skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue his would create better doctors by encouraging people who have a calling for the vocation, not just the higher pay check.

Also, something I noticed while living in Norway for a few years, it's much more common to make big career changes mid life. Their system is quite supportive of this and allows you to maintain a reasonable lifestyle while you do. It's a really good system IMO.
"Worse in every way than myself." Well, I mean, obviously not in every way.
"Pegasus Global Holdings, through its operating subsidiaries and special purpose vehicles, is an international technology development firm. We have demonstrated expertise in defense, security, telecommunications, and Intellectual Property capture through its ability to source globally “market-ready” IP from public and private innovators, enablers, and incubators."

Between that lovely back-of-the-Economist description and the CVs of their management team [1] (DoD, DoD, "aerospace", nuke industry, etc.) it's at least clear they're a Deep State affiliate.

[1] http://www.pegasusglobalholdings.com/management.html
I don't see why we should be skeptical. It seems to lack the usual warning signs like small samples or questionable statistics, and, for all the skepticism most laymen have ('but how do we know vitrification does preserve memory even if it preserves everything else?!') this is what one should have expected, if only from related instances like comas and drownings - whatever memory is physically encoded as, exactly, it's clearly not ultra-evanescent.
Regarding the high taxes, this is a bit of a fallacy. See the tax table: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rate...

It's more about getting value for money across he wider population in social support vs spending on a big military and government pushing funds to support the 0.001%
I'm hoping Cuckoo Cycle can change that (https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo)
I'd upvote this twice if I could. Human settlements require water more than anything else. No water; no city.

If you want to develop more or larger cities in the southwest, that requires a megaproject--several, actually. You burrow a tunnel canal from the Gulf of California into Laguna Salada. From there, you burrow on to the Salton Trough. And you create a similar tunnel canal from the Pacific into Death Valley. That's part A.

For part B, you build some new nuclear plants whose energy output goes entirely into creating artificial clouds on the shores of those artificial inland seas, along with Mono Lake, Lake Crowley, Lake Tahoe, Goose Lake, Pyramid Lake, Great Salt Lake, Utah Lake, Sevier Lake--anywhere that has enough volume that the cloud generators won't dry it up between rains. For the rains needed to keep the freshwater lakes filled, you will have also build evaporators on the ocean coast.

The point is to "bounce" that rainwater over the Rocky Mountains, so that the vast rain shadow east of them gets more precipitation. Though it sounds like an insanely expensive project (it would be), by far the cheapest way to move large amounts of water over long distances is to build a cloud upwind of where you want the water to be, and then collect it from the river for that watershed.

The second cheapest way would be to move your water very slowly through an existing aquifer. So for part C, you also pierce the caliche in several places over the Ogallalla aquifer. The rain "bounced" over the mountains can then partially drain into one end of the aquifer.
"Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty."

-John Muir
For what it's worth, the short urls you generate are http://rndmlnk.com/s/<whatever> but requests to rndmlnk.com 302 redirect to www.rndmlnk.com. This adds an unnecessary redirect.
I originally felt that your remarks were essentially an ad hominem attack themselves, made by imputation rather than explicitly.

Rather than go with that, I decided to interpret them in a sympathetic light. Although this required that I imagine you as having experienced rejection, it allowed me to treat your characterization of someone who might think you were bragging ("small," "insecure", "self-loathing") as understandable within the context of bewildered injury.
>Nothing you are referring to is limited to America or capitalism.

Fair enough. Let's call it all equal then.

>The argument for capitalism is not about equality, but relative mobility compared to other systems.

The argument for socialism (or socialism-like endeavors) is about equality; when societies are more equal, 'relative mobility' is less important, because the place you're in is less likely to be so horrible that you're dying to get out of it.
This is awesome. Well done.
yes, but it will take hundreds of years
I didn't really read the article, I just Ctrl-F'd for "Japan". Japanese is among the healthiest food cultures in the world, if you go by obesity prevalence and life expectancy, and one I happen to know very well.

Predictably, the author mentions something about "sushi and soy sauce" because that's the only thing he cared to learn about.

Forgive me a short anecdote. About ten years ago to the day, I was backpacking around Kyushu with a friend of mine. One afternoon we had grown particularly thirsty, and when we happened upon a farm with cows we sought the owner to see if there was any milk. She was extraordinarily gracious and invited us into her home. They had milk, of course, but far more interesting to me was the 90+ year old grandmother of the house, who was just about to arrive from picking a kind of wild vegetable that grew everywhere and happened to be in season that week. When she entered the house and saw the two of us, she presented us with the crop and kowtowed such that her face, knees, and hands were all on the floor, to honor us. Remarkably spry for a 90 year old.

In Japan there is a time and a season for every ingredient. We (Americans) go to the supermarket every week and expect the same boring vegetables because we have no idea how to make dinner unless it's tomatoes, onions, and broccoli, if we are even making our own food at all. If those things aren't in season we have them shipped from other countries. In reality the food we need is all around us, or at least it is in places the environment hasn't been completely destroyed. Industrial food will never lead us to the kind of richness of variety and sensitivity to season you will find in Japan, or France, or almost anywhere that isn't the USA really.

Yes, industrial factory food makes life 'easier' for us, but does it really make life better? We like to eat our chicken without contemplating the fact that all our animals are spending their entire lives in an abattoir.

Take a look at what actual food looks like (it's not sushi and soy sauce):
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E5%89%B2%E7%83%B9%E6%96%99%...
This is a good question. There's a lot of active research into chemical fixation and then doing brain scanning on thin slices to reconstruct the connectome and other features, with regular progress like "High-resolution whole-brain staining for electron microscopic circuit reconstruction", Mikula & Denk 2015 http://connectomes.org/pdf/mikula2015_.pdf . I have some more links in http://www.gwern.net/plastination

The upsides to chemical fixation or plastination is that you avoid issues with temporary interruptions in cooling (as far as we know, Alcor and CI have a nearly perfect record in maintaining LN2 coldness, but one could wonder how well that will work for the next century) since a fixated brain will be stable at room temperature, and you can have a much more quantifiable idea how much progress has been made in fixation and scanning through things like the BPF's prizes (http://www.brainpreservation.org/). So that makes this attractive.

The downside is that there is no infrastructure setup (there's no one you can go to and say "here's $10k, please wait by my bedside and as soon as I'm declared legally dead, dunk my head in osmium"), and the concerns about cryonics being too slow are magnified massively - people are worried about vitrification taking several hours and cryonics possibly being too late, but the current fixation solutions take more on the order of a month and don't necessarily fixate the entire brain volume. So you may get a great preservation which can be easily stored and imaged at high quality without any concerns about how to heat it back up... but what will you be imaging?

If I died tomorrow, I would go with regular cryonics hands-down no contest. But in 30 years? If Mikula, Hayworth, the BPF, Seung, etc keep on pushing forward this area, maybe then plastination will be equal or superior.
First try, didn't even read your comment until after the fact.

http://i.imgur.com/IJgi1gc.png
Rediscover it? Average folks never discovered it in the first place.
I volunteer to eat whatever chef watson cooks for me.
I guess that's a valid point, that I hadn't considered. But surely there's a way to provide water. We're talking about a population shift, not a population increase so the country's net water usage should not increase. Maybe giant water collectors that obtain moisture from the atmosphere?
That's a factor in some places, but not all. In my city, we have about 1,000 multi family vacant properties and a tight rental market.

In SFO or similar places, it definitely a core part of the problem.
This is one reason that I favor sunset provisions so much. Most laws should sunset automatically without renewal.
I feel that screen space is more important than CPU or RAM when using Xcode, so if you're wondering which upgrades to get, make sure you pick the larger screen before anything else. But yes, I've previously used a 13" MacBook Air with 4GB RAM for Xcode development (and web development too) and it was fine. The only time I ever hit the limitations of the hardware, besides wanting more screen space, was when using Vagrant. A MBP will be perfectly fine.

That said, I'd always recommend an iMac over a MacBook if you're going to be in one place. An iMac plus the new MacBook or an iPad for travel is my ideal setup.

For the most part, I wouldn't worry about specs when buying Apple hardware. There will be some cases where you still have to think about it (gaming, say) but overall, the lineup is pretty clear. Get the MacBook or MacBook Air if you travel, get the MacBook Pro if you travel and need performance, get the iMac if you want a desktop and the Mac Pro if you want a performance desktop. And don't get the Mac Mini. Then, configure whichever you pick to be as powerful as your budget will allow. I can't remember how fast the CPU in my iMac is, nor what type of RAM it uses - and that's how it should be. Pick your computer based on what you'll use it for, not specs, then forget about it and get to work.
Curious to know how you found out, and why you don't bring it up with your manager.

This is why Spolksy has his tiered plans where everyone gets paid the same (hiring someone at a higher payrate means raising everyones pay)

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090401/how-hard-could-it-be-em...
I think it's an appropriate term. The employer that asks people to show up at 8:30 for a job where they're only getting paid 9-5 is a thief, no different than the guy on the street that takes $10 out of your wallet. If we called it what it is, maybe people would feel shame like they ought to.
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We knew what he meant, which was the point of the communication. He is making a general observation about data, not a formal proof.
What does this look like?
http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=shn105pimk7
Logic Gates (es6 version)
A Rorschach test.
not joking, female organ system?
This app just facilitates short-sighted abuse of commercial infrastructure while opening clients up to a massive security vulnerability. Doesn't surprise me one bit that this comes from China. They have a culture of extreme self-interest with complete disregard of the implications against other people or even themselves long term.
Whose Phone Is This?
It hangs because it waits to time out. It will fail faster if you set the IP to something impossible instead of merely unavailable.
Does your estimation include procrastination time?
When I make an estimation of the tasks - be it assignment, projects or some reading I want to do, it often starts well for a day. Then next couple of days I sometimes get sad, sometimes depressed. I question myself what I'm doing with life and compare it with what I should be doing. Then I look at things what I could do and question why am I doing what I'm doing right now. Then the phase comes where I get scared of failure. I search for motivation, in music, in articles, what great people said, how they lived. Then I gather enough courage and enthusiasm to finish the task. However, When i look back, I have just taken more than a week to finish the project which according to my assumption, if I worked hard should've been finished in 2-3 days.
Does anyone experience these things? Am I normal?
Good clients understand that figuring out the what is as important as how and when. If you have issues with people not understanding the importance of each of those verbs in terms of business and technology then move on politely. Don't waste your time.
I share the same opinion, even sth as simple as TI makes things so much better. It's not only about writing but also reading the code.

A good summary what's wrong with the type systems of the java era: http://www.slideshare.net/ScottWlaschin/c-light
editing the hosts file requires admin privileges doesn't it? Doing it in the browser means it works for everybody that can launch arbitrary executables.
Came here to say the exact same thing.
I think in a lot of countries (including USA) there is a medical doctor's workers union or somesuch successfully lobbying for a regulation on the number of doctors that are trained each year. So the system is far from free market, more resembling medieval guild system, of which it did originate.
Some enterprises MITM all PKI encrypted channels so that they can monitor all of its communications.
One fundamental problem in evaluating the effectiveness of educators is that the value of an educational experience is realized a long time after it is performed.
Phantom: http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=ojs105prvet
> It seems like every single young woman has bizarre food taboos that are based on no rational basis.

I'll ignore the blatant sexism.

As a young woman, although admittedly not single, who happens to be vegan I really don't understand the point you are trying to make here.

I am vegan because I would rather not have had a sentient animal purposely killed for my meal - and it is a decision I came to after years of thought and consideration.

And yes, there is a growing trend of people caring what they put in their bodies - whether it is noticing that caffeine after 2pm disturbs their sleep, or that as they age they need to consider an increase in b12 or vitamin D - the majority of these choices are very rational ones - I have yet to meet a person whose diet choices fall out of the range of rationality - except, perhaps, the excuses people give me for not cutting down the amount of <insert foot they acknowledge they eat too much of> in their diet.
I've rarely had a good store bought strawberry, and had great strawberries in the garden growing up. Not Wild Strawberries however. This variety had been in the family for years, but probably had been commercially bought plants from the 50s. As the TEDx talk you mention may note probably very very different from real wild strawberries.

Really commented because I felt very compelled to diss store bought strawberries.
Exactly. I was raised poor, as were my parents, and my grandparents on both sides before them. I learned a lot of bad financial habits from them which screwed me up in my 20s, but I've unlearned most of that and I'm on the right track now.

One thing I learned from them that turned out to be beneficial is to think small; don't buy something I can't afford. Six years ago I made my first house purchase at the age of 32, and while it's not a McMansion in an upper-middle-class subdivision, it's a practical and affordable home. My mortgage payment including taxes and insurance fees is less than $400/month for a three-bedroom farmhouse on half an acre of land. I'm not in a subdivision so I'm not subject to my neighbors' whims about curtain colors and such, and in five years I'll have it paid off (and our vehicles are already paid off).

My health isn't the best, and if I end up having to retire early it will be comforting to know that my family will have a paid-for home and cars, and we won't have to choose between making a house payment or buying groceries in a given month.
By email? Or do you send a physical note?
Most of the time the hash isn't successful, so you modify the block slightly and try again, over and over billions of times.

Question: What exactly gets modified over and over again? Is it the nonce that gets tweaked through every iteration? And is it correct to assume that for a fixed number of transactions that are added to a block, that there may not be a hash that works?
Google's motive is to make money, and they do that largely through advertising. There's nothing ulterior about the motive I'm suggesting. More information on you means they can charge a higher price for the privilege of advertising certain products or services to you. Of course, the fact that the same information they sell to advertisers is also easily accessible by the government with a mere subpoena, if even that, is of little concern to Google, Eric Schmidt, or remarkably even to many HN posters in this thread.
This sort of "empty praise" is also commonly encountered in blog comments as spam, because it is so easily generated. I suppose others here have experienced the same.
> Open source lets you have full control of your future, while not needing to write all the code yourself.

I disagree, and I say this as one of the maintainers of a decently popular open source project (https://www.fluentd.org)

It's true that open source allows you to tinker and that it lets you jump start your project. But as you point out yourself, a huge part of your software cost is maintenance, buy or build, open source or proprietary. The reason why open source is great is that as long as you can avoid forking the project, you can reduce your maintenance cost by leveraging community contributions and support.

However, the flip side is that you do not have full control: the community often has different needs than your own, and it's not always easy to convince the community so that the open source project caters to your needs. This is double true if you are _just_ a user.

The alternative of course is to create a fork and either take it in-house or try to get the community to rally behind your fork. In either case, you either lose the community's support entirely or reduce its effectiveness, and the same question/burden of long-term maintenance strikes you back.
Designing Crypto Primitives Secure Against Rubber Hose Attacks (2012)
What kind of traffic does your heroku instance handle? How many dynos and which dynos do you use?
The fact that an ad is custom tailored to you is concerning in and of itself...
Yes to the first question. Libsodium is a fork of NaCl and it even says so in the description.
You're looking at the wrong pot of money. Dividing up executive wages among the lowest paid workers has never been considered a reasonable proposal for solving inadequate wages for workers; a more reasonable proposal involves including worker compensation in the distribution of profits from the business. While the CEO might "only" make 50 million, the organization would be expected to make much more.

Let's take Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) as an example because, conveniently, their CEO made ~$50M in 2013. [1] Their annual earnings report indicates that they had a net income of $1.04B that year, and their corporate profile suggests they have ~60,000 employees. [2][3] If they spent 100% of their current profits on employee salaries it would yield ~$17k/employee. (For reference, the full-time minimum wage salary in 2013 was $15,080. [4]) Even under much more reasonable conditions -- let's say that we allocate 1/4 of net income to worker salaries -- then each of their 60,000 workers would earn an additional $3800, which is just about equal to the max EITC for a family with one child in 2013. [5]

It's really not about CEOs getting paid huge amounts, it's that workers are neither represented nor included in sharing the prosperity of their labor -- and taxpayers are subsidizing the difference.

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/06/04/bed-...

[2] http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/bbby/financials

[3] https://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=BBBY+Profile

[4] http://www.epi.org/publication/minimum-wage-workers-poverty-...

[5] http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/2013-EITC-Income-Limits,-Maxi...
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Yeah I agree.

At one point the guy says 'if we didn't raise the rents, the park wouldn't be here. It would be appropriated for something else' or something to that extent. And it's likely partially true. These guys are essentially following the market.

Is it fucked up? Yes. But the solution is probably not in preventing rent changes longer-term, the solution is tackling poverty. This notion that someone makes $700 a month and is disabled is just insane to me as a western European. The state has a responsibility here to provide a minimum living when someone can't work, or provide a programme for disabled workers and supplement any income that's still missing. How can you put the poverty line at $21k and provide income to a disabled person capping at $8.5k?

Obviously there are some things that ought to be done specifically about these trailer parks. For example laws that cap the rent increase per year are quite common. Increasing rent by 100% for existing contracts is totally illegal for example here in the Netherlands. Capping it at inflation + 2-3% is a common solution.

But that's a bandaid. Poverty at its core has to be tackled.
Hey Thomas, does anyone at Matasano still review submissions if someone wants to submit them for a particular programming language? I'm looking to establish myself as the luminary crypto nerd of the furry fandom :3
No, I only got to this part:
Privacy Badger was born out of our desire to be able to recommend a single extension that would automatically analyze and block any tracker or ad that violated the principle of user consent; which could function well without any settings, knowledge or configuration by the user

And the part where I couldn't manually manipulate what was being blocked. Since apparently multiple pop-up adds on-click were not violating the user principle of consent...
I always do estimates based on assumptions. And then list out my assumptions.
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I don't see how that's opposite