skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the insurance, I tried to use it once when my daughter dropped a new cell-phone in the water. A quick read of the credit-card insurance promo looked promising, but once we called and talked to a very nice customer-service rep for the insurance service, it quickly became clear that there were tons of fine-print that justified the insurance not covering this situation.
I was in the same boat, until very recently.

I am the founder of OpenPnP, an Open Source SMT pick and place platform. I eschewed 3D printing for my design work for several years thinking that it was not accurate enough, not strong enough, etc. Having experience with CNC mills I kept comparing 3D printed parts to ones cut accurately from aluminum and found them lacking.

What I recently came to realize is that the power of 3D printing is in it's instant turnaround and the ability to quickly iterate. Now, I design my parts for 3D printing. They look and function differently than they would if I had cut them from aluminum and I have to take the limitations of 3D printing into account, but they work. And most importantly, I can test a new design simply by hitting "Print" and waiting an hour or two.

I agree that much of the consumer market is dominated by people who buy a 3D printer and then use it to print trinkets until they get bored, but there are also a lot of people out there who are engineering new devices and machines using the ability to quickly test new designs on a 3D printer.
True and False give random responses if you ask them how random would answer, unless you include clauses like "would that god definitely say X"
How is it a choice?

It's more that technology enables the homeless to cope better with the circumstances that they face.

I was homeless, for 2.5 years in the UK. I slept on the streets. I made myself homeless, I call it my choice... but you know what, it wasn't really. I grew up in social housing, it was damp and I was always ill. There was violence at home, sexual abuse, fear, my cousin did bank robberies, my brother did time for holding someone up with a knife.

Yes, I "chose" to be homeless, because somewhere in that choice it was a better alternative to staying where I was and living the life that would have delivered.

I would have loved to have some tech, for the internet to have existed. Just to find out opening times of sports centres (showers), or to find cheap places to crash, or dirt cheap deals to get from place to place (rather than hitch everywhere).

It would have been a blessing just to be able to have mobile phones widely in use, to call someone rather than face loneliness, solitude.

Fuck that it was a choice, fuck that it's a choice for these people. Good on them for using every damn thing available to aspire to not have to sleep under a bush, or to only get food from restaurant trash.

And perhaps with the ability to contact others, to talk, to share... they can fight to get off the street in a much better shape than I did, far more ready to deal with the world. I was a mess when I got off the streets, with no support network I was years behind everyone else, and I still feel it, a decade or two behind, living with nothing to catch me if I fall.

There was no choice, but I truly wish I could've had these tools available to me to make it scar my life and being a little less.

Enjoy your privilege. And yes, I will probably regret posting this, I paint a prettier picture of the past usually... don't we all, these people call it "professional vagabond" it's painting a prettier picture of their present.
Appreciate the reply very very much. I've found psych-k and tapping both revolutionary for handling rapid onset emotional issues. I'm going to learn NET too, now.
We have a 2008 Macbook (aluminum body, I forget if it's a pro), which my wife passed along to my three-year-old son. He is not the gentlest with it, and it's still running strong.

We have a 2013 Macbook pro that's been nothing but flaky. Living far from any Apple store, it's a pain to deal with. We fully expect the 2008 to outlast the 2013. Apple hardware is great when it works; it just feels like a crapshoot whether you get a good model or not.

My 2013 T430s is still going strong, and I expect to use it another 3 years. I'll upgrade to a larger SSD and more RAM at some point, but I love the hardware. I take care of it well, and it's holding up as expected.
No. Programming is easily hard enough that any software that can do so alone (as opposed to with a human) will be a human level AI.

At that point we just found The Culture and start to build space-ships.
Mobile phones can receive special emergency broadcast messages (for the US see http://www.fcc.gov/guides/wireless-emergency-alerts-wea ). Probably a more effective way of attracting people's attention as well, since we all have a compulsive desire to check our phones the second they vibrate.
In Windows world, you basically have to use SHA1 digests for digital signatures (though you use SHA2 certs to do the signing) as Windows XP doesn't support SHA2 at all, Windows Vista SP1 or SP2 prior to a patch a view years ago won't run the EXE or show an error due to a buffer overrun, and Windows Vista's Internet Explorer full patched will show the download as "reported unsafe" due to an unfixed bug in IE.
2009 MacBook Pro. I added memory and a hybrid SSD. Runs great. I'll replace it if there's an OS update that doesn't support it.
I would love to force people to pay for things I love to do. There's nothing wrong with teaching philosophy, but stealing money to do so is wrong and lazy. What if I'd rather my money go toward cancer research? This guy would deny me that opportunity. He's saying his preferences are more important than mine. There are plenty of ways to make money teaching philosophy: donations (see FDR on Youtube as an example), books, speaking at conferences--but that takes hard work and risk. And if you can't make a living, why not teach philosophy for free as an avocation? Contribute as if it's open source -- for the better of the community. Stealing money from people and justifying it after the fact seems unphilosophical.
You can make this question even harder by removing foreknowledge of the words! So you know the gods have words for yes and no, but don't know what those words are. Here's an article on the solution: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428189/the-hardest-logi...
In many regions, there aren't any cheap rooms -- not cheap enough to afford one on near-minimum wage.
TL:DR: "Conclusion: This study confirms the hypothesis of Medina et al. and Koehl et al.: intense physical exercise improves the attention of children and adolescents with ADHD symptoms. Physical exercise may be helpful for their learning because attention is essential to the school performance of any individual.

Physical exercises help improve children's attention and provide greater impulse control; these additional effects appear almost immediately, as confirmed in this study, which helps the concentration of children with ADHD."
Route Planner Using Google Maps, Built with React JS
He means getting paid. The software license doesn't matter.
Iran is exceptionally skilled in asymetric warfare, but I suspect it would be a fools errand for them to attempt a full blockade. One of the two US carrier strike groups stationed off of their coasts would be enough to obliterate any sort of a blockade they could manage. Could their be casualties, sure, but the sea is about a conventional warfighting area as they get. You simply can't play by the rules and expect to win against the US Navy. That is assuming that other "interested parties" who use those straights as economic routes wouldn't also hire competent guns.

Other than that small thing, I think the rest of your post was not only insightful, but pretty much spot on.
Thanks for this!

Will try and learn how to make my own apps by reading the source of others.
Unmedicated, regularly attending school, able to focus for at least five minutes on a videogame, and:

> volunteers with notably good grades in all subjects, without reports about behavior problems and a good social life at school and at home.

That seems like a relatively mild case of ADHD.

[EDIT: Quote applies to control group, as pointed out by andreasvc. The first three points appear to still stand.]

I'm also wondering how the resulting GC and GE values from "Performance of groups in the whole game" figure are so different, considering that part of the selection process was being able to complete the level in 600 seconds, ±5%.

On a side note, this was very interesting:

> These data seem indicate that after an intense physical exercise, people without ADHD show impairment in attention performance.
You're arguing against taxes, not philosophy.
MongoDB doesn't even scale well horizontally[1]. I normally would put a link to paper where they benchmarked Cassandra & HBase with MongoDB 2, but looks like they did their tests again with MongoDB 3.0 and included Couchbase as well.

[1] http://www.datastax.com/wp-content/themes/datastax-2014-08/f...
Solar Power Battle Puts Hawaii at Forefront of Worldwide Changes
I'm somewhat familiar with avionics system on a 737, and that above is a pretty accurate description. The FMS* basically forwards the messages through CANBUS for the IFE, via a gateway.

At worst this guy could send a fake message to other passengers, and maybe cause a IFE system warning in the cockpit. Oxygen Masks are controlled by a completely separate system to the IFE.

* The 737NG has various displays for warnings, but its not quite the same as the Airbus EICAS
Is there anything like this on Android, for Java/Android?
No, you're not getting it. Most of the people I knew could go to college if they wanted to. Their families would have supported them, or at least helped them out quite a bit. To give you an example, two guys I knew wanted out of it. They got a job making minimum wage while they attended welding school. They make enough to live very comfortably these days.

Some, but only a minority, really had not much of a choice. Either their family was very fucked-up and had botched their upbringing pretty bad, or they had gone down too low on drugs/alcohol.

And I'm not condemning them for choosing this lifestyle. Like I said, it does have its pros. It can be a good, exciting life, especially since you're in the US, where you can get a lot of society's excesses for free, when they are discarded.
Personal anecdote, I can thank a country doctor and my elementary school teachers for recognizing this back in the 70's: I was sent to school with a thermos of coffee and permission to go to the gym and run until I could compose myself.
The article actually talks about the configuration change. The issues are still there.
In the US, Methadone also keeps people tethered to a daily drive to a Methadone clinic, followed by a relatively long wait in line. When someone is trying to hang on to a job and get their life back together, this can be a significant drag on the process. Buprenorphine (with or without added naloxone) has no such restriction, and can be dispensed from a normal pharmacy in 30-day supplies. However, the DEA limits the number of patients a buprenorphine-licensed physician can take on, which leads to shortages of available care (or very high prices) in a lot of areas of the US.

The article seems to blame the drug, and the delivery service, and the people selling it. But many of the people in the bottom 20% income bracket in the US are sick, isolated, have no access to health care (at least without winning their $6,250 out-of-pocket maximum on a lottery ticket), are poor enough to have to prioritize rent over food, and have little to no opportunity for social or economic advancement. As the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park guy said, "severely distressed animals, like severely distressed people, will relieve their distress pharmacologically if they can."
That's the difference between venture capital and bootstrapping.

When you have outside investors, they will eventually want to cash out or sell their investment.

If you bootstrap, you can have a business that generates a consistent $200k-$500k/year in profit, even if you can't find some larger corporation willing to buy.

They VC needs an "exit" so they can return the money to their shareholders and then raise their next fund.
Was CoffeeScript the first to do this? Not aware of any other languages that do.

This is one of the things I really miss when going back to JS.
Developing a complete web application with Lumen and MySql in 30 minutes
Do you bet that based on anything other than a moral certainty that greed for content is good but greed for money is bad? I ask sincerely, because you gave no clue as to the basis of your opinion.
I suppose Marx is a good example of why philosophy can be more useful than it looks. Much as in AI, whenever a philosopher ends up making an important contribution it starts a new type of academic research (political economy in Marx's case) and is no longer considered to be philosophy.
Clearly you don't have any experience with people you know struggling with mental illness ( which by the is very prevalent amongst the homeless ). It's not a choice to be so depressed you can't show up for work; or so manic you can't deal with coworkers.

But if we're going to talk about choices and homelessness; let's talk about what we can do as a society to minimize it and it's harms. Utah has proven that a "housing-first" approach to dealing with the homeless works.

We are the richest and most powerful society that has ever been, yet we choose not solve this problem; and it does reflect badly on us.
Of Debt and Decisions
BTW, that blog has a corrupted RSS feed. (Try loading it in FireFox.) I tried posting a comment asking for them to fix it, but they didn't. It looks like a simple error, just an incorrect newline at the start of the file.
Philosophy has become disconnected with real-life concerns. Philosophers operate in a void, working on problems without context. Attempts to connect this work with real-life concerns usually involve taking an idea developed without context and trying to apply it to a field (computer ethics, philosophy of scientific methods, etc.).

This works poorly because the philosopher doesn't understand the field. A computer scientist is better qualified to talk about the ethics of Ladar Levison not cooperating with the FBI[1] than an ethicist. A chemist is more qualified to talk about the scientific method than an epistemologist. Specializations have eroded the area of expertise of philosophy to the point that philosophy is rarely relevant.

There's just no case I can think of where talking to a philosopher is likely to inform my decision-making process more than talking to an expert in the actual subject.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
Creating the Culture is some feature. Heck even if it was the result of a bug it would be the best bug ever.

For those of you who haven't read Ian M. Banks "The Culture" series, The Culture is a space-habitating multi-species confederation that has long ago made true general AI, concurred all ageing and illness and now mostly spend their time exploring the universe and trying to improve other civilisations, without too much meddling. Anything at all we can do to become them is a Good Thing.
Groovy has it too.

http://mrhaki.blogspot.dk/2009/08/groovy-goodness-safe-navig...
It's not quite as easy as it sounds - but Netflix are at least doing something, and starting with their original productions is a logical place to go, because they have complete control of the master copies and can commission an Audio Description soundtrack to run in sync with that.

Adding AD to third-party content is trickier, because for the most part it's not Netflix's content to audio describe in the first place. If the distributor has AD assets available, it's then a complex process of aligning those assets to the pre-existing copy of the asset which Netflix is using. That's not always just "drop and go" because the versions won't necessarily align, or even contain the same visual material (e.g. Cut versions, syndication edits, director's cuts, special editions, etc.)

At the same time, "just use the description from TV" is not that straightforward either - here in the UK, the audio description is almost always produced by the television channel showing the programme, and NOT the programme maker/distributor themselves. Accessing that content now becomes more complicated, both proceedurally and contracturally.

It's not trivial - but at the same time it's not impossible. And for all the stick they get, Netflix actually leads the way in accessible content - there are vast numbers of video on demand services which simply do not even support access technologies in the first place. (It's a bit better in the US, where the FCC lays down rules about availability of captions on online video, admittedly.)

But especially here in the UK, almost no VOD services support even basic subtitles, let alone multiple audio tracks. In contrast, Netflix is a breath of fresh air - they actively seek out and obtain subtitles/captions, and now AD, from the third party producers that they licence content from.

They deserve praise for their attitude in this area, in my view - they put some of the largest media companies in the world to shame. That might sound excessive, but I've lost track of the number of major, major media companies whose reps pass on the company line that accessible VOD is "not possible at the moment", when the reality is that it's perfectly possible, they just choose not to do it or to make it any kind of priority.

With that kind of competition, Netflix is an easy number one in the field. They know their stuff and they're doing what it takes - I've got nothing but respect for them.
Bus tickets are pretty cheap, too.
Swift has it too.
Socrates is analytic -- well, proto-analytic. Zizek is Continental.
Perhaps they're poking holes in a flawed design proposal. You are, after all, attempting to engineer society. Would it not be better to see these 'negatives' as problems to solve?
Card Hunter is amazing and not greedy
This looks pretty useful, is there an equivalent in typescript?
For that matter... I'm working for a consulting firm right now with a job that is up to 100% travel. Some of my coworkers are "homeless", in that they don't have any fixed abode: travel and hotel rooms for 5-6 nights a week can be expensed to the client, so they just go to the beach, go skiing, or visit family on the weekend.

Of course, this is hardly the traditional state of deprivation you hear associated with "homelessness". I mention it not just to add a data point and widen the spectrum of "homeless", but also to point out that it's still a bit of a challenge to maintain formal relationships with institutions like banks, insurance companies, and the government when you don't have a permanent address -- even for someone with plentiful resources, in the email era, with readily available Internet.

Perhaps this will continue to improve in years to come, and the (traditionally deprived) homeless will also benefit.
Apple's Swift has it too
That lead quote is highly ironic considering that MSR employs arguably the most talented collection of mathematical probabilists anywhere in the world (including academia).
So a correlation in the first difference (i.e. the first derivative) implies causality? Is that what he's saying? ummm
There is a serious wrong assumption in that video.

His claim is that there weren't any new job types after industrialization. The number of new job types is irrelevant. The change was in percentage of the population doing knowledge work vs. manual labor.

It will shift just the same way now. Yeah, we won't magically think of new types of jobs. We will just shift from knowledge to creativity and improving service level like in education and healthcare, for example. A teacher on every 5 kids? Yes, please!
I feel differently from most people in this thread. Academia is not industry, and is not really driven by a capitalist market. You can debate that philosophy, and many other theoretical fields, have very little value in the market, and perhaps they do. But in reality, the richest countries are the ones that have strong research curriculums, with people studying things that are not immediately beneficial or even useful.

I'd want to live in a society where people can work in all kinds of fields that study nature and the human intellect, and not just jobs that are needed because of some economical reason.
They have to be the right kind of jobs. Graeber's bullshit jobs comes to mind.

Plus having read a bit about Nepal having travelled there, many of the poor people work their arses off, but much of the money goes to absentee landlords. I think inequality of wealth is the problem more than inequality of income. The poor generally do work a lot.
The first passage you quote describes the control group, so they were specifically selected not to have ADHD.
Right outside San Francisco, or London for example, close to where the work is.
> var roleName =
> userManager.CurrentUser == null ? null :
> (userManager.CurrentUser.GetRole() == null ? null :
> userManager.CurrentUser.GetRole().Name);

I ask this because I find myself preferring you only 'get' the CurrentUser once and use it as required in the following block.
Are there advantages to the 3D printing process besides the speed? That is, if a fool-proof CNC mill was available for the same price, would you switch back? Is the price difference of the consumables a significant factor?

I have trouble shaking the feeling that printing 3D parts with little dabs of plastic has a lot in common with putting ink on pages with a dot-matrix printer. While they were revolutionary for the time, you don't see many dot-matrix printers these days.
That is because you keep posting Basic Income propaganda. It is never going to work and producing a library of bullshit isn't going to change that anymore than all the books on Christian apology suddenly makes God answer prayers.

Normally I wouldn't care but if we stay the current course we may just have a chance of bootstrapping The Federation/The Culture in my lifetime, but if the UBI gets implemented that will permanently destroy the economy and we will die, just a few meters from the finish line.
Exactly — to pay just for existence, not for doing anything.
Huh, I'm in east bay and haven't seen anything like that. Where would I find it?
> Fragmentation can severely negatively impact a project as well.

Natural selection. The losers die so the winners can take up more ressources. That'd be a contribution to the shared goal.

> LLVM exists because no amount of contribution to GCC will accomplish LLVM's goals (licensing and modular design).

The reason why the competition exists doesn't matter. But the competetive pressure that results from its existence does.
OK I guess I see your point. I understand that you dislike seeing an experiment like this walking around like a real database, but on my end I don't see the downside of trying something that's radically different from the established dogma. I'll probably read that book you recommended and try something more orthodox next time for good measure, but in the meantime I'm still really interested in exploring the limitations of this design.
> [combination of things necessary for an AI to become a threat to humanity] Sound reasonable to you? Me either

The question isn't whether it "sounds reasonable". If there is even a 2% chance of that happening, we need to consider it. Anything that can end humanity is worth considering even if it is unlikely.

> Even if this were the case, there is absolutely no reason to believe that, by virtue of running on a computer, an AI will be better at computers than we are.

No, there is every reason to believe that. Once we make an AI that is equal to us, we will be able to scale it up by running it on the next generation of CPUs, or running more such CPUs in parallel. We can't scale up human intelligence in any similar way. If an AI can match us, it can far exceed us. edit: in fact, the AI may well work to scale itself up