skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just had a radical thought (it seems radical to me anyway) -- many of the people I meet not only don't chafe at the laws, they even see them as limiting morality. They wish they enforced a better society. These people aren't activists for the most part -- they don't agitate for change -- but they would support it if it came along.

For example, they would support laws and initiatives that increase spending on education, spread wealth more fairly, allow freer mixing among countries, put stricter limits on violence & environmental degradation.

These are all things that would carry us further down the path that Pinker has observed that we are already following.

However, it's not all that radical in light of the thesis of "Better Angels" -- it must be part of what is propelling the human race in that direction. Do we have an instinct to want things to be better or something?

It creates social pressure for society to improve.
Same for me, but on Windows. Otherwise it's a pretty neat tech demo but is unfortunately rendered unplayable by this bug.
I was not being in the least sarcastic. It works better than the US does, however.
I'll concede almost everything you've said, especially regarding our knowledge of 'psychosomatic' diseases and pain.

However, I watched part of that video and the moment you hear "doctors said I would never walk again," your skepticism alarm should go off immediately.

There is a huge spectrum of spinal cord injury and some are reversible, some are irreversible and then there's a huge uncertain territory in between. Usually these cases are the result of miscommunication between a doctor and patient. Of course, it could be that their initial doctor was incorrect or incompetent... but I think miscommunication is a lot more common.
Watching how cells interact
If they haven't already started doing this, it seems it would be inevitable, to turn this into a full-fledged API for use in real-time communications, like WebRTC apps, etc...

I see that they have an API, but not sure how feasible it would be to use in real-time apps.
Google Will Launch Modular Cell Phone in Puerto Rico
I'm the Author. Yes, data in this sample is random or hard coded.
Why no full-screen?
>They get the municipal governments to sign exclusivity clauses and various other laws to keep competition out.

These contracts are signed under duress, then? Your representatives are free to not sign the contract.
Ex-Amazonian here, few things to consider. The following things are highly dependent on the team you are ending up working for though.

a, Amazon is frugal

Meaning that your workplace is looking like a grayscale picture of the surface of Mars. Chairs are pretty cheap, desks are wooden doors (just a gently reminder that our beloved CEO was poor once and he could not afford to have a nice office).

Amazon encourages employees to use their own equipment by not giving out nice work devices. When I started to work, I got a used laptop that was falling apart it had 2G of ram and slow hard drive. After few years it was upgraded to a non-SSD laptop with 4G of RAM. There was an internal thread about this, people were raging (rightfully though).

Amazon does not give you a credit card, regardless if you need to travel abroad. You also have a very tight budget that you can spend every year.

The salaries are laughable compare to other companies, their approach is that people are going to stay because they like the company not because their work is appreciated.

b, Amazon is a high risk low reward company

As a software engineer you are responsible for your code at the extent that if you are causing an outage (even a very small one) you might be excluded from promotions for a year and you have to explain it to a set of people how things went sideways and how you are going to prevent this situation in the future.

If you are doing good and all of your changes are great, you might even keep your job. Well, no promotions though, for that you need to befriend a set of people who are going to choose who gets promoted. Promotions don't really have anything to do with your performance, those mostly based on how good your manager is selling you to other managers.

I usually recommend Amazon as a CV value booster company, for senior engineers it does not have too much value, you can just work for Google or Microsoft (please do not troll me with anti-MS agenda) with similar recognition but way better salaries and work environment.
I like ethercalc.org an open source google like spreadsheet that puts spreadsheet data into an online database.
Seems like I should probably use this thread to plug my startup. We are building a web interface for simple 3D modeling from CT and MRI data (https://www.prevuemedical.com/).

Medical modeling software (e.g. Mimics by Materialise, Slicer) is mainly built for biomedical engineers, rather than radiologists. Our goal is to be Tinkercad to their Autocad. 3D Systems also offers Bespoke Modelling (http://www.3dsystems.com/ja/solutions/services/bespoke-model...) but their emphasis is on visually appealing color models rather than accurate tissue segmentation and anatomical reproduction.

We're really at a turning point for physical reproductions of anatomy. One-off cases are turning up all over the world for various surgical planning/training cases but it's not quite clear whether or not they improve outcomes. Some labs and hospitals are doing good work but we need large patient trials to see if physical models actually help reduce operating room time or recovery time. With positive findings hopefully we will see dedicated insurance reimbursements for surgical planning models. Maxillofacial applications are way ahead in this sense.

One thing that's interesting is that the FDA considers 3D printed anatomical models similar to hard copies of X-rays, and so they are not specifically regulated yet. I expect the regulations to become more onerous, though.
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Take my brother's family: two adults, three kids. The kids only use the shared computer for Minecraft. Everything else is done on phone or tablet.

Take my family: two adults. We have a computer each, but most of our "computing" is done on phone or tablet. I capture photos from my camera on my tablet, do some basic culling, then transfer to the desktop for archival.

I have my to-do list synched across all devices. I don't actually do much with it on the desktop: again, the desktop is for archival.

The only thing we really use the desktops for is playing EVE Online and being pur personal cloud.

If it wasn't for my distrust of cloud storage, I could get rid of the desktop and my addiction to MMOs.
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> or similar

Is this alternative method another SaaS with a different API and performance characteristics? That takes time as well, in addition to the vendor lock-in. BTW, stacking abstraction x infinity is what causes systems to be bloated, unreliable security risks. Time spent gaining a greater understand of components on layers below the level of the stack you're operating on is time well spent, you'll be a better developer for it.
I hope his next step is setting a goal for 1-5Gbps internet access to everyone in this country within 5-6 years based on this. Reward companies for building it to allow expansion and to non economical areas, which could become more economical with it.

Let's build this internet cornerstone for commerce like Eisenhower's interstate system. Everyone can build on a platform that puts us back in competition for internet bandwidth/throughput with the surpassing world. We do not want to be behind in the bandwidth race, maybe if we make it a bandwidth race or war we can make it happen.
Well anti-trust law are mostly applied on case by case basis. I believe the un-official term for judging is "workable competition". I don't know whether the ISP market passes that definition.
Wow. I really cannot understand how you see Joyent's actions as immature and embarrassing.

The request is/was/remains a relevant one. Language is important, it is after all the one of the few tools to describe percieved reality.
It's different to what's being suggested.

BT is private company and runs most of the infrastructure. That's not what is being proposed here.
the new google translate stuff is world lens. like, that is world lens code inside.
There's a number of silo conversions that have been done in the past, some with fantastic results:
http://www.silohome.com/
http://dornob.com/ultimate-underground-home-converted-nuclea...
http://www.gizmag.com/luxury-survival-condos/34861/

Can't help but think that maintenance of such a thing could be very challenging after a while.
What if I told you there are blackholes larger than our entire solar system?

"The diameter of the black hole's immense event horizon is on the order of 110 billion kilometres, 18 times the distance from the Sun to Pluto, and has the mass equivalent to that of two dwarf galaxies."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Cluster

http://youtu.be/QgNDao7m41M?t=2m40s
How much time you spent to do this project. And for what reason you did it? To solve some personal problem?

I really enjoyed it, mostly the world map. Once I was thinking in something similar, I was thinking in create a terminal software to monitor my small portfolio of stocks, and tell me about opportunities on the market. The reason to be on terminal was because I was looking for a more discreet interface running locally.
A tax-funded road built with the explicit the purpose of giving access to all three of these? Did the places exist there before the road, and if so, how did people get to them? Are the places located very close to each other or just coincidentally on the same road that stretches a long distance?
> computers are good at some things, humans are good at others

"You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you will tell me precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine that will do just that!"

-- J. von Neumann

Computers will continue to get better at human things as we continue to get better at understanding how human things work. Look at the recent advances in deep learning. This is using only the most crude approximation of human neurons we can identify and caption images with astounding results. Google currently claims that anything that can be done in 0.1 of a second by a human, they can do as well.

Fraud detection relies heavily on unsupervised learning, and for all of history up until the last few years state of the art unsupervised learning was usually SVD + clustering or some variation on that. The current state of the art, things like deep belief networks, are able to achieve markedly superior results.

Additionally this article seems to imply that they are collected labeled data from customers which should help tremendously in modeling fraud. If even if the labels are a small sample recent advances in semi-supervised learning using deep neural nets is even greater than the advances in unsupervised learning.

While I don't disagree that historically it has been wise to include a human element in fraud detection, I don't believe there is any reason to assume that trend will continue indefinitely into the future.
Occupy the Bookstore chrome extension being threatened with a lawsuit
Why is it unfair? Because unlike companies, governments¹ can function long-term even if they don't balance budgets.

¹Modulo obvious caveats.
For my personal story, I graduated high school in 2001 and wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do. I was good in Math and liked computers, so I was planning on going to a normal university and just finding something in those fields (I didn't have a major or a program in mind, I was just going to go in as "undecided").

However, because of the cost and my own reluctance to get student loans, I ended up enrolling in a community college with the intention of just doing some basic courses for cheaper before transferring. While taking your typical math, science, history, and english courses; I also took an elective called "Intro to Computer Art" or something like that. Mind you, I hadn't taken any art courses in high school at all - no music, drawing, painting, whatever; I only took the minimum requirements and then filled my extra spaces with advanced math, science, and computer science.

I enjoyed the elective and decided to take more in the same program ("Visual Communications"). I explored traditional design, web design, video editing, and 3d animation. At the end, I got my Associate degree in Graphic Design (having never had wanted to be a designer at any time before college). Of course, all the exploration meant I spent well more than 2 years there (I also took things like Astronomy, which I liked after I changed teachers).

From there, I found an internship through the dean of the program who forwarded me an email from a company looking for interns and, afterwards, found my first job in the field through someone I had taken a couple of classes with.

From there, I was able to learn development on the job and change jobs a number of times - each time for a better experience and generally better pay. From a Texas suburb, I've gone to Minneapolis, New York, and now the SF Bay area all based on what I initially learned from community college.

My case is a bit different than what the President is intending, as he seems to see it more for learning a specific skill (like a trade school) instead of exploring what it is you want to do.

I think this is fine, but I really believe that the best case for community college is that it's a great place to explore different programs if, like me, you're leaving high school with no idea what you want to do (as many people seem to do).
If I was under that kind of threat, why not buy a cottage in some remote country, get a dog, write books and go fishing all day? I mean life is probably not like hollywood where they can find you "wherever" and as long as you stay under the radar you should be pretty safe
Samsung may have a couple strategies

a) Korean companies have a long history of turning around public perception. Samsung, LG and Hyundai (to name 3 well known brands) were perceived as cheap junk makers not all that long ago. Now they're well considered brands.

b) Samsung may not be interested in keeping the Blackberry brand, but getting the patent portfolio and killing the rest off.

Samsung profits are way down, even as consumer happiness is up. I think this move is more likely #b to give them more competitive options.
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>you can still access customers and potentially put all that capital to work generating profits.

Not so much -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_integration#Oil_indust...
There are also various prohibitions about collusion. And that's a major problem with ISPs, i.e. even if there are several in the area they agree not to compete and hold prices high for example. I never saw anyone applying these laws to ISPs so far. Not sure why that is, may be government is too much in their pocket to actually apply existing law.
Could Wood Feed the World?
Censorship is on the rise in popularity. The most recent polls indicate that 51% of democrats and 33% of the nation overall is supportive of censorship, so in the absence of treating the first amendment as absolute, which simply does not happen, there could be no law put in place now that would not be equally superseded by the law that repeals it.

As such, there may as well not be any such laws in place, as they would only serve to supply false confidence.

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/10/02/poll-51-of-democrats-s...
Thanks for this information. I like your Medium article.

Radiologists strive to mitigate the inherent problem of incidentalomas by using evidence based guidelines and attempting to rigidly adhere to them... but all too often there are competing interests such as misinformed physicians and patients, fear of malpractice, ego or even pure stubbornness.
And Comcast would somehow like that better?
That's not what the intrinsic value argument is about. The "good for something" (as intrinsic value was put here) is the question if something is still useful if its use as a placeholder for value collapses.

If the price of rice collapses, I can still eat it. If the price of cars collapses I can still drive mine to work. If the price of web domains collapses, people can still use it to visit my web page.
If the price of Bitcoin collapses to zero, you can still do what with your coin?
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As I note, OpenReach is, despite a couple of name changes and a privatisation, functionally the old GPO. Except a connection now takes three weeks instead of six months.
I am not proposing getting rid of regulation. Perhaps you meant to reply to someone else.
You can't wait to hear back from the other exchange and see that the leg is available, "pure" arb teams in HFT typically quote on both products of a pair (e.g. cash vs futures FX), at favorable prices (e.g. I'll quote a bid at X on A if I can aggress at >= X/the implied price of X on B) and turn around and hit the other product as soon as they get filled. Sometimes they'll miss, so they're really running stat arb strategies, but that's the closest you'll get to pure arb in this space.
Looks like the author has since taken your advice although the thumbnails remain uncensored.
What part of "2.74 light years per day" seems low?
Assuming your break down to the day level is right, to expand, it means at warp 9 voyager is capable of covering a distance of 2.74 light years in 1 day. That means the distance that light could travel in 2.74 years, Voyager could cover in 1 day. So warp 9 = 2.74 x 365 x speed of light =~ 1000 times speed of light.
So warp 1 = speed of light.
warp 9 = 1000 times speed of light.
which does not seem 'low' to me.
I was under the impression that SF's electricity came from Hetch Hetchy and that PG&E was just a backup. Is that not the case?
Break up your methods
What should I monitor?
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I would be happy with either (particularly the first) but politically the chances of something like that, which almost certainly would require legislation -- and would without question require a Sherman act prosecution from a Justice Department with some actual spine -- are approximately nil.
this would cool to connect to newrelic type app analytics data
As an aside, no USA banks issue chip and PIN cards. The EMV-capable cards being rolled out are chip and sign cards. This usually doesn't matter but can cause issues at fully automated tills (the common example being issues when trying to purchase transit tickets).

Wikipedia's article on EMV has a section explaining the technical differences[0] between the card types.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV#Chip_and_PIN_vs._Chip_and_...
> All of those are going to need to have "automated truck" support as well

Do they?

The trucks don't need to automate 100% of tasks for initial implementation, the first ones will be driverless in-between cities (or driver-nap in-between cities) with manned fueling, loading docks, scales, etc.

This will require some changes, but I don't think it will be too much of an issue to move toward full-serve gasoline service in the interim.
I don't think it's unfair at all to ask a multi-billion dollar company that doesn't compete with anyone to compete with someone.

Comcast alone reported a $1,900,000,000 PROFIT in the first 3 months of 2014.

To paraphrase Sam Waterston: "What can you buy for $2 billion that you can't still buy for $1.2 billion?"
Because it isn't an improvement, much like how getting someone who spells it 'color' to spell the word 'colour' or vice-versa.
"a patent was filed in the U.S. by the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, titled “System and method for relativistic statistical securities trading”,"

We should all be thankful to that proud institution for taking decisive action to ensure another wasteful technology well never see the light of day.
No, if the price of domain names collapses tomorrow to zero dollars news.ycombinator.com would still point to this website. This is the intrinsic value.
SpaceXtasy: Elon Musk, Falcon 9, and Rocket Scientist/Occultist Jack Parsons
Great work! I would request a simple blink control, maybe for a DiskLED display.
Israeli newspaper edits women out from front page on Paris march
>i would actively celebrate a legitimate socialized health care system

Based on your other comment, it appears that neither of you know what socialism is.
That, or do everything with VMs and guests, like they did in the 1960s and 1970s assuming you were using IBM mainframes.
A ton of scientific research is done via government grants. Should we have no for-profit companies there too? No, that would be absurd.
CIA finds no wrongdoing in search of computers used by Senate investigators
BMW sounds alarm over tech companies seeking connected car data
For context, Siné had said a few years before, on the radio, just after a bomb against a Jewish restaurant, in substance, « I am an antisemit, and I am not afraid to say it [...] I want every Jew to live in fear, unless he's pro-Palestinian [...] Let them die! [...] They should be put to death. »

He later claimed to have been drunk.

Source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Sin%C3%A9#Radio_Carbone...
That's amazing. Major kudos to the Google Translate team if it really does work fully offline.
Obama wants Congress to increase prison sentences for hackers
I found a "how do I report a campaign I feel is fraudulent" FAQ within about 30 seconds. You can also contact their support team, and they say they'll get back to you within five minutes.

It sounds like you might have tried this in the early days, it set an impression, and haven't checked since.
This looks like a great opportunity for someone who is looking to get a gig for tech copywriting, which can be very lucrative.

Somebody who has experience writing persuasive and informative copy, and can do a PR, you could have yourself a good resume piece :)
Is this a Node-webkit runtime? Like, I install this, and all node-webkit projects can stop bundling NW with the releases?
Musk says Tesla won't show a profit until 2020
Square Wallet[0] used to implement something similar to what you're describing. It used your phone's GPS to register you as near/inside a store and merchants selected you based on a photo you provided. It was pulled in May[1] in favour of Square Order.

[0]: http://allthingsd.com/20120430/paying-with-squares-new-mobil...
[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/12/5709256/square-kills-squar...
I think the goal of a business should be to create a product o a service that people want and can use. To employ people and to have happy customers.

This money-money-money-andnothingbutmoney ideology just doesn't benefit anyone
Another useful one is to ask him to explain his reasoning.

If he can't justify his decisions, then he's probably using instinct which is unreliable in the case of rare diseases, or he doesn't know how to diagnose known diseases which means he's incompetent.

Some people are offended when you challenge them for reasons for their advice, but I think that's because they aren't confident in it themselves or feel superior. Doctors shouldn't be in either of those positions and should be willing to tell you how they came to their conclusions.