skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But even if someone is uninformed, or grossly misinformed, they can still run for office, vote, talk to their members of Congress, or serve on a jury. There is no "how informed are you" test at all for those things, beyond the vague free-flowing conversation between citizens.

When it comes to who should make government policy, fundamentally the questions is not "how informed is enough," the question is "who gets to decide how informed is enough." Or roughly "who watches the watchers."
Believe it or not, it appears gcloud-golang package already contains go bigtable library :)
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-golang/commit/...
"deal with violent offenders on a daily basis"

A hunting, or a genocidal, relationship involves one side gunning down the other while sustaining minimal casualties.

An infantry war relationship as often proposed as the model for America's Police (which in itself is pretty screwed up, implying we as tax payers are the bad guy enemies that the good blue guys need to kill) involves about the same number of body bags on both sides. Oh sure Alexander the Great or Caesar or Rommel could have done 10:1 ratio of body bags, but there aren't many military commanders like that. Not in most police forces anyway.

Observationally the general public has FAR more to fear from cops than cops have to fear from the general public. The bodies, mostly minority boys, are stacked like cordwood on one scale of justice and other other has a very small handful of coffins, very small indeed.

Its inappropriate to describe a huntsmans relationship to his meat in terms of nobility that make it sound like a brave infantry soldier on the front lines.
I am aware of theoretical physicists applying statistical mechanical principles to understand neurons and biological neural networks (one example: [1]). This is a reasonably hot topic in bio-physics. I am also aware of researchers who are applying state of the art high-dimensional data analysis to MRI, etc. (one example: [2]).

I would modify your assertion to: "this kind of application of high-level physics and math should be more common."

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/dept/app-physics/cgi-bin/person/sur...

[2] http://jelena.ece.cmu.edu/bimagic.html
What kind of ageism have you experienced ? Can you describe some experiences ?
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Hey guys,

I want to start using Twitter as a means of finding good web software content. I'm a big javascripter. Love reading about interesting new frameworks/libraries/tools, opinions on why things are sucky/awesome, or general how to become a better engineer style articles. I mostly use HackerNews and Flipboard for finding content. An example of someone on Twitter that is posting relevant material is David Walsh. Love the stuff he tweets.

So, my question is: who are some great Twitter users for filling my feed with interesting web content?
Dude don't be such a cynic. You can use a paper based ledger system as a backup to the paper scraps. Meanwhile all the group members can sell their academiccoin paper scraps for dollars and perform their group dealings using the greenbacks as a sort of proxy. This has the immediate advantage of allowing you to store your currency in bank accounts and buy newspapers and gum. Then when you run out of smokes and beer for example you can just issue some academiccoin2s to yourself and repeat the process.
What's so good about this OS X graphics pipeline that isn't on anything else? I'm now super curious.
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It depends upon the person.

For some, causing pain to those close is a forcing pulling them away from doing it.

For some, it doesn't matter.

For some, causing pain only makes them want to do it more.
"If you talk to any cop working right now, they will tell you this. This is why 99% don't see the light of day."

On the other hand, the last couple years we've seen just how willing the justice system is to go after cops.
I use the same technique of bundling the necessary dynamic libraries and gconv files for the git-annex standalone tarball distribution. I've observed users untarring that onto arbitrary wacky NAS boxes and it just working, which is pretty nice.

I later adapted that for use in propellor too, when it's deploying docker/etc containers. This allows propellor to bootstrap itself to run inside an arbitrary docker container. http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/propelling_containers/

Later, I used propellor's ability to bootstrap itself this way to let it copy itself onto a VM and run there to replace its content with a clean reinstall of Debian. http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/clean_OS_reinstalls_with_propel...
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I understand "related to cooling" as Mac Pro's cooling in this setup is 5-10x more efficient.
Rackspace Mail if you can do $10/month. It's $2 per mailbox, but there's a $10 monthly minimum per billing account.

They're the pros for hosted business e-mail. 3 million paid mailboxes. 100% uptime guarantee with an SLA behind it. 24x7x365 live support. If you want to talk to someone at 3AM on Christmas Eve, someone will pick up the phone. And you get all the stuff you expect: IMAP/POP/webmail, 25GB mailboxes, automatic backups, good spam filters, forwarding/aliasing/routing, SSL endpoints. I've never had deliverability problems, and in 7+ years can't ever remember there being downtime.

http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/webmail/
I've been working on that for a while.
Thanks for the reply, I get what you mean now.
Because it's a shitty excuse for deliberately breaking UX.

Because it's an indication that the designer believes he/she knows better than the OS programmers, the browser programmers, and the user when it comes to site ergonomics when said belief is demonstrably misguided.

Because it doesn't fix the problem.
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> There is a mapping that assumes $US -> utility. But that's not necessarily a valid map.

That's exactly what I'm saying isn't happening. You're attacking a straw man.

Very few people are stupid enough to believe that any one number is a perfect measure of utility. Certainly not any economist I know of.

> Surely economists use a functional form for utility in their models. My objection is that utility (if it exists) has a functional form that is unknowable to us.

That's true, and also completely irrelevant, because no economist I know of is claiming that they can measure utility perfectly. At the very best, they can estimate an approximation of utility that maps roughly to the things that they or their audience value.

Obviously USD isn't utility, but if you're claiming that therefore economic models which measure things in USD are completely useless, you're just wrong. USD are useful for measuring utility in a lot of situations.

> Predictive models are all false. But some are more false than other, no?

No, things are either true or false, there is no middle ground. What I think you're trying to say, though, is what I said earlier:

"The question is not whether they're false, it's what the margin of error is in relation to reality."

> Economics, while I respect the points, seems to have had a bit of a bad predictive streak. It's great at predicting what has happened when it'd fed what happened before. But that's modeling after the fact.

Let's not forget that the alternative you're proposing is to treat literally everyone's opinion on economic issues as valid.

Yes, the accuracy bar for what passes as an economic prediction is pretty low. I don't see how this is argument that we should set the bar even lower.

> But I make no secret at getting annoyed at the suggestion I have to do a Turing test on Tirole's life work when the fundamentals of the field are in question.

If you're going to claim that the fundamentals of a field are in question, you might first want to know what the fundamentals of the field are. Given you think that economics deals in generalized utility, you'll excuse me if I don't take your questioning of the fundamentals of economics very seriously.

Economists are quite aware that dollars and any other single-number measures aren't utility. That's incredibly obvious. Are you really so arrogant that you think you're the first person to notice this despite literally thousands of very smart people devoting their lives to studying this?
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> no other language has co-opted yet.

Check out Dylan, Julia, and my old hobby language Magpie[1].

[1]: http://magpie-lang.org/multimethods.html
I have a T440p laptop which opens up very nicely and cleanly for user hard drive replacement. 2 screws and the whole back cover pops off, no "warranty void" stickers or any of that. I also upgraded the WiFi module to one that supports 5 GHz, and upgraded the RAM to 16GB, all without any fuss from the chassis. It was significantly cheaper to order the barebones system and do these upgrades myself than to order a more advanced system pre-assembled from Lenovo.

So I don't think changing a hard drive would void it. But also, I don't usually care about warranties. Things usually break only after the warranty expires, and for any electronic device, as long as it's a common enough model number it's usually possible to get spare parts on eBay when the time comes.
I'm trying to figure out if your situation is fortunate or unfortunate.

You're fortunate that you've done what you have wanted to achieve at 30 yrs old.

Unfortunate that you feel like you're done at age 30.
indeed. at the risk of entering tinfoil hat land, note the following http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/12/on-new-snowd... ..although also the not 100% reassuring https://nohats.ca/wordpress/blog/2014/12/29/dont-stop-using-...
> If the act of issuing tokens is disconnected from the process of bringing value into the given ecosystem, then the act of issuing tokens is merely inflationary. If the act of issuing tokens is directly connected to bringing value ("Bob brought X units of value in, Bob gets X tokens"), then it's not really a basic income.

True, the process of issuing tokens disconnected from new value is inflationary. But that doesn't imply that the currency as a whole is inflationary.

Some members might not be doing anything for some period of time and simply inflating the currency while others are deflating it through value creation. But sooner or later those folks will produce something of new value that deflates the currency while others take a break.

It's certainly possible. Universities do this for their tenured professors today and it seems to work out fairly well.

See also this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501494
They're really nice pics and you did a great job explaining everything!
Any thoughts on the final line of this refers to?

AUTHENTICATED CRYPTOGRAPHY PATENT NO.: 7,827,408

Message encryption and authentication are typically performed separately. In other words,
a message is encrypted using one method and then a cryptographic hash of the message is generated
using a second method.
This invention is a device for and method of encrypting and authenticating a message and authenticating any additional
information. The present invention provides a cryptographically stronger authentication method and is more efficient to implement, than the prior art.

VALUE:
Provides combined authenticated encryption in efficient manner. Does not require random numbers, two encryption keys, or checksums.
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Depends on the laptop. Often 'Lenovo' translates to 'ThinkPad', where nearly every component is meant to be accessible and easy to switch out.
Ask HN: LZ4 was not added as an optional compressor in HTTP/2, why gzip only?
So, pretty much everyone agrees that LZ4 is a superior codec for on-the-fly compression of data, and works especially well with HTML and XML and JSON.

Yet, we still only allow gzip for HTTP compression. What gives? I use gzip -9 + advdef -z -4 -i 1000 + nginx's gzip_static for static resources; but with dynamic HTML, I'm stuck with gzip -1 (with anything more, compression tends to take longer than the data saved wrt a modern Internet connection (>10mbps)).

LZ4 would perform better here and require less CPU on the remote side (not a big thing on desktops and laptops, but a huge thing on cell phones and such), so why did Google and Mozilla and the IETF working group overlook this?
Complaining on twitter is not the same as finding an issue! Criticism has value, but not all commentary deserves equal weight or time before it is reasonable to request reciprocal effort.
Sad that this was downvoted. I'll add an upvote because I think it's relevant.
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Do you happen to have a TV? A fine large display for most folks.

For pros (programmers) there will continue to exist dedicated large displays, pro keyboards and whatever else. Look at professional gear of audio or video engineers, or CAD users, they have pretty impressive devices to use with computers. It's just not what mass users have at home.

Fully offline desktop computing will remain possible, much like running a C64 or an MSX machine (possibly in a form of new, much cooler hardware) remains possible. It's just not very relevant.
Mobile devices will presumably jack in to large monitors or head mounted displays of some kind, plus a good keyboard of some kind, and pointing device(track pad). Thanks to Moores law you should be able to have the equivalent of a desktop experience driven by a mobile device soon.

The one problem is being slave to Apple and Google having absolute control of the OS, software and apps you can run. The only plus is their hegemony does help with security but neither one of them is even remotely trustable with the keys to every personal computer on the planet. There is irony that the creator of the big brother commercial in 1984 is increasingly, you know, big brother.

P.S.

Not sure how Daves self promotion blogging rose so far on hacker news. It actually has almost nothing to do with Doug Engelbart. He was just name dropping, something he often does, before doing what he usually does, self promotion. Yes there is that age discrimination angle which plays well with some old programmers, but not me.

People who spend their time complaining about discrimination should spend more time doing something that people will value regardless of your age, sex or gender. At that point your age, sex and gender become irrelevent especially on the Internet which tends to be blind to these things until you wear them on your sleeve. Dave likes to use his age to promote a martyr complex angle.

Ive looked at most of Daves recent projects and none of them are particularly interesting.
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So... I always thought one of the first things that would be implemented over cryptocurrency protocols would be a form of "closed-group socialism" where people's income is held in trust by a fund, which then allocates it (either through one-way transfers, or by issuing credit) according to people's current "scores" in the blockchain ledger, whatever those entail.

This system seems to want to do that... but without the part where people's actual money is being redistributed. I don't get it.
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Thank you all for your comments. They are a big encouragement for me. This thread struck a chord and I feel like telling you my own story:

I am not that old (44) but still..

I practice programming since I was 14, tinkering with ZX Spectrum basic and then assembly.
After finishing pharmacy school in my home country (Greece - my parents insisted not to study CS) i went to the UK where after one year of formal CS education I landed my dream job as a software engineer in a big, now defunct, telecomms company (Nortel).

The highlight of my career? meeting Linus Torvalds in a conference about operating systems in 1997, where I went as a representative for my company, and having beers with him afterwards discussing the Linux threading model. He was not that famous back then. Top guy.

Anyway, shortly after that I had to come back to my home country and and although I had good offers from companies in the UK and the US I decided to stop my career abroad and live in greece.

The problem was that money as a programmer here was not that good, but mainly that there were basically only windows application programming jobs, VB6, VC++, MSAccess and the like. Boring stuff which I disliked since I was doing unix systems - network programming up to that point (that was 2001).

So i decided to change career, working as an IS - business consultant in multinational companies (AA and Ernst & Young), jobs that had nothing to do with programming. I did that for some years but got bored and pursued a Phd while working part time in my family's real-estate development business. However the real estate sector totally collapsed in Greece in 2009 because of the financial crisis and I had to change career path Yet Another Time (yat, similar to yacc in unix terminology :) So now i run my own small-scale pharmacy business (Pharmacy was my first degree).

The thing is that I feel somehow unfulfilled. Although I never stoped programming, for the last 15 years this is a hobby for me and not my main occupation. I feel unfulfilled because I now know that programming is my true passion and I should have never deviated from it, professionally-wise. Anyway.

Sometimes I envision that, because of necessity (the economic situation in greece is deteriorating fast, to say the least) I will have to abandon my doings here and pursue again a carear as a programmer abroad. But how? not only I am 44, but for the past 14 years I had no formal Software Engineering job.

Meanwhile, I am building a webapp using all the latest and gratest sexy toys (javascript, laravel etc) hoping that it won't result in a total waste of time. At least I am having lots of fun.

kk
I've been listening to guys like you whine like this for the whole of my 30+ year career (including starting a couple of companies). If the business friendly ecosystem, low tax, libertarian nirvana you guys pine for existed outside of the US, you'd all be gone. It doesn't, and it's not going to any time soon. For most entrepreneurs, starting and building a business in the US has probably never been easier. So quit "threatening" to pull an Atlas Shrugged on us; that shtick has been tedious and silly for decades.
I have to commend Tim Ferris for speaking out about this. He's worked his brand to the point of steel- making it sometimes hard to see him as a normal human being. I am a fan of his tip and tricks, but I really appreciate that he was vulnerable here in order to start this discussion.
I know you mean well, but this is classic terrible advice, based on an incorrect understanding of depression. It's not boredom (cured by white water kayaking). It's not a lack of endorphins (stimulated by biking, etc). It's not stress (-> cannabis). It's not that one just forgot that there's good things in life, and some Alan Watts will snap you out of it.
I'm not trying to lure you down the flops per dollar rabbithole... but when i was researching the mac pro before purchasing, putting together a computer with GPUs providing the same flop performance was something like 80-90% of the cost of the mac pro. the D700's are really good. This is just an anecdote based on my memory, so take with a grain of salt, but the comparison is probably not as bad as you are imagining.
Samsung Note 3. Also Siri is not as good as the Android voice.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/periscope-blog-assets/lazy-analysts...

Link for those who don't want to give an email address and name (that will undoubtedly be used for marketing purposes, I'm sure).
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>Some examples of value are clearly listed there, so I'm not sure what the confusion is.

Some of your cites for basic income mention $30k a year as a target. Therefore, your 1000 respected researchers would have to generate value of $33 million just to provide themselves the bare minimum of basic income. Where does this $33 million magically come from (and reliably appear every single year)? Ask graduate students how hard it is to win grants for modest amounts of $250000.

In the real world today, if 1,000 researchers are mostly grad students on stipends, would the sum of their incomes[1] exceed $33 million? Also to keep in the spirit of "basic" income, some of those researchers don't want to work or can't work. The others must pick up the slack and create enough value to cover basic income for them.

You haven't explained how enough value is created to solve basic income. Again, basic income is not a "currency" problem.

[1]https://www.gradschool.cornell.edu/costs-and-funding/stipend...
I work in Washington state, for the county hosting the state capital in Fire/EMS. We are just now (Mar-Apr 2015) beginning to use Electronic Medical Records, tough tablets for field patient contacts. Prior to that records were done on paper, and transcribed (but at least that happened).

As an aside, the software used for EMR on the Android tablets is... a horrific abomination.
"we don't want to live in a world without policemen"

No need for binary thinking. We already no longer have policemen, we have infantry soldiers trained in urban combat with "shoot first ask questions later" rules of engagement and military weapons, deployed with an us vs them attitude, considerable deeply embedded racism issues, and a strong organizational opposition to respecting the occupied area's resident's civil rights. Or, in summary, it sucks.

I agree with you, in part, its not as bad as having no order at all, which is hardly the only alternative to what we have now. I'd like living in an area with a police force. Military occupation force, not so good. But "real cops" would be OK.
Well remember: 74 is the new 24, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u5c-Qndqio

(The artist that did that music video is 74)
This paper explains the exploitations of High Frequency Trading and it's effects on the stock markets of today. The authors are from Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School - The B-school being one of the top business schools for investing specialists (particularly value investing).

If you've read Security Analysis or Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham (also from Columbia), this shouldn't concern you. Even the conclusion from the paper is that "there is no emergency requiring immediate, poorly-considered action." The day-to-day micro trades of a HFT firm bear little consequence to the long-term performance of a security. What should concern you is Mr. Market[1]. Mispricing of securities (i.e. from a poor earnings report, sell from an instituitional index fund because it dropped from a large cap to a mid cap, etc.) and the inefficiencies of irrational trades create opportunities for investors, even for the individual investor.

In a bull market like our current one that is going over 6 years strong, it's hard to find that value (and even then, if you don't have time to learn investing, you're still best off holding a broad, low-cost, tax-efficient index funds in stocks and bonds), but it still exists. And it's not being exploited by HFT or Institutional pollution. You just have to know where to find it.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mr-market.asp
In North America at least, any good tech company worth working for will ask you to write code on a whiteboard or computer. I am not sure where do you interview.
About this prediction:

"in the future, every decision mankind makes, every decision, is going to be informed by a cognitive system like Watson and, as a result, our lives in this world are going to be better for it."

well if by "better" you mean "more machine-like and regulated like animals in a zoo".

This is already somewhat true of consumer credit reports, and now this: http://www.ibtimes.com/china-use-big-data-rate-citizens-new-...