skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Python 3's unicode support is much more complete. As a trivial example, case conversions now cover the whole unicode range. This holds pretty consistently - Python 2's `unicode` was incomplete.
Why would you assume this? Space exploration and terraforming are absolutely never going to solve the population problem. Population problems need to be solved with (possibly government enforced) fucking restraint. You don't get to have kids if you're going to live forever. Or the option to reproduce could be handed out on a lottery basis to replace losses from people who decide to stop living forever or die from accidents / not yet cured disease.

That's the only solution. Space travel isn't it.
Yes, mullingitover, because that is the ONLY thing Marxism is about.

Since you, and those who down-voted my posts, are so smart, please explain how Obama's attempts to increase state control over our energy, health care, economy, finance, and education are not Marxists ideals and leading us down that socialist path.

Please explain how Obama's blocking of domestic energy supplies via the assertion of government ownership and regulation over massive amounts of acreage isn't Marxist.

Please explain how Obama's maniacal zeal for progressive income taxes specifically targeting the rich is not Marxist.

Please explain how Obama's desire to reinstate estate taxes isn't Marxist.

Please explain how Dodd-Frank wasn't a giant leap towards the centralization of the U.S.'s financial system into the hands of the federal government.

Please explain Obama's appointments of self-proclaimed Marxist Van Jones and his relationships with his mentor, and documented member of the Communist Party, Frank Marshall Davis, and the links of David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett to the Chicago Communist Party.

Instead of down-voting my posts, why not read The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx, for yourself and see exactly how Obama's policies align with that document's 10 steps. No, we're not to the gulag stage yet, but that is certainly the path Obama has us on. Read and see.
CyberSource outages Day #2
For the second day in a row CyberSource is timing out and not authenticating customer payment information. We lose an order each time this happens. Is anyone else having this problem?
Let Oracle own APIs, Justice Dept tells top court in surprise filing
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What are you doing at work or on your computer not off solving the war and poverty problem? Get on that!
Tangential pet peeve: but this kind of thinking, while noble in principle ("let's not waste resources / brain power on what doesn't matter"), tends to lead to stagnation, not innovation.

Paradigm-shifting discoveries tend to come from unexpected, unexplored territory. By taking away funding from "useless" pursuits (like pure maths, arts, theoretical researchers) and focussing solely on the bottom line (i.e: what matters, what is profitable), we make advances in a given field less likely, not more.

Reminds me of the Louie bit where David Lynch instructs Louie to "Be funny: 3... 2... 1... Go". -- That's not how things work. Achieving that level of mastery of his craft is 90% non-funny related activities (life experiences, personality, self-reflection etc.), and 10% actually focusing on "being funny" in itself.

What if the key to longevity comes from a cancer researcher, what the techniques needed come from an applied mathematician researching complex systems? What if the technology required to even model the problem in order to ask the right question is developed by computer scientists modelling data in a completely different field of research? There's just no way to know.
Airing: A maskless, hoseless, cordless micro-CPAP device
After lying that they would hold it in the summer by having air conditioned stadiums during their bid.

None of the major professional leagues are happy about this. If the world cup remains in Qatar it's going to be a fiasco.

http://www.businessinsider.com/qatar-world-cup-disaster-2015...
'Rationality: From AI to Zombies' is available on a pay-what-you-want basis. It talks about cognitive science, ethics, human (ir)rationality and how to improve it, among other things. It stems from the Lesswrong Sequences [2], which have a lot more content, but are a bit messy.

[1] https://intelligence.org/rationality-ai-zombies/

[2] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Rationality_materials
quit... and do what?

We keep automating the jobs for which they are well suited.
Sourceforge has hijacked Gimp for Windows; distributing adware installer
OpenEars Binaural In-Ear Headphones which also record 3D sound
Google open sources grpc
Believe it or not, it's the first time I've used a list comprehension for execution like that (other than when working interactively in ipython)! Originally I had a comment about how it was a non-idiomatic thing to do, but I deleted it.

What's strange is that I didn't even consider writing the for loop on a single line. I just never do that. It's clearly better in this case (than a list comprehension). In real code I'd just do it on 2 lines.
Like you said, the standard Lyme test is not very reliable. Even if laboratory tests are ordered, labs are still using immunoassays for confirmation of Lyme (ELISA, then a Western Blot), which have relatively poor sensitivity (~70% or lower[1]) due to low serum concentration of Borrelia or possible absence of antibodies—so they can miss one in four true-positive cases. The newer PCR-based assays have much better sensitivity (>70%, maybe closer to 90%[2]), but the assays are not yet in widespread use, are still being proven, and thus are seen only as adjuncts to immunoassays that can provide further evidence of Lyme. It can also take a couple weeks from when the bullseye rash appears (or when the tick bite occurs) for serology to test positive, again due to the Borrelia/antibody concentration being below the limit of detection. Samples tested are also usually blood, which may not be as good as CSF. It's a tricky bug to diagnose in the laboratory, which is why it comes down to the discretion of the clinician and the doctor's knowledge of the patient and his or her history.

1. http://www.igenex.com/files/should_know.pdf

2. Laboratory Diagnostic Testing for
Borrelia burgdorferi Infection, Lyme Disease: An Evidence-based Approach: http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/resources/Halperin_2012_Chap4_Johnso...
People used to think 16 bits would be enough for anyone. It wasn't, so UTF-16 was designed as a variable-length, backwards-compatible replacement for UCS-2.

Characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) are encoded as a pair of 16-bit code units. The numeric value of these code units denote codepoints that lie themselves within the BMP. While these values can be represented in UTF-8 and UTF-32, they cannot be represented in UTF-16. Because we want our encoding schemes to be equivalent, the Unicode code space contains a hole where these so-called surrogates lie.

Because not everyone gets Unicode right, real-world data may contain unpaired surrogates, and WTF-8 is an extension of UTF-8 that handles such data gracefully.
Was it Louis CK who said he doesn't understand why this crappy generation should be the one that deserves immortality? And it's a good thing it wasn't invented last generation or we'd have a universe full of misogynists and racists living forever.

Can't find it now but it sure resonated with me. Invent immortality, kiss social change goodbye.
Read my other comment and read The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx. Obama's actions and Marx's document align quite well. I'd love for you to show me how they don't.

I also have a question for you. Do we only call people Marxists once we're all properties of the state, residing in gulags, or dead? Or, do we see the slow movements in that direction early on and stop them? I personally prefer the latter.
This is actually where the name is from, I found it too funny to pass up:
https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/#acknowledgments
https://twitter.com/koalie/status/506821684687413248

Sorry for hijacking it!
I didn't see anything about the ease of copying data by stamping it. It seems like making hard copy duplicates easily would be a huge benefit of this as well.
Any sufficiently advanced technology takes more than 30 days to customise, never mind decide it's the optimum solution...
Looks like a nice product, but I can't seem to find details on the internal message routing... Is it built on Redis pub/sub, Riak itself, or something else altogether?

And I wish the branding was toned down. As it is, I'm reluctant to direct coworkers or friends to the site despite my interest.
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Allowing people to live indefinitely/much longer than currently won't make the world a better place. Children humble and ground adults. Younger brains are more malleable and young people carry newer gene evolutions. Our species would halt exactly where we are, ignorance would never vanish, our species would stop adapting.

80 year old racists would be 200 year old racists.
That's incredibly defeatist approach.

Space travel it is.
Planes vulnerable to hackers?
send as SMS, I guess?
> Walking is a method of operation.

That's not the way most people are using the term, if you are going to use it differently from everyone else, you should clarify the meaning of your usage of the term.

> The concept of a function...is different than the description...

I would say that's either not true or entirely non-obvious, because to establish that the concept is what is being described in the later case is you had to provide some form of description in the previous case, in this case:

> a function with the name cupcake that takes an integer and returns an integer

happens to be the common-english equivalent for

> int cupcake(int x)

The primary difference being that one is valid as an English-sentence and one is valid as a declaration in c, it's not altogether clear why you consider the common-english-expression as having some kind of special precedence, or how such an example helps us establish the difference between a concept and a description of a concept (even supposing such a duality does exist).

> The interoperability aspect is a red herring--there is no right to interoperate.

Not a lawyer, but I was under the impression that the Supreme court indeed has and at times does consider the effect on the common good from a particular interpretation of a law in their decision making.
Another Pentagon budget cycle has begun. Seemingly forever US companies have put out puff pieces about technology which are then regurgitated by the media. It's all about getting the public to support the ever increasing US military budget.
I'm not sure I understand. When you "die", your life insurance policy pays out, which is used to fund your cryogenic procedure.
Perhaps not sequential reading on your laptop but very useful none the less...

https://openstaxcollege.org/students

Selected excerpts from the Physics and Biology volumes have been used by colleagues of mine to support background reading for pre-university students in the UK.
Why don't my questions appear in the ask section?
So instead of swapping (N-1)! out for gamma(N), can you swap in any other continuous extension to the factorial function, or does it have to be gamma?

I just read about Hadamard's & Luschny's gammas/factorial extensions [1]: would those not work out?

[1] http://www.luschny.de/math/factorial/hadamard/HadamardsGamma...
Every term is linked to its definition. https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/#terminology Does this help?
So if you can guarantee that the probability distributions of the number of bytes sent between the endpoints and server in a time window are unaffected by whether or not communication was happening in that time window, your approach is totally valid.

Pond does have that property, if you use the defaults. I don't think a lot of other systems do. The tradeoffs are pretty steep in terms of delaying interactions until the next time window, sending and receiving cover traffic in every time window, and accepting hard limits on your data rate that are bounded by the cover traffic.

What I think you can't do safely, for example, is say "I have a cover traffic pattern that is a Gaussian distribution of amount of data transmitted and received, and now I have to send a bunch of data, so I'll just pick the high of the distribution and send a whole bunch of data at once". One reason this is unsafe is that you'll simultaneously skew the recipient's distribution, creating a statistical signal that you and the recipient were communicating.
Super cool, I've been on situations where this would have helped speed things up.

Very excited to give it a try, I have Illustrator 18.1.1 and it only works on 16 to 17.9, why is that?
From the domain name, I expected this to be in English. It's not.
Debt: The First 5000 Years [1] Anthropological analysis of finance.

With Each & Every Breath [2] Highly practical primer on meditation and how it works, from a Thai Forest tradition perspective.

[1] https://libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf

[2] http://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/EachAndEveryBrea...
Most people's ideas and worldview get basically frozen in time when they reach 25. Maybe not everyone, but a large enough majority that a death-free society would be effectively stagnant, socially and technologically.
Honor? Politeness? Wanting to cultivate a healthy, respectful relationship with their users by not going behind their back? Not being creepy stalker who spies on everybody just because you might be able to make a profit from it?

Of course, this is Facebook, which has been fighting with Google for the title of "most creepy, intrusive, privacy-destroying business model". With their ethics, the answer to "what would stop them" is obviously "nothing".

There is a significant PR difference - reporting the GPS location at regular intervals is currently "just part of the regular status update", where Facebook gets to act as a passive man-in-the-middle who records those updates. If sending the location data as seen in all user visible situations is a manually-triggered event, extra code to hand that data off at regular intervals only to Facebook wouldn't be able to hide under the assumption that "it's a feature". In an ideal world, this would be criminal access to unauthorized data. In the current environment of legalized spyware, we are back to "nothing" mentioned previously.

(The terrible granularity in the permission models in these environments is a huge problem. As it affects far more than just location data, that is a topic for another day)
I am confident that my wife's friend published, and I expect that those adjuncts who are trying to make it onto the tenure track are publishing or trying hard to do so.
The startup world has clearly proven that the strategy of not using eraser is successful.

Any founders, who don't hide their mistakes and overcome them by actions taken after the fact, show maturity.

I personally cannot imagine the VCs funding the ideas based on good looking idea presentations rather than actually hearing about the journey to success and the mistakes on the way.

Honestly, the mistakes and effort should be encouraged in the schools rather than neatness of the outcome.
I looked into GlusterFS at one point. GlusterFS is a no-go for static file serving in hostile environments. It asks every node to look for a file, even if it's not there. You can imagine the DDoS attacks you could build here using a bunch of 404 requests for files that don't exist.

One story I heard from a PHP dev is that it would take 30 seconds to load a page while it looked for all the files needed to run it.
Who coded this?! Worst map infographic i ever saw. Can't even wait for it to load, it loads 2-3 countries a second and i'm on pretty decent internet.
Top Piper Jaffray Analyst Releases Big Report on VR
By the way: The Sales subreddit has some very good information regarding sales. A good amount of knowledgeable people visit it. They've helped me before to get over my self-inflicted sale issues (due to my introverted nature).

http://reddit.com/r/sales
Or people would live long enough to grow wiser... realize the errors of their ways.

People might start caring about their communities if they knew they had to deal with it 200 years from now.
So in your hierarchy of trust the drug companies are the least trustworthy, the FDA is slightly more trustworthy and random unnamed people are the most trustworthy?
Our natural evolution was mostly halted in the past century. Humans take too long to develop and probably don't have enough lifetime to put that education to good use (imagine einstein living 50 more years). There are technologies being developed to make old minds think like young.
Ironic that this talks about modeling games for business and other use cases when I read http://www.perworks.com/my-son-has-23-6-billion-how-is-yours... just a few minutes before on Hackernews. (the link is about building business models as games letting them loose and using the wisdom of the crowds to make decisions).
You shouldn't trust any of them to begin with, but rather grade them on their accomplishments (e.g. eradication of polio). Similarly, you should also have approximately zero trust in anecdotes about unnamed people when making medical decisions.

Or so I heard from some person who I believe to be reliable. Way more reliable than the others.
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Here is one from a few years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personnel_halting_and_stimulati...
Well, sort of. Java was never really like Docker, and in fact always struggled architecturally to provide a good container abstraction for applications. The "servlet container" idea was (and is) a failure. Java never had the equivalent of the Docker daemon, and it only (relatively) recently got something like Dockerhub via Maven--and Maven repos aren't integrated with the JVM or the (non-existent) Java daemon.
Maybe you already know this and in that case a FYI to anyone else.

According to [1] telomere-lengthening treatments may (the author points out that this conclusion may be incorrect since the data measurement may need some changes) only give you an extra 5 years.

So research in other directions is definitely interesting.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9456792
SyntaxError can happen as a consequence of loading a module (hitting an import statement, etc). But for a simpler example, replace SyntaxError with NameError and it's still almost always a design error that you probably have no sane way to handle in an exception handler (other than to mask the problem).

Python's a very dynamic language and so of course you could come up with examples to the contrary (ones where the user input could trigger SyntaxError or NameError).
Any chance the project was called Lazarus? :D
I hope it's not a lottery basis... I hope there would be some intelligence to the choices.

It would be nice to reverse Idiocracy tendancies (Stupid people procreating more than intelligent leading to a general decline)
People here don't care about the future, they just want to live forever. They think they are the end-all-be-all of life, that after them nobody younger needs be born.
Great to see more things go open-source, and to target Android first! Phone-based login is quite cool, and becoming very popular in new apps.

To be mildly snarky, I would've called it Enterprise Digits. https://github.com/twitter/digits-android/tree/master/digits...

I recently built a sample implementation of phone-based login (on iOS) using Parse + Twilio, rather than Digits which was not available. A co-worker added a web interface to the same app, and another is building an Android client. At the Twilio Signal conference last week, it was a very popular demonstration. Our blog: http://blog.parse.com/announcements/phone-based-login-can-yo... and our repo: https://github.com/parseplatform/anyphone
RE: 1) :

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
> switched to homeopathy

Why did she prefer homoepathic water to regular water?
Quixotic? People used to die at 45 in 1900.
I agree with many of your criticisms of the US court system, but disagree with your characterization of the UK system. In the US (many, but not all) prosecutors are directly politically motivated, but in the UK they are largely bureaucratically motivated, as are a large number of US prosecutors who are in the lower ranks, and not subject to direct elections or high-level oversight. Some may regard bureaucratic motivations as more 'enlightened', 'nicer', and 'more impartial', but they are really just slightly different from political motivations.

I would further argue that prosecutors' motivations are very similar in both countries. At the highest levels, the prosecutors are subject to political pressures and incentives whether due to direct elections, appointments, or oversight; at the lower levels, the lawyers are part of a bureaucracy with all that entails.
Thanks for pointing this out. I was interested to see they credit Paul Hudak's "Haskell School of Expression" for inspiration. I will have to take a fresh look at that given my newfound appreciation of HTDP (due to stumbling across Norman Ramsey's assessment of it). Also need to look deeper into Hudak's FRP now that I think about it.
If sleeping were eliminated we would all have to work more.
So what's the first bit you don't understand?
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Not sure where you have got that description of telomeres, a better analogy would be protective caps on the ends of your chromosomes.
Fashion is goes in cycles, so it makes sense:

Pocket -> Wrist -> Pocket (phone) -> Wrist...

Now if I can just get my 10-year old patent for wrist squares to go through....
The nature of unicode is that there's always a problem you didn't (but should) know existed.

And because of this global confusion, everyone important ends up implementing something that somehow does something moronic - so then everyone else has yet another problem they didn't know existed and they all fall into a self-harming spiral of depravity.
What it's like to take a brain-enhancing drug every day for a week in Colombia
I took a train from Nice to Paris right after this happened and two English "fans" shared the compartment I was sitting in. It was one of the most frightening experiences I've ever had traveling. All they could talk about was recounting their "exploits" in the events described in your linked article. One even bragged that he "got a Tunisian so good he might not pull through."

The lack of humanity they displayed was an eye opener for me and helped me come to the realization that Soccer/Football has become the proxy for war in Europe. While that is, all things considered, an excellent development (I'll take hooliganism over world wars), it's also scary that people seem to have a deep-seeded, tribal need to fight and, when we do, we seem to lose all compassion for the opposition. Events like the World Cup seem to play on this need rather than trying to quash it.
I started reading the article and creating the kick drum in my console, then skipped right to the playback on this page and was initially very excited by that hihat sound. It was a bit of a let down, although not much of a surprise, to find out the hihat was a sample.

Having made a JS/CSS drum machine (sample playback) emulator a few years ago @ http://bitrotten.com/dr110/ and more recently spending time doing emulative sound design on a modern drum machine @ http://bitrotten.com/tempest/ I'm still enthused by this demo and write-up. Next month I return to an hour-long commute by train, and now I've got a pretty good idea of how I'll be spending that time.
just a hunch, but perhaps part of the reason they're poor is that they have to spend over a grand on rent
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