skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair question. Ok, so let's take the following statement:

true && true === true

I would posit there's no meaningful, or reasonable way you can attach some human emotion to the above statement. And it is true whether or not humans exist.

Similar with events that occur on earth. If humans weren't around to experience a mass extinction there would be nothing "pessimistic" or "doomsday" about it. It would simply be an event that occurred in the history of planet earth.

Now let's consider scientific studies. Imagine the following statement:

We have done a large scale study on the number of
species on earth. We identified X total species in 2003
and we identified X-1000 total species in 2004. Every
year since this date we have identified fewer and fewer
total number of species in this study.

There is nothing inherently "pessimistic" or "doomsday" about the above statement. It is simply a statement of a scientific study. When someone reads it, however, perhaps they infer or speculate on what this means to the human race and attach some emotion or feeling about the above statement, whereas the statement itself is completely void of these emotions or feelings.

So I would say that it's not the case that you can "discard anything" in this same manner. In fact I think it's an important thing to point out because that's an enormous, unfortunate, and critical misunderstanding of popular culture about what science is and what scientists do.
A dark knight is better than no knight: Why we need Bitcoin despite its flaws
Also, there hasn't been a full scale war with modern military technology in decades. So nobody really knows what actually works and what just sounds good in theory.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8331474
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If you've got time to stream, you've got time to clean…

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If you read the article, there's no such claim. Just that artificial sweeteners appear to change gut bacteria in a way that sugar doesn't.
This is what should have existed instead of EBS all along.

I'll never consider this to be as reliable as S3, but if I'm going to have a network filesystem I'd rather be dealing with NFS as my abstraction instead of virtualized network block devices.
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A better system would be to take the the higher paying of either duration based or view based pay.
This sort of does what you want. But there must be some traffic even if it just keep alive.

sudo tcpkill -9 -i eth0 host 1.2.3.4 and port 80

It is part of dsniff.
That's awesome. My first thought on reading about conservation officers "harvesting" deer was wondering where all that meat is going, and had a horrible feeling that they were just leaving it to rot somewhere. I'm very glad to hear that some hungry people are seeing benefit from it.

In fact, it would be great if some part of our nation's beef-heavy diet could be replaced with venison - I'd definitely choose that route, as long as eating deer meat instead of cow meat had a positive environmental impact. Cow farts are destroying the earth.
I keep my virtual book-shelf of books read here: http://www.kirubakaran.com/books-read.html
I'd suggest having your landing page explain a few common scenarios of where using ScholarCheck would be helpful. I'm not clear on why someone would want to use this. (or who the target audience is)
We're supposed to pretend a paid app will be competitive in this space.

hillarious way to advertise, chum.
> and I'll add that they are too unfun, and their sales departments are pushy and intrusive.

I think you missed something big: They are too rich. As the saying goes, "Where are the customers' yachts?"

Just as the rise of etrade, datek, ameritrade killed off the overpriced stock broker biz, there are whole swaths of banking waiting to be dragged into the internet age.
There is a long term question in abiogenesis that is quite similar to "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" -- what was the first self-replicating entity?

Modern cells are vastly complex; self-replication must have started with something orders of magnitude more simple.

Some of the components that appear essential are, on the other hand, too simple to self-replicate, such as DNA.

A popular notion alluded to elsewhere on this page is the "RNA world", that RNA, not DNA, is where it all started, but the arguments along those lines have truly major gaps in what the original machinery would have been.

This paper apparently shows some decent evidence (not proof) that ribosomes are capable of being the original self-replicators.

Since ribosomes are critical machinery, but not usually considered the primogenitor, this up-ends mainstream thinking in a chicken/egg sort of way.

Edit: here's the key part of the article regarding that:

> Under this radically new view of the origin of life, genes only became independent of ribosomes because ribosomes began using them to gain an advantage over their rivals—while traditional theory says that ribosomes were only created and refined because they gave genes a more efficient way of affecting their surroundings and outcompeting their rivals.
These notes may help a little bit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/2yys1i/lets_start_...

http://godel-escher-bach.wikia.com/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_...
One of the things I want to do is an economic analysis of advertising. Specifically, what is the overhead that advertising imposes as compared to an economy where consumers paid directly for the products they used? Clearly there is no free lunch, and we still pay for the so-called "free stuff" that advertising "gives" us, it's just that it feels like we're not paying for it.

Your HN profile provides no email address, which means I can't email you, nor can those that might offer you the job that your profile says you seek.
No libraries listed on babelmark (or the versions used there) seem to be affected: http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&text=_danl...
Yeah, I'm happy to abide by this all when the caveats are specialized, but >=> is definitely and directly what's being appealed to.

I meant combination just so as to generalize the idea of "composition". If you're willing to call Kleisli composition "composition" generally then I won't complain :)
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Hackpad goes open source
Email from the Hackpad team:

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We have some exciting news — Hackpad will be released as open source software in the next few weeks!

As you may know, Hackpad started as a fork of an existing open source project. We’re incredibly proud to give back to this community and excited to make the Hackpad codebase available to anyone, especially our customers.

As the open source release approaches, we’ll send you instructions on how to download your Hackpads in case you want to move your data somewhere else. (Don’t worry; you’ll still be able to keep your data on hackpad.com.)

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This is an insult to horses, cars, and even tribes.
That's the thing; while it is discriminatory, it has been (and can be) used for subjectively good reasons, like Wikipedia Zero.

There are many who argue that zero rating is not a part of net neutrality and should be allowed. That's what I meant by saying that it's on both sides. I personally have mixed views, mostly leaning on the zero-rating-is-bad side, though I do feel that it may be possible to come up with a way to restrict what is allowed that helps boost accessibility of internet resources like Wikipedia without giving a competition boost.

Anyway, my point wasn't to argue for or against zero rating. I merely wanted to point out that zero rating was not objectively a part of the net neutrality debate.
This technique also works for reopening stdout to a log file for a long-running service which was started w/ >/dev/null.
"The Better Angels of our Nature" by Steven Pinker. Highly informative, well-researched and compelling look at the history of violence, and how violence relates to economy, information, literacy, trade, etc. Very enjoyable, if long, read.

http://amzn.com/0143122010
Fun trivia: in 1980 there was a study about modifying existing SR-71s to carry AIM-54s, to shoot down Soviet AWACS planes. It never went anywhere, but it sounds pretty bad-ass.

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,3780.0...
Everyone else already bears the burden of your decisions. You don't get to determine which burdens you bear, only how you choose to bear them.
HN downvoter herd mentality types can't handle the individuality and personal responsibility of libertarian utopias that Uber and its ilk will usher in, so they fight back with the only tools at their disposal. Stupid laws are meant to be broken, and 'kleptocracy' is a shibboleth, identifying you as a poor (or, worse, a poor-sympathizer).
Neuromancer by William Gibson.
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke.
A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, both by Vernor Vinge.

Also, the Culture series by Iain M. Banks, but I would recommend not starting with the first published book, Consider Phlebas. YMMV, but I personally found it hard to get in to and almost didn't continue the series. Later I read lots of reviews of the second book, The Player of Games, and decided to give it a chance and have since read most of the remaining books. I have now gone back and re-read Consider Phlebas and love it now that I have a better handle on the setting, universe, and concepts from the series, but I definitely feel that The Player of Games is a much better intro into the series.
The government already has its own fiat currency that can also be handled digitally. I don't see any risk of the fiscal and monetary policy slipping out of their hands soon.
I'm working on a year-long government project now to migrate a small bunch of websites from Windows Server 2003 to 2008 R2 (because extended support for 2003 ends this summer). Yes, we're upgrading to a 6 year old operating system.
I'm reading "Gödel, Escher, Bach" and "Rationality: From AI to Zombies" in online reading groups:

http://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/2yys1i/lets_start_...

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/lx0/rationality_from_ai...
Rapidly working my way through "Breakfast at Sotheby's" by Philip Hook[1]. Very enjoyable book.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Sothebys-A-Z-Art-World/dp/14...
I know how to use a rotary dial phone too, but I'm not putting that on my resume. Some stuff just goes out of style....like Windows Server 2000.
Which s3fs are you using?

The fuse-based ones that I've tried were ridden with problems and poor error handling. Hangs and truncated files were the rule rather than the exception.
Sure. I see a problem with this when ppl. who are not scientifically trained use the same metaphor or get this presented by science journalism as it is "pushing" them into wrong 'beliefs' about intentionality of non conscious matter.

Most of the time your kind of descriptions of the "how" are not presented thus ppl. mis-conceptualize.

Sometimes I think it would be best science used its very own language partly like Latin in medicine is used.
> You had a situation where generations of people kept things in balance.

I think you may be romanticizing things a bit. How many generations are you using for a sample-size, and how do you know things were any more "in-balance" as opposed to just a different equally-artificial arrangement?

I'll grant you "nobody complained of too-many deer around their house", but that's a far cry from some sort of "we were one with the land and lived in harmony with all the cycles of nature".
Nice work. Makes it easier for me to keep an eye on for jobs in Portland.
Nice. Do they have any details on how the resizing works? Is it automatic as I generate more files? Or will I have to explicitly provision more space as I generate the files?
China needs not to worry about this.

And by the way few people do math "heavy lifting" with x86 CPUs today, they would rather do it in a GPU

China has the fabs and the expertise (or at least it is getting there). It's a non issue.

"They have taken the best that the USA has developed (some of key Alpha, GPGPU and MIPS architects left US over the course of past four years, a lot of them due to non-renewed visas) and discarded due to corporate shenanigans, and the continued developing it much farther than anyone expected both on hardware and software side.
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Payment processors are a cartel. I'm not from the US, and no other processors have really come up. It's basically an underlying tax on all products -- as much as I don't agree with the rest of parents post -- it really is absurd such simple tech isn't done by the government. It would be like delegating private presses for the dollar and in turn giving them a huge fee for bank deposits.

Not only checks, but the hallmark of irony in this is we still use paper money. It should be a lot cheaper and simpler to move bits!

It all goes to funding those cartels, and most of their spending is not to improve service but maintain the absurdity.
When Apple refuses to fix something that's good the public's interest, the best way to get Apple's attention is to make this a rootpipe gate by sending tips to all Apple focused media outlets like AppleInsider Macrumors etc. Talk about the power of press.

Case in point: Antenna gate, Bend-gate etc.
Hmm, disabling with a notice is not a bad middle-ground actually. For the worst offenders.
>it is a dangerous package manager

To go along with this theme, I must ask: Does homebrew do any isolation when building from source? Chroots, separate process namespaces, etc.

>All so you can install it without sudo.

This is actually a really great feature. I work on a package manager called Guix, which also allows for unprivileged package management. It's one of my favorite features. You and I could have user accounts on the same machine and use different versions of the same application without conflict.

Of course, I don't know what the security story is for Homebrew, but it doesn't look to be better than average. We take security very seriously with Guix, to the point that we are seeking things like bit-for-bit reproducible builds.
Yet in other countries similar processes are no where near as painful, so the claim that "having human beings involved necessarily makes things painfully in efficient" is not very plausible.

For reasons I don't understand American government systems tend to be very difficult and painful to deal with. This not unique to the US, but in the developed world most other nations have seen improvements since the '70's. The US, not so much.

Getting a driver's license or health card in Canada used to be pretty painful. Today it's very streamlined. You still have to deal with people face-to-face, but the process has been designed to be quick and efficient.
Just curious what others are putting out there, but your resume has a typo about "hanlding" OSI layers. Good luck out there!
I will second this and say that in my opinion it gets better as you go along, although it gets tedious in parts. Be prepared, it is a long story.
Privacy has become a human rights issue for the digital age
This seems to be the path followed:

systemsetup pointed to the Admin framework.

Admin framework analysis revealed use of "createFileWithContents". The function in which this use occurs is not named in the analysis.

An error message in the initial proof attempt led to "authenticateUsingAuthorization". Back to systemsetup to determine how to use "authenticateUsingAuthorization". (This is where I ended up mentally relinking the issue back to systemsetup.)

So, I concede that is is not stated where within the Admin framework this "createFileWithContents" method is invoked. However, I also agree that if that function was not used, it would be simple to remove it and the issue would be fixed.
>> certainly never combines two functions! The closest you can come is to specialize the monad in context to ((->) e) and then talk about that kind of combination. The other way to go is to see >> as a special case of >=> wherein constant Kleisli functions are applied. I've got no problem with that now... Except now you're really talking about >=> and you may as well be specific?
Can't recommend "Meditations" highly enough, it is a great read. The first part takes a little bit of discipline to get through (at least, for me it did), but stick with it if it puts you off, it gets better. You should check out Seneca and Epictetus as well.
The system also uses logistic regression and is limited to 100 gb dataset. Prediction with LR isn't that expensive and training can be done online with something like stochastic gradient descent. That can be done on a single computer. Given that the models aren't exportable and you can import a model, I'm hard pressed to see the immediate value. Long term, though, I'm sure there's plenty of growth.
What differences did you notice beyond Google's Prediction API?
Another straw man. Nobody is arguing that we would oppose some new, as-yet-undiscovered, ethically and environmentally optimal way of keeping deer populations in check. But until then, we have limited options at our disposal. Death by predator is probably the best all-around option, but in a world where that's politically untenable, death by rifle really isn't a bad alternative. It's in all honesty probably the least painful option on the table for a deer's eventual death, while at the same time providing a decent supply of food that reduces demand for factory-farmed meats.

You seem to want to live in a world where animals live peaceful lives and die gently in their sleep. We do not live in such a world. Right now, the alternative to shooting them is to have them violently eaten by predators or drawn-out death by poison. If we do nothing to control their populations, those that survive will eventually age to the point where most will become infirm enough to die slowly by starvation. Unless you propose to sent vets into the woods armed with tranquilizers and materials for lethal injection, a bullet is virtually certain to be the least terrible way for a deer to die.
May I ask why? My experience with NFS is pretty bad performance wise.
9p is a better network filesystem protocol, and it's available on Linux.
Permutation City by Greg Egan really changed my personal cosmology
I'm reading Españopoly, a book by investigative researcher and "data journalist" Eva Belmonte on the social networks that link the people who hold the power in Spain, my native country. I assume some HNers will read Spanish, but hail from a different part of the world. This book will really explain modern Spain to you.