skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is kind of a touchy subject for me. I don't practice unsafe sex but I had unprotected sex once with a guy I was dating who got pretty close to contracting the virus a day before we had sex. He is a medic and he was measuring a woman's blood sugar after she fainted. It was a small office where it happened and as he was taking the stabby pen someone pushed him and he accidentally stabbed his palm (he's unsure how the pen was armed). He didn't think much of it and took some mandatory tests, but after a few weeks he found out the woman had HIV.

We both got tested (he got tested more extensively and a few times because of his work), and we were both negative, thankfully.

To make things worse in the early phase of the virus most people develop a fever and have flu-like symptoms (according to WebMD, lol). It was just around flu season; I contracted the flu. Those two weeks that it took the test results to come back were probably the worst of my life. I can't even describe my state of mind. I was mortified. Also, the stress made my depression worse and I was genuinely on the verge of committing suicide at least a couple of times. I think the only reason why I didn't commit suicide at the time was because I thought it would effect him (the guy I was dating) too much.

After I found out I wasn't HIV positive, it took me about 2 weeks to recover from it. I tested for HIV a few more times after that, even though I didn't practice sex at all since then.

I'll never underestimate the wisdom behind the simple phrase that is play safe.

On the subject of unwanted intrusion: What's with all the spammy comments on that post? I always considered Disqus to have pretty good spam protection.
Existentialism Is a Humanism, Jean-Paul Sarte 1946
Can you clarify this by citing a specific example where a board member or executive of a privately-held company recused themselves from a recruiting decision because of a conflict of interest concern?

Could you describe more fully a case where a nepotistic hire was made at a company you have first- or second-hand knowledge of where the impetus for that hire was an outside investor? I have for-sure seen crappy and nepotistic hires at startups. That's a banal observation. What I haven't seen is quid-pro-quo.

Further: your claim wasn't simply that there are nepotistic hires (again, of course there are; banal claim) --- it's that the quid-pro-quo for those hires was commitments to subsequent mergers/acquisitions activities. That is an extraordinary claim and one I think you're unlikely to be able to back up, but, I mean, prove me wrong.
What aftermath? The settlement hasn't been approved yet. If you are a member of the class, you should send in your objections.
Yes, very good explanation.

Containers are also part of Nix (which unlike Guix uses systemd). AFAIK, in Nix these are used for booting up an isolated environment (e.g. if you're running some binary which you perhaps would like to isolate).

But they are two different things: nix package manager -> managing dependencies, containers -> managing isolation.

By performing both at once, I feel systemd is not only breaking the Unix ethos (do one thing, and do it well); but it may eventually also creep into the package manager arena. Eventually, most userland will belong to systemd.
Mo Koyfman, a VC, tweeted that it is likely a heart attack.

https://twitter.com/mokoyfman/status/594549389340876801
I'm almost tempted to pull out the old adage "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen". Yes, the C family of languages allows you to do many terrible things. It also allows you to do many great things. It is up to the programmer to decide what path to choose.

While the appropriate territory for the C family has decreased with the increase in processing capacity, there are still many areas where these languages are the right tool for the job. When another language family finally arises which offers the flexibility, conciseness and low-level access which characterises C (and its siblings, to a lesser extent) it'll be welcomed as a saviour, until that time they're the right time for the job.
Thanks - just added Endgame as well.
A subset of it, yes. Any dynamic memory allocation is out, which would pare it down heavily, but you can still reap the safety advantages with the static stuff.
that would be a job for the politicians, who directed the military to act.
This is the first time I have heard of this. For that reason, I appreciate that it was posted. Nevertheless, the author is greatly mistaken. I think we can reject most of what he says, without making too much effort, similar to how we would reject a conspiracy theory.

To pick out three things:

> Mechanism holds that every aspect of the world can be represented as a simple hierarchical structure of entities. But, while useful in fields like mathematics and manufacturing, this idea is generally worthless, because most aspects of the world are too complex to be reduced to simple structures.

Without trying to manage complexity, it becomes impossible to build real systems.

> Software, the book argues, is a non-mechanistic phenomenon. So it is akin to language, not to manufactured objects.

Well, yes, to a degree. But if you arbitrarily change a word in a 1000 page book, the book will not fall apart. If you do the same in software, most likely it will stop working. This is because there is much less dependence between sentences in natural language and the dependence is redundantly spread over many pages.

> The software elites have turned software into a weapon, a means to dominate and control society.

Sounds like a conspiracy theory too me.

Judging from the description, I also think the book lacks perspective. It's what a software engineer might expect the world to be, if he lives under a rock. Most of the world is doing just fine, and is just somewhat affected by software here and there.
Short-term point sampling can do you more harm than good—this is as true in medicine as it is in investing.

There's nothing wrong with getting an MRI every year if you aren't actually looking at it on its own, but rather diffing it in a time-series, and extracting chartable statistics from it, to see if anything in your body is getting progressively [adjective]er each year.

This approach won't actually tell you if you've got six months to live, but it's not supposed to. It's to show you that your liver has been getting 10% more scarred over with each visit, so—with evidence!—you'd better lay off the booze already. Or to find something like arteriosclerosis before it presents clinically.
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I don't mean to say a uniform eliminates a person's capacity for wrong-doing. I mean to say that for a system to work, we ought not assume wrong-doing automatically when we see the uniform, despite the news. Understand, swap "uniform" with the skin color or nationality of your choice and the same should be true.

As hacktivists and influencers or social change, we should have other means in place to make sure justice is done, and be careful not to participate in reverse racism or painting an institution initially placed for good as the enemy.
Because recently its graduates implemented stack-ranking.
Well this is Poettering. Who pretty much advocates to take the book on Unix&Linux programming and toss the parts about Unix.
The article's method is nice, it allows you to decompress portions of the file. I thought this would be about the FM index. The FM index allows you to search what is essentially a bzip'd archive for a substring far more efficiently than you would be able to search an uncompressed string for a substring. Pretty mind blowing if you think about it.

It works because the Burrows-Wheeler transform which is used in compression is closely related to the suffix array, which is a data structure used as a substring index. By adding a small amount of additional metadata to the compressed Burrows-Wheeler transformed string you can search for any substring. Its practical performance is slower than a suffix array, but the memory usage can be 100x lower.
If this is really a good thing (tm) then perhaps the best incubator to test the theory in a 'crucible of experiment' would be in corporate governance. As more corporations move towards QV (with, hopefully, good results) it may find its way into political public policy.
Make it neutrally stable, e.g. Kp = 1, Kd = 0, Ki = 0;

Click x to the right of its standstill position. When it is halfway there click x below its current position.
Indeed! Restarting at record boundaries is one option. Then an external index can point to all the ragged restart offsets, or some applications may be able to just scan for the distinct byte-patterns of likely restart offsets.

Restarting at every N-bytes boundary – for example, every 128K – is another option, though that requires a little more fancy thought to padding.

Another way to skip the need for an external index using any of these techniques, but still know the raw-data line/byte-offset when jumping to a deep position, is to encode those tallies (either chunk-by-chunk or from-start) as GZIP header "extra field" extensions. (Here's an example extension that just records per-chunk compressed- and uncompressed- byte-lengths: http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/warc/warc_file_format-...)
Thanks for posting this site, I hadn't heard of it before and intend to use it...
I tend to agree - except there are way more enemies. It's not exactly a subtle change.

Also keep in mind this was 1994. If someone ran into this, it's not like they could go complain on Twitter or Reddit where millions of people would see it and it could potentially damage Nintendo's reputation because people think the game is buggy.

Plus, Super Nintendo piracy was a lot more difficult than modern PC piracy, and it was a lot less common. It's not like today where some people will download a game just to try it out and then buy it if they like it.
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Is there something more complicated that's actually used?
It would be great to have a Hackers Guide to Healthcare. What's important, what the numbers mean, etc. I understand that certain tests (e.g. PSA) have false positives, but if we ever want to crawl out of the Dark Ages, we need to make some forward progress. Wearables, "tricorders", and early detection blood tests should be able to offer us something better in our lifetimes.

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-07-03/star-treks-t...
Yes, I suppose I left out the important part where I should turn around and state what I think the actual alternatives are, and if they don't exist, propose them :-)

I'm still getting my feet wet with this critical thinking exercise, especially where an exchange of ideas is required to hone my own! I'll have to come back to this one...
More Uber Accounts Have Been Hacked, This Time in the United States
Kim Dotcom Awarded Millions for Legal Bills and Living Expenses
> Most “buckets” that Google creates have no names — they are just nodes in a vast network of associations.

Since the buckets have no names, it sounds more like a description of an AI implementation than a simple binning/bucketing system.
The Exoplanet That Should Not Be
The license prohibition on reverse engineering rubs me the wrong way, not that I'd bother to do that. This app should be open source, especially if it is used to gather evidence for use in court.
Fundamental Innovation Peaked in 1870 and Why That's a Good Thing
Researchers ‘Hack’ the Broken Cellular Signals Behind Cancer
Run a Wi-Fi Network? HBO and Showtime Want to You to Police Your Users
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Are soldiers replaced by politicans after the surrender of the enemy?
There are many intelligent human beings who suffer from many forms of gender and/or race bias. Our very nature as humans is to surround ourselves with people who look, act, and think like us. Hiring people that could be your friends without having the insight to get beyond the inherent bias in all of us could very easily lead to a corporate structure that is extremely myopic. Not that it won't be successful, just ends up looking like Stepford Corp, look at the boardrooms of the Fortune 500 for many examples.
Or people who get the joke are downvoting it because they like serious discussion and don't want this place to eventually be filled with cheap one-line jokes like Reddit.
Just reading the linked summary (and not the paper itself), it seems like this doesn't take wealth disparity into account. If the cost for your votes is the square of the votes you want to cast, then that means people with a lot of money can trivially buy significantly more votes than people with very little money, even if they don't necessarily care more about the issue than the people with very little money. It seems like this would change tyranny of the majority into tyranny of the wealthy.
This looks great, but I don't see tabs as a feature of this, which is one of the really big things I miss when I have to work on Windows (which is thankfully quite rarely). I usually have a gnome terminal with a half dozen or more tabs (some named, some just in their usual locations) open when I'm working. I could use screen or tmux (and do when I work remotely), but tabs require less mental bandwidth, and maybe requires a different brain "core" for spatial processing (I dunno how these things work...but tabs feel less like work than cycling through screens in screen or tmux).
Do you guys sponsor H1bs ?
My last surviving win2k machine finally died. Power supply would not fire up after a power cycle. I could repair it, but maybe it is just time to leave it be.
I suppose it seems cool, since the fund pays back to the voters -- so it's effectively a tax on political influence against those who would spend a lot on a campaign. But I have to naively ask if this will really change anything. How will this divert money in politics away from directly buying off people in power. It seems like a new, parallel avenue to assault with big bucks.
Well, A) sensationalistic news would have sensationalized the hell out of any live incident, in the air or on the ground, and B) aircraft maintenance and utilization schedules being what they are, the likelihood of any 787 actually going 248 days continuously powered on is... technically not zero, but effectively indistinguishable from zero.
Read to the bottom -- it looks like the general idea here is to empower direct democracy. Less institutional power in the form of representational voting and beauraucratic/constitutional checks on each other means less attack surface for corruption.
The Cruelest Sport (1992)
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Also how temperature control in most ovens works!
After a certain point, you don't understand mathematical ideas. You just get used to them.
Right, but the money paid into the system gets redistributed equally. So the poor get paid for their troubles, and under some probably hefty assumptions they show this leading to equilibrium.
Unions are directly contrary to the freedom and flexibility of switching jobs. They tie your pay to how many years you've worked at a company, not how skilled you are.

I'd rather have my wage fixed by a corporation than a union. At least corporations value skill.
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I learnt something related to this from a brain surgeon relating to actual positives.

Say that a random scan uncovers that you have a minor brain aneurysm. The aneurysm's size and location implies it has a chance of rupture of around 0.2% per year. The operation to resolve the aneurysm, however, may have a 5% risk of death.

Weighing up the decision to have an operation is incredibly difficult, since most would be rather distracted by the idea of a ticking timebomb going off in their head at any time, yet the risk of the operation is more immediately significant. If undetected, the aneurysm may never rupture, or it may grow to a size where it causes other symptoms and can then be operated on.

(Or, of course, as in the case of a young friend of mine in his then early 20s, pretty much anyone can keel over at any time due to an undetected aneurysm anyway.. it's totally pot luck.)
> There is a lot of technology work [...] that improves peoples' lives in immensely meaningful ways. The problem is that you never hear about it on Hacker News.

Why don't you post some articles about it, then? I believe this community would love nothing better than to learn about immensely meaningful technical work that they've never heard about. I know I would.
That's why the cost is the square of the number of votes. Then someone with 100x the wealth would be able to only buy 10x the votes. If you consider the act of lobbying for policy to be equivalent to purchasing votes then currently the cost is linear. Of course by that analogy there's no real way to enforce quadratic cost on lobbyists, but perhaps if there was an alternate "legitimate" means for individuals to purchase voting power then they might follow such a scheme if the alternative were illegal and strictly policed.
Theoretically, this could be fixed by making the cost of votes expressed as a percentage of your income and/or wealth.

Some european countries like Switzerland are applying this principle to traffic tickets. It's not uncommon for rich people in fast cars paying few hundred thousand dollars for a speeding ticket.
NIH isn't limited to the commercial world. There's a problem to be solved, and inventing a solution is much better for one's career than pointing out an existing solution.
Personally Trulia, StubHub, Coursera, Bonobos, Snapchat, and Instagram also fail to make the useful innovation cut. If 20+ companies do the same thing and 1 one them wins that does not mean the winner is 'innovative'.

lytro is actually innovative. It might not be successful, but again that's a seperate category.
Best quote from the story: SSH-ing from the third row of DEFCON into the laptop at Arecibo to send commands to the space probe that was about to fly past the moon
Is Condoleeza Rice still on your board of directors?
And?

Revenue is still a component in purchase price. Apple doesn't have enough cash on hand to buy Samsung either way.

You folks can keep throwing out things-measured-in-dollars like they mean things. But none of them are components that mean cash>asking price.
This does support tabs in the default configuration. Ctrl+T opens new ones.
"The same can be said about the lack of grammar for social relationships and politeness levels in English compared to Japanese. Would you say that it is English's weakness?"

Yes. :-)

My native language is not English. So I don't believe English is perfect by any means, because I know other languages are better for other things.

For example, English way of writing is terrible for expressing sounds. Japanese or the korean ways are much better Or Spanish by the way.

Any country has a propaganda system in order to make people believe their system is the best, and you can't fight against it.

I know there is no way I could convince a Chinese person that the language they speak is outdated, because it is not rational fact but emotional. There are no rational facts against nationalistic dogmas people are feed since they are born.

In fact if it is the only language someone speaks this person is heavily invested in believing their system is the best.

If you go to North Korea all people there feel pity for the rest of the world, mostly because they don't know better.

"but to say one language is better than another in an absolute sense does not seem logical."

I had never said that one language is better than another in absolute sense.

I have said that Chinese is outdated. I have said that it is a better language for reading ancient works, but it has not evolved like other languages.

This is not something I say, this is something Chinese emperors' counselors agreed while having knowledge of other cultures, and their own(there were alphabetic systems inside China Like Mongol's). It was a conscious decision not to evolve the language, because of different reasons.

It is certainly not politically correct in China just the idea that if you force children to learn thousands of symbols in order to properly read, or the order of hundreds of groups in order to properly write, that there are simpler, more evolved ways.

Just comparing a system that requires high levels memory and five years of learning with another that requires one for doing the same is not something I wanted to do.
The man who may one up Darwin
Why update if you want to keep linux as it is? I am sure there are a few LTS distros around that will stay systemd free for the next few years.
Conemu, which this builds upon, has tabs. And the Keyboard shortcuts section lists keys for tab management.
That's not true. Unions tie pay to whatever the unions decide to tie pay to.

If you want your union to set a pay schedule based on lines of code, certificates earned, whatever, go for it: it's your union.
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So is Apple, and Samsung has nation state support it can use as leverage in a buyout (Since we're trading stupid buyout scenarios)
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And I think this is a common story for almost any virus: once you get it, you have it for life, but for most of your life, while your immune system is strong, the virus will remain repressed. But once you get older, those viruses start coming back.

I would say that's a minority of viruses. There are some great examples of viruses that stay dormant in the body (HSV, HCV), but most viruses are completely cleared by the immune system.
The immune response is plenty strong as it is. The problem is getting it to target things that have evolved for thousands of years to avoid it.

Auto immune diseases and allergies are some indication that it is a delicate balancing act.
I had to abandon 2k after i tried swapping the motherboard on it, and ended up with the blue screen of "don't have driver X for critical hardware Y".
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Love this! I built a very simple version of this with Angular about a year ago for people with roommates. Very effective and a great way to keep everyone on top of chores.
When you say Java I'm assuming you're refering to a JVM? Now what JVM are you refering to?
Is this guy a Scientologist or something?
I feel like this could potentially work with "voting tokens" or something else that's not money. Maybe with some sort of crypto verification. You'd still have the scarcity that the system demands, but without the "inequality baggage" you'd start out with if the system were implemented with actual money.

If you implemented this system using money to buy votes, then you'd end up... well probably with something like the inequality situation we have today.
I thought that too, and read this looking for a good resource on it:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8538/

Several times it discusses viruses that are treated as acute but probably persistent (including measles and various intestinal and respiratory viruses).
The cost per vote increases quadratically. If the first vote costs $1, then buying one million votes would cost one trillion dollars. If there are 50 million voters, then this trillion dollars would be distributed among them: $200,000 each.

It would be extremely difficult to buy massive numbers of votes without paying hugely to the rest of the electorate.
Great... I will see, thanks a lot.