skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you could add the training age as well as some additional information (height, approximate bf%, outside stress level, recovery factors, training time) as potential details you could have a serious case for recommending training programs to people. It's one of the good uses of collective intelligence to benefit the community I've always wanted, but never found the time, to implement.
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> ...a dangerous weapon that can be used to attack strategic targets...

Do you honestly believe that Air Force hardware won't be used to destroy a hijacked passenger jet that appears to be in service as a weapon? I don't.
I have ublock installed and the popup still happened.
I used to live in Seattle. The taxis were horrible: everything from attempting to hail a cab to calling the dispatch to the condition of the cabs to waiting for them. The Uber critics seem to forget how bad the industry Uber is disrupting actually is (or was).

Last time I visited I also noticed something interesting: fewer of my (remaining) friends there had cars. Many took buses to work but retained cars for the usual, occasional reasons. Now it's much easier to have reliable transport at times when Seattle's buses are inconvenient (which is really anytime after 7 p.m.).
As a hiker I would much rather step aside for a slow moving well trained animal then dive out of the way for a mountain biker going downhill way over the posted speed limit around sharp corners.
The release notes:
https://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-1-4-0.html

Another major change is that it supports Python 3 now.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4897
That reads like a straw proposal of what 'modern feminism' means.

Modern feminism means things like not having peer reviewers suggest that a "paper, written by two female researchers, should include at least one male author to make sure that the data were interpreted correctly, and says that only men have the personality necessary to make it to the top jobs in science." - https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/sexist-peer-revi... .

Modern feminism means things not having to put up with a research culture where women have to '“put up with” advisor looking down her shirt' - http://retractionwatch.com/2015/06/01/science-pulls-advice-p...

Modern feminism means fighting for paternal leave and maternal leave for new parents. Because many men also want to take time off for their newborn, but can't because of systemic biases, both legal and cultural, which prevent that.

The article says "however studies have shown that boys tend to be more fragile than girls biologically and psychologically requiring greater medical care and emotional nurturing." ROFL - just the other day we heard a Nobel prize winner say "Three things happen when [women] are in the lab: You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them, they cry." So what is it - women are emotionally fragile and can't handle criticism or men are the ones who need more psychological nurturing?

"The ideations of modern feminism do not promote men in areas where men are at a disadvantage" is of course wrong. One counter-example is paternity leave. Eg, 'Paternity Leave and Why Men Need Feminism Too' at http://time.com/2853080/fathers-day-gift-paternity-leave-fem... . In the more feminist Sweden, said a visiting American "What’s up with all the gay nannies?" after seeing all the fathers with their children - http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2014/0405/No-Sweden-is... .

Quoting further from the 'gay nannies' article, "For Americans, who have some of the paltriest parental policies on the planet, it is apparently more logical that nannies – gay at that – would flock to northern Europe than that fathers doing what they are biologically intended to do: care for their young children."
Show me a private corporation that is legally required to fully pre-fund pensions 75 years in advance for every employee, including all potential future employees, and I'll eat my hat.
Also, consider a future where a laptop is just a ~silicone skin over the current "bottom half" of a laptop. Batteries could also be smaller since the screen currently eats so much juice, or it could stay the same size to power the VR headset (but I imagine that the smaller screens would use less juice).
> Does this even apply to free software like browsers and email clients ?

The more I get involved in open source the more I think most code bloat is due to people needing their egos validated by getting a commit into a project, regardless of whether the commit is all that useful or not.
If it was wildly successful, how did we end up with tons of private competitors with a large market share (FedEx, UPS, DHL, OnTrac, etc). The U.S. Is one of the only countries where the state run postal service isn't sufficient. In Switzerland, for example, there is only the Swiss Post. Most countries, to my knowledge, operate with just one major postal network.
Holy shit, this sounds exactly like me. In my case, I fell backwards out of the shower, but all the same feelings/symptoms. Likewise, doctors are convinced it's not cardiovascular, and MRIs have shown nothing in my cervical spine (which is where I figured the problem would be). Taking Prilosec has had a substantial effect, though things aren't perfect yet; this comment really encourages me to keep taking it and hope for the best!
Seems like the best thing to do then is turn around and find funding (probably by way of debt or equity) to turn the small run into a larger run. Clearly there was some demand, and it's doubtful their whole potential market saw the Kick Starter campaign.
> Dropping Linux support is not okay.

It's v1 of a product, if they waited to have every feature under the sun before initial launch then nothing would ever get released, ever.
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"What would John Muir have thought about BASE jumping?"

I've read John Muir's books about Yosemite. I remember they way he climbed up the unstable ice cone that forms in the winter around Horsetail fall just to stick his own head into the vortex. I remember all the unclimbed and unclimbable-looking rock faces he scrambled up without modern protection.

If John Muir knew about BASE jumping and wingsuits, he would have thought, "I need to do that right now today!"

But he would also know that it isn't compatible with what's left of the wilderness experience in Yosemite.
"$110k through investment and government grants
in exchange for an equity stake"

http://www.mla48.com/take-action/

For how much equity?
Honestly, I'm not sure that the it could have been demonstrated that the airlines were liable for the losses.

Consider that every single other hijacking up to that point had ended peaceably. One of the many, many, many reasons that this attack was so successful was that it was novel and unexpected.
What is really needed IMHO is a mind-reader. Something simple that would detect brain waves and allow you to move around. That way one could aim by turning your head and move by thinking about it.

I know tech. has some way to go before it gets there, but that is the missing piece that would make this the next level of computing (and probably one that would cause Half Life 3 to finally show up).
You're missing something vital here. They're not rejecting good candidates because they're good candidates, they're rejecting them because they're not sure enough that they're good candidates.

They fear they might be bad candidates. They'd rather reject too many than too few, so they make sure they reject everybody who they're not 100% is a good candidate. That means they may reject some good candidates that aren't easily identified as such, but it doesn't increase their chance of hiring a bad candidate; it decreases it.
I love seeing this because it matches my recommendation for redoing the stack post-Snowden. I gave two options: (a) Wirth-style [1] with assembler -> high-level assembler -> Modula-2-like language -> safe Oberon-like language -> 4GL-like batteries included language; (b) VLISP-like [2] setup with assembler -> high-level assembler -> LISP interpreter -> PreScheme compiler -> integrated PreScheme/LISP/assembler system -> AOT or JIT compiler for full LISP.

This is kind of like a mix between the two. I like how the author illustrates each step well. The best illustration is showing how easily the core language can transform into a mainstream-grade language with extensible syntax and macro's. A strength worth copying in any new language albeit with guidelines on proper use. I bet it was all pretty fun, too.

[1] http://www.cfbsoftware.com/modula2/Lilith.pdf

[2] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=E0F...
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why?
Thank god this proposal got accepted
Interesting to note there slide 5 -- "For many
polynomial time problems, improving the best known algorithms, even slightly, implies ¬SETH or ¬ETH."

So apparently the edit-distance result discussed here is part of a history of similar results.

Edit: More detail on this in slides 11 and forward.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9684300
Gwern's authoritative writeup/analysis, http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin

I found I had to up the dose to ~15mg to make a large difference. I went from sleep problems 1/4 nights to <1/10.
Are there any examples of company selling their social graph data in this manner directly?

The other companies I can think of (FB, Google, Tumblr) utilize the social graph to provide ad-targeting services, but don't charge to access the graph itself. The live nature of Twitter's firehose is probably better suited to sale as a recurring commodity than FB or Tumblr's.

I wonder if there's a price point where they could achieve widespread API usage while still making money with standard infrastructure (no custom datacenters, &c.)
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Digg users went to reddit, and reddit techies went to HackerNews. The classic early adopters, high technology users were the people going first. They went because there was a better alternative.

Firstly it's the wrong sort of user that is thinking of leaving reddit - these are a lot of the latecomers and consumers rather than the early adopters. Secondly, these types of users will not be going to Voat because it is not a better alternative.

If someone comes along and creates a better alternative, we will be pulled towards it, not pushed from something else.
Was there a time when ibtimes was good?
"wiggle room": Username limit was 20 characters (or something like that). 20 for username, 140 for message.
> there's no reason

The last time a bunch of OpenSSL CVEs dropped, there were 14 of them; two of which were rated sev: High. LibreSSL was affected by 5 out of the 14, none of which were high-severity.

This time around there are seven vulnerabilities and LibreSSL is affected by four of them[1].

So there's at least 12 reasons.

[0] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=142677372515025&w=2
[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=143406498020131&w=2
It's a funny world. Each of us is looking at the other library thinking there's too much magic involved. :-)

Ramda is [considering a technique][1] that would significantly reduce call stacks. But there is nothing likely to help with you understand parameter orders of your functions. Many users annotate their functions with something like Haskell signatures.

Thank you for bringing forth another interesting library. I'll be following your progress. Best of luck!

[1]: https://github.com/ramda/ramda/pull/907
> A terrorist wouldn't apply to precheck.

I strongly disagreement with your statement. See: http://www.loweringthebar.net/2015/03/notorious-felon-and-te...
This is going to make working from home a whole lot more easier. Expect outsourcing to get easier, expect fall in business travel.

A whole lot of things are going to easy and cheap.
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It's a caricature, much like the pointy haired boss in Dilbert. The reader is supposed to think "at least I'm not as dumb as that guy".

Also, the whole article is written as if it were 1997. The graphic design is rather HotWired-like, in a world where they had the tools we have now.
http://readwrite.com/2014/12/19/square-starbucks-mobile-paym...

Of relevance - Square is still a backend payment processor for several companies, even if it doesn't have the device on the front end. They still process payments for Starbucks, in lieu of Bank of America. It is not clear whether they make any money at it, though.
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It is free for open source projects, but yes expensive otherwise.
That sounds a bit sketchy, did no one call him out for that?
It's still shit. When I have to avoid it while biking or walking, it interrupts the tranquility of my enjoying the trail.

On a more serious note, a major problem with animal feces on trails that are shared with bikers is the risk it poses when you run it over, and it splatters all over the place. If it gets in your mouth, or on the nozzle of your water bottle or camelback, you can get sick.
Most games are essentially just massive databases of pretend stuff with an enjoyable alternative to SQL as the interface.
> ...how much of the $80 fee do you suppose that leaves?

"According to this TSA report [0], $14.50 of that [$85] fee pays for the FBI to run a criminal-records check, and the other $70.50 (83%) goes to the TSA for administration." (Via [1])

[0] http://www.tsa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/pdf/stak...

[1] http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/03/tsa-confuses-perfume-b...
Cool, thanks for the details. So... what do you do about cycles?

By "change" I didn't mean code change, I meant change in the information about the procedure collected during an iteration of the fixed point computation. But from the sounds of things you aren't computing a fixed point.

For example: A calls B and B calls A. You have information A0 and B0 about A and B. Analyze B, you have information B1 about B. Then you go and analyze A using B1. This gives you A1. Now you have to redo B, and compute B2. Use this to compute A2. This carries on until the information is not changing, i.e. An = An + 1 and Bn = Bn + 1.
> Would be curious whether a fuzzier, internal-sensor-only, limited "intent" tracking mode (e.g. flick head to switch monitor) would make people hurl or not.

Yes, it would. This has been studied pretty extensively, the head movements need to be very precisely matched by rendering. The absolute worst you can do is any kind of non-linear response -- acceleration + lag can make people who are very tolerant of VR nausea literally throw up.
> A majority of users? Please, Reddit has ~16M unique users per month.

You're off by about 160 million. Reddit had 172 million unique visitors last month. Source: http://www.reddit.com/about/

> There's no denying this is the biggest (and frankly hilarious to watch unfold) shitstorm in Reddit's history, but it is a vocal minority.

Here's the thing. I'm a power user over there. And a power mod. I have access to many of the backroom subreddits for the default mods and a few of the other "in group" communities. That said, I have never, not once, stumbled across anyone who truly likes her. Even the prominent mods of reddit are keeping their mouths shut because they're afraid of being targeted by her or the admins. But the general sentiment among most mods is that she's toxic.

Regular users either hate her or are largely indifferent. But those that are indifferent are either not really into the reddit metasphere, or they're ignorant of Ellen. Once they find out about Ellen's life (lawsuit, ponzi scheme) they usually bristle at the thought of her.

> but make no mistake, most of Reddit doesn't care.

If we were to scale reddit's public opinion of her, the people who don't care or are indifferent would get a zero. People who like her would move the scale to the right, into the positives, while the people who dislike her tip the scale to the left.

You're right in that many people are indifferent. They'd be a zero on this hypothetical scale. But the problem is, the rest of the people who do have an opinion tip the scale significantly to the left, into the negatives. There's virtually zero people who like her (even the people into SJW stuff don't particularly care for her) and there are many, many people who hate her. It's telling that more people liked Yishan Wong, reddit's previous CEO and that guy was a loon.
Except they're not beating Valve to market. Vive should be released for the holiday season 2015 alongside the Steam Machines.

Rift won't be here until Q1 2016 (and their input solution later still).
A pretty sizable chunk of the OCaml world is French. It was developed at INRIA, yeah, and maintains a lot of presence there. It's actually a tiny bit difficult from time to time in OCaml to find English resources.
It'll be Windows 10 only (which has a lot of people speculating that Oculus Rift may be Windows 10 only).
Yes, the sources are difficult to read at best. The documentation for the public APIs is not much better either.

For example, the suggestion at this page: https://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/sha.html to use the higher-level EVP_ functions was difficult to actually adhere to, given that the EVP_ functions themselves don't actually explain how to generate a message digest given some input data. I wasted half a day once trying to understand how those functions worked once before giving up and just using the digest functions directly. It's still not clear to me why the EVP functions provide a significant advantage, or even how I would use them to accomplish the use cases outlined in the digest functions.

I suspect that not understanding the OpenSSL APIs is a common problem, and possibly an underlying cause of a lot of crypto implementation errors.
These titles are getting kinda clickbait-y
Layman's explanation? I should apt-get update && apt-get upgrade?
Are you serious? Hiding the keyboard is like the first step you do when you start practicing touch typing.
Yeah, it's kind of a cheat. A real language built in assembler would be headaches and I bet a HLL prototype would be hidden somewhere. HLA might be doable, though, especially if macro's are used diligently for pre-optimization work.

Competition has gone down from the 70's and 80's, though. I remember reading a Scheme paper that builds a software interpreter then implements the thing in hardware too. There were also people doing HLL-to-microcode compilers to cheat extra performance out of their chips. These days most projects stop at assembler. I'd love to see people whip out their FPGA's and start trying to outdo 70's-80's era innovation in hardware/software designs maybe for modern languages.

One of my concepts collecting dust is the Secure Python Target that merges a capability machine, LISP-like hardware at core for native bytecodes, and compiler from Python to that language. Result could be quite productive, reliable, and secure. Another was a Secure Haskell (or ML/Ocaml) Target. I don't know that kind of stuff as well, though. Python has enough documentation, community, and simplicity (to a degree) that academics could port some of its core to hardware.
Also note that California needs to mandate degrees in related fields at least partly because the California school systems are in so much trouble. Pick a random school district in a suburb in the US Northeast, and despite the lack of requirement, it will tend to be the norm (many inner-city districts burn out teachers so fast that I doubt any set of requirements would suceed in getting quality teachers).

The general consensus is that California school systems are poor, and what little I've seen of them seems to hold true: I grew up in the Northeast, and communities that are comparably affluent in Southern California to there are much worse off school wise. The most common point to blame seems to be Prop 13[1], but I also notice that California has many more decisions centralized, and does also tend to have more parents who are non-native English speakers, so I don't know what is to blame.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_%2819...
From what I've seen (not much), a large obstacle in the field of brain/computer control seems to be signal interpretation. All our methods for analyzing electrical signals must be non invasive, a requirement which greatly increases noise. For example, to read EEG data from the brain we need to strap a net of ~128 electrodes around the skull and use FFT techniques to analyze 128 wave segments. The electrical signal bounces around in the convex skull, generating noise that pollutes the EEG signal. The fact is, it's hard to read electrical signals without a direct connection -- there is only so much we can do from outside the body.

(This is why consumer grade EEG devices can do little more than react in a binary fashion to relaxed/excited emotional state. The signal difference between relaxed/excited is easily detectable in aggregate, but more nuanced signals are hidden amongst the noise of EEG waves bouncing around the skull.)

For this reason, any non invasive method of reading (or in this case, apparently even controlling) electrical signals will advance the field of neuroscience exponentially.

This obstacle of noisy data leads to a second obstacle: what is the signal? Can we duplicate an arbitrary signal and send it through the nervous system on demand? That's a hard question to answer, especially when we can barely listen to the signal in the first place.

My question is, what role can machine learning play in this field? The problem of identifying signal seems more of a computational one than a biological one. How much data loss do EEG machines suffer from noise? Is all the data intact, and we just need to figure a way to avoid the noise?

Has there been any research on feeding neural signals into ML algorithms, and labeling them with results, e.g. "Moved finger," "blinked eyes," etc?

This field strikes me as one with a lot of untapped potential. With the coming VR revolution, thought-based interaction seems a natural next step.
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Because Microsoft, Dell, Apple, etc. can all exist and be wildly successful at the same time?
Tunney here. I'm not a neoreactionary. I never was.

- 2014/05/27: @ReactionaryTree I don’t identify as a neoreactionary. Although I talk to a lot of people who do. https://twitter.com/justinetunney/status/471281445013843968

- 2014/05/30: @tesseractiv I don't identify as a neoreactionary. I already had my movement. I don't want to join any others. https://twitter.com/justinetunney/status/472425936692854784

- 2014/06/28: @nullvoid9 I'm not a neoreactionary :'( I'm also friendly and will treat you with the same respect you give me. https://twitter.com/justinetunney/status/482757375854522368

- 2014/08/04: Who said I was a neoreactionary? I keep telling people I'm not, but no one believes me. http://ask.fm/JustineTunney/answer/116475763475

- 2015/01/15: @DurrutiOvercloc Well, most of the things. Like, I’m not pro-slavery. I’ve also never called myself a neoreactionary. https://twitter.com/justinetunney/status/555603973286400000

- 2015/03/11: @jhamby @justkelly_ok I'm not a neoreactionary. I've never been one. Also Shanley is a huge racist. https://twitter.com/justinetunney/status/575829516079263744
Good thoughts! Botulism is caused by a toxin produced by Clostridium botulinum.

E. coli is a little more complicated: some E. coli spp. produce toxins, and other species are enteroinvasive and actually can outcompete the gut flora (confusingly enough, other species of E. coli are also in the normal gut flora).

The main reason that some species of E. coli can make it to your gut and cause disease are that they have a variety of pathogenic factors that definitely would not be found in bacteria in 'probiotic' foods.

(and I see who you are replying to just edited their response to add 'bad' E. coli)
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