skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> to call that "required by nature" and to welcome it is just vile.

Imagine, for a moment, that we have come up with a way to prevent aging and death tomorrow. How do you support the sudden 50% increase in population growth? Babies aren't going to stop being born. Old folks aren't going to stop consuming resources. Are you willing to give up your food to help feed the 56 million extra people alive every year? Are you willing to give up the right to have children so someone 100+ years old can continue to live and eat?

There's a lot wrong with the Torchwood "Miracle Day" miniseries, but it's worth watching the first five episodes to see one writer's interpretation of how we would handle it. It's perhaps a tad bit cynical, but it's also not unreasonable.

Until we have the ability to support exponential population growth (through the ability to populate the universe, or social controls on when or if you can have children), death is going to be a required part of life. You live, you die, you make space on this earth for the generations which follow. What's so vile about that?
I beg to differ. Brasilia was built on Modernist principles. It was very much inspired on the work of Le Corbusier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Corbusier). It has nothing to do with communism.
Elevator pitch: a social network for dead people. All interactions are created from a machine learning algorithm trained on your once-real-life social network data.

You guys in?
I see this being very useful for generating a rough draft for the changelog that you can then edit and elaborate on. I find that not all commits change public facing APIs, so it would still be necessary go go over it and remove internal changes.
I agree that we need to build a mass launcher. However, I don't think we need to build it on the Earth. I think we need to build it on an airplane.

Seriously, the limiting factor in how small you can make an orbital launch packet is atmospheric drag. The more atmospheric drag, the more mass to surface area ratio you need to reduce the losses to an acceptable level. The smaller you can make the orbital packet, the smaller you can make the mass launcher. The smaller the mass launcher, the smaller the capital expense. A small mass launcher also fits on a smaller airplane.

We already have plenty of airplanes capable of flying in the stratosphere which can mount a mass launcher of a few tons weight. If the goal is getting mass up there, it doesn't matter whether it is 1000 launches of 1 kg each, or 1 launch of 1000 kg. But 1000 launches of 1 kg each could be done with much less capital expense.

The whole reason we don't have a mass launcher is because it is perceived as too expensive. Sea-level, or even mountain-level mass launchers need to launch large packets by their nature. But a high-flying airplane could launch many smaller packets with a cost which is actually doable.
You're absolutely right and I appreciate the resource! I also think it's not the entire scope of the problem, because I'm getting the same performance reading the file and performing simple non-regex replaces on those with >10,000 lines (and syntax highlighting off).

I've checked the disk as well just to make sure it's not at fault. Sadly this machine is almost slower than my Intel Haswell MBP.

This may be an ignorant question, but as a full-stack web developer with moderate C knowledge (I've written real-time bidders and high-IO finance software but never a full GUI app), how would one go about effectively transitioning that knowledge into writing a text editor? I can look up the basic open source libs/bindings and cobble them together but I'm less knowledgeable about the proper way to go about a native UI (which it would have to be because the 'cool' technologies are simply slow).

Is the learning curve too steep for a 1yr timeline?
The Subtle Things
To give you a bit of perspective: in other industries, it's quite common that Assessment Center sessions last around 6-8 hours (however, there are breaks and lunch included) and it's not uncommon to see even 2-day assessments.

Is it fair? I'd say yes, if following 2 conditions are met:
1. The method (AC/task/exercise) is well designed to actually test the candidate's skills and his/her performance is properly observed, measured, analyzed and assessed. It's fair for the candidate, because the hiring decision is adequate.
2. After all this effort the candidate receives both a "thank you" and short feedback about his/her performance.

Unfortunately these conditions aren't met quite often and that's not fair.
Things like HHVM are frequently not suited for shared hosting environments

So what can be done to make things like HHVM suitable for shared hosting?

It's a huge market, and a difficult problem to solve.

I think the big question is: what is the cost/risk/reward benefit is for the hosting providers.

You need to be cheaper than buying more hardware, safe enough to install without breaking everything, and provide a significant improvement in e.g. the number of hosts per server.
> XSLT has died a gentle death

Maybe it is not because that XSLT is complex, but because XML has failed to become a language for the web. JSON has come to be the preferred choice.

Which brings me to JSON and complexity: The complexity of retrieving data has been paved over multiple times using libraries. This has encouraged people to skip XML and go directly to JSON. If retrieval of XML data, or better yet JSON data, were to become simpler, I think more people would structure their webpages to use these types of resources. In the end, it would be a victory for both open Web and open applications.

And that brings me to my last point: Dynamic elements. This web ain't succeeding without variable based dynamics. These pathways for dynamic behaviors have to be baked into browsers from the start. Then let JS abuse that dynamic just like JQuery abuses attributes, styles, and content.
Well that escalated quickly.

I was thinking more along the lines of not being too harsh on those with more 'traditional values'. Like our Muslim neighbours, or those who think women should stay at home, or maybe are uncomfortable with modern ideas of gender and sexuality.

Not sure I'd throw in paedophilia (since minors are unable to legally consent to sex with adults), or bestiality (animals definitely can't consent to that), or incest (if it results in a child it can have severe consequences for said child).

Regardless, while it's great that we now recognize people of other races are equal (at least nominally), we shouldn't be too smug when denouncing others who aren't as 'progressive' as we are (see all the propaganda regarding homosexuality in Russia - where it's actually legal; versus India where same sex relations are illegal).
I probably worry about this a bit too much, but broadly speaking i try very hard to de-gender my language where possible. E.g., i avoid saying "hey guys" and using 3rd person pronouns other than "they" when referring to undetermined people (such as "the user" and "they" in a technical manual). Therefore, no, i would not find it natural to say "jongens" to a mixed group of people. I used to have a boss in a dev team who always started his emails "Heren, ..." (== gentlemen) which irritated me no end. Apart from the fact that it sounds like a toilet designation (another pet peeve: why, in 2015, do we still have binary gendered public toilets?!) i found it incredibly exclusive language.

But indeed, perhaps this is outlier behaviour and others pay less attention. I suppose it's a tic i have because i'm in such a masculine-dominated field -- i try not to make it worse by talking as if i expect everyone to have XY chromosomes.

Disclaimer: i have a penis.
I'm currently new to this too and just doing some smaller experiments with F# but reasons for me would be:

- Powerful tooling with IDE, Debugger, Packet Managers, Build system
- Access to the whole .NET ecosystem
- Powerful concurrency and parallelism constructs
- relatively easy to reason about. If you don't know how to build something functionally you can still build things in a C#-like way because mutability and strict evaluation is there.
- I like the very concise and yet good to understand syntax. The type interference is great.
No, it's not rude. For me personally, I just think it's great that someone else was interested in the code. I would venture a guess that 95% of the ESL speakers I know just want to get better, and would love to be corrected.
It has 5 outstanding github issues.
If you're having difficulty understanding what all the fuss is about, try watching Gattaca.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
Everything is cyclical, including people filing suit or otherwise causing problems for those accused of being a copycat.
as much as i'd like another "don't be evil" "debate" gmail shouldn't work like that.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.ie/2013/12/images-now-showing.html

correct me if I'm wrong, but the tagging support page is for "creative pages" with doubleclick, not emails:

https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/1347585?hl=en

EDIT: ok well, turns out i'm wrong and here's how to turn off automatic image loading

http://now.avg.com/disable-gmail-automatic-image-load/
Gmail isn't doing this by default but Inbox does it -- that's was prevented me from switching.

I guess they "new take on mail" by google is not designed for end-users privacy.
HHVM is not a compiler that it used to be with Facebook, it compiles PHP and Hack into JIT bytecode now. PHP has opcache, which speeds it up quite nicely, and PHP7 has great performance improvements.

>PHP is legacy codebase used for simple CMS

Of course it is, honey...
> Lawyers are not so exceedingly stupid as to think feelings are copyrightable, and neither is the judge who issued the fines.

What about the jury? This was a jury case.
To that point, someone should consider the design effectiveness of road signage, just as much as someone should maybe design an "OPEN" sign that isn't "ugly" but also get's the message across, while also having potential for becoming iconic.
My thoughts exactly. It's ridiculous.
Estonia to create “data embassies” to protect its digital identity
Imaginary property rights strike again!
It's opensmtpd and my seven-line config took literally minutes to initially write back when I first did it years ago, with no prior experience.

It's required basically no maintenance at all from me. As for monitoring, I check my mail daily anyway and I will notice it if it stops flowing.

A few weeks ago I actually moved and took down my server. I took an old netbook and made it a new, temporary server. Again that took me literally minutes.

Thankfully smtp is a robust protocol so if something fails, you normally have a couple days to fix it before mail starts dropping.

But what do you do when you're using third-party email service and they decide to kick you out all of a sudden? Happened to me with Google. Happened to many other people as well, also with other providers.
Ha, good business model?
Growth/User Acquisition Manager
Crazy detailed maps of New York on things like unemployment and demographics
You will need to boycot all of Vox media since they are the ones who teamed up with BP.
Don't you need to buy the $4250 "Tech Package With Autopilot" to get this feature? It seems like that includes the various sensors for lane keeping and automatic cruise control. Or maybe every car includes the sensors, and you are just paying for the software?
+1 Javier Mascherano
This proposal is trying to take a common web design pattern, MVC, and make it part of the official spec. HTML is a _markup language_, it's ridiculous to use it as anything but a semantic language.

Here's my HTML6 proposal:
There’s a standard design pattern emerging via cascading style sheets, where content is styled directly via CSS. Everyone’s into it because the layout looks so much nicer.

Since this is so common now, can we implement this directly in the browsers via HTML so users can directly style their content without CSS? I propose adding a <font> tag, so people can style their fonts, a <blink> tag so things can blink, and a fun <marquee> tag so content can scroll.
I always thought XSLT has some SQL-like capabilities and I have always been angry that one can't simply pass a parameter to the interpreter via link. The idea being that menus could become active just by having links specify an item selected when they are clicked on and reload the same page. It's one little tiny thing (passing the parameter) that could make dynamic static pages.
NIST says poor network time could make IoT devices dangerous
The original article lists three community-driven apps which have already been built: Fanswell, Sofar, and Concerts In Your Home.

The sites were built by people with deep connections in the scene(s), and already drive a lot of this activity.
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In the case of Microsoft Exams (at least when I took them a few years ago), I had the sense that there was an "arms race". Questions were made more difficult and obscure than they needed to be, in order to drive pass rates down...when the real issue was braindumps and more blatant forms of cheating in some parts of the world. Which creates more demand for braindumps.

I wouldn't be surprised if college instructors start doing this as well-make exams tougher to compensate for cheating, rather than dealing with cheating head-on.
"Outstanding" isn't exactly the word I would choose...
They also ripped off Hamlet. People seem less annoyed by that though
Let us, the average intelligence, start building even better flat screens and HE systems so in the near future we can sit back and watch the battle between AI (robotics) and MI (modified intelligence).
> “We worry about people making changes without the knowledge of what those changes mean in terms of the overall genome,” Dr. Baltimore said. “I personally think we are just not smart enough — and won’t be for a very long time — to feel comfortable about the consequences of changing heredity, even in a single individual.”

Yet, we're suppose to trust that GMOs are safe for consumption?
That still seems to be the behaviour, so it still works for open tracking just not the additional meta data. Fantastic tool you've created by the way!
"If enough people adopt children and then encourage those children to adopt when they're older, it could easily outweigh genetic effects"

And that will only provide a more fertile ground for proliferation of a specific kind of genes, don't you think? (Of course, for that you must have to believe at least a little bit that genetic behavior is not entirely replaceable by parental education.) Currently, if having a harsh life as an abandoned child is something of a lesson to prevent a similar experience in one's offsprings (which are cared for), then through each adoption we're just preventing/affecting a natural homeostasis.
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A lot of people seem to be confused about the problem here, so I'll try to demonstrate your exampe with a very simple form to show the problem.

Let's say that you want to figure out the chance of the resurrection happening based on the evidence that a period book (the Bible) says it happens and a straighforward application of Bayes' Theorem. Let's temporarily ignore any uncertainty about when the Bible was actually written. I'm not actually trying to argue either of these cases here, so it's immaterial.

On the one hand, you could decide that the prior is 50% (we don't have any other evidence, and people come back from what at the time would be thought "dead" with some frequency in the modern world). You could sample the frequency of books purporting to be historical that mention resurrections (low) to get the background frequency of these books, and that if its central figure did rise from death, the Bible would almost certainly mention it. From this, you get a rather high probability that the resurrection occurred.

On the other hand, you could set a very low prior (because people don't seem to come back from death), sample the proportion of magical events in period literature (substantial) to get the background frequency, and agree that the Bible would mention a resurrection if it happened, and conclude a rather low probability.

The problem is the same as in the Drake equation: all of these probabilities are basically just guesses, as there is no good way to measure them in this case. The result is therefore based more on how you guess than on the math. Any framework of reasoning that is based on probability will have this problem when dealing with real world events.
You just can't expect the average user to go to such lengths. Password managers may not be perfect, but they are still an improvement over existing methods. This is incredibly useful when you're testing out a lot of online applications or apps that you may not ever use again - there's no way to have unique passwords for all of them without a password manager.
Well, Hamlet (like all of Shakespeare's works) is not copyrighted. A manga that had been out only a few years before The Lion King would certainly be.

But you make an excellent point: There's not really any originality left in the arts. It's all been done before.
And now for something completely different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_track_gauges

In other words, that's very similar to "1920x1080 is the natural screen size because it's most frequent." 1435 mm gauge becoming prevalent is not given by its inherent superiority, just a ex-post-facto observation.
you do, it's because the big companies who write e-mail clients that the bulk of the population use, the same companies also are involved with advertising. There's no big money behind building a good quality privacy enabling e-mail client, or browser.
the simplest (and also spartan) way to protect yourself is to set your email reader to not show pictures.
so you read your emails without pictures and then you explicitly allow pictures for those emails you trust (from family, friends, etc.)

"every action IS a reaction"
> I travel back and forth between Japan and the United States, mostly Tokyo and New York and a few other American cities, several times a year. The contrast is jarring. Arriving in the US can feel like rolling back a decade or more, returning to a time when information was scarce, infrastructure creaky, and basic services like ground transportation chaotic and unreliable.

When I visited Tokyo in 2008 I felt the same thing upon my return home. The transportation systems are efficient, punctual, and clean. People paid for their meals, bought snacks, and took the subway using their phone to pay for all of it. People were, with few exceptions, polite and helpful despite my boorish attempts to fit in.

Everything... it's so well thought out. You hand the store clerk your yen on a small tray. You can swipe your phone at a vending machine to get a quick bottle of water. You can walk from a bustling interstitial arcade into a quiet shrine. It seems like everything is meticulous and considered.

Even the seediest clubs in Roppongi or the dirtiest punk bars I could find still maintained the propriety and concern for others I found everywhere else. After one show the band passed around a bucket for some yen and we all sat down together and had food and drinks. One of the kids I came with made sure I got on the right train before the subway shut down. Even as a foreigner I could find people who were concerned about me as they were for everyone else.

Arriving back in Canada, where I'm from, was not what I had expected. The streets are haphazard and practical without a consideration for how it looks. People are louder. Traffic is thick. Litter abounds. Turnstiles, ticket booths, and grumpy ticket booth operators. Pushing... always the pushing. I had to wait a while before Street Fighter 4 would come across the Pacific so I could play it again... and 7 years for Apple to announce that you may eventually be able to buy a Coke with your phone in certain regions. Coming back to Canada felt like walking backwards in time.
Maybe communist urbanism was inspired by Modernism ?
One of HTML's largest flaws is speed. Can't we work on making the DOM faster?
What is MS?
I agree, I run Manajaro, which is an Arch spin off. It seems stripped down in the same way that Ubuntu was when it first started getting popular.
The barrier to entry simply isn't comparable. The technology to bypass DRM and copy protection has existed since the day of its invention. You've always had black-box analysis.

Amateur genetic engineering (so-called "biohacking") is in its very early infancy, and it's early to tell how accessible it might become.
Alpine will do this for you. It doesn't suck too badly.
I assume justifying text is to primarily maximise the amount of text on the paper to make a cheaper book. It shouldn't even exist on the web.
> Why? Surely we will come up with maintenance robots that will maintain the other ones, including other instances of the maintenance robot.

And who's job is it to make sure that these maintenance robots actually are doing their job?

We basically have 100% automated webpages, providing services and automatically updating themselves. (Puppet, Aptitude, etc. etc.). Even the process of buying new computers to hook into a webpage's processing system has been automated "through the cloud" with Heroku, Amazon Web, and OVH Servers.

And yet, you still require roughly one IT guy every 100 servers, to make sure that those servers are actually running. (+/- whatever, based on skill-level and maturity of the project)

I mean, the best-case scenario for a maintenance robot is something like Nagios, which will automatically check if various web services are still up and running.
Another good case why inheritance should simply not exist beyond some practical level.

You die, your live's work should become public domain, meaning, no one can use it and pervert it or change it or use it for profit, but it should not be controllable or some "estate", i.e., your parasitic children and dependents, start suing to extract even more undeserved, unearned, and unwarranted wealth.
A Fiesta ST for $22k would meet the "fun to drive" mark.
Bitcoin Mining Company SFARDS Pushes Dual Bitcoin and Scrypt ASIC Miner Chip
I listened to both before you did.

I'LL SEE YOU IN COURT, YOU COPYING SCUM.
If you've gotten to know the company somewhat (several interviews that went well), give them a counteroffer:

"I know how important it is to test my skills before hiring me, so I'd like to propose an even more in-depth assessment: I'll work for you as a contractor for two weeks. If your team likes my work, you can hire me as an employee."

I don't know if it would work, but if you really can't spare the time to do assessments, it's worth a shot.
"Sell aspirin, not vitamins"

Infrastructure tends to be on the vitamins side of that quote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sclerosis
Windows seems to have the same goal since Sinofsky had its helm and so far I'm not convinced that this goal makes much sense for an OS.