skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take it from someone who went to medical school: you'd be hard-pressed to find people with an anti-aging/anti-death stance among a random sample of medical professionals.

It's a social experiment you can actually do yourself: find an MD or med researcher who's easy to talk to and ask them about the subject. Chances are, they mirror the exact position laid out by fizixer. You might argue this is because they reflect the opinion of our population at large, but - anecdote alert - in personal conversations I found that medical professionals are in fact more likely to assert that death is natural and/or can't be opposed on religious grounds.

Similarly, regarding life extension, the majority opinion seems to be that this is literally evil since it would flood the industrialized nations with elderly and sick people. Yes, that means they can't wrap their heads around what life extension actually stands for (which is the opposite of what they claim).

That said, hueving is absolutely correct: judge an argument by its merits, not by the credentials of the person putting it forth.
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http://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.html
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They are all uppercase so if you calculate that shift on every keystroke it's actually more :-) Or at least the same with array for example.

EACH has more keystrokes than each.
Putting numbers on something doesn't guarantee correctness but it means there are fewer ways you can cheat. See e.g. http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/02/if-its-worth-doing-its-...
"Page align everything" by convention is in fact a form of optimization without profiling. TFA explains in detail why this is yet another bad idea, perhaps you read something in my comment I did not write?
Very much the same thing happens with Bayesian probabilities, with their notorious problems of reference class and prior. Witness the theologians who claim Bayes's Theory proves the resurrection, or the competing group who claim that BT proves Jesus didn't exist at all. When theologians start using your math, you know it is well tuned for GIGO.
Yes, you can! Here's the link:

http://curl.haxx.se/donation.html
>Europe is heavily subsidized by American security blanket.

LOL. There's no "security blanket" and no real security threats. The US and Europe are bigger security threats to the rest of the world than the inverse. You have to believe tons of propaganda to believe there's actually a danger to Western Europe or the US from outside. That's basically BS to justify control of key natural resources, trade routes, etc regions, like Iraq and the like.

The basic reason Europe doesn't say "fuck you" to the US is that for one, European and US elites are mostly working together, and second the US is a 100.000 pound gorilla, where Western European countries, post 1940 are not what they used to be. If France or the UK were the empires they were in the colonial times you'd see much more tension with the US to pursue their particular interests. But as it is, they are toothless, and it's an US world they have to live in.
one man's defect is another's feature. the old bug vs. feature debate, applies here. maybe my thinking has been horribly warped by over exposure to computing.
Amazon KDP Select PPC advertising could be a game-changer for self-publishers
why not

lynx -head -dump http://httpbin.org

Your version dumps the body as well, which is hard to parse if you just need the headers.

On another note: Thanks for curl - it's always high up in my charts somehow. Right now #2 in

history 0 | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r | head -n 20
It is an outstanding idea.

Do you know the best thing about having a kid in your 50ies?

You don't have to worry about college costs since you will be dead....
Entropy-scaling search of massive biological data
> Bans on anything are rarely helpful.

ban on theft seems to be working out pretty good here, thanks.
That's not true for subpoenas. In some cases a warrant could result in that happening, but that's a smaller proportion.

You're subject to the same risk in a commercial office or colo, btw.
A second minor planet may possess Saturn-like rings
Feel free to dismiss what you already know, I am sure the world would be a better place if everyone was as wise as you.
Understanding Collisions and Physics with Babylon.js and Oimo.js
The Return to Medievalism
Harder to find and more worthless
Somewhere in the past few months I read a blog post where the author showed how even the same code, compiled and executed on the same machine, could show significantly different performance between compiles. Does anyone have a reference to that post?
That's pretty much my own test for a Web based API - if I can drive it from the command line using curl then great, if I can't then it's broken.
Everyone building a different app is a good idea depending on how far along they are. But early on I would have them make the same or a similar app.
There's a community-driven app waiting to be built here.
Putin a threat to Europe? Americans make fun of Fox News, but concerning world affairs, their other sources of information, up to the New York Times, are not that better quality wise.

This is the same BS cold-war narratives in order to justify pressure on Russia, as if Russia will attempt to take over Europe or something, which is laughable. At least in the cold war era USSR was indeed more powerful, and had control over Eastern Europe.

The whole game is about replacing Russian leadership with some friendly Yeltsin like lackey figure, so foreign powers can pillage on Russian natural resources, contracts etc. They could not give a rats arse about "human rights" and the like, they just want to create the same devastation they created elsewhere already.
Sure. Use this:

email: demo@feedbunch.com

password: feedbunch-demo
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Its sometimes amazing when I see other indian student ( being from south asia myself ) outsource their report writing back home from university in england.

Sometimes I sit in lectures and the the person besides me have 5+ years experience working in IT with a bachelors from India competing with 18-19 year old people.
A lifetime of maintenance. Not in terms of hours, but it's something that requires monitoring. Something that will fail at inconvenient times. Something that requires security updates.

And if that's sendmail smtpd, it's not "a few minutes" to configure if you're unfamiliar with it.
Fear of death is a product of the human mind. Animals, for instance, have no idea that they will one day die. Even when an animal is under attack, it will have fear, but not of death.

Now, death itself, is, in a way, also a product of the human mind. For we are, on a fundamental level, all the same creature; it just happens that there are no neuronic connections between our brains, so it appears to us that we are different creatures, but we are not. So in effect, death does not exist in the way that most people envision it.
It is called DNS in German, with the S standing for "Säure" (acid).
If you start talking about co-located or self hosted services, the mitigation strategies are very different.

Assuming you can find yourself a transit provider that supports BGP flowspec updates (many don't, sadly), you can do this fairly cheaply. You'd obviously want some level of support from a network tech that knew what they were doing, but it's not insurmountable.
There's a bunch of other options available too.

This sort of thing is one of the downwsides of having your infrastructure managed by someone else. If things go wrong and your provider doesn't feel incentivised enough to help you out, there's a lot less you can do about it, other than just pay whatever sum they demand.
Yeah, that quote shows much understanding of world politics, not to mention a non-fascist attitude...
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HippyVM goes to Y Combinator and fails
It's also used internally in apt-fast[1] and speeds up the process by an order of magnitude for me.

[1] https://github.com/ilikenwf/apt-fast
Case in point of shallow analysis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9236149
Might be better than what I'm currently using.

The `git changelog` command from the git-extras package is also quite useful. It just takes the git log messages from the git history until the last tag and updates the `{History,Changelog}.md`. https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/bin/git-changel...
HippyVM is a PHP interpreter build on the RPython toolchain (the basis of PyPy)

previous discussions of HippyVM:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7860492 (a year ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4241921 (about first announcement, 3 years ago)
I think they mainly use the Soyuz to maintain the altitude. If you point the engines so that you apply the force as close as possible to the center of mass, you won't get much rotation.
I don't think I could bring myself to be a "Bright" for that reason (see the-brights.net)...

Vague counterpoint -- this is an ebook collecting essays from lesswrong.com, which is a bit more subtle as names go.
Introducing git-test
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Ruby doesn't not fit in my toolset because the available implementations neither deliver the performance our customers care about, nor suits itself for the types of applications we usually are asked to deliver.
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Alongside Julia, most likely.
I really appreciate the attention to detail in every little thing including the README. Very inspiring.

This is a serious question for HN: Is it considered rude to make pull requests to fix grammar? The English is great, but is made more apparent in some locations (such as headers in the README) that it is a second language, but the first thing I thought to myself was "that'd be rude".
"We can't get at Lois Lerner's email"

That turned out to be a flat lie. Recently, when the appropriate investigators went to the people who maintain the backups, they found that no one had ever asked them for the emails, and they were available. Supposedly, a criminal investigation is underway.
I don't understand why a changelog is necessary nowadays. Surely all the benefits that the author addresses here could be dynamic features of Github, Gitlab, etc?

He does answer the FAQ "I already use GitHub Releases. Why do I need this?" but his answer doesn't really address the point that this comes down to missing functionality in such tooling and should be fixed there, rather than in a static file generator.
That Eliezer Yudkowsky is a pretty smart guy. Against all prior expectations (lol), I am now reading Harry Potter fan fiction and enjoying it.[1] The LessWrong sequences are poignant and concise and pushed me down the road of rational thought.

I look forward to getting some of these books on my shelf.

[1] http://hpmor.com/
Cisco Shipping Equipment to Fake Addresses to Foil NSA Interception
Every perfect plan that omits a pony is missing something.

That something is clearly a pony.
Working in a Bitcoin company
IMHO the real problem here since a long time is that exams have been demonstrated to be flawed. You can pass an exam and have no idea on the subject. The whole system is flawed, we need a new education system.
You make a good point, although you phrase it very provocatively. Genetics can be a big deal, for many reasons. At the basic level, the desire to have children is a desire to promulgate one's genes.

I agree with you in that I don't care, myself; but I don't think it's fair to judge the people who do care.
Hoe en wanneer je gazon bemesten?
Sigh. Unleash the troll.
+1

Out of curiosity, just a quick question (disclaimer: it's been a while since I've been doing any PHP - I think it was 5.3)...

Although the language had some OO capabilities, I wouldn't have defined PHP as an OO language but more of a procedural/imperative language.

Has it changed lately? I mean, are there new libraries, frameworks and so that are more OO?

Thanks :)
I work at NASA. I do have a pretty high level of autonomy in my work (with room to experiment with new technologies and processes), but it's a very hit-or-miss thing for each of the programs and projects. I know many colleagues who aren't as lucky.
heaven forbid, receive some spam

It's never "some" spam. On my own mail domain, I get slightly more spam than wanted mail after spam filtering. If I didn't filter it would be tens or hundreds of spam items to actual mail.

The notifications question: well, in some ways people have moved to IM because it offers lower latency than email, generally better antispam, and usable notifications. Of course this is because all the IM solutions are centralized and can ban abusers more effectively.

I've only ever encountered one truly "militant" person against spam, and he refuses to accept mail from gmail because of NSA surveillance. Everyone else wants to avoid rejecting legitimate mail as much as possible while keeping email usable at all.

Lack of feasible antispam mechanisms is one of the things responsible for the decline of USENET.
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Do you have syntax highlighting on? I've seen huge speed-ups with large files when the editor doesn't have to try parse & highlight everything.

I agree that its annoying though. I've started writing my own text editor, and aim to solve this problem. Not quite at that point yet, however! https://github.com/gchp/iota

/shameless plug
multiple connection/source downloads is the most significant feature. Great program.
Thanks!

looks very sleek, the only thing that would be a deal-breaker for me are keyboard shortcuts for navigation (or maybe I just didn't figure them out?)
It's a great and well written book already. I'm not sure how can you benefit from annotating it any further.
It's important to accept that some books are aimed at a certain level and for people not quite there yet better alternatives exist [1]. There are also some topics that a book needs to just mention and not go into much details, because for a beginner the exact internals of TCP are not useful anyway.

[1] http://jsbooks.revolunet.com/
The Most Unusual Transport Tunnels
Nope. I've come to realize that even "smart-content" is nothing but pointless entertainment. This is after five years of consuming everything to become "really smart".

It's only in the rare case that HN, Reddit or Medium provides anything of value.
Are solar array almost like a film? I thought they sort of folded but in the animation they look like they can almost roll them up (I know it's just an animation, but it left me wondering).
A Clever Way to Tell Which of Your Emails Are Being Tracked
>death... It's a stupid, terrible, senseless thing.

And what is life then? Is it rational, great, makes sense?

I do agree with you that viewing death as 'natural' is part of a questionable ideology about human nature, a kind of "circle of life" viewpoint that doesn't hold up to scrutiny. People make naive leaps when they say "here is our nature as told by biology, evolution, and evolutionary psychology; so we as humans should now construct identifications and take normative prescriptions based on it, which will instruct us how to relate to ourselves and the world." One could point out the glaring gaps between these two realms... I think that evo-psych reductionism, while in vogue, tends to suffer from oversimplification.
They think that a woman making a non-traditional[1] choice is anti-feminist? They think that woman should fall in line and do what is expected of her (out of ideology)? How wonderfully ironic.

[1] staying at home might as well be the new non-traditional choice. Feminism is now the old guard.
> Any and all business can be considered monopolistic under antitrust law.

That's not even remotely true.

> No business can know whether they have committed a crime or not

That's not even remotely true. There are plenty of factors that characterize 100% of businesses not investigated (much less, penalized) for their alleged anti-competitive practices. It is very possible to determine whether a business carries any risk of investigation.

> For the vagueness of the law results from the impossibility of laying down a cogent definition of monopoly on the market.

Again, you just aren't paying any attention. Regulatory capture has indeed made it far more challenging to bring an effective action, as well as de-fanging of antitrust regulation that served our parents' generation pretty well. But it's not actually difficult to use existing law to differentiate Google (natural monopoly) from cartel monopoly maintenance behaviors.
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The theory is right though, it's the people taking the exams that do it wrong - 'cramming' before an exam, cheating, pretty much doing everything to avoid actually understanding the subject.
I didn't know Capgemini is doing much outsourcing in India.

A lecturer at my university is by Capgemini.
Do you have any more good stories?
The old method mailed them how many times a song was played and total revenue for that song. Therefore it was easy to see the rates. With what you are describing they would only see average rate if you mail them the same sheet. It is not the same.
The link to the AUR package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/one-context/
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Uh huh. Like what?
Definitely PHP community grown a bit in areas of good design like DDD, BDD, SOLID,...

There is a lot of interesting project utilizing this power.
The best place to start is this link: https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php
But why are they telling at all?
They should keep this a secret.

Unless it's just a PR trick to soothe concerned customers.
If it required medication, surgery or the use of an aid (like glasses) it's clearly not a feature.

I've had to wear glasses since I was 4 and would have been very happy if this would have been fixed before being born.

But I agree not everything is so clear cut.
Just my opinion, but I don't think it would be rude. Even thought I KNOW it's not really relevant, I've caught myself trusting some projects less if the Readme isn't well written.
It seems to be done mostly by some students from Buenos Aires. I wouldn't be surprised if they decided what language to use.
I use wget for plain, old regular downloads a lot. If I need to save a file to a specific place (e.g. datasheets to a doc/ directory in my project) and I have a terminal already open there (which I usually do), doing wget and middle-click is far more convenient than dealing with the browsers' "Save to..." dialog. Especially ever since they started considering a sane download manager to be one of those confusing features that users totally don't want.
Microsoft has repeatedly shown to have lobbyists working to cause these newsworthy investigations, but they have almost entirely fizzled, because they are little but paid-for press events for Microsoft.

Google was born into Microsoft's monopoly era. They have executed their monopoly in a profoundly different way. They don't have to commit anti-competitive acts to maintain their monopoly.

This is exactly the kind of monopoly we should want.
so...iframes?
Well if they do test this on humans, and if something goes wrong - they can easily fix it.
Just apply a wetware update. Maybe we can even deploy wetware updates wirelessly soon.
Just think of the possibilities. "Have you installed the Starbucks(tm) Wetware upgrade that makes you able to digest our latest drink, yet ?"
This is a collection of Yudkowsky's blog posts on LessWrong, and it's making the rounds now because it forms the basis for most of Harry's rationalist insights in the extremely entertaining and recently finished Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. (The last chapter of HPMoR went up on Ultimate Pi Day - 3/14/15 - last week.) I picked it up on the advice of some friends, and while the editing is less than perfect, it is overall an impressively well-organized and cross-linked treatise on how to reason.

At the heart of the book is the assertion that rationality is not about justifying why we are right, but thinking how we might be wrong, and paying careful attention to any evidence that puzzles us or could convince us to change our minds. The resulting philosophy is a combination of the falsification principle and the scientific method, applied to your own character. Highly recommended.
why anyone works for a government which openly tortures is confusing to me. Where do people draw the line, is it at genocide?
That's great advice! Thank you.
Stallman is becoming quite increasingly peculiar. Not really interested in his talks. His software was great but his ideology (and generally that of FSF) is probably a kind of out of touch with the reality.
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There seem like lots of other options that aren't so invasive. Better childcare, flexible/part time working hours, decent maternity/paternity leave, not expecting your employees to dedicate their entire existence to the Company.
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/1895exam.asp is relevant. Anything that is memorization based (which a lot of that test is), that you haven't studied recently will be difficult.

I can recall, in the 7th grade, struggling for a couple nights to be able to identify all of the european and Mediterranean countries for an exam. It took a couple hard nights of cramming, but by the time the exam came along, it was a walk in the park.

But ask me today to place Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Albania on a map - and I'd be at a loss.
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I was hoping to see the famous story of path dependency that traces the dimensions of shuttles back through the history of rail gauges back to Roman chariots and the width of two horses
http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
Well in Brazil we do have mandatory voting and our political situation is one of the worst in the world.. Everybody here is trying the opposite - to make voting not mandatory.

The population does not feel represented by the politicians, yet we have to choose one of them every election. Buying votes /manipulating electors in this scenario looks really easy..
That sort of thing happens all the time on stackoverflow, where most of the users aren't native English speakers. Go for it!
Yeah, middle of last year.
Establishing causality eventually gets one into theory and mythology of original creation. Amusing, indeed!
Keyboard shortcuts are in the roadmap, but not yet implemented.

It's an often requested feature, though, so I'll prioritize it :)
In this case, you need to propose something better in order to be taken seriously. Even companies like Coursera still use exams and quizzes heavily, presumably because they couldn't come up with anything better.

The goal is to test whether someone has learned something. The most obvious way is to ask them a series of questions to confirm that they have learned it.

There are some other obvious alternatives, like having them do a project that would require having the knowledge you wanted them to learn, but those methods don't scale and are just as, if not more, vulnerable to cheating (it is common in Indian universities to hire someone to do your capstone project for you).
> I don't understand why a changelog is necessary nowadays. Surely all the benefits that the author addresses here could be dynamic features of Github, Gitlab, etc?

Personally, I wouldn't want to go to Github every time I download a new version of a library. Text files are fine.
Haskellizing C++ template metaprogramming
It's addictive though.