, we either have to train people assume nothing about them, which is foolish and probably impossible, or provide (hopefully unbiased) information that is valued more than what the person perceives to be the benefit of the bias.

(Again, I'm just speculating about this.)
even #javascript agrees to this.
To be honest, picking up anything JS related was easy for me. I love npm, I love grunt (actually gulp now) compared to what ruby brings to the table ...
Small typo: addictive. "Addicting" is a transitive verb. I'm addicting you to heroin.
> You really don't get that for free though, since you saved versions of everything you'd quickly exhaust the heap.

Why would you save versions of everything? That sounds like a pessimistic strategy that you would need in a stateful environment where anything can be destructively updated at any time, which doesn't apply in this case.

> , or build a programming model especially suited for it [1].

Sorry if I don't take the claim "especially suited for it" at face value, seeing as you are the co-author and you are criticizing something which seems to try to achieve the same thing in a different manner. Maybe that's unfair of me.
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Could someone explain the reference to Sherwin-Williams? It's a paint company, but how is that related to the Other Transaction Authority?
I can't seem to login via email.

It asks for my email, then it says "Do you want to create an account with this email ?", I press "Yes" then it asks for my password and whatever I type it's wrong. If I click recover password it says my account is not yet created.
I live with 3 people and unless someone is downloading a torrent there is no way netflix/hulu/youtube playing at once is going to cap 50Mb or 100Mb.
Looks like Snap Attack, which I've played on my Windows Phone and is good fun!

Did you write up anything about your experiences making it? Would be interested to hear.
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Oh, if it asks for your password than it's because that email is already registered. If password recovery is not working in this case, the it's definitely a bug. I'll look into it, but meanwhile can you maybe use another email address to signup?
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It is not obvious that Baltimore <-> DC is the right place to start, but I think the US needs more high speed rail, and if this is the gateway to that program then I support it. If the plan is anything other than starting here and then extending to NY and then Boston then it is useless.
on a news site i would rather be linked to an article about the process than a download page for the game. booooooooOOooOoOo (jk just sayin)
I'd agree 100% with you if the article was about dealing with immediate problems.
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It would be one thing to hear a person say colloquially "I could see Barack Obama doing stand up comedy" but quite another for a headline to read "Barack Obama seen doing stand up comedy"
Did they test her for Lyme disease? Did she have the active anti-bodies?
> Disclaimer: If you find the ranking in this website offensive, please ignore it. This data is not official at this point.

I, for one, found the data interesting. I didn't consider it to hold any meaning even before noticing the disclaimer, though.
That's easy--the answer to where all that $45,000,000 in venture capital funding went!
I already know of Meteor. its great. I like it more than Rails, or any other framework in the market. The question, though worded inappropriately, was that I notice everything related to JS.. what the fudge cookies is happening in the other languages?
Visualize a system that runs Microsoft Office and nothing else

So 95% of corportate desktops? (I guess if you include Outlook and IE in a wider definition of "Office")
I have a good friend who is a simulation engineer for integrated circuits (don't know his official job title, we work in different fields at different companies).

He has the exact same setup as you and I've never once heard him complain about it. It's really interesting because even though we both work at desks on computers and both do system design and programming, he is so much less in tune with trends in his field. He VNC's to his graphic intensive simulation program on his crappy Win 7 laptop and gets stuff done.

I complain if I can't run several VM's on my developer PC without noticing that they are there.
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> I gather your team wasn't Australian at all

No, all Americans. But from a wide variety of backgrounds.
I came here to comment on the deeply amusing spin of "more than half again the cost". SpaceX came in second on the evaluation process, and was awarded less money than first-place Boeing as a result. They're not somehow being thrifty.

(I'm a big SpaceX fan, I am just even more a fan of accurate reporting.)
There's a cause and effect loop here.

Windows is built to a large degree for median IT departments. They want to lock it down and give it to employees to use, but not manage.

Obviously this is anecdotal but, Mac users are usually more likely to go into system preferences and try to find out how to arrange their screens or add a printer. Windows users treat control panel as forbidden territory, which IT departments agree with. Installing and installing programs on Windows is more daunting than on OSX, Android, or iOS.

Basically, it's a UX problem. There is no real reason why a PC should not be manageable by a computer literate professional.
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Sherwin-Williams used a "cover the earth" phrase and illustration [0] in their advertising. Their paint covers everything. The Other Transactional Authority clause was used to "cover everything" not otherwise specified in the original legislation.

[0] http://daindunston.com/wp-content/uploads/cover-the-earth.jp...
Getting enough karma to downvote doesn't really mean that much, it just means you've been here long enough and maybe submitted a few articles that got on the front page (it's much easier to get karma by submitting articles).
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Definitely worth doing. I've noticed in some of my apps where i haven't had this as an option that people really drop off after downloading, but if people have the option to play without signing up they usually at least give it a try.
I really don't know. For some reason we are infatuated with ranks. Obviously they mean something -- but they don't mean everything. But I think to rely on them solely would be misguided.

A graduate student is looking for a good fit. For a graduate student picking a graduate school rank should be a factor but only in generating candidates for applications. Beyond that a wise student would investigate the department to see which is the best fit for him irrespective of the schools ranking. This is especially true if the graduate student knows the area of research he is going to commit to.
This was how I felt about NeXT computers, even after they were obsolete in pure hardware terms they were still YEARS ahead in software.
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Whatever it was, I think they fixed it.

On a similar note:

Falcon, Merlin, Kestrel, and Dragon: Not the Victorian virtues—Enterprise, Endeavor, Discovery—honored by the space shuttles they replace, nor competitor NASA’s classical Atlas, Orion, Apollo, and Saturn. SpaceX’s machines were made by people who read pulp fantasy novels as children, or the paperback science fiction of Musk’s childhood in Pretoria, South Africa

will do the same job but at more than half again the cost—some $4.2 billion.

This isn't English. Who writes like this?
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