skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Living on a low percentage of income seems like a great strategy if you're optimizing for dying with the maximum amount of money in the bank.

I think many people in this thread need to consider if that really is the game they want to be playing. I'd think people would be better off maximizing their total happiness. There's research showing that having good memories from the past positively affects momentary happiness in the present [1]. With that in mind, it seems like spending money on great experiences now is a good idea, while excessive saving could be counter productive.

[1]: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/DUNN%20GILBERT%20&%20WILSON%...
Mayday is supporting candidates that promise to vote for campaign finance reform.

CounterPAC is pressuring candidates to run their races cleanly . We don't care about their legislative positions. Just how they run their race - which is immediately measurable and actionable.

Republicans have a hard time with their party leadership if they sign on for reform legislation. They are pretty free to run their race however they want, as long as they win.
Another conjecture to consider is individual perception of time could be based on new experiences. That is, when experiences are mostly new, time feels slower. When most experiences are old (i.e. routine), time feels faster.

This conjecture then tells one to go out and experience new things regularly!
it's C code compiled with emscripten to run in the browser.
CodeMirror is directly written in js.
In theory,anything written in c or c++ can run in the browser.

http://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/
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Excellent presentation. Of the leading type safe functional languages (Haskell, F#, and OCaml) I find F# to be far and away the most accessible in terms of syntax and application.

Writing Scala in my day job currently (which, for the most part, I quite enjoy) but can see jumping ship if Microsoft's move to Linux is successful. Being able to develop and deploy F# applications on Linux with full blown Type Providers and decent IDE support? Pretty compelling combo, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
When I saw the movie I immediately thought of Kim Stanley Robinson's work. I think this short may be heavily inspired by that.
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> There is no single social contract, but if there is, it very well has to be reviewed before we "fix" mortality.

Just like I said.

>any simulation more convenient and less dangerous than the exploration of the universe in person

We have been risking our lifes to explorer our world for millenniums. Why would it be different for space?
Very cool – and oddly relevant to me since as well as taking an interest in Rust recently, I'm also writing an Objective-C bridge for Julia (which I'll write about soon).

Like the languages themselves the bridges are polar opposites, of course – static and safe vs. flexible and interactive, etc. It's great to see it (and learn from it) being done on the other side of those tradeoffs.
My PhD thesis (U of Penn, cognitive neuroscience) is two of my 5 page journal articles, stapled together, with an introduction and conclusion added on mostly as an afterthought. I'm not sure why other schools don't do the same.
I would not say that no one is willing to do something.

I think that the preaching of sustainability does focus on the wrong problem, at least on the long run.

Seams that not many people want to spell out where on Earth lies its most imminent problem.

http://www.wrsc.org/sites/default/files/images/2011/populati...

http://prorev.com/808POPGROWTH.JPG

Luckily some projections show that the growth in those problematic areas my stabilize http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth
You mean, "never mind all those real-world examples, just look at this lovely theory!"
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As an avid Nethack player, it looks to me like the answer to the puzzle is to go around the purple worm. Angband players call it "pillar dancing."
Hi I'm the author of SwampDragon (I was rather surprised to see this on Hacker news today!).

I'm celebrating my daughters first birthday today so I have to keep it a bit short:

About the serializers:
You do need separate serializers from DRF (they are not the same package after all).

As someone pointed out on Github as well, this is depending on Redis 2.8 since it's using Redis pubsub, and I will add this to the documentation.

If you have any questions feel free to email me at: hagstedt at gmail.com.
I will try to compile all questions into an FAQ and put it on swampdragon.net.
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These activities displayed in the video do raise the question - who are these people? As it raises many ethics questions.

Who are these people who can afford this kind of luxurious off planet lifestyle, a cosmic tourism. As this does not seam to be a scientific mission.
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> This conjecture then tells one to go out and experience new things regularly!

Or find a way to experience routines as fresh and new every time.
Worked fine for me. Firefox, OSX.
> and usually make $1000 on a 50 hour on-call week (~30h of actual drive time). So that's about $20/hour.

Now subtract car payments, insurance, wear and tear, etc.

Here's an example of how this breaks down:

You work 215 hours per month on average (50 * 4.3 weeks) and make $4,300 revenue during that time (or $51,600/year).

- Subtract self-employment tax 15.3% - ~$7900

- Taxable income 37,650 - ~$5,300 in taxes so subtract that

- You put about 70k miles per year on your car assuming an average speed of about 45mph (30 hours * 45mph * 4.3 weeks * 12) - IRS says that's $.56 per mile - ~$39k or basically your entire car + a bit more in one year. This includes the cost of gas.

- The Prius is about a $23k car, financed completely at 3% for 5 years brings
you payments to about $400/mo or about $4,800/year

So 51,600 - 7,900 - 5,300 - 39,000 - 4,800 = -5,400 ouch

Most of your cost is in car wear and tear, so let's waive a magic wand and make that go away, it's a Toyota after all. But we can't get rid of gas costs, so let's substitute that in.

A prius gets about 51mpg in the city. It looks like I can get gas for about $2.80/gal in San Diego right now. You'll need about 1.4k gallons per year. Assuming gas prices stay the same, about $3.8k per year in gas. edit I see I'm estimating about half the gas pricing you are, so just double my figure here.

So 51,600 - 7,900 - 5,300 - 4,800 - 3,800 = $29,800 in take home pay

edit or $26k take home when using your gas figures which makes it an even $10/hr

At your self described work hours of 50hr/wk or 2600hr/year, that's $11.50/hr

I assume you wash your car and keep it clean because of passengers, so subtract that out also. I'm going to guess that your take-home pay ends up at around $10/hr if we assume your car takes no wear and tear of any sort driving 70,000 miles a year.

edit I'm not even counting commercial car insurance, which I'm sure you have, or state taxes, inspections, licensing costs, etc. or any other expenses.

edit Taxi insurance appears to run around $7-10k per year.

edit so let's use the new gas figures, you end up with about $21k take home when you subtract $7k of taxi insurance. Or about $8/hr.

Once you deduct state taxes, property taxes etc. I'm sure there's other expenses I'm missing, I have a feeling your take home pay is about on par with California minimum wage.
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> Another important point is that a lot of our problems here on Earth are entirely self-inflicted (e.g. inequality, pollution, global warming) and so they can't simply be fixed by throwing money at them: they need political transformation.

Yes, but so long as global warming is a threat then the notion of humanity expanding to the stars is a pipe-dream. If the planet becomes incapable of supporting advanced social structures -- or, worse, complex lifeforms whatsoever -- then no one is going to be going anywhere: there will be no one left to travel.
This is a serious breach of privacy, releasing user IPs like that.
It's not quite accurate to say it's like Django bolted to Tornado.

Tornado deals with the websockets, but everything else is Django.

You could easily add this to an existing Django project.
It's also using Django settings, etc.

You are right about the potential race conditions using the self publishing model, but you don't have to use the self publishing model though, it works just as well using the routers + serializers.
These machines were invented in Soviet union ca. 1930 and were in mass production until 1980, and only went into total disuse and were scrapped when perestroika began and brought smuggled used IBM XTs along with it. For many tasks, with the level of Soviet per hour tech workers pay and level of technology, they were more efficient than all Soviet pre-microprocessor digital computers and some early microprocessor-based ones. All thermal and mechanical simulations for construction engineering purposes were successfully ran on them.

As for the economic tasks i don't know, i don't think it could work the the soviet economy - where imbalances weren't necessarily cancelling themselves and were frequently kept with a purpose, or just stayed because there was no force motivated to fix. But logically, market economy resembles connected volumes with liquid of various level difference and hydraulic resistance and can be described with same equations, so in the West it probably worked very well.
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I used exenv to get new Elixir version, it's very useful for me.
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Would be more impressive to show the Earth inhabited by humans who finally figured out how not to destroy it. THAT is a real sci-fi, hardcore level. I guess no one is bold enough to tackle this type of visuals and narrative.

What does this video show? Dead worlds, dead rocks with adrenaline, pleasure seeking junkies. Why everyone is so excited about it? Is this a type of nihilistic, pointless existence amidst dead landscape hostile to life itself that excites you?
I feel whatever was built on that site was bound to be heavily criticized -- the original World Trade Center buildings certainly were, and they weren't subject to the emotional responsibility of 9/11. But for all the criticism of the new WTC, this documentary gave me a much greater appreciation of the new structure:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1586155/

Give it a watch when the Discovery channel re-airs it. They tend to show it each year around 9/11.
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This is a long rambling article without any clear point, except that the author doesn't personally care for the tower as much as he might have (if he designed it?). I was deeply skeptical of the "Freedom Tower" (everyone I know in NYC still refers to it by this ridiculous name) design before it was built, but as the thing has been built, it's actually grown on me. The inclined side panels look almost like two towers when the light hits them, reminiscent of the old towers, which I still miss as part of the skyline. It's not my favorite building in the New York skyline – that would be the Chrysler Building – but it's not bad.
> Experts say being exposed to at least one STD virus is virtually inevitable

If you are promiscuous of course, for those who don't the chance is almost cero.
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"everyone I know in NYC still refers to it by this ridiculous name"

Funny - Everyone I know in NYC refers to it as the World Trade Center.
The tone is far too authoritative given the narrow experience of the author. Reading an Googler's quickie blogpost investment guide isn't the path to financial independence. It's barely the bot-filled advice of /r/personalfinance with a better PageRank.

Microsoft pushed giving and 30 years later there are still people blindly pumping money into United Way. (Maybe not the best charity!) Google seems to have pushed their smart people into another half-baked set of assumptions.

I'm forcing myself NOT to get involved on this one (the solution to one person's narrow experience isn't another guy with different narrow experience ranting in the comments) but I will point out that Schwab Charitable (their DAF) has lower minimums and fees than Vanguard.

A lot of nerds spend more time researching a graphics card than a stock pick or charity. Like anything else, put the time in and you'll be rewarded over the long term.
Take it from a software engineer: learning code can be a nightmare
And if you don't want the full power of Vimperator, you can get that feature with It's All Text! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/its-all-text/
16 of 23 patterns have qualitatively simpler
implementation in Lisp or Dylan than in C++
for at least some uses of each pattern

Things like this are literally why I switched from Python to Racket almost immediately once I discovered the latter. So much time spent fighting an imperative language to do something that seemed like it should just be easier in the first place.
It wasn't so much IE in itself but the IE/Frontpage/ActiveX trinity they managed to make synonymous with enterprise for a while. It was a nasty time to work in the Internet space, especially for a web developer.

They did a lot of other strange things as well. I know Microsoft people showed up to at least one IETF working group pretending to be interested in doing standards work, only to return later having patented key points of the standard, saying they weren't interested anymore.

So IE was just a small part of that famous strategy, even if it was a central piece. But the bundling was never much of an issue unless you were a direct competitor. The only reason that's what people remember is the court case was widely reported in media at the time.
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In Australia there's a fixed amount below which donations may be anonymous. It means that if you want to donate more and can face the scrutiny, you can. If you don't want the scrutiny, you can still donate without being seen to.
There is but one relevant scientifically proven fact in the article (with no citation): "UCSF researchers have shown these viruses to be present on genital skin with no symptoms that might prompt diagnosis and treatment." Everything else relevant to the thesis is speculation and commentary.
Assuming your partner is also not promiscuous
It's not so bad as part of the skyline, but it is horrible from street level. I'm not sure there is much you can do when building a blast resistant base, but man it feels like a bunker. No stores. No windows. Few entrances. It makes that entire block dead.
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My calculations differ, though they are probably based on different locations than you used, which changes the numbers.

Median incomes are 75% higher in the high cost area, but housing costs are 200-400% higher, which, being a major expense for just about everyone, quickly erodes any gains you might make on the income side. Services, like internet connections, were also more expensive in the high cost area. Goods like iPhones are the same in both places, you are right, but is actually a larger portion of your disposable income because of the higher living costs.

The one place you might be able to make gains in the high cost area is if you struggle through paying those 400% higher housing costs with the intent of selling your home and moving to a low cost area later in life. Then you can ride that significant equity you have built, assuming the property maintains or increases in value.

That said, my preferred method is to live in a low cost area and work in a high cost area (telecommute).
Ask HN: "Math is hard!" - The limits of individiual mathematical ability
I got a head start in math because when I was young my parents signed me up for Kumon, the Japanese math tutoring service. In high school, I was definitely ahead of the vast majority of people.

However, Physics did not come naturally to me like other math classes. On the first test (speed/velocity), the teacher told me I got the highest grade out of all his students. It got progressively worse as the material got more difficult.
Combined with the fact that it was almost senior year, I almost failed a semester or two.

In college, I was absolutely awful with math proofs. Awful. Like I would stare at the sheet of paper and not even know where to start. I took one class involving them (inear algebra) and decided this was way too hard to continue my Math career. A really hard statistics class was similarly very hard (a regular stats class was quite easy.) Not sure if that was because the textbook and teacher were hard to understand.

I'm revisiting many things though. I did very poorly in high school for english and now I have writing clients on odesk. So it makes me think - what are my true abilities with math?

Math is partially IQ related. That cannot be denied.
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Yes. But notice that the original poster said to give this thing to health care workers first. I think that's a fairly reasonable position to take given that the confidence in the safety of the vaccine is high, and that even if the health care workers were given the vaccine, they should be following the same decontamination/personal protection protocols anyways (for person health reasons - no vaccine is 100% perfect and for public health reasons - it minimizes cross infection).

In addition, it is possible to do accelerated Phase 2/3 in Africa. This is also a compromise position. In this scheme, they would likely dispense a few thousand vaccines in a relatively highly developed, but still high risk area to aid in their ability to track efficacy. From the NIH FAQ on Ebola vaccines (http://www.niaid.nih.gov/news/QA/Pages/EbolaVaxResultsQA.asp...)

Given the encouraging results of the bivalent version of the NIAID/GSK experimental Ebola vaccine at the NIH Clinical Center, are there plans for Phase 2/3 clinical trials in West Africa?

NIAID is in active discussions with Liberian officials and other partners about next-stage vaccine testing in West Africa. The goal of these studies would be to test efficacy and safety of the NIAID/GSK vaccine compared to other Ebola vaccine candidates prior to wider vaccine distribution. Phase 2/3 clinical trials are designed to inform efficacy—whether or not the vaccine works—and provide additional critical safety data. Plans for such studies are dependent on additional safety and immunogenicity data derived from the currently ongoing clinical trials. Announcements about larger-scale testing will not be made until early 2015.

Keep in mind that is basically is impossible to do Phase 2 and 3 testing in North America given the fact that there basically isn't any Ebola there at all.
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I was curious about what was written, so I thought I would respond after a quick Google search.

I assume the losing your job part is referring to the Mozilla CEO news somewhat recently. I thought it didn't really need any research as it is posted about here often enough.

The maps part is described in this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/us/19prop8.html

Or with a little more opinion on this page:
http://sfist.com/2009/01/09/mash-up_map_of_google_maps_and_p...

(the second link has a link to the actual site with the map, but it doesn't load for me)
I guess that works but the term seems overly broad – WTC 3-7 are also part of the "World Trade Center". So what do you call that building specifically? WTC 1, I guess?
But money don't buy good memories. I have much better memories of camping with friends for near zero euros, than expensive hotels.
Most of these slides are about patterns that are provided for as functions by the language, or are otherwise obsoleted by the more powerful abstraction features of FP languages.
The writers of this presentation are very much aware of the smell that is patterns.
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I was just about to say this. In the last few years the only people I've heard call it the Freedom Tower are people who are NOT from NYC.
Can somebody explain me why a democracy allows for donations at all?
Donations will clearly skew the political landscape towards the people who have money to donate.
And those people are more likely to donate with an expected value. So they will try to skew the politics in their favour.

Why would it be bad to forbid any kind of political donation for established parties.
I see the need to fund a grow new parties, but established parties should get by with the money they receive from the government.
This was the first thing I tried. Lets see if I can find an unimplemented command. I likewise came up empty handed. Very cool stuff!
That's a good point. I've spent almost no time near the building base. Maybe that was what Kimmelman was getting at? His writing is so roundabout that it's not really clear what exactly he's complaining about.
That's not quite correct.

a) 24FPS are easily detected as flickering; our true flicker fusion frequency is found around 60-80Hz.

b) Perceptual time discretisation heavily depends on the modality and even the task in question. For motion extraction, this "limit" may be much lower or higher than for olfactory tasks or memory retrieval. Overall, it's really hard to put a time delta on neural processes -- after all, biological systems are more or less continuous.
I noticed the same thing. One difference I came up with is that you get to buy low, long before any of the professional traders get a chance.
I'll just leave this here: http://youtu.be/FbpIwT9nV3Y?t=7m7s
Schwab is also aggressively pricing their ETFs vs Vanguard, beating them in many cases. Not worth switching, but "Vanguard is Best" isn't the rule either.
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I don't have a child yet, but if I do I'd want him to be able to do basic algebra at around that age, let alone reading, which he or she would, obviously have to be at an adult level for. I like how you keep alive the illusion that a child could play at some point in their life; as if.
The photos are from a 3rd party add-on 737, from a company called PMDG:

http://precisionmanuals.com

They make extremely high detail planes, with incredibly in-depth simulations. Many real commercial pilots use this software to train (although they can't earn training hours with it).

To fly it correctly, it takes more than a few hours to learn.
It's unfortunate. They had a real opportunity and instead created a lifeless soulless building that stands in deep contrast to the subtle memorial next door or Calatrava's soaring transit hub. Too many sacrifices had to be made for this tower. The fortifications at the bottom (20 floors of concrete with a glass covering) are hideous and the removal of the decorative aspects to the spire make it look like a giant syringe.

Not to mention we really didn't need the downtown office space. The Financial District is already half the price of Midtown and firms who want a downtown presence are now looking to more exciting neighborhoods for young workers like Chelsea and the East Village.
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There is also an outline of each of the shots and images used on Erik's page. Very, very cool indeed!
Cool! I used to build Lego with my dad, but doing things with computers was mostly by myself. It would be really fun to just build what a child wants, without diluting the creativity with adult 'thinking'.
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