skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is worth to remember that there is a way to completely cure HIV, but it is very dangerous, requires a very specific bone marrow match, and does not erradicate all subtypes of the virus. Still, it is interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematopoietic_stem_cell_transp...
Ask HN: Would you hire me as an intern?
Countries tend to claim jurisdiction whenever a citizen is killed, no matter where it happens.
It's not that "business guys" are bad. There are a lot of good business people out there. Look at Warren Buffett or Bill Gates.

The problem in the Valley is that the dominant culture is now set by the people who moved West to take advantage of nerds and their poor negotiating skills. There's a personality type and it's not a good one.

There are oilmen and coal miners and gold miners in the world, and Silicon Valley's leadership is comprised almost entirely of people miners who turn young male quixotry into gold. It's Hollywood for Ugly People.

I don't dislike all business people. As with any other group, there are good ones who think long term and bad ones who raid companies and fail up. Technology just seems to be dominated, about 10-to-1, by the bad ones.
Whenever this retirement finance stuff comes up people mostly just extrapolate USA markets from 1982 forward, or maybe at best something like 1919 USA markets. I don't think history is so linear for this to be useful.
Here's another good one: http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/03/entrepre...
The WSI article seems pretty biased but ok, everybody is entitled to an opinion.

However please note that we differ on two important things:

- You seem to think that "dead" means the heart is not working anymore. For a lot of people, me included, if my brain is dead, then I'm dead, period, even if my heart is still pumping. Consequently, you misrepresent reflex (like the legs of a frog still able to have a reflex even if it's dead) with pain, which is not.

- Your "80-90% chance of death" are unsourced and seem invented, which makes me question most of your arguments.

So basically you're just against deceased donation, and that's your right, but please do not mislead people with erroneous informations.
It's Colombia, please.
If the non-white background is an offsetting factor, why isn't the fact that #000 is actually realized on LCD/LED monitors as "dark grey" also an offsetting factor to reduce contrast?

Apparently, it looks like there's a difference of opinions (rather than scientific rigor) whether the "dark grey" of #000 is "light enough".

I'm fine with it ultimately boiling down to subjective aesthetics but sgk284's post made it sound like #000 eyestrain was scientific fact.
Just when I was thinking, how is it possible there were no leftovers?

Bravo!
If "young male quixotry" can't turn themselves into gold themselves, then how are these people miners bad? And if they are, how do these people miners have any business at all?
Couldn't this argument be used against adding any new features to any established software?

I agree that adding new features will introduce new defects. Should we allow fear of new defects to define what software should do?
Another equally good simulator (built in Om, React): http://cmdrdats.github.io/undertype/
It's also got basic wiki type stuff, and some other features.

IRC is like USENET: It has barely evolved for decades, nobody can profit by improving the protocol as it's a commons, so it just stagnates and dies out.

Eventually all the decentralised protocols that were born in the early days of the internet will be gone.
which industry? I assume you mean development / programming. How old are you and why do you think 25 at most? I'm 35 and plan on doing this until I'm dead. There is absolutely no reason that you ever have to give up programming (outside of dementia).

I've met blind programmers and programmers that can't use their hands. If they can do it, we can do it, even if we have arthritis and become legally blind.

Edit: also if i become unemployable due to ageism, i've alrady decided will create a persona online of a 30 year old and only take remote jobs.
There is also PubPeer, which allows anonymous commenting on articles, including arXiv preprints. It has been fairly successful -- its commenters have uncovered several cases of fraud and appear to be fairly active:

https://pubpeer.com/publications/DF28B786257B8916013EC2F9CC5...
That's a fair point, and there's definitely a difference between being pedantic about design details and commenting on a relevant design-related issue.

I definitely would not flag every design-related comment, but I was mostly wondering if it is ever justified to do so.

(and just to be clear, I had no particular opinion on your comment - it just reminded me to ask about flagging etiquette)
Who said it had to be a 90s typewriter?
> exercising your brain - is a must to keep your memories and sanity

And this is why I never plan to give up programming and learning new tech. Constant brain stimulation.
http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/wikipedia-hoax-yuri-ga...
Exactly. Or maybe no commission at all on repeat bookings? Then there's no pressure for the relationship to jump the walled garden and you keep the customer on the site to come to you first for future searches.
How common is it, really, in the US? I genuinely don't know.

On the one hand, I hear that medical (and thus presumably dental) insurance costs a fortune, and even then the "co-pay" means that many hesitate to seek treatment. I can't imagine that "my teeth aren't as white as I'd like" is something insurance companies like paying for (or rather, they don't like paying for anything, but something purely cosmetic seems easy to deny), so how are people affording this? is it just the wealthy? If I wander around poorer areas, will I start seeing ordinary teeth?
Offtopic: What is currently the best home 3D printer? I am looking for something that produces reasonable level of detail and items that aren't easily destroyed by applying slight rotational forces.
There's nothing about "wired new bod's" that makes them more worthy of being alive...
Actually that is what free is. Just like Facebook and Google, Microsoft can very clearly and truthfully claim that their product is free if and only if they do not charge you money to use it.
http://www.quora.com/If-someone-commits-murder-at-sea-in-int...

That is a related question about international waters (which has a similar sort of situation). the TL;DR is the US could go for it.

My impression is that no country really puts jurisdiction into its laws except in certain explicit cases (like tax law).

So if it's illegal to kill someone, I don't think any country will be like "well you did it outside of here so we're cool with it." Usually extradition is more linked to the fact that if you kill someone in Tokyo, chances are Japan has more detectives in place to prosecute you "fairly" (since they have all the evidence in place) than the US would, for example.

IANAL, but I think jurisdiction is more of a term for the executive branch, like the police, than for the court system. Though it will come to place in things like standing
Why Privacy Is the Bedrock of an “Open and Connected” World
Perhaps they can use processor affinity to put each user in one core ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_affinity ).

Sometimes this is useful to make single thread programs fasters, because it avoids the necessity to "transfer" the cache form the old core to the new core. ( http://mailinator.blogspot.com.ar/2010/02/how-i-sped-up-my-s... the article is old (2010) but interesting)

I never tried this in a situation like yours, so I don't know if this is useful in your case.
Isnt that standard procedure in Australia? I watched a few Border Security: Australia's Front Line episodes and I remember seeing them take someones phone and text/call few listed contacts pretending to be the user. Australian border as a whole is very communist Russia/East Berlin like, papers, where are ze nuts? who do you know? why do you come here to terk urr jerbs? and obligatory 'are you a criminal?', as if they still only let criminals in (btw they really dont like this joke).
It was very puffy. Didn't get to the point until the 8th paragraph.
Don't be in such a hurry to second-guess your brain... it's very good at optimization problems you don't even realize it's solving. If you're using the correction buttons heavily, I'd suggest it's more likely because you're more efficient using them than because of the intellectual slovenliness you seem to so casually assume.
GDP is not a measure of the static wealth of the citizens of a country, it's a measure of economic activity (literally adding it all up).
Most effective way to piss of a Colombian is to call their country Columbia :-)
Only tangentally mentioned but I'm not sure "yogurt enemas" are the best example of an idea that has no legs on which to stand. That would entail putting bacteria directly into a microbiome. It would be niave and extremely ignorant-reductionist to conclude that that would have no effect. You need a peer-reviewed study before making it a procedure covered by insurance, etc. -- i get that -- but certainly not prior to it making sense.
IKO Creative Prosthetic System
Space Defender type mobile startup game?
Time for Tea – How to Test a Kettle
>Gates just revealed the things that could prevent humanity's worst-case scenario

Isn't he just the guy that created a software company? Why would he have any particular insight over Joe Regular?
Google and Snopes exist and yet people still forward hoax emails to their friends and post/share hoaxes on Facebook.
I remember this being posted on HN before and many in the tech industry criticising HN's negative reaction and dismissal of the idea.

Marc Andressen tweeted "Hater News" on that day. But still , noone really knows how this thing works but I assume that VCs aren't going to throw 10 million dollars at somebody without doing atleast some due diligence.

Atleast they got a few PhDs to audit this device and its working. So maybe we don't have the full story on how this works.

Here's a VC saying it works:
http://www.quora.com/Is-uBeam-practical/answer/Ben-Parr?srid...
Petition to Pardon Edward Snowden: White House Response
No, it makes no sense. Right now 3D printers eat files, so printing to file is tautology. 3D printers also tent to be very unreliable, you need ability to pause the print (jams, skips). How is putting CUPS between you and the printer helpful?
Steven Pinker: The moral imperative for bioethics
In theory, I agree. I mean that seriously, not as a rhetorical sop. However, in practice, it had wrought endless havoc even in C, suggesting, well, exactly my current feelings, which is that it's really insane in 2015 to use C for much of anything. C is the modern-day programmer's SCP-572 [1], except the sharp blow to the head doesn't usually work on a C programmer.

[1]: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-572
Took this screenshot last night: https://i.imgur.com/pl22srz.png

I would have reported it to someone at project euler but couldn't find any contact information beyond a link to an inactive forum.
Have you heard of therapeutic poop implants ?
It should be very easy to debunk this article though. Just a single line tweet along the lines of "you discount xxxx". A bit weird to call it hater news without really engaging.
It depends on the lag compensation of the game in question. For instance, in league of legends, you can't do a few champion combos (like Alistar's headbutt + pulverize) on a lag greater than 200ms. But enemy skills register just fine.

Packet loss is even more awful when your skills don't register or you don't know what's going on for a second or two.

This does puts the players at an unfair disadvantage.
Ask HN: Why and how is Hacker News so fast?
I'm currently using an artificially-shaped 256k Internet connection (it resets in a couple days), and over the past few weeks browsing the web, I've very consistently found HN to be one of the fastest loading sites I've come across.

I understand that HN is built on top of Arc (http://arclanguage.org), a Lisp variant, and that the code (https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc) uses flat files to store post and vote data. This is generally speaking quite an unusual/unexpected architecture for a site presumed to serve a consistently moderate load, but HN manages to do so remarkably well, presumably because the site itself is so incredibly lightweight. I don't think the minimal HTML is the only factor though, although it probably counts for the majority.

I'm interested to understand as much as possible/practicable/relevant about the server(s') configuration, uplink bandwidth, other tunables, etc, so I can get an idea of what makes HN so exceptionally responsive and "a cut above 99% of everything else". Does CloudFlare really make that much of a difference? :P

I know there's some "secret sauce" in there somewhere, because virtually-verbatim clones of HN such as http://firespotting.com/ seem almost as fast... but just not as instantaneous as HN.

(PS: On the occasions I get hit by it, my ISP's shaping config seems quite involved/nuanced, and I actually want to profile it because it's so catalyzing and would be very useful to apply to my own projects for "worst-case" testing. For the interested, the details I have thus far can be found here: http://serverfault.com/questions/709529/how-can-i-profile-my-isps-bandwidth-shaping-settings)
Some truly awful crimes go on at sea and the criminal simply walks away. If you can arrange to do it there, you could try your luck.

In theory, at the very least, the flag state of the vessel should do something about it. In practice, if you pick the right flag state, the right ship, you could get away with it. Some very suspicious deaths go essentially unnoticed on merchant ships, and I know a security chief on a cruise ship who has arrested people for serious sexual assault and the flag state just doesn't care and/or just doesn't have the capability to investigate; they get put ashore at the next port and walk away scot-free. It happens, regularly enough that it's not an unusual thing.
There was already a lengthy discussion of this piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542091

The piece aside - which I won't make a commentary on - I wonder whether this is just the right level of snark and intellectual elitism (founded or not) to be consistently popular on HN. Why it's worth dredging up, with apparently no new or novel updates, is beyond me.
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I am not sure English lit PhDs are qualified to determine if uBeam will work.
> It is worth to remember that there is a way to completely cure HIV

N size on that kind of experiment is VERY limited, so I would be very careful in making such claims.
That doesn't seem to work for me, the paper page is always blank.
Of all the reasons to build a new canal, I find this to be one of the most fantastic.
From the materials and methods:

"An anesthetized adult mouse was perfused transcardially with a fixative solution containing glutaraldehyde, paraformaldehyde, and CaCl2 in cacodylate buffer. The brain was removed and maintained overnight at 4°C in the same fixative solution."

I don't know much about neurobiology. But i know that in two other fields of cell biology - cell motility and vesicle trafficking - something that became clear in the last decade is that the way you fix samples for electron microscopy has a huge impact on what you see. Cells are made of highly dynamic structures that exist in fine-tuned environments; soaking them in formaldehyde and some random buffer salts is pretty much guaranteed to disrupt those environments, and let the structures drift away from the states they have in live cells over the time it takes to fix them, even if it's only fractions of a second.

The gold standard for fixation is now extremely fast freezing, achieved by plunging a sample into liquid nitrogen under very high pressure, so that the water solidifies as a glass rather than growing crystals, which would disrupt structures inside the cell:

http://www.biotechniques.com/BiotechniquesJournal/2006/Augus...

In my old field, cell motility, when someone finally tried this, they found that a thing called the lamellipodium, which has been an object of intense study for decades, had a rather different structure to what everyone had thought:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20418872

As a result, it turns out that the prevailing model of how this thing worked was complete fantasy. Since numerous successful professors have built their careers on that model, this discovery has not yet really been taken on board by the field, but it's inevitable that it will.

Which is a very roundabout way of saying that when the authors of this brain paper write:

"For example, by tracing the trajectories of all excitatory axons and noting their juxtapositions, both synaptic and non-synaptic, with every dendritic spine we refute the idea that physical proximity is sufficient to predict synaptic connectivity (the so-called Peters’ rule)."

I am skeptical, because they are looking at the positions of the spines and synapses in their formaldehyde-soaked sample, not live tissue, or tissue prepared in such a way as to preserve the structure of live tissue.

Still a cool paper though.
What's your budget? 3D printers for home use vary in price from a few hundred dollars to many thousands of dollars. Also, they vary quite a bit in terms of the materials they support printing.

If you want one example of a good high end 3D printer for the home market, I'd say take a look at the Form 1+:

http://formlabs.com/products/form-1-plus/
PPS: I just clicked the serverfault link (I pulled it out of my address bar history without loading it, because bandwidth) and realized it was [on hold]. I don't seem to have "gotten" the Stack Exchange thing, this happens to most of my questions, heh.

So, feel free to reply here instead of the SF question if you have a response for that.
Paper doesn't shine into your eyes.

We also try to avoid staring into the sun, for the same reason.
The Document Foundation Released LibreOffice 4.4.5 with Bug Fixes
If someone's working a low-paying grocery chain job past retirement age, it's usually because they're forced to (to pay medical bills, for example).
What are the requirements of your graduation project? Topic/timespan?
Mark Twain was a suppose the best known author to have been employed as a typographer. For that matter, one of the vagabonds in Huckleberry Finn, I forget whether Duke or Dauphin, evidently knows his way around the type case and the press.

The Monotype System must have been one of the earliest uses of paper tape for encoding information--see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotype_System .
Where is the word lazy mentioned or even implied?

I do like working. And this is a traditional characteristic of Americans. With all the America bashing that goes on (some admittedly deserved) this is a thing I'm particularly proud of about my country. I'm proud of what we have invented, what we have achieved in very short period of time. I'd like to be part of that tradition.

Your trolling accusation is entirely unfounded.
Adobe Brackets 1.4 an Awesome Text Editor Released, Install in Ubuntu
> arrogant people like you

I spent 5 years working with ASP (very similar to PHP especially in the ability to create spaghetti code). In PHP's defense, I wrote an eBay-like site in one night using it. I also know Lisp, some Haskell, BASIC, Pascal, spent 10 years (!) on Ruby, know Clojure, Erlang, JS...

I think I know my shit, I'm 43 and have been basically coding since I was 12 on a Commodore PET... And although PHP lets you get something up quick... It will always be a challenge to create a team-maintainable codebase with it.

PHP doesn't even pass its own test suite. And they do not realize why this is bad? This is the hallmark of hubris.

It's not "arrogance" you're seeing, man. It is the cold hard weight of experience building and maintaining large codebases for years in various languages.
They might value that knowledge being kept private to them more than debunking the article in the short term.
No. That's not a fair argument at all. Just because someone is scared away by an "option" screen like this:

> you get presented with a customize wizard. The first screen has a large chunk of text on it, a large and clearly visible button to proceed using the default settings, and a small hard to see text link that lets you choose your own setting values instead of the defaults.

> Everything about this screen is urging me to just accept the default configuration and get on with life.

Doesn't mean those people "don't care enough" about their privacy. Those people are my parents and my friends and I know that they do.

We know our computers, we can fight back, many people cannot. I believe that when a piece of software tries to provide "sensible defaults" for people that fear they might break stuff, or simply not understand the "advanced options", that those defaults should be SAFE and TRUSTWORTHY.

Windows 10 obviously breaks that trust, and the people who can't spend an hour digging through advanced options (for many reasons) are just pounded into submission against systems they feel slowly slip from their control.
Whiteness of teeth and eyes are biological markers of being a good potential mate with [currently] good health and [presumably] strong immune system (evolutionary "hints" of having "good genes"), an analogy of peacock's tail. Breath is another important hint, btw. These are just hard-wired to our brains.

People are mere monetizing these "heuristics" into absurd.
> Right now 3D printers eat files, so printing to file is tautology.

"Print to file" is a widely-supported printing operation, where the spooler saves the prepared document (in whatever format the printer uses: PostScript, Diablo 630, XPS, PDF, something proprietary...) to a file, rather than sending it down USB/parallel/etc.

> 3D printers also tent to be very unreliable

Plenty of regular printers are too, particularly older ones. Printing systems can handle it.

> you need ability to pause the print (jams, skips).

This is also needed, and supported, for regular printers.

> How is putting CUPS between you and the printer helpful?

Well, otherwise, you need some other software. Unless you're proposing people do `cat file > /dev/usb001`?
There's a lot of negativity around this piece usually in the form of "some other company had a lease program" etc. The author's main point to me was that SolarCity is executing best across a wide range of areas to bring solar to the masses and growing TAM via new markets etc. Pointing out they weren't the first with X is like poo poohing MSFT in the 90's because Apple had a GUI first.
"integration with existing program UI dialogs, print to file and other features."

Because of the existing software support for integrating with CUPS. You know, the Common Unix Printing System.
Thank you for your interest. My project can be about any subject relative to embedded systems/wearable/IoT..

The project would start early 2016 (February/March) and should be around 4/5 months long.
Did you read ? With 1 Gig of Heap that's less than 1ms, and if you're creating a UI or a gaming engine there are ways to recycle objects in order to prevent GCs from working on useless object groups
detaro,

Just going through the exercises in this book by Paul Graham : http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf. --- There doesn't seem to be anything in there about web development for Lisp though ...

Also saw this book on static web development by Adam Tornhill : http://www.adamtornhill.com/articles/lispweb.htm --- do you think this will help ?