skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Masons are the quintessential white boy money club. They have absolutely nothing to do with actual stone cutting, they have have an infatuation with having a long lived legacy, like the Pyramids.
Or if you're BJ Penn, you do indeed go up a weight class to fight the (overwhelmingly dominant) champion, and win!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.J._Penn
In my experience, Debian is easier to install than a recent version of Windows. I think it's an excellent choice for almost everyone.
And there would always be the optional mutability. Your complex data structures are seldom the ones driving performance.

Ie often you have to get the complex data structures right (lots of logic, not much computation) to set up your computations on the simple ones (eg lots of number crunching on your arrays).
What are SDF's origins and history?
That's a good point. In Delaware, liquidation preference would have to be accomplished through a preferred stock designation. Not sure what English law is, though. The terms might make more sense, both legally and culturally, from that perspective. This could possibly explain why commenters who know these guys are giving good reviews, while US-based commenters steeped in SV culture find this document strange.
I'd hate to live with a bunch of people who think just like me.

Is this because you're worried about an echo-chamber effect where you won't learn, see or do something new? Some of the benefits I get from hanging out (and living) with like-minded people is that they've come across some new music in a genre they thought I might appreciate, read a new study or article in a field of science, politics or philosophy that we commonly find interesting, cook an obscure meal or go out to a new restaurant that, based on my past preferences, they knew I'd enjoy.

Expanding one's experiences and tastes can be an evolutionary process, and people with similar tastes can help you step through them faster than you would on your own - the cadence merely increases. It doesn't have to be a binary thing either - often someone's friend or partner will be quite different philosophically and you have the opportunity to listen to their ideas or tastes and become richer from exploring those things with them.
Hi daemonk,
Jon Armstrong from Cofactor Genomics here. You hit on some excellent points.

So you can detect circ. RNA that come from specific tissues and partition those reads out as expression for those tissues?

In reality, we are detecting circRNA that arises or predominates during a specific disease state and then partition those reads out as a signal for the disease state. On a related note, the circRNA molecule resists degradation much more than linear RNA molecules, leading to a longer half-life and less variability in signal from tissue, plasma, and exosomes.

What kind of coverage do you need to do that?

Currently, 100's of million of reads need to be generated to just detect the highest expressed circRNAs. We have a patent pending circRNA enrichment technology (supported by a large NIH phase II grant) that increases the ratio of circRNA in the total RNA pool by logs, thus one could sequence logs less reads for the same level of detection. The coverage cutoff for detection can be "tuned" for assay sensitivity.

Are mRNA circularization rates consistent among different genes?

CircRNAs do not seem to be translated into proteins and probably perform multiple regulatory functions. Also, the level of a linear form does not correlate with the level of the circular form for the same gene. As with linear mRNA production, which is not consistent from gene to gene or tissue to tissue, we observe the same phenomenon with circRNA.

Hope this info helps.
Those services as investor owned enterprises are not the problem, and and a coop is not the solution.

Don't assume there is any way to make selling, or streaming, recorded music pay for more than a few highly promoted musicians, and don't assume that the business of promoting those musicians can stay clean. Compared to performing and teaching music, selling a recorded performance is a relative novelty, and the business of it was always an irrational hits business and always more or less dirty.

Recorded music disrupted performance, and vastly reduced the demand for music performers. Figure out how to reverse-disrupt that and you will do more to put more money in the pockets of more musicians than a novel way of selling recorded performances.
You can see network traffic in Resource Monitor. And yes, you can block unwanted traffic at the LAN router.

pfSense VM works well as a virtual firewall. With IPv4 and IPv6 deselected on the Local Area Connection, there's no direct connectivity. In the pfSense VM, you bridge WAN to the host NIC, and attach LAN to a host-only adapter.
Yes -> https://www.thecthulhu.com/setting-up-a-hidden-service-with-...
Curious. I haven't written anything in Java for a long time so I wasn't aware that you could mark parameters as `final`, or what that would mean.

If you are working with code where you know that functions never modify their parameters then it is simpler to reason about what it does. I prefer to write code this way myself if there is no language mechanism to enforce it.

Other possible uses of `final` (to tag methods or classes) have the downside of reducing the flexibility of code by removing interfaces / "seams" that can be overridden. This reduction of flexibility will generally make things harder to test, which may or may not matter. Michael Feathers has a short article discussing this [1].

[1] Michael Feathers' "Testable Java" : http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/TestableJava....
The Ivory Highway – Inside the World of Elephant Poaching (2014)
No, but you can have that with pointers, since the constness of the pointer itself (i.e., whether you can change the address) is separate from the object it points to (i.e., whether it might point into ROM or not). So you can have T * (variable RAM address), T * const (fixed RAM address), const T * (variable ROM/RAM address), and const T * const (fixed ROM/RAM address).

(References, by contrast, can never be reseated. So const T &const doesn't make sense. But... I didn't try this right now to double check, so if it works - though I think it doesn't - don't blame me. Or, if you do, at least allow me to plead extenuating circumstances, in the form of C++.)
First, you'd still have optional mutability. Second, arrays are rather simple data structures, but ones where you often care about performance--small tight loops are common. Compare that to the data structure that eg holding your options and flags for the computation: you don't do much computation on that, but you have lots of invariants that you want to uphold---ie lots of code, but each bit executed roughly once, no tight loops.
How does this make money? What’s the plan?

It won’t. I figure the amazing APIs made available by Algolia, Reddit, Google News (and hopefully more) are incurring the only ongoing expense, and I’ve done my best to design the extension to respect their needs. My only need is that people get something out of the effort. :)

Are you against making money on projects?

I hope to sell some funny stickers at some point! But in all seriousness, I’d be happy to charge for a product that doesn’t depend on others’ APIs. Ambitious projects that aren’t concerned with revenue are (more than likely) destined to fail -> certainly there terrific exceptions to this...

I really like this idea of not charging for a service heavily based on other people's APIs. How many nodejs programmers are out there trying to make dirty money off other people's work + CSS ? It's shameful
copy elements between logically compatible containers but ones whose types are differing in layers of constness. Or if you to, say, move a reference all the way down into a pointer (or vice versa) to interop with C or other legacy code.
Or any of several other things, including some truly odd possibilities using operator and function overloading.

And this is 'const''s fault? Others have asked - can you provide an example? Because what you're describing sounds like it's going to be a hot mess, const or no const.

I don't really think that const can make bad data representation any worse than it already is.
...and the gatekeeping?
I wanted explicit language from Chrome's docs about how it scopes storage.

Firefox provided it: "The simple storage module exports an object called storage that is persistent and scoped to your add-on." https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/High-Level_A...

But all Chrome's docs said were the previously mentioned warning about not using it to store confidential user info.

So, to answer your question: caution

Actually, if you go back to my init commit on Github - you can see that I originally used the chrome.storage API. I extricated it from the code - except for the non-sensitive settings
Microsoft to Invest About $100M in Startup Uber
Jonlucc,
Shoot us an email through the website and I am sure we can set something up.
Guide to Secure Data Encryption in Web Applications with PHP
Why Real Estate Agent Should Handle Real Estate Sales
You may know this, but for those who might not: Fermat's Last Theorem and Fermat's Little Theorem are two totally different theorems (both about number theory).

Fermat's Little Theorem: For any integer a and prime p, a^p is congruent to a mod p.

Fermat's Last Theorem: For any integer n > 2, there are no integers a, b, and c such that a^n + b^n = c^n.

The Little Theorem has been known for hundreds of years and is easy to prove. The Last Theorem, on the other hand, was only finally proven in 1994 by Andrew Wiles after countless failed attempts by mathematicians before him.
The Museum of Modern Art Research Dataset
"And the second is the huge export boosts from China in iron and steel. (alleged in the article to be below cost but there wasn't really any support for that argument.)"

The quote from the article is “China is selling below the price of recycled steel”.

I interpreted that to mean that at current prices new steel from China sold at the market rate is cheaper than recycled steel. So no 'below cost' shenanigans, just comparable products moving in out-of-sync market cycles.

And yes, businesses the world over can be guilty of not reinvesting in facilities. There's a mantra for change that says "If we always do what we've always done, then we'll always get what we've always got". Unfortunately, many business owners in good times think that's true as well! And so they fail to make the necessary improvements when they can, and can't afford it when they have to.
Sounds like you probably have a better idea of how to use modern WebGL - perhaps you could list out the issues of his current implementation/approach, and an alternative to investigate?

Open/WebGL has a lot of misinformation across the web, so it's great to be able to learn from people who have more experience.
I'm getting a mixed content warning over HTTPS due to Google Fonts. I think using a scheme-less URL (://... instead of http://) would resolve the issue.
Splash Screens Are Evil, Don't Use Them
Ironic that your other choice is Ubuntu. They pioneered sending back all your search terms (to Amazon).
This is one of the better ones I've seen: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/07/30/windows-10-privac...
Police (and the like) are paid for capturing criminals, not for doing what is morally right (some hope they are the same thing, but many times it isn't)
The problem is that the world is full of diverse people who all have different opinions and beliefs on how things should work.

I visited Thailand three times, it is around a Buddhism community. Quite different from the Christian communities you'd see in the USA. Christians are a small minority in Thailand and there are more Muslim and Chinese than Christian. Each one has their own community. I visited a Muslim community because one of my wife's cousins had married a Muslim man. They were very nice to me and my family. Five times a day a car would loud speakers would drive around for their daily prayer. There was no pork or alcohol for sale before their religion forbids it. They cut their chicken differently from us, but it tastes good.

I am not sure if they'd go for a secular community. They already got one of their own religious communities and have done this sort of thing for most of their lives.

Moving away from religion and becoming secular is a western thing not an eastern thing.

I see the Dawkins Foundation was mentioned, a lot of times they criticize and attack religions when they could have used the resources to help out people in the community instead. Using hate instead of love, and then sometimes having to retract web pages when proven wrong like the Jesus is Horus thing or the Easter is Ishtar thing.

You have secular communities in the USA and UK, but they are small and limited.

Public schools in the USA got rid of religion, but didn't find anything to replace it to teach morals and ethics instead like critical thinking.

The problem is when you get rid of religion you get rid of a lot of good stuff too, and if you claim religion is bad and you get rid of it, it is like tossing the baby out with the bathwater. A lot of Christian charities did adoptions, and got attacked because they didn't support same sex marriage, so they went out of business and left a big hole to be filled. The same with Christian homeless shelters, many had to close down due to being attacked and criticized. There were no secular homeless shelters to replace them.

As the community moves away from religion and towards secularism, they have to replace the structure that was there by religious communities. It takes a lot of money to do that and a lot of volunteers.
I have to commend Michael Stevens (VSauce) for the courage to take on Banach-Tarski at all. I was surprised that someone could make it that accessible inside of 20 minutes.

I do agree that a "there is mathematical dispute [++] over whether this operation is valid" disclaimer could have accompanied the part where AoC was used.

[++] Side note: "mathematical dispute" doesn't mean what many non-mathematicians think it does. AoC isn't as "controversial" as some make it out to be. There is no disagreement over whether it's "true" or "false" in any Platonic sense. Rather, there is nearly universal acknowledgement that a valid mathematical system exists with AoC and that a valid mathematical system exists without it... and that both have useful properties. Mathematical dispute over an axiom means that a valid mathematics exists with or without the axiom-- not necessarily that mathematicians hold strong and divergent opinions on whether to include it.

As for the physical interpretations, he's right in that nothing that we know about physics rules out a Banach-Tarski-like behavior at the subatomic level. That said, it's obviously impossible to Banach-Tarski an orange or a ball of gold, since we'd have to literally split every atom. A macroscopic Banach-Tarski event is almost certainly impossible and would be, even with some unforeseen physical capability that made it possible, extremely expensive in terms of energy due to mass-energy equivalence.
Why We Really Should Ban Autonomous Weapons: A Response
Re: #1 - Radio play generates mechanical royalties for the publisher (usually the songwriter). They vary I think based on when the song was published, but they're currently at $.091 per play - https://www.harryfox.com/license_music/what_mechanical_royal.... This is probably 3, maybe 4 orders of magnitude more than what online streaming rates are currently.
Start your project with a plan on a piece of paper and without a computer in front of you.

Not sure if this comment by edw519 can help you though it works for me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191275
Get a phone that's on the compatibility list for an alternative Android distribution like Cyanogen. There are alternatives to Google's suite of applications for people who want to stay as FOSS as possible, like NOGAPPS: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1715375
I think there is no difference between constructive and classical logic here? The proof of "the powerset of the natural is uncountable" (or equivalently, expanding out the definition of uncountability, "there does not exist a bijection between N and P(N)") is constructive, and will hold just as well in intuinistic logic. You can't get away from uncountable sets.

On the other hand, you could prove a metatheoretic result, constructing a model which only contains sets which are forced to exist by some finite formula (and therefore the model is countable). But that you can do in ordinary classical set theory also (the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem, Gödel's constructible universe).

I guess this is analogous to how, in constructive logic every function is computable, but it is not possible to internalize this fact as an axiom in the logic. (https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/churchs-law...)
I really don't see why investors would be too interested, but good luck to you anyway. My company was going to build a $50mil solar farm in Nigeria and we couldn't find enough interest in funding anything like this. It seems like it would be a lot less hassle to focus on large solar projects... The general rule of thumb is that Americans are scared of investing in Africa, even though there is a lot of opportunity.

Maybe smaller solar installations like this would work out better than larges ones.

What are you going to do if someone doesn't pay up, are you going to take their solar lamps away from them?
More advice: think in terms of iterations. You might be thinking of everything in terms of some holy grail platonic ideal of the project, when in fact you will hit a number of road bumps and change your mind along the way that may completely change that.

So start smaller. What's a key piece of functionality that might set a good foundation you can build off of? Building this has the dual benefit of giving you a cognitive "win" while starting to work the "bones" of the project into your muscle memory. You'll have a much clearer idea of what the next step you need to take is to get it to that larger end-goal.
Review: ‘The Economics of Inequality,’ by Thomas Piketty
I would take a look at Andrej Bauer's excellent talk "Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics"[0]. Essentially, constructive mathematics is mathematics done without the law of excluded middle ("for all propositions P, either P or not P"). Importantly, it does not necessitate that you deny the law of excluded middle.

Intuitionism (or intuitionistic mathematics) is sometimes used to mean the same thing as constructivism and sometimes refers to Brouwer's[1] practice of denying excluded middle by introducing an axiom along the lines of "all functions are computable" or "all functions are continuous" (which from some perspectives is almost the same thing).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmhd8clDd_Y
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._E._J._Brouwer
On rituals: One user over at Less Wrong wrote a couple of posts[1][2] on designing ritual, and associated value and dangers. I also found the 2012 edition of a ritual book[3] that his group used to formally mark the winter solstice.

[1]: http://lesswrong.com/lw/93l/the_value_and_danger_of_ritual/
[2]: http://lesswrong.com/lw/9aw/designing_ritual/
[3]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2000477/SolsticeEve_2012...
I don't think that at all. It's just you.

If there was no substance then why would people vote for it in the first place?

The original article was about how the investments in tech is fucked up and generic to begin with.
Wow, so now I can read uninformed, ignorant opinions anywhere I go on the web? This is surely progress.
You mean like virtually every corporation in America over the past 20-30 years?

No one will notice.

The few who do will be "spineless socialists."
A little Empathy goes a long way
EDIT: To provide context since the parent comment was deleted, they were asking for a logical breakdown of why Jesus would require worship in order to provide salvation.

To break it down: God is completely pure (without sin). To be with God (which is what we would call 'salvation') we would also need to be without sin. Obviously, no human is without sin - meaning we could never be with God. Prior to Jesus, we were required to sacrifice things in order to atone for our sins and get right with God. Jesus provided an eternal, perfect sacrifice to pay for everyone's sins. It isn't so much that we need to worship Him, more that we need to accept the sacrifice He has already provided - if we reject the sacrifice, the full penance for all our actions is on us, and we can never be with God.
README.md

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-devel...
Hmmmm. The way I read it, you and the article are deflecting the blame away from Page and at Gundotra. The buck stops at who is in charge and that is Page.
Great article on the NPR about this. http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/07/23/42537654...
Can computer coding help prisoners find a new life?
What an annoying article. I don't really see the point of it besides it being half humblebrag half swan song. All the actual information has been covered to death.

I do like the paroxysms of noble largesse regarding his wife though. Strangely cuckoldish.
Yes, I make sure to turn off that first thing when I run Ubuntu. :)
is it possible to just add a 127.0.0.1 *.microsoft.com in windows 10?
From prisoner to programmer

A group of former prisoners in South Africa are teaching other prisoners how to code, to help them find work on the outside
He's insinuating that a father that is too close to his daughter would be perceived as a pedophile by women who believe that all men are potential victimizers of women.

That perception does exist, I personally experienced it at a park less than a week ago. It is an open question who is "responsible" for it.
The problem isn't just private links. Even knowing about the public sites that someone visits can expose information about their politics, religion, sexual orientation and other things that they may want to keep private (especially in countries where they can be discriminated against or even killed based on this information).
I'm in the fortunate position to not need Windows for anything other than the odd game. The GNU/Linux desktop has been fulfilling my needs for over a decade now.

In today's internet-centric world, there is little need to have Windows around for anything other than very specific jobs - for the average user.
Did you mean "BY GRABTHAR'S HAMMER, what an annoying article!" :)
Just to be fair the original reddit entry [0] no longer has that comment in it (it was probably deleted) so maybe they just went with "anonymous" after being unable to find the actual source.

[0]http://www.reddit.com/comments/9ch0s/dirty_coding_tricks_nin...
I do agree. And I'll be sticking with Windows 7.

I am indeed mostly happy with LibreOffice Calc, or even Gnumeric. But I'm aware of no other spreadsheet app that calculates on multiple CPU cores. Or gracefully handles spreadsheets well north of 50MB. Windows overall may be revolting, but Excel is a beautiful thing.
Investor-owned distribution would be a substantial incremental improvement over today, and it answers David Byrne's challenge to improve transparency. So what if it can't compete with vaporware?
> raise prices, lower compensation and still keep the customers and drivers.

that's what I mean by fucking people over but it's hopeful at best that people will remain loyal because there's zero cost of switching. As soon as Uber makes profit, others will jump right in with lower prices because there's no barrier to entry, no network effect. Your homies riding Uber? Oh okay, I guess I'm stuck with Uber since all my friends are on it (sarcasm). Unless they bribe city officials that it is illegal to operate as a Uber competitor in which case people would probably go even more apeshit.
There are lists of same:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_...

Direct comparisons are, of course, difficult.
Swincar Is Like a Spider That Can Almost Climb Walls