skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! I've briefly looked at Splash and related projects like ScrapingHub, etc - looks like this niche is live and kicking...

The distributed scrapy-cluster is the way to go, if you need to crawl anything of decent size ( maybe even Amazon - 300+ MM webpages, j/k :)

I see a lot of Python based projects recently, even in Bitcoin niche, we even have a local Toronto based Python meetup. Looks like Python dev community is active.

I have a domain name PYFORUM.com - would it be good idea to launch a forum site? With Bitcoin tipping built-in? So instead of saying "Thanks" people would be able to send $0.25 in Bitcoin to those who helped them in the forums or made them laugh? What are the most established Python forums out there?

Thanks!
Those glass walls give me nightmares. I currently work for a company where once in a while I have to spend a whole day in an office with glass walls everywhere. By the end of the day I just want to lock myself in the bathroom, the feeling of constantly being on view and constantly seeing movement drives me completely nuts.
Here is a "revolutionary" idea:

Ask your employees what kind of setup they like and accommodate!
Some people like private offices and some people don't - I don't understand why companies look at this in absolute terms.
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Give a startup founder a few million and instantly they start writing like Emily Dickinson.
I also think the 300 kbps rate is limited if they continue to broadcast the analog signal as well.
This is the wrong argument. Wages should be based on what the market will bear, not merit, and this practically an axiom of free-market conservative thought. In fact, arguing from merit is something I'd expect from gasp leftists. If these people are successful in their collective bargaining, then congratulations, $15 an hour is what the market will bear for their services and they deserve every shiny penny.
I really don't like it when religion is attacked. Not all religions believe the same thing. Sure you got some forms of Christianity that believe in creationism and others in evolution. Some that don't want vaccination and others that do. You'll find it is the radical religions that you have to watch out for, not the moderate ones. Not every religion is the same.
Diane...
So I live in downtown Seattle, and there are not a ton of residents here. For one thing, there are no schools in downtown Seattle, and so almost no one with kids wants to live downtown. And while I wouldn't characterize it as "dead and deserted" at night, it's not particularly lively either.

In fact, most people think it's weird that I live downtown. It's definitely not a common choice around here.

It is largely true that young tech workers want to live "in the city" (as opposed to in the suburbs), but (at least in Seattle) that means one of the "cool" neighborhoods in the city, not downtown.
And? That's no different than the build script calling any external executable. It may stop, it may not stop, it may format the hard drive. Make doesn't (and shouldn't) care.
Wouldn't the solution to charging be the same as any other consumable utility? Charge x dollars per month for the base keeping the wires hooked up fee, and then x cents per kilowatt hour?
I think it's been clear for the last fifteen years that oil for electricity generation is untenable. My only remaining concern is that it will take far far too long to unhitch a utility company that has already clearly demonstrated it has no interest whatsoever to change.

Was oil a bad choice when there were no affordable regenerative methods? Probably no. My concern isn't with their initial choice, it's with their more recent choice to fight solar and other regenerative energy sources instead of embracing them.
>what's stopping me from opening up news or playing video games? //

Presumably nothing so long as your performance levels are maintained within the expected parameters. To my mind that's better, goal focussed rather than time focussed.

On the flip side there's probably nothing stopping you from waking up at 2am and doing some productive work for your employer then either.
>Downtowns die because money flows out of the city due to the economy

this is true not just of the downtown. Cities die because the money stops. The suburbs don't keep on thriving after the industry collapses

> or because the culture transitions to one based on suburbs

Not enough investment in downtown and urban spaces can be a contributing factor to this. People move to the suburbs because the suburbs are nicer than the urban core, which causes a cascading effect as the urban core empties and becomes even less desirable. If you make downtown a desirable place, you'll stem some of the shift to suburbia.
"Having someone stand up to Israel will more than likely galvanize the politics of Israel towards at least more militarism."

Well we've tried forty years of no-one standing up to Israel and that hasn't worked (and Israel has moved further and further to the right during this period).
There are almost certainly some issues with the Rat Park experiment, but even exercise alone has been shown to reduce binding availability at the mu opioid receptor in humans, probably as a result of beta-endorphin being released: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18296435. It wouldn't be a huge leap to hypothesize that this could decrease exogenous opioid consumption.

Interestingly enough, there's also a genetic mutation that's at least loosely associated with alcoholism, a possible increased response to naturally-produced beta-endorphin, and a need for more opioids to achieve equivalent pain relief:

http://www.pnas.org/content/95/16/9608.full.pdf

http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs1799971
Seems to work pretty well for me, now only if I used non SSL sites more often.

Go figure I find a solution to most of my issues I have with Sat around the time I'm moving somewhere with hopefully better internet soon.
The ultimate irony of open plan offices is that if you are considerate of your neighbors, you can't actually collaborate in the open part of the office. Every single time I want to talk to someone for an in depth period of time, we almost immediately move to a conference room so we don't disturb the people around us.

If everyone had offices, I would walk into their office and we would not need to move after starting our discussion because we wouldn't be bothering anyone.

I don't see any advantages to an open plan office with more than 1 team in it (i.e. max 10 people) other than cost and startup-chic aesthetics.
Was the clock that was tested made with contemporary tools? It may be that Harrison was right (his design was correct) but so were his critics (it couldn't be executed as designed at the time).
The first form—“The Question Ordinaire,” as it was labeled—called for an elaborate pulling of limbs: “With his wrists tied tightly to a bar behind him, Calas was stretched by a system of cranks and pulleys that steadily drew his arms up while an iron weight kept his feet in place.” But Calas did not confess.

The second form—or, “The Question Extraordinaire”—might sound familiar, having been much in the news in recent years. Calas’s mouth was forced open with two sticks. Then came the water, pitcher after pitcher. “His head was held low and a cloth placed over his mouth and on the cloth a funnel,” is how one author described this torture. “His nose was pinched, but from time to time released, then water was slowly poured through the funnel on to the cloth which was sucked in by the suffocating man.” Still, Calas did not confess.

We have not progressed much. And from the order of the punishments, at least they understood that threat of death is worse than threat of injury.
Also it seems a bit odd to suggest Google wouldn't understand mobile advertising value vs desktop.

Google controls the #1 smartphone OS by marketshare and serves mobile ads over Google search products (& GMail now) to a large number of users.

Unless there is an inherently different value for mobile-social ads than just normal mobile/mobile-productivity ads I'm not sure how this would make sense.
You're not the only one :)

> McLuhan frequently punned on the word "message", changing it to "mass age", "mess age", and "massage"; a later book, The Medium Is the Massage was originally to be titled The Medium is the Message, but McLuhan preferred the new title, which is said to have been a printing error.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
In countries that do calisthenics at the start of the school day are there less problems with hyperactivity, and diagnosed disorders with that symptom?
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What else are you going to use the VHF band for? There's no current demand to re-use the FM spectrum, and smartphones etc are in the UHF spectrum. Even if you could do something useful with the spectrum, it would still be a problem because FM is a global standard and isn't going away any time soon....

The UK has no plans for the FM frequencies except to keep using them for FM broadcasting. The difference is that, after the switchover, they'll be local instead of national FM radio stations.

There's also close-to-zero demand for large numbers of radio stations (most people only listen to two or three), and such "variety" is inordinately expensive.

Broadcast is never going to compete with Spotify, Pandora etc for personalized radio.
The Transactional Memory/Garbage Collector Analogy (2007) [pdf]
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Glass walls are mostly used to ensure natural light is able to get into the innermost parts of the building. But your nightmare is my joy. This diversity in humans is one of the things which makes creating the idea work environment for all so difficult.
Waiting for a feedback.
aren't they essentially the same thing?
There should also be some discussion about why the US uses more prescription narcotics than any other country. Some interesting data and charts here on global consumption and how it's changed over time.

http://www.painpolicy.wisc.edu/global
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I don't think you should do it ,certainly not as your first project. There's a huge issue of patient privacy(you're father could get in trouble if the software gets hacked, not to mention all those patients who will suffer) and for that you'll need to build highly secure software which is extremely hard and probably not possible for a beginner.
I disagree with Brooks, or rather he should speak for himself. What he says here may be true for the sizable branch of computer science that is software engineering, but most CS departments originally emerged out of mathematics departments, and more practitioners in academia deal in theory and experimentation than in building tools. The perception of computer science as an engineering field probably stems from the glut of undergraduates that go into industry as software engineers and thus represent the face of CS to most of society. As a result, computer science as a field tends to straddle both science and engineering. I don't think the author's attempt at redefinition here makes any sense.

It's certainly understandable that confusion surrounds the term 'computer science' though. It might be one of those cases where the name made sense when it was at first mostly a theoretical field, but maybe it's time for universities to start separating the engineering component into an actual engineering department. 'Computer Engineering' is already taken, though perhaps Software Engineering could be merged with it or placed into its own department. Of course, institutional inertia is a heck of a force so good luck with such reorganizations.

Is it really even useful to distinguish fields as engineering or science though? I generally follow literature in two fields: computer science and biology. In each field you'll find both methodology and domain application papers. The former contributes tools for study, the later contributes the result of study using tools. To put it another way, I know plenty of 'scientists' in biology, chemistry and physics who spend most of their time engineering instrumentation, and I know plenty of 'engineers' in computer science who spend most of their time conducting experiments and analyzing observations.

In conclusion, I don't find the distinction useful.
>Well, they can't, and they've proven that they can't multiple times, so what does he propose we do, other than crack down even harder?

Or they don't really want to (getting clean sucks), they have proven again and again that they would rather be on drugs than of drugs, so what are you going to do, other than crack down even harder?

I am not saying that is necessarily the entire truth, but addicts do quit on their own and both narratives predict the behaviour.
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If you navigate to the photos section, there is a collection of photos 'brainstorm rooms' displaying a variety of ways those are installed.

One important thing ton consider is not wasting $$$ on coating the walls above about 7' or below 3' as it is basically unusable without those funny library ladders.
It read to me more like he was whipping out something casually in short time, instead of taking the time to impress with grammar.

The context is missing here. They could've been chatting online or in person and he sent a quick 15 minute followup. Maybe they're friends who have this kind of casual grammar established. I've written things like this before when I knew the person and conveying information quickly was all I really cared about.
Indian Automobiles – “My Choice” – Various Horsepower
The whole stream (all channels combined) is only 1.5Mbps? Yikes. I knew it was bad - but not that bad.

I reluctantly pay for XM. I enjoy some of the talk radio stations, but the music quality is sub-par. That said, if I had a $1 for every person that said they loved XM and thought it sounded great, I could buy... well not much but many people I've talked to think the SQ is great.

I think it's worse than: CDs, MP3s over 128kbps, cassette tapes, vinyl records, 8 tracks, and FM. They only think that it's maybe better than in terms of SQ is AM radio, but it still suffers from loads of high frequency distortion that is maddening - especially if you have a high end car stereo. AM doesn't try to be something it's not - there is a roll off starting around 4 kHz, but it's fine for talk radio and music just sounds dull, which is fine. XM sounds "bright" in that it has HF content, but it's distorted and "warbley" for lack of a better word. It sounds like the the HF is passed through a filter of moving water or a fan or something.
I suggest you look for the term "old yishuv".
Jerusalem for example has always had jews living there, and this also is also the only land where a jewish people had ever had a kingdom or any kind of autonomy ( althoug that was a really long time ago indeed). Also, the land they arrived in "belonged" to the ottoman empire, and then the british colonial empire, which both ceased to exist. Only then did the state of israel began to exist.

But you're right, the ideology came from europe, and the vast majority of israelis came from other part of the world. Also, there aren't any part of the world where jews would have had lived long enough to claim the right for an autonomous regime (thanks in good part to antisemitism).

All that makes it indeed a very specific story, which is really hard to compare to anything else really.
There's actually a Java and C# version for Android/Windows Phone in the works right now!

Source: I'm the developer of said versions :)
I get that, and I don't want to discourage anyone from offering higher speeds. I don't think you quite understand the scale though.

As you say multiple devices...a 1 gigabit line means about a 100 people can sit at your house and stream 1080p youtube. Now unless you've got a very big family upgrading that to 200 people (2 gigabit) will not make any real difference.

Perhaps when 8K+ video shows up then it might make a difference, but for now few things need 1 gigabit, let alone 2.
The point is that the danger of AGI is much easier to understand through whole brain emulation, not that whole brain emulation is necessarily imminent. That said, the most pernicious risk in AGI is that it will happen "slowly, then all at once"; that it will always be a long way away until the day it isn't.

That said, it isn't obvious to what extent we need to understand the brain in order to transfer it to another substrate: much of engineering relies on a simplified understanding of the world.
and yet for some reason you punctuated and capitalized your comment correctly it rly makes you wonder
Yes, and they probably will...
REINFORCEjs JavaScript reinforcement learning library
You're projecting, no one said anything about busy-work. Busy does not mean doing unproductive work. Busy != busy-work.
To be honest, "dark web" seems to lack a clear, well defined meaning and should be avoided.
Surprised no one brought up "than/then". It really throws me off but then again, I'm not a native speaker.
I'm in my 40's and I thought going from cubes to open office was going to be hard. I couldn't have been more wrong: I love it. I guess I don't need headphones to be productive, and I don't care if someone sees what I'm doing on my screen, because I'm already at the office > 10 hrs a day, plus at home, so they can judge all they want if I have Facebook up in one window.

I do understand that some people need solitude to do there work, which means that if a company goes open-office, they need to also have some spaces allocated for private rooms.

My wife is in finance, and I stopped by her work place the other day, and you could hear a pin drop. It was like a library filled with people, I couldn't believe I used to work in an environment like this.

The only drawback that I agree with the author is the vulnerability to disease. We have suffered throught his as well, and I'm not sure what to do about it besides wearing masks all the time. If a more dangerous disease did flare up in our area, I would probably work from home, and I think the employer should offer this as an alternative, especially if there is something particularly dangerous going around.
I'm curious -- what advantages so you see Bud having over FAKE? I.e., why would you change over to using Bud if FAKE is already doing what you need?
Elementary OS [1] attempts to do that with a design first philosophy. However, it was still too much of a hassle to get it working with 3 monitors last time I tried it.

I've used various linux distros for years, and there's always something that doesn't work right. Whether it's the speakers not turning off when I plug my headphones in through my thinkpad dock in Arch, or monitor position settings changing every time I reboot my desktop in Elementary OS, the lack of polish really shows. I understand why this happens, and I don't fault the people making on the various distros. I've even dove in and fixed a few problems myself.

But nevertheless, it remains a problem, so for now I've just decided on windows for day to day use with a VM running linux when I need it.

[1] http://elementary.io/
I love to hear more about how you thinking security is largely an illusion.
If the work can't keep your attention, perhaps you should find better work.
Good to see a list of apps with source code!
I started my career working at a team room, which was exclusive for the technical people and had no more than 7 people at its peak. Then progressively went from open-office to open-office.

And man, how I hate those. I can't get focus, which forces me to bring the deep-thinking work home, proceeding on a two-shift day, similar to what Paul Graham describes on the "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" essay (http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html). Even simple things like sending a page-length email took more time than needed, and were high frustrating.

Yet, recently I've been working on a company which only have team rooms. I'm on a 3 persons' room, but the rooms vary from 1 to 6 persons. Furthermore they have lots of perforated plates on ceilings and rooms are (mostly) sound isolated from adjacent ones by a foam-like thing they stuff between the division separations.

When I started here I just had that -wow- moment. I couldn't believe I was actually doing software design, reading documentation and others immerse thinking tasks during normal work time. No need to carry stuff home no more.

Did I mentioned already how I hate open-offices? :)
There was a great RadioLab episode [1] that followed Denise Herzing during one of her tests. Also in the same episode they discussed the controversial co-habitation communication research done by Margaret Howe in the 1960s. A really fascinating episode for anyone interested in this topic.

1. http://www.radiolab.org/story/hello/
LTE does have eMBMS, but I am not sure how it works with IP multicast.
Are you one of those guys who does super stupid stuff then tries to defend yourself by saying 'bro! it was just a joke!'
This is a wonderful story. I've also personally noticed I can focus an order of magnitude better with exercise.
Modafinil doesn't even come close to amphetamine. And I doubt anyone with therapeutic amphetamine experience would disagree.

I've been taking Adderall XR and Vyvanse for eight years. Now that I live in Mexico where amphetamine isn't prescribed but you can buy Modafinil over the counter, I gave Modafinil a shot.

It's pretty forgettable. That it only comes in instant tablets is also a deal-breaker.

While I continue to experiment with Modafinil, it's worth the $500 round-trip back to Austin just to re-up my 3-month supply of Vyvanse.

Also, amphetamine is used on every American college campus, not Modafinil. Almost everyone has heard of Adderall even if they've never taken it.
I am developing some (fairly simple) example IoT examples for a book I am working on ("Power Java").

One thing that I don't yet have a handle on yet is security, and I suspect that securing IoT devices will be in general challenging.
It is literally the comparison you made. I get your point that people shop at Costco because they think they save on normal household items, but I don't think you should be flabbergasted that someone on the internet decided to be pedantic about a point that was designed to be a sound bite more than it was intended to be, uh, accurate.
Bubbles, unicorns and our crazy private markets [pdf]
How about "work on the same project"?
I'm 4 years sober from heroin now, so I can speak from my experience using in Los Angeles from ~2008-2011.

Balloons are typically sold in .1 gram quantities, with lower quality heroin. I do recall buying balloons wet with saliva, but only some of the time. An acquaintance told me that it used to be standard practice for dealers to use young Mexican children to sell dope by this method on foot in Skid Row, but that the city had really cleaned up downtown. With the popularization of cell phones, the delivery system described in this article became the standard.

Higher quality heroin was usually sold by the half gram. Instead of being in a balloon, it would be wrapped in plastic torn from a grocery bag, tied off or melted to close and seal it. I don't recall these ever being spat out. They would often hide it under the hood in their beat up trucks or minivans.

I never got customer satisfaction surveys from dealers. I'm sure that the dealers had customers or friends from whom they got feedback on their product, but I was never one of them.

A dealer's number was quite a hot commodity. You couldn't just call the dealer up and expect to get served—you had to be introduced. And the dealer would often throw in a free bag if you bought x number of them.

The result of this was that one user would have the dealer's contact information, and would make a buying run for other users who didn't. If they bought enough they could keep the free bag, or otherwise pinch off the bags that they acquired for the other users.
Here's a similar thread from a couple of years ago that has some great answers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6121572