skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing.

> I had practiced my spiel for that a hundred times by then.

Mind sharing what that was?
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I kind of want to try this with someone from a gender I'm not sexually attracted to who is also not sexually attracted to my gender. I'm assuming we'd just end up closer friends.
The alternative might make sense as well, that continuous mathematics is incredibly difficult to implement digitally.

Fractions, tons of operators, rounding, irrationals, transcendentals, important constants, etc.

The comparisons are interesting because of the limits of computer accuracy.

In the end its probably a bit of both.
Absolutely! The Mysterious Island is gold. I loved it when I was a kid. Excellent read.

You can get it for free here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8993

Or a scanned copy with illustrations (also DRM free but you'll need to set up a google play account if you don't have one already) here:
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Jules_Verne_The_...
It's easy for the farmers to stay out of Monsanto's way - don't use Monsanto seeds, stick to the seeds they have used before Monsanto came about.

A law reserving proliferation of GM seeds to inventors is no different than law preserving copyright in software. How can one support the latter and oppose the former?
The rules I stated are (as I wrote) for myself, and others might follow different rules (like the one I suggested in my linked comment), but yes, using anecdotes from the Internet as sufficient reason to take drugs seems to me to be insane. (Not necessary clinically insane, mind you, just your garden-variety crazy people type of insanity.)

> [Do] you think all Marijuana users are insane?

The people who live where it is legal are certainly not insane (necessarily). The people who don’t might choose to place their trust in credible scientific institutions other than their local government or doctors, and those people are not necessarily insane either. However, if you choose to smoke weed for a reason like “all my friends are doing it” or “I read about how some other people claim to be doing it” then yes, that is slightly insane and idiotic.

> Why? Because you said so?

No, but because it would be obviously better to do what I wrote than to trust a too-small non-random (often self-selecting) sample of stories of unknown veracity.

> > Strawman.

> That seems very rude and uncalled for.

It was a strawman argument. I never called for avoiding caffeine or exercise just because these things affect people’s mood – I explicitly exempted all things which do not require a doctor’s prescription. To pretend I said otherwise and argue against it is a strawman argument.
> Anyone working in this space 20 years ago couldn’t possibly have known of their problems so every problem deserves a new solution.

It's worth noting that sometimes the reason for developing a new solution is to be free of the baggage that comes with all the failed attempts on the old infrastructure...

e.g. JSON-based solutions over the many attempts to use XML (XML is a capable base, but many find it unwieldy to say the least)
Good post. I feel like a lot of VCs like to have competing startups in their war chest. I am now constantly seeing well funded companies emerge within months of each other when there was no technical reason they couldn't exist years before. It's not like some 3rd party invented some game changing low level tech, a bunch of people independently had a critical insight on how to apply it, and also all decided to leverage it independently.

It is simply, "my competitor invested in X, I didn't get into the deal (or couldn't on my terms), I'm going to find something similar to X and invest in them or just launch it within my own network and fund it".
Not counting things like physical pain, there seems to be degradation in brain function as well. e.g. Scammers like targeting the elderly
I would just add that it is done from Russia and often that links redirect to Amazon referral ids,..
And this is even shorter : http://jsbin.com/redaqofoqo/1/edit?html,css,js,output
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Good clear explanation--your right totally different from what is happening on the dawn wall.

Here is a good article which goes a bit in to the most audacious free soloing link-up in Yosemite: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/sports/rock-climber-alex-h...
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/amazon.co.uk

Looks okay to me
What about an invulnerable no form factor with beyond-time communications.
a16z is their lead investor. Which presumptuously means there is definitely a selling price and Microsoft definitely has cash.
The challenges with progressive reduction
It says "a gift to all humans", but http://loveactualized.com/robots.txt does not appear to deny the gift to robots!
Forth has good affordances for compact solutions. Compactness is the is the single most important metric in robust solutions. Tractable, low inertia, retargetable and emulatable are all qualities that come with compactness.

One would do well I think to explore through old code bases and algorithms for stuff that ran well on those old systems. Because memory is plentiful doesn't mean we need to waste memory bandwidth or cache locality.
What I wanted to point out is that the complexity of the algorithm YOU choose is not a good basis to compare libraries on.
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Hats sounds good but then you have an extra battery to juggle, and if you make it useful by traveling with you, then the backup just self discharges.
It is hard to know if that is due to brain function, technological advancement, or social factors (like, say, loneliness.)
But also as an example of how fragmented the language becomes due to the splitting off of SRFI libraries instead of having a big but convenient ball of mud (CL).
At one period, there was a lot of interest in stack machines; IIRC, there was a BYTE issue that either covered it in many articles, or was dedicated to that topic. Can't remember the month and year.
what is that ?

I'd love to have that with modern hardware.
I too would like to live forever, but one problem I see is that if you just extend peoples physical age but their minds become frozen in time, then all progress stops. It is well known that as people age their neural plasticity degrades and they loose the ability to learn anything new. I have observed this with my Dad who is 84. If people lived to be 1000 but their neural plasticity was gone by 120, we would still have slavery, women would not be able to vote and we would still be riding around in horse and buggy. There has been a lot of speculation that progress in technology or society or both has slowed are stopped. I think if true, it is likely due to an aging population. In addition to slowing the physical aging process, there would need to also be a way to somehow maintain peoples brain function, including neural plasticity.
Good to see Peter Thiel on HN.
There's always BitBucket. The transition cost for moving from GitHub to a competitor is quite low and given how deeply socially oriented the GitHub user base is, if GitHub starts turning people off, the community can and will move very quickly. Look how fast Friendster and then MySpace died.
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To be completist add:

* the original iPod which used a Firewire port

* the original iPod shuffle which you plugged in like a USB flash drive

* 2nd gen iPod Shuffle which used a special 3.5 mm minijack docking station for charging

* 3rd-4th gen iPod Shuffle which used a 3.5 mm minijack to USB cable

Update: If you do include MagSafe, you might as well include the 3/32" sub-mini and Barrel plug variations for the really old Powerbooks and iBooks http://support.apple.com/kb/TA32393
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Some days ago, we only had 64kb main memory to squeeze our applications into ... that was also a great experience. The old times come back?? ;)
I've always wondered what are the implications of extending life span and curing certain diseases that kill millions every year. What happens when all the sudden everybody lives 20% longer and some of the major killers heart disease, cancer) aren't a problem. Things like over population, resources and such.
Google is definitely aware of this kind of abuse, and it's not too small to notice, too far into the long tail, etc.

The real problem here is that Analytics has that real-time view. If a spammer creates a test account and then tries to spam it, they can get real-time feedback on what works / what doesn't.

The solution is straightforward but not "easy": put the analytics frontend[1] on the same host that serves the rest of the application; use the same session auth and spam filtering that is already there.

[1] By "frontend" I mean the first step of the analytics data-gathering pipeline. And this part could be as simple as a new logging module that consumes log data in realtime, anonymizing it and aggregating it, then uploading it to one or more analytics services of your choice.

This solution sacrifices the ease-of-use that analytics currently enjoys. No more "just drop in this <script> tag."
> web developer

you can be a "web developer" without using js. the problem with js is that it can be abused. there can be very well made js, but I'm sure there's plenty of js that is just a waste of CPU cycle.
Tracking scope which allows you to tag targets, recommends how to take the shot and streams video live (as well as upload to youtube etc after the shot).

Looks to be one step away from allowing a remote operator to pull the trigger, which doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies.
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You mean like a nintendo DS or a Sony PSP.

A computer doesn't need to have bells and whistles to be functional.
I've seen this before on the Mac: especially in the PowerPC era, it used to be quite easy to accidentally craft OpenGL code that would trigger a bug in the GPU driver, resulting in either a GUI lockup or a kernel panic.

It's disappointing and worrying to see this happen on iOS. One of the original concerns against WebGL was that its direct mapping into OpenGL would enable exploits based on GPU driver bugs.
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Planning on launching a small SaaS service, and don't know what are the implications.
Also if I needed to create a company, would it hurt my chances of getting a full-time job?
Hence why business owners need to be educated that "all the traffic" is worthless if it's not making you money. Vanity metrics are called thus for a reason.

Disclosure: professional marketer and former FT SEO who is tired of people getting fed snake oil.
I always see anti-aging research as an expression of our inbuilt need for hope and significance (a desire to be known for eternity). It's far more philosophical than scientific. Many have concluded there is no meaningful eternity, and thus they seek to construct their own hope through anti-aging research.

So it's slightly ironic that the article mentions anti-aging research as needing to address a "root cause", when in reality there's a deeper spiritual need at work. And so the religion of science presses onward, simultaneously discarding all notions of spirituality while (quite obviously) answering the same fundamental philosophical questions and needs in it's own way.
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We already have remote drone operators "pulling the trigger" every day.
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Only he doesn't talk about Numerical Tower related features, but about how the numbers types are used.
You could put an H inside a circle, but a lot of people will think you're trying to be a hospital.

I'd suggest (λx.t), but that's not very anarchic, I guess.
"A person who went through the trouble of setting up analytics tracking is probably a person with just enough vanity to immediately check up who's referring to their site."

Wait, what? I'm pretty sure if you go to the majority of sites on the Internet you will find some sort of analytics tracking code, whether it's Omniture, GA, or another. They don't do this out of vanity - they do it because they want to know where traffic is coming from so that they can monetize it.

BTW, you have GA implemented on your site as well. Does that make you vain, or simply smarter than the average bear?
After spending 3months rewriting an huge module for our many websites, initially estimated for 3weeks at most, I can say that it's easy to make mistake but also incredibly good for the company.

- Mixing refactoring and new feature.

- Introducing new technology

- Changing behavior of old code that were not directly concerned by the rewrite

...

Many things that should have been done after that.
But, all I can say is if the company can handle this amount of work, it will always be a very good way to improve the quality and durability of the website.

Because if you simply rewrite code, there is a big chance that your company will assign to you, new task that are not related at all and you will never be able to introduce these feature.
Because the desire to conquer aging couldn't possibly be a simple preference for living over dying.
Professional Web Analyst here. My day job is working with metrics on web sites. I'll try and weigh in.

First, we can argue and pontificate and philosophize all we want, but ultimately there is no proof of the pudding except the tasting. This is a falsifiable hypothesis. It can be tested, so it should be tested.

That said... I can see two potential issues with this metric.

1. It's a ratio metric. Whenever you metric by taking two numbers and combining them into a single number (in this case, by division), you are losing information. You are saying that several very different scenarios are basically equivalent. You are saying that your current density of 25 story links in a 500KB app, is basically indistinguishable from 1 story link in a 20KB app, which is also the same as 500 story links in a 10MB app.

It also means that there are two ways to "improving" this metric. If you want to double the current density of 5% up to 10%, you have two options: One is trimming the fat from the app so it takes up half the space. The other is making your stories twice as long. Your metric will not distinguish between these two cases. I'm not sure that's a good thing. In particular, having stories twice as long has no impact whatsoever on the homepage.

2. It's a "means-to-an-end" metric. If this metric is meaningful at all, it's because of the relationship to content load times and how much extraneous junk is on your homepage. But... you can just measure load times and homepage click-through directly, and optimize for those. This provide additional value beyond what those metrics give you. If anything, it provides less value by over-focusing on just two things, which is only one part of content load time, and is only tangentially related to design bloat.

If you've already decided that content load times are unacceptable and you want to make them faster, this is a metric that you can look at and it will make an engineer say "huh" and give you an idea of how much room for improvement it is. You can use it as a benchmark, and compare to other apps to get an idea of whether your design can be streamlined. But setting this as a top-level metric and optimizing for it is just as likely to lead you astray as to have a meaningful impact. And if your content load time is already acceptable, I don't see the value in what this brings.

tl;dr It has use as a secondary metric, if you've already decided to slim down your page, to compare against other sites and give an idea of how much you can improve. As a top-line stat, improving this metric does not have a strong connection to improving your app.
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Until you cross-pollinate with Monsanto's seeds on accident, and they sue you for IP infringement.
In most industrialized countries, the population has actually been declining. Low survival rates of children in Middle Eastern and African states and the lack of easily accessible contraceptives (or cultural implications of using contraceptives) have led to a dramatic upshoot in population there. With more education and the eradication of disease, this won't be as big of a problem in the future as it currently is now.
Similar to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutilated_chessboard_problem
This is cute, but is there a way to actually create static binaries with the standard tooling and not jumping through hoops?

Hello World in Rust with tip of tree (as of yesterday) is a ~500K binary that depends on glibc and friends.

Switching from println!() to std::io...write_str() actually made it larger!
Isn't the lamp simply designed to contain all of the seven types of Tetris pieces?
Not sure if people are still here. I tried moving through this and it appears to be failing on the import... I am running a vagrant and get everything installed just fine.

I don't know how to invoke the script properly...

I've tried so many ways. This seems like it would give results... though it does nothing much.

python index_emails.py test.mbox

Any help or tips are appreciated! This has been a fun project so far. Stumbling at the end. Thanks!
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Watching some of my relatives get older, it's easy to see their cognitive decline since I've seen them in their prime; also see zw123456's comment.
Is it possible to make actual static binaries in rust? By default it compiles in the rust libraries, but depends on glibc and friends (and is not actually a static binary) -- at least with tip of tree rust from yesterday.
Of course, it's only a failing strategy if adopting that strategy causes everyone to adopt the same strategy, which is very unlikely for most people.
That's good to hear (and better data than my anecdotal evidence - I suspect I may live in a bubble of conference going JS devotees) - I stand corrected.
Thanks for the reply and original post. To be clear, my real objection is not with your post but with our (my) expectation that it's possible to gain decisive wisdom from post-hoc success stories. I knew better than to fall into this expectation and be disappointed, but I did anyway! It doesn't mean that accounts like yours aren't interesting and worthwhile.

I guess I knew that focussing on Quickbooks and lacking a timer would narrow my market from the start. But we're often told, narrow your focus, don't try to be all-things-to-all-people, do fewer things well, etc. Probably I needed to actively market from the start.

My guess is that time-to-market explains your initial lift, then a strong quality version 1.0 created a tail wind with good reviews, then you jumped on it and did all the right things. Kudos!
Anything other than your speculation to back up your belief in individuals neural plasticity having anything to do with the social advances you mention? Young people have not had a great record of voting. So those changes you are attributing to neural plasticity are likely brought about by those old frozen minds you mention, and less so the young plyable ones if you ask me. But everyone has a right to an opinion I suppose.
Attach them to CCTVs and let the Google decide who's been a bad boy.
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Don't forget to read the "The idea of using Life patterns as an emblem was semi-anticipated by some hackers in Argentina" part. I would say it was anticipated... it uses a still life instead of a moving pattern.

[1] http://swain.webframe.org/tshirts/conway_life_zoom.jpg
I set up syncthing, it's syncing now. I think this software will do exactly what I want. It's a standalone binary and runs as a standard user space app, keeping data synchronized between all the systems without the need to mount a new filesystem or do any advanced configuration.
To make my position on this issue clear, it won't be the end of the world if we lose the Lovecraft, and indeed, we are. I find the space issue more compelling than some sort of 'professionalism' claim though. Being a professional does not mean being boring.
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Exactly. The whole point of the Numerical Tower is in avoiding of such types, and using generic procedures and implicit coercion instead.
The Game of Life was first implemented on Go boards.
I find this paper on an approach for Haskell much more interesting: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/papers/LZ06b.pdf
Cite evidence? We're not talking about anything contentious, but a consistent body of research that has been accumulating for decades! Type "racial discrimination US" or "racial marginalization US" into Google Scholar and you'll get tens of thousands of papers with more evidence than you can read in a year. If you only dedicate a single weekend of your life into researching this, you'll see why what you said is exactly like that woman who told Richard Dawkins on TV, "but where are the fossils?" over and over, while he kept saying "but they're right there in the museum, why won't you go see them?", and she kept saying, "you don't have the fossils". Well, there's tons and tons and tons of evidence, right there on Google Scholar. And I throw ad hominems because you keep saying "I just want to understand", when clearly you have no desire to do that.
Google cache:

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> I hate slideshare with passion.

Same. I can't figure out why people trying to share their PDF slides use it, when any device more sophisticated than a flip-phone has a good built-in PDF reader.
> what percentage of them aren't satisfied with the myriad external battery cases and on-the-go-chargers available for smart phones.

Well, from the article, I'd say the answer is around 33%. Specifically, this was in the article:

> Meanwhile, consumers indicated that the new smartphone feature they were most excited about — picked by 33 percent of respondents — was "improved battery life."

Also...

> I challenge the assumption that the majority of people are asking for better batteries.

I don't think anyone said it's a majority. And this article isn't about an assumption, it's about a survey.
Instinct, caused by the fact that our ancestors with such a preference had a better chance of surviving and procreating than other animals without it.
This scares the hell out of me from a retirement planning perspective. If I outlive my savings, what then?
Is that really obvious? I think the checkerboard pattern only says something about the neighborhoods of the pieces and the amounts of tiles of each color used, not whether there exists is a rectangle configuration.
the german translation is quite off

Ihr Sehvermögen ist wichtig. Mit Vision können Sie ihre Augen überprüfen und trainieren.

Scannen Sie >>den<< QRCode mit dem Smartphone

>>Entfernen Sie sich << 4 Meter vom Bildschirm und schon sind Sie bereit, Ihren Sehtest zu starten.

(not quite sure about the last one, as the english translation is hard to understand as well)

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Save Punktezahl --> Punkte speichern

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I kind of like all the anachronistic elements in old sci-fi movies. It doesn't really feel like an error; it feels more like a stylistic choice. The chunky CRTs and grimy machinery gives the world character, and makes the world feel tangible. I'd take that over a sterile, Apple-eque vision of the future any day (in my fiction, at least).
The problem and its proof are mentioned in EWD 1036: On the cruelty of really teaching computing science. < http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EW... >