skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't it take a while for people to die or see effects from radiation exposure (unless it's extreme?). Is there a reason to suspect that we won't see problems from what happened?

Also having land uninhabitable for thousands of years weighs pretty heavily even if the risk of failure is low.
Interesting. Do you have more info on what you mean by "Not necessarily?" From what I've seen during reliability studies on SSDs, they have a fairly tight failure curve. This is very dissimilar from hard disks where there's much more variance from drive to drive.

I'm genuinely interested.
I like the debit card from my credit union, but nobody outside my country would accept it because it's not affiliated to any payment network like Visa or Master Card.

Other popular payment methods are mobile payment networks provided by the same companies that provide the cell phone service. It's a pre-paid phone service that lets you use your phone credit (that which originally only let you buy talk minutes and text messages) and transfer it to a different phone number. Lots of people accept it as actual currency, and you can even pay utilities with that.
Look at java.util.Arrays for a concrete example of the problem:

static int	binarySearch(byte[] a, byte key)
static int	binarySearch(char[] a, char key)
static int	binarySearch(double[] a, double key)
static int	binarySearch(float[] a, float key)
static int	binarySearch(int[] a, int key)
static int	binarySearch(long[] a, long key)
static int	binarySearch(Object[] a, Object key)
static int	binarySearch(short[] a, short key)

This, sort of works. It's a lot of code duplication, but it's all in the library.

Except that a relatively common thread goes like this:

You start by having a generic array that gets passed to said binary search. It works, but it's too memory-hungry when it gets called with a primitive. So, then what do you do?

Well, you go "huh, I could specialize". And then you start specializing, and realize that every function that calls binarySearch with a generic type also needs 8 implementations (would be 9, but no sane person would binary search a boolean[] ).

Basically, its complexity that you cannot even punt off to an external library. If you have code that needs to be able to be called with generics without inefficiencies for primitive types, you'll end up with ~9x code duplication at a minimum.
I'm not saying it's free to manufacture and distribute a product. So of course money has to be charged for a product on some level. I'm not saying "go bankrupt in order to manufacture and distribute the cure for cancer to the world".

But the place where I draw the line is when mega corp decides to hold the cure for cancer hostage until their profit demands are met.
Sorry, I was imprecise.

I believe you that the NSA might provide intelligence to its partners about foreign nationals that those partners could not lawfully collect themselves.

I'm wondering if NSA can actually procure intelligence about US citizens from its partners.
Yes we did. Friends in a foreign military said there were plenty of American SF on the ground helping out. Otherwise the insurgency wouldn't have lasted a single month.
Currently reading: Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Usually don't read fiction, but this is good.
Quicksort is O(log n) space, not O(1).
The only thing I've noticed is that I can't get italics in the terminal.
The downvotes likely are as a result of using the word "quackery," but I think the general sentiment of your post is relevant.

The issue I've had with Eastern medicine along with other folk remedies is the methodology and fact that they are not truly applying the scientific method in the way Western medicine does.

That said, I would not at all be surprised to find that many things in medicine, Eastern, Western, folk medicine, etc. that were previously unproven (by Western medicine standards) suddenly start having testable, verifiable reasons for why they work.
The land size argument falls flat when you consider that places like LA, SF, or NYC are just as densely populated, yet have shit for broadband.
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons is another example.
Disrupting businesses is the last thing we want, which is why the 5-day warning isn't a hard deadline. We always give people as much time as they need to transition off (as long as we don't suspect fraud). In this case, we'd have agreed to extend the deadline but weren't asked.
Thanks, we fixed it!
For devices that _can_ have the OS upgraded - stats seem to show a remarkably high level of upgrading by users, at least for major version numbers:

http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/

If you scroll down to "Device Breakdown (sorted by Usage)", you see a bunch of devices with 90+% stuck on the "last supported OS version" - 97% of iPad1G on iOS5, 97% of iPhone 3GS and iPod Tough 4G on iOS6, 91% of iPhone 4 on iOS7. Even including thise devices, they're showing 75% on devices on iOS8 and 20% on iOS7.

I'm in the "left behind" category - with both my iPad1 and Mac Mini single core being "stick" at iOS5 and OS X 10.6 respectively. Im somewhat disappointed at the lack of patches for the known security holes in iOS5 - especially since those numbers still show over 3% of the iPads in use are not upgradable past iOS5...
Not being overly familiar with the depth of research around Eastern concepts like 'qi,' can you share any insights around the depth of Western medical research that have attempted to explain it under more measurable standards?

I'd be shocked if a concept so widely believed in like that had not gone under insane scrutiny by Western practitioners.
Nowhere in that article does it appear that GCHQ actually asked NSA to tap UK citizens' private communications. Is it buried under one of the other links?

Instead it appears that NSA had gathered data relating to UK citizens (under NSA's existing legal authorities) and that the GCHQ then asked for that data to be shared with it.

UK law is incredibly surveillance-friendly compared to the USA so I'd be surprised if there were even a reason for GCHQ to ask NSA to do surveillance on GCHQ's behalf; GCHQ could much more easily do it directly.

But NSA-sourced data could still be useful for GCHQ, which would make sense that GCHQ asks for it when it's been collected, for the same reason Germany's BND was found to be sharing data with NSA (in BND's case, because they wanted NSA to share their own data with BND).
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this is awesome, can you please suggest some resources for me, a long-time basic user of vim, ( know a lot of commands for actions, but not the underlying relationships?
Totally agreed, Android does a way better job of this. Opener is a stopgap on iOS, but it would be way better if Apple had a first party fix. Rumor has it there's one coming soon.
None actually. Haven't gotten around to troubleshooting linguist yet - https://github.com/github/linguist#troubleshooting
> No data should be collected without a warrant

In your world, are police officers allowed to call in license plate numbers to see if the car of the person they just pulled over is registered to an escaped armed criminal? May the government tune radios to public airwaves? Or is it just electronic communications which are special?
Which is how Stephen King ends almost every book. He writes characters better than almost everyone I know but almost every one of his books ends with some weird coincidence that saves the day.
It also took someone until the mid-20th century to formalize the Y combinator, though... Earliness of discovery is no grounds on which to consider the Y combinator less "deep" than Russell's paradox (if anything, the reverse!).
I only have a Mac 512KE. :( But it's featured prominently in one of my rooms if that gets me any bonus points.
How about a 2TB SSD with a performance rating of 850 MBps?

http://betanews.com/2015/06/01/sandisk-announces-2tb-ssd-in-...
That would be awesome. I think if it were possible to buy apps through the pay-by-phone service, the local phone companies would have offered that service long ago.

In my country, you can use those to pay utilities and even some taxes. But you can't buy anything from outside the country (or really, from anywhere that doesn't have cellphone coverage for that particular company), and you can't pay in foreign currencies.
Bitfusion: Supercomputing for the masses
Exactly my question. And not from the perspective of an MS hater.

Is there anyone here that ever considered them "cool" from the outside, or knew anyone who thought that? I suppose it could have been cool to work inside, before the antitrust case and before downloading linux was communism and before Balmer, and before they became a hypercorp.

But, cool from the outside? I must have missed that.
You're correct, iOS apps can only handle schemes but now whole URLs. On Android, the system can intercept any URL and pass it to the app (http://instagram.com/blahblahblah goes to the Instagram app, for example), which means web URLs can open in apps instead. On iOS, you must use a dedicated scheme, which means links from the web don't play nice with apps.

Opener attempts to fix this by mapping web links to app-specific links.
BAFX Products - Bluetooth OBD2 scan tool - For check engine light & diagnostics - Android ONLY === this is $25 on Amazon for a while.

so what's new here?
Actually, the connection between non-terminating computations and Russell's paradox is fairly strong. The piece of explanation missing from the article that is that the naive conception of sets corresponds to total boolean valued functions. That is, a set is a rule that answers whether a value is in the set or not. To get set theory out of lambdas, you just have to restrict to the subset of lambdas that only apply sets to sets and that end up returning a proposition.

So you'd have to reject a lambda like this: λx. x (x x), because when you rewrite that in set theory notation it looks like this: { x | x ∈ (x ∈ x) }. Bad since (x ∈ x) is a proposition used as a set. We'd also reject λx. x because it returns a set and not a proposition. Labeling expressions with one of two sorts (proposition or set) can be done statically, though, and this allows us to quickly check whether a lambda corresponds to a construction of naive set theory. Once you have this correspondence, the rest of the author's note goes through fairly well.

Except that technically Y = λN. R R, not R R.
> This chip powers its augmented reality headset that works by shooting light directly onto your eye, rather than sticking a screen in front of it.

I'm curious to know exactly what they mean by shooting light directly into your eye. Wouldn't you see the source? That is basically what a screen does, though less direct. It makes light, some of which enters your eyes. You see more light when you look at the source, the screen.
The Parachuting Dogs of the British Army in World War II
Ask HN: Do you think Stripe will go public?
I'd be super curious to see their financials, but I'm guessing they are printing money.
App Links is an "open" solution from Facebook that's poorly adopted by developers. Opener is a solution intended directly for end users that doesn't rely on developer to adopt some standard. Developers usually won't adopt something like App Links, but end users still want to open links in apps. I wrote Opener to fill the gap :)
My understanding is that GNU Smalltalk is text based. http://smalltalk.gnu.org/ I hope that helps.
Snowden managed to codify the bulk collection of metadata, help enshrine a bunch of other legal authorities, and burned international cooperation against actual bad guys to the ground in the process. But somehow this all vindicates him? I thought the ends were supposed to justify the means?
Yeah, hopefully it's coming soon
It's not thousands of years, though it will likely be a few hundred[1].

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/area-around-cherno...
Not with Seagate. I have a drive waiting to be fixed because of their silly BSY bug that renders a drive inaccessible. I'll never buy their garbage again.
Here's a good overview of the state of thorium reactors today.[1] The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics has been talking about building a demo unit in Singapore to be operational in 2015, but that seems to have slipped to 2017.[2]

The article glosses over a big issue - this type of reactor has to be hooked to a chemical plant which continually reprocesses the radioactive molten salt. Chemical plants for radioactive materials are historically a huge headache to operate. Many such plants are now toxic waste sites.

With BWR and PWR reactors, the radioactive portion of the system is simple, with few moving parts, and the working fluid is water. More complex large reactor designs have a poor track record. Sodium reactors have sodium fires (Monju, in Japan, was shut down after one in 1995), helium-cooled reactors leak helium (Ft. St. Vrain was a real disappointment), and pebble bed reactors have pebble jams (there's one in Germany so jammed it can't be dismantled.)

[1] http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/current-and-future-generat...
[2] http://www.ornl.gov/ornl/news/news-releases/2015/ornl-and-sh...
I actually think it's interesting to consider how this could relate to the placebo effect. Linkage between brain and immune system.
I didn't coordinate it, but they are roughly in sync because they're doing similar things. Code here:

https://github.com/wpietri/sunrise

It's minimally sufficient for my needs, but I'd be glad to work with others to expand it.
Find a home for it that keeps the lights on for $80 a month or less, and with any extra, purchase some Google AdWords or Facebook ads. Let it roll on its own for a couple of years till either all of the users are off, or it makes more money. Use it as a learning platform in web design and back end coding. It will look great on a resume if it is still active.
... and what network will it be connecting to? Sure maybe a free hotspot here or there, but many of these TVs will not have access to even those.

And hell yeah you can prove it's not in there, either with a quick wireless scan or even a simple physical tear down of the housing which can then be put back together.

Show me a dumb TV that has been wired up to spy on people that has been in the wild before.
Maria Leijerstam: The woman who wants to cycle the Atlantic Ocean
just downvoting every one of my comments because you disagree with them? That's cool.

1) Just one example? Here: http://adslabs.org/adsabs/abs/2009PhDT.........4C/

2) You are trying to find the global maximum. How do you not understand the value of communication when searching for a maxima in the likelihood distribution? You're just being intentionally obtuse.

3) Yes, really.

A story:

You have a landscape with mountains and hills and you have one person trying to find the tallest mountain. That person is blind, they can't see shit. That person is also mute and deaf. Their only sense is a vibrating altimeter. They get drunk, and climb mountains for 100000 days, trying to find the tallest mountain.

You are advocating the idea that you should send 1000 of these blind deaf mutes out there one at a time (running these in parallel is just faster serial) and then they should vote on which mountain is the tallest at the end.

I'm saying you should send a bunch of not-deaf-mutes out there (ie implement mutation, breeding, cross-contamination, gravitation, whatever) so they can tell each other where the stupid mountains are (this requires _parallel_) and they don't waste their whole time stumbling around (burning in).

You're just being intentionally argumentative.
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I just use Vim Bootstrap. It gives me a pretty good setup without adding a tonne of stuff I don't need.

From memory I've only changed about 5 lines in my vimrc ? enabling mouse and setting indentation levels for some less common filetypes.
Speeding Up Hardware Through an Accelerator and Marketplace
Nothing that would pass deep scrutiny. Just our experience running SSDs in almost every server at Stack. We've only had one mass failure of drives. That was when 5/8 Samsung drives died around the same time in our packet capture box. The remaining 3 are still alive, although we don't really use them.

We have only had two Intel drives die on us. I'm interested (well academically, not professionally) if they will die at the same time or keep dropping off one at a time.

We tend to retire the machines or the drives in them before they fail.
> I'm pretty sure the first 256 bit key listed in his output is/was mine.

Post the private key to prove it!
Read the comments on the nytimes article...
How are you controlling for survivor bias?

Unless these investors are highly leveraged, have insider information, or are simply 'lucky' (or a combination of all three) I would assume survivor bias... The best proprietary firms in the world don't make 50% per year...
Historically, Smalltalk was used to explore the GUI design space, so a non-GUI Smalltalk is somewhere between anachronistic and oxymoronic.

GNU Smalltalk has an Emacs interface:

http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual/html_node/Emacs...

I don't know how accessible Emacs is to you, but it should at least be textual.

GNU Smalltalk also has a REPL:

http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual/html_node/Getti...

Now, how does a traditional Smalltalk interact with a VCS? Poorly. Smalltalk was all about image-based persistence, with textual source code not being the primary artifact. Philosophically, it was designed to be an environment, and take over the system from soup to nuts.

GNU Smalltalk, predictably, goes its own way, and allows people to load textual source code files from the command line. It also has a more complicated packaging system:

http://smalltalk.gnu.org/wiki/creating-and-distributing-pack...
Pointless weekend project idea: A service that scans articles for matching regexes to classify the level of bullshit of what you are reading. It could even be a browser extension with the bullshit indicator automatically shown for each page in its icon.
This is pretty interesting to me. Investing in strategies including automated trading strategies on some of the hosted platforms that are out there.

But... I am a Boglehead. It's going to take a hello of a lot to pry me away from VTSAX and many many decades of history (that may or may not repeat).

I would only ever be interested if I could invest in a low cost way across ALL the strategies by market cap of assets held under each strategy.

Ideally I could invest across all the strategies not just at Instavest.

I'm the kind of guy who wants to buy a fund made up of every openly traded asset by market cap.
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The rise of e-sports
3. Like other financial institutions, we cannot stop bad people from doing bad things. What we can do is put the proper safeguards and procedures to protect people.

4. Let's say you're an investment leader. You buy Tesla and you submit a writeup. The trade gets executed. The write up is reviewed internally by member of the Instavest team and is cross checked for financial discrepancies against SEC filings. Of course, each person prior to using the platform and when posting an investment is disclosing that he or she is not privy to material non public information, etc.

5. You can put $500 in a stock. There is no minimum investment size. I will say that the absolute dollar amount demonstrates some level of conviction to our members. We currently are not capping the level of co-investment but could do so in the near future.
Reminds me of this editorial-cartoon: http://imgur.com/BpOtRCf
US Senate Approves New Domestic Surveillance Bill
I suppose it's too much to ask that we actually congratulate the people that represent us on doing something positive. Maybe we could all dial the cynicism back a bit too.

Not directed at you; just a general thought.
Sorry to be negative, I did get through it but the end of the second was where I had to stop for a second.
One good step would be to prohibit laws to be named with nice words and acronyms ("Freedom", "Patriot", etc).

Those are advertising and only serve to confuse discussion of the actual content ("you are opposed to the Patriot act? Aren't you a patriot?" etc.).
I think we might agree entirely. I think mobile phones were a relatively fast cycle because people were pretty happy to replace their phones every few years. That's not true with, say, washing machines or furnaces. So it will definitely take a while.

But if you look at devices with cycles in between, I already see it happening. 10 years ago when I bought a stereo receiver, I bought something entirely dumb. Last year I replaced it and ended up with something that was internet connected. Not because I really cared, but because the equivalent model came with that. And in retrospect I'm glad; their phone/tablet app is a way better remote control than punching a bunch of mysterious, no-feedback buttons. The same thing happened with my DVD player; when the old one died I just bought whatever Consumer Reports recommended and it too is internet connected.

I think that you're right that the development of pluggable Android is what will push this forward. And Google clearly agrees; their project Brillo is surely one effort among many.
I'm not anti free-market capitalism by any stretch. But I would argue that when it comes to life-saving medicine there's no real "market".

If I'm diagnosed with a fatal disease, and I'm told someone has the cure, I don't say "hmm, I'd love to buy it, but that sounds too expensive". Instead I say "where do I sign, I don't care how much it costs, take everything".

Cures to fatal diseases are not products that can be given a real market value based on supply and demand since everyone who is ever told about the product who needs it is willing to give up all of their earthly possessions to obtain it.

From that perspective for someone to say "Hmm, yeah I'd love to give it to you but I'm gonna need more. You see my stockholders aren't gonna be happy if I only take all you own. It's clearly worth more than that." seems a little out of touch. In my mind profit is not the right motivation for developing cures for fatal diseases.
Investment ideas are shared in a Twitter-like feed so regardless of performance all ideas get the same visibility on Instavest. Whether or not people decide to follow the idea is up to them. At the end of the day, Instavest is a market and funds will flow to quality.
How to automate Linkedin visits and get more contacts?
Cool!

But i would like to have it integrated with other brokers (robinhood!).

BTW: this is very similar to https://zercatto.com , no?
Ahh.. thank you. We touched on this in philosophy courses but my specific courses did not cover it in depth. Thank you for explaining the notation for me.
the back of your brain and into your sinuses

Dural sinuses, not nasal sinuses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dural_venous_sinuses
Shampoo project (http://dmitrymatveev.co.uk/shampoo/) might be useful. It's an Emacs mode for remote Smalltalk development that support GNU Smalltalk and Pharo.
This is our ultimate goal.
Another data point for Shipito - I've been using them for a few years to re-mail stuff to Japan from the US.
That doesn't make IOCP worse than epoll, it's just not the same as epoll. Look at PyParallel:

https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-how-we-removed-the-...
There's a reason ex-spooks work in political campaigns.
I've read that languages for mathematical reasoning (such as Coq) are not Turing-complete to avoid issues like this. We can tolerate the possibility of infinite loops when we actually execute a program and see that it returns an answer, but apparently programs used as proofs aren't actually run, so type-checking needs to eliminate this sort of paradox.